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Howiecreate

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  1. It was over 90 ms out of sync for me on an ota signal. 90ms got it close enough where I could watch it. The sync didn't change for me when they went to neverland, but it was jumping around in the first scene in the house when I was trying to dial it in. It was a pretty impressive event, production wise, and they only caught one of the other cameras in the shot at the very end of the show from what I saw.
  2. I didn't know the piece was going to be on tonight but caught the teaser right after shark tank. The video from the front of the train showing the crew running from the track really drives home how bad this thing was, and how close everyone really was to the train. I knew it was bad and then you see it and it makes you even more sad.
  3. I'm starting to worry how much more money you will save/cost me today. Thanks for the info Senator.
  4. I do them. I've done Sprints, Olympics and Half-Ironman distance events. It's one of the things that keeps me sane. Let me know if you have any questions. I can usually only manage to get three events in a year due to my work schedule, but those are 3 great days.
  5. If you are only connecting one drive, and you have usb 3.0, then that would be a more affordable option. One drive will not take advantage of the extra speed of a thunderbolt connection (even an sad drive), and some raid arrays are not faster than usb 3.0 either.
  6. To close an app is 7 you double click the home button and then drag the large preview image of the application up. In terms of crazy colors, the night sky background makes things feel not quite as candy, but I still wish there was a more "professional" set of colors.
  7. The toughest part for me is the fact that they choose ATI Graphics Processors. While that's great for Final Cut, the current setup for Premiere, After Effects, etc. works best with CUDA cores, which is an Nvidia Technology. Here's hoping that Adobe expands to cover the ATI processors like they've done before for the laptops. While I wasn't thrilled about the form factor initially, it's growing on me. There may not be any room for expandability, but we recently got some sonnet racks in for a mac mini server setup at work, and that works great. The idea that I can keep my tower out and available to plug and unplug, but offload my hard drives into racks in soundproof boxes sounds great, and a lot better than what I hear now when my tower is running at full speed. Also just think about the fact that when you want to upgrade your system you just replace your tower, but you keep whatever expansion setup you already have. Depending on price, this could make it more affordable to stay up to date. I hope someone comes out with a kind of thunderbolt snake for this. That would be awesome. One bundle of wires coming out the back to your rack mount gear with expansion slots. I'd be up for that. In the end I think price will be the determinate. Here's hoping for something reasonable. Andrew Howard
  8. I'm working on a new power solution that rides on the back of one of our video rigs to help clean up our power/multiple battery needs ahead of going to haiti in a week. We typically run a pix 240 and a bunch of other camera accessories, and I can't seem to make up my mind about if the entire power solution should be designed around using lemo plugs or ptap/dtap connections. It seems that most of the battery plates with multiple connections are using lemo, but I can't decide if it's worth the extra cost, verse using the 1-4 ptap multi connector, or the sandwich adapter. Any suggestions as to the positives or negatives of using one connector over the other would be helpful. We are a completely in-house production unit, so I have the ability to spec the entire system as opposed to having to adapt to someone else's.
  9. Jeff, That would be awesome. I'm working on Sunday morning, but then I'd be able to watch the first half before I could get there later. If there's anyway we could do this it would be awesome. Andrew Howard
  10. If you're in photoshop all of the time, then there was a lot of time savings in moving to CS6 from 5 in terms of getting things done. Not a lot of new features, but they allowed for my dynamic changes to be written in adjustment layers which resulted in less destructive editing and the ability to move those layers around better. In terms of the Creative Cloud, we've been talking about it a lot at work, and it looks like if someone else/your company is paying for the suite then it's great for the creative workers because you're always up to date and able to read the newest files. On the other hand, most of us also do independent work, and we're not too thrilled at the fact that we are now essentially paying a yearly tax to do our jobs. It reminds me a lot of when I get a bill from my accountant that lists her time on one line and then the software fee for processing my tax return on another line. For small shops, like me, I definitely see a need to start passing some of these costs down the line, especially since if I stop paying the tax, I can no longer open your files, which are my creative property.
  11. Ryan, It will be my first time too, so you won't be the only one. Andrew Howard Atlanta, GA
  12. It'll also be interesting to see what people are demoing on at NAB this year. I remember last year as we walked around we noticed that virtually nobody was running Final Cut X in their software demos. We were trying to decide what we were going to do with our in house production system since we had stuck with Final Cut 7 till that point. We changed software right after the show, and it wasn't to Final Cut X as a result. It seems like Apple is adding back the features that should have been there from the start, while other vendors are adding new features that really are "features."
