Scott Carnegie
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“Exactly… because they don’t consult with editors. ”
That’s completely not true. Bob Russo is an editor, and the product evangelist for Avid. I’m an editor and have had direct input on product, I am also a moderator on the Avid forums.
As for the forums, the Cow put all of the Avid products into one forum, while the Avid page has several for different products, which I what I have always preferred.
I started off posting in 2000 at avidpronet.com, which was eventually migrated into Avid’s site, which I continued onto. So I think this idea of criticizing Avid for “driving interest” away from the COW is not a valid argument for several reasons, one being that several folks weren’t on the COW in the first place and two being that there is nothing wrong with trying to bring your user base to your company website, it’s good marketing.
They have screwed up with the pricing on Mojo DX and other things through the years, that’s for sure. This just shows that competition is good and will determine pricing, that’s why Media Composer costs what it does now compared to several years ago.
We just bought 6 Avid’s (2 Symphony Nitris DX, 4 NewsCutter Nitris DX) along with Avid Interplay to run during the Olympics, I think they are focusing more on these things than in the single operator system.
There is room in the market for several products. The Avid bashing going on in this thread is unwarranted.
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You were hired help, a “work for hire” (which is not the same as an employee) you don’t own the video, the people that paid you did, unless you have a contract that states otherwise.
Going in for royalties after the fact seems like a sleazy move to make BTW, going that route will gaurantee that they won’t hire you again.
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The person that pays the bills calls the shots, you are hired help. “Putting your name on it” is over-valued, it really doesn’t mean anything in the corporate video world.
Charging half price so you can “put your name on it” makes you look like a chump, lesson learned 🙂 Do a good job at full price and the organizer is likely to hire you again, squabble over credits and you are less likely to be hired again.
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I have a wordpress based site. I make a FLV of the video in Sorenson and upload it to my server. I make a password protetced page in wordpress and put in the code I need to have the FLV playback.
It’s pretty manual but I don’t have a lot of client approval videos to put up. Once it’s encoded it only takes a few minutes to do.
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I’ve put credits at the end of a corporate when the client has asked. I have not put my logo or anything other than what they asked for. People new to the biz get really excited over seeing their credit at the end of a show, no one else really cares.
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Media Specialist
Content CreatorI don’t think “Creative Director” fits here, they aren’t usually the ones doing the grunt work.
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“I now specifically have a clause in my contracts that state Project Files are not part of any agreement and are not a deliverable. ”
Same thing here. Ownerhsip is clearly stated that the client owns the final gfx, but I retain ownership of project files.
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Yes I have.
I had a contract to tape a live sports event multi-camera and edit it into a final program. I had done this same thing for this client in the past and they were the very definition of grinders, so in the contract I had an “out” clause. Music was used during the live event that was copyright protected that I would have to edit out in the final program, even though I told them way ahead of time not to do that (they’d done it in the past) and I provided a stock music library for them to choose tracks from.
The live event was a dogs breakfast production wise; between not being given enough time to properly set-up the cameras, having the budget scraped back and back to where I has a skeleton crew and couldn’t trouble shoot, to not being respected when I told them I needed 5 minutes to fix a camera problem in between matches (it was a pro wrestling show) and then the copyright thing.
After a few weeks of contemplating, I sent them their shoot tapes back along with a cheque for a refund for the post they had already paid for, and that was it. When they asked for a reason why I said that the problems caused during production (including the things I warned them about ahead of time) could be fixed in post but would be out of the budget range they had apporved. I knew they didn’t want to spend more so they hired someone internally to do it, I don;t think it was ever put together.
The owner threatened to sue me. They ran one more live event and went out of business.
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I think broadcast TV will still have the market for live programming. As many ways as there are currently to watch programming besides with a traditional broadcast or cable/satellite, they still have a very large market share. The reports of their demise may be exaggerated.
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If it’s a client that I’ve done work for in the past and they want to meet with me to talk about a project, I go. If it’s someone new I will get some info up front first and then if it’s something I’m likely to work I, I go.
They can hire any Joe Blow, I’m nothing special, there are a lot of small production companies is my city that do the same thing I do, but in a face-to-face I am selling myself and that has worked out so far.