[Greg Ball]

I’d suggest that you rent a light kit for this. Perhaps a couple of chimeras that will give you a soft key and fill light and a backlight. You may want a 4th light for some of the background to add a splash on a wall or on a plant.

Any “cheap” lighting kit you buy will most likely give you harsh lighting with shadows. Keep in mind that people’s own lights and windows will give you different color temperatures and thus different colors on their faces/backgrounds.

Greg

[Greg Ball]

There’s a place here in Miami that can transfer from Digital S to D-9. They transfer my Digital S footage from time to time. Email me at granball@msn.com if you’re interested.

Greg

[Greg Ball]

I did this in the past for a client. I output evereything as an AVI file uncompressed and save it to a portable firewire drive. I loaned that drive to the client until they had done the transfer to After Effects. It worked perfectly.

[Greg Ball]

Floh and Michael Thanks much!

Michael one problem I’ve run into is titling sections of the video. What’s the rule when it comes to words like de la?

Here’s a sample Elaboraci

[Greg Ball]

Martin,

You need to ask this prospective client about what they are basing their decision on. Is it cost only, or is quality more important. Find out who else they are talking to. Have they done a project like this before? Were they pleased with it? Why are they not using the same production company for this project. Get as many answers as possible, then determine your chances of realistically getting the job. If you were the client, would you pay for the travel expenses and other costs to hire you? Or would you hire a local company?

I flew from Ft Lauderdale to Nashville , stayed overnight in a hotel, paid for meals, parking, taxi, etc. At the end, the client decided that they waanted to hire a certain “local” company they’ve used before, and told me it was because I had no experience shooting within a shopping mall. Had i found out they wanted that experience (which is hogwash), I would have saved about $900 in travel for nothing. Some say it’s the cost of doing business. I say it’s the cost for not gettting the business.

Greg

[Greg Ball]

I have Digital S. Great format…not too easy to get anyone else to make a dub from it. Stick with Digibeta

[Greg Ball]

Not really looking for a new application. Just wanted to work in Excel. Thanks anyway. I can’t believe nobody else does this!

Greg

[Greg Ball]

Not sure what kind of file this is. Couldn’t open it. Also I’m very cautious about opening .exe files from anyone I don’t know. Can you show me a PDF? Thaks

[Greg Ball]

yup…a sample excel file that I can either change the headings or plug in my variables

[Greg Ball]

Thanks for the offer Leo. I’m really looking for something that I can use in Excel to just complete quotes for projects. Any other thoughts?