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May112012

Wages of Post »

On this That Post Show, The Wages of Post -- with Steve Cohen, Shane Ross, Mike J Nichols, Paul Zadie and Ryan Summers. We discuss wages (or rates) in the post production world. Everything from video/film editing, to compositing to visual effects.

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Alternate Show Titles

  • $19.69
  • A bunch of free in here
  • "You have an Avid?"
  • 911 Specialist
  • Fail Forward
  • You can do it in your Garage
  • Sounds kind of dire...
  • A race to the bottom
  • Avid Artist!
  • If the box does it ... you do it!
  • Groundhog Editor

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Kanen Flowers

Kanen is the troublemaker behind Scruffy Thinking. He writes a blog, writes code and generates too much content for one sane person. You can follow him on twitter or check out his company at Scruffy.TV.

Steve Cohen

Emmy and Eddie Award winning editor and non-linear editing pioneer, he was the first person to use an Avid on a studio feature film, the first chairman of the editing department at the American Film Institute and the first publisher of the Editors Guild Magazine. He is the author of two books on Media Composer, including the recently released Avid Agility. He blogs at Splice Now.

Paul Zadie

Paul is an editor of commercials, movies and short films. He's the ultimate Editor and knows his way around Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Avid Media Composer, After Effects and everything else. He calls himself a "Motion Picture Artist" and nothing could be more true.

Shane Ross

Shane Ross is a freelance editor living in Los Angeles. He has worked on documentary series for Discovery, History and National Geographic, as well as various projects for The Disney Channel. He runs the Little Frog in High Def blog at LFHD.net, and a podcast series called THE EDIT BAY.

Mike J Nichols

Mike is creator of 2 Guys Drinking At a Bar starring Kevin Farley and Paul Preston, the producer and editor of the television series Punk Payback starring Bas Rutten, airs on FOX’s FUELtv network. Mike is also the man responsible for The Phantom Edit - an unauthorized re-edit of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.

Ryan Summers

Known as Oddernod Ryan works on The Talking Dead and is a talented artist compositor and all around interesting guy.

Show Notes

The Media Motion Ball at NAB.

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Film%2FVideo_Editor/Salary are as little as $26,000 in some areas. The median rate is $19.69 US per hour.

LA "Hollywood" rates are around $400 / day, which is $50 an hour.

Colorists range from $70/hr to $200+ depending on their skill, experience and the suite

Hourly rates in the US vs. Canada vs. The UK.

Compositing: $30/hr Film/Video Editor: $19.65 3D Artist: $30 Animator: $25 Videographer: $22.50 Tv Producer: $40

Compare that to people who write software

Roberts Rules of Order as discussed by Steve and regarding the Unions.

The Avengers owns the box office.

Fram oil filter ad

LFHD Devalued Post from Shane Ross.

Removing the unecessary bits quote, with proper attribution.

Wages of Post