Bob Woodhead
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If you’re in proximity to their factory, maybe you can shoot enough to make the spot I outlined. Keep in mind I was selling sex more than the process. Something to grab the eyeballs & make ’em wait around for the payoff. So it wasn’t her making coffee, it was her doing her morning routine cut against your client’s bean routine. Make some kind of visual connection between the two each shot, progressing both, but always lots of enticing ECU – without making it trashy. Since time is a big factor, maybe shoot for a :30 (or so, since airtime’s not an issue) and put a couple of minutes of “floaty text n’ pix” in between loops of the spot. Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT attempt this on decaf. :))))))))
On yeah, to steal a bit from Mark’s post, after the spot, after a bit o’ floaty text or two, ask a trivia question (onscreen) about something in the spot, and the viewer wins some bauble.
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Correct. You shouldn’t try to edit from system drive. Not IMPOSSIBLE, but highly NOT recommended. You may, however, still be nuts.
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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Follow a super-sexy actress through her morning routine, intercut with the coffee-making-roasting-whatever-ering process. ECU her eyes open, match dissolve through to ECU coffee bean being picked, brown bean matches her iris. She showers, beans are getting washed / steam from her coffeemaker rises, beans are being roasted…. you get the idea. Lots of almost-scandalous imagery (she’s getting dressed…) All culminating in her first ultra-sensual (ous?) sip of god’s nectar, and dissolve to company’s employees standing in a group smiling, nodding their heads, (close enough so you get the impression they’ve been watching HER), as tagline comes up – “Your customers have a better day when we’re there to help…” (or somesuch)
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Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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That’s 5 to 10 Terrabytes. Whew. 400:1 shooting ratio? If you really have to shoot that much, how about logging tapes & pulling selects? Maybe a few frame grabs from scenes you’re not completely digitizing, so you’ll have a visual reference? If you could get total capture down to 2 TB or so, your options increase dramatically.
As for RAID, I’m a big fan of HUGE Systems. Run mine in RAID3 for data safety. Drives die. Don’t let your data. (Many others say they don’t mind recapturing from tape, true, but I also store project files (art, effects, text, etc) on it.Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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I think the real issue with this client isn’t needing the additional storage at this time, but the time they leave their media on your drives. I’d explain to your client that drive space is basically, real estate – it’s leased to them for a reasonable amount of time during their project with you. However, this doesn’t mean because they book a job with you for a week they get to leave it on your system for 6 months. We had this issue with a client, we explained it to them, and they were fine paying a “storage fee” for the ability to call up & have it available for revisions. No need to get into the details of HOW you have it available (loading offline drives, tape, keeping it online, etc).
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How was the feel of the manual zoom & focus? My biggest complaint of the mid-range cameras is poor manual functions.
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Probably be a hassle w/ multiple cameras, unless they can all see the DVD screen at once (even then, they’d need to reframe the shot after capturing dvd screen). But potentially do-able.
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I’ve found Ultimatte Advantedge to be better than the others, but it’s not a “superhero” – if you can’t get a “fair” key from DVMattePro, then Adventedge probably won’t give you a “great” key. HERE’S AN IDEA – post a single frame of a troublesome shot & let us look/play with it.
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Take a look at Ultimatte Advantedge – waaay slow, but the best keying for DV, IMHO. If the screen isn’t lit well near the edges, use a garbage matte 1st to bring your keying range down to just outside the talent. Always, always shrink & blur the key a bit before calling it “done”.