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

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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