[Tim Wilson]

Wow, very elegant indeed! Thanks Daniel!

[Tim Wilson]

Hi Vojtěch,

We’ll be happy to take care of this for you! Please let us know if there is anything else we can do for you.

Regards,

Tim Wilson
Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW

[Tim Wilson]

Hi Marieke,

We are in the process of moving our tutorial library from its previous home to our new servers, so for now, all of our video tutorials are available on our YouTube channel. Here is the direct link to Eran’s “Adjustment Lights” tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPzRO3wn9EU

Regards,
Tim Wilson
Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW

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[Tim Wilson]

@scottwitthaus2 wrote:

I feel the iPhone 14 will be a camera, texting, email device and the “phone” part will become an option! ?

Isn’t it that way already? For every phone. Heck, phone cameras do more to drive my buying choices than pretty much anything else.

At this point, unless it’s my wife or the people I work with, the only thing the PHONE part of my phone is good for is catching spam. Pro tip: when you move, keep your old number, and be guaranteed that every call from your “old” area code is spam. ? It’s uncanny.

There’s certainly a lot to be said for using phones to teach guerilla filmmaking, including to kids — but I also love the notion of using phones specifically to teach young filmmakers the hazards of not attending to the basics.

I really am interested to hear more stories about people actually using iPhones in professional production, and hey, maybe it really is limited to the handful of links above. But I also appreciate being in a community that still respects the Ancient Ways — framing, lenses, exposure, motivated movement, and all that jazz.

[Tim Wilson]

I dig the $9.99 plan, too. Nothing much to add to Graham’s post except to observe that it works like it should, and is easy to cancel and restart as I’ve done a number of times. You’ll find plenty of folks to offer alternatives to Photoshop, and at this point I’m pretty sure I’ve tried them all — and I keep coming back to the original. They’ve all got something to commend themselves (not least is the pay once thing, sure), but they also all lack something or other that I find that I’d rather not live without.

Which is also how I know that it’s easy to stop and start your CC subscription as you see fit. That’s exactly what I do. ? As Graham notes, you can’t use Photoshop for new work while you’re not paying, but the images stay where you put them (your computer, Dropbox, etc), and most of the PS alternatives will open your PSD files just fine.

Most of the time, I’m month-to-month, preferring flexibility to saving a bit with an annual subscription, but your mileage will vary. The main thing I want to emphasize here is that the $9.99 plan works.

[Tim Wilson]

Links aside, I’m curious what you folks THINK about what you read at those links.

And I’m especially curious if any of you have experience using an iPhone as a cinema camera, so to speak, in your own productions.

[Tim Wilson]

Hi Brian,

Not a dumb question at all! Our former search engine had this feature, and we will be bringing it back.

As is sometimes the way in software development, individual legacy features are sometimes left behind so that foundations for new architectures can be properly laid. We’re only a few months into the new platform, and we’re making good progress at buttoning up the loose ends of the transfer so that we can get on to building the new stuff. We were very proud of our old search engine (built years before Google existed), and have big plans for the new one.

I’m sorry I don’t have a date for you, but search filtering is on its way back, even more fully features than before.

Regards,

Tim Wilson, Editor-in-Chief

Creative COW

[Tim Wilson]

Whoa, Ronny! Congratulations to all! Very exciting indeed!

Regards,
Tim

[Tim Wilson]

“Chyron” is the original name of a company that makes broadcast graphics gear. Among the things produced with such gear is lower thirds, but a lot more besides. Crawls, maps, virtual sets, all that kind of thing.

Their name is now ChyronHego, and they’ve apparently let the chyron.com domain lapse, which is insane. But in fact, the name is in wide enough disuse as a corporate service mark that there may be no recovery. I was surprised that a quick Google search for “chyron” returned ONLY the generic name (the synonym for lower third).

Ironically, I suspect that the people who use “lower third” are old enough to remember a time before Chyron was one of the companies who helped put lower thirds on the air, or at least Chyron being one alternative among many… whereas the people who have no recollection of Chyron as a company are much more apt to use it instead of lower third!

That’s the one I know most about, partly because it’s ancient history ? so I’ll leave my reply at that. Hopefully some other folks more in tune with the current state of the art can help with the rest!

[Tim Wilson]

Hi Joey,

As often happens with major renovations in software, the first iteration of the new thing has to leave parts of the old things behind, or the new thing wouldn’t be able to happen at all.

Apple did this most famously with the first release of Final Cut Pro X (as it was then called), being very direct about the features that were absent for now, to return soon.

Less remembered because it was so long ago, but the first version of Premiere was Mac-only, yet for its first four years, Premiere Pro was Windows-only. Adobe said that there weren’t any Macs capable of delivering the kind of realtime performance that Premiere Pro’s new architecture demanded, but that they’d be back on Mac as soon as they could be — which is exactly what happened.

Ours isn’t quite as dramatic as either of those, of course. The forums have been the heart of Creative COW from the beginning, and indeed, in the very beginning, that’s pretty much all there was. Tutorials, news, jobs, services, reels, and the rest all came later.

Having said all that, a big reason for our move to a new architecture is specifically because of the ways we want to expand career development opportunities at the COW. A new jobs center will be at the beating heart of that, along with the closely related Services listings, which is a way for our members to make their companies available for jobs, so to speak.

There’s more, but I did want to underscore that we’re not just bringing the jobs section back. We’re expanding it, and deepening its integration into the rest of the COW.

I wish I could be more specific about the timetable. We’re wrestling with one of the nicest problems a web developer can have, that the expansion of our membership and traffic has accelerated vastly ahead of our wildest expectation, and we’re having to spend this month doing some major re-engineering to accommodate the increased load. This has necessitated a detour in our development process, but like I said, most web folks would rather have this kind of problem than most others. ?

Thanks for asking, Joey! We’re excited about what’s coming, and will get it to you as quickly as we can.

Regards,

Tim Wilson
Editor-in-Chief
Creative COW