There's a lot of talent on Deviantart, but your reference there is to a discussion about Krita vs. Photoshop. Surely a more meaningful comparison would be about Illustrator? Or haven't you used Illustrator?
To open up that discussion, when Adobe ports the entire Creative Cloud suite to linux , or even someone else makes an *entire* integrated suite of equivalent quality, I'll happily fork out the money. Until then, most of the professional creatives will continue to use CC. I've never seen a professional artist that didn't use some part of CC - they may not like it (and many don't), but the simple fact is that there is no suite available for linux. Individual tools, perhaps, but no integrated suite.
Well the only people you managed to impress were the members of the local linux users' club.
I mean, "Artists don't use Gimp for painting these days, they use Krita, which is the best digital painter in the known universe."
That's called hyperbole, and not serious critical appraisal. You shot yourself in the foot, there. Unless you've bought that 6-digit account, you should know better.
And
"Productivity suite users are moving away from MSFT office in droves, they are moving to Google Office now. "
Hence the rise in MS revenues from Office subscriptions. Ya know, "droves" might imply that some of us at the coalface have seen this happening. More hyperbole. Not a single one of my customers, domestic or small business, use Google Office 'apps'. They're happy to use the storage, but not the apps.
Then, skipping the gaming stuff because gaming isn't my thing:
"BTW, LibreOffice is now better than MS Office, the source code isn't a complete steaming pile of shit like MS Office, just for one of many reasons."
LibreOffice is a fine product - but it's not what most people use. Use what you prefer, I don't care - until you send me a file that renders inaccurately. I'd also be interested to see your critique of MSOffice source code. With examples and references, of course.
That's the nub of it. Wait and watch for lobbying from the mouse. It'll start a year or two, maybe even an election cycle before another of the mouse's properties look like coming up for PD. Give 'em credit, they take the long view - and they've got the deep pockets needed to advance a lobbying campaign over decades, or longer.
Every domestic install of W10 that I do pops up edge at first login.
An impressive display of three dials, firefox, edge, and chrome, showing some value of "speed". Edge in the middle and largest, of course. "Edge is the best" and all that BS.
Only it's not true. I gave up comparing edge with the others when it consistently took longer to even start, let alone render pages - even microsoft.com pages. Must have been all that telemetry it was busy gathering and sending.
Edge is just a tool you can use to download your browser of choice. It even reminds you that you've chosen another browser by making you click another choice when attempting to switch defaults.
That happens here in Oz. I order and pay for an item - it doesn't get shipped until I pay for it - and the seller puts a"'signature required" note on the docket. Legally, it's not his anymore, but the courier company follows the seller's orders. Won't post to a PO Box, either. Auspost have set up a system where they'll hold parcels - they wanted me to set up an account (everyone wants you to set up an account), they'd give me a special address to use, and they'd take on the "signature required" part.
The drawback was that they wanted me to supply ID to set up an account for the address and PO box I've been using for 20 years - a driver's licence (OK, I suppose), AND my passport (no way in hell are they getting that). They process passport applications for the passport office, but they don't get to keep the details in their own marketing or services database.
So I'm stuck with making sure I'm home to receive delivery. Fortunately it's usually the same driver, and I give him free computer advice to keep him sweet.
Thanks. It's difficult enough to find your way through the windows 'ecosystem' - server and client versions - without outright lies making things worse. The zealots and fanbois on both sides make life difficult for those of us trying to get our jobs done.
I like linux - a lot. But I'm not stupid enough to believe it's a viable replacement for corporate desktop systems, or even small business. That said, the day someone can make WSUS work on a linux server (without going through an emulation layer), I'll be free of Windows Server. It's the only service I can't provide without paying for a Windows Server licence.
Funny, that. "Send as user" was trivially easy, but actually reading a user's email wasn't.
Case: I was asked by management to spy on a user's email so they could confirm suspicions that she was doing naughty things. After making sure that management understood the implications, and getting the directive in writing, I proceeded to configure exchange to echo said user's email to a journal. Well, it would have been easier to reset her password, sign on as her, and put an auto-forward rule on her mailbox. Exchange is *not* an easy system to administer. Powerful and sophisticated, yes, But not easy.
