[Richard Herd]

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[Richard Herd]

Weirdos and wannabes.

Richard Herd, an actual cow name (not to be confused with the famous actor).

[Richard Herd]

[alban egger] “The very distant future might be that we don´t record in camera, but in the cloud and while we shoot the editor picks the shots already in the studio……..”

Folks have been doing this for years, using gadgets like AJA IO HD. Putting the post production budget into the production budget is good business, for some clients.

You also wrote, “while we shoot the editor.” Now, that’s a funny quote, out-of-context.

[Richard Herd]

I feel your anxiety. I too work for a non-profit with EdDs who although quite smart are functionally illiterate on computers. My program lives and dies with grant money. We must submit a dollar amount for the grant every year or next year it looks like an unjustified capital increase year-over-year.

Good luck!!

[Richard Herd]

[TImothy Auld] “en if it’s a flat rate there is an understanding that that flat rate will only take up so much of my time.”

Another way of saying that is socially necessary labor time. For me, I nudge down the money if the creative project is high. I nudge up the money if there’s corporate marketing involved.

Someone who has a good script and needs some help, I have charged less.

A Marketing campaign that has a terrible script and needs help, I have charged more.

The marketing bids, for me though, have always negotiated rate/hour and I argue them as shooting ratio. Saying things like “If I shoot 1 hour of footage, I still have to watch that 1 hour of footage.”

[Richard Herd]

[Jeremy Garchow] “star”

I’ve been thinking about this and running some experiments, and I’ve benefited to your ample knowledge of X.

It all comes down to a simple question: how can you listen to 7 — nay: 2 — tracks of audio at the same time and evaluate a single one?

[wait for it]

You can’t.

Therefore, I don’t see the advantage you’re gaining, ergo the png you posted. It’s unnecessary for evaluating an audio stream. (Oh, and I lamented over the word “stream.”)

Even in cases where the first 22.28 frames (yes, that’s subframes) in X are syncable (to coin a new homophone) and the other bits are not, then you can simply range select and add the audio to any point you want, at that moment, I would use Q and then create a compound clip.

Granted, you’re free to do whatever you want, and while I’m learning lots from your posts, I will still continue to use X, Legend, and PP.

[Richard Herd]

Actually, this is very helpful, Bill.

[Bill Davis] “NEVER charge for things based on TIME” (although I redacted unfairly, to highlight the generality).

thanks!

[Richard Herd]

The index needs to be printable, or sendable to excel.

[Richard Herd]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Can I suggest you start quoting so we know who you are talking to? “

Yes.

[Richard Herd]

Hey Bill,

I have also observed that X is a bit quicker, but now I’m running into billing issues. That is a job that used to take an hour, now takes 15 minutes. For example, audio is way faster for me in X than it was in 7. Additionally, in some cases, I can finish an edit before the transcoding finishes (p2 mxf to mov). I finished a 4 hour job in 90 minutes. Client is just as happy. I mean uh, how are you personally dealing with the business side of your editing business? — if you don’t mind me asking.

(Additional context includes the notion that so-and-so has a nephew who can do the same thing for 25% of the rate, so there’s a trend to race to the bottom that has been widely discussed in the Cow’s business forum.)

Thanks!