I shoot people. I live in Los Angeles, California and I'm a filmmaker and director of projects from narrative films to tv commercials. | | | | Member Since: November 19th 2007 Location: Los Angeles, California | | | | |
Friends:  Randall Raymond | | | | | | The Ebb and Flow of Leadsby Patrick Ortman 3 weeks agoI'm feeling a little zen this morning in Los Angeles, and I'm wondering if your businesses tend to follow how mine's been, at least for the past year. It feels like, outside of ongoing repeat work, th | Re: The Ebb and Flow of Leads
by Patrick Ortman 3 weeks ago
I certainly can't argue with that, although in our case I know that's not the only thing. The correlation I found between end-of-quarter was pretty weak (although it did exist). End-of-year spends hir
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| | | |  | Apologiesby Tim Wilson 1 month agoHey kids, You know I'm very, very cautious about interfering with the flow of traffic. I'm okay having things get a little bit out of hand now and again and try to rein it in, rather than step on a di+1 | Re: Apologies
by Patrick Ortman 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I'd say out of all the forums I frequent the Cow is by far the best- and you are part of why. Thanks! I shoot people. www.patrickortman.com
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| | | |  | Should I buy a c300?by Raphael Rogers 3 months agoHey guys, so I'm a filmmaker in LA. This year I did two features on the 5D and a number of other things. I'm finding it's harder and harder to get hired with just the 5D. Though I primarily just do my | Re: Should I buy a c300?
by Patrick Ortman 1 month ago
Interesting no new Canon c-series. But yeah- I agree, the c300 is just... awesome. No need for anything else unless you're doing something really different. I shoot people. www.patrickortman.com
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| | | |  | Why music videos DON'T cost $500.00by Trey Gregory 1 month agoHello Everyone- Just wanted to share an article my partner wrote about the costs associated with creating music videos. I always love hearing the opinions from this forum and would love to hear all yo | | | | |
| | | |  | Dove "Real Beauty"by Todd Terry 1 month agoMost of you might have seen this campaign since it's been getting a lot of buzz over the past few days, but if not.... I think it's just beautiful, and one of the best pieces of (subtle) advertising w | Re: Dove "Real Beauty"
by Patrick Ortman 1 month ago
And yet there's this massive backlash from people on Facebook about it, claiming it's not good enough, does not adequately represent all women, and places too much emphasis on society's idea of what b
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| | | |  | Accounting Softwareby Renny McCauley 2 months agoI need to get organized. I've been doing freelance editing and camera work for a while, but in the last few years I've started to have more clients and more expenses. I've been doing my accounting on | | | | |
| | | | | When Competitors Lieby Patrick Ortman 2 months agoHi Everyone, So, a recent things happened, and I'm curious how you'd have handled it. Not looking for validation, just some thoughts. We put in a bid for a DRTV project, and the potential client went | Re: When Competitors Lie
by Patrick Ortman 2 months ago
Thanks for your thoughts, guys! On the reason: I think they were being honest with their reasoning. They'd never done a project like this before, so going with what appeared to be a bigger company mad
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| | | | | Hey Mark Suszko...by Todd Terry 1 year agoHey Mark.... would you give me a shout at todd(at)fantasticplastic.com I have something I wanted to run by you off-forum, but couldn't find any contact info for you. You're one of those guys that hide | | | | |
| | | |  | PremierePro 5.5 with Decklinkby Thomas Kreuer 2 years agoHi, we are about to switch from FCP7 to PP5.5. We are shooting a lot on RED but none of the Blackmagic sequence-presets is for RED. When I select the RED R3D preset and try to change Settings Playback | Re: PremierePro 5.5 with Decklink
by Patrick Ortman 1 year ago
I, too, am having this problem. Blackmagic, do you have a R3D preset for your deckling projects Is that how it'd finally work It's maddening, having a killer decklink board and dream color monitor tha
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| | | | | My Next Moveby Aaron Cadieux 2 years agoHello Everyone, I apologize in advance for this long post. As of November 4th, my full-time position is coming to an end. From those of you who have read my past posts, you know it was a rocky situati | Re: My Next Move
by Mark Suszko 2 years ago
You're married; so, what does your wife think This is not longer completely your own decision. How much can the two of you lean on her income if the freelance falls through I don't know what your plan
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| | | | | should i incorporate???by james parker 2 years agoOkay first, I know nothing about business, which makes lots of sense since as soon as i graduated I started a production company haha. Anyway, Im basically an independent, I have no staff and dont pla | | | | |
| | | | | Another unrelated invoice questionby Aaron Cadieux 2 years agoHello again everyone, I have another client, unrelated to my other Business & Marketing post from today. This other client has owed me money for over 2 years. I took them to small claims court. The co | Re: Another unrelated invoice question
by Michael Hancock 2 years ago
Have him arrested and continue through the legal system, or write it off. Anything else will show poor character on your part. While it would be gratifying to publicly humiliate him, it's not worth th
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| | | |  | Costs to deliver to TV stations on tape?by Al Bergstein 2 years agoWe are putting together a budget for a production that is likely to eventually go to a cable or tv station. While likely insignificant, (my assumption) our budgeting person wants to take as many varia+1  | Re: Costs to deliver to TV stations on tape?
