Tom Sefton
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I have never seen anything wrong with asking a client immediately what budget they had set aside for their project – does anyone think this is wrong?
If they have £800 and want a 4 minute web film with a days shoot then I might bother with the discussion about just how much time and effort will go into it – but only if they look as though they know what they are talking about.
If your client doesn’t know his arse from his elbow then surely a question regarding how much money they have set aside for their video would help to ascertain this?
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The key question is whether you want to work for this client anymore if he is happy to treat you like this. I have called a client before and told them I was coming to their office to pick a cheque up – it was there when I arrived.
Principals – he is sat on your money, doesnt want to pay and would happily see you go without beer money, food and petrol to avoid paying you.
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I personally wouldn’t charge a client more for any job, unless……..
I need, or my staff need additional training.
I have to spend more on hiring equipment to complete the job – either in post, or during the shoot.
I need to take more staff on location for the shoot – for grips, focus pullers etc… -
We have also had the experience of helping out with in-depth brainstorming, to then find out that 3 prices are needed and low and behold the winning company has used our ideas.
It’s a very difficult thing to do – remember that you haven’t done anything wrong – if your work wasn’t good enough they wouldn’t have bothered coming to you for any prices at all. What also needs remembering is that you are helping them out just by bothering to help out with costing for the job…
Keep your chin up, and keep yourself busy – even if you work on your own showreel!
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Hi Leo,
I have tried various different project settings – all of Blackmagic’s standard HD 1080i and 1080p, plus the HDV versions.
The monitor I have at the moment for video preview is a HP w2408h.
It is 1920×1200 and has been used with other video cards to good results so not sure why the BM card wouldn’t be as good? -
I don’t think I have ever watched a good film/TV show/video that has been edited badly. The success of the whole project rests squarely on the shoulders of the person who decides the edit.
I don’t profess to be an editor. Yet. But I know how important it is. Maybe if this guy called Tyler Perry had a good editor on his films they wouldn’t be such shite.
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Hi,
the m key is a simple USB device that is compatible with mac or oc afaik. It’s a useful tool as matrox codecs are widely used and it means you can read and write to them.
Tom
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Hi Andrew,
Can’t really offer too much help other than pointing you towards buying a Matrox M.Key.
It costs around £110 in the UK – not sure of US prices, but it contains all of the Matrox codecs so that you can export from an FCP/Avid/Blackmagic/Kona etc.. system to a Matrox system.
The MPEG2 I-Frame is a Matrox one -usually for axio le or rtx2 suites.
Tom
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I have watched many of your tutorials and I would like to take the time to thank you for your input to this forum. Watching your work has been very inspiring, and also, very helpful.
Thanks again.
Tom