Curiosity got the better of me and I looked into it as an editor just now.
They have a whopping 2 projects available to work on. Most of the
past-deadline ones (there were 5 total projects) are "bid"-based where you
edit a part of it and might not get paid the $100 pittance for completing
the project. One was a "contest" for an entire music video - which is
pretty lame - and $300 to the chosen winner. This type of business model
might be coming for our jobs, but I'm not sure this specific site will be.
It does look like there might be something there for 1-2 minute
screencasts, as they're pushing that as a major part of their business
model. I know I can knock out a serviceable (which seems to be the level of
expectation) Camtasia video in less than an hour, and I'm sure there's
hundreds of students willing to knock those out for beer money.
Essentially, it's like working freelance for a poorly-paying production
company that constantly hires other editors to do your projects without
telling you and doesn't pay you for your work when they do it faster (not
better). I'm not entirely sure there's a model for this in local businesses
or internet startups. Both need a hands-on approach and a lot of back and
forth in my experience.
One demo they have is of an online wine company that does very templated
talk-to-camera descriptions of wines. There's 3-4 cuts and I'm sure they're
all the pretty much the same and there's probably hundreds of them. Also,
there's a dump of vacation footage edited to unlicensed pop music for $100.
In fact, there's a lot of unlicensed music in their public demos. Ballsy.
Those specific situations actually benefit from the cheap, cold,
mechanistic turnaround of a service like this, I guess?
*MATT WALCZAK*
www.mattwalczak.com
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Michael Towe <L2mail@m2digitalpost.com>wrote:
> Seems like a new one of these services is popping up every day. I like how
> they are offering a 24 hour turn around on rough cuts. So basically you are
> going to send me Uncle Bob's video of a wedding and I have to turn it
> around in 24 hours? Good luck with that kids!
>
> Mike
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> M2 Digital Post Inc.
> San Diego, Ca.
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> On Jun 20, 2013, at 8:24 AM, Terence Curren <tcurren@aol.com> wrote:
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> > Zoinks!
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