[John Davidson]

I dunno. Apple.com’s rumors are pretty lame. Plus, they totally got the release date of Apple TV wrong, too. Matter of fact, they didn’t have anything on the iPhone till the day it was released. Weak.

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[John Davidson]

I am completely addicted to all Mac rumor sites. Every day and night I check them, hoping beyond hope that there will be some announcment about new mac pros, iwork, ilife, leopard, and of course a new macbook with fancy new technology that makes it so thin I can shave with it,

I NEED a new laptop, but this close to leopard, if I can just hold out a little…bit….longer….

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[John Davidson]

I’m not sure about shake, but I’m sure it works with QT’s, right guys?

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[John Davidson]

What I do is export targa sequences for each camera and then do my compositing in After Effects, which I’m guessing you probably have since you’re rolling with Maya. When everything is in AE, I add whatever glows, shadows, coloring, etc. that I might want and then export the composited footage out as one big 10 bit qt. That process cuts down on fcp render times and eliminates hassle of bouncing between lots of cluttery files in fcp.

The reason we avoid exporting qt from Maya is that if there’s a crash, we can pick up where we left off – and for the reasons the other guys mentioned.

Cheers,

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[John Davidson]

I’d give the guy a pass. He may not have been close to his step-mom, but he still had to watch his Dad suffer, and that’s enough to make anybody a little funky mentally. There’s a fine line between people that should be fired and people that will make your ship tighter if you listen.

I would tell him to be a little more constructive in his criticism if possible so that positive change can result if in fact there is a genuine problem. Compaints are like roaches, for every one you hear there are 100 you don’t hear. Could be a morale problem around there.

If it is discovered that this guy is a sower of discontent, then you’ll need to let him go. If the discontent is malignant and widespread, you’ll need to address the problem. 10 resumes a week are useless if the applicants are inexperienced or untrained, which 9.5 of them probably are.

In other words, make sure you don’t have a mutiny brewing. Might be a good time to have one of those fun and exciting “voice your concerns” all-staff meetings where people anonymously write-in questions to be asked in the group.

Good luck!
JD

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[John Davidson]

Your president’s day challenge – try not to make this another Apple vs Windows fight to the death.
Let’s save that for the ring.

This is more about the longer term plans for MS and whether or not those of us in the production world should be considering moving our NLE’s and production equipment to macs.

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[John Davidson]

I’ve thought about it – but I’m just not into all the drugs, women, and booze that posting in the lounge leads to.

Wait, yes I am!

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[John Davidson]

Well now you know. Seasoned pros – not allowed.

It’s all WD-40, duct tape, and a cellphone camera in my shop!

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[John Davidson]

Hey Greg, I don’t know you, your marketing size, or your situation because your profile is completely blank, so when I give you options on how this can be done, I’m basing it on several assumptions that I’ve got to make due to a lack of information provided. Can you shoot? I don’t know. Are you in in New York, or Milledgeville, GA? I don’t know. .

Regardless, you solicited the cow world for advice because you felt you needed it – which leads me to assume you’re not pulling a crew of 40, shooting on 35mm and using Billy Crystal as host. I provided you with an option that could be done and IS done well by lots of small crews on a daily basis in small to medium markets.

“For John, I pride myself on quality work for reasonable rates. Shooting this myself, and doing everything on the cheap would be a disservice to a client. Do YOU really operate this way?”

(deep cleansing breath) Good luck with your project Greg!

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[John Davidson]

lol, Cowdog that was funny. Although I think we just violated the patriot act….

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