[Tim Wilson]

Because the post had been moved, I left the “where’s my post” thread ON in the new forum, and OFF in the old one.

Again, my apologies.

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My mistake. I attempted to move the thread, and just moved the post.

Apologies, all. I’ll be much more careful in the future.

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That was my mistake. I attempted to move the whole thread, but I must have moved only the post.

I apologize, and will be much more careful in the future.

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Tim

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FWIW, to quote their FAQ page, Slashdot’s own “crazy tag thing” is still “very beta.”

In the meantime, we prefer a more positive approach: each post has a “rate this post” option. Helpful posts naturally rise to the top.

These are also exposed in the “Tags” feature in the Forum navigation sub-menu. Most often tagged posts are shown in the main block, with the ability to view tags within forums by clicking the links at the right.

While we’re not in beta, we are “very 1.0,” and appreciate you pointing us in possible future directions.

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Tim

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Thanks so much for the kind words Nick! We can get caught up in the frantic effort of keeping all the plates here at the Cow spinning sometimes, and can lose sight of why we do this. Notes like yours are a great reminder.

We’re certainly sorry for your pain, and hope the folks at CalDigit can help.

And we’re glad to play our part in making the connection happen.

Thanks again getting in touch. We really appreciate it.

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Tim

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[Ron Lindeboom] “I think that it really needs to come down to about ONE MINUTE long, max.”

I’m going to veer a bit off-topic re: a specific reel, where bunches of other folks are adding value. Here’s a general observation about reels….

We ran an article about many of these issues in the Cow magazine a while back that I need to get around to reprinting online, and this was the overwhelming consensus: one minute, tops. I saw one effective reel that was 90 seconds, but that was it.

In another article from the magazine, one producer noted that her reel was an excuse to get people into the rest of her website….where she had at least a portion of every single project she’d done.

Her reasoning was she had the work. Web storage and bandwidth are cheap. People will watch what they want to, and not watch the rest.

She also found that most people watch up to a couple of dozen, and some people said they watched all of them (over 100 at that point, I think). In any case, the typical stay at her site is over 10 minutes.

Surprise, surprise: 85% of her new work comes through her website.

Her reel? One minute long.

These stories are two more reasons why you should be subscribing to the COW Magazine, btw.

Tim

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[David Roth Weiss] “an actor in a commercial that runs 5000 or 6000 times deserves to make more than an actor in a commercial that runs 100 times”

You won’t remember them now, but you’d definitely have known the spots my aunt appeared in in the 70s. She did just fine from other acting gigs, but the residuals were where the real money was. Pretty serious money in fact.

I have no idea how this got set up or what the terms were — maybe handled through SAG?

In any case, something to account for, even apart from the guild.

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For a terrific example of a P2 workflow, check out Shane Ross’s article about his experience on a doc for the History Channel.

I’m sure he and other folks here will weigh in with specific answers of course, but the article is really great stuff…

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Boris hangs out in the Cow’s Boris FX forum, as does the Red product manager. Worth swinging by there if you haven’t.

Best,
Tim

PS. One of my teensy claims to fame is that when *I* was the Boris Red product manager, I talked Boris into adding Vegas support. Not a big audience today, I told him, but the most passionate users on the planet.

I was right. 🙂

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I’m working on the issue after-next of the Cow magazine, and there’s going to be an article on infomercial production. The writer does pretty much noting but infomercials, and says that while they’re still doing some SD work, they’re increasingly going HD.

Even for SD masters, they’re delivering widescreen more often than not. Thanks to letterboxing, people are used to letterboxing….

…and as you can imagine, nobody is more aware of or responsive to an informercial production than a company whose operators are standing by. The results are very easy to track.

Futureproofing is less a big deal for informercials than narrative programming or especially documentaries I think, but — all kidding aside — higher quality images pay off.

Shooting HD for SD delivery is no different from shooting BetaSP for VHS delivery when that was the delivery format, or working at high data rates for DVD delivery today. Good stuff in, good stuff out.

You’ll never regret working with the best images you can afford to produce.