FCP output to OMF for professional audio mixing:

I know this is complicated, but it’s important to follow the right protocol if you want to have a smooth sound mix.

Trust me, the audio house will be your friend.

If you make it easy on your audio mixer, you’ll get what you need and save money.

It Really Is Annoying

Thanks to Brian Chirls, www.chirls.com, to talk about this. This has really made our life difficult at VSFF as we’ve had to reschedule our entire festival based on VIFF’s premiere policy in the past.

I don’t expect this to get any better any time soon, because it allows the big players in the festival world so much leveraging power over filmmakers’ distribution schedules. Can the Indy-Filmmaker garner enough sway to distribute their own way? Unlikely at the moment.

Poor Dotty (she died)

This is how it could spread. What must have happened is that the round of swine flu shots from the ’70s wore off leaving people vulnerable. And now, we’re screwed!

“Seasonal flu each year causes tens of thousands of deaths in this country — on average, about 36,000 deaths,” Besser said. “And so this flu virus in the United States, as we’re looking at it, is not acting very differently from what we saw during the flu season.”

(http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/29/swine.flu/index.html)

Might the media be over-reacting on this? just a thought

In addition to the time lapse magic rock garden, let’s re-create a moon walk in Atlanta before everyone parts ways for the summer.

If you haven’t seen ‘The American Astronaut’, you probably ought to do so right now. It is a space-western/musical. If that alone does not convince you, let wikipedia:

“The film is set in a fictitious past, in which space travel is pioneered by roughnecks. The logic of space travel isn’t addressed, and most technology was designed for the film to appear as if “it could be repaired with a hammer”. Samuel Curtis, an interplanetary trader, is approached by an acquaintance of his, the Blueberry Pirate, with a mission. He is to provide the women of Venus with a new king for mating. In exchange for this new stud, they will relinquish their currently deceased king, whose family is offering an immense reward for his body. Curtis sets off in search for the perfect replacement, the Boy Who Actually Saw a Woman’s Breast, but is unaware of the fact that his old nemesis, Professor Hess, is hot on his trail.”

Based on this epitaph this guy was either a fair and just bad-ass or so rotten that this was the best thing that could be said about him. So in my mind this is like the Madonna/whore dichotomy only for 19th century gunslingers. The dual character of Robert Clay Allison could haunt me for years as one of those things I always meant to look up but never did. Luckily, we live in the modern age and I, with the most minimal of effort, found more information about this gunslinger. Particularly that he is known for riding through what is now Hemphill County, Texas drunk and naked. From my extensive research on the topic, I have concluded that Robert Clay Allison was on the whole was kinda an asshole, but at least he had panache.