Jason Jenkins
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Hi Bob,
It was actually more than $4k in August; I’d forgotten about the wedding shoots I’ve been doing on Saturdays. It comes down to three different Craigslist connections that I made last year. One connection that started as a two week editing gig at an ad agency has gradually turned into a steady $3k a month for the last two months. It might last longer, it might not. Another connection has been on-location editing for a company that does a bunch of corporate events. That has only been two gigs in the last year, though. And, I’ve been shooting weddings on weekends for a couple of local companies. That has been solid all summer long and I’ve got four more shoots this month.
I’ve been actively responding to Craigslist postings for about a year and a half. I would say in that time, that I have responded to 35-40 postings. I am pretty selective. If there are misspelled words in the ad; forget it! It has to sound and feel like a professional gig.
I am in Everett, WA; about 20 miles north of Seattle. I’m certainly not the only game in town in the Seattle market. But, after 9 years of this, I’m starting to get good at my job. The only thing that can limit my success is a lack of effort. Like I mentioned before, I’m “marketing challenged”. I’m not very outgoing, but Craigslist has been a relatively painless way to market myself.
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I totally understand that. That’s exactly what I am right now; a one man operation working in my basement studio. I do have standards though; just this week I turned down two cable tv ads for $500 each. I refuse to compete with the likes of Comcast Spotlight and other high volume, low budget producers. I never stop trying to take my work and my clients to a higher level.
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Don’t you mean reproductive?
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Bill,
Love it! I’m really interested in your turntable. Did you build it or buy it?
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Yeah, that is a downer for Mac Pro users like myself. So, I can stick with XP and be RAM handicapped or go OSX and be OS handicapped.
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My wife needs to talk to your girlfriend…
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ctl + c, ctl + v
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I got some decent images from NASA’s World Wind program. Google it and download for free.
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Just keep in mind that Windows XP running on a Mac Pro will only see 2 GB’s of RAM no matter how much you have installed.
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I’d like to know what the deal is, too. I can easily get really nice Windows Media 9 files for the web, but when I try to encode to H.264 for the web, they look like crap. It doesn’t matter if I’m encoding from the PC or the Mac, the H.264 stuff (at twice the bitrate) looks worse than the WM9 stuff. Why is it so hard to get good looking H.264? Maybe there is a quality/crap toggle that I’m missing somewhere?