Max Kaiser
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Thanks fellas,
I’ll tell my agent to look into the Hartford. We do want to be able to rent gear out too, in addition to all the other. I think that may have been what sent our old insurance co. running.
Max
Max Kaiser
Director
Hand Crank Films
https://www.handcrankfilms.comVarious Intel
FCP 7
OS 10.5
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Thanks all. We are in Washington State.
Max Kaiser
Director
Hand Crank Films
http://www.handcrankfilms.comVarious Intel
FCP 6
OS 10.4 -
Anyone?
I guess what I’m looking for is some kind of standard math like – you’ll need so many watts of kino power at a certain distance from the screen and at a certain height…
Again, I was thinking of 5 4 bank 55w kinos for each wall…
Thanks!
MaxMax Kaiser
Director
Hand Crank Films
http://www.handcrankfilms.comVarious Intel
FCP 6
OS 10.4 -
Here are some images of the greenscreen.
Any help would be greatly appreciated…
Max
Max Kaiser
Director
Hand Crank Films
http://www.handcrankfilms.comVarious Intel
FCP 6
OS 10.4 -
Hey – this is an open opportunity to pimp our site!
https://www.handcrankfilms.com
We go the route of absolute emphasis on the video as we know that is what people come to see. We sort of leave the rest out of it. At the moment we have a rate sheet on there, but that’ll be gone soon – no one really cares. We source out our video to a vendor that has really high-quality fast-playing streams with the ability to scale to different bitrates on the fly depending on connection.
Now, updating it regularly, that’s the hard part!!
This site is responsible for most of our new business, and it is a great place to push people we run into on the street, etc.
Sorry to be such a plugger, but I do think it is somewhat of a unique approach.
Max
Max Kaiser
Director
Hand Crank Films
http://www.handcrankfilms.comVarious Intel
FCP 6
OS 10.4 -
Bob,
Thanks for the post – you’ve kept me out of trouble before!I guess I really just need to do some more research on expanding my existing XSAN network. I knew I could add a promise drive, but I thought I was stuck there. Sounds like I might be able to add any kind of fibre channel outputting raid to my existing system without adding another metadata controller, etc. I actually just clicked on Dulce’s site here and they have some sort of fibre channel transformer that would allow me to use one of these JBODs on my network – that sounds intriguing. It is 4gb and I only have a 2gb network, but maybe that is cool.
I’m also not to learned on expanding my switch. I’m hoping I can just bridge my 10 seat together with another 10 seat or something like that – I’ll mosey over to the XSAN forum for that info.
Mostly, I’m concerned about my future with XSAN. I get the feeling Apple has sort of left the building on this stuff. I can’t upgrade to XSAN 2.0 for any less than moving to MetaSAN, so I can’t upgrade my server to Leopard (XSAN 1.4 only works on Tiger) which kind of stinks. I’m not the type that likes to get too far behind in upgrades because pretty soon you’re dusted. Apple hasn’t made it that tasty to stick with them. MetaSAN just seemed a little more in my league.
As far doing stuff as cost effectively as possible, although I agree with you in spirit on spending whatever it takes, in truth we cobbled together our entire XSAN off of EBAY – seats, cables, transceivers – everything for about 1/8th the cost of doing it new. We figured it all out on our own, even when we were told repeatedly “you’ll just screw it up”. The RED is so ridiculously cheap for what it affords that I couldn’t say no – anyhow, what I’m trying to say is we’re always stretching way beyond what our tiny little town can pay us just because we love this stuff so much.
Anyhow, that all said, I think you know a lot more than me on this, and are essentially saying there are better ways – I will go forth and investigate further how to: expand my switch easily, and add much faster drives than my 5.6TB XRAID.
Thanks again for your info here, and all of your other great posts I’ve enjoyed whilst researching this!
Sincerely,
MaxMax Kaiser
Director
Hand Crank Films
http://www.handcrankfilms.comVarious Intel, and Power PC
FCP 6
OS 10.4 -
Unless you want to do HD.
We have a lobby screen running every day for the last year off of a MacMini. It plays HDV files beautifully (cannot handle much more since drive speed is only 5400).
Also, cool because you can load the files for the loop over the network.
Don’t know much about PC’s though.
Max
Max Kaiser
Director
Hand Crank Films
http://www.handcrankfilms.comVarious Intel, and Power PC
FCP 6
OS 10.4 -
We bill line items. It takes awhile, but once it’s all entered in Quickbooks, you can put an estimate together fairly quickly. Also, it allows the client to see very transparently where their money is going. If it is not going through an agency, we will charge a 5% admin fee for all the rounding up people etc. that happens on a job.
I’m always on the fence about whether this is better than the “value” type billing mentioned above. They each have their pros and cons, for sure. One thing, though, I think it is easier to start adding charges when projects start taking unexpected twists when all of the line items have been clearly laid out for both parties.
Just be sure to build into those line item costs enough for all of your overhead. The suggestion that you add up all of your expenses first and work backwards to determine your rates is a really good one. After being in business for about a year and half I finally did this and realized why I was so busy, but so poor. I was able to adjust my rates to pay all of my expenses better and have been much happier for it ever since.
Good luck, but know that billing is always a bit of an art that you will be fiddling with forever – just try not to fiddle with the prices on the same job!
Cheers,
MaxMax Kaiser
Director
Hand Crank Films
http://www.handcrankfilms.comVarious Intel, and Power PC
FCP 6
OS 10.4 -
Hi Kevin;
Yeah it’s a strange one…
>is color managment turned off….
Yup, there’s no color management.
>did you try rendering to a non-quicktime format like an image
>sequence of some sort (the photoshop output module preset would
>be fine)? does that effect the color shift?I did, and it happens regardless of the output format.
>do you see the color shift in other applications (fcp, qt, etc)
Before I render, there’s no color shift in the footage in any program. In AE, the footage looks OK when I preview. After I render, the color shift shows up in all programs, qt, fcp etc.
Pretty weird huh? I’m working around it by using time remapping but it’s an ugly solution.
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I guess nobody else has seen this…? Strange.