Welcome to 'Hollywood, Unapologetic!'
My name is Orlando Delbert.
Today is more of a thank you to The New Hollywood Generation, for your support of 'Hollywood,
Unapologetic!' for five seasons and to all of the fellow supporters of independent film,
than it is one of our full episodes.
I was planning on taking a few weeks to do some writing and catch up on hardware maintenance
to get season six running to a good start, and other tasks involved in doing this series,
but a couple of things happened starting four weeks ago I wanted to share with you.
As I've mentioned on the last series update, on the positive side, the 'Hollywood, Unapologetic!'
channel popped up to number one in the search rankings for "filmmaking" channels on
YouTube for several days over the course of two weeks.
That was a very welcome thing to see.
Thank you New Hollywood Generation.
Considering the search volume is extremely high for the filmmaking topic, and the other
channels that rank high consistently has hundreds of thousand subscribers and some even over
one million, I think that's pretty damn good.
And the 'Hollywood, Unapologetic!' channel has ranked number one consistently in the
search rankings for "filmmaking essentials" for a better part of the year as well.
Thank you again New Hollywood Generation.
Which now leads me too… the not so good.
About two and a half months ago or so, I picked up several steel wire-shelving units to house
my two Macs and other production related gear I use for the series, two of which, I was
able to attach two umbrellas two soft boxes, my microphone boom, and also attach the green
screen stand as well.
I built a box out of the shelving units to build a green screen stage if you will, which
helped me keep the lighting and audio set up consistent.
And if you remember my older videos, I had a very hard time keeping a consistent key
on the first lot of them.
But during this process I chipped one of my Apple Cinema Displays.
Yes, it's a drag but that was only a chip.
When I bought both of these brand new, they were two grand each and have never given me
a single problem… well…
While setting up the wire shelving for my workstation, the glass broke.
There's a crack along the front of the screen spreading across more than a third of the
way across.
For monitors that I picked up in 2010, they both look great, no dead pixels, and have
never given me a single issue.
So replacing them was not much of a thought.
Then…
One of my internal hard drives was showing signs of failure shortly before the last episode
was shot, which prompted me to stop producing these episodes and do some maintenance.
I was able to use my iMac that I use to do all of the green screen video capturing as
a way to access my main workstation in target mode to work on the drives and move large
amounts of data.
I was able to pick up a four-terabyte Western Digital external hard drive and moved a lot
of files around.
Both, doing maintenance on my remaining internal hard drives, now down to four terabytes on
the workstation, and on the newly acquired external drives, along with moving the files
around took me a full week.
That doesn't include another three days of running a deep virus scan on both machines,
which took another four days.
Yeah, four days.
Not three days.
It was four days.
That's right.
During this time demanding process, the drive that was showing signs of failing failed.
Fortunately, no data was lost…
I had four of these Blue Western Digital hard drives in my Mac Pro.
Since I'm running an older operating system in my workstation, I'm not entirely sure
how much hard disk space will be recognizable.
I had five terabytes with no problem.
Which now leads me to the now 13 external hard drives I now own, three have failed,
all of which were G-Technology G-Raid hard drives.
I've been using drives from this company for well over a decade, and was always highly
recommended.
Since I have so many, I was looking at rack mounting them like I had in the past, or get
a separate enclosure just for the physical drives, but they make it near impossible to
use their drives in any other types of enclosures, and at least with my experience, won't even
speak to me once the warranty has expired.
Of course, that is expected.
But when attempting to troubleshoot several hard drives, which have failed, that has hardly
been used, I want to know why.
Anyway, I am ordering a one-terabyte solid-state internal hard drive for my operating system,
as well as a four terabyte internal Black Western Digital hard drive in my Mac Pro.
The solid-state drive will increase boot time and should help the box run a little more
efficiently.
So that's it for now.
I'll keep everyone updated and hopefully I won't be down for too long.
I'm hoping to be back up and running and posting before the end of September.
One day at a time.
Thank you once again, New Hollywood Generation, for your support for five seasons of 'Hollywood,
Unapologetic!' and to all of the fellow supporters of independent film.
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