Video and Photography Production Carbon Calculator

Project name / label Production type Shoot days Crew size (avg on set) Location type

Travel (add one or more legs)

Accommodation nights (total room nights) Room nights = rooms × nights. Example: 5 rooms for 2 nights = 10. Set energy (kWh) If unknown: leave 0. This is for generators, lighting, studio power. Catering meals (total) Total meals served. Example: 12 people × 2 days × 1 meal = 24. Total days budgeted for pre production Uses the same kWh per hour assumption as post production. Post production hours (edit, grade, sound) AI usage (text responses) Number of text responses to be generated. AI usage (image responses) 1 image asset = 1024 × 1024 pixels. AI usage (video responses) 1 video asset = 10 seconds. Data storage (new hard drives) Drive size (GB) Reusing old drives for this project If you reuse, we treat impact as a smaller incremental share.

Advanced assumptions and factors

Grid intensity (kg CO2e per kWh) Used for set energy, pre production and post production electricity. Post production kWh per hour Directional estimate for workstation + displays. Also used for pre production. Hotel factor (kg CO2e per room night) Meal factor (kg CO2e per meal) Average meal. If catering is meat heavy, increase. Car petrol factor (kg CO2e per km) Car electric factor (kg CO2e per km) Directionally lower. Depends on grid and vehicle efficiency. Van petrol factor (kg CO2e per km) Van electric factor (kg CO2e per km) Rail factor (kg CO2e per km) Flight short haul (kg CO2e per km per traveller) Flight long haul (kg CO2e per km per traveller) AI text (g CO2e per response) Directional. Used for planning conversations. AI image (g CO2e per 1024 × 1024 image) AI video (g CO2e per 10 second asset) New hard drive embodied factor (kg CO2e per TB) Directional manufacturing footprint allocation. Reuse allocation (share applied when reusing) If reusing, we count only a smaller incremental share.

These factors are simple defaults so the tool stays usable. If you have project specific factors or suppliers, override them here and keep consistent across estimates.

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