The Hell of HD

Greetings,

Yesterday I came into the HD lab to capture some new After Affects I created for my documentary (what happened is that the University of Washington Archives arrived, as did the ones from the Denver Library, plus I found some stuff at the National Archives) and as I was working, the system crashed and I wasn't pleased. After the crash I did a system shutdown and reboot and I could not get back into the program. The data was still there, the directories were still there and program opened up to the entry screen but to no avail.

The only thing I could think of was to grab my gear, get a beer and think what could be wrong. After a couple of hours I came back to the lab and I noticed that one small transformer that is linked to a small but rather important piece of hardware was very, very hot. I unplugged it, left for the night, came in this morning, plugged it in and viola! It worked! The next thing I did was to create a new archive and I will copy that to my firewire drive after I transfer the After Affects.

The moral of the story is back up, back up, back up.

Peace,

Jon

Long time, no blog, redux

Greetings,

For those of you, ok, those two of you that actually read this blog, I apologize for not putting anything down earlier but I've been busy. So busy in fact, that I haven't (I don't care if we are not supposed to use contractions) posting anything in a while. Even now, I really don't have the time, but what I do want to say is that hopefully this project will be done this week and will be hitting the festival circuit soon. If and when it does, I will share this on this blog so that everyone, ok, just the two people who read this thing can share.

Peace,

Jon