[Ron Lindeboom]

[Justin Productions] “We don’t say “crap” here, we say “not good”.”

How will the flowers grow with no manure around? Chemical fertilizers may be cleaner but they just don’t hold a candle to a nice shovel of crap, so sez this ole farmboy. ;^P

There are few words that can’t be used here and crap isn’t one of them.

:o)

A smiling as now thoroughly caffeinated,

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

Another way, though probably not as elegant as John Cuevas’s suggestion, is to export the PDF as a JPEG and bring that into AE. This allows you to deal with it as a single image and not a bunch of objects. In some cases, it proves to be a little more convenient.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

As I sometimes tease Eric here at the office: “Of course she’s beautiful, Eric, she’s the best looking woman that Photoshop can make — but don’t wait around for her, because she only exists on-screen.” Aw, the “babes of Photoshop.” =:^P

Paul Simon said it all so well so long ago when he sang: “If I took all the girls I knew when I was single and brought them all together for one night. I know they’d never match my sweet imagination and everything looks best in black and white. Kodachrome gives us the nice bright colors and makes the world a sunny day, oh yeah! Oh Momma don’t take my Kodachrome away.”

:o)

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

Most bands that I have worked with have “members” and “key members.” The members can come and go but the key members are usually the ones who hold the legal rights. If you can get one of them to sign a release that you have permission to use this, that is one hurdle. The next is what song(s) are they playing? Who holds the rights to the song(s)? This is not usually held by the band but by the publisher. You need to pay a fee for this, usually based on the number of units you press. Using your own disc duplicator will get you in hot water here but you are safer using an industry-trusted company like DiscMakers or the like. This way, they sign off on the number of units created and when you pay the mechanicals on your run, you should be okay. This is usually about 50 cents to a dollar a copy in my experience.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

There are many tapes that get leaked all around the internet and have so many people selling them that it’s hard for anyone to stop the flow. But you are not talking about that: You are talking about selling something under your name that you shot, which I suspect will be done under your control. Now that kind of thing is easy to stop. A couple of albums that I produced got bootlegged and I had to file the affidavits with eBay to show that I had the legal authority to demand they pull the products. They did. But the Tommy Lee/Pamela Sue Anderson video was a porn thing that moved across the net like a prairie fire and no one could stop it. (Thankfully, Eric got our server’s email filter set up to where we long ago quit getting those damned emails about it. Thanks, Eric!)

But you can put your name and livelihood on the line and release it without any permissions and see what happens when the band’s lawyers and music publishers find out about it.

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

Unless you have their permission in writing, you have no rights. All they have to say is that you were just a guy shooting them and if they had known, they would have stopped you. That’s what Metallica and others would do. On the other hand, there are other bands who encourage this kind of thing. So, check how the feelings of the band and/or their management and/or record label.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

There are other features, as well.

You can read about them in the “About Us” section of the site, where there is a link called “How Our Site Interface Works” that is linked to: https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?forumid=2&page=/how_to_use_cow.html

In it, you can find other things that will help your navigation.

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

We watch these boards like a hawk, as many of you know, and there have been maybe two or three times that this has happened in five years of the Cow. We quickly removed the posts, blocked the originating IP address and the person who tried it found out that they couldn’t even see the Cow, let alone get there to try to propagate mischief again. It was a stern warning and they got the message…

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

Hi Paul,

I understand your frustration and I can and truly do sympathise with it.

The problem comes in when users like Toke want to beat down a manufacturer like Panasonic because of something that is clearly not in the common trade custom of this industry. Should it be? That is clearly open to opinion and debate but it has not been customary — at least not for the most part — and Apple’s support of PAL is and has been one of the short-comings for FCP users in the land of 25fps.

I really do not like to slap down users and play the heavy but when one person after another tells someone why this is so and they will not listen nor write someone (like the Apple Quicktime and FCP teams) who can do something about it and just want to start up again with the same rhetoric, then I have to put my foot down.

Thanks for your understanding,

Ron Lindeboom
creativecow.net

[Ron Lindeboom]

Thanks for the kind words about the podcast. Glad to know someone’s listening and it’s not just Franklin and I talking to the trees.

:o)

Ron