Ron Lindeboom
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COW Coins
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Your criticisms are heard and I would just like to respond by saying:
1. We almost never turn down a tutorial. To us, all content is good content if it gets you to thinking. If you already know a better way, good — then we are always open to your tutorial but without putting your fanny on the line, it takes far less time to write a paragraph or two of critique than it does to create a tutorial.
2. As for typos, oh well — chalk that puppy up to the fact that Kathlyn is now handling the whole site damned near by herself as I am head down in the trenches working on the magazine. Kathlyn works from about 8am until often 10pm at night and does this usually six days a week. This is a HUGE project to build and doing it with just Kathlyn, myself, Eric the Coder and help on the podcasts and magazine from Aharon and Franklin — well, let’s just say that if typos cause you to cringe, then the Cow is probably going to be beneath you. For those who want to point to the spell checker, let me just say that after 12 or 14 hours and many days in a row, you sometimes just plain forget to even run the thing. Sorry if that offends you.
3. I personally do not believe that in After Effects, especially, there are necessarily right and wrong answers. Some of the best techniques I have ever learned, I learned by trying things the hard way or what some may consider the wrong way and in doing so, I found another way around the corner. It got me to thinking in another way that I had not previously considered. As I progressed, I found better ways and quicker ways but as they say today, “It’s all good.”
4. Kathlyn often runs from article to article formatting them for the web, as few are formatted when they get here — some, are even in PDF form and that is a nightmare of huge proportion and takes hours sometimes just to rip them into HTML. The point is we do not always have time to check every article, we try to but it’s just not realistic.
5. Both Kathlyn’s and my email address are quite public and a simple email offering a correction would suffice and Kathlyn would quickly correct any errors you find. Personally, I find it offensive that someone who doesn’t even use their own name here would fire up a laundry list instead of sending a simple email saying “I believe that the vertical position is referred to twice as the horizontal in these two sentences…” But if it makes you feel superior or something, have at it.
6. I am sure that Jay Thompson does not consider himself the last word on After Effects and would welcome a tutorial from someone else with another technique that explores the same idea and shows another and maybe even more efficient way to do something. Jay is a really nice guy that simply wanted to contribute an idea to the community which he enjoys as many here do. Unfortunately, I am sure that with his wonderful welcome, he’ll think twice about that next time he thinks of something he’d like to share with the group here.
7. We are NOT about to quit accepting tutorials because they use plug-ins. Limiting our articles to just those that use the standard plug-ins found in AE is not something we choose to do and we do not care if people think that is wrong. To be quite honest about it, even relying on the standard plug-ins is a cop-out as I know people who can and do use AE and other programs writing their own code to make it do what they need. For us mere mortals though, there are always plug-ins…
8. When people here want to rip on those who contribute articles to the site, the chances are that articles will become few and far in between as I do not know many people who want to get paraded out in public like that.
9. I am not saying that people shouldn’t correct typos or point out better or more efficient ways of doing things but I am saying that there’s a reason for the old adage: “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” Even Cowdog knows better than that…
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Your criticisms are heard and I would just like to respond by saying:
1. We almost never turn down a tutorial. To us, all content is good content if it gets you to thinking. If you already know a better way, good — then we are always open to your tutorial but without putting your fanny on the line, it takes far less time to write a paragraph or two of critique than it does to create a tutorial.
2. As for typos, oh well — chalk that puppy up to the fact that Kathlyn is now handling the whole site damned near by herself as I am head down in the trenches working on the magazine. Kathlyn works from about 8am until often 10pm at night and does this usually six days a week. This is a HUGE project to build and doing it with just Kathlyn, myself, Eric the Coder and help on the podcasts and magazine from Aharon and Franklin — well, let’s just say that if typos cause you to cringe, then the Cow is probably going to be beneath you. For those who want to point to the spell checker, let me just say that after 12 or 14 hours and many days in a row, you sometimes just plain forget to even run the thing. Sorry if that offends you.
3. I personally do not believe that in After Effects, especially, there are necessarily right and wrong answers. Some of the best techniques I have ever learned, I learned by trying things the hard way or what some may consider the wrong way and in doing so, I found another way around the corner. It got me to thinking in another way that I had not previously considered. As I progressed, I found better ways and quicker ways but as they say today, “It’s all good.”
