Hi -
Any rough idea on price ranges for what Vegas DVD editors charge per hour for their work?
Having produced over 30 dvds using Vegas and DVDA these last few years myself for my own businesses, I'm glad to be able to use this solid NLE for my various projects. But now Vegas is a bottleneck in my overall business workflow, as it takes me a few hours to re-use each prior projects' settings to produce my next DVDs, and I'm looking for help, if pricing/quality is reasonable. I'm a one-man company working from home, and could use some help w/DVD production for new projects using Vegas.
Quick question: I need to, on an ongoing basis, produce DVDs from webinar recordings I do (from gotowebinar), they are usually 60-90 minutes in length in 1680x1050 .wmv source, which I convert using Vegas to widescreen sd avi output, which are then authored in DVDA for final dvd renders. I still prefer using V8 btw for production.
Anyways, if I supplied the source veg and dvda project file templates and .wmv that I use, so it's all pretty much templated, any idea what it would cost to produce a single 60-90 min DVD master?
Total worktime should be well under 3-5 hours per project, since very little needs to be done in Vegas (import the new .wmv, adjust the outro graphic/sound to match the end of the project, render to avi, then import rendered avi into the dvda project template, adjust the menu settings/text, then render the vobs from dvda into /video_ts etc), and supply final vegs/dvda project file along w/the dvd /video_ts vobs etc); can be done via rapidshare for delivery. Only plugin requirement is newblue soundfx (as I do some audio enhancing with it, which I'd supply settings for).
For the DVD, I would supply the intro video source and menu back avi, and the menus are not chapter-based, it's just a single video file, and again the DVDA file is a template I'd make/reuse, that would just require changing the name of a single text item w/static thumbnail jpg and avi background type menu, so relatively straightforward.
DVD structure is always just:
a) intro video (title/fbi warning)
b) main avi (non-chaptered, single 60-80 minute avi source)
Menu graphics are always just a simple title at top, with a thumbnail and text title of the one main video file
Ideas on pricing for what should be no more than a few hours' work, per project like this, from an experienced Vegas 8-based editor? (and any of you guys who are good at Vegas and have a site and have produced at least a dozen dvds w/at least 5yrs experience w/vegas, interested? or, know where I should post jobs like this for bids etc like elance).
It's not that I can't keep doing these myself, it's just something I'd like to (finally!) outsource, as it becomes a 'big deal' for me to go into Vegas/DVDA "mode" and create each new DVD, though the actual workflow is simple. I need to focus on marketing and site design work, vs the dvd editing.
It's an easy one, no actual video editing is needed, just working with a given 'template' type .veg for new wmvs, (need to just do a right click on "match project aspect ratio" in timeline ) for the video source, to match project settings, apply the newblue sound effect setting, adjust outro graphic/audio to match source wmv length, and render; then create a simple one-item based dvd in dvda from the rendered source.
What would you guys think would be a reasonable ballpark rate (given I'm a one-man guy like most of you, as a company), for this type of ongoing dvd project work?
thx all,
-ken
Any rough idea on price ranges for what Vegas DVD editors charge per hour for their work?
Having produced over 30 dvds using Vegas and DVDA these last few years myself for my own businesses, I'm glad to be able to use this solid NLE for my various projects. But now Vegas is a bottleneck in my overall business workflow, as it takes me a few hours to re-use each prior projects' settings to produce my next DVDs, and I'm looking for help, if pricing/quality is reasonable. I'm a one-man company working from home, and could use some help w/DVD production for new projects using Vegas.
Quick question: I need to, on an ongoing basis, produce DVDs from webinar recordings I do (from gotowebinar), they are usually 60-90 minutes in length in 1680x1050 .wmv source, which I convert using Vegas to widescreen sd avi output, which are then authored in DVDA for final dvd renders. I still prefer using V8 btw for production.
Anyways, if I supplied the source veg and dvda project file templates and .wmv that I use, so it's all pretty much templated, any idea what it would cost to produce a single 60-90 min DVD master?
Total worktime should be well under 3-5 hours per project, since very little needs to be done in Vegas (import the new .wmv, adjust the outro graphic/sound to match the end of the project, render to avi, then import rendered avi into the dvda project template, adjust the menu settings/text, then render the vobs from dvda into /video_ts etc), and supply final vegs/dvda project file along w/the dvd /video_ts vobs etc); can be done via rapidshare for delivery. Only plugin requirement is newblue soundfx (as I do some audio enhancing with it, which I'd supply settings for).
For the DVD, I would supply the intro video source and menu back avi, and the menus are not chapter-based, it's just a single video file, and again the DVDA file is a template I'd make/reuse, that would just require changing the name of a single text item w/static thumbnail jpg and avi background type menu, so relatively straightforward.
DVD structure is always just:
a) intro video (title/fbi warning)
b) main avi (non-chaptered, single 60-80 minute avi source)
Menu graphics are always just a simple title at top, with a thumbnail and text title of the one main video file
Ideas on pricing for what should be no more than a few hours' work, per project like this, from an experienced Vegas 8-based editor? (and any of you guys who are good at Vegas and have a site and have produced at least a dozen dvds w/at least 5yrs experience w/vegas, interested? or, know where I should post jobs like this for bids etc like elance).
It's not that I can't keep doing these myself, it's just something I'd like to (finally!) outsource, as it becomes a 'big deal' for me to go into Vegas/DVDA "mode" and create each new DVD, though the actual workflow is simple. I need to focus on marketing and site design work, vs the dvd editing.
It's an easy one, no actual video editing is needed, just working with a given 'template' type .veg for new wmvs, (need to just do a right click on "match project aspect ratio" in timeline ) for the video source, to match project settings, apply the newblue sound effect setting, adjust outro graphic/audio to match source wmv length, and render; then create a simple one-item based dvd in dvda from the rendered source.
What would you guys think would be a reasonable ballpark rate (given I'm a one-man guy like most of you, as a company), for this type of ongoing dvd project work?
thx all,
-ken