This area is slated to be sold for clear cutting this fall, and Elphinstone Logging Focus is trying to drum up opposition to prevent this from happening. Here’s a photo embedded into this blog by WordPress itself:

Here’s a 360 view (click and drag to look around) from our trip, or you can see a map and the whole 360 gallery HERE. Remember to use your mouse wheel or touch pad to zoom in and out, drag with your mouse to look around, and try the tools at top right to see different views. It was an amazing place, and seeing it in 360 is almost the only way for a picture to do justice to the amazing sights there.

More to follow as the campaign to save the Dakota Bowl Bear Sanctuary gets momentum going into the fall.

I played with posting on ROUNDME where tours are easy to set up, but setting the initial POV is a bit of a pain and often fails completely. Dang!

Then I tread the Insta360 One X community, which is nice quality but forces me to use my phone and it’s therefore clunky, plus I can’t group things together.

So I tried SeekBeak which is pretty cool, might be worth a paid plan, although I think I’d almost get tempted to do Real Estate photos once I spent money…

https://www.Insta360.community/post/dc25797ff6aa5d31d0ee172eb4d580ec

And there’s always boring old Facebook, which works too but is boring and limited:

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My fave is the touchscreen focus: I can tap things on the screen and have them come into focus, which is help when shooting wide shots of live shows when performers are rarely in the centre of frame where focus assist comes in.

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The worst thing that could happen when creating a long iDVD project was to realize, after burning, that there was a typo in the credits or a sound glitch that you had missed in editing.  Bad enough to go back and re-edit the footage, and re-output to an MOV file, that’s some time and effort.  But the worst part was that when you re-opened your iDVD project, iDVD would throw up an error – “Modified Asset Warning.”

The only thing iDVD would fail on at that point would be to mess up all your chapter buttons.  They would still be there, with their proper names, but they would all point to chapter one.  This was unavoidable, even if you had named the file the same thing, all the chapter markers were in the same place, etc etc.

Since renaming chapter buttons and selecting thumbnails is so clunky in iDVD (my projects often have 40 chapters per disk!) it’s worth finding a way to avoid this error if you ever need to re-export a video file with minor changes.

I finally figured out that the reason it fails to accept the file is that the TIME STAMP has changed!  This is truly the mark of an amateur program – good as it is.  It assumes that if the file has been modified since you last opened iDVD, then there must be a mistake, and it doesn’t even bother checking the length, the file size, the placement of chapter markers – anything!

Notice the “modified asset warning” error message – click through to see an example – complains about the date stamp!  It’s easy to miss if you don’t hit the dropdown triangle – the first time I’ve ever seen such a drop-down in an error message.  No wonder I never noticed it before.

I finally succeeded.  I fixed a sound error in FCPX that I only noticed after naming dozens of chapters in iDVD.  So I re-output the file, and then changed the date stamp to the same exact time (down to the second) of the original video file – and iDVD opened up without so much as a hiccup.  I’m glad it didn’t compare file size, now, because they would not have matched!

Not sure what would happen if you changed the length of the file or moved the chapter markers, but that’s for another day I guess.

Here’s what I did.

If you have already gotten the “Modified Asset Warning,” write down the “original modification date.” from the error window, then force-quit iDVD (cmd-opt-esc) to avoid saving your project with any new errors.  Then you can skip step 8.

If you are thinking ahead and you need to make changes but haven’t done so yet, step 8 will give you that date stamp info.

1. Quit iDVD

2. Re-edit my movie project

(I haven’t tried this with a file that has a different length, or changes to chapter placement – I only changed credit text, adjusted audio volume / filters, etc)

3. Re-export with the same name as the original movie, but adding “fix,” i.e. “Whatever Filename fix.mov”

4. While that is exporting, you can do this:

5. Start the Terminal application (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app)

6. Type the following, but don’t hit return (keep a space after the CD):

cd

7. Now drag the folder where your problem video file is, the one you need to fix from your iDVD project, INTO THE TERMINAL WINDOW.

This will put the file name into the command line.  Like this:

It should look like:

cd /Volumes/Mac\ HD/Movies/Whatever\ Directory

8. Now type the following in the command line:

ls -lT

to see the file’s detailed info (notice the capitalization; I did it the wrong way in the video up above, then corrected myself).

(with thanks for the instructions on changing the file date stamp to Raj Patel)

Now, you have to think of the date in the format YYYYMMDDhhmm.ss

E.G. right now the time where I am would be 201508171736.35 (unless you have a US time system on your computer; you might need to do YYYYDDMMhhmm.ss – God knows why the US uses that, same reason they have 12 inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, 5280 feet in a mile etc).

9. When your new version is outputted, remember to copy down or type somewhere the old time stamp of the incorrect file.  If anything happens to it, you are hooped.  Once you have that info, rename that file “Whatever Filename old.mov”

10. Now take the “fix” suffix off the new file, so it becomes “Whatever Filename.mov”

(Make sure the new file is in the same directory as the old video file!)

11. Now, type the following in the command line, but do not hit enter/return.  Replace YYYYMMDDhhmm.ss with the date information that you learned from the old, problem movie file

touch –t YYYYMMDDhhmm.ss

12. Drag and drop the NEW, FIXED file into the Terminal window, the file and path will be added to the end of the line you just typed.

Here is an example of what the line should look like (make sure you end up with a space between the time and the file path):

touch –t 200005151125 /Volumes/Mac\ HD/Movies/Whatever\ Filename.mov

200005151125 in the example above represents 15^th May 2000 11:25 AM.

