Posted by yarock on 09/04/06 00:50

I had been shooting run and gun , interviews, small concerts,etc., and
recently got involved in weddings and Bar Mitzvahs. After 5 weddings, I
have a good idea abouut the editing time it takes us to do a one hour
finished dvd.My girlfriend/partner edits, and though not blazing fast,
does a good ,creative job. Including capturing , editing, epxporting
audio to Nuendo for post,re importing, and finally authoring the dvd, a
two camera wedding with 4 hours of tape runs around 35 hours.
I need to quote a slightly different type of editing job, and hope
that someone can give me some feedback based on the time I described
for our regular wedding edits.
Here are the specifics of the job:
It's a scripted piece to be shown during the dinner at a Bar Mitzvah
put on by well to do people.
I'll be shooting a number of scenes for a day or two, and probably end
up with 1.5-2 hours of footage (several takes of the scripted scenes).
I'll be ripping some footage from several dvd's they already have, and
including several 20 second segments in the final product.
There will be music provided. I'll take all of the audio into Nuendo
for tweaking and mastering.
Approx. 250 pictures.They'll probably give me the pics scanned, but
if not, I know what to charge for scanning , resizing and
correcting.Edit the pics along with the footage, dvd excerpts in the
timeline.
Create the mpeg and author the dvd.
The final dvd will be 15-20 minutes.
My question-Any ideas what a realistic estimate of hours would be(not
counting the pic scanning)?

Thanks for any help
Bruce S. Yarock
www.yarock.com
P.S.-Please excuse the doulble posting if anyone has also seen it on
dvinfo.net.

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