You're not the first person I've seen who works this way. Ie, very small price per video. You have to be careful with this kind of working, especially with YouTubers. You should really be charging based on how much time a video takes to edit, not the final product. As a reference, I'm in the UK and my quotes are based on a day rate of £350. If a job takes one day, it's £350. If its five days, it's £1750. If you're a junior, but talented editor, you should expect to be charging no lower than £200 a day.
I'd like to agree with this too, but I'm still taking around £15 a video when I edit, because finding a client that will actually pay you that £200 a day is literally impossible in my experience, as a freelancer.
I think there's been a massive shift in the markets recently, and editing is just not a niche job anymore. Computer technology has evolved, and editing is way easier/intuitive than ever, especially with the variety of different softwares, some even free.
So while I would love to charge more, I don't think anyone will actually pay more. Hence why I've decided to slowly transition into doing VFX rather than editing, since that's still very niche and I enjoy the final result a lot more.
Thank you for responding guys, it really helps me a lot, you both have a point. Now i've decided to stick with my rate because her amount of income is not that stable, let's say she's not that famous or not getting that same number of views every video. We're still learning and growing together about being a youtuber/freelancer. She's treating me nice and always asking about my condition in editing, about her treat for me and etc, so i'll nust still for awhile. And if there's something wrong I can complain right away about it so she'll know
I would like to open this discussion too. Yes while I agree an editor should consider their time, education, hardware/software costs and charge accordingly, nowadays almost everyone can edit, at a pretty basic level at least. And because they can charge even 5 dollars (!!!!!) per video, low income clients will always go to them. I myself have a kind of low hourly rate of 20$, which is still a lot as a freelancer and not many people will pay that. But its a way for me to filter out cheapskates. I wish there was a manual for video editors, and rules we could all follow and just compete with our quality of work and not this huge gap in price.
You're not the first person I've seen who works this way. Ie, very small price per video. You have to be careful with this kind of working, especially with YouTubers. You should really be charging based on how much time a video takes to edit, not the final product. As a reference, I'm in the UK and my quotes are based on a day rate of £350. If a job takes one day, it's £350. If its five days, it's £1750. If you're a junior, but talented editor, you should expect to be charging no lower than £200 a day.
I'd like to agree with this too, but I'm still taking around £15 a video when I edit, because finding a client that will actually pay you that £200 a day is literally impossible in my experience, as a freelancer. I think there's been a massive shift in the markets recently, and editing is just not a niche job anymore. Computer technology has evolved, and editing is way easier/intuitive than ever, especially with the variety of different softwares, some even free. So while I would love to charge more, I don't think anyone will actually pay more. Hence why I've decided to slowly transition into doing VFX rather than editing, since that's still very niche and I enjoy the final result a lot more.
Thank you for responding guys, it really helps me a lot, you both have a point. Now i've decided to stick with my rate because her amount of income is not that stable, let's say she's not that famous or not getting that same number of views every video. We're still learning and growing together about being a youtuber/freelancer. She's treating me nice and always asking about my condition in editing, about her treat for me and etc, so i'll nust still for awhile. And if there's something wrong I can complain right away about it so she'll know
I would like to open this discussion too. Yes while I agree an editor should consider their time, education, hardware/software costs and charge accordingly, nowadays almost everyone can edit, at a pretty basic level at least. And because they can charge even 5 dollars (!!!!!) per video, low income clients will always go to them. I myself have a kind of low hourly rate of 20$, which is still a lot as a freelancer and not many people will pay that. But its a way for me to filter out cheapskates. I wish there was a manual for video editors, and rules we could all follow and just compete with our quality of work and not this huge gap in price.