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What rates should I charge for iphone editing?
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Yes, I know, off-topic…but interesting.
https://www.apple.com/iphone/features/hd-video-recording.html I trust everyone’s seen this already? $4.99 app “soon to come”…for iPhone 4
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RAIDON-USA Technology
STARDOM Storage
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“…and will sell my Octocore,…”
Sell your octocore?
Now that the iphone 4 is out, your octo is worthless. You might as well donate it, or it will just end up in the ‘sand crawler robot pile’.
No editor in his right mind would buy it, because real editors will be using iphone.As far as how much per hour you should charge, that is hard to say, since you didn’t mention if you were imovie/iphone certified or not.
Having that certif, makes you an editor, and really ups your rate…duh
Scott Sheriff
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The funny thing is, that the producer I am editing with right now owns his own still photography business. His comments to the threads comments: You might be laughing now, but wait a couple years.
John 3:16
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“The funny thing is, that the producer I am editing with right now owns his own still photography business. His comments to the threads comments: You might be laughing now, but wait a couple years.
“Interesting example.
Everyone in America owns a camera. Some even own pro level cameras. It doesn’t make them professional photographers, and it hasn’t (completely) killed the pro foto biz.There are a lot of people that own video cameras, and editing software. Some even own pro level gear. It doesn’t make them DP’s, Directors, or Editors.
There is no substitute for experience and skill, which you can’t buy at iphone prices. So imovie/iphone/WMM and hacks that use them are a good match, they don’t have the skills to take advantage of a real edit suite. They just need a ‘guitar hero’ toy to play with.
Lance and I can trade bikes, but I still won’t win the TDF.
In a couple of years, some of these ‘johnny come lately’ types will have just that, a couple of years experience. While some of us will have a couple more to add to the decades we already have. And sure the consumer toy will have more bells and whistles. While there have been people that have cranked out ‘real’ projects on toys, like the PXL-2000, but this is an anomaly. To do a serious amount of work, you are going to need serious gear, and skills.
If a client thinks some low-hour pilot, with a consumer toy is the way to go, yes, I will be laughing.We already see a version of that here all the time, and it often looks something like this:
“I have a series of ___ shows that I agreed to do. They are multi-cam and were shot on RED. I have to deliver a the project tomorrow, but my 13″ MB is taking forever to render the project, even though I have a really fast system dive, that is only 89% full. HELP!”So, in a couple of years we will see a bunch of threads like this with iphone substituted for the MB
Scott Sheriff
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SST Digital Media
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I know we are all nervously laughing, but seriously what codec is the new iphone using to edit HD? I bet they have made imovie edit H264 native as they surely wouldn’t use AIC on a device with 32 gigs of storage.
If so can we finally expect native editing in a whole range of codecs (or at the very least H264), to be part of a new FCS?
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[Michael Sacci] “What about fast pocket RAID drives. “
No pocket RAIDS. All the storage is in the Mobile Me cloud.
Of course, to increase speed, they are using multiple clouds…basically a hurricane.
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Oh, dad. What a hilarious can of worms you’ve opened.
On a side note, could you and I be the first father-son duo to ever be COWites?
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[Michael Gissing] “what codec is the new iphone using to edit HD?”
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Presumably iFrame (or a new derivative), which Apple announced over a year ago.
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Per my post yesterday, iMovie, is the editing software, no mention of the codec. I’d imagine H.264 would make the most sense.
https://www.apple.com/iphone/features/hd-video-recording.html
“Turn your video clips into a finished movie. With iMovie on iPhone 4.
You’re on vacation, and you want to create a video postcard of everything you did that day and share it with your family. Just use the iMovie app — coming soon to the App Store for just $4.99. Built just for iPhone 4, iMovie lets you combine and edit video clips, polish your movies with dynamic themes and transitions, add music and photos, and share your finished movies with the world.
Jon Schilling | VP of Sales & Marketing
RAIDON-USA Technology
STARDOM Storage
15356 East Valley Blvd., Suite B
City of Industry, CA 91746
Tel: 323-803-8884
Fax: 323-372-3758
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It’s a bit sad or ironic one of the main guys behind Final Cut Pro ends up doing a crippled iMovie and now does and even more crippled iMovie for iPhone. But it wouldn’t surprice me if this brings Apple some nice $$$ in the pocket.
The last two years have been focus on iOS clearly. I wonder how Apple’s focus on their pro desktop market is.
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Erik Lindahl
Freecloud Post Production Services
http://www.freecloud.se
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