Chris Poisson
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What kind of deck(s) are you connected to? And how is your LH figuring into all this?
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Don’t know about Kim, but I was working in 8 bit. I’d bet the farm 10 bit wouldn’t fix it, but I can try if you like.
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Thanks! Didn’t know about that!
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BW,
If you have that kind of control over clients, consider yourself blessed. Since my days as an ad agency art director buying all kinds of production we ALWAYS had to work with a budget, so any production companies that bid on our work knew the amount going in. This of course eliminated many big players, who simply could not be touched for our $s. In my example above, I was bidding for an ad agency, where in many cases today it is still “this is what we’ve got, you’re either in or out.” It’s probably worse now than ever, because of all the competition caused by producers like you and me.
Citing my example further, and some of the other good advice here, it is sometimes advantageous to take a discounted job as a gesture of faith to get more and better jobs from the same agency.
That was my situation, it was an agency I want more work from, and it turned out well for me anyway as they increased the budget mid-job.
Thanks to all of you for some valuable insights, I have to do billing today, I intend to use a lot of your suggestions.
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Kim,
About two months ago we had a discussion about this, you could do a search, but the upshot was that FCP’s DS does not play nice with alpha channels in every instance. I was bringing in Animation+ movies from AE and was getting the same flicker, nothing including nesting seemed to work, but I did find that some 3rd party drop shadows don’t do this. Boris Continuum is what I ended up using.
You can trash your prefs all day long, but it ain’t gonna fix it.
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David,
In no way was I complaining about these kinds of jobs, if you read again you’ll see I mentioned giving back, that has always been part of it for me. And I mentioned the benifit of getting the same client’s to perhaps bring me more paying jobs. I was strictly looking for other’s points of view on a purely theoretical business perspective, how you all handle this. So in that regard, thanks for your comments.
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I also do #1 (answer, that is) with an LH, works great.
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I forgot to add, I used to have one of those Canopus boxes, but it was a pain using it on the same system with a FireWire deck attached, it confused the Mac to have two FW devices hooked up, but maybe the latest OS X does things better, dunno, I went Decklink and Kona a long time ago…
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Take a look at the Matrox MXO.
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I was gonna say s–t or go blind!