Joseph W. bourke
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You hit the nail on the head, Gary. Anytime Apple declares anything in no uncertain terms, I’m suspicious.
Joe Bourke
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Mads –
Graham said right at the start of his post: “I shot a video for the city I live in to highlight our local farm market.”
Now generally a city doesn’t post anything on its’ website (or whatever the distribution) that’s not “promotional” and “commercial”. One can construe simply from that first statement that’s it’s being used to bring more people to the farm market – therefore it’s commercial – there’s money to be made. Doesn’t matter whether the city or the farmers make the money – that’s a commercial usage.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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If you have the time (yeah…right…ice melts doesn’t it?) you might want to check out where you’re seeing blue spill, if any. The most likely culprits will be on the edges of the sculpture where the ice is more transparent or translucent. This could create a nightmare with pulling a good key. As Ted said, distance is your friend, but look for rogue blue spots in the ice – ice has pretty random reflectance where it’s transparent, because, unless it was frozen with no bubbles, and is perfectly clear, it will have some funky internal reflecting planes.
If you do have the time, besides following Ted’s good advice, see if you can put any bounce cards or reflectors around the sides of the sculpture to blow out any blue leakage, or to create reflections which are stronger than the blue spill. It’s going to be tricky, but it can be done. To control the front reflections, short of blue spillage, you might also want to place some small black reflectors and white reflectors to control the overall sheen of the surface. This works best on totally shiny metallic items such as trophies and jewelry, but it could also come into play for the shinier parts of the ice, which has almost the same index of refraction as glass.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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I think it’s a pretty clear infringement. If you take a look at the Fair Usage Doctrine, they lay out the uses it applies to. Since this video is to promote business for the farmer’s market it is a “commercial” video. As Noah said, it doesn’t help that they’re playing Beatles tunes as well; this is a pretty high profile target. Maybe if they were playing tunes by Jonathan Richman, no one would have noticed.
https://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
Joe Bourke
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I think that about the only thing you can do to improve this is to remove any noise that is present by using the “noise floor”. Part of the reason a shortwave signal sounds the way it does is that there is just enough quality there to fit within a small bandwidth, and still be understandable – the rest is missing. While you could try bringing the midrange down a bit, then kicking up the bottom end of the spectrum, what’s not there can’t be brought back. It’s really an issue of the microphone quality (or lack thereof) and the minimal bandwidth.
Joe Bourke
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Yeah…Just like Rope – if you shoot it right, you don’t even need the button.
Joe Bourke
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Has anyone tried the Alfred Hitchcock button yet?
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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No, that shouldn’t be the case at all. If the alphanumeric characters show up in Character Map, then they should all correspond to the keyboard characters. I would guess that there’s one particular font in the collection that’s causing the problem.
Are there any particular fonts that are showing up strange in Photoshop? I’m just wondering if there could be either a corrupt one, or one with an odd name (maybe with numbers in it?) that might be throwing things off? I remember having a similar problem a few years ago, and it turned out that there was one culprit typeface causing the problem.
Do you have the time to delete all the fonts you’ve installed, then add just a few from the collection, and see if you have the same problem? There are so many in your collection, that it would be madness to do it one by one (the install, that is), but maybe you can narrow this down.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Hi Richard –
By ImageFonts, I’m assuming that these fonts are dingbats and icon sets (images rather than letters). If this is the case, many of these types of fonts do not have the full font set, which would account for your seeing boxes instead of the icon or picture.
You don’t say whether you’re on Mac or PC, and I’m on a PC, so here’s what I’d do. There’s a Windows accessory called Character Map, which when run will show you just which typefaces have images (or text for that matter), and what character key they are assigned to. In many dingbat faces, there may also be (in addition to not having the full type set) different mapping schemes, which might require you to type, say, ALT-045 instead of Capital A, for example
Just go into Programs/Accessories, and Character Map should be in there. If not go into one of the sub-folders to find it. Where it’s located could depend on which version of Windows you have. If you have a Mac, I think there’s a utility called Font Book which does essentially the same thing. If the fonts are correctly installed, they should show up in any application, not just PS, so I’m rather puzzled at your problem. Did you install through Fonts in the Control Panel?
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Anything Apple says, especially predictions, are predicated on a marketing strategy. They are either going to orphan something (SuperDrive maybe?), or are poised with a new technology that will orphan everything they’ve done before, and require everyone to buy their new technology, plus render every piece of media used prior to that, unusable.
There is probably some external peripheral coming down the road which will make Apple more billions (not that there’s anything wrong with making billions – it’s the orphaning which bothers me).
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com