Paul Lundahl
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Kevin,
One of our editors uses a Wacom tablet for all of her editing. One thing that drives her nuts is to not be able to add and move keyframe points in her audio levels with her pen. Apparently it’s a known issue.
https://vimeo.com/46319803
Are there any workarounds for it? Timeline on a bug fix?Thanks in advance!
fond regards,
Paul Lundahl
creative director
emotion studios
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Johnny,
Your trick really worked well for me, I thought iwas going to have to revert back to Leopard.
Great work, and thank you for sharing the hardwon info!Paul Lundahl
Creative Director / Partner
eMotion studioshttps://www.emotionstudios.com
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DeAnna,
After years of work and being on both sides of the cash flow crunch, I have a somewhat different perspective on your problem.
Pursue business where there is real opportunity.
Your client is a client, no matter how little money they have.
Clients are rare and extremely valuable. Especially when you are just starting.
In your shoes I would do everything I could to make their business a success, that’s really why they hired you. If your video is well produced and helps your client’s business, then they will be able to pay you sooner. Happy clients refer you to other clients, they refer you to other clients, soon you’ll move up the ladder to higher profile, and more profitable projects.
This is a very personal business and people who care about their client’s needs and learn to advance their client’s needs prosper. In this case it’s not about the remaining balance of $460. It’s about having a successful project that you can point to, and then get the next one. Rather than trying to lock up the materials and make sure that the client can’t benefit from them, I would use my energy to get the video linked far and wide and seen by your client’s potential customers (as well as yours). Have them write you a referral letter and pledge to make introductions to 3 other potential clients. Do an on camera interview with them talking about your professionalism and quality of work and post the video on your website or blog.
Move on to the next opportunity. Then every month send a bill in a physical letter reflecting payments to date and balance owed. You will be paid. And you will get that next, better job…..
Good luck!
Paul Lundahl
creative director
eMotion studios
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Just by habit, though it can get to be a mess pretty easily. I saw some software mentioned recently that saves the scratch disk locations by project. Sorry I can’t remember where I saw it, maybe DV magazine? I think it was part of a suite of FCP tools. One very important thing is to always make sure your autosave vault folder is saved to a separate drive from your media files and that you back it up frequently! On a long project it can save your *ss!
Here’s an interesting link on best folder practices if you are on a SAN:
https://www.xsanity.com/article.php/2007041604264728Hope this helps!
Paul Lundahl
Creative Director / Partner
eMotion studioshttps://www.emotionstudios.com
____________________________________________________________________US:
85 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 110 Sausalito, CA 94965
p: 415-331-6975 f: 415-331-6124
Japan:
101 Akasaka TM flat, 7-6-16 Akasaka 7chome, Minato-ku Tokyo, Japan #107-0062
p: 81-3-5562-5300 -
Tony,
We’ve evolved a folder structure over many years.
The main principles are to make it logical and comprehensive enough for the 90% of things you typically need in a project. When contractors come into our studio, we teach them how to use the structure. Most kind of hate it, than over time adopt it themselves.We create a separate master folder hierarchy for each project and really stick to it. We set the video>source> folder as the capture scratch before we start a new project and if we switch projects before completing one, we switch scratch folders to the other hierarchy.
Here’s a link to our structure:
https://www.emoclients.com/tutorial/%20eMotion_studios_FolderHierarchyMaster.zipThe idea is to make sure that all assets for a project are contained within. When the projects done, archive to LTO tape (or whatever you use) and trash the files and move on….
Hope this helps.
Paul Lundahl
Creative Director / Partner
eMotion studioshttps://www.emotionstudios.com
____________________________________________________________________US:
85 Liberty Ship Way, Suite 110 Sausalito, CA 94965
p: 415-331-6975 f: 415-331-6124
Japan:
101 Akasaka TM flat, 7-6-16 Akasaka 7chome, Minato-ku Tokyo, Japan #107-0062
p: 81-3-5562-5300