Buyer checklist · Florida businesses
Compare creative fit, senior involvement, production terms, and communication—not just a polished showreel or the lowest quote. Use this checklist to shortlist the right partner for your footage, animation, and ongoing content needs.
Comparison checklist
A reliable comparison makes the creative and operational differences visible before you commit budget or footage.
| What to check | Question to ask | What a clear answer includes |
|---|---|---|
| Relevant portfolio | Can I see work similar to my project? | Examples with a comparable format, audience, complexity, and intended use |
| Production team | Who will actually handle the work? | The editor or animator's role, experience, review process, and any handoffs |
| Deliverables | Exactly what will I receive? | Duration, formats, aspect ratios, captions, versions, stills, and source-file terms |
| Revisions | How does feedback work? | Included rounds, review checkpoints, response expectations, and out-of-scope charges |
| Timeline | What happens by which date? | First-cut or milestone dates, client feedback dependencies, and rush availability |
| Pricing | What is included in the quote? | Hourly, project, or monthly capacity plus revisions, licensing, storage, and extras |
| Rights and confidentiality | How are assets and information handled? | Usage rights, stock or music licensing, file access, retention, and NDA requirements |
Service fit
You may need one service or a combination. Relevant examples matter more than hiring a company with the longest service list.
Best when you already have footage and need story structure, pacing, color, sound cleanup, captions, and platform-ready versions. Review examples in your format, such as short-form ads, YouTube episodes, corporate films, or product videos. Explore video editing.
Useful for explainers, brand stories, training, kinetic typography, and ideas that are easier to visualize than film. Ask to see script, style-frame, and animation examples at a similar level of complexity. Explore 2D animation.
Best for launches, feature callouts, exploded views, assembly demonstrations, and visuals that live-action footage cannot easily capture. Check modeling, materials, lighting, camera movement, and technical accuracy. Explore 3D product animation.
Pricing
Editing and animation prices depend on source material, complexity, deliverable count, senior involvement, revision terms, and scheduling. A lower headline price can exclude work that another quote includes.
Useful for a defined deliverable or an initial fit test. Confirm the estimated hours or fixed scope, included exports, revision rounds, source-file handoff, storage period, and any rush or licensing costs.
Useful for a consistent publishing or campaign schedule. Compare reserved capacity, expected output assumptions, project management, priority, rollover rules, planning, source files, and how complex work draws from available hours.
LUDS pricing, stated plainly
LUDS one-time work starts at $40/hour for video editing and $45/hour for animation. Monthly packages start at $760/month. Deliverables include two structured revision rounds. Package clients receive source files and six-month file retention; one-time projects receive final exports unless source handoff is purchased separately. A paid two-hour editing test is available before starting a package.
Local or remote?
In-person filming may require a local production team. Editing, animation, color, and finishing can often be delivered remotely through online file transfer, scheduled calls, and structured review links. For remote post-production, evaluate communication, reliability, security, and creative fit alongside location.
LUDS serves Florida and nationwide US clients remotely. We do not claim a staffed Florida studio or offer in-person studio meetings.
Red flags
A general showreel can look impressive without proving the company can handle your format, technical subject, brand, or delivery requirements.
You should know who is doing the work, who reviews it, and how communication changes if a specialist or additional capacity is required.
Do not assume unlimited revisions, source files, licensed assets, storage, or every platform version is included. Get the scope in writing.
Where LUDS fits
LUDS is designed for businesses, creators, agencies, and studios that need editing or animation capacity without hiring a full-time team.
Choose a scoped one-time project, a paid editing test, or a monthly editing or animation package. Monthly support includes priority scheduling, a dedicated project manager, source files, and organized storage.
White-label support is available for agencies and studios that need additional post-production capacity under their own brand, with NDA-friendly communication and organized handoff.
Buyer questions
Not necessarily for post-production. Local production can help with filming, while editing and animation can often be handled remotely. Relevant work, clear terms, communication, and reliability should carry more weight than an address alone.
Compare what each quote includes first. Team experience, deliverables, revisions, licensing, source files, scheduling, and project management can make two apparently similar prices very different in practice.
Yes. A paid two-hour editing test is available so you can assess fit, communication, and output before reserving monthly capacity.
Share your goal, audience, footage or asset volume, references, required deliverables and formats, brand guidelines, deadline, and confidentiality requirements. Ask for any assumptions to be included in the scope.
