One person operation, mostly corporate and event work. Every job so far has ended with me copying the whole card dump onto a drive and putting it on a shelf, because deleting it felt irresponsible. That is now a stack…
Ten minute 1080p piece. My H.264 export is 1.8 GB, the file the client got from their previous editor is about 420 MB and looks the same to me on their monitor. I matched resolution and frame rate. They asked, politely,…
Continuous record for the whole act, no chance to walk up and change anything mid show, audio comes off the desk, and I am zoomed a long way in from the back row. Budget is about 1500 used and I already own a mirrorless…
One key at about 45 degrees, a bounce on the fill side, backdrop roughly 2 metres behind the subject. Exposure is correct, white balance is correct, shooting a standard picture profile rather than log. It still looks…
Solo operator, I own one body, two lights and a lav, and I would shoot this in a half day and expect eight to ten hours in the edit plus two rounds of changes. This is my third paid job so I have no rate card and no…
Three minute promo, about 40 minutes of interview and maybe 25 b roll clips. Fourteen hours of actual editing, not counting two rounds of revisions. I quoted a flat 400. Is that normal for a first paid job or am I much…
I own one camera and a small LED panel, and the job pays enough that either route works on paper. I have never used a rental house and I do not know what they will ask for, and part of me wants to just buy the light…
Two mics into the same recorder. The boom is clean, the lav on the subject has a steady low hum through the entire take, and it gets slightly worse when he turns his head. Same lav worked fine in a different room last…
Small home studio, 3 by 4 metres, white ceiling and walls, one 60W COB with a 65cm softbox. Budget is about 250. I shoot seated interviews and product close ups. Everyone says a second light fixes separation, but in a…