Client wants to view footage at home

[Nayim Saati]

hey the only issue im running into is that my kona card comes out all digital and the dvd player only takes analog yellow connections.

[Arc Nevada]

I may not understand the situation 100%.

As mentioned it seems as though you could drop all the footage in the timeline and burn a DVD with the timecode. The client could then give you a shot sheet on paper.

[Sven Giebel]

As I do this kind of thing on a regular basis I made a template in Compressor. I put the material tapewise (or all the shots of day one, two etc. )in a sequence, lay the timecode effect on all the clips as mentioned above and export with compressor. I make small H.264 quicktimes 320×180 with 6 frames per second, audio is 48.000 16bit. So the client can log the stuff and can make a rough layout edit. Compressor crunches these sequences very, very fast (because of the six frames and the non-compression of audio) . Client has all the information but not the full quality material. So one hour of material will get you approx. 100mb. Clients were always pleased with this workflow as they can even download the stuff from our ftp-server.
All the best, Sven

[Alan Okey]

[nayim saati] “They want copys of the footage so they can watch at home and pre-cut the footage on paper ( stupid, i know but the client iws always right).”

Whatever method you go with, insist on a timecode window burn on the footage, and be diligent about labeling reels so that you know and the client both know the source of the footage being reviewed. You don’t want to go through the agony of dealing with client selects when they have absolutely no clue about using proper timecode reference. There are plenty of options to make sure that the timecode overlay doesn’t overly impact viewing the footage in a negavtive way, i.e. reducing font size, adjusting opacity, repositioning the timecode window, etc. Hopefully your client will be receptive to being educated.

[Valerie Reid]

Your solution to go to clients place to upload is perfect, My client refused to believe it would take forever to transfer 8 hrs hd over from FCP to Premiere ( god knows how anyway) he insisted I do this for nothing, because his ‘expert’ mate kept telling him It was a easy , fast process. From now on I will always go to the clients place. Logging hours for time spent here wasn’t working. Thank you for very good advice.