Bret Williams
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You can basically make them stop, either by having an attorney threaten them or do it yourself, or you can sue them for money. The second will require you to prove damages. What are the damages in this case? Lost business essentially. The client wanted a particular site. The design firm stole yours because it fitted the bill. The lost business was that they should have hired you to do it or sell it or whatever. The fact that they could’ve created something themselves is beyond the point. That’s the crime. They didn’t. Had you not created it it wouldn’t have existed, and they would’ve had to create it themselves, costing them time and money. So they saved time and money by appropriating your creative wares.
Side note…
FWIW to anyone reading, this is exactly what you’re doing when you utilize music for your own video production, etc. Even if you’re just using it for “demo” purposes. Demos are advertising. Your advertising benefitted from someone elses creation. Your benefit garners clients and money. The damages are basically the profits from any client that chose you after you used the stolen music for demo purposes. Ok, rant over.So in this case the damages are pretty small. The money you would’ve charged for the site in question. Worth an attorney? I dunno. Maybe. Sometimes it’s nice just to make an example like the record companies do just to keep things in check.
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Might as well just use microsoft Word and save as html. 🙂
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FCP outputs video and audio through firewire. Whether the LiteOn can utilize firewire would be up to the LiteOn. If it has a FW input, I would assume that’s what it’s for.
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[Shah] “our 2.5gz G5 takes roughly an hour and a half just to render a 20-min segment during Print To Video”
Why are you rendering during print to video? Why wouldn’t you render first, then print to video so your renders are saved? That is the proper way to do things. Rendering during print to video is just an automated process for those that have forgotten to render. Why it doesn’t save the render is beyond me, but it just caches it instead.
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He just said it would not. It further compresses the footage.
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Kinda like comparing notepad with MS Word. You get what you pay for.
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True, but CSS is so much more than that. I still use tables a lot for my layout, but I’m pretty much done slicing. Changes become more of a problem, and the download is not as clean and fast.
Here’s a good example of what you can do with CSS artistically. I forget where I get this link. Maybe from one of Curtis’ posts…
The menu on the right is for the most part all CSS. The must use a graphic of some sort for the little page triangle, but I’m sure it’s just loaded once. The menu also stays in place when you scroll. Jump around the CSS tips and tricks on that site and there’s some neat stuff.
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Wasn’t talking to you. In the past, if you didn’t type it in as a capital T, it didn’t work.
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FCP has had a severely crapping logging system since day one. Especially for doing what you are doing. But I found a good workaround that only means touching the mouse once each clip, and never moving it. Except when changing reels. I assume you’re entering all the clips for one particular reel, then moving to another? If not, maybe you can adapt this.
1. Enter the reel
2. mouse click on the TC in field (leave the mouse pointed there)
3. enter the in
4. tab once to the TC out field and enter the out TC
5. press F2 (log) and it will ask you for the description, type it in
— side note, if you have a repetitive description, you can copy it, and then paste it after each F2, then adjust —-6. click the mouse and you’re back at the TC in.
So except for the 1 mouse click, it operates like Avid or Media 100 logging, instead of the idiotic tabbing through fields like duration, take, scene, etc
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It’s been there since version 1.2.x at least. That’s when I started using.