http://www.ericbrodeur.com/blog From my head to yours : Mac, media, and other random bits Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:50:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The project I'm working on is recording picture and sound onto separate devices. Actually, reference audio in the form of a mix-down is going to camera's channel 1, and the actor's mics are recorded to a four-track wave file. Because the camera audio won't be used in the final mix we've ... http://www.ericbrodeur.com/blog/2008/12/03/syncing-dailies-in-final-cut-pro/ Changing the location of a WordPress installation isn't as harrowing as it may sound. Although no tools exist to do it automatically, some knowledge of the Linux command line and MySQL makes it do-able. This post is a summary of the steps I performed to relocate my blog folder; this ... http://www.ericbrodeur.com/blog/2008/10/25/moving-a-wordpress-blog-to-another-folder/ An email has been languishing in my inbox for months regarding the release of Triangle, the latest novel in the Seeds of Civilization undersea adventure series. New novel is set 2,100 feet deep in the “lost city of Cuba” Little is known about the actual discovery of “MEGA”—a city submerged in ... http://www.ericbrodeur.com/blog/2008/10/10/book-release-for-the-seeds-of-civilization-series/ During the edit of a 60-second spot using RED footage I used QuickTime proxy files. Although this meant continuous rendering of transitions and effects it was painless. Eventually I needed to conform the proxies to their 1080/24p ProRes 422 counterparts. I didn't bother with Crimson because there were only about ... http://www.ericbrodeur.com/blog/2008/09/24/final-cut-pro-cannot-render-video-effects-in-certain-prores-hd-sequences/ The upgrade from VMware Fusion 1.x to 2.0 was smooth except for an error from Windows XP's Device Manager. Before I could install the newest VMware Tools, Windows complained about "missing driver for Base System Device." Dismissing the error I installed VMware Tools 2.0 but the error persisted. On this tip ... http://www.ericbrodeur.com/blog/2008/09/19/vmware-fusion-20-and-missing-driver-for-base-system-device/