Welcome to 2018 : Episode 84

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Good-bye, 2017! It's been real.

Hello, 2018! Please be gentle.

Welcome back to another year of Command+Edit, listeners! Thanks for returning. Josh and I play it light for this episode to bring you up to speed on what went down over the holidays and what's to come in the coming weeks for the show.

This episode we get into:

• New living arrangements, including the complexities of living out of a van
• Josh's Command+Edit meetup in LA
• Top Episodes of 2018
• Movie picks for you to check out
• What did Santa bring you this year??
• and more!

 

Song used in this episode was Fancy Pants on Soundstripe. Get royalty-free stock music from Soundstripe! Use the code COMMANDEDIT for 10% off!

Small Business Tactics for Editors — Interview with Editor Rachel Bastarache Bogan : Episode 80

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Rachel Bastarache Bogan is a owner of Renegade Digital Post — a video editing company providing Hollywood-caliber services to filmmakers and content producers outside of Hollywood. In this interview, Nick and Josh find out Rachel’s strategies for working with new clients, how she finds clients not only locally but across the globe, and much more.

LINKS

• Renegade Digital Post (Rachel's company)
• Rachel's Twitter: @rachelfinder
• How to Edit Videos That People Want to Watch (Rachel's book)
• Taipei in Motion Video (Rachel's viewing recommendation)
• Screenlight (online video review service)
• Getting Things Done (book)
• The 12-Week Year (book)

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Books for Every Video Editor : Episode 68

In this episode we'll give you some suggestions for books that every editor should read (at least once) in his/her lifetime that will push you a little further in the edit bay.

But first, where do you go for your stock music? Tired of being limited to what you can afford when licensing a music track? Soundstripe is a sponsor of this episode and offers a full library of quality music that you pay with only a subscription. No more individual licensing costs! At $10/mth it pays itself off with your first track download. Get your account and use code COMMANDEDIT to get 10% off for the year (http://soundstripe.grsm.io/e/5Me).

Music track used in this episode: A New Day 2, Marshall Smith

Did you catch the Oscars? Did you cheer for Moonlight or cry over La La Land by the end? While we missed many of the noms this year, we go over some of the big wins from below the line.

Josh's Book Picks:

• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
• The Avid Handbook
• Your NLE's manual

Nick's Book Picks:

• Rebel Without a Crew
• BFI Modern Classics Series (focus on Jaws, Thelma and Louise and The Matrix)
• Comics! For their exercise on framing, composition and storyboarding

Our listeners suggested:

• Grammar of the Film Language
• Behind the Seen: How Walter Murch Edited Cold Mountain Using Apple's Final Cut Pro
• In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch

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Beat Depression in the Edit Bay : Episode 67

Happy 30th Birthday, Josh!

Join me in congratulating him for surviving on this earth for 30 straight years without incident. Tweet the show or leave a comment and I'll make sure he gets it. Send beer.

Long work hours. No sunlight. Dwindling social life and home time.

With only the occasional interaction with a human. It can get pretty lonely in the edit bay.

Today we talk about how depressing it can be working in post (whether solo at your home office or with a team in a studio) and how you can beat those post-pro blues with just a few changes to your day.

Wipster's big changes to their pricing plan.

You know what else will make you weepy? The video review service made several editors the world over shout in frustration with their 400+% price hike to their plans. Find out how this affects you and what other options there are. (psst...and if you ask us, you should be using Screenlight anyways).

Remember us gushing about how awesome Soundstripe is? (for those who didn't, listen to Episode 65 with our interview with Travis and Micah from Soundstripe). Now you can sign up for an account with them AND help out the podcast at the same time!

Soundstripe is now a proud (we assume) sponsor of the Command+Edit Podcast!

Use this link to get access to Soundstripe's music library and get unlimited tracks and licences for all of your projects. One size fits all, no more worrying about those expensive licences or how many tracks the budget can afford. For $10/month or $97/year, it pays for itself with your first track downloaded.

Other things we mention in this episode:

• Use a white noise generator to keep productive and focused at work. Try https://www.noisli.com/ or https://www.calm.com/

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Interview with Travis Terrell and Micah Sannan from Soundstripe : Episode 65

"Play it, Sam" - Ilsa, Casablanca

Finding the right music track for your project can be maddening, what with so many choices to pick from out there. And sometimes you can have trouble finding the words to describe what music track you're searching for. On top of that each music licence has its own price tag so you may be limited by your budget (or your own wallet).

Today we are kicking it off with an interview with Travis Terrell and Micah Sassan from Soundstripe, a subscription-based music library that allows you endless uses of its music tracks for all of your projects till the end of time!

You can sign up for as little as $10/month and have full access to their ever-growing library of music. Need help from a human? They also have friendly support staff available to chat directly with at almost any time.

Josh gushes about these guys and their service throughout this episode, and so Nick has followed suit and purchased a year subscription to the service. Let me tell you it's already paid itself off.

We all have those projects that leave little-to-no budget for you to play with when selecting music tracks. Soundstripe solves that problem by making it both affordable and easy to pick the right music track.

Now click play on the episode and check them out for yourself.

Also if you were curious about the book suggestion Travis gives in this episode, it's the Automatic Customer by John Warrillow. Adding it my own reading queue right now.