FLOWER a flyin' monkey films production

Rodney was last seen entering the Adobe corporate building downtown with a semi-automatic rifle and a jug of Kool-Aid.


Apparently he gets thirsty while he works.
 
Yeah, apparently he's wanted by the FBI and has been bumped to their "Ten Most Wanted" list, because he shot the janitor in the leg before shooting himself in the foot, running, eh-hem. . .limping off yelling bomb threats and screaming "F*ck the PO-LEECE (ie - police)." I hope he finishes the film before they nab him.

Rodney, if you out there, we're worried about you. Come home or just call us at (555) 555-9711.
 
I've decided to become a hipster. I'm finally, after all of these years, succumbing to the dreaded "Must Buy a Mac" virus. My laptop is now refusing to copy files from one drive to the next, Premiere is sluggish... no that's a lie: at least slugs still MOVE. My Premiere CS4 plays back 2 seconds and then immediately freezes. I of course did a diagnostic on the system, going for the most obvious: any graphics card hogs... the only thing running was Premiere. Next I checked the drives for space and fragmentation. NONE. Of course none. I only defragged last week.

Now running ChkDsk instead of editing and fixing my final issues.

FRAKK.

Sidenote: the elevators in the Adobe Corporate building are slooooooooooooooooow....
 
LOL Rodney... I do not miss those days of battling Windows.
Not that Macs don't have their occasional issues, but just so ya know, we completed all the editing and sound work on one 5-year-old Mac G5 (running Tiger no less) and all the scoring on a second 5-year-old Mac G5 (running Leopard). Not a hiccup (though we're going to up the RAM again soon).

Buy one. You'll like it. :)
 
EditPhish said:
LOL Rodney... I do not miss those days of battling Windows.
Not that Macs don't have their occasional issues, but just so ya know, we completed all the editing and sound work on one 5-year-old Mac G5 (running Tiger no less) and all the scoring on a second 5-year-old Mac G5 (running Leopard). Not a hiccup (though we're going to up the RAM again soon).

Buy one. You'll like it. :)
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...but don't buy an old one. You want the Intel chips or none of their new software will work.:Drogar-Shock(DBG):
 
EditPhish said:
Buy one. You'll like it. :)
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I totally disagree with that statement EP. Buy one. You'll LOVE IT!! You'll never go back.

On another note, that suckz Rodney. I know how detailed and psycho I can be about wanting to make last minute changes and to not be able to do that is a B*tch! I hope you get that resolved, because you've put alot of hard work in and have overcome many issues that would make the average man quit. Keepin' my fingers crossed for success.
 
re-installed ALL of CS4. i appear to be able to edit now. Gotta go paint out Will holding a boom pole in the shot and fix my color correction. The last VFX shots are just not going to make it, but it really was more atmospheric stuff... wish me luck.

Gonna get a Macbook Pro 15" from a dude on craigslist. My wife has already okayed the purchase. Plus he's sellign it with CS4 installed AND Final Cut already on there.
 
You are still going to hit some walls with a laptop. VFX are best done on a desktop MacPro tower. Most programs are now more dependent upon GPUs which are found in graphic cards. I'm not saying to skip the Macbook Pro. It depends on your more frequent needs.
 
Man, I've got a macbook pro and a G5. This macbook pro is off-the-chain, at least for what I do. It's light years ahead of my old G5 and more convenient. Them darn towers are expensive.:Drogar-Mad(DBG): Well, whatever you get, Rodney, it'll be better than what you got me thinks.
 
I eventually want to have both the laptop and the tower, but i'm on the road so much the laptop is easily the best choice for me. Now to have one in my home office as the main workhorse while I'm there would be ideal. I can at least use one just for renders and what not.

Speaking of rendering: currently rendering out the last After Effects file. I didnt get to work on the additional effects I;d wanted in there, but you guys aren't going to notice anything missing.... it was really simply to enhance what is already there.

Happy with the final CC as well.

Now to finish up the audio...
 
Rodney V. Smith said:
I eventually want to have both the laptop and the tower, but i'm on the road so much the laptop is easily the best choice for me. Now to have one in my home office as the main workhorse while I'm there would be ideal. I can at least use one just for renders and what not.

Speaking of rendering: currently rendering out the last After Effects file. I didnt get to work on the additional effects I;d wanted in there, but you guys aren't going to notice anything missing.... it was really simply to enhance what is already there.

Happy with the final CC as well.

Now to finish up the audio...
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I spent a LOT of time researching and talking to apple people before I settlled on
a macbook pro (and yes I still use PCs for email and html etc. but for protools and FCP -its MAC).

If you do go with the craigs list one you mentioned, It HAS to be the Intel version or you will be stuck with old version of Final Cut studio forever.

Anyway, since I've had my MBP, I've thrown everything at it from After effects with nested comps, Cinema 4d renders, Pftack etc etc.. It's never stuttered even for a second and it Eats-Up the code fast.

I had a G5 tower (but it wasn't intel so that's what spurred the upgraded to the Mac Book Pro), and its funny, this little laptop runs circles around my older tower. SO yes, I can see the reason for buy a new intel tower, but for what I do the laptop is the most versatile INHO. The only draw back is no firewire port on it.
 
I fell asleep waiting for the h.264 render to complete. Woke up literally 15 minutes ago. Thought I'd missed the deadline for sure that time.
 
Thank you guys for all of your support through the past couple of weeks. It's been rough going just getting this thing completed. I wondered at times if it was even worth it, but I'll have to say that it's ALWAYS worth it to get out there and do something. You learn more from your mistakes than what you got right.

ANyway, just wanted to thank you guys directly. You've been very supportive (especially in encouraging me to get a Mac :-P ) and you're a good reminder of what makes this community great.

UPLOAD CONFIRMED.
 
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