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Prices read 12 October 2026

Video production cost

What one 2 to 3 minute live-action brand video costs, from crew marketplaces to studios, converted to one spec and split into the two things you are really buying: the shoot day and the edit.

The short answer

$1,000 to $15,000

per 2 to 3 minute live-action video, from people and companies. AI tools are priced separately below.

Freelance marketplace, middle
$9,040
Agency or studio, middle
$5,000

Priced for: A 2 to 3 minute live-action brand or corporate video: planning, one shoot day with a crew of two or three, interviews and b-roll, an edit with licensed music, colour and sound, and two rounds of changes. No actors, no animation.

Prices read
110
Providers checked
101
Publish nothing
20
Key takeaways
  • 01Video production cost is set by the shoot day, not the finished minute. The studios and crews we read sell days, hours, people and edits; the per-minute rates in cost guides are a convention none of them sells by.
  • 02Bought separately on Shoots.video, a crew day, a planning day and a post package came to $7,540 to $9,540, above the $5,000 middle of the studio packages. The edit was the larger half: $4,850, more than any two- or three-person crew day listed.
  • 03Eighteen US studios on Clutch sell the same headline scope, one day of filming and a finished video, for $1,000 to $15,000. Crew size, revision rounds and whether colour and music are included separate them, not the day.
  • 04A crew in the room is more than half the price of real footage. Testimonial Hero sells the same Basic video for $3,800 when your customer records on their own smartphone and $9,200 when a crew comes on site.
  • 05Twenty providers we checked publish no price, among them the companies behind three of the top five results for this search. Two quote market rates instead, and the third gives no figure at all.

Search video production cost and none of the top five US results is a price list. Two give broad ranges and market rates without naming a source, one is a video of tiers from a company that publishes no price of its own, one gives no figure at all, and the fifth is a Quora thread asking what to charge.

The cost of video production gets quoted by the day, the hour, the package and the finished minute. So each price below is set against one spec, a 2 to 3 minute live-action brand video with one shoot day, and was read on the seller's own page or listing on 12 October 2026, in US dollars.

Every marketplace figure here comes from one site, Shoots.video: fifteen are built from a crew day, a producer day and a post package, and two are whole-project listings. The site's footer reads 'Powered by BLARE Media', the company that sells that post package, so fifteen of the seventeen include one BLARE price. The listings are real; the ownership is worth knowing when you read that bar.

The price, by route

Video production cost, route by route

Each bar runs from the cheapest to the most expensive published price we read for this route, normalised to the same spec. The dot is the middle price. The axis is logarithmic: each gridline is ten times the one before.

  • Freelance marketplace

    17 prices

    $7,540 to $15,000

  • Writing or production platform

    1 price

    $9,200

  • Independent specialist

    1 price

    $5,000

  • Agency or studio

    24 prices

    $1,000 to $15,000

  • Rate surveys

    1 price

    $1,500

  • In-house hire

    computed

    $2,043 to $4,085

In-house is not sampled. It uses the salary data for film and video editors (May 2025 US national median, Bureau of Labor Statistics, $75,420 base), loaded at 1.3x and divided by 2 to 4 videos a month. Each video takes a 10-hour shoot day, about a day of planning and roughly 30 editing hours, the scope of BLARE Media's published post package, so one person fits three or so a month, and the range runs from two to four. The salary is an editor's; kit, music and a second person on the shoot day are extra.

The evidence

Every price we read

110 published prices, each read on the page it links to, in US dollars from a US view. The third column converts each one to the same spec, with the arithmetic. A price that buys something materially different is shown and left out of every range.

  • Deja Vu Productions (Los Angeles, CA)

    Freelance marketplace

    $2,000 / day

    2-person crew; shoot only, no editing or planning

    $7,540

    Assembled on the same marketplace: crew day $2,000 + one producer day for planning $690 (Art Before Comfort, 'Producing', $690 / 12-hour day) + BLARE Media 'Corporate Video Post-Production' $4,850 (30 hours editing, stock music, graphics, minor colour correction, 2 rounds of revisions, ~3-minute final video) = $7,540. Assumption: one producer day covers planning for a one-day interview shoot.

