Well, at work they allow me two hours of overtime a week to edit some promos for shows (According to Jim and Scrubs) to give the regular directors some breathing room in getting things done. Also it's my only real chance to be creative and be paid for it.
About a month ago they switched from an old, peculiar Avid system to brand-spanking new Macintosh systems running Final Cut Pro. And despite the fact that they didn't train us on them, they didn't even have manuals for the damn program, everybody figured out how to make them work, sort of. They got an intern who had some FCP experience show us how to do a little bit of stuff, and I'm begging the bosses to buy one set of the $50-plus manuals for the system.
Only...now, the twenty terabyte server that connected all the systems, and held all the editing elements line sound, images and the raw promo footage...has gone offline. It's inaccessable. The last week was spent trying to get what was basically needed onto the individual editing systems, and getting the stuff done.
Forget getting that system working; our IT people are primarily PC only, and grouse about Mac's. Our maintenance people have been putting out fires for the last six months and can't take on anything new.
I suspect that somebody upgraded the Linux kernel somewhere. Whenever you do that, and you have to do it every week because they have a new kernel every week and you have to upgrade it, it invalidates all the software you installed and you have to upgrade that too. And then go through it all next week.
This kind of annoying Linux crapwork can be done at ISP's, where the techs have the time, but for people with real lives, it's like getting nailed to a cross. Weekly. I can't imagine how you Linux cultists do it, but then I can't understand how people can waste time to do model train layouts and bowling leagues either.
Now as for me personally; I'm ready to upgrade an old computer to a (hopefully) 2 GhZ processor. It will be used strictly to run Skype and a Skype recorder, to see if I can do better with that than by using my external Fostex recorder and my "mix minus" Rube Goldberg system for recording podcasts. None of my other computers is fast enough to run the recorder AND Skype and the other things on them, and record cleanly and without stuttering. The idea is to record a dual-track, with me and my audio sends on one track, and the incoming Skype calls on another, and mixing them together in post production so everybody sounds as good as possible.
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Date: 2007-10-06 04:28 pm (UTC)About a month ago they switched from an old, peculiar Avid system to brand-spanking new Macintosh systems running Final Cut Pro. And despite the fact that they didn't train us on them, they didn't even have manuals for the damn program, everybody figured out how to make them work, sort of. They got an intern who had some FCP experience show us how to do a little bit of stuff, and I'm begging the bosses to buy one set of the $50-plus manuals for the system.
Only...now, the twenty terabyte server that connected all the systems, and held all the editing elements line sound, images and the raw promo footage...has gone offline. It's inaccessable. The last week was spent trying to get what was basically needed onto the individual editing systems, and getting the stuff done.
Forget getting that system working; our IT people are primarily PC only, and grouse about Mac's. Our maintenance people have been putting out fires for the last six months and can't take on anything new.
I suspect that somebody upgraded the Linux kernel somewhere. Whenever you do that, and you have to do it every week because they have a new kernel every week and you have to upgrade it, it invalidates all the software you installed and you have to upgrade that too. And then go through it all next week.
This kind of annoying Linux crapwork can be done at ISP's, where the techs have the time, but for people with real lives, it's like getting nailed to a cross. Weekly. I can't imagine how you Linux cultists do it, but then I can't understand how people can waste time to do model train layouts and bowling leagues either.
Now as for me personally; I'm ready to upgrade an old computer to a (hopefully) 2 GhZ processor. It will be used strictly to run Skype and a Skype recorder, to see if I can do better with that than by using my external Fostex recorder and my "mix minus" Rube Goldberg system for recording podcasts. None of my other computers is fast enough to run the recorder AND Skype and the other things on them, and record cleanly and without stuttering. The idea is to record a dual-track, with me and my audio sends on one track, and the incoming Skype calls on another, and mixing them together in post production so everybody sounds as good as possible.