Building a Post-Production Home Studio on a Limited Budget

Video Transcript

"TRAVIS JOHNS: Hi, I'm Travis Johns with Expert Village and I'm going to be talking to you about creating your home studio within a budget. Obviously, you're going to need everything that a regular office would provide in one place. So, you have a lot of things to consider. Not only are you going to be buying your computer, your computer peripherals, your monitors, you're going to need to be buying your own storage space, all of the media that you're going to be putting in there. So, it's going to add up very quickly. As a general rule, make sure you can buy the highest quality piece of equipment, whatever it is that you can afford. At the same time, you can get some used equipment such as monitors, decks, a lot of video equipment that is slightly used that you can get from a post-production in your town is going to be adequate if not exactly what you need for a fraction of the cost. Certain projects and certain clients, you can build in cost for hard drives, for fonts, for certain software applications. By and large, the burden of the budget is going to fall on you as the freelancer. So, you want to make sure that when it comes to pricing out certain options, you're not going for the latest, greatest thing just because it is that. You're going for what's going to suit your needs."