by Bill Davis 2 years ago
I don't want anyone to think I'm denying that there are a LOT of stations still "requiring" tape. I'm just saying that a LOT of them are doing that from INERTIA. The sales folks pass along that "requi
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| | | |  | Another One Bites The Dustby Neil Hurwitz 2 years agoHoward Schwartz Recording has closed in NYC. This was one of the largest and best known Audio houses in the city, a feature of the landscape for the last 38 years. The carnage is not over, If HSR can  | Re: Another One Bites The Dust
by Ronald Lindeboom 2 years ago
Neil, We meet with our CPAs quarterly and we pay big money for taxes, insurance, legal services and a whole lot more. We pay VERY good wages to our employees and they have taken to giving it a name, T
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| | | | | Mark Suszko Need some creative ideasby Greg Ball 2 years agoHi Mark, I tried emailing you but it was bounced back to me. I'd love to chat with you about a project I'm working on. Can you email me at granball@msn.com and let me know the best way of reaching you | | | | |
| | | |  | Considering RED-first time userby Patrick Fries 2 years agoI'm an Austin based DP Director and we just got funded for a one hour in Afghanistan. I've been using the Panasonic HDX900 with the 5D for my time lapse and interviews and am thinking of switching to | Re: Considering RED-first time user
by Patrick Ortman 2 years ago
Sadly I have to agree. I love RED, I make my living from their products. But... you need to shoot with the tool you can actually buy today. Scarlet is not it. Nor is Epic-X, or Epic-S. ---------------
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| | | | | Red Rocket card in a Macbook Pro?by Villing Chong 2 years agoHi, I've been asked to transcode on set so I'm looking to hiring a system with the red rocket card. I've found a place that rents out the RR card in a PCI enclosure so that it'll fit into a Macbook Pr | Re: Red Rocket card in a Macbook Pro?
by Patrick Ortman 2 years ago
Agreed. Sadly for us, we haven't had a single shoot in the past 12 months where that was feasible. The MBP, especially the 17" one with 4 cores, does a good job if you have to stay portable. ---------
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| | | | | another use for the iPadby Patrick Ortman 3 years agoJust throwing it out there, I'm sure many of you know this already... I just returned from a trip to the midwest, directing 3 tv spots. We found ourselves in a situation where we needed a teleprompter | | | | |
| | | | | Downconverting video for Final Cut Proby stan welks 3 years agoI want to help someone work with video shot on a RED camera in Final Cut Pro. The video will need to be sized for 720 x 480. 1. What program can I use to downcovert the video 2. What file format shoul | | | | |
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| | | |  | Post Production With The REDby Dale Gill 3 years agoHi there, just wondering what VIDEO CARD is best suited to work with the RED using FCP. Been looking into the RED ROCKET and that seems to be the direction I'm heading. However really open to opinions | Re: Post Production With The RED
by Patrick Ortman 3 years ago
We're running the RED Rocket and a Kona 3 in the same MacPro, it's a 4 core system. We also have the higher end ATI video card and a eSATA RAID card in the tower. No problems at all, although it DOES
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| | | |  | Appropriate Fee for photo usageby Ed Cilley 3 years agoCross posted to Business and Marketing What is an appropriate rate fee I should expect to pay someone for use of their photographs If someone has images posted on the web (copyrighted) and I contact t | Re: Appropriate Fee for photo usage
by Patrick Ortman 3 years ago
Also, do not forget Flickr and doing an advanced search for Creative Commons licensed photos. Our most recent photo license was under a hundred dollars, but it was a non-hero photo (not super featured
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| | | | | Data Collecting Forms.by Matt Serano 3 years agoI just need a to make a form that will collect first name last name and email address. I know how to do it in html but don't know how to collect the data. This is not very hard right I would really ap | Re: Data Collecting Forms.
