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1. Re: A foggy, rainy day...
Stan Jones Nov 21, 2011 8:43 AM (in response to davidbeisner2010)Enjoy the fog - and Thanksgiving!
Are your live burns down in Smyrna?
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joe bloe premiere Nov 21, 2011 9:21 AM (in response to davidbeisner2010)You could spend the long weekend
fiddling with REDCINE-X for Epic....
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davidbeisner2010 Nov 21, 2011 9:42 AM (in response to Stan Jones)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.
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davidbeisner2010 Nov 21, 2011 9:44 AM (in response to joe bloe premiere)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.
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davidbeisner2010 Nov 21, 2011 9:46 AM (in response to davidbeisner2010)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!
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Bill Hunt Nov 21, 2011 10:04 AM (in response to davidbeisner2010)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
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Bill Hunt Nov 21, 2011 10:05 AM (in response to davidbeisner2010)OK, besides those flaming propane tanks, be very careful on a rain-slick roof!!!!!
Hunt
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davidbeisner2010 Nov 21, 2011 10:51 AM (in response to Bill Hunt)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! :-)
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davidbeisner2010 Nov 21, 2011 11:22 AM (in response to davidbeisner2010)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
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able123 Nov 21, 2011 11:34 AM (in response to davidbeisner2010)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.
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davidbeisner2010 Nov 21, 2011 11:54 AM (in response to able123)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…
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able123 Nov 21, 2011 12:23 PM (in response to davidbeisner2010)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..
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davidbeisner2010 Nov 21, 2011 12:44 PM (in response to able123)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…
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able123 Nov 21, 2011 12:47 PM (in response to davidbeisner2010)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
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davidbeisner2010 Nov 21, 2011 12:49 PM (in response to able123)Now that I’m not sure of… I’ve not used a 32bit OS in quite a while…
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able123 Nov 21, 2011 1:00 PM (in response to davidbeisner2010)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...
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davidbeisner2010 Nov 21, 2011 1:04 PM (in response to able123)Yeah… I would bet those cards are some proprietary format… but I have no
clue, really!
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Bill Hunt Nov 22, 2011 8:48 AM (in response to davidbeisner2010)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
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able123 Nov 22, 2011 9:41 AM (in response to Bill Hunt)============
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.
When a committee representative called on Bill to discuss the "sign" , Bill and a visiting friend were not very patient.
Although neighbor kids are welcome to study the farming methods Bill employs to grow various crops...
Bill and his friend spend most of their time hunting ducks and so on.....on Bill's property
Just make sure you call first before visiting !
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Bill Hunt Nov 22, 2011 4:26 PM (in response to able123)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:
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
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Bill Hunt Nov 22, 2011 4:27 PM (in response to able123)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









