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Imagemixer 3 SE – the application from hell

Long time ago we bought a Canon video camera. To import and edit movies I use Imagemixer 3 SE, which was provided to me along with the camera. I’ve once before blogged about this application describing how I managed to find the solution of a totally stupid error message. Once again I do get a totally stupid error message, but this time I’m not able to find a workaround.

I’ve spent a couple of hours, way to many I now realize, editing a movie and all that was left was just to save it. No problem, the progress bar shows 10%, 20%, 90%, 98%, 99%, it even disappears, but just to let me see a dialog box saying “Could not create the file”. What a bunch of fu#”# crap!!! Stupid, freaking application from hell. But, ok, counting to ten, then do a search on the Internet. Go to http://www.pixela.co.jp and download the latest update…downloading…downloading…7 Mb, reading “This file only works if you have Imagemixer already installed” No problem, I have, so I click on the update.exe-file and get to click “next” once. Then

If you are having trouble understanding Norwegian it says “No previous version of Imagemixer 3 SE found, aborting…” What a bunch of crap!!! It is installed, arrrghh!!! I want to throw it all away, but for now I’m stuck with the shitty application.

@Update: Realized that it is not enough to just search for “Imagemixer 3SE”, but I had to add “Canon”. Then I found by using Google, not by looking at the Pixela homepage, a direct link to the download for ImageMixer 3 SE SD 3.1.2, not 3.1.3 for some other brand which I found first. So, now my app is updated from 3.1.1 to 3.1.2, but still, same freaking error.

vi – I just gotta love it even though I hate it

Every now and then I get stuck with a Linux or Unix environment with no GUI available. Whatever the intention is, it does not take more than 2 minutes before I have to at least edit a single line in a file, leaving me with the only option to use vi. Like for instance now. Been using vi quite a lot the last week, learning geek-commands such as ZZ, y, p, i, I and A. Off course I knew :q! in advance. Just gotta love the tool I love to hate when using such commands, leave work for a week and try to remember them…impossible, you then need the Cheat Sheet.

You can also visit the VI Lovers page

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