Shooting And Editing Sometimes, we get a call for us to send one person on a client’s job that requires shooting and editing. In this post, we’ll discuss the best practices and tricks/techniques to help it go smoother. What to Take on a Video Shoot and Edit: For a recent job that required the Shooter/Editor to be on a tour bus with the client, our shooter took five cameras, a MacBookPro and several USB powered harddrives. In addition to support equipment like tripod, etc, he also took a drone for aerial footage. The cameras were a C100 for main recording, a 5D mark 3 for additional shots and the ability to shoot stills for the client as needed, and three GoPros. The biggest hit for the client was the drone– we were able to get those “wow” shots that pulls…
Old Days of Onsite Video Editing I remember in 1997, we offered our big client the ability to do live onsite editing for playback right then at their closing event in the hotel ballroom. Sure, we had done some betacam editing, linear style in a few rare instances, but this time, we’d be playing back on our relatively new non-linear editing computer. We had a crew of 8 or so and felt we could do it. It was scary– the computer had a propensity to crash or to fail and we would not have time to output to tape. But it all worked that night. In 2000, it had become even more simple. I took a laptop to a clients event and ingested the tape footage and played back a video– all as a one man crew. On Site Video…