[Craig Alan]

Thanks. Nice summary. Just getting the pieces into my head. Smugmug has the ability to host video now but with a duration limit. Seems like some of the photo pros use it exclusively and others have another host site as well with the store front. Smugmug has excellent customer service with fast response times and little down time and has a nice cloud storage feature for backing uo photo collection.

Squarebox has really beautiful sites very clean and inviting, easy drag and drop templates for design.

Squarebox and smugmug seem to have templates that are similar in design.

Vimeo seems like the go to video hosting site. So many sites will embed/link to them. Some seem to object to their logo in the bottom corner of the video.

Not sure if i need all three initially or can take it in stages.

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[Craig Alan]

Hi Ryan,

Checked out squarespace. Love it. Seems like a good fit. Couple of questions.

1.If for some reason we leave squarespace what would happen to the domain name that they provided?

2. Can you embed vimeo videos on squarespace?

3. would we still need smug mug or would the galleries within squarespace do the trick.

4. one photog who uses smug mug mentioned that he stores backups of all is photos on smug mug, which is a site designed for photographers.

ps smug mug looks a lot like square space in terms of clean visual designs.

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[Craig Alan]

I see a lot of photo pros on smug mug. Is this like the vimeo of stills? Could it be the website itself or would that require a third subscription? And just to confirm. I can’t just use apple mail with a registered domain for an email address? One site recommended name cheap to buy the domain name. But most of the host sites seem to package that in with the site.

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks I’ll check it out. I have zero experience with web building. Just getting used to the options and vocab and price points. Appreciate the leads

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[Craig Alan]

Thank you. I’ll look into all. Starting to make sense.

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[Craig Alan]

So Vimeo pro would be in addition to a wordpress designed website?

So if we use gmail would we buy the domain from say namecheap?

I assume the wordpress site would be for photos and vimeo for videos?

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[Craig Alan]

FCP X: Design and Paradigm

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[Craig Alan]

Does it look good before you import it? Are the scenes well lit? Are you using a monitor when you shoot? Settings? You should post a small sample clip. You’ll get much more feed back.

If Shane is right and it’s all about grading and color correction, and if you can’t afford a pro, there are many good tutorials on line about these. The clips from high end cams can look really dull until they are color graded.

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[Craig Alan]

With snapping on and magnetic behavior, not hard to trim the attached audio to new edit point.

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[Craig Alan]

kinda a hybrid. it has the twirl triangle thing to see contained files like a folder. but if emptied, it disappears on its own. its not quite a sort because each date for example is under its own ‘heading’ not one long list.

anyway very useful and now I get it. I think I knew this once when I first learned FC but then you fall into workflow habits and forget stuff you don’t use. i’ll see soon where “clips” came from. “no data” was the one that had me concerned. Not something you want to hear when you are dealing with media files. But all is good now.

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