Matt Graff

Not sound snobby but I will not take anything less than 12 hour turn around for my crew (except on certain shoot days that may warrent extra work due to location/etc) I also will make $32.50 an hour after 12hours of work, and my crew (camera dept) also makes %10 of there day rate an hour after 12 hours. Good food, good rest, good pay = great crew

Yeah, I only got $325. I tried though :-)

Perfect, $600 a day :-), got it. I will let you know how it goes in 5 hours. Matt

Hello All, I am wondering what you guys think that I should charge for... DP Feature 4.5 week shoot SAG 650k budget I am curious to know what you guys think.

I am sorry to hear about your issue. I think that the dallas int airport is a pain in that ass. I also think that the staff is rude, what do they care... are you going to stop flying due to the rude staff? I also always carry on my camera, its a bit of a pain but it ensures that only I can drop it. I agree with Richard, I am very apologetic for our current government.

I am not a sound guy and we are shooting a HD feature on the HVX. I was wondering what audio equip I should budget for, I would love any suggestions. Info- Budget 500k+ Shot around LA and in the desert

I have to stand at the video village! :-)

I had one of my guys ask for a "front Box" for christmas and I have no idea what it is, let me know so I can go " OOOHHHHH!, that thing"

That really helped me out! Thank you

Hello, I have been working on a set for a bit now and I just can not find any good shoes that are comfortable, I know that they will be sore at the end of the day regaurdless but I was wondering if you guys had a special brand/style that you love. Matt

No we just work them into the 'budget' so we can purchase a new computer/lights/camera equip. every time we do a big job. Hey if its going to cost $4200 to rent the equip wouldnt you rather pay another 1k and buy it?

RAM, buy as much as you can its so cheap in comparison to how quickly it will boost your computer speeds. I would see what the max ram is that you can install and do it. I jsut got the Mac Pro and it holds 16gigs of RAM..... I will not be maxing that out :-P I would recomend that you pick up a new computer though if yours it a bit old, the new software for editing is quite demanding on the chip size so its worth it to just go get that Mac you were pondering.

I just purchased all new Mac Pro desktops and 2 MacBook Pro computers and man they can move, I have owned over 30 macs in my studios in the past 8 years and in my oppinon they are amazing, the are up %99.999 percent of the time and I only restart them about every month! Yes that is right we are constanly working them and they are great, I even leave the entire adobe suite open 24/7. I have heard that its a bad idea to leave programs open and to not shut them down every day but I have no problem with it. I also have ONLY had to take one of my computers to the apple store for repair and that was the g4 power book and it was because I purchase NON apple memory and a HD and they went bad, even without the service plan they have a $300 cap on replacing any of their components that have been corrupt. I do highly recoment a nice rollerball with 2 buttons and also Disk Warrior is a must, the HDs seem to frag farly quick, but I am moving moster files around constantly. I Disk Warrior the HDs about every 3-5 months and it cleans them up and they run flawlessly. I hope you get a new mac, go for the intel ones even though there are very minor bugs left, its great to use bootcamp and run ANY program on the market on your one computer.

Hello guys, I am going to shoot a short in the next couple of months and I would like to get a small jib with a hot head but I am unsure of where to get a quote from or even which jib to get. I will be shooting in Orange CA in November so if anyone has any tips for me that would be great.

I like the ones from ebay or even large banks that ask you to log in and verify account info or on ebay that say to log into ebay for a second chance offer, both of them look like the companies letter and even the pages that you go to after you click on the links look like the pages but you can see in the address bar that its not the real hosts page (ie http://233.34.535/E.asp?43985239845920384590283 ). I assume that every one checks for that stuff now, there will never be a reason for a secure server to be anything but https://www..... so be on the look out.