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Spot|DSE wrote on 9/6/2007, 9:30 AM
Vegas Pro 1 was an audio-only app, but it surely has grown, yeah?
TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/6/2007, 9:57 AM
maybe VPro8 is audio only, as a joke. :)
Jonathan Neal wrote on 9/6/2007, 10:33 AM
7.3MB ... well, nothing's changed there.
vitalforce wrote on 9/6/2007, 10:50 AM
This is the problem with that great 'akhashic record' called the Internet. You can search out a technical solution on-line and end up following instructions dating back several years.
Jonathan Neal wrote on 9/6/2007, 11:04 AM
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashic_Records, more or less...

The Akashic records (Akasha is a Sanskrit word meaning "sky", "space" or "aether") is a term from Theosophy denoting a theoretical collection of mystical knowledge that is encoded in the aether; i.e. on a non-physical plane of existence. The Records are supposed to contain all knowledge, including all human experience, held in the Universe. The Akashic Records are metaphorically described as a library and are also likened to a universal computer or the 'Mind of God'. The records are supposed to be constantly updated. The concept originated in the Theosophical movements of the 19th Century, and remains prevalent in New Age discourse. It is the constant reloading of this database that makes the Sony Creative Software forums run slower.
Coursedesign wrote on 9/6/2007, 11:53 AM
...and in the next major update of the Wickedpedia, this entry will be stark orange...to mark unreliable.

Theosophy, 19th Century indeed. Pttth.

How about Vedic Science a few thousand years ago?

And it is no more "non-physical" than a virus was "non-physical" when it couldn't be seen before the advent of extremely powerful microscopes.

Speaking of which, the ancient Vedas describe illnesses caused by rod-shaped microscopic living things, where the description fits viruses.

Thousands of years ago, they also correctly calculated the precession of our solar system, quite a long time before anyone in "the cradle of civilization" even knew what the solar system looked like.

The New Age movement has cherry-picked old stuff to minimize the hassle of learning, and making it appear that they know more than they actually do.

Tim Stannard wrote on 9/6/2007, 2:20 PM
This is the problem with that great 'akhashic record' called the Internet. You can search out a technical solution on-line and end up following instructions dating back several years.
I dispute that's a problem. The technical solution for sticking a nail in a piece of wood is the same now as it was before the internet came into existence!
More seriously, it's often useful to discover (or rediscover) ways in which a problem used to be solved, even if only to establish why later solutions are better or indeed worse.
Tim L wrote on 9/6/2007, 4:40 PM
"It is the constant reloading of this database that makes the Sony Creative Software forums run slower."

LOL -- really, OL... I did...

TIm L
TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/6/2007, 6:12 PM
More seriously, it's [internet[ often useful to discover (or rediscover) ways in which a problem used to be solved, even if only to establish why later solutions are better or indeed worse.

like in "star trek" when they have a problem like, for example, killing cyborg's that are resistant to energy weapons but not physical projectiles? ;)

I think in the future using the 'net for research is not done (especially because of copyright/patent laws). I'm betting it's just a huge database of stuff people already know because everybody else's old ways of doing things are stupid.

:D
vitalforce wrote on 9/6/2007, 6:58 PM
I was actually talking about looking up, for instance, a software patch or a firmware update, and finding an article with NO DATE on it as commonly occurs, linking you to a Windows 98 patch which immediately crashes an XP program. More like an a-crashic record.

And let's not be too hard on the New Age thinkers--the original ones such as Alan Watts or D.T. Suzuki, not the paperback hacks out to make a buck. Indeed, people who study New Age writers in some detail will see the tremendous debt that the New Age openly acknowledges to ancient knowledge systems.

There is some brilliant and challenging thinking in "The Tao of Physics" and "The Holographic Universe," and there's nothing lazy about it--not only demands your full concentration but some soul-searching in the process. Of course, the average follower of this and that can go off message and completely misuse ideas in all kinds of ways, doing ridiculous things like chanting to start a car--but humanity doesn't vary its statistics all that much, so I'm sure there are as many close-minded fools on the side of Science as there are on the New Age side. Ironic, really, since science is supposed to be the attempt to know the unknown, rather than smugly announcing that reality stops where the instruments it has created to measure reality, stop. --Until the next instrument is created, by an open-minded thinker. Some oddball like, oh, Einstein.

I recall reading in Evans-Wentz' treatises on ancient Yoga (the religion, not the exercise) that some five thousand years ago, there were writings describing what we today understand to be the atomic structure of matter.

Where were we? Oh yeah, Vegas Pro. Hopefully there's still some open minded thinkers in Madison.
Soniclight wrote on 9/7/2007, 1:05 AM
Vitalforce,

And to think I was the only occaionally met-fizz'cally inclined member here :) I could ramble on stuff like this for hours but I'll try to keep it simple (Zen-ish).

Be it ethereal or computational, I'll repost a couple of my favorite quotations, which "oddly" enough are not by those considered new age or "freakin' out there in la-la land."

"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." ~ Albert Einstein

And last but certainly not least, t'is wise to use discernment in all things Be it online patches or existential pronouncements,be they Eastern, Western, hybrids, or even any of the above quotations.

Everything we choose to believe is a choice of perception, and all choices of perception create certain experiences, hence realities.

Your pointing out the intersection of so-called "ancient" observations of realities, albeit couched in their own times -- with modern scientific and other discoveries shows how malleable these things we call life and reality really are.

Or as Watts used to say,"Finger through water." Things appear, have effect and/or empirical importance and reality, but then are gone or shift.. Perception and our experiences are like that too.

That can be very unsettling and also very liberating. Fortunately or unfortunately, I go through those first hand and at times on such a core level and seem to waffle back and forth between those two.
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That can cause one to jump to confusions.

Hence why I tend to like to--no, actually need to--chill out my internal bio-intellectual human OS and do the "Be still." thing. Defrag my monkey mind and all of its computational, and hence perceptual rendering errors. Get a gentler, saner grip, etc.

That said, I'm looking forward to upgrading to Vegas Pro 8 too
It's probably been hanging out in the Akashic Records for a while.

Nothing wrong with pleasant technical, bio-humanod improvements.
Be this world we film and render an illusion/lila/maya -- or not.

It all comes down to wise and creatively fulfilling editing - lol.