On Feb 15, 2006, at 6:25 AM, dhbailey wrote:
I don't think it matters if you're doing it on a per-frame basis
(that's certainly easy enough to calculate even before you enter it
into Finale) makes a difference on the final quote, just make sure
you've looked at all the frames so that you're acquainted with the
most comlex of them.
Pricing on a per-item basis seems too nit-picky for me, and were I a
client I wouldn't hire someone who charges using that method.
I'm sure others will chime in with their thoughts on this issue.
I sure will! 8-)
I find that most clients don't want to know how you calculate it; they
just want to know how much it will cost them. As a result, I work out
frame rates and guesstimate hours, and I think about how the final
product will be used (my usual quick and dirty one-live-performance, or
something that will stay in the library for a while, or for publication
(rarely in my case)) and from all that I cobble together a fixed price
and give it to them to be accepted or refused.
Sometimes I screw myself (only lightly these days, as I am getting
better at pricing), sometimes I come out ahead, but mostly I am
somewhere in the ballpark.
Some clients need to be told the Golden Triangle Rule, which is an
excellent principle for contractors of all types:
"Good, Fast, and Cheap. Pick any two."
Good and fast won't be cheap, fast and cheap won't be good, while cheap
and good won't be fast, because I will do it when I have nothing better
to do.
Christopher
(BTW, Dennis Collins, from what I have seen of your work, 45 minutes
per page for that quality of output is terrific! You are working in a
domain where I don't find myself very often, so maybe I am unduly
impressed, but I am impressed just the same. At an hourly rate of $40,
you would charge about $30 per page, which is a bargain for the
quality, IMHO.)
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