David Johnson
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Tim,
No, you didn’t sound like a jerk (and I hope I didn’t) … you sounded bothered because you genuinely believed a useful resource was being taken away and for no good reason. My point was that you need not have that concern since it’s premature to conclude that something is being taken away, which makes whether it’s happening for good reason moot. Even so, it’s also my opinion that there are in fact good reasons for change.
I’ve watched the COW change and grow for a decade while other good forums died off because they didn’t adapt to the changing times. The media business has changed drastically in that time … it use to be almost exclusively seasoned pros since the costs and complexity of the tools were significant barriers to entry. Now, so-called “newbies” are a large portion of the industry. So, it makes sense for the COW to look for ways to serve that segment of the industry and still remain useful to the old(er) dogs, which is how I interpreted the preliminary description of the planned change.
[Tim Parsons] “every question at least **could** have access to an expert”
I really don’t see that changing and think you’re other questions are also answered in Ron’s statement that “The higher level users here will not see the newbie posts unless they elect to.” I think many will elect to since very many come here for the sole reason of helping out the “newbies” who will shape the future of the industry … because they understand that they’ll be affected too and want to do their part to make sure it’s done right. ;~)
In short, perhaps be patient and have faith … in other words, there’s good reason the COW is the longest standing and most widely used forum of its kind … they know what they’re doing.
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I don’t blame you if you’re only comfortable doing what the manual advises, but I’ve always used only the Finder to delete my render files and have never had any sort of issues as a result … just make sure you know what you’re deleting … for example, I tend to leave to the “constant frames” alone in most cases and you certainly don’t want to delete the entire folder since it has your auto-save backups too.
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Ron, Thanks for considering all opinions and developing a plan to keep the COW relevant/useful. Now, I must warn you to put down your coffee cup before reading on …
Since the solution “may not appeal to the ‘T-Ball Contingent” here at the COW”, perhaps my attorney can be of assistance with that matter? I think you already know him. ;~)
Tim, Since I’m the one who added the moderation issue to David Andrew’s simple comment thread (for which I apologize, David), I feel obligated to reply to your comments. Your sarcasm clearly shows that you took offense to the idea of moderating the forums, which I think is unfortunate because it implies that you consider yourself to be the type of poster I referred to.
The fact of the matter is that the COW (and any other forum worth its salt) already moderates. Perhaps the best example is the answer to your first question – “how are the “newbies” actually hindering the experts?” First, remember those are your words, not mine. It seems the answer is the same reason the most popular forums now have “Basics” forums and other related features … because it started to get to the point where any “expert” or “newbie” who posted a real question (not on page one of a manual or answered literally thousands of times in the same forum) had a very hard time getting a single reply because their posts were immediately buried beneath dozens of threads asking the same basic questions over an over. It seems if that were allowed to continue unchecked, the COW would not have survived and thrived the way it has since no one would bother wading through pages upon pages of posts useless to 90% of users.
As far as your second question – “isn’t the purpose of the COW to give everyone access to experts?”, I would say yes and no. ‘No’ in that the purpose actually seems to give everyone access to others who can answer their questions, not necessarily “experts” (again, a distinction you made, not I). If you were to consider the solution Ron described before attacking, you would see that is exactly what it aims to accomplish. Similarly, if you were to consider the issue I mentioned, you would see that “a pressing question about patching a Betacam deck through an I/O”, is not at all the kind of question/situation referred to. It seems very unlikely that the planned moderation would prevent a reasonable question like that from getting answered … regardless of whether you would consider the person who answered it a “newbie” or an “expert”.
It seems the bottom line is that, if anyone immediately assumes that the COW staff’s goal is to alienate anyone, rather than to keep the COW relevant and useful to all, perhaps he/she is just not familiar enough with the COWmmunity to make such a pre-judgment.
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I suppose you can call yourself anything you like … as many in any aspect of the media business do without regard for the meaning of the terms, but its commendable of you to consider how it’ll be interpreted.
Others may disagree, but in my experience “Film Maker” and “Cinematographer” refer to people who shoot film, rather than video … or, at least traditionally would use the film medium since the line has blurred as video technology has improved. In other words, those terms are generally reserved for those in the film/cinema industry (as in feature films … aka Hollywood). So, most wedding shooters more accurately call themselves “Videographer”.
I hope that helps.
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A Google search for “HD stock footage fire” … returns all the standards (Getty,Corbis, etc.), as well as some cheap alternatives … which is best for you depends on your needs … in other words, when it comes to stock, you typically get what you pay for.
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https://forums.adobe.com/thread/684381
When all else fails, read the manual … or, at least search the forums or the web.
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I’m glad you got it sorted.
If the same project file works fine after only trashing the prefs, the issue was probably a setting that you inadvertently changed since trashing the prefs wouldn’t fix a corrupt project file. Re-setting the preferences turns off things like Multi-processing and OpenGL, which might’ve been the culprit(s).
By the way, using the secret preferences incorrectly and/or when they’re not really needed does more harm than good … that’s why they’re secret.
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Thank you for clarifying, Heinz. I understand what you mean now and agree that both good-quality de-interlacing and interlaced encoding would make the units meet a wider a range of needs.
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[Steven Austin] If this is a RAM/playback issue why then would some of the files I export also have the same problem?
Do you mean you’re playing back the exports without using RAM? Could be a drive speed issue or I/O bottleneck too … same symptoms, but all have less to do with player issues outside the NLE … most any resources issues will cause HD exports to stutter in QuickTime Player. Since you’ve never experienced the issue before with full-rez work, perhaps focus on what you have changed about your machine since then.
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I’ve only shot a wedding once to help a friend, but did some mobile DJing while in college to fill in the gaps between club nights so I’ve been to very many weddings. So, perhaps I can offer a couple practical points to consider that you might find helpful …
I’m just trying to help so I don’t want to offend anyone, but you might consider that, to many people, still photos of a wedding are more important than a video. The photos are often displayed in a person’s home, office, relatives’ homes, etc. 24/7 and permanently. On the other hand, wedding videos are often only ever seen by the bride and groom and/or often only seen once or twice shortly after the wedding and/or many years later. Case in point, I can see my wedding pic from where I sit right now, but have never even seen my wedding video … although I may be forced to watch it in a few weeks since we’re coming up on our 15th. ;~)
Even so, the bottom line is what’s most important to the bride and groom … especially the bride (and her mother) since many men could really care less about the pomp and circumstance that both photos and videos somewhat represent. However, generally speaking, the fastest way to piss off any man is to upset his wife (that’s his job, not yours). So, when it’s clear to you that the people who matter most consider the video at least as important as the photos, perhaps enlist the help of the mother of the bride … generally the one person at any wedding who no one wants to cross (only partially because she also happens to be the one paying in may cases). At the same time, you don’t necessarily want to make enemies with photogs since they can help or hurt your business. So, if trying to reason with them first doesn’t work at all, perhaps mention to the m.o.b. that you’re having trouble doing the job you were hired for and it should help if she could subtly intervene.