Professional editor/compositor with over 15 years experience in film and television. I've done work for Travel Channel, Discovery Channel, Lifetime Television, WB Network, G4 Television, Speed Channel, TNN, TV Guide Network, Time Warner, Anheuser-Bu... [ more] Professional editor/compositor with over 15 years experience in film and television. I've done work for Travel Channel, Discovery Channel, Lifetime Television, WB Network, G4 Television, Speed Channel, TNN, TV Guide Network, Time Warner, Anheuser-Busch, The Wilderness Society, United States Air Force, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Jerry Springer Show, Univision, C-SPAN, AT&T, J. Walter Thompson, Leo Burnett, and J. Walter Thompson, among others. | | | | Member Since: April 17th 2001 | | | | |
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| | | |  | Blog: What's in a Name? Plenty when people try to take it.by walter biscardi 4 years agoIn business you're all about your name. Keep a good name and business flows to your door. Get a bad name and you're looking for a new career. Get a really REALLY good name and from my own pers | Hey, Ron
by Christian Glawe 3 years ago
Ron- First off, you'll note I was open and up front about my relationship with Plaster City - I certainly didn't need to be. Secondly, if you Google my name, you'll come across a quote of mine callin
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| | | | | Video: Christian Glawe Demo Reelby Christian Glawe 3 years agoChristian Glawe Demo Reel Christian Glawe Demo Reel. Editor Designer Compositor. 15+ yrs in TV Film post-production. Numerous national international broadcast credits. Please visit www.christianglawe.+2 | | | | |
| | | |  | Cold Calling...or not?by Jeffrey Gould 4 years agoHi, A lot of you have seen me on this forum in the past and I've been in business 16 years, mostly catering to the medical industry. Like others, marketing has never been my stong point and up until 9 | Re: Cold Calling...or not?
by Christian Glawe 4 years ago
Cold calling is very, very difficult... if you get a 3% response rate, then you are kicking butt! But... I've done it before, and had some success before. Just remember that with every "no" you get,
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| | | |  | Book for Vacation Reading (Cross-posted)by Brian Tario 4 years agoIt's hard to believe, but I'm taking a week long vacation. I'd like to take a book to read. Usually I only read manuals and tutorials, but those are pretty worthless without a computer in front of me. | | | | |
| | | | | Blog: New MacBook Pro and MacBooks releasedby walter biscardi 4 years agoApple released some nice speed bumps on both the MacBook and MacBook Pro lines. Can't remember the last time both versions of the laptops got updates on the same day. MacBook: 2.1Ghz, 1GB RAM, 120 | Honestly...
by Christian Glawe 4 years ago
I really don't understand the MacBook Air... yes, I know that it's sleek and sexy looking, but it just doesn't fit with what Apple has done in the past. Yes, Apple does "sleek and sex
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| | | | | Motion Graphics Rate Increaseby tim bowen 4 years agoHi Guys, I am in the Los Angeles market, and have a freelance client who has been pretty consistent with work the last 6 months. By consistent I mean 2-3 weeks of work a month. I enjoy working there, | Re: Motion Graphics Rate Increase
by Christian Glawe 4 years ago
Very nice reel, Tim! As far as raising your rates - I think you need to give notice ahead of time if it's a "new rate for 2008". By that, I mean doing a letter around December 1st or so: "with increas
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| | | |  | Smaller Barsby Randall Raymond 4 years agoCandy bars. Hershey is raising their prices 13% Would you... Keep the candy bars the same size and charge more Reduce the size weight of the bars by 13% or more Do a little of both to ease the pain | Re: Smaller Bars
by Christian Glawe 4 years ago
I would issue a series of wrappers (collect all eight!), each with a picture of an Upper Crust Executive on it. I would call the marketing campaign "Take His Bonus" - for every wrapper code you enter