I've seen some wonderful things done by those. From simple stuff like holding food down with their claws and ripping bits off with their beak, to using a twig for - something, I couldn't get close enough to see exactly what, but it was a magpie poking at something on or in the ground with twig held in its beak.
Have you ever tried it? Ads are *way* down the list of reasons not to use MS Mail. I think I'd prefer Outlook Express to that steaming pile of "user experience".
Not denying they're fast, but the workflow of video editing is unlike many others, and I've yet to see a setup using external drives out-perform a system with internal drives.
Good for you. Video workflow is quite specific. There are folk better qualified than you or me who make those recommendations. Check out the PPro forums.
That's why a licenced copy of PPro is worth it - access to the forums where working professionals share their experience.
As another poster mentioned, the DaVinci product is free (and it's a famn good product), but the best thing about the licenced Adobe products is access to the forums.
Gonna have to disagree with you about the speed of a drive in a USB3 external enclosure. Well, not the speed itself, but the speed of shifting data around.
I just don't trust external USB drives for working files. Backups and transfer, yes.
The description of what happened made me think he's sloppy - putting *any* working files on an external drive is foolish, and he compounded it by allowing temporary files to mix with original footage, and even worse, the only copy of that footage.
I get by with 3 discs as described above (because I'm not really a full-on commercial operator), but there are some very fancy setups with multi-disc volumes, RAID, etc, and it's not really weenie-waving. With 4K (and higher) footage, that's a lot of data being shifted to and from storage. IO is frequently the bottleneck, so you design the storage subsystems to mitigate that.
I'm kind of puzzled about it. PPro maintains a media cache of temporary files, so it has to maintain an index to those files, yes?
So "clear the media cache" clears the *entire* media cache, and not just the current project's media cache files, all mixed in with the last project's files?
Yes, ideally the media cache should be cleared between jobs, but sometimes jobs overlap.
It's hard to feel sorry for the guy, even if he did lose a lot of money.
Never, ever, ever put working video files - original footage or working copies, on an external drive. It's just too slow, especially in these days of 4K and upwards. The only things I use external drives for are backups, and transferring copies to clients.
The bare minimum for using PP effectively is: 1 drive for OS+software, 1 drive for footage, 1 drive for MediaCache, and many external drives for backups. Never ever mix original footage and scratch copies - as this guy did. As an aside, I don't clear the MediaCache until after the project is completed, the product is delivered to the client, and all original footage is removed from the editing computer and stored elsewhere - external HDDs or whatever.
When I use the term 'drive', it of course includes multi-disc volumes, RAID, etc. But OS+software, footage, and scratch/MediaCache should be on separate volumes.
Yes, "I don't know what's worse, the complete ignorance of people on topics like this or their belief that they are qualified to comment on it" is ironic, hmmmm? I mean, all you have to do is type POWERPC into a search engine.
Lots of facebook accounts and groups are private, i.e. set to "friends only" or "group members only" - so I, in my smug absence of a facebook account, can't see what those people have posted - it's not really "public" - more like a private room at a bar. To become a 'friend" or gain group membership, the police are clearly lying. It's up to a court to decide how bad that is, when balanced against capture and conviction of offenders.
People too stupid to perceive this will be caught - the smarter ones will figure out how to screen friends and members more closely, or will figure out ways to poison or encode the information posted.
The so-called russian trolls and bots have had their fun, playing fast and loose with lofty western ideals such as democracy, fairness, honesty, etc, and undermining our precious freedoms.
Now they've decided to fuck with the mouse. They should have sent someone to spend a few months embedded as cast or crew at a Disney resort or park, and learned just what happens to anyone tarnishing the image. They won't know what's hit them.
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There's a lot of talent on Deviantart, but your reference there is to a discussion about Krita vs. Photoshop. Surely a more meaningful comparison would be about Illustrator? Or haven't you used Illustrator?
To open up that discussion, when Adobe ports the entire Creative Cloud suite to linux , or even someone else makes an *entire* integrated suite of equivalent quality, I'll happily fork out the money. Until then, most of the professional creatives will continue to use CC. I've never seen a professional artist that didn't use some part of CC - they may not like it (and many don't), but the simple fact is that there is no suite available for linux. Individual tools, perhaps, but no integrated suite.
