I work in the film and music industry (www.PivotEntertainment.com) and am approaced many times to work on indie films that would compensate me on the back end. A back end deal in the film world is profit for theatical release, which very few films (even majors) have. Big money is made in video, TV licensing, etc., which is not covered in a back end deal, unless you have CLOUT the size of Spielberg. With creative Hollywood accounting don't expect to see a return at all on most projects. Marvel is playing the same game. I hope Mr. Lee wins.
BTW: Here is how you know if a movie makes money while in the theater. Look at the gross reciepts and divide it in half. Half the money goes to the distributor (often the same company as the film studio, i.e. New Line is distributed by Warner and is owned by Warner but is considered a separate entity), shave off 10% for overhead and the rest goes to the debt of the film. So a 100-million dollar movie needs to make at least 210-million to BREAK EVEN! Just seeing a high gross means nothing to profits if you don't count expense and distribution fees.
I use Cinema 4D DL and find it wonderful. Easier to use that Lightwave or 3D Studio Max, renders look great. I do broadast logos with it and find the intergration with After Effects 5.5 totally bitchin'!!!
I am looking for Blender to improve. It needs a raytrace engine and better control of 3D objectas during animation. No that it is open source I can't wait for the upgrades.
Dude, your amp IS analog. All signals (Dolby Digital, S/PDIF for CD) are converted to analog on output to the power amps. For SACD/DVD-A inputs, most units just directly send the pure signal from input to output because the datarate to resmaple is too high and bit rate too wide to make resampling affordable AND sound good. Downside: total lack of bass management that is so important to listening to 5.1 on smaller speakers. That really sucks.
The thing I like about DVD-A is that most have a 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack that will play in DVD-V players. SACD does not have this courtesy which cheezes me off because there are some great Sony albums in SACD.
I think it is so funny that Sony/Warner/Panasonic are opposed to digital outs now. Even with only analog outs I could set up a system to make killer 5.1 rips of the discs. I am in the video/audio biz as a poducer of material and am opposed to pirating, I believe we must look at the options to help defeat them) is purchase a multichannel soundcard with pultiple inputs. Record it then compress to a multichannel file (like WMA 9). The outputs sound so clean you shouldn't worry about resampling and noise.
Yes- this could hurt MS, but it has the potential to undermine any browser that supports plug in covered under the patent. Mozilla, Opera, you name it. The article shows a guy with a Bill Gates vision: total domination through strong arm via patents. No more Windows, no more LINUX. YOu wanna use plug ins you gotta switch to EOLAS OS, the only game in town for these functions.
Its like Lord of the Rings: One Patent to Rule them All!
But people everyday here write how they oppose protections for copyrighted material like movies and music. How is it that my product differs in spirit to BitKeeper?
I agree it does, my rant was about the extremists who say it has to be ALL FREE. See, Open Source is good but it doesn't have as much impetus to keep "trendy." If it wasn't for Adobe needing to make a buck with Photosop 7 when might I have gotten the Healing Brush tool? That is now the tool I use the most.
I actually use GIMP for Windows and am trying to install Film GIMP on Cygwin. I find UNIX systems very hard to deal with personally and I haven't gotten this thing installed yet. See, I would rather get to work on a project than try to get the software to work. I am a boutique studio, me doing video and my partner doing audio using ProTools TDM. I don't have a team of people keeping our system runnings. Just the two of us. When I got Adobe After Effects I instlled it, it worked. For Film GIMP I need to track down GTK and install it.
I also feel that patents have a use as well, though most of the patents I see being given out for "processes" are complete BS. Like the Amazon patent on on click payments- completly rediculous. The patent office need to be completely reworked and, like probably 90% need to be thrown out.
I am sick of you whiners out there thinking that you all derserve everything free and that if someone makes money off of "information" and tries to protect their interests they are asses.
I work in the music/film business. I am making a movie. I own it. I want to sell it to you to watch at home- not to share it or upload it. Is that evil? I am putting my blood and sweat in it, being creative.
Look, it is as simple as this: you don't like the copy protection, patent protection, whatever you have every choice NOT to buy or watch or listen to a product. What the hell, are we supposed to make music/software/movies for free and work at the local diner to play the rent. Hardly.
So grow up.
Oh, and BTW, Linux is still not as good as Windows or Mac. Peroid. My Windows XP system works damn solid, apps install without problems and there is a ton of software. And GIMP- not even close to Photoshop for anyone that makes a living in the graphics biz. Your communistic appraoch to software and information is backwards.
Of course, if you want to make a free product, go ahead. Just respect other peoples rights to decide how they want to do business. Like I said- you don't like what BitKeeper is doing, don't use it. You don't like what Sony Music is doing, don't buy their CDs. But please, this does not mean you can steal it.
The true victim if the lawsuit is allowed to proceed is not just people shaing music or video, but all ISPs. Currently, ISPs cannot be help responsible for what users do theough a network. This suit is trying to change that. If it does the ISPs will run scared and are liable to censor anything that may get them in trouble, inevitably restricting legit uses.
This is not to say I believe that sharing copyrighted material is legit, IT IS NOT. It is thievery. Jus thatthe remedy has far more wide ranging dangers.
