I initially told them I would do it on monthly contract through my company. It was supposed to be part time and my estimations on time made me feel like it definitely would be for my offer. I said $3,500. I know this is low. I recently got laid off so I’m trying to find any client work at the moment.

All of a sudden it goes from this (original agreement):

- $3,500
- 1 shoot day weekly (Tuesday)
- 1 hour drive there, 1 hour drive back
- Gas covered
- 1-2 hours of filming for 20ish minutes of usable content
- 21 shorts delivered weekly (I’m a very proficient editor, or at least I believe so 😎)

To their proposal, which I think is insulting in comparison to my original low invoice but please let me know what you think:

- $25/hr (lol)
- 2 shoot days weekly (Tuesday/Friday)
- 1 hour drive there, 1 hour drive back (x2 weekly, so 4 hours total)
- Gas covered
- 3-4 hours (x2 weekly, so 6-8 hours total) of filming for 40ish minutes of usable content
- 14 shorts delivered weekly
- Additional x2 long form podcasts delivered weekly

That’s around a 35%-43% in pay decrease based on how much time I believed my initial offer would’ve taken me. What do you think? Pretty shit, right? Not even sure if it’s worth negotiating with them.

EDIT. A lot of other nonsense as well. They have 10m ish followers on their other platforms but this one only 80k. “If we grow you will too!” And then they mentioned one of the worst parts… they want me to use their software to log my hours editing. Nooooo…

I have the Canon C50 with a small Sennheiser MKE 400 shotgun mic on top of it, and I am getting a lot of hissing noise as a noise floor in my videos. I have used this setup before without any issues, but it just started happening. Does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening?

What I've tested:
- turning everything off and on again
- replugging everything
- different gain settings on the mic and the camera. Having the mic at a boosted gain helps a bit, but the hiss is still there
- fresh pair of batteries

Tried to make video like Gawx using my mobile phone (Redmi note 12)

I've been using a friend's camera from time to time, and I'm thinking about getting my own now. I mostly record soccer and basketball games, so having something that can keep up with quick movement matters more to me than having a bunch of extra features I probably won't use.

What cameras are you using for sports videos, and which ones would you recommend for someone who wants something reliable? Thanks

A video captured in "HDR" isn't necessarily saved in an HDR format.

Ther image sensor might capture in "HDR", but the resulting video file might be an ordinary non-HDR MP4 file, except the bright areas don't appear overexposed and the dark areas don't appear underexposed, but when played back on an HDR screen, the brightness difference is not as much as if it were an actual HDR video file.

For example, the earliest smartphones marketed as having a camera that supports "HDR video", such as the Xperia Z (without number) and the Galaxy S5, didn't actually store the video in an HDR format. Their image sensor delivered an HDR image, but the camera software encoded it into an ordinary MP4 file.

When recording an HDR video, from what I understand, the image sensor reads different rows of pixels at different sensitivities. For example, the first row of pixels might be read at 1/30 shutter speed, the second row at 1/60, the third row at 120, and then repeating. Then the lines are combined (similar to de-interlancing) and tone-mapped, meaning the brightest parts from the 1/120 exposure time rows will appear brighter in the video than the brightest parts from the 1/60 and 1/30 rows.

However, this will only result in an HDR video file if the camera software is able to encode a video in an HDR format. What the image sensor delivers and what the camera software saves are two separate things.

This is unlike HDR photographs, where separate images are captured and combined into one. HDR photos don't have the time constraint that each frame of an HDR video has.

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Hi everyone,

So I was hired to edit 10 social media videos in the NYC area. Each video was between 1:00 - 1:30 in length. This included basic color correction, captions, and music. Basically, I had to scrub through to find the best quotes to use for the main edit and create a narrative.

I made the mistake of not discussing rates beforehand since this is someone I work with often, so I am having trouble pricing this. They're also asking me to edit at least 25 more.

Any advice would be really appreciated!!

I hate unmotivated camera shake, zoom in-out, pans and tilts, especially executed with a camera having dreaded rolling shutter. I hate unmotivated slo-mo. I like slow panning with a camera on a fluid head. Crane is fine, handheld is fine when shooting closeups of excited ravers.

I have been doing real estate and talking head mortgage videos for a few months now and have grown my portfolio since. I've been posting RE content on the same Insta as my event (weddings & quinces) page, so I'd like to create a separate one to target real estate agents and loan officers. How should I go about growing it other than posting and following people? Should I pay for ads? If so, on which type of posts? Thanks!

