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Just a quick question about the Flame Tips section of fxguide?
There don’t seem to have been any submissions since March last year! I’m sure we all have some cool things to share with one another and I was wondering if this section is still being updated or is on hold. I know the chaps at fxguide are crazy busy with running the site as well as the fantastic tutorials at fxphd.com but this is a section that I think proves invaluable to us al at some time or another. It would be great to see some more submissions!cheers
Daniel J. Kelly
Tips was one of the reasons we started fxguide. As we went along the number of user submitted tips really dwindled to the point that one year we ran a contest where you could be eligible to win an iPod if you submitted a tip. Still not as many submissions as we hoped. That left us doing a majority of the tips along with our days jobs, plus with the three of us making our living on Flame, tips tended to be more Flame-centric and we wanted the site to be broader.
Tips also had been limited to web pages and some small quicktimes (like Mike’s great modular keyer quicktime). Bandwidth became a problem and costly when the tutorials grew and with things requiring longer length and screen captures needing to be bigger to see what was going on – we had to move to a different model. fxphd is that natural extension.
That does not mean we don’t still do tips. I think John’s excellent article “Pro Living in a Consumer QuickTime World” is an excellent example of that. It was an article on fxguide and fxphd students got an in depth tutorial with examples and showing workflow and workarounds in various applications.
We’d love more activity in the tips submissions! Mike always says – when you share information, you get back more than you give. So, submit away!
Jeff
tips and trick is one of my favorites in fxguide.. hope this thread makes a begining with it again 🙂
I couldn’t agree more – Jeff, Mike & John have been pulling out all the stops on fxguide for years now and I think that they have single-handedly provided the world’s #1 forum for the fx international community. However, I think that one of the greatest aspects was the encouragement of user-based knowledge sharing. It happens so often, as the machine change and our knowledge develops, that we discover something that we think “How the heck did I get through the last few years without this?!”. I myself recently posted a tip to the Flame section and have yet to see it posted. It’s nothing huge,just a handy little work around that enables transparencies in all of the blending modes within action. But it is these little tips that we all share that really makes this collaborative way of exploring the machine exciting. This was actually the reason that spurred this post for me. If the tips are not coming in that is a shame in itself, but, when they do, it would be great to see them posted. I, myself, use many of the tips quite regularly and if I am able to make a small contribution back to the community in some way that would be great.
To add to what Jeff says, this spring I’m working on corralling tips from users and tips from our sister training site fxphd.com into a reworked tips section.
But it will only be truly successful if our readers contribute. 🙂
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