Grinner Hester
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Staying top of mind is important for any business. In the creative industry, folks create company names that’ll not only stick in people’s heads, but offer a glipse into the personality of the company. It can back fire though. A good example in my market is a cool place called Fat Chimp Studios. I love the name but so few remember it thay call it everything but. They hear Chubby Monkie, Harry Ape… lol
I went with Grinner Hester LLC because I’m just a one man band and my time is what is being purchased. The last thing you want is to sound like a law firm. With a name like grinner, I was safe there.
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This is when ya gravitate to the atty that’ll do it for a percentage. If you have problems finding one that’ll take the case on percentage rather than by the hour, you know there is no case. If the ambulance chasers pounce, let em.
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I simply dont do bidness with folks I don’t trust. In the events I have sent out watermarked approvals, I explain nothing as everyone involved fully understands why it’s there at that point. A simple “it’ll be removed once paid” is all that’s required for the slow folks.
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If they are finished sequences, you can export a QT with the animation codec and Edius will import em fine. If you are moving the projects and will carry on with editing, a CMX3600 edl will work fine. Just ensure you have no more than 4 audio tracks (export a seperate edl for these tracks if you do, you’ve used no non smpte effects, and that your reel names are 5 characters or less.
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He’ll need to just create new user settings.
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cool linkage, man.
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I saw no nightmare. Just another couple admitting video is their number one keep sake of such a day but not willing to pay accordingly. When you refuse to pay what something is worth, seldom will ya get something worth anything. Certainly they could opt to not pay the already offensive agreed price but I don’t see where he owes them another 500 on top of that. It was in bad form of him to try to double book the day but again, all they had to do was add a zero or two to the price they were willing to pay and they could have a professional video dude.
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Not out of line at all. When an artists asks you if they can use your content on their reel, it’s not just a compliment they are paying you. They/we are actually asking your permission.
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Rythm is a good thing to have when cutting music videos. It’s a great thing to discard too. I think we all gravitated to cutting on the kick when we edited our first music videos. We then started cutting per lyric, or vice versa. Story telling rules though and sometimes that means off beat or making up a beat of yer own. The last music video I edited, only the rough cut was cut to the beat. By the time the dust had settled and all the powers that be stated their case, it was just a bunch of shots cut to words that will mean very little, if anything to the the viewer:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TrueBlackmoresNight#p/a/u/1/mZC_PT6g6Kk
Would I have sooner shot more according to the song? Well sure. But then, I would have written a cooler song in the first place. lol
My point is we don’t always get to wear every hat in the piece. This is where the true art of the edit comes into play… pleople skills. I mean afterall, if producers leaned whatt he buttons did, we’d not have gigs. At the same time, they often want to and need to be led in an edit session. These are the times you can place the cut at the right spot. -
Just take nothing for granted. When you get too close to aproject it’s easy to skip information needed for the story or for the viewer to connect the dots. I just step back and look at it with fresh eyes and ask myself if I’d know what was happening if I didn’t know the piece so well. It’s not unlike writing a song. You have to paint a picture but it’s good to leave room from the viewer’s listener’s imagination.