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Posted by FCP User on 02/13/07 08:17
I've said this hear before and I'll say it again, even tho I'm sure it's
not a popular sentiment, nor a widely followed procedure.
If a client wants to move a project to someone else, I send them off
with my blessings and with all the raw footage assets, copies of the
digital masters, and if they want it, all the timelines and workfiles
they want.
I'll also send along a page of notes with what I shot, why, the original
notes from meetings, and whatever else might help the next group.
I don't do this for THEM.
I do this for ME.
Because it's the kind of business person I want to be.
If they've paid their bills. I give them the product of those shoots
PERIOD.
I know my approach to this is unusual, but there's a real chance that
the client that has to go somewhere else will someday be asked about
working with me. The ONLY acceptable answer in my mind is something like
this.
"Our project with Bill didn't work out. But he as totally professional
from the first day we worked with him to the last. We didn't have any
hassles getting our project materials out of his shop and he was NOTHING
but helpful through the whole process."
The idea that I'd hassle even a FORMER client about some idea of
"technical ownership" of a projects components makes me shiver.
The way I see it, all they're getting is OLD STUFF - but *I* I get to
keep the experience. And that's what I'm selling these days. Not tapes,
or discs, or computer files. Experience.
I've worked that way for the past 20 years. And I'll work that way until
I close up shop.
YMMV.
--
Bill Davis
StartEditingNow.com
DVD editing instruction with Multi-Track Movies
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