Ron Lindeboom
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Jiri:
These kinds of claims have been happening since the advent of this industry and they always happen with the roll-out and introduction of any new system or technology. People get enthusiastic about it and begin getting excited. It’s rare that in 10 years of doing this, that I have found anyone maliciously or intentionally trying to mislead people — oh, it happens but I could could them all on my hands. (Which isn’t bad, considering that we’ve been at this for a decade now.)
There is absolutely nothing different about this than when it happened every other time it’s happened in the past. People get passionate and as artists, passion should be something that we see in ourselves and maybe even learn to tolerate in others…
You are NOT going to convince anyone that you opinions are right by calling their tools “toys” and angering a pool of people and pissing them off accomplishes absolutely nothing.
Even one of the most knowledgeable forums in the Cow, which I consider to be the Discreet Edit forum, will argue and argue what is wrong with FCP (for example), all the while editing on a system which runs under Windows NT 4.0 and which because of this, has to have major workarounds just to work with DV footage. But I do not go in there and tell them that they are wrong. Why bother? People are entitled to think what they wish about the tools they use and can afford.
If I owned a Z1 (since that’s the one you pick on most often), I sure as heck wouldn’t be sitting around telling myself that it’s a pile of crap, where’s the sense in that? — especially when I have to have some confidence in myself and my tools the next time I have to make a sales presentation.
I do not argue for a second that the Z1 is comparable to a CineAlta or that the new Panasonic will do all that a VariCam can do. They are different cameras.
But if I were using CineAltas and/or VariCams, then I also as sure as eggs as eggs, wouldn’t be hanging around this forum and the HDV forum insulting manufacturers reps, leaders and users trying to disparage people all the time. What is the sense in that??? Do you honestly think that you are going to change people’s opinions talking to them like that???
For levity sake: The first one who writes me at ron@creativecow.net and tells me where the song title “As Sure As Eggs Is Eggs” comes from, gets a free copy of the new Strawbs album CD that Kathlyn and I produced.
Best regards,
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[Alex DeJesus] “If I produce a wedding or event video using a copyrighted song, what permissions do I need, and how do I get it? What is your view?”
If you take the time to read the article, it will answer this question in depth.
Legally, you do not have a right to use the song and if you do, you will be liable should you ever be caught. While I am not aware of any wedding videographer who has been sued by the RIAA, if I were a wedding videographer, I would not do it.
Harry Fox Agency used to handle licensing but they recently quit doing it. Now, you are on your own and need to license songs directly from (usually in this order) the publisher, the producer or the artist.
[Alex DeJesus] “If I produce a music video for a local entertainer, and the music and lyrics of the song are not hers, nor does she know their origin, what are my protections? I’ve tried a web search on portions of the lyrics and came up empty, but I know the song didn’t appear from nowhere. Please advise.”
The article answers this question, in depth also. Basically, you are culpable and even if a piece of paper saying that the client holds you harmless if any suit should arise, it will not hold up in court and you will be liable without a leg to stand on.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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David,
It is funny that you interpret things as being “unfriendly” when you repeatedly try to get us to assume some level of responsibility for an issue that arises on your machine which by your own admission uses a firewall, has multiple kinds of anti-spam and other forms of filtering going on and — if you go to all that kind of trouble — I highly doubt that you’ve forgotten to add anti-banner software to the mix.
With all this filtering that is going on, we simply throw up our hands and do not know what to tell you.
If that is unfriendly, then I guess that is the best we can do under the circumstances…
As Eric said in his last reply to you — and which will be his last as I have told him that enough is enough — nearly all our cookies are universal, sitewide cookies and the only ones that aren’t have to do with tracking “read-entire-thread” and “mark-these-threads-as-read” cookies. But you do not use that interface option. Therefore, when you say that most all threads work but some don’t — when we only use a single cookie sitewide — it will either work or it won’t. The intermittency is on your end and is the outcome of all the filters, use of an unsupported browser, etc.
But if you wish to think it’s our mechanism, please feel free to do so.
Ron Lindeboom
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[Mark Briody] “Does anyone remember the old Xaos products?”
