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computers
Utter Despair
I've been editing video with Final Cut Pro for 9 years now, yes that's NINE YEARS. Yet today I'm wrestling with a problem that brings me to the brink of complete, throw-up-my-hands frustration. Absolute utter despair that makes me want to just give up being a filmmaker completely, or at least being an editor.
It's pretty much too complicated to describe here quickly and not have someone mistake it for a stupid mistake. Trust me, it's not a stupid mistake. I'm not an idiot, and, like i think i mentioned, I've been using FCP for NINE YEARS. Trust me when I say this is a completely new and weird fuck-up that is a total mystery and that you would probably have no idea how to solve either unless you have as much intelligence and experience with this software as I do.
In other words, I'm not posting this to ask for help. I'm just screaming my frustration. Thank you, Apple, for once again leading me to believe that I could trust you and your products. sigh. Read more>>>
From a Drizzly Cold Remote (but still wired) Place
Writing from a little room called "The Matrix" at Diamond Mountain, this is an email I just sent to an employee of Dream Host, the company that hosts most of my web sites, many of which (including this one) had some downtime this weekend: Read more>>>