Mike Smith
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If you just want to require a password, which it seems like your email address would be serving as, you could do it with .htaccess probably – relatively simple … https://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess3.shtml might start you off.
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From a business perspective, if your technique makes the sale then it’s working – unless you’re bidding well under what your customer might have been willing to spend.
Then in production you have to control your costs / time to keep to your estimate. So don’t go over the hours you bid, in general – unless you really want to try those experiments or develop those techniques partly for your own future benefit.
Of course that means you have to be clear what your estimate covers – delivery of an agreed product at an agreed price, and a specified process of stages, review and revision steps to complete. If those steps are to be exceeded at client request, client to be warned that extra costs would follow.
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If they ask for PAL / DVCAM they probably want PAL DVCAM. You’ll just give them edit headaches if you offer another format.
There are lots of French outfits that do live mixing very well. That depends on your client and their market / project. Many live event specialists with a budget will want to shoot “iso feed” and take away all the camera footage to edit later, for quality rather than because of dislike of mixing. Some will want a mixed master and all the camera outputs recorded separately, to have a fast guide to what’s there and the chance to improve it.
I don’t know the HVX 2000 but so far as I can see for the HVX 200 this is a budget camera with I presume budget glass on the front. It seems silly to presume this will give better SD output than, say, DSR 450s or 570s with broadcast lenses … Or do you mean HPX2000 ..? In which case you should get decent PAL output – as you can from the DSRs ..
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You looked at this AE tutorial and thought about modifying the textures, right ..?
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Illegal, and difficult.
Why not get some music you can license from a library, or find a music student willing to help?
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“Stipend” implies that you will be an employee, albeit temporary, of the non-profit. If that is the case, all rights will rest with the organisation hiring you.
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Caligari Truespace is now free, and has a decent feature set.
https://www.caligari.com/store/trueSpace/default.asp?SubCate=S2truespace&Cate=Store -
I was approached once by a local competitor to provide edit training to a graphic designer, but declined, explaining that learning a software package was the trivial end of learning to edit. The talent, judgement, experience and mindset to edit professionally take time to develop, and need both a strong interest in visual storytelling and an element of aptitude, neither of which might be present in the nominated print designer to be trained.
Your situation is different, I think – this is potentially a significant customer. This could be a customer education opportunity.
Maybe you could set up a meeting to discuss an appropriate training and package or schedule, explaining that to achieve any kind of decent result you’d need to teach basics of editing and video production alongside any introduction to the software. Otherwise, how is the trainee to know how to evaluate and fix the footage, how to build a story?
Your client wouldn’t expect to create a writer by training someone on Word or Final Draft, to create a designer by introducing someone to Photoshop, Quark or Maya, to create a composer by training someone in Sibelius, Finale or even Acid. The people learning the software would need the skills, talent and relevant education beforehand, or else would need to spend a lot of time developing those aspects alongside learning the software.
The same thing applies with editing, and making video. You might be able to devise an appropriate training programme for someone with the right talent and aptitude – no doubt you’ve training editors in the past. But it might require, say, 90 days of formalstudy (any other views?) spread over a year or so, with a course of home study to complete alongside. Your rate for professional training services might be $1,500 to $2000 per day – fairly standard for a skilled corporate trainer over here in the UK.
They might bite … they’d end up with a decent editor. Or they might think a bit more about what they’re trying to take on.
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Design – looking like a professional designer will depend on your portfolio and for a starter position perhaps what relevant education you can show.
If you want to join a web design firm, then you’ll need to work the way that firm works. You’ll probably need Photoshop. There’s a big slice of the design-led market that uses Dreamweaver ( https://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Top100Tools/dreamweaver.html ). But there is also a big slice that uses various html editors, working directly in the code.
https://www.csszengarden.com is worth a look, if you are thinking of taking on standards-compliant css / (x)html design – the way of a lot of the present, and probably more of the future. In principle, many modern designers now try to work this way, with css, putting all style information into a separate style sheet called by the html, which holds just the content, structured into divs and other html elements, and using ids and classes to label each element so that the appropriate style can be applied.
But there are also neat tools like xara’s web designer – https://www.itreviews.co.uk/software/s730.htm
– which might work for you if your business plan is to go to clients / end users as a designer and produce very fast prototypes, which you might or might not clean up into tidy code before launch …