This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Need an editor?

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] Need an editor?

Most of my clients wouldn't be able to do the shooting part - and those
that could, already have a guy with Adobe Premier on staff.....

I can't see that this would last. The editors can't make a living at
these rates.

Anyone want to suggest that Hal Lenard look into the music usage?

Mark

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On 6/20/2013 12:27 PM, Matt W wrote:
>
> 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 <mailto:L2mail%40m2digitalpost.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
> >
> > M2 Digital Post Inc.
> > San Diego, Ca.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jun 20, 2013, at 8:24 AM, Terence Curren <tcurren@aol.com
> <mailto:tcurren%40aol.com>> wrote:
> >
> > > Zoinks!
> > >
> > > <<https://www.videopixie.com/>>
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