Michael Sigmon
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Ty-
Yes, it’s 2019, I’ve heard of Google.
As I made sure to mention early on in my post, I did in fact search the web – extensively. The manual itself is easily found in multiple locations. What I am looking for is the channel groups. This is a much more detailed table than what is shown on page 51 of the manual. A couple days ago I found an example of what this table would look like, but it was not for the specific channel groups this xmtr/rcvr use. I can’t find the link now and I have to leave, when I find it I will post the link here so that you and others trying to help out can see what I am talking about.
The way these mics work is first you select a specific channel group, then another group within that group, then within that subgroup you select certain frequencies. I could, if necessary, go through each channel group and write down the frequencies available within each group and subgroup. But that would be a lot of time to spend on some gear that I don’t anticipate using very often.
I’m hoping there exists somewhere this table which Sony ‘s manual seems to indicate is on a CD-ROM that came with the mics (no, I don’t have it, these are hand-me-downs). I’ve also checked Sony’s site but sometimes it’s like searching for a needle in a poorly-organized haystack there, to find what you’re looking for.
EDIT: I *think* I have found what I am looking for… will test later on to see if the groups listed correspond to the frequency groups available on my units.
https://www.av-iq.com/avcat/images/documents/other/sony%20dwr%20frequency%20list.pdf
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Sean-
read the OC again. “Set Color” is greyed out. This is apparently what happens when you have a layer emitter, so you’ll need to go to that layer and make any color alterations there, I guess. That sucks.
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Taking Ebberts’ noise() article one step further, turn his expression into a function, place in an external text file, then have each of the elements in your undulating grid comp call that function which returns the [x,y,z] coords for each element. Now you can mess around with the values without having to delete all but one of the layers, change the variable(s), then duplicate 99 or however many times to see how it works.
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It’s now late March 2012. Ronald, is there some way to contact you to ask about your Hackintosh? Unfortunately, no way to send a private message to another user here. C’mon Creative Cow, it’s 2012. Update your forums.
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OK I just figured out (I think) the answer to my problem.
In order to make a sphere rotate in place… you don’t do “Pose Action:Spin Y” (for example) on the transition, with two poses bookending it.
What you do for a smooth, non-bounce-back rotation is take a single pose and then do “Pose Action:Spin Y”. Which seems rather… counter-intuitive.
Anyway, that’s how it works correctly.
Figured that out reading the thread, “other ProAnimator questions….”
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Sorry Edward Wu… neither worked for me. This is frustrating as heck. Just to test it, I’m starting with the Universal sample project file. I want the sphere to rotate as we pass over it. No matter what I do… about 2/3 of the way through the transition, it begins spinning in another direction. I even tried adding a new sphere and starting from scratch with poses and transition. Same result. Does not look professional, to say the least.
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I’ll also add that being too eager to say ‘yes’ is a fatal trap which will bite you in the arse over and over and make you very bitter and angry over time.
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It’s been two months on; I’m curious how this all turned out for you.
1) I would suggest reading the highly valuable ‘Grinders’ article – the one about 15%-70%-15%. Your client was definitely in the lowest 15% segment.
2) I think a fundamental problem is you’re letting this grinder… er, client dictate the terms. They don’t know what is involved with the work you’re being asked to do for them. You do. Clearly she’s coming to you because she thinks she can grind you down to whatever crumbs she decides to throw your way. That’s a recipe for disaster, in both directions. You’re going to end up hating her. She’s not going to appreciate how much work you’ve put into it.
The trick is to be more assertive. This doesn’t mean being angry or one-sided. It means coming from a position of strength. She is coming to YOU because of your expertise and ability to get the job done. YOU know what is possible and what is not. If the budget is unrealistic, don’t be shy about explaining why. Offer an alternative which either scales back the work to the budget available, or else ask for a more reasonable budget. Don’t agree to whatever deadline she dictates; that’s a recipe for failure and disappointment as well. I let a client do that once; I labored night and day to make her (and the literally 36 other people who had their grimy little thumbs all over the revision process) happy. I made mistakes. It was inevitable; that did not stop her from throwing fits when the revised video was delivered late and with some minor mistakes. It was partly my fault for not telling her straight up from the outset, ‘what you are asking of me is not possible given the time constraints and how many changes you want.’
Even if this project is long past you… these are lessons which will serve you well in whatever endeavors you do in the future, video productions or otherwise. Be more assertive – people respect that. If they don’t, if they expect you to be a limp doormat and acquiesce to whatever unreasonable demands they put upon you… they’re not people you want to work with anyways.
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For those of you (especially younger people in the business) who aren’t aware of this… political campaigns generally (almost always) close up shop the day after the election or, at the latest, the end of that week.
The election campaign is a separate organization from the candidate’s office (if he or she is an incumbent).
Get paid COD. PERIOD. I don’t care if you think the candidate is the second coming of Washington, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and FDR all wrapped up together; if you’re not paid COD, you might as well be donating your services.
Most of you are probably aware of this, so pardon me if I’m telling you the obvious. I’m certain that some folks don’t know this, though. It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of participating in promoting a candidate or issue you really believe in, and forgetting about the business aspect of it.
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I think this is a valuable perspective. When an ongoing client suddenly becomes slow to pay, take the time to find out the real story.
Sometimes balls do get dropped. I’ve had this happen more than once, and all it took was a courteous phone call or two to get it straightened out and get paid. One time very recently, the client paid EARLY but I never received their check for whatever reason. Mail really does get lost by the post office, every so often. This was a client who had been slow-paying on four previous occasions, so it would have been easy for me to assume, ‘there they go again, the SOBs’ and go off on them. But, I didn’t. One polite phone call later and they FedEx’d my check for next day delivery, which was totally unnecessary (a slower service would have been perfectly acceptable). Clearly, having a level head about it paid off.
Sometimes clients are having cash flow issues but are reluctant or ashamed to talk about it… so they lie to you or tell lower-level flunkies to give you a story. Making the client comfortable with leveling with you as to why they are slow to pay, can reveal quite a bit and possibly offer a path to resolution.
And… sometimes they are just trying to float their business on your back. Maybe they are going downhill. Maybe the boss’ son took over and he has no clue how to run the show except into the ground. I’ve seen over and over that exact situation, where a family member (usually the son) takes over a business and has no vision other than cutting costs and grinding vendors.
But… at least take the time to find out. That’s just good business sense.