[Ron Lindeboom]

Hello Nick,

No, we have no plans to add the forums to our RSS feed support and will not be doing that, at least in the foreseeable future. That may change someday but as of today, I would highly doubt that.

Sorry.

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Mike,

Unfortunately, those outside of California have never seen the “Disney Highway of the Future.” The pilot program was done here and then Walt lost interest and focused on building Disney World out of the swamps near Orlando. He ran out of money before he could build a Floridian system like that which we have had here in California since the early 1960s. The electro-magnetic hover cars — we call them buzzers due to the sound they make — have been commonplace here for decades now. The Thermo-Matic

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The best keyer that I have seen that works with HDV footage is the Boris FX keyer plug-in. Whenever I have to deal with this kind of footage, I go for Boris.

But as Aaron Zander points out, it only works with well lit green screen shots.

Lastly, don’t kid yourself that you are going to use this kind of key for a movie blown up on a big screen (or for other mission-critical work), it won’t work. But for many other uses it will be acceptable to a large part of the audience — even if it does have telltale artifacts that scream out to the eye of a discerning pro. (Which is what Brendan is alluding to.)

So, I think that both Brendan and Aaron are right. ;o)

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[Todd O’Neill] “Especially now, with the great emphasis on technology, we need someone out there grounding us in the day-to-dayness of the production business.”

Hi Todd,

Glad to see that you have found your way into the COW’s Business & Marketing forum. I have always felt that this forum is the COW’s “crown jewel.” This, as its focus is exactly what you point to in the quote above. What makes the COW unique is that we have always felt that technology is great but if you can’t make it in business, what does it matter?

Yes, the trade magazines seem to fail to recognize the importance of business in their pages. Over the years, I have received the 2nd-most mail for my article here at the COW entitled “Clients or Grinders: How Understanding the Three Main Personality Types Affects Your Business.” When I submitted it years ago to DV, they turned it down. It has since become one of the most popular articles we’ve ever published here at the COW.

In fact, the reason that we started Creative COW Magazine was because the trade magazines were doing such a poor job in covering this industry as a business. It is our main focus in CCM and it’s one of the main reasons that the magazine’s popularity has skyrocketed over the last year or more.

We also tend to treat business as a key part of our website and have some great articles online here at the COW. While things are quiet over the next few days due to the holidays, we will be adding some more business-related articles to the library.

I hope that Dick gets his job back, this industry needs more columns like his.

Our attitude here at the COW is that “Technology is simply not enough.”

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[kelly van der lundberg] “it has come to my attention that ‘the cow’ requires us all to use our full names on our posting. i have turned this option down as i do not wish to be send my full name over the internet airwaves. and what do they do? put it up there anyway, thankfully spelled wrong. the cow is doing this to keep a tight grip on what is being posted. and even though i didn’t grant permission to the moderators to use my full name, they went ahead and did it. i’m sure i’ll be erased quickly. they’ll claim that since i don’t use my full name i can’t be held accountable for what i say. i have always had a link to my home page with my info under my personal profiles. so if someone really wanted to find me, they could. the fact of the matter is i don’t want clients both current and potential to find me here on ‘the cow’ when the google my name. goodbye. had fun posting while it lasted.”

I spelled it QUITE incorrect on purpose, Kelly. So incorrect, in fact, that it simply was NOT your name. I did not have your permission but you were purposely trying to circumvent our policies and instead of updating your name, you were using the updates to clearly mock the spirit of what we are trying to do. It’s one thing to make up some phony name or something but it’s quite another to make sure that the name you are choosing is clearly designed to publicly denigrate what we are trying to do here — that’s why I changed it. This is a business not a town square and free speech at all costs is not what this site is about.

I did it because we are getting rid of the screennames. Those who are unwilling to have their names on record and be responsible for what they are saying, can use one of the internet’s many areas where they do not limit themselves to ideas like personal responsibility or community.

In two weeks of doing this now, your’s is the third complaint we have had. Even if each of you represent 10,000 who feel this way, that is still a tiny percentage of the COW’s audience, most of whom are quite willing and amenable to be responsible for their words.

