Grinner Hester
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Avid Coins
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it is absolutely billable at your regular rate. You cant bill hours on a machine that is busy billing.
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Never work for free. That is not work. It’s a donation.
Build your reel by taking staff gigs until you are ready to venture out on your own.
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charge by the hour. This way revisions are on them. If you quote a flat price, make sure they understand it is for x amount of hours and additional hours will cost more.
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I still rely on external scopes. I grab whatever monitors suit my suite best. They are just monitors. Go by your scopes.
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Unity with Avid is still a viable option but after comparing price points, you may see it’s better to stick with Premiere on a network. All files can still be shared, it’s just not as fast.
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I think you may have just run out of drive space, otherwise they would all behave the same.
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Cmon, man. Don’t be cheap. Take the manager to lunch.
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I started spray painting addresses with designs and logos on curbs in residential areas when I was 12. After commercial arts college I took every low (not no) paying job in my field until I had a good enough reel to move upward. A couple of decades later, I started a business knowing my market, abilities, clientele, etc.
My point is, man it awesome to be motivated. But don’t skip certain steps… the first is how to be humble. Which is hard when we are young.
I don’t want to sound like the old crusty guy who says pay your dues. There are simply less to pay today. Just as no artist needs a record label today, you do not have to staff gig it for years upon years to make a living. You do have to learn organically when sets you apart and be able to market it on your own. It was initiative to ask this forum. You will have to dig much much deeper though. You have to know exactly what your specialty already is. Market that. Not the other way around. -
1. Haggling. Man, I am all about haggling over a coffee table at a garage sale. No harm, no foul. But it is insulting to any artist to be offered less than their rate because it translates to “you’re talent is not worth that”.
2. Late payment. Same thing. It’s insulting. And I totally bill for the time it takes to to collect late payments.
3. “Well my son edits and….” Shut up. I know. So ground him long enough to sit in one place for 20 hours. or pay me to do it.
4. Clients over my shoulder telling me to pan up, down, with ever. Can’t do it amigo. Completely impossible. Go sit with that kid that won’t stay grounded.
5. Every movie that has ever said “Zoom and Enhance”. Thanks so much, Hollywood. That makes sessions with corporate types so much easier. FML
and finally…. we’ve ALL gotten it:
6. “Oh you’re in video? You do porn?” -
Yes.