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Approval and invoicing system
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[Nick Griffin] “I try to avoid people who want to “direct” as part of their job…”
Oh man oh man… I try to avoid that, too. Sometimes it can’t be helped…sigh.
Even after years and years of it, it still amazes me that someone who would never attempt to tell a plumber how to fix their drain, or tell an electrician how to wire their house, or tell their doctor exactly what kind of treatment they need… is suddenly an absolute advertising and marketing genius who knows exactly what they need and how they need it… irrespective of the fact that they have no expertise or experience in that realm.
Sometimes, if your relationship is good, you just have to be firm with them….
I was editing a commercial for a plastic surgeon once who surprisingly wanted to sit in on the session (we do a lot of those guys and most of them are far too busy shoveling money to spend much time with us). Anywho, this guy kept nitpicking things, trying things this and that way (and of course always going back to my original cuts, which is general the way). I finally casually asked him if he ever had any patients who came to him and told him not only what they wanted, but exactly how he should do it. He said “Oh yes, I’ve had a few like that on the table, I can’t wait to put them under just so they will be quiet.” I looked at him and said “Bob… it’s time for you to go to sleep now.” He paused, smiled, and said “Ohh….” and sat back and shut up for the rest of the session. And left happy.
Of course you can’t do that with everyone, but fortunately sometimes you can.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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[Tim Kolb] “I suppose the hulking hybrid Escalade isn’t your idea of ‘elegance’?”
Kathlyn and I have always referred to the Escalade as the urban drug-runner assault vehicle.
Even the guys at the local Cadillac dealership joke that they sell most of them to wealthy soccer moms or drug runners.
I guess it’s the reason for the new joke that I just am making up right now, as to what do soccer moms and urban drug-runners have in common? Escalades.
(Drum roll sound inserted here, a little louder than the audience groaning as the shepherd’s hook reaches on-stage and pulls the aspiring comic off-stage — where he truly belongs.)
Have fun,
Ron Lindeboom
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We put a time code burn-in on the online videos and ask people to e-mail us the edit revisions or comments using the on-screen timecode display. Occasionally we will have someone write back “at 01:03:05:00 edit this down some, and then add some more after that” leaving it up to us to figure out the actual edits. While other people get specific down to the frame with specific cuts. One needs to be mindful of illogical edits, such as the 15 frame edit. Sometimes an editor has to interpret the client’s suggestion, and be able to identify typographical errors by the same token.
Mike
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I’m surprised no one’s mentioned one of the simplest options for web approval. Get yourself an account at a video hosting provider like blip.tv or vimeo.com and upload your rough cuts there. You can send the client directly to the page or easily embed the video in a client page on your own site. With blip you can password protect your videos just for the client. Vimeo has higher quality HD encoding if that’s important. You can see some HD examples here:
This is the quick and dirty way but you get a nice embeddable player and it isn’t any more difficult than uploading to an FTP site. It’s very easy for the client. I’ve done it a few times.
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Eric Susch
http://www.LetsKnit2gether.com
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We edit in PremierePro CS3. It allow us export the timeline/work area as a PDF for comments in an Adobe Clip Notes PDF. This embeds the video,(in a QT or WMV format), into a PDF file for emailing where the client can open the PDF, view the video, pause where desired and enter comments in a special window. After they’ve finished, the informaion is saved in an XML file that they email back to us.
We import the XML back into the Premiere project and it will put markers up on the timeline where the client paused. When clicked, a window opens with the clients comments. Smooth or what?
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A similar option is screencast.com — I actually found them through their banner ad at the bottom of this forum.
They allow you to make the files public, private, or password-protected. You can turn on an option to show clients a download button. They do not recompress video, so it can be presented in whatever format you choose. You can quickly generate links to send to clients, or you can embed in a web page.
Walter Soyka, Principal
Keen Live, Inc.
Presentation, Motion Graphics & Widescreen Design
RenderBreak: A Blog on Innovation in Production
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