George Socka
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Of course, whether it should have taken 18 hours to do this – or whether a quotes professionsl end quotes would have taken 18 hours are factors to consider. A pro might have loaded those photos into Photoshop and used one of the artistic or brush stroke or sketch filters to accomplish in 30 seconds what took you a painstaking 18 hours. If the job should have taken 2 hours, then $100 per hour is not bad at all. You don’t mention the time to photograph the buildings. That time should be considered as well, unless, shame shame, they were borrowed, so to speak, from the internet or somebody els’s brochure.
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Audio effect — fill left ( or is it fill right? ) dyslexic today. It will sound right ( no pun intended ) when you chose the right ( still no pun intended )effect.
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Search for “takao tanabe” Are the titles, credits and the title image clear enough? This was compressed at wmv9 512 2 pas 320×240 from Ppro 1.0 The file is smaller than 1024, the render faster, the upload faster, but in the end, as long as you don’t exceed the youtube file maximums, either will work.
The same file uploaded to video.google does not look as good – obviously something in their compression. Furthermore, Google will scale the image to fit the browser so it gets worse when the browser is full screen. youtube does not scale so it stays sharp looking. The titles in particlar are less sharp.
Interestingly, since Google lists youtube videos, maybe there is less point in uploading to both.
The resulting flash video file from the browser cache for this 8 minute video was 18.2 mb for youtube, 18.8 mb for Google. The original wmv file was 35 mb, so there was a fair amount of recompression.
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Can I frame that?
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Before you delete the background – before you do anything in fact, double click the layer called background ( in the layer pallet on teh right) to convert it to a real layer. Then whatever you delete by whatever method – magic wand, eraser, will reveal the transparent background. And be transparent on PPRO. Mac clicking may be something else – same result.
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I will decide if I want to register with DJ to resond there but..
I just shot my own kid’s recital. Great production if I dont say so myself. But if I were to create a video about 20 kids for 20 parents, then it would have to be a diffent thing. “I” want to see closeups of “my” kid at all times, cutaways that relate to him, etc. But if I am shooting for 20 parents, will they want to see the closeups of all 20 kids one after the other – and miss what their kid is doing at that time? Will tehy want to see each of teh other 19 kids get ready? And if 20 kids are on stage at the same time how do you in fact capture CU what all 20 are doing specifically, unless you had 20 cameras? And would you then need to create 20 individual copies, customized for each parent? For $25? Not likely.
BTW, there was a guy at the back of the room – but only with something like a VX2000. I am sure that some people baught his DVD. Not for me though.
So the message is not all wrong – but there is value in what that videographer did. And easy money yes.
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from my farm days I remember that most horses were quite happy with tractors – hide your generator under / behind a tractor.
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Therein lies the rub. You CAN direct people you KNOW to your own web site. The rest of the world, however, will never find you. But Youtube exposes you – and more importantly your client’s message to millions.
Obviously, the Youtube demographics may not be for all products and services. But by dismissing it out of hand, you close off this part of the world to your message,
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I have used it a few times. With minimal success, but it is a learning thing, and I may noit b ethat bright. YouTube IS where the web was 10 years ago, but the learning experience that people got was what is now creating the modern web. Figuring out how to use an open market vehicle like YouTube now to sell yourself will, IMNSHO, pay off when your paying customer asks you to pull off a LonleyGirl15 for them. Hard to speak about intelligently if you have never done anything like it. Scary thing is, Loneygirl was, AFAIK, pulled off by amateurs – not us “Seasoned Pros”. They simply thought outside the box – or maybe did not even know a box existed.
BTW, I remember my first paying web project – did the graphics in MS Paint. Probably in 1996. Right up there with teh cat fanciers. That client now runs a world wide web based event management service.
So go fro it. Do it. Over and over till you get it to work.
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but 320×240 from a digital still camera scaled to 640×480 (not 720×480 since you are starting with squatre pixels,) will still never look as good as video shot in dv at 720×480 – especially when recompressed to wmv. And If I remeber my older Pentax not sure what model, it compressed its mpg pretty well to the max to.