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| | | | | | Marketing Meby John Nelson 4 weeks agoHaving been moderately successful in marketing other businesses over the years I am now in a new location, that happens to be in the middle of the caribbean, and finding it difficult to market my crea | Re: Marketing Me
by John Nelson 4 weeks ago
Nick, Mark, Great ideas and my wheels definitely needed your 'WD-40' input to get them spinning. Thanks! Haven't had the 'clams' to upgrade to HD yet and hope that won't be a big hurdle. Another hurdl
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| | | | | Capturing adviceby John Nelson 3 months agoI'm using an MBP, 3 external 400 800 drives, Panasonic DVX 100B and FCS 2 to transfer for editing. Keep getting a tape error when trying to transfer. Using new tape. Last week I transferred using a fe | Re: Capturing advice
by John Nelson 3 months ago
On the G5 I run FCP2 with OS 10.5. On the MBP I have Leopard with the same FCP version, if that helps. http: www.omproductions.net
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| | | | | Ahron's lip synching tutorialby John Nelson 4 months agoOK, after watching Ahron's vintage tutorial on this a number of times I am stymied about how he converts an 8 frame mouth into a much longer one to use in the animation of Mr. Face. I'm animating a ta | | | | |
| | | | | Editing footageby John Nelson 6 months agoStill re-learning the things I forgot. I have tons of footage where I need several clips. Do I have to edit them first using my FCP program or is it easier to bring the whole thing into AE4 and edit i | | | | |
| | | | | Create masks from textby John Nelson 6 months agoI've created the mask from my text and want to insert something other than the solid color in the text; video for example. Can it be done If so, how Thanks. http: www.omproductions.net | | | | |
| | | | | Locked time AE4by John Nelson 7 months agoStill on my learning curve but can't seem to find the switch to allow scrolling the time line. Just jumps from start to 10 sec. and so on. If I find the switch I'll report back but if anyone can speed | Re: Locked time AE4
by John Nelson 7 months ago
Thanks. I've used earlier versions of AE and dragging, arrow <, home, end, etc. all worked as they should. My problem is that I am unable to do any of these actions. Even tried a ram preview of a s
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| | | | | Seeking some learned advice.by John Nelson 9 months agoI am in the decision process of getting a new or refurb G5. My reasons are that I do lots of video audio and feel I need the horsepower of the big mac but have been told I could do just the same with | Re: Seeking some learned advice.
by John Nelson 9 months ago
Thanks Jerry, Someone just wrote that the newer models will not accept any of my software. True And I will wait for the 'dump table' discounts once the new models showcase. http: www.omproductions.net
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| | | | | 3d multi-image fly byby John Nelson 1 year agoNot sure what you call it but it seems like lots of folks are using the procedure these days. Is there a template or something to use rather than moving each individual graphic Also looking for a poor | Re: 3d multi-image fly by
by John Nelson 1 year ago
Thanks again. What I did was to combine all the graphics into a group. Then animated the group past the camera which worked well. http: www.omproductions.net
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| | | | | Host suggestionsby John Nelson 1 year agoHunting for a new home to upload my site. Thought this would be a good place to ask for suggestions. Thanks. | Re: Host suggestions
by John Nelson 1 year ago
LOL Richard. I'll keep my fingers crossed the 'new' host will work with me on fixing all the bugs in the site... http: www.omproductions.net
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| | | | | Host suggestionsby John Nelson 1 year agoHunting for a new home to upload my site. Thought this would be a good place to ask for suggestions. Thanks. | | | | |
| | | | | Fatcowby John Nelson 1 year agoHi Mike, Long time no talk. Been having way too many problems with them of late. Not the least of which is having to learn a new password every time I want to log into my account. Then they wanted to | | | | |
| | | | | Suggestions on upgradesby John Nelson 2 years agoMy old G5 2.5ghz quad died awhile back due to failure of the logic board and processors. Most likely due to a long journey over a bumpy road which moved dust into places that caused it to die when I t | Re: Suggestions on upgrades
by John Nelson 2 years ago
Thanks Zane. The original object was to be able to swap out some parts and save a few bucks, if possible. May take your suggestion if I can get a refund on this one. http: www.omproductions.net
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| | | | | Learning Curveby John Nelson 2 years agoJust installed CS3 Professional and am searching for the 'getting down the basics' help. Any suggestions Thanks. | Re: Learning Curve
by Jen deHaan 2 years ago
http: www.adobe.com designcenter flash articles flacs3it_firstflash_pt1.html ----- Jen www.flashthusiast.com
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| | | | | Adding audioby John Nelson 2 years agoLooked at the manuals and still having trouble adding audio to a page that contains a graphic without the audio image showing up (not real sure how to phrase this since it puts 'something graphical' o | Re: Adding audio
by Fernando Mol 2 years ago
OK. This is the thing. The best way to place audio by controlling the player is to insert a Flash player. If you know Flash design your player and insert it in your page. Or, you can use a ready-made
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| | | | | Safari vs Firefoxby John Nelson 2 years agoCan't figure out why my videos show up on Safari and not on Firefox. The latter keeps saying I need a newer flash player but I have the latest download. How does it know where to look Thanks. http: ww | | | | |
| | | | | File: linksby John Nelson 2 years agortf file code of broken and working links http: f1.creativecow.net 499 links | Broken links
by John Nelson 2 years ago
Haven't been able to figure out where the links are broken. Copied the good ones, deleted the broken ones, pasted and they are still broken. Suggestions Thanks.
