Map your studio workflow from ingest to delivery.
A studio workflow is really a chain of handoffs, and every weak link adds editing time. Use the calculator to estimate where your hours concentrate across the path from ingest to final delivery.
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Most studios think about editing as one block of time, but it is really a sequence: ingest, backup, culling, first pass, finishing, review, and delivery. Each stage carries its own hours, and the slow ones set your real turnaround.
The calculator helps you break editing into stages so you can estimate where time accumulates instead of treating post-production as a single number.
Stages worth measuring separately
When you split the workflow into steps, it becomes easier to see which stage deserves attention first.
- Ingest and backup before any editing starts
- Culling and selection time per wedding
- First pass editing across the full gallery
- Review, revisions, and final delivery
Designing the cleaner version
Once each stage has a time estimate, you can ask focused questions. Is culling the bottleneck. Does first pass work get redone in finishing. Could an AI-assisted first pass reduce manual work at one specific step.
The goal is a workflow you can see end to end, so changes are deliberate rather than reactive. The numbers stay yours throughout.
Common questions
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