Gabe Strong
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I see FCPX a lot more than I did a couple years ago.
I don’t live in an area with large production companies
though, so I’m mostly talking independent filmmakers and
small production companies. I’d guess an almost equal split
between Premiere CC and FCPX right now which was not
the case 5 years ago. I’ve also seen a notable increase in Resolve
use as an editor. It’s actually been interesting at our last couple
filmmaker meet ups to talk to everyone about which NLE they use
and why. Lots of variety in reasons out there and no real ‘dominant’
NLE anymore.Gabe Strong
G-Force Productions
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Or ‘subscribe to’ (as opposed to buy) in Adobe’s case…….
????Gabe Strong
G-Force Productions
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Trust me, I know. Health insurance, IRA accounts, both portions of social security
(Employee’s and Employer’s), self employment tax…the works. Still doing much,
MUCH better as freelance than staff. Not to mention quality of life issues. Like
being able to take off from work in the afternoon to watch my kid’s softball or
basketball games……because I don’t have some boss who not only wants
me there until 5, but is wanting me to work overtime as well. No thanks,
not interested in a staff job at all, been there and done that. I actually
own a house instead of renting now, it’s not even close.Gabe Strong
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I find this fascinating. I was a ‘staff’ worker at several different TV stations.
I had several different positions, producer, director, videographer/editor…
but a couple things were always the same no matter what my position was.
Crap pay, and long hours. As a freelancer, I make a lot more money, and
have much shorter hours. Nothing is 100% in life, but it’s about as close
to 100% as is possible that I will never go back to being ‘staff.’ You are correct
that plenty of organizations have gotten rid of ‘in house’ video teams, often
because they didn’t have enough work for them (and really these in house
positions were created without taking into account the realities of business
and probably should never have been created in the first place). So maybe
instead of paying 3 people $40,000 each per year, this organization can hire
a small video company like mine ten times a year and pay $30,000 total.
Now let’s say I get 3 or 4 of these types of clients. Yeah, it’s a lot better living
than working as a staff worker. I don’t need ‘organized labor’ because I set
my own rates. Sometime prospective clients think I cost too much. Those are
not generally clients I’d wish to work for so no real loss. Of course these are only
my observations from my perspective and I understand that it’s not the same
everywhere. But there are certainly some of us who are freelance ‘by choice’
and are not being ‘abused.’ If anything, I feel sorry for all the staff workers I see…
their yearly salary is pretty low and they work a ton of overtime just to make
a living.Gabe Strong
G-Force Productions
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[Oliver Peters] “There’s a good business argument to be made for staying with Adobe. “
Well…….that kind of depends on your ‘business.’ That is actually precisely why I switched AWAY
from Adobe. It would have been a pretty dumb business move on my part to stay with them.
I cannot charge my clients any more money ‘because I use Adobe.’ And I would pay more money out
renting software than I would buying alternative products. Now I’m doing ‘end to end’ work, so I
do not have to worry about fitting into a workflow of some ad agency or creative department.
That’s probably the exception, and so for many, there may be very good business arguments to
stay with Adobe. Being able to use the same software that a company that you are collaborating with
could be a huge thing. But……I’m not sure that I’d be saying a price INCREASE (even a small $3/month
one like this) makes a ‘good business argument’ to stay with Adobe. I might say ‘if you have a business
based on using Adobe products, you should be happy that the first subscription price increase is a very
small one…..and not the huge ‘whammy’ that some anti subscription people were predicting.’ In other
words, this small increase probably does not change the business arguments one way or another.
People who were already using Adobe products are not going to be hurt by a $3/month increase. But
I don’t think it HELPS people subscribing to Adobe to have a price hike……even a minor one.Gabe Strong
G-Force Productions
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It’s been six years since Apple moved to FCP X. Judging by how many ‘seats’ of
FCP X they have sold, I’m pretty sure Apple is not going back either.Gabe Strong
G-Force Productions
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It’s been six years since Apple moved to FCP X. Judging by how many ‘seats’ of
FCP X they have sold, I’m pretty sure Apple is not going back either.Gabe Strong
G-Force Productions
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To further clarify, it appears that we may have
been ‘talking past’ each other. It appears, I
thought you were talking about something
different than you were. Freelancers who
self identify with a certain skill is of more
interest to companies looking to hire someone.
It is the ‘supply’ side as opposed to the ‘demand’
side, which is what I was looking at.Gabe Strong
G-Force Productions
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Are those actual jobs available? It appears to be
freelancers available, which is a different thing entirely.Gabe Strong
G-Force Productions
http://www.gforcevideo.com -
[Oliver Peters] “Yet, if you do a quick search in the US only, the total listings are actually 3X for Premiere Pro over FCPX. Worldwide, it’s 5X for Premiere Pro.”
I am always fascinated by claims such as this without any backup. Where are you
searching? Google? Yahoo? Jobs.com? Making general claims such as
‘there are 3x the total numbers of jobs for Premiere over FCP X’
with absolutely no qualifiers or supporting data seems…….possibly
a bit misleading, even if that wasn’t your intention.In my admittedly ‘anecdotal’ evidence searching for video jobs, I have not found the same thing
you seem to have found. As a simple way to test this, I typed in ‘Video Editor’ in Indeed.com.
The following attached screenshots are the first page of results
Interesting notes. Most mention both Adobe and FCP. A Some mention only OTHER
Adobe apps such as Photoshop being used in conjunction with FCP, instead of with
Premiere. And a lot mention Mac OS X for some reason. But there certainly is not any
3 or 5 times preference of Adobe over FCP that I can see. Again, it’s just one search and
means nothing in the larger scheme of things, but this is more of what I am seeing……clients
asking for those who know several different programs and not just ‘Adobe’.Gabe Strong
G-Force Productions
http://www.gforcevideo.com
