Re: Excellent points.....

...but I make no determinations about ones ability to finish faster than another. I am simply interested in the "hourly" responce and the market ideas and self-representation. Speedy editors tend to be a little more pricey and their work is usually more saught after in a pinch. As you saw, our hourly rate is a little higher than most. Some of this "extra" cost is to make up for the shorter wait time from begining to end, some of it is due to the high volume of folks that want to edit "with" us. We typically explain that etiting is editing (is editing) and the more time we spend "one frame left, no two right"ing the thing, the longer it will take and the more it costs. They usually let us work and modify during the "preview", which ironically, is a flat $25 bucks in the conference room that cost US money to do, but is a neccessary part of the final product (this is where we make paper chances and get the edit fine tuned, or they sigh on the dotted line and we give 'em a master.).

Michael