How To Actively Manage Your Post Production Career

August 24, 2023

Mixing Light contributors answer questions on practical ways to handle career choices, find enjoyable work and take side steps to get ahead.


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Office Hours LIVE! Answering Member Questions – 2023 July 28

Mixing Light Contributors Katie Hinsen, Jason Bowdach, and Zeb Chadfield join host and Mixing Light CEO Patrick Inhofer in leading this lively Office Hours LIVE! discussion. They offer their observations, thoughts, and advice for members who feel underappreciated, bored, uninspired, or concerned about the longevity of their career paths. Today’s discussion includes:

  • Office Hours update – Why was there a break?
  • Mixing Light App is out of beta on iOS and Android
  • How to actively manage your post-production career
  • Understanding meandering career trajectories
  • The benefits of working at a small post-house
  • Why the appetite for risk and production budget are diametrically opposed – and how that effects smaller operators and freelancers
  • Side steps, backward steps, and leaving the industry entirely
  • Katie’s 3-factor method for making career choices
  • The joy of fixing terrible footage
  • Will A.I. eat all of our careers?

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