21 Replies Latest reply: Nov 22, 2011 4:27 PM by Bill Hunt RSS

    A foggy, rainy day...

    davidbeisner2010 Community Member

      So I'm sitting here at my editing workstation, hands tied because I'm out of hard drive space and even if I wasn't, I can't open my new EPIC shots until I get CS5.5 since EPIC isn't supported in CS5 (just found this out three days ago)... It's pouring down rain outside, incredibly foggy (can barely see the treeline out my back window) and the thunder is breaking every few minutes.

       

      I've finished writing the social media policy for the college where I work (time to implement something since our social media sites are starting to go out of control) and have nothing else to do today in the web world.

       

      Today's my first and last day in the office for the week (fire-fighter 2 live-burn evolutions tomorrow outside of Nashville... get to put out burning propane tanks, cars, haz-mat pools, etc...) and then headed to Indiana to see my sis and bro-in-law and nephew for Thanksgiving...

       

      Definitely don't feel like being at work today, especially with nothing to do. Maybe I'll jump on Lynda.com and learn more about After Effects. Or brush up on the changes in CS5.5 over CS5. Or continue stalking here...

       

      Either way, I'm just plain tired. And ready to go home. And ready for beer-thirty (or, in my case, wine-thirty since I have no beer in the house).

       

      Hopefully next week will be looking up a bit. Hopefully I'll get CS5.5 delivered sometime this week so I can install it and get to work next Monday, and hopefully Monday morning I'll be able to purchase more hard drive space (looking at G-Tech's 12TB eSATA external, since I can't afford a good internal RAID card and drive system that way)... I'm hoping eSATA will be fast enough to do what I need to do (i.e., edit RED EPIC r3d files). I'll put the drive in RAID-5 for an effective 9TB of space.

       

      In case I decide to do something other than continue stalking here, have a great week and Thanksgiving everyone!

        • 1. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
          Stan Jones CommunityMVP

          Enjoy the fog - and Thanksgiving!

           

          Are your live burns down in Smyrna?

          • 3. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
            davidbeisner2010 Community Member

            Stan, actually our burns are with the Franklin fire department... my initial live-burn evolution was at the state fire academy in Bell-Buckle, which is just outside Smyrna. But hooking with the Franklin FD was cheaper than going back to the state academy, and it's a one-day deal instead of a weekend, which is nice.

            • 4. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
              davidbeisner2010 Community Member

              I've spent a little bit of time playing with CINE-X, but unfortunately the latest build seems to be corrupted on my system (missing .dll file, and no amount of uninstalling and reinstalling and manually replacing the dll, and asking for help on reduser.net has fixed the problems). Older builds have given me a significant amount of trouble with crashing (and the latest build that does work for me has a history of crashing as well) and I honestly prefer the Premiere interface for working with the RED r3d files and adjusting the raw parameters... far more intuitive and user-friendly to me. The way CINE-X is laid out with all the wacky panels that seem to float wherever they feel like, and not having enough real estate (with a dual 24" monitor setup) to get all the panels in, is frustrating.

              • 5. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
                davidbeisner2010 Community Member

                I actually am going to be getting a little bit of a reprieve on being in the office all day... my wife called about an hour ago to say water was running down the outside of the stone work around our chimney in the living room, so I had to go home and check on that. Ran to Lowe's for some all-weather roofing cement, and now I'm back in the office waiting on a text from my old construction boss saying he's dropped a ladder off for me to get onto the roof to patch the leak... So a little excitement after all for the day! Not the kind I wanted, but honestly anything to take me out of the office today is fine by me!

                • 6. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
                  Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

                  Fog! What's that?

                   

                  Actually, I miss fog, but then I now live in the High Sonoran Desert, where fog is a rarity. Last week, we had a damp front move through. It was cool, and moist, and the clouds were hanging right atop of Lookout Mountain, just across the golf course. As we sat on the patio and watched, one cloud descended into our little box canyon - we couldn't even see Lookout Mountain any more. It sat there, and then moved up the canyon. We get fog about twice per year, if we are lucky.

                   

                  I actually miss it. I loved to see it hanging in the hollows in the Smoky Mountains, as one drove in and out of it, along a higher ridge. I loved walking in it, along the Mississippi River in the French Quarter, and especially having a late-night cup of cafe-au-lait at Cafe Du Monde. It was especially nice back when the Jax Brewery was operational, and the smell of the hops infused with the fog. Loved hearing the fog horns on the River, as tugs tried to move barges around, and not collide. Don't get any fog horns in Arizona. Yeah, I miss fog, and relish those very few instances, when we experience it.

