My uncle told me to always charge for the edit, not just the shoot

I thought it was greedy when I started out, but after a $500 wedding video edit took me 15 hours, I finally get it. Anyone else learn this the hard way?

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richard_young805mo ago

How do you even price that? I had to start charging by the hour for edits after a few jobs just ate my whole week.

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singh.harper5mo ago

Forty-seven rounds of copy changes is a special kind of nightmare. I'd have started billing by the word on round three, or maybe just sent back a single, heavily corrected comma.

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wells.christopher5mo ago

Wait, you were doing full project pricing before? That's like signing a blank check. I got burned once on a website that needed forty-seven rounds of copy changes. Never again.

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danielr993mo ago

Had a client once ask me to "just brighten it up" and came back with a whole new script...

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