Would anyone pay for personal tutoring?

Brad · Post by **Brad** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:11 am

I've walked a bunch of friends through each step, from ripping, to prepping, to working in Premiere, all via Skype and Remote Desktop Sharing. I've never charged................... DAMMIT I'M BEING ROBBED!!!!

godix · Post by **godix** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:17 am

madbunny wrote:I remember something like this came up last year.

Essentially the idea 'then' was to get a group of people that were willing to hold someones hand and get them started in the basics and be a resource. If memory serves it got shot down with lots of flames.

I think the reason it was shot down is people feared (probably justly) that the hand holding would become peoples first and only way of getting help instead of something to be requested after RTFM, guides, and googling were unable help. If people were getting paid this wouldn't be a problem, it'd be a buisness plan.

I suspect there wouldn't be too many experienced editors paying though. Experienced editors either A) know the basics B) have learned somewhere along the line how to use guides/manual/google and C) probably know someone they could ask technical questions of. But there are a lot of newbies entering the field and I imagine at least some of them have money. The only real question I have is how would you let them know? A lot of the org members, even those making videos, never come into the forums and I doubt Phade would let anyone advertise on the main page.

Nessephanie · Post by **Nessephanie** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:34 am

AtomX wrote:I've walked a bunch of friends through each step, from ripping, to prepping, to working in Premiere, all via Skype and Remote Desktop Sharing. I've never charged................... DAMMIT I'M BEING ROBBED!!!!

Muahaha! sucker

[size=0]hehe please don't stop helping me now o.o[/size]

Myself, I wouldn't pay I'd just try and coerce people into showing me things if I didn't know how, but a while back I may have.
I'm sure that there are people out there who would pay since one on one lessons are proven to be a more efficient way to learn, finding those people is another matter.

bum · Post by **bum** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:31 am

Their are too many idiots who would want one on one tutoring. But they're so stupid wouldnt have a clue about sending ya the cash anyway.

kitsunebeolnet · Post by **kitsunebeolnet** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 9:27 am

While funds are tight for me right now, I would consider someday paying for someone to really explain how to use scripting in Avisynth. I've used the guides as much as possible and consider myself reasonably proficient in Virtualdub, but scripting totally confuses me.

OmniStrata · Post by **OmniStrata** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:26 am

Hmm, that idea does make sense, but I wouldn't pay for something basic...

If you were gonna charge, charge them for something REALLLYYY off the wall... [where the instruction help file is NOT NEARLY enough...]

Adobe After Effects comes to mind.

Rurounikeitaro · Post by **Rurounikeitaro** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:37 am

godix wrote:Why pay when I just can just bitch and whine in Software Help till someone tells me the answer?

True, I used to be a constant poster in that forum.

It was very hard for me to learn how to use Premeire and Vegas but once I learned how to put a clip in, it took no time to learn everything else.

The only thing I still can't do shit in is my After Effects. If I just spend a couple hours with it I could learn though.

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:33 pm

AtomX wrote:I've walked a bunch of friends through each step, from ripping, to prepping, to working in Premiere, all via Skype and Remote Desktop Sharing. I've never charged................... DAMMIT I'M BEING ROBBED!!!!

Word. Same here, man. But I had to do it all through IRC or instant messaging (with screencaps), and those people weren't even friends, they were just random newbs.

[Mike of the Desert] · Post by **[Mike of the Desert]** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 1:46 pm

Flint the Dwarf wrote:
AtomX wrote:I've walked a bunch of friends through each step, from ripping, to prepping, to working in Premiere, all via Skype and Remote Desktop Sharing. I've never charged................... DAMMIT I'M BEING ROBBED!!!!
Word. Same here, man. But I had to do it all through IRC or instant messaging (with screencaps), and those people weren't even friends, they were just random newbs.

x2

Even because here noone wants to even try to learn something avbout this. -.-

Knowname · Post by **Knowname** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:01 pm

madbunny wrote:
If you could get booth space at a con, and setup 10-15 computers... I'll bet you could rake it in like they do at Siggraph.

So to answer... maybe.

You thinking what I'm thinking, Madbunny?? Chop Suey AMV!! Make your own LPZ music video in one hour, contests held daily!! ... oh wait, that's the idea behind Iron Chef... sorta'.
I think a booth like that might be interesting, with a tutor for every row of contestants, then the contestant that wins pays the tutor (like lawyer fees who pays to practice etc.) plus you could have the tutor that wins the most gets another prize!! Havent figured out how you could profit from that, but it sounds like alot of fun, even for the tutors! Maybe make it 2 to 3 hours or so and license yourself some music/ anime (sponsors)...