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Thanks for your kind words, Aharon. We appreciate you as a great person and as a wonderfully talented artist whose level of work is simply top-flight. We are proud that your Particle Illusion Fusion Vol. 1 is the first-ever release on DVD in the Cow’s new Creative Cow Master Series.
We haven’t yet officially launched the promo yet but we will be introducing it here in the Cow and in the next newsletter. (But we can tell you are excited and we be getting our first copies tomorrow on the UPS truck. I’m glad you got your copies already!) ;o)
Best regards,
Ron & Kathlyn Lindeboom
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The Artbeats Reel Textures was the first background title shipped by Artbeats. It was created in Photoshop and used, I believe, QuickKeys as the macro tool that took the existing info in photoshop and then tweaked it a bit to create the next frame. It was quite a labor-intensive process and took a long time to complete.
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[Leandro Krukowski] “We got invited to some after parties, Does Creative cow have one?”
No, there will be no Cow party at NAB. We looked at all the days available and there were just too many other poarties and events and so we figured we’d just say hello to everyone as they came by the booth at SL-457.
Be sure and watch your newsletter for details on getting your free Creative Cow mousepad at NAB.
Barend Onneweer and Serge Hamad from our AE forum with be at the booth, as will Alan Bell from our Combustion forum and there will be others was well but in my pre-caffeinated state this morning, my cranial synapses are not firing yet.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Let’s see…
If you know the author, as is often the case when people suggest an article, then you can click on “View By Author,” and then select the author’s name to view all of their articles.
Or…
If you know what program you wish articles for, you can click on “Articles by Host Application” and then click on “After Effects” articles (if that were the program you were looking for).
You can also select to view the articles by the “10 Newest Articles.”
For the complete break-out, they can be viewed as
- Newest 10 Articles (includes Tutorials, Reviews, Editorials, etc.)
- Find Articles By Article Type (ex.: Tutorials, Reviews, Editorials, etc.)
- Find Articles By Product Type (ex.: 3D, Books, Hardware, Plug-ins, etc.)
- Find Articles By Host Application (ex.: After Effects, C4D, Combustion, Final Cut, etc.)
- Find Articles By Category (ex.: Basics of Audio and Video, Business, Cameras, Legal, Health, etc.)
- Find Articles By Author (ex.: Alex Alexzander, Walter Biscardi, etc.)
- Find Articles By Title (First Letter of Title)
For every article that was easy to find in the old schema, there were two that no one ever found and which became permanently buried as we have so many.
Right now, there are hundreds of After Effects articles and we have broken After Effects in sub-categories as it seemed to make more sense than throwing 200 articles at you to sift through all at once.
If you know the author, then that makes the most sense. Next, I’d recommend the Host App, then the Category and/or Type (AE has three just for itself) and then you can look all the way out clear to a “By Article Name” sort — which is at least at times, the least efficient way to search.
We won’t be going back to the old mechanism as it required manual updates to many pages and was fine when we had a few articles but when you have over 500 articles in a library, changing out pages and gateways by hand is a ton of work for two people — and usually just one, Kathlyn (as I am often on other projects).
So that’s the news and as always, people hate change — but it comes with the pasture.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Let’s see…
If you know the author, as is often the case when people suggest an article, then you can click on “View By Author,” and then select the author’s name to view all of their articles.
Or…
If you know what program you wish articles for, you can click on “Articles by Host Application” and then click on “After Effects” articles (if that were the program you were looking for).
You can also select to view the articles by the “10 Newest Articles.”
For the complete break-out, they can be viewed as
- Newest 10 Articles (includes Tutorials, Reviews, Editorials, etc.)
- Find Articles By Article Type (ex.: Tutorials, Reviews, Editorials, etc.)
- Find Articles By Product Type (ex.: 3D, Books, Hardware, Plug-ins, etc.)
- Find Articles By Host Application (ex.: After Effects, C4D, Combustion, Final Cut, etc.)
- Find Articles By Category (ex.: Basics of Audio and Video, Business, Cameras, Legal, Health, etc.)
- Find Articles By Author (ex.: Alex Alexzander, Walter Biscardi, etc.)
- Find Articles By Title (First Letter of Title)
For every article that was easy to find in the old schema, there were two that no one ever found and which became permanently buried as we have so many.
Right now, there are hundreds of After Effects articles and we have broken After Effects in sub-categories as it seemed to make more sense than throwing 200 articles at you to sift through all at once.
If you know the author, then that makes the most sense. Next, I’d recommend the Host App, then the Category and/or Type (AE has three just for itself) and then you can look all the way out clear to a “By Article Name” sort — which is at least at times, the least efficient way to search.
We won’t be going back to the old mechanism as it required manual updates to many pages and was fine when we had a few articles but when you have over 500 articles in a library, changing out pages and gateways by hand is a ton of work for two people — and usually just one, Kathlyn (as I am often on other projects).
So that’s the news and as always, people hate change — but it comes with the pasture.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Exactly my experience as well, George.
Ron Lindeboom
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I quit using Apple Mail for the very reason you suggest. If you use another email app in conjunction with Mail, you will see that it does NOT remove emails from a POP server, it only quits grabbing them to itself. But when you use Entourage, Thunderbird or any of the others out there, you find that all that old email comes piling on through.
As Walter says, I do not update my OS on a video server until I know it’s approved for my configuration — and for that I trust third-party sources like AJA, Blackmagic, Aurora, Media 100 or whoever. That’s been a practice of mine that hails back to my earliest days over a decade ago using Media 100. A solid system is far nicer than updates that often add little to nothing to a video rig anyway.
But when it comes to email, I hear you loud and clear. No “Mail” for the Boomie, please.
Ron Lindeboom
creativecow.net