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Re: Precision 690 vs. Mac Pro

Whoopa — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:08:24 -0000

maybe stack up all the parts prices for you're self and see how much less it is in comparison to one another, cause alot of companies overprice their shit. almost every computer company, dell and apple are really overpriced. Anyway, OSX is a hell of alot slower and the way that apple put together their stuff is alot different from what we could do personally, and we could probably do a lot better.

Re: Aspect Matte – Easier Letterbox/Pillarbox Matting in FCP

junglechild — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:38:02 -0000

beautiful. thank you.

Re: http://micro.conigs.com/post/18906399357

KBA — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:38:32 -0000

That unicorn needs a machine gun.

Re: http://micro.conigs.com/post/18355587480

ZADIE — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:10:15 -0000

Nice! You're really rocking this 52 works project. I'm inspired.

Re: http://micro.conigs.com/post/18011462010

conigs — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:18:26 -0000

I will simply end with this last comment: If I were promoting their idea, I would also be encouraging legitimate sales on their terms. I'm promoting avoiding their content entirely and instead turning to providers/creators who do distribute content in a convenient and reasonable way. By doing this, "their excuse" (which we both agree is fantasy) has no merit, even in venues that support their cause (eg SOPA/PIPA).

Re: http://micro.conigs.com/post/18011462010

@brentwgraham — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:09:50 -0000

I simply disagree.

They know their content is in demand. And 'ignoring' it won't do anything but kill off a few good shows.

My intent was to stop this continued description of the bullshit that is the industry's "excuse" of piracy. Which is what the Oatmeal article was focused on.

The industry uses excuses like this all the time throughout history. Do you honestly believe that these companies with their market analysis teams ACTUALLY believe their excuse? They don't, they know better.The idea of the "excuse" is purely PR.

Yet your post promotes that idea for them.

But yeah, we disagree. Oh well.

Re: http://micro.conigs.com/post/18011462010

conigs — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:03:45 -0000

I think you are misunderstanding my post. "The excuse" is that of the content industry.

And you are correct in that piracy isn't itself about affecting change. But many people say they would buy the work if available in a convenient, reasonable form. And pirating is doing nothing to convince the rights-owners to change their minds.

There will always be people who pirate—to whom content is not worth any price. But those who pirate because the rights-owner is short-sighted and refuses to provide the work in a convenient & reasonable form will never see that work in a convenient & reasonable form. Those people would be better served to avoid that work entirely (through both legitimate and pirate channels).

As I said before. The reaction to piracy is "we need to stop it!" The reaction to lack of interest/sales is "crap, we need to get people to buy our stuff". I never stated that piracy hinders legal sales, nor referenced or alluded to MPAA/RIAA PR fluff. I believe you are conflating the industries point-of-view with my own. I was merely stating that if people do want to start seeing content available in more convenient options, at a reasonable price, and in a more timely manner (which is what the comic character originally set out to do), pirating won't solve the situation. Rather, it will only make it worse.

If this comment doesn't clarify my position, I would say we are at an impasse and I apologize.

Re: http://micro.conigs.com/post/18011462010

@brentwgraham — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:41:53 -0000

Piracy isn't about affecting change. That's been proven.

I was merely stating that your comment "piracy as an excuse" is bullshit.

People will pirate things as long as demand outstrips supply options. Economics.

The connection of piracy hindering legal sales is PR bullshit. That Oatmeal comic does a pretty good job of explaining it.

Re: http://micro.conigs.com/post/18011462010

conigs — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:24:27 -0000

Many people do use industry's inaction to justify piracy. When people pirate, it causes studios to say "We need to stop piracy!" If people stop supporting the studios who are the worst offenders, their thinking shifts to "How can we get people to watch our shows/films?"

If people supported the artists/studios/indies who do release work in convenient forms instead of pirating films and shows that aren't available, people notice. (Eg, Louis CK's recent self-distributed show.)And I am far from "listening to the PR campaign of the industry". I just don't believe piracy will affect the change people want to see from the rights-holders. See this post from Marco Arment on what people should be doing: http://www.marco.org/2012/0... - Stop supporting the studios who keep pulling this crap.

