Director and founder of Hand Crank Films, a Simply Beautiful place to work. | | | | Member Since: October 9th 2002 | | | | |
| | | | | | xsan and Lion - Has anyone migrated?by Max Kaiser 7 months agoHi all, Looking to see if anyone has made the movie to Lion with built-in XSAN. If so, how did you do it I'm guessing it work like this... 1) Download Lion Server on MDCs 2) The MDCs would automatical | Re: xsan and Lion - Has anyone migrated?
by Max Kaiser 3 months ago
Frank, It seems like you're method should work, but in the end I just clean installed everything - MDCs, Volumes, Clients. I wish mine could have gone that smoothly...let me know if it does for you. B
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| | | | | Full-Time Shooter/Editor in Washington D.C.by Max Kaiser 3 months agoHello, Our company, Hand Crank Films, is looking to open an office in Washington D.C. We are looking to hire someone who is an excellent shooter editor and who is also a very cool person. You must be | | | | |
| | | |  | Ways to maximise customers online mediaby Olly Lawer 4 months agoHi, I've been trying to find good resources on online media marketing, AKA Video Marketing, with very little success. The books I've come across encompass online media as a way to market a brand (and | Re: Ways to maximise customers online media
by Max Kaiser 4 months ago
Olly, I feel your pain! At Hand Crank we've been really trying to get into this stuff, and it is not that easy to find out about it. The reason is that it literally changes every day. Youtube, Google
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| | | |  | Another Travel Rate questionby Greg Ball 7 months agoI realize that this question has been addressed different ways, but I'm wondering how to go about giving a client a budget for international travel fees. If you were traveling from the US East Coast t | Re: Another Travel Rate question
by Max Kaiser 7 months ago
This is a good question, and I too am interested in what going rates are for per diem's, etc... We charge $125 day for per diem when away shooting per person, and $175 on travel days. When we've gone
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| | | |  | SAN ity checkby Mark Suszko 7 months agoWhen you offload your NLE's footage to centralized storage like a SAN, do you keep the native codec, or transcode it to something else, and if so, what do you find works well in the space vs quality v | Re: SAN ity check
by Max Kaiser 7 months ago
We've really struggled with this as we've grown, and as data has grown. RED raw footage can eat up some SERIOUS disk space, and prorezing all that hdslr footage can, too. Here's what we do with our SA
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| | | | | What do you do when you're slow?by Max Kaiser 7 months agoNo, not slow like short bus, but slow like when biz is slow...what types of things do you do to keep yourself busy Thought it would be interesting to poll. Do you: Market New website, etc. Work on ree | Re: What do you do when you're slow?
by Max Kaiser 7 months ago
Thanks guys, these are really good posts. Bob, it is hard to imagine you ever being slow, but I'm sure it occurs to all of us. Wait, this sounding like something that can only be fixed in a late night
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| | | | | Media Management and Projects?by Stephan Walfridsson 11 months agoI have not bought FCP X yet. But I have read the online manual quite thoroughly and I am a bit concerned confused regarding how FCP X handles source media, projects and timelines. As I understand it t | Re: Media Management and Projects?
by Max Kaiser 7 months ago
Interested in revisiting this thread a few months down the line... I've edited a few projects with FCPX now and there were some things I REALLY like - like the SPEED! However, it feel flat on its face
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| | | | | Poptent: A New Twist in Our Industry?by Max Kaiser 8 months agoHey fellas, Anyone seen this Poptent site (http: www.poptent.net) They dangle a decent sized carrot - usually around $7.5k or more for a commercial, in front of content creators to create a commercial | Re: Poptent: A New Twist in Our Industry?
