Scott Sheriff
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David
“Maybe Apple machines don’t like being upside down?”Maybe, but I thinks it has to be the Coriolis Effect disrupting the HD’s!
Scott Sheriff
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After the upgrade, doing an update past 10.6.2 has been breaking the mpeg2 component making Streamclip and DVDSP have issues with audio. Not everyone has had this problem, but it did happen to me (FCS2) and I had to roll back to 10.6.2 from 10.6.4. Don’t know if this has been fixed in later updates, or even if there are any, as my system is happy now, so I’m not even checking for updates.
Scott Sheriff
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SST Digital Media
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Scott Rachal
“Maybe not completely full of crap…We do prefer applicants with a degree, but for this reason: It shows that you can make a huge commitment, and finish something.”
Well, I’m going to disagree because this is 180 degrees out of phase with my experience. As a person who has managed the Production departments at two different top 20 market stations, I have also had the privilege to run the production internship program at both these stations. This would include taking interns from 2 and 4 year schools, over the span of 16 years between the two stations. My anecdotal experience was that kids from 4 year schools all had poor, if any work ethic. They thought they were ‘too good to do actual work’, and everything on the planet was more important than showing up for work. On top of this, most of these kids didn’t even know basic terms like ‘3 point lighting’, or what is the difference between drop and non-drop TC. Which I don’t think is asking a lot if you are 1-3 semesters from graduating. About 50% of the kids from 4 year schools received an ‘incomplete’ as their internship grade. This eventually caused us to end our relationship with the local 4 year school that had a Mass-Com program, and another with a journalism program. Kids from out of state schools with film programs were better in the knowledge department, but their attitudes still stunk.
We also took a lot of interns from a local 2 year comunity colledge, and they were a lot better in terms of reliability, attitude, and knowledge. Not great, but better. At least 5 or more from the local CC went on to become station employees, while none of the 4 year school kids did.
Being a person that learned this trade on the job without a degree, I don’t have a built in prejudice against those without one, and have hired plenty of folks that had learned on the job. In my experience the on the job folks are the top tier for attitude, hard work, skills and reliability. The second tier would be those from 2 year schools. Probably because most of them are working their way through school, which helps them build theri work ethic.Scott Sheriff
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SST Digital Media
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How about trash you prefs, and trash the render files and re-render.
Scott Sheriff
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SST Digital Media
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“Complete shot in the dark here (no pun intended), what happens if you save a copy of your project, close the existing project and export from that?”
I was thinking something like that, but start a new sequence, and paste contents from old to the new.
Scott Sheriff
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SST Digital Media
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It sounds like you have some orphaned frames, that may have gotten pushed down the timeline. Maybe on an upper track, or way down on the main track?
I have seen this type of thing add minutes of extra black, but never 20 hours. Very odd.Scott Sheriff
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John,
You damn straight nailed it!Scott Sheriff
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SST Digital Media
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Cory,
“Many corps file in Nevada because they hope to evade taxes/privacy or other issues.”An interesting thing has been happening in Colorado lately. Because these types of records are public information, there has been a rash of ID theft associated with business and corporation registrations on the Colorado Secretary of State web site. One of the tactics has a been to ‘reopen’ closed businesses, and then apply for a bunch of credit in the name of the business and run up a bunch of bad debt. The SoS has been scrambling to put a stop to this. It has been a nightmare for a bunch of people that had weak corporations like LLC’s that don’t do much to protect the owner, since most of this bogus credit has their name attached to it.
Scott Sheriff
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SST Digital Media
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Shane,
You don’t have to incorporate in your home state. You might want to look at Nevada. They have quite a few advantages, in cost, ease and security. You can check out Delaware too, but Nevada has better privacy and public disclosure laws, that keeps your records out of the hands of spammers and scammers. And Nevada doesn’t have an information sharing agreement with the IRS, for whatever that is worth.
There are companies that can set this up for you, but they overcharge, and it’s something you can do yourself, or at least with minimal assistance. It might even save you from paying state income tax.Scott Sheriff
Director
SST Digital Media
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Why not make your own diagrams in Motion?
That would be easy.Scott Sheriff
Director
SST Digital Media
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.com