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You may be thinking backwards, man. Rates continue to fall due to technology prices falling. If you are able to charge what you use to, man that’s awesome. I use to be able to charge 450 an hour for post while today, man it’s pretty hard to get 200 an hour for much more capabilities than what was paid twice for for half the capabilities.
bottom line… if you have an old client that can’t afford your services, wish them well. Mean it. and feel it knowing they will come back within the year eager to pay your old rates, having felt the burn in letting their interns bag em for a while.
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if wanting to stay with avid, of course, you have to outgrow mojo.
Your question is if it’s more cost effective to upgrade to a macbook pro with fcp. -
how much would you like to sell your 4000 for?
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deWolfe.com is my favorite. They like to work blanket deals and I dig that.
To answer your question about other wedding dues, most of them are pirates. Heck their industry even gives awards to those who steal copyrighted tunage. Go figure. -
Seems like you;d wanna edit em if selling them. You can easily just upload em when done, as suggested.
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wow. First, I dont know how religeon comes up in a pitch but don’t let it happen. Second, against what many will say, skip the contract and just get half down and half upon delivery. In my 25 years of doing this, never have I chased anyone away by dangling a contract in front of em. I also don’t make it a practice to preach my personal beliefs until we’re firing one up after the production. That’s when ther god, aliens, love life heavy topics come up… after the friendship is made. Rush that and you’ll run off everyone from girlfriends to mother in laws. lol
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Unions. If a voice talent wishes to mimit himself by restricting himself, there are penty others that are willing to do work. Today spoils me. If I can’t have a 250 vo by noon by someone, I just call the second guy on my list and call it done.
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Call the studio that released the movie, explain the use request and offer a price. It doesn’t have to complicated and you don’t have to spend money on an entertainment atty. A reputable agent may be able to haggle a good price for you but you’ll wind up paying the same out of pocket after his cut. It’s not hard to just call and tell em what you wanna do. It’ll boil down to a yes or no on a price.
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You can’t get the ultra clean slow mo you’ve seen so much lately unless you shoot at higher frames per second with a different camera. That said, I get nice results with drag racing drive bys with fluid motion in avid and just using time remapping in AE.
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Often the bigger and older the company, the harder it becomes for them to evolve with the times. They use to provide something that could not easily be had elsewhere. Now, digital recording is in the hands of literal babes and VOs don’t have to cost any of us more than 250 bucks with often less than a one hour turn around. They simply got blinded by the 80s. Those times were very good to them… hence the inability to let go of that habitual behavior.
I liked the 80s too. Parachute pants went out of style and I’m too bald for a sweet mullet today. I can’t bill 400 an hour anymore either but all the above are common sense if you allow them to be.