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| | | |  | Quote Todayby Lisa Koza 4 years agoHi there my name is Lisa and I read these boards often - it's a great place. Anyway, this is my first post, I'm new to the field, a recent college grad, but a 40 year old woman. :-) I'm a freelance vi | Re: Quote Today
by Christian Glawe 4 years ago
There is a very easy answer for this. Don't play the "for you my friend..." method of pricing. I completely agree with this. I know some folks have said to stress that this is you "Intro Price" or "G
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| | | | | TESTby Christian Glawe 4 years agoTESTChristian Glawe editor compositor www.christianglawe.com Read my blog: http: blogs.creativecow.net blog 111 Pain is temporary... film is forever. | | | | |
| | | | | I need some REEL criticsby Luke Pearson 4 years agoHey guys. Here's a link to my first demo reel. Please give me some comments. What works What doesn't What do I need to change thanks in advance. www.liftfilms.net demoreel.htm | Re: I need some REEL critics
by Christian Glawe 4 years ago
You have a very nice shooting eye! Very nice shot compositions! That said: Whilst loading, the first frame isn't black, but the very beginning of the fade up of the first sun shot... kinda distracting
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| | | |  | Online reel questionsby David Oulashian 4 years agoHi all, First, sorry for the double post -- originally posted in Demo Reels but only got one reply. I haven't needed a reel in ages (because I have been working full time for the last several years) b | Re: Online reel questions
by Christian Glawe 4 years ago
YouTube is absolutely horrific - I refuse to post video there. Reel Exchange, I haven't tried yet, buuutttt.... IMO, the *best* way is to get your own domain, and a big name host - Yahoo is something
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| | | | | New to Motion Graphic Pricing -- Need Helpby Jordan Orberg 4 years agoHello, I am planning on doing a very small project for a company in my area -- it is a 5-10 second motion graphic sequence for a video podcast they will be using for the next year. It will be the intr | Re: OTOH -- the superfast pro
by Christian Glawe 4 years ago
I think a seasoned pro who does a "two-hour job" in 30 minutes would be justified in spending an hour doing computer maintenance, and billing for 1.5 hours. Maybe, maybe not.... I think what it comes
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| | | | | 8-core or dual core mac prosby art jac 5 years agoHi, Can you answer my question: I am going to buy a new mac pro... Can I use the 8-core mac pros to edit w final cut studio I heard that fcp cannot utilize it, only the dual core, true thanks, art art | Re: 8-core or dual core mac pros
by Christian Glawe 5 years ago
I have seen FCP get to around 560-580% whilst rendering on my 8-core. While it's not a "full optimization" for Final Cut, it *is* an improvement over a 4-processor machine.... I got an 8-core primaril
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| | | | | Buying a New MacProby DorkAlert 5 years agoI've done it. You've done it. We've all priced out the top of the line MacPro - the one with an ungodly amount of ram, limitless hard drive space, and the mother of all - the 8 core processor. the que | | | | |
| | | |  | Blog: Pity the Poor Corporate Suits....by adam taylor 5 years agoI'm sure we've all been there...cut a great piece that everyone was happy with only to have it rejected by some nameless faceless corporate suit sat in some rat hole of a high rise hell. No re | | | | |
| | | |  | 480p HD?by Shane Ross 5 years agoOK...when I go watch Quicktime Trailers on Apple, and I choose the HD options, I am presented with THREE choices: 1080P, 720P and...480P Now, I have noticed this for a while but didn't really stop to | Re: 480p HD?
by Christian Glawe 5 years ago
I seem to remember that, for awhile, FOX's HD channel was broadcasting in 480p - I think they're 720 now, though...
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| | | | | what would YOU doby beth kidwell 5 years agoi am down to the final weeks of having to decide between final cut and avid...i have spent a lot of time reading pros and cons of each, spoken to some who love one and hate the other and vice versa,,, | Re: what would YOU do
by Christian Glawe 5 years ago
I used to edit on discreet edit... as far as making a transition, I firmly believe that Final Cut will be an easier transition from discreet than Avid. Avid has a lot of things that are uniquely "Avi
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| | | | | OT - I'm on "Good Eats" tonightby walter biscardi 5 years agoHi folks. Meant to post this earlier but for all you "Good Eats" fans out there, I'm making my "national acting debut" in the opening scene of tonight's episode, "Fishn' Whole." I'm the negative guy t | | | | |
| | | |  | OWC or Transinternational RAM?by Jeremy Garchow 5 years agoAnyone use these Their deals for 16GB seems to be great. Is it to good to be true I usually go crucial.com, but their prices are surprisingly high. Finally pulling the trigger on a MacPro. Jeremy | | | | |
| | | | | stevie wonder was the DPby garrett shore 5 years agoI'm working on a project where the dP didnt notice a large amount of crap on the lens, and i'm expected to digitally remove these spots. Ive obviously done this will still images in photoshoppe but ne | Re: stevie wonder was the DP
by Christian Glawe 5 years ago
The answer here is to quote such an insanely high rate to fix the footage, that they have no choice but to reshoot... You shouldn't be "expected" to do anything here... it's the DP who screwed up...
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| | | |  | Throwing out the Kool Aidby Don Wilson 5 years agoI have tried so hard for 6 years to convince myself that Final Cut is a real threat to Avid. I've spent nearly 50 grand on a full HD FCP system with Cal Digit raids and newer Sata SAS technology raids | | | | |
| | | | | Blog: Biscardi NAB 2007 Diary - 4/13/07 4:30pmby walter biscardi 5 years agoWe've arrived in Sunny Las Vegas! Checked in to the fabulous Flamingo hotel which we really used to enjoy for the penquins in the outdoor habitat, but they checked out last year so it's not qu | Thanks!
by Christian Glawe 5 years ago
Walter-I mentioned to Ron, but thought I should tell you... I listened to your guys Podcast re: Apple's Sunday event in the car while driving to NAB Monday morning... I love technology! Nice
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| | | | | Blog: Even Network QC gets it wrong sometimes.by walter biscardi 5 years agoSo I've been dealing with several issues with an international network that has a primarily European distribution area. We seemed to have everything worked out this morning and suddenly I get a no | Because...
by Christian Glawe 5 years ago
When the QC person told Walter this:"Walter the audio level was 4 to 8dB too hot. That means instead of being at -20dB they were between -16 to -12dB. This wasn t the peak it was the mean.
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| | | |  | Blog: So this will be first year at NAB, any suggestions?by Swickness 5 years agoGreetings all. So a big thanks goes to Creative Cow for enabling me and my wife to attend to attend NAB for the first time. We're both really excited. My question to all of you is where we absolut | Do Your Homework!!
by Christian Glawe 5 years ago
I feel it's critical to know ahead of time what you're interested in, who are the vendors you want to see, what are the demos you want to see...If you don't know this ahead of time,
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| | | | | DV25 - DV50 workflow questionsby Christian Glawe 5 years ago Realize this may be relatively simple stuff, but here goes: Editing a short that was shot with a Panasonic DVX-100A... originally captured at DV25. Now that we have our cut finished, I'd like to colo | | | | |
| | | | | Workflow with an Assistant editorby paul nevison 5 years agohey there, I'm usually cutting on my own but recently have been lucky enough to have an assistant to digitize and organise my footage. This is a new workflow for me and while it saves a whole lot of t | Re: Workflow with an Assistant editor
by Christian Glawe 5 years ago
Yep, I'll second capturing whole tapes.... However.... This may sound weird, but I generally prefer to do the initial capture myself... while the footage is being ingested into the edit computer, it's
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| | | | | Advice on becoming an editorby Aspiring offline editor 5 years agoHi, I really need some advice. I'm currently in my final year at University studying Theatre, Film and Television. I desperately want to become an offline feature film editor, but don't really know ho | Re: Advice on becoming an editor
by Christian Glawe 5 years ago
It's easy to get "pigeonholed" in this business... if you get a reputation as a good Assistant, or a good "Tech", then that's what people will know you as... If you want to be an editor, then start e
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