From: gtr on
On 2010-01-25 12:57:38 -0800, dorayme <doraymeRidThis(a)optusnet.com.au> said:

>>> I can put you in touch with my American friend who uses Windows
>>> if I ask him first and you email me etc...
>>
>> Oh no, no need for that. Any time I have to find a Windows box to
>> massage a file is the day I roll over on the street and give it up.
>
> Well, I don't think quite this way... one can pick up many things
> from many windows folk. It is just that the programs used might
> be a bit different often... Be careful not to think in black and
> white terms, that road leads to moral dwarfism. <g>

It's not about "windows folk" to me. I have a big bad mean computer
with all kinds of hip audio and video software and can do myriad
tricks. The idea of putting a loop in my process that involves going to
another person on another computer to convert things--well even when I
was on an Atari that usually didn't wind up being necessary if I simply
hunkered down.
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Thank you and have a nice day.

From: gtr on
On 2010-01-25 20:04:48 -0800, dorayme <doraymeRidThis(a)optusnet.com.au> said:

> What I was suggesting is that you can learn a lot from
> knowledgeable film editing windows folk, things like "you need to
> convert this to that for this purpose etc" - stuff that is
> platform neutral...

Oh, I see.
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