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Hello Mr. Jeff Wexler, Hope this finds you fine, This is Hari,Production Mixer, from India I had seen your excellent work in MI-3, I remembered your write up about the Octava mics I am helping a friend, who is shooting a feature film in Africa in fall 2006, with a sound gear/setup The budget is low, Can you suggest a basic gear for such a shoot? Recorders, mixers, lavs, boom mics (shotgun, hyper), tcslates, talkbacks and all accs The locations is desert (exteriors) and some interiors and vehicle shots I do not have much experience of feature film setup/gear? except knowing the individual equipment The production is NY based, so rentals are to…
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Hi Jeff, I've been experiencing a strange phenomenon with photos when I upload them into posts... they all come in upside-down. They sit on my desktop and in iPhoto properly oriented, but lately, every photo I've tried to upload will initially come in upside-down. I rotate it on my desktop, re-import it, and it's upside-down again... I then rotate it back to its original position, re-import again, and it's fine... I can't seem to figure out any kind of rhyme or reason to it except that there is possibly some kind of embedded metadata that makes the upload engine re-orient the photo based on what it thinks is the top? Any ideas? ~tom taylor
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Since upgrading to the new software and/or look, I've been unable to find a button or link that will take me to the 'Last Unread' post in a particular thread on the 'Unread Content' section of the forum. Am I going mad, or is it missing??? Regards John
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Hi Jeff would it be possible to set up the above to allow us to see who we are communicating with ?. or would it use up too much space ?. Just a thought. Regards Brian
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Hi Jeff, I was just wondering if you could point me in the right direction regarding personal video monitor rigs for boom ops... I just ran into a recent contribution of yours on one of the other forums after a key word search on the subject. I figured if anyone would know... you or maybe Scott Farr... Thanks : ) -- Tom Taylor tom@taylormadeaudio.com
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After having surveyed the site for a few days I must admit I like the old style better. This lack of color, the gray look, is kind of boring. I know it's the content that's important but the old appearance was way more welcoming...warmer. IMO Mick
Last reply by Jeff Wexler, -
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Hey Jeff--help me out here. I suddenly have to log in each time I visit here, in spite of checking off "keep me logged in". This never used to happen--from my office computer I could always be logged in already. Did I change something inadvertently? phil p
Last reply by John Steigerwald, -
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Mr. Wexler, A discussion on uninterested third parties leaving comments on posts for sale might be warranted. Other sites do have rules regarding this. http://www.dvxuser.c...-Before-Posting A comment such as "That's a bit pricey" or "such technology is dated" does have the effect of handicapping, or killing a sale thread. These comments I suspect, come innocently intended, from seasoned union pros regarding pieces of kit intended for novices. While knowlege is always helpful and appreciated, the question is: Who is entitled to kill a sale on JWSound? Scott
Last reply by John Blankenship, -
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Every couple of times I try to click on google link for jwsound when I am not on my computer that has it saved as a favorite I get redirected to an ininityads page - this has happened from more that one PC so pretty sure it is not me- just an FYI that maybe something is hacked/semi-hacked with the site.
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Hi Jeff, i am working on a short feature next week andi have chosen sen 416 for my exteriors and i havea choice between using a mk41and cmit 5u indoors for dialogue,most dialogues are indoors what in you opinion will be best suited for indoors? with a few words on the characteristics of each mic my equipment kit is 1-fostex pd-4 2-sound devices 442 3-sen 416 4-mk41 or cmit 5u most of the dialogues/monologues are indoors thanks in advance Harry
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Hi Jeff, Thank you so much for hosting such a wonderful collection of interesting topics and group discussions on so many different topics, I enjoy reading and learning about so many different things each time I visit the site. I agree with ,and admire,your extremely "open door" policy of welcoming all who would like to join the conversation, but would it be possible to allow us the option of an ignore button for individual posters? I find a very select few posters deter from the threads on a regular basis and I would like to not see these posts. I have seen and used this option in other groups but I am not sure if it is an option here. Thanks again! Ch…
Last reply by Marc Wielage, -
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Hey Jeff, just wanted to let you know: In the last couple days when clicking on a link to the site from a google search, I have been re-directed to some weird "URL4Short.INFO" page with a pop-up thing that says I'm the "millionth visitor" or something like that and "click here" bla bla. Of course I didn't, but makes me wonder if JWS has been hacked?