                   

                  Wife's car has IR H/U display, just for fog, and late-night mountain road driving (picks up warm bodies, like elk), but we have not had an opportunity to try it out - just not much fog up here. Now, she HAS used it, when driving at night in Paradise Valley (near-by suburb with a "dark sky" policy. She has seen joggers, walkers and bicyclists on those pitch black streets, when they did not have bright, reflective clothes, or proper lights.

                   

                  Good luck, and play safely with those flaming propane tanks.

                   

                  Happy Thanksgiving too!

                   

                  Hunt

                  • 7. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
                    Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

                    OK, besides those flaming propane tanks, be very careful on a rain-slick roof!!!!!

                     

                    Hunt

                    • 8. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
                      davidbeisner2010 Community Member

                      Couldn't find any clear sign of a leak around the chimney, so I just doubled up the roofing cement on all the seams around the chimney. I also discovered that up in the attic it was coming in at the chimney, then beading onto one of the trusses and dripping off of that onto the attic floor and then running down into the ceiling below... so I put a bucket underneath it to catch any more drips. Hopefully the cement job will end the dripping...

                       

                      in other news, just got an e-mail saying that my check for work on that La-Z-Boy promo video just came into the local plant from their national headquarters, so I'm off to go pick it up, take it to the business office to deposit it, and then hopefully get my VP's credit card to go buy that G-Tech eSATA raid... if anyone knows any reasons why an eSATA raid wouldn't work for me as my data drive, post in the next 30-45 minutes! :-)

                      • 9. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
                        davidbeisner2010 Community Member

                        Just deposited a check for $1550, and as soon as my VP gets back to the office I'm gonna descend upon him for his CC to order my new drive

                        • 10. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
                          Community Member

                          i only have a 1 tb graid and it came with a cd ...mine is (0 )raid i think...ntfs now ( though I did get macdrive and tested formatting the graid as a mac drive , then went back to ntfs ...

                           

                          and this is where i screwed up... follow the directions on cd for quick format or you will be waiting around for days waiting for that thing to format... and then it might be " raw " instead of ntfs ( fail to complete format )... and then you have to do nfts over again...it got sloppy ... but you know whats up with computers so you should be fine ( as I was.... had to jump some hoops but got mine formatted fine )

                           

                          the usualy culprits...reboot when necessary... install new hardware as needed ... all that stuff..

                           

                          but DO use the fast format and in properties turn off indexing...

                           

                          I use ( on xp pro 32bit os ) firewire 800 for the connection and have no probs at all with stuff...except im mostly doing very small hd files or else all SD.... as i have mouse computer ...i dont have a estata connection free on mobo to use that..so i use firewire.

                           

                          the redcine x thing is weird and doesnt translate well into cs3 ( color etc ).. and uses a lot of mov related stuff ( i have qt pro installed ) .. so who knows what your problems have been related to..

                          and yes, the windows suck... i just close what im not using..that helps.

                          • 11. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
                            davidbeisner2010 Community Member

                            Thanks for the tips…

                             

                             

                             

                            I’m planning to put my drive either in NTFS or exFAT because exFAT would

                            allow me to port the drive over to a mac machine without having to reformat

                            it if I ever needed to. And I certainly know about the fast format (and

                            always do it that way) and ALWAYS turn off the indexing… that’s a serious

                            PITA…

                            • 12. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
                              Community Member

                              ya.. fat32 thing... I guess in perfect world I might think about an " extra " external that is fat for swapping with mac.. and ntfs for native pc stuff...transfer as needed to the fat32 for sharing stuff..

                              you know more about this than me...

                               

                              but the reason I formatted mine mac was to go to work and get AC to transfer some arri raw to it...( which didnt happen cause we didnt work on same job when I brought drive to work ...he was on a unit, and I was on b unit ).

                               

                              anyway, thats why I formatted and got macdrive...

                               

                              it occurred to me during this stuff ( bringing drive to work ).. that it would be way better to just leave it with the camera dept ( on their truck ) and have another ext at home to keep doing work etc ...like make the "shared" drive one that I dont need .... it can travel and do its own thing...

                               

                              thats what they ( cam dept ) does with their graids... send to post, get back from post, re-use after negative report, etc etc...always on the move..

