View Full Version : vomit inducing cramps and a 4 hour nap


lucky_13
10-18-2003, 07:28 PM
what a great saturday.

oh and my huge protools project that was due today wouldn't open at school. and i was too sick to stick around at class to figure it.

*dies*

DeviousJ
10-18-2003, 07:43 PM
Aww, you'll be ok on Monday. You let them know you weren't feeling so good, right?

bonsor
10-18-2003, 07:46 PM
i didn't have any idea you were into that kind of thing until your post about audio engineering.

protools is neato.

lucky_13
10-18-2003, 07:48 PM
Originally posted by DeviousJ
Aww, you'll be ok on Monday. You let them know you weren't feeling so good, right?
yeah but my teacher just got out of the hospital and he was at class so i felt like a wussy.

i still can't figure it out. fuckity fucker fuck.

Affectation
10-18-2003, 07:48 PM
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DeviousJ
10-18-2003, 08:10 PM
Originally posted by lucky_13

yeah but my teacher just got out of the hospital and he was at class so i felt like a wussy.

i still can't figure it out. fuckity fucker fuck.

Does it open at home? Same version of pro-tools? You're not trying to go from Mac->PC or something are you?

lucky_13
10-18-2003, 08:18 PM
i was going from free version on os 9 to os X. it would just show up as a blank document. i don't know if all my audio files got attached. do you have protools on mac? does anyone? i just want to know if its openable on another computer before i send it to my professor. this sucks.

DeviousJ
10-18-2003, 08:26 PM
I've never touched it. You put it on CD, right? Try loading it from CD on your machine, and see if it works. If that's not the problem, you might have to ask someone who's used it before. If the worst comes to the worst, could you just burn it as an audio CD?

lucky_13
10-18-2003, 08:29 PM
i don't think my os 9 mac has a burner. could it have a burner without me knowing? i confiscated it from my sister. i had it on a zip. it opened on the zip on my mac but i think it might have been taking the audio files from the hard drive.

it needs to be a protools project so he can see how we edited it.

DeviousJ
10-18-2003, 08:38 PM
Hmm, I don't know a lot about protools but an 80MB zip disk seems pretty small for an uncompressed audio project. Have a look in the folder where you saved your work and see how big the files are. Then look on the zip and see how much space is being used there. If it's a lot less then maybe all your audio data wasn't *******d. But it all depends - if you use short samples then it could all very easily fit on a zip disk. Worth a go, though

lucky_13
10-18-2003, 08:41 PM
its only a short project. a minute and 20 seconds. i took all my samples from a 2 -3 minute audio recording and that's the only audio file in there. would it make sense that protools would just take all the samples from there instead of breaking them up to individual files?

DeviousJ
10-18-2003, 10:46 PM
I'm not sure how it works - maybe it extracts the samples, maybe it keeps the full source file, or maybe both! If it DID keep the full source file, 16-bit recording at 44KHz for 3 minutes is about... 16MB. 32 if it's stereo. So yeah, that should easily fit on your zip disk - but compare the directories to make sure it's on there, or try loading from the zip at home to check it's actually on there

lucky_13
10-18-2003, 10:54 PM
mr. lee, this sucks.

Lizard Queen
10-19-2003, 03:28 PM
Have you tried booting into OS 9 at school? That might help. We have to do that to load quark in the journalism department cause they haven't updated Quark on their computers yet.

Geek USA
10-19-2003, 03:30 PM
I have vomit inducing cramps and i bleed like a mad man.

lucky_13
10-19-2003, 03:43 PM
i don't think there are any OS 9s left at school.

Lizard Queen
10-19-2003, 03:58 PM
Originally posted by lucky_13
i don't think there are any OS 9s left at school.

It's worth trying, most new macs still ship with OS 9 on them as well as OS 10.