Cory Petkovsek
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Go to redgiant’s websites and follow their video tutorials for colorista.
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I’m not sure what you are talking about, but it sounds like color replacement. If Dave’s suggestion isn’t what you want, perhaps you can use the “change color” or “color to color” plugins to grab red and turn lightness down to black.
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>> 2 camera interviews, picture and archive footage inserts
That’s like 1-2 hours of editing.>> motion graphic intro and transitions
What does this mean? You click on a plugin/effect and add it, or you model and render some crazy 3d motion graphics, or somewhere in between. $0 to $4000+>> creds, other titling
Basic text or motion graphics text? I’d probably do some nice animated text in AE, so a few hours for it.>> music (composed, not library)
I don’t compose music, so I’d quote from a composer.“Standard Industry Prices” don’t really exist. Only market prices do. They are localized. They are also dependent upon a huge variety of factors including talent/portfolio, name and equipment depending on what service is being provided. A good rule of thumb is to price according to the value to the client.
As a producer, I don’t charge clients hourly rates. We spec out a job and I quote them that. It is based on an hourly rate, but has all resources, effort and padding built in and is tailored to my local market and that specific client. If I’m hired to shoot only, I’ll charge a day rate. As a motion graphics artist working for another producer or client, I might charge an hourly or day rate. Basically when I can scope out the project they get a fixed price; if they don’t know what they want or they want me to experiment, they get an hourly/daily price.
There are no proportions, everything is specific to each individual project. I don’t know what a “classic/average” video is, as every job is different, on average. One average corporate job might mean a couple hours of shooting and a hundred hours of post. Another average corporate job might mean a whole day of shooting and no post, or no shooting and a few hours of post. I’ve done all of those and more.
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Alternatives to paypal?
To accept credit cards you need a merchant account with your bank. Unless you are receiving a lot of credit card payments, it usually isn’t worth the cost. Paypal is a stop gap measure where they essentially let you use their merchant account. Or you can also use your own with their services as well.
You could also look into the google pay, other similar services or escrow payments. However paypal specifically has a “virtual terminal” to allow you to accept CCs (you typing in the number) without needing a physical CC terminal.
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Infinite pasteboard is easy in AE. First of all, it supports huge compositions. Second, the compositions only need to exist for a short time, so AE doesn’t need to keep track of “infinity”, only the section of infinity around the viewport. As the camera is moving, comps are being added just in front of the camera, and being removed just behind it.
I just did something like this on a credit roll where I have photos “laying” on a piece of fabric. The fabric is just a photo texture I made seamless. Then using the offset (IIRC), I told it to make my background texture really big. In this case I just made a big comp with all the photos present, but I could have also had only a limited number of them present at any given time.
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Yeah, that’s a challenge. I would either create it as a 3D model, or just shoot it over a simple white, navy or black background. If it’s only a glass trophy it probably doesn’t have a figure on it and should be pretty simple to model.
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My guess is that you haven’t done any hired post production work and you are wondering what to charge?
You list several items (digitizing, motion graphics, titling, subtitles (if needed), editing, music, rendering), but are you familiar with how long it will take you to do any of those items? Figure that out, then base it off an hourly rate. Then you’ll have a fee proportionately based on the amount of work. Then adjust it per project within client expectations; no one wants to pay you hourly to learn.
A per finished minute rate is meaningless. Watch 5 minutes of TV and you might see a couple of static shots and simple edits, or you might see 200 shots of motion graphics, heavily color manipulated imagery, 3d work, music, sound design and more.
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Are you running in manual mode or automatic? If the latter, the cameras are going to continually adjust independently. If running in manual mode with the same shutter, aperture, white balance and post curves and you’re still getting different images, then the lighting is different from the two angle. You need to improve your eye and determine “what” is different, then take steps to fix it. For instance if one image is more blue than the other, adjust your white balance. If one has more contrast, adjust your gamma curve. You can either fix it in camera (preferred) or in post. For syncing, just use a slate. Make sure both cameras can see and hear it. It is pretty easy to sync footage.
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For repeat work, you might consider his involvement. He certainly deserves a referral fee for making the connection, or a commission for managing part of the project or client relationship. If he were to continue manage part of the project or client relationship that would be worth a continuing commission. Is it fair to have a residual referral fee long after the connection has been made? Probably not. True you wouldn’t have the continuing work without the connection, but it is your work that keeps them coming back. Some people in other industries give a referral fee that is a few percentage of the value of the customer for a year, thus making it customer dependent and job independent.
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If it shows millions of colors, then it probably is 8-bit. Yes, 8-bit is millions and 16-bit is trillions, which you can see from the formula I posted earlier. Its more likely AE is correct on this point than that a person who told you it is 10-bit footage. The source may have been a 10-bit camera, but that means nothing if the footage was stored in an 8-bit codec.
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