What to charge is sooooooo dependant on many things.

First should be based on experiance and quality of what the work is you are doing. However market value varies from market to market. What you could charge in Hollywood, Ca in not the same as what you could charge in...oh I dunno...Merced, Ca. East Coast/West Coast prices are very different. Big city vs. small city and so on. What is your primary client base for this? What do you want it to be? Indy bands? Major label/agency artists? Indy films? Studio films? Indy studio films? And so on.

The next is what does your compitition charge? What do they offer? How do you compare? If they do excellant work and are very established and charge half of what you do don't expect to get a lot of work. If they are very established, do crappy work and charge three times as much as you do you can expect more work but keep in mind that no matter what the quality you will be going up against someone who is already 'very established'.

Lastly, what do you feel will pay for at least your overhead to start off with? I feel you can always raise prices as time goes on but to lower them might come off as bad when you first start. As you have just started to offer the DVD portion I would suggest look around your area and see what others are charging that are more known. Then set your cost a little under them just because you are starting off. If they charge 80 an hour and have the exact same gear you do, than charge maybe 70 an hour. If they can do 10 times the amount of stuff you can then you have some serious thinking to do...if they charge 80 maybe you can only charge 40 or 50. Keep in mind you can offer a package deal whereas some of the others may only do the DVD part - you can come to an artist and say we will record you, we will mix you, we will master you, we will put together an intercative DVD for you, we will make a music video for you (?) and here is what *all* of that will cost.

The word on the street out here in Indiana is that Walgreens charges $100 an hour to transfer video to DVD. I really doubt that they do that much with it (the footage), but that supposedly is the going rate for Walgreens

Yeah, I don't see Walgreen's as being much of a "Post House," but who knows.

However, I am betting that the hour that they're quoting is an hour of tape, not an hour of work. Which, as we all know would mean alot less than $100/hour pay.

I charge $49.95 to dup a tape to dvd no editing just straight copy. Editing is $25.00 to $50.00 hour up here in the woods. An hour away they get $75 to $100 per hour. Typically they want a few chapters and menu buttons so the usual job does approach $100.