Ron Lindeboom
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Hi Callum,
You may wish to ask this in the Cow’s Apple OSX forum as well. This, as some who are there will probably have an idea or two regarding Javascript on a Mac.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Let’s see: When I first bought After Effects, it was $2,400 as I recall. It came with almost no built-in plug-ins. It required you to buy Effects Packs One & Two which were another $700 and $600, respectively. It had a dongle and, if I remember correctly, one of the effects packs also had a dongle. I paid a lot of money to have a program that did far, far less than what After Effects does today. It dropped in price and increased in features as legitimate users bought copies. Eventually there were enough copies that they dropped the dongle scheme and relied on their legitimate user base to support the R&D.
If putting up with activation schemes is what is necessary to further continue Adobe’s drop in pricing while increasing AE’s feature set, I can put up with it.
Your mileage may vary,
Ron Lindeboom
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Mighty Barend,
Good to bump into you, this morning. Please give our love to Ingrid and tell Jurrie that we finished production on the new Strawbs album and it is at the replicator now. Will be out by the end of June.
Send me a quick email with your phone number (Kathlyn’s still sleeping this morning and I do not know where she has your number) and I will give you a call.
Best always,
Ron Lindeboom
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If, as you say, you’d like books more general in scope than specifically those that deal with After Effects, then I can’t recommend the following book highly enough. It is a great book and everyone I know who has bought it has loved it. It’s an amazing piece of work from a guy who hails back to Bob Abel & Associates where effects technology was largely pioneered.
Digital Compositing for Film and Video with CDROM
by Steve Wright
This is a hands-on, practical how-to guide addressing the problems and choices faced by the professional compositor in real-life situations. Written by a senior compositor with over ten years’ experience in both feature film and broadcast television, this book offers a broad range of alternative solutions that will save hours of fiddling with composites trying to get them to look right when the basic tools aren’t working. A companion CD-ROM provides examples of the many topics covered in this book.
Read review by COW co-founder, Ron Lindeboom.Anyway, that’s my vote…
Ron Lindeboom
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Usually, you get things “clumped” by clusters of similar feeling and sounding grooves. You listen to one from a cluster and get the idea and dig down from there.
But, as you probably surmise, Charlie, in the end it’s a matter of luck.
;o)
Loops: So many and so little time!
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This question has been asked almost daily and a use of the word “tutorials” in the Cow’s powerful search engine will get you many, many answers and many recommendations.
Thanks,
Ron Lindeboom
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The Digital Anarchy plug-ins are amazing, as is Zaxwerks. Another favourite of mine (and which may not be effects, per se, but is *very* important) is Color Finesse from Synthetic Aperture.
You may also wish to check out BroadcastGEMs.com for their AE tools — while not plug-ins, per se, they are incredibly deep and rich. There is a review of BroadcastGEMs in the Cow’s features section.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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I would check out the Zero-G “Pro Pack for Apple Garageband” (which also works in Soundtrack).
It has over 11,000 loops in it, which includes 3,900 drum loops, alone.
Ron Lindeboom
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Hello Erich,
We do our best to find and squelch the bugs in various browsers, etc., but it is very tough when talking about a browser like INternet Explorer as it has been at 5.1 on the Mac side for nearly four years now. It hasn’t been updated since about the time Apple rolled out OSX.
If you wish to use a browser that in Net years is akin to a great-great-grandfather application, it is going to have problems. We recommend that you use Safari or FireFox on the Mac.
If you insist on using Explorer, we can assure you that you will continue to have issues as they seem to become more and more common as Apple continues to develop OSX while Microsoft hasn’t continued to develop Explorer for the Mac.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
creativecow.net