[Lisa Koza]

[Steve Wargo] “I’ll go ahead and speak for all of us, Lisa. We spend many hours donating our time to mentoring others. There are some very wise people pictured at the top of this forum and they, as well as the rest of us, appreciate it when we offer our years of experience and expose ourselves on the internet and our colleagues actually take our advice and learn from our experiences and our mistakes.

When do we get to see the piece that you created?”

Everything single response here has helped me, and thank you to all of you! I completely look up to you all, and respect your knowledge and experience.

I’ll post a link as soon as it’s done, but of course I’ll have to throw in the clause that says, the beginning was so much better before they ruined it. 😉

Have a good weekend,
Lisa

[Lisa Koza]

[Mick Haensler] “[Lisa Koza] “she got all whiney hiney”

This phrase should never be uddered on The Cow again….ever….under any circumstance.”

hahaha, OK! I’ll do my best! 😉

[Lisa Koza]

[Gary Hazen] “I’d wrap this puppy up as quick as possible and move on. If you do the math and figure out that you should have charged $10K instead of $1K, then call it a $9000 business lesson and be thankful for the lessons learned.”

Oh, speaking of 10K, she got all whiney hiney and said I really hurt her feelings because I wrote this to her in my email, “I think you have an amazing commercial right now, and it didn’t cost you the $10,000 that it should have.”

Howaboutit?

[Lisa Koza]

[Todd Terry] “You’re not making art… you’re selling soap.”

In this case, a big rubberband. whoohoo! 🙂

Thanks Todd, you’re so right!

[Lisa Koza]

[Steve Wargo] “She sued me in superior court for ruining her life. She obviously never met my first wife.”

Now that is funny! 😉

[Steve Wargo] “Being ethical, honest, and standing your ground will get you noticed by the right people. And the most important thing is to admit when you’re wrong. Just try really hard to never be wrong. That’s probably easy for you. Your original post presents you as being in the right but not wanting to make waves, a good attitude. We all just need to know when it’s time to speak up. None of us want to throw money out the window. Well, not me anyway.”

And thanks, you’re right, I didn’t want to make waves, wanted to be professional and stand by my agreement. Took care of it though, Junior is gone. It’s one thing to work cheaply, but why have to put up with someone that I didn’t agree to?

[Lisa Koza]

[grinner hester] “I am in the business of pleasing clients. Quite a bit of that time has gone to making a show worse at the request of the bill-payer.”

I had forwarded over to my professor from college, who runs his own production company, and who actually just hired me for a freelance gig next week (at $50 an hour), but anyway, he loved the intro that I created. I told him of some of the creative differences I was experiencing, and he told me “don’t let them make you change it, it’s perfect how it is”. How do you not let them change it though? This has been part of my struggle, fighting to keep what I feel is right. But as it turns out, I’ve made changes, and now they still want more changes. They are relentless actually.

[Lisa Koza]

[David Roth Weiss] “Keep in mind, if you’re in the wrong this will end up biting you big time. So, if you have even an inkling that its your ego talking and not your brain, you’d best start figuring out a plan to get things back on track before you wind up paying for that commercial yourself.”

Oh trust me, I’ve gone over this in my own head, wanting to make sure I’m not being a baby, but truth is, I’ve bent over backwards to accommodate my client, and have been easy going, and giving extra. I had no warning that “Junior” would be involved, and truth be told, I hate it. I’m creative, and I know what I’m doing, and I don’t need her telling me what to do. I think if I had agreed to her involvement, that would’ve been a different story. My client last night said she didn’t feel the need to “run it by me”.

[Lisa Koza]

I just finished reading, “Clients or Grinders” and boy o boy, these folks are Grinders to a T (or G).

I had an hour long, and slightly heated, conversation with my client last night, we both aired our issues, and cleared a few things. I should have spoken up sooner, instead of just being cranky. I have no problem learning from my mistakes, it’s all par for course. I’m trying to stay positive, and I’m feeling more wealthy of hard earned knowledge. Anyway, I will finish the commercial, and I told her I want *HER* to love it, and that I didn’t need Junior there telling me what to do. It’s been an insulting past few weeks, and I’ve had enough of it.

Next time Grinders will be tossed back out to sea. Tell me though, what happens when you do decide midstream to not finish the product. She had already paid me my 50% upfront.

Thanks, you guys rock! 🙂

Oh, and yes, giving the camera away set a precedence to all that followed, and I pretty much got what I deserved….I know this.

[Lisa Koza]

Hey Randy, why don’t you just turn on the overlays, and use a pen tool on the timeline to do a simple fade. Read the “Keyframing on the Timeline” part.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_fcx_keyframing.html

Lisa

[Lisa Koza]

Thanks Steven, and yes David, yep, have had dropped frames of course, but it always happened while doin play back, and while importing, but with a warning popup message….I didn’t realize it could do it to an entire batch like that.

I did however go out today to the Apple store and picked up an eSATA Expresscard. So far so good.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Lisa