I am slowly but surely building my own base of clients and have come across this same question, but with more emphasis on just how much should be charged. I have found that I have made some irresponsible business decisions in agreeing to a preset budget that turns out to be quite a bit less than if I were to charge an hourly rate. Would everyone agree that $40/hour is reasonable/standard?
Going further, would anyone suggest a "per frame" rate that might be acceptable? I understand that some frames are much more complicated than others, and I've even heard of some people charging a per/frame/layer rate. How about a per item rate based on the Count Items plugin? Any other methods of pricing that people have found most useful? As a note, I realize that some of these methods are much more easily calculable AFTER the music has been entered in Finale. What would people suggest is the best way to make these pricing decisions when glancing at a MS? I work mostly with handwritten manuscripts... Thanks for your help, Brennon On 2/14/06 3:22 PM, "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14 Feb 2006 at 22:35, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > >> On 14.02.2006 David W. Fenton wrote: >>> I would say that Baroque music takes me longer to enter than >>> Classical >> >> Really? I have always found the opposite. Classical music, certainly >> when it gets to the end of the 18th century, seems too have so much >> more in dynamics, articulations etc. And once it gets to piano music >> things can get really complicated. > > Well, I guess the main reason I find the Classical easier is because > I'm generally working from sources that are much easier to deal with, > printed editions or clean MSS, while my work with Baroque sources has > mostly been from photocopies of cramped and complicated MSS. Some of > the Charpentier I've done was just a huge amount of work, > particularly in the text setting (which is quite haphazard in the MS, > and would be impossible if the texts involved were not known from > other sources). -- B. Christopher Bortz Graduate Student, Music Composition University of California, Riverside [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
