Three Things for Today

Video Copilot's Saber plugin is pretty amazing.

Have you seen the latest version of the Carbon Copy trailer?

This is a nice text-to-speech app.

Wut?

So there's a LUT available for the Panasonic GH4 which will give you 12 stops on the camera. That's awesome. It's software and it's only $99. Fine.
It's on backorder from Adorama and B&H.
Just so we're clear, this is a freaking serial number so you can register the software that you have to download. They apparently mail you the serial number. On a piece of paper.
So. That then.
If my next movie doesn't look as nice as that image above I shall run amok.

Documentary Copy

The dude who made that documentary on Sriracha published an essay on his receipts. Now, as my dad would have said, dude is counting "profit" without taking out his own salary.

Ooh. Today was the last day of Cannes. We have a new movie, Carbon Copy.

Lamps

Light bulbs (what them in theatre call "lamps") are annoying. Turns out the base in my ceiling fans are "intermediate" base, which is a size that is all but extinct. Here's a chart of light-bulb bases.
Rather than deal with that nonsense I got some E17 to E12 adapters. I suppose I could have gotten E17 to medium (E26) adapters. But I didn't. So there.

Icelandic demon cat.

O! Various. O! Sundry.

The chords to Nothing Compares 2 U.
The steps to getting a radio license for wireless microphones. 

Text-to-speech I kinda like.
Notes on adjusting the notorious Gibson 3-point bridge.


Magix makes the LC-1, a plugin for DialNorm levels. It's only (heh) $1300.  Our distributor has told us he hasn't heard of anyone insisting on compliance with HEAR but if they do, that'll likely be the direction I go in.

Medium Colors

Turns out that the short and medium scale bass is a "thing". Primarily because of the lack of dead spots on the neck. Which is interesting.

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A primer on short and medium-scale basses.

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An animated tab of the bass part of the Bouree. Note that these versions I'm posting are all slightly different.

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Belden has this color/channel chart. I had to wire up my 5.1 system so I needed to know this.

1. brown
2. red
3. orange
4. yellow
5. green
6. blue
7. purple
8. grey