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you can’t make this stuff up
someone just sent this to me because they know I go crazy when I see stuff like this. It’s from Craigs list –
Driver w/ Final Cut Pro Experience (Beverly Hills)
Creative Advertising and Production company is seeking entry level driver. Must have insurance and clean driving record. Prefer candidates with Final Cut Pro experience and a desire to pursue a career in motion picture advertising editorial.
•Location: Beverly Hills
•Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster.
•Please, no phone calls about this job!
•Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests. -
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The real kicker is that you pretty well know they’re going to get flooded with responses…..
Craig’s List!
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Awesome.
Wonder if you are expected to do both at the same time, LA multitasker style? If only the iPhone 3GS had FCP Lite as Walter “predicted.”
Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
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Driver w/neurosurgery experience (Beverly Hills)
Creative Medical center is seeking entry level driver. Must have insurance and clean medical record. Prefer candidates that are experienced with use of specially developed minimally invasive stereotactic techniques and a desire to pursue a career in treatment of vascular malformations.
•Location: Beverly Hills
•Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster.
•Please, no phone calls about this job!
•Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.No….I’m sorry, the original ad is funnier. Its true you cant make this stuff up!!!
Emre Tufekci
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The part that’s funny to me is Beverly Hills and Craig’s List in the same sentence.
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lol
While I’ve gotten staff editing jobs by painting the cyc and hangin’ shelves, man I didn’t answer an ad to do it. It was more like “sorry we don’t have any positions open at this time” with me responding “oh you just don’t yet!”
If hiring initiative, an ad is not required. If exploiting an editor for his car, on the other hand…
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They’ll need one of them there laptop mounts like the cops have.
Wait a minute! I drive about 28,000 miles a year at an average of 30 mph. That means I am spending around 933 hours per year behind the wheel. If I could turn that into editing time at an average of say, $65 per hour (render time considered), that’s a cool $61,000 a year. If I had a second laptop to use while the first one is rendering (FCP after all), I could probably rack up another $5k minimum.
After thinking about it, if I could put several of these mobile edit stations out there, paying a shelving contractor like Grinner, to drive/edit, at say $12 an hour ($11k a year), I could really rack up some spare change.
What if we went with motor homes?
What would really make the money is going back to work instead of spending hours writing this drivel.
Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It’s a dry heat!Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD .Ask me how to Market Yourself using Send Out Cards
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Steve – on a few occasions I have rendered files on laptop while driving to a meeting, the airport or train station. You thinking texting is dangerous while driving, try using Adobe Encore behind the wheel.
I see the occasional ad looking for people with an HD camera to shoot news stories about their local community for like $25 per story. Bad news.
Personally I am looking for an administrative assistant who can type, make travel reservations, manage my expenses, send faxes and who owns a RED camera.
Know anyone like that?
Mike Cohen
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Well, there it is. The law only says no texting while driving. Says nothing about editing. The only problem is … how to make the entire process hands free. Perhaps a stylus between the teeth? Go ahead. Go ahead. Tell me I’m onto something.
Patricia Shanks
Patricia Shanks Voice Studio
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I think we need to add some more pedals and integrate the radio and cruise control buttons on the steering wheel. We could add a jog and shuttle function to the radio dials and air conditioner knobs. All of those buttons most drivers can use without looking.
Didn’t the Lightworks have pedals or a touch screen interface?
Apparently at NAB 1982 or so when the Lightworks was being demonstrated, using raw footage from Return of the Jedi, it was the most popular booth in town.
Ron, if the members of this forum come up with a new product idea, like in-car editing, who owns the IP?
Incidentally, a car makes a quiet audio booth in a pinch.
Years ago before I joined the company, they had a yellow Winnebago called The Banana. They had an edit bay and drove around the US and Canada filming and editing surgery. Only problem was there were four guys living in the thing too.
Mike
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[Mike Cohen] “Incidentally, a car makes a quiet audio booth in a pinch.”
Hybrids, such as the Prius, make the very best rolling audio booths. Non-hybrids require pulling over to side of the road for good recording, making them definitely inferior.
The mileage is so good on my Prius that I’m able to record hours and hours of voiceover on just a few cents worth of gas.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
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