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Standard operating procedures are written to be complete. Video is watched to be followed. That difference is the whole job: an SOP document exists so the process is documented and auditable, and an SOP video exists so somebody on the floor gets it right the first time.
Turning one into the other is not transcription. It means finding the steps where people actually deviate, showing the correct sequence at the pace it really happens, and cutting the parts of the document that exist for the auditor rather than the operator.
We have produced procedural video for JM Bullion, Rancho Water and the Accounting Aid Society, covering warehouse packing, field diagnosis and document handling. Production starts at $2,500 and a single procedure typically takes two to four weeks.
Six procedural and process projects: a packing and shipping procedure, a field diagnostic task, an industrial production process and a document-handling walkthrough.
We work from your written SOP and from watching the procedure performed, because the two rarely match exactly. The gap between them is the most valuable thing in the project: it shows which steps get skipped, which are ambiguous as written, and which parts of the document nobody has read since it was approved.
One procedure per video, scripted as a sequence with the deviation-prone steps given more time than the routine ones. We storyboard so each step has a frame that stands alone, which means the same assets also produce a printable one-page work instruction.
You get the master with chapter markers per step, captions, a transcript and the step frames as stills. It is delivered modular, so a procedural change means replacing one segment. That matters more here than anywhere else, because an SOP video that has drifted from the current SOP is worse than no video at all.
The written procedure tells you what should happen. Standing next to the person doing it tells you what does. Every useful SOP video we have made came out of that second observation, not the document.
The storyboard frames become the step images for a printed or intranet work instruction, so you get the written version as a by-product rather than as a second project.
An out-of-date procedure video is an audit finding waiting to happen. Modular structure, handed-over source files and a clear version label on delivery are how we keep the video and the SOP moving together.
A short video showing a standard operating procedure being performed correctly, step by step, for the person who has to perform it. It supplements the written SOP rather than replacing it: the document remains the controlled record, the video is what people actually use to learn the task.
Yes, and they are the starting point. But we would also want to watch the procedure performed, because written SOPs are complete rather than clear, and they often describe a slightly idealized version of what happens on the floor.
One to three minutes per procedure. If a procedure cannot be covered in three minutes it is usually several procedures, and splitting it makes each one findable by someone who only needs the middle part.
Filmed where the actual equipment and environment are the lesson and can be shot safely and clearly. Animated where the process is internal, hazardous, or spread across locations, and wherever a cutaway or exploded view helps. Facilities with restricted filming access usually go animated.
Version-label the video to the SOP revision it reflects, keep it modular so a revised step means replacing one segment, and review both on the same cycle. We hand over the source assets specifically so this stays cheap enough to actually happen.
They support your training record rather than replacing your controlled documentation. Your quality system holds the SOP and the completion record. The video demonstrates how the procedure was taught, and we supply version and approval detail so it can be referenced cleanly.
Yes, and a library is the usual shape. We build a template once, then produce against a prioritized list, normally starting with the procedures that carry the highest error rate or the highest turnover in the roles performing them.
From $2,500 for a single procedure. A library is quoted as a project and comes in lower per video, because the template, environments and motion system are established once and reused across the set.
