[Ron Lindeboom]

It looks like a blend mode is being applied to the clip.

Create a solid, apply a gradient to the solid using the two colors you wish as the start and end colors.

Apply different blend modes and see how they effect your image.

If you have more than one layer which you want effected, then create an Adjustment Layer above all the layers you want the transfer mode to effect and apply the mode to the Adjustment Layer.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

Hi Jay,

We get files this big and bigger all the time. I have no idea what is up. Please give me a shout at COWBOOM at MAC dot COM and let’s see if it gets through that way.

Thanks, Jay.

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

Yes, I quite remember Avid’s decibel-rich pummeling of Apple that started this whole thing. Last year, as you say, it was quite different as even though Avid was still loud, the Apple booth was wall-to-wall people while the Avid booth often had just a smattering of people in the booth.

Hopefully, the people in the booths positioned between Avid and Apple are more than sacrificial lambs thrown into the chasm to appease the giants — who, if I remember my fairytales, “…grind your bones to make my bread.”

We’ll see (or hear) — whatever the case may be.

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

I think it’s about time that you step aside from the Cow as this is getting rather ridiculous…

Aharon is held in VERY high esteem by the Adobe After Effects team and he’s worked on many shows for Viacom, Sesame Street and Jimmy Neutron being just two of them.

There are MANY different and GOOD solutions to a wide range of design issues in After Effects and there is NEVER just one way to solve a problem.

Aharon was QUITE CLEAR in saying that there are other — and some even better ways — to do what he was doing and that this is JUST the method that he uses.

Your attitude sucks, girl, and it’s time that you move on as we do not condone this kind of crap here at Creative Cow.

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

That’s a wonderful point, Leo. Busy people do not need more jobs — especially when it’s a job that is not going to put any money in their pocket. More are likely to resent the effort than those who will appreciate it.

Taking them to lunch is a great way to see how they like the job and to also maybe learn of anyone who they know that also liked it who might be a good prospect/referral. Birds of a feather do flock together and many times in the past, I have gotten a job from a happy client that I was speaking with who told me about a friend that was very impressed. My biggest account that I had for years was gained just this way. Using a survey, I would never have learned about him. Short-cuts are costly and there is no substitute for interpersonal interaction.

Which brings me to a joke for the day: Would a Bhuddist monk with multiple personality disorder be experiencing intrapersonal or interpersonal interaction during meditation?

Just a thought… ;o)

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

Hello Peter,

We wish we could support all the browsers that everyone uses but the truth is that Opera accounts for less than 1% of our traffic and so we spend absolutely no time whatsoever testing, debugging or developing for that browser. We do not develop for Opera as based on our past experience, Opera is very quirky and follows its own path and so we gave up trying to develop for it as it always seemed to be needing some workaround that was much more time intensive than was reasonable considering the incredibly small number of users that use it here in the Cow.

Just as Adobe quit making their Production Studio for the Mac — because it didn’t make sense to spend 50% of their time and developmental budget to develop for a market that was a small percentage of their market — we have had to make the decision that we cannot develop for all browsers and so we build and test on the following ones only:

[Ron Lindeboom]

There is no Linda here… Just Lindebooms. ;o)

As Eric points out, there is no way to keep that page from coming up for those wishing to destroy their cookies everyday.

We purposely set it to where “most” people will only see the page once a year. This assumption is based on the fact that most of our people do not wipe out their cookies everyday and secondly, that most people who come to the Creative Cow are going to subscribe to the magazine. Those who don’t will get a gentle reminder once a month that the magazine exists and they can sign up for free. Those who who wipe out their cookies everyday are going to get a daily reminder — or at least a reminder everytime they come to the Cow.

We can do nothing about that, Rob, as cookies are the *only* way we have to track this for you. So if you blow out your cookies everyday, you are deleting the information our site uses to keep from bothering you.

We do not track anyone or keep information on anyone. All our cookies are user-side resident and they do not report anything back to us. They merely hold your name and email so you do not have to manually enter them everytime you post, they keep track of the default time period of posts that you like in your favorite forums — and they tell our mechanism that you have already either signed up for the magazine, are not interested or that you are new to the site and so it presents the page to you.

By blowing out your cookies, the site thinks that you are new and treats you as a new visitor.

As Eric says, there is nothing we can do about that as you are the one destroying the cookies we use to keep things under control here in the pasture…

Sorry, but we have no better news for you…

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom
creativecow,net

[Ron Lindeboom]

Yes, I like that nearby canyon thingie, also. Amazing what a little water will do with a lot of dirt, eh?

Speaking of dirt: I hear that all the dirt that was removed out of that canyon is now on the walls and floors at the Circus Circus, the Imperial Palace and the Stratosphere. Having once been to vist friends in the Imperial Palace and the Stratosphere, I believe it. I’ve never been to see Circus Circus but I hear you can grow potatoes in the rooms there.

Ron Lindeboom
creativecow.net

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Noah Kadner] “I’m definitely expecting some free drinks, cocktails, brochures and t-shirts!”

I am expecting a lot of mediocre food, sore feet from being on concrete for days on end, as well as ears to ring from the sensory bombardment of having our booth near Apple and Avid, who — though they have been separated this year by an aisle — will in all likelihood still be performing their yearly rendition of the Hatfields vs the McCoys. ;o)

Oh, I almost forgot: I also expect to have a bunch of guys being paid minimum wage or less, try to hand me pornography everywhere I walk. Some, will even get nasty and insult me because I am not interested. Welcome to Las Vegas…

We’ll be giving away free subscriptions to the new Creative Cow Magazine while there and we will also bring along 500 Creative Cow mousepads and a few cases of Bovine Bessies Caribbean Style Chicken Sauce for some of those who swing by the booth and sign up for the magazine. But no t-shirts — not this year.

Best,

Ron Lindeboom
creativecow.net

[Ron Lindeboom]

Also, we have a pipe that is comparable to 128 T-1 lines and a server backbone that could easily serve up footage files if people wish to have samples of footage, etc., to preview online.

If you would like to submit some footage, write me at ron@creativecow.net

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom
creativecow.net