Tony West
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[Bret Williams] “You’re paying both parts in either case.”
I don’t believe that is right Bret.
With a W2 the employer is paying half of your SS and Medicare. You pay the other half.
If they give you a 1099 you have to pay all of it yourself. You must pay self-employment tax.
I went through this for years. ESPN would give out a 1099 and I would have to pay huge amounts in taxes quarterly.
I got W2’s from FOX and I paid a lot less in taxes. (doing the same exact sports) I quit working for ESPN on that alone unless I was paid under our contract which was a W2.
I just sat down one day and did the numbers, then I took it to my accountant who confirmed my numbers.
Also if you get hurt on the job working under a 99 you are on your own.
[Bret Williams] “So many people don’t even know that their employer matches the SS tax. And that’s the way our gov would like to keep it.”
If somebody doesn’t understand what they are paying in taxes they should have their tax preparer explain it to them. If they are too disinterested to do that, it’s not the government’s fault.
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[Bret Williams] ” I’ve never heard of taxes being withheld for a freelancer”
I get that every day with my union contract.
I prefer not to get a 1099
They are not paying their part of your social security that way, which means I have to pay mine and theirs.
No thanks
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “big fancy fantasy films”
Outside of that……
T-mobil has a national ad out, that I saw yesterday with 3D graphics
Somebody better tell them that they don’t know what they are doing so they can yank it
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[James Ewart] “I just call old sequences and new projects “Timelines” now.”
Plus 1 on this James
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[Gary Huff] “[tony west] “But who would presume I was a hobbyist? Everybody that knows me knows I’m working on the NHL Playoffs right now. They don’t think I’m at a wedding because they know what I do for a living.
”WOOSH!
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More like……..cha ching
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[Douglas K. Dempsey] “The idea that you can or would sort clips as events comes straight from iMovie and iPhoto and presumes you are a hobbyist who hauls out your camera for a birthday or a wedding.”
But who would presume I was a hobbyist? Everybody that knows me knows I’m working on the NHL Playoffs right now. They don’t think I’m at a wedding because they know what I do for a living.
Doesn’t everyone else’s family and friends know what they do also?
The word “Events” doesn’t bother me at all. First off I’m not even looking at that word on the screen.
When I create a Library it doesn’t say “Event” up there it has a date. (until I change it)For me I find the date a powerful search engine by itself.
I have a Library called “Scenics 2015” It’s all shots that have been taken from around town.
In this case all I need is the date. I don’t need shots that were taken in January for an April game.
It could be the best shot of the Arch ever, but if folks are wearing their winter coats and there are no leaves on the trees it’s unusable.
I could go to Scenics 2014 April (event) and get away with those shots.
Within the events I tag baseball or hockey and so on.
It makes sense to me.
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[David Berez] ” I drool with envy when looking at Resolve 12 “
Why?
Doesn’t the 12 UI look “toy like” also? I mean……………it’s trying it’s best to be like X
What makes X look simple is when the audio and the video are together as one clip.
The timeline looks simplified that way, but you can expand your audio out and it looks like 12 or other track based NLE’s
Do you expand your audio out or do you just leave it together?
You can take a very complicated project and with it all “compressed” it doesn’t look like anything in X
Especially if you use compound clips.I remember when they first introduced X and took a complicated timeline and then looked at the same info in the X timeline, and then said “doesn’t that look great”. The flip side to that is that it looks easy that way. Like you are not working on anything that takes a lot of skill.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I haven’t seen a BM camera in the wild. “
I haven’t either.
Every time I turn around somebody has the c300
and now with that c300 mark II for 16k I expect to see even more of them.
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[Helmut Kobler] “I noticed the faster performance as well,”
Thanks Helmut, I was really wondering about that. Glad to hear it’s improved and look forward to downloading it soon.
[Helmut Kobler] “Where are the high standards Apple used to have?”
This is a good question : [
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[David Mathis] “Tony,
Next thing you know people will have an iPad attached to their arm.
“hahahaha : )