Scott Sheriff
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Craig,
“Both Balls are not known for there accuracy though.”TMI!
Scott Sheriff
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Russ,
“I know $1500 isn’t a lot of money, and I have experience with DPs, Fresnels, etc…”Don’t take it personally.
I usually write from the perspective that there are many others reading these threads with a similar question. And they may not have your experience with lighting.Scott Sheriff
Director
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Bob,
“The situations you’re listing off don’t compare well to Walter’s situation.In his situation, he is the employer and the freelancer is the ’employee.’ They want to avoid competing over common clients.
In the situations you listed, you made Walter the client – the client of his plumber, his mechanic, his carpenter, his barber, his electrician. He’s the CLIENT is all of those, so your examples aren’t applicable.
The resume example you provided is more along the lines of what he was talking about though. And I’m assuming Walter would have no problem with his freelancers sending out resumes as long as they weren’t going to his clients.”
I see what your saying, but I was using Walter as a vehicle for a rhetorical statement. It was aimed at those trying to assert the right to control the market because they occasionally hire someone. They are probably worried about loosing work to a lower priced competitor. Welcome to the free market.
According to Merriam-Webster
Definition of FREELANCE
1
a usually free lance : a mercenary soldier especially of the Middle Ages : condottiere b : a person who acts independently without being affiliated with or authorized by an organization
2
: a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer
I believe that those who assert the notion that they own the client and/or the freelance worker are just wrong. My comments about other trades, were simply food for thought along those lines.
It seems those most in favor of this ownership really want this to work like a one way valve. They want to control the clients choices, and relieve themselves of the obligation to keep the sub-contractor employed if it suits them. This attitude seems to be unique, and very self-serving. Normally when someone wants to enter into a relationship like this with a worker, they back it up with full time employment, or some other incentive. Not by ‘blacklisting’ them, which is what this is.
Another way is by mutual agreement such as a contract. Unless you are acting as an agent, those type of non-compete contracts are often with the client, not the sub-contractor. Why? Because the sub isn’t under any obligation (real, or implied) to ask permission to work. I wanted to show how many other common trades we all use day to day operate this way.
And it’s not just them. Live TV, sports, non-union gigs like that don’t work like this. In towns where there are all the major sports franchises it is not uncommon to have multiple events on the same day. This is all handled on a first come/first served basis. Often people try to hire the same crew all season, but if your booked first by someone else, you don’t get blacklisted for not asking permission to freelance for someone else. So unless you are a staff employee, ESPN doesn’t care if you work for Fox tomorrow, and will hire you for the next gig without a second thought.Should there be some common sense and etiquette? Sure. Freelancers shouldn’t solicit work while I’m paying them. But other than that, no. What they do on their own time is not my business. If I want to make it my business, I need to pay for that privileged by hiring them. Or I can just make sure my prices and service can’t be beat by any subs I hire. Problem solved.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
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Russ,
1,500 bucks isn’t a lot of money. Don’t forget you will probably need spare bulbs, gloves, gels, some high quality extension cords, and a light meter.Ken and Chris have both offered good suggestions.
Renting is a great option that allows someone with a small budget to use higher quality instruments. The downside is the added hassle of the pick-up/return and availability.
I think it is always good to own some basic gear. You can always rent, even if you have your own stuff.The DP’s are open face instruments, and don’t have the finesse of a Fresnel, but they are a real workhorse and not as fragile as a Fresnel. The cost of the kit would leave you enough left over in your budget to get a Chimera and a DP adapter ring, which would make the kit a tad more versatile.
You can always go the used route, that is another option.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
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“Someone spilled a few drops of fake blood on the LCD screen and now there’s a dark stain that is over roughly half of the monitor.”
Did the liquid get to the edge of the LCD and possibly get under the screen, or is it strictly on the front surface?
If it got underneath you are probably hosed.Fake blood is usually corn syrup and food coloring. Shouldn’t be anything that could ‘get into’ the plastic, just a really stubborn food stain.
I think your going to have to get creative.
You might try eyeglass cleaner, most is plastic safe. After traditional cleaning, maybe lay a patch of paper towel dampened (lightly) with eyeglass cleaner on the screen and let it sit for a while. See if it will draw the coloring up. If you get any color on the paper towel, keep doing this with fresh towels. it might take a while.
If this doesn’t work, you’ll have to ramp up the strength of the cleaning agent.
You might want to go to the dollar store and by some cheap calculators or something with a similar LCD screen to try out cleaners on before trying them on the camera.
There are a ton of homemaker tips web sites about cleaning, stain removal. You might want to check them out for ideas, since you’re basically dealing with a food stain.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
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Dave,
“Okay, class, who wants learn an entirely new editing application with an all-new arcane terminology and a different production workflow so you can save ten hours of an assistant editor’s time every week? Hmmm, I see a few hands.”Well, that is what I was thinking at first.
But the chatter I have seen about the sheer volume or number of h.264 projects some folks say they have in the pipeline makes me wonder why not just go to Premier now.
So is it worth Apple rewriting FCP to save ten hours of your assistants time?
Is it worth the hassle (and risk) to upgrade to a new version of FCP to save that same ten hours? Who knows if/when a new version of FCP will be stable/usable, or if it will even be better.
