Rick Dolishny
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Toronto’s coveted code is 416 and I called and asked for one when getting my cel phone, even though I was in the dreary 905 at the time.
That was many years ago but I don’t think it’s in any way illegal.
If I have to pick a 416 (local) or 905 I pick the 416 all the time. I forward it to my home edit suite all the time and pay the long distance charges only. Clients love it. Despite it’s deserved bad reputation, Rogers is quite flexible in this regard.
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Rick Dolishny
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[Patrick Ortman] “I humbly put forth that if one wants to use an online render farm (say, for a big Lightwave project), that the render farm companies don’t offer the time on their systems for free.”
That’s a really good point.
Although the original post was an hourly question, I have no idea what my “hourly” rate is for a big 3D job. It’s more in line with that $x/second quote.
I guess my first response was a bit short sighted. I do make money on my machines rendering. But I have never indicated “rendering” on an invoice.
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Rick Dolishny
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[Rich Rubasch] “our rendering rate is $80/hr. I only usually bill a portion of the time it actually takes. 2 hours might get billed 1 hour.”
There is a subtlety and powerful concept you mentioned here that is worth pointing out to our newer members of the COW, especially this forum which I might add seems to be growing incredibly quickly.
Note the clear hourly rate, but a flexibility on the number of hours billed. This is an incredibly significant billing strategy which is far better than a lower rate at full hours.
Even thought the gross bill might be the same, charging full rate and discounting the hours saves your bacon the next time the client shows up. And you hope they do. Because as us Old Timers know (OK, Rich, I have no idea how old you are, no disrespect, I’m talking about me and David Roth Weiss) but as we know, once you set a rate it’s pretty much the rate the client is gonna pay.
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Rick Dolishny
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[Rich Rubasch] “We also bill for Encoding”
Interesting because I always bill for encoding. I wonder what the difference in my thinking is?
I guess if a client comes in with a 2 minute spot and walks out with a 2 minute WMV I gotta charge him something.
But the process of the “Render” of an edited project is, dare I repeat, the process of the paint drying. The client certainly paid a my rate to design the show, edit, deliver screeners, digitize (yes I charge a small fee for digitizing). The rendering is means to the end.
Charging for that process doesn’t seem right. Especially when there are mechanisms that allow (in my case) older machines to render pretty much unattended in the background.
Exception though noted by DRW. If a client is there and needs to leave with a product and I am physically unable to work on something else, I would consider charging something…
but only after our round trip to the pub was over. 🙂
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Rick Dolishny
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Never bill for render time.
If you’re a Total Professional
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First off, whoever Walter hired would probably do it again. It sounds like a keeper, especially the part about remote access. Very nice.
Eventually you will google across Media Filer.
I’ve used it in a couple of locations and it’s good. Certainly not great, and sometimes it’s a bit infuriatingly closed (ie you can’t even resize the app’s window. They hope you do all your work at 640×480). However, for a facility that may have nothing, it’s better than that.
I’ve also used Filemaker and it’s just amazing. You may want to hire someone though there are a lot of options.
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Rick Dolishny
Discrete Editors COW Leader
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[Randy] “By the way, I had no problem playing Aaron’s WMV videos on his site using Internet Explorer:”
Ah, a clue.
I rarely use IE and when I did I got the following popup:
This website wants to run the following add-on: “Windows Media Player Extension”…”
Whatever that is, is causing most of us the problem. It stands to reason many Firefox and most Mac users won’t be able to see the video. Again, this is so we can help Aaron by answering his question.
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Rick Dolishny
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Love drop.io for ftp but I think it times out after seven days.
Also, the links to media it generates are often wrong. After the second client complained, we resorted to using drop.io or external shuffling of big files for staff only.
– Rick
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Rick Dolishny
Discrete Editors COW Leader
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Love drop.io for ftp but I think it times out after seven days.
Also, the links to media it generates are often wrong. After the second client complained, we resorted to using drop.io or external shuffling of big files for staff only.
– Rick
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Rick Dolishny
Discrete Editors COW Leader
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The absolutely best place to put a professional demo reel is Reel Exchange. Here is my old reel.
I admit I’m totally in love with the interface sported on vimeo. It has a very small community but I love the upload tool, privacy settings, and overall vibe.
But for reel check out Reel Exchange. I signed up for free when it was beta, but will definitely renew and pay. Again, it’s a professional site and sports some amazing content.
– Rick
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Rick Dolishny
Discrete Editors COW Leader
http://www.thecreativeprocess.ca