James Culbertson
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“[Andrew Kimery] “Shame you ended a decent post with an ignorant character attack. Where did I say I hated Capitalism?”
[Mitch Ives] Seriously? That whole post came across as an indictment of big business. I’ve shown your post to four other people to get a second read and they all made the same comment on their own. Now, if you didn’t mean it that way, that’s another discussion.”
My take is that Andrew wasn’t criticizing big-business Capitalism so much as the fact that when humans become involved, the principles of Capitalism are often degraded to anything goes (corporate welfare, insider trading, market manipulations of all kinds, monopoly, you name it); this is particularly true the bigger the business. It’s all about what you can get away with, not that you are upholding some abstract principle of free-market Capitalism. The more local and smaller-scale the business the more free-market the interaction, but also the more ethical the exchange due to direct human interaction in most cases.
As one of my best friends who has been a CFO/CIO in the clothing business for many decades across many different large companies (some fortune 500), and more lately the CEO of a smaller clothing corporation has said, any CEO or corporate executive who tried to actually run their company true to free-market principles would be fired immediately. “Free-markets”(as abstract principle) is a business tool (some would say a weapon) that should be applied to everyone else but not my company; a corporate NIMBY of sorts.
Free markets are a myth that have never existed except in places like Somalia. I think an honest viewing of the historical evidence shows that a balance of Capitalism, Socialism and government regulation are (at this point in time at least) best for the health and stability of both business and society.
But I was trained first as a scientist, so I try to look at the empirical evidence rather than getting caught up in abstract principles of either the left or the right.
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[Richard Herd] “does it mean video editors must edit anything a client requests?”
I’m not sure how the status quo would be any different than before with regards to American/Arizona anti-discrimination law.
You just can’t use a “religious” excuse to get around such discrimination laws.
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[Scott Witthaus] “located in the Seattle area”
When I was starting out editing in the Seattle area in the mid-90’s, I got $25/hour which very quickly went to $35/hour. Microsoft (as one example) paid around $300/day in the late 90’s (to start). Now I get anywhere from $500/day to $700/day for corporate gigs (“8” hour day). A common hourly is $65 to $75/hour. I’ve heard of editors who are making higher day rates… but I like my clients, I can work from home for the most part, and the income is good relative to the cost of living up here (at least for where I live).
I’m probably a bit too zen about marketing myself and pushing my hourly rate.
I don’t shoot much anymore, but $2500/day is the most common day rate I have heard recently amongst the pros I know (depending upon the camera). Don’t know what the low end does these days.
James
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[Oliver Peters] “I suspect the files in question were ProRes, but came from some oddball source, like maybe a camera manufacturer’s conversion utility.”
Is there some kind of tag in the file that indicates origination? Otherwise, what difference could there be between ProRes files coming from different apps?
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[Mitch Ives] “While it might have been more convenient, given the spate of really good XLR-USB adapters out there (we probably all own one) it really isn’t an issue.”
Agreed. How many of the kind of folks who buy expensive mac pros even use a built-in mic anymore. I have a Matrox and M-Audio box and have not used my mic in perhaps 5 or more years. I assume their research reflects this.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I have not tried old DV decks, but on everything else, so far so good. I really like it and it is nice to be able to route all of the necessary cabling to a location of my choosing.
The power brick for it is H-U-G-E, so prepare yourself for that.”
I’ve got a nice collection of power bricks so no big deal there.
Otherwise, good to hear.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I have a Belkin TBolt dock and it shows audio input (and there’s an audio in port, as well).”
Jeremy, I’ve ordered one of these. Any issues with that docks firewire port?
Hot-plugability, bus-power, interfacing with old DV decks,…?
Thanks, James
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[Darren Roark] “80% of Gravity’s domestic box office was from 3D. When it’s done that well people will still go to the theater and put on the stupid glasses. 3D isn’t going away.”
I watched Gravity in 3D. It kind of reminds me of watching a video game.
I think I will avoid 3D for another couple of years until they improve the process to the extent that it does not distract from the actual film story.
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“NLE debate” is good.