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| | | | | Crashes on my MBPby John Nelson 2 years agoOriginally posted in the Apple OS Leopard forum and didn't get much feedback which is why I'm posting here. Couple of days ago, while working on website with PS open, the screen wiped a dark transluce | Re: Crashes on my MBP
by Matthew Mullen 2 years ago
Looks like it may be a Kernel Panic, which in most cases a reinstall of the OS is recommended. Got that info from this link : http: docs.info.apple.com article.html path=Mac 10.5 en 8965.html
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| | | | | Import Avid to FCP 6by John Nelson 2 years agoBeen searching for a thread that tells how to do this but after a half hour had no luck. I have over 175 minutes to import. Avid format is MFX. Best suggestions Thanks. http: www.omproductions.net | Re: Import Avid to FCP 6
by walter biscardi 2 years ago
You've been searching the forums for Avid to FCP and didn't find Automatic Duck http: www.automaticduck.com Walter Biscardi, Jr. Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author. HD Post and Pro
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| | | | | Connecting to hostby John Nelson 3 years agoBuilding a new site for an insurance client. Client supplied their UN PW. I logged in and set up a new Administrator account. Old Administrator still exists. Don't know if this needs to be deleted or | Re: Connecting to host
by Fernando Mol 3 years ago
CMS is for Content Management System. To update a site usually you need FTP access to the files. A username and a password. An administration account is for have special access to advanced features. T
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| | | | | Site updatesby John Nelson 3 years agoHi all. Been taking your suggestions and making ongoing changes. Still having problems with coding and placements within divs. Also can't figure out how to get spry to cooperate with fixed placement o | Re: Site updates
by Fernando Mol 3 years ago
OK, lets see if I got it. In this page, you are using the spry tooltip for the images. Here's the line of code that's calling your spry: <script src=".. .. SpryAssets SpryTooltip.js" type="text jav
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| | | | | Sites to upload large fileby John Nelson 3 years agoHi all, I have a 1+gb wav file to upload for someone to work on. Is there a reputable site out there in which to do that Thanks in advance, John We're from the Government. We're here to help. | Re: Sites to upload large file
by John Nelson 3 years ago
Thanks, I shrunk it to an mp3 and uploaded it to my site. Unfortunately, my son couldn't download it. Not sure what he did or didn't do. Anyway, problem solved, for now. Thanks again for your input. J
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| | | | | Won't shut downby John Nelson 3 years agoMy G5 won't shut down without holding the power button. Also can't get software updates. Happened after I wiped and reinstalled the OS to my 320gb drive from my 500gb firewire using Carbon Copy Cloner | Problem Fixed
by John Nelson 3 years ago
Had to do a fresh install from disks and that seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks. We're from the Government. We're here to help.
