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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Editor rates in your area?

Google? What is a Google?
Although i'm not a native speaker, i think the correct term is Goggle.
And plumbers don't need them most of the time!

Bouke

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Shirley Gutierrez" <guanacaa@aol.com>
To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Editor rates in your area?

> Thank you! You spared me a Google.
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> Shirley
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Miller <ammfx@yahoo.com>
> To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tue, Jul 10, 2012 10:28 am
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Editor rates in your area?
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> Hunter Thompson
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> From: bouke <bouke@editb.nl>
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 1:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Editor rates in your area?
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> Who was it who said:
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> "The TV business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic
> hallway
> where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.
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> There's also a negative side..."
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> Bouke
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> VideoToolShed
> van Oldenbarneveltstraat 33
> 6512 AS NIJMEGEN
> The Netherlands
> +31 24 3553311
> www.videotoolshed.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shirley Gutierrez" <guanacaa@aol.com>
> To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 7:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Editor rates in your area?
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>> An interesting argument.
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>> But here's the thing: wage decline will eventually have a negative effect
>> for our clients, and for television programming generally, because it
>> ultimately will discourage senior professionals from remaining in the
>> editing area of the field. When folks like me find that they can't have a
>> decent, secure middle-class standard of living, they will look around for
>> other things to do. I myself may be stuck in what's been called "the
>> prior
>> investment trap," but other talented people who are younger than I may
>> decide that they should exercise other options, particularly if they want
>> to have children. The end result will be brain drain, as editing becomes
>> the province people under 35. And editorial brain drain is generally bad
>> news for producers and directors, because it will force them to work with
>> slower, less creatively experience, less productive personnel.
>> Ultimately,
>> that can be bad for your budget and timeline.
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>> I do understand that much of this decline has to do with the breakup of
>> the television market into tiny pieces, and that my clients are
>> struggling
>> with reduced budgets and compressed timelines. I have great love and
>> respect for my clients, and I know how hard they work. I also understand
>> that their wages have gone down as well. I guess one could argue that if
>> we all need to find ways to create value for our clients as well as
>> ourselves, that perhaps we also need to find a way to create value for
>> Discovery, and The History Channel, so that they can pay us more. But
>> somehow, I have trouble believing that those outfits are hurting so bad
>> they can't even give the people who work for them a cost of living
>> increase.
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>> Shirley
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wilson Chao <wilsonchao@gmail.com>
>> To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Tue, Jul 10, 2012 8:23 am
>> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Editor rates in your area?
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>> With all due respect, if you're solely suggesting a "move to raise
>> rates," I don't see how that will "create more value" for our CLIENTS.
>> And without our CLIENTS receiving/perceiving more value, it's hard to
>> justify anything more for US.
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>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Shirley Gutierrez <guanacaa@aol.com>
>> wrote:
>> Maybe there's a way we can create more value for ourselves. But I
>> don't think we can do it individually. I'm not suggesting a union
>> (I've done that and didn't like it much), but perhaps just a enough
>> networking that the move to raise rates comes from a lot of the top
>> editors in a given area at once, so there's more pressure.
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