[Gav Bott]

To me it reads as though Bill see’s X as something that can live on a small system whereas FCP could only live on a workstation – FCP on a book is very old news. Other software even more so.

People have been running around doing small edit job on laptops for ages – in studio mattes & cuts, cutting in client office – all no problem.

This kind of agility isn’t anything to do with the new software.

The Brit in Brisbane
The Pomme in Production – Brisbane Australia.

[Gav Bott]

All the wise words have been said already – for me I’d also be hearing alarm bells that would make me question using this freelancer at all.

Either you know what you are doing and can do it, or not……….

Gav

The Brit in Brisbane
The Pomme in Production – Brisbane Australia.

[Gav Bott]

Why not both?

2 revisions (or number you 1st thought of) each equalling 2 max days work….

It’s hours/days work that’s being quoted for and billed, no reason not to spell it out in the contract & plans.

Then when you hit the “I’d like to reimagine my project in edit please” you can return to – “Great, sounds fantastic & so long as it takes only 2 days we’ll still be in budget & won’t need to bill the extra hours…..”

The Brit in Brisbane
The Pomme in Production – Brisbane Australia.

[Gav Bott]

Only because I’m here 1st, but I suspect you are going to get “it’s in the contract right?” as a response to this one.

Personally I put it in the quote, contract, and the production plan – just so the client knows that anything over a certain point either doesn’t happen & we get paid what was agreed at outset, or is billed on top (or we come to a compromise somewhere between the 2).

This assumes that there is planned signed off on all the big creative choices as the project has chugged along and aren’t seeing something totally unexpected at the 1st showing/revision stage.

So for most projects I quote/contract/plan for 2 revision stages – and that’s it. Anything else that’s decided after those 2 meetings and re-cuts get billed. I’m also still very happy to make the slightly artificial distinction between offline and online to mark a point of no return on revisions….

The Brit in Brisbane
The Pomme in Production – Brisbane Australia.

[Gav Bott]

“And in a few rare instances, we signed their contract and they signed ours. And we issued them a certificate of insurance and they issued us one!”

At which point all paperwork is then forgotten and ignored as the job cracks on with smiles on faces.

Exactly as it should be.

It’s only there as a painful and complex backstop when all else has gone wrong for a long time……..

The Brit in Brisbane
The Pomme in Production – Brisbane Australia.

[Gav Bott]

What does it matter how stable the parent company is financially when it’s the 3rd party bolt on’s that are being depended on to make it work?

How stable are those guys? You want to lean your workflow on them?

Thanks

Gav

The Brit in Brisbane
The Pomme in Production – Brisbane Australia.

[Gav Bott]

“If I heard that my plumber has some dude arrested because he wasn’t paying him the money he was owed, I would understand, but I wouldn’t want him as my plumber because he might do the same to me.”

Really?

That sounds like you are behaving as if you weren’t going to pay up and would expect to get into payment conflict with the plumber at some time……….

Over the years I’ve worked with many suppliers & clients and discussions about non-payers, and their extended fights to get what’s owed have been pretty common over coffee.

Never made me think any less of them at all. Or that I was in line for a legal beating by working with them – no matter what legal extremes they had had to go to in getting paid.

Not sure who’d be left to work with if this was a cause for worry, certainly not many that had been around for any real time.

Thanks

Gav

The Brit in Brisbane
The Pomme in Production – Brisbane Australia.

[Gav Bott]

When you’re done answering that last question Walter, could you box it up so I can present it to my bank and say “we are going to do this”?

Thanks

Gav

The Brit in Brisbane
The Pomme in Production – Brisbane Australia.

[Gav Bott]

What Grin said – ask 1st.

Few weeks ago I needed to use footage of sports star here in Aus – so I spoke to his agent, and the football org body.

They all said yes – and for cost of transfer I got 200x what I needed FTP’d in the right format……….

Life is not always hard & full of lawyers (until you don’t ask).

The Brit in Brisbane
The Pomme in Production – Brisbane Australia.

[Gav Bott]

If the event is ticketed is also easy to print on ticket T&C’s

Thanks

Gav

The Brit in Brisbane
The Pomme in Production – Brisbane Australia.