4. Kathlyn often runs from article to article formatting them for the web, as few are formatted when they get here — some, are even in PDF form and that is a nightmare of huge proportion and takes hours sometimes just to rip them into HTML. The point is we do not always have time to check every article, we try to but it’s just not realistic.
5. Both Kathlyn’s and my email address are quite public and a simple email offering a correction would suffice and Kathlyn would quickly correct any errors you find. Personally, I find it offensive that someone who doesn’t even use their own name here would fire up a laundry list instead of sending a simple email saying “I believe that the vertical position is referred to twice as the horizontal in these two sentences…” But if it makes you feel superior or something, have at it.
6. I am sure that Jay Thompson does not consider himself the last word on After Effects and would welcome a tutorial from someone else with another technique that explores the same idea and shows another and maybe even more efficient way to do something. Jay is a really nice guy that simply wanted to contribute an idea to the community which he enjoys as many here do. Unfortunately, I am sure that with his wonderful welcome, he’ll think twice about that next time he thinks of something he’d like to share with the group here.
7. We are NOT about to quit accepting tutorials because they use plug-ins. Limiting our articles to just those that use the standard plug-ins found in AE is not something we choose to do and we do not care if people think that is wrong. To be quite honest about it, even relying on the standard plug-ins is a cop-out as I know people who can and do use AE and other programs writing their own code to make it do what they need. For us mere mortals though, there are always plug-ins…
8. When people here want to rip on those who contribute articles to the site, the chances are that articles will become few and far in between as I do not know many people who want to get paraded out in public like that.
9. I am not saying that people shouldn’t correct typos or point out better or more efficient ways of doing things but I am saying that there’s a reason for the old adage: “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” Even Cowdog knows better than that…
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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No, not the Mac version and the PC version can’t run on the Mac.
Ron Lindeboom
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Word up. It doesn’t work. Period.
It will be like driving a V8 with only three cylinders firing.
If you are getting it to run After Effects, then you really need to rethink this. If you are getting it for the Apple apps and the just announced ProTools universal binary version, then by all means get it. But don’t buy one expecting it to run something that is just not going to run correctly.
This is my last word on the subject.
Ron Lindeboom
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Doesn’t work. It is like trying to run AE on an old G3 computer.
Sorry to throw water on your dreams.
Ron Lindeboom
creativecow.net -
Hello Sanford — again,
As I said to you in the Cow’s Podcast forum, we would never use iWeb continuously, as both the initial creation tool and then later as the management tool.
What we see iWeb great at, is to initially get things set up so that you can see how it’s all constructed and parts integrated, etc. From then on, we’d use standard FTP and other tools to manage it.
All we see iWeb for, is as a teaching aid and set-up tool — at which it is great. After that, it’s up to you to use the standard tools to do all the maintenance, etc.
iWeb is a great tool for teaching users to quickly set-up and begin to build some very complex multi-faceted websites that would be far, far harder to learn and deploy without iWeb than with it. So we will stand by our opinion of iWeb and respectfully choose to disagree with you.
Lastly, please do not make posts across a bunch of forums as it really just becomes noise and then we would be forced to throw your account into moderated status to protect the signal-to-noise ratio. Thank you.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Most of us use programs like Quick Books or FileMaker to do this. Databases are just much better at these tasks than spreadsheets.
That is why no one is offering an Excel spreadsheet template.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Computer and software prices drop all the time. It’s the nature of the game.
Is it worth it to you to do this? Then by all means jump, if it isn’t, then don’t.
You will always see things selling for less — someday. But it’s the ones who don’t always wait for the lowest price but jump in and create, that do things and build studios and businesses. If it’s a hobby, then you have to ask yourself if the price is worth a good hobby.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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What a great review, James. I was so impressed by it that it will run as the lead story in this week’s Creative Cow Newsletter.
Please let your wife know that all honorees who have been the lead story get the obligatory “I’ve Lead the Herd, So Women Really Dig Me!” t-shirt. ;o)
Sorry, Jim. I couldn’t pass that one up…
:o)
Seriously, it’s a great review and we are proud to have you on the Cow Team.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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It has been an honor to have you here over the years, Matt. We have appreciated your participation and have a lot of respect for your work there at Phoenix. We wish you well in the days ahead and like you, we too hope that Avid will pull Commotion out of mothballs and do something with it.
Best always to you and yours,
Ron Lindeboom