I’m not a huge fan of vintage gear any more. Mostly because it’s rarely maintained well enough for a given device to perform at it’s original design. But also because the vintage design doesn’t fit applications as well as it did 30-50 years ago. Most vintage gear doesn’t have enough signal to noise for a modern recording – having trouble reaching 65db-70db s/n. We phased analaog tape out of existence because 75db-80db was “too” noisy. So for the most part, I’d prefer a modern U-87 when...
read moreThe interconnection between studio and control room has evolved over the years. The panel now includes, HDMI, FIREWIRE, MIDI, USB, Speakon. With the advent of V-Control Wireless remote for Pro-Tools, the control port I/O that originally was used to run the 24 Track, is now just a leftover.
read moreBelow are the details of burning HD video content from Final Cut Pro to a standard DVD, using the Blu-ray format using Toast and the Toast Blu-ray plugin. It is not necessary to have a Blu-ray burner for this procedure – a standard DVD and DVD burner are fine. However, playback can only occur from a Blu-ray player, because the format of the disc is Blu-ray. Basically: Output sequence from FCP via EXPORT with Current Settings and DVD Studio Pro Markers to .MOV Using COMPRESSOR with Blu-ray settings make .264 and .ac3 Using TOAST on the...
read moreI’ve been using Final Cut Pro since v2.0. Now at FCP 7, I’ve always had a lack of confidence in FCP’s Media Manager. First, it seems to have a mind of its own, like spell check in MS Word! And in similar fashion to spell check, while very helpful at times…very frustrating at others. And second, projects restored from previous versions are sometimes unusable. I do a lot of Sports, and projects saved in earlier versions of Media Manager often have vari-sped clips completely screwed. Sometimes to an unrepairable point....
read moreFor our Dell R610 servers, we apply firmware, Bios, and hardware patches using the Unified Server Configurator and an SUU Bundle created from Dell’s Repository Manager software. During a recent update, one of the servers returned the following error: “Alert! iDRAC6 not responding. Power required may exceed PSU wattage.” CAUSE: This produced a somewhat erroneous error that required F1 to continue. The problem appears to come from the server not fully power cycling properly during the update. There are also some buggy versions...
read moreI recently upgraded to iOS 5 on both my iPhone 3GS and iPAD 2. I selected the option in iTunes to sync wireless over Wi-Fi for both devices. However, only my iPhone would do this. The steps below resolved and fixed my issue: ** THIS ASSUMES you have verified any network issues to ensure the iTunes system and iOS device are on the same subnet. 1) Make sure the WI-FI sync is enabled via iTunes 2) Power Off the iPad by holding the sleep button for 3 secs and sliding the power bar. 3) Open iTunes (let it stablize if sync is taking place with...
read moreWas working one minute…now its not! Welcome to the wonderful world of Windows Updates. I’m assuming this was broken by the unattended installation of Server 2008 R2 SP1 through our environment or some KB update prior. It all started with this error when I tried to log into VCenter Server: “vSphere Client could not connect to ‘{machine name}’ A connection failure occurred (Unable to connect to the remote server)” After investigating this, I determined the VMware VirtualCenter Server Service was not running....
read moreIf you have the Edge Transport Role installed on an Exchange 2010, mail may be rejected
read moreSo I wait 6 months after the release of SP1 to install it to Exchange 2010. Mostly because the server had been running great (The older I get the easier it is to accept – IF IT AIN’T BROKE!). As it turns out, this may have been the most difficult Service Pack we’ve ever installed. Thinking we’d insulate ourselves from issues, we made a VMware snapshot (yes, we’re running Exchange 2010 on vSphere … and it works great!). And after a week of appartenly no issues, I finnally deleted the snapshot, so the...
read moreThis procedure was documented using VM Infrastructure 3.5 for altering ESXi 3.5 virtual machines. You may need to use Veeam to make the renaming adjustments. Could also be done via SSH. CAUTION: If snapshots do exist and are needed, then you may need to alter the *.vmdk files to keep the chaining in place. If you do not need the snapshots, select “delete all” under the snapshot manager and perform this procedure after the host has consolidated them. PROCEDURE FOR NON-SNAPSHOT Copy to new directory for backup Remove from inventory...
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