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SoBeGirl Video · 11-09-2002, 04:38 PM

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I was wondering what most webmasters feel is an acceptable price for video edting. I mean how much would they pay for an hour of content captured, edited, and rendered and delivered??

boneprone · 11-09-2002, 04:40 PM

Delivered to my home?
Or to my office?

m0rph3us · 11-09-2002, 04:45 PM

Actually had to look up a quote for a friend a couple weeks ago.
I think $1.50 a minute is acceptable for 3 formats.

In order words, $0.50/minute in 1 format. Source: miniDV or beta.

You should have faily fast turnaround time.

Oops.. didn't see you wanted 1 hour and delivered.
I guess 1 hour = $30/format + FedEx price according to region.

bawdy · 11-09-2002, 06:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by m0rph3us
Actually had to look up a quote for a friend a couple weeks ago.
I think $1.50 a minute is acceptable for 3 formats.

In order words, $0.50/minute in 1 format. Source: miniDV or beta.

You should have faily fast turnaround time.

Oops.. didn't see you wanted 1 hour and delivered.
I guess 1 hour = $30/format + FedEx price according to region.

that is maybe an allright price if all you are doing is taking footage and compressing it.... no editing and no audio work....

if you were actually editing the footage and laying down a decent grunt and groan track you would want a much higher renumeration per minute

Machete_ · 11-09-2002, 06:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by bawdy

that is maybe an allright price if all you are doing is taking footage and compressing it.... no editing and no audio work....

if you were actually editing the footage and laying down a decent grunt and groan track you would want a much higher renumeration per minute

we do it for $150 / hour... but we havent done any adult yet... just postproduction movies the last 22 years

magnatique · 11-09-2002, 07:29 PM

it depends what quality, what you get and etc...

we prefer doing it ourselves from a DV version... that's what we usually get from the people we buy videos from... cuz then we can encode it and make any format we want, at any quality we want, and take high quality dv screen caps..

fiveyes · 11-09-2002, 10:35 PM

If this is a one-off thing you're doing for a freind, then disregard this posting- just charge 'em what you feel a coupla' hours work is worth and if it takes longer, keep smiling. Otherwise, I feel there are too many factors involved to give a flat rate, especially in the capturing and editing of the material.

How much tape would you have to wade through to get the full hour of end product? Capturing can be anything from a straight pull from a production release to marathon hunt 'n seek with raw footage. Likewise, editing may be as simple as cutting the scenes to a minute each or it might involve designing a scar or title for the set and assembling a lot of short scenes, possibly with fades and wipes between them. And that's not even considering work on the audio track.

Rendering is pretty straight forward but it's time intensive. And that goes double, even triple, if you're offering multiple formats. Most likely that can be batch processed while you're sleeping, but you do have to consider the cost of the equipment involved.

It all boils down to something more than an hour of video: You're offering a very specialized service, specifically post-production studio work. It should be priced on a carefully considered idea of how long it will take you, what you feel your time is worth and include an allowance for equipment usage (the more expensive that editing bay is, the more you charge). Also, since "how long it will take" can vary considerably, you might well consider a contracted estimate that has a clause covering overages and keeping a strict log of time spent on each project.

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