[John Davidson]

And fabulous coffee coasters! :-).

Thanks David!

John
President & Creative Director, Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

wait…did you call Sarah Palin a singing pig?

John
President & Creative Director, Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

What? You don’t trust a 23 yr old making 8 bucks an hour at Lennox Mall with your business future?

I don’t use the physical store for that type of purchase – I wouldn’t expect an apple store clerk (even a genius) to be particularly helpful regarding our line of work. There’s actually a person I deal with out of Apple in Elk Grove, CA who is part of a post production oriented unit of the Apple Store. I use them for new system purchases as well as CS3, and my software stuff. They give the Apple business discount (which is around 5%) and will also knock off 5% of sales tax if the system will be used in a California post-production facility (I forget the name of the form you have to fill out). I do not use them for additional RAM (apple’s RAM price is way too high). We built an octo mac for a client a few weeks back and got most of the software and hardware through these guys. They apparently have some engineers that configure the built-to-order systems. I have NOT purchased an installed Kona3 as part of a Mac Pro system through them, but will be after I see if there’s an upgrade in Sept. I did try to test my contact’s knowledge regarding the addition of a 5th internal drive in the 2nd superdrive slot. She had never heard of that and didn’t think her engineer’s had heard of that either. Depending on how you look at it, that’s either a good thing or a bad thing.

It may not work for everyone, but it works for me.

John
President & Creative Director, Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Just an FYI, Apple Business Sales has now begun to include 3rd party hardware like Kona 3 installations into their custom builds.

John Davidson____ writer | producer | director____https://www.magicfeather.tv

[John Davidson]

Chris is right. By the time you factor in travel, crew, cutting, equipment and conception, 114k really isn’t that bad. In fact, I won’t let any of our directors conceive client’s love children for less than 200k, plus residuals.

Favorite quote from the first vid: “Ah wont America to know the reyall me”.

Johnny boy, be careful what you wish for…. :-).

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[John Davidson]

abc: digibeta / hdcam / hdcam SR (most of the time they conform inhouse, in those instances they stay in SD)
tlc/discovery: digibeta / hdcam / hdcam SR (1080i 59.94) They upres sd to hd.
Disney: digibeta
fx: digibeta
turner: digibeta
mtv: digibeta

Because HD looks better and our clients are opening up HD as a delivery option, I intend to pick up an HDCam deck and new edit system by the end of the year.

HDCam delivery seems to be a format that works universally. Would everyone agree?

John

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[John Davidson]

https://www.westsidemediagroup.com/

I had made an appt with them first and, although it was cheaper to use the Cahuanga places, just for our time constraints and convenience it’s easier to have it done closer to home so that my assist can pick it up on the way in tomorrow morning.

Thanks for all the referrals though guys!

John Davidson____ writer | producer | director____https://www.magicfeather.tv

[John Davidson]

I got a place. Thanks ya’ll!

John Davidson____ writer | producer | director____https://www.magicfeather.tv

[John Davidson]

Looks like they’re all Avid though and I need the FCP’s ProRes. Thanks though!

John Davidson____ writer | producer | director____https://www.magicfeather.tv

[John Davidson]

Dunno if it’s Timewarner cable or not, but my internet is sluggish now. Gonna leave this one on the laptop for the time being.

Conversely, Safari seems much snappier now!

John Davidson____ writer | producer | director____https://www.magicfeather.tv