Rich Rubasch
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For reliable Web delivery I am keeping total bitrate under 1200 Mbps. It depends slightly on what frame size a client’s player is set for. We like to target a 640 x 360 frame to match You Tube. We are not delivering web progressive download frame sizes much larger than 640x 360.
I doubt most internet connections in and around Madison WI USA are over 5 meg download and 1 meg upload.
At work we have 25 meg download and 4 meg upload through Charter cable.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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Interesting…I was with the Hartford and my local agency just switched everything over to the Travelers for better direct customer service. I was with the Hartford for about 2 years and they were pretty good so the change was not important to me, but they were changing everyone promising better service.
Travelers has been an upgrade. their customer service is more knowledgeable and prompt. Very courteous and they know exactly what I need and what I am talking about…Hartford was fine, but i do feel that the Travelers is an upgrade…so far.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
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How about 3D digital signage? Have some glasses there to view the 3D sign video. Gets people to actually commit to seeing it in 3D by putting on the glasses…after that they have you, probably to the end.
Short, 1-2 minute advertisements, creatively written and using all the tricks of 3D.
Hmmm…probably lots of ideas out there.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
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I read a good portion of the white paper on the entire line of Apple ProRes codecs. When I always assumed that ProResHQ was ONLY for 2K and higher, it turns out that ProRes HQ simply allows for more generations than straight ProRes. I think the threshold was around 5 passes and the straight ProRes started to show degradation and the ProRes HQ was a perfect match to the original.
I sort of liken it to Uncompressed. When you absolutely have to have no generation loss you used uncompressed, and there is a time and place for it.
We are sticking with straight ProRes here, unless a client requires otherwise.
ProResLT is below straight ProRes, correct?
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
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If it didn’t play on any PC computers then those computers did not have Quicktime loaded, and it might require QT Pro…just not sure.
My test…if Windows Media Encoder can accept it for encoding, most everything else will too.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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Ok so MacDrive is the software to have. I agree. Been using it for years. But what codec can a FCP user digitize to that will play nicely in a PPro sequence? What about ProRes? Does Premier on the PC support ProRes yet? That would be the way to go. A truly cross platform codec solution and you could upload in a FCP Kona system on the Mac and bring the footage over to a PC Premier system for cutting etc.
How about ProRes on a Mac in Premier Pro?
Anyone try it yet?
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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I agree as well. Give them an idea of what typical editing costs. You can easily ballpark a basic two-person crew shoot day…maybe $1500. And for editing you can give them a range of $500-$1000 per finished minute. So if they are asking for three 2-minute videos for web you can assume two day shooting or $3000, and using the formula’s editing average, about $2250 to edit them. I’d say that puts you around $5000 for about 6 minutes of finished video.
Our University media department uses $2000-$4000 per finished minute if shooting and delivering in HD. That puts it even higher.
But we always establish first what their needs are and help them craft an approach that might work for them.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
I think it depends on who you (or whoever is in the van) are billing. If it just an hourly rate for an employee I think that could be negotiated to the manager. If it is a freelancer and you know that there will be traffic and extra driving time you could again negotiate what they will charge if they get back late due to traffic.
You are sort of describing unusual circumstances. We can usually estimate travel time and negotiate accordingly. We are also in a smaller city so travel is not a huge factor regardless.
If travel accounts for more than four hours of a 10 hour production day I would negotiate a lower rate for the travel time. If a shooter and his gear is $1400/day, 10 hours portal to portal and we know there will be at least 4 hours of travel alone I might negotiate perhaps $1100 for the day. They might or might not bite, depending on how much we work with them.
If it’s my own employee I might slip them a $100 Best Buy gift card, or maybe a gas card…Jiffy Lube oil change gift cert?
We base a production day on 10 hours portal to portal, with some wriggle room for traffic etc. But if the client keeps everyone late because they can’t decide what wash they want in the background it might incur an overage for the entire crew depending on how invested everyone was with the project.
Times are lean. Anyone who nickel and dimes in this economy is looking for a world of hurt. Best to play nice, exceed expectations and always deliver more than expected. You will get the next job…
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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If your Windows audio guy has quicktime on his computer you can encode out of MPEG Streamclip to AVI with Photo JPEG compression at about 50%. That ought to shrink the file size down.
Another option might be to make a Windows Media file with Flip 4 Mac and let him convert it to AVI on his system.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
I believe Toast is now Windows compatible…on a Mac you just export the clip in whatever format you cut in and drag it to the window. Set everything to default and burn the BluRay (must have BluRay burner and BluRay discs).
What’s even cooler is for programs under 35 minutes you can do the exact same thing and put in a standard DVD and it becomes a BluRay disc with the burn.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com