Video Correction…

[Mike Moss]

Thanks for all the help guys!
Ill be workin on this fora lil while and see if i can do it.

One more question…I originally got this gig because the owner of the video wanted me to create DVD menus for it. Which was simple enough, lil AE, Photoshop and Encore.
He really liked the menus that i came up with and then asked me to do the corrections to the video, i told him i would see, but no guarantees that i could do it. If it turns out that i am able to, how much would you charge for something like this? (American dollars)

Figure the video has a TRT of 24minutes @ 30fps.

[Jim Arco]

I usually bill on an hourly basis and give clients several choices of how much work they want done. If this is for a reunion special on a major network, it might require more effort than someone who just wants to be able to watch their old videos. In a case like this, you might be able to have a one-size-fits-all technique that can be applied to the whole thing, or you might need to do scene-by-scene correction.

If it needs frame-by-frame roto-ing or reconstruction, then the hours/dollars can get pretty high.

You’ll need to determine what your market will bear, but be sure to figure in the costs of your high-end workstation with all software. It sometimes still surprizes me when I see folks low-balling it at $20/hour for their skills and $5000 worth of obsolete-next-week computer/monitors/graphics cards/software.

Jim