cougar is happy and haven't had to use magic battery booster thing in about a month ... when it's above zero degrees the cougar starts okay without it.
PIG is happy and says, " OINK ! " ( wagging curly tail )
Pig has been going through some tests re: using PPro and SG and various drives for round trips ( using dpx " send to SG" ). So far so good... basically the vivaldi winter thing has been a workflow test of sorts...
So far it is this that works best....
1) put everything on timeline as it is put into pig from ninja SSD ( using renamer program to batch name files as per date of ingestion etc. ...file naming conventions to keep track of whats what ).
2) scrub through stuff on timeline quickly to get general idea what I got
3) go through each file using source monitor by double clicking project manager files ( clips )
4) throw out total junk ( delete from project manager, timeline, and hard drive )
5) butt everthing in timeline together after getting rid of junk.
6) send to SG ( make dpx files )
7) do initial cc with SG and export same as original source stuff ( in my case avid codec in mov wrapper ) to appropriate drive.
8) move stuff from export drive to source drive ( keep the stuff organized re: where source stuff is and where export stuff goes )
9) put new SG stuff on timeline above original stuff
10) scrub using timeline now.. no more source monitor
11) begin edit .....
now it gets nuts... cause at some point I am still unhappy with original cc and have to send back to SG again... oh well, thats life.
keep editing..and move good stuff up a level that will go to roughcut sequence.. cutting out bad parts.. I don't use anything that can later be expanded ...
at this point ( roughcut ) I may start adding some dissolves etc... but probably will have to delete them for yet ANOTHER trip to SG for basic cc....
maybe nest stuff for overall PPro levels and other adustments...
post grading not done yet ... wont be done till entire project is done ( winter spring summer fall )... for this test project.
learning what I can meanwhile with some more tutorials and stuff ( like how to use yc waveform better, stuff like that.. and also testing iso to imgBurn from encore to make DVD and BD to test color spaces and products ( played on computer and TV to compare results ).
Lots of stuff going on but being an idiot it is progressing slowly and ultimately ( without calibrated monitors and test signals and so on.. half of what I'm doing is just to get used to using the programs and won't really lead to final products except for low ball sharing ).
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OB.. hiya ! Am still using the cool mixing stick thing to mush up food for eating with loose teeth... works great ! I think the teeth might be re attaching themselves to my jaw.. hard to tell cause I don't wanna put pressure on them to test them ... but I am not having bad dreams about them anymore and am living on canned ravioli, refried beans, chili that is mushed with magic mixing thing, and pea soup.. etc... today I ate some chicken too ! And yesterday I made a roast beef and sliced it really THIN.. and ate half of that roast ! YUM !
HAIL CITIZEN ! I have not been able to read any more decline and fall of roman empire for the past 2 weeks... due to depressing heads flying out palace window... I think I'll get back into it once my own personal life is not so stressful ...you know, where I can sorta laugh at heads flying out windows again.