    2026-10-12

  • Crystal Pyramid Productions (San Diego, CA)

    Freelance marketplace

    $2,000 / day

    DP/camera operator and sound tech with mixer, boom and lavs; shoot only, no editing or planning

    $7,540

    Assembled on the same marketplace: crew day $2,000 + one producer day for planning $690 (Art Before Comfort, 'Producing', $690 / 12-hour day) + BLARE Media 'Corporate Video Post-Production' $4,850 (30 hours editing, stock music, graphics, minor colour correction, 2 rounds of revisions, ~3-minute final video) = $7,540. Assumption: one producer day covers planning for a one-day interview shoot.

    2026-10-12

  • BLARE Media (San Francisco, CA)

    Freelance marketplace

    $2,750 / day

    DP and grip, two cameras, 3-point lighting, boom and lav audio; shoot only, no editing or planning

    $8,290

    Assembled on the same marketplace: crew day $2,750 + one producer day for planning $690 (Art Before Comfort, 'Producing', $690 / 12-hour day) + BLARE Media 'Corporate Video Post-Production' $4,850 (30 hours editing, stock music, graphics, minor colour correction, 2 rounds of revisions, ~3-minute final video) = $8,290. Assumption: one producer day covers planning for a one-day interview shoot.

    2026-10-12

  • BLARE Media (Seattle, WA)

    Freelance marketplace

    $2,750 / day

    2-person interview crew; shoot only, no editing or planning

    $8,290

    Assembled on the same marketplace: crew day $2,750 + one producer day for planning $690 (Art Before Comfort, 'Producing', $690 / 12-hour day) + BLARE Media 'Corporate Video Post-Production' $4,850 (30 hours editing, stock music, graphics, minor colour correction, 2 rounds of revisions, ~3-minute final video) = $8,290. Assumption: one producer day covers planning for a one-day interview shoot.

    2026-10-12

  • Blare Films AZ (Phoenix, AZ)

    Freelance marketplace

    $2,750 / day

    DP and grip, two cameras, lighting, audio; shoot only, no editing or planning

    $8,290

    Assembled on the same marketplace: crew day $2,750 + one producer day for planning $690 (Art Before Comfort, 'Producing', $690 / 12-hour day) + BLARE Media 'Corporate Video Post-Production' $4,850 (30 hours editing, stock music, graphics, minor colour correction, 2 rounds of revisions, ~3-minute final video) = $8,290. Assumption: one producer day covers planning for a one-day interview shoot.

    2026-10-12

  • Aardvark Video & Media Productions (Las Vegas, NV)

    Freelance marketplace

    $2,750 / day

    Two-person crew, main and gimbal cameras, audio, lighting; shoot only, no editing or planning

    $8,290

    Assembled on the same marketplace: crew day $2,750 + one producer day for planning $690 (Art Before Comfort, 'Producing', $690 / 12-hour day) + BLARE Media 'Corporate Video Post-Production' $4,850 (30 hours editing, stock music, graphics, minor colour correction, 2 rounds of revisions, ~3-minute final video) = $8,290. Assumption: one producer day covers planning for a one-day interview shoot.

    2026-10-12

  • Jeremy Productions Inc (Boston, MA)

    Freelance marketplace

    $2,800 / day

    DP and field audio engineer; shoot only, no editing or planning

    $8,340

    Assembled on the same marketplace: crew day $2,800 + one producer day for planning $690 (Art Before Comfort, 'Producing', $690 / 12-hour day) + BLARE Media 'Corporate Video Post-Production' $4,850 (30 hours editing, stock music, graphics, minor colour correction, 2 rounds of revisions, ~3-minute final video) = $8,340. Assumption: one producer day covers planning for a one-day interview shoot.

    2026-10-12

  • Robertson Production (Atlanta, GA)

    Freelance marketplace

    $3,250 / day

    DP, grip, gaffer; camera, grip, lighting, basic sound; shoot only, no editing or planning

    $8,790

    Assembled on the same marketplace: crew day $3,250 + one producer day for planning $690 (Art Before Comfort, 'Producing', $690 / 12-hour day) + BLARE Media 'Corporate Video Post-Production' $4,850 (30 hours editing, stock music, graphics, minor colour correction, 2 rounds of revisions, ~3-minute final video) = $8,790. Assumption: one producer day covers planning for a one-day interview shoot.

