Good client turned into a lowballer
We agreed sa 4 usd per hour then all of a sudden bigla nalang nag change yung rate due to strong demand? Anong kakuplan to. He's okay naman sa output. 2 weeks na din kaming magkatrabaho. Ngayon its around $1 usd per hour nalang. Nakakaptngina.Tapos nag eexpect siya ng higher quality and longer vids ngayon daw kasi binawasan niya ng konti yung workload/deliverables. Previous workload was 6 vids in 4 hrs. 3 vids nalang ngayon. Idk what quality was he expecting sa 4 hrs - 6 vids na yun (parang lowball na nga from the start) . I had to brainstorm content ideas (with help of AI pero minsan hit or miss), search clips from social media , find suitable trending music (for 6 vids) tapos mag eedit pa. Car topics btw.
Main problem is that lots of clips are edited with fast cuts already, low quality,may watermark or captions. So I can't include them sa vids. Let's say ang best car vid available is around 15 seconds, tapos may ibang vid pa na available pero ibang color or quality. I can't stitch those videos to make it longer kasi mag out of place yung other quality vids. So I'm forced to work with the 15 second vid and it's up to me to time the transition to the beat tsaka texts nalang. Lots of factors that aren't in my control and very time consuming and I had to do this 6x in 4 hrs.
Now, gumaan yung workload pero nawalan din ako ng gana mag invest ng more than 1-2 hrs for this client kasi sobrang baba ng rate. Imbes na doubling my work hours para more time magka quality vids, brainstorm and edit. Hinati niya pa mismo lol. If he's paying 1 usd per hr, then so be it. He'll get what he pays for 🙂
We agreed sa 4 usd per hour then all of a sudden bigla nalang nag change yung rate due to strong demand? Anong kakuplan to. He's okay naman sa output. 2 weeks na din kaming magkatrabaho. Ngayon its around $1 usd per hour nalang. Nakakaptngina.Tapos nag eexpect siya ng higher quality and longer vids ngayon daw kasi binawasan niya ng konti yung workload/deliverables. Previous workload was 6 vids in 4 hrs. 3 vids nalang ngayon. Idk what quality was he expecting sa 4 hrs - 6 vids na yun (parang lowball na nga from the start) . I had to brainstorm content ideas (with help of AI pero minsan hit or miss), search clips from social media , find suitable trending music (for 6 vids) tapos mag eedit pa. Car topics btw.
Main problem is that lots of clips are edited with fast cuts already, low quality,may watermark or captions. So I can't include them sa vids. Let's say ang best car vid available is around 15 seconds, tapos may ibang vid pa na available pero ibang color or quality. I can't stitch those videos to make it longer kasi mag out of place yung other quality vids. So I'm forced to work with the 15 second vid and it's up to me to time the transition to the beat tsaka texts nalang. Lots of factors that aren't in my control and very time consuming and I had to do this 6x in 4 hrs.
Now, gumaan yung workload pero nawalan din ako ng gana mag invest ng more than 1-2 hrs for this client kasi sobrang baba ng rate. Imbes na doubling my work hours para more time magka quality vids, brainstorm and edit. Hinati niya pa mismo lol. If he's paying 1 usd per hr, then so be it. He'll get what he pays for 🙂