[Dave Po]

You need a good contract that specifies number of revisions or allotted time. Sometimes you’ll want to give ur clients a little leway to keep them happy, but not to much. You’ll quickly realize the rabit hole goes very deep if you say yes too much at the beginning.

[Dave Po]

Trying to make a sale? Yes, to some extant. Got me! 😛

… but I can offer very inexpensive SEO help. So I am at least a little relevant in doing so 🙂

Instead of charging monthly, which I think is a bit ridiculous and somewhat of a sham, I believe it’s important to build your website correctly off the bat. If you are set up for SEO, and give it proper attention and thought you can to very well.

I will agree with you on your social media point. Social media is very inexpensive and can be very effective if done right. Social media also works better for certain demographics. For example, wedding photography and facebook go VERY well together. Lots of young to middle age people. Also, when you photograph a friends wedding for cheap/free they share it with all their local friends, who are also part of the same demographic. Now on the other hand, if you are trying to book professional, well paying video gigs, Facebook doesn’t work quite as well. Businesses aren’t usually looking on facebook for professional services, especially if they are from out of state companies coming in for a production.

Now I’m sure I can’t get you ranked well for the search “video production” (at least without a LOT of work), but I could easily get you ranked well locally (ie: “your-state video production”) …at least as long as you don’t live in CA 😉

Two suggestions if you ever attempt SEO:
1- Go local (if that’s your demographic). It’s WAY easier than competing nationally.
2- Content is key. Be weary of paying someone for “SEO” unless they are designing your site or building good content.

[Dave Po]

If you are trying to expand a background image 100% vertically, make sure you set the html and body element to 100%.

html, body{height:100%;}

body {
background-image:url(‘/images/repeating-image.jpg’);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
}

[Dave Po]

I respectfully disagree with @Mads. I have seen first hand how proper website SEO can help a video freelancer.

Specifically, I know someone (a video freelancer) whos main source of clients are directly from organic searches. He ranks at the top couple spots for relevant local searches.

As a full time freelancer myself (video production, web development, and photography) I have been studying as well as implementing SEO techniques to further my business. Within the first week of starting SEO with a new website I was ranking in the first 2 pages of Google and received my first call for a job while only having two pages of the site finished.

As with anything though, it takes a lot of work and know-how to do and to do it right.

If you have any more interest, I am a freelance web designer/developer 😉
Feel free to shoot me an email (dave@desmoinesfreelancer.com) if you’d like to talk more.

[Dave Po]

Bingo. Thanks. Cinema tools does the trick 🙂

[Dave Po]

I forgot to mention. Everything is h.264 and must end up h.264.

[Dave Po]

I did a search for “consulting pricing” and just “consulting”, didn’t find much. Maybe I should have searched for a more generalized “day/hourly rate”.

I wish the forum had “stickies”. A general sticky on “day and hourly rates” would be helpful for everyone, including the veterans who could just link to that single post all the time.

I really wish the creative cow could have something like stackoverflow.com

If you aren’t familiar with it, it is a place for asking questions about programming.
Everything is based on a point system. If you ask a good question, people vote it up or down (you get/lose points), if you answer the question people can vote it up or down to receive more points, if your answer gets “picked” you get more points.
The more points you get, the more “abilities” you receive. Such as “selling” points to get your really tough question answered. The system basically runs itself.

It also has a better “search” than I’ve ever seen on a web forum. When typing out a question, it checks your question for key words and automatically searches and suggests other questions similar to yours, hugely helpful.

read more:
https://stackoverflow.com/about

You can’t replace a forum when it comes to discussion but when it comes to questions, especially objective questions, the stack overflow system works incredibly well and VERY fast.

[Dave Po]

Best deal, service, and quality (in SD) I’ve had for transfers was from Dwayne’s Photo (https://www.dwaynesphoto.com)

… for whatever it’s worth.

[Dave Po]

Just for reference the solution to this problem was to nest the timeline and check “mixdown audio”. Not sure why this is required but it is.

[Dave Po]

Ok, that’s what I thought. Why then, when I “blank” via FCPs Edit To Tape does it give me an option of what timecode to start at? And what is the “insert timecode” button in the Edit To Tape for?