Going Rate for Editing HD Video
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William_Robinette
Shallow Member
I don't think it's that high. In DC the house I interned at was charging ~$200 per hour for a AVID MC Adrenaline room (handles HD).
Joseph Stunzi
Veteran
HDN,
Why don't you just enter Apple's Insomnia film festival and win? Then you'd get your own mobile editing station with FCP and SHAKE! Are you looking for an Edit room with decks, audio monitoring, color correction, and the whole works? or just a large hard drive RAID and a high power computer?
Why don't you just enter Apple's Insomnia film festival and win? Then you'd get your own mobile editing station with FCP and SHAKE! Are you looking for an Edit room with decks, audio monitoring, color correction, and the whole works? or just a large hard drive RAID and a high power computer?
Joseph Stunzi
Veteran
loving the ram here man and the raid5. so how often would u be needing HD? It seems to be the popular thinks nowadays so it'd be worth the investment!
Most of the boutique facilities I work with charge the same SD or HD. The difference between the two is that HD takes longer because the render times are longer. In the end the client pays a bit more (depending on the amount of rendering) but there's no surcharge just because the material is HD.
Zak Forsman
Major Contributor
in Los Angeles, an offline edit bay (FCP or Avid) will run $800 to $1200 a week and an editor will be anywhere from $350 to $1200 a day depending on experience and the job. online rates are typically anywhere from 1.5x to 2x those amounts.
Matt Gottshalk
Resident Preditor
True, I am in the DC market and those are the rates here.
MalcolmOng
Veteran
So....what's the problem - that should be able to handle HD fine............shouldn't it?
marketmd
Well-known member
Just make sure to use Alt-Tab to flip to Avid when the client comes around