Editing in the NYC area will run you betwwen $150 – $250 an hour.

I have been working in video production for the last eleven years.

As far as my business model – I position myself as a producer/director. That’s not to say that I don’t shoot at times but essentially I don’t market myself as a camera operator. I want ownership and control of the entire project whenever possible.

I hear a lot of photographers saying that their existing clients are coming to them and asking them if they shoot video. I tell them that video production is a collaborative effort and that you can act as a producer and work with camera operators, sound mixers and editors to solve your clients’ needs.

There are tremendous opportunities in new markets for video because the demand is high due to broadband and mobile devices.

By the way, I don’t feel that getting a DSLR makes you a videographer – shooting motion is a different thought process.

Cameras are converging – so are visual media businesses.

I use fotoquote for still image pricing, but is there anything for video?

thanks

Armando

Now, still photographers (apparently encouraged by ASMP) suddenly believe that they can be masters of motion media simply because they have low-cost tools for creating video images in their still cameras.

ASMP presents so-called “experts” to help guide all these wanna-be movie producers, yet some of these “experts” barely have any experience in this area of their own (see previous posts in this blog).

Seems like a lot of smoke and mirrors. Perhaps you guys are just grasping at whatever straws you think might be the latest fad to help you sell overpriced services to your fellow photographers.

I get to cook dinner for my family fairly regularly, and have all the same pots, pans and ingredients available in my kitchen that some of the finest restaurants in town do, but that in no way makes me a five star chef, nor even remotely qualified to cook professionally.

Yet you guys seem to think that since you can now shoot limited video with your still cameras, suddenly you are god’s gift to the video production world. Did you ever stop to think that you’ve engaged in competition with all the desperate, out-of-work video professionals, who have no problem working for lowest day rates and giving up rights to their work without even blinking?

Great business planning, guys.

Just like with cameras – many people have expanded and converged their still photography businesses with video.