Jean Hauptman
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I assume that you mean from your own studio? In the states? From a home studio, you won’t survive unless you charge at least $750 a day. That was the going rate 10 years ago, so it’s low. You’ll be tempted to charge less because of all the kids working on inadequate equipment, pirated software, living off their parents. But you won’t survive lowballing. When you charge correctly, you are respected as a professional, get a better quality client and get treated better. Obviously, if you aren’t up to speed you can’t penalize the client, but keep your rate up on paper and reduce the number of billing days to what would be reasonable.
The most important thing when you work as a business, is to get a 50% deposit up front. You’ll get eaten alive if you don’t.
As far as contracts, every case is different. I never worked with clients who required more than a two or three sentence friendly deal memo – What is expected of you; all instructions from client must be in writing, one set of changes, Extras and 2nd changes that go over will be charged at an hourly or half day rate. Interest for late payment. Double time for all-nighters.
A dilemma I’ve always had is what to do about approval dead-time. Your producer has to get an OK from his client who is usually out of town. This can cause excruciating waits 2 or 3 times during the project. And you’re sitting there, not getting paid, waiting. The larger the company, the longer the wait. Dealing with this is something that I’ve never seen discussed in forums. Maybe a statement saying that approval must be made within two days or whatever.
Hopeflly someone else knows where you can find templates. I avoided contracts that look legal.
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You do need to stick with station fonts for consistency. A sneakaround is to use a lower 3rd or letter box, then use anything from Glue to Intergalactic within. A font I’ve liked lately for promo is House Gothic HG23 Condensed bold.
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Don’t know. With the exception of the Meyer’s books on AE, I’ve found most lacking.
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Hi Charilie –
In PS 7, it’s located in the eyedropper tool. Just click on that little arrow down at the right hand corner of the eyedrop tool, and you’ll see the measure tool. -
Nice work, Roland. Thanks for the freebie.
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That editor hit me for a lot of elements after divulging that tip, but it was worth it!
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I assume that you created your comp in 3-d with 3d on all layers clicked on.
Then MOVED that comp into the smaller comp?
That is how you should have done this, and if should have worked.If you actually did this, and things were still helter skelter, here are more things to try:
1. Compress transformations in the last comp. Normally you do this to make your 3d comp 3d in the final comp. Sometimes, though it actually screws the 3d up and it only works correctly when “compress” is off.
2. Is 2d on in both comps? If all comps are 2d and compress transformations is clicked on, then start different combinations of clicking off.
I’ve been working intensely with 3d for the past few months, and am stlll finding that things that are supposed to work in the final comp don’t for whatever reason, and juggliing uncompressed and the 3-d on and off eventually gets things right.
I don’t have time to look at your project right now, but if you would like to email it I may have time in a couple of weeks.
Hope some of this works for you.
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Scott-
I assume that you created your comp in 3-d with 3d on all layers clicked on.
Then MOVED that comp into the smaller comp?
That is how you should have done this, and if should have worked.If you actually did this, and things were still helter skelter, here are more things to try:
1. Compress transformations in the last comp. Normally you do this to make your 3d comp 3d in the final comp. Sometimes, though it actually screws the 3d up and it only works correctly when “compress” is off.
2. Is 2d on in both comps? If all comps are 2d and compress transformations is clicked on, then start different combinations of clicking off.
I’ve been working intensely with 3d for the past few months, and am stlll finding that things that are supposed to work in the final comp don’t for whatever reason, and juggliing uncompressed and the 3-d on and off eventually gets things right.
I don’t have time to look at your project right now, but if you would like to email it I may have time in a couple of weeks.
Hope some of this works for you.
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Dude! We owe you.
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work with shatter, using different gravity settings for the element falling apart and the element coming together.
work with time remap. You’ll figure it out.