[Stephanie Hubbard]

Hey there – I think it’s more like two days of shooting –

But the trick here is to define the parameters to the client – IF he provides the talent (sales rep) and IF he commits to having them ALL shot on two days – and having them otherwise look exactly the same –

And if he gives each item one take or one redo – THEN you can give him a lower price – Say $100 each.

Also make a sample make sure he approves the one before you do a bunch.

also put in your contract that if changes are made after the intial approval it will cost more – also if more products need to be added they could be $100 each – but with additional surcharge of $500.

It’s all about defining the parameters to gain cost efficiencies on these.

Also don’t forget to budget for transcoding to a web format – don’t guarantee better quality – cause that sample video is fine quality – it’s just the compresstion to fit it on the web that makes it less quality.

Good luck!

Stephanie Hubbard

[Stephanie Hubbard]

Hello there,

I am but a humble editor/director. My sound guy has given me a 5.1 mix – (on stems) I have dutifully laid it into my FCP timeline – along with the LtRt tracks.

I have researched the ways to output a 5.1 – and followed the directions to give to the “output guy” who was going to use compressor and some other things to burn me a SD dvd with a 5.1 mix.

But problems are occuring:

1) I can’t seem to keep the names of the audio tracks when it outputs – so all eight tracks get called by the same name – so I gave the output guy a key to use.
2) so the Video of the prores output I made with the WRONG audio (it pressed it into stereo) won’t match with the second, 8 track audio only output I made that I thought would solve the problem.
they are all 29.97 but they aren’t synching – I think maybe the “output guy” told either the vid or the aud to be 23.98 or something.

3) I’m trying to render my program again to output with audio again – but frankly I’m worried –
is it even possible to output 5.1 from FCP? does he really need it to stay labelled Should we just make a nice stereo mix?

ADVISE please – to huranghu@gmail.com Thanks!
Stephanie.