Mike Jeffs
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[James Ewart] “When a painter of carpenter comes to my house I do not expect to be charged for the use of the brushes or hammers.
“In my former life I worked as a drywall guy. tradesman definitely charge for there tools. In our case it came in the form of hourly rate being higher in order to pay for new tools expendibles etc. I have know many others who actually add in line items for new tools they need to get a certain job done.
Really I think tradesman are in the same boat as us video editors to charge for our tools or not.
Mike Jeffs
Production Services Manager
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[Andrew Kimery] “How much use do your decks get these days? I assume there’s maybe a tape delivery but are you seeing much tape ingest anymore?”
A smattering of hdcam here and there, a rare digibeta, But surprisingly a lot of Xdcam discs. There are quite a few places that invested heavily in that format and still use it to deliver footage, shows and others clips.
Of course that vast majority is digital files so we need every type of hard drive connection and card readers known to man. 🙂
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[Oliver Peters] “That’s assuming you have some sort of client amenities, too”
At PBS only the best that Viewers like you provide 🙂 Only joking our department self sustaining.
[Oliver Peters] “ou ought to be in the $150-$250/hour range (including editor)”
Doing that math I would say that’s pretty accurate to what we charge.
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[Walter Soyka] “What’s included in “edit facilities” for $120/hr”
Here we are running Adobe, FCP, and Avid machines, attached to a large SAN and MAM. With automatic archiving and syncing of all edit suites. All suits have Color Correction monitors Various IO decks and properly calibrated audio monitors, as well as all the other bells and whistles 🙂
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[Oliver Peters] “Usually I get a day rate for me and then some sort of flat kit fee for the use of my gear.”
Oliver is your flat kit fee per project one time charge no matter the amount of days of edit or is it per day? Even if its less then your home base set up
[Oliver Peters] “when I’m on-site using my laptop system. Clients seem to think that should be tossed in for free”
This gets my thought process when it comes to FCPX. Do clients think “hey thats a cheap software that runs on a regular mac laptop I shouldn’t possible have to pay for you to use it.” And maybe it is unfair of me to single out FCPX editors, all the major NLEs are relatively in expensive and run on relatively economical machines.
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[Andrew Kimery] “How does it compare to what other places are charging in San Diego”
That is what I am getting at. Looking around I can’t really find others still charging for their Edit equipment. All I hear about or see (Google) is day rates, and they are all over the place. I have to assume they are building it into their day rates which leaded to my question of FCPX editors what percentage to they build into it? Or do they not?
Mike Jeffs
Production Services Manager
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Check out these guys they have some great avid archiving products
https://www.marquisbroadcast.com/avid-edit-solutions.html
Mike Jeffs
Production Services Manager
KPBS San Diego -
I did the media encoder export and clip came out correct. Thank you for the info. I guess from here on out its export with ME
Mike Jeffs
Production Services Manager
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We put a order in back in Dec, and they are just now getting to shipping the dang thing out. They sale adapters so you can use any brand of 2″ or 3″ gaff tape. I am excited to try the thing if we ever get it 🙂
Mike Jeffs
Production Services Manager
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Mark I completely understand what you are saying. interestingly enough from my research so far, when it comes to pricing we are right in line with our competitors. So hopefully we don’t step on any toes
Mike Jeffs
Production Services Manager
KPBS San Diego