Tim Wilson
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Editing posts is a built-in feature, but it has limits.
When you make a post, you’ll see a link in the lower left of your post, just under the “Rate this post” area.
Here are the limits: you only have 30 minutes OR until somebody replies.
The reason why is that editing a post can cause problems with the replies underneath it, and we get too many posts (1000-ish per day) to track all of the changes ourselves.
[Deleting almost always causes problems, so that’s a feature we reserve for ourselves as admins.]
If there’s something that really really needs editing [or deleting], just drop us a line, and we’ll figure it out.
Thanks,
Tim[BTW, I added everything in brackets to this post as edits. 🙂 ]
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Here’s another idea Russell – load up the Cow’s news RSS feed. We’ve got another for tutorials, too.
We’ve even got AE and FCP-specific RSS feeds.
Or you can do what I recommend, which is to check the Cow every 15 minutes or so. Once an hour on weekends will probably do the trick.
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I’m going to step in here and ask to close this thread. The original question was asked and answered — especially thoroughly thanks to our good friends at both Sony and Panasonic.
Two more quick notes. My observation working at Avid was that, whatever real or perceived competition between product lines, there was nothing but the highest regard and cooperation between Apple and Avid at the technology level. MASSIVELY productive and downright satisfying.
The other is that DVCPRO HD is doing great here at the Cow. Our Panasonic forums remain among our very busiest, with among the very highest signal-to-noise ratio in the Cow. I don’t remember when the P2 forum was out of our top 10, out of 150. Often in the top 5.
Indeed, the P2 remains a fast-growing forum — interest and adoption are growing fast.
BTW, all of this applies to HDV too.
Okay, one more observation. If you head to the broadcast video forum, you’ll see plenty of 3/4″ decks floating around. Once more than two people have paid money for the gear, I’m not convinced there’s any such thing as a dead format. 🙂
Again, thanks to our friends at Panasonic and Sony for their peeks behind the curtain.
Back to our regularly scheduled discussion of Sony Vegas.
Yr pal,
Tim
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Stefano, your work is beautiful! Thank you so much for the links!
I just want to note for US viewers watching from the office that some of the links are what we call “Not Safe for Work.” Nothing too explicit, just a bit mature.
Stefano, I thought the work you did for your own home page was the best (of course). I watched all 20 minutes! Of course, I enjoy DJing and could take the time — you might also consider a shorter version as an introduction, and invite people to watch the whole thing if they have time.
I also loved the introduction you made foe Diesel Graphics! Beautiful, creative and very humorous.
Other people here will know more about 3D in Vegas than me, but I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your work.
Tim
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[Tim Kolb] “But have you ever assessed how many types of work are out there and how many different workflows and subsets of skills?”
My company brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars in production from my knowledge of biology and geology. Yes, over a couple of years, and I took home only part of it….but I’m not exaggerating. Somewhere north of $600,000 in less than three years.
I lost that major gig for a while to a high-school grad with major chops (he really was good, in some ways better than me) who was willing to work for peanuts….and the client came back, actually using the word “grovel,” and paid me three times as much as they paid me before….because of my knowledge of biology and geology.
Am I glad I got a broad liberal arts education? You bet. I have an acre of similar stories with smaller price tags, but the bottom line is that everything I learned in school — art, science, math, etc.) has gone straight to my bottom line.
Yes, you can rise to the top of your field by skipping school. People do it every day. I’m saying you can get more jobs, and more interesting jobs, with a broader set of skills and experience.
Along with better internships and better connections.
But to underscore the point of breadth, I’m not sure I’d go the media education route. There’s a reason why things like history and language are part of the curriculum at film schools like USC and NYU. The best filmmakers draw from a deep well.
I wrote an article for the Cow Magazine on building a successful motion graphics business, and the recurring theme was that almost nobody trained in video, graphics, etc. They trained in theater, art (old school, like painting), religion, literature.
They also consistently found, like me, that the skills that benefited them most were those “useless” things they learned in school.
Again, there are plenty of ways to do everything. No matter how many anecdotes you get, they’re not likely to change your mind as much as give you confidence in the choice you’re going to make anyway. That’s a good thing.
My anecdote is that the more you learn the better, ESPECIALLY the stuff that doesn’t have direct bearing on TV and film.
The whole point of the democratization of video is that the tools are both affordable and easy to use. There’s simply not much video expertise you’ll gain that somebody else can’t gain just as easily. The experience of many, many professionals is that “book larnin'” has contributed to setting them apart.
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I dropped David a note offline. We’ll figure it out. 🙂
And yes, an amazing disk. You should all have it. Shane really knows what he’s doing, and after you watch it, you will too. No kidding.
Best,
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Hello Mark,
I’m so sorry to hear about your load times! I agree, the kinds of times you’re seeing are outrageous.
They’re far from typical, too. Our traffic is up dramatically since the change, and I think you can imagine that there’s no way this could be true if many folks were seeing times like yours.
Just to be sure my experience of speedy load times is also not too far from typical, I checked it out. Amazon.com has a web tracking service called Alexa.
While they rate us as “slow” today, their count shows our pages loading in 2.7 seconds! Not as fast usual, but nothing at all like what you see.
I say “as usual” because most days, we load in about half that time.
Most of the variation comes from new ads. When we see something taking too long to be served, we both inform the sponsor and do what we can to reroute the bandwidth at our end. As I said, we typically stay comfortably under 2 seconds.
One suggestion is to try turning off your Java. We’ve found that this sometimes helps.
Since it’s happening both at home and at work, I don’t have much else to suggest other than checking back again later.
Please let us know how it goes!
Best,
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It’s Barry Manilow’s world. We’re lucky he lets us live in it.
Note the absence of a smiley face, maybe my only post without one. I’m not kidding about this.
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[walter biscardi] “But I sent her away. Oh.”
Dude, she gave without taking! You need her.
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[seminewbie] “the reason you see so much of “It’s a Wonderful Life” at Christmas time is that the rights of the original holder were allowed to lapse so there is no fee.
Whether that means that it is public domain is another question.”
It’s not anymore, although it was for a while, starting in 1974.
If I wasn’t so lazy, I’d look all this up, but here’s what I remember….
There’s some argument over how it happened — a clerical error, the studio stopped caring (the movie was a flop), whatever.
When Republic bought the RKO library, they tried to win the rights back. The winning argument is that the film is a derivative work — based on a short story distributed by a struggling screenwriter as a Christmas card — and Republic DID own the rights to THAT, and, as such, had a say in what people could do with that derivative work.
So in the mid-90s, Republic licensed exclusive broadcast rights to NBC. Under the terms of THEIR license, they can license it to a local station to air ONCE, but it’s theirs to license.
Along the way, Republic got sold to Aaron Spelling, who got bought out by Viacom…who owns CBS. 🙂 I think that’s the progression. Anyway, Viacom also owns Comedy Central, and stopped them from using it a while back, asserting their rights in a way that more or less locked down the ownership argument.
At least enough so that a remastered 60th anniversary edition got released, which closed the door on the argument altogether.
Feel free to correct me on the details, but that’s how I remember it….
As a PS, I know this has NOTHING to do with the original questions, but I keep thinking about Mark Twain’s argument to Congress. He said if I build a house, I never need to reassert my right to it. My heirs don’t have to move out in 75 years or whatever. It’s our house until we sell it. Period. Why should anything else I “build” be any different?
Kinda have to agree. I’m not sure I can think of a reason why anything should be in the public domain unless the owner puts it there….
…which again, isn’t the point of the original question, but it’s what I think about whenever this comes up…..