Zane Barker
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It’s hard to say what the issue may be with out knowing how you and your brother are presenting your selves to customers.
What type of potential clients are they and what type of demo reel are you showing them. For example showing a demo reel of wedding video demo to someone wanting a corporate video is not going to sell them on using you to make a corporate video for them.
[Douglas Wright] “Many are scared off by having to pay anything reasonable”
This is something that always happens, because people do not under stand what it takes to make a quality production. For example I had a local aerobics instructor contact me a couple of years ago wanting to have an exercise video done that she could sell. When I gave her a ruff bare bone quote she was shocked at the price she was expecting something like $300 because that is what she payed for her wedding video 10 years ago. Sure she would have loved to have had the video done but she just did not understand the real cost of things. That may be part of what you are running into .
Also where it is you and your brother you must be vary careful you do not come off to customers as if video thing was not just something you came up with one night while playing video games. Sorry but I have no Idea how old you are for all I know you may be a couple of collage age kids who have always just played around with a camera for fun and now think that you may be able to do it professionally, you never said what experience you or your brother have.
Also if you are doing this thing out of your home/apartment and you don’t have a part of the home that has a separate entrance to a designated work area, then may I suggest that it is best if you go visit the potential client to discuss things. Having them over to your apartment or living room no matter how nice your place may be it just will not scream professional video production company.
If you wish to share some more info on how you are trying to sell yourselves then we might be able to give some more suggestions.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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[Peter Humble] “I often feel the quality of my material on final DVD doesn’t look as good as it did when editing but am clueless as to why “
Thats quite simple there are 2 main reasons DVD Videos are highly compressed video, and with high compression comes quality loss (some of this may be caused by your settings when you compressed it for DVD). Second your original footage was a form of HD and DVDs are SD so you are taking a higher quality image and stripping off much of that quality when going to a lower resolution.
[Peter Humble] “The size of the AIC codec is a bit of a problem in terms of disc space”
That is one of the issues with the AIC codec. Try capturing in ether HDV or in ProRes.
[Peter Humble] “When ingesting this way I can’t log at point of capture”
This issue is resolved if you were to use the Apples Native HDV codec. The same issue exists however when having the computer convert to ProRes on capture.
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Are you exporting it to to your system drive or an external? If it an external is the drive formated Fat32? If it is Fat32 then you may be hitting the file size limit of Fat32.
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Jeff this thread is a year old back then it was not posible.
There is no reason to reopen a one year old dead post.
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Nope for the computer to accept any keyboard short cut it must be powdered on. Any special button like on the old old machines would require that button to be built into the keyboard.
I do believe though that in system preferences you can tell your computer to power on at a designated time. That way when you get to the office in the morning your machine is already running and ready to go.
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I do not have that app myself for the iPhone. However I have looked into it though. Because it is not conected to the computer via USB or Bluetooth the computer is NOT going to recognize it as a real number pad and therefore you cannot use it for keyboard shortcuts. All that iPhone app does is send number input over via wifi.
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[Mike Grimmett] “I have Final Cut Pro 6”
There have been some software updates to FCP. Make sure you have run those.
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[Craig Seeman] “I also wouldn’t be surprised if LiveType went away. “
Or just incorporated into motion.
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https://forums.creativecow.net/faq/applefinalcutpro#40
Pulling video from a DVD comes up quite often on the Cow so its actually the first question answered on the Final Cut Pro FAQ list.
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You can always just re-render the audio.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!