This can range enormously.  With expectations come price.  Some videos can be made very, very cheaply.  It can be as simple as shooting a speaker, making a clean fade in and out, and then BAM! you have yourself a corporate video.  This may not be the best way to show off your company or message though.  Quality is of huge importanace when you are working with someone to develop a video for your business.  The old adage ‘you pay for what you get,’ is very true here.  You can easily find someone on Craigslist $500 to videotape what you need shot and then do a basic edit on their laptop.  However, you could be out $500 and time, having to go back to the drawing board and work with a real production house to come up with a video that you will be proud of.

In short, in most major markets, plan on paying no less than $2,500 for a basic, fairly short clip.  And just as anything else, prices go up from there.  Add in actors, special effects, 3-d spaces, etc,  and the prices rises considerably.  The most timely part about the production process is the editing.  The more complicated the edit is, the more the final cost will be.