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The EX-1 has been or will be accepted by everyone. For example:
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
[Alison Grayson] “she only wanted camera on sticks,”
What a boatload of BS. The work is NOT in following her on the stage, even though that’s whay she thinks.
Let’s see:
1. Spend at least two to four hours talking to her about the job itself.
2. Gather everything up like gear, cables, tape or cards, Mapquest, etc.
3. Prep your gear, check everything, buy insurance, put gas in your car.
4. Load the gear in your car.
5. Drive to the location, find a parking space.
6. Load everything out of the car and onto a cart.
7. Haul all of it inside.
8. Find electrical outlets and the input for the mic to feed the house.
9. Set all of your gear up, white balance, test audio.
10. Find the grinder, er, client and install the wireless mic bodypack.
11. Hide the mic somewhere that it won’t show.
12. Test the sound. Rearrange the mic because she is wearing polyester and everything sounds scratchy.
13. Set up the camera, level the head, attach the zoom control.
14. White balance.
15. Discover that the lights in the room are some weird color. Whirte balance through a colored gel to get the color right.
16. Roll the camera as she is introduced.
17. Lock the camera on the podium after she steps up to the mic.
18. Go sit down. or better yet, go take a nap.
19. Stand up to run the camera at the end of her persentation.
20. When she is done, compliment her on how great she is while you have your fingers crossed behind your back.
21. When done, load the gear back onto your cart and drag it outside to your car.
22. no Cart? All you do then is make 6 trips from your car to the building, carrying it all.
23. Load it from the cart into the car.
24.Drive home in the heat of the day.
25. Unload the cart and bring it all in the house.
26. Put it away and then start to digitize the clips she needs.
27. Take your check book to the bank. Wash the blood off the check.
28. When you’re all finished, please remember that you now have to edit this thing. Oh joy!Now, how much of that do you think needs to be paid for?
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
Normally, when I’m having a meeting with someone and they ask me what they can get for $200, my immediate reply is to look at my watch for two seconds (while I think) and then I look them in the eye and say “I think we’re almost there right now”.
The conversation usually ends right there and I can do something more profitable, like driving back to my office or buying a Lotto ticket.
My quote of the day: “Go ahead, do it once for a low price and establish your rate forever.” Why would you ever be worth more to do the same thing for anyone else?
My advice would be to jump in the phone book (the thick book full of phone numbers that you probably threw away) and start looking up non-profit agencies. Call and ask for marketing or for community relations. Ask them if they have any small video jobs that they need done. They always need something and they’ve usually got a couple hundred bucks in a drawer.
If you only need to make small dollars, give your precious time to someone who really needs it, not someone who wants to steal from you.
In 1997, my wife and I were buying our house and we were in desperate need for money for our down payment. A non-profit asked us in to do a video for them. They had $8500. It was a school that helped mentally disabled young adults. The CEO made $32k a year. We did the project and got everyone on our team to donate their time and gear. When it came time to collect, we donated the check back to the school. Word spread quickly that we were idiots and within two weeks, we were awarded a $250k contract with a community college district.
Coincidence? It turns out that someone on the CCD board had a child at that school. The bid came down to two companies, us and the biggest production company in town. We were able to fund our down payment. See our latest non-profit venture at http://www.vimeo.com/sntvideo St. Mary’s Food Bank.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
[denise quesnel] “You should see his desk!”
Hey! I resemble that remark.
So, tonight I quoted a Rodney Dangerfield line to a clerk in Office Max. It was VERY funny, until the clerk looked at me and said “Who’s Rodney Dangerfield?” Damn! Talk about no respect.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
ZAXCOM has those.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
[David Roth Weiss] “And, it never hurts to make friends with the big boss’s wife.”
That does it. From now on, I am requiring the spouse’s phone number on all contracts. This could really get some things going.
But, David, where do you think your future is with the “boss”? Or is she actually the boss?
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
If I’m dealing with Accounts Payable, they make us wait till a check run. We are just a line item to the bean counters. If I’m dealing with a person close to us, we can get a check cut sooner.
Be patient but if the check doesn’t come in a reasonable amount of time, do a drive-by on them.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
Try Elin ( E Lin ) a t emc3 (dot) biz
She specializes in our industry.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
[Don Greening] “I believe the poster is asking whether or not the camera will automatically switch recording from an SxS Pro card to the SDHC card (or visa versa) without issue once the first card is full.”
10-4 on that Don. I think we tried it as an experiment. And maybe, if I ever think about it when the cameras are here, I’ll test it again, just so i know.
That recording across the cards makes my stomach feel kinda funny. The whole recording to cards makes me a bit queezy.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD . -
Even though you may be a great shooter or editor or whatever you are, you’ll never make a dime if you’re not a salesman first, and an accountant, a receptionist, toilet cleaner, and bill collector. After all, if you don’t do it, who does? Your brother?
Did I mention that you’ll be making coffee for the grinder clients?
Sorry to be such a piss ant but that’s how it is.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD .