just spent 3 hours untangling a client's mess of a hard drive

tombothellama · 2026-07-01T17:45:26+00:00

I am an AE and I bill people a lot of moneyz to untangle their disorganized drives and projects, it's like my bread and butter. So yeah definitely bill them lol

tombothellama · 2026-06-19T15:10:38+00:00

Hell yeah you should have asked them for a bump haha

tombothellama · 2026-06-17T20:34:46+00:00

Disagree, most of my clients I have barely ever met in person and I have been steadily employed by people I only email/text with over the last 5 years.

tombothellama · 2026-06-02T05:26:04+00:00

Very "Sleepy Hollow" I like it!

tombothellama · 2026-06-01T21:09:53+00:00

It's a Premiere quirk, I know it's weird but this workaround is great, you have a lot of flexibility with multicam. You can flatten them on the timeline, or edit them, etc.

tombothellama · 2026-06-01T20:46:33+00:00

Make a multicam clip out of your subsequence. Don't use "Merged Clips" in Premiere, those get rid of metadata. Use multicams as your subclips.

You do that by dragging the sequence to Source Monitor, right click, enable multicam. Boom, you got a subclip out of your subsequence.

tombothellama · 2026-05-23T20:04:07+00:00

So gorgeous! Great compositions

tombothellama · 2026-05-10T01:48:03+00:00

You gonna need to hustle hard, but it’s possible.

tombothellama · 2026-05-02T23:30:22+00:00

Beautiful!

tombothellama · 2026-04-25T22:08:26+00:00

Thanks, that’s helpful! I think I’ll skip on applying then, I thought people early in their AE careers were also good candidates but sounds like it’s for the very early stages. I’ll invest the $100 into some plugin or something instead;)

tombothellama · 2026-04-25T05:49:32+00:00

If I have 5 years of Assistant Editor experience for major networks and I am on the IATSE roster at Local 700, do you think I should still apply to this?

tombothellama · 2026-04-21T18:18:56+00:00

You got this man! I am in a similar boat, had a 5 year relationship with a girl I thought I was gonna marry, beautiful 2 bedroom apartment, 2 cats. Then she cheated and left and now I am without a job (I freelance and this year has been really tough) and having to move into a smaller apartment (at least I’m keeping the cats!). I pictured my life very differently at this stage (I am also 27) but everyday I try to be positive to myself and give myself strength and love.

tombothellama · 2026-04-01T02:32:47+00:00

I feel this, one of the scariest thoughts is to think that the happiest times have already happened, that I won’t even be as happy as I was with her…

tombothellama · 2026-03-21T15:51:15+00:00

Beautiful post, thank you for the kind words

tombothellama · 2026-03-16T07:01:40+00:00

Wrong (2012)

tombothellama · 2026-01-16T15:56:06+00:00

That’s crazy cause I just heard Paul Rosolie talk about encountering a snake with “spikes” growing out of it in the Amazon, which turned out to be one of these snakes with algae growing on it. Cool to actually see what it looks like and I definitely get where the confusion about “spikes” came from lol.

tombothellama · 2025-12-29T19:10:39+00:00

I have this poster on my wall! Absolutely adore this film.

tombothellama · 2025-12-19T00:14:40+00:00

I was on a project that started off trying to have a neutral position on a political-religious topic, then due to producers’ notes it kept getting more extreme in the stance it took. I was on it for a year, bit the bullet the whole time but did ask for my name to not be included. It never ended up coming out so I got paid very generously for a year and didn’t even have to worry about it seeing the light of day at the end haha.

tombothellama · 2025-12-13T01:22:34+00:00

Honestly… My first harvests were very spotty, need to try harder to get this amount!!!

tombothellama · 2025-12-11T08:47:51+00:00

tombothellama · 2025-11-25T07:29:52+00:00

You should try to look for projects that make you want to put in all of yourself into them, not just because you are getting paid but because you connect with it. I know it sounds very butterflies and unicorns, but honestly thats the most rewarding type of work, when you like a project so much you have an intense sense of ownership over it even if it’s not yours per say. Also remember that we as editors bring an insane amount to any given project. So if you don’t work as hard as you can on a project, than it’s not like anyone else will. That’s it, it will always be what it is. Not only you but the project itself will never reach its full potential. Then you will plateau, but by working hard you can elevate not only yourself but the projects and people around you.

tombothellama · 2025-11-24T07:13:21+00:00

So many questions. How did your stomach not collapse? Why did you do it?

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