Mike Cohen
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I have a friend who, a few years ago, got a summer internship with a sports team on one of the two coasts (is that vague enough?). He was promised all sorts of great opportunities and given a list of job duties. This was in the marketing department.
In reality, he spent the Summer surfing the internet, because the executive he was working for kept telling him there was nothing for him to do. And he helt like he could not complain to the boss or to his advisor, because the executive had made some remarks, like “you can’t take time off, I need you here every day.” It was an untenable situation. Thus, he finished the Summer having learned nothing, but not wanting to piss anyone off in an organization he may one day apply for a job in, he let it go.This is different that the original post, but I thought I’d mention it.
Mike
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Based upon last night’s The Office, maybe we should have an “immunity” button for a first post – the post would need to be reviewed by Ron to make sure it is a legitimate personal gripe, and not spam or whatever.
Personally, I am careful whenever I post comments on a forum, facebook, myspace (don’t really use that one anymore) or any google-able site.
Thanks to Creative COW, my own Google result is #14 or so, which is pretty good considering how many people with my name there are in the world.
In fact I once left a message for a doctor in a hospital, and he called me back almost immediately. Little did I know, the director of some prestigious medical society shares my name!
Mike Cohen
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Having seen shows like this one and other reality/people doing odd or embarrassing things shows I have often wondered what people get out of it. The desire to tell ones’ story is probably enough for some people, but people who do odd or bizarre things must be looking for fame. Like the guy who was surgically altered to look like a cat, or the lady who had cardboard figures of Frodo and Sam Gamgee around her dinner table. But then there are people doing weird sexual things clearly behind closed doors – there must be some money in those shows…?
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Great thread, even if the original post suggested a less-than-great situation.
Here are some thoughts based upon my experience:
1. I have cut local political ads on company time, which my boss did as a favor to the local politicians. It makes no difference whether the company is being paid or not, as long as the employee doing the work is getting paid. When someone is a salaried employee, the project being worked on at a given time is not directly funding the employee’s pay for the same time period. In fact, the employee should not care whose money is going into his pocket.
2. Any company of any size should have a handbook or employee manual, listing the rules and regulations regarding pay, overtime, comp time, benefits, grievances etc. If there is no policy to handle a situation, a friendly meeting needs to be held to discuss the matter in a non-threatening way.
3. We periodically use freelance shooters and pay their rates. For example, we may pay $1500 for a full day two-man crew. Of course this is more than two full time salaried employees make in one day, but this is not apples to apples. Freelancers on this board can tell you that the $1600 a day is not profit, given the overhead of being an independent operator.
Mike Cohen
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We include a project management fee, which covers some overages and unforseen delays and overall management of the workflow, clients and non-billable time.
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In another video I reversed a helicopter landing to have it take off. The only people who would notice this are people who know what direction helicopter blades are supposed to spin!
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I’m not sure the original post is written correctly. It sounds like he has done a key previously, since he has the original background image. Perhaps you need to delete your key effect from the foreground clip?
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Knowing software’s limitations is a big part of using it efficiently.
We always capture DVD video in real-time, or if we import the VOB file (.MPG) the first step is to export to AVI so we are editing DV, not long GOP MPG.
As others have discussed, there are alternatives to accomplish most tasks.
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We have had good luck with Cinemagnetics. https://www.cinemagnetics.com/
We have had bad luck with other vendors promising lower prices and fast results. What we actually got were lower prices and slow results, poor quality, which actually means higher prices.
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This happened to me periodically. A complete reinstall of all Adobe products fixed almost all crashing problems.