[Tim Wilson]

[CreativG] “I trust the COW isn’t offended by this request….”

Fortunately, COWs have thick hides.

As you can see, construction is still underway, and we’ll be sure to add this to our to-do list. Thanks very much for the heads up.

Best,
Tim

[Tim Wilson]

Hey Ron,

The link to past issues of the magazine came in the email telling you you’re subscribed. For obvious reasons, we’d rather drive new subscriptions than post the download address here. 🙂

So if you can’t find it, drop me a note directly.

Thanks,
Tim

[Tim Wilson]

We had a two-person company that was incorporated, because it offered tax advantges over LLC in Florida. They also cost the same amount to establish.

That’s why you need to check with your tax adviser. 🙂

[Tim Wilson]

Stand by for changes. 🙂

[Tim Wilson]

If your browser is in a state where you don’t have to log in every time you come to The COW, you’re all set. The same cookie that remembers your identity is what remembers your view preference.

FWIW, my favorite view is Date view. I want to see the most recent posts, even if the thread itself isn’t new. It’s a way to track “hot” conversations and not just recent ones. The fact is that I’m in each view a couple of times every visit.

That’s why they call ’em preferences. 🙂

Best,
Tim

[Tim Wilson]

I actually just figured out the levels thing. It’s in the sequence’s advanced settings. The Panning option for Center, Constant Power (I like it) has a -3dB limiter (oops). Even though I have no idea what L/R Cut Logarithmic means, when I chose it, my -1dB limiter works.

And yes, I’m being increasingly delicate with the limiter. 🙂

[Tim Wilson]

[Tim Wilson] “2) Is there a way to move the cursor by dragging anywhere besides the bottom time counter bar? I’m also changing to the selector tool, but I’d still rather be able to just grab it.”

Okay, ignore that one. Reading it again, it doesn’t sound like what I meant to ask, and besides, I figured it out. 🙂

While I’m here, I’ll ask one more. I ran a hard limiter filter in Edit view to set peaks at -1. But when I get to Multitrack view, the clips all peak at -3. Any way to avoid adjusting them all when I get back to Multitrack view….or should I be doing all my filtering there?

thx,
tw

[Tim Wilson]

Okay, I have to giggle with glee just like the schoolgirl that I am: we’re up to number TWO in the Management and Marketing forum — just behind the Harvard Business School, and ahead of Wharton, Business Week, and The Wall Street Journal.

In the general Business category, we’re up to number 14 — ahead of business podcasts from Time, Wired, CNN, Kiplinger’s and Fidelity.

Thanks so much for helping us get off to such a great start!

And be sure to swing by the podcast forum to make any suggestions for future topics….

[Tim Wilson]

[Ruby Gold] “am I correct in my assumption that stuff shot in public domain space can be used legally any way you want–correct?”

Alas, the answer is “almost certainly not.” Just a handful of examples:

–Many buildings are trademarked: Empire State Building in NY, the Trimerica building in San Francisco among many others. I’m aware of many dozens of them, and I’m sure there are many, many more than that. You’re not allowed to use images of them in any commercial work — no ads, no stock photo/video collections, etc.

–Many of the pictures you might think are in the public domain (say, a photo of Michaelangelo’s David that you saw in a junior high textbook in 1968) are simply not (dimes to donuts it’s one of the ones that Getty owns).

–The public domain also shifts. “It’s a Wonderful Life” is one of the best examples of a film that fell into the public domain….very, very briefly. Somebody owns it again. “The public domain” isn’t a safe or sound principle.

There are differences between stepping on a copyright (oops, I tripped) and stepping on a trademark (oops, I’ve fallen into the bowels of hell and there’s a demon drinking blood from my skull)…but the short version is that there’s really not much at all that you’re free to use any way you want.

That’s why it’s always best to buy images with very, very clear licenses. This isn’t to annoy you, but to protect you.

As others have pointed out, doing the right thing — the safe thing — doesn’t have to be expensive.

[Tim Wilson]

To add to John’s wisdom. you’ll see in the May issue of the COW magazine (yes, already working on May) an article from Barbara and Tom Burstyn on their trip to shoot a documentary in India. They travelled with pretty much exactly your set-up, Greg, and had no problems — one of the huge advantages of today’s smaller cameras…