How can I start a decent home-based desktop publishing and Video production business?

John the desktop wiz: How can I start a decent home-based desktop publishing and Video production business?
I am wanting to begin a small homebased desktop publishing company and im looking for some info. from anyone who owns a small desktop publishing company or knows about starting a business or anyone who just knows a lot about desktop publishing. I need to know what software and hardware is also needed. I also am into video production. Like taking old home videos and sprucing them up and puting them on dvd and things like that.

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Answer by denise c
not sure but good luck

Answer by being
You can’t. Give up now. It will only break your heart.

Answer by ButtonGear
You can’t. Sorry.

Technology in these areas have become SO prolific, inexpensive and available to the masses, that you would be competing with most of your potential customer base.

Answer by MexicaliDad
You can get a lot of different software to do this or you can simply get Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium, it great and to the point, and the great thing about it is that you can take an image across software with in CS3, just make sure that you have a system with lots of RAM and as a minimum a Dual Core processor, I would recommend an Intel Quad QX6600 and about 3GB of RAM. This will make your life a lot easier, of course you can run it perfectly fine with leaser specs but this will really make a difference in time while rendering.

Answer by lilmexicana562
well in order to start this type of business you are going to need an LLC (limited liability company) because it helps you protect your personal assets and then you need a business license and a federal tax id this website can you get all the license you need at www.fbnusa.com they are great reliable tow ork with good luck with your business!!

Answer by Doran P
You don’t need a Mac. Its a great computer but a colossal waste of money. You don’t want to buy a piece of crap PC either (HP, Compaq) you want a Dell or Gateway, or preferably a local shop can build you one using all the finest parts….any of those three options is better than HP

More important than the computer, is the software….and the Adobe software you’ll be needing is available on both platforms…only… PC’s are 1/5 the cost of a Mac. That is why you’d be throwing your money away getting a Mac.

I’ve been in the printing/graphics industry for 15 years. I have Mac and PC’s now. I can tell you that Macs have absolutely no advantage over a PC… ZERO, zilch,nada, zippity, None.

all the advertising you see on TV is a bunch of fluff. Its the software that makes a computer productive anyway….not the machine. In the end..will anyone ever know if your website or brochure was created on a Mac or PC? …no…exactly.

Oh yes..final note…do not under any circumstances, use MS Publisher. It is the bane of the printing industry…it has compatibility issues up the gazoo. It is complete garbage.

Adobe In-Design is the new industry standard.