Yes, I remember them and they were some of my favourite plug-ins. Back at MacWorld in January 1995, I was standing at the Xaos Tools booth watching a Paint Alchemy demo and I turned and looked at the guy standing right next to me on my right and it was Todd Rundgren — one of my favourite musicians of all time. We chatted a few minutes about Media 100s (which he and I had just bought recently back then) and also about Paint Alchemy and the other Xaos Tools plug-ins also. A nice guy and a phenomenal music producer, to say the least.
There is no one single plug-in that replicates the kind of brush effects that Xaos Tools was famous for, but there are various ones out there from Re:vision FX and DigiEffects, to name a couple.
If anyone else has any ideas, I’m listening as well — I still miss my Paint Alchemy.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Have you gotten the moderation function lately, Craig?
Eric is looking into a possible glitch in the code which *may* (we do not know but are looking into any issue we can think of) cause the cookies to blow out. As I said, most people are NOT getting these cookie errors.
Thanks for any feedback you may have.
Ron Lindeboom
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[David J] “My reply to your last post triggered another bad cookie response, so you’ll have to wait for it to be moderated. Twice in one day is a first. Farmyard smells are wafting through the air.”
David,
Your post was moderated because we do NOT in any way, shape or form have any desire to support D.M.N. and you insist on trying to make posts regarding them. As I told you in the private email I sent you (which you choose to ignore), we received from them a total ‘in-hand payout” of $100 for a site into which we had poured 4-1/2 years of work (before we were “acquired” by them) and into which we had poured over $130,000 of our own money over the years.
Regarding cookies: You by your own admission site behind a firewall with spyware, anti-virus and other filtering software…
How do you think that stuff works??? It turns OFF anything it remotely feels fits their definition of the tactics used by those who try to defeat your security. Unfortunately, they error way to the side of caution and even though our cookies are quite public and benign, they still will turn them off.
I have personally been looking into the cookie problem, and indeed it seems to be happening to about the same percentage of users that it has always happened to over the last year or so. There are always some people that have these issues. Once most of our users reset their cookies when we changed over servers, they had no issues. There are always some who do have issues and with all the cookie checker software, anti-virus and spyware and firewall security stuff that is so prone to error to the side of near-paranoia, we aren’t going to worry about it. We cannot control how people’s systems work, we can only make sure that our cookies follow standard guidelines, which they do.
Ron Lindeboom
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I just went there and it’s working fine.
I suspect that the DNS server on your service provider’s system is in need of a reboot. That is usually what happens nowadays. Gone are the days of redundant DNS server backbones. In the early days of the Net, most service providers contracted with three or more DNS services but nowadays nearly every system we’ve seen is down to one provider. When they experience problems, there is no secondary support system.
I’d call your service provider and ask them to reboot their DNS server.
Ron Lindeboom
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[c staley] “Just like your cover letter the more you can target your demo reel to your future employer the better.”
You make a good point: The one doing the hiring is looking at your work from the perspective of what it brings (or not) to their situation. This is why many people I know in this business have multiple demo reels edited for different situations. A demo reel full of longer form shots that are shown in a camera person’s demo reel is far different than the fast paced eye-candy parade on a motion graphics artist’s reel. The pacing is different and the purpose is different.
One general purpose one-size-fits-all demo reel is often very self-defeating and can work against you.
In any event, the best demo reels I have seen are almost always one minute or less. Done correctly, they leave you with a feeling of wanting to see more — too often, demo reels lumber and plod on until you feel as if sand is being poured into your eyes. When it ends — if you get that far and haven’t already hit the stop button — you are almost muttering “Good grief!” to yourself.
Build your demo reel from your client/employer’s perspective, not as a document of your history in the industry.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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[Tim] “First of all in the future…it is never a good idea to discount work for the promise of future work…invariably they will take your discount, screw you out of the future work, and run leaving you wanting final payment.”
This, as there will invariably be “issues” with what you have done, so you will not have earned the rest of the money. But “we really do want to work with you on these future [dangle carrots here] and so let’s just drop it and go on from here, okay?”
(At this point newbie collapses into a puddle of gelatinous ooze, realizing that there’s no contract and that the work has been done and delivered.)
And looking up from the puddle, the carrot still dangles…
“Um, and it’s really tasty!,” says the grinder.
Boomer
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Thanks, Juan Karlo. I appreciate it. The iframe was messing with the code.
Ron Lindeboom