Michael Hendrix
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The best thing that I have found for sales is offer the sales people I know a 10% referal fee. I work full time at a broadcast facility but do alot of freelance long form work on the side. Sales people are always asked if they know someone who does “Marketing” or “Training” materials and if they know there is something in it for them, i get the referal.
Its not a conflict of business as the station I work for does not do that work. That would be the only conflict.
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As someone pointed out, money up front is common in this business, I even ask for half up front. I think this could be a great point to bring out to your client that you waived the standard up front fee as a courtesy.
Another thing that I changed on my invoices is not putting term 30. I put ‘due upon receipt’ with the idea that most will pay within 30 days. I just simply feel like that puts the idea in their head that they have 4 weeks to pay when due upon receipt makes it feel like it is overdue.
The problem I see with this client is another common one ‘I will pay you when I get paid’. I am dealing with one of those right now and it will probably be the end of that relationship, basically to me that is a partnership and I doubt a check will have my name on it when the business is raking it in.
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The 720X480 spec was introduced for DV and stuck with DVD production. With what little I know, 486 is not divisible by 4, 480 is which is the colorspace DV works in. Digital color sampling works in 4 pixel increments, i.e. 4:2:2, etc.
Someone else is welcome to chime in because that is about as much as I understand.
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Actually, its not too bad. You mount the P2 cards in Avid and then consolidate the footage to your media drives. Once you do that, you can move the Avid Media and project anywhere you like.
I have done this on a laptop with AXP 5.7 and MCA 2.5.
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The other simple solution is capture in HDV and transcode to 145 or 220 codec and away you go.