i realized a negative to editing on the T2/3

[videoguy]

Most of us in the video industry charge by the hour for editing i just realized that one of my editing hours on the toaster 2 would equate to two or more hours on one of thoose other systems do newtek i think you owe me $$$ for all the editing hours you cost me :-)

[wvp]

So figure out the number of hours the competition would need to spend doing the same project and charge you client 10% less plus a per hour rate for any time over this "estimate".
(they don't need to know you are getting "paid" to watch another episode of (insert favorite TV show here)!:D

[bbeanan]

But due to this "BUG" it has been getting me more work... One of my clients has been choosing to use my system and me over his in house muliti-million dollar edit suite on a number of jobs, due to the fact that I can do it in half the time and because since my system is only a $15k set-up my rates are a fraction of what his house studio charges (granted I think they end up marking up my rate to almost the same as their studio rate)

I did have one job I did where I brought my system to the client's site to fix some problems in their video presentation (spelling errors, wrong arrangment stuff like that)... Anyway I did all the changes in about 2 hours my client said "Your done??? My god it took our guys back in New York 4 hours to create the titles alone, you just re-did everything they did in 2 hours, by yourself. IU should have had you just do the whole damn thing it would have saved me like $30k"

What I ended up doing was taking their video and recreating their title graphics about 2% larger, that way I could overlay, my graphic on top of their fixing their errors. Then I had to capture each segment and totally rearrange the video and dump it all back to Beta... Now granted I had their work to copy from so there was very little creative but never the less the client was blown away.

[SBowie]

To make that anecdote perfect, all you need to do is add that, in fairness, the in-house guys were forced to work on lowly Avid systems - hence you held such a decisive edge it doesn't seem decent to gloat :)