Patrick Sheffield
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That is an excellent question. I personally would never have done that, but good editor does not automatically equal ethical giant, so… First of all it is a conversation you can have with the editor in advance.
You can make it known that a career is not a single job and if s/he wants continued work from you (as all freelancers must constantly look to the next job), they are better off to continue to work thru you. Back when I was free-lance, I knew where my bread was buttered.
You can also make an editor sign a non-compete document. There were times when I had to do that. This just basically said that I wouldn’t steal a company’s clients. Usually there was an expiry date that said the editor could do business outside the company after they hadn’t worked with the company for after a certain period of time. I would usually modify that to include that I could continue to do business with clients I knew prior to working for this company.
In the end, the market isn’t so big that a single client is gonna keep an editor working full time, so their best bet is to work thru you if you can keep them busy…
Patrick
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I often faced that problem.
My solution was this: If I only knew them thru the place I was working for, I wouldn’t work for them directly or outside the place I was working for (at least for a year).
If there was some other connection with the client, even if the place I was working at brought us together on a project, I would accept jobs from that client directly or at another venue.
I did not hide this from the folks I was working for. In some cases I put it in writing. Honest and above board was the best way I found to deal with these situations…
Patrick
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Decklink works for external monitoring in FCP, Shake, Combustion, and Motion. I’ve used it for each.
Patrick
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Your problem is largely in the blue channel. Drop that out and most of it should go away, no?
Patrick