[Zvi Twersky]

Yes, I said that I understand that of course I’d need first ALL the details. I think your response is wise and I liked the “per rolling minute” charge idea. I will be in touch if I need more help. Thanks!!

[Zvi Twersky]

Thanks Ross for your reply. The thing is, I don’t have couples as clients but my clients are production companies, videographers and photographers. I don’t really have much margin to make “packages” as you mentioned. My clients tell me what style they want and that’s what I edit. I just can’t think of anything to add to the edit itself to be better than other editors. I feel that once a perfected the cuts, music and story… I’m done.

[Zvi Twersky]

Thanks Ross,

Like you, I like excellency and strive to be the best at what I do. Although for a while my dream has been to work in more high-end production projects, at this time though, I am doing mainly events. With event editing, as an editor trying to make a living, you have a constant battle between quality and time. I can do a 2 cam wedding with a third DSLR in a day and a half. Of course, if I wanted to, I can take two weeks to edit the same wedding, working 2 days to get perfect color correction on every shot, 3 days on VFX, maybe some matting, tracking, etc… but we all know that no wedding editor would be able to make a living like that, so I’m limited to minimal color correction, sound enhancements, story-telling etc… but at least I know that all event editors do the same. So how can I be “the best” when you hit your quality and time limit with all you’ve got? I know I’m good – maybe very good – since there is a demand for my work – maybe it’s because I’m very strict on small details, thus less than 1% of my work returns for fixing or changes and this gives my photographer clients peace and quiet.

In the past 5 years, I’m constantly researching the best of event cinematography and editors and learning anything I can. 5 years ago it was easy to impress clients… the more effects, page turns and flashes you added to a movie, the more “Wow” factor it got. Those days are over. People want emotional, classic highlights and a clean edit. I do the best of what I know but can’t seem to think of anything to add to my event editing, without spending to much more time on one project – but standing out from the rest. I’m good at 3ds-Max, After Effects, Mocha, Photoshop and more but can’t see how it’s possible to spend time with these in a wedding project without spending many hours more than I already do. Once I got my music in place and the cuts and story are flowing to my liking, it’s time to wrap up the project. Maybe this is how it is with events – or maybe I’m missing something. Check out my latest clip – what would you add or change to go from “good editor – but not unique” to “Best editor out there”? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvmlwR0j60Q&hd=1

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[Zvi Twersky]

Thanks for all the advice so far.

I would just like to say a few things: First, I am not underpaid and actually, I take more than any other freelance editor I know, or that I researched in my area, does. Second, my plan was not to take an editor as an employer but to have him open his own small business (I don’t know what it’s called here but in Israel, if you make under a certain margin, you are exempt from most taxes) and I would get a receipt from him on every job I pay him for. This way, I don’t have the head-ache of managing and paying taxes and benefits on employees.

[Zvi Twersky]

Interesting. Does it open the whole project (menus and all) when you choose the iso file? Can you import and burn an iso file that wasn’t created in Encore?

[Zvi Twersky]

That’s what I know too and why I asked Jeff what he meant to import an image file to Encore to burn which I never heard of. I use ImgBurn to burn iso’s. You can use Nero, Ashampoo, it really doesn’t matter.

[Zvi Twersky]

If your Encore project is a blu ray one, you can just export to image file (instead of burn to disk) and that image file (.iso) can be burned to a blu ray with any burning software.

[Zvi Twersky]

Thanks for the reply. They are very far apart. But even if not, Encore doesn’t have a problem with IFrames, so if you input a timecode that is not on an IFrame, Encore will just place the chapter point at the nearest IFrame for you. I was told that if you manually type in the timecode (not copy paste) this bug won’t happen. I haven’t tried that but that is not an option for me. (Too much work). I have also had a suggestion to install the 6.0.2 update. I haven’t tried that yet.

[Zvi Twersky]

I didn’t know that you can import an image file into Encore to burn it. Why would one do that? I only use Encore to make my project into an image file and then burn that image with any burning software. I’ve been doing this the same way for years so I don’t know how or why it would be associated with something else all of a sudden. I also think it’s ok to windows because if I load this image file to a virtual drive, it will play just fine on any media player in Windows. So will BDMV structure play well in Windows players but will not burn to blu ray. (Unless I burn directly to blu ray from an encore project).

[Zvi Twersky]

Thanks, but this was posted three years ago! I use CS6 now and don’t have this problem.