Re: Need Help! Do you charge clients for Rendering?

also think of it this way when it comes to render time, i used to have an invoiced job which was all hourly and i explained rendering to them (they weren't computer savy) the guy had a previous company that did helicopter work on features

he had air hours, ie hours he was in the air using the chopper and the gass
and he had standby hours, time he and his chopper were being used but weren't expending gass or flying through the skies.

so basicly your either working you butt off behind the computer, or rendering on it, since the rendering isn't using your talent, just your hardware you could in theory charge a standby rate.