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

That 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.

🎞️ 🖥️

Andi Schmied, y’all.

www.youtube.com/watch

Recently heard Callie Khouri describe Nashville, TN like this:

“Nashville is a drinking town with a music problem.” 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Tron: Ares… sweet.

www.imdb.com/title/tt6…

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/mo…

I watched Celebrity Jeopardy! today and Episode 1 is… well, if you like Jeopardy! even a little bit, you should watch it.

www.imdb.com/title/tt2…

📺

I’m more impressed by the process and reasoning for the parody than the parody itself.

motionographer.com/2023/02/1…

And for reference:

www.youtube.com/watch

🍏🎨

Just heard Daft Punk’s releasing a 10th Anniversary Edition of Random Access Memories. I don’t know… this still hurts.

youtu.be/DuDX6wNfj…

REMOVING ROSETTA 2 FROM YOUR MAC

At times I’m asked to confirm if one of Hedge’s apps is native for Apple silicon or if it requires Rosetta 2.

If you do a Get Info in Finder and look at Kind:

• Application (Universal) = Apple silicon native
• Application (Intel) = Works on both Apple silicon and Intel-based Macs, but needs Rosetta 2.

That may be enough, but if you want to be certain, you can completely remove Rosetta 2 from your Mac. Here’s how:

1. Obtain a list of files/directories and LaunchAgents with: pkgutil --files com.apple.pkg.RosettaUpdateAuto.
2. Save them in a way that you can access while in Recovery Mode.
3. Boot into Recovery Mode.
4. Open Terminal in Recovery Mode.
5. Run csrutil disable then confirm to temporarily disable System Integrity Protection (SIP).
6. Reboot your Mac.
7. In Finder, delete these folders (access with Go > Go to Folder):
   • /Library/Apple/usr/share/rosetta
   • /Library/Apple/usr/libexec
8. Reboot back to Recovery Mode, then open Terminal.
9. Run csrutil enable and confirm to re-enable SIP.
10. Done! ☑️

Once you remove Rosetta 2, launch an app of the Application (Intel) kind, and macOS will prompt you to install Rosetta.

🍏🖥️

www.provideocoalition.com/apple-mot…

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…

vimeo.com/114366839

🍿📽️

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:

1. Mimiq Pro - Bin Locking can now be activated on:
   • LucidLink Filespaces in Windows 11
   • AFP shared folders
2. Hedge - those Finder / File Explorer Extensions… 🤌🏽
3. Postlab Sync - lots of small-but-mighty improvements like details job status reporting and continual sync retries regardless of whether a SOURCE or TARGET are available.
4. EditReady Server - it’s here!

🎞️ 🖥️

I have little-to-no investment in the DC(C)U, but this trailer is intriguing.

youtu.be/9vwaD9cHL…

🍿

Before Apple TV+ brought us TETRIS, Norman Caruso gave us this. youtu.be/_fQtxKmgJ… 🍿🕹️

Hey! I’ve been writing a lot, just not here. Today that changes 🙂. Now that I finally have my arms around post-Twitter life, you should see more of me here at Micro.blog http://isaact.micro.blog and on Mastodon @isaact@mastodon.social.

Almost three years later and… everyone in my family (sans one) got COVID.

While I fulfill my self-imposed 14-day quarantine, I decided to upgrade a Mid-2012 MacBook Pro with OpenCore Legacy Patcher.

I stopped using OCLP 0.4.3 on my Mid-2010 Mac Pro, so when I saw OCLP 0.5.3, all I can say is… wow, what an absolute win for owners of✌🏽older Macs✌🏽.

You can either download a macOS installer from Mr. Macintosh or just follow OCLP’s Getting Started guide and do it all in-app.

With the latest version of Monterey installed, this feels like a brand new Mac. (Using a SSD helps too. 😁) 🍏💻

👾 I think this is the eleventy-ith attempt to translate Segagaga into English. https://segagagaostp.blogspot.com

🍿 I was just thinking, “I wish Todd Vaziri was here”. Rejoice! 👉🏽 @tvaziri@mastodon.social

📺🎙 Ya just gotta love Defunctland.

