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You could build the training around a web based course delivery system like MOODLE (open source – http://www.moodle.org – )and add your videos as part of the training program. Moodle has built in modules to build quizzes of all types. It also has a built in commerce piece so your client can sell the training programs right through the interface.
The advantage of a courseware product like MOODLE is that you can add discussion forums, essay questions, certificates of completion (pdfs download) and countless other modules all of which can be pre-requisited – so a user needs to finish one activity before thet are allowed to move onto the next.
The dis-advantage is that it somewhat regimented in its design and is really geared to academic institutions, but I’ve had some good success making it work for myself and some clients. Intregrating the video was easy. If you are not much of a web developer, you will most likely need a web savvy person help you get it up and running. But remember – it’s FREE.
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Back in the day, when I worked for an industrial film company, most of our contracts specified that the client was to receive ONE TIMED PRINT of the finished film.
Additional prints were X number of dollars. The negative itself was even more, and generally would cost the client about 1/3 the production cost.
The real money back then was in delivering prints and with a good relationship with a lab, you could make many times more what the production cost if you kept the negative under your control.
Occasionaly, we would have a large client (like HP) who would insist that we turn over the negative as part of the deal, and that was fine, we just billed them at a rate that made sure we were covered. Even still, clients such as these would often purchase the prints from us.
But as things got competitive and video became the dominate format for delivery, trying to make money on copies was just very difficult.
But I am very specific about the final delivery format these days – either tape, DVD, or hard drive and the client only gets that when the project is paid in full.
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That’s funny. I was doing a DVD authoring job for a client in Chicago (I live in Ca) and she insisted on having a copy of the work in progress DVD sent everyday as we were making some final tweaks. I ended up sending out 11 dvds via express mail over a 3 week period.
When the final DVD proof was sent, she told me that she was not paying for the overnight shipping of 15.00 per package (she could see the postal sticker on the envelopes) because that was way too much money, besides she has a fedex account that would have been cheaper. I asked her why she never mentioned it before – and her response was classic – because I never asked her.
She got me there. I ended up billing her an extra hour or two to cover myself, but now I make sure I specify shipping charges are the responsibility of the client. I really don’t like to fudge my labor billing to cover other expenses.
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It’s unlikely they will want 4000 total. My experience tells me that these gift packages generally are reserved for vips or the first X number.
At least you have a number. Now it’s time to contact the replication house and get some pricing based on your quanity and packaging requirements.
Again, I don’t think 15% is nearly enough mark up. You need to look and at your real overhead and costs and the profit you desire. Also, I would not give them the option to purchase the video and make their own dupes. You want to control distribution of your work and maximize your income potential – right?
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At a minimum, you need to know how many units they are talking about. If they don’t know, then give them a range based on a quantity break from the replication house.
A 15% mark up does not seem nearly enough to me.
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If you watch the IFC channel. There’s a commercial promoting Australia and one of the shots is of a kid in a batman costume running across the frame – was the shot you were talking about? – kinda of a strange coincedence. I wonder if they got permission from Warner / DC comics for that…
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Try a little gaussian blur on your text layers – works for me everytime.
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Well, If DVDit supports motion menus, your intro and exits could actually be motion menus with an end action that goes into the movie or a button that starts the main movie.
Or try to get a hold of a decent authoring app so you won’t have to hack a solution – DVDit PE is limited as you can see.
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It’s really sad to see how paranoid everyone had become. Are you really telling me that I have to blur or remove the Nike swoosh on my subject’s shoes, the IZOD aligator on my subject’s shirt, the Ford logo on my subject’s car, the Wells Fargo billboard passing by in the background and finally the 5 second shot of the kid wearing a Batman uniform – all incedental with no intent of infringement. I know it’s easy for me to say it with nothing on the line – but if that was a good shot that was pertinent to the content at the moment – I’d keep it.