So there I was happily making 2-59s which I love doing – and suddenly REAL PAYING work gets in the way and now that I have a festival screening, I’m resurrecting my Pinot epic.
Yesterday I made a huge mistake of using an ancient Firewire drive to transfer the Wednesday’s UCSF shoot. I thought it would be something John could collect and use. Nope. His car is broken down (again!) – then I think the drive is too heavy and maybe fragile to post – I don’t want to drive to SF, I’ll copy the data to a 32 GB Flash card and post that. Good idea – no.
The file simply wouldn’t copy. I suspected the Flash card would not take a 12 GB file in one go and broke it up into 3 GB segments. Something that should have taken a few minutes was now an hour drama. Even worse, no matter what I did, the first section wouldn’t transfer. I found it. there’s huge glitch in the data. Go back to the original tape. It’s good. Re transfer. Recopy to 32 GB drive. Get the picture. Two hours or more gone.
And in between, phone calls, emails, Tricia’s mum in hospital, out of hospital, in again.
Then Dee arrived with her Flip camera to give me the shots of Angel Island I need for her 2-59. Of course she had wiped the camera memory clean – the files are on her laptop which is at home. Another disaster.
I thought the PO closed at 5:30. Got there by 5:15. CLOSED. Bummer. Use the machine. I think I missed the post.
Back to resurrection for the festival…
Pinot was edited in 2008 and early 2009 – then in Sept. ’09 I decided to recut it with extra shots and a new sound track. Consequently the the data is scattered over at least 5 drives. First collect the drives. Some shots are missing when I try to re-link I am pointed to NKF 2oth Anniversary. Huh? How come some Pinot shots are on a National Kidney Foundation drive. Worse. I had put all the NFK stuff on an old drive and archived it. Where’s my stuff? Help!
Finally at about 7:30 the whole computer crashed. Good. I can eat dinner and drink.
So too busy to shoot 2-59s – I have 20 lined up! Almost too busy to edit those already shot.
