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Brian Stoppee
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Brian Stoppee
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Jul 03, 2017
09:51 AM
https://forums.adobe.com/people/Peru+Bob wrote https://forums.adobe.com/people/Brian+Stoppee wrote . Was it Colbie Caillat who tried to be on American Idol 3 times? I don't know. According to this article in Rolling Stone, both Colbie Caillat and Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott didn't make it to the American Idol stage: 11 Famous Singers Rejected by 'American Idol' - Rolling Stone
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Jul 03, 2017
07:35 AM
https://forums.adobe.com/people/Peru+Bob wrote I was surprised that she was not even accepted as a contestant for America's Got Talent and The Voice, among other things. Was it Colbie Caillat who tried to be on American Idol 3 times?
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Jul 03, 2017
04:21 AM
Ussnorway wrote singing christian music is a big door opener in the US... gun control will end your career fast however so it boils down to know your audience. good luck to her, I say! As the interview quickly mentions, Maren Morris did get some projects to write for other big name Country music performers but "My Church" was her big door opener as a solo performer. She didn't have a record label contract so the wasn't an A&R (Artists and Repertoire) person providing direction as to what the label thinks will sell. Not being someone who closely follows Country music from a very broad view, I wasn't even family with Maren Morris career prior to 2016 so I cannot speak for how A&R may have changed her direction. Generally, the Country audience has responded well the Christian cross-overs and fusions. Country rock (the big seller) isn't as big with spiritual-based lyrics. I'm not sure why. You did get me thinking about A&R directions on that topic, so thank you UssNorway. You're on what place on our planet?
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Jul 02, 2017
04:27 PM
https://forums.adobe.com/people/Peru+Bob wrote A lot of what was discussed surprised me. What were you expecting as opposed to what you discovered?
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Jul 02, 2017
09:43 AM
North America has become known for tenacity. On this holiday season, when we celebrate Canada Day and Independence Day, that tenacious spirit, which our founders endured, continues. This fitting interview ran this morning with Grammy-award winning Maren Morris, (“My Church”), in which she talks about how no defeat would wear her down, her unexpected successes, and the congratulatory calls from Elton John, which she initially skipped (not knowing who was phoning): http://www.today.com/video/maren-morris-writing-my-church-was-a-defining-factor-in-my-life-981731907663 That said, if there is something which you feel divinely called to do, and it just doesn’t seem to work the first time (or for that matter the second, third, or fourth time), remain tenacious. Be the pioneer you were intended to be.
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Jul 01, 2017
06:00 AM
https://forums.adobe.com/people/Bob+Howes wrote A lot of "American" productions are shot in Canada or Australia or Europe. For example, Game of Thrones is an American HBO production but it's almost all shot in Europe and North Africa. Editing and special effects happens all over the place. I'm certainly not saying that this is a bad thing--I have friends in Canada, Europe and here in Australia who earn the bulk of their income working on "American" films and TV. It's true that media production is an extremely competitive industry and it's true that motion picture production is tallied by the US Dept of Commerce throughout North America. There are statewide tax credits and other incentives involved in attracting these things. Then there's climate. If a production wants to shoot in Toronto in January, the production company's insurer could get worried an it gets pushed to Orlando. Then there's just sound stage availability Pinewood (known for James Bond movies) owns great facilities in Georgia and Ontario but if they're booked and there are financial incentives for their European locations, it can get pushed there instead.
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Jun 30, 2017
06:35 AM
JR_Boulay wrote Pronouncing "Adobe" is a real challenge here in France because people always hesitate between the French pronounciation, the English pronounciation and the Spanish prononciation (because originally it is a Spanish word). Yep. The company appears to have been named after the creek which ran through the backyard of the home of one of the founders where they started their pursuit of the Postscript printer language. Developing worldwide household name apps may not have been in the forefront of their minds, at the time. The story of George Eastman and the naming of Kodak is a different story.
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Jun 29, 2017
01:49 PM
https://forums.adobe.com/people/Colin+Holgate wrote And still live 18 years later. Yeh. Me too. But that's primarily because I stopped doing all-nighters with Adobe apps!
