Ron Lindeboom
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[Trish Meyer] “Did you know that you typed that message two days in the future (Oct. 26). Funny that I could read it and it’s only Oct. 24th.”
Hi Trish,
Yes, Tim’s talents include some that are rather amazing, time travel among them. ;o)
Seriously, we just had Eric throw the date a couple of days ahead so that it would force Tim’s post to “float” for a couple of days so more people would see it.
That, and we did it to see who had their coffee and was awake.
Have fun, Trish.
Ron
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[TonyTony] “AE 7 works fine on my 2.66 Ghz Intel mac and it is FASTER that it was on the Mirror Door G4. It will even be faster once Adobe gets around to making their apps, run native.”
I’d like to invite you to pen an article for the Cow Library on how you have accomplished this feat when I do not know anyone else that has had this experience. My MacBook Pro is far from your experience…
If you want to document your methodology, we’d love to add it to the library.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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[Midicon] “i am woundering why Adobe would release its new version knowing that this crossover was in the works and wouldn’t make the capabilities universal.”
As Steve Roberts pointed out, Adobe didn’t know and Apple didn’t warn them.
In my opinion, Apple keeps making its sandbox smaller and smaller and doesn’t care to play nice with the other kids.
As Tim Wilson pointed out so well the other day in his post down below, just because Apple releases something doesn’t mean (nor should it) that Adobe has to change all their internal plans to try to rush something out.
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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Yes, but the spoof of the Bravia San Francisco commercial is hilarious. If you haven’t seen it, it’s here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ScagEU4SlM
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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Kathlyn and I have a standard line we use with friends who think we should do them a “favor” since it won’t take us long to make them a commercial, edit a video or repair their computers…
We basically tell them: “Would you mind swinging by tomorrow with your crew and painting our restroom? After all, you’re the expert and have all the equipment — it should only take you a couple of hours or so. We’d really appreciate the favor.” You can always tweak the recipe ingredients to suit the tastes of the person you are dealing with.
For some reason, what we do is not a “real” job, it’s hard for people to get their heads around work such as that which is done in this industry. But if you can translate it into their realm of experience, they get the message real quick…
Eric, our code guru, likes to say that one of these days he is going to get a t-shirt that says: “No, I will NOT fix your computer. Sorry.”
Sure, we’ve done favors, I think we all have — but we have been asked for many more than we’ve actually done. The above recipe has helped us cure the problem in most cases.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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The techniques you are asking about are very easy and once you grasp the basics of After Effects, you will be able to do them. You can learn about the basics in your manual or if you wish to watch a video tutorial on the basics, click here.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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I’d call Sorenson tech support and ask why they are not accepting them, rather than switching to another compression scheme and having to recompress all your stuff now.
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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There is no apology needed, Joel. When your buns are on the line and the family is needing bread and things aren’t lining up, things just get frustrating. Kathlyn will tell you, I get cranky at those times. I joke with her that women get PMS and men, to quote Bruce Willis from Moonlighting, get UMS — ugly mood swings. ;o)
I understand frustration, I get plenty of it as I have many things I’d like to do but have such severe allergies to mold, fungus and yeast that I spend about half the year very sick. Everybody has something.
I know the Adobe Team very well and to be very honest with you, they were quite taken off-guard by Apple’s announcement of Apple’s Intel future. It came as out of left-field for them, as it did for most of us. You could tell at that point that any of the past Apple/Adobe joined-at-hip that once existed, was a thing of the past.
It’s sad to watch a divorce…
Ron Lindeboom
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I feel your pain, Joel. Kathlyn and I have been in the same straits a time or two over the years. It is not pleasant and is often very stressful but it does pass, trust us. ;o)
Kathlyn and I have been slowly wading into the Windows end of the pool (the deep end) and it’s not as scary as some Mac users believe. I wouldn’t and don’t recommend that anyone jump ship either to or from a Mac, lightly. But we’ve begun using PCs and find that they are not The Evil Empire nor are they hard to use.
Like you, we have a lot invested in our Macs and so we continue to use them but we do see the day coming when we will likely find that Apple has closed the door on one too many of our suppliers to be comfortable staying with them any longer.
While there are distinct and marketable advantages to having one company doing the hardware and software, at a certain point it will likely become akin to the era when the European royalty was so in-bred that they became sickly and weak. That is what I see for Apple in the days ahead as they continue to chase off one company after another.
The only wild card in all of this, is that Apple swapped to the Intel chip. This will make it far easier for companies to develop for both PCs and Macs and so there is likely to continue to be “outsider incursion” into the hallowed halls of Apple’s lonely kingdom. But when you keep dogs in your yard — big ones that bite, no less — then the “neighbors” are not likely to want to party at your barbeque anytime soon…
If I were you, I’d weave a PC into your studio and begin the process of adding to your knowledge base. It will only serve you in the end and as you amortize some of the hardware/software purchases you have made, you just may find that, like us, your aversion to and fear of PCs is far less than the possibility of an Apple-only playground for the Mac.
That’s my thoughts and my apologies for biting you, Joel. I am just a little cranky after getting the magazine done and I am just simply exhausted. Again, my apologies.
Ron Lindeboom
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[creative bloc] “It would kill my post business to have to re-invest in all of my hardware…”
Hi Joel,
This is almost nearly always a false assumption, Joel. Why? The cost of the hardware has dropped to where as a line item on your expense sheet, hardware is one of the smallest costs of doing business for most businesses in this industry. Want proof? HD boards are now sold for $500 to $1000 and cameras that were once the domain of deep-pocketed broadcast and film institutions are now in the reach of many. Software that once sold for $2,500 a box (with almost no plug-ins, all of which had to be bought separately) now sells as part of a complete suite for less than half the original cost. Hell, Photoshop used to sell for almost the money that many computers now do. Now, Photoshop ships as part of a bundle.
Staying married to a hardware platform, whether it’s a Mac or a PC — especially in these days when the differences grow less and less with each passing version — is not a sound business practice. Neither is jumping ship for a reason or two.
But I have MUCH more invested in the Adobe Interface than I do in Macintosh — even though I have been using Apple computers since 1983. I could accomplish my work on a PC using all Adobe tools but I couldn’t accomplish all my work on a Mac without my Adobe tools.
Apple would like its users to believe that we can’t live without them but the truth is, I could live without Apple far easier than I could live without Adobe…
To switch to a PC, I’d have to learn that my mouse has a right-mouse button and that I need to look at the bottom of my screen, not the top, to see what’s happening. But to leave Adobe behind to stay with a Mac without them, I’d have to learn a bunch of new programs, interfaces, figure out how to make non-integrated programs fit together, etc., etc. — and that’s more bother than a Mac merits at this point in time.
Your mileage may vary,
Ron Lindeboom
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