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."

Pandora Machine Filmmaking Handbook s01e02 near and far boom

The second lesson on making movies the Pandora Machine way.

The Pandora Machine Movie Handbook

I may blog on "Making Movies the Pandora Machine Way".
Here are YouTube best practices. Basically "make it short."
Of course, you already know that. Not that. That.
That.

You like random notes about things on the Internet? Here's one:

One big decision implied by the new scenes is that the world Vicky describes to Barbara, as she's lying paralyzed, is real. There are drones, and Central Command, the resistance, the Terran Defense Force, the AI, and a new kind of android body. The new scenes all fit in the first half of the current edit, so that the pacing and flow of the second half through the ending are not affected.

The Opera

The story of the opera is basically Apocalypse Now, but it takes place in a world where the robots have won the war and now a combat android has to go to the New York City Containment Zone to kill an android that is systematically wiping out the last vestiges of the human race.

Pandora Machine Handbook -- Finish your movie!

Here's the first episode of The Pandora Machine Handbook -- Making Movies the Pandora Machine Way. It's on finishing, and why you should finish even if you're frustrated.

CNC Guitar Tutorial - Flipping over a 3D body

This dude makes some beautiful guitars. kozmguitars.com

It took me a while to comprehend the geometry starting with his glued-together block of wood. Boy these guitars look comfy.

Clearing Tabs

A noncommercial production sound rate sheet.
Here's a great thread on guitar routing depths. The thing that's relevant to my interests is:
TELECASTER ROUTES:
NECK POCKET: 0.625”
NECK PICKUP: 0.687”
WIRING ROUTE: 0.687”
BRIDGE PICKUP: 0.850”
CONTROL CAVITY: 1.50” (1.25” ON THINNER BODIES)
BODY THICKNESS: 1.75” (50’s TELE’s varied from 1.50” to 1.75”)
ROUNDOVERS: 1/8” 

Juno is the ride-hailing app that doesn't seem to hate humans as much.

I kind of dig this type treatment.

The policeman who's in charge of the firearms unit of the Jersey City Police Department is into model trains. HO and O scale with the Society of Model Engineers. (I have to update all my information so I'm getting a new Firearms ID card, which requires me to go through the whole process again but without the fingerprinting -- because I just got that done.)

10 Best Structured Movies of All Time

I'm not sure I really agree with this list. But it's a pretty good list. I think I would have put The Road Warrior in there.