Ron Lindeboom
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I have had my share of wins and losses, Kyle. Luckily, the wins have far outweighed the losses and even the losses have taught me much — so much so that I’d never opt to miss them if I were given the chance to replay my life. As I have tried to teach my kids, you learn far more from your failures than your successes and so there is no need to fear them.
You seem hellbent on missing the point that people do NOT have to agree with one another around here, Kyle. There are many different opinions and yours is just one.
Ron Lindeboom
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I am not telling you to shut up. I am merely saying that your’s is not the only point of view. I understand your frustration and from talking with Steve Kilisky tonight, I know that he understands it as well.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Mike,
Kathlyn and I could have bought a house with what we spent on this stuff over the years. So when people are offering TONS of power at a pittance of a price (in our opinion), it is hardly the earth-shattering event it seems to elicit from you.
It’s not that big a deal, really. Your mileage may vary.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Trust me, I have already had to sort through the bundle upgrades as I own the Macromedia suite and many Adobe titles.
But my point was that, for me, this stuff is so much cheaper than it used to be that I can get all of this power for 1/3rd what I used to pay for a 9gig Micropolis 1991 harddrive.
You think it’s insane and that is your prerogative. Me, I think it’s cheap and that is my prerogative.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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I guess that I suffer from the relativity of having bought into After Effects back when it was 1.2, if I remember correctly. Cost me $2,400 and came with no plug-ins hardly at all. You had to buy Effects Pack 1 and Effects Pack 2 for about $1,300 to get keying and some basic effects — extremely basic when compared to what we all use today.
When I look at all that you get today for the price Adobe’s charging, I am amazed at the value of what we get when considered as a features-to-cost curve.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Kyle,
Kathlyn would tell you I don’t believe in excuses when it comes to work: I once went three days straight without sleep to get a job done for a client who had been droped three days from delivery date by Computer Cafe who had the job and backed out at the last minute.
If you are good enough to do the job, then I would advise you to just do it yourself. It will save you a lot of money.
If you don’t like the way I do business, then I’d advise you to work with someone else. I didn’t ask you to agree with me, did I???
In business, one size does not fit all — sorry if that offends you,
Lastly, it is easy to make all kinds of claims as to what you pay when you are a near-totally anonymous entity whose user profile is empty except for a first name.
In the universe I live in, anonymity holds little weight.
Ron Lindeboom
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I agree, Jim. It has been so many years since I’ve seen Quantum Leap that I can’t even remember what they did. I remember that it was something to do with something else that did something and then something happened that triggered another thing altogether. Or something like that…
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Not meant as a slap, but simply a fully caffeinated reply to a rather unclear question.
Ron Lindeboom
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Great alternative, Dom. And as you say, a nicer end result than what was acheived using QTVR, as well.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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As you said, QTVR came and went pretty quickly. Not many people got the point and few people did anything with it and the technology just got side-lined where it died of boredom, I believe. I can’t remember the last thing that I saw that used QTVR.
It’s a safe bet that QTVRMatte is long gone with nothing in its place to replace it. At least I can’t think of anything. Maybe someone else here can recall something that would work but I’m sure drawing a blank here…
Sorry to be the bearer of the eulogy,
Ron Lindeboom
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If you walked into my studio with all the tapes and materials needed to edit your job, that is what you would get back along with my work. You paid for it. But I will under no conditions take work which I feel devalues my work — at least not with my eyes wide open, I wouldn’t.
You are refering to editing jobs while Seth and I addressed the perspective from a compositor’s viewpoint — which is a whole different craft and discipline. What I described is in no way applicable to an editing job. When editing, I have never kept anything that belonged to a client, never.
But as a compositor, you would never get my AEP file, never. Not unless it was part of the bill and you were paying me for it and believe me, I would double or triple the bill as I know exactly what would happen with it if someone insisted on getting it.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom