I've got about a decade of experience under my belt as a photographer and a few years shooting some video. Previously, my work revolved around stuff in the mountains, hanging off of ropes and putting in some big milage days. This meant I essentially stuck with the least amount of kit as possible aka no monitor.

Now, I run a company that produces, films and delivers online courses revolving around mountain sports. The majority of the work is a way different style than what I've previously done. Lot's of interviews and slower paced action. Since this is the case, I'm now interested in getting a monitor.

So will the Shinobi II be enough even with the OS faults? For context, I do not need to record externally and I'll be working with both an A7III & FX3 & only shooting in SLOG 2 & 3. Since I'm entirely new to monitors, will I still be able control my camera even when linked to the monitor? Will AF tracking still work internally? Will I be able to control my focus area via my internal controls & have it show up on the monitor? Will I simply be able to use it as a monitor and for-go touch camera controls?

Is there another monitor of similar quality to look at?

I apologize for these rough, beginner level questions... TIA

PS. I also asked this in r/Atomos but couldn't cross post.

I want to use the USB-C port to send the program output to my laptop, but also record the ISO/individual camera feeds to a hard drive. Is there any way to do this? My first guess was to split the USB-C feed somehow to send it to my laptop and the hard drive. My second guess was to split the HDMI out between my monitor and my laptop, and use the HDMI for the laptop stream and the USB-C for recording.

Has anyone done anything like this and knows the best solution?

For my self tape videos I’d like to boom my mic over my head and have a camera standing in front of me. Instead of buying a separate c stand and a camera tripod I’d like to have a more reduced setup that takes up less space in my bedroom. How can I achieve this?

Where's best place on reddit to post a YouTube job?

I want to add a monitor to my gimbal but i’m unsure on what equipment and rigs to get. Any recommendations? I use it with my canon r100.

When you start being interested? When you start really learning / practicing techniques? Or maybe when you have opinions on videography?

Looking to start a podcast, obviously just starting out and seeing how it goes but with Christmas coming up , happy to spend up to £500 on equipment - what would you recommend in terms of camera , microphone etc. it would be good if the camera was good for YouTube but also pictures / general content, something quite user friendly.

New to this so any tips would be helpful :)

Hey everyone! I recently got approached by a an educational brand app with about 50k followers on instagram. to create some content for them. They’re celebrating a milestone and want to produce a UGC video that highlights student stories. They’ve asked me to capture:

• 3 short interviews (2-3 minutes each)
• 3 sets of cinematic B-roll (3-5 short clips per set)

They’ll retain full usage rights of the footage for their social media, with credit to my name or handle. They asked for my rate, and I’m considering quoting $1,000 for the project. This includes planning, filming, and coordinating with students, but no editing since they’ll handle that.

I’m a college student with a few years of experience and my own equipment, but I’m fairly new to setting my rates for larger organizations. Does $1,000 sound fair for this, or should I adjust it? I’d appreciate any feedback—thanks in advance!

Hi All,

Sorry in advance if this is in the wrong subreddit.

I'm a newbie videography enthusiast, and I'm trying to figure out what happened the other night when I was filming. I filmed a video that looked super grainy and really under exposed. I'm wondering what I did wrong. I had a lamp in the background, two LED lights flanking either side of my camera. My camera settings were: ISO 500 (as low as my camera goes), f-stop 3.5, and the shutter speed was set to 1/250. Are there any additional changes I could have made? Is it simply that I needed more light? It's weird, because I've never had this much trouble before.

Thank you for the help/guidance!

I see that you can make the waveform full screen with a small window showing the video feed. But is there a way to reverse that? Have the video take up the full screen, with a small waveform window?

I’ve worked a government video production job for a few years now, which pays for any training/etc that benefits my productivity.

Already got my part 107….

What other things should I look into?

I'll try and keep this as quick as possible. I’m a Creative Director at a automotive social media agency, where my job varies from videography, photography, and editing, along with graphics and some admin. I am the only person in the business that has an understanding in what I, and my videographer, do.
Both directors have never worked in an agency or even remotely understand anything in what we do. (they're husband and wife). The husband was a car dealership consultant. He's been successful in his profession, however, recently I've lost a lot of respect for him.

My other colleagues have never worked in anything relating to marketing, nor video. If I am sent out on a content shoot I am given a list of videos the night before, and have to tell the salse team what to say when i am recording them. Or come up with ideas on the spot. For example "1. offer video. 2. Talk about finance reel 3. BMW reel(can we make the edit fast)...etc". Bc I've worked in this business for so long I know how these videos should look, as I've set the standard - although is took a lot of trial and error. Not to blow my own trumpet, but the only reason we are where we are is because of me. Which has been mentioned by my Director

Every time we have a meeting about bettering ourselves and clients expectations I always tell everyone they need to be clear on their briefs and supply scripts if needed. However there'es always excuses in place as to why they cant do this. If there's every a problem within the business it's always my department (content) that get thrown under the bus. Me and my videographer are always working our hardest to stay above water, which gives me 0 time to do admin work, which i should be doing.

We also use our own personal equipment (which is almost £10,000 each), from cameras and lenses to PC desktop editing suites. Is this normal, or should this company be paying us a rental charge?

The job should be easy but it causes ever growing stress consistently. The culture is toxic as there's alot of bitchiness and talk behind peoples backs. As a result I'm thinking about exiting, however I want an understanding as to whether I'm expecting too much, or whether what I'm saying should be mandatory? I'm losing my head trying to help grow this business with little respect.

Good morning, so I'm trying to replicate the kind of recording quality here . Is this StreamYard, Riverside or even something else like Zoom, OBS ? The quality is spectacular even though it's virtual. I would be grateful for any guidance. Thank you!

I'm using a Nikon D5500 to film some stuff and when I use the wire and view the SD card's images on the PC it's fine, but when I try to view videos, Windows media player says that it couldn't open it. When I tried to convert the MOV video file format of the Nikon D5500 into an MP4 file, the converter website says that the file is too small and needs to be larger than 1 byte? But when I look at it in file explorer it's almost 800 megabytes?

I also can't upload the videos on it to any social media app DMs, whether it be Messenger, or Discord, or Instagram, etc.

What's wrong with it and how do I fix this?

Seeking recs for a platform or website that I can upload a 1:15hr video for a clients family who live overseas and were unable to attend the funeral service of their family. Preferable if it’s free or cheap.

YouTube banned me for some reason, I think it was copyright issues of music the church choir sang.

Thanks!

Hi,

I want to buy a Schneider-Kreuznach 16mm f2 lens for my bmpcc og camera. However I do not know the difference between the cinegon and the xenon version. Does anyone know the difference?

I was planning on going out to shoot a documentary and camera of my choice is the Sony ZV e10 with a kit lens(16 - 50mm). The main problem, as pointed out by my other peers is that, this has a crop sensor. I wanted to know what are the limitations that I'd be faced with during my journey. Also, what are the tricks that you have personally used to overcome these issues.

What’s the best lens for this camera? Got this a year ago and hasn’t been used much. Budget Is around 100$-150$, I’m gonna use It in some cars montage, photography aswell. Thankyou In advance

Hi all, I tried searching for this topic being previously covered on the sub, but didn't really find what I was looking for.

I need to quickly fly to several different cities in the U.S. to record some interviews over the course of several days. I'm looking for some recommendations for relatively compact or break-down-able lighting solutions. Typically when I travel for shoots, I bring my cameras, lenses, audio, and tripods -- and I rent lighting and c-stands at the destination, or I hire a local grip who has that stuff.

For budget reasons, convenience, and because these particular interviews don't need to look mind-blowingly beautiful, I'd prefer to fly with everything I need for this project. Finding rental houses in 5 different cities, traveling out of the way to them, and returning gear -- all during their business hours -- is just not something I want to deal with this time.

What I need to get:

• A foldable/compact hair light
• A foldable/compact fill light
• A lightweight pole to boom out the hair light

What I have already:

• Foldable key light: FalconEyes RX-24TDX
• Several somewhat heavy-duty light stands
• A lightweight boom pole that can mount on a light stand
• Several fillable sandbags (fly with them empty and then fill them with rocks or sand on-location)
• Bounce/negative fill disc

Anyone have any recommendations for small lights that they really like? Any other tips for trying to travel with everything you need for a basic 3-point interview lighting setup?

Thanks!

I know questions about rates get asked frequently, but I'm having trouble finding info on this in particular.

I did a shoot with a corporate client several months ago and they asked if I would do the shoot for 1500 (260 miles of driving, I provided the equipment, then we were on site for 5 hours getting b roll and photos). Since then, I've been doing a little shooting but primarily editing for them consistently, about 10-15 hours a week.

I've been struggling with landing on a rate. I'm working on several projects at a time, most of them taking more than a month to finish due to going back and forth on drafts, so charging by day rates or peoject rate seems like it would be an invoicing nightmare for me. Plus I'm communicating with lots of different people in the company so I've been clocking that time as well. I really like and trust the client, so it seems like hourly would be easiest for both parties

I've settled on a potential hourly rate of 80, but I'm wanting to get second opinions. I've been shooting and editing for almost a decade, professionally for about 6 years, but this is my first corporate client so jumping to larger rates is giving me imposter syndrome!

I know how to add a border in post production, like in Davinci Resolve. But what would I need to have the border on a live recording or stream? Would I need a separate device or 2 softwares running at once perhaps? Thank you!

I'm trying to learn more about videography and everything it entails! (pre-production, production, editing) What are you favorite podcasts to listen to about the subject?

extra credit, a podcast about developing documentaries (I'm particularly interested in docs).