Whiteboard videos

Thanks for the feedback. I was personally thinking of making a site selling these offers. I guess it really is all perception. People believe these are hard to make when they are quite easy to make.

I was also thinking of having a price much lower than everyone else. Hopefully eat up all of the traffic just for me Competition is good in capitalism.

Yea, you do usually get what you pay for.

I was thinking of having the user write their own script. Possibly this could be the cheap way to go for the customer. If the customer wants me to write the storyboard for them and the script I can understand why the video would cost so much. Thanks for the tip.

With Fiverr, you can't expect to get quality.

The going rate for professional video production is $1,000 per finished minute. If you're talking commercial broadcast quality video (which I outsource)... you're looking a MUCH higher prices. I have a friend who charges as much a $70,000 - $100,000 for a 30 second t.v. spot.

I saw a YouTube user by the name of KingHuman mention these services earlier last week. That got my attention. The prices have ranged all over the place. It really appears it depends on quality. I still need to look into this more.

So he made whiteboard? What did he charge a minute?

Reason they are so much? Because as an artist, I have to sketch out, or Hand DRAW the images that go into the animation.

These kind of videos usually get more clicks than other types. They are not easy to do and take most artists longer than what you imagine. It's not just about throwing a drawing on paper, it's about how to get it the drawing to work with the concept the client has given you. It takes some thought and imagination, and some crumpled paper and lots of "redos" sometimes.

And then there are redraws...when the client changes his mind.

So, you are getting a unique product. The "minute" charge covers a minute of video, which can take hours to do.

So, UNLESS you want something that someone else can pull off of the internet and throw it into a program, you are going to pay that much.

I usually charge less than what most companies do which is $300, but I have learned to put a limit on how many images I will draw.

I guess the price does depend on the quality of the work.

If you go to somewhere like fiver, its $5, though personally I don't recommend going with $5 vids.

For video prod websites, figures could be anywhere between $400-$1000+ per min.

Big ticket studios go for 2k+ to 10k per min
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For DIY people there are softwares you can buy, it could set you back something like $20-$50 per month and you can create for yourself a whiteboard animation from the available stock illustrations.

For some people, this is enough. But of course, everyone has a different take on what is "good enough" for their business.

Custom whiteboard animations, the kinds that I do, are a different animal altogether. There's actually a lot that goes into production of custom whiteboard videos. I guess you actually need to experience creating these videos to understand.

It's not like you can just pull the things to draw out from somewhere behind you, slap it together in a few minutes and viola, you get a defibrillator for your your click through rates.

It takes a lot of time coming up with the ideas, writing the script, getting the VO, drawing the illustrations (sketch, revise, finalize), getting them animated, syncing, post production editing etc, If you factor in the time you need to interact with the client and do revisions/polish up you start to see the hard work involved in creating custom videos.

Working directly the artists who actually creates the videos (ehem) will save you a few hundred dollars compared going to a studio and that studio outsources the work to the same artist.

You can get whiteboard videos for cheap but of course, you better get your expectations straight.

Interesting thread, but I still think the CONTENT is the most important and if a cheap whiteboard video gets your point across, why spend more.

You can get the software for Windows to do these for $27 and you do NOT need to use templates or stock images. The way they work is with vector graphics and you can convert any image into a vector graphic for free.

Just curious,nowsday software are able to create whiteboard animation with $30/month. They even help you to put into sketch form for your unique images. Can we know the different just by watching the video?