Now this is some seriously exciting news at Hardmac, it seems the members at Netkas forums using the new mac NVIDIA drivers for the MacPro have managed to get an NVIDIA GeForve GTX 680 running in a MacPro.
Now lets hope that Mountain Lion come with drivers and new cards are released, or are at least hackable to work, because I want a new video card in a big way!
Just want to give a quick update on my chest tube wounds. They are doing much better. Seems I have finally figured it out, and the thing is to keep them as dry as possible. If they open up use the smallest stiri strip that you can to hold it closed so the scab can re-close, and then take it off and let it totally dry out.
The Chest Wounds are much dryer now.
Now it seems that I am consistently getting little little leaks, that eventually dry out, and it seems part of the process of the deep scabs being pushed out of the wounds so it can heal from the bottom. And I have been cleaning them daily with beta dine and then alcohol, which dries them out.
Covering them too much allows the wounds to stay wet, and that is when I started getting pain, and the wound would open up. So make sure to keep the wounds as dry as possible!
UPDATE:
Later in the same day, and the wound got wet in the shower and opened back up, and when it opens I get random pains, and have had to stiri strip it again with the thinest strip I could buy cut in half. And hopefully it will dry out completely and seal again.
And the other one is pushing the scab out. So hopefully it is healing underneath, and doesn’t do the same thing the other one did and open up again once it pushes the current scab out.
Weird how these chest tube holes are my biggest issue (except my back being out, which some heat helped early, but it is really hurting again now).
I already have a the New iPad with Retina display and love it, and haven’t owned a Laptop in years (my last was the black plastic Mac Laptop, which was fantastic), and have been unpleased with the lac of NVIDIA cards in mac laptops to work with CUDA, but this answers that problem in spades.
And the screen is fantastic. Being able to switch to a 1920×1080 resolution for editing is fantastic, I could really use one of these. The screen is gorgeous and this is a powerful machine, just have to upgrade when you get it, as it is not user upgradeable, so spend more on the high end and the bigger hard drive and more RAM, so it would cost an arm and a leg. Still it would be worth it to have a portable editing machine this powerful!
I so want one, but can’t afford it, though I sure wish I could.
Art Adams at the ProVideoCoaltion has an article on why Color Meters don’t work LED lights. And it basically comes down to that LED light is not a continuos light, but it shifts continuously, and this tricks the color meter. Very interesting for all you shooters out there.
Oliver Peters at Digital Sky has an article on using Final Cut Pro X in a full production environment with clients in the bay for the first time. Now he seems positive on the experience, but to me it makes it sound even less ready for a production environment! First off he has to use Final Cut Pro 7 in many stages of the preparation for the project, as FCP X seems less well suited for a project that ever needs to be handed off or moved and doesn’t actually modify the original files for things like changing reel numbers.
Now the metadata features do sound great for finding files once you have spent the time to organize, but I have never had an issue with organization once I have a project ready to edit.
And things like this give me even greater pause.
Due to the “rubbery-ness” of the magnetic timeline, it did appear that removing transitions at the beginning and end of spots and removing the slomo clips caused some shifting of the spots within this string of six spots on a single Project timeline. No sync issues, but definitely not as locked into position as with an FCP 7 timeline.
This program still is not even close to ready for primetime, and I am not sure it ever will be. I have said it before, but if they had added some of these features onto a 64 Bit Final Cut Pro 8, people would love it, but by taking so much away, and trying to force people to edit in a very strict way they have shown how little they understand of the world of editing, where no 2 editors do things the same exact way!
Fat Cat Software has updated their post on using iPhoto Library Manager with iPhoto 9.3 and the new Aperature, and it does work to change libraries, but copying albums/events or merging libraries currently doesn’t work.
Glad to be able to have multiple libraries and use iPhoto or aperature! Nice.
3 weeks out out from Surgery as of yesterday, and mostly doing pretty darn good.
I walked today for 45 minutes, around the big block of my neighborhood, which is my longest single walk yet. And I could easily walk farther if only my back didn’t hurt so much, as it is so incredibly out and in pain. They tell me it was from being in a horrible position on the operating table for 5 hours. The amazing thing is I couldn’t have done that without stopping 3 times before the surgery, so i am vastly improved on that front.
My chiropractor said he could he adjust my back with that little adjustment hammer after 4 weeks, but I will probably wait until 6 week when my sternum is supposed to be mostly healed. Of course only if I can take the pain for that long. My back pain is the worst part right now!
My lungs are also doing better, with most of the liquid out I think. For the first time in weeks when Kelly beat my back last night and I coughed, I didn’t go into a deep hack, but had to keep coughing on my own.
Now for the bad, and that would be the wounds from my chest tubes. My left one was getting painful yesterday, and I finally took of the steri strips and it was way too moist and still open, so I have had to leave it open, and it mostly will dry up and close, and stop hurting. The problem is even walking I sweat so much that it got wet and opened up again, and is just slowly drying out and closing up against now. I am having to clean it with betadine and alcohol allot, but as of yet it is not infected. Just need to keep it closed and dry so it will heal!
You can see the one on the right is yellow. That is the scab when it is wet and has opened up again.
The one on the right also has been leaking on and off, but it is not puss, so it is not infected. Likely it is because the scabs are so incredibly deep, and they need to move out of the way to be able to heal underneath, so it is likely leaking to try and push some of the scab out so it can continue to heal.
Honestly the chest tub holes are the worst part right now. It seems like not only did they not tie the initial stitches tight enough, but they took them out after only 2 or 3 days, when they should have been in for a week, so I think that is what is causing most of the issues.
The hardest part right now is the low sodium diet. It is actually horrifically frightening to look at ingredients in a grocery store and see just how much salt is added to just about everything we eat! There is so much salt around that they say a 3500 MG diet of sodium is low sodium, though I have likely been doing under 1000 mg. And the one real help has been Mr Dash seasonings (in many flavors) as it has no sodium and does add a whole lot of flavor. Otherwise I don’t know what I would do. And really I fucking want a RUEBEN!!!!!!
MacRumors has a very interesting look at the new MacBook Pro Retina display and some features I didn’t know about. It seems you can increase the apparent resolution of the 15 inch display by decreasing the PPI. Normally the display is equivelent of a 1440 x 900 display at full PPI, but cna be changed to 1680 x 1050 High-Res or 1920 x 1200 and you just lose pixel density, but would be awesome for editing.
Also the loss of the glass cover is supposed to reduce glare by 75%!
Of course it is now coming out that it has no user upgradeable parts and soldered RAM, so buy it with the Max RAM that you will need because you won’t be adding anymore later!
After updating to After Effects CS6 11.01 I started getting an error message about CUDA not working.
Strangely CUDA was still working fine in Premiere Pro CS6, so it had to be the AE Update.
And I am running the latest CUDA.
The thing is it just wasn’t showing up in After Effects and was using CPU instead of CPU for CUDA.
I tried trashing After Effects preferences, but that didn’t work, so I found and downloaded the standalone 11.01 update installer and that fixed the issue for now.