Dustin Robertson

I WILL cut your low budget music videos
but I am NOT a button pusher.
IF you reach out to me and ask me to work
for a TINY FRACTION of what I was once paid,
you MUST know WHO you’re talking to
and WHAT I can and will do for you.
I am NOT just some flunky editor bitch
who needs you to tell me what to do.
I have spent over a DECADE proving my STYLE
that is OFTEN copied poorly now.
Strobing whenever you feel like it
does NOT make your video “AVIDDIVA”.
My work has a VERY specific FEELING.
I have a very specific sensibility.
The AVIDDIVA rhythm and pace is NOT duplicatable.
Go ahead and TRY!
I’ll laugh you off the face of the fucking planet.
I KNOW who I am and what my reel looks like.
I KNOW what people freak out about when they watch it.
I KNOW how many fan letters I get from around the globe daily.
SO SUCK IT BITCHES.
I have done a LOT of ACID
and experimental video work.
I was a trained dancer for YEARS
before becoming a director
and THEN editor for hire.
I edit ALL my own directorial projects.
AVIDDIVA has produced, directed and edited $100k+ videos.
AVIDDIVA has produced, directed and edited $400k+ commercials.
AVIDDIVA produced “Pumping Velvet”-
a legendary one million dollar self-portrait.
AVIDDIVA’s videos won BEST DANCE VIDEO at the MTV video awards
7 years in a row!
NO OTHER EDITOR has this grasp of dance music video.
NOBODY!

If you DON’T have the money
at LEAST bring the RESPECT for my experience!
I DID NOT just graduate from editing school in 2010.
I didn’t just pick up a copy of Final Cut Pro and start calling myself an editor
like SOOOO many people now.
I’ve been doing this my whole life and I am a MASTER.
Just let me do my thing.
Let AVIDDIVA’s magic shine through YOUR video to help YOU-
to work FOR you.

If your video isn’t “about” the edit then you DO NOT need me.
But some of you do and you’re getting this really twisted.
I did NOT work my entire life to establish a day rate that dissolved
ONLY to become a cheap slave for hire
that you can shit all over and act like I don’t have the experience I DO!
That is NOT how this works.
And if you think it does then GO WITH GOD.
Your video edit will NEVER be as tight as it could be
if you just let me do my thing.

IF you’re a director or an artist who really needs to “GET IN THERE”
and you do NOT trust someone like myself with my stellar resume
to service you properly
then I am NOT for you
and I don’t want to sit with you.

YOU can’t TEACH me ANYTHING.
I’m not being paid a shit wage to LEARN from you.
I’m accepting your shit wage to make something great WITH you.

IF you’re someone who wants their shit to pop
and have it be tight from the start-
and you’re willing to show up and make changes efficiently
for the no money you’re offering, fine, I’m your man.

But to ask for the moon and the stars for free or a discounted rate
and THEN ride my ass the whole way through the delivery process?
That’s not an AVIDDIVA job.
I’ll not be put under anyone’s thumb for NO MONEY.
I’ll not put my AVIDDIVA brand name on anything that sucks.
I can’t tell you how many people RUIN their edits
by spending ALL their money before they get to post-
expecting someone of my caliber to come along and FIX it for nothing.

Start making a TINY bit of sense, PLEASE!
We ALL must compromise in this shit economy
and collapsed music video business.

IF I have to accept that my rate DISINTEGRATED
from 15k a video to 2k or LESS a video
then YOU ALL have to accept
that the “rules” of editing with AVIDDIVA also must change.
It’s only fair.

And by the way- the edits I’m seeing SUCK SHIT so I KNOW you NEED me-
desperately!
But you seem to not care that they suck shit so maybe this is a mute point.
Nevertheless, you know where I stand.
Have fun with your Final Cut Pro wanna-be’s.
They are NOT the REAL DEAL!
Believe me… I KNOW. So don’t even try it.