Can someone get a job as a Avisynth developer?

[lindylex]

Can someone get a job as a Avisynth developer? If yes where do you search?

[manono]

A job? Assuming you don't need to get paid for the work you do, you might check in the AviSynth Development Forum at Doom9:

http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?f=69

You could PM IanB who is, I believe, the main dev.

There's also a list of things needing doing at the Mediawiki:

http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Avisynth:Current_events

[lindylex]

I mean working in a production enviornment as a Avisynth developer.

[manono]

PM IanB at Doom9. If you have to register you'll also have to wait 5 days before doing anything.

[lindylex]

Manono, thanks.

[Gavino]

There's also a list of things needing doing at the Mediawiki:
http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Avisynth:Current_events

That page refers only to documentation tasks and hasn't been updated since Feb 2009.

It's still not clear to me what lindylex wants to do.
- join the Avisynth development team?
- find a job in the video industry which involves writing Avisynth scripts?
- find a job in the video industry which involves writing Avisynth plugins?

[edDV]

To get a job in "video production", being an AVIsynth wizard gets you about 10% of the resume. In the useful but not core skills area.

Research the requirements of the job you want.

You could peddle your AVIsynth wares as a freelance consultant to the chief engineers at these facilities. They may call you back. A demo video of your skills would help them remember you.

[videopoo]

Since many of the post houses in Hollywood/Burbank are going to file based delivery systems, you can find a gig as an engineer or encoder. However, you wouldn't believe how little they are paid. Lots of AVISnyth work done at these places.

Here's one:

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/tfr/1759679188.html

[edDV]

My reading of that job requirement is you would increase your chances with some sort of certification or experience with the Digital Rapids system, or convince them you could handle it. Modern VideoFilm is a long time survivor in Burbank.
http://www.digital-rapids.com/

The common route to tech careers in "Hollywood" is to master operation of a specific piece of high end equipment, usually working with the manufacturer for demos (exposure and references) or in a regional production market. That gets you in the door. Then you can be useful and show them what you can do. If good, eventually you will be running the tech side or be recruited outside to the next step up the ladder. There is a creative vs. management split at some point in your career path.

I'm assuming a non-union career here. In the union you play by their rules and don't boast skills.

[lindylex]

"- find a job in the video industry which involves writing Avisynth scripts?" Gavino this is what I was thinking about.

Thanks videopoo this is exactly what I was interested in. But it is on the left coast and I am on the right. I wanted to know if this type of work was out there.
"http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv...759679188.html "

[videopoo]

Yeah...its non union for sure. Show em you know Digital Rapids and some high end tape experience (HDCAM / D5 / Digi-B) and you could probably land this gig easily. However, I bet this gig pays $15/hr..no really!! Sad where the Post Industry has gone

Here's another:

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/tfr/1759582906.html

BTW...this all incredibly boring work...mind numbing really

[lindylex]

videopoo, "BTW...this all incredibly boring work...mind numbing really " this would kill me. It is interesting that you get so little money for such a really good skill set. I thought using code to edit video would just be the rage. Sine you really speed things up when all you have to do is change a variable name pointing to a different file.

[videopoo]

Most of it is already set up using client specs or profiles. There really isn't much to do as far as R&D goes. You might improve their workflows though and catch the eye of an executive Tapes Ops used to make upwards of 100k a year. Now they hire young kids who are willing to do this work for $12-15.

[lindylex]

That's high school wages for a developer "work for $12-15." Maybe the market might be more for indivuduals that have a Youtube channel and want to have the same format etc for every video they produce.

[edDV]

Apple FCP "operators" (assume worker bee not creative) are a dime a dozen in Hollywood hence low pay. Better to align your career to a rare high end piece of equipment. Pilots with A380 experience are rare, no? This is the rocket ship for a career in Hollywood. Understand the tech and "partner" (for free if necessary) with the manufacturer of the next big thing.

[edDV]

That's highschool wages for a developer "work for $12-15." Maybe the market might be more for indivuduals that have a Youtube channel and want to have the same format etc for every video they produce.

They have no use for a jr developer. They want a system level problem solver. You need to understand their business.

And how does a AVIsynth jockey qualify as a developer?

Sorry for the tough love.

[Supreme2k]

Hell, most people can get stuff done here for free. It always amazes me the amount of hand-holding (or outright doing the work for them) that goes on here.
Why pay someone to do a job when you can simply post your problem here and someone will post you a script in less than a day?