[Bill Kaminski]

Thanks for your reply, Nick. The question I am asking is do these guys seem to be avoiding the money issue, – and how to get them to understand there is a big difference between 50 photos lasting a few minutes as opposed to 150+ photos and 10-15 minutes? I initally gave a telephone quote based on 50 photos. During the meeting I gave my hourly rate, stating time is money, the more time I spend on their work, the more it will cost. Right after saying that, they did not want me to edit any images in Photoshop or “…spend more than 20 minutes” in Lightwave working on their logo, nor enlarge any images that weren’t quite big enough to “fill the screen” using GF printpro in Photoshop. Then they turned around again, showing me more images, wanting me to do something with autocad drawings of their creations and photos of the finished projects in AE.

I wanted the vice president to send me an outline so HE could see the amount of work involved, then give a price quote based on that outline, knowing how many images were involved and how many they wanted animated in AE, thinking that would force the vice pres to have some idea of the amount of time involved. I have a feeling since I gave the vice pres’s wife too good a deal on her church’s video, that may be working against me.

This company does work on nationally known projects, why they wouldn’t go for the best possible image projected of themselves on a viewing screen (spending more time on fixing things like holes in the asphalt in their parking lot, etc., in Photoshop) is something that doesn’t make sense to me. They keep making it sound like they have no money for this, despite it being a big company anniversary and their working on what appear to be multi-million dollar projects in the photos. If they don’t want me to edit, enlarge, or animate the images, they don’ t need me, just their PC & Powerpoint.