And if you are so afraid of your name being on the Net — which seems a little paranoid to me — then why link to your site where it is available? If it is your clients that you are concerned about, I have to smile as many here actually GAIN clients through the COW, not lose them. Tim Wilson got his job at both Boris and Avid because of us and Walter Biscardi can tell you that he got his gig with the Food Network’s “Good Eats” show through the COW. Aharon Rabinowitz gets many clients and the list goes on and on…

We have multiple Emmy and Oscar winners, directors and producers of major films, TV shows and commercials, (some of whom have graced the pages of Creative COW Magazine), who aren’t afraid to use their names and do so — even asking questions as themselves. Your customers are tough, eh? Try theirs…

Lastly, The COW has never been about free speech, it is about community. If you are so dead set on free speech at all costs, then I would recommend one of the many “anything goes” sites on the Net. The Cow is not and never was that type of site — never will be, either.

We have ALWAYS censored our forums, all the way back to Day One. We have said so publicly so many times that I lost count years ago. I personally believe that it is WHY we have grown so big. All of the uncensored “communities” have failed over the years due to noise. Even Avid-L, the bastion of free speech, failed under a mountain of noise and when the members resurrected their own new group as AVID-L2 on Yahoo Groups, guess what? They moderated it. ;o)

I could go community by community and give you one after another that moderate, there is no unobstructed free speech that I can think of in this industry — unless it’s a tiny list or a site that nobody is going to. There is a reason that the COW has grown as it has. There is also a reason that almost all of our members are easily and happily changing over to their real names.

All we are trying to do is get rid of a lot of noise that has crept in over the years. Most of the old pros want it gone and so do we.

I am sorry that you don’t get it, Kelly. But you are free to your opinion, just as we are entitled to our own.

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As with others here, I feel that your website needs focus. It is too disjointed and there is too much happening for your message to be clearly understood by potential audiences.

First off, again echoing what others have said, break it into two totally separate sites. One is for your event work, the other is for commercial and more corporate work.

There is also a third company hiding in there from what I can see and that is worship and ministry related video. While many churches are quite poor, there are many others who are not and have budgets. If you and the team you work with have that as one of the areas that you like to work in, make that the focus of another site. Do not make it part of your event or corporate sites. Specialize.

As to compressing video for the web, the Sorensen Squeeze product makes the best video I have seen and in sizes that work well even for those who are bandwidth-challenged.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, eh? Say hi to the Innocence Mission for me the next time you bump into them at the coffee shop.

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[murforama] “I believe that AVID will be at NAB but not on the show floor. So AVID will have a presence just not in a formal fashion.”

I missed this post, Paul Murphy, so I am sorry to have not responded sooner.

In the article it states that Avid will be there. Did you miss that??? Or did you simply not read it?

Either way, yes, Avid will be at NAB but not on the show floor. They will have hospitality suites.

But from all the calls I have received from different manufacturers, etc., over the last 30 days or so since writing the article, there are others who won’t be coming this year and others who will be weighing their return-on-investment more careful this next time.

Times are indeed changing — whether you like it or not.

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Err, umm, excuse me…

I *do* production work and never stopped doing it, even when the COW started getting to be huge. My consulting practice is Ron Lindeboom & Associates, but as you might expect, we do all our production work under the name of Creative COW. (It’s why we hired a lawyer.)

Just to clarify a point.

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I have done business with discmakers.com (as well as CRT in North Carolina) and they have always been incredible strict about rights clearances. I have always bitched that they are so strict that I can’t even have my account set up to where I can have an assistant work with my account even if I pay for it. As the responsible party, I have to hold the bag all the way through the process, so that there is no one else to shuffle blame to should a clearance issue ever arise. (Not that I’d ever do that but you get the point.)

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[Raymond Motion Pictures] “Here’s the problem – no replicating house will replicate unless the music copyrights are paid for and clear. The client needs to be aware of that.”

If there was copyrighted music being used, it wasn’t stated in the original question nor in David’s reply — which is what I was addressing.

You are absolutely right that if copyrighted music does come into play, a replicator will not touch it with a 10 foot pole.

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