Greg Ball
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Thanks Robbie, I’ll give that a try
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Fernando, it’s worked out. They really want to do their own Camtasia output. Fine with me. You’re right, you don’t know all the details. Newbie?! Are you kidding me?
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Actually Mark, I really tried to do my job here. I have 20+ years in corporate video, so I know how to deal with clients. This video is part of a larger monthly video project I do for this company. This time around, they jammed a “training” video of their new computer application into the video. The guy (CIO) wanted us to record his on camera part then go and shoot the screens. He only had about 10 minutes. I explained that we needed to get close-ups as well as establishing shot since this was going on their intranet and people would n’t be able to read the screens. He said he didn’t want close-ups, because some of the information was not accurate.
We shot the whole thing and edited it. It was approved. Then my client’s boss saw it and wanted it fixed. We’re about 2 hours away from this client. I offered to do this for a 1/2 day rate, since I already suggested that shooting this they way they wanted was not the best way. They decided to use Camtasia, and the first file they sent me was STILL all a wide shot. I took about 10 seconds and sent it back to them as a wmv file to show them that it was no different than what they were unhappy about. My issue was I couldn’t find the right analogy of why it wasn’t clear on the screen when I shrunk their video down to 640 X 360.At some point, all you can do is suggest and recommend. I did both. So I wouldn’t think I need to eat the cost of the re-shoot.
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You would still need to purchase an assortment of good lenses for the DSLR, as well as some way of recording good audio. So your budget wouldn’t be much different.
You can’t zoom in on a person or object, nor can you shoot good hand held shots with a DSLR. That’s my take. I do like the DSLR’s depth of field though.
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Thanks Fernando, You can’t really take a wide shot captured in Camtasia and use FCP to zoom in tight enough to see read the words on a web page.
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Hi Mark,
The issue is that they asked us to shoot an overview shot of their computer screens. We shot them HD, and they look okay on DVD. But we need to give them a smaller version for their website. I’m giving them
a 640 X360 size, as that’s the size they requested. Yesterday was thrown under the bus, because they want it clearer, and I tried to explain that we would need to get close-ups of the areas of their screens they wish to emphasize. Being that they are not knowledgeable about video, I just couldn’t figure out how best to explain this without SHOWING them. Problem was I was on a conference call. They are creating the screen captures. -
Tom I tried that. As I said in my initial post I’ve tried the fix of dot_clean. That was what that video suggests.
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Hi David, thanks for your advise, as I said earlier I’ve tried repair permissions and repair disk. I’ve tried three different computers and two different drives that I KNOW work fine.
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Steve, more that 1 TB. I also tried dragging the one of the files 1.76 GB in size just to my desktop on each of my computers, still get Error -36
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Hi Dave,
It’s formatted as OSX extended Journaled. I was only able to move one of the 11 files off of that drive.