<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>The main fear, as I see it, with going with a company to record video from LCA is the loss of control. We lose control of the output formats, we lose the ability to correct things afterward, and it's more difficult - and costly - to change things as needed during the conference.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I think some of this is lack actually doing specification of your requirements. For example; if you want the output in free formats <b>require that in the contract</b>. The fact that it is missing from the contract would be like missing the fact that you want a room for 500 people rather than 10!</div>
<div style> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>LCA could pay a professional video company $150,000 and have the whole shrink-wrapped package done and the MP4s delivered (badly labeled and with no titles or credits) hands-off. </div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I wouldn't be hiring them again if they did that (and also argue that they didn't fulfil the requirements we specified). $150,000 should be getting you better quality than that - even if they use a bucket load of cheap labour rather than automated methods.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Tim</div></div></div></div>