Well the only people you managed to impress were the members of the local linux users' club.
I mean, "Artists don't use Gimp for painting these days, they use Krita, which is the best digital painter in the known universe."
That's called hyperbole, and not serious critical appraisal. You shot yourself in the foot, there. Unless you've bought that 6-digit account, you should know better.
And
"Productivity suite users are moving away from MSFT office in droves, they are moving to Google Office now. "
Hence the rise in MS revenues from Office subscriptions. Ya know, "droves" might imply that some of us at the coalface have seen this happening. More hyperbole. Not a single one of my customers, domestic or small business, use Google Office 'apps'. They're happy to use the storage, but not the apps.
Then, skipping the gaming stuff because gaming isn't my thing:
"BTW, LibreOffice is now better than MS Office, the source code isn't a complete steaming pile of shit like MS Office, just for one of many reasons."
LibreOffice is a fine product - but it's not what most people use. Use what you prefer, I don't care - until you send me a file that renders inaccurately. I'd also be interested to see your critique of MSOffice source code. With examples and references, of course.
"foam about that all you want"
You need to have a cup of tea and a good lie down.
That's the nub of it. Wait and watch for lobbying from the mouse. It'll start a year or two, maybe even an election cycle before another of the mouse's properties look like coming up for PD. Give 'em credit, they take the long view - and they've got the deep pockets needed to advance a lobbying campaign over decades, or longer.
Every domestic install of W10 that I do pops up edge at first login.
An impressive display of three dials, firefox, edge, and chrome, showing some value of "speed". Edge in the middle and largest, of course. "Edge is the best" and all that BS.
Only it's not true. I gave up comparing edge with the others when it consistently took longer to even start, let alone render pages - even microsoft.com pages. Must have been all that telemetry it was busy gathering and sending.
Edge is just a tool you can use to download your browser of choice. It even reminds you that you've chosen another browser by making you click another choice when attempting to switch defaults.
That happens here in Oz. I order and pay for an item - it doesn't get shipped until I pay for it - and the seller puts a"'signature required" note on the docket. Legally, it's not his anymore, but the courier company follows the seller's orders. Won't post to a PO Box, either. Auspost have set up a system where they'll hold parcels - they wanted me to set up an account (everyone wants you to set up an account), they'd give me a special address to use, and they'd take on the "signature required" part.
The drawback was that they wanted me to supply ID to set up an account for the address and PO box I've been using for 20 years - a driver's licence (OK, I suppose), AND my passport (no way in hell are they getting that). They process passport applications for the passport office, but they don't get to keep the details in their own marketing or services database.
So I'm stuck with making sure I'm home to receive delivery. Fortunately it's usually the same driver, and I give him free computer advice to keep him sweet.
Thanks. It's difficult enough to find your way through the windows 'ecosystem' - server and client versions - without outright lies making things worse. The zealots and fanbois on both sides make life difficult for those of us trying to get our jobs done.
I like linux - a lot. But I'm not stupid enough to believe it's a viable replacement for corporate desktop systems, or even small business. That said, the day someone can make WSUS work on a linux server (without going through an emulation layer), I'll be free of Windows Server. It's the only service I can't provide without paying for a Windows Server licence.
Funny, that. "Send as user" was trivially easy, but actually reading a user's email wasn't.
Case: I was asked by management to spy on a user's email so they could confirm suspicions that she was doing naughty things. After making sure that management understood the implications, and getting the directive in writing, I proceeded to configure exchange to echo said user's email to a journal. Well, it would have been easier to reset her password, sign on as her, and put an auto-forward rule on her mailbox. Exchange is *not* an easy system to administer. Powerful and sophisticated, yes, But not easy.
If I had "Taxan mega bucks" worth of income, I'd go digital cinema.
I think anyone with the money to use an 8K camera will have a stonking great external monitor for the Director and DoP to use.
Professional cameras still have focus controls, and facilities for things like follow-focus.
Yes. Wombats leave a wombat-shaped tunnel underneath your car.
