Ron Lindeboom
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COW Coins
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Personally, if it is speed in After Effects you are after, then I would go for the 17″ Powerbook and eschew the siren’s song of the 15″ MacBook.
When watching Steve Job’s keynote carefully, Kathlyn and I watched it a total of three times now, you will note that Microsoft Office is what he uses as his benchmark of how well existing apps can run on the new machines. But he is very careful to point out the “people who work all day on Photoshop won’t be happy” with the way that Photoshop runs under Rosetta but that “people like me who use it occasionally” will be happy with the new machines. I appreciated the fact that he was careful to point out the differences for those of us who live in the Photoshop world, far more than we do in the land of Microsoft Office.
Translated, I would take that as a caveat that before I would buy a new machine to run After Effects, I would have to go to a local Apple Store and actually see it running on one of the machines and judge from a hands-on trial if I could live with the Rosetta’s conversion hit on performance.
That is my tres centavos.
Best regards and enjoy the new 17″, it’s a great machine anyway. ;o)
Ron Lindeboom
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[walter biscardi] “As a follow-up to my earlier post about the Tattoo, do we get extra points for wearing the BBQ Apron at NAB?”
I am not sure about aprons at NAB but I am sure that ole Cowdog might even share a bowl of his kibble-and-beer with you if you were to wear it on the set of Good Eats sometime…
:o)
I don’t know if you caught it back in the beginning, Walter, but the crew from Much Music Television got a couple of the original Creative Cow t-shirts back at NAB 2001 and they did a show wearing them. They made it out like the studio was being held hostage by a man with a nylon pulled over his head and wearing a CreativeCow t-shirt. They were holding the studio hostage and demanding a ransom. It was hilarious. We used to have a link to the RealMedia file but the link is bad now. It was really quite a pick me up back when the Much Media team did that. We really appreciated it as it was back in the very first few months of the Cow.
Best always (and yes, Jerry does indeed have to wear something under his apron while at NAB),
Ron Lindeboom
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Hello Alvin,
Nice work, man. Excellent use of AE’s 3D layers and any video with cows in it — even for just a moment towards the front — has got to be a real winner. Well, at least Cowdog just said so and he wouldn’t lie.
How long did you guys work on that one?
How would you like to be a guest on the Cow’s AE podcast and talk a bit about how this was done?
Best always,
Ron Lindeboom
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George,
You would be pissed as hell were your business to create something which you intended to keep under wraps for your own purposes and then someone whom you trusted violated your Non-Disclosure Agreement and publicized your impending release and diluted the value of what you were about to do.
If hearing that, you can say that it is preposterous and that you would not mind, then you are either someone whose business judgement is quite questionable or you are a person whose moral character fails to recognize intellectual property rights and the value of things like NDAs which are designed to protect them.
The guys here do NOT do the moderating or the censoring, that is my job, thank you. They do not even always agree with the hard line that I take sometimes. That is their prerogative and I do not ask anyone to agree with me.
We NEVER claim to be a “news” site, per se, and I tell people regularly that we are a community site. As such, we understand that the root of the word community is “co-” — implying more than one. Sometimes, that “co” is user-to-user communication, other times it may be between the users and the leaders here — and still other times, it may be between this site and the companies whose tools we all use. If we fail to recognize the intellectual property rights of those who create these tools, then the eventual outcome will be the degrading of our own intellectual property rights; this as it’s true: what goes around, comes around.
Lastly, if your buying decisions are made so quickly that you would jump ship because we aren’t going to play “scoop machine” for you, then you are welcome to jump from tool to tool to tool as whim and caprice strikes you.
It has always amazed me that some content creators fail to recognize the purpose and value of intellectual property rights and the reason that they exist. Luckily, that “some” appears to be a small yet belligerent minority who wish the right to peek into the windows of other people’s business but would be mortified, were they the subject of the same discourtesy.
In the interest of clarity,
Ron Lindeboom
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I agree with Seth on many of the points he has made: The rules of video, film, etc., often do not apply when talking about those in the compositing field.
As Seth points out in one of his examples, compositors often rely on licensed objects, stock footage, audio, etc., which they hold the licenses to and which allow them to deliver as part of a finished work but do not allow them to give copies of the raw work to others.
Also, a client is buying your time and your expertise. They are not buying the right to devalue your work by coming to you once, getting you to do a job and get the After Effects AEP file as a deliverable and then turn around and hand off that file to a high school kid to do the next job for them for peanuts.
Me, if a client wanted my AEP file, I’d show them the door. If they insisted, I’d show them the door right away. The only exception would be if the client made it clear that is what they wanted up front and they had it in writing that those were the terms. But it’s the door for anything short of that…
But hey, that’s just me.
;o)
Besides, if the guy is asking for all your source materials and the AEP file (as in my example), he’s not a client anyway and is about 95% guaranteed that he won’t be back anyway — so what would you really be losing???
Ron Lindeboom
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Thanks for the heads up, Barend. What a disappointing move.
No G1 MacTel laptop in the future for the Boomie, I guess.
;o)
Boomer
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[riccardo sinti] “Any Ideas whether or not the typical Adobe programs will be able to make the best of the new intel chips or will I have to wait for new versions of PS, AE, etc..”
Let’s look at it this way: A PowerPC-based Mac will stand absolutely no chance of running the Adobe apps (other than After Effects). But an Intel-based Mac — if the long-promised dual-boot ability holds true (which I believe it will) — means that you will be able to run the Adobe apps under Windows running on an Intel Mac.
If it were me, I’d opt for the Intel Mac and if it doesn’t run the Adobe apps, you are no further behind than you were before but you have one helluva lot faster machine and one that arguably will not be suffering obsolescence as quickly.
While the jury is still out regarding how well Windows apps will run on the new Macs, there’s at least the chance and that’s more than you have with the PowerPC chip. (Virtual PC aside, which is really no option at all except in the most extreme cases.)
Those are my dos centavos.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Hi Barend and Steve,
We’ve been following this thread and definitely wanted to turn this into an article for the Cow Library. We will ask that you email us, Steve, at kathlyn@creativecow.net so that we follow-up on this when we get back from a road trip we are on today in Hollywood. (We’re staying at the Grafton Hotel on Sunset and are feeling very Bogart and Bacall this morning, as this hotel has such a wonderful sense of film history about it. Very historic and filled with remembrances of Hollywood’s early film history.)
Thanks to you both. Barend it was nice to hear you on the recent podcast you recorded with Aharon — and which will premiere shortly. Thank you for being our guest and for being a part of the Cow. Hugs to the family.
And thank you, Steve, for bringing an insightful dimension to the board here. Your posts and contributions are most appreciated.
The best always,
Ron & Kathlyn Lindeboom
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[cashbuyer] “I’m sure I could sue over this….”
Or not.
I highly doubt that Panasonic guaranteed you one of these units. I think by your own admission, it was a salesman that wanted your money in full gave the promise (and if you gave it to anyone other than one of the gold-plated dealers like B&H, Promax, J&R Camera, etc., you need to reread the fine print in the “Living As A Human” contract (that you received at birth) regarding the caveat emptor clause).
I am now 55 and I can’t recall ever hearing of any pre-order I have made giving me my number in line figured as part of the aggregate body of orders spread across the corporeal body of orders for that specific product from any single manufacturer.
That’s a mighty tall expectation, maybe one bordering on the old adage that “perchance, thou may expecteth just a tad too much.”
That’s my opinion anyway… Others are welcome to theirs.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Ahhh, there’s caffeine at your house, also — eh, Mark?
;o)
Ron Lindeboom