Video Production Costs

The cluster centers on discussions speculating about the budget and expenses involved in creating a high-quality promotional or demo video, with users citing various figures from thousands to millions and comparing to movies or other projects.

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Sample Comments

roadnottaken Nov 13, 2012 View on HN

It looks like it cost $40k just to make that video...

boucher Sep 30, 2011 View on HN

Rumored cost of this video is over 1 million dollars.

halis May 15, 2015 View on HN

Do something with video. That could suck up $100k

anigbrowl Dec 17, 2009 View on HN

Haha. Well, there's always an element of marketing when you hear tiny sums like that - if you priced in all the time of the people who participated and long nights spent designing, compositing and rendering the graphics it would be $10,000 or so. But still, very very impressive.

sixQuarks May 9, 2014 View on HN

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the cost. I read somewhere they spent around $150,000 to create this. I thought that was extremely costly, but I don't know anything about this kind of stuff, so I'd like to see what you guys think.

ugh123 Nov 4, 2025 View on HN

Most important number is missing: how much did it cost to make?

orionblastar Jan 15, 2026 View on HN

It took 25 credits to make a simple video; I doubt it is free as in beer and more like free as in speech.

dmitriid Apr 22, 2022 View on HN

They have to recoup 14 billion dollars they spend on producing content somehow :)

arrowgunz Nov 12, 2012 View on HN

I wonder how much it costed for the developers to make this video? It's pretty well done. Looks more like a startup marketing video rather than a Kickstarter project.

barmstrong Mar 10, 2011 View on HN

Awesome...any idea how much a video like this costs?