[Avid-L2] Re: Not to say "I told you so...."

Steve I think your missing the point here. I would imagine you treat your editors and artists fairly and with a decent wage for their services. To really do this the right way you should be hiring workers who have the "Gift of Desperation" and can pay a minimal wage so you can reap a bigger profit for their hard work. Why let them eat cake when they can be doing your roto work.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@...> wrote:
>
> To some extent, I do this already, though not in other countries. Most
> of the time I have just enough work for myself, but sometimes I have
> as many as three other freelance editors who do the work either at
> their homes, on laptops at my shop, or on my systems and I simply do
> the client interface. Sometimes I have to step in and do revisions
> myself, but usually the changes aren't because the other editors are
> inferior (I usually hire people with BETTER skills than I have). It's
> just the typical client changes that are mostly due to differences in
> opinion or viewpoint, or that the client IMAGINES something that they
> just can't have.
>
> Case in point on my latest spot: The client had 12 seconds of "locked
> in" sponsor copy in a 30 second spot, so I wrote and edited 18 seconds
> of "Creative copy." The client had changes: Please swap out one
> soundbite for another one that they preferred. Simple enough, except
> that they wanted to replace a 2 second soundbite with as 14 second
> soundbite. It took quite a bit of convincing that I simply couldn't
> "edit it down..."
>
> After about a day of deliberation and actually cutting a rough cut
> with their soundbite in, we ended up ... you guessed it, right back
> with my original copy. But, this shouldn't surprise anyone on this list.
>
> All of my motion graphics stuff is done with artists all over the
> country. I pull 3D from one place, send it to another, get Flash
> authoring or design done somewhere else... Everything's done with ftp
> and yousendit and email.
>
> voice123.com is where I get nearly all of my voice over work now. I
> just worked with a GREAT talent in England. Direct over Skype, files
> delivered via yousendit.com. Auditions work great as really nicely
> read "scratch" tracks instead of having the editor (God forbid) read
> it. I am starting to think that the internet might not be just a
> fad. :-)
>
>
> On Oct 26, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Terence Curren wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@>
> > wrote:
> >
> > <<Most of my clients that are located elsewhere have edited with
> > > me before, or simply got used to the idea that I was somewhere
> > else.>>
> >
> > Take this one step further Steve, what if you had a couple editors
> > in other countries who were very economical. And you could sub out
> > the work to them and just polish it yourself allowing you to handle
> > a greater amount of business and enjoy some free time with your family
> >
> > I think this is the concept that will fill most of the gaps here. An
> > english speaking editor who interfaces with the client, fronting the
> > actual guys doing the editing somewhere else. I'm also guessing that
> > is what the post houses that started this thread have in mind.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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