    2026-10-12

  • Graydon Films (San Francisco, CA)

    Freelance marketplace

    $3,500 / day

    Director and DP, primary and secondary cameras, interviews in the morning, b-roll in the afternoon; shoot only, no editing or planning

    $9,040

    Assembled on the same marketplace: crew day $3,500 + one producer day for planning $690 (Art Before Comfort, 'Producing', $690 / 12-hour day) + BLARE Media 'Corporate Video Post-Production' $4,850 (30 hours editing, stock music, graphics, minor colour correction, 2 rounds of revisions, ~3-minute final video) = $9,040. Assumption: one producer day covers planning for a one-day interview shoot.

    2026-10-12

  • Bennett Creative (Austin, TX)

    Freelance marketplace

    $3,500 / day

    2-person crew with cameras, lights, audio and van; shoot only, no editing or planning

    $9,040

    Assembled on the same marketplace: crew day $3,500 + one producer day for planning $690 (Art Before Comfort, 'Producing', $690 / 12-hour day) + BLARE Media 'Corporate Video Post-Production' $4,850 (30 hours editing, stock music, graphics, minor colour correction, 2 rounds of revisions, ~3-minute final video) = $9,040. Assumption: one producer day covers planning for a one-day interview shoot.

    2026-10-12

  • rafael puentes cinematographer (Miami, FL)

    Freelance marketplace

    $3,500 / day

    3 camera operators, lighting, audio; shoot only, no editing or planning

    $9,040

    Assembled on the same marketplace: crew day $3,500 + one producer day for planning $690 (Art Before Comfort, 'Producing', $690 / 12-hour day) + BLARE Media 'Corporate Video Post-Production' $4,850 (30 hours editing, stock music, graphics, minor colour correction, 2 rounds of revisions, ~3-minute final video) = $9,040. Assumption: one producer day covers planning for a one-day interview shoot.

    2026-10-12

  • Agape Media Group (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

    Freelance marketplace

    $3,600 / day

    DP, camera assistant or sound recordist, PA or grip; 2 cameras, basic lighting, 2 lavs and a boom; shoot only, no editing or planning

    $9,140

    Assembled on the same marketplace: crew day $3,600 + one producer day for planning $690 (Art Before Comfort, 'Producing', $690 / 12-hour day) + BLARE Media 'Corporate Video Post-Production' $4,850 (30 hours editing, stock music, graphics, minor colour correction, 2 rounds of revisions, ~3-minute final video) = $9,140. Assumption: one producer day covers planning for a one-day interview shoot.

    2026-10-12

How the marketplace prices were drawn: Fiverr could not be read: every gig, category and guide URL returned the PerimeterX 'It needs a human touch' challenge to Jina Reader, ScreenshotOne (US) and local headless Chrome, and the Wayback Machine had no snapshot; no Fiverr price is recorded. (1) Shoots.video, a crew-and-vendor marketplace with escrow payment, read 2026-10-12 via Jina Reader HTML: category page https://www.shoots.video/services/camera-crew/ (default order, 36 listings on the page). Rule: US listings explicitly offering a 2- or 3-person crew for interview or corporate shoots on a full 10- or 12-hour day; excluded 1-person, 4-person, half-day, crew-size-unstated and non-US listings. 15 qualified; each detail page was opened and the crew composition read. Each crew day was assembled to the spec with two other listings on the same marketplace: one producer day for planning (Art Before Comfort, $690 per 12-hour day, the only per-day producer rate in https://www.shoots.video/services/producer/) and BLARE Media's 'Corporate Video Post-Production' package ($4,850: 30 hours editing, stock music, graphics, minor colour correction, 2 revision rounds, ~3-minute final video). Two full-project testimonial listings ($15,000 each) were recorded as found; two '/project' listings that describe themselves as a production day were recorded unconverted. Context: DP day rates on https://www.shoots.video/services/director-of-photography/ (US listings priced per day, n=33) and editor day rates on https://www.shoots.video/services/video-editing/ (editing listings priced per day, colorists and VFX excluded, n=23) are summarised in the md, not recorded one by one. Note: Shoots.video's footer says 'Powered by BLARE Media', which also supplies three of the crew listings and the post package (a fourth crew listing is from 'Blare Films AZ'). (2) Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/hire/videographers/us/ plus the city pages for los-angeles-ca, chicago-il, houston-tx and dallas-tx, read via ScreenshotOne ip_country_code=us on 2026-10-12 (new-york-ny, atlanta-ga and seattle-wa timed out twice). Each page shows 4 profile cards in Upwork's own order; all 20 cards read, 1 excluded because the profile sells on-camera acting rather than camera work (Eric P., $75/hr), leaving 19. The hourly rate is the only price on a card, so none is converted to the spec. Upwork's Project Catalog search (fixed-price videography projects) timed out on ScreenshotOne twice and is unread. (3) Contra https://contra.com/hire/videographers was read but shows rates for only a handful of unrelated profiles, so nothing was recorded.

Checked, and publish no price

20 of 101 providers checked

Not a criticism. Quoting per project is normal when the work varies. It does mean the ranges above describe the providers who publish, and the ones who do not are rarely the cheapest.

  • Peak Visuals (Spokane, WA) · Ranks #4 in the first search read for this page and states: 'That's why we don't have a one-size-fits-all price list on our website.' No figure anywhere in the article.
  • Vidico · Pricing page: 'Your goals, content styles, and volume set the price. Take a 2-minute quiz'. No figure. Vidico ranks #1 with a corporate guide and #3 with a YouTube video in the searches read for this page, both quoting market ranges, but publishes no price of its own.
  • Lemonlight · Cost guide URLs return 'Page not found' (also /how-much-does-it-cost-to-produce-a-video/); homepage carries no price.
  • Oneupweb (Traverse City, MI) · Ranks #1 in the first search read for this page; quotes market hourly ranges but its own price is 'a detailed, item-by-item estimate'.
  • Solvis Media · 'Contact us today to receive a custom quote for your project.'
  • Sandwich · Homepage and navigation carry no pricing page or figure.
  • BLARE Media (own site) · No price on its own homepage, although it lists crews at $2,750 to $5,500 a day and a $4,850 post package on Shoots.video, which it powers.
  • Gorilla Creative (own site) · No price on its own site; its Shoots.video listing shows $20,000.
  • Feel Right Inc. (own site) · No price on its own site; its Clutch package starts at $12,500.
  • Pixelab Studios (Pittsburgh, PA) · Homepage carries no price; its corporate video guide ranks in the searches read for this page with market figures only.
  • Provid Films (Minneapolis, MN) · Pricing page shows tiers as 'Camera Crew Only ($$)', 'Visionary Plan ($)', 'Production Pro ($$)', 'Full Spectrum ($$$)' with no figures; the same operator lists $3,750/day and $15,000/project on Shoots.video.
  • Mite Productions (full-service packages) · Six full-service packages (e.g. 'Pro Mini Documentary ... 1 day filming, 2-person crew') listed with no price; only raw-footage hourly rates are priced.
  • Mauricio Tapia · No price on own site; lists $1,250/day (Interview + B-roll) and $500/day editing on Shoots.video.
  • Backlit Buhr Media · No price on own site; $1,000/day DP for corporate interviews on Shoots.video.
  • Phillip Teasley (Films by Phillip) · No price on own site; $1,250/day on Shoots.video.
  • Kevin Coyne DP · No price on own site; $2,500/day on Shoots.video.
  • CinemaViva · No price on own site; $1,250/day on Shoots.video.
  • Bryan Butt · No price on own site; $1,200 per 12-hour day DP and $600/day editing on Shoots.video.
  • Becka Rae · No price on own site; $1,500/project interview or scripted edit on Shoots.video.
  • Kate McFerren · No price on own site; $750/day editing on Shoots.video.
What moves the price

Why one brand video costs 15 times another

The shoot day: how many people, carrying what kit, for how many hours.

  1. 01

    Crew size

    Most video production pricing starts from crew days, so headcount moves it first. The Corporate Film Guys sell one day with a videographer for $6,500, with a crew of two for $9,500 and with three for $12,500. BLARE Media's day rate on Shoots.video runs $2,750, $4,000 and $5,500 for two, three and four people.

    The Corporate Film Guys on Clutch
  2. 02

    Days of filming

    Each extra day is sold as a bigger package. Snowy Peak Films charges $10,000 for one day of filming, $15,000 for two and $25,000 for three; Puritano Media Group charges $4,500, $12,500 and $22,500 for one, three and five.

    Snowy Peak Films on Clutch
  3. 03

    Half day or full day

    A half day is not half the price. JLB Media's half day, with one videographer, four hours and a 1 to 2 minute video, starts at $2,850. Its full day, with two people, eight hours and a 3 to 5 minute video, starts at $5,300.

