Comments on: Morning In Tiburon

By: MICHAEL VERDI » Morning In Suburbia

MICHAEL VERDI » Morning In Suburbia — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 06:18:46 +0000

[...] lank”> Click here to view the video. This is a video meant to follow last week’s “Morning In Tiburon.” Too bad that one didn’t work out. It w [...]

By: ryanne

ryanne — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 03:13:32 +0000

damnit
i wish i had seen it before we left for the airport!
guess we’ll have to make a timelapse of the brick wall view at our house next week.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 20:41:45 +0000

Hey – does iStopMotion only work when a camera is hooked up to the computer? Or can you shoot regular video (like a sunset on a tripod at 30i or 24p or at somekind of built in time-laspe) and then use this software to speed it up / to drop most of the frames? How would this change the way you’d go about the stop-motion projects we’ve worked on together in the past? Zach’s/Chris’/our little people (all shot in a studio)?? Jon + Marcella’s walking stop motion (which would be hard to do with a computer attatched)?

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 20:36:43 +0000

Roundtripping, huh? Yeah the files I lost while editing my film were the source clips for a section for which I was making LiveType titles. Both LiveType and FCP were using the media source files and I was flicking back and forth between the programs quite a bit…. it’s very good to pin down a cause. And now I know that drive was okay. Thanks, Verdi! (As always.)

By: Markus Sandy

Markus Sandy — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 17:29:37 +0000

Oh that is sad. I saw the wonderful timelapse Michael made and the effort he put into setting it up. It was a beautiful piece.

Pardon the plug, but this is one good reason to SpinXpress a copy back to your desktop (or friends). Makes for a great backup mechanism.

By: Verdi

Verdi — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:11:38 +0000

Yep, it’s gone. It wasn’t shot on tape – it was recorded to disk because it was a time-lapse.

By: cweagel

cweagel — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:07:39 +0000

the original source footage itself disappeared?

By: Verdi

Verdi — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:24:44 +0000

Yeah, it’s not a drive failure. I may have something to do with “roundtripping” between FCP programs according to messages on the Apple support site. I exported video to Soundtrack and started making music, when back to FCP to add an audio marker, back to Soundtrack, exported sound back to FCP, then exported to Compressor. Too bad I didn’t compress it right then. As soon as I went back to FCP the file dissappeared.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:04:21 +0000

Damn, there was no getting it back huh? But you think it was a FCP bug and not a drive failure?? That’s good at least. And it’s all a reminder to us all to constantly think about back-ups. Making back-ups as we go. I wouldn’t have thought to duplicate the file immediately onto the same drive… but now I would. (And I should make off-site back-ups of all my most important files asap…)