Corporate Video Belfast: Costs and Types

A corporate video in Belfast typically costs between £800 and £15,000, depending on crew size, filming days and editing time. A testimonial filmed in one location sits at the lower end of that range, while a multi-day brand film with drone footage sits at the top. Most Northern Ireland businesses spend £2,000 to £5,000 on their first professional video.

The price bands on this page are the ones ProfileTree quotes from, set out by type of video so you can see where your project is likely to land before you ask anyone for a figure. For the crews we use and how a project runs from brief to delivery, our video production Belfast page covers the full service for businesses across Northern Ireland. We have made corporate video for local firms since 2011, and the advice below comes from quoting and delivering that work.

What a Corporate Video Costs at Each Budget

Four budget bands cover almost every corporate video we quote for, and the band depends on how much filming and editing the job needs. Running time matters far less than most buyers expect, which is why a polished 60-second brand film often costs more than a five-minute interview.

The bands overlap because one budget can buy quite different things. A budget of around £4,000, for example, could pay for a single carefully lit brand film, or for a simpler brand film plus several short social clips cut from the same day, and the right choice depends on where the video will be watched. We give a fixed quote once the brief is agreed, so the band is a starting point for the conversation and the quote is the figure you pay.

It also helps to look at the cost over the life of the video. A £3,000 brand film used on your website and in sales meetings for three years works out at about £83 a month, and you own the finished film outright. For a UK-wide breakdown of day rates and line items, our guide to budgeting for video production goes further, and projects in the Republic are covered in our guide to corporate video production in Ireland and Dublin.

Crew Time and Editing Drive the Price

The number of people on set and the hours spent in the edit account for most of any quote. Everything else on this list changes the price because it changes one of those two things.

Complexity comes first. A seated interview with one camera operator and a sound recordist takes a morning, whereas a shoot with a presenter and several locations needs a larger crew for a full day or more. Length comes next, though cost does not rise in a straight line with it: a three-minute training video may take little more editing than a 90-second one if the footage is simple, while a short brand film with fast cutting and graphics can take days.

The number of videos per shoot is where buyers have the most control. Once a crew is set up, filming a second or third topic adds hours rather than days, so planning several videos for one shoot brings the cost of each one down sharply. Production standard matters too. Footage for an internal update can be shot and edited more simply than a film that will run in a public campaign or on a stand at a trade show.

Special requirements add cost on top. Actors, premium locations, heavy motion graphics and aerial footage each need extra people, permissions or editing time. Animation is priced differently from live action altogether, and our guide to what animated video costs sets out those figures separately.

Filming on Your Own Premises Is Usually the Cheapest Option

Your own office, factory floor or workshop needs no location fee and no access negotiation, only proper lighting and sound, and it shows the real business at work. Filming in managed public spaces, particularly around Belfast Harbour and parts of the city centre, can need notice or permission, so we check access during planning instead of on the day.

Drone Footage Near the City Centre Needs Airport Permission

Aerial shots add cost because of the paperwork as much as the flying. Central Belfast sits close to George Best Belfast City Airport, and drones of any size need permission from air traffic control to fly inside a protected airport’s Flight Restriction Zone, which the Civil Aviation Authority explains in its guidance for drone users. Our licensed drone operators plan around those zones, and drone work earns its place mainly in property, construction and tourism, where the scale of a site is the point of the video. Our guide to drone videography for business covers when aerial footage is worth paying for.

Each Type of Corporate Video Has Its Own Typical Budget

Choosing the type before you set a budget is the surest way to avoid paying for a video that sits unused, because each format has a job it does well and a price range that follows from it. The bands quoted below are the same four as in the cost table above.

Brand Films Introduce the Business on the Homepage and in Pitches

A brand film tells viewers who you are and why your business matters to them, and it is the video most businesses commission first. It usually runs 60 to 90 seconds for the main version, with shorter cuts for social media, and it typically sits in the brand overview band of £2,000 to £4,000.

