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Train4Business develops bespoke training and promotional products.
- For UK industry
- The E-learning solution, CBT & mixed Training, Multimedia and Video Production
- For small, medium and large enterprises
- With access to a wide variety of subject experts
- Using UK voice-over artists where required
- Our products can contain text, audio, video, animation, PDF, HTML, photographs
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- Train4Business - UK e-learning solution Multimedia production for business and corporate video |  |
On these pages, you'll find some information about corporate video. For video shoots we use lighting camera crews who we know & trust. We have full post-production facilities in-house & so can edit new footage with titles and graphics as required. We specialise in aviation animation/post production, so we can usually provide most customers with any complex animations at very reasonable prices.
We can also re-edit existing footage providing that you hold full copyrights to it. This is not always as straightforward as it seems & you must be able to prove to us that you hold the copyright before we will consider re-edits.
To see a short example of a recent production, click the samples button and select "Examples showing compressed video " - there is a text link to one of our recent productions on this page. If you'd like to see the full video at much higher quality, please use the 'contact us' button - we have a secure site with windows media versions installed and genuine enquiries will be given access to the site. We have had to restrict access to the site in order to achieve reasonable bandwidth limits.
Getting together a new video - even a very short piece - can be an expensive process. More so, if you don't sort out exactly what is needed before you start.
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Corporate video production follows a linear process and sucess requires the same level of planning & attention to detail as you should use on any other critical business process. Preparation is crucial. We can help you through this process with no obligation if you contact us before you get too far into it!
You need to define the precise business objectives that any video will fulfil, to specify the target audience and to decide on the available budget for it.
Costs vary widely, depending on many factors:
Where the production company is located (Companies in large cities can be 30% more expensive than those out of town)
How long the piece will be (Allow 1 minute per topic & try to only get across 3 main ideas, no matter how long the piece)
How many locations are involved (The fewer the better but they must be accessible)
Whether actors and/or a presenter is used
Whether the script has already been developed (A 15 minute video calls for a script of around 1600 words & it is not uncommon for 4 drafts to be produced before a script is finalised)
Whether a detailed storyboard has been developed
Whether music is commissioned or rights are obtained
Whether extensive graphics or titles are required
Who you want as a voiceover artist. (We have access to a range of English voices at very competitive rates)
...........and many others
Generally, the script is developed before the visuals & it is important to ensure that everything is agreed and finalised on paper before any filming occurs - Video producers often add in 10-15% extra on costs because they've learnt that customers commonly ask for last minute changes. This can be avoided by ensuring that the process is got right first time. Ensuring that pre-commissioning phase is sufficiently precise & that the pre-production phase generates a finalised & detailed storyboard is crucial.
The storyboard is more than just a collection of pictures - it details who what where when & how for every aspect of the production - from the parking place for the crew to the lighting set-up & camera angles for every shot. To see more detail about the development process Click Here
With E-learning pieces, video can be used as part of the introduction with a voice-over or it may form the major part of the program. Suitable video might already exist & rights might be negotiated if copyright is not currently held.
Prices are impossible to guess without the details..... But if you need some ballpark figures.... in August 2005, a 5 minute production at one location using a presenter & where script & storyboard require development would cost somewhere between £4K and £12K and a 20 minute piece would cost somewhere around £12-20K. Clearly, if you want a 'star' to present the video, the prices can be much higher. If you would like to discuss your requirements with us - and we'll try to give you a clearer idea of the cost once we know what's involved - please use the 'Contact' button on the left of the page.
Not surprisingly, we believe that if you commission video, it really must have enough impact to pay for itself.
New video can be an expensive addition & we are often asked by customers if we can use existing footage. This is often a much cheaper alternative. A full re-edit can be done quickly & cheaply. BUT you must hold the rights to any footage. You'll also need to supply the original tapes (ideally in PAL format Beta, Beta SP, DV or DVCam or NTSC DV or DVCam)
Whilst you might have a VHS or SVHS tape, unless you intend to use it for a web or CD presentation, it's really not of high enough quality. We have (reluctantly!) used old VHS footage for a customer in the past where there was no surviving professional quality tape but the results can be disappointing. This is particularly true where your VHS tape is in NTSC format & you also need the finished product in PAL.
If we are asked to produce a new video using material that you already have - perhaps from a previous production - we'll ask you about 'rights'. Just because you commisioned a video in the past, doesn't necessarilly mean you own the rights. Sometimes the production company retains the rights to the whole piece - more commonly, some stock footage has been used within the production & the rights to this material will remain, in most circumstances, with its original owner.
Most people are surprised that getting rights to stock footage can be a long and expensive process. Prices vary widely but it's not uncommon to pay £45/second for stock video. That assumes, of course, that you've managed to track down its rightful owner!
However, don't be put off by all this information! We are experienced at developing products to budget & may well be able to suggest some money saving options which don't jeopardise quality. Moreover, we're nice people! We won't bite & we do our best to help with every enquiry.
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