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July 31, 2006
Texan Again
After a whirlwind trip to Austin over the weekend, I've made my way back Home to North Texas. Home with a capital H, as opposed to the lower case varieties that are gradually going to be supplanting it over the next few months. I'll be back in LA in a few weeks, for a few weeks, but for the time being I'm at my desk and it's five AM and Final Cut and After Effects and Photoshop are all open and I'm waiting for some footage to render.
I was hoping to finish my new short film, Upheave, while I was gone, but the Final Cut crossgrade software didn't arrive until this past Wednesday. I had to get the crossgrade because I bought a MacBook Pro right before I left Dallas last month, and of course the only programs that weren't compatible with the new Intel chipset were the editing applications. But I overlooked the inconvenience because this MacBook is pretty swell. The Photobooth feature in OS Tiger is the best thing I've ever seen. We spent at least two hours in the hotel room in Austin the other night, applying all the Chris Cunningham-style filters to our faces. It's the most narcissistic distraction ever.
Anway. I have to finish that film, finish GDMF, finish a few other things, get started on a few more things, come up with more ideas, always more ideas...and catch up on my reading. Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go is waiting patiently for me to finish it.
Posted by David Lowery at July 31, 2006 04:55 AM
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I got a MacBook too. But I got the universal FCP. Now the sites are set on the new $500 release of Shake 4.1. It's completely integrated with FCP and Motion. Bye-bye After Effects...
Posted by: mutinyco at July 31, 2006 03:00 PM
Yeah, I got the universal FCP too. I had a bootleg of Shake 4, back when it still cost three or four grand, but the cracked render engine didn't work, so I could never output my compositions. Since then, I've gotten so used to After Effects that I don't know if I'll get any new software of that sort until Apple releases version 2 of whatever it is they're working on to replace Shake.
Posted by: Ghostboy at July 31, 2006 04:16 PM
I'm avoiding bootlegs on the new computer. My AE, on the old G5, was certainly that. And as I need something for compositing, this makes a lot more sense than AE -- cheaper and fully integrated.
Posted by: mutinyco at July 31, 2006 04:49 PM
rock on, david.
Posted by: r at August 10, 2006 02:12 PM