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AES31 goes through a lot of murderous contortions in order to make timecode datatypes look like timecode while still being sample-accurate.
Pro Tools mix automation is terrible. The semantic and the workflow are all complicated and riddled with “modes” and “exceptions” and all kinds of ambiguity. The entire system should be junked and redesigned by someone that knows how mix automation is supposed to work.
As of Monday, the top two films are This is It ($36 mil) and Paranormal Activity ($85 mil). The first probably cost $10 million tops, and the second cost about $11 thousand. Both cost about the same amount to market, maybe $10 mil?

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This ship is the inspiration for a certain ship featured in “2012”. Note to captain: avoid icebergs.
And here I was sitting in Mr. Butler’s math class, under a picture of Carl Gauss, when all this was going on.
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Wow, a toy only I could love, but still, wow.
This week’s Economist tells me that Nestlé first began R&D on their Nespresso espresso pod gear in 1970, got their first patents in 1976, started marketing complete solutions in 1986, and lost money on it for a decade. Now it’s their fastest-growing line.
Sorta puts the Microsoft xBox case study in perspective.