Difficulties faced with new Final Cut Pro 10

1. When clips are moved since its a magnetic timeline other clips takes its place unless you use the position tool. It creates audio sync issues.
Solution - "tilde" key (~)

2. It takes more time to shift clips if you are on a project where you have to trim the timeline. Lets say the total timeline duration is ten minutes where the client needs it to be three minutes now. If you have a transition. It does not allow you to move swiftly. Worst it does not have a lock feature. I don't know why apple does not want to add a feature called 'magnetic timeline lock'.

3. The AV out feature does not work. In my case with my Sony TV. I tried playing with the mirroring settings but unlike FCP 7. Since it's one window moving. It's does not help if you move the app to secondary window. It also creates problem doing the color grading process if you have a small screen.

4. There is no drag drop feature instead we have to copy attributes or press shift + cmd + v.

5.No OMF output. If want to sell professional editing software better provide industry standard tools and solutions.The solution is to use 'FCPXML TO AAF' http://www.x2pro.net/ 

6.Most of the fcpxml files don't match up in DI software's or fcpxml is still not supported.

7. There needs to be easy Dolby/DTS settings for theatrical release.

8. Final cut pro 10 does not have a DCP out or advanced DVD burning settings.

Sam Smith - Writing's On the Wall from Spectre Analysis

1. Opening sequence -

Use of lines in the frame composition. The mysterious man is revealed. The depth of field is noteworthy.

Monochrome - Black, White Grey color scheme. Union Jack as the backdrop which significance ultimate sacrifice to the nation.

Sun-glass hides the emotion of Daniel Craig (James Bond).

2. The woman (Monica Bellucci) walking with the drink in her hand with two men behind her as shadows signifies constant watchful eyes. Color scheme changes to reddish yellow and neural earthy colors.

3. Silhouette in brightly lit hall where characters are not revealed as they poses mysterious secret.

4. Cuts to stadium to the skies and mountains into contrast. Clouds signify turbulent storm coming. If you go with the coffins and the cross earring of Sam Smith.

5. Aerial shot cuts to sunny ice clapped mountains which gives you a release.

6. Extreme wide shot of the lonely car in dirt road with neural color scheme. Death follows. (Yellow/Brown)

Here on, it’s all yellow in the old structure in the middle of nowhere.

7. Cuts to mysterious opening to the beach seen through the cave in the moon light.

8. Streaks of light adds to the tension.

9. The motion images of winter, storm, calm moon light signifies beneath every silence there is a dark underline of some turbulence.

How to fix DVD Architect Pro preview

Problem - When you preview the menus. It goes 'Full screen' instead of showing remote.

Solution -
If you press 'F9' you can escape full screen.

You can also reset from CPU to restart your computer. Only if it does not quit 'Full screen'.

This error may occur if you don't have second external monitor.

Please follow the steps to fix the preview:

Open, DVD Architect Pro

 Go to 'Options - Preferences

Go to 'Video Device' tab

 Now change the device to your default Device.

Apply and OK.

Setting up libraries for soundtrack pro

If you are still using Soundtrack Pro with Final Cut Pro 7 and you find your libraries are missing don't worry you just have to set it up.

Open, Soundtrack Pro - Setup - '+'

 Go to Macintosh HD - Library - Audio - Apple loops - Apple - Select the audio folders

Then, Highlight and click on index and click on done when finished.

Adobe Acrobat crashes when entering password on Windows 10

It's a compatibility issue which should get resolved soon from Adobe via updates. I have noticed it's a rare occurrence but frustrating to know when the Adobe Acrobat Pro crashes.

Problem - Adobe Acrobat Pro XI crashes when opening password protected PDF in WINDOWS 10 OS.

Solution - Write the password on any text box or word, notepad and copy paste it. The PDF will open without crashing.

Other fixes you may try:

WINDOWS 10
Click on - 'Start' - Settings - System - Default apps - Choose default app by type - .pdf

Set it to  'Adobe Acrobat' by choosing an app.

Fitting the entire image on instagram

I will speak for my self. I use Instagram because its easy to share moments of  life on twitter and Facebook. If needed on other social platform at one go with friends and followers for engaging with them to share videos and latest trends like 'Dub-mash' similar to Vines.

