Joseph M. morgan
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Don’t want to step on Brian’s toes, because he basically taught me everything I know with 4D, but I would create an illustrator file with the words cut out of a simple rectangle, import it, and then extrude it.
Then, if you want limited depth, you could drop a cube behind it.
Booleans, I’ve learned, can add considerable processing to a project, but if the overall project is small, Brian’s suggestion can be done all in 4D.
Joe
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Geesh…. I looked over every menu in Cinema 4D… and it’s right there!
Lessons learned… thanks!
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Beautiful… thanks!!!
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Final Follow Up. On Feburary 1, 2008, I received another NVIDIA driver update, and I no longer have any problems.
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OK… I want to make $1000 an hour. Wait… I can’t do that because Jim-Slim charges $900, but he’s going broke because Mary-Mee charges $800, etc. etc.
Charging the rate you want is not reasonable because it doesn’t consider competition. Wal-Mart became the largest retailer in the world by charging less than the competition.
Whereas I agree one should charge a rate for their time and skills and not compromise, the reality is a rate should be somewhat in the range of what others in the trade charge for a particular skill.
Like any other business plan, one must consider the market competition. If you have no competition you charge just about anything you like. However, if you want to charge at $45/hour, but your competition charges $35 an hour, you’re essentially out of business before you begin, unless your competition is really bad at customer service.
Interestingly enough, quality doesn’t always define a boundary. I see plenty of my competition making money on really bad work, even though we’ve made our customer base aware of our superior quality.
Search large job databases in your area to help determine the rate being requested… which is usually less than what is sold.
Joe
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As for web programming, you should not accept anything less than about $25/hr for that, but in Florida, you can charge around $45/hr, but only if you are fast. For e-Commerce, and complex enterprise apps, think $60/hr and up.
For any kind of freelance work, no one wants to nor should pay you to learn. Therefore, you have to try and assess how long it would take you if you have 5 years of experience. Base your rate, then, on that amount of time.
Joe
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I hope you are still monitoring this, but I have the same problem with a new Wind 64 machine and Encore 2.
Did the registry hack and re-install of adobe encore solve the problem?
Joe
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This post is for anyone following this thread for solutions.
Last night, I received an NVIDEA VGA Driver Update, and hoped it would fix the problem. When I started Cinema4D, I did a few things and, to my amazement, it worked! However, this morning, it did not.
I felt there must be something different between last night and this morning, so I began experimenting and figured it out.
After starting Cinema 4D, but before doing anything else, I simply zoom in and zoom out on a blank project, then I can do anything. I noticed a small video flash when I zoomed in, so the only thing I can suspect is that something is not completely loaded.
It is a solution beyond my ability to know exactly what is happening, but I will also post this solution to the NVidia forum, and maybe someone will look into it.
Joe
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I don’t know if anyone is monitoring this, but I have the same problem with AE 6.5 under Vista… but only some of the time.
I DO NOT have the problem with AE7 under Vista.
Not sure what the difference is, but I can’t see what Cinema 4D would have to do with it, as the files I’m trying to import into AE 6.5 are simple AVI files created with Premiere.
Joe
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There was another post on this same thing… was it you?
In any case, I came close with this:
I used very low specular and several lights, and touched it off with some glow.
Joe