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On a Mac look no further than Telestream’s Screenflow.
Will capture, allow you to edit, animate, export and more. And it looks great!
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
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We used American Music Company for the last few years. Pretty good but we exhausted the best of and needed more. We negotiated with DeWolfe for about a year to get a rate we could live with along with decent usage.
Bingo. Two weeks ago we signed the contract and we love DeWolfe!
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Tilt MediaRich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
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W chose DVCPro50 for several reasons. It comes in a 720 x 480 frame size so it matches DVD production workflow and encoding. It looks great and behaves swimmingly on our Mac edit stations. It is efficient. It is 4:2:2 which puts it heads over straight DV.
Try DVCPro50.
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MPEG Streamclip can do this too on a Mac or a PC.
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As soon as I read that article I made a new entry on my blog. Really got to me. I am a vinyl fan and listen to almost exclusively vinyl. I also buy more vinyl than CDs. I appreciate quality, even at the cost of being less convenient.
Society, on the other hand, appreciates the convenience of iTunes even if the quality is less. The Flip HD is easy to carry around, even if it doesn’t have the feature set of a bigger Sony HD camcorder. I might just get one for the trip to Disney World.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Mediahttps://www.tiltmedia.com/blog
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Ok, back to the original post. Chris said clients are asking for HD for commercial projects. Do you mean acquisition? If so, shooting in HD offers a lot of advantages. Mostly better cameras, assuming you aren’t shooting HDV.
We shoot almost exclusively in HD but deliver mostly to DVD web and SD broadcast. Our local CBS affiliate can accept HD spots. ESPN and Big Ten Network both require center cut HD. My guess is that since they have both HD and SD channels they simply take the one spot and downcovert with crop for the SD feed.
Although FCP is pretty terrible scaling down HD in an SD timeline, HD does offer us some flexibility in framing when put into an SD comp.
And although we have gone digital, there are a ton of SD 4:3 sets out there with digital converter boxes. And will be for some time.
We are a DG Fastchannel dealer and think file delivery of spots is surely better than Beta cam tapes to each station. Used to be 5 Beta dubs, now it’s a single encode uploaded to their FTP and delivered anywhere in the country with no shipping necessary. But HD is not very affordable right now, but they are working on the necessary workflow.
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I agree that there are clients who appreciate collaboration and those who don’t. I think it is probably more personality that leads to this.
We are working more and more toward the “front” of the project. Some clients have worked with us and some still give us finished scripts that may or may not work (in our opinion).
Hey. We are in a recession! We appreciate all projects, and we will try to take our skills and apply them to the most mediocre scripts, following the client’s lead, but it is certainly challenging.
It is a rare line of copy that I would say was perfect….there is always another way to say something. Same with editing or design….there is always another way. What is the way that will still bring a degree of satisfaction in what you are doing, and still make you some money in the end? It might not be the sweet spot, but move on to the next project that might bring you closer to the “front” of it.
And let clients know that is where you want to be….emphasize collaborations you have had in the past. Showcase them on your Web site.
And remeber that it takes all kinds!
Rich Rubasch
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Although we don’t create estimates based solely on length of finished video, we can better estimate, based on years and years of projects and the type of project, how much it might cost. For post only we have a range from $400-$1000 per finished minute for post only projects and from $2000-$5000 per finished minute including production depending on the scope of the project.
After almost every project we take the final billables and divide it by the length of the final video(s) to get cost per finished minute. After you do fifty of these or so, you will have a pretty good idea of how much to estimate for a given project.
So although we don’t simply estimate on length we do use it in “crafting” our estimates to the client. It also helps us to articulate to them that if the length changes during the project it will certainly affect the final cost. We have found that you can bank on it….if the length changes, so does the cost.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media
Editor, Designer, Compositor, Writer, Producer, Compressionist, Business Owner, Photographer, Duplicator, COW ContributorMultiple winner of WAVE Awards, ADDY Awards, Telly Awards, Pele Awards, Auroroa Awards, and many, many more.
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My insurer is The Hartford and an annual E&O policy to cover all our productions, including things like the hard drive got erased after the shoot as well as not delivering what the client wanted came to about $2800 a year. The guy who said it was only $50 more than his business insurance probably is not covered for many things.
A Director friend of mine also has this insurance and produces many high end TV spots in a decent market and his is also around $3000 annually.
Would be overkill for a single project but if you do productions of more than $1,000,000 each year, protecting yourself is surely worth $2500.
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We would bill $40 to output each Beta tape for Station dubs. 4 stations $160. DG charges us $25 for each station we upload to, so since we don’t have tape stock and it actually takes less time because we encode only once and upload once it is almost cheaper and certainly greener.
Same exact rate for station dubs. $40 each station. No beta tape, no dropouts, 48k audio no shipping.
Win win.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media