Taking a picture with your camera phone is simple and easy with Instagram but images gets cropped. Even if you decide to upload pictures from your camera phone albums or from a DSLR camera/GoPro pictures to the world to share live event.

The Instagram app as the name suggests makes pictures square so your image gets cut. No worries, you can use the app called 'Square Insta pic' from Studio 8 Apps. It's simple to import from albums and it can be used to share on Instagram app.

Update - Instagram now allows you to upload full frame. Just pinch in and out to zoom the picture.

*I have not been paid by any company or individuals to endorse the above products.

Forever connected

It has become rare in today's time to see kids floating paper boats in puddle of rain water. Immersing in their world of imagination. Kids now a days are glued to television screens wired via computer, mobile devices, Ps4, Xbox, Nintendo Wi.

The open spaces has been turned into pay recreational parks or a buildings in open space surrounded by congested commercial buildings. Even on society grounds kids are mostly barred from playing most of the games as they fear loss of property of automobiles or french windows.

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Educational pressure was always there to succeed in an unequal system which believes in following orders and GPA as a parameter to secure employment. Most of the successful companies has changed polices relating to recruitment these days. There was a time when less emphasis was given to sports and extracurricular activities. In recent times media has put spotlight on new fields. The enhancements in the field of sports science and new technology has given arise in supply for professionals having the required set of skills to fulfill such demands in traditional and fields which is still emerging.

India has become a favored emerging economy which provides new career opportunities competing at global stage. Reality shows on television with young participants and pressure to perform to stay ahead in a race has started creating a herd of stressed, unhappy, materialistic youths who have 24 X 7 connectivity with everyone through social media. Yes, I am also an addict and slave to social media but there is no alternative. Like it or not even if we decide to opt out from digital world from birth we will still have our birth and death records stored in some government server.

Our dependency on technology has helped us to evolve but it has also made us dumb and parallelized towards human emotions. We are trying not to be over dependent but what will happen to our digital data if one day it is wiped by a apocalypse through Electromagnetic pulse interference or the computer finds it's own conscience and it decides we are not fit for existence. We will become threat to our own intellect thoughts and creations.

To conclude my thoughts why are we turning ourselves into a machine. A machine was made to make life easier. We started with fire and wheel which led us to progress through history. In search of happiness we even formed religion and meditation but in today's world it has become temporary relief within the confinement of four walls as anxiety and stress hits us. We need to swim out to survive a system in a universe full of possibilities for that we need to free ourselves from 24 X 7 connected digital world.

Valid ATVM Smart card not working in Mumbai

To whomever it may concern,

I want to report ATVM smart card issue in Mumbai suburban railway network.

It seems most of us are new to ATVM machines in Mumbai after coupons where discontinued. But we as Mumbaikars find others in need and help them out whenever we see some one struggle with the new ATVM machine.

I myself believe that I am a tech savvy person and has mastered the technology of buying tickets from the ATVM machines. But on 31st May,2015 my smart card stopped working at ATVM kiosk at Kandivali east station ticket office around 17:30 Hrs.

I tried my luck on all machine. Lucky for me one of the machines gave out the automated ticket print but as I went to Grant road station to check balance on the ATVM kiosk my card didn't even validate.

So I went to the ticket counter where I was charged Rs.15/- for duplicate smart cards still it didn't work even after follow up with the same person who changed my card. My complains have gone in thin air. I even tried at Kandivali station ticket counter to resolve the issue the next day on 1st June, 2015 around 10:00 am but the issue was not resolved. The operator said it was all good from his side but you can buy a new card.

It appears that my balance are visible but only on the ticket operators machine and everything things seems OK but it rejects when I try to avail ticket at the ATVM machine from my smart card. I have also seen others facing the same issue.

Please provide a solution.

02-06-2015 - Update
I went to Kandivali - East ticket window. A very senior ticket sales executive did something to the ATVM smart card and said it will get reactivated after 24 hours. Right now my ATVM is temporarily disabled.

04-06-2015 - Update
My ATVM smart card was changed by railway ticketing staff at Kandivali station booking office at no extra cost so now its working fine on 03-06-2015 onwards.

Observations as told by one railway employee:
Don't bend your smart card as the chip inside the smart card breaks.
Don not keep it at your back pocket or wallet.
Have patience and don't rush by pulling the card while using ATVM.

