Lincoln Video Production
& Videographer

Video production in Lincoln, built around one question

Most video made in Lincoln lands in one of two buckets: phone footage that undersells the business, or an agency production priced for a company ten times your size. NVAR Studios sits in the gap. Cinema-grade video — Sony A7S III, cinema glass, proper audio, in-house color and edit — produced by a lean, owner-operated studio and priced for Lincoln businesses.

Every project starts with the same question: what does this video need to make happen? Bookings, applications, foot traffic, a sales call that goes better because the prospect already watched two minutes of you. We plan the shoot and the edit backward from that answer, which is why the finished piece tends to get used instead of filed.

What we produce

Brand films — the 60-to-120-second piece that lives on your homepage, opens your sales deck, and introduces the company on LinkedIn. Interviews, b-roll of the work, and a story with a point.

Commercial spots — 15- and 30-second commercials for TV, streaming, and paid social, shot so the same footage cuts to every length and format you need to run.

Testimonial and interview video — customers and employees on camera, lit and mic'd properly, edited so the good sentence lands.

Recruiting and culture video — the piece your hiring page is missing: real people, the actual floor, the reason someone should apply here instead of across town.

Product and service video — how it works, what it looks like in use, and the detail shots a listing or landing page needs.

Event recaps — conferences, launches, grand openings, and brand nights, cut into a same-week highlight reel. Event coverage has its own page and its own pricing, and corporate event photography runs from the same crew.

Short-form video — Reels, TikTok, and Shorts planned with vertical framing from the start, not cropped from a landscape edit after the fact.

Videographer or video production — which one do you need?

If something is happening whether or not a camera is there — an event, a speech, a product on a bench — you need a videographer: someone to capture it well and edit it fast. If nothing exists yet and the video has to be built from a script, a shot list, locations, and a story, you need video production. We do both, but they are planned and priced differently. This page covers the first kind, and it is what people usually mean when they search for a commercial videographer in Lincoln. For brand films, commercial spots, and produced pieces, that is the rest of this page; for a single event, the event videographer page is the door.

Brand video production for Lincoln, Nebraska businesses

A brand video is the one piece of video most Lincoln businesses actually need first, and the one most of them never get made, because it sounds expensive and vague. It is neither. A brand film is typically one production day: two or three interviews with the people who run the place, a few hours of b-roll of the work happening, and an edit that turns that into a piece someone watches to the end.

What comes out of that one day is more than the film. The same footage cuts into a 30-second spot, three or four vertical Reels, a recruiting cut, and a photo library shot alongside it — one production, a season of content. That is how we scope brand video for Lincoln companies: not a single deliverable, but a footage library with a flagship edit on top.

TV commercial production in Lincoln

Yes — we produce commercial spots cut to broadcast, cable, and streaming spec. A local spot for Lincoln broadcast, cable, or streaming is a full production day plus a focused edit, delivered to the station's or platform's spec sheet in every length they ask for — 30, 15, and 6 seconds — with the vertical and square cutdowns for paid social from the same shoot.

We make the spot; you or your media buyer place it. If you already have an agency handling the buy, we work to their brief and hand them finished masters. If you do not, we can walk you through how local placement works during the scope call. Voiceover, music licensing, and motion graphics beyond our standard titles are scoped per project so there are no surprises on the invoice.

What video production costs in Lincoln

We publish our prices, which most Lincoln production companies do not. A half-day shoot is $600 and a full production day is $1,100, both including color-graded delivery within two weeks. Most brand films, commercial spots, testimonial pieces, and recruiting videos fit inside a full day.

If you need video every month rather than once, the content retainer is the better buy: the Starter engine is $1,500 a month for two shoots, four short-form videos, and 40+ photos, and the Growth engine is $2,500 a month for four shoots, eight short-form videos, two long-form pieces, and 80+ photos. Multi-day campaigns and anything with casting, locations, or motion-graphics-heavy post are scoped on a free 30-minute call — you leave with a number either way.

Every figure here matches the Investment page. The full breakdown of what moves a video budget up or down, and what the three tiers of Lincoln video production actually buy, is in what video production costs in Lincoln.

How a production runs

Scope call — a free 30-minute conversation about the goal, the audience, where the video will live, and the date it needs to exist by. You get a price before you commit to anything.

Pre-production — a few days to a week. Script or interview questions, shot list, schedule, locations, and the one approver who signs off at the end.

Shoot day — a half day covers one location and one main idea; a full day covers multiple setups, interviews, and enough b-roll that the edit has options.

Edit — assembly, story, sound, color, in that order. One to two weeks for a standard piece, with two rounds of revisions on most projects.

Delivery — final masters in every format you need, plus the cutdowns, in a private gallery. Full timelines are on the process page and in the journal post on how long video production takes.

Proof: the video engine we run every month

Capital Cigar Lounge in Lincoln runs on our monthly video engine. In the most recent 90-day window their Instagram pulled 89,740 views — 38× their follower count — with top-post engagement up more than 4× and 53% of all views coming from people who did not follow the account yet. A single event reel we produced drew 2,610 views for a room that seats a fraction of that. Those numbers were driven by short-form video of the room, the events, and the rituals that make the lounge worth a visit; the full Capital Cigar case study has the receipts.

The clips on this page are the pieces we can host here: a ticketed-event promo cut for the lounge and the motion identities that open its Reels. Most of the client work we produce is published on our clients' own channels rather than ours, so on the scope call we walk you through recent pieces that match your project — brand film, spot, testimonial, or recruiting — instead of asking you to guess from a showreel.

Photo and video from one production day

Because we shoot stills and motion together, one production day yields the brand film and the commercial photo library — no second crew, no second invoice, and one consistent look across your website, your ads, and your feed. If you are searching for a commercial photographer as well as a video production company in Lincoln, that is the same team on the same day.

Serving Lincoln, Omaha, and the rest of Nebraska

We are based in Lincoln and shoot across the city — the Haymarket and the Railyard, the Telegraph District, downtown offices, the industrial parks off Cornhusker and Highway 2, UNL and Innovation Campus, and the shops and restaurants out to south Lincoln and Waverly. Omaha is part of our base service area with no travel surcharge — see the Omaha commercial videographer page. For Grand Island, Kearney, Hastings, Norfolk, Columbus, and the rest of the state, travel is quoted at actual cost with no markup — the Nebraska commercial photo + video page explains how statewide days are scheduled.

See the video work

Three pieces we can host on our own domain: a ticketed-event promo produced for Capital Cigar Lounge (tap it for sound) and the two motion identities that open the lounge's Reels and ours. The full run of Reels lives on the lounge's Instagram, and we walk through project-matched work on the scope call.