[Ron Lindeboom]

It basically comes down to we watch closely so that spammers do not take root here.

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Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC

Creativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Kalleheikki Kannisto] “Looking forward to the new and improved COW!”

Not a tenth as much as me! ????

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Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC

Creativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.

[Ron Lindeboom]

Thank you for noticing, Grinner. ????

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Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC

Creativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.

[Ron Lindeboom]

What it sounds like to me, Ray, is that doing a locked greenscreen shoot of you playing recorded with good mics is your best option — if I read your question correctly. Lock down the mic position and the stool you are playing on and then if you only have one camera, you could move the camera to another angle and then play to the click to keep your timing accurate — by having the mic and stool position locked, your audio should be very close if you wish to use audio from any of the other “takes” should your need arise. Repeat as needed to get your angles into the can. Then you can edit the various angles, as needed, and drop out the greenscreen to get the “location” shots that you want.

I hope that I understood your question correctly.

Best regards,

Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC

Creativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.

[Ron Lindeboom]

I debugged it and it’s working now, Kalleheikki. Thank you for the heads-up on this one. It is appreciated.

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Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC

Creativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.

[Ron Lindeboom]

Thank you for noticing what really drives this place, Mark. Caring. When we started the WWUG long ago it was due to the fact that we had just taken every penny we had and then some — yes, truly our life savings and everything that came after for a number of years — and poured it into a system to buy a seat at what I knew would be The Next Big Thing™ in technology. We knew that others were doing the same thing and we knew our lives were on the line. I’ll be honest with you, Kathlyn has had her heart broken more than a few times from working with people for years and then getting an email or a call from them telling her that they are leaving the business. We tried hard to do something that would minimize those kinds of things from happening. We have seen so many fold up their tents and close shop. We wanted to build something that we like to say was a “hope vehicle.” You have to understand what business you are in and to Kathlyn, Tim and I, this has always been a hope business. That is our focus and is the thing we work to produce…hope. This business is hard enough without losing the hope that you will find the right answer to your problem, or find the inspiration when you are just exhausted and at wit’s end. It is why I have always held a heavy hand on things and moderated when people railed loudly that I did: anything that challenged or fought against the true endgame and which did not serve the desired end we were working towards, was culled. We knew what we were working towards and we had a real tangible vision in mind and we worked towards that end.

Sadly, my health issues derailed me at the time of my greatest achievements in the COWmag, the rebuilding of the site with an AI engine — which never got to see the light of day and on which I had spent many hundreds of thousands of dollars building. That code still sits on our servers but rather than recoup original work that will keep us on our own developmental “hamster wheel,” we are looking to go with industry standard tools that are now at the level that we can put this kind of weight on them and trust they won’t fail us.

To add one piece of the story that Tim was not around for, in the very beginning the first engineer that I worked with to conceive, design and build the engine for the WWUG (whose concepts and principles we would improve and reinvent for the COW), was my dear friend Rob Elder. Rob is with us again and things have come full circle, with Rob heading our reengineering of the COW. I have always loved working with Rob because we understand each other and we speak in mental pictures and our own kind of structural shorthand. We see very much eye-to-eye and it is great to be working with Rob again. To say that Rob’s fingerprints are on the elasticity and structural integrity of the mechanism that has driven both the WWUG and the COW to this present day, would be no exaggeration.

We are all a lot older now and see this as building the COW for the next decade. We plan to be around for many more anniversaries.

Best regards,

Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC

Creativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Bob Cole] “I know this is an aside, but I hope you keep the “view posts by thread” option. I’m curious as to why you would want to change such a great website. — Bob C”

I love that view too, Bob Cole. But the amount of work it takes to maintain an old forums engine idea that i first engineered back at the WWUG in 1995, is becoming an onerous and expensive task. When I first came up with our version of forums, it was what I still feel is a superior idea — especially if one explores the system and finds that we actually support THREE complete interfaces in our system — but it is 2018 and as we head into 2019, there are some great off-the-shelf systems out there. They have entire teams working to build and enhance their systems and the cost is far less than it is to try to maintain and update this system.

We will never be able to make everyone happy and over the years, we learned that we never have in the past and we doubt we will accomplish such an unrealistic goal as we head into the future.

To be honest with you, we have been insulted for many years because we followed our own path but had we used one of the systems out there that have been the forums engines for many over the last 15 years or more, I know that the COW would have failed just as most all those sites who told me I was wrong, have failed. But the new generation of forums are finally strong and robust enough to support something like the COW.

I will be sad to close the door on our past but it is time.

Thank you for your kind words about the old girl, Bessie thanks you. ????

Best regards,

Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC

Creativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Admin note: this post has been moved to a new thread, here: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/17/883710]

[Ron Lindeboom]

Hello Kalleheikki,

I did as you asked and have reignited the Video Copilot forum as a hybrid forum that consolidates all references of products related to Video Copilot.

Thank you for your feedback. It is appreciated.

Best regards,

Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC

Creativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.

[Ron Lindeboom]

It’s been a long time since I set that system up, Kalleheikki, and it may be that it is a part of the COW2COW system, which basically is 2 gigs for two weeks and then it dumps the file. I cannot remember. That would be my suspicion.

In any case, we are working to replace the entire COW system and so things are changing and in the next iteration, we will have to see how WordPress handles such things, as we are headed to WordPress.

Best regards,

Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC

Creativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.