[Greg Ball]

Thanks Bill,

I’ve been do that for about 25 years.

[Greg Ball]

[Bill Davis] “Actors and good talent understand this. Heck, most plays and performance situations are schdeuled evening to late night, so for actors, you typically get a “wider awake” performance booking them at 9PM rather than 9AM!
“

That’s true for actors who do this on a regular basis. Not once a year. And a typical video crew doesn’t do this normally either. In my experience of doing this for a large corporate retail client as an in-house crew for about 15 years, there was a point where there was a decision to be made on paying the crew extra or absorbing the lost sales in the establishment. It was never “business as usual” in my position. Normally I would take the next day off from work. I’m just not sure how to charge for this.

[Greg Ball]

I hear you. I’m not saying we don’t work after hours, I understand the less hassle part. I’m asking about RATES. After all, my crew, the acting talent, and I can not realistically work another gig the next day during normal business hours. Frankly, if I’m a DP, an audio engineer, a make-up artist, a director, a grip, or a PA, why would I woks for a 1 day 10 hour standard rate and lose a chance for another day of work somewhere else, because I need to catch up on sleep?

[Greg Ball]

[walter biscardi] “We can convert HD to SD in realtime first, and then render the HD file to BluRay and the SD file to DVD. The DVD files are created in almost realtime that way. Maybe 90 minutes for a one hour movie, usually less.”

Walter, I’ve seen you discuss this a few times. I know I can use my LHe to convert HD to SD tape (Digibeta or Beta SP, but how do you convert it to a SD quicktime file that I can bring into a DVD? I’d love to see a tutorial on this.

[Greg Ball]

All the more reason to get paid in full before delivery of the video.

[Greg Ball]

Linear Editing?! You can buy a firewire 800 drive for about $150. Come on Bill. You’ll be happy yo did this.

[Greg Ball]

Is this footage from an Editing application like FCP? What codec did you use? I

[Greg Ball]

[Nick Griffin] “Of course, Todd, the real problem will come when you have to edit to the track if you don’t have someone present who knows the language. I’ve been able to work in Spanish only because I can read along with it… kind of.”

Hi Todd, our translation services include editing the new translated voices right onto your video. They’re timed perfectly. All you need to do is drop the translated voice track onto your timeline and you’re good to go.

We’ve been doing this for more than 20 years and we’re located in the US. I’ve also been a cow member from the beginning.
Regards,

Greg

[Greg Ball]

Hi Todd,

I’ve been a big fan of your website and your Cow comments for a long time.

We provide translations services for video. We create many training videos. We can definitely translate English into Arabic.

Here’s the link to our web page that describes our translations services.

https://www.ballmediainnovations.com/BMI-Video-Production-Foreign-Language-Translation.htm

Feel free to contact me at greg@ballmediainnovations.com

Regards,

Greg Ball

[Greg Ball]

Hey Mark,
That’s an excellent letter! I’m wondering if you have something you write when a client asks you about payment before delivery. We always require this with EVERY client, especially first timers. But when they say they’ve never had to do this we often write them and explain. How do you handle that?