Ron Lindeboom
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[Mitch Ives] “You may not remember Ron, but that wouldn’t alter the facts. We’ve had conversations at DV Expo and NAB. I learned that other than you and Kathlyn everyone else is using a PC. The post right before yours from Kathlyn would seem to support that point. At this year’s NAB I asked the tech in your booth (before you arrived) about the “Q” function being broken again and his response was “I don’t know, I only use PC’s”. I don’t see my post as something to be defensive about, it just explains the ongoing “Q” issue, and suggests that development of a Mac Widget would probably be a low priority.”
Hi Mitch,
I remember you quite well, thank you. But what I still do not remember is even remotely insinuating that we are a PC-sentric site. We try very hard to be balanced and while Kathlyn and I use Macs, predominantly — Eric (whom you spoke to at NAB) uses PCs and Curtis uses both Macs and PCs. So the preponderance of bias (if there were one, which there isn’t), would be more readily made for a Mac bias.
The balance of the team are Linux-based and mostly are there for security and overall sys admin functions and so if it were up to them, we’d all likely be open-source and commandline. They are hardly what you might call “PC cnetric.”
So, final score on the Cow’s interface and development team:
- Mac users: 2-1/2
- PC users: 1-1/2
If we have failed to inform people of a broken “Q” function, our apologies — it’s just that we are quite a small group trying to do many, many things and the fact is, things get dropped all the time. (It’s the nature of trying to do this big an operation with such a limited amount of resources.)
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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[Mitch Ives] “I’ve learned in conversations with them that the COW is (surprisingly) a PC oriented operation…”
Mitch:
There are many things wrong with this statement:
- First, I can’t recall having conversations with you in which we said that we are PC oriented. .
- Second, I doubt highly that we show a “PC slant” as both Kathlyn and I use Macs — Kathlyn has a PC but my PC was given to our coder. I just didn’t use it much anymore.
- Third, the reason that there are a few features that PC users have here that are not available to Mac users is due to the fact that MicroSoft’s JScript supports functions that, until now, simply were not available in JavaScript.
- Fourth, the reason that the “Q” function is broken in Safari is due to Apple changing things again and we are replacing this interface and have little interest in putting more work into it.
But please feel free to think whatsoever you wish, I’ve come to expect that from human nature — but at least it’s consistent.
Best regards,
Ron LIndeboom
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Just spent a little time with a cup of coffee and touring your website this morning, William. You have some good stuff there. Congratulations on getting “It’s About My Brother” into rotation on the Independent Film Channel. Funny stuff. Loved the Quicktime sample movie as it really gave a sense of the style — nice work.
Ron Lindeboom
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You’re welcome. Glad you found something useful.
Please let them know you learned of them at Creative Cow. ;o)
Thanks,
Ron Lindeboom
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Here’s a direct link to some of the Hollywood Edge collections…
https://www.hollywoodedge.com/category.aspx?SID=7&Category_ID=12039
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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A popular source for foley and other sounds for various productions is The Hollywood Edge. They are at: https://www.hollywoodedge.com
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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I couldn’t agree more. The problem has been (and it usually happens to about one forum a year) that a few people want to slam everyone else’s opinion and raise their voices to the point where many of the more even-tempered people are not comfortable posting without fear of reprisal.
As I have said many times over the years and will say it again, the Cow isn’t for everyone — it’s for those who can interact like human beings. To that end, I have turned off a few accounts and things have gotten far more “cowlike” around this forum and the HDV forum.
Ron Lindeboom
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Great story. Me, I spent a lot of time around the Los Angeles 60s music scene — ran lights for Piccadilly/Omega’s Eye lights. Did lights for bands like The Leaves, The Seeds, The Hook, The Music Machine and many, many others. Later on, I ran lights for Three Dog Night before they even made their first album.
Here, we had KRLA AM-1110 and Dave Diamond in “The Diamond Mind.” It was pretty amazing and even Phil Proctor of “The Firesign Theater” DJ’d on KRLA for quite some time. After FM came along, there was KPPC broadcasting from the basement of a church in Pasadena. Kaleidescope played many times live out of the basement, as well as many other great bands out of the LA area.
And yes, you are right that it was the “Ogdens Nut Gone Flake” album.
Thanks for playing — unfortunately, there is no home game version to send you home with. So, email your address to me at ron@creativecow.net and I’ll send you a free copy of the Cow’s new AE/Particle Illusion training DVD.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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My apologies to you as well, Ken. I mistaked you for someone else or I’d not have read your comments in the manner that I did. Sometimes, it’s just tough to keep all the players straight.
Ron Lindeboom
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[B.J. Ahlen] “Lyrics from the 60s Mod Rockers band?”
Wow, BJ, you actually remember Small Faces, eh? ;o)
Radio Luxembourg, never heard it as I grew up in California but many of the bands I loved talked about it and some even made songs about it — such as Camel who recalled it nostalgically in their “A Nod and A Wink” album of a couple of years back.
To win the prize you have to tell me what Small Faces album the reference is from???
:o)
Boomer