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Posted in Editing, Technology on Sep 1st, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get my latest posts directly in your mailbox. Thanks for coming to the Foo!On a current job the client wants the videofiles on an external harddisk in FAT32. One of the problems with FAT32 is of course that it doesn’t [...]
Posted in Fun, Life, Technology on Aug 17th, 2008
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Posted in Editing, Film, Technology on Aug 7th, 2008
It is easy to lose track as to which version of Final Cut should go with the plethora of Quicktime and Mac OS versions. But help is at hand.
Jon Chapell at the Digital Rebellion has put together a nice recommendation of which Final Cut Studio/Final Cut Pro versions go best with which QT and Mac [...]
Posted in Life, Technology on Mar 1st, 2008
2 weeks ago I ordered a MacBook Air for my lovely wife. The estimated time before shipping was quoted as “1 - 2 weeks”. Having ordered from Apple before, I knew that the first figure can be safely ignored.
So yesterday, exactly 2 weeks after ordering it, the MacBook Air was shipped. But the surprise came [...]
Posted in Camera & Eye, Film, Life, Technology on Feb 29th, 2008
As a follow up on my last post on the costs of licensing Blu-Ray, I sent a little e-mail to Larry Jordan to confirm that small production runs of Blu-Ray discs are prohibitively expensive. Larry replied that it seems indeed that Sony does not want independent producers to embrace this delivery format.
So, most likely you will not see [...]
Posted in Life on Jan 28th, 2008
Just came across this Stanford speech by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. At times full of insight, at others surprizingly personal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ps1c1Z2Rl8
(via Ouriel)
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