Ron Lindeboom
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After getting out of the more in-the-trenches level of licensing for a while, Harry Fox Agency is back at it and are the major clearing house for licensing rights. You can find them online at:
https://www.harryfox.com/index.jsp
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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[Pat King] “I know that I have a lot of flexibility about how I view posts.”
For those following this post, there are three different interfaces to work with here at the COW:
- one, our default threaded view that most people use;
- two, the date range filtered view that shows posts by when they are posted;
- three, our topical view, which allows users to see the first post of a thread only — so that they can see quickly the range of topics.
Each of these views then also supports a “view entire thread at once” function that allows users to see the whole thread quickly.
[Pat King] “But it seems to me that 99% of users accept the default display, which does not bring a thread back to the top when someone replies. What this means is that responses to posts more than a page or two down simply get ignored. “
Yes, the vast majority of users use the default threaded display.
We have thought about the issue of pushing threads back to the top when someone replies to an older thread but we think that would confuse many users and also make things look very screwed up. Also, for those who are concerned about this and like to know what is currently happening across all the site, the date range interface is written with that in mind.
We have talked about giving users a “subscribe to a thread” function so that if they are interested in a thread but aren’t posting to it, they will get notices whenever someone adds to the thread.
Other than that, we aren’t working towards doing anything within the realm of your request but we appreciate your feedback.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Hi Bob,
So that we can see what’s happening, can you tell us what platform and system you use and your browser and version.
Also, it would help if you could point us to a thread or post in whch this happens.
Thanks, Bob.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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[Charlie King] “Releasing any work at all that has not been paid for, regardless of the reason, is bad business practice. If they are taking the project elsewhere, they either pay for what has been done, or start over at the new facility. They should not expect to get the work that was finished, at no cost whatsoever. If they refuse to pay, they don’t get any work. If any tapes belonged to them before the work began then release those tapes to them, but nothing that you created.”
Good advice, Charlie. Kathlyn and I once found ourselves in this situation with a client who had come to us with a half-finished project that needed some real finish work to get it done. We later learned that he had stiffed the first studio and took the work that they gave him and which he brought to us. We worked for days with the guy until it became clear that this project was never going to end — he suffered from “artiste’s syndrome” and nothing was ever going to be good enough. He fancied himself, Van Gogh or DaVinci or something. I told him that we were going to wrap up the project that night or not at all. He insisted I give him my work and he would finish it elsewhere. I later learned he had done that to the first studio and they gave it to him. We didn’t. He refused to pay and threatened to sue us, I told him to go right ahead. Of course he didn’t and I don’t think he ever finished the project. I think he’s still massaging it in the 322nd studio in the line, by now.
Like you said, I handed him back everything that was his when he walked in the door. I gave him nothing of my work. That job taught me a lot of reasons why I would never do a job without a signed estimate and making them sign updated change orders along the way. It was an expensive lesson but one well worth the cost.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Hi Gary,
Most likely, you are trying to change the spelling or way that your name is spelled. Or perhaps you have changed the way that your email address is spelled. Our database will only work with the exact spellings and the mechanism is also case-sensitive and all spaces and upper- and lower-case must be exactly as you registered them.
I have emailed you offlist with the exact info in the files.
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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[Arthur Vibert] “It says that after registration the demo becomes fully useable”
Search on the word “Panopticum” in this forum (and be sure to use the archives as well). You will find that they have what many users consider to be an abysmal customer service history. In my opinion, I’d be quite hesitant to buy from them.
Your mileage may vary.
Ron Lindeboom
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Why would we remove things like this? Simple…
We do not encourage nor do we tolerate breaches of NDAs and we subscribe to the belief that were we to sign an NDA with your company, you would not wish us to go around blabbing everything publicly that you wish kept private.
We extend the same courtesy to Adobe and other manufacturers.
The only people that know are those on the beta team that are under NDAs. Everyone else is just guessing.
Because fo this, we can and do often remove things like this.
Ron Lindeboom
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Personally, I assign this one to the “urban myth” category, Tim.
Why?
There are a few reasons why I’d say this…
First, there’s Photoshop. While most of the world uses PCs and the Mac accounts for roughly 5% of the computers being used today, using CreativeCow as a yardstick of the creative community — we run nearly half Mac and half PC among our members. The Mac is still huge among creative types and in the creative market, Photoshop is king. Adobe would have to throw away millions of unit sales that add up into the hundreds of millions of dollars each year just in Photoshop sales and upgrades each year.
If Apple were to have bought Macromedia instead of Adobe buying it, then I would have begun to worry. This, as Macromedia owns Fireworks and also in Macromedia’s vault is the by-some forgotten imaging prowess of X-Rez (built on a codebase that once made up the old LivePicture program, which if ever there were to have been a rival that might have gone up against Photoshop, it would have been LivePicture). Macromedia also has Freehand which would have given Apple vector graphics capabilities. But Apple didn’t buy Macromedia and so with that one purchase, Adobe kept Apple out of the imaging and core graphics marketplace — at least for a while (if Apple has any intention of getting into it by developing a tool of their own).
Why is that important?
Because with Apple’s recently announced move to Intel
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Congratulations, Derrick. I can still remember when I first got After Effects v1.2 back when it was called CoSA After Effects. It was a great day and I spent the next few years going nutso with AE, having so much fun doing things I never imaged I’d be able to do.
You have to love computers. Geeze I love being a nerd! ;o)
Have fun,
Ron Lindeboom
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You might wish to consider a combination of animating the smoke to get the movement you want and compositing it with some stock footage to get more realism by compositing in the real smoke’s behaviour.
Neither one is going to look quite right, right out of the box — but a combination of the two should give you the best of both worlds in a convincing image.
I have found over the years that when dealing with stock footage of things like smoke/fire, etc., I tend to often use more than one layer of the same fire or smoke set at varying opacities and blend modes — that often makes for a very realistic effect.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom