Ron Lindeboom
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[joel jackson] “…without that deeper dedication to the production and brand the client will not return for future business.”
I know plenty of companies in this industry that are VERY dedicated and QUITE good and professional. They are hurting anyway and many are dropping like flies. Even companies like The Orphanage are closing — and only someone with little knowledge would argue that The Orphanage were not dedicated to making whatever they touched look and feel good.
The issues are many and if there were an easy answer to what’s happening, I’d fill an entire issue of Creative COW Magazine with it and print an extra 50,000 copies knowing that they’d all be grabbed in short order.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
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[Mike Cohen] “It is certainly a buyer’s market for services. My clients are shopping around, and I too am shopping around for my own vendors. For example, I have been getting bids on live webcasting. Rather than my customary 2 quotes, I got 5 and in fact the 5th one was the best deal. So be prepared as a vendor to be subject to price comparisons. Call attention to your value added services, or what sets you apart from the competition.”
We just bumped into this today, Mike. One of the major camera manufacturers (that we haven’t done business with in years) told us that they would buy an ad from us in the next issue of Creative COW Magazine, IF we sold it to them at $1,000 for the full page — oh, and they wanted to be on the inside front cover.
True story.
They told us that “the other magazines are doing it” and that if we wanted their business, we’d do it too.
We told them, “Er, excuse me but aren’t many of those other magazines going out of print? April will find the next one bowing out.”
If we followed their example, we’d too be out of business soon. We don’t plan to follow, as we plan to be around a long time, thank you.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
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[walter biscardi] “The low taxes and great quality of life up here near the lake are the two main reasons why we’ve stayed in this area and the small size of the company is what has kept us so successful.”
That, and the fact that you have the world’s coolest studio digs to schmooze your clients doesn’t hurt either. ;o)
Hopefully, my new recording studio I am building now will have a similar effect on my client base in the days ahead.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
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[D. Scott Dobbie] “And yes, you can still buy a working Firestore. Heck, even if the company folds, I’m sure you’ll be able to buy a working Firestore…”
Yes, and they are a GREAT piece of equipment. Just as Christopher Wright says, I wouldn’t be afraid to buy one.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
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Thanks for the vote of confidence, Bogiesan.
Ron
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Adam,
The Serious FX & Compositing DVD was created by Andrew Kramer and at one point, it was the #1 seller in the entire catalog of DVD training titles.
We have never had one complaint about that title and it has been discussed ad nauseum on this and other forums in the COW.
It sounds as if you may have a defective disc and if so, we will gladly replace it.
Gee, for contacting us you might even try the “Contact Us” link in this site. ;o)
Don’t be a jerk, okay??? We never try to screw anyone and will gladly make good on defects, etc.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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[Tommie Green] “LiGHT STREAKS”
Tommie,
You CLEARLY are disrespecting our policy against ALL CAPS subject lines and even though our mechanism tells you we do NOT want them as subject lines, you change a single letter to circumvent the system and do it in this and other posts you make.
I am going to warn you that your posts are NO MORE IMPORTANT than anyone elses posts and if you try this one more time I will turn your account off.
Respect our policies — or don’t. Your call.
Ron Lindeboom
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[grinner hester] “I once interviewed for a job where the dude ended by telling me I was over qualified. I told him that was fine and I’d just not try very hard.”
That was hilarious, Grinner.
Thanks for a morning laugh. I almost tore holes in my cheeks, I smiled so big.
Boomer
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[Dave Johnson] “And, my opinion is that a smart video editor considers an Engineer among his favorite people on the planet since no professional video facility can survive without them.”
While this is true, it is only true if the engineer is familiar with video and is someone like Bob Zelin, an engineer with the kind of experience that makes him invaluable to many clients he serves.
But if an engineer came in talking with quotes such as I read in this thread, I wouldn’t hire him for free.
Your mileage may vary,
Ron Lindeboom
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[matt cue] “I think he doesn’t want me to have a RAID b/c he is unfamiliar with these. Obviously he is if he thinks a RAID 0 will slow down my performance.”
[matt cue] “He says that a striping RAID puts strain on the processor and will slow it down.”
He is completely wrong that RAID 0 will slow down your computer’s performance and that it will put strain on the CPU. The strain is on the BUS not the CPU. The cycles needed to load RAID 0 files into a system are negligible as the whole point of RAID 0 is to turn off all error correction and verification processes and just basically tell the CPU to just “load the files without bothering to look at them please.”
In the old days of striping, you had to know how to turn off these processes with what we called mode switches. By turning off all the mode switches you were telling the CPU that you did not care if there was corruption in the file, just load it. The normal CPU process of verification that the file grabbed and in the process of being loaded was indeed the *exact* file as it was in its original form — verification — was ignored.
That is the essence of striping in RAID 0.
To say that this requires large CPU processes is nuts. We used to do this on 40 Megahertz machines and when we got up to 80 and 100 megahertz we thought we had died and gone to heaven.
It worked even with such insanely limited processors.
With today’s incredibly powerful multi-core systems with Gigahertz to burn, saying that you need to worry about cycles due to RAID 0 makes me wonder if this guy knows anything about this field whatsoever.
I sure as hell wouldn’t work with him.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.