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Started a FCP job today..
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Bret,
So far the benefit to my clients is that I can do more in the same amount of time. So I have more time to polish and add fit and finish and finesse and stay within their expectations. The drawback there *could* be mine … If the client said “Well, just finish faster and lower the bill”. So far everyone has been happy with both the invoice that meets their expectations and the product that exceeds those expectations, for more or less the same amount.
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John -
Just kiddin there. Didn’t you see the 🙂 ?
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Sure did. But it was a valid question anyway. ;))
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John -
[John Godwin] “So far the benefit to my clients is that I can do more in the same amount of time. So I have more time to polish and add fit and finish and finesse and stay within their expectations. The drawback there *could* be mine … If the client said “Well, just finish faster and lower the bill”. So far everyone has been happy with both the invoice that meets their expectations and the product that exceeds those expectations, for more or less the same amount.
“Exactly what I was saying to someone else. With the new hardware and FCP X I can easily do all the little tweaks (EQ, colour correction etc) that I wanted to do and could occasionally if I had the lead time. But now its just part of the process.
Michael Sanders
London Based DP/Editor -
Finished four today three times as fast getting paid twice what I got paid in Premiere.
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Absolutely. Say you have ten hours budgeted to finish a project. If Final Cut Pro X allows you to breeze through the mechanics of the edit in four hours while an alternate NLE might have taken seven, this leaves you with twice as much time to be creative, to experiment, to polish your story. This is a good thing. Most clients aren’t going to know how fast you are with software A versus software B, and they probably won’t care, as long as they are happy with the final result.
Gabriel Spaulding
Creator & Director of ACE Enterprizes
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