Richard Cooper
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I see that everyone has some great advice here. I would just like to ad a simple thought…. Be thankful that they are willing to pay you extra for this at all, it tells me you work for decent folks. When I worked on Salary it was just expected… nights, weekends, didn’t matter, when they needed something it was just expected, no extra money. Even got invited to certain “social” mixers as a guest only to be asked “oh, while your here can you get some footage, it will be fun! I happen to have the camera right here”. Don’t get me wrong, these were nice people and really, didn’t even think that what they were asking was going beyond the call. My point is, its all relative. Being”pimped out” can have MANY different meanings for many different people.
Any way, nice that they think of you enough to pay you on top of your salary to do this gig. And really, you have the right to say “sure”… or “No thanks”…
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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Hi Raul,
I have several (3) 2TB HD’s in my 2009 Dual Quad Core 3.2Ghz Mac Pro. With no problems, It looks like your tower is a year older than mine so there may be something that keeps it from working but it would be worth a try. If it ends up not working you could always stick the bare 2TB drive in an IcyDock and at least then you could still use it. They work great.Hope this helps.
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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Potential employers will google you,
I agree, I just googled myself (just my name and state) and a Creative Cow post came up 3rd! My resume that is posted on Media-match was #4. My LinkedIn profile came up #5 and #6, as did my company web site at #7. A good idea that I am going to pursue now that I know what is coming up is to look at the description text that comes up on Google or Bing and then go to those site profiles and tweak the text to your advantage, i.e. experience, qualifications etc. You might be surprised. I have been amazed what has come my way for work, INCLUDING post production of a national 13 show reality series from a cold email, once they saw my work samples on my site.
As for work samples, I don’t use “sizzle reels” unless I am specifically wanting to show potential clients my shooting style, then I think they work, but specifically for editing, I believe it is more important that you show them actual projects so they can get a sense of your story telling ability. Any one can do flashy edits cut to a popular song but unless you can show potential clients that you tell a good narrative story well, with straight cuts, smart music selection subtle sfx and pacing that will drive the story and evoke an emotional response from the viewer it may be a futile exercise.By looking at your reel, I know you can edit!… but what I would want to see, looking at it from a potential employer perspective, is your story telling skills. A good story teller is pure GOLD… to me anyway.
Hang in there, when something isn’t working, adjust your approach, tweak it until it DOES work, and with patience, good attitude, passion and hard work you will get there.
Good Luck!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, AlaskaEveryone has a story to tell.
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Hello Aryn,
Just right click on sequence in your browser and choose Export > Batch list. Then once it is saved you can open it, copy the info and paste it into an Excel spread sheet (right click on cell A1 and choose “paste”) . It will paste nicely into a spread sheet with columns and headers matching exactly what you have in your browser window. Take out any info you don’t need, keep the info you need as it exports EVERYTHING in the batch list!
Quite a handy and simple solution. We use it for a lot of different things.Hope this helps.
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, AlaskaEveryone has a story to tell.
https://www.FrostLineProductions.com -
IMHO, if you are already shooting in XDCAM HD and have the workflow nailed then I would stick to XDCAM and go with the EX1/3 They are great cameras, fantastic pictures and work within your current workflow. I don’t want to start a “which camera is better” war, but in our reality series, they contracted with 3 shooters, two with EX cams and one with a HVX200 and I can tell you from 100’s of hours of experience editing these two cam formats together, the HVX cant touch the EX cams in low/available light and general image quality.
Hope this helps,
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, AlaskaEveryone has a story to tell.
https://www.FrostLineProductions.com -
When my company did a shoot for the US State Department it was stated in the contract that all the RAW footage was to be turned over to them. This was plainly in our contract and was no surprise. When I discussed it with the State Department Producer I was working with, he explained that ALL the footage, once the project was complete, was to become “public domain”. Which made it fine for me to use later if I wanted. So I kept a set (XDCAM Hard drive files) here in the studio. I think this is probably the norm.
But this is just one project so take it for what it is. The Government is all about dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s. I am sure that there is some stipulation in the contract somewhere. If not, bring it up and see what happens.
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, AlaskaEveryone has a story to tell.
https://www.FrostLineProductions.com -
I have run across this in the past, and when I look closer, i find that I have a “hidden'” button somewhere (that you cant see) that is set to button number 1 (The default button) When you simulate from within DVDSP you click on your real button with a mouse (And it plays the target video assigned to it) but when you play the dvd in a set top player and hit play on the remote it is defaulted to the un-seeable, un-assigned button so nothing happens.
Take a very close look at you menu in DVDSP and see if you can find the mystery button. You will need to select everything in the menu and you should be able to see it. Delete the hidden button if you can find it, and your real button will then become the default button in your menu.
If you can’t find / see a hidden button then make sure that any assets you put on our menu (like a video insert, picture, graphic, plain text or whatever, are NOT set up as a button. All of these assets have the capability of being set up as a button, so it could be that one of these assets is your mystery button with no “play target” assigned to them and you would end up with the same problem.
Hope this helps…
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, AlaskaEveryone has a story to tell.
https://www.FrostLineProductions.com -
Our “rough cuts” for the reality series R5 Sons, Alaska go to the Executive Producers once we have an edit that is “95% there”. This means that it will run a little long… up to a minute, but other than that it is final with a rough sound mix and no color correction. Once we get feedback from the EPs and make any small changes we tighten the edit up to proper time for a 1 hour episode (51:29:29) and it is ready for color and sound mixing. This is the process that works for us and it has been agreed upon by all parties so there are no surprises. They also give us extraordinary latitude to write and edit each episode and are not “sit in the edit suite and watch over your shoulder while you edit” kind of folks. They trust us to put out a great product and we run with it.
Each project and EP is different and it is a good idea to work out the work flow in Pre Production to manage their expectations… but this is still not always a perfect plan and each client / EP must be handled differently.
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, AlaskaEveryone has a story to tell.
https://www.FrostLineProductions.com -
Thanks Rafael,
That makes total sense. I appreciate your taking the time to answer.Take care.
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, AlaskaEveryone has a story to tell.
https://www.FrostLineProductions.com -
Thank you everyone… And Thank you Mark, Your article is great! A ton of great info. It will help me develop my workflow for sure.
If ay one else want to sead it I found it here; https://www.avid2fcp.com/articles/sharing-projects
Thanks again!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, AlaskaEveryone has a story to tell.
https://www.FrostLineProductions.com