![]() The team is so important in bringing your vision to life. Now I am a prepping machine with a ton of help from a team that helps me stay on point and excellent. When I was starting out on features, prep was everything to me because I was new and not comfortable with the whole process. Then the location scout to Europe for another project cut another nine days off of much needed time. When I signed onto the project, I was given very little prep. He is a master at emotion, heart, soul and great drama. ![]() The Director is Gabriele Muccino, a very talented filmmaker who challenged me in so many new ways. It stars Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Paul, Diane Krueger and Jane Fonda. That future includes the film Fathers and Daughters that I started shooting in Pittsburgh. In early 2014, I left a whirlwind Location Scout that encompassed Paris, Torino, Trento, Milan and Venice and looked to my future. When you get said jumpstart kit, be sure you have a 1.5mm Hex tool so that you can open the CGU box to get everything running again! The tools that come with your MōVI's are 2mm and 2.Today we’re taking a look at how Shane got his MoVI decked out with Red Rock remote follow focus for use on the film “Fathers and Daughters.”.If you do fall in to the category of users who get a brick, be sure to contact promptly, give them your full details and problem report, and request the jumpstart cable.Ensure you are running the proper version of the Configuration App on your computer or mobile device (1.552 on Macs).Make sure you have absolutely NO powersaving modes on or enabled during your update (it can take a few minutes).my M5 is up and running like a dream again! For those of you out there with a MōVI system and you have not done the update yet, I have a few recommendations. The good news is, after managing to disassemble, reset the system, reconnect and reassemble the CGU box, and FINALLY properly update the firmware. Screen-grab from the Jumpstart Instruction PDF from FreeFly Systems Now, this all sounded way too fishy to me, since I did get the "Update Complete" message from my configuration app, and I'm fairly certain no power saving modes were on or at least enabled, (as i was using the computer at the time), so i've no clue how the connection could have been broken during the process. The batteries were even brand-spanking-newly charged! Much to my chagrin I decided there really wasn't anything else to do but wait for the Jumpstart to arrive the next day. ![]() On to the next step, emailing the support team with complete problem details, and then a little back & forth for some Q&A to clarify the models, computer, os, version numbers etc. pretty standard tech support routine i'm sure we've all dealt with at least once. At this point, I was told the it was my fault! Or rather, my computers fault as any power saving modes (screensavers, dimming, video card switching etc), could break the connection to the Movi while updating, and since it was now bricked, they needed to FedEx me a "Jumpstart" cable with instructions to kickstart my M5 and start the process over again. Unfortunately after doing so, it would power up, flash the power lights one and then go dark.and even more sadly.LIMP! Frustrated, I headed to the FreeFly Forums and noticed that, to my relief, I wasn't the only one who managed to turn their $5000+ stabalizer system into a carbon fiber paperweight! There were a lot of similar (and some scarier) problems to my own being posted and the Support Staff at Freefly were quick to respond asking the people to email them directly on the but no answers were being given through the forums. Seems simple enough. however, this is where things got a little tricky. At this moment, instead of the soothing and calming colors of the solid green lights one would normally see on their wonderful stabilizer rigs, I instead started seeing the blinking red lights of doom shining out of places that I didn't even know there were LED's to begin with!Īfter a confirming nothing but ERROR messages across the App and with no other option than a hard reboot was required on the rig. Confirm Update Success in the app and wait for the MōVI to reboot.Update Firmware using the 3.08 Bin file and wait for completion.Power Up MōVI and Connect to FreeFly App.Install new app and confirm version (1.552 on Macs).Download Zip File Containing New App and Firmware.Here is their instruction sheet as well as the process I took. I would like to point out that I did everything in my efforts to follow the instructions to the letter. Naturally, the tech-junkie in me jumped to the call and fired up my MōVI to be updated immediately after getting the alert from FreeFly. Using my laptop, I followed the instructions line by line for the update procedure.
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