I had an outdated version of expressvpn before, then updated to current version and now I get "page not found". Is this a problem on ExpressVPN's side, or Carrd.com's side?
Should I be concerned?
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Is videography yielding enough income for you to sustain yourself easily?
If yes, is it enough that you can afford to not work some days and still make ends meet financially?
If not, is it because you live lavishly?
If you have no free time, are you feeling burnt out, or do you just love this work so much that you gobble up every opportunity and you don't wanna take time off?
I'm learning color grading, and I'm practicing using my brand new color checker the "Calibrite Video"
I circled the parts of the color checker chips on the Vectorscope in Premiere Pro that brought my practice session to a total halt.
I don't understand why it could be doing that.
I considered that maybe somehow my fingers holding the checker could be bouncing light onto the specific chips that are crooked like that, so that the darker chips are are getting a little tinting bounced onto them from my finger... But my fingers on my left hand are holding it near the yellow, red, and purple/pink/magenta or whatever it's called. Meanwhile the most crooked chips are green, and red.
I don't get it.
I can't even comfortably land on a proper adjustment of the hue vs hue like this, because I don't know which chip to consider the one that matters, and I don't know if the rest of my scene has this same problem or what's happening...
Thank you.
It's nowhere near finished, and I need inspiration and examples of how most working videographers organize the inside of their hard cases, so if you're up for it, I'd love to see pictures of yours. And please describe what types of shoots yours is optimized/organized for.
Ignore how I piled things in there. It's not ready