Steven Dumala
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You can do a search for DVD Shrink. It is Freeware.
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I am not sure if this is the same problem that you are having, but in earlier versions of vegas there was a problem with frames missing. In order to clear this problem you would need to save your project and then close vegas and restart before rendering your project.
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There are a few ways of charging dance studios for their recitals. 1. to charge the studio 2. charge the individual customers 3. charge the studio a per disc price, etc..
It sounds like you charged them a fee for video shooting and editing. Your fee was $1100. Based on your duplication of $350 I will guess that you had 100 discs made. Now if the studio charged their students $35 per disc, that would be a total of $3500. Less your fee of $1100, the studio made a profit of $2400.
I think that a good way to go about this would be to negotiate a per DVD price for the studio, say $25 per dvd, then they could still charge their students $35 per disk. They could still make $1000 and you would be getting $2500.
This way is good if their is going to be many sales. You would also want to maybe have a minimum. Say, $2500 for 100 disks, then a reduced rate for each next group of dvds. 101-150 would be $20 per dvd. This way the more they sell the more they make and if there are less than needed sales then your minimum is covered.
This would all be up to negotiations. What has the studio done in the past? Are they a new studio? Who have they used before, and why did they choose you? -
I was wondering what had happened to my timeline. I did not notice a problem and just left it.
Thanks for pointing that out. Another problem solved! -
One thing that i have learned from this forum is to never give someone a price, when they ask how much for….., You will want to get all the details of the project before giving any kind of price.
“While I was there they asked me if I could update there 5 year old 10min consult video. I of course said sure. The next question was how much?”
You were good to say sure, but when they say how much, you would want to meet with them and see what the old video is and what they would like to do to update it. Could they have just wanted to put it on DVD from VHS, maybe use the original tape and just update some of the graphics, or to re-shoot and edit a whole new video. As you can see there can be many varables.
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I have heard that using firewire is more consistent for editing.
I have always just purchased an internal hard drive. I got the biggest I could afford, trying to find them on sale. I would then purchase an external firewire case. I have the external cases with a fan built in them. You will pay a little more for them, compared to a case without a fan, but if you are using the drive a lot it will help to move air around the drive and keep it cooler.
This has been the cheapest way to go for me in the past. With prices so much less these days the usb drives may be about the same. I do not know if the “pre-made” external cases have a fan built in them. -
If you are sing the “pro” version of Vegas. You can open the Vegas program multiple times. You then will need to go back and forth between each open “instance” of Vegas.
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What effects or”attributes” are being applied?
I have done it before and have had the clip change speed or not be the same start and end of the clip that i had used.