Mike Cohen
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[Aaron Cadieux] “….I am a video production specialist. I do video production for my bosses. I am not a graphic designer, nor do I pretend to be a graphic designer. I just think it’s unfair that my animation is now going to be used as a logo for the print-end…..”
No
Know your place young one.
When you work for someone else, this is how it works.
Don’t sell yourself short. If you, as a video production specialist, created a graphic that a client loves, guess what – you are now a graphic designer!
Mike
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[Aaron Cadieux] “Should I be seeing additional royalties for this logo since it was my idea? Is there any way for me to prevent the use of the logo since it was my idea?”
Aaron,
Who is paying you? The client or your boss? In either case, you are doing work for hire and the client owns the final product.
End of story in most cases.
Mike Cohen
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Was your shooting day billed by the hour? Usually that is not the case. It is a half day or a full day as Grinner has said – this is a standard pretty much around the world.
If you only rolled tape for 2 hours, does this mean you got out of the van and instantly started shooting? There was no setup, lights, audio or time between takes? You sometimes encounter a customer who wants to nickel and dime your time, rather than understanding that a video shoot is a package.
I also agree the edit should have been a flat fee. once you start debating hours in the triple digits, and the math gets juicy, it can be a losing battle.
Mike Cohen
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It is amazing how many posts there have been so far in 2010 about feeling threatened by cheap HD cameras. Hundreds of posts probably.
I think Tim summed it all up:
[Timothy J. Allen] “The wisdom comes from knowing which tool to use when to get what you want or need.”
Indeed, this wisdom is what people pay us for, not just our tools.
We are content experts, problem solvers and media professionals offering a service, not just a warm body with a camera.
Value selling is reminding customers that when they hire us, they are getting the whole package, and our past experiences, to help them accomplish their goals.
Mike Cohen
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Are you using a 25fps sequence?
Since there is not a Canon sequence preset, you would be working in another 25fps format sequence.Have you tried rendering a portion of the sequence to see if it plays normally?
Since Canon uses pretty high bandwidth files, smooth playback in Premiere Pro without a serious GPU may be asking a lot.I import 7d files, which may be the same as the 5d. They do not play back smoothly to say the least, but they look fine once rendered either on the sequence or in the output format.
Scroll down to the bottom of this blog entry to see some shots from our 7d. Granted we shoot at 30fps, but as I said, aside form the choppy playback they look ok once rendered.
https://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/1056/dslr-a-new-beginning
I know in FCP people tend to transcode to ProRes. We have no such thing native in Premiere unless you buy a Cineform or Matrox codec, or capture into an intermediary codec. Have not yet tried capturing into the Matrox I-frame codec but that task is on the to do list.Cheers.
Mike Cohen
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[Zack Yoshyaro] “The client wants a specific size, fps, and data rate.”
For future reference, important information like the above would have been most helpful in the original post, and would have saved you from getting criticized for a vague question.
Granted, everyone at one time or another has posted something out of frustration only to realize later that they were reacting to emotion rather than being thoughtful.
Good luck.
Mike Cohen
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The best way to do Tilt shift is when taking the pictures – often this is done with stills in timelapse. It is pretty easy to do manually in Photoshop. Was not aware that there are plugins for this.
Here is a particularly cool one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyZfIlxwsfI
Mike Cohen
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Yeah, that eyedropper for the white level is magical.
The best solution is to fire your camera operator!
Mike Cohen
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If VOB files give you trouble, just digitize the video out of a consumer DVD player using your camera or deck or capture card – capture to AVI. Takes real time, which can actually be faster than converting VOB to AVI in the computer. Kind of old fashioned but it works. We do this a lot.
Mike Cohen
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we will give it a try. Oddly some m2v files are fine
Mike