Continuing the fight....
Jan. 26th, 2008 04:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
recalcitranttoyAfter technology kicked my ass the last few days, I received another kick in analog form through a certified letter from the Virginia Bar that somehow decided I was not in CLE compliance despite them telling me I was. Luckily, I have all the class certificates which I will dutifully send yet again to them.
Next fun - continuing the fight with Final Cut Pro and the Sony HC7. My research led me to believe that the only way to capture video appropriately would be on an Intel based mac running FCP. Knowing Gaige to have one, I asked for his assistance. Once again we had the same connectivity issues regardless of what settings we used. He, however, found an obscure reference I had not, that tells you that you must not ONLY tell the main menu to use firewire and output HDV, but you must also find a secondary and tertiary menu and do the same, only you must also remove the firewire cable and re-insert it at the proper time or it would not work. This routine must be repeated any time you lose connectivity.
Uh... what? Doesn't Sony have any user interface people? Human factors? Anything like that? And why didn't they bother to TELL ME this obscure ridiculous fact when I got hold of their tech support? Hmmmm?!?!?!?
However, despite getting that part working and happy and functional, and leaving Gaige's house with the camera and computer happily speaking to each other and capturing video, soon as we all left, it burped and failed yet again. Gaige is about to now pull HIS hair out as well, and since he knows just about everything technical about firewire protocols and video codecs etc., the fact that he is stymied as well underscores that something is WRONG with this picture and Apple and Sony need to get off their collective asses and fix it.
Next - vanquished the DVD technology problems. Hooray.
Next - Downloaded Photoshop CS3 30 day trial so I could get finished the photos I needed to process RIGHT NOW. Will continue looking for the 7.0 code so I can upgrade without having to buy the whole package over.
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dogpooh is still trying to dry out the rug using fans and space heaters. It is not looking/smelling so good. I am not happy about any of this. It looks like we will have to take up the carpet and replace it. Perhaps stone tile would be useful given that the room is utility minded, the way to the pool, and where the doggies live.
And now to return to my regularly scheduled psychosis.
Next fun - continuing the fight with Final Cut Pro and the Sony HC7. My research led me to believe that the only way to capture video appropriately would be on an Intel based mac running FCP. Knowing Gaige to have one, I asked for his assistance. Once again we had the same connectivity issues regardless of what settings we used. He, however, found an obscure reference I had not, that tells you that you must not ONLY tell the main menu to use firewire and output HDV, but you must also find a secondary and tertiary menu and do the same, only you must also remove the firewire cable and re-insert it at the proper time or it would not work. This routine must be repeated any time you lose connectivity.
Uh... what? Doesn't Sony have any user interface people? Human factors? Anything like that? And why didn't they bother to TELL ME this obscure ridiculous fact when I got hold of their tech support? Hmmmm?!?!?!?
However, despite getting that part working and happy and functional, and leaving Gaige's house with the camera and computer happily speaking to each other and capturing video, soon as we all left, it burped and failed yet again. Gaige is about to now pull HIS hair out as well, and since he knows just about everything technical about firewire protocols and video codecs etc., the fact that he is stymied as well underscores that something is WRONG with this picture and Apple and Sony need to get off their collective asses and fix it.
Next - vanquished the DVD technology problems. Hooray.
Next - Downloaded Photoshop CS3 30 day trial so I could get finished the photos I needed to process RIGHT NOW. Will continue looking for the 7.0 code so I can upgrade without having to buy the whole package over.
Next - The
dogpooh is still trying to dry out the rug using fans and space heaters. It is not looking/smelling so good. I am not happy about any of this. It looks like we will have to take up the carpet and replace it. Perhaps stone tile would be useful given that the room is utility minded, the way to the pool, and where the doggies live.And now to return to my regularly scheduled psychosis.
