In Need Of Serious Editor

i have edited things myself, but am now in the process of having my tage edited by someone else. both have pros and cons, and it indeed depends on what you're after.

haha yeah exactly, personal preference it is.
I support your opinion almost completely and I've been going down the same course, but one big shiny montage is on my bucketlist nevertheless haha.
about the WMM thing, I mean it in the way that if you're a montager who has already put out some tages and suddenly has to edit himself without having worked with anything but WMM it can be a bit discouraging to start all the way from the bottom.

Old school montagers that recorded h2c, h1ce and h2v would have to have some amount of editing experience for at least cutting clips and rendering to send clips to editors. So that's something else to think about.
We did it boys, 2nd page in a discussion thread

You're going to need to pay a lot more than that for someone who requires a lot of your time, especially if you want a trailer too.  Most serious/high profile trailers alone cost more than $100.  I had to pay a good $300+ for Communitage 3.

$300 for the work done in C3?  Holy shit that's cheap.  I don't know if this is true but I've heard Zola was paid 2 grand for Str8 Rippin and that tage had nowhere near the 3d work C3 had, even if it was a way more high profile tage.

And honestly I'd probably just edit my own videos if I didn't suck at halo so much and actually got clips.  As is I have to rely on others for clips worth editing, and I struggle to get the creative license that I need in order to actually enjoy the hobby (which is the biggest reason I edit for free).  Nothing sucks more than being on a flame render, then the player tells you to scrap the render and do something completely different because your personal taste doesn't match theirs.  That's motivation killer and that's how I end up dropping people.

 

Sorry to bump this, but this is blowing my mind.

I've never had to pay anything at all, and at one point I had Barker and Snipetality working on projects before they got tied up with other things (FaZe, MLG Job) and they were doing it for free.

I knew that payment was a part of montage making years ago, I just never realized in this day and age it still existed.

All y'all muthafuckas need jesus

Sorry to bump this, but this is blowing my mind.

I've never had to pay anything at all, and at one point I had Barker and Snipetality working on projects before they got tied up with other things (FaZe, MLG Job) and they were doing it for free.

I knew that payment was a part of montage making years ago, I just never realized in this day and age it still existed.

 

You were dropped both times because someone else decided to pay them for their work, and they took that opportunity.

 

I think that pretty much sums up this thread. 

Halo montages aren't new anymore. Most of us aren't 12 year olds still exploring all of the possibilities of Sony Vegas and being amazed when we see 3D text in an intro. Most of us have real jobs, real responsibilities, and real time crunches. A lot of us are at the point where if we're not doing something for some sort of gain it's probably going to be put on the back burner multiple times before it's finished, or abandoned all together. I make freelance animated business videos for $300 / 30 seconds of video. When I get a project (usually 2-3 per month), any Halo time I had is now focused on the thing that is going to pay the bills, the animated video project.

If I could spend a month focusing on a montage I would, but as it is I get 3 hours 2 days a week to focus on either playing or editing  Halo. I'm sure a lot of other people are in the same boat, and thus pay becomes much more important when discussing huge projects. :)

Exactly. The biggest reason is definitely the age. Most of us aren't in high school anymore. I had so much free time until I started uni and now it's just been hell. Over the summer, I'd probably edit for free but I doubt most people have the time or motivation to do it during school at this point.

Reviving this to put in my 2 cents.

I've been paid for a couple things, but it was just $20 to capture 100 clips, $20 for some weapon sounds captured from H3/Reach/H4, and $40 for an absolute nobody's 3 minute montage.

anything more than $100 just seems ridiculous for a montage to me. I'm not that great of an editor, nor do I have impressive clips, but that's just too much. I'd only want 100 bucks from someone if I was making a 12 minute video with many crazy complex segments.

It's a halo montage in 2016, people. We're not the first people to do it, and tbh the novelty has worn off. I can't imagine even a serious player with thousands and thousands of games played would be willing to pay more than 100 for a montage. Fuck that, I'd spend the money on gifts for the people I care about, or buy some stock or something.