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Mark Whitmore
June 12, 2013 at 3:47 pm in reply to: What I feel is killing production companies.

Thanks Steve, all of your points are valid. Sometimes you try to be all things to all people and that’s impossible to do. I will address your comments to the other staff and see how they feel as well.

Warm regards,

Mark
Mark Whitmore
June 11, 2013 at 4:09 pm in reply to: What I feel is killing production companies.

Free is what is putting a lot of us in bad situations here as well or close to it. What we would bill at
$6500 they’ll do it for $2500 because they are hungry. There are too many little shops in the area and not enough clients to go around. Clients with money that is. Everyone with a camera is a videographer and everyone with a computer is a graphic artist nowadays.

I’m digging deep and looking for clients that have never thought about video solutions or other services we provide. It’s really about who you know and what you know that will separate us from the fly by nights it’s just harder to do at the moment.
Mark Whitmore
May 30, 2013 at 2:44 pm in reply to: What I feel is killing production companies.

Mads you’re exactly right. I am not in this business to take the middle ground. I’ve been reworking the way we do business for years. Constantly reinventing ourselves.

Lately, we have been focusing on educating our clients, providing them with services that they never knew they needed. We give clients more than just videos, we do think of ourselves as problem solvers something that is lost on the small, fly by night groups.

Even with all of the extra services we do and the extra time we take and the most awesome graphics we can create, at the end of the day, money talks. Clients are working with smaller budgets or no budgets at all.

There will always be a need for our services it’s just getting a little tougher to find those people.
Mark Whitmore
February 12, 2008 at 2:24 pm in reply to: No video output on my Plasma using Intensity Card

I’ve looked at all of that, not excluding a defective card.
We bought two cards for different machines, I’ll have to swap them out and go from there. Thanks for the response.
mark
Mark Whitmore
May 11, 2007 at 12:48 pm in reply to: Intensity Pro card on a G5

Thanks Luke,
Considering how reasonably priced the intensity card is, it just makes
sense that we’d have to spend a lot of money on a new mac just to use it.
Murphy’s law I guess, thanks for your insight. Might have to do some
mac shopping.

Mark
Mark Whitmore
February 2, 2006 at 11:10 pm in reply to: Anyone using Facilis systems?

Thanks for the info.

Mark
Mark Whitmore
August 23, 2005 at 6:58 pm in reply to: creating smoke

Thanks guys, I’ll start playing around see what I can come up with.
Mark Whitmore
July 1, 2005 at 4:22 pm in reply to: Illustrator colors not importing

That bites, a lot of logos have gradients in them.
I don’t think my client is going to want
me to change the look of his logo however.
Thanks for the help though.
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