Dustin Lau
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Wacom tablets are brilliant for repetitive keystrokes.
I’m doing a short video on that when I have the time.
Will put the link up when it’s done.
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Hi Mads,
I appreciate your help and your comment is not harsh, it is perfectly reasonable.
It was meant to be a job with normal hours which overran spectacularly due to a very inexperienced director, and is something I avoid these days.Saying no is part of the equation, the other critical things we do need are insurance; crews often work completely uninsured and shoot overseas with vanilla travel insurance, if any at all, and the terms are voided because of the nature of work. Saying no would be a great option if the practice were not as prevalent as it is.
These issues do need a group of some sort to broker favourable group rates for the collective. There is currently only one private insurer who provides insurance for the production industry and it is based on individual rates.
Thanks for your input and the information it is very much appreciated!
Cheers
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Hi Jeff,
I posted this somewhere else on the forum, but fader adjustment via Mackie Control is already implemented.
There are the few apps that do this, primarily for audio workstations but they all use the Mackie Control interface and the same DSMidiWifi Server on google code.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyOlM7Fn0RI&feature=player_embedded
https://www.handheldhollywood.com/
Lots of useful production related iPhone apps here,
most notably Artemis Director’s Viewfinder, Helios, Screenwriter and Hitchcock (can’t remember what it’s been renamed to.) -
This gives you something similar to the Avid timecode window with a Midi hack.
https://e-pocalypse.com/timecode/
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there are a couple of applications for VPN which radically increase productivity and most of these can be directly traced to the amount of time you have spent doing any of the following.
Time that you have spent
-Waiting for a file to finish rendering/exporting so you can output/upload/burn to DVD/send to client
-physically going to a client’s office to help them perform computer related tasks (installing codecs/showing them how to play the file, etc
-physically waiting for a vendor or tech support to come to your office to perform computer related tasks (troubleshooting non-hardware issues, assessing bugs, etc)
-going back to the office in the wee hours of the night to check that computer related things are prepared for the big presentation in the morning (checking that files are online, render has successfully completed, etc)Currently VPN is useful for low bandwidth tasks like checking renders, setting dvd burns and uploads.
However, if you use Automator to create complex workflows that otherwise cannot be auto-triggered by events like render completion or successful export, then you can use them in conjunction with VPN and VNC to perform a manual remote trigger event.
As I’ve shown previously, automator can do amazing things , with a remote trigger, you would be able to do anynthing, as Robert Downey Jr said as Sherlock Holmes.
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I’ve just written a short article which addresses this. Hope this is helpful to you.
https://www.luminoir.com/20091109/vpnvnc/
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I’ve just written a short article which addresses this. Hope this is helpful to you, instead of using iChat as your conduit, this uses hamachi VPN to negotiate the connections.
https://www.luminoir.com/20091109/vpnvnc/
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I’ve just written a short article which addresses this. Hope this is helpful to you.
https://www.luminoir.com/20091109/vpnvnc/
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This post got me thinking and I’ve written a short article on getting hamachi and VNC running on your edit machines.