Douglas Trumbull on HFR Filmmaking Part 1

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movieScope Magazine has a very cool interview with Visual Effects legend Douglas Trumbull on HFR. Makes it sound like Cameron’s 60FPS HFR will be much more impressive than the Hobbit’s 48 FPS, and he hopes the studios don’t pull it because of the negative press HFR has been getting.

I have to agree that I hope it doesn’t get pulled either as I liked 48, just couldn’t get over the keystone cops effects that it gave me throughout the Hobbit.

8 Hour Diet Update, Day 8

Down to 247.7, that means another 1.2 pounds in a day! I have never had results like this from a diet, EVER!

And I am doing the same exercise I was doing pre-diet! 30 minutes on treadmill and some kettlebells, though that is being supplemented by going on the subway, which adds at least 3500 steps in a day, plus lots of stairs. Soon though it will warm up and I will start doing the big 2.1 walk around the Veterans center again. Biggest problem right now is I start out so cold and then end ups sweating (though now I am sweating in the heat of the subway).

This is a diet I think all post operative patients who need to lose some weight should consider! I mean I have never seen anything like it!

Metabones Speed Booster for Lenses

Saw this at filmmaker IQ. Sounds like Magic, but it adapts Canon EOS lenses to APS-C, and because it uses all the light and the whole frame it is actually added a stop of light and making it sharper. Almost magic!

Too bad they don’t have it for EOS to EOS for ES lens to APS-C instead of for SONY NEX.

You can pre-order from Metabones.

8 Hour Diet Update, Day 7

Wow, am so impressed with this diet. One week now. Lost another pound and a half yesterday, bringing me to an impressive 9 pounds lost in 7 days! WOW!

And with such impressive results I don’t want to stop. It would be great to get under 200 pounds in the next 6 months, and that no longer seems hard! In fact I could get back to 175 by years end if the weight loss effect does not significantly slow down. I mean even at 5 pounds a week that would be 15 weeks! Wow! One can only hope.

Will keep updating, but so far I am so impresse by this diet, and think it is the perfect thing to start losing weight after a septal myectomy, especially because it is so easy! I wish I had gone right into when I started really eating again in my recovery so I never gained the weight back I initially lost!

VideoCopilot Element 3D 1.5 Announced!

VideoCopilot announced the free update to Element 3D, v1.5 which includes a real-time glow feature and will be out next week! Woohoo!

And they say 3D shadows won’t be till version 2, but this still sounds awesome.

Just having started playing with this plug in recently I have been blown away by it’s power! This makes Invigorator Pro 3D seem useless, with it’s antiquated interface and slow as can be rendering.

8 Hour Diet

So I had mentioned in my last surgery update that I was starting the 8 Hour Diet, and I wanted to give a little update on it. I don’t want to get into the controversy over the book, as it seems that the diet might have been stolen from a Martin Berkhan at leangains. Even if the initial diet was, there is a whole lot of research in this book, and so far I am very impressed, especially with my results.

Post surgery I had lost some weight, but I have managed to put it on, and more, and gained another 12 pounds over the holidays! Youch! So I had actually gotten up to 258, by far the heaviest I have ever been! I had been around 235 for  while, which was way too much (would like to get back to at least 200, and 175 would be better, though my face did look a bit gaunt last time I was around there, though I still had a belly).

Anyway, I have been doing this diet for 6 days now, and have already gotten down to 250.5. And while I was mostly eating well , I lost 1.3 pounds on Sunday and had a footlong Subway sandwich for lunch and a small dairy queen ice cream cone, and gumbo with rice for dinner! Now I did walk a lot around the mall, but still! So far I am blown away.

And I used to not eat breakfast, but it has been since my wife convinced me I should eat breakfast that I started to, and since she comes home from work so late also eating late that I have really packed on the pounds! I just hope that as the book says your body does not get used to this diet and stop, it just keeps going, because I can see myself staying on my diet for the rest of my life!

I mean you should still eat well, but you can eat some bad things too and still lose weight, and if even half of the benefits it claims are true, lowering cholesterol, helping diabetes  heart disease and even cancer! I am so in, and will continue with this diet.

And I am going 7 days a week, while it says you can get a benefit from only 3, but I would rather get my body back used to the no breakfast at all thing (I was mostly just having smoothies with protein powder, but I still do think if I ate breakfast I was hungrier all day).

Now I going to eat a little more at work, as I was bringing a salad and a half, but am now bringing 2 salads, 1 for noon and 1 for around 4, as I get pretty damn hungry, and 3 apples. Been chewing a little sugar free gum too as I get really hungry from about 11 AM till 12pm when I have my lunch, but so far the results are stunning.

THIS IS THE BEST DIET I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!

Problems with Amazon Cloud Player

So I am having problems with Amazon Cloud Player. I had wanted iTunes Match, but am way over the 25,000 song limit (the Big Finish Doctor who stories I listen to add so many tracks), but also wanted streaming.

Now there are a couple of problems with it for me, the first and foremost being it’s inability to do anything but try and match songs ripped in Apple’s Lossless format, as that is most of my library that I have ripped from CD (and the reason I have an 120GB iPod Classic so I can carry a lot of music, though not even close to all) and it doesn’t seem to match all that well. The addition of Auto Rip has been a big help with this as I have gotten most of my music since 1998 from Amazon, so I hope they keep ripping and keep filling in albums.

Also the music uploader crashes ALLOT! Now maybe that has to do with my library size, but if it is going to crash that much it needs to be smarter, as it has now duplicated all of my playlists 9 times, and I have a hell of a lot of playlists! And I can barely manage my playlists via the web interface. I can maybe delete one playlist before either it stalls out (allot in Chrome, though I have tried it in Safari and Mozilla as well both on my Mac at home running 10.8.1 and on my work computer running 10.6.8) or gives an error message about not being able to do that now.

And while the yellow buttons usually mean you can use the keyboard in the Amazon Cloud Player Interface, it doesn’t work for this OK, which I get constantly.
And if it isn’t that, with Chrome i get constant timeouts when using Cloud Player. the page freezes all the time, especially when I am trying to manage my playlists.

At least I could do most of the deleting with the keyboard if I could get it to work in the web interface, but it stalls out or gives me this message all the time. I can delete the tracks via the iOS interface, but it slow and a pain using the slide. I need a batch edit or delete feature, or a duplicate finder. Heck I would even like a way to reset the playlists and re-upload them from iTunes.

I tried e-mailing Amazon about that, and they said to contact them, so I did an online text chat. Now they are putting in a technical note, especially since I am having all the crashes in uploader, but basically it sounds like they can’t access your personal cloud player, so you have to deal with the playlists, so I have to go through my thousands of playlists times 9 and delete them myself!!!! And I pay for this service? YOUCH! Not like I added the multiple playlists, Amazon Uploader managed that little doozy for me. Now they say they will contact me via e-mail in 2-3 business days, so I will upload again.

UPDATE: Well so far Amazon has been less than helpful. I was trying to contact via e-mail, but first had to switch to chat, and then phone call, and then they tried to get me to call in again, but it was because they could not get the logs I sent them repeatedly. And these are simple text files being sent to an e-mail address they gave me. I eventually had to put them on DropBox to get them to be able to download them. And since they got the files I haven’t heard anything.

As for the horrible responsiveness of Amazon Cloud Player, I moved to Chrome beta to see if it would help, and it seems to let me delete 2 playlists before it crashes!

Honestly if they don’t fix this soon I am going to have to give up on Amazon Cloud Player and figure out another solution!