Video Production Agency in Auckland

We then log the footage and build a paper edit — a written running order of which clips carry which part of the message — before touching the timeline. You approve that structure first. Approving a structure takes ten minutes; disagreeing with a finished cut takes a week. From there we assemble a rough cut with placeholder music and no grade, so you review story and pacing rather than being distracted by colour. Once that is signed off we lock picture and move to finishing: grade, sound mix, motion graphics, lower thirds, end card, captions.

Two revision rounds are included, and we define what a round means so nobody argues later. A round is one consolidated set of feedback delivered at once. Ten separate emails over three days is not one round, and drip-fed feedback is how projects quietly double in cost. Changes after picture lock — swapping an interview, re-scripting the voiceover, adding a product — are quoted as additional work, because they mean redoing the grade and mix. Extra rounds beyond the included two are quoted as additional work, priced on the hours the changes actually take.

Turnaround is the thing clients actually ring about. For a short-form social cut from footage that is already clean and labelled, three to five working days is normal. A batch of eight to ten reels from one shoot day is usually one to two weeks. A corporate brand film with scripting, a shoot, a grade and licensed music runs three to six weeks end to end, and most of that time is not editing — it is scheduling people, waiting on legal sign-off, and getting the voiceover approved. If you have a campaign date, tell us at the briefing stage and we will build the schedule backwards from it rather than forwards from today.

With production included, the crew and the day count drive the cost. A half-day shoot in Auckland plus edit covers a camera operator, lighting and audio, and a small number of deliverables. A full corporate brand film costs several times that, because it adds scripting, a full shoot day, a professional voiceover, a grade and licensed music. Broadcast-standard work with talent, location fees and paid-channel usage rights sits well above both and should be quoted properly rather than estimated, since usage rights alone can rival the production cost. Travel outside Auckland, drone work under a certified operator, and studio hire are separate line items on every quote.

What you supply is short but not optional: raw footage, your logo in vector format, brand fonts or a licence for them, colour values, and approved copy for any on-screen text. If you want a specific track you need the commercial licence — we will not put unlicensed music on a client video, because the takedown lands on your channel. For anything featuring staff or customers we need signed release forms before the edit starts. Send a reference video you like and one you dislike; that pair tells us more than a page of adjectives.