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March 14, 2006
Making life easier for Producers - Moving Picture News
The following article is reprinted from Moving Picture's Winter edition of the Producer's Cheat Sheet™ newsletter. If you're not receiving it, send an email to David Wells
Apple's iWeb makes life easier for Producers
written by David Wells
In the past, many of you have struggled to find a way to send photos and video QuickTime files to clients on the web. Often it is not practical to email large picture and movie files to clients. Either your client has compatibility problems receiving the files and or their email account will not accept large files, and so on. What a pain!
If you were very tech savvy, and your client was also -- fat chance -- you could FTP (file transfer protocol) your photos and QuickTime movies to a server, but this is cumbersome and complicated, to say the least!
Read on to find out how to be more effective in communicating with your clients.
On
January 10th at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Steve Jobs unveiled
iWeb, the newest addition to their iLife '06 suite of media management
and sharing tools. This new program is 
really
terrific and can be make your life as a producer much easier in a
short period of time. Most of you are Mac users, so the new iWeb
will come naturally to you. I created a half decent website
for my dog in a couple of hours (online at www.glenndog.com -
by the way Glenn is AVAILABLE for commercials, music
videos and features!).
3 easy steps to an easier 'iLife' as a Producer:
Step 1: Establish a .Mac account, for just $99.95 per year for 1 gig of server space. You'll also receive 4 .Mac email addresses that you can use to protect yourself against unwanted email (except from Moving Picture of course!).
Step 2: Start using iWeb (part of the $79 iLife '06 package), and create a simple home page, maybe just your name set in nice type, a photo, whatever!
Step 3: Drag and drop location photos or QuickTime files, Publish call sheets, contact lists (cut and paste out of Word). Email your web pages URL to your client or crew and Voila! Instant gratification!
Advanced Features Useful for Producers:
- People viewing your site can drag photos off of your pages and save them to their desktop. Double click on a small photo on your site and it expands to full size.
- Password protect pages that need privacy.
- Register a cool domain name (like terrificproducer.com) at godaddy.com and have your domain name point to your .Mac site. (For help on implementing this advanced feature give us a call at Moving Picture.)
- After uploading new photos, QuickTime files, or anything else to your .Mac site, .Mac prompts you with the option to automatically inform a list of people in your address book that your site or specific web page has changed.
- Backup important files from your computer to your iDisk at .Mac.
Visit Apple's web site to learn more: www.apple.com
Good luck, and we hope this makes your life as a Producer a little easier!
Posted by MovingPicture at March 14, 2006 05:51 PM