Charley King
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It is tryig to e helpful by showing you where you should put the 5 frame flash.
Ingenious little devil, huh?Charlie
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I wasn’t trying to cause an argument
Anyone who knows me knows I am a very mild person. I was just stating a fact that some companies, one example was Monster Cables who was out sueing anyone that used the term Monster with anything.
R&R Partners actually bought the slogan from The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority for the sum of $1.00. R&R is the agency of record for LVCVA and since LVCVA, being the type of organization they are, are unable to legally go after anyone thought to be diluting their slogan for overuse. So R&R purchased the slogan so they could legally do it for them.
There would probably not e any problem here, but with the threads in the Business Forum concerning copyrighted material ad legallities, I thought you might wish to be aware.Charlie
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After reading the article, I see where it is ery difficult to get really fair comparisons in some areas. For example, starting with Digital Betaca footage, the dubs were made by SDI to the digital formats.
The dub to and from the Betaca SP would have had to be made through the analog output of the Digital Beta, then an analog output from the Beta SP. This in essence has give the eta SP a disadantage from the onset of making the video 2 generations of analog to the final destination. Since analog has losses in generational output. You are not starting with a first generation as you in essence have from the digital sources.Just a simple observation that makes these types of comparisons a little less than perfect.
Charlie
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High school graduate. 44 years in broadcast television taught me a lot.
Charlie
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[Dietrich] “”What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas””
You might want to be careful repeating that too much. R&R Partners, the owners of the trademark, have filed a lawsuit with a lady that used it on T shirts.
Charlie
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OK,
Along with what I stated earlier, let me add some that any may not hae er heard of happening.My biggest competitor for several years was my best friend. If I was oerbooked and soeoe needed time I would send them to him to do the project that I did’t have time to do. He did the same, sending me his overrun. Each of us knew that the othr was going to do everything in his power to make that client a permanent fixture, within certai guidlines of course.
It was almost like a game with us, what clients can we steal from the other. Funny thing, I don’t believe either of us ever took a client from the other, because they appreciated the fact we were willing to take the chance of losing them by sending them to a competitor in order to service their needs.
In reality we solidified our standing with these clients.
I short, I believe you can be ethical, and still be extremely competetive. Ya just have to do it with class. Oh by he way, we always told these clients that the competitor was our best friend, but what would it take to get them to come back to us, cutting rates is not an option.
Charlie
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Interesting things being discussed here. I can see Ron’s comments very strongly, but there are, in my opinion, sometimes exceptions.
Many moons ago in the olden times, I was offered a job in the desert. I was currrently working in the gorgeous seacoast city of San Diego. My employer in San Diego knew I was leaving and gave me a fond farewell. Two of my clients asked him where I went and he told them. They then brought their business to the desert so I could continue servicing their needs. I never felt in this instance that I had violated a trust. Of course I didn’t actually ask them to follow me.
After 10 years at the facility in the desert I was offered a position at a brand new facility. My employer knew I was offered that position and again I left with a very good relationship. I did inform several of my clients where I was moving and that to continue doing business with me they would have to decide on paying a much higher rate. Most did some didn’t. I along with my former employer knew if they hadn’t followed me, they would probably have eventually gone somewhere else anyhow since that employer was unable to continue they high quality of service the clients that left were use to receiving without spending a lot of money to upgrade the equipment which he was told was the only way to keep me there.
Soooooo, there are some instances that it really isn’t bad business practices to go after clients of a previous employer, but I will admit these instances are rare.Charlie
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I third that suggestion. I learned from an engineer that gave everything a personality and made it so easy to understand. I learned to never set up and match cameras to a monitor. I do all my color correction to scopes. Once you learn, it makes so much sense you will never want to go back.
Charlie
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OK, Digi-beta is 4:2:2 at a 3:1 or sometimes referred to as 2.5:1 compression ratio.
Betacam SP is analog, the color you see is the color you get. One difference you may notice in betacam is it will have some noise in the picture. When that picture is transferred to Digital, it is actually compressed and in the compression scheme the first thing to go is the noise which will give the impression of being cleaner than the analog Betacam.
I believe it is this perception that they may be talking about instead of the actual video quality, or colorimitry.I hope this helps in your understanding. I apologize if I seemed coy or unhelpful. I just find it difficult at times to understand how a degree seems to make people more knowledgeable when my experience has seen many degrees that couldn’t make it in the real world so they returned to a major university to teach. I don’t mean any disrespect for anyone, cause I have also seen many degrees that hit the real world with a quest for learning more and those people have gone far, unlike the ones that taunt the degree as symbol that they know everything and are ready to conquer the world of TV, or movies.
Charlie
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Amen brother Jonathan
Charlie