[Marcus Marotto]

Todd,

Thanks for the feedback. They are actually going to be putting this in front of a treadmill and use it as a demo for some of their products so customers can experience what they’re selling.

$2K was actually the number we were throwing around for one year, and I figured we’d discount it to maybe $5K for the full 5-years.

Thanks again, I’m glad to hear that I’m not totally off base so far.

(BTW, you should check out some of our runs, I think you might be impressed.)

[Marcus Marotto]

Hi Todd,

The client is in the Fortune 100, one of the top 20.

It would be possible to recreate our footage with lots of time and money. We spent 6 years developing the process and finding the best equipment to use. However, the client is looking to get this done within 60 days and while it is possible to get similar footage elsewhere, it would not be anywhere near our quality. I would say that what the production house is looking for costs us somewhere around $10,000 to produce.

This would be a one-time deal. We haven’t looked to use our footage anywhere else so far, although it has always been something that we thought we might do in the future.

Lastly, I believe that for the usage they are looking for, there is no other option that would be adequate and that changing to something else in the short time window they have is not a very good option for them.

I don’t want to price this out of the possibility, but I would like to use this transaction to show my company that trying to license our content to outside productions would be a lucrative idea.

Thanks for your help.

Here’s an example of our footage.
https://vimeo.com/53377112

Update: I did a search on Getty and the closest thing I could find would cost $1700. Bear in mind that this was not even close to the quality of my footage, but it was for up to 10 years.

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[Marcus Marotto]

Hi Walter,

I am running After Effects CS5, and all video files have been rendered out as .movs ahead of time, originally R3Ds.

Changing the multiprocessing options doesn’t seem to make much of a difference as far as I can as the other renders are all different times anyways. I have been rendering locally hoping that would allow it to be faster, but once again, didn’t notice much of a difference.

Last night I set up all my files to render again and it seemed that every other file would stop rendering after about 3 mins and then move onto the next one. I have a workaround, it’s just rather annoying that I can’t trust all my work to get done overnight without having to check in on it multiple times.

I’ll take a look at the settings you recommend and see if that changes anything.

Thank you for getting back to me, I’ll let you know what my results are.

Marcus