SWA Complete Ableton Live 8 reduced to only $1.99!!!!

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Chris Hawkins
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Re: SWA Complete Ableton Live 8 reduced to only $1.99!!!!

Post by Chris Hawkins » Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:29 pm

kitekrazy wrote:I have it. I usually prefer the videos from groove3. My major complaint about the SWA video is that it uses that Adobe Air crap. I have a separate drive for videos. Air just installs the video, adding a gig to your OS drive, doesn't give you a choice.

Sony does the best tutorial videos for their products. They have the projects for you to load.
Yeah - we got a lot of people saying that.... if we go with Quicktime - we get a lot of complaints from Windows users... obviously we cannot go purely Windows Media as OS X users cannot play Windows Media files. So we go with a cross platform player that uses Adobe Air and we get complaints about that... no matter what format we use somebody we be unhappy with it.

Quicktime would be our first choice as people could simply place the file anywhere on their hdd and watch it - or import it to their iTunes lib and even have chapters.... but again we get loads of Windows user complaints.... we are thinking that we will go with a straight up Windows Media version for Windows users and a Quicktime (m4v) for OS X users. Windows users should take note that Windows Media files DO NOT support chapters... so they would have to scroll through and navigate the video manually.... Quicktime does support chapters (quite nicely I should add).

Oh and just to add.... as posted in the original post - we have for this video gone to the above mentioned format.... Windows Media file for Windows and and Quicktime for OS X users... and were able to save some space and make the downloads smaller. Something we most likely being doing in the future.

Just to recap.... this offer ends on April 30th.... after that the video will be removed from our catalog.

Cheers,
Chris

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Re: SWA Complete Ableton Live 8 reduced to only $1.99!!!!

Post by Tone Deft » Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:42 pm

^ the irony is that Ableton Live requires Quicktime to be installed for it to run at all. so, any Windows users that are complaining are watching your videos without having Live on their computers to begin with.
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Chris Hawkins
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Re: SWA Complete Ableton Live 8 reduced to only $1.99!!!!

Post by Chris Hawkins » Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:43 pm

Tone Deft wrote:^ the irony is that Ableton Live requires Quicktime to be installed for it to run at all. so, any Windows users that are complaining are watching your videos without having Live on their computers to begin with.
True... but we make videos on various applications so not all will have Quicktime.

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Re: SWA Complete Ableton Live 8 reduced to only $1.99!!!!

Post by Tone Deft » Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:45 pm

Chris Hawkins wrote:
Tone Deft wrote:^ the irony is that Ableton Live requires Quicktime to be installed for it to run at all. so, any Windows users that are complaining are watching your videos without having Live on their computers to begin with.
True... but we make videos on various applications so not all will have Quicktime.
there are other applications than Ableton Live?

bah... screw 'em!!! :twisted: stop wasting your time.

/fanboi.
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Re: SWA Complete Ableton Live 8 reduced to only $1.99!!!!

Post by kitekrazy » Fri Apr 23, 2010 11:07 pm

Chris Hawkins wrote:
kitekrazy wrote:I have it. I usually prefer the videos from groove3. My major complaint about the SWA video is that it uses that Adobe Air crap. I have a separate drive for videos. Air just installs the video, adding a gig to your OS drive, doesn't give you a choice.

Sony does the best tutorial videos for their products. They have the projects for you to load.
Yeah - we got a lot of people saying that.... if we go with Quicktime - we get a lot of complaints from Windows users... obviously we cannot go purely Windows Media as OS X users cannot play Windows Media files. So we go with a cross platform player that uses Adobe Air and we get complaints about that... no matter what format we use somebody we be unhappy with it.

Quicktime would be our first choice as people could simply place the file anywhere on their hdd and watch it - or import it to their iTunes lib and even have chapters.... but again we get loads of Windows user complaints.... we are thinking that we will go with a straight up Windows Media version for Windows users and a Quicktime (m4v) for OS X users. Windows users should take note that Windows Media files DO NOT support chapters... so they would have to scroll through and navigate the video manually.... Quicktime does support chapters (quite nicely I should add).

Oh and just to add.... as posted in the original post - we have for this video gone to the above mentioned format.... Windows Media file for Windows and and Quicktime for OS X users... and were able to save some space and make the downloads smaller. Something we most likely being doing in the future.

Just to recap.... this offer ends on April 30th.... after that the video will be removed from our catalog.

Cheers,
Chris
That is great. Adobe Air sucks. I liked the QT versions because of the chapters.

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Re: SWA Complete Ableton Live 8 reduced to only $1.99!!!!

Post by Chris Hawkins » Mon May 17, 2010 12:05 am

I know many of you were hoping to be able to use Paypal to order this video - as we were having issues with our payment notification with Paypal - we created a work around using a 'Buy Now' button... so if you are to go to:

http://streamworksaudio.com/?page=products&prodID= 25

And click the Buy button you will be taken to Paypal's site.... once the payment is complete you will be emailed a link to download the video.

Thanks for your patience!

Chris
Streamworks Audio

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Re: SWA Complete Ableton Live 8 reduced to only $1.99!!!!

Post by Chris Hawkins » Mon May 17, 2010 2:26 am

ShelLuser wrote:500 - Internal server error.

Your link isn't correct (the id isn't part of the clickable link), this one is ;-)

Still.... It kinda looks funny; seeing a product page for something which originally shouldn't exist after the 30th of april ;-)

Now, I've seen the story behind it (just pulling your leg a little here); but perhaps its useful for some people to let them know the new ending date?

The link is not working because it is not including the "25" is not being included in the link.

The data is wrong yes... but we are just running this for those that were hoping to get a chance to use Paypal, as there was an issue with our Payment Notification system with Paypal - so we made a work around by using a Buy Now button.

Cheers,
Chrus

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