[Tig] Remote client supervised color sessions (was "Color")

[Bob Kertesz]

>What seems unlikely to me is clients putting up with that so that they can
>work with a less experienced/talented/resourceful service in a 3rd-world
>country across the ocean. In that scenario you're losing on both counts...

It doesn't have to be third world. It just has to be a person in their living
room with the right "good enough" hardware, a decent reel, and the lowest flat
or hourly bid. 

Everything now is about the below the line money. Everything.

The vast middle ground of production and editing has already been decimated by
DVCAM and HDV for shooters, and FCP, Premier and Vegas for editors.
Inexpensive narrow featured tools and lightly experienced personnel put
tremendous price pressure on the next level above (and even the level WAY
above).

The number of low cost tools that have come out or have been announced in the
last year indicate that color correction is next to get the "Oh, that can be
done a LOT cheaper with little to no loss in quality" makeover. 

To paraphrase (in order to apply to those on this list) something I've been
hearing more and more lately about industry services, "Do you realize I can
BUY a full up editing and color correction system for what it costs to use you
and your room for two 8 hour days?".

To answer Bob Friesenhahn's question of "Should those in the industry be
worried?", I suggest that if what's happened to production and editing in the
last five years are any indication, they should be scared shitless.

--Bob

Bob Kertesz
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Hollywood, California

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