    JLB Media pricing
  4. 04

    A crew on site, or a phone in your customer's hand

    The same finished video costs more than twice as much once a crew comes to film it. Testimonial Hero prices its Basic video at $3,800 recorded remotely and $9,200 on site, which puts $5,400 on having a crew in the room.

    Testimonial Hero pricing
  5. 05

    Who does the edit

    Thirty editing hours is the scope of BLARE Media's $4,850 post package. At the $850 median day rate freelance corporate editors reported in the Post Production Data 2024 survey, and its median eight-hour day, the same hours come to about $3,188. The package also bundles stock music, graphics and two revision rounds.

    Post Production Data 2024
  6. 06

    Hours past the day

    Crew rates on Shoots.video are mostly 'based on 10-hour day', and the clock keeps running after it. BusyBoy Productions charges $150 an hour past its one-camera package and $375 an hour past its two-camera ones.

    BusyBoy Productions rate card
Building it with AI

What the machine costs, and what it does not

No AI tool can film your customer, your team or your building, which is what this spec buys. The receipt prices the closest substitute: an avatar presenter instead of interviews, a few generated cutaways, and a text-based editor for b-roll you shoot on a phone. Synthesia sells the same kind of presenter as HeyGen, but its page showed two monthly prices for one plan, so it is left out of the sum.

What AI cannot do here
  • Film your customers, your team or your premises
  • Run an interview and hear the answer worth keeping
  • Show a buyer something they can check is real
  • Decide what the video is for and where it will run

Receipt · one brand video

  • Avatar presenter instead of interviews$29

    HeyGen Creator, $29 a month ($24 a month billed annually): one month on monthly billing; credit use varies with model, length and complexity, per HeyGen's page. Price read 2026-10-12

  • Generated cutaways$15

    Runway Standard, $15 a month for 625 credits, 52 seconds of Gen-4.5 ($12 billed annually): one month on monthly billing; 52 seconds covers generic b-roll, never your own premises. Price read 2026-10-12

  • Editing the phone footage$35

    Descript Creator, $35 per person a month billed monthly ($24 billed annually), 30 media hours: one editor, one month on monthly billing. Price read 2026-10-12

Tools and model time$79
Human edit, 16 to 30 h at $47/h$754 to $1,414
Publishable$833 to $1,493

Edit hours: Our editorial estimate for writing the presenter's script, filming b-roll on a phone, cutting it all together and checking the result. No survey measures an avatar build; BLARE Media's published post package scopes 30 editing hours for a crewed three-minute video. The hourly rate is the same loaded in-house figure used for the in-house route, so the two are comparable.

How long it takes

Turnaround, as each route publishes it

From brief to first draft or delivery, in the provider's own words. Where a provider states no turnaround, it is not listed.

  1. Writing or production platform

    45 days end to end

    Testimonial Hero

  2. Writing or production platform

    first draft within two business days (editing of client-shot footage)

    Shootsta

  3. Agency or studio

    3 to 10 weeks

    Emulent

  4. Agency or studio

    1 week delivery

    Qube Film (Clutch package)

  5. Agency or studio

    raw footage within 24 hours (footage-only bookings)

    Vourly

  6. Rate surveys

    5 months typical project timeline

    Clutch (review data)

  7. Agency or studio

    14 day delivery

    MediaNug (Clutch package)
Doing it yourself

What a brand video takes to do yourself

No survey measures what a first brand video takes end to end. The edit is the largest block: BLARE Media's published post package scopes 30 hours for a three-minute corporate video, and Vidico's guide says 20 to 40 without naming a source. The other hours are our estimate.

Editorial estimate

No independent survey measures this, so the hours are our editorial estimate.

At the same loaded rate as an in-house hire ($47 an hour), your 40 to 70 hours are worth $1,886 to $3,300.

  • Decide the message, write the questions, book people and a location6 to 10 h
  • Set up, light, record the interviews and film b-roll8 to 10 h
  • Review the footage and pick the takes3 to 5 h
  • Edit, with music, captions, colour and sound20 to 35 h
  • Two rounds of changes, then the exports3 to 10 h

You also need

  • A camera, a tripod and lavalier microphones
  • Lights, or a room with steady daylight
  • Editing software and a music licence
  • Permission from everyone you film
Who to buy it from

Agency vs freelancer vs fractional vs in-house

Cost is one row of six. On the row that decides most here, who films it, the fractional column is not an answer: I brief a crew, I am not one.