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Jun 29, 2017
01:37 PM
https://forums.adobe.com/people/Colin+Holgate wrote I did this a long time ago. It won a FlashForward award, as well as many other ones. It amused me that it got the FlashForward award as it was done in Director: THAT'S RIGHT! Now I remember. I sent your link to this thing to someone, who sent it to someone, who sent it to someone and soon everyone was asking, "Shockwave?" You may have done this a zillion years ago but it's still so fun and still so clever.
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Jun 29, 2017
12:50 PM
carla5811 wrote For the longest time I did not know that Flashplayer was an Adobe product! It took me the longest time to figure out what the difference was between Macromedia Flash Player and Macromedia Shockwave. There are still some old projects out there which use Shockwave and Adobe still pushes out OS tweaks, as needed.
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Jun 28, 2017
04:09 PM
Well this is fun. Janet & I had no idea what we were getting into when we starting tossing around ideas for topics which might be of interest for this forum. We had no idea we'd get into sports talk. Gotta love.
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Jun 28, 2017
02:31 PM
pziecina wrote I have to admit whenever i talk to our engineering department, i always ask if they can send me the technical drawings as Ai files, and over the last 5-6 years it has slowly become the norm for them to send me both the Ai file and the Autocad file, complete with a request that if i find any problems or detail not correctly shown to inform them. Some of these firms use the Autodesk-Adobe connection for 3D and animated models as well as dazzling proposals and presentations.
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Jun 28, 2017
02:15 PM
pziecina wrote Many if not most of Adobes products are aimed at a specific market, and type of user. If someone is not within that user base, or moves outside of it, they would have no reason to even look at Adobe. Around 2-½ years ago we were pleased to discover that a few creative architectural firms had both Autodesk and Adobe subscriptions. Now, we find all of them we talk to are setup like that. Last month a big engineering firm partner said, "Are you able to send me those drawings as an Ai files?" He told us most engineering firms he works with have the full CC subscription (but that might just be one of those Baltimore-Washington kind of things).
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Jun 28, 2017
01:45 PM
Szalam wrote https://forums.adobe.com/people/Brian+Stoppee wrote I would like to believe that Adobe is a better-known household name than most sports team, It certainly depends on the household! I was talking to someone the other day who had no idea what Adobe was, but they know who the Tennessee Titans are. HA! Do those of us who know who Adobe is and the Tennessee Titans, too get a special commemorative T-Shirt?
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Jun 28, 2017
12:36 PM
https://forums.adobe.com/people/John+T+Smith wrote Say "futbol" to a Timbers fan and they know what you mean... anyone else will hear "football" and not know you are talking about Soccer I would like to believe that Adobe is a better-known household name than most sports team, but you got me thinking that such fame is probably relative to the team and where you live.
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Jun 27, 2017
03:38 PM
We frequent the dining areas of WiFi hotspots and meet many new friends including other creative souls working on big projects. Yesterday, we stopped to chat with three residential landscape architects who do beautiful work with technical pencils and rolls of tracing paper. We had to ask if they scan their drawings to drop into an Adobe or Autodesk app. After a few seconds of blank stares one woman said, “We’ve never heard of Adobe.” What’s to be learned from that experience? First, we don’t want to say, “We’re smart—they’re not.” After all, we entered the digital world before the Mac or Windows existed. Yet, we still love pens and paper, too. Next, could we collaborate with people all over the world if we never went digital? Our world would be a much smaller space, one we can’t imagine. But, that doesn’t stop us from celebrating the analog creative expressions of others.
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Jun 26, 2017
05:55 PM
https://forums.adobe.com/people/Nancy+OShea wrote https://forums.adobe.com/people/Brian+Stoppee wrote Thank you, Nancy. The US Commerce Dept is estimating that Media & Entertainment industry in North America will produce $1.14 trillion in revenue next year. Brian, Do you expect see any of those revenues personally or professionally? I don't . Not the full $1.14T (I like to share the wealth). In addition to media+entertainment (M&E) consulting that market is fusing into hospitality as well. So, yes, our services are in demand. (…and that's why I have all sorts of that industry biz data, like that). But while we're at it, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics is projecting M&E job growth at 27,400 in the US alone. (So, I guess I have to share my $1T+ with a bunch of newbies!)
