Ken Burnston
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[Shane Ross] “Big rumor that Apple might even shut them down.”
I hope not. I can only imagine the onslaught of noise should many of them find their way here to the Cow.
Apple is once again, Penny Wise and Pound Foolish.
Ken
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I’d use 72dpi and a page setting of 8.5×11 or A4 if you are in that area of the world.
Anything bigger than that is going to have issues.
Ken
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[kosstheory] “I’ve been a faithful Vegas Video user for, I dunno, since it’s inception.”
That means you get religious about your tools, right?
[kosstheory] “After so many years of using such an intuitive interface it has become difficult for me to understand why anyone would willingly choose to edit with any other system.”
It’s because one-size-fits-all is usually a recipe for looking oddly dressed…
[kosstheory] “my exposure to the Avid Non-linear editing platforms employed by our production department was limited to the many instances in which Avid would crash and burn, or require other maintenance.”
Congratulations on your advancement. With your understanding, you shouldn’t be there long, so not to worry about having to deal with Avids for long…
If Avids were unreliable, they wouldn’t be used to edit nearly every major motion picture and the lion’s share of television series out there. Oh, and the ones that aren’t, are edited on FCP, not Vegas. So again, you should be removed as a square peg in a round hole fairly quickly — so don’t fret ‘bot dem Avids (you aren’t likely to be around them long).
[kosstheory] “Maybe that’s the problem? Perhaps, being the industry standard allows Avid to get away with the distribution of sub-par software and hardware packages?”
What a moron. How many national Emmys or Oscars has Vegas won??? Oh, none? Now that’s a track record that will instill confidence
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Like Franktatu, I also learn more quickly and easier from DVD video than I do from books. We are in a visual medium and seeing things happen as they are discussed, genuinely helps speed the right brain processes. The CMG books are superb, along with Angie Taylor’s which is also extremely well done, but if you have the money, the TT DVDs are insanely good and no book could possibly live up to them. Consider TT a book on steroids. The books are great for reference materials but the DVDs excel as teaching materials.
— Kenny
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Just a suggestion. I am sure the leaders are bored of answering it over and over.
The Cow has an incredible search engine. Try it.
Kenny B
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I tend to want to discount the opinion of a guy who says on one hand that he spends $20,000 in a year for his software but owns the Standard version and never saw the value in previous Production Bundle versions. Some upgrades in the past were quite cheap and offered big steps forward in functionality and power. Considering that you never saw the value in previous versions of After Effects, it makes me look elsewhere for a balanced and intelligent opinion of the value of this new version.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not happy about this pricing program and as a guy who owns both the Adobe tools and those from Macromedia, I feel that this is clearly the new from-Macromedia director of the Adobe dynamic media department.
But even saying that, your comments sound foolish coming from a guy who rants but hasn’t seen the value of even cheap upgrades and who then wants to diss After Effects as not being a professional tool. It really strikes me as sour grapes and another suspect rant.
Kenny B
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You’re welcome.
Just for the record, CinePak heralds back to the early 90s and was designed to allow the old 1x CD-ROM players to handle the postage-stamp sized video that was around at the time. Over the years, it has been updated some but it is still the core that traces its heredity back to the 1x and 2x CD-ROM players.
Ken Burnston
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I believe the technical term for this is “You’re hosed.” CinePak compression is an extremely “lossy” codec and is considered to be one of the most destructive codecs out there.
Sorry.
Ken Burnston