Agency
Freelancer or marketplace
Fractional lead
In-house hire
Cost, per 2 to 3 minute live-action video
$1,000 to $15,000
$5,000 to $15,000
Not a production company, so no shoot price. From $5,000 a month to decide what the video is for and brief whoever films it; the shoot is bought separately
$2,043 to $4,085, with a monthly commitment of $8,171
Who films it
Their crew and their kit, as the package lists
One person, or a crew booked by the day
Not me. I brief and book the crew or studio
The hire, with kit you buy
Who decides what the video is for
You, or a concept stage priced into the package
You
I do, from customer research and where it will run
The hire, with whoever owns marketing
Smallest commitment
One package, usually one shoot day
A half day or a day
A month
A salary, plus kit
What happens to the footage
Whatever the package hands over; some list raw files
Yours if you ask for the files
Planned for reuse: one shoot cut into pages, posts and sales material
Kept, and the person who shot it is still there
Best when
You want one polished video and someone to run the whole shoot
You can plan the shoot and need hands and kit for a day
Nobody has decided what video should do in your marketing
You film every month, with enough work to fill the calendar

Agency and freelancer costs are the published ranges above. The fractional column is busyless, priced as it is sold. In-house uses the salary data for film and video editors, loaded and divided by monthly output.

Before you sign

Where the quote and the invoice come apart

Each of these is visible on a published price list, linked where it is.

01

A day rate buys footage, not a video

Crew listings on Shoots.video price the shoot alone, and the post package sold there, at $4,850, costs more than any two- or three-person crew day listed. A quote built from day rates is half a quote until someone prices the edit.

BLARE Media post package
02

The 'starting at' tier is the thinnest

Clutch shows only a studio's Small tier on its listing card. Puritano Media Group's $4,500 Small leaves colour, the music licence and professional audio unticked, and Snowy Peak Films' $10,000 Small has one round of edits. Open the full grid before you compare.

Clutch video packages
03

Raw footage priced like a video

Psynema's $699 Coverage tier delivers raw footage with no edit, and Mite Productions' $150 an hour is 'Raw Footage Only - No Editing Included'. Both sit on pricing pages beside finished-video packages, and only the small print tells them apart.

Psynema packages
04

An average that is not typical

Clutch's pricing page says video projects there 'typically cost less than $10,000' and gives the average as $42,280.92. The guide ranking first for corporate video cost repeats the $42,000 average, which covers every type of video, animation included.

Clutch pricing guide
05

One studio, two price lists

JLB Media's own site starts its full-day package at $5,300, while its Clutch listing sells the same live shoot for $4,750. Its smallest live shoot is $2,850 on its site and $1,500 on Clutch. Ask which list your invoice will follow.

JLB Media on Clutch
06

Two ranking guides, one set of day rates

BLARE Media's cost guide ranks second for one of these searches, and its day rates for director, cinematographer and audio engineer match those in Vidico's corporate guide range for range. Neither names a source. BLARE also powers Shoots.video, the marketplace priced on this page.

BLARE Media cost guide
The cost of doing nothing

What not having it costs, in your numbers rather than ours

Going without real footage costs something, but only your numbers can say how much. Here is where it shows up, and a sum you can do from last year's invoices.

  • Claims nobody can check

    Without footage of the real people and the real place, every claim on the site and in the sales deck stays a sentence. A buyer who cannot see the team, the operation or a customer speaking has nothing to test it against.

  • Every new asset starts from zero

    One shoot day leaves a library of interviews and b-roll that later edits, pages and posts can reuse. Without it, each new need is another shoot, or a stock clip of somebody else's office.

  • Proof stays in text

    A written testimonial is easy to doubt and impossible to hear. A customer's own voice and face carry what a quote on a page cannot.

Work it out

Pieces next year that need footage × cost of sourcing each one alone, minus one shoot from the routes above

Pieces next year that need footage
Count the pages, sales decks, recruiting ads and posts on the plan that would show your team, your premises or a customer
Cost of sourcing each one alone
Last year's stock licences and one-off shoot invoices, divided by the pieces they covered
One shoot from the routes above
The bar on this page that matches how you would buy it
How I price it

Why there is no per-piece price from me

busyless runs on a retainer. A Fractional Head of Content, from $5,000 a month and month to month, owns the system: which channels we bet on, the editorial standard, customer interviews, the conversion path and the monthly report.

