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Off Topic – How to price PostProduction work
Hi all,
I’m about to do some work for a major corporate, and theguy in charge of the video dept. there asked me to give him a general
price quote. Even though I have more or less set prices (music video, family video etc.), it’s kinda hard for me to decide how to charge on this case.
The guy wanted either a price for a minute of edited material (i.e. online) or a price for a post shift (8-10 hours).The work in question is
1)viewing and digitizing DV tapes
2) editing (FCP) besed on a provided concept (i don’t think they’ll do a story board,
more likely I’ll do a rough cut and we’ll go from there).
3) Sprinkle some motion graphics on top (not very complicated, I believe – most of the projects are for the corporate inhouse use,
plus they’re not really hard on cutting edge graphics)
4) DVD authoring and providing a DV tape as well.Let me also say that i’m kinda quick in my work, both techniaclly and conceptually. I did a 2minute video based on footage provided by the corporate,
and it took me about 8 hours to 90% completion.Any ideas and suggestions on this subject would be much appriciated.
cheers
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3 Replies
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you might get better response in the Business & Marketing forum
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Well it’s pretty basic stuff, but it is a variety of stuff so perhaps $150-250 per day wouldn’t be unreasonable.
Good luck.
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The post around these parts for a package of a few :30 spots for broadcast are 40k on up. Especially since you have to consider your overhead, employees, building, Avids, inferno costs, etc. I know you are a one man show, but it doesn’t mean that you have to come off of that a whole lot. There is a post house here that once said “We don’t even turn on our Avids for less than $30,000”. I’d at least charge $10k. To do offline, online, motion graphics, and DVD mastering is a lot to ask. Pick up an AICE (Association of Independant Commercial Editors) bid and use that as reference.
Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com
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