Entirely bought online and a surprisingly quick download. It seems to have hooked into Pro Tools OK, but I haven’t fully tested it yet – this is going to be fun!
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… to version 8. I wrote to my cousin asking for orchestral sample library advice, and he wrote back saying “Buy Logic Studio”, which I believe is very sound advice, but unfortunately about twice my available budget, so I rethought everything and decided to bite the bullet and upgrade to Pro Tools 8, which not only runs natively on Leopard (unlike 7.3) but is the first version to include a Score view, giving me access to the real notes rather than just MIDI data. So I made the decision, made the purchase… and then spent the next 7 hours or so downloading
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Which may sound like a small thing, but given that only versions 7.4 and above have the Leopard tick of approval and mine is 7.3, it made me very happy. In the end I had to run the prebind script utility and then make use of Digidesign’s neat little troubleshooting utility which includes a Terminal script to delete the databases (so you can start again with clean ones – deleting the databases apparently is the answer to many and varied Pro Tools issues). AND I managed to get it to import the video too! So that’s working, but now I have a heap of decisions to make about software upgrades to get this film score up and running…
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Have spent a ridiculous amount of time today trying to back up excess photos to CD in a bid to make my computer run faster. First I went through 5 of the discs we had, none of which would validate, however many of the internet’s “solutions” I tried. Then I went up the road and bought a spindle of Verbatims, which seemed fine and I ripped 6 of them, but now they’re throwing the same error. Grr. Thinking it might be a heat thing, so I’ll leave the next lot till after the laptop’s had a chance to cool down, I think – but at least I’ve already saved about 5Gb of hard drive space!
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very profitably, actually. My book has progressed by about another 4-5 pages and I’ve managed to cut down my read/review list by about 30 items too, thanks to the Bristol to Paddington train being delayed by two hours. Then this evening I’ve been trying out a bunch of utilities for my Mac, including the amazing Quicksilver, WideMail, iTool, MailTags and Disk Inventory X. I’ll definitely be keeping Quicksilver; the others are on probation but I think there’s a fair chance that MailTags will be useful enough to actually pay for…
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… to get into the Banksy vs Bristol Museum exhibition. Yes, it was definitely worth it.
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Installed it and now trying to work out how to piece together the film score to the film.
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and they worked!!! Fantastic stuff – it certainly seems easy to get started with. Whether it’s easy to carry on with, though, is another matter… only time will tell. For now I have a working page with links hiding and showing content and even a tab that slides in on command.
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Djeli’s got all excited and wants to do some bookbinding, so we went off to Shepherd’s bookbinding supplies in Holborn where I actually managed to not buy anything at all – but could easily have walked out with pretty much everything in the shop – so many delicious papers! Djeli got a heap of stuff – self-healing mat, bone folder, two types of glue, paper, all sorts of things. Next stop was Blade’s Rubber Stamps, where I enquired about a Stravinsky-esque rolling manuscript stamp, but alas they don’t seem to exist and they can’t make rolling stamps to order – something about it being very difficult to get the rolling bits. Then on to Cornelissen’s art shop near the British Museum, which I’ve wanted to visit for a very long time. Yum! Again, I could have bought out the shop, but contented myself with a nib holder, a special music manuscript nib (which works better than the one I had in Sydney which blopped on everything – given that music is all about blops on lines, it’s more helpful if the lines don’t provide their own blops!), a calligraphy nib (cos I was already buying the holder and I’ve been wanting to get back into calligraphy but all my equipment’s in Sydney) and – of course – a bottle of ink. I managed to find some waterproof calligraphy ink, which I consider a bit of an achievement 
Oh – and a daylight simulation bulb too. Then we moved on to John Lewis where I bought knitting needles with which to knit up my mama’s chenille yarn into a scarf, and looked at Anglepoise lamps for future (not-too-distant-future) reference. All in all, a very successful day!
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The animator sent me the latest cuts of the film and we had a great chat about where it’s heading – really fired up about it!
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