David Roth weiss
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[Andrew Rendell] “IANAL but gut feeling is that bookshelves where you can see there are lots of books but none are featured or easy to identify would be fine but anything that is clearly identified would need to be cleared with the publisher(s).
“Pretty good and safe advice…
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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[Jami Francescon] “I’m on a tight budget right now. I’m trying to figure out what I can get away with until I can buy (and need more storage).”
Everyone is on a tight budget – you have to decide if you want to “get away with” something now, and end up buying twice, or just buy the right storage now, when storage is at its all-time lowest cost ever.
A 4-bay or 8-bay Promise Thunderbolt-2 enclosure is probably your best bet – they are very inexpensive and provide lots of throughput. Keep in mind, every time you double the number of hard drives in a RAID you essentially the throughput, so if you’re going to be cutting 4K anytime soon, the 8-bay enclosure will be necessary.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Wrong forum… This belongs on the Avid Forum.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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1920 x 1080 more than likely matches your display capabilities, but 2K or 2000 pixels wide will work, it’ll just be scaled down in realtime when displaying to an HD monitor.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Edwin hit all points except one, you’ll have to scale the footage down to 2K frame size, as FCP 7 is listed to frames 2000 pixels wide, i.e. 2K.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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[Brandon Eastman] “The $15/hr was a quick example number that came to mind , but not far off from what i think to charge. This is because I’m a young filmmaker/videographer with minimal equipment (Nikon d7100, flimsy tripod, zoom h4n, and cutting video with Final Cut express 4 on an ’08 MacBook). I don’t want to overcharge, or put up a price that scares this church client away.”
Brandon,
Everyone who’s ever entered this business is afraid to scare away the client by charging too much. That’s what is know as “false economy.” If you undercharge, you do no one a favor, it simply helps to perpetuate a race to the bottom for you and everyone else in this business.
Everyone at every level of the media business has to learn on the job, because the technology changes so rapidly. So, resist the temptation to give your services away until you master everything, because that will never happen.
Remember, once you set a lowball price for your services you have established an expectation that will follow you, and you will become well-known in your area as the guy with the best price. When the good projects come around your clients will hand that work off to your competitors who are better known as the guys who are the best craftsmen and craftswomen.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Hey Bob,
Set a fee based on a unit of storage, i.e. something like $25 to $40 to $50 per terabyte per year. That’s what the big facilities do.
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Sorry, but that does not compute Eric. Are you saying that you’re looking for a streaming device that accepts an HDMI output? If so, that’s certainly not what you wrote.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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[Shane Ross] “I disagree with that. Hardly any are. Some very high end TV shows, yes. But I’ll wager that less than 1-2% are mastered in 4K.”
You’d be surprised Shane… Almost all the network series and studio movies are mastered in 4K.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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The main reason to consider grading and mastering with the R3D files is future-proofing. All Hollywood TV shows and movies are now mastered in 4K for that very reason, even though there are no venues for 4K now. If your project has any “legs,” i.e. a shelf life beyond the next couple of years, you may find no distribution outlets will to accept it down the road, and considering that many projects do have a 10-year or longer shelf life during which they continue to earn money, and a potential for a redistribution later if the material warrants, do you really want to short change all the effort that’s been put into the project so far?
BTW, for the record, metadata = data about data – i.e. the data the camera writes when shooting, logging info you add later, timecode, etc., is all metadata.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.