[Grinner Hester]

I like the raw footage fed exed to me so that I can use it as I need to. File swappage slows me down.

[Grinner Hester]

why these people don’t learn some software, I just don’t know.
There is no way I could sit over somebody’s shoulder, dictate avery stroke and hope they are capable of understanding and excecuting every detail. What a freakin waiste of time and budget.
When I hire somebody with a viseion, they really need to be able to create that vision. Middle men are more than expensive. They are irritating.

[Grinner Hester]

if you sell services, you just mess with taxes quarterly or annually… whenever you decide to anti up to our pimp, uncle sam.

[Grinner Hester]

when avid downgraded their line of products, they added a half and low rez button to try to make up for the clunky RAM play. I bet if you click it to green you will see a better image.

[Grinner Hester]

did you try video and audio mixdowns first?

[Grinner Hester]

I have never had the patience to spoon feed Avid on this stuff.
You will save yourself lots of time and frustration just digitizing it old school style. I just turn off deck control and capture it via svideo.

[Grinner Hester]

yes.

[Grinner Hester]

I think you probably already know this answer. Hearing it from others is often an affermation that makes decision making easier.
There is no better diplomatic way of weeding out a client than nickle and diming them. Likewise, there is no better way to run off a great production company than to continually ask for their time for free. They know this. It’s a gamble they are obvioulsy willing to take.
The bare bones answer is if this is a sales meeting, no you cant bill for that and expect to see them in the future. If it’s a creative meeting they want you in, of course you are in the business to make a living and won’t be giving this off the clock.
If you feel you dont want to do this meeting for nada… man, don’t.
let em grind away at your competition while ya get back to work.
If you feel it’s a required hand-holding to keep a gig ya wanna keep, man oppease em and pretend it’s not irritating.

[Grinner Hester]

im thinkin that avatar my be gettin about 10 years old now. lol
Man, I dunno what network it’ll end up on at this point. This is the learning stage for me. I don’t have an agent so I’m literally cold-calling networks and speaking with someone in programming. If they dig my verbal pitch, we go fromt here type of thing.

This is the hard way of doing it. Doing this one’s self is not unlike representing one’s self in a court of law. It’s simply not recomended.
I’m doing it this way because the other way would just feel like another job and that’s not what I’m after at this point.
I’d rather make a half as good deal and be able to sleep in when I want.

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awesome stuff, man. seriosly, where does time go?
found the first Moddin’ Art clip, 20 years ago:
https://grinnerhester.com/OldSkool/1988.wmv

holy cow.

um, no pun intended.