My consumer complaint on forum - http://www.consumercomplaints.in/atvm-smart-card-valid-atvm-smart-card-not-working-mumbai-c1075921#c2168160

The Mumbai suburban railway smart card (SLIDE SHARE) - http://www.slideshare.net/deepaksokda/the-mumbai-suburban-railway-smart-card-autosaved

How to convert raw pictures on windows

How to convert raw pictures on windows operating system.

RAW to TIFF

The Microsoft Camera Codec Pack enables the viewing of a variety of device-specific file formats. (Windows 7)

Windows plugin

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26829

Easy2Convert RAW to TIFF

Easy2Convert RAW to TIFF (raw2tiff) is a freeware designed to convert RAW Camera Image fileshttp://www.easy2convert.com/raw2tiff/

Undo sent email on Gmail

The Undo Send feature in your Gmail settings can pull you out of the agony.

Here's how you can activate it:

1. Gear icon Go to the settings panel in your Gmail account.

2. Labs Locate the Labs tab in the settings panel. The Labs tab houses Google's experimental new Gmail features. Look for the undo send feature.

3. Enable Hit enable and save the settings. Your feature is activated.

4. Test To test the feature, you can send an email to yourself. Once you hit send should be able to see 'Undo Send' feature at the top of the screen. Click on it and your email is recalled; no one got to know.

What happens to the artist when you pirate

What happens to the artist when you pirate from Utsab Bandopadhyay

No more Celtx Desktop

This was the software in which I wrote my student films for my student exercises and many of us used it for commercial and non-commercial projects.

But don't worry. At least, there is a mobile app and online interface still available for free.

There is a new "paid app" Script for Mac for $19.99 only for mac as of 5th Dec, 2014 available from celtx stores via Mac App Store.

Source:
https://support.celtx.com/hc/en-us/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=Is+Celtx+Desktop+software+supported%3F&commit=Search

In case you have celtx project then.
1. Log in to www.celtx.com/
2. Skip the offers or click on the studio tab.
3. You can drag upload the celtx project files or browse in your computer and upload them on their could

You can edit your screen plays, novel, av etc. online through your browser or app which sync's.

For Celtx Desktop for Mac/Win older version:
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FScreenwriting%2Fcomments%2F2demqo%2Folder_versions_of_celtx_still_free_for_mac_pc%2F&h=mAQGsrYo8

The theory of everything review

'The theory of everything' is a British movie which is based on Jane Wilde Hawking's book on her life with her ex-husband Stephen W Hawking who is a theoretical physicist adapted by Anthony McCarten. 

The movie starts with a very unusual top-ish framing at the beginning which is out of focus which establishes the state of health of Stephen W Hawking in present times who is eventually becoming weak due to motor neuron disease before we are taken on a time, in the 60's when Stephen W Hawking a brilliant but somewhat shy British student who turns into a world renowned theoretical physicist who never made excuses because of his difficulties.

'The theory of everything' is a very hooking drama directed by James Marsh. Stephen W Hawking character played by Eddie Redmayne who falls in love with Felicity Jones as Jane a literature student at Cambridge. They both are doing PHD's as they fall in love and the chemistry happens and hence the molecules bond. 

The filmmakers also used the tool of foreshadowing before Hawking discovers the disease with the chair which shows various state of deteriorating physical health and speech by the character of Stephen W Hawking with progress of time as he fights the disease for which there is no cure and losing his motor skills and eventually his speech but he learns to speak with his famous synthesized voice and he pens 'A Brief History of Time'. Hawking contradicts himself disapproving the equation of  Almighty's role in creation of universe in physics and later on his theory as he combines the two opposing theories.

The film depicts the English country side, Cambridge campus and the river filled with rowing boats, fireworks filling the night sky at the ball filled with youth and the ever changing weather and color tonality which is shot by Benoît Delhomme and beautiful ambiances with moving picture edited by Jinx Godfrey well paced often too long but the narrative demands stay for audiences to savor Hawking's thoughts and feelings towards his wife,family and friends.

The music and sound creates the mood and ambiance which is most of the time centered at large conferences, college lecture halls, theaters and closed claustrophobic rooms. The costume and hair,makeup was apt and near to reality as the character grew older in lives which is set in different periods of time and decades.