ASK & DISCUSS INDEX

12 years ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

PS people only get married once/infrequently so there is no repeat business!

12 years ago - Nick Currey

Pay rates aside, bear in mind that only about 4 people who were very involved will want to sit through an hour and a half of wedding video, however well edited. Most normal people will want to die after 15 minutes, unless it was scripted by Tarantino and has plot twists and gunplay. A 10 minute highlights edit will be infinitely more appealing.
I say this not as a way of cutting your work time down - most editors will tell you making something shorter usually takes longer - but rather for customer satisfaction. If it's a one-off and you don't know the client, then I wouldn't worry about it. But if you know them or you find it's something you may do again, a better, shorter version will be what they'll appreciate eventually.
Another option is to deliver both - the long and short versions - and then if it's on dvd say, have the full and edited version on separate buttons. Aside from the previously mentioned 4 people, EVERYONE will watch the shorter version. It'll take longer to edit both but if you are doing this for the money you get to charge more, unless you are on a flat rate - never do this type of job for a flat rate.

Nick

12 years ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

It will depend a lot on the quality they're expecting! However 3 amateur cameramen will give you a pretty horrible mess of footage to work with, terrible angles, dreadful framing, nice shaky video, white balance all over the shop, under and over-exposed, awful audio, etc. The more you try to rescue the footage the harder it will be and longer it'll take. I know, I did this for a friend's wedding as their wedding gift! You could also see if anyone has any phonecam footage to give you better coverage, but go into it being aware you're unlikely to be proud of the results.

140GB is a lot of transcoding and ingestion to do already, I wouldn't price it too cheap, and be very prepared to let someone undercut you to take this probable lemon of a job away from you.

12 years ago - Saranne Bensusan

Our rates are £25 p/h but we can cap it off at £200 per day for longer projects. Dan's right in that you probably want to budget for around 2 weeks for the first cut and then you want extra time for second/third cuts, music, credits, thank yous etc.The edit would include sound tweaking, white balance and colour correction. We have done weddings before and have had picky customers wanting recuts so don't do it for a flat rate

12 years ago - Lucas Jedrzejak

I think £220 per day is a reasonable rate without any sound tweaking, colour grading or fixing problems with WB, exposure, shakes etc. If you're expected to do motion graphics and/or authoring for DVD master then it should be considered as extra charge. The same with second/third cut/changes, if needed. It's all about the time it is going to take so it shouldn't matter whether its a commercial, music video, short or a wedding. It would take enormous amount of time preventing doing other editing jobs at similar rate. .

12 years ago - Dan Selakovich

Listen to Paddy. Are you sure you want to do this? Sorry, Tim, but 5 days for a 90 minute show? It would probably take 3 days just to organize all the footage. I've never done anything like this, but even professional scripted work couldn't be done very quickly, and that would be a cake walk compared to this. I think Lucas sounds VERY reasonable. But I also think a lot of it depends on your experience as well. Whatever you decide, DO NOT do this for a flat rate. Schedule at least 2 weeks, then decide what you'd be willing to live with for a daily rate.

12 years ago - Tim Fok

Minimum 5 days work, at a block discounted rate of £200pd would be fair.