-
FCP 7 Editors…need not apply!
-
[Andy Field] “+ years editing experience.
• Strong Final Cut Pro X experience. (FCP7 or Premier exclusive editors need not apply)”finally, after years waiting, an ad that matches the scientology of FCPX.
https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics
-
Interesting to see job postings such as this. Looks like X is no longer a toy, debate is over. I left the other version far behind, thherfore I am no dinosaur. Wait, something about wanting to film with Super 8 might contradict that statement.
-
Just over ONE year after Apple plumbed the collaboration (Library) pipes into X and look what happens. Jobs popping up. It’s like they gave the early adopters a few years to explore all the deep stuff – then bingo. The serious workflows start taking off. Database driven editing FTW.
Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.
-
[David Mathis] “Looks like X is no longer a toy, debate is over. “
Geez, David, don’t say that! What will they “debate” at NAB? And then we have to debate about the new name for this forum (which really needs a new name)!
😉
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Shane Ross] “I’d say that’s comparable to $80K in Los Angeles, maybe more. Cost of living out there is nowhere near what it is in areas where editors earn big bucks.”
I’d like to think that, Shane.
I had two interviews recently I went for just to see what’s what out there. I’m in LA. I’m not a kid out of college and have been doing this for a few years 😉
One was $40K a year and the other was $50K. These weren’t for a project. This was for full time staff positions.
It’s where we are at the moment. People want the cheapest, not the most skilled or the best. It seems every job wants to know my rate and could care less about looking at my reel.
Warren Eig
O 310-470-0905email: warren@babyboompictures.com
website: https://www.BabyBoomPictures.comREEL: https://www.babyboompictures.com/BabyBoomPictures/Reels.html
For Camera Accessories – Monitors and Batteries
website: https://www.EigRig.com -
[Bill Davis] “Apple plumbed the collaboration (Library) pipes into X “
I’m not sure Library = collaboration. There’s nothing about the Library that’s any more or less collaborative than the way it was before. If anything the Library is a more “normal” way of working, which means some folks who were resistant are now more comfortable with the overall design, since it’s closer to Premiere, Legacy and Media Composer.
I think it’s more indicative that the software has been out for about 4 years. This is roughly the same stage when FCP Legacy started cropping up at more and more facilities.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
[Warren Eig] “People want the cheapest, not the most skilled or the best. It seems every job wants to know my rate and could care less about looking at my reel.”
Warren, you are not alone. I have had explicitly expressed to me for a potential position I applied for once. You are right, there is literally zero consideration given to skills or experience, merely who ballparks the lowest number they would ask for. Not even room for negotiations.
-
Even in the “rich” Bay Area, it is not uncommon for college grads to take jobs as interns earning minimum wage or less before they land a real job. So, if this is a first time job, it is not such a bad starting point. Making 40 and living back with the parents, could be a reasonably profitable beginning. In this economy it makes sense for 20 somethings to defer on the spouse, the kid, the house for a while.
-
[Aindreas Gallagher] “finally, after years waiting, an ad that matches the scientology of FCPX.”
But Aindreas, you’re the only one who’s been virtually asking us to hold your sanded beercan galvinometer while you berate all and sundry with a view toward breaking down our will and hoping that we’ll confess to variety of real and imagined “trackless” NLE sins.
That kind of makes you the “auditor” of the forum doesn’t it?
Plus, you sometimes write a tiny bit in the cadence of an alien – so perhaps you’re L Ron Hubbard’s spitir in disguise? CLEAR?
(in your defense, you never followed up asking any of us to sign over any real property “for the good of the church” – like some of the uglier “religions” manage – so it’s a singularly limited analogy at best!)
Personally, I like leaving references to religion out of my arguments. When I read them I get paranoid and have to hold onto my wallet super tight.
FWIW.
Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.
-
Said goodbye to a 4 year old Corporate gig the first of February and I’ve been actively shaking the bushes in DFW since then. I have seen one job ask for FCPX this entire time. Doesn’t mean folks aren’t using it. I know they are. I use it on some gigs. But it is next to never that you see it advertised. Only slightly higher for Avid. It’s all Creative Cloud they ask for not even PPro specifically in each instance. So there may be something to that “We need somebody to do everything” bit.
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up