[Jonathan Ziegler]

I usually find it best to have a thorough description in mind and I drop that into a standard contract. Try to describe the work as specifically as possible without being so specific you will bottleneck or overly limit yourself. If there are very specific elements that must be there, go with that. All of my contracts started with the standard agreement I downloaded from LegalZoom a couple years back. I’ve made lots of little tweaks from pricey mistakes I’ve made in the past. As always, it’s worth the extra couple bucks to have an attorney review the contract and make pointers – paying a lawyer $125 to review a $5000 contract is smart business.

Jonathan Ziegler
https://www.electrictiger.com/
520-360-8293

[Jonathan Ziegler]

I usually find it best to have a thorough description in mind and I drop that into a standard contract. Try to describe the work as specifically as possible without being so specific you will bottleneck or overly limit yourself. If there are very specific elements that must be there, go with that. All of my contracts started with the standard agreement I downloaded from LegalZoom a couple years back. I’ve made lots of little tweaks from pricey mistakes I’ve made in the past. As always, it’s worth the extra couple bucks to have an attorney review the contract and make pointers – paying a lawyer $125 to review a $5000 contract is smart business.

Jonathan Ziegler
https://www.electrictiger.com/
520-360-8293

[Jonathan Ziegler]

Mark thanks for the post – I’m kinda surprised I havent seen that one yet. Now I’ll be spending more money on gear. 😉

Jonathan Ziegler
https://www.electrictiger.com/
520-360-8293

[Jonathan Ziegler]

That is awesome! Thanks so much for posting the video. I showed my wife and she cried. 😉 I really hope she says yes! nice video!

Jonathan Ziegler
https://www.electrictiger.com/
520-360-8293

[Jonathan Ziegler]

My thing is that I want it programmable. I bet I could get an arduino or some other simple controller and a stepper motor working. Now I really need to finish my slider so I can start on that!

See posting a question can inspire! 😉

Jonathan Ziegler
https://www.electrictiger.com/
520-360-8293

[Jonathan Ziegler]

I did a search in google for “tutorial diy timelapse pan” (minus quotes) and found several videos and tutorials depicting panning timelapse rigs for almost no money. I figure if you just want to play, build it yourself so you can decide of its worth the dough to buy a motorized rig. I’m working on a diy motorized slider right now – its really not hard and actually quite inexpensive to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9iqvbIPCuM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F00y_O0sk0 – a kitchen timer with a head literally glued on.

Searching through YouTube, I found so many references, I may have to build one now! 😉

Nobody cares what gear you use except other camera operators, but the videos aren’t for camera operators, but the average person. 😉

Jonathan Ziegler
https://www.electrictiger.com/
520-360-8293

Some contents or functionalities here are not available due to your cookie preferences!

This happens because the functionality/content marked as “Google Youtube” uses cookies that you choosed to keep disabled. In order to view this content or use this functionality, please enable cookies: click here to open your cookie preferences.

[Jonathan Ziegler]

Well, I think you should be on the right track with color management being at issue. What are your default Photoshop and QT color management settings? I often see srgb which I don’t like and usually use Adobe RGB or any other wide-gamut RGB, BUT if you have changed any of this recently, it could also be at issue. What about gamma settings in QT and PS?

Some other things to look at: have you recently calibrated your monitor? If yes, try the previous setting, if not, try recalibrating. Did you recently upgrade QT or PS? What about other software in the workflow? Make sure the original source isn’t the problem.

I’m thinking the issue could be a number of things. Can you post your workflow, step-by-step, from beginning to end? Both images look pretty dark, but there’s an obvious difference, too. Finally, I’ve opened JPEGs in Camera Raw for editing and forgotten they had additional data attached and when I open them, they look weird. Please post what you find!

Jonathan Ziegler
https://www.electrictiger.com/
520-360-8293

[Jonathan Ziegler]

Wow, that is almost a textbook definition of “stunningly arrogant.” I’ve had bad moments with clients, but I’ve never killed a product before it could even start.

Thanks for sharing!

Jonathan Ziegler
https://www.electrictiger.com/
520-360-8293

[Jonathan Ziegler]

Found this article at PVC about justifying the expense of buying a new camera:

https://provideocoalition.com/index.php/freshdv/story/buying_cameras/

Jonathan Ziegler
https://www.electrictiger.com/
520-360-8293

[Jonathan Ziegler]

Hey, whoops, my bad. “Lower-thirds” is a name for the graphics (ie: the person’s name during an interview) that appear in the lower-third of the frame (that’s what I was told anyhow and it sounds reasonable).

First, to prep, drag all of your images into a single folder (they probably already are, but just to be sure). Now, in Photoshop go to your General Prefs (on Mac, it’s Photoshop >> Preferences >> General), change the “Image Interpolation” to “Bicubic Sharper” and click on Ok. Next, go to File >> Scripts >> Image Processor. Select the folder that has your images in it. Next, select the folder you want it to go to or create one (if you pick save to same, it will make a new folder in the folder and save converted files there). For file type, choose JPEG, set quality to 8 or 9. Make sure to check “Resize to fit…” and set width to 1920 and height to 1280 (remember, 5184×3456 is 3:2 and 1920×1080 is 16:9 so you want to get the most from your frame – if you use 1920×1080 in the image processor, you’ll get images that are 1620×1080 with pillarbars). Leave the save as PSD and TIFF options off. Add copyright info if you like here, too, but since the final will be a video, you can add that in your NLE or AE. Hit run, then, depending on your machine’s speed, go get coffee or lunch. 😉

when you load your image sequence in AE and drop it on a 1920×1080 timeline, it will cut off the top and bottom by 100px on both. You really shouldn’t have any major motion going on here anyway that close to the top or bottom of the frame. You can always do a sort of pan n scan if you feel you are missing something. Heck, even film was about a 4:3 ratio so cropping was quite common.

Jonathan Ziegler
https://www.electrictiger.com/
520-360-8293