Debe
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Thanks for the info, guys.
Although I think I’m a careful person when it comes to these things, there’s going to be that time when I do before I think. Hopefully this thread help me to remember to think before I do!
debe
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Sheesh, I never thought of that, Neil.
This might be a bonehead question…
Do you know if it matters if the deck is off?
I think I usually plug into the deck first, then the CPU, but the deck is usually off.
I’ll definitely be changing my ways, regardless.
I’m sorry you had this problem, but I’m glad you posted to share with the rest of us!
debe
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“Out of all those guys and who used to be assistant editors,”
Apparently my “gals” went AWOL. They should be there and it should read, “Out of all those guys and gals who used to be assistant editors,”
There were two! Really!
debe
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Maybe you need new support staff.
What do they do, if they’re not doing their jobs?
Who’s in charge of them? Who hires and fires them?
Sometimes it’s the wrong people in those jobs, sometimes it’s just perspective. When I was promoted from assistant to editor back in the ’90’s, it floored me that the assistants didn’t do what I used to do just months, nay, weeks before. Out of all those guys and who used to be assistant editors, none but me is now an editor. Half of them got out of the business or moved into Admin, and the other half seem to have gravitated to doing live graphics and PowerPoint.
I’d lean towards they’re not hiring the right people. Or they’re not paying the right people enough to care.
debe
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There is a thumbnail cache. It usually defaults to wherever your “Final Cut Pro Documents” folder lives. Since you didn’t know about it, it’s likely you’ve never changed it’s whereabouts. Or you could just search for “thumbnail”.
Trash that, and you should get your thumbnails refreshed.
debe
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If it were my choice, that’s the way I’d go. Two different computers for two different functions.
Too many things can go wrong in the field, especially with something as relatively fragile as a laptop. Then what do you do? Not only is your P2 ingest station out of commission, so is your edit suite.
I work on both a laptop and a tower. Although I love the benefits of the laptop, I’d go nuts if I had to edit on it every day. The ergonomics are bad. Adding all the peripherals to make it more comfortable help, but it’s not the same as a dedicated tower in the edit suite.
debe
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…and even worse, when the client wants you to use a badly formatted PowerPoint presentation for your graphics to save money, and then complains when it’s not legible, even though you warned him or her that PPT doesn’t necessarily translate to TV so well…
or WORSE, the client thinks it’s appropriate to let his 14 year old kid do the graphic design because “he’s so good with the computer”, and you have to deal with the wrong aspect ratio, bad spelling on files you can’t alter because he used some consumer app on a PC, and general other garbage. I once had to cut and paste letters out of a jpeg, of all things, to fix a typo. If the client wasn’t sitting behind me, I would have re-created the whole thing, but since he was right there, that would have been a political mess…
I appreciate the client who will only use graphics when it’s necessary, instead of feeling like it’s required at all times simply because you CAN do that.
debe
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Depends on the client.
I have one client that wants every dang thing to look like CNN. Graphics everywhere. We’ve taken to calling it “text-apalooza”
I have another client that is rebelling against that. Sometimes he doesn’t even want name supers. It’s a still title graphic at the head and that’s it sometimes.
He doesn’t think the story is better told through graphics, and if he can help it, he designs a product that needs no graphics, as long as the rest of the program tells the story.
And the rest, they’re somewhere in the middle…
debe
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If it were me, I’d go MacBook Pro.
Much easier to pack and carry on an airplane than an iMac, even if you get the iLugger bag for the iMac.
Plus, you can use the MacBook on the airplane.
iMac only has the one FW bus and no way to expand. You’re limited with what the iMac can do, compared to the MacBook Pro.
Unsolicited opinion, I like the 17″ model for editing. Yes, you can add a second screen to a 15″ and get more, but I like as much real estate for my timeline as I can get, and you can’t really effectively put the timeline across the laptop screen and the second monitor without making your eyes go wiggy.
When I was buying, that was the reason I went 17″ instead of 15″. The downside to the 17″ didn’t outweigh the extra real estate on the screen. Yes, the 17″ is heavier than the 15″, but it’s still lighter than most 15″ PC laptops, so it’s weight is relative.
debe