                              • 13. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
                                davidbeisner2010 Community Member

                                Yeah, makes sense…

                                 

                                 

                                 

                                FAT32 is the old style of formatting which has a 4GB/file limit, which

                                makes it unusable for video since many of the files we deal with (in the HD

                                world anyway) are far more than 4GB. exFAT is the newer style that is fully

                                supported by both Windows and Mac and doesn’t have that size limitation…

                                • 14. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
                                  Community Member

                                  ahhhh.... thank you for that....and exfat works on 32 os ??

                                   

                                  kinda thought there was some way to 'bridge' large file into little chunks in fat32

                                  • 15. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
                                    davidbeisner2010 Community Member

                                    Now that I’m not sure of… I’ve not used a 32bit OS in quite a while…

                                    • 16. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
                                      Community Member

                                      i dont know either... tried to find out what arri camera sxs cards are formatted as but the AC i asked didnt know...just said, " dont know, the camera formats the card "...then told me to look at arri website.. but i didnt really find that info fast and didnt pursue it...

                                      • 17. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
                                        davidbeisner2010 Community Member

                                        Yeah… I would bet those cards are some proprietary format… but I have no

                                        clue, really!

                                        • 18. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
                                          Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

                                          Yes, the problem with a leaking roof is that the water comes in one place, trickles along the rafters, twists and turns, even seeming to run uphill in a few places, and then picks just the right spot to drop to the ceiling - insidious stuff, that water! I had one leak spring up near my swamp cooler, and the water traveled about 20', before deciding to hit the ceiling, right over my master bedroom ceiling fan, where it shorted out the circuit board!!!!! Being from Mississippi, I was temped to go the "blue tarp" route, and just tent the entire roof, but the homeowner's architectural committee vetoed that. Heck, I was still fighting them on the old refrigerator, and ratty lounge chair on the front porch, not to mention the pickup truck, sitting on cinder blocks in my driveway...

                                           

                                          Good luck,

                                           

                                          Hunt

                                          • 19. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
                                            Community Member

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                                            homeowner's architectural committee vetoed that. Heck, I was still fighting them on the old refrigerator, and ratty lounge chair on the front porch, not to mention the pickup truck, sitting on cinder blocks in my driveway

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                                            architectural committee has been after Bill for years...re: various conflicts.  For example, the driveway leading to Bill's house has a sign that was not officially approved.

                                             

                                            lions-trespassing.jpg

                                             

                                            When a committee representative called on Bill to discuss the "sign" , Bill and a visiting friend were not very patient.

                                             

                                            lions-shotguns-porch-go-away.jpg

                                             

                                            Although neighbor kids are welcome to study the farming methods Bill employs to grow various crops...

                                             

                                            lions-kid-with-bulldog.jpg

                                             

                                            Bill and his friend spend most of their time hunting ducks and so on.....on Bill's property

                                             

                                            lions-2guys-shotguns-pond.jpg

                                             

                                            Just make sure you call first before visiting !

                                             

                                             

                                            • 20. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
                                              Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

                                              That is one cute Frencie! Wife wants me to think about going with French Bulldogs, as the English guys weigh so danged much, and she keeps pointing out that my back is getting no younger. I had to carry my older girl over a little fence, to the vet for her visit today. I have to admit that a 65 # English Bulldog can get to the back.

                                               

                                              Now, I saw something recently, that I had never seen, and actually could never imagine, as we've had English Bulldogs for 4 decades:

                                              Service_Bulldog.png

                                              A friend snapped this iPhone image at ATL the other day. That Bullie weighed right at 100 #. Even my Beaux, who was a rather large Bulldog, only weighed 87#. I have puzzled what on Earth a Bulldog could do as a "service dog," as they eat, sleep, snore, dream and pass gas. That is about it - oh, and lick you, until you are soaking wet. They also drool, and then shake there heads violently, making a mess of all glass doors, your good suit, or whatever is nearby. Bulldogs do not fetch, but only tug. Still, a service dog? Wish I'd have been there, as I would have had to ask, "what kind of service does he do?"

                                               

                                              Hunt

                                              • 21. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
                                                Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

                                                Just make sure you call first before visiting !

                                                 

                                                Wasn't that what my mother taught you - "always call first?"

                                                 

                                                Besides, it takes a moment to turn off the chain guns in the turrets.

                                                 

                                                Hunt