I'm beginning to see why a lot of video editors harp on hourly rates. It's because they suck so badly that it's going to take them forever to do work. I'm watching these "tutorials" and I'm like why didn't they do this or that? 🤷♂️ The problem is that a lot of people stop learning as soon as they know which buttons to press. 🥱 That isn't the point. The point is how to get the concepts out of your mind and into the computer as efficiently as possible. 🦸♀️🦸♂️ I'm like oh it's no wonder it takes 9 months for people like this to edit a 90-minute film. 😂🙄 They waste so much time being inefficient that they don't get much done during a day, which is why they need to get paid FOR THEIR TIME because otherwise they would go broke. 💸💸💸 If you know what you're doing, you set up your deal PROPERLY with - Scope - Budget - Deadline - Payment Schedule That Way, EVERYBODY knows what they're giving and what they're getting and when they're getting it. 🤷♂️ You also now have METRICS as far as whether one side of the deal or the other isn't living up to their end of the bargain and you can discuss it properly. ==== I wanted to write about this because I've been teaching myself DaVinci Resolve 🧙♂️ for the past month or so 🤓 and now that I know how the program works, I can't find good information about how to do what *I* do🕴️which is storytelling via video and audio, because the people making the tutorials suck at what they do OR they aren't working on anything serious to begin with. Resolve is like flying a plane, whereas Premiere and Media Composer are like driving cars. 🏎️ It's all well and good to make these "look at the new features" videos 😂 except YOU don't know what to do with the new features OR the old features because you've never worked on anything important. I used to cut hour-long videos for television broadcast (44:30 plus commercials) in 8 hours, daily. 🥱😴🛌 Maximum 2 days, such as if revisions and approvals were required after the first day. At that time, I used Day Rates. Except at that time I ALSO used to have to travel to the client sites and stay there for 8 hours per day (unless I offered them 1.5x overtime and 2x after 12 hours) Now that we're in the age of REMOTE WORK, you can work 16 hours a day if you feel like it and finish your project in one day and get pizaid! 🍾😁💰 Get paid for THE VALUE you're bringing your client. NOT for the amount of TIME you spend providing that VALUE because Nobody Cares. In Fact, the slower you are, the less you deserve to get paid.
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