Nick Griffin
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Bah-dum-dump. Thanks folks. Mike will be here all week. Remember to tip your waiters and waitresses.
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What do you mean the “pot jar” is for money??
BTW, I’ll gladly play sommelier for a Paso Robles wine tasting ANYTIME. (How about I bring a camera so we can say I played one ‘on TV?’)
And maybe THIS will kill the thread: Did you hear about the Rabbi would wouldn’t receive payment for performing a Bris? He only took tips.
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I have to say that, as usual, Mark has succinctly put in words what many of us have been thinking. The Cow is not about money, it’s about community and the power of collective knowledge. Anything that could or would alter any aspect of that would be a tragedy. Let’s keep it just as it is.
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So, Wick, old buddy, old pal… are we to infer from this that Media 100 Suite WILL work with Snow Leopard? Or will there be a point release in the near future which will?
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No, no, no. You guys have it all wrong. These days you’re supposed to say your name and number as fast and possible and MUMBLE. Or leave messages like “Hey, it’s me.” God forbid anyone should do anything to make using technology easier.
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Hmmm. Interesting idea, John. But I’m not sure that implementing “tipping” wouldn’t go against the spirit and intent of the COW. That is unless the money is coming into MY PayPal account. But seriously, maybe it would be better if the donation were to some charity that we could agree upon. Fact of the matter is we’re all playing on Ron & Kathlyn’s playground and they invented the game and they set the rules.
Unrelated, but parallel, I’ve always thought that it would be amusing to add a “Gratuity” line item (left blank) along with a blank “Total” line beneath it to client invoices sent out in December. It would be interesting to see if anyone would actually put something in it. Then again, it might cause a S-storm of criticism, likely from the people we work hardest for and get paid the least.
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Whew! Based on Bob’s clues I would almost never had guessed that the client he was discussing was Walter. And having seen Walter’s facility first hand — even prior to the new machine room — I can report that technically it is clean, cool and elegant. So much so that when I returned home I immediately began began cleaning up wires and bundling runs.
All that said, I think Bob is in a somewhat different business than Scott, the original poster. If it was a once in while question with large projects as a routine source of income, sure it can and should be comp’d, but week in, week out support and hand holding, that’s a different matter. Scott, by his good nature, has been backed into the support business and needs to find a way to either get paid for it or shift it off to others without alienating his client.
As to asking for $10,000 a year, I don’t think that will fly too many places these days. It’s ALWAYS easier to get someone to agree to $833 a month because that gives the impression that they’re only committing to several hundred dollars at a time.
[walter biscardi] “He doesn’t just give you one idea, he gives you about a dozen”
Whether it’s someone with Bob’s depth or knowledge or other COW posters, finding solutions often comes down to a fresh set of eyes looking at a problem. In fact I think I have a permanent flat spot on my forehead from going “D’oh! Why didn’t I think of that earlier?” We have a great community going on here and the more we can help each other succeed the better off we all are.
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I would bring the subject up with the powers that be, posing it as a problem and asking them to provide a solution. Explain that this has developed into more of a commitment than either of you had anticipated, that it has the potential of displacing some of your other work, and ask how they would like to handle it? If you don’t get the response you need you could then be the one to ask if it would make sense for you to bill by the hour for your services. Keep it light and non-threatening and most people will do the right thing.
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[Rocco Forte] “ay out all your prints on the floor and shoot them in HD”
Hmmm, yes technically you could do this. What I do when it’s not practical to scan (photos in frames for example) is to shoot pics with a DSLR in a classic copy-stand configuration. That’s two lights, one left, one right, at 45 degree angles to prevent glare.
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I’m almost always doing moves on scanned stills so I start at least twice as big as will be needed. Depending on what I’m trying to go into or out of in the shot, sometimes 4 or more times bigger. I also find it’s easiest with our scanners to scan at 300 or 400 dpi then run a macro within Photoshop to convert everything to 72 dpi for use in After Effects. That way it’s easy to know that 100% scale shouldn’t be exceeded which would soften the image.
As Grin pointed out, if you’re working in HD the full frame size at 72 dpi is 1920 x 1080 pixels.