Emre Tufekci s.o.a.
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As a facility owner in the midwest, I have hard-time believing an AE artist with 10 years experience is going to get $80k, even in Philadelphia!
Then I am overpaying my people, some heads will roll! All joking aside I understand your point and agree. The guys that work for me are hardcore AE guys that work at breakneck speed and churn out high quality stuff all the time. Depending on your market and clientèle those rates will definitely vary.
We deal with our share of “unbelievers” at our rates but we usually send them elsewhere (like craigslist).
And like to think I am a fair and just employer but I hope people that work for me think that way as well.
NOW GET BACK TO WORK!!!!
Emre Tufekci
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The bottom line is; you’re worth whatever you can get them to pay you. So, you might as well aim high. Negotiate downwards if you have to but have a minimum in mind. If they won’t pay what you want, try to get more benefits to sweeten the deal. I wouldn’t sell myself to anybody full time for less than $80k w/benefits. But that’s me.
I second that, if you are a very experienced AE guy with 10 years of experience you would be worth 80K to me.
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Client: (10pm, Saturday) Hi, we lost all the tape and digital masters you gave us, including all the web content. We need you to give us back new copies right away, like right now!!!
Me: No problem, I’ll get on it right away!!!
Client: Oh by the way, I know we asked for BetaSp copies we need the project on HDCAM now and also change the web compressions from quicktime to windows media player and provide three different resolutions as opposed to the one from previous request.
Me: Sure let me get you a quote of how much it…
Client: Quote??? What??We already paid you for this???
Me: Yes but I already gave you what you paid for and you are asking for different things now, 10pm on a saturday.
Client: I am not paying you again.
Me: Ok, goodnight.
Client: Wait!!! So can I send somebody over in an hour to pick them up?
Me: look, I can give you digital copies of the master and web compressions for free but we charge $25 BetaSP copies.
Client: Mumble Grumble….Ok what can you give me for $5?
Me: A dial tone (click).
Emre Tufekci
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I think you are onto something here, but you should change one line to:
People who say ‘go ahead and bill for half the cost’ at the beginning of the project, and then tell me ‘we don’t pay till we get paid’ will be submitted to the fair and swift justice of the tribunal for summary execution.
Emre Tufekci
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Ray,
We run a very similar system like your with 4 FCP edit bays connected to a main server. The archiving process is not too complicated but requires a little bit of getting used to. You should figure that out before you purchase your cameras as it is an essential part of the workflow.
Emre Tufekci
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Hi Ray,
We went through that transition and had our share of challenges.(We are running 2700 and 3000’s.) Most of the details dont matter as what we experienced in our earlier days or either not relevant or have been addressed with new technology.
-We cannot imagine going back to shooting with tape.
-We archive (almost) everything. We currently back up everything to a raid 1 drive and mirror that on to VXA system.
-With cheaper larger p2 cards we have not had to offload on site..
-We never lost a frame of footage in 4 years.Hope this helps.
Emre Tufekci
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You are probably correct, you should not go back to that dentist.
“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.” Mark Twain
Emre Tufekci
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Reminds me of a bad dentist I had. Chick broke a 2k crown while she was cleaning my teeth. Instead of replacing it, she decided to put a filling on it. That’s bad enough but a week later, I kid you not, I got a bill for 200 bucks for the filling. I took that as my cue to have the crown replaced by a real dentist and send her the bill with my atty’s digits on it. Her decision, not mine.
Grin believe it or not it sounds like you were the grinder here and the “chick” Doctor was happy to get rid of a problem patient.
You cannot break a good crown unless it was already damaged. Even when they need to be replaced it is very difficult to remove them. If there was a bubble in the porcelain or imperfection in the original, thats the labs fault.
I don’t understand how a broken crown can be replaced with a filling. Thats like saying I did high speed photography with a Polaroid. You can fix a chip in a crown with a filling though. So are you sure it was broken but not chipped?
The “chick” was right to bill you as she fixed a problem that was not her fault.
I am not picking on you personally, I think this goes to show how people that do not understand our profession make assumptions and accusations, treating us video guys unfairly. Now you can understand how easy it is to think you are %100 correct and the other person is wrong with our limited knowledge of the profession.
Emre Tufekci
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Cine style lens will help it enhance the “film” look by allowing you to do more selective focusing. Cinematographers use shallow depth of field in order to draw the attention of the audience to certain area of the frame.
Also cine style lenses will breathe less compared to ENG type lenses.
Emre Tufekci
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I think you mean “chromatic aberrations”. Here is a link to an article that will cover that and other topics regarding the use of SD lenses on HD cameras.
https://www.usa.canon.com/industrial_bctv/Whitepapers/1105TVB_Canon.pdf
As far as the components are concerned:
-If you can get the Letus ultimate.
-Get the Zeiss primes.
-Get the remaining of the package for support from Zacuto.Here is link so you can see the components you would need:
https://www.zacuto.com/letus-b4-compact-relay-lens
Note: Zacuto is not cheap.
Hope this helps
Emre Tufekci
http://www.productionpit.com