Video editors, someone wants me to do a photo slide show on vhs... whats a good rate?

[Esquire]

I'll have to scan the photo's....

i'm thinking like 200 - 300

price?

200?

1 dollar a pic?

 

[pulse8]

It all depends on how much he's willing to spend.

Rates are usually flexible by budget. If he can afford $200 or $300 for this, then that should be more than adequate payment.

 

[LethalWolfe]

Welcome to hell. Whatever you charge it won't be enough to make you want to do this again.


Lethal

 

[KingNothing]

Originally posted by: LethalWolfe
Welcome to hell. Whatever you charge it won't be enough to make you want to do this again.


Lethal

Hehe...just what I was thinking. It was enough work putting together a 30 picture slideshow for my church college group after we took a trip to Six Flags, and all the pics were digital to begin with. 200-300? Ouch. I'm guessing you don't have an automatic feed scanner...maybe you could find one and use that to cut down on the time you're investing in this?

 

[Esquire]

It's really heinous huh.....

yeah no auto feeder.

sould i have them pic the tunes... lay it out and all?

 

[GoingUp]

I remember I did that in Premiere for my bestfriends wedding, and I scanned in about 50 photos and it took me almost 20 hours of work to get everything in order.... and I have 1.4 athlon with a gig of ram....

 

[Esquire]

20 hrs.... ouch

any more imput

 

[Esquire]

anymore imput

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
I remember I did that in Premiere for my bestfriends wedding, and I scanned in about 50 photos and it took me almost 20 hours of work to get everything in order.... and I have 1.4 athlon with a gig of ram....

I don't know what the hell you were doing, but there's no reason it should take 20 hours to do that.

For 50 pics, it should take no more than 2 or 3 hours to scan them all in. Name them in the sequence they should be in the final video and if you have a program like After Effects, all you have to do is import them, lay them on the comp and then sequence the layers. Once that's done all it has to do is render and you're golden.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
I remember I did that in Premiere for my bestfriends wedding, and I scanned in about 50 photos and it took me almost 20 hours of work to get everything in order.... and I have 1.4 athlon with a gig of ram....

I don't know what the hell you were doing, but there's no reason it should take 20 hours to do that.

For 50 pics, it should take no more than 2 or 3 hours to scan them all in. Name them in the sequence they should be in the final video and if you have a program like After Effects, all you have to do is import them, lay them on the comp and then sequence the layers. Once that's done all it has to do is render and you're golden.

Assuming you don't want any music or commentary or interesting transition effects or text labels or anything.

 

[LethalWolfe]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
I remember I did that in Premiere for my bestfriends wedding, and I scanned in about 50 photos and it took me almost 20 hours of work to get everything in order.... and I have 1.4 athlon with a gig of ram....

I don't know what the hell you were doing, but there's no reason it should take 20 hours to do that.

For 50 pics, it should take no more than 2 or 3 hours to scan them all in. Name them in the sequence they should be in the final video and if you have a program like After Effects, all you have to do is import them, lay them on the comp and then sequence the layers. Once that's done all it has to do is render and you're golden.

Assuming you don't want any music or commentary or interesting transition effects or text labels or anything.

Pulse is cheap and lazy, what do you expect from him?


Lethal

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: LethalWolfe

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
I remember I did that in Premiere for my bestfriends wedding, and I scanned in about 50 photos and it took me almost 20 hours of work to get everything in order.... and I have 1.4 athlon with a gig of ram....

I don't know what the hell you were doing, but there's no reason it should take 20 hours to do that.

For 50 pics, it should take no more than 2 or 3 hours to scan them all in. Name them in the sequence they should be in the final video and if you have a program like After Effects, all you have to do is import them, lay them on the comp and then sequence the layers. Once that's done all it has to do is render and you're golden.

Assuming you don't want any music or commentary or interesting transition effects or text labels or anything.

Pulse is cheap and lazy, what do you expect from him?


Lethal

Actually, with After Effects that can come pretty easily and quickly. For the money they are talking about, though, I assumed that only inlcuded transferring the pictures to some sort of video medium. Transitions and commentary would raise that price a lot more.

Edit: And you're right about the lazy part.