[Tim Kennedy]

Joe,

Thank you for your response, it was very informative and answered so many question. If I can pick your brain for a few more questions.
What is a Rejoin? Also, I’m a Animator and motion graphics person, my background is in film and documentary. I’m not a graphic designer nor have studied graphic design. I do have a good sense of design and the moving image. How much time do you spend on design? Do you present graphic treatments to the client for approval before you start animating? Do you hire Graphic Designers? For someone like me would you suggest me hiring a designer to create the look and adding that cost into the price?

Also, I had a question about using stock images within your design. I know some design housed have libraries of stock images to pull from to add to the design and look of graphics packages. Who pays for the use of stock images within the design package? example. if a show is about George Washington, and I want to use a famous picture of GW in my show open, do I have to pay for the rights to use that picture? And how do you incorporate that into the cost of the graphics package? Now, I’m usually stuck with the images that the client provides. The clients have the rights to use them for the show, but it limits me in the images I can use to create a dynamic open.

Thanks again for your response.

tim

Kino Pravda

[Tim Kennedy]

What exactlly does a graphics package consist of. Either for a tv piolot or a cable show.
Also, is there a differenence between a half hour package and hour package.
And what does a station ID and network bumbs consist of.

Kino Pravda

[Tim Kennedy]

Thank you for all your feedback,

After reading everyones post it seems that billing for rendering time is discretionary. And the factors seem to be the facilities and if you even tell the client that they are paying for render time. I am of the one man one system variety, and always set up my queue before I get some ZZZZ. After reading your posts it seem my decision would be, to charge an for rendering by the hour. And that hour would be half of the hourly rate. In the past I’ve just added a couple hours to the total hours to the job to justify cost of rendering. I just wanted to know if it was common to charge for rendering time. Thanks

What are the going hourly rates for After Effects and encoding these days?

Kino Pravda