Twice today I’ve had reason to think about communication. Or more specifically, the lack of it.
The details aren’t important, which is good ’cause I’m not gonna go into them anyway. But suffice to say that a big theme in my life lately has been the breakdown of communication. People don’t say what they mean. Or they don’t want to say what they have to say, so they don’t say anything at all. Meaning is conveyed through hints and implications rather than, y’know, words.
It’s been frustrating. I even found myself getting irritated with the bum who approached me on the way home from work tonight. She just wouldn’t get to her dang point so I could tell her I didn’t have any money on me. Or, for all intents and purposes, at all.
Why isn’t clarity considered a virtue?
Oh, yeah. One more tidbit. Mixing weird-raster unmultiplexed 29.97 long-GOP MPEG-2 footage into a ProRes 422 HQ 1080p23.98 timeline in Final Cut 6 isn’t the greatest idea I ever had. After a great many crashes, I learned today to run my MPEG-2 footage through Compressor and convert it to ProRes first before trying to cut it into an open-format timeline.
Man. That’s a lotta potential Google keywords crammed into two sentences.
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“Oh, yeah. One more tidbit. Mixing weird-raster unmultiplexed 29.97 long-GOP MPEG-2 footage into a ProRes 422 HQ 1080p23.98 timeline in Final Cut 6 isn’t the greatest idea I ever had. After a great many crashes, I learned today to run my MPEG-2 footage through Compressor and convert it to ProRes first before trying to cut it into an open-format timeline.”
Duh. Doesn’t everyone know that?
Darrell G
Monday, March 10th, 2008, 2:56 pm