Ron Lindeboom
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We have NEVER removed ONE link to an Apple Knowledge Base document, Oliver. Ever.
Are you on psychedelics again???
Ron Lindeboom
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Oliver,
NOT ONE post has been removed, edited or modified in this forum in weeks.
What on Earth are you talking about???
Ron Lindeboom
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[Dave LaRonde] “Call me an idealist, but I don’t think you ought to have to pay to have a codec.”
Even if that codec does what *none* of the other Quicktime codecs can do? Things like (to quote David Battistella in his COW Magazine article) compress/decompress 50-times faster than other lossless codecs? 7-times faster than DV? 3-times faster than Apple PhotoJPEG or MotionJPEG? 2-times faster than uncompressed?
It’s not an intermediate codec. It allows users who don’t have the latest versions of FCP Studio 2 to work with files that they can’t when trying to use ProRes 422. ProRes only works with machines that have the latest FCS2 installed. If you have Adobe After Effect only on the machine, you are hosed in ProRes 422.
If you work in a cross-platform shop, you are mega-hosed in ProRes 422. Sheer Video codec works even in cross-platform shops.
I don’t mean to be disrespectful, Dave, but how many more times are you going to bag on a technology that is actually quite cool, does what Apple *isn’t* going to give you, and allows AE users the kinds of powers that were promised in ProRes 422 but are only there for those who are willing to have the latest FC Studio 2 on every machine where they need these kinds of powers.
That’s an expensive dongle! ;o)
I apologize if this seems harsh, Dave, but I am scratching my head wondering why you seem to hate these guys so much??? Again, my apologies if it seems I am slapping you. I am not. I am merely wondering why you take every shot you can at these guys.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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[Dave LaRonde] “By the way, did you know that the absence of Windows Media for Macs was a MUTAL decision between Microsoft and Apple? Ron Lindeboom wrote about it in a thread not too long ago.”
Hi Dave,
What I alluded to was that neither Microsoft nor Apple was willing to directly step on the toes nor to support the media efforts of the other. It’s not like there was a grand conspiracy to ruin the lives of the other guy’s users or anything. In fact, I once read somewhere on the net that Apple funded the development of the encoding technology that third parties did to bring WMP and WM encoding to the Mac.
In the end, they each open up to each other; they just use a “kissin’ cousin” of each to moderate.
I guess you could say that neither wishes to directly endorse the other guy’s technology due to the implications that would arise as they both compete for Hollywood distributors, the Web, etc.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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[beenyweenies] “…a good price on a tv ad buy doesn’t make it a good deal if the money is wasted. Unfortunately for a lot of businesses, TV has a strong appeal to the owner because they will get to see their name in lights. But once that “high” is gone (and your budget) the reality sets in – it was a waste of money because it was poorly targeted, poorly timed and it didn’t last long enough to set in with what few prospects might have seen it.”
A great observation and comment, Brendan. I know more than a few businesses that tried this thinking that it would make their company strong quickly. Unfortunately, it nearly always doesn’t work and when the money’s gone, the reality sets in.
It is far harder to assess a market, research the players and the needs, find a niche within it and put your focus and resources there. But in the end, if you have done it properly, it nearly always works — whereas the road that looks easier nearly always doesn’t.
Wasn’t there a sunday school lesson or some old fairy tale to that affect?
:o)
Glad you found your way over here, Brendan. Thanks for your input here in the Business forum.
Ron Lindeboom
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Alan,
When forums are turned off, the search engine does not search dead forums. One of these days when we have some time, we want to rewrite the search engine to search the dead forums. In the meantime, we leave forums like the now-defunct Pinnacle Commotion on, as it is the last place we know of online with a lot of content where users can find answers to legacy issues, etc. But Imagineer is not dead and there are answers to issues at the Imagineer site. We had very few posts in the Imagineer forum. To avoid confusion, we leave the forum off as we do not want people to find it and try to make posts to a dead forum.
Lastly, view our terms of service as to why commercial pronouncements to our forums disappear. It is covered in our policy statement found in our Code of Conduct at the bottom of every post, just below the posting buttons (and in our About Us section). We remove them as if we didn’t, every company with anything to sell would be posting our forums daily and there would be no end to the “specials” showing up with mind-numbing regularity.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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[craigcow7] “I’m not exaggerating”
I never said you were. ;o)
Ron Lindeboom
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Kathlyn and I ran into problems, as well…
We called to order two upgrades of the Adobe Master Collection and paid for them at the time of order. When the products began shipping, we watched as one person after another here at the COW began talking about their new software. We figured ours was in the mail and would get here soon. When it didn’t after a week or two, we called to see what was up and found out that somehow our order had been lost in the system.
The guy on the phone was very helpful and he got it sorted out and taken care of quickly but it really made me scratch my head and ask, “Huh, we got lost in the system?”
:o)
Ron Lindeboom
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We did once have an Imagineer mokey/monet forum but it failed to generate the traffic needed to meet the minimum standards that we have to keep a forum active. We may someday look at adding them again but as of today there is little need for such a forum in the COW.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom