Fri Jan 18, 2019 1:45 am
I don't know if this has been said before, but I will find useful a working time tracking calculator.
This can give stadistics of the hours we've spend working on each project, in each timeline, and per timeline the hours spent in Media-Edit-Fusion-Color-Fairlight-Deliver. This can include the global time spent on renders, for our own stats.
This is also great to evaluate and refine our future working strategy, elaborate invoices and budgets, both as independent editors or as CEO at a videoedition farm (in both cases, it will be useful to count when Resolve has been left in the background of another application like an internet browser, or even Solitaire).
On any way, it will be easy to generate a "Project progress report" that can make an estimation of how much hours are left to finish the project, useful for projects budgeted by time or money, duration of timeline. Also adding a "stage splitter" on out project stats, can help to divide our progress on phases, so one can measure the time invested on secondary corrections asked by the client.
Very low preference request: For DaVinci Studio ONLY:
On the Deliver page, add a button called "Generate Invoice", or simply "Stadistics".
So while the computer is rendering, one can have fun printing and emailing an invoice to the client, see the detailed stats of the hours we've spent working on the project and save it to .xml or .csv a with a detailed table with stats of our work along the project. A generated invoice has the power to automatically calculate our Grand Total regarding hours per money, or money per hours with the information gathered from the new "Working Time Tracking Stadistics". Subtotal of color correction, edition, audio...hours split per timelines as option, to report our client in the style and detail he deserves. Simply add a dialog when generating the invoice with a field to input how worth is our time (in money, or karma, or love... that's currency, then tax), or how much you were paid to calculate how worth it was each hour. Davinci Resolve can integrate the tedious time we spend in MSWord issuing invoices for each full project.
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studio1492 on Fri Jan 18, 2019 10:45 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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