For the past 11 years when I've been working on RADAR, I've usually been giving them all their daily DVD-R backups at the end of the project. Now that I'm switching to PT, I'm looking into the most logical options. I like the idea of just throwing in something with the day rate, but it depends on what I can find for hard drives that are reliable, but not too expensive. Honestly, since I've dropped my rate a bit for the first six months of operation in the new studio, I can't really afford to throw in too much extra stuff. People used to care about what amenities came with your studio, but now I'm seeing more people just concerned about the bottom line of a day rate, so I might start charging for things like that. But a one-time fee for a backup USB drive doesn't seem out of line to me at all.dwlb wrote:Chris, do your clients provide a hard drive for the files, or do you sell them a drive, or do you post the files to a dropbox or something for them to pull down? I'm finding it really difficult to hand off project files in a way that doesn't cause clients' heads to explode (keep in mind I work with a fair number of people for whom the concept of an external hard drive is pretty challenging).
Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC