creativecow.com what a bunch of whiney little bitches

As some of you know I am the proud owner of a new indie feature film. I worked my ass off and dumped every dime I have into my little film. I finished it, and to top that off, I even got a distribution deal. So I contacted a couple of places to dub my final movie to HDcamSR, the format requested by my distributor.

 Not sure about pricing or procedure I made the stupid decision to join www.creativecow.com and post a question in their forums. I had been receiving their little magazine for free each month and it seemed to be legit.

Well, what I found out was that the Creative Cow forums are actually a sort of misfits club. All the unemployed geeks we made fun of in high school and college float around the forums waiting to pounce on anyone new. I posted my questions and some background info. Here is the first reply:

Hey Joe,

Just to be clear; you are neither doing a dubbing nor a transfer of your film. You are doing a full on HD online with cross conversion from 59.94 to HD-CAM SR 29.97 + down and cross conversions to SD NTSC & PAL.

Honestly, $4,700 is too cheap once you start legalising and QC - that guy must have seen you coming.

Pack away your film and your dreams and get a proper hobby - angling should be nice and relaxing

If you do end up using a cheap/no budget solution, make sure NOT to pay “the ferryman” until you’ve reached the other side - in your case, that is once the distribution company has cleared (QC’ed) your tapes for distribution. One more thing, if your “facility” is hiring in the HD-CAM SR - get them to run you two or three masters out, so you have a safety in your own cupboard.

Good Luck!!!

All the Best
Mads
London, UK

Wait a minute… did this brit douche-bag just tell me to “get a new hobby”? Does he think Americans make movies as a hobby? Does he think movies shot as a “hobby” get distribution? I thought maybe I misunderstood. Who asked him? I’m an American and anything a Brit knows is last years tech. They should spend more time wondering why prince charles is married to a man. If England sank into the ocean the world would be a better place. The next guy wrote:

 Hi Joe -
I would like to commend your distributors for keeping a PROFESSIONAL HI END standard for their film distribution.  As Mads said “this is not a hobby”.  We do this to make a decent living, to pay for things like medical insurance, and a car, and to feed our families.  THIS IS NOT YOUTUBE (and if it was, most of us would not participate on this forum).  A Sony SRW-5500 with options is $130,000.  Most of the people on all of these forums cannot afford this VTR, but this is the “top of the line” VTR, used by HI END professionals.  You know - like guys that shoot with Panavision cameras (and super hi end HD cameras as well).  We LIKE the fact that it is expensive, so that we can “be above and beyond” the Youtube generation that works with Sony PD150 cameras, and the like.

And just remember, when you buy your Red Scarlet for $3000, a higher standard will be created, and it will ALWAYS BE THIS WAY, because when the amateurs “catch up” to the pros, new higher standards are created, so that a professional market can exist.

And I don’t like your attitude.  Films are made to make money. 

bob Zelin

 You should see the homo that wrote this… he looks like the witch from Wizard of Oz. He must have thought I was someone else or he is having his period. What an asshole to write something like that when ha has never seen my movie or met me. He is a liar too, because he once wrote that he pioneered the use of SATA drives in non-linear editing. Dozens of people (including me) were using SATA drives striped for editing for almost a year before his “pioneering” started.

These posts were made within minutes of my question being submitted. They are just sitting around unemployed and they are pissed off. They hate the world and the fact that people are smarter now than ever before. They wish the old days would come back. The days when nobody knew anything and guys like “bob Zelin” (SIC) were the mysterious geniouses. But those days are over. Even high school kids in media class know more than these fops.

The lesson here? www.CREATIVECOW.com should be called www.BUCKETOFASSHOLES.com . They are all there in a giant circle jerk hoping to meet each other at a public bathroom someday. They are rude and useless as well as washed up morons.
 

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