How often are your finished projects for a company perfect vs. revisions...

Sithxace

Sithxace

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For those of you who work for a company or wedding company. How often do you submit a finished project/wedding film without any issues from the company compared to how often they ask you to change or fix things?

Im just trying to gauge what is acceptable or not. I finished a film and I think its pretty good. I Gave it to the guy who hired me and he had some revisions for me. A lot to do with color correction etc. But my tv and monitor shows it different than what his does so that issue is unavoidable. Other issues are his taste and what quality of the footage is acceptable to him.

I dont wanna get too down on myself because my expectations are that I want him to watch it and go PERFECT. Being asked to perfect things is all part of the norm right?
 
Usually with clients I build in a few revisions without additional charges (This is for post work mostly). I never expect something to be accepted as perfect as many clients and boses for that matter need to have the feeling like they had an impact on making it perfect.
 
Sithxace said:
Im just trying to gauge what is acceptable or not. I finished a film and I think its pretty good. I Gave it to the guy who hired me and he had some revisions for me.
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First of all, don't sweat revisions. I build two sets of revisions into my price structure. Clients change their mind all the time and at the end of the day you're there to provide what they want. A revision request has nothing to do with your ability (well I guess it could in some cases - but generally speaking).


Sithxace said:
I Gave it to the guy who hired me and he had some revisions for me. A lot to do with color correction etc. But my tv and monitor shows it different than what his does so that issue is unavoidable.
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As per strangways - how accurate is your monitor? Ive had this before - but have complete confidence in my colours for grading. I sometimes need to explain there will be differences based on the many different ways the end product can be viewed. However, its easy to confuse with the client just not liking the grade so be sure you know which path your on.
 
A greyscale at the beginning of the program works wonders.
The client can easily see, that his posh new flat TV blows 3 stops of white and crushers 3 stops of shadows to the grave.


Frank
 
Sithxace said:
i used a $150 calibrator for my acer monitor. He watches it on a HDTV.
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If he's intending to view it on an HDTV, then you should be previewing to a properly-calibrated HDTV (or, preferably, an HD studio monitor). A computer monitor and an HDTV aren't the same thing.
 
I did view on my own HDTV but this is just me editing for a wedding firm so to get a proper or top notch tv is not worth it.
 
If your being contracted by a wedding videographer for editing work, then he's probably just trying to get your style to match his brand and what people are hiring him for. If this is going to be a long term thing, just take the feedback and learn to fit his requirements. This will get you more work in the future.

On his end, wedding videography does not typically have revision baked into the fee. So most contracts have a clause that says that the editor has full creative control, and that additional editing will cost, etc. Rather than sending a preview or check video to the client, final product is delivered. This avoids giving the client the idea that they should look for issues.

Who pays for learning another persons style is up to you.
 
Sithxace said:
I did view on my own HDTV but this is just me editing for a wedding firm so to get a proper or top notch tv is not worth it.
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Well, seeing as you said all this:

Sithxace said:
I Gave it to the guy who hired me and he had some revisions for me. A lot to do with color correction etc. But my tv and monitor shows it different than what his does so that issue is unavoidable.

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I dont wanna get too down on myself because my expectations are that I want him to watch it and go PERFECT.
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It might be.

Plus, you should be previewing on the HDTV during color-correction, and make sure the HDTV is as well-calibrated as possible.
 
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