Joseph W. bourke
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Taylor –
Since there’s no image here, I’m going to guess. All you should have to do, once you have the man cut out in Photoshop, and imported into After Effects, is to use the man layer as a matte layer, create a red solid, then use a wipe effect to wipe the layer from bottom to top, or vice versa. The man layer will work as a mask to reveal only the red which is within the man outline.
Joe Bourke
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If you own an Adobe Bundle which has SoundBooth, you can download hundreds of free sound effects from within the interface of Soundbooth. You can also get hundreds of free sound effects from findsounds.com. You probably won’t have to buy them.
Joe Bourke
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Nick –
Contact the Ebay seller to get your money back – good condition definitely doesn NOT mean the manual and auto focus do not work. Paypal or Ebay will stand behind your purchase and get your money back for you. Contact the seller first. If they do not respond, start the resolution process to get your money back. Repairing the lens will most likely cost well over a hundred dollars (usually just the bench fee is 100 bucks). Good luck!
Joe Bourke
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Hi Walter –
Although I haven’t thrown too much at it yet, I am extremely pleased with the ThinkPad W510. It has a lot under the hood, with an Intel Core i7 Q720 1.6GHz processor, 16GB of RAM, and an Nvidia Quadro FX 880M graphics card. OS is Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (Ultimate? come on!).
I’ve been spending most of my time learning it, installing the Adobe CS5 Master Collection and getting that setup to my needs, plus figuring out, since this is my first laptop, how best to get the video output to a larger monitor, and hook up my Wacom tablet and Bluetooth peripherals. This thing came with a dock which has dual Displayport and HDMI monitor outputs, dual USB 3.0 ports, eSata, and just so much heavy iron that I’m doing a lot of homework just figuring out how to best hook things up.
It has no problems with processing speed, I can tell you that, and has played back everything I’ve thrown at it – Quicktime, Flash, Windows Media, etc.. My desktop graphics/editing machine has less under the hood than this does, and I have had no problems with that system working in 1920 x 1080 on most of my projects, none of which go over about 5 or 6 minutes in runtime. I’ll keep you posted when I do the 5.5 upgrade, and see if anything changes. This box is proving to be a tank!
Joe Bourke
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As far as I know, it doesn’t exist yet. Plus, if it did, there are currently no serious drawing tools available for such a beast. I don’t know that Adobe is willing to develop software yet for a market which is currently in the 1 to 2 percent market penetration (even counting the Ipad).
Here’s a good rundown of what’s been done in the portable tablet world historically, and presently. It may give you an idea of where things are headed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_personal_computer
Joe Bourke
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If it has a max of 4GB of RAM, it certainly not a “high end” tablet, except maybe in price. I just purchased a ThinkPad W510 with 16GB of RAM and quad core processing, running Win 7 64-bit for 1000 dollars (lightly used – still under warranty). While it’s not a touchpad (and I really don’t think touchpads have enough accuracy for a graphic artist), there is a touchpad model available. I would still suggest using a Wacom tablet. Drawing with a mouse is like drawing with a potato – drawing with your finger is like drawing with a carrot – just not enough accuracy.
I think your friend needs to stay in the “workstation” realm of portable computers – HP, Dell, Lenovo, and a few others come to mind. Look at the number and speed of processors, then at the maximum amount of RAM, and you’ll start to narrow them down. Also look at the graphics card; mine came with a higher end (for a laptop) NVIDIA.
Joe Bourke
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Don’t forget that that’s what Corning does – sell glass. So of course they’re pushing the glass thing.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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I’ve been using Easy Time Tracking (free trial, under a hundred bucks to own). It allows me to generate reports on all phases of my work, log my time on the fly, easily, and do billing (which I don’t currently use). You can try it out for a while for free.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Not sure whether that rant even deserves a reply, but here goes: I’ve used Edit*, AVID, and PPro over the years. There are very few ways you can create editing software based on a timeline and keep it intuitive to use. The differences? Features, shortcut keys, pop-up modes, etc.. This is what makes the different packages, well…different.
In all my experience I haven’t found one to be appreciably different from the other, except for the above. Either I like the way I can work with it (Edit* – YES, AVID – NO, PPro – YES), and the way I have developed my workflow. Either you haven’t read the manuals, or you’re looking for some sort of magical, “where’s the plugin for that” software that does for you what you can’t do for yourself, with a little work. Good luck in the fast food industry.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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I think Spinner and Paddlefoot are under license to Disney now, and you can’t use that effect. Actually, I’ve used that feathered mask effect in the past (although I shouldn’t admit it), and if cheese is what you’re after, it accomplishes it perfectly! Thanks for reminding me of that, Dave. I’ll have to keep it on my list of “effects I shouldn’t use, but somehow can’t resist”.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com