[Greg Ball]

Thanks Mark and Todd. Just this week I started giving just the total price without a breakdown.
I hear you loud and clear. Have a great holiday.

[Greg Ball]

Hi Mark,
My problem lies in the fact that I give me clients a detailed proposal with everything itemized. Once they approve of the cost, and as we go to contract, we discuss deposits and other items like shipping etc. Only then do we see how they wish to pay. Are you suggesting I build in a 3-5% fee on top of our rates to cover PP fees?

[Greg Ball]

Hey Mark, here’s a question on PayPal. I also use PP when I have a client who needs to pay me to get the job shot. However PayPal charges a fee. Do you pass this fee onto the client? If so how do you let them know?

My take on this is that if they had made the decision to use my services earlier they could have paid by check, but now they must use PayPal. Why should I be stuck giving some of that money to PayPal?

[Greg Ball]

FCP 6 can’t run on a G5? I just finished a long how shot on the Ex1 on my G5 Quad. Worked well.
I have FCP 6.0.4 on this Mac.

[Greg Ball]

Hi Don,
I have a MAC G5 QUAD with 4 X 2.5 GHz and 4.5 GB DDR@ SDRAM memory

Running OSX 10.4.11

The timeline is rendered and I’m seeing this stuttering on playback with pans and tilts. Could it be something went funky in the transfer from the SxS cards to my drives?

I’ve edited a long version before but it was at 1080i30 and didn’t stutter. We were doing quick zooms and pans no problem.

Thanks

[Greg Ball]

Thanks so much. I’ll give that a try

[Greg Ball]

Thanks Rafael. There are two comments that you made that I have questions about:

“I drop it in a SD sequence”.

“Be careful about the field order”

What settings do you use in your SD sequence? Do you check anamorphic?

By field order are you referring to Field Dominance? if so what do you use? Upper, Lower, None?

[Greg Ball]

Thanks so much to both of you. So I’ve noticed that my settings were wrong. The footage was shot in 1080i60. So I’ve changed my QT settings to XDCAM EX 1080i60. I imagine that will fix the porblem. Is that true?

As far as shutter speed is concerned, I didn’t shoot the footage. But I’m talking choppy on slow pans and tilts. Is that because the canvas window is progressive while the footage is interlaced?

Any other suggestions? Thanks.

[Greg Ball]

Thanks for your help. It worked.

[Greg Ball]

Thanks Chris. That worked. Is there anyway to boost the audio more than FCP allows on the timeline?