[Olivier Prudhomme]

old thread but I have the exact same issue.
I am on Avid but it has nothing to do with it since we are using the same interface.
Can’t understand why V2 doesn’t show.

[Olivier Prudhomme]

Thanks all.

I was able to get AE in another bay so pb solved!

[Olivier Prudhomme]

great info, thanks Shane.
And BTW I am the guy you helped his career starting! You got me a job as a lead assistant editor at the Incubator in 2008!!!
This was the job which got my career started. I have been editing promos for TV networks for the last 5 years now and part thanks to you!
So thank you for still being around and help!
People… this man ROCKS!!!

[Olivier Prudhomme]

yeah i thought of that but no AE in the post house…
Thinking of bringing it in FCP…

[Olivier Prudhomme]

The talking head is dead center but I would have to scale it down a bit so there is a little side head room…
AS far as cropping Only the left and right

[Olivier Prudhomme]

great points Mark! I don’t agree with all of them but I want to step back and read again.

I have to clarify that my post might have been misleading but I am TV editor and I work in L.A. in a network and get paid $75/hour.
I just wanted to specify because this might explain why I take on side jobs for less money because they are pretty painless and at the end of the year it is an extra $15K and when I look back I am really happy for the extra cash and also the things I learn in the process.

BUT I totally agree as far as setting bad habits for the clients. I am constantly angry when I see companies looking for pro editors with TV experience who can also graphic design for…. $250 / day!!!
As a pro editor I do NOT accept these jobs. The “best” I can do is… $450/day for a couple days…

The pb is that the company who hires me doesn’t know anything about video related work. They always approach me saying “it’s a simple project…. only 2-3 min long”. So I am “educating” them by showing them why they have to pay more everytime. Over the last 5 years I was able to bring in gfx designers, a sound mixer and the last add-on was VO recording… in a real studio.
And to show you that I really care about not giving them bad habits, I always ask the mixer and the designers to charge their actual rate.

But again, thanks for this conversation.

[Olivier Prudhomme]

didn’t really count (which I know I should) since it was a side gig. I worked from home at night a few hours here and there and on weekends over a period of 2 weeks. If I’d have to guess I’d say a good 60hours which in LA is a week of work in a lot of places where they hire you for the day.
I would charged more if it was my only income but it’s not and it creates a relationship with the client.
Every job they give me I slowly increase the rates as they understand / see why we (editors) need to be paid for what we do.
What do you charge for things like this?

[Olivier Prudhomme]

[Mark Suszko] “”straight editing” of what, exactly? Just because it’s 2 minutes long doesn’t necessarily make it easy to cut”

Hey Mark,
It is exactly a 2:30 spot was a huge american corporation.
The footage comes from several HD sources but only 2 formats so easy to convert.
The script was written by the company. Per my request they gave me a detailed script with Audio/Video so they had an idea of what visual would support their copy.
I had to pick the music tracks which was pretty time consuming because the spot was “corporate” but the client didn’t want it feel that way. So music and editing technics made the spot more upbeat and tasteful.
I also created a open gfx and and endpage.
I directed the VO session/

I was paid $3300. What would you have charged?
Did I lowball too much?

Does it seem fair?

[Olivier Prudhomme]

Oh i see.

THx for all the tips guys

[Olivier Prudhomme]

[John Rofrano] “tell your client that MP4’s play fine on Windows”

it was too risky since the spot was a high profile spot for the client, being shown in a convention center during a meeting. Too much at stake to push them into the mp4 direction in case something failed. They want wmv, it fails… fine. Mp4 and it fails… then “why did you have us go with mp4?” 🙂

But good to know for the future that mp4 plays on any modern windows machine.
And you’re 100% sure right? Because I just had another request for wmv file