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You can always turn off deck control in your capture tool and grab via s-video at 1:1. It won’t look great.
If you capture compressed without firewire you will compress already compressed footage.

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Interesting perspective.
Wrong but interesting.

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Firewire is the norm.

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Cool colors are blues, and greens and warm colors are reds and yellows.

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I just make the circle in photoshop then animate a mask to draw it on. There are many apps with dtroke recorders though. Aura was the best.

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lol
charging for masters and havin’ em wit FTW!

I had a bad doctor once who stood me up for an appointment. It was a bad appointment anyway so it was just insult to injury. The second time it happened, I had no choice but to invoice him for two hours of my time. He called all fussy with a “What’s this 400 dollar bill for!?”
I aint a mean guy. I’m a respectul one so I require equal respect.
I don’t do doctors anymore. If I want drugs, I can find em cheaper from a dude without a white coat and point od sale on his wall.

Reminds me of a bad dentist I had. Chick broke a 2k crown while she was cleaning my teeth. Instead of replacing it, she decided to put a filling on it. That’s bad enough but a week later, I kid you not, I got a bill for 200 bucks for the filling. I took that as my cue to have the crown replaced by a real dentist and send her the bill with my atty’s digits on it. Her decision, not mine.

Bottom line is some seek business and some enjoy driving it away then pretending to not know why they are not booked. Nobody is workless without knowing why.

I’m gonna use that bill 25 bucks for the master beta the next time I wanna weed wout a client I’ve outgrown. That has to do wonders.

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I never saw that as a sales technique but a que to fix it myself. To me, if someone doesn’t knwo their craft, I have no need to hire em.
Could you imagine if you are i tried that technique?
“So, how much will my video cost, Nick?”
“hmmm, hard to say. I just won’t know what all is involved until we start rollin’.”
lol
or the doctor approach…
“I’m here for my 9am edit session, Grinner.”
“Ok sign in here and have a seat in the lobby reading magazines for an hour.”
or the mechanic way:
“yeah, Mr. Smith? Hey, this is Grinner. It seems your video is gonna cost 28k instead of the 8k we agreed upon. Yeah, once I tore into it, it was just a bigger pain that I expected.”
Then there is the suggestive sale, ala the drive thru:
“You want a master with that?”

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Ron, many purchase prestige, not product. We see this from Neiman Marcus to those old but expensive post houses that are going away. Many people can still afford prestige, even if they can easily change their oil in their driveway for 20 bucks. Few big companies today can play that game due to current economy and the fact that their distribution prices have multiplied since W’s rain of terror. They really do just want a video in most cases and they like to know how much it’ll cost instead of finding out how much it cost em after the fact. They can say yes or no before hand or the production company can alter the production to fit their budget. If GM would do that, they’d be 750 billion dollars poorer in failout money. 😉

To me, that’s the bottom line. Habitual behavior.
Do what you’ve always done and ya just aint gonna be doing it much longer.

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Man, you already know what to do. Stop underquoting.

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Sounds like hands on would be your best bet. Make some films, shop em around, build a great reel, get some gigs, and work your way up.