Ryan Hamilton
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Hey Folks,
I’m also working on figuring out some time track applications. Once I have one applied and as instructed above; select it and drag it into the ATmanager where it says Time Track I get blocked. At the bottom of the ATmanager where it says Time Track and has the link space, that is greyed out so I am not able to drag anything in.Cheers.
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Hey,
I have the same problems too. The thing is that I don’t have a tablet. Just a Cordless mouse. Did anyone else have these problems and weren’t using a tablet. If so how did they get corrected?
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Ok, if the math and procedure will get to crazy I guess it may just be easier to key frame the pictures manually. I have 50-60 of these swinging pics in a room, so I thought an expression would speed things up so I only changed a couple values for each image, and could have different swinging speeds and rotation values. Thanks anyways.
Ryan
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Good to hear Paul. As I said though, be weary, not ignore entirely. Ready made stuff like that is great and a huge time saver, but they can still allow for personal input to make them unique in the way you decide to use them. Change sizes in them to make some contrast, add some effects that you recipe up which may be different then current trends, use them as track matt’s and maskes, then fly through to a solid bg and animate in your text then use one again perhaps to reveal an other cliip and zoom into that. All I meant was it looked like you got the set, picked a couple and added them straight to your comp. Of course most clients would be oblivious to that, but when so many people use the same things it saturates the market. I’m looking at your bigger picture here. You want to be directing spots for Bang & Olufson, Sony, etc. Not Ron’s Tires in your local town or city.When doing jobs on a super pro level scale I totally think stuff should be 100% original. When you think about it, you know how easy those ornaments are to make. Come up with a design in Illustrator, then copy paste it in AE into a comp, paint an animated mask over it, and there you go. You have your own original motion ornament. It will be similar perhaps, but still different then the guy down the road who has the stock stuff in his reel, advertising to the same clients. What would make someone work with you over the other guy? Cost perhaps? Experience? Word of mouth? Style or Quality? Things like this again might not matter much for your current market but I can tell you for sure in the high end stuff agencies and studios will higher you to produce work based on uniqueness and originality. I hope you blow right past the video work of seminars, local events, local business etc. Automotive, Beer, Pop-Media & Trendy Fashion are some of the genres of work I’d want to strive for if I was into video. Directing music videos as well. Hell I don’t even know if thats your goal, maybe you just want to produce indy films until you get something big movie wise and take anything from weddings to business lectures just to fund you through your next endeavor. Some of the best advice I got from one of my instructors was to not make a habit of taking work if it wasn’t going in the direction I wanted my career to go. To easy it is to get sucked in and keep doing jobs for a paycheck in the area you don’t want to be in. Obviously if your gonna starve or loose your house do a job, but make the next one something in your ideal area. Whats gonna happen is you’ll end up with a reel showing work you’ve done, but it will be getting clients that you don’t want cause they are seeing the work in your reel and wanting that. At some point you have to break loose and go the path you want to film most, so it might as well be from the start. As you can see I have lots of free time to be offering my views. Accept or discard them, when it come down to it, whom am I really? Just a nobody who has friend and family that say my stuff is great. Good job on the instant revamp of the site btw.
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Ron,
So are you implying that $50/hr for AE is to low? or to high? I’m curious to know for your location at what rate your clients would take you seriously.
Secondly I meant no disrespect to Paul. I was being completely honest and not affraid to do so.
When asking for a critique I’d expect the best and the worst. It’s only the worst that drives me onwards and actually improves my work. And people who lie and say things are great and aren’t completely honest I feel are doing me a complete disservice. Capeesh? -
Hey Paul,
Some folks around here think I was disrespecting you. On the contrary. I could tell that you have a strong desire and passion for your work and gave you, in my opinion, what was honest feedback. I’m sure you have high sights to be one of the best of the best and doing that has lots of hurdles and rough patches. I myself am going through it as well. We got our friends and family to sugar coat our work and say ” Fantastic, looks great “. But when it doesn’t, I want someone telling me so. Next time I improve it to the best of my ability, learn and move on. At some point we make it to the level where others look to our work and sites and pass them around as examples. As for the demo reel comment, tell me you didn’t use Designer snd FX and the evolution animated ornaments ( or something of the sort ) and I will appologize for those remarks. Otherwise be weary of using template and stock assets because it cuts back on the creative difference you have against others. Think of it like this. Whats better, tattoo # 47 off the wall or the custom tattoo drawn just for you. -
Greg said,
I normally charge a flat rate especially if it’s NOT something they need immediately. Otherwise they pay my hourly editing rate.
The questioned asked was how much should he charge. This again is like all the other posts on rates. People comment but never actually share what their rates are. Are you all scared to say what it is you charge? It not like rates are the secret recipe for coca-cola. Sharing them among peers and your competition should be a good thing. If more designers, videographers, photographers shared their rates and established a true industry level cost for certain areas then clients make their choice based on quality and style. It should be if your level of work isn’t good enough to compete with the industry you don’t make it. Not the other way around.
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G’day Paul,
Like some of the other responses, you really need to trim down the content. Shorten it to what you think and then half that again. People scan webpages and want info quick, and then if they like want they see want contact info quick and easy too. In lots of areas it’s obvious you are trying to over embellish things way to much. Don’t have a staff page with nothing on it. I know you have something there literally, but basically unless your gonna show an image of Jimmy the grip, joe the sound, mike the camera man, jill the AD1, jane the this and back them all up with real credentials don’t have anything at all. To me it looks empty and unprofessional. You talk about experience and professionals but it doesn’t reflect in the work, sorry to say dude. Mixed up design pages look vary amateur too. I’m on a mac and 90% of your quicktimes didn’t work for me. I like many wont go get a plug-in to view your work. Not sure how you compressed your video and at what format. Your intro reel I could tell was a straight out of the box mimick of Andrew Kramer’s teasers. Looks like you got the Designer Snd FX and his animated ornaments a copied his teaser style outright. It totally doesn’t fit what you need to accomplish here. Your reel seems like some second rate attempt at being some blockbuster fantasy adventure trailer. Had you had the low voice over explaining your stuff I would have fell out my chair pissing my self. Shorter reels with A+ only top notch bits of your work are stronger than longer ones. somethings may be good, but as soon as I see something half ass I think you’re skill level is not as good anymore. Potential clients will see this as well. Some serious criticism here, and with the other posts as well, that you need to suck up and accept. Hire a designer for your website are my final thoughts.
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Does no one want to offer concrete suggestions and information. I think what would be really helpful for people and juniors wanting to learn about rates would be if the members with experience who have done several jobs would say ” this is an example of what I did for x amount and it took x hours ” A beginner can then say, ok, I’m not as experienced and my quality isn’t as good ( perhaps they feel their skills are better ) in which case they can say based on this knowledge I feel charging 75$ an hour is fair.
As a rookie, basing rates on your overhead, expenses and desired salary don’t really help if you have no idea whether or not your way below or way above other people in the field.
All that said. I charge $700/day $400/half day for photography
$50/hour for web design/motion/graphic design. -
Does no one want to offer concrete suggestions and information. I think what would be really helpful for people and juniors wanting to learn about rates would be if the members with experience who have done several jobs would say ” this is an example of what I did for x amount and it took x hours ” A beginner can then say, ok, I’m not as experienced and my quality isn’t as good ( perhaps they feel their skills are better ) in which case they can say based on this knowledge I feel charging 75$ an hour is fair.
As a rookie, basing rates on your overhead, expenses and desired salary don’t really help if you have no idea whether or not your way below or way above other people in the field.
All that said. I charge $700/day $400/half day for photography
$50/hour for web design/motion/graphic design.