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Mark Carrara
February 13, 2009 at 3:21 pm in reply to: Scripting – Is it for me?

I have read a lot about Excalibur, it seems to do just about everything. I think I may take a closer look. I did not know Vasst had tools, I have purchased a DVD training tape from them and I have been happy with the purchase. So I guess it is why reinvent the wheel? I think a better investment of my time would be learning the little tips and tricks with Vegas. I know that my time learning Photoshop has really paid off.

Mark

Mark Carrara
Technology Coordinator
School District of Gilman
Gilman, WI
Mark Carrara
November 13, 2006 at 6:06 pm in reply to: Could not save “filename.psd” because of program error – help

Interesting. We are having a similar issue with Elements. Our district’s yearbook staff uses Elements and can save to a local drive, but not the network drive unless I gave them full control permission. When they had modify only they could save to the local drive then drag to the network drive. I wonder if there is a bug in the save routine?

Mark
Mark Carrara
October 23, 2006 at 5:07 pm in reply to: Separating Photos from scanned image – V7

If by the v7 in your post you mean you have version 7 of Photoshop then you do not have that command. I know it is in CS2 and I do not know about CS.

Mark
Mark Carrara
October 13, 2006 at 4:46 pm in reply to: Vector Graphic creation

Maybe I missed something in the question, but by defination ALL Illustrator images are vector graphics. That’s what Illustrator is, a vector graphics program.
Mark Carrara
September 12, 2006 at 7:40 pm in reply to: Vegas 7 and Architect 4 Demos are live, as well as purchasing

The cut off date is 30 days before the announcement or 8/12. I’m not sure the date we actually ordered so I am having the bookkeeper check. I understand they can’t sell it until its released, but I would have thought a little heads up was warranted.
Mark Carrara
September 12, 2006 at 5:00 pm in reply to: Vegas 7 and Architect 4 Demos are live, as well as purchasing

What really makes me mad is that I just purchased Vegas 6 in early August. This was after spending over an hour with the Sony reps at a trade show in July. If I had know that a new version was coming that soon I’m sure I would have waited. I have not even installed the copies I purchased. I think they should have warned me that a new version was due soon.

Mark
Mark Carrara
May 27, 2005 at 5:03 pm in reply to: Frontpage & Dreamweaver Which One ?

I may be wrong but I think Front Page will only work with MS technoligies like VBscripting and SQL server and not php and MySQL. I also think it uses MS front page extensions which may not work with all web servers. Lastly FrontPage is geared towards beginning users, while Dreamweaver can be more advanced.

Mark
Mark Carrara
April 21, 2005 at 5:14 pm in reply to: Housing lots of video files and info on a server

Server space is probably NOT an issue. Hard drives are cheap. You are talking about a few hours of video. Say 1000 three minute videos equals fifty hours. You could get that on 500 gb as an AVI file. While that seems like a lot of space I just purchased 640 gb NAS for under $3k. And you will be using compressed videos for the Internet, I don’t know how compressd they are but you will not need a huge hard drive. Bandwidth IS an issue. I’m sure there are hosting companies that would love to sell you all the bandwidth you can afford. I know there are less expensive hosting companies, but I am using Interland. No reason other than laziness, I don’t feel like changing. Atomic Learning is a site that comes to mind doing something similar. Check them out and see how they work. I think they used PDF documents and Flash videos.
Mark Carrara
April 7, 2005 at 5:03 pm in reply to: Printers

I gave up on ink jets a few years back. For photos in A4 size I use an Olympus p400 dye sublimation printer. For anything bigger I send it out to mpix.com