13. If all is in order press the enter/return key.  The creation date should now be changed to the date specified above, as well as the last modified date.

14. Now, if you feel lucky, open up your iDVD project.  What’s this?  iDVD doesn’t even complain!  Just chugs right along.  Check all your chapter buttons and see if it works.

Woohoo!  Bug-fixing is a dish best served cold.

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Sabeen Mahmoud lost her life this week because of her interest in Baluchi independence.

I made ths video in Baluchistan in 1998, but much of the geopolitics is still in play.

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If you have friends in Dawson City, or headed there for the film festival, spread the word about this workshop I’m teaching…

In this 3-hour session, participants will be introduced to DSLR cinematography for documentary and drama. Bring your own DSLR camera and compare with your colleagues’! We’ll discuss the differences between DSLR cameras and dedicated film or video cameras, including advantages and disadvantages in comparison to ENG and cinema cameras around Run’n’gun, sound, stabilization, form factor, overheating, and data rates.

Interchangeable lenses bring the beauty (and danger) of depth-of field but a whole new category of learning about chips, adapters, connectivity, speed doublers and more. We’ll touch on gear that can make your DSLR behave more like a regular camera, replace or adapt some of the functions like sound recording, and hacking your cam to unleash the power inside it. And we’ll talk practicalities of hand-holding with or without rigs, manual vs. automatic adjustments, monitoring or using separate-system sound.

Flick Harrison (www.flickharrison.com) is a writer, media artist, filmmaker, hacker, community artist, educator and drone pilot in Vancouver. Starting out on the CBC youth series Road Movies as one of Canada’s first professional videographers, he’s since made videos in Pakistan, the US, Mexico and China. As part of the Art and Social Change project, he is studying community arts across Canada in conjunction with SFU, Concordia, U of A and U of T.!

His work has been seen on dance and theatre stages, by millions on television, been nominated and won awards internationally, and slipped into, under and through almost every Canadian funding niche. The Globe and Mail called him “hilarious,” and the Georgia Straight called his work “gorgeously sophisticated.”

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The festival celebrates lens-based art, and my work pushes that definition to the limit with digital drawings taken from original photos.

The texture of my prints is an unusual way to encounter digital work.  Seeing them in person is the best way to appreciate this.

When I create art, media accumulates around me on a theme until it has its own identity as a unit. From that creative, investigative and contemplative research I hone the idea down to the core and then declare it done.

Capture opens with a launch event on April 2, and my work will be on display at the Remington Gallery from April 3-14.

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I first liked him when he spoke of dismantling the media oligopolies in Greece.  His interview on that subject hit my radars at the same time as Sun News TV, the conservative mouthpiece in Canada, finally ran out of rich-guy lolly and closed its doors.  The happy feeling I got from that closure primed me to enjoy Varoufakis’ explanation that rich people putting their pocket change into media outlets wasn’t a formula for press freedom, rather quite the opposite.

Varoufakis is the new Greek finance minister who is taking Europe by storm, or at least trying.  He’s the most public face of the Syriza government which pledged to cancel the cutbacks and austerity of the Euro-bailout.  He’s not wearing a tie in the legislature – something which seems like nothing until you realize how rare this is in a Western parliament.  His casual style also helped him catch the eye of German media at a time when he was confronting their government with brick-wall obstinancy around paying back the loans Greece had borrowed under previous governments.  Then he, um, caved sort of.

He was once a video-game economist that helped merge one my favourite games – Team Fortress 2 – into another game, a process he described as theoretically similar to the merging of European economies, but with every transaction recorded for analysis.  His blogs around that topic are nerd gold.  But his stance on Capitalism – save but modify – is refreshing because it acknowledges something I’ve seen for a while now: that the forces of the extreme right are in a way better position to take advantage of any adventurous mistakes like wrecking the economy to convert it into something else.  Leave it to the Tea Party to collapse global capitalism and play Walking Dead in the aftermath.

Varoufakis became an “erratic Marxist” when he realized that Marx never recognized that his own theories could change capitalism, and create Marxist power centers that used the theories for their own advantage.  Marx also failed to take human imagination and life itself into his equations. People never actually add up as cogs in the productive machinery that would lead to the collapse of Capitalism that Marx envisioned.

Good god, could it be the Varoufakis is a true anarchist – fusing Marxist analysis, practical democracy and _____?!

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“Update unavailable with this Apple ID

This update is for an app downloaded with a different Apple ID. Sign in with that Apple ID and try again.”

I tried deleting the half-downloaded app from the Applications folder, restarting the computer, and that fixed it.

But then it happened a few more times on other computers, and by the third time my fix didn’t work anymore!

After trying a few things, including signing out and back into the app store, restarting everything, re-indexing my whole hard drive on spotlight, deleting iMovie and copying a version that worked on another computer into the failing computer’s Applications folder, here’s what worked:

When I started the App Store update, it made another copy of iMovie in the Applications folder (in addition to the one I copied from another computer), with the same name.  Bizarre, but whatever.

I noticed that Launchpad had a “downloading” strip in its icon.  Clicking that in the dock brought up a page of apps, one of which was a blank square with “downloading” written underneath.  So I clicked and held on it until all the apps started wiggling (with little x’s, iphone-style).

I deleted the delinquent app, then tried the app store again.  Now it didn’t even show any need to update – everything works fine.

The end!

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