OT - did you ever have a job....

Michael L wrote on 5/9/2005, 7:12 AM

That would just never end.

I am trying to complete a project filmed in January that I would like to deliver very quickly. It is three hours of a Junior High School bands recorded on three cameras and will be shipped on two disks. A very difficult edit and boring edit.

I had though I was finished authoring and just needed to burn the disks. But no - somehow my authoring got screwed up and none of the in and out points had been saved (I am attributing this to operator error not a software glitch).

In the end it is turning out well but seems like the project that will not end. I am thinking next year I will not be taping this one.

Anyone have similar war stories?

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craftech wrote on 5/9/2005, 7:17 AM

Yes,
Lots of them. I absolutely hate cheerleading competitions. They go all day. And everyone in the audience has their own video camera.
In your case, the solution is simple. A VHS tape.

John

Michael L wrote on 5/9/2005, 8:21 AM

I actually have one VHS tape ordered which is another pain in the.... neck. I think it will just barely fit onto the 160 tape I have left.

I usually film the cheerleader performance before the marching band exhibition at the fall football games to make sure the audio and cameras are working and everything is ready You are saying it would be best not to offer a season overview tape for them? I have thought about it but like you say, everyone has their own video camera and I would not like to deal with a lot of cheerleader moms.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 5/9/2005, 9:13 AM

My first big Vegas project was highlight videos & interviews for a local school pep rally. :) They wearn't hard, but the footage kept getting changes & changed and changed... :) Plus I was on a P3-667 with 256mb RAM, 160gb HD space & it was all analog (VHS) and I didn't have an Analog-DV converter. :) Huffy became my friend. Took forever to render anything, but I got it finsihed two days before it was needed. :)

Then lsat year I recorded the local HS graduation. What a disaster... I kept askeding "what music will you be playing/singing." They would never tell me (I asked for weeks, about 2 months, and I wanted to clear it first). Two days before graduation I was told. I got permission for the band performance (pom & circumstance, or whatever), but waited on the commerical songs (one was sung the other was played). Glad I did. They only used one of them. :) But, I tried to 4 months to get permission to use the sung song in my DVD... it was taking forever & I ended up cutting it out.

I'm not doing HS graduations again. I lost a couple $$$.

PossibilityX wrote on 5/9/2005, 10:21 AM

My first project was a documentary and I thought the editing would never end.

I was even more inexperienced than I am now (which is to say, REALLY inexperienced, because I'm damned sure no Walter Murch now, not by any stretch of even my vivid imagination.) Editing was new to me, and Vegas was new to me. Now I could do the editing much faster (which still would take months---just not as many months) and would be much less frustrated.

I really loved the project but there were times when I wished I'd never taken it on---and it was MY project!

One lesson I learned is that I am completely incapable of working on something that doesn't interest me. Which is why I never solicit or accept outside work. There ain't enough money in the world.

Randy Vild wrote on 5/10/2005, 6:17 PM

I would have to say all my first year projects because they are WAY UNDER QUOTED and clients seem to know [roll eyes] that your trying to break through. I think this is a mistake because the next project you do with them they expect same rate.

I learned a lesson do not do projects for people that dont want to pay what your worth.

go to www.nightmareedits.com
Just kidding.

-Randini