Bob Zelin
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and why don’t you just buy a premade Chinese NAS that does exactly what you want without any aggravation ?
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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Just to clarify, I’m wondering how to buy air time on local television affiliates. I’m not sure who to contact.
REPLY – that’s the easy part. You call the receptionist at your local TV station (I assume you drive past the local TV station in your area on a regular basis) and say these exact words “hi, I’d like to purchase some advertising time”. Or if you want cable time, you call Brighthouse Networks or Time Warner or Comcast or Cox Cable local sales office, and say the exact same thing “hi – I’d like to buy some advertising time”. Here in Orlando, Brighthouse (now called Spectrum, who also now owns Time Warner) advertises themselves on TV, showing small companies in 30 second spots, saying “ever since I started to advertise on Brighthouse, my business has picked up 300 %”. That’s what every TV station, and cable system live for – to take your money for advertising time. A simple call to a receptionist will put you in touch with the right person. Then you say “I am interested in buying 30 minutes of time”.
And does anyone have any tips on how to go about getting sponsors?
REPLY – lets say that there is a great Lasik eye surgeon in your area, that does some of his own local advertising. Here in Orlando, there is a Dr. named Conrad Fillotowski. I see, as I browse thru the channel guide on my cable system, he has a dedicated 30 minute show on Lasik surgery, featuring of course, Dr. Conrad Fillotowski. I see this all the time. This is a 30 minute commercial, made into a “show”. So – how do you find Dr. Fillotowski, and get him to spend $100,000 on air time, and your production fees ? The SAME WAY I get Greg Ball to hire me as an engineer. “Hello, is this Greg Ball – Hi – this is Bob Zelin, I am a video engineer in Orlando that builds and maintains video facilities and shared storage systems, I’d like to be able to come on down to your place in West Palm, and meet with you to see your facility, and how I can assist you with your technical needs”. Of course, when I call you, you won’t take my call, so I keep calling you, and soliciting you with emails and phone calls, and mailings, until you finally get sick and tired of throwing out and deleting my solicitations, and finally meet with me. And you now do this to everyone of the “scientific experts” that you want to feature in your show, and perhaps one or two of them will say YES. WOW – now you are a production company. And once you convince your local plastic surgeon to do it, perhaps now, you can convince the local ambulance chaser lawyer to have a show on how they can sue every business in your area for “slip and fall”.Of course, since you are in West Palm, near Palm Beach, perhaps you could start hanging out at the bar/restaurants on Palm Beach, and being the friendly guy that you are, start conversations with rich folks in these establishments at the bars, and tell them that you are a television producer, and HOW WOULD THEY LIKE TO INVEST in your next project, which will feature their beautiful granddaughter, so she can be on TV ?
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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come on Greg –
Ship Shape TV in Florida buys their own time. They have a specialty show on Yacht’s, and they buy the time on Fox Sports, and feature the sponsor. You just want to create a show that is just “cool” and Discovery is going to buy this show ? You can buy 30 minutes on any channel – just show them the money – let your client pay for it. 12 clients, 12 shows, an entire season. Oh, you want Discovery to pay for this ? Or A&E ? Do what everyone else does – create a pilot, pitch the show, get rejected 20 times, and if you are lucky, and low budget enough, somone will pick up # 21.
Welcome to Florida.Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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HI DJ –
lucky for you, every system you see advertised here on Creative Cow works. You can use AVID, Adobe, FCP-X, etc.
They all work. Any 8 bay system with 3TB drives is a 24 TB shared storage system. They all work. It’s up to you.
There are no “bad ones” that are based on 10G these days.Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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simple answer –
pay them under the table, no one will know any better.you can write off anything you want – but if you get audited, and don’t have W9 forms from them, you will be screwed.
If one of these guys asks for unemployment (unemployment ? I only hired him for one damn day !!!) – just wait, you will be screwed. You will get a full audit from the IRS.Could you get lucky – sure you could. Keep doing this, and you will be screwed. I could bore you with my not collecting sales tax for over 10 years (after all, I don’t sell anything, you need a connector, I give you a connector that costs me 3 bucks, and you give me the 3 bucks back) – guess what – that is ILLEGAL, not without the proper paperwork for resale, and I almost got seriously screwed by the Florida Department of Revenue. And it was only caught because a client of mine got a full audit.
Let me put it simply – you could literally kill someone, and you might get away with it. Try to screw the government of their taxes, and you will be in big trouble. Play by the rules.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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I agree with David Weiss –
Cat DV
Axle Videoand of course Key Flow Pro (as per John Davidson and FCP-X)
The other solutions are too complex and expensive.
Just remember, the real expense of any asset management system is the LABOR required to put into this.
Editors see this already pre logged, and say “WOW – I have to have this”- -they don’t realize that someone spent
months or years logging and tagging all of their clips, so that when you type in keywords like “home run”
or “foul ball”, or a players name, or a combination of a player with a sponsor, someone has manually entered that into the asset management program. There ain’t no free lunch here. You are really paying for someone’s labor, to make the life of the editors and producers easier. (find me all the interview shots of Jorge Soler)bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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yes – it’s the same quality.
If you need a single conversion – SD to HD, it will work just fine for you.Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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oops – I did not accurately address the first post –
need video ?
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/558912-REG/Blackmagic_Design_CONVMSYNC_Sync_Generator.html$185 – ooh, too much money ! How about a new Mac Pro that does not come with a keyboard or a mouse ?
I guess when you buy that expensive mic, it should come with a shock mount, stand and XLR cable.
And those expensive mixers – why can’t they include those cables to plug everything in !!!Bob Zelin
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Rescue 1, Inc.
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Audio to SDI 4K – $280
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1082829-REG/blackmagic_design_convmcauds4k_mini_converter_audio.htmlzoom H4N Pro – $199
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1253811-REG/zoom_h4npro_4_channel_handy_recorder.htmlCinedeck – about $16,000
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/882522-REG/cinedeck_26000_mx_multi_format_multi_channel_monitor.htmlYou are all a bunch of babies. You want everything – every feature, and you want to pay the ridiculous low prices that
Blackmagic charges, but if they are missing a feature – even if you can add this feature with a less than $300 product – then wah wah wah ! God forbid you spend 16 grand to get the product that you actually want that is full of features.because THIS is the right price –
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1007193-REG/blackmagic_design_hyperd_st2_hyperdeck_studio_2.htmlBob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
bobzelin@icloud.com