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| | | | | Service: O.M. Productionsby John Nelson 3 years agoRoswell New Mexico, United States Production Web O.M. Productions Multimedia Production Studio Web Design 30 years in broadcast production, sales & management. More... | | | | |
| | | | | Firewire Fizzleby John Nelson 3 years agoNot sure what I did to make this happen but the firewire ports quit working. Have the following connections: 1. Iomega firewire HD 2. Mackie Onyx firewire pre-amp 3. Cannon DV camera (for capture) Whe | Re: Firewire Fizzle
by John Nelson 3 years ago
Zane, That did it. Resetting the SMU button did the trick. And it didn't hurt (I hope) by cleaning out 6 months of dust from the guts either :} Thanks again for your input. John We're from the Governm
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| | | | | Testing 1,2,3by John Nelson 3 years agoOK, I am doing some testing on what video looks good using Compressor 2. I also downloaded Apple's bitrate calculator. My question is this: Will I have to go through all the bitrates, from small to la | Re: Testing 1,2,3
by John Nelson 3 years ago
Great advice. Thanks. I'll start doing my research and report back. John We're from the Government. We're here to help.
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| | | | | Hi Mikeby John Nelson 3 years agoI'm getting a little closer to adding audio and video to the site: http: www.omproductions.net but am still in the dark on adding stuff with the right codec compression that will play when the page op | Re: Hi Mike
by John Nelson 3 years ago
Thanks Daniel, I know I should make them as small as I can but is there any kind of 'yardstick' on video size in the 3 to 6 minute range I should shoot for Thanks again. We're from the Government. We'
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| | | | | AE export to swfby John Nelson 3 years agoHowdy, I used a small qt animation created with AE in my site; http: www.omproductions.net and it looked good and played nicely, even though it was almost 40 mb. So I remade the animation in AE and ex | Re: AE export to swf
by John Nelson 3 years ago
Thanks Chris, For me, it loaded right away but was slow and jerky to play until it all loaded. I am using a Mac and will start searching for the applications. I would like to add a decent skin once I
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| | | | | The Invoiceby John Nelson 3 years agoIn preparing an invoice for the client, I have been using hourly estimates to let them know how long it takes to produce the final product (see below). Is this the right or wrong way to go in letting | Re: The Invoice
by John Nelson 3 years ago
Thanks Mike. Your suggestions are well-founded and appreciated. Unfortunately, in a town of this size, charging half or full days for location shooting would not go over very well. The market has been
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| | | | | Leopard 3 - Photoshop 0by John Nelson 3 years agoJust upgraded to Leopard. So far, everything works but PS 7.0 :{ Tried reinstalling it but no luck. Would appreciate any thoughts on the solution. Thanks, J We're from the Government. We're here to he | | | | |
| | | | | DVD Transfersby John Nelson 3 years agoApologies in advance if this isn't the right thread but I've just been given a job to transfer 10 hours to DVD and am seeking the most efficient, cost effective method of doing so without capturing, c | Re: DVD Transfers
by John Nelson 3 years ago
Bit the bullet. Bought a DVD recorder. Problem solved. Thanks. Make money (and love, of course) not war...
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| | | | | flc vs. flvby John Nelson 3 years agoHi Mike, I finally have a site that is getting closer to my expectations: www.omproductions.net Just can't figure out how to get my flc movie to play in the samples page. I'm using Final Cut Studio 1 | | | | |
| | | | | flowersby John Nelson 3 years agoHi, Any CVT (cheap video tricks) suggestions on how to achieve growing flowers Producing a commercial where a seed floats down to a patch of dirt and then flowers sprout up. About 4 seconds worth. Try | Problem solved
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Did a lot of fiddling and figured it out. Thanks anyway...Make money (and love, of course) not war...
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| | | | | Last Bastian of hopeby John Nelson 3 years agoHi Mike, I have set up an account with fatcow.com and am having trouble setting up my Safari mail account. I've used all the settings they said to use and am still unable to get it to work. I'm on a M | | | | |
| | | | | Mike! You still there?by John Nelson 4 years agoMy contract's up with SH (Successful Hosting) this month and I'm going to cancel. My question is about a replacement and, if I have to buy Dreamweaver or some other expensive software in order to set | | | | |
| | | | | Diamonds take foreverby John Nelson 4 years agoUsing AE 6.5 pro. Any thoughts on making a 3-d diamond shape I'd like it to rotate and have the (flat) top open up to reveal the jeweler's logo. Tried masking squares into triangles but am having lots | Re: Diamonds take forever
by John Nelson 4 years ago
Shudda, Wudda, Cudda. I'll put that on my Christmas list. Maybe I'll get that instead of that dirty old coal...Make money (and love, of course) not war...
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