Jim Simon wrote: at the end of filming they didn't need to keep paying for the camera so they could distribute the film. They hired it, did the job and then didn't need it again. If they needed to reshoot a scene they could hire it again or go somewhere else and get essentially the same results.
How's this any different? Once you're done editing, you still have access to the Blu-ray, DVD or whatever deliverable you've created. If you need to do any further editing, you can always rent it again. |
Agreed...I read this the same way you did Jim. I just thought it was so nonsensical that I didn't respond. Deliverables are never the issue.
Regarding the general need to open old client projects and make changes....this is definitely something that comes up with me from time to time with both event clients and corporate clients. It's absolutely not an everyday thing, but it happens. When a client comes back 1 year later and asks for new edits, I always bill for that. I charge anytime I'm doing work. I cannot account for anyone else's billing policies, but I tend to believe there is nothing unethical about me charging clients for my work.
So that being the case, let's just assume that you are a Creative Cloud subscriber for the next 12 months, and you do a major project for AAA Business Company, Inc. After your annual obligation to Creative Cloud ends, you cancel it and switch to Avid. Then in 2015, your AAA Business Company Inc. comes back to you and says "hey, we want to change this one scene where the actor sneezes and add a star wipe at the end, and put some LOL bubbles above his head." Okay, now you know that's a 4 hour gig, and you bill for that time, and you know you have to pay $20, $30, $50 or $70 to install/license the software you used to create the project (pricing all depending on whether you used 1 Adobe tool, a couple, or all of them in the suite). So you explain to your client that you have to license the software to work on the project and add it to the billable items. Or if you don't want to be upfront with your client about licensing stuff, just do what I do anyway, and bill your client and archiving/accessing fee to reload the project on your editor. Honestly, in all the years I've done this, I've not had one client who didn't understand the need to bill for accessing old projects. I've had one or two that didn't want to pay for it (like, they didn't want to pay anything, stuff like "isn't that just going to take you like 2 seconds to do that?"....stuff all customers say when they don't know how editing works, you know?).
Anyway, hopefully this example helps. This isn't a workaround, it's just work. Your clients know you charge for your work based on labor and built-in costs, so just do it.
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