Kim Krause
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and a ugly interface…still prefer davinci resolve….
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it doesn’t really matter how fast you are when the director and the continuity can’t even do their job. lately i have been appalled at the number of big shows with basic continuity errors..you know the kind…glass in the left hand on the close up. then half full glass in the right hand on the wide shot. shirts open, shirts closed..it doesn’t matter what you edit on if the material is flawed. why don’t people ever bitch about that.
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now i’m really shocked…even our high end post houses only charge around $250 hour for grading on a base light or even pablo. then they gotta pay the operator out of that! i am amazed that anywhere in the world someone can charge $1000 an hour…and you find people with money who are happy to pay that? where are you? it’s any wonder the industry is in such a nose dive when some people are making that kind of money and others can’t even get their day rate. i even had one job taken away from me because the post house that was doing the audio mix offered the grading for free to keep the client in house. free!!!!!
please feel free to hire me..i have many years of experience. i’ll be over immediately wherever in the world you are. for that kind of money i’ll even let the clients sit on my lap….i’m in south afric by the way so i guess things are very different down here…. -
$100 an hour! holy crap….you guys are way to overpaid. you would be lucky to get around 40 bucks an hour here. and you might only work 7 or 8 months as well during the busy season. i would think i died and went to heaven if i could get 100 bucks an hour even using my own gear. 300 a day is the going rate and most clients will expect a 25% discount on top of that. i gotta move back to north america where the real money is!
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who can live on 100 bucks a day….while there is no denying the industry is changing and not all will be the “rock starts” we still need to be paid a fair wage for the service we provide. once clients think that $100 bucks a day is the going rate this will kill the industry. we will all become redundant and like the animation industry and manufacturing industry, everything will go to china for cheap labor and we will all be screwed. it takes money and talent to grow and sustain any industry and once we start giving it away then we have killed the film industry as well.
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you are so funny mr owens but this is almost exactly what happened to me….i lost a job to a company that offered the grade for free if the client did the final audio mix with them…..pay for the mix get a free grade!
i figure i’ll just have to start offering free audio with every grade or maybe even free chauffeur rides around cape town with the added bonus of a good shag in the back seat after every grade. the way i see it they could pay for the sexual favors and get the grade for free. then again clients are so accustomed to screwing us over for free maybe they wouldn’t like the idea of having to start paying for it! -
if they abandon support for the older intensity cards then we all have to upgrade…..i think thats where they are going and wouldn’t be surprised if the 8.2 update excluded older intensity cards. then the free lite version won’t be so free anymore!
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it really depends on what the market will bear and in recent years that has dropped significantly. in most places the hourly rate for colorists has dropped by around 30% and in some places the day rate is half what it was a few years ago. it all comes down to lack of budgets and the increase in number of people selling themselves as colorists. right now you can hire a film student for $10/hour with a laptop and davinci resolve lite and he might even do an okay job. the industry is evolving and you gotta set your price based on what you think you’re worth against what people are willing to or able to pay for the service. even after i cut my prices by 30% just to keep the jobs i have lost out to editors who do the grade for free with whatever tools they have just so they can get the work. most offer grading for free in return for you using them to edit. its hard to compete with free. i even had a post house throw in the grade for free if the sound mix was done at their place….how can one compete with that?
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so you threw out stuff that works perfectly well for most jobs….doesnt make sense to me. after all avid works on a mac premiere works on macs davinci works on a mac as does color as does pro tools as does photoshop…..get where i’m going? what are you really gaining and what is the cost for all this cross platform exercise?
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funny how real time playback isn’t an issue all of a sudden. i can remember the cries and complaining when people couldn’t coax real time playback out of color. many even jumped ship to davinci because there was “no rendering required”. we all know that’s not the case.