Angelo Mike
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Report it to Sony. I’d use Vegas 10. Well, I do use Vegas 10, even though I have 11. Way too buggy. Not being able to escape from full screen view and continuing preview is a joke.
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Report it to Sony. I don’t know what it is, but I’ll put it on the list of reasons why I won’t start using my copy of Vegas 11 yet.
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Best Buy has some pretty good ones. I got a fairly sturdy one for $30-forget the brand-with it’s own cloth bag. It has a fairly good tilt but jittery pan.
You can also try Rocket Fish tripods for a little more, which are great. I got one for $150, and I use it constantly. Very smooth tilt and pan, goes up pretty high.
https://www.amazon.com/Rocketfish-Carbon-Fiber-Tripod-RF-TRP65C/dp/B0034TU4TG
Of course, I bought this from Best Buy because I needed it right before a shoot, and it was $150 there. Buy online.
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I don’t know how readily available they are for laptops, but for desktops you can get a firewire card for about $10 and just plug it into your motherboard. Here’s some links for firewire cards for laptops.
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You can make the scopes larger in Vegas. Just drag the borders on it to resize it, or pop it out into a separate window by dragging the dots on the upper left side of the scopes monitor.
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I’ve done so much charity and non-profit video work in the last two years-easily at least 100 hours-and while some of it was with a small group of people who I would happily work for free for, for the most part, it was people who had no intention of paying me, never referred me for paid work, and it undercuts my chances of future pay. Plus, there’s the fact that for the last few months I’ve barely had enough money to pay my bills. I won’t even get into my finances beyond that since this is a relatively public place, but I was almost considering selling some of my equipment. That’s no way to make a living.
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I’ve had the videos on my own channel online for a few months, and they’ve merely gotten a few hundred views (probably over a thousand if you put them all together, or right around there). I know the head of the charity is using them to get sponsors, which I don’t mind.
The event planners, though, expect me to give them free video (they responded to my request for payment) by saying that they worked for free at the charity and didn’t plan on paying. So did at least a dozen other organizations that volunteered their time, who all would probably like free video as well for their Youtube channels.
Anyways, this is the last time I do free work like this. It just seems like a low business move to ask someone for free video after the event-you wouldn’t ask a mechanic for free work, but it seems fine to ask that from a video guy. I’ve given so much free work that I can barely pay my bills. I don’t know why I’m agreeing to even send the videos they asked for, but I’m telling them why I shouldn’t, and yet will, anyways, but no more. I could just say no-why don’t I? Oh well.
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I don’t suspect it will be much of a problem. Either they take my offer or leave it (it’ll probably be more than $100). I don’t intend on shooting any free events again. I did them for about a year while I worked a day job and barely got anywhere. Finding clients who can pay me adequately in the first place has been a problem for me, the other being that the ones who don’t pay me and say they’ll promote me never refer me to jobs that pay, anyways. So it’s basically the flip side of the coin about finding clients who can pay, anyways.
I never had any agreement with anyone before the event. I put videos on my Youtube channel, made DVDs, which I sent to the charity and a salon who donated their services. That was months ago, and I figured I was done. Now the event planners want the video for their own Youtube channel.
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It’s not even the charity, but the event planners. But ok, thanks. I’ll give them my offer.
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It’s not raw footage, just the edited videos…but under pricing has certainly been a problem for me. I just thought of this, though-the person who ran the auction, for whom I was really donating my time and who ran the charity, said that she owned or had the rights to the video at some point. There was nothing official about it other than her asking me to add that to the video descriptions on Youtube. I still feel I should be compensated.
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