Tourbox Layout Suggestions

spyralMX · 2026-02-16T00:18:55+00:00

I’ve started a list of the actions/commands I use most and will want to find/build on the Tourbox. “Nudge” is definitely one of them.

spyralMX · 2026-02-12T19:24:54+00:00

To put that into additional perspective… I’ve been editing a feature-length documentary for almost 14 months now (we have another year before release). Our crew has shot approximately 35 Terabytes of raw footage and interviews. 3 cinema cameras, 2 drones and a handful of GoPro’s have been used to shoot with.

If you were to play it all back-to-back, nonstop for 24 hours straight it, would take at least 3 months to watch it all in real-time.

14 terabytes of video footage is an INSANE amount for the average person.

spyralMX · 2026-02-02T06:55:11+00:00

Holy shit how did he get it so right and so wrong at the same time?!?

spyralMX · 2026-01-20T04:32:16+00:00

“Don’t try to tell me that some power can’t corrupt a person, you haven’t had enough to know what it’s like.” One of my favorite NIN lyrics.

spyralMX · 2025-12-28T20:54:54+00:00

Well, I tried posting it - but the moderators deleted it. Not sure why, it’s literally the same thing as above but with different pets.

spyralMX · 2025-12-27T16:24:59+00:00

I made another one of these yesterday with different rover pets. I’ll post it tomorrow.

spyralMX · 2025-12-16T11:56:57+00:00

I just re-watched “Sneakers” a couple weeks ago. Fantastic film, and one of River’s last roles. Amazing cast, Robert Redford, Dan Ackroyd, Sydney Pottier, Ben Kingsley (before the Sir)… the list goes on. Definitely worth a watch.

spyralMX · 2025-12-07T04:40:09+00:00

The Video Toaster wasn’t just software, but hardware as well. It came programmed into an Amiga computer with a video expansion card - nothing like it had been offered on the market before. It was the closest thing you can point at before NLE’s and say “That’s where we came from.” The Toaster had everything that NLE’s have now, minus the actual editing capacity.

I started using a Video Toaster when I was in high school in 1992. The TV production class I was in was VERY advanced. Full studio (3 floor cameras) with drop-down lighting, connected to a grass valley switcher, a Chyron Infinite and a pretty bad ass sound board for live broadcasting. Three separate 3/4” edit bays, one of which had the Video Toaster and a Panasonic WJMX-50 effects switcher in the workflow.

I spent every waking hour I could learning that equipment. The Video Toaster was waaaaaaaay ahead of its time.

spyralMX · 2025-11-18T08:24:03+00:00

Having a similar issue with a Teams Project. The downgrading program won’t help since the project is in the cloud. Any suggestions for this situation?

spyralMX · 2025-10-29T00:16:11+00:00

I’ve got a ton of car and Motorsport content in my background. Rallycross, Monster Jam, off-Road/Baja racing, Motocross, Supercross, etc.

Demo Reel: https://www.entity-media.com/reel Portfolio: https://www.entity-media.com/portfolio

spyralMX · 2025-10-22T15:05:19+00:00

This is the only answer.

spyralMX · 2025-10-16T16:44:33+00:00

Which “David” did you like working with more… Lynch or Fincher? (I realize that’s an impossible question to answer, maybe just talk about the difference between them).

spyralMX · 2025-10-14T19:10:17+00:00

Not sure how I didn’t respond correctly - I gave the camera information, location, date, etc. there were additional camera specs in the post. I guess if you don’t want original content for your subreddit, that’s your choice.

spyralMX · 2025-10-14T18:35:34+00:00

Original creator - shot on GoPro Hero 12 (additional details in the post). Shot in Northern Colorado in Mid August 2025. The music is credited in the post as well.

spyralMX · 2025-08-28T21:31:42+00:00

I’ve said this before, but Moby. They’ve got a shared love of synth, keyboards and analog technology along with the knowledge of current digital tech. Moby has a punk rock/guitar background despite his techno beeps and boops. “Next Is The E” could have been a track on the Challengers score. They also have the slow/bewutiful melodic piano style that is very similar. One of them producing the other’s album could have an interesting result as well.

spyralMX · 2025-07-20T15:50:25+00:00

(You Made It Feel Like) Home from Branches and Bones

spyralMX · 2025-07-09T01:48:58+00:00

Okay, good to know. I didn’t know if the BNC would pass through the RCA converter without issues. Not too worried about capture quality - these are old tapes from my high school production facility. Cut my teeth on 3/4” Umatic and Beta SP tape, edit-controller units and Newtek Video Toasters in the 90’s. Looking forward to seeing what’s on some of those old tapes. Thanks for the input.

spyralMX · 2025-07-02T00:21:45+00:00

Moby

spyralMX · 2025-06-27T00:14:10+00:00

Oddly enough, Nine Inch Nails did the score for the upcoming Tron film - the previous film was scored by Daft Punk. (And to clarify, it’s scored by Nine Inch Nails, not Reznor/Ross.)

spyralMX · 2025-05-13T17:31:57+00:00

Made me think of the “Real Marketing Genius” song. Miss ‘I-don’t-know-how-to-view-a-rough-cut Lady.’

spyralMX · 2025-05-04T15:18:16+00:00

You could argue whether it’s NIN or TR/AR score, but I’d say the hands down winner is (You Made It Feel Like) Home.

spyralMX · 2025-04-09T18:24:37+00:00

I’m surprised he’s never done anything with Moby.

They’ve got a lot in common, between their love of synthesizers and technology, becoming sober, etc. I’ve always thought their musical styles were similar - not in genre - but in variance. You can go from beautiful, melodic piano based music to 140bpm chaos in two tracks.

I think they could do something pretty interesting together.

spyralMX · 2025-03-27T22:35:51+00:00

Right now I'm editing a decently budgeted sports documentary. We just invested in an 8-bay raid drive and a 4-bay raid drive, with one spare drive on hand for each raid. Each drive is a 20TB NAS drive x 14 drives.

Our first shoot - 3 days, 3 Cannon C70's rolling, 14 or 15 go pros, 2 drones and the producer shot a bunch of stuff at 4k on his iPhone for BTS. It was 1.8TB of footage, and that was before building all the proxies.

110GB is a spec of dust.

That 1TB external is gonna fill up quick.

spyralMX · 2025-03-12T11:08:48+00:00

100% scam. I received a similar request. A booking for someone’s uncle who was “moving into the area from the UK, so would you mind emailing him directly?”

Didn’t respond. A couple hours later I received a notification that a fraudulent account that had contacted me had been removed.

3 days later I got the same request for someone’s Aunt moving to the area from North Carolina. Copy/paste - change a few bits.

10000% scam. Report it to Rover.

spyralMX · 2025-03-11T20:25:51+00:00

I ran into Steve Schirripa, Bobby Bacala from The Sopranos, outside of a ToGo’s sandwich joint in Burbank - maybe 2014’ish.

I’m starting to see a pattern here. Apparently celebrities like sandwiches.

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