Kodak presents a timeline of the stuff we're phasing out as digital cinema proliferates. Yet, it's an important reminder to know where the technology has been and the breakthroughs that were made at the time. My favorite:
1930-31: Experimental Kodachrome color motion picture film (2 color) tried by Fox Film Co.
Kodak is still at it based on their latest advertisements in Post magazine.
If your Mac gets a new logic board you'll find that many of your software licenses must be re-applied or re-activated. For example, iTunes wouldn't recognize my newly repaired MacBook Pro as being authorized.
My former authorization was orphaned and iTunes doesn't allow its removal. Being forced to re-authorize used another one of my five precious authorizations…putting me at four. I began to wonder the consequence of orphaned authorizations but fortunately Apple has solutions for this.
If you reach the maximum of five authorized computers you can use the "deauthorize all" option in iTunes which resets the count back to zero. At that point you can authorize your primary computer and whatever others you wish. This can be done once per year.
Read the iTunes Authorization FAQ for everything you ever wanted to know.
For years I used (under Windows) an application called WhereIsIt for cataloging files on hard drives, CD-ROM, DVD, etc. Unfortunately I lost my license and the developer snubbed me with an obnoxious (and inaccurate) denial.
Since then I’ve been searching for a Freeware replacement. A recent post at Gizmo’s Freeware identifies three actively maintained disk catalog applications called Cathy, Gentibus, and Visual CD.
The Viewer monitor has two time code fields: Duration and Playback. I’ve always clicked in those fields to modify them and thought it was tedious considering Final Cut Pro has so many keyboard shortcuts. I discovered a shortcut yesterday.
Make the Viewer active. Press [Tab] once to enter the Duration field; press [Tab] a second time to enter the Playback field; press [Tab] a third time to place focus on the clip itself.
