Makes you wonder how such a person can bear to read a newspaper. What, only 2 pictures of this earthquake? Where are all the other ten thousand? And what's with this 3 column inches? What about all the draft submissions the editor was sent? I want to see those as well!

Tuck in an extra fee on your pricing and provide the B&G an external hard drive with the raw footage you've transferred from your workstation. Im not sure what you'd do with the footage anyways.. Us, we just delete them after we get the B&G's approval of their final copy.....given that most videogs only provide a 20-30 minute "cinematic" final product im sure that they will appreciate the gesture especially if they paid lots of money for their video...

the bridal director package. I love it. Hey for $45K, i'd be willing to spend a couple months editing one wedding. Ahaha. Do 6 of those a year and you are bringing in about $300K!

I'm wanting to get into the wedding videography business and I also happen to be getting married this year. One of the main things I was looking for in a company was someone that would not only have their editing package, but an option to where I can have the full enedited footage so I can practice my wedding editing skills. I will only use it for personal use and that footage won't be commercially used as an example of my editing skills.

Since wedding lengths are all different, this company charges $50 per disk (either DVD or Blu-ray, depending if it is shot in SD or HD). I would estimate that the cost would be about $50 for every 2 hours, which I consider reasonable. As was mentioned above: If someone had 20 hours of footage, then that would be $500, but if another wedding only had 1 camera and they just wanted their short wedding ceremony recorded, then that would probably fit on 1 disk.

As for the post saying: "Its their video, not yours." Technically, the videographer owns the copyright. Like in the photography world, you just you can't go into a walmart/walgreens/etc and scan wedding pictures taken by a professional photographer because the client does not own the copyright to those pictures. You will be refused service because that company will not want to be held liable for being involved in illegal activity. The same applies for taking any copyright disc to a disc duplication facility.

I have seen photographers turn over the copyright to the client and they usually charge a hefty fee (about 200% - 300% of their print package).

So if a videographer was to give someone their RAW footage, YOU would still own the copyright. If they wanted to copyright to the footage as well, then I would most definately charge about 200% of the normal cost. (If I typically charged $2,000 for a wedding, then the copyright would be $4,000 for a total cost of $6,000).