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those details in the form of buttons will always be changing. To try to adapt one will be teaching obsolete material in real time. Hone that passion and they’ll be downloadin all the latest greatest goodeies at home and bringing in things they made last night.
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I know of no place that wants to hire good assistant editors. Every one of them are looking for potentially fine editors at an entry level rate. As a newby, if you apply as an assistant, you’ll be an intern. Apply as an editor and one can take the assistant’s gig offered.
This really doesnt end. Last time I was aksed “so where would you like to see yourself with this company?” I laughed and answered, “man, I’d like to own it.” -
Nicole, there is not a more important career tool to an editor than a reel and reputation. Because you’ll usually be applying for gigs outside of your market, you have no reputation and therefore, your reel is literally a make or break for a job. It’ll depict how much you get paid more than your salary negotiation. It should be no longer than 5 minutes tops. If they wanna see more, awesome. Enjoy the gig.
It’s fine, and a good idea to have longer examples onliune should they wanna go through and see how you apply timing in a show but if you gamble with making somone bored with your demo reel, your resume is thrown in the trash and your DVD is used as a coaster.
As far as content, don’t hilight so much of what you have done… hilight what you want to do. That is to say, if you like making music vodeos, make a music video reel. Dig effects? We need to see em. Straight up story-teller? Tell some. While people stress you have less than 5 minutes to win them over, I’m here to tell you that you have about 10 seconds and that begins with the labeling of your reel and it’s menu. Judging begins when your package is opened so make every detail scream that you are their next ace in the hole.
When you interview… do just that. Interview them. Make sure this really is a place you want to bless with your presence more than half of your waking hours. If their are any things you don’t love about it on forst visit, brinbg em up right then. I use to interview in a tie-dyed t0shirt because I was always against trying to put dress codes on artists. This fixed that problem from the get go. If they dug it, we’d be cool. If they didn’t I would have been temporary anyway.
Talk to the other artists there. Do lunch or supper with em but get em away from the building so you can guage their happiness. They will level with you. -
I had the opportunity to design the video department for a college in NC and I can’t see altering much because of age. It’s a building block thing anyway and they” all need to have a basic concept of levels, whats apps are used for what tasks and deadlines. I set up a two year program where they learn non-linear editing on various flavors or NLEs, comositing and 2 D animation in after effects land, 3D animation in 3Dsmax world, and their final is combining all of those into their reel. If students don’t leave with a reel, they very well could be waisting their time. Having somthing to show for their efforts os both the only way theu will get a gig in the industry and the only way they will remain motivated to stay with it through the no so well-paying years. They need to be educated on these years too. Any kid that enters this field for money needs to leave now and make way for artists who do it because they have a passion for it. Let them know they wiont be paying bills with this stuff anytime soon. Ensure they understand the sacrifices their spouses will have to make because of the field they are choosing. Explain that they will be moving away from their home towns to persue this and that the ladder climb to financial security is at least a decade, if you’d even call it secure then.
You’ll always see those who love it seperate themselves from those skating on an easy elective. Don’t let it be easy. Your weeding process is as easy as a signal flow chart test. This aint fun for slackers. Believe me, I tried to be one.
Your budget will depict what gear you offer but the curriculum really should be just like a production… cover pre-production and budgeting, production, off-lining, then on-lining complete with sound design and visual effects. Check and double check those levels I mentioned. As NLE becomes the norm for preschoolers, legal levels and the teachings of them have gone by the waisteside. I have six-figure makin’ “veteran” editors in my market who could not tell ya the ins and outs of a componant waveform monitor to save their lives (or the piece they are working on). This is like putting a dirt track driver in the Indy500 without covering cornering on pavement… just a matter of time till somethin bad happens. -
I gotta say, I get all confused these days with the media composers. At the risk of sounding old or sound, a Media Composer use to be an NLE that Avid made that became the industry standard. Now, it’s a sort of turn key thingy with an adrenaline or a box of software for people with a pc.
Stuff worked when it was a media composer.
If I were gonna purchase software, I’d certainly go with FCP.sorry I was of no help, man. “I’m sorry” is the best I can do. I hope that makes it feel better.
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Use an animated mask in AE.
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Every now and again, someone will contact me wanting this or that. I tell em what I can do and how much I can do it for. If they say yes, it’s on. If they say thats too expensive, it’s not.
It doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.
I have told many a network how much I can make a 30 minute show every week for. No sale yet but I’m not gonna close down my regualar work flow to take a cut in pay.
I have spent very little time haggling in this business. Even back in the days of job interviews, I’d get pretty mad when somebody asked me what I’d work for on the phone, have me take a day off, fly me to their city and then offer me less.
They’s explain that my job was to ask for 120 percent of what I wanted and their job was to offer 80 percent. I’d always remind em that thats not what they asked of me and that I had already answered the question of how much I’d do it for. Haggling is a waist of my time. I’d rather be billing. -
people don’t hire editors because of certificat5ions… they hire em cuz they have a killer reel and awesome people skills. I’d hire a wiz-bang freelancer for the day to show me some chops then make a steller reel on my own.
Certifications are for engineers, imo. -
did you try closing capture tool?
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go into your deck configuration settings and delete all decks and close out of there. Then open it up again and reassign em. If your deck is not listed, you can just pick the poper connection and autoconfigure.
what did you “upgrade” from?