[Edit: "The Excuse" I was referring to is actually the excuse of the industry… that piracy is the cause of all their problems.]

Re: http://micro.conigs.com/post/18011462010

@brentwgraham — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:17:29 -0000

That's the problem though.

Piracy isn't an excuse, studies prove that.
You've gotta stop listening to the PR campaign of the industry...

Re: http://micro.conigs.com/post/16203684432

conigs — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:07:23 -0000

Ha. There's a difference between drawing and plotting out bezier curves in Illustrator.

Re: http://micro.conigs.com/post/16203684432

Pete Prodoehl — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:03:08 -0000

I always love when people who can draw way better than I can, and can actually draw really well, say things like "I’ve never been particularly good at drawing." You want crappy drawings, I've got a lot of them! http://rasterweb.net/raster...

Re: http://conigs.tumblr.com/post/14120030682

conigs — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:10:15 -0000

I have that problem, too. I don't really have an overall plan. I just want to make sure I start & finish 52 projects over the course of the year.

Re: http://conigs.tumblr.com/post/14120030682

ZADIE — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:04:00 -0000

Such a great idea. I dig the idea of creating a small personal project every week to keep the creative juices flowing. But I have the problem of trying to do too much at once. I need more focus.

Re: http://conigs.tumblr.com/post/14221440830

Pete Prodoehl — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:20:21 -0000

I'm not totally up on the story, but I hope he doesn't say "Anyone can do this!" because obviously not everyone can.

But my takeaway is that some artists can take control of the things they create away from big companies that care more about money than fans, and if that's all the outcome we get, I still think it's a good thing.

Re: http://conigs.tumblr.com/post/14120030682

Pete Prodoehl — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:20:09 -0000

I look forward to seeing the works!

Re: Aspect Matte – Easier Letterbox/Pillarbox Matting in FCP

JWSchwarz — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:37:10 -0000

Thanks for providing these. This is exactly what I needed.

Re: Aspect Matte – Easier Letterbox/Pillarbox Matting in FCP

DEXTER — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 07:25:23 -0000

Thanks for the mattes appreciated very much

Re: Interlacing: A Twitter Conversation

Pete Prodoehl — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:17:46 -0000

Please to send me all of your old cameras that shoot in crappy old formats. Thanks!

Re: http://conigs.tumblr.com/post/942580408

Andrew — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:20:05 -0000

Somehow never saw this shout out until now. Thanks!

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Pete Prodoehl — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:50:54 -0000

Love it! :)

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ZADIE — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:15:05 -0000

That is just cool beyond belief! It's a work of art unto itself.

Re: http://conigs.tumblr.com/post/607563933

conigs — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:37:27 -0000

An even screen is key (pun intended). It also helps to know what you're using to pull the key ahead of time. For example, Keylight in After Effects really works well with green at around 50-60 IRE. I've also heard people can get pretty good keys off blonde or gray hair with a 40 IRE screen.

But really, this image was the result of looking at a lot of green screen footage the last few months.

Re: http://conigs.tumblr.com/post/607563933

Pete Prodoehl — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:02:24 -0000

I'm not the most experienced green screen shooter, but we've had pretty good luck with what we've done. In talking with our lighting guy, his recommendation is that it's much more important to get the chroma screen consistently lit, even if it's darker and barely looks green at all. It's also really helpful to shoot chroma stuff at 4K, as more resolution seems to help quite a bit in keying things out.

Re: Give Me H.264 Editing or Give Me Headaches

conigs — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:30:57 -0000

Every time you export an h264 (FCP->AE, AE->FCP), you're recompressing
already compressed footage. Think of taking a JPEG and saving it out
of Photoshop as another compressed JPEG. Every time you do that, you
degrade the image.

If you're going from one program to another, you should be using an
uncompressed or visually lossless codec like ProRes422, uncompressed 8-
bit, or Animation.

Paul Conigliaro : : . .
editor // motion graphic designer

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