Charging for producing a dvd

Hi everyone,
I have a job that has 250 pictures that I have to scan into the computer and put them to music with 4 or 5 songs using final cut pro. I will also be adding movement to the pictures by enlarging the pictures and moving them around in the frame. Everything will be burned to a dvd. What should I charge (or what is the going rate) for a job like this. Thank you in advance for your help with this questions.
Randall
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I find it amusing that everybody is suggesting using another app rather than FCP
I never use it for these tasks. Stills for the most part are large jpegs.
If I want to work efficiently using pan and scan techniques, I'll software that is designed and specialized to produce.
And the workflow is simplified.
No setting of keyframes, are dealing with dissolves.
PhotoToMovie
Still Life
FotoMagico
etc.
all do this exceptionally well, and much better the FCP.
Then I'll output a lossless codec movie, and encode that.
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