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It’s a long shot but I’m hoping if there is something tomorrow it’s a refresh to the “30 display.
John Davidson____ writer | producer | director____https://www.magicfeather.tv
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Hah! You beat me to the desaturated punch, Walter.
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Sometimes when confronted with completely awful DV footage, I’ll drop to black and white and bump the contrast up. It’s not the best result but sometimes can make a shot usable as an ‘effecty’ shot.
Hopefully you’re not working with HDV. It tends to fall apart with much correction, much like toilet paper when it gets wet.
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iLife ’08 is a must-have upgrade, in my opine. Some folks hate the new imovie, but I use final cut so it’s not that relevant to me. Integration with dot mac and iphoto’s web gallery setup is nothing short of great.
I’m about 80% into Leopard. The nagging 20% will likely be fixed in the 10.5.2 update expected to come by macworld.
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I’ve had great success linking my site on pay services like LA411. By success I mean I get tons of calls and emails from people I don’t know looking for jobs and offering services that I don’t need. I have never, ever, ever gotten work from website views only.
The reality is that in all levels of this industry most people that hire out aren’t highly technical – and aren’t very good at hitting industry websites, either. Typically, my clients are too busy sitting in meetings all day. My clients hire people they know, or people that are referred to them by people they know. If they exhaust all resources, the most they’ll do is look through the endless pile of reels they get.
Now don’t get me wrong – the website is important as heck. It’s like an online storefront explaining what you do and can make the difference when you meet someone, exchange cards, and then they check out your site to confirm you’re for real.
So get that 2008 Showreel together, make it match with your website, and give yourself a big marketing push at the first of the year by hitting the pavement and networking like the wind.
My two cents. Happy Holidays!
John Davidson____ writer | producer | director____https://www.magicfeather.tv
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You’re totally right – all I really wanted was audio output for my itunes. We’re done for the rest of the year which is why I would even consider installing the old drivers.
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Absolutely – and I can bounce back to Tiger in a heartbeat if needed. I still have to upgrade my RAID card before I can even attempt any serious work.
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Just installed tiger drivers on Leopard. Works for my Dual 2.7 / Kona 2 as well. I had to repair permissions afterwards due to some weird crashyness, now it’s rocking along like a champ. Haven’t done a big fcp test on it though.
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Nothing official from AJA – but I found a thread on the Apple discussions bboards posted yesterday. One of the posters claimed to have spoken with an AJA engineer on the phone and was told a Leopard fix would come “in the next few weeks”.
That’s all we get kids – here-say and a weirdly worded pr release.
Supposedly a 10.5.2 update will be out by Macworld (Jan 15). This last Leopard update didn’t fix all the Leopardisms so it may be that we won’t see a driver update until ’08, especially with the holidays coming up (engineers need time off too!). Even if drivers are released soon – they might get wrecked by 10.5.2, which would start the process all over again – so you’d be looking at February before you should feel safe installing AJA drivers.
I think everybody’s bummed about it – but what can you do? It really sucks the worst for people buying new edit systems – AND AJA sales staff right now. I’ve been playing around with it for a few weeks now and I’ve had some major crashes, freezes, etc. I’m glad I wasn’t editing when it happened (Yippee second Tiger boot drive).
Leopard probably won’t be production system friendly until say 10.5.3 – at the earliest.
My two cents.
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How intricate does the spot need to be? You should be able to turn it around pretty darned fast if they’re that desperate. Perhaps they can skip the annoyances like storyboards and put this on the approvals fast track.
The less people you have on their end the faster it goes.
Worst case, send them to a rival production company in LA. Hmmm…I wonder who you could call…