Fixed Cost Considerations

When you caption with AutoCaption you get the benefit of a short payback period. 
More about the payback period...

Here's a table showing the minimum capital investment required for a captioning system:

It's a good business practice to give the client an approval copy of the video before going to the expense of making a captioned master.

Here are the capital items necessary to screen your work and to make an approval copy:

In our break-even calculations we assumed these productivity aids were purchased to bring the total investment to $10,930.

Capital expenditures have to be planned carefully if you intend to actually insert captions in-house rather than letting the client or a local post production house do it with their inserter and our free DynaCaption^TM Windows® software.

We'll assume you have the video playback and recording equipment along with all the paraphernalia and expertise to maintain it. 

The tricky part is to get the caption inserter best suited to your particular video stream, but increasingly popular DVDs do not need an inserter.  Here are some general numbers, but we strongly urge you to contact inserter manufacturers for exact prices:

More good news:  AutoCaption will work with most reputable caption inserters.

Financial Considerations

    Variable Costs:    Labor  •  Maintenance  •  Stock

    Payback Period

    Make vs. Buy

    Cost/ROI Assumptions

Important Legal Notice:  Information herein is based on generalizations, estimates, and educated guesses.  Your actual experience may vary, so it is important to perform and rely on your own management analysis.