Steve Wargo
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I agree with Rick. If someone wants to steal your stuff, it probably has value.
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. -
[Randall Raymond] “Million dollar suites down to Yugo prices and doing more. That’s why you went. So the dust has settled – maybe the revolution is over, maybe not – but I hope you are not blaming the NAB for providing the venue, are you?”
Back then, there was only one way to see everything in one place and that was NAB. Now, with high speed Internet, you can do everything but actually touch the goods. And remember, we’re men (at least some of us are) and we need to touch things. A few years ago, when we were remodeling our kitchen, we went shopping for the usual stuff, cabinets, a big honkin’ sink and granite countertops. Afterward, when showing off the new kitchen, the wife told someone that I had to fondle everything. I couldn’t buy a nail (or get married) without touching it first Well, she’s right. Men are touchers and women can window shop.
I love to feel finished, processed aluminum, the protein coating on lenses, the rough, black paint on barndoors, cables and connectors, steadicams, monitors, switcher levers, everything! Except lightbulbs, that is.
Touch, touch, touch.
Feel, feel ,feel.
Buy, buy, buy.Touch me, feel me. Buy me.
And they know it.
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. -
[grace verona] “was it everything you expected?”
I wonder if they swallowed him up.
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. -
[Randall Raymond] ” Your argument against trade shows is not a new one.”
It’s not Trade Sows in general but NAB in particular. After 15 straight years of attending, I didn’t go the last two years and I realized then that I didn’t really miss anything. To go to NAB, I leave on Saturday, fly in, stay in an overpriced hotel, rent a car and spend money. I like to see the latest gadgets and usually have a $5k budget for little crap. In ’05, we bought Ultra for $1100 and have never opened the box.
There are some things that you need to see in person: Cameras, lighting and grip, sound gear, and all the gadgets that I just spoke about.
Panasonic has local shows at their Phoenix dealers and as for Sony, I can jet to BandPro and back in the same day for $120. While I’m there, it’s Matthews Grip, FilmTools, and others in the same day. I lose one day of work and if I have any type of brain matter at all, I’ll find a job to do while I’m there, make it a 2 day trip and bring home a couple grand to boot.
As for software companies, almost everyone has a trial version and with the COW at our fingertips, we have an unbiased panel to keep us from making foolish, uneducated decisions. The level headed members far out weigh the silly fanboys. And a bunch of them have dropped out of sight, haven’t they?
I do disagree with Ron in one area. NAB will lose the South Hall but they will keep the North and Central Halls. NAB is much like SONY, in that, if they think that you need them, they will take every dime they can. Remember when we had to pay $30 for a 30 minute BetaSP tape and we also had to pay to attend NAB? And the guys from JVC would buy you lunch.
I think that the Avid and Apple folks should court the buyers by offering them trips to their place to demo gear based on a sale. Discreet used to have people come to Santa Monica to make the “Final” decision. And when we sold Discreet products at NAB, we had an *Edit Suite downstairs at the Sands for private demos. We had people from several film production companies including Lucas Films, (and Danny Devito) sit in quiet, secluded, comfortable suites while we wowed them with the latest. And it could have been any software show, not necessarily NAB. Apple would be better served at DV Expo, WEVA, and the Gov’t Video events.
And, when we went to NAB ’05, we missed on a simple job that would have net about $6k and a long term client. OUCH!
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. -
I have three friends with movies in distribution and there has been a grand total of about $4,000 paid to them over the past three years.
An honest distributor will make you a cash offer, not an offer based on how much ad space they “might” sell.
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. -
[Bryon Middleton] ” except for smart aleck comment which I seem to have been receiving more often as of late. “
Bryon,
Don’t let the little people get you down. Master your craft and don’t look back.
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. -
[Nick Righton] “I wish I was good at one thing rather than average at many, but oh well”
Nick, stop wishing and make it happen.
Dedication pays off more than anything else. Before long, it will all be natural. In all fairness, the EX-1 menu system is a disaster and has no logic in how it’s laid out. Memorize every switch so you can operate that camera in the dark, without looking for things. Be the master. Dwell on your strengths.
Read that book, word for word, without distractions, twice.
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. -
[Tim Kolb] “mac users enjoy each other’s company”
I have been laughing about this line for a half hour. And it’s getting worse.
kind of like – “If no one else will have ya, there’s always your equally weird brother.”
Yes, I do belong to the Arizona FCP users group and it’s exactly like that. Actually, I’ll probably be kicked out tomorrow. Oh well, the Discreet group is still there for me.
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. -
Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1. -
If ya got one of those cup holders for boats (WalMart), you can screw it right on there. And, there’s enough holes that you could hang all kinds of crap on it.
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.