Fred Jodry
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You get to shoot your scenes with one ice cube in your mouth, or rain hat, instead of the usual two.
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Several of my old computers have the same problem but also appearing in several ways. This is it, if I turn off my monitor during a download or an Operating System install, the computer will stop immediately and usually crash. The problem seems to have to do with either APM, automatic power management when it`s turned on, or maybe standby mode being turned on in particular. Pre- 2000 vintage computers can have this problem often however old computers without these power modes seem immune. More modern types tend to use ACPI by default but can still have APM and the problems if that`s where the problem comes from, available so to speak, on tap. One of my motherboards was having the problem no matter what I did. It was an E-machine intended motherboard from 1999. It suffered having two transistors in the turn on, turn off area of the motherboard near the front power switch get blown to crumbs when I transferred it to a case that accidentally touched some connections around a screw hole. I snipped and sanded the offending wire ends then soldered a piece of solder braid across where the two transistors were and now the motherboard never goes to sleep, a lucky motherboard. So nice of an electrical accident to come along.
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Dustin, I can tell that you really want a RAID 0 + 1 (or “1 + 0” is the same thing) drive setup. Basically you can`t have the HD arms swings speed and the RAID 1 protection at the same time on too few, 2 drives. For example, a friend of a friend buys pairs of 9376258765876250243384578587635873587397208209858397187498 GB hard drives, partitions each one just before the halfway point, then uses them as RAID 5 (that`s pretty similar to RAID 0 + 1) to make a server. Others partition their pairs of drives two thirds of the way through in order to have three equal work partitions in total, similar. But do you know what? These are server storages for slow juice like bank archiving, other databasing, or maybe audio production and storage. They`re really trading off speed they don`t need. If you were to build a storage system that had barely more than enough speed to do the job, that itself would contribute to production or storage mistakes. Got the idea there? There are some extra design items you can reach for like a controller that has an extra dose of memory sticks and a RAID battery in case the hard drives take a hiccup or power glitch that`s a bit bigger than normal, but I see no real shortcuts. If you want video style speeds with the RAID 1 principled protection, you`ll need a regular array. Permanently storing projects on removed hard drives is mostly economical and practical these days. If you remove two (caught up secondary) drives of a 4- drive in order to drop in blank ones and archive the safety drives, you can make the system work resourcefully some of the time but not all of the time, There will be times when you`ve guessed wrong and the secondary drives won`t be caught up and you`ll accidently snip off the end of a project. Also, rebuilding (regenerating) a part of a RAID, while stable and regular, is slow. Make unloading for storage a more discreet (that means “visible” and regular) part of the operation. If you can find a way to make your hard drives box saw into their job on a regular but nice controller, then switch to a controller that has maintenance utilities built right in it when the hard drives box switches to the non- portable computer, then you`ll be using one of my pet methods.
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Try capturing either blackburst video or timecode on screen video next to your sound then use the feature in your editor software that lets you dub audio editing without dubbing or mixing wrong video. It`s the most regular of the different ways.
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I come to think of it, Duco cement and thinner, would be easier for the average person to find than Craig Film Cement and thinner.
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Pat, my idea on the output end of the business is that you`ll have to join, and that more likely means make, you`re the founder, a programming consortium. The trouble is, you can make the best programming around, or any other kind, but if the viewers aren`t taking in your stuff in numbers and return, then you`ve just broadcasted your stuff off the side of the Earth. Repetition, advertising, multiple markets, remixing uses, and consorting with other programming makers, is the way to go. We aren`t all lucky always lucky, like when tens of millions of viewers watched Tiny Tim`s wedding, and the fact that a videotape of it survived for a while without needing to be shown, but things happen for a reason. Fortunately you`re already doing this. Think of the Alexa as a very, very good lack of change. My idea, Fred.
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Daniel, The light collecting pixel sensors on the Alexa`s photo- sensitive plate look like ships` sails compared to the batches of little transistors that immediately handle their outputs. This is a good comparison just like most digital photoplate cameras are like. In order to reach the best sensitivity with no mentionable color compromise, each pixel actually handles white luminance minus a taking primary color to equal two taking primaries instead of one per pixel. (Twice the sensitivity of the first or quickest imagined way). Each “subtractive” sort of primary on a pixel is then matrixed against the immediately surrounding ones by using zero to a couple of lines, sometimes horizontal, sometimes vertical, delay, the pixel is in the middle of the delay and all mixed (matrixed) after. Some low- pass filtering “midway” in the amplifiers keeps out noise frequencies above maybe 60 MHz (crude guessy math here) to separate cleanly defined signal mixes from relatively strong unwanted seas of rounding, distorting noise. From this made, properly filtered Red, Green, Blue, output it`s then possible to produce signals of which are amplified from equalling around the same strength and frequency as a shortwave radio station, a strong light image into to camera is like a strong radio signal coming in, a weak light signal pouring in is co-incidently as strong (weak) as a weak shortwave radio signal coming in. They are amplified from this weakness in voltage and current, to become maybe 5 peak volts, RGB, side by side, pouring into the gamma corrector, which puts maybe 2/10 of a volt from each color channel into an analog to digital converter which creates most of the correct digital nightmare now hurling side by side out the output cables towards your standalone side by side ProRes and Raw recorders or maybe live Broadcast converter mixing boards and your editing computer too. Codecs, multiplexed sound, timing, and identification also in digital form are all small lunch talk next to this. The camera comes up with the goods, the receiving end is somewhat harder. In order to equal the Alexa`s pictures, you have to use a good moving film camera with fresh and lucky film and processing, then give it to a good telecine. Although the group`s been mostly talking about the digital flow and edit in- between the camera and some made, edited takes, most of the story from the maker`s end is really what it takes to hold the camera and microphone handles, directing them with the appropriate squeezes, then aiming this programming, live or re- used into markets of people. Their attention and return should produce your reward or you`ve failed. I`m going to have a huge laugh when Arri finds out what their new buyers, new customers, are like. It`s my universal business question, “What are Customers, the Customers, like?” The corollary of the matter is, that if the camera, your only Alexa? makes good company with the sock puppets and the Musicians most of the night, then makes news, entertainment, and education, otherwise known mostly as progress whenever it takes it`s breath by day, then you can stay rich and Arri can bust with surprise. Now do it successfully.
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Bill, I figured it out. Each line ends with a string that says,
-current value {142-153} worst value {142-153}. (or similar values).
It means, current temperature measurement, 142 degrees Fahrenheit, worst temperature measurement, 153 degrees Fahrenheit. These are limitations in the grammar of the computer code because it is regularly some kind of database. Temperatures as high as these on each hard drive are usually maybe 40 degrees above their average best value although it possible for the hard drive manufacturers to make high pet temperatures. At my location it`s the opposite. Some of the year I have to put hot jars in my hard drive boxes to warm them a couple of hours up to at least 50 degrees Fahrenheit (around 8 degrees Centigrade) then maybe switch the 115v. 220v. switch to 220 volts and let the machine turn on, unable to run, for a few minutes before I turn it off then start it regularly at 115v. It a good idea to probe real thermometers inside your hard drive boxes until you don`t have guesses. Some warm air is mixing with the hot air nearest the hard drives to make the exit temperature of 90 degrees. -
Jordan, read my previous post again. A poor electrician makes a poor computer operator. I have spoken.
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A fresh battery and a manually switchable charging arrangement would allow you to lterally press Escape past the dedicated charging schedule. You are able to work your machine through the cycle anyway. It`s not data or hardware surgery.