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Go to the bin and check out the frame rate of the clip. If you digitized via firewire and had the digitizer set to ignore timecode breaks and other anomolies it might have drifted a bit causing this behavior.
If your clip properties show an odd frame rate like 29.64 or something like that you might have to redig.
Also, what is the sequence setting? Did you match the clip when you put it into a new sequence, or did you make the sequence then add the clip?
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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Not to be outdone by Walter, we just received loan approval on an 8600 square foot building on a 42,000 square foot lot. Most of the space will serve as a soundproof soundstage with about 2800 square feet of office space.
After nearly two years of looking at lease space we started last year looking for an existing building. Finally a perfect building (concrete, high ceilings, 400 amps of power and three individual HVAC units, 12″ garage door etc) came on the market and we’ve been pursuing it since!
Today was a milestone day because we got approval on the financing. Still plenty left to do and a build out will happen after closing, but things are looking very good.
I chose to buy because of the down market and our past three up years and to build security for the company. Kind of doing an “all in” on this one because of this crazy uncertain economy, but like Walter, we have been rockin and rollin’…oh, and exceeding expectations.
Anyone else buying land?
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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USE THE SPAN OPTION IN TOAST…whoops, caps lock…and there is a checkbox that says “don’t divide files” or something like that. Works great. We have a set of about 8 Blu Rays with a huge backup and I feel most confident about that backup set. So far it is our only one.
I currently have 30 hard drives and 30 backup hard drives of our backups. Scary!
The 8 disc BluRay backup took a day and a half to burn! Cost about $32 dollars in discs but worth the peace of mind.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
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Just to address Todd’s concern, when you put a spot up on SpotCentral it will tell you if a station is online or offline. Only offline stations require that a tape be made. The file we send to DG is a high bitrate MPEG2 file that looks great, and laying that to Beta would not me an issue at all. And the process is seamless. However, if you prefer, if you see a station that is offline, you can just ignore that station for DG delivery and send your own Beta.
I like DG when it is an SD spot and has to go to multiple stations. One encode, multiple deliveries. I can get a spot from the timeline to 20 or more stations in less than 1/2 hour. I charge $30-40 for each station so you do the math. I posted at length below…
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
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Well I have to say I wasn’t really expecting too much but you’re just great. I suppose I would ask if you are already making money why you would sell to just one client. Have these videos been profitable?
My wife said you should not do an exclusive because then my kids won’t be able to watch the rest.
Nice work. I think you could actually give that goof ball Bill Nye a run for his money!
Best
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
gotta jump in here. We use a combination of DG and Beta and FTP uploads. FTP is mostly for local and cable that accept HD files for spots. Local stations who accept Beta and are SD only get Beta. We use DG Fastchannel for SD spots delivered to cities in other markets or statewide buys.
We charge $40 per spot no matter what, and $50 per spot if it is a :60. DG charges $25 per spot and :10 for each :30 increment over the initial :30. A beta costs less for just the stock and by the time I output and make labels I could have encoded and uploaded the spot to DG.
DG is greener. Tape is toxic. Do we need more tape? I can encode the file once and send it to 20 stations in a few clicks. I charge $40 each and I am making money.
Someone said each station has different requirements and that is true and that is why DG is a better and faster option if you are sending to multiple stations the same spot in SD.
We have not seen any difference in our market between a DG delivered spot or a Beta spot. BUT, DG’ audio will be digital 48k stereo all the way to the server, but Betacam audio is about as good as the cassette deck in your 73 Gremlin. DG sounds better….is that important.
I just did four spots to 25 stations, delivered them all via DG, took about a half hour and I gave the client a break on price because of quantity.
We have been very proactive sending HD spots to the stations who will take them, so we go the extra mile to encode those to the right specs and send em out.
I prefer DG for larger orders of the same spot to many stations, use FTP for HD spots or if I am only sending a single spot to one station who we have an FTP for. Beta for local SD stations sometimes.
$40 per spot per station…..oh and I will discount if I put multiple spots on a Beta….$40 for the first, $10 each additional.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
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I had some raw footage once and the non-talent was just having a heck of a time doing a pretty simple line. the director asked her to say a line that was laden with “F” bombs, which she did with a few chuckles. That seemed to truly calm her nerves and they got a few good takes right after that. I couldn’t do it but it seemed to work.
They ended up hiring new talent to pull off the lines in the end, but it was interesting to see the result.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
I would assume that if they were truly a known and loyal client that it would be a pretty easy phone call to make. “Hey —–, just wanted to make sure I didn’t leave anything off the proposal I submitted. Was it purely price that made you choose —?”
That way you are assuming that the relationship is still “known and loyal” and that you are there for the next one, perhaps better armed for the situation.
Also, if it is a known and loyal customer and they said they were bidding it out I would try to get more info to see if what they needed was beyond the scope of your services. Then I would find out if there was still a way we could plug into the project.
These rejections are truly worse when it is slow. They pass pretty quickly when you are busy.
So get busy!
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
Absolutely. When I moved from Honolulu to Madison WI I had visited about 4 times whenever I came back for family visits. I talked shop and just got to know a bit more about the players in the community. I didn’t do a lot of hard sell but just got to know them as a fellow editor who was interested in the craft and swapping stories about what kind of projects they worked on. It also gave me a chance to see where my unique experience would fit in.
I now have a ten year video production company and we are buying a full service studio space with soundstage this year in Madison.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com