Ron Lindeboom
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@richardgarabedain — Since you like to be blunt, it appears, I don’t get the dripping paint can. How does that help anyone?
Kathlyn finally untaped my fingers…
Ron Lindeboom
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We are using the new Google Noto (No Tofu) font because some browsers and systems, not to mention language support, cause the “tofu” phenomenon when missing type characters produce those rectangles instead of the desired font characters. Google’s new Noto font took them years to develop and it produces a complete typeset regardless of browser, or system, and in translation across languages harnesses Google’s translation algorithm to produce a complete translative typeset — no missing characters and NO TOFU. Cool, eh? We thought so and so Bessie made us use it. (She’s one demanding bovine when she wants her way.)
Moo,
Ron Lindeboom
PS: @jimScott4 — We agree that the topic headlines need to be bold and so they shortly will.
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Oliver Peters said: “Moving NAB to fall is just dumb. It’s shooting yourself in both feet. It sets up the choice between NAB and IBC, not only for attendees, but also vendors. This runs the risk of hurting both shows with no upside.”
An observation that I hear business owners, executives, and key marketing personnel echoing, Oliver. But to add an idea to your point, the audience itself would be hard-pressed to find any compelling reason to attend two major trade events back-to-back. This, as human beings can only process and digest just so much information before the eyes glaze over in information overload. Even insightful observant reporters like yourself can only process just so much information and it is why we see so many people trying to report about the shows from their unique perspective.
Two major trade shows back-to-back would be precisely the kind of information overload in which all but a handful of companies and products would get lost in. But the odds of being one of those companies or products would fall in the range of fractions of a single percentile. Not exactly a compelling reason to line up and mortgage the farm to do two major shows in a single quarter.
I think that by parking their tanks on IBC’s lawn, NAB is sending a message that they believe they can wrest final supremacy and ultimate trade show hegemony by their actions. But as Tim points out, who’s doing the pushing, for whom, and what is the destination?
Tim Wilson said: “But I feel like people’s fondness for their own experiences adjacent to these events is preventing us from having the conversations we need to have, starting with, who is it benefitting that so many end users are so eager to line the pockets of lobbyists for oligarchs who are driving the industry in exactly the wrong direction? I’d say it’s benefitting the lobbyists driving the industry in exactly the wrong direction and their clients FAR more than it’s benefitting you, me, or our favorite companies, or the industry as a whole.”
I think that NAB is seeing things incorrectly and while indeed NAB’s recent growth has come from EMEA, given a forced choice between the two majors, I believe that in a time of uncertainty and pandemic, people will choose local. Sports teams are analogous in that few people root for other than the home team in the end.
Lastly, as Tim points out, sending the press release public during IBC’s virtual tradeshow, really does taste like the actions of an organization that sees itself as coming to have IBC’s cake and to eat it, too. Somewhere, in the back of my mind, I suspect that smacks of the kind of American imperialism that many Europeans and Asians, along with those in the Middle East, take personal umbrage at.
But I could be wrong on all points…
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I could state the obvious but Kathlyn is taping my fingerrrrrrssssssouhgdiserybmp’
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This thread over at LinkedIn is quite intense and shows some of the ire that many are feeling in the wake of the announcement…
As I remarked in that discussion, I think many are seeing that even though we had no shows this year, the market remains vital and exuberant, filled with motion, innovation, and great new products and ideas. So many new and creative doors have been opened — some kicked open despite the despondence of some who are bewildered by the phenomenon — in what some errantly imagine to be a marketing vacuum without centralized leadership. Like much of the audience of tradeshows, leadership itself is becoming more and more “localized” within the sphere of market need and desire.
End customers for the shows will be local but for those supplying companies, they will be forced to make the either-or decisions. If they do both, exhaustion and an onerous financial burden on marketing budgets paid in a single quarter are likely going to be the result. To end-users, the preponderance of marketing messages could also become a voluminous blur of TMI.
Some companies have already been eschewing the timeworn “April/September release mantra.” The pandemic is going to escalate that phenomenon. The distance between the customer and the product/service provider has changed radically over the last 20 years due to the ever-increasing ubiquity of the internet. Value propositions have changed but perceptions often follow at a slower pace — at least for those who refuse to admit the obvious. But reality marches on, whether we recognize it or not.
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Expressions discussions are much better served in the Adobe After Effects Expressions forum where they love to explore Expressions.
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The forum you want is called “Final Cut Pro Legacy.” It is in the FULL list of forums, not the short list of top-rated forums.
I hope you that helps.
Ron Lindeboom
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Hi David,
We have always removed under-performing forums. We are always willing to add them back at user demand or if we find a leader who is willing to head the group.
It was a nightmare of hellish proportions to finally get the conversion done and it took the top-rated database conversion team in the world to get it done — and they almost quit.
But now we have the architecture we need to add things quickly. Watch for many new things coming shortly.
Best always,
Ron Lindeboom
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Mark is simply cooler than just about anyone else in the COW.
When I first heard him play “Something,” I was blown away by how good he is. I am sure that it is his version that is keeping George Harrison from spinning in his grave from the many who try to play it but are wholly unworthy.
So, Mark, thank you for keeping things peaceful in George’s final resting place. I am sure he appreciates it.
Best regards,
Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLCCreativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.
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Wow, Bob, it’s always nice to see Strawbs surface, however awkward in its surfacing. :o)
This album will always be special to me because it was a big album in my life when my first-born was doing his own bit of surfacing in the world. It became even more special when Kathlyn and I got to work with Strawbs on a couple of albums back in 2004 and 2005.
Thank you for a walk down memory lane. I have always adored the “Hero & Heroine” album. John Hawken, their keyboardist, told me the story of the real French black swan-quilled hammer harpsichord used in the song. It had been hand made and the man who had made it was incensed when he learned that the record company had rented it for use in a rock song. He showed up outrage at the studio and wanted it back immediately. It was then that John started playing some Mozart pieces and the instrument’s creator started to calm down. When John showed him what he intended to play on “Hero and Heroine,” the man finally acquiesced to having his genuine 17th Century-modeled black swan quilled hammered harpsichord used by a rock band.
As a keyboard player, Bob, I know you’ll appreciate the story.
Best regards,
Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLCCreativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.