@withinity happy to help a little! And welcome!

@withinity @vampiress is a good indie game dev follow!

But my fav was the big chain franchise owner asking me to teach him how to use his iphone to record videos to train his employees (so he wouldn't have to hire me all the time) and also I could probably teach him everything in a couple of hours, but he'd would pay me for those couple hours. Having just graduated film school that nearly made my eyes pop out. Lol

Helping people understand is a really overlooked important part of the process imo.

Edit to clarify: this is ok! I dont expect someone unfamiliar to just know these details of timing. There maybe is a bit of common sense, yes, but really it is just more important that people learn that, and why, these things take time.

[Unfortunately with clients that is too often right around when they ghost you as they realize it costs money because it takes effort they didnt consider lol]

It is always funny when clients ask if their 2 minute video can be filmed in ~20 minutes, accounting for setup and tear down time. Sometimes my job really becomes giving a client the information they need to understand what they are actually doing and how it is done.

Most people don't quite know how many hours go into even the shortest videos or media edits. Most of my 10 minute cinematography lesson episodes I by and large release for free to help folks grow take 2.5-8 hours to make. Bigger ones, or if I need more crew 10-15 (rarely can manage those lol). But I also just did a 1 minute edit only for a project recently and spent 8+ hours on it.
Making stuff, even short or small stuff, can take so much time and energy to bring into existence.