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My webinar this week is "Ask Larry Anything!" We are back on Wednesday after last week's Tuesday session. (The reason for Tuesday was to allow time for a five day trip to LA.) This is always a fun session for me - because it gives me a chance to learn more about your problems and puzzlements. As always, please email your questions so I have time to track down the answers or create demos. This will be the last webinar this year, so don't miss it! As always, registration is free.
Link: Register for Larry's FREE "Ask Larry Anything!" webinar
While I got a lot of great comments on last week's Premiere Workflow webinar, because of my trip to LA I wasn't able to edit it. I'll have it posted later this week.
Also, an update on our Video Training Library playback problems. We have traced the problem to a change Amazon made to their cloud service. This change implemented a new, tighter, security protocol, which broke the connection between your browser and our Library. Fixing this requires a fairly deep level of programming which, I've been told, will take a few days. Those repairs are in process and we are working to get this back and operating as quickly as possible. I'm very sorry for the delay, but Amazon didn't warn us this was coming.
NOTE: For this reason, I have not yet uploaded my New Features in Final Cut 11 webinar to the Library. I will add it later this week.
Turning to new tutorials, here's another issue that could use your help. Geoff is experiencing consistent jerkiness during pans on multiple cameras when shooting PAL video. Take a look and see if you can solve the problem.
Link: Jerky Pan Problems When Shooting PAL Video
Next, Gary emailed: “I recall you said that mixed frame rates cannot exist on a DaVinci Resolve timeline. Often my media is submitted in a myriad of forms/rates. How do I deal with that?” Actually, Resolve handles mixed frame rates easily – with one BIG!! gotcha. Here are the details.
Link: When You Import Media Affects Project Frame Rates in DaVinci Resolve
One of the hidden problems I've written about is "data rot," that is, losing data that is stored for a long time on magnetic hard disks. Recently, Synthtopia detailed this issue in an interview with data archiving company, Iron Mountain, who report a 20% failure rate on hard drive data stored from the 1990's! Ouch!!!
Link: Music Industry Hard Drives Are Dying - Synthtopia
I was in Los Angeles this last week hosting a choir concert that I've MC'd for the last 14 years. Listening to the music of the season, some of it going back hundreds of years, I was reminded of the choir conductor's comment shortly before the concert.
"People don't come to a concert to 'hear' something," she said.
"They come to be moved by it."
That comment resonated with me. It's why we create videos. We want to create stories that affect our audience - give them new information, change their behavior, or, most often, get them to care about... something. That's the core of a great story - or great music - it touches your heart and makes you care.
As the approaching holidays wrap around us, let us remember that, in spite of all the challenges, what we do makes a difference. And that difference is important.
Until next week, stay hopeful, stay healthy and edit well.
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