Paradigm Shifts

Yun.

Sana maging sabado na. Sana matapos na ang linggong ito.

Hindi na kaya ng utak ko ang pressure at lack of sleep.

After training work from flame/inferno, I go straight to editing a full-length feature film (shot on a panasonic 24p HV2000 — to be later printed on 35mm) on final cut pro hd — sasabog na utak ko sa daming “paradigms” na tinatalun-talunan ko.

Excited lng ako sa full-length kse its going to be sent to the cannes film festival bwahaha — mamatay kayho sa inggit! Loko lang.

Being new to using hollywood-grade compositing equipment for the first time isn’t a very healthy experience. Lalo na if your coming from 5+ years of hardcore pc use, and a few years on the mac.

Things actually work slower on these very expensive machines, although they’re actually supposedly have faster processors.

The workfiles are obviously insanely bigger, dealing with 35mm, 2k and 4k. SD has no room here. These SGI machines don’t even have firewire!

Macs and PCs have their differences, mostly the way the system behaves and the 3 buttons, the ctrl, alt, and windows button on the pc, and the option, apple, and ctrl button on the mac — they just kinda switched it around. and they pretty much use the same version on the softwares im used to using (adobe photoshop, after effects, etc).

I’ve never worked on an SGI machine before. I know it costs a lot of money to buy and it packs so much punch — pero im still not comfortsble with the way the system behaves.

Cge, nerd talk na tayo ng konti…

The specific machines im using (discreet flame and inferno) are running on an onyx2 sgi processors, which is as big as my closet and has 3 airconditioning units dedicated to it.

Wow, noh?

It runs on i dont know what version of unix.

Its runs on fucking unix — not linux. Linux is nerdy shit, and i have been using linux for a while (not for system admisnitration, but is use it and am pretty familiar with it and most of the free packages it comes with) but unix is a sorta different story.

We’re talking nerd x 100 here.

It’s a good thing it’s just the os layer, and we don’t to much stuff with anyways.

On to the software layer. ewan ko lng ha — pero nakakabobo ang interface ng discreet.

Maybe im just speaking like this coz I started out using composting using adobe products mostly, and adobe handles the gui/workflow of their software pretty well. They made a science out of it, and yeah — copyrighted every goddamn thing.

Kumbaga sa pov ko, in terms of usability, and ease of use, etc — paputa pa lng dun yung discreet at yung adobe, pabalik na, may hawak pang yosi. ganun yung dating sa akin.

It would take discreet a LOT of work to get things straight. They have version upgrades, yeah na aside from fixing a few minor bugs — it also costs a lot of money.

But in hindsight, the complications are probably marketing-driven. You actually have to call in the experts to do complicated servicing, and uprades. It makes sense coz you maintain a relationship with your clients, and its a way to prevent piracy, too.

I hate the way it behaves, I hate the workflow — maybe because is have to un-learn mos tof the stuff i know and start from square 1. argh! this is so frustrating — but fun, in a weird, weird way.

For months now, I have stopped using my pc at home for graphic-intensive work.

I am now limited to using it for playing bejeweled 2 (yes, there is a version 2 — and a running crack hahah), then im addicted dawn of war (damn you bandmates hehehe!), dawn of war has got the be the most processor-intensive software im using right now. hahahaha! nakakatawa di ba? and yeah, i use winamp and itunes din ng bookworm – coz may contest kme ng mom ko hahaha. kawawang p4 ko, reduced to a game and music box huhuhu