BluesCam
Well-known member
I met with a client yesterday. They had decided to hire an independent producer
to run their project. Now their will be four people who will have to sign off on the edit.
The producer said he was extremely hands on and it would be a "totally supervised edit." He went on to say "in the edit suite I am the producer, I am in charge and the editor is the editor." "I plan to edit 8-10 hr. a day."
I don't usually edit projects that I didn't shoot and I do not like the producer sitting there the whole time. I prefer to do a 1st cut myself based on their EDL and then show it to the client and proceed to tweak it. The producer said "no rough cut, I want to be there from day one, just have the clips trimmed and ready in the library."
I don't know how you folks feel about this type of "supervised" editing, but this person made me feel very uncomfortable and the thought of sitting there with them for 8-10 hr. for three or four days is not appealing to me. I think I'm going to pass on editing the video even though I will be passing on about $3K. I realize that editing shops work like this, but it's not my cup of tea.
I guess I have been too isolated for too long.
to run their project. Now their will be four people who will have to sign off on the edit.
The producer said he was extremely hands on and it would be a "totally supervised edit." He went on to say "in the edit suite I am the producer, I am in charge and the editor is the editor." "I plan to edit 8-10 hr. a day."
I don't usually edit projects that I didn't shoot and I do not like the producer sitting there the whole time. I prefer to do a 1st cut myself based on their EDL and then show it to the client and proceed to tweak it. The producer said "no rough cut, I want to be there from day one, just have the clips trimmed and ready in the library."
I don't know how you folks feel about this type of "supervised" editing, but this person made me feel very uncomfortable and the thought of sitting there with them for 8-10 hr. for three or four days is not appealing to me. I think I'm going to pass on editing the video even though I will be passing on about $3K. I realize that editing shops work like this, but it's not my cup of tea.
I guess I have been too isolated for too long.