[Brian Tetamore]

Yes. the drive was striped using Mac Disk Utility.

Would it hurt to at least try to install the drives in a new enclosure to see if it mounts? And do the drives need to be installed in the same order as they were in the original enclosure?

Really appreciate the help guys.

The Visual Rabbi
TheVisualChurch.com
“Crafting Visual Messages to Engage and Persuade”

[Brian Tetamore]

It’s a Kano Technology eSATA enclosure. So, practically speaking what does that mean? Do I need to purchase another Kano Tech drive array, or a drive array with a compatible RAID engine controller?

The reason I need to change is I no longer have access to a Mac with an eSATA card. I need a firewire 800 connection.

The Visual Rabbi
TheVisualChurch.com
“Crafting Visual Messages to Engage and Persuade”

[Brian Tetamore]

Patrick,
Believe me, I totally understand your perspective.

Question though. How do you get clients if you won’t accept RFPs? In this case, we are talking State government.

Second ?: Is it not relevant to request an initial production company presentation of their experience, gear, and basic rates? If a company chooses, they can leave portions of it blank.

Save gigs where i personally knew the client, I’ve never won a project without going through some sort of proposal process.

The Visual Rabbi
TheVisualChurch.com
“Crafting Visual Messages to Engage and Persuade”

[Brian Tetamore]

Great comments. Truly appreciate your input.

Creativity is almost impossible to put a dollar value to. As my financial buddy would say, personal work energy versus money. And that is the condundrum we face in our industry. We produce a product that is at first invisible, and is birthed from the creative mind. Clients just have a hard time attributing the value of that pesonal work energy.

I’m pushing the ad agency to produce a creative treatment first, and then use that for the RFP. We have talked at length about this issue, and they do have the option of going with a higher bid as long as they can provide a compelling reason to do so. That is my hope. As I mentioned from the very beginning, this is a new place that I find myself – in between the production company and the client. It is my hope to make it a win/win.

PS: What seems so wrong about this whole process is we are talking government money. They have the money budgeted. It has to be spent. I don’t fully understand that mentality, but it almost seems insane to worry about price when it’s possible to afford a good production company rather than the cheapest. Certainly makes you wonder where all the leftover money goes, doesn’t it?

The Visual Rabbi
TheVisualChurch.com
“Crafting Visual Messages to Engage and Persuade”

[Brian Tetamore]

Good stuff. Thanks for the input.

What makes video so difficult to bid is the fact that the final product is invisible until it is scripted. So, yeah, I’m leaning towards getting a script done before a contract.

The Visual Rabbi
TheVisualChurch.com
“Crafting Visual Messages to Engage and Persuade”

[Brian Tetamore]

Yeah, that’s my current line of questioning. Do I contract with a company or script writer to write the script and then put out an RFP? Or, could I contract with an RFP for a suitable production company based on experience, demonstrated storytelling, gear specs, daily EFP rates, hourly edit rates and so forth, and then once the script is green lighted, write up a contract for the production?

The Visual Rabbi
TheVisualChurch.com
“Crafting Visual Messages to Engage and Persuade”

[Brian Tetamore]

“If you are really going to choose on price, tell them. And when people build to a price, they need to know what corners it’s OK, or not OK, to cut. So tell them. ”

That’s good.

And yes, the standard MO is to go with the lowest priced qualified bidder. Unless, we can argue that a more expensive bid is worthwhile. The Ad Agency has asked that we create an RFP that allows us to compare apples to apples, so I’ll likely put up specs that are exact, but make it clear that could change based upon final scripting and thus the final bid.

Any thoughts on that? Maybe we just contract for the script and pre-production first, and then settle on the project contract from that?

The Visual Rabbi
TheVisualChurch.com
“Crafting Visual Messages to Engage and Persuade”

[Brian Tetamore]

Just opening it for the first time. After repairing permissions via DIsk Utility everything seems to be fine. There were a lot of issues with disk permissions, so the installation (at least my installation) must have caused – or maybe uncovered a lot of problems.

So far, so good.

The Visual Rabbi
TheVisualChurch.com
“Crafting Visual Messages to Engage and Persuade”

[Brian Tetamore]

Yes, installed over FCS Version 6.

I repaired permissions with Disk Utilities, and it’s up and running…for now.

Thanks for the quick reply. I might be back.

The Visual Rabbi
TheVisualChurch.com
“Crafting Visual Messages to Engage and Persuade”

[Brian Tetamore]

Funny Rob.

Ain’t it funny how our powerful electronic media, such as this forum, allows us to communicate with one another all across the world at the speed of light while at the same time cause our thinking and communication skills to diminish?

All the best…

The Visual Rabbi
TheVisualChurch.com
“Crafting Visual Messages to Engage and Persuade”