by Alex Priest 8 months ago
Hey Todd, You make a great point--coming up with ideas is not at all easy. That said, if you define spec work that broadly, almost the entire advertising industry is based on spec (RFPs, by that defin
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| | | | | Need XSAN Phone Supportby Max Kaiser 8 months agoIs there someone on these boards or otherwise who offers this I'm happy to pay. Apple is not an option. Had a power failure (again) and am on the verge of losing everything (again) but guessing a litt | Re: Need XSAN Phone Support
by Max Kaiser 8 months ago
Found someone! Thanks, Max Max Kaiser Director Hand Crank Films http: www.handcrankfilms.com Various Intel FCP 7 OS 10.5 RED XDCAM 7D
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| | | | | Payment terms for editing network tv showby Max Kaiser 10 months agoHi there, We're being asked to edit a network tv show (for a small network, mind you, not a biggie) and the payment terms are sort of tough on us. They are 25% down, and then the remainder when the sh | | | | |
| | | | | Trouble Setting Backup Metadata Controllerby Max Kaiser 10 months agoHey gang, I'm having trouble setting one of my clients as a backup MDC. Starting from scratch building a volume. Have the initial MDC setup fine. But when I try to add a client, on the page of the set | | | | |
| | | | | Xsan & FcpXby Max Kaiser 11 months agoAm I correct that FCPX will not work with XSAN at all - not even to store raw media on If not could someone please post how they are doing this Some people have said it does not, Apple has been very m | Re: Xsan & FcpX
by Andrew Richards 11 months ago
It looks like media can be used in place on shared storage, make sure you uncheck that box, but events can't yet be set to shared storage. Makes sense- multiple users could have I O collisions on shar
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| | | | | Machine Room Setupby Max Kaiser 1 year agoI'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I didn't see any other forums for "machine rooms". Anyhow, I'm considering putting all of my macpros in one room - like I've seen Biscardi do | | | | |
| | | | | Blog: Scope Creepby Mike Cohen 1 year agoI am not referring to the weird neighbor who stands in his front yard on starry nights looking at constellations, but scope creep can be just as much trouble! When starting a project, be it a 30 secon+1 | Re: Blog: Scope Creep
by Max Kaiser 1 year ago
Mike, How right you are! This is one of the intimidating, stressful, and challenging parts of our business. You can think you really did a great job on something - and it just keeps coming back - like
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| | | | | XSAN and Premiere Proby Max Kaiser 1 year agoPlease forgive my reposting this question since I had previously posted it within a thread of this forum but decided it really needs its own header. Does anyone have any experience using Premiere Pro | Re: XSAN and Premiere Pro
by Max Kaiser 1 year ago
Alex, I think I'll go with the first suggestion and give that a whirl. I'm guessing that when we archive the project we can lose the media caches and then just rebuild them in the event we need to un-
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| | | | | Buying lights for large green screenby Max Kaiser 2 years agoHi folks, I'm in the process of buying lights for a pretty big greenscreen cyc. The screen is about 14' tall, and forms a curved corner with 20' on either side. What I'm trying to figure out is how ma | Re: Buying lights for large green screen
by Max Kaiser 2 years ago
Anyone I guess what I'm looking for is some kind of standard math like - you'll need so many watts of kino power at a certain distance from the screen and at a certain height... Again, I was thinking
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| | | | | Service: Hand Crank Filmsby Max Kaiser 3 years agoBellingham Washington, United States Production VFX 3D Hand Crank Films Corporate Video Visual Effects 3D Animation Hand Crank Films is named after the Bell & | | | | |
| | | | | Video: Demo Reelby Max Kaiser 3 years agoDemo Reel Covers all of our motion graphics work, corporate, and documentary video. watch demo reel+13 | | | | |
| | | | | XSAN to MetaSANby Max Kaiser 3 years agoHi Folks, I'm a 3 seat (4 with server) XSAN user with a 5.6TB XRAID and 2gb FibreChannel network who is looking to move to something new, but trying to maximize the value of what I've already got. Tha | Re: XSAN to MetaSAN
by Max Kaiser 3 years ago
Bob, Thanks for the post - you've kept me out of trouble before! I guess I really just need to do some more research on expanding my existing XSAN network. I knew I could add a promise drive, but I th
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| | | |  | Internal Marketing Workflowsby Kevin Colber 4 years agoHey gang- I am outputting some video to be run on a loop from a PC to several LCD's scattered throughout my clients office. I was thinking using some sort of h264 compression to make the files more ma | Re: Internal Marketing Workflows