I've seen some wonderful things done by those. From simple stuff like holding food down with their claws and ripping bits off with their beak, to using a twig for - something, I couldn't get close enough to see exactly what, but it was a magpie poking at something on or in the ground with twig held in its beak.
Have you ever tried it? Ads are *way* down the list of reasons not to use MS Mail. I think I'd prefer Outlook Express to that steaming pile of "user experience".
Outlook 2010 OTOH, has been pretty stable for me.
Not denying they're fast, but the workflow of video editing is unlike many others, and I've yet to see a setup using external drives out-perform a system with internal drives.
Good for you. Video workflow is quite specific. There are folk better qualified than you or me who make those recommendations. Check out the PPro forums.
That's why a licenced copy of PPro is worth it - access to the forums where working professionals share their experience.
I believe Premiere Elements is still available as a one-time purchase.
https://www.adobe.com/products...
As another poster mentioned, the DaVinci product is free (and it's a famn good product), but the best thing about the licenced Adobe products is access to the forums.
Gonna have to disagree with you about the speed of a drive in a USB3 external enclosure. Well, not the speed itself, but the speed of shifting data around.
I just don't trust external USB drives for working files. Backups and transfer, yes.
The description of what happened made me think he's sloppy - putting *any* working files on an external drive is foolish, and he compounded it by allowing temporary files to mix with original footage, and even worse, the only copy of that footage.
I get by with 3 discs as described above (because I'm not really a full-on commercial operator), but there are some very fancy setups with multi-disc volumes, RAID, etc, and it's not really weenie-waving. With 4K (and higher) footage, that's a lot of data being shifted to and from storage. IO is frequently the bottleneck, so you design the storage subsystems to mitigate that.
1. He lost files worth a lot of money - I feel sorry for him.
2. It's mostly his own fault - I don't feel sorry for him.
#2 outweighs #1, so it's hard to feel sorry for him.
I'm kind of puzzled about it. PPro maintains a media cache of temporary files, so it has to maintain an index to those files, yes?
So "clear the media cache" clears the *entire* media cache, and not just the current project's media cache files, all mixed in with the last project's files?
Yes, ideally the media cache should be cleared between jobs, but sometimes jobs overlap.
It's hard to feel sorry for the guy, even if he did lose a lot of money.
Never, ever, ever put working video files - original footage or working copies, on an external drive. It's just too slow, especially in these days of 4K and upwards. The only things I use external drives for are backups, and transferring copies to clients.
The bare minimum for using PP effectively is: 1 drive for OS+software, 1 drive for footage, 1 drive for MediaCache, and many external drives for backups. Never ever mix original footage and scratch copies - as this guy did. As an aside, I don't clear the MediaCache until after the project is completed, the product is delivered to the client, and all original footage is removed from the editing computer and stored elsewhere - external HDDs or whatever.
When I use the term 'drive', it of course includes multi-disc volumes, RAID, etc. But OS+software, footage, and scratch/MediaCache should be on separate volumes.
So, serious question here (as I've never had to do it*). How do you manage the birthdate of anyone born before the epoch?
*I've had to manage "pre-epoch" birthdates, but not on a *nix system. Hint: EBCDIC
Yes, "I don't know what's worse, the complete ignorance of people on topics like this or their belief that they are qualified to comment on it" is ironic, hmmmm? I mean, all you have to do is type POWERPC into a search engine.
Lots of facebook accounts and groups are private, i.e. set to "friends only" or "group members only" - so I, in my smug absence of a facebook account, can't see what those people have posted - it's not really "public" - more like a private room at a bar. To become a 'friend" or gain group membership, the police are clearly lying. It's up to a court to decide how bad that is, when balanced against capture and conviction of offenders.
People too stupid to perceive this will be caught - the smarter ones will figure out how to screen friends and members more closely, or will figure out ways to poison or encode the information posted.
The so-called russian trolls and bots have had their fun, playing fast and loose with lofty western ideals such as democracy, fairness, honesty, etc, and undermining our precious freedoms.
Now they've decided to fuck with the mouse. They should have sent someone to spend a few months embedded as cast or crew at a Disney resort or park, and learned just what happens to anyone tarnishing the image. They won't know what's hit them.