Raw footage - Why is not a “given”, to get it along with the final cut.

One of my more popular “products” are two-minute short videos. They can be for broadcast advertising, a presentation for sales or an on-line You Tube demo, etc. Now when I shoot these videos it takes a lot of time to put the whole thing together. I have to do pre-production for the shoot, do the shoot and of course prepare the final edit just for those two “perfect” minutes. It can also take up as much as 20 to 30 gigs (of raw footage) on my...