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Opoortunity should never be mistaken for a pain in the arse. IN this case, you have the opportunity to be their hero and 5 bucks on your end could bring you thousands later.
Send em a disc with a sweet note in there.
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I’m a simple man. I base my bids on my day rate. Period. It includes travel days. Not the norm, I know, but when I’m sitting on a runway, I can’t bill for editing. In a nutshell, what I sell is my time and none of it is worth less than other times.
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Just export a nice quicktime cropped at 720X360 for vimeo when done editing.
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Today’s video editor needs to have great story telling skills as more and more sessions are unsupervised. He wears the hat of post production supervisor from the time capturing starts to distribution of the final product. Then there is making that final product. It includes sound design, visual design of elements, the animating of those elements and the creation of any effects needed to tie everything together. One dude.
This said, you’ll still find few editors with 3D skills, for whatever reason. It helps. I can tell you the more skill sets you provide, the more you will bill. If all of this feels like it’s a different path, focus on that path in your head and make changes to get there. Today’s post producer is dang near a courior. This may be a more comfy role for you… nothing wrong with that. When I work with a producer, most of the time, they drop off elements than I see em the next morning when they pick stuff up. They may give me some verbal direction before heading to the mall on the clock but never more than that. -
I hate to say it because times are tough, things have been slow, and I’ve been slinging reels and resumes around only to hear I am over qualified or can’t be afforded. That said, I’d sooner hire 3 eager youngans for the same salary as a veteran editor any day. A: let’s face it, we can teach a monkey what the buttons do. B: they don’t have to be at scouts or the soccer field by 5:30. You can work their asses off and they are happy as a lark. C: They don’t yet have opinions or habbits… you can train em to your work flow.
I do realize there is a great worth in vast experience. I have that in my shop though. -
I’ve always dug the Magnum. Cool, fun, spacious, and can haul gear, family, and ass.
On the other end of the spectrum, I tore up my thousand dollar bigass van yesterday without hesitation. The shoot called for some off roading and eventually, a little jump. So be it. Sometimes a hooptie freakin rocks. -
Pretty spot on until I got to the act more like a lawyer and less like an artist part. Speaking only for myself, I would have had to go into law to make that work.
I did love the pay your vendors now part. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to call for payment only to hear “we havn’t gotten paid for that job yet.” Never have I understood what that has to do with what they owe me and I’ve always taken that as an invitation to not work with them again. I don’t even do the 30 day net thang. When someone finishes a job for me, I hug em and hand ema check. Just easier than remembering what and who I owe. -
He’d own it if he bought it but if I understand correctly, he paid for nothing.
If that’s the case, of course, it’s your footage. -
It’s always sad to hear this, Tami. Sorry they did that to ya. I think many of us have had hit shows we never collected a check from. That said, is your legal team aware of the agreement you agreed to when registering to the portal and how their unsolicited submission forms read?
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Hi, Alice.
I get this with spectramatte sometimes too. It certainly dislikes certain threshold/edge combos. I often gravitate to BCC’s keyer for this reason. It’ll offer a soft drop shadow for you too.