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Inspiring
November 11, 2013
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When do you get tired of ...

  • November 11, 2013
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  • Noobs that refuse to RTFM
  • FCP converts that persist in converting to intermediate formats
  • Noobs that use non-editable material and complain all the time
  • Jungfrau marathon after 37.8 km
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    the_wine_snob
    Inspiring
    November 12, 2013
    1. Folk who treat the answers to simple questions (What platform are you on? What are the specs. of your Source Footage? What is your Project/Sequence Preset? What are the specs. of your Export? etc.) as "state secrets," and keep complaining that NOTHING works.
    2. Folk who will get a dozen replies to a question/problem, never revisit that thread again, but will then post the same question to the same forum again, and again.
    3. Folk who shoot 4K, then output to DVD-Video, and complain that the resultant disc is not as crisp as their original 4K footage, and blame their copy of Premiere for that.
    4. Folk who would watch a televised marathon, in real-time...
    5. Folk who see clear, sunny days in the UK, this time of the year... Last month, we arrived just as a "named storm" swept through the Isles!

    Hunt

    able123
    Inspiring
    November 12, 2013

    If I come back here will that be some weird signal that Jim Simon will then post 5 pages of " the world according to Jim " ?  Or is he now ( thank Gawd ) one of the actors on that new reality TV show " Survivors On Desert Island " and won't be back until 22 episodes are in the can ?

    The suggestion that a fake poster credit to sell a fake movie won't be taken as a suggestion somebody actually BECOMES a director.

    ( burp, scuse me , its BEER THIRTY YIPEE ! )

    I take umbrage ( is that the word I want ? ) with the 4k debacle. I shot red test stuff on card limited to 2k on card and had to downscale using redcine X to mov h264 using the mouse... just to get it INTO the mouse... and the quality suffered a lot ( and thank gawd Jim asked if I would ever do color correction on that sample I shared , cause it really helped me to get beat up in a forum where nobody has cc monitors anyway , least of all me who is color blind anyway ).

    My opinion is that if someone wants to take 4k footage, put it in a paper bag and set it on fire, and leave it at some creepy neighbors front door , ring their bell and run away , on Halloween.. more power to them !

    able123
    Inspiring
    November 12, 2013

    nothing like a little vino with your varmints....

    http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/12/food-matters-the-professional-women-who-hunt-shoot-and-gut-their-dinners/

    this girl was my 4th wife until she ran off with the dog ( english pointer named " Rodney " )

    that first pic looks real !

    I bet steve can do that for the " potato chip eater in theatre " shot ???

    I'm gonna make some puta fresca now, and meld with my girl friends with bigger balls than me !

    time to drink the cooking sherry.. ran out of coors lite ...

    Steven L. Gotz
    Inspiring
    November 12, 2013

    You get tired after a few months. It just gets worse as time goes on so most of us develop a live and let live attitude.

    Truthfully, what happens is that you stop answering the questions for a while, then, one day, you realize nobody has answered, so you get roped back into answering. You do this until you get good and tired again, and the cycle continues.

    Reading the manual is old fashioned, don't you know? So I just keep pointing them to the Eagle and to the Creative Cow tutorials. I continue to say nice things about Lynda.com - would you believe that I still get paid a little every month for my Premiere Pro 1.5 tutorials from 2004? Lynda is really a delightful, intelligent, competant woman. I had lunch with her one day and it was quite memorable.

    I can understand why they thyink that an intermediate is needed, but we just have to keep at it. We need to get the point across as best we can by telling them to try it out for themselves.

    As for non-editable media, I don't believe that there really is such a thing. Not really. There are always going to be people who try to edit highly compressed video, but that is their problem. They will have to get used to the fact that Premiere Pro is not designed to stitch together media without a loss in quality. We are going to see more and more of this as more and more people figure out that they can accomplish a lot with a free trial, and that $50 per month is a bargain if they use enough of the programs. But almost all media can be edited. It is just the quality that is an issue. I was surprised to find that FLV files are not supported anymore. Seems like a mistake to me.

    I have never run more than a 20K run. And the only marathon I have ever watched was the women at the 1984 Olympics.

    artofzootography.com
    cc_merchant
    Inspiring
    November 12, 2013

    Running feels like this:

    Glacier 3000 Run

    Jungfrau Marathon

    Participating Frequently
    November 12, 2013

    A guy on another forum who persists in advising users of Window editing programs to convert source files to Prores.

    He really bugs me when he advising Edius users to convert to Prores when Edius probably has the best transcoding software there is should you have a PC that cannot handle native material.

    A certain user on this forum who has many posts and yet persists in degrading others who give advice that is either in conflict with his (clue there as to gender) or an alternative.

    Idiots who post.....................will someone make me a promo?

    Those who post a question when someone else has posted the same query a few posts earlier

    Finally.............that Adobe does not acknowledge that many, many users do not want a subscription system, especially when it is extorting more money out of us than upgrades did.

    Reading posts on the Adobe forums about bugs, here, bugs there.............................there product development really sucks at times

    Rant over

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    On the plus side, its 11:15 here in the UK, and I am pondering why am I sat here talking to you guys when I could be outside under the blue cloudless skies (a rarity at this time of year)?  Where is my gardening kit?  Bye

    Col

    John T Smith
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 11, 2013

    1 - by the time they ask a question for the "2nd... 3rd... 4th... whatever" time when they have been told they need to RTM

    2 - no comment, I'm on Windows

    3 - see answer #1

    4 - I don't run (bad knee)

    Community Expert
    November 11, 2013

    1- Most would be better off with Elements

    2- Post Houses that only accept Prores, I'm on a PC

    3- Phone makers that use variable frame rate

    4- I let my son do the running