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I work in the film and music industry (www.PivotEntertainment.com) and am approaced many times to work on indie films that would compensate me on the back end. A back end deal in the film world is profit for theatical release, which very few films (even majors) have. Big money is made in video, TV licensing, etc., which is not covered in a back end deal, unless you have CLOUT the size of Spielberg. With creative Hollywood accounting don't expect to see a return at all on most projects. Marvel is playing the same game. I hope Mr. Lee wins. BTW: Here is how you know if a movie makes money while in the theater. Look at the gross reciepts and divide it in half. Half the money goes to the distributor (often the same company as the film studio, i.e. New Line is distributed by Warner and is owned by Warner but is considered a separate entity), shave off 10% for overhead and the rest goes to the debt of the film. So a 100-million dollar movie needs to make at least 210-million to BREAK EVEN! Just seeing a high gross means nothing to profits if you don't count expense and distribution fees.
I use Cinema 4D DL and find it wonderful. Easier to use that Lightwave or 3D Studio Max, renders look great. I do broadast logos with it and find the intergration with After Effects 5.5 totally bitchin'!!! I am looking for Blender to improve. It needs a raytrace engine and better control of 3D objectas during animation. No that it is open source I can't wait for the upgrades.
Dude, your amp IS analog. All signals (Dolby Digital, S/PDIF for CD) are converted to analog on output to the power amps. For SACD/DVD-A inputs, most units just directly send the pure signal from input to output because the datarate to resmaple is too high and bit rate too wide to make resampling affordable AND sound good. Downside: total lack of bass management that is so important to listening to 5.1 on smaller speakers. That really sucks. The thing I like about DVD-A is that most have a 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack that will play in DVD-V players. SACD does not have this courtesy which cheezes me off because there are some great Sony albums in SACD. I think it is so funny that Sony/Warner/Panasonic are opposed to digital outs now. Even with only analog outs I could set up a system to make killer 5.1 rips of the discs. I am in the video/audio biz as a poducer of material and am opposed to pirating, I believe we must look at the options to help defeat them) is purchase a multichannel soundcard with pultiple inputs. Record it then compress to a multichannel file (like WMA 9). The outputs sound so clean you shouldn't worry about resampling and noise.
Yes- this could hurt MS, but it has the potential to undermine any browser that supports plug in covered under the patent. Mozilla, Opera, you name it. The article shows a guy with a Bill Gates vision: total domination through strong arm via patents. No more Windows, no more LINUX. YOu wanna use plug ins you gotta switch to EOLAS OS, the only game in town for these functions. Its like Lord of the Rings: One Patent to Rule them All!
But people everyday here write how they oppose protections for copyrighted material like movies and music. How is it that my product differs in spirit to BitKeeper?
I agree it does, my rant was about the extremists who say it has to be ALL FREE. See, Open Source is good but it doesn't have as much impetus to keep "trendy." If it wasn't for Adobe needing to make a buck with Photosop 7 when might I have gotten the Healing Brush tool? That is now the tool I use the most. I actually use GIMP for Windows and am trying to install Film GIMP on Cygwin. I find UNIX systems very hard to deal with personally and I haven't gotten this thing installed yet. See, I would rather get to work on a project than try to get the software to work. I am a boutique studio, me doing video and my partner doing audio using ProTools TDM. I don't have a team of people keeping our system runnings. Just the two of us. When I got Adobe After Effects I instlled it, it worked. For Film GIMP I need to track down GTK and install it. I also feel that patents have a use as well, though most of the patents I see being given out for "processes" are complete BS. Like the Amazon patent on on click payments- completly rediculous. The patent office need to be completely reworked and, like probably 90% need to be thrown out.
I am sick of you whiners out there thinking that you all derserve everything free and that if someone makes money off of "information" and tries to protect their interests they are asses.
I work in the music/film business. I am making a movie. I own it. I want to sell it to you to watch at home- not to share it or upload it. Is that evil? I am putting my blood and sweat in it, being creative.
Look, it is as simple as this: you don't like the copy protection, patent protection, whatever you have every choice NOT to buy or watch or listen to a product. What the hell, are we supposed to make music/software/movies for free and work at the local diner to play the rent. Hardly.
So grow up.
Oh, and BTW, Linux is still not as good as Windows or Mac. Peroid. My Windows XP system works damn solid, apps install without problems and there is a ton of software. And GIMP- not even close to Photoshop for anyone that makes a living in the graphics biz. Your communistic appraoch to software and information is backwards.
Of course, if you want to make a free product, go ahead. Just respect other peoples rights to decide how they want to do business. Like I said- you don't like what BitKeeper is doing, don't use it. You don't like what Sony Music is doing, don't buy their CDs. But please, this does not mean you can steal it.
Just venting.
Stilleon
The true victim if the lawsuit is allowed to proceed is not just people shaing music or video, but all ISPs. Currently, ISPs cannot be help responsible for what users do theough a network. This suit is trying to change that. If it does the ISPs will run scared and are liable to censor anything that may get them in trouble, inevitably restricting legit uses. This is not to say I believe that sharing copyrighted material is legit, IT IS NOT. It is thievery. Jus thatthe remedy has far more wide ranging dangers.