Why wish for FCP to be ‘Premier-like’ when you can just use Premier?
What makes this even more a mystery, is no one thinks twice about recommending (or using) After Effects, over Motion. Isn’t the workflow in AE and Premier/CS5 the same?
Confusing.“Now, class, if there’s a chance in the next six months that you won’t have to learn that entirely new editing application, are you willing to put up with the extra time now and wait to save it later? Wow, I see a lot more hands!”
That statement makes a big assumption. It assumes the new FCP will in fact save me time. But will it? This is an unknown.
Isn’t that the selling point of that 64 bit Mercury Playback engine? If it saves that much time, why isn’t every migrating? Is it because it doesn’t really save that much time? Could a new version of FCP fall into that same trap?OK, what about all the folks talking about what a POS the entire FCS has become, and that it all needs a ground up rewrite, including the UI’s. If that happens, and those folks get their wish, isn’t there a chance that you could be learning a new editing/mograph/color applications even if you stick with FCS? And what about all the lost productivity trying to get the bugs worked out of an upgrade?
I’m not bashing anyone, or trying to be sarcastic, but I’m perplexed by the dynamic that is in play here.
Scott Sheriff
Director
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OK, here is the 64 Thousand Dollar Question.
If native h.264 editing is what you need, and Premier does it and FCP doesn’t. Why not migrate to Premier instead of waiting around to see what Apple is going to do?Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
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Kat,
“For the rest of you I don’t know what’s more redundant . Someone asking the same thing on a \\\”help\\\” forum, or someone taking time in their obviously busy working day to give a condescending, uninformative answer.
This is a public forum, I\\\\\\\’m sorry I couldn\\\\\\\’t provide the exciting, dynamic, new question you are hovering over your laptops to discover.
If that\\\\\\\’s not the case then you\\\\\\\’re just lying in wait to prey on the next poor guy who has an honest question and would like more specific help than one can find doing a search.
Either way, it\\\\\\\’s sad:(”Take your pick of any one of these:
1. Count down this page 18 threads from your post, and look at this (H.264 footage by Shannon Bedford on Feb 22, 2011 at 1:26:20 am) posting. There you will see this very subject covered, on the same day as your post, less than 12 hours prior. For something as you say “I searched the forums and didn’t find a situation like mine.”
2. It took me less that 2 minutes to go to the Canon web site, look at the camera specs, and confirm that your dealing with h.264. Search the forum for “h.264”, and get over three thousand results. Then post links to these so you could see them for yourself.
What more do you want?
Why don’t you send me the footage, and let me edit it for you. Hows that for condescending?
And, just to be from the department of redundancy department, redundancy department, you said “I searched the forums and didn’t find a situation like mine.”3. Have you read the manual? If you have, show me in the supported editing formats that you see either “mvi.mov” or “h.264”. If it is not listed in the supported editing formats, that means it’s not supported. That, is a clue.
You will find h.264 listed in the output formats. Thats because its a compressed delivery format. Another clue.
That is why they put that stuff in the manual.It isn’t that you “couldn\\\\\\\’t provide the exciting, dynamic, new question you are hovering over your laptops to discover.” that causes condescension. It is the EPIC FAIL of saying you “searched the forums and didn’t find a situation like mine.“, when this is the most covered topic in the last 9000 years. Yeah, that can make a person snarky.
So if any of us are “just lying in wait to prey on the next poor guy who has an ‘honest’ question”, I suspect we won’t be waiting for very long…Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
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“I am working with footage from t2i for the first time with fcp7. The footage I was given comes from the t2i they are MVI.MOV files.
I first noticed that any transition I laid on them made the footage skip underneath. I rendered to a quicktime movie to see if this showed up. Worse. The footage stutters and a green color solid flashes.
Is there a conversion process that may have been skipped.Can you not work with the footage straight off the camera which is what it looks like I’m working with?”
Facepalm.
“I searched the forums and didn’t find a situation like mine.”
Double facepalm!
Had it occurred to you to go to the Canon web site and look at the camera specs?
https://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/cameras/slr_cameras/eos_rebel_t2i_ef_s_18_55mm_is_kit?selectedName=SpecificationsThere you will see:
Image Format
Still: JPEG, RAW (14-bit, Canon original), RAW+JPEG
Video: MOV (Image data: H.264, Audio: Linear PCM)A quick search of the forum for “H.264”.
https://forums.creativecow.net/search.php?q=h.264&f%5B%5D=8
Would yield 3,753 results. I’m guessing at least half of them would be situations just like yours.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
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Walter,
“The boss should have had you sign a non-compete clause prior to the edit essentially saying that if the third party approached you directly about working with them, you would have to go through the boss first.”As an advocate of the non-compete, I was wondering if you extended this philosophy to other tradesmen you do business with?
How would you react if say, your plumber, mechanic, carpenter etc asked you to sign a non-compete contract?
If you decide to switch to a different barber, or electrician do you ask their permission first?
When you worked for someone else, did you ask the boss’ permission to send out your resume’ if you saw a job you were interested in?I don’t disagree with the overall sentiment of what you said, and that common courtesy should always be the rule.
Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…