Today the productivity meter stayed in the black despite my sitting down to watch a second hip hop documentary in two days. I thoroughly enjoyed the doc on rapper Missy Elliot, Supa-Dupa-Fly. Yesterday I watched the life and times of Death Row Records.
However, due to a late night last night, I had sufficient time to complete and tweak preliminary concepts for three TV series for Untitled Entertainment, as per my previous blog post here. Rather than play the mysterious card and omit 99% of the information I’ll drop some code names for the projects. One TV series concept is called “Miranda,” the other is called “Angel” and the last is called “Ariana.” The code names tie in with my preference for writing roles for women.
The big deal today for me was upgrading to Final Cut Pro 7 on my MacBook despite not having the requisite 128MB of VRAM. I ran a few Google searches and found a hack that allowed me to install the program and open a personal FCP project for “Resurrection of Serious Rogers,” my neo-noir thriller.
Install Final Cut Studio on Macs with less than 128MB VRAM. While it may not run too well, it is possible to get Final Cut Studio 3 to install with less than the ‘required’ 128MB VRAM.
Control-click on the installer package alias and choose Show Original from the pop-up menu. Control-click the original installer and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Navigate into the Contents » Resources folder. Control-click on the Requirements Checker and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Navigate into the Contents » Resources folder, and then open minsys.plist with Property List Editor, the default (requires Xcode).
Change the value of AELMinimumVRAM from 128 to 64 (or less if you have even less VRAM). The installer will now run normally. After installing, Control-click on the Final Cut Pro.app in /Applications and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Navigate into Contents » Resources folder. Open the mimsys.plist file found there, and make the same change as above. Repeat for all the Final Cut Studio apps you have installed.
I have to admit, being the control freak I am about my projects, it’s been tough not having ready access to the footage.
The rest of the day I spent mentally preparing for a morning meeting with NBCUniversal, as I mentioned earlier. I’m really excited about this meeting because it’s one thing to develop a good TV series pilot on spec. It’s another thing entirely to know what type of series a network needs and develop a good TV series pilot based on an existing need.
Today I decided to set up a brand new YouTube Channel (page) for my upcoming web series, Resurrection of Serious Rogers. I’d been delaying it because my current channel, Hollywoodcity, is monetized. I didn’t want to move my precious videos to a channel that wasn’t monetized.
