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11-16-2006, 08:15 PM
|  | Senior Member Video Editing Junkie | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Esher, Surrey.
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Since I bought my Canopus I'm being inundated from 'chums' asking me to transfer their VHS tapes to DVD, with Chapters. How much should I charge?.
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11-16-2006, 09:40 PM
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Loads !
I tihnk it is actually quite expensive to get this done commercially. I would charge these chums at an a sensible amount or it will never end....
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11-17-2006, 03:32 PM
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I've seen places do this for anywhere from $19.95 to $40 per hour of tape.
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11-17-2006, 06:50 PM
|  | Senior Member Video Editing Junkie | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Austria
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I have a bit of experience with doing paided jobs and before starting a project make it clear to costomer what everything costs.
i.e. just the video converted $.....
video with a dvd menu+chapters
full dvd with various menus and special features
And to answer your question "how much?"
Its difficult.
with a film lasting 30mins and a dvd menu I would ask them ........
LOADS as mark says!!!!!
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11-17-2006, 09:35 PM
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Seems like 'chums' are happy to pay £10 per hour, straight transfer from VHS to DVD (no menus etc.) and 'real chums' are happy to pay £15 per hour to have all their VHS's transferred and catalogued with menus,chapter points.
Problem is... a one hour VHS, on average takes about 4 hours of comp. time.( Load into Vegas then render out to MPEG). During this time my comp is slow as hell....so Mr. Markw....answer me this........
"When i render a big project i just set the process priority to below noraml and forget it, it wont slow down other things then.
How do I 'set the process to below normal?' and will this allow me to use me comp as normal while its rendering?.
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