by Max Kaiser 4 years ago
Unless you want to do HD. We have a lobby screen running every day for the last year off of a MacMini. It plays HDV files beautifully (cannot handle much more since drive speed is only 5400). Also, co
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| | | | | Rush Chargesby Max Kaiser 4 years agoHi guys, I've searched for this topic and haven't found, so please redirect me if necessary. How do y'all account for rush projects. You know: I MUST have this tommorrow. And, you can do it, but you'v | Re: Rush Charges
by Mark Suszko 4 years ago
Old sign in the shop: "Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on MY part". In an in-house situation you pretty much have to just take what they give you and hopefully you have som
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| | | | | Production chargesby Nicholas Johnson 4 years agoHi there, I'm news to the whole contract production arena and have a company inquiry about my video services for a short promo video - any basic pay rates or breakdowns any one can help me out with Sh | Re: Production charges
by Max Kaiser 4 years ago
We bill line items. It takes awhile, but once it's all entered in Quickbooks, you can put an estimate together fairly quickly. Also, it allows the client to see very transparently where their money is
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| | | | | Sony PHM Series Monitorby Max Kaiser 5 years agoHi there, I'm about to buy a used sony PHM series monitor with the SDI addition to use for corporate video color correction. Is this monitor good enough I know it is not top-of-the-line quality, but p | Re: Sony PHM Series Monitor
by Max Kaiser 5 years ago
PHM - Sony HR Monitor with HD SDI (PHM-20M8U with BKM-301HD) Thanks! MaxMax Kaiser Director Hand Crank Films www.handcrankfilms.com Various Intel, and Power PC FCP 6 OS 10.4
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| | | | | Problems installing Decklinkby Max Kaiser 5 years agoHi there, I've just been shipped my second Decklink card which is not working for me. The first time, none of my machines (a quad g5, an eight core, and a four core) would recognize the card. Nothing | | | | |
| | | | | AppleTV and Compressorby Max Kaiser 5 years agoHello - does anyone know the correct settings for using compressor to make content for AppleTV. I've been trying to do it by setting the specs to what the tech specs for AppleTV say - H.264 1280x720 2 | Re: AppleTV and Compressor
by Max Kaiser 5 years ago
Matt, What you say sounds correct. I tried the "Get Info" and recreate method but it always gets rejected even when I match the specs exactly (1280x720, H.264, 24fps, AAC music LC) no good. Also, the
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| | | | | xdcam hd and fceby Max Kaiser 5 years agoI have a client that would like to use fce to edit some xdcam hd footage I shot for him. Is this possible using v3.5 I don't know what codecs he has, and he's not too savvy on the whole thing. If not, | | | | |
| | | | | Pops in FLV audioby Max Kaiser 5 years agoI'm getting some pretty bad pops in my audio using Squeeze 4.5 and the Sorenson flv (not 8) encoder. Anyone know the magic settings to make these go away I'm compressing hdv footage where the audio or | Re: Pops in FLV audio
by Max Kaiser 5 years ago
Never mind. Just read a post on sorenson's site saying this a documented bug and to downconvert our audio to 44.1 until they have a fix out. MaxMax Kaiser Hand Crank Films www.handcrankfilms.com Dual
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| | | | | FLVs Just Don't Look Good Anymoreby Max Kaiser 5 years agoHi there, I've been using flash as my video delivery for the web for quite some time. Originally, when I was in the DV world, I would just export to the Flash MX2004 PRO 1.2 codec directly out of FCP | Re: FLVs Just Don't Look Good Anymore
by Max Kaiser 5 years ago
Thanks guys, but none of these things did it. What did do it, and I wanted to post for anyone else who is going through this is: I called Sorenson and talked to a very nice, helpful tech there. He sai
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| | | | | Buying a BetaSP Deck?by Max Kaiser 6 years agoI know it seems crazy but I'm thinking of buying a BetaSP deck for commercial delivery. Comcast here in Seattle demands we deliver on SP and I'm tired of the hassle of paying $50 for a transfer at the | | | | |
| | | | | Levels for Broadcastby Max Kaiser 6 years agoHi there. I'm desperately trying to figure out what are the proper audio levels to provide in sort of a weird situation. Presently, I produce television spots to be played via Comcast. Comcast demands | Re: Levels for Broadcast
by Max Kaiser 6 years ago
Thanks to all. Unfortunately, I don't have my own analogue tone receiver (or deck) so I'll take some different tone down to the station. I can understand a difference in digital and analogue tone "0"
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