  13. The last show that I recorded that was mixed on an ls9 was in a relatively small room, in that it holds 500 seated and 1000 standing. We used an mkh 40 on a boom pole that was gaffed to a mic stand in front of the booth to get the mic high above the crowd. In a room this small a drumset and some of the other instruments carry enough of their own sound from the stage, that they are dialed way back in the system mix. If we had just taken a board tap, then we would have ended up with a strange mix. This way we were able to get a great recording of the actual live mix without having to create a custom mix matrix from the FOH board, and with the mic that high, we avoided pretty much all of the crowd noise except for applause.
  14. I mix live a fair amount, and we only do mono mixes in the venues I work. There are multiple feeds to the different speaker clusters, that could be run in stereo, but the mix is mono. In wide rooms there isn't any point to mix in stereo due to the fact that only the people sitting in the booth would be able to hear it, and everyone else would receive a subpar mix. Apparently Marc and I were writing at the same time.
  15. NPR did a good job of covering the rhythm and hues story this morning on Morning Edition. http://www.npr.org/2013/03/19/174703202/visual-effects-firms-miss-out-on-a-films-success
  16. When it comes to external Hard Drives I've had the best success with the owc products from macsales.com. I know it doesn't have a fancy rubber case, but I also don't drop my hard drives constantly. Every Lacie that we've ever had at work has eventually died due to controller card issues. By every, I mean to say 5. We've had one fall off a motorcycle and keep working, but for some reason they all always end up EOLing due to some some kind of burn mark on the controller card when we go in to get the drives out. Right now I really like the owc case loaded with a sandisk extreme ssd that I get off of Amazon.
  17. Congratulations Simon! I wish I could have seen the whole interview you did in the press room, but I didn't get there fast enough on my iPad.
  18. I have a matching 2.1 system in my editing room that matches the 5.1 system that we have in our living room. My wife still wonders why we can't just have Bose speakers, instead of the full size Tannoy Reveals, but she's continuing to put up with it. My favorite moment was when our Babysitter started looking around for the bird in the house two days ago that was coming from the tv show she was watching. It's made me a much better creator to be able to hear final mixes from major movies on the same speakers that I do my own work on. If only I had that kind of time to finish projects.
  19. There's a lot more damage on the full resolution version than can be seen in the image in the thread, but it's definitely fixable, and it's coming along.
  20. Jeff, This site has really helped me out, and I'd love to fix this for you as a way of saying thank you for what you're doing here. My original degree was in color management for print reproduction, so this is right up my alley.
  21. I don't know how far your camera will be from you sources, but a lot of time we just use the internal mics with auto gain turned on with the dslrs as the source for plural eyes. We've gotten good syncs off this technique with t2i's, and nobody ever tries to use the camera track as the final audio track.
  22. From a non-sound perspective, the Blackmagic camera has some image issues. It is being documented around the web that it is crushing the blacks, so if you're going to be shooting in situations where you want details in your blacks, then currently this isn't the camera for you. I also was able to pick up and play with one last week in Atlanta. The camera is heavier than you think it is, and depending on what you put in front may be very unbalanced. If you are planning on doing any handheld work with the camera, then you will have to purchase a rig, which quickly increases the cost. The camera will not tell you what the iris setting is currently, so if you need to duplicate the settings exactly, good luck. The reality is that the Blackmagic camera is very young, and feels like the first generation product that it is. On a side note, I currently use a Nikon D800 with a Pix 240 on the back, and get really great results. If you decide to go with a double system, then make sure the mics are enabled on the SLR, and you'll find that the amount of time to resync the tracks really is negligible (Pluraleyes or Premier CS6 make short work of the process if you don't mind investing).
  23. You can record from the USB interface on the Mix Pre D connected through the ipad camera connection kit adapter. There are cheap knockoffs for this on ebay, if you don't want to pay for an apple original. To record at higher than 44k 16bit, though, you'll need to purchase software. To be honest it works and sounds great because the Pre D is doing the conversion, but it's not the most convenient setup. There is a relatively new app called Auria that looks really interesting, but I haven't wanted to fork over the $50 yet. http://auriaapp.com/Products/auria
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