by Patrick Ortman 3 years ago
I know, I'm a parrot today. But yes- we use Wufoo for ALL our clients. Even the big Fortune 500 ones. They LOVE it. --------------------- www.patrickortman.com Web and Video Design
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| | | |  | How is this done?by Eric Feldberg 3 years ago How is this phone number displayed at the bottom regardless of where the scrollbar is http: inlandempire.theperfectlimo.com reservations Can this be done in Flash AS3 Thanks | Re: How is this done?
by Patrick Ortman 3 years ago
Just my 2 cents, but whenever possible we do not use Flash anymore. Search engines really prefer CSS and HTML. --------------------- www.patrickortman.com Web and Video Design
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| | | | | CMS recommendationby Pat Hoover 4 years agoAs of late we've been having clients ask us about CMS and have been looking into finding a CMS that will work for us. We use dreamweaver to create our websites and then use go daddy to upload them. An | Re: CMS recommendation
by Patrick Ortman 4 years ago
We're a Los Angeles website design company that's been around for a looooong time, and our favorite CMSs right now are MODx (great for designers) and a new custom solution we've built on top of Adobe'
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| | | | | Thoughtsby Chris Lindsay 4 years agohello can you please check out my blogger site and let me know what you think any ideas or thoughts you have. thanks alot www.papercartonliquid.blogspot.com | Re: Thoughts
by Patrick Ortman 4 years ago
Second the "it's a bit dark" comment. But for my eyes, it's very readable. Depends on your audience. --------------------- www.patrickortman.com Web and Video Design
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| | | |  | ProRes 422 or Red Quicktime files?by David Brook 4 years agoHi, I'm a newcomer to editing Red, about to start my first project next week. I've been looking through the Red website's whitepaper to get myself prepared, and I'm just wondering what people's opinio | Re: ProRes 422 or Red Quicktime files?
by Patrick Ortman 4 years ago
" Native-wrapped files allow this but you may find playback performance quite slow in FCP" Boy, that's an understatement. My 4 core Mac Pro doesn't even like playing a single stream in FCP. P --------
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| | | | | NEW RED BATTERY -- Sounds GREAT!by Dustin Richards 4 years agoSo I purchased a Torchled TL-50 from Switronix inc. and I am a member of their mailing list. I just got an email last night with them announcing a brand new battery for the RED camera. It is 95 watts, | | | | |
| | | | | testing on ie6by David Labbe 4 years agoI am running IE7.....what is the best way to test my site on IE6 Is there software for this I am running vista. I have seen some sites offering a service where you can test on a wide range of browsers | Re: testing on ie6
by Patrick Ortman 4 years ago
Also don't forget browsercam.com. It's expensive, but if you build websites for a living it's worth it. On our Macs, we use Browsercam and connect via Chicken of the VNC. On a side note, it looks like
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| | | | | 4 Videos in a single webpageby joseph wilkins 4 years agoSo I have a page where I want to post several videos.. take a look http: www.networthrealestategroup.com media.php You may or may not see all 4 videos but they are there. What I want to do is figure o | Re: 4 Videos in a single webpage
by Patrick Ortman 4 years ago
Check out Slideshow Pro. It's awesome, and plays video or photos. It does exactly what you want, and you can add their Thumbgrid product if needed. It's so easy to manage, too. We use it on a ton of c
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| | | | | Service: PatrickOrtman, Inc.by Patrick Ortman 4 years agoStudio City California, United States Web Production PatrickOrtman, Inc. Web Video Production Web Design Full Service Video Production Since 1993, we've done work fo | | | | |
| | | | | Service: Genius Monkeysby Patrick Ortman 6 years agoStudio City California, United States Production Post Production Genius Monkeys Full Service Video Production Editing Post Production Genius Monkeys is a new (circa | | | | |
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