Randy Wheeler
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COW Coins
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I noticed that the majority of your videos on Vimeo have interlace artifacts. You could really improve the way those videos look by deintelacing them before uploading to Vimeo.
Randy
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I have a Mackie mixer and hook an iPod up to it all time. You need to keep things simple. That box is more likely to cause problems than solve them since you are having to use more cables and connections than necessary. Save yourself $160 and get this cable (shorter the better) and hook your iPod directly to the 1/4″ line inputs of the Mackie mixer:
Randy
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Have you tried a different Flash player?
The black level of all the videos is washed out causing it to look grey. I noticed that more than the choppy playback.
Randy
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This guy had a website for all the dotcom failures where ex-employees and whoever could vent and leave comments about these companies. He had quite a following.
Randy
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Take an audio speaker/monitor outside and playback the audio and rerecord it thru the same mic in front of that speaker. Then possibly mix/blend that new audio with the original if needed.
Randy
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What happens when someone in the music industry gets married and has a video done with music?
Randy
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Are you sure that noise wasn’t caused by cell phone/blackberry interference?
Randy
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I still think Aaron has a conflict of interest because he charges much more money with his side-business production company doing the same work he is sometimes asked to do at his full-time salary job. For example, he’s might be making $20/hour based on salary and he makes $100/hour when freelancing with his side business.
This is a quote from his first post:
“If they were to hire a freelancer to shoot the meeting, they would have had to pay him more than I make in a week with my salary.”
Aaron resents that he can’t charge them a “freelancer” rate for this “personal” work that he does and feels is not part of his job duties for this employer. He wants his employer to hire him as a freelancer for these jobs and rake in the money at a freelancer rate.
Problem I see is that you can’t have it both ways, either you want the security of a salary job and do the work they put in front of you or take on the risk but higher hourly pay of freelancing.
Aaron has already stated that he is doing DVD’s for his employer using his side business so I assume he is making money doing that at a freelancer rate. Looks like he wants this to happen with the “personal” jobs also. Good luck on that.
I’m still looking for opinions by anyone that has experience juggling a salary job and freelancing on the side in the same field.
Randy
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Since Aaron is also running a business on the side on top of his full-time job and has a website http://www.bigoperations.com to promote this and get new clients, what do you boss/owners think about your full-time employees having a side business in the same field as your business?
Aaron, are you getting full benefits or any other perks? Does the owner know that you are running that side business?
Randy
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Why not check the mic with an analog mixer and see where the levels are at?
Randy