Ron Lindeboom
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Since we get over 400,000 users a month, creating 1,000+ posts a day and reading 11 million posts a month, I think not many people agree with your opinion. ;o)
The answer is: There is no need for a log-in in this system. When you create an account, you simply need to remember your username and email address. Enter them when you want to post and for that split-second that you hit the post button, you are “logged in” for just the split-second it takes to make that post.
This allows us to have many, many times the numbers of people our server-farm could support if we were having people log-in to our system.
Also, many systems that require a log-in, are tracking what their users do. We track nothing. ;o)
We haven’t given the forum the ability to edit posts because we learned many years ago (we’ve been doing this almost 12 years now) that there’s always an idiot who wants to cause trouble and then after a few people correct them, the originator will delete their original remarks making the thread look as moronic as the one who started the problem.
We have been coding new additions to the COW and have it on the drawing board to give our users 30 minutes (or until someone responds to the post) to make corrections. After one of these two events, it would lock.
Ron Lindeboom
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[Liam El Terrible] “It should go without saying that anyone who posts a question on here has had a look through the search posts and even google to find the answer.”
The one thing that you can never count on, is that the search engine has been used. When you have been here for years, as both Steve and I have (and others who would attest to the same thing) — in most cases, we’ve learned that the search engine has not been used. So, we never take it for granted. You are one of the exceptions and not the rule, Liam.
Sorry if that seems too direct but it’s a fact and I am saying this so that you understand that Steve was not trying to be flippant with you or anything of the sort.
Ron Lindeboom
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Hi Mike,
We have been working on the issue and have isolated the problem and have set out to resolve it. We hope to have an answer in the next couple of days or so.
Stay tuned.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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[JBaumchen] “Now if only it would do the camera work for me too!”
That comes in CS4.
:o)
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My favorite compositing t-shirt has got to be:
COMPOSITOR:
Do NOT Expose To Direct Sunlight:o)
Lee Rod Roderick in the Autodesk Combustion forum sells them. He might still have some.
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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At the end of the day, people will always argue their favorite tool and diss the other guy’s tool. Me, I don’t think that FCP has been much ahead of Premiere Pro for a while now. Sure, there are areas where FCP has and is ahead but there are also areas where Premiere Pro has the advantage — such as FCP’s inability to handle multiple formats on the same timeline. Premiere Pro can do that, as well as handle HDV lightyears ahead of FCP’s (in)abilities to do the same. 4K is also native to Premiere Pro and I could go on and on but I won’t…
I have said it before and will say it again: For one, I could do without a Mac before I could do without Adobe.
That is not a put-down on Macs, as I use them everyday and am writing on one as we speak. But my point is that what a tool enables one to do is well beyond what OS it runs on, etc. In that regard, I don’t see Apple as having the edge on Adobe, I see that as totally falling to Adobe’s edge.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Are you serious, James???
Somehow Adobe is now responsible for people not listening and ignoring what Adobe clearly said would happen if they chose to run in emulation?
Wow, no wonder lawyers are so busy today getting settlements for people like the burglar who sued the homeowner that shot him during the burglary.
(Insert Twilight Zone theme music here)
Ron Lindeboom
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[aindreas] “this strikes me as a bloat release, huckstering me into the adobe universe.”
Wow, it’s your opinion and one you are entitled to, but I guess my telescope is looking at a different universe. :o)
Back last Summer, I had to come up with the concept of the second issue of Creative COW Magazine, I chose “workflow” as the concept and built most of the magazine articles around that topic. Why? Easy answer. It was because in a rapidly maturing market where manufacturers used to give us 600 more transitions that we’ll never use (because we didn’t use the first 600), the *real* power of the future will be seen in *truly seamless* integrations, wherein the best tool handles the functions that they are best at. The day of the Swiss Army Knife all-in-one software tool is over and the smart companies are moving as fast as they can to build a universe around their own tools. No one is better positioned to do that than Adobe.
Most people I know use After Effects as *part* of their workflow. There are few people I personally know and whose studios I have been to over the years, who use After Effects only. I know people who try to use After Effects to edit video, you see their questions pop up here on the forum. Wrong tool, wrong solution. Try that box of Premiere Pro in your suite, often comes the answer.
The greatest thing that Adobe has that is of value to its user base, is an interface that users have poured countless hours learning and using. They have built “equity” into this interface and it’s this interface equity that opens up the pantheon of Adobe tools to its users.
Over the years, I have taught business and even consulted with banks and other institutions, sitting on Chapter 11 panels and working directly with banks to save companies who looked like they were going to go under and cost the bank a lot of money. One of the stories I have often presented to companies in these circumstances is to first ask them: “What business are you in?” I often point them to the story of the railroads and how they thought they were in the railroad business. They weren’;t, they were in the transportation business. If they had known this, we would all be driving Union Pacific and Santa Fe cars and trucks.
The only other person I have heard that uses this analogy, was Steve Kilisky from Adobe. He just used the comment in our interview with him that is now in the Creative COW News podcast. He shocked me saying this as few people ever ask themselves what business are they really in.
I am not an After Effects artist or other software artist by trade. I am a communicator. It’s what I do. Helping me do this easily, across whatever circumstances I find myself in, is a real and measurable (and demonstrable) value to me. This is what a truly integrated product suite that leverages my “user interface equity” comes into play.
When I look at a future with tools like Photoshop CS3 Extended and what it opens up to me, with color palette and formatting controls that are becoming universal across the product suite, I see these kinds of things as being of far more benefit to me as a user than a new eye candy plug-in.
For one, I am not only excited about what I see coming, I am ecstatic to see that Adobe gets the true importance of creating a real and true workflow integration that maximizes my user equity with respect, and opens up a bunch of new options in the process.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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One of the biggest things that Adobe is doing is leveraging all of the various tools that make up the Adobe Universe (or pantheon, take your choice).
There are indeed new features but, for me at least, the bigger picture is that Adobe is perfecting the workflow and feature set across the product line and that (in the long run) is a far more business-building tact than seeing what new widgets they can add. At this point in the market’s development, the tools are very robust and while there is indeed room for more improvement and more features, I think that Adobe is bringing some very exciting developments to their users. The kind of developments that leverage and respect the investment that their users have invested in learning the interface.
Adobe users, arguably more than any other users, have “equity” built up in the Adobe interface and respecting that and perfecting it is something that shows a degree of understanding their market that is nice to see. Add to that the open beta initiative in place with the Adobe Labs and, in my opinion, “the future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades.”*
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
*with respect to Timbuk 3
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You aren’t blind. I did add it afterwards. In rushing to get it out, I forgot to read all the stuff that Adobe had sent me and I missed the start date. So I added it so that I didn’t have to answer the same question over and over. ;o)
Best,
Ron Lindeboom