Return of the Living Bong!!! Back from the DEAD!
Yesterday I felt as if I had woken up with in a bad dream and life had suddenly become not worth living! I guess all my fears of losing all the hard work I have put into my film for that past two years had suddenly become a reality! The last time I had a gut instinct I lost 15 years worth of my hard work due to faulty digital drives mass produced over seas. To be so close to the finish line then lose it all is not something I can even put in words. There is no way to express how I felt the moment I lost the film in its entirety. The countless hours I have spent in the dark in my basement learning software just to allow me to do a whole film in post is immeasurable! Not to mention the other countless hours I have spent putting to use my newly learned skills. All that time I spend on the film is time away from life! My friends can attest to my absence for the past few years as I have completely isolated myself from everyone just to get this movie completed. I have also sacrificed tremendous amounts of hours away from my wife and family. All of this just to pursue a dream that I have been chasing for the past 16 years.
The era of digital film making has its benefits but its down falls are also equally as deadly. When you turn your dream into a string of infinite 010101′s you are leaving your fate in the hands of technology. Although we have come a long ways in developing these truly magnificent and useful tools such as hard drives, RAM, video cards and computers in general, we still have a long way to go in making them full proof. I have built the best MAC I can afford to take on my first feature film and have put all my eggs in one basket. The MAC has served me well and I have treated it with equal respect as it does hold my future within its beautifully engineered shiny aluminum gut. Its scary how much trust one has to put on a machine that holds all the cards! Back ups have become a standard operating procedure for me ever since I lost my previous works ton a Western Digital drive which also held my life for a duration. Once it died as did all my hard work with in it! Luckily I did not have Bong on that drive at the time. Once Bong is finished I will take my MAC and bind it in thick chain and locks and place it in a glass chamber for eternity. I have used it to its full potential and it has delivered everything I have ever needed it to do but not with out a price. Yeas things cost money to upgrade and fix but its the emotional stress that I find more taxing than any dollar I have ever spent on upgrading or tech tuning. Once the MAC is put to sleep forever I will then start again with the newest MAC on the market and start another relationship with yet a newer monster which will end up owning me as all my other MACs have in the past. By all I mean only 2 of course since MAC’s are the best computers on the planet! ( That was a plug for Apple in hopes that Steve Jobs will support me as a filmmaker in the future…wink). Ok enough bullshit and to the news about Bongs future!
I received a call from my data recovery specialist late last night with great news! He was able to fix my drive and save Bong!! He assured me that the files were unharmed and that the drive would be good for more years to come. As much as I believe him because he proved he can bring something back from the dead even though several others had tried! I have lost my trust in yet another drive manufacturer which I’m sorry but I have to name. this time I almost lost more than just a movie due to a Seagate drive. The drive was 2 years old but the fact that it died 2 years almost to the date on Bongs anniversary is too creepy even for me! I have managed to replace the drive with a new Hitachi drive so now all internal drives are Hitachi and my MAC family is complete. Thank you to Andy Scott the data recovery specialist who jumped on the task and saved the day! I highly recommend his services to anyone who has to go through what I went through and I hope you dont! But if you do feel free to call Andy!
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Long story short I have now got the Media 2 drive back in the MAC and everything is as it was before the 11th and the film is smoother and faster than ever. I guess the weird glitches I had experienced in the past had to do with a poor drive and not Final cut pro or the MAC acting up. How ironic is it that Bong, a Zombie movie has died then returned from the dead! Zombies rule!!!
Back to worQ!!
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