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.

How to clean android mobile storeage

The mobile phone this days have gone smart but more and more features has made the mobile devices slow and it freezes time to time. 

It happens because your mobile phone space is limited and updating your phone OS software and firmware adds up more space in the limited storage space available in your phone memory.

Most of the softwares only work from the phone internal memory and not from the external micro SD cards so its better not to use games or applications which display ads as it hogs space.

The other thing to remember to have longer life for your mobile phone is to use maximum ram available and phone memory so that your phones allows the maximum apps to be installed in the phone internal storage.

It is advisable to clean cookies from the browser and app data from settings to make more space.

It can be achieved by cleaning phone cache memory, uninstalling and disabling unwanted phone apps.

There are anti virus software for mobile phones but buy a mobile package which runs smoother. Some power saving apps does not save power.

Frame rate Vs Ntsc and Pal

FRAME RATE: 

The number of images showed in a sequence in a second to give the pictures the illusion of movement. The measurement of frames in a second is called frames per second (FPS).

FILM:
It runs on 24 FPS (Traditional standard frame rate)

But now days you may shoot on 23.98, 24, 25, 29.98, 30 or 48 fps and have the same playback on digital projector or device.

DVD requires conversion from 25 fps pal to 30 fps ntsc for different regions in the world to play back on television or the reverse due to different systems.

(Update - Streaming Platform may have 23.976 or 24 fps requirement. Mostly are okay with any fps.)

OR

Shoot as 50, 60, 48, 72, 120, 1000 fps and slow down to get slow mo effect played back as 24 fps in movie theatre or 25 fps on television.

TELEVISION:

WIKIPEDIA

NTSC: National Television System Committee

30 FPS

Lines/Field: 525/60 (SD)


PAL: Phase Alternation Line

25 I FPS or 50 I

Lines/Field: 625/50 (SD)

IMAGE SOURCE

HD Lines: 1920 * 1080 I broadcasted as interlaced.

The videos when broadcasted its broken into odd and even lines for the older television which represents videos in lines.

I - Interlaced which means two fields. (Odd and even lines)

Example:

50fps (25+25=50) has two horizontal lines in single frame.

60fps (30+30=60) has two horizontal lines in single frame.

P - Progressive single filed.

Broadcasted as 1080I High Definition or 720 Standard Definition
(NTSC - 720 * 480/ PAL - 720 * 576 ).

Also read article: Why digital film looks so milky

How to stop unwanted facebook invites

We all have been frustrated with unwanted 'Candy Crush Saga' or 'Mafia' game invites from your Facebook friends multiple times a day.

People have even put up status update warning friends taking exterme measures to ban people sending such unwanted invites.

So here is a way to still be friends and not get annoyed by such invites on Facebook.

You can actually block such apps by going to Facebook settings by clicking on top right little triangle and then going to 'Blocking' tab on left pane and type the name and select the app that you want to block.

You can also 'Turn Off' notifications by hovering your mouse on the app or group notification and clicking on the 'X" you will get a option to 'Turn Off.

You can also change the email notification settings on the 'notification' Facebook page to free your cluttered email account.

This has worked for me for past few years. Settings - Blocking - Block apps.

How to format pen drives used to store dish tv recordings

How to format pen drives used to store DISH TV DVR recordings which seems to not work on PC's as it does not pop up on computer except on your notification area.

DISH TV has done this is to restrict the use of content so that content does not get copied for re-distribution without authorization.

"Sab Par Dish Sawaar Hai" (Logo used under fair usage)

The pen drive when used on mac based OS does not show the pen drive volume but you format it by initializing it via disk utility.

Tricks to format and make the pen drive useable again on PC.

NOTE: 
This tutorial does not show how to hack a system or to recover content.

Insert Pen drive

Go to start -> Go to run  (or press win logo key + R)

Now, type cmd

Press 'Enter'

Type the following (select the pen drive name)

Now, type
cmd

Press enter

Type the following (select the pen drive name)

For example,
Format j:

y

Enter 


If the above step does not work you can use.

A free software tool called 'fat32format' will come handy.

Make sure when using the above mentioned software you do not format the system drive.

Update: Try Paragon App to reformat the drive.

Avid Media Composer 7

Trying out Avid Media Composer 7. Under process migrating from Adobe Premiere Pro CS 6 and FCP 7/X as my primary editing application.

Only difficulty I faced was connecting the Quick time moves through aaf via ama plugin's ama link by relinking the offline clips. 

Update as tried on MC 8.1
Use ALE and media tool to bring in mxf transcoded files to avid.