Wild tales in the world of filmmaking – Madness in Morocco: The Road to Ishtar
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Just discovered I can watch the Oscars on YouTube TV live. 🍿🎞️
This seems like a lifetime ago. vimeo.com/ijterrone…
Still one of my favorite pieces (straight outta Apple Motion). post.pro/fan-75424
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts looks like the best installment in a long time (if not ever), but a full-length feature like this fan film? 🤩
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How to Get Mastodon Verification for Your micro.blog
- Install the
Meta tagsplug-in. - Copy/paste this into
Meta tags > Settings-<link href="(Your Mastodon URL)" rel="me" /> - ✅
Thank you, Sven! 👉🏽 https://help.micro.blog/t/will-an-easy-way-to-add-rel-me-link-for-mastodon-be-added/1441
“My video editing app doesn’t do (whatever) so I’m switching to Resolve,” is the new, “My OS is terrible so I’m switching to Linux.”
Just watched S3:E1 of The Mandalorian and wondered, “How’s Shamook doing at ILM?”
Media Composer teams rejoice! MDVx (Media Database Viewer) received a quiet update in December 2022. Seems to be quite a few UI improvements and it’s Apple Silicon native. Get it! (It’s still 🆓! 🤯)
Friday Night Lights is an OK movie, but a dynamite TV series.
The pilot is a 10, the theme song is a 10, and even the ending is satisfying.
Also, Todd McMullen’s cinematography? Completely fitting. S1 in particular – still blows me away.
More proof of: who knows why anything works?
DEAR AVID - MAKE ONE VERSION OF MEDIA COMPOSER TO RULE THEM ALL
The fact that a movie or TV show gets made at all is a miracle, but that’s especially true when a team uses Media Composer in post-production.
Before you dismiss that, here! Check out Avid’s official Version Matrix for Media Composer.
If anyone bothers to read this, they’d discover Avid actively maintains multiple versions of Media Composer.
While Avid touts that as a positive, in reality:
- Each version has a different user experience.
- Each version’s UX is just different enough from the others to add mental overhead and/or needless context switching to the user.
- All of those versions are perceived as wildly different compared to what many teams still consider the gold standard: Media Composer
2018.12.15.
Recently, a couple of teams reported having trouble with Mimiq in their workflow. Each team uses MC 2020.12.x. Since both teams used older minor versions, we encouraged them to update MC to the latest minor. They did… except they both updated MC to 2020.12.8.
Go back to MC’s Version Matrix. Do you see 2020.12.8 listed here? Nope! Turns out 2020.12.8 is only available as a downloadable patch. Its sole purpose? To fix one bug where a previous build rendered third-party licensed plug-in’s unlicensed, which would crash MC on startup.
As someone who supports Media Composer on the daily now, my first instinct is to check this Version Matrix against Mimiq’s Requirements. If a version isn’t listed, we can’t support it. We don’t have any red phone partnership with Avid, so the intel we use to support MC is the same intel you have to support MC.
Someone at Avid may read this and say, “Got it. We’ll update the Version Matrix more frequently.” That’s not the point. It’s time to make the hard decision – choose 1 version of Media Composer and leave the rest behind. Old habits die hard, but when someone has to learn something completely new, only to face the prospect of learning something slightly newer, that just breeds needless anxiety and frustration.
If this sounds like a rant, consider this CNBC piece published in November 2022:
10 of the most high stress jobs in the U.S.―some pay as much as $208,000 a year
Number 1? A urologist. Number 2? Film and video editor. Number 3? An anesthesiologist assistant.
True, movies don’t owe anybody a living, but Workflow Editors (née Assistant Editors) and Media Managers certainly aren’t paid the same as a specialist who needs to know how to insert a catheter.
And when things get rough, we frequently ground ourselves with sayings like, “Well, no need to get emotional – it’s not life or death here.” But when those deadlines loom and MC just stops working, wowee wow, we’re sure made to feel that way.
So Avid, if you’re reading this, be on the right side of the miracle. Think of those users who canceled their family vacations due to MC crashes (🙋🏽♂️) or spent hours re-creating work after the Attic stopped working (🙋🏽♂️), and put all your R&D and dev power behind one version – one stable, fast, reliable version with a consistent experience – of Media Composer.
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Recently heard Callie Khouri describe Nashville, TN like this:
“Nashville is a drinking town with a music problem.” 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I watched Celebrity Jeopardy! today and Episode 1 is… well, if you like Jeopardy! even a little bit, you should watch it.
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I’m more impressed by the process and reasoning for the parody than the parody itself.
And for reference:
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Just heard Daft Punk’s releasing a 10th Anniversary Edition of Random Access Memories. I don’t know… this still hurts.
REMOVING ROSETTA 2 FROM YOUR MAC
At times I’ve needed to confirm: is this macOS app native for Apple silicon or does it require Rosetta 2?
The easiest way? In Finder, do a Get Info then look at the app’s Kind:
Application (Universal)= native for Apple silicon.Application (Intel)= works on both Apple silicon and Intel-based Macs, but needs Rosetta 2.
But if you want to be certain, take these steps to completely remove Rosetta 2 from your Mac:
- Obtain a list of files and/or directories and LaunchAgents with:
pkgutil --files com.apple.pkg.RosettaUpdateAuto. - Save that list in a way you can readily access it once you put your Mac into Recovery Mode.
- Boot your Mac into Recovery Mode.
- Open Terminal in Recovery Mode.
- In Terminal type in this command –
csrutil disable– pressReturn, then confirm to temporarily disable System Integrity Protection (SIP). - Reboot your Mac.
- In Finder, delete these folders (access with
Go > Go to Folder):/Library/Apple/usr/share/rosetta/Library/Apple/usr/libexec
- Reboot to Recovery Mode again, then open Terminal.
- Run
csrutil enableand confirm to re-enable SIP. - Done! ☑️
Once you remove Rosetta 2, launch the desired app:
- If you launch an
Application (Universal)app on Apple silicon, it will launch as expected. - If you launch an
Application (Intel)app, macOS will prompt you to re-install Rosetta.
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UNINTENTIONAL SHOUTING
I do love working in post, but I get unintentional shout emails all. the. time. 😄
It’s Avid, not AVID.
It’s Mimiq, not MIMIQ.
All computers have MAC addresses (Media Access Control), but not everyone uses a Mac.
- Related: a MAC address ≠ an IP address. 😁
The one outlier? Avid NEXIS. Indeed, all-caps. 🤷🏽♂️🫠
Nothing says Friday Night like a good opening title sequence, and it doesn’t get any better than Sarofsky’s work on Guardians of the Galaxy.
www.artofthetitle.com/title/gua…
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As some of you may know, I work for hedge.video. The team’s in overdrive preparing for NAB 2023, but some recent work I’m super-proud of:
- Mimiq Pro - Bin Locking can now be activated on:
- LucidLink Filespaces in Windows 11
- AFP shared folders
- Hedge - those Finder / File Explorer Extensions… 🤌🏽
- Postlab Sync - lots of small-but-mighty improvements like details job status reporting and continual sync retries regardless of whether a
SOURCEorTARGETare available. - EditReady Server - it’s here!
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Before Apple TV+ brought us TETRIS, Norman Caruso gave us this. youtu.be/_fQtxKmgJ… 🍿🕹️
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