Estimate the time and cost of culling your wedding galleries.
Culling is the quiet time sink before editing even begins: thousands of near-identical frames, blinks, and test shots to sort through. Enter your own shot counts and your culling pace, and the calculator estimates what that first pass is actually costing you.
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All fields estimate-onlyCulling is the bottleneck before the bottleneck
Before a single image gets color or contrast, someone has to decide which frames make the cut. On a wedding shot at a fast frame rate, that can mean staring down five, eight, or ten thousand raw frames per event.
Because culling feels like "just sorting," it rarely gets timed. The calculator makes it visible: enter your raw count, the share you keep, and how fast you move, and it estimates the hours and cost tied up in selection alone.
What drives your culling time
A few variables decide whether culling is a quick afternoon or a multi-day slog.
- Total raw frames captured per wedding
- How many near-duplicates you shoot in bursts
- Your decision pace per image
- How many review rounds you do before locking selects
Common questions
Is culling really worth measuring separately from editing?
What if my keeper rate changes per wedding?
Can an AI-assisted workflow help with culling?
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