Their documentary on HALYX was 🤯 and now there’s one on the songwriting origins of The Disney Channel Theme. It’s like comfort food.

🍿 Just discovered Postlab was used to complete the The Sound of 007 doc! 🙌🏽

🍿 So ready for an Indy movie with Mangold at the helm.

I have no idea who Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s character will be, but really looking forward to whoever she’s playing.

📽 trailers.apple.com/trailers/…

🍿 A Quiet Place has to be one of the most effective film series in recent memory. Maximum minimalism.

SAYING GOOD-BYE TO THE MILLENNIUM FALCON

I’ve used a Mid-2010 Mac Pro since 2011. More storage. More RAM. Maxed out the video card with an AMD RX 580. It’s my Millennium Falcon.

Now it’s time to move on. I’m migrating to Apple silicon by the end of 2022. Part of what kept the Falcon alive?

👉🏽 OpenCore Legacy Patcher (GitHub)

If Apple says, “Your Mac can’t run that version of macOS”, OCLP says, “Yes it can.” 😁 With OCLP and a little help from Mr. Macintosh (YouTube) and me, you can too.

My OCLP 0.4.2 Settings

Using Mr. Macintosh’s video, I bought a 1.0 TB Accelsior 1M2 PCIe NVMe SSD from OWC and successfully installed OCLP and Big Sur on it.

If OCLP 0.4.2 were around when I first attempted this, these would’ve been my patcher settings:

(As of 2022 Feb 11)

1. Debug Settings:
   • Enable Verbose Mode: True
   • Set SurPlus Settings: True
2. Security Settings:
   • Set System Integrity Protection (SIP): True
3. SMBIOS Settings
4. Boot Volume Settings
5. Miscellaneous Settings:
   • Set ShowPicker Mode: True
   • Set TeraScale 2 Accel: True
   • Set AppleALC Usage: True
   • Set Windows GMUX support: False
   • Set 3rd Party SSD Support: True
   • Set FeatureUnlock: True
   • Set NVRAM Write: True
   • Set Content Caching: True

For my Mac Pro, the two most important settings were:

1. Debug Settings:
   • Enable Verbose Mode: True
   • Set SurPlus Settings: True

With Verbose Mode enabled, you’ll be able to see where your Mac fails to start up. (If it happens, no big. Hold the power button for 10 Mississippi’s, then hit the power button again.)

SurPlus allows you to use storage like OWC’s Accelsior 1M2 to boot macOS. If you read any mentions of LateBloom with PCIe storage, it’s likely old intel as LateBloom was replaced by SurPlus (thankfully 😅).

If this smells like a Hackintosh, that couldn’t be further from the truth. I recommend getting an old(er) Mac over building a Hackintosh any day of the week.

That said, there are some gotchas:

1. If you’re using a non-blessed, but compatible AMD card, you may need to swap out that card with a blessed video card as the occasional escape route.

2. If you’re using a USB-based Bluetooth dongle, you may have to unplug it-then-plug it back in so macOS will see it.

Some particulars from my personal notes:

• It’s OK to modify the Patcher Settings then install a different build of OCLP multiple times. Something doesn’t work? Iterate.
• When choosing the disk to install OCLP in Disk Picker, slow down and pay attention. The intended disk number may change.
• SIP - you still have to actually enable/disable SIP in Recovery Mode.
  • Once enabled/disabled in Recovery Mode, the OCLP SIP settings are applied.
• Recovery Mode - accessed by hitting Spacebar at the Show Picker.
• It’s OK if you get the ⃠. Just press Power, wait 10 Mississippi’s, then try again.
• mountEFI script - super handy for uninstalling OCLP EFI contents, if needed.
• Set the USB BT dongle as the default BT host.
  • Bluetooth Explorer - set default host
  • sudo nvram bluetoothHostControllerSwitchBehavior=always

That era of the Mac Pro was special to me. It was truly pro kit, and it helped me make a living, right up to the moment I clicked Post on this. But now it’s same to say good-bye.

Godspeed, Falcon. 🍏

🎮🎶 Pizza Hotline’s Level Select:

One, I wish I would’ve thought of this name as a performing artist.

Two, I wish I would’ve thought of this album.

Three, that’s some premium drum & bass. 👌🏽

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