Production sits underneath as execution capacity, from $2,000 a month, through agents I have built or people I manage. We make as much as growth needs, so a price per piece would measure the count rather than whether it worked.

Most clients start with Discovery: two weeks and $2,500 for the diagnosis and a 90-day plan, theirs to keep either way.

See how the retainer works
Discovery, two weeks
$2,500
Fractional Head of Content
from $5,000/mo
Execution capacity
from $2,000/mo
Price per piece
None
What other pages quote

The ranges you will find elsewhere, and where they come from

The top US results when we read them on 12 October 2026. 7 of 8 name no source for the figure they give, and 1 answer a different question altogether.

Searched: video production cost

  • oneupweb.com

    Editing $50-150/hr; production $100-250/hr per team member, 2-3 staff per project

    No source
  • adjustproduction.com

    Corporate/interview $1,500-$3,500 (talking head) and $3,500-$8,000+; commercial $2,500-$15,000+; $75-$350/hr or $700-$2,000+/day

    No source
  • youtube.com

    $5K-10K, $10K-25K, $25K-75K+ tiers

    No source
  • peakvisuals.co

    none

    No source
  • quora.com

    Anecdotes from $200 to $5,000; one answer 'under $1,000' to 'hundreds of thousands'

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  • vidico.com

    $1,500-$100,000; most $3,000-$50,000; $1,000-$5,000 per finished minute; 3-minute video $3,000-$30,000

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  • jlbmedia.com

    Half day from $2,850; full day from $5,300; high profile from $15,000

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  • blaremedia.net

    $2,500-$25,000 corporate; tiers $2,500-$5,000, $5,000-$50,000, $50,000-$1,000,000+

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FAQ

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  • Why can one full-day brand video shoot cost $1,000 and another $15,000?
    Because one day of filming is the only thing those packages share. Across the eighteen Clutch packages built on it, crew size, revision rounds and whether colour and music are included move the price far more than the runtime does. Before comparing two quotes, ask each for the crew list, the hours on site and the number of revision rounds, in writing.
  • Why do cost guides price a brand video per finished minute?
    Because it is easy to quote, not because anyone sells that way. Vidico's guide gives $1,000 to $5,000 a finished minute and Fash's $800 to $4,000. Corporate video pricing on live-action studios' own pages is by shoot day, crew and package, and none of the studio or crew prices on this page is quoted per minute.
  • Is it cheaper to buy a brand video's shoot and edit separately?
    Usually not on a marketplace. A Shoots.video crew day, a producer day and the post package sold there came to $7,540 to $9,540, above the $5,000 middle of the studio packages. It can be cheaper with a day-rate editor: thirty hours at the $850 median corporate freelancers reported is about $3,188. Then you are the producer, booking and briefing both.
  • How long does a brand video take from first call to final cut?
    The shoot is one day; the calendar around it is not. Qube Film's Clutch package promises delivery in a week, Emulent quotes three to ten weeks, and Testimonial Hero says 45 days end to end, depending mostly on scheduling the customer. Clutch's review data puts the typical video project at five months, across every type of video.
  • Can an AI tool make a brand video without a film crew?
    It can make a different kind of video. HeyGen and Synthesia sell avatar presenters reading a script, Runway generates generic clips and Descript edits footage you shoot. None can film your customer, your team or your building, which is what a live-action video is for. The receipt above prices the closest substitute at $833 to $1,493, most of it human hours.
  • Is an Upwork videographer at $100 an hour a cheaper way to get a brand video?
    Not on the hourly rate alone. The 19 US profiles we read asked $25 to $300 an hour, with a middle of $100, for one person and no defined edit. Upwork's own headline of $10 to $53 is footnoted as historical contracts worldwide. Add a second person, a full day on site and about thirty hours of editing before you compare.
  • Does hiring a video editor work out cheaper than buying brand videos?
    Only if you would film every month. A film and video editor at the May 2025 US median of $75,420, loaded at 1.3, costs about $8,171 a month: $2,043 to $4,085 a video at two to four a month, below the $5,000 middle studio package. Kit, music and a second person on the shoot day are extra, and a quiet month costs the same.
  • Does busyless make brand videos?
    No. busyless is a fractional Head of Content, not a video studio, and I do not film or edit. From $5,000 a month I decide whether a video is worth making, what it is for and where it runs, then brief whoever shoots it. Production, from $2,000 a month, covers writing and design, not filming. If you only need the video, the routes on this page are the way to buy it.