My Clips- Cause of plane crash west of Bozeman under investigation, pilot pronounced dead at scene August 31, 2010
- The man who wanted train horns August 16, 2010
- Money well spent? August 15, 2010
- Local telecom company gets $64 million to bring high-speed Internet to rural Gallatin County August 5, 2010
- Montana Opticom receives $64 million in stimulus money for rural broadband August 4, 2010
- AT&T to replace Alltel in Montana within a year June 25, 2010
- Bozeman twin looks to scale namesake peak: K2 June 21, 2010
- High water claims Amsterdam Road bridge June 12, 2010
- Trio of veteran Belgrade teachers retiring June 7, 2010
- MSU robot digger wins NASA competition May 29, 2010
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Save early and save often
Lesson learned: If a program offers you the opportunity to autosave your work for you, if only you'd take the briefest of breaks to first save your work and give it a file name, do it.
Don't, as I did, work for four hours on a video project, thinking that Final Cut Pro is saving your work for you and then try to export to a .flv file, only to have FCP freeze up, requiring a force quit.
This situation cost me hours of work yesterday and forced me to reconstruct my video project in 20 minutes — if only it could go that fast the first time around!
Seriously, a lot of newspaper people hate video because it's a training-intensive time-sink. Well, it can be, especially if you're dumb and fail to save early and often.
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