As much as I would like to cry, it will not help. As I was ingesting footage from a recent shoot my G5’s main hard drive crapped out on me. 2 weeks ago I backed up my main hard drive because Apple’s Time Machine kept having errors and wouldn’t backup my main hard [...]

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It sounds like a healthy heart in a hospital but in actuality it is a dead hard drive. I’m so pissed, I just looked at the contents and was about to archive some DVDs I burned. I hate this. I froze it, tried another enclosure and no luck, this puppy is dead.

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I received an email from Kim in the Balkins and I can’t help her cause I’ve stayed as far away as I could from the AVCHD hard drive camcorders. Here is her issue…

I am using the Sony HDR-SR1 camera with FCP 6.0.2 on a MacBook Pro with upgraded ram. I am not having [...]

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These days are long and exhausting. But I’m not the only one. The crew I’ve met on this set are incredible. So talented and very down to earth. The cast are very professional and knock out long extended scenes in no more than 3 takes. Micah and Blake are shooting [...]

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I know alcoholics call a blackout weekend a lost weekend. This felt very much like that without the booze and I wish I could black it out.
I’m exhausted and relieved. This past weekend I did ADR for “Dog’s of Chinatown.” It was very important that we got everything perfect. Eric Jacobus [...]

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I want to thank Meagan Racey for being the spokesmodel for the ConvergeSouth Film Festival promo video. She has never done anything like this before, kudos to her.

As luck would have it I accidentally kicked over my hard drive and ruined the drive with all the footage of this video. Where [...]

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Antia and her husband, thanks for the email. Anita asked:
We are professional video photographers and I want to handle the editing of the work as well.
We got a new macbook pro and external 120gb hard drive
Right now final cut pro, shake, etc. is installed in computer.
We are wondering since we will run business for [...]

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Last week I upgraded my hard drive from an 80 GB to a 160 GB for my 17″ Powerbook G4. It was fairly simple. There are many places that will charge you to do this service which is nice if you are a technotard. But don’t worry, if you want to take [...]

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If you happen to purchase the new camcorders that Sony and Panasonic are about to infest the market place with, you will soon find out that you won’t be able to edit the footage from the camera’s hard drive. Unless you install their bundled software and only install it on a PC. MAC [...]

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I was over at Doc Searls site earlier and he’s considering buying the SR1. This is a breakthrough consumer camcorder. A 1080i HDV camcorder that has a 30Gb hard drive, is really pushing where digital camcorders need to go. Especially for us Indie filmmakers. There is one huge problem for me [...]

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