10 Jun, 2008
So I’ve been using 5pm now for several weeks and my clients love it.
I already have a relatively interesting process in place to handle billing. I log my billable hours in an intranet under the client’s name which calculates billable amounts by hours clocked and the hourly rate. That data gets converted into a printer friendly PDF that gets emailed to the client along with an invoice. It’s detailed stuff and clients appreciate it.
Combine that with the project management provided by 5pm and I’ve got me some very informed, very much in-the-loop clients that are treated like active participants in the production process. It’s working out very well! I highly recommend 5pm for any business that does project based work.
10 Jun, 2008
It was bound to happen… I’ve taken on a project that requires me to convert a video upload into web friendly Flash. I suppose it was inevidable. Of course, I’m using my native language of ColdFusion to do the project.
I’ve found several command line solutions ranging in price from $600 to $1000, which seems pretty reasonable considering how easy they seem to implement. Of course, the added cost to the price tag makes the client lean towards finding an open source solution. Quite frankly, if one exists and is simple to use in a Windows server environment, I’m all for it.
I found FFMPEG and it looks like it can be compiled to run on Windows. I’ve even found Windows executables. I was just wondering if anyone knows of any current uses of FFMPEG that exist on the Windows platform that they can point me to so I can test out the performance. Anyone? Anyone?
