[Steven J casey]

Yeah, I know. Just looking for speculation I guess as I work on my latest DVD and am frustrated at the workaround process of smoothing out these transitions. I’m going to guess Sony has included these changes, otherwise they’ll be falling behind the curve!

[Steven J casey]

If I remember correctly, Camtasia actually creates an .avi movie of your screen. Captivate takes snapshots everytime you click or type and upon completion you get sort of a powerpoint layout of each screen shot. After finetuning your presentation Captivate will automatically tween the mouse movements, etc. and output as .swf (or other options as well) Both have advantages in how they work so you really should try the demos to see which you prefer.

steven

[Steven J casey]

Anything that’s in AE already that’ll do this? Wasn’t really looking to buy any plugins right now, ya know?

thx
steven

[Steven J casey]

Thanks for the input everyone. I’m getting more comfortable with figuring out what this is really worth.

steven

[Steven J casey]

if you do a search in here and in the business forum you will find lots of posts on “charging” “rates” “billing” etc etc

Respectfully, I did search before posting my question and didn’t find any real answers for going rates. There’s lots of talk about hourly vs. fixed rates and talk about being the cheapo guy vs. the high dollar guy, but I couldn’t find even a ballpark figure on actual pricing. Obviously a 25 year veteran of the industry can expect more than a newcomer, but I was hoping for a little bit of concrete advice rather than “do it for somewhere between $5000 an hour and gratis.” Can anyone throw out some figures on what they would expect to charge for such a project?

thx in advance
steven