The films that work balance information with feeling. Viewers should understand the business and come away with an impression of the people behind it, which is why we film real staff at work wherever we can.

Recruitment Videos Show Candidates What the Job Looks Like

Recruitment video features real employees in their real workplace, so candidates can judge the culture before they apply. In our experience that helps the right people self-select and saves time on interviews with people who would not have stayed. It suits sectors that compete hard for staff, such as technology and professional services, and it is often filmed as part of a multi-video package that covers several roles or teams on one day.

Testimonial and Case Study Videos Let Customers Make the Case

A testimonial is the most affordable corporate video to produce and often the most persuasive, because the claim comes from a customer. A single interview in one location usually falls in the essential band of £800 to £1,500.

Case study videos go further, walking through a project from the problem to the outcome, and they suit service businesses where the result matters more than the features. Most interviewees are nervous at first. A good director puts them at ease with a conversation instead of a script, and that is what produces natural, usable answers.

Training Videos Replace Repeated In-Person Teaching

Internal training video keeps the message consistent and lets staff learn at their own pace, which matters most for businesses with shift workers or several sites. It needs instructional design as well as production craft, since the content has to be structured for learning. Our guide to training video services explains how we plan these with your subject experts.

Product and Service Demonstrations Show How Something Works

A demonstration lets a buyer see what they are paying for before they commit, and a service walkthrough makes an abstract process concrete. These suit online shops and sales teams who need something to send after a meeting. Most fall in the essential or brand overview band, depending on how many setups the product needs.

Event Coverage and Social Clips Come From the Same Shoot

Conferences, launches and milestones are filmed to a schedule you do not control, so the crew works quietly around the event and captures the moments that matter. The same footage then feeds social media and next year’s promotion. Social platforms favour clips made for them, so we plan short vertical and square versions at the shoot instead of chopping down the long edit afterwards.

The table below brings the types together so you can match your objective to a budget. Where a type spans two bands, the number of setups and the hours on site decide which one applies.

A Clear Brief Keeps the Quote Accurate

Most budget overruns start with a vague brief, because a crew cannot plan a day around a video whose job keeps changing. You do not need a script before the first conversation, but answers to these five questions will get you an accurate quote and a faster production.

• Decide the one job the video must do, whether that is attracting staff, explaining a product, winning trust or training a team, and resist adding a second.
• Name who will watch it and where, since a LinkedIn recruitment audience needs a different film from a homepage visitor.
• Say what you want viewers to do next, such as request a quote or apply for a role.
• Choose the tone, either warm and personal or precise and corporate, because mixing the two weakens both.
• Agree how you will judge success, whether that is applications or enquiries, before filming starts.

We turn a written or spoken brief into a production plan with a fixed quote, so nothing you bring needs to be polished. A short email or a voice note covering the five points is enough to start.

Planning Where the Video Will Be Watched Protects the Budget

A video nobody watches is the most expensive kind, whatever it cost to make. The time to plan distribution is before the shoot, because platform formats and captions both affect what the crew films on the day.

For most Northern Ireland B2B firms, YouTube and LinkedIn carry the most weight, and a well-managed YouTube channel works as a search asset in its own right. On your own website, embedding the video on a fast page with a transcript and video structured data gives search engines and AI assistants text they can read, as Google’s video best practices explain. Our video marketing and YouTube strategy service covers this side of the work for businesses across the UK.

Ciaran Connolly, founder of ProfileTree, puts it plainly: ‘The businesses that get real value from corporate video are the ones that plan distribution before they plan the shoot. A well-made film is only half the job. If it is not built into your website, your search strategy and your social output, you have bought a nice video and not much else.’

Getting a Fixed Quote for Your Corporate Video

The quickest route to an accurate figure is a short call about the job the video needs to do and who will watch it, after which we put together a production plan and a fixed quote. Contact ProfileTree to talk through your corporate video, or call our Belfast office on 028 9568 0364.

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