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Jun 26, 2017
04:52 PM
https://forums.adobe.com/people/Nancy+OShea wrote No question, streaming has arrived. Apart from my husband's "can't live without it" sports packages, we rarely use our Direct TV service anymore. 80% of our favorite programming comes from the Roku stick -- Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, and others.... Thank you, Nancy. The US Commerce Dept is estimating that Media & Entertainment industry in North America will produce $1.14 trillion in revenue next year.
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Jun 24, 2017
09:09 AM
Why is it important that the Co-Presidents of Sony Pictures Television have taken jobs with Apple? Netflix and amazon have made some significant inroads with delivering award-winning Internet movies. Apple looked to a pair of award winners, to help them with developing significant motion picture content. The more motion picture production which flows through the web content pipeline, the more jobs are created and the more facilities, gear, and educational resources are developed. North America is already the world’s leader in media content production. That service sector industry, for North American audiences, cannot be manufactured in Asia—it’s home grown, here. The more the world demands North American creative content, the more everyone thrives.
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Jun 23, 2017
06:04 AM
Trevor.Dennis wrote Hey Brian. You realize this is The Lounge where folk talk about other stuff? Are you implying that I might have a glimmer of a life outside of media technology? NNNNAAAAAAA!
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Jun 22, 2017
04:31 PM
https://forums.adobe.com/people/Nancy+OShea wrote The online giant acquires a major US food chain to the tune of $13.4 billion. Wow! https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/business/dealbook/amazon-whole-foods.html?_r=0 So how is this relative to Adobe CC? It could be. Like Netflix, amazon has been making in roads to creating its own content, TV series production requires a bunch of postproduction and no one does it better than Creative Cloud.
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Jun 09, 2017
06:47 PM
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Warunicorn wrote Just to add: This works great for the Android version too; I do it all the time. (Well...I use Capture more than Draw...but I still use it.) Thank you for that. When this CC mobile stuff got started it was all iOS. Then Adobe introduced the Android SDK but I'm told it didn't get much traction. Hopefully, that's history.
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Jun 09, 2017
06:32 AM
I'm moderately confident that it's not going to be possible to reproduce any form of stereo with this box - certainly one on its own will not be able to reproduce any form of plane wave propagation. The math behind this is, to put it mildly, complex - you'll just have to take my word for this unless you want to get into the intricacies of spherical harmonics! First, let me say that as being part of the Apple Developer program (for about as long as it existed), we have seen zero guidance on the HomePod. Next, if it doesn't have some kind of developer configuration capability I would hope the "real" developers would be jumping up on down on Apple's desks requesting such things.
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Jun 09, 2017
06:24 AM
Not quite sure how to react to that! TOUCHDOWN! Been waiting for this day to get here.
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Jun 09, 2017
06:22 AM
Interesting comparisons here http://www.androidauthority.com/google-home-vs-amazon-echo-vs-apple-homepod-features-77805 8/ That's a cool chart, Ry. Thank you. I was skeptical about a review from somewhere with Android in it's name, but it's very much, "just the facts."
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Jun 09, 2017
06:19 AM
I would get something like a Sonos system that is actually designed to play music reasonably well Well… since 2011 we have been playing all our music, TV, and movies on great home theater systems, via Bluetooth primarily on our iPhone (but iPad and Macs, too). It was a little wacky in those early days, but it did much of what HomePod seems to be about for music. Back then, it didn't have the Siri thing but that's in must Apple devices, now. The difference, compared to the HomePod is that we had the fully clarity and focus of 7.1
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Jun 09, 2017
03:01 AM
Should say for everybody else's benefit that Brian already knows what I think about this thing - in some detail! We not only already know what Steve thinks of the Apple HomePod but we 1.) credit him for getting our heads in motion to delve into learning more about what the product is all about, but 2.) helping those investigations in our forming an opinion on the way forward, and 3.) learning more about how to react to those who may feel it's going to change music production. People know Janet & I for both our Apple knowledge and experience as well as our candor. So, here's our thinking: we do feel Apple is about to extend its home, office, mobile control environment and HomePod will play an important role in that. Will we personally use one as well as provide consulting? The probably is 99% "Yes." But, will we make it our personal listening resource? Not a chance. I think Steve's one word excellent explanation of the messy audio output is "phassy" which we think he means a lack of clarity as sounds do something very different that the original producers and engineers intended. And, yes, clients will say to those who labor over an Audition project, in the studio, "When I listen to it on my HomePad…" So, it's one of those things all DAW users need to prepare for.
