Floot is Oot

I tried to repair a cheap flute by putting new pads on it. This did not work.
It did, however, make an aesthetically pleasing mess.

Problems included the screws for the swivel-rods that connect the keys being so old they fell apart while unscrewing, and a need to shave down the cork which I was unwilling to do because of how frustrating that is.

3rd Reshoots

Karin Rosnizek and BJ Burbidge.

 We shot more than 15 pages today. We recorded just over an hour-and-a-half of footage. Today.

The new hotness is the ArtFactory in amazing Paterson, NJ. A hundred bucks a day/person on set. And like what, 100,000 square feet of stages?

Center is Pilar Gonzalez.

Ashlee Mundy with the repo agents.

ADR in Premiere

There is some limited auto-align functionality in Premiere Pro. This is relevant to my interests as I have a bunch of ADR I have to do for the Oblivion movie we shot way too long ago.


I have three movies in post-production right now. I used to be able to finish movies so much faster. No more.

The back of the jumpsuit for the character "Boots."

Closed Captions in Premiere

It turns out that creating Closed Captions is not that hard in Premiere. I mean, it's a pain because you have to make them, but it can totally be done.

That's a big ol' shoutout to Brian Schiavo for turning me onto that.

Filmic Blender

Log space in Blender. I guess it lets us do sunlight better.

https://sobotka.github.io/filmic-blender/

These things

V-28 combat armor

Ludoviko -- MI pirate
Lilian -- MI pirate

Ernie -- MI on pirate ship, killed after launching bioweapon at Mars

Nell -- civilian engineer, killed by flechette round in corridor

Iku -- MI hid in tail end of ship

L-40 railgun

Kapil

Creepy-Crawlies
Scrapers

MX438 Mark II

APRIL MONTAGUE VERMILLION LOSSLESS 48-ALPHA 

KL 858 Autonomous commando weapon system
add section where I figure out how to use it

TrES-2b 

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European vs American threading

There is one irritating difference between US and European audio. The standard threads on mic stands. I mean, why is this?
Most boom poles and the like use the Euro standard.

What's the difference? Charles Poynton lays it out for you.

"Europeans don’t use a metric (SI) thread but a 3/8‑inch diameter thread – British Standard Whitworth (BSW), 16 tpi. The Whitworth standard specifies a 55° flank angle (typical of pipe threads), not the 60° angle of the Unified Thread Standard (UTS) or the the ISO metric screw thread. Abbreviated: 3/8″-16.
Many microphones having 5/8‑inch mount are shipped with an adapter that screws into the 5/8‑inch (“American”) threaded hole, and offers a 3/8‑inch diameter (“European”) threaded hole. Colloquially, this is a 5/8″-27 to 3/8″-16 threaded adapter."