John,

I've been working through this tutorial:

<http://synthetik.com/using-2-layers-to-build-a-colorizing-flicker-free-paint-animation-effect/>;.  It has links to Posterous content which is no longer available,, making the tutorial difficult to use.  Are there alternate links for us to access this info?

Thanks,

Michael

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  • the link is broken : )

    • Yes,  I know.  I'm looking for alternatives for accessing the Studio Artist support info.  Since Posterous has been shut down for some time, this information should be available at some other site.

      Best regards,

      Michael

  • p.s. - John, I've been meaning to ask - have you/are you consolidating tips and tutorials to http://www.synthetik.com/tips - or is that mostly the tips that were on Posterous? Would you mind letting us know where the tips/tutorials now are for the most part? many thanks, Mark

  • The daily effects blog was an experiment that was put together by me using Posterous. Unfortunately,  Twitter bought Posterous and then shut down all the Posterous blogs. So there's a lesson on cloud computing for you to savor.

    I apologize for that, especially since there are a million links on other studio artist sites that point to those daily effect blog posts, but there is absolutely nothing i can do about it.  All of the daily effect blog posts were uploaded to the main synthetik.com site in the blog section before posterous shut down. You can find them here. Use the tags or search fields to find the daily effect post(s) of interest. They are all there. The jpeg images are not as sharp as the original, but we had no control over that, it was a side effect of the wordpress import of the posterous blog entries.

  • John,

    I'm not asking for a Daily Effects entry.  I'm trying to refresh my memory about movie processing techniques by using the main Studio Artist Knowledgebase.

    This is a primary resources I use to understand complexities of Studio Artist I can't work out from documentation in the manual.  The April 06, 2011, post entitled "Using 2 Layers to Build a Colorizing Flicker Free Paint Animation E..." contains two essential links.  One is supposed to link to a previous post that apparently must be read to understand this entry (or so it says in the text of the explanation).  But it is impossible to identify what the links refer to.  They take the user the the same dead end Posterous page with no tags to show original content.

    Since this is a main knowledge base that users depend on, I would think something should be done to reestablish the quality of the documentation beyond simply telling users to go search for themselves.  We don't even know what titles we are searching for.

    Best regards,

    Michael

    • The blog post on synthetik.com you are referring to (called 'Using 2 Layers to Build a Colorized Flicker Free Paint Animation Effect' dated april 06 2011) is one of the old Studio Artist Daily Effect blog posts that was originally posted on the posterous site i was referring to. That's why the previous post it points to is another posterous post. 

      We auto-imported all of those posterous daily effect blog posts into the blog on the synthetik.com site. So if you look at the april 05 2001 post on the synthetik blog, that is the information it refers to when it points at the previous day's post. And that one refers to the april 04 2011 post since it's kind of a multi-part exploration of the effect, so that april 04 2011 one would be found here on the synthetik.com site.

      Anything that points to an old posterous blog post can now be found on the synthetik.com blog. That's because all of those older posts were auto-imported from the posterous studio artist daily effects blog last year. Unfortunately, right now any old links they include that refer to other old daily effects blog posts still reference the old posterous blog links, which no longer exist. Twitter killed off posterous relatively recently, so we haven't yet dealt with the huge task of re-editing all of those imported posterous blog post links. It's something we need to deal with. But it's a huge task, since there are a large number of links on the user forum as well as on synthetik.com that link to pages on old posterous daily effects blog.

      I agree it's very confusing and annoying, and i apologize for that. I hope my convoluted explanation above now makes sense. If the daily effect blog posts had been originally developed directly on synthetik.com (like the tips site), then there would not be the problem you are running into. So it was a painful learning experience for me (don't count on any promises from internet cloud companies to necessarily hold true in the future).

      • John,

        Thanks for the help in finding the documentation.  I know it must be quite a chore to reestablish links in all the entries.  It will be a great value to users once it is finished, though.

        There is another simple resource that would be very helpful -- a list of the titles for all the documentation entries in the Knowledge Base, Tips, and Video Tutorials.  This would make it a lot easier to scan the documentation.  In the past, have spent hours with the search function, reading through entries, trying to find a single technique that I remembered, but needed to read again.  The "cloud" of search terms on the right is visually interesting but not very useful (at least for me).  A list of the complete titles would help narrow a search more quickly.

        Best regards,

        Michael

        • You would think that wordpress would provide a way to do that automatically. Something like that should work like tags, auto-generated as opposed to a manual page that would need to be re-edited all the time.

          We have tried to put together topic focus pages in the past. Like tutorial group posts here that point to specific tip or blog posts on a particular topic (like mosaic imagery or movie processing). 

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