Editorial, motion design, color, audio post, conform and delivery of fourteen masters.
Eight chapter videos and six bumpers for the sHTG KOL video series. 39 days.
$42,325
Editorial and motion design
The same cut and the same animation, turned over for another house to finish. 33 days.
$33,000
Recommended — full post, USD$42,325
BrandIonis · Tryngolza
AgencyBroth
Masters rollJan 22 – Feb 12, 2027
The scope
Eight chapter videos, three to seven minutes, most closer to three.
Six bumpers at sixty seconds. Fourteen deliverables, 16:9, English, for website and
tablet use. Roughly fifty supplied graphics animated.
Cut from a three-camera shoot, one talent on a white cyc, December 9 and 10 in Denver.
The talent reads to lens and then paraphrases from bullet points, and both performances are woven
together in the cut. Masters at 3840×2160, ProRes 422 HQ and MP4, one frame rate chosen at
kickoff.
No budget stated
Standard rates apply. Finishing is not sold on its own: if the masters carry our name, the grade,
the mix and the spec QC are ours too.
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Full post
Detail
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LineDaysAmount
Ingest, sync and transcription
2.5$1,375
Editorial, chapter videos
11$10,450
Editorial, bumpers
5.5$5,225
Motion design, system and animation
10.5$13,125
Post producing and medical-legal tracking
3$2,550
Color grade
2$3,500
Audio mix
2.5$3,000
Conform, QC and masters
2$1,600
Music license
—$1,500
Full post — 39 days, USD$42,325
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Under one roof
Capabilities
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DisciplineRate
Editorial$950 / day
Cutting
Multicam and long-form. Scripted-to-lens, documentary, chaptered series, and the kind of cut that holds a single speaker for twenty minutes. Assistant editor $550. The days quoted include working client notes and our own internal pass before each delivery.
Motion design$1,250 / day
Systems and builds
A system designed once and applied across a series. Chart, table and infographic builds, title frames, lower thirds, supers and logo animation.
Compositing$1,250 / day
Putting it in the room
Rotoscoping, motion tracking, 3D compositing, screen replacement, paint and cleanup. Graphics that sit in the scene instead of on top of it.
Color$1,750 / day
Look and grade
Look development, grade across a full series, and trims cut to each delivery spec.
Audio post$1,200 / day
Mix and design
Mix, sound design, voiceover lay-in, music cut to length, and loudness delivered to spec.
Finishing$800 / day
Conform and QC
Conform, spec QC, captions and SRT, versioning and cutdowns, and masters built to broadcast and web specifications. Post producer $850.
//Open gate and vertical reformats//Teleprompter and alt-take assembly//Scrolling ISI and regulatory supers//Review-site management//Medical-legal change tracking//Archive and working-file turnover
On this bidAll of it
Everything above is covered by the lines in this bid at the complexity this series calls for. Work that
builds new scenes, sets or environments from scratch sits outside them and is quoted.
No budget has been stated for this job, so standard rates apply. Color and audio post are specialist
disciplines, resourced and supervised by us and quoted at their own rates rather than averaged into a
single finishing figure.
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Hero first, then rolling
Post cal
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MilestoneDate
Award
Oct 21, 2026
Approved manuscript, for ISI, indication and supers
Nov 30, 2026
Built graphics, supers and ISI voiceover. Earlier is better; animation cannot start without them
Dec 4, 2026
Shoot, Denver
Dec 9–10, 2026
Footage and the script supervisor's report to post
Dec 11, 2026
Hero look frames, the motion system on real frames, out for response
Dec 15, 2026
Hero chapter V1, out before the break for notes
Dec 18, 2026
Look approved, motion system locked for all fourteen
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Read before award
Timeline
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What was asked for
Two things were asked for that do not line up. The brief sets final delivery in mid-February.
The October 9 call sets three rounds of review with five full business days for each. Run in
one block against fourteen deliverables, that math returns the last notes on February 11 and leaves no room
to finish.
The calendar above solves it rather than arguing with it. The look is settled before the
holidays, not the piece. Motion system frames go out four days after footage and a hero chapter V1
follows on December 18, so there is something real to respond to over the break. What gets approved on
December 23 is the look, which then holds for all fourteen; the chapters themselves are assembled against it
in January rather than designed inside a review.
Deliverables then roll. Three waves, each with its own five-day round, each finishing and
delivering as it clears. Masters arrive January 22, February 5 and February 12 rather than all on one date,
which is what makes a mid-February finish real instead of arithmetic.
Look approvedDec 23, 2026
Wave 1 mastersJan 22, 2027
Wave 2 mastersFeb 5, 2027
Wave 3 mastersFeb 12, 2027
Also assumed
No reviews land between December 24 and January 1. Medical-legal review is separate from the three
client rounds and the bid specs sheet leaves its count blank: one cycle is assumed, with comments returned
within ten business days. Each additional cycle is quoted at the day rates of whoever it takes and moves that wave day for day.
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What the number assumes
Terms
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Graphics
Built graphics, supers and final ISI copy by December 4, 2026, layered and editable with fonts. Six and a half of the twenty-three days are animation and none starts before they land. A flattened file is a rebuild at $300.
Graphics load
The brief puts the set at about fifty supplied
graphics. How that splits between complex chart and table builds and simpler titles, lower thirds
and ISI cards is not known yet, and neither is how motion-heavy the bumpers want to be. The motion design
line is sized for the whole set at the complexity described rather than guessed line by line. A set that
arrives materially heavier than that, or one that asks for new scenes or environments built from scratch,
is re-quoted rather than absorbed.
Counts
The RFP lists eight chapters; the October 9 call described seven, and the
bumpers were put at four to six. This bid is built on days, not on a price per video. The
ingest, the motion system, the review rounds and the finishing pass are the same work whether the series
lands at twelve deliverables or fourteen, so losing one chapter or a couple of bumpers does not move the
number materially. A chapter is roughly half a day of editorial and a share of the animation pass, about
$750; a bumper is about $200. Anything larger than that, a whole wave removed or added, is re-quoted
rather than adjusted.
Rounds
Three client rounds are included. A round is one
consolidated set of notes across every deliverable in that wave, returned in one document. Rounds are not
billed as a line. Working notes is absorbed across the disciplines above rather than counted as a day
against each one, and the days quoted carry it along with our own internal pass before anything reaches
the client. Anything wrong against the
agreed scope is corrected in as many passes as it takes, at no charge. New direction is a round, and a
fourth is quoted at the day rates of whoever it takes, as is each additional medical-legal cycle, with
that wave moving day for day.
Script and ISI
Script, manuscript, claim substantiation, talent release and HIPAA compliance are the client's. ISI voiceover is supplied; the scrolling ISI build and end placement are included on all fourteen.
Music
$1,500 covers a library track cleared for buyout, online and medical-conference use, cut to each length. A fully custom score is $5,000 to $7,000 minimum.
Excluded
The shoot and the pre-light day, graphic design, 9:16 versions at $150 each, captions and SRT at $900 for all fourteen, and drives or physical media. Captions are called out because the RFP asks for them and the October 9 call did not.
Terms
50% on award, 50% on final delivery. Net 30. If the job is canceled after assets have landed and work has begun, 50% of the fee is due. Pricing holds thirty days from October 16, 2026.
