YouTube Editing Proposal Template
In SendScope under Video & Audio, as YouTube Video Editing
Editing for a creator is a relationship priced as a transaction, and the per video rate hides the thing that actually costs you, which is runtime. A thirty minute upload is not twice a fifteen minute one, because the decisions scale faster than the footage does.
Both packages cap the runtime for exactly that reason. The upper tier adds colour, sound design and motion graphics, which is the work that makes a channel look like a channel rather than a recording somebody uploaded.
Thumbnails are included in both and deserve their own conversation. They take a fraction of the time and carry a disproportionate share of whether the video gets watched at all, which makes them the easiest thing in this quote to undervalue. Charge for them separately if a creator wants several to test.
What the client reads
The scope
This is the wording the template arrives with. Yours replaces it.
The packages
3 to choose from
The client picks one, and the one they pick is the one they approve and pay on.
Basic Edit
Per video
A$150
2-3 days
- Cuts & transitions
- Background music
- Text overlays
- Thumbnail
- Up to 15 min
Full Production
Per video
A$400
3-5 days
- Jump cuts & pacing
- Color grading
- Sound design
- Motion graphics
- Thumbnail design
- End screen
- Up to 30 min
Monthly Package
8 videos/month
A$2,000
Monthly
- 8 videos edited
- Consistent style
- Custom intro/outro
- Thumbnails
- Shorts/clips
- Priority turnaround
- Revision included
The whole thing, live
The page your client opens
Not a screenshot. This is the real client page running on an invented deal. Pick a package and press approve to see what your client would see; nothing is sent or charged.
How it gets paid
Deposit, then balance
50% is due when the client approves, and the balance when you mark the work delivered. Both payments happen on the same link the proposal is on.
Card or bank transfer, and you choose which per deal. If you want a package to bill every month instead of once, you set that on the package itself when you build the deal, and the client can cancel it from their own link.
Prices are a starting point in Australian dollars. Change the figures, the inclusions and the number of packages to suit what you sell.
The starting terms
What approving the page records
These sit above the approve button. The client reads them, and approving records that they accepted them.
These terms cover the production you approve on this page.
- The booking. The deposit shown on this page holds the shoot date and is not refunded if you cancel, because the date is then reserved for you.
- Payment. The balance is paid before the final files are delivered.
- What you receive. The deliverables, their length, the formats and the number of cuts are those described above. Raw footage and project files are not included and can be quoted separately.
- Revisions. The rounds of revision included are listed above. A round is one consolidated set of notes. Further rounds, or changes after the final cut is approved, are quoted before they are done.
- Music and stock. Licensed music, stock footage and voice talent are charged as quoted and licensed for the use described above.
- Use of the work. You may use the delivered work for the platforms, territory and period described above. Wider use is quoted separately. I keep the right to show the work in my portfolio unless you ask me in writing not to.
- On the day. Location access, permissions and the people appearing on camera are arranged by you unless stated above.
- Cancellation. If you cancel, you are charged for work already done and costs already committed.
Approving this page records that you accepted this scope, this price and these terms.
Starting terms, not legal advice. Read them, change what does not match how you work, and have a lawyer look at them if the work is large enough to warrant it. Your own default terms in Settings replace these automatically.
Before you send it
What to change first
The parts of this template most likely to be wrong for you.
- Your runtime caps, which are the real unit of work in this arrangement
- Turnaround, since creators publish to a schedule and lateness compounds
- How many revisions, which with a regular client should settle at very few
- Whether a monthly volume rate replaces the per video price once it is steady
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