Bob Kiger
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I am pleased to announce that after 7 go rounds via telephone support Adobe tech support “hero” … Anjaneai Srivastava, in Delhi found [by much research] an unlock code for my existing Pagemaker 6.5 program.
Now we will work together to unlock the legacy Freehand files which may pose a bigger problem because I did not keep the old CD installation disc, but their will be a workaround where there is a will to make it happen. Also to be tended to in the near future is the installation of Optima, Cooper and other custom fonts which I bought from Adobe Type Library back in the day.
One step at the time. Thanks to all who care about preserving legacy assets at Adobe and here at Creative Cow.
Bob Kiger seminal author of “videography” [OCT1972-AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER]
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It probably will come down to buying another copy of software I already own. I’m sure you understand that there is a matter of principle here with Adobe and I wanted to let give them some feedback to see if they had quality control channels that I could reach.
Bob Kiger seminal author of “videography” [OCT1972-AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER]
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Stephen Kramer kindly asks “Got any any help yet, Bob?” The short answer is no. I chose InDesign forum to express my problems about accessing Pagemaker and other Adobe 1990 “legacy” applications that include Pagemaker and Freehand. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia_FreeHand
These assets included product designs still vital today including bicycle components, accessories, general merchandise and logo designs, vintage advertising and a finished autobiography of those times called “Down That Long Lonesome Highway”. Many of these assets were saved in .fh5 and .pm5 files and preserved on Bernoulli discs [to give you an idea of vintage] and later transferred to external hard drives, which I have in my possession.
Life had dealt me a series of unfortunate blows between 1990-1995 including the death of my wife and bicycle travelmate, a multi-million dollar lawsuit by a guy who rode one of my bikes into a rock wall and an unbelievable copy-cat scheme involving time-share companies and activity sales desks. By January 1996 I left my “legendary” downhill business behind and returned to Hollywood to reset my life.
I got intensely involved with Adobe products and bought just about everything they offered before CS products came along. High on that list was InDesign, which promised it was “setting new standards for professional layout and design” and effectively became the integrating program for earlier bitmap and vector based Adobe programs including “Pagemaker 6.5-7.0.” I felt comfortable, from 1996-2004, with Adobe CS programs and was invited to become a Beta Tester for CS2 Video Production Suite.
Today I am running CS5 Master Collection and am doing bicycle system business. The need to access the legacy PM5 and FH5 files is vital.
Videography Lab still has the old Pentium machines with XP Pro available for installation of my Pagemaker 6.5 CD discs. The Adobe website contains my registration of the project and supposed product installation serial number. It will not install telling me that the serial number is not correct. Call Adobe support! Both the CS2 and CS5 collections try to open the files and open a window saying “Adobe InDesign may not support the file format. A plug-in that supports the file format may be missing”.
So YES I DO NEED HELP and it no longer seems to come through Adobe Systems, which has one of the saddest “help systems” I have yet witnessed. I have been on phone support for hour after hours being told that they have no solution for me. They slur their talking points in robotic fashion. They have no power to escalate an issue to a person that does have the answers. They don’t track their own Case #s requiring endless repetition of the problem. If Adobe cracks in the next few years it will be the loss of quality in product integration and support IMO.Can anybody help?
Bob Kiger seminal author of “videography” [OCT1972-AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER]
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Excellent printed tutorial on Premiere Pro side of the work-flow. Now all that is necessary, for this old-mind, is comparable printed tutorial on the resizing of [GoPro in this instance] still photos in Photoshop CS5 for batching over to Premiere Pro.
Thanks Ann 🙂
Bob Kiger seminal author of “videography” [OCT1972-AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER]
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Wow that guy is a wiz. I recall with older versions of PP that I could make a time-lapse-movie of [say 4 frames per still] straight-cuts as opposed to fancy slide show with blurs, dissolves and all he discussed in AE. Is there a simpler way to get the batch using only PP or PS?
Bob Kiger seminal author of “videography” [OCT1972-AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER]
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Thanks for the try but I am specifically concerned about CS5
Bob Kiger seminal author of “videography” [OCT1972-AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER]
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I am not a coder it’s plain to see. Just after I wrote the last post I contacted our lead programmer in Florence, Italy and he chatted me on how to adjust the embed resolution at Youtube.
[4:31:02 PM] Ernest: when you hit “the embed” button in youtube
[4:31:20 PM] Ernest: look lower down the page, you will see some colored rectangles
[4:31:49 PM] Ernest: right underneath these recs, you will notice that a resolution box is selected by default
[4:32:23 PM] Ernest: before copying the code, make sure you choose a lower res than the 1280×745 you have chosen previously
[4:32:46 PM] Ernest: best size for not escaping the vidiots layout would be 640×385
[4:33:02 PM] Ernest: at that time, the box should become blue instead of grey
[4:33:12 PM] Ernest: then you can copy the updated codeSo he put me onto the fix. In the end I had to do a Custom size which is in box available to keep the movie from running into our link copy on the right hand side.
Thanks, to all for your patience. Problem solved so it is a bit easier to read the article.
Bob Kiger seminal author of “videography” [OCT1972-AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER]
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THE NVidia 5000M card for notebooks just blasted through the issues we have agonized over for so long. We posted a playful review at:
https://vidiots.us/index.php/2010/07/dog-day-at-siggraph/
It seems that Youtube is now embedding full HD when it comes in and the movies are so big that they are “over the edge”.
One other note is that we did “Audio Swap” and let Youtube pick the music for the doggy journalist time lapse movie at the end. Hot!
Can someone please check the source code on the embeds and see if we can adjust the video so you can see the entire movie on an average computer?
Bob Kiger seminal author of “videography” [OCT1972-AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER]
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At Videography Lab we are using a combination of inductive and deductive approaches to deal with thermal issues. We don’t have to test every high powered notebook to know that there is a functional problem regards the thermal issue with all notebook designs [thusfar]. Hit https://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/359101/sony-warns-half-a-million-vaio-laptops-could-overheat
to see just one manufacturers dilemma.Our thermal design team has developed a “Nanocube” notebook cooling device that will cool them all down. One at the time of course.
Waiting to get my hot sweaty old hands on it. 🙂
BobBob Kiger seminal author of “videography” [OCT1972-AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER]
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We can see that though the notebooks have not been designed for optimal usage they still can run CS5. I will wait for real world reports on whether notebook CS5 can playback a 3 channel HD timeline.
It isn’t the Herculean 8 channels that Adobe showed at NAB but it is certainly adequate for a common sense videographer to use in mobile/field applications.
Marching on to MILSPEC 🙂
Bob Kiger seminal author of “videography” [OCT1972-AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER]
http://www.videographyblog.com