[Greg Ball]

Thanks all for your responses. The artist agreed to do the job for 1/2 price. I would say that’s a concession on both of our parts. I’ve always found him to be honest and professional, so I couldn’t understand his original quote.

To Bob’s question, is it his responsibility to keep the files? I don’t know the answer there. I would hope that he would give me the option of sending him a hard drive. But doesn’t that fall into the category of who owns his files? Just like I don’t want to turn over raw footage to a client, I imagine most artists don’t want to do that either.

Anyway thanks to you all for your advice. This is a tremendous board on the cow!

[Greg Ball]

You need to charge what you feel your time is worth. How long will it take you? What are your hourly editing rates? You’re right about setting a dangerous precedent. Once you offer a client a very low rate, that becomes your (very low) rate with that client for now on.

Charge them what’s fair.

[Greg Ball]

Thanks all!

[Greg Ball]

Thanks to all of you I finally have a good looking SD DVD from the EX1!
Special Thanks to Noah, Chris and Mike.
Noah, I don’t own the camera but I’m starting to edit the footage. If I buy the camera, I will definately buy your DVD! Thanks again.

[Greg Ball]

Mike,

What did you figure out? What did you do? I’m assuming you used Noah’s quicktime conversion suggestion Did you use check interlaced or not? What compressor settings did you use? Can you at least detail your work flow? What’s the end use of your video? Wide screen Plasma?

[Greg Ball]

I’ve been doing this for a month with no optimum set-up. Where ever I post I get different answers. It’s not a matter of what “floats my boat”, there must be a specific workflow SOMEBODY uses to get good results. Lots of people are shooting on EX1 and outputting Standard DVDs.

While I appreciate your response and respect your opinion, I’m hoping for more precise and complete advice. Thanks Terry

[Greg Ball]

Hi Mike, I seem to remember you were working on a similar project. How did it turn out? What settings did you use?

I think it would be great of Noah would create a tutorial video to walk through the steps.

[Greg Ball]

Noah,

I’m not quite sure what you mean by exporting into Pro Res. Are you saying to create a new sequence with these settings?

Frame Size: 720 X 480 NTSC DV(3:2
pixel Aspect ratio : NTSC-CCIR 601 /DV (720X480)
Field Dominance (none) or should it be top or bottom?

QT Settings:
Compressor Apple ProRes 422 HQ

Also would the advanced settings be Interlaced? Bottom field first or top field first?

Lastly when you bring this file into compressor and do 90 minute best quality, do you use frame controls?

What do you set field dominance to? What do you set output fields to?

I really appreciate your help here. Thanks much.

[Greg Ball]

Noah, I created a self contained uncompressed QT of my 17 minute program. However when I drop this into compressor, compressor tells me it’s going to take 49 hours to compress this file!

Can you walk me through the settings I should be using in FCP and compressor to make this DVD?

I’m editing in an EX1 timeline and rendering in prores 422.

My quicktime file indicates that the file is 1920 X 1080
Codec: XDCAM EX 1080i 60

Thanks very much for your help Noah.

[Greg Ball]

Thanks Chris,

I’ve seen a unit advertised that does this, but the client wants to send out DVDs as well as play it in trade shows, so I’m trying to create the best DVD for both purposes.