Estimate the backlog hiding in your wedding video edits.

Why video backlog grows faster

One wedding film is rarely one task. It is footage ingest, syncing audio, building selects, cutting a highlight film, sometimes a longer feature, and increasingly short-form reels, each with its own timeline. A single booking can quietly become five deliverables.

Because the deliverables stack, video backlog can grow faster than photo backlog even at the same booking pace. Separating the deliverables is the only way to see where your editing hours actually go.

The stages that build a video backlog

When you list the stages, the size of the work becomes clearer.

• Footage ingest, organizing, and syncing audio across angles
• Building selects from hours of raw coverage
• Cutting the highlight film and any longer feature edit
• Short-form reels plus revision rounds and re-exports

Putting numbers to your footage

The calculator lets you enter footage hours, the deliverables you produce per wedding, your editing time per stage, and your hourly value, then estimates the backlog those projects represent. The more deliverables you offer, the more the estimate reflects that load.

This is useful when deciding what to keep doing yourself, what to outsource, and where AI-assisted selects or first-pass cuts might reduce manual work.