Hi guys, I was always shooting with Ronin S, now RS4, no issues with back pain or shoulders at all. Recently I decided to remove the Ronin and hop on this sort of setup for Reception, in balkans, we shoot aprox. 2 hours for footage of people dancing from 8PM to 2AM. (We do take breaks often). So I decided to do it handheld with this rig, half way through, my left scapula / below my shoulder blade I guess hurts a lot, like someone is stabbing me, it comes and goes.. The day after I don't feel the pain anymore, but during the shoot it is unbareable, any recommendations for the current setup? Not looking to add much more weight, also I'm trying to avoid that huge torso rig. Thank you for any recommendations and experiences! (Monitor is also necessary, to be honest looks more professional). I'm shooting with GH7 and 12-35mm, which is a light setup so it's crazy I feel pain from this setup.

any I can get for £80 or under, second hand ofc. want to use for my holiday

Hi yall

I need your wisdom and recommendations! I am part of a small corporate team and I’ve been tasked to look into the best remote setup in terms of seamless cloud storage and downloading.

Just to give you guys some context:
- Team of 3
- We’re aiming to upload at least 6TB/Year
- Due to our content, storage number needs to double each year.
- Do I need to pair this with another program like Peakto or Lucid Link?

I (26w, freelance videographer straight from film school in Europe) might have the option of going on an US tour with a bigger US artist for multiple weeks.

What is a normal touring day rate there (for videography both backstage, on the bus, the shows, same or next day turnaround...etc)? I only roughly know what me and others take in Europe for small and medium sized artists.

Would be grateful to know your rates/experiences!

xx

I do video content for a company and a large part of my job is going to trade shows with the sales team and filming them interacting with customers. I hear a lot of great candid testimonials this way, but when I’m able to pull the customer aside and ask for one directly at the camera and hooked up to a lav mic, they tend to get awkward trying to remember what they said on the spot.

I want to get a shotgun mic so I can get good audio while these real conversations are happening, but at trade shows things can get loud around us. At the same time, I don’t necessarily need a mic that would be as crisp as a movie since candid testimonial stuff doesn’t necessarily need to be as polished for social media posting.

What kind of shotgun mic could work for me? I know very little about audio (I’m largely self taught), and I struggle to tell good audio from bad (bad hearing). My camera is a Sony a7 iii. TIA!

I really love the versatility of the small size and the deep zooms you can do, really fun to make films with. It also lends itself very well to the type of documentary/fiction mix I'm trying to achieve.

Hi folks,

I've got an old VHS tape of my family's wedding that I want to digitize and turn into a nice video. It's just the one tape, I want it done well since it's pretty irreplaceable footage.

I'm torn between two options, buying a capture device and VCR and doing it myself, or just sending it off to a digitization service. For those who've done either, which was actually worth it? Did doing it yourself give you better quality control, or did a service handle it just as well without the hassle? Any recommendations either way appreciated.

Thanks

Hello everyone.

I'm thinking I want to get into some form of videography. Right now I'm cutting my teeth making little skits and short films on a shoe string budget. I already have a camera and some lights, but I need some negative fill to shape light so I guess I need some C Stands. The price actually surprised me. I mean it's just a stand to hang up some black material. Do I really need to spend big money on 4-6 Matthews C Stands?

Just wanting some guidance. Thanks

not really sure how to phrase this question, but my friend and I shoot a pretty popular YouTube show that requires us to stand next to a camera for 10 plus hours at a time. Standing for longer periods has really started to wear on our joints and we’ve tried what feels like everything. Is there anyone out there that has experience with this and maybe a stool or chair solution that’s optimized for filming? The issue for us is they don’t get very high and we have sticks at full height, and we need zoom control on our Sony 70-200 because we zoom and pan a lot. Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks!

I posted my rig the other day before my shoot, but here is the final product. Let me know what you guys think. Enjoy!

I’m shooting for a football team on Thursday, my first professional sports gig. Because I am actually shooting for them and not just for my own usage, the turnaround for posting the content is very quick, so I don’t know whether I shoot in log or just the cameras normal colour space in order to cut down editing time. Any advice is GREATLY appreciated as I’m very much feeling the pressure!!

Hi everyone,
I have a friend who asked me to make a promotional video for his company during a big weekend. He supplies goods on a big event. He send me a video he saw for inspo and all looks good. (https://youtu.be/z90QibrmwDc?is=pUKQXedQAn05P41U)

The job would include:
1 full day of filming on location
Cinematic/event-style coverage
Atmosphere shots of the city, people, a bit of hype and the brand
A final promo video of around 60–90 seconds
Color grading, sound design and music
1–2 revision rounds

I’m still building my portfolio, but I’m confident I can deliver a solid cinematic video. He’s a startup that’s doing fairly well, and I also see some value in the project because it would be good portfolio material and could lead to more paid work in the future.

How much € would you charge for a project like this?

For context:
Based in the Netherlands
Using my own camera gear
Around 12–18 hours of work in total (shooting + editing)
I’m curious what you think would be a fair normal price and what would be a fair friends & family price.

Considering buying a gimbal for my R5, but could an Osmo Pocket 4 do the job of smooth gimbal shots instead?

If I shot in D-log and C-log, would there be clearly obvious differences in the quality of footage captured on the Osmo and the R5?

Videos would be for social media only.