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Jun 08, 2017
03:20 PM
I'm not really sure what this has to do with Audition, or any other DAW software, any more than Amazon's or Google's attempt at the same thing. I am a cynic when it comes to this sort of thing that is supposed to light up the world. What multiple-speaker audio products from amazon and Google are you referring to? Or is this a way of saying, "HomePod isn't an audio product at all. It's just a amazon echo which has speakers hanging off of it."? (If so, ryclark it's okay to say. "It's a joke. Lighten up, Brian.") With Apple's claims that this is something very new for audio, we wanted get out in front of any possible concerns for Audition users.
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Jun 08, 2017
10:59 AM
Do you REALLY need Apple to “Rock your home”? We always have Adobe Audition on our brains when we hear about new audio technology. The Apple HomePod https://www.apple.com/homepod/threw us for a loop, this week. During the Apple WWDC Keynote, we wondered if this would open a need for a new music recording and distribution model. There’s been a great deal of discussion about Apple’s new HomePod. It was touted as a music-based device in a product category primarily known as a “Smart Speaker.” That name is something of an evolution of the “Smart Phone” name. Google and amazon have had plenty of success with devices you can talk to and they talk back. That too is something of an evolution, in this case its Apple’s Siri which the other two players monetized for a digital home before Apple fully got around to it. But, is the HomePod a great music solution? Maybe that’s analogous to asking. “Is the iPhone is a great camera?” If you don’t own a professional dSLR (digital Single Lens Reflex) camera, you might say, “Yes!” However, if the dSLR is part of your way of life, you might just roll your eyes at that question and that’s all you need to do to respond. Well, the same is true of the audio question. At the Apple WWDC Keynote, Apple did flash on the screen a few logos of the big household names in audio. They’re the companies which have gotten on board with Apple AirPlay. Here are a few things which need to be understood about audio playback. Things have moved forward from the days of the RCA dog tilting its head at the big monaural horn-like device or those huge 1960s pieces of furniture for playing two channels of stereo. Now, surround sound is everywhere, including in our high-end headphones. The unique component is the nomenclature. Beyond Mono (1.0) or Stereo (2.0) are the more basic home surround concepts of 5.1 and 7.1, plus in the true theatre audio experiences there’s even 22.2. The typical home theatre 5.1 configuration would be a total of 6 speakers. There are 3 speakers to the left, right, and center of the TV plus 2 on either side of the prime sofa seating. The “point one” in the “five point one” title is that rumbling subwoofer which is usually just off to the side of the TV. 7.1 has a more full surround effect with left and right speakers behind the prime listening seats. The 9.1 concept adds two higher front left and right speaker positions. But, 10 speakers in at least one room? Then there’s various rooms of the house with more speakers? Isn’t that a mess of wires? Well, it used to be. Wireless speaker systems are the new way to go. That said, how does surround sound relate to the Apple HomePod? We don’t know. We have not seen sufficient information on it. However, the HomePod appears to be about much more than music. And, the audio component appears to be far different than the above described home theatre configurations. Should music producers concern themselves? Should Adobe’s Audition team prepare for new directions in playback configurations? Though we do not doubt that the first HomePod will gain a fan base and Apple will expand the brand’s capabilities in the years ahead, we don’t think there’s a need for anyone to concern themselves that studio production nor postproduction techniques are about to change because of this. Anything which brings about new excitement is good for business. What we know is that the photo capabilities of smart phones have revved people enough to want more from their photography and then they buy serious dSLR cameras. So, we hope the Apple HomePod will also open up renewed interest in all the great new gear, which excites the ears of audiophiles and lovers of terrific audio in movies and TV shows.
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Jun 02, 2017
01:36 PM
You can skip the one-at-a-time via Swatches>Select All Unused True. But as I pointed out in the original scenario, you have to be careful that if the client sent you unused Swatches but they expect you to use them. You don't want those powerful features to allow you to make powerful mistakes.
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