A very interesting question. I have some questions back:
Your aim is to earn 1500-2000 dollar extra per month and you keep your daily job. And you want to ask e.g. 15 dollar/h. So that means approx 130 hours/month extra work. Is that realistic? My normal job takes me already 60h/week excl. traveling. What about yours?
Second question: you edited already homevideo’s for some friends. Suppose you would have asked this amount of money from your friend, would they still want you to do the editing?
I did a lot of wedding video’s for friends and always for free. In two cases where I was asked by people that I didn’t know so well, I asked 1000 euro’s for the wedding video (which is still half the price a professional videographer would ask here). And in both cases the wedding couple decided to ask some relatives who could do it for free…
I thing your idea is great. But my worry would be that people don’t want to spend money on the editing of there home videos so there is still the risk that you would spend a lot of work in editing homevideo’s from all your friend without earning anything…
Anyhow, if you manage to start a business like this, it’s great and I would love to hear how you did it!
Theo