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How much should I charge for a copy a year later?
Hi,
I just had a client contact me to get a copy of a project I did for her last winter. I do still have the :30 second spot on my hard drive for demo purposes. I told her to name a price, but she neglected to include that in her correspondence. She just said to invoice her. Any ideas on this one? How much is this worth? My time plus tape stock and postage, or is it customary to charge a different price for another master?
Your thoughts are appreciated.
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:30 spot that’s still on the drive I would just charge tape stock costs. Generally I add about 50% – 100% of the cost of the tape, so for a $10 tape, I would charge $20 for the dub.
if it wasn’t still on the drive and you had to reassemble it, then regular editing charges would apply.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
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Capn,
I pretty much agree with Walter, except that, if I have to un-archive the project from discs or storage drives and re-render or whatever, I add that time to the dub charge. I get these requests all the time, and sometimes on jobs in which I have to recapture the media, which adds a little more time.
For Beta dubs, I charge what online places and dub houses around here charge, which averages around $35 for a 10 minute or less copy.
On average, I’d say this kind of request goes out the door for less than 200 bucks.
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Thanks very much for your help!
Slade -
I keep a tape “Master” for virtually every project I have done in the past decade.
When did this practice become uncommon?
For spots, I just keep a dub-reel that has all the spots in chonological order.
When it fills, I start another.
That way I don’t have separate tapes lining the shelves with one-spot-per.Longer projects are on separate reels, of course.
Many places around town keep the tape masters for a period of time, then offer to sell the master to the client or destroy it for storage clearance reasons.
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[Thax] “I keep a tape “Master” for virtually every project I have done in the past decade.
When did this practice become uncommon?”
unfortunately many “one man band” shops that have started in the past few years have never heard of this practice. A Stack Reel is always a good thing to keep around, very good point to bring up.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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