OVERVIEW:

We are looking for one or more Vegas Pro editors to take an internal SATA drive we will ship to you and import the project(s), put everything on the timeline in a completed rough cut organized by sections (following basic guidelines which we will supply), upload the .veg to my server, and cash a check from me.

If that sounds interesting, then continue reading.

CONTRACT STRUCTURE:

This position is 1099 (no W-2) under the laws of Idaho USA. FYI: We are required to submit a 1099-MISC for all sub-contractors earning more than $600 / yr by IRS regulations.  SSN or EIN required for US editors.  Generally, there is no US tax withholding on payments made to non-US citizens if they work from a foreign country.  For US Citizens / Residents, since this is a 1099 basis contract, no tax withholdings are necessary (BUT... you must report the income on your taxes).

COPYRIGHT:

This is a [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire]work-for-hire[/url] contract.  If you don't know what that means, then you might not be qualified.  You retain ZERO, ZIP, ZILCH copyright to the footage and must delete all copies of the footage from your system (if copied from the SATA HDD we send).  However, we do pay you, and you will get your line in the ending credits as "Editing by: XYZ" which may include your URL (if you have one).

BID TIMELINE:

Bids accepted continuously till March 1, when all projects will hopefully be done.

DELIVERY TIMELINE & REPORTING:

I require a maximum of 1 week turn around per project, otherwise it isn't saving me enough time to make it worth my while.  You don't have to be full time, but you do have to be available for daily or semi-daily VOIP/Skype/Gtalk conferences.

NLE:

Yes Vegas Pro.  FC / PP / Edius / etc editors might be great at what they do, but that is useless for me.  Sorry.  We need veggies.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Already own a Vegas Pro >=v8 NLE with Core2duo (or better) CPU and a free SATA connection (or external USB dock)
• Have valid Government Issued ID, US residents must have SSN or have EIN & C/S-corp / Sole-Prop / LLC paperwork (if contracting through your business).
• Must be >=18yrs old and fluent in English
• At least one prior reference (which we will contact) regarding your NLE experience
• A phone number to call.
• Familiar with the FTP process (I'm not going to hold hands here)
• A credited demo reel / samples
• Willing & able to sign a contract (yes this will be legally binding)
• Have fax machine or internet fax account (aka RingCentral)
• >=3yrs experience with Vegas Pro 5,6,7,8, or 9 (not Platinum or Movie Studio).
• Consider yourself a darn good editor
• Willing to get a Gmail account (if you don't have one already)
• Ability to figure out how to contact me directly via email.  Consider this the minimum IQ test for this position.

BONUS QUALIFICATIONS:

• Existing Gmail account for Google Cal / GTalk / Google chat
• Several samples to view
• Several references
• Established Corporate / Business presence (it never hurts to have a reputation)
• Have other people that consider you a darn good editor
• SMPTE-C monitor (if you want to do all the post including CC / grading for a project)

COMPENSATION:

All bids are flat rate per project.  We are not accepting bids based on a per hour rate.  We are paid flat rate, and so that is the mode we pay as compensation.  We will already be in the red on some of these projects, but we would rather deliver high quality and keep my contract to my clients and go upside down on a contract or two.

Bids will not be published (aka I'll keep it all confidential) so if you just want to get some money but don't want word getting out about this rate, fine with me.

PAYMENT METHOD:

I will pay via check or paypal.  No we will not adjust for the paypal fee, if you would like that convenience, then recipient pays.

PAYMENT TIMELINE:

Payments will be made AFTER delivery of .veg files.  Yes this means you have to trust me, but think of it this way, you will have MY multi gigabyte HDD with all MY footage so that is your collateral.  We will withhold $80 from the payment until the external HDD is returned.  So you can either get two checks (one immediately and the 2nd after returnign the HDD) or wait till shipping back the drive and get one check.  Your choice.

TRACKING & UPDATES:

Editors need to have a Google account (or be willing to create one) for contact using Google Cal / Google Talk, etc.  Project veggies should be FTP'ed daily.  We follow the Agile development method (quick cycles with daily status updates) for all my corporate clients, and so I'd like to follow that method for these projects.

NUMBER OF PROJECTS:

I'm also willing to work with someone interested in multiple projects.  We currently have ~6 projects that we need completed by March 1 so there is room for multiple people to each have a project or for a single person to have multiple projects.

REVISIONS & FINAL PROJECT MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

I may request revisions if the delivered project is "too rough." The following are guidelines for what we consider as a rough draft:

• all content in place on timeline
• audio / video clips using J/L cuts where appropriate, VO where needed, etc (i.o.w. not just a bunch of random clips on the time line, but actual thought put into them)
• ceremony multi-camed
• audio split to multiple tracks if source is multi channel (if you can't tell..... we have problems)
• play time roughly equal to but not less than final delivery time
• soundtracks (or placeholders) on the timeline - we have the whole library from www.stock20.com

PROJECT DETAILS:

Finished project lengths are determined by contract with the client and generally vary from 45min to 1hr, with most being 45min.

Projects are all multi-cam (most are 3 cams, a few may be 4-cam shoots) sources, with some projects containing separate house / PA recoded to MiniDisc (I'll provide as .wav).

Each project has from 5hrs to 8hrs of source footage in total.  The average is 5-6hrs of footage.

My project style is "cinematic" with steadicam, soudtracks, color correction, etc.  We will provide a completed .veg project file (just for comparison to see how we lay my projects out) & a finished render of that project to view for anyone considering bids.  This should help you see if you can work with me and vice versa.

The productions do not need to be in finished form (with all the audio post, CC work, etc).  We just need someone to help knock out the first 20hrs of each project and get it to the finished rough draft stage on each project.  We can arrange for you do perform all of the post-production if you like, based on how the first roughs look (for additional pay of course).