Bid
RH-BID-26-014Full post
Editorial, motion design, color, audio post, conform and delivery of fourteen masters. Eight chapter videos and six bumpers for the sHTG KOL video series. 40.5 days.
Editorial and motion design
The same cut and the same animation, turned over for another house to finish. 32.5 days.
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.
Every rate here is cut from our standard card as a first-engagement courtesy, and the cut is shown on both the detail and the rate page. 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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Rockford House, a trading name of Dark Water Media LLC · Portland, OregonDetail
RH-BID-26-014Ingest, sync and transcriptionAssistant editor · $650$550 / day
Editorial, chapter videosEditor · $1,100$850 / day
Editorial, bumpersEditor · $1,100$850 / day
Motion design, system and animationMotion designer · $1,450$1,150 / day
Post producing and medical-legal trackingPost producer · $1,000$800 / day
Color gradeColorist · $1,750 / day
3$5,250Audio mixAudio post · $1,200 / day
3$3,600Conform, QC and mastersFinishing · $800 / day
2$1,600Capabilities
RH-BID-26-014Multicam 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.
A system designed once and applied across a series. Chart, table and infographic builds, title frames, lower thirds, supers and logo animation.
Rotoscoping, motion tracking, 3D compositing, screen replacement, paint and cleanup. Graphics that sit in the scene instead of on top of it.
Look development, grade across a full series, and trims cut to each delivery spec.
Mix, sound design, voiceover lay-in, music cut to length, and loudness delivered to spec.
Conform, spec QC, captions and SRT, versioning and cutdowns, and masters built to broadcast and web specifications. Post producer $800.
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.
These are the rates this bid is built on, each reduced from our card as a first-engagement courtesy; the detail page shows every card rate struck through beside it. Color and audio post are specialist disciplines, resourced and supervised by us, and are held at card rather than averaged into a single finishing figure.
Post cal
RH-BID-26-014Award
Approved manuscript, for ISI, indication and supers
Built graphics, supers and ISI voiceover. Earlier is better; animation cannot start without them
Shoot, Denver
Footage and the script supervisor's report to post
Hero look frames, the motion system on real frames, out for response
Hero chapter V1, out before the break for notes
Look approved, motion system locked for all fourteen
Holiday pause, no reviews
Wave 1 V1, chapters 2–4
Wave 2 V1, chapters 5–8
Wave 1 masters, hero plus chapters 2–4
Wave 3 V1, six bumpers
Wave 2 masters, chapters 5–8
Wave 3 masters, six bumpers
December 2026
January 2027
February 2027
Milestone Holiday pause, no reviews
Timeline
RH-BID-26-014Reel
RH-BID-26-014Long-form multicam across multiple pieces, with the look, the motion and the whole graphics package built here. The graphics load, at length.
The same build on a second series. One custom look system designed once and carried across every piece.
Motion design tracked into the shot, in a regulated category with the legal line composed in. The bumpers carry an ISI the same way.
Custom animation and motion design carrying a voiceover with no one on camera. Five minutes held by the build alone.
Medical messaging delivered direct to camera by talent, across a guide series. The link opens the full collection.
Hype and energy, cut for pace. A brand kit animated to someone else's type and color rules, which is what the fifty supplied graphics are.
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Rockford House, a trading name of Dark Water Media LLC · Portland, OregonTerms
RH-BID-26-014Built graphics, supers and final ISI copy by December 4, 2026, layered and editable with fonts. Ten and a half of the 40.5 days are animation and none starts before they land. A flattened file is a rebuild at $300.
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.
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 $650; a bumper is about $175. Anything larger than that, a whole wave removed or added, is re-quoted rather than adjusted.
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. We will execute the brief, and each set of notes, to the best of our ability. Where we materially miss either, the passes needed to put it right are not counted as a round and are not charged. 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, 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.
Licensing, and any composer, sit with the agency. Coordinating with whoever holds it is included here either way. If choosing tracks and scoring them to each of the fourteen comes to us instead, that is editorial time — roughly two days — and is added at the day rate. The license itself remains the client's cost: a buyout-cleared library track for online and medical-conference use runs about $1,500, and a fully custom score $5,000 to $7,000 minimum.
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.
Every rate here is cut from our card, struck through on the rate page. The reduction is a first-engagement courtesy to Cardboard Spaceship and specific to this job; later bids are quoted at card.
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.
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Rockford House, a trading name of Dark Water Media LLC · Portland, Oregon