Costs of doing it yourself
Now let’s look at the recording session. Let’s say you get all of the recording done in two hours (a very low estimate). It’s just you and your voiceover talent. While you have two hours of recording time, you also have to factor in the time to prepare and some incidental time. It’s not like you just stop your work and teleport to the conference room and then teleport right back. We’ll say that the two hours of recording also includes an extra hour of prep time. So, two people at three hours equals six hours of labor. At $100 per hour, you’re looking at $600 just to do the recording. This doesn’t include the lost productivity of using in-house talent. Because you’re doing the recording yourself, you’ll have increased edit and review time. If you run some quick estimates, I’m sure that you’ll find that you’re easily spending over $1000 for your free narration. And you’re still making compromises on the quality.