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I get this random message a quick page reload fixes it Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator at webmaster@jwsoundgroup.net to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Last reply by Jeff Wexler, -
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On a whim, I tried loading up the secure HTTPS version of this site (https://jwsoundgroup.net versus http://jwsoundgroup.net). Before, I usually got an error message since the site doesn’t have HTTPS enabled, but what I get today is something totally unexpected… Tried it in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, with my browser extensions enabled, with my browser extensions disabled, and on my phone using mobile data. Same thing. Is it happening for anyone else? https://jwsoundgroup.net
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Jeff, Do you think it would be kewl if we had another catagory called, "the business of hollywood" or maybe something like the "Business of Film making". Or is it too far off the topics? Thanks -Richard
Last reply by John Blankenship, -
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Hi Jeff, I'm curious about the types of membership that are listed with each person's post; The categories are: Full Member, Senior Member, Jr. Member -- I might have missed some. What determines that member's classification? Happy Thansgiving to you. Regards, Richard
Last reply by Jeff Wexler, -
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for the last 2 weeks jws is extremly slow in loading it´s pages both on my MBP and iphone. Other sites are loading fast as always. My download speed shows 13k. Anyone else having issues? Matthias
Last reply by Jeff Wexler, -
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OK, welcome to the new home of this discussion... Although Oleg is in a different country, I suspect some clarification might be in order: Oleg has pretty much the right to say what ever he wants. Note: I say 'pretty much' because there are some reasonable limits on free speech, such as screaming "FIRE" in a crowded place, or libeling folks... The thing is, that that first amendment right does not necessarily exist on JW's forum. Working in radio on "talk stations", folks would also keep claiming their "free speech" rights, but the fact is that on my radio station, I am the only one with complete "freedom of speech" (subject to those reasonable limitations), and if …
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For some reason IE isn't letting me log in. I can log in using firefox or safari but not IE. Is it me or is anyone else having this issue?
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or not?
Last reply by Glen Deakin, -
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Hey Jeff, it looks like you run both of these - I could spend my days swapping between ramps, cinema sound, jwsound, etc but I think one good forum for all sound mixers across the globe is needed. I'd like to email some of my friend sound mixers and tell them to use one to increase its awareness. What would you suggest?
Last reply by Sound Intuition, -
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Dear Jeff, in the last days I frequently get an error message from a service called "CloudFlare" when trying to visit the JWS new content (which I have bookmarked). Unfortunately, it usually doesn't take a few minutes only, but rather a few hours until it works again (I guess until US morning which is late night here in Europe), so maybe there's a real problem with the server. Thought I'd give you a heads up. Sincerely, Pete Here's the last error message I got:
Last reply by Jeff Wexler, -
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Hi Jeff, Thank you so much for this site, I'm on here every day and am constantly learning new things. I've noticed that two forums (WTB/WTS and Who I Am Today) are only accessible to users who are signed in, and was wondering if you would consider adding a similar forum for discussing rates and negotiating. It would be great to have a way discuss the topic on here in a slightly more private way.
Last reply by Rick Reineke, -
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It may be net congestion or perhaps my macbook pro, but this week I'm experiencing a lot of lag time and pinwheels when browsing this site, it seems since the chat was initiated. For a couple of days, I was also perplexed by a random"donk" sound eminating from my mac, until I realized it was jwsound chat announcing a visitor or whatever. verrando
Last reply by Jeff Wexler, -
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Hi Jeff, I am curious about your reasons for starting a new sound discussion group when there is RAMPS, CAS forum and the Recording Arts Forum. Are you allowing your "enemies" jand people know for flaming to join? Will you still post on RAMPS in the future now that you have your discussion group? I joined up as I have followed your comments on RAMPS and have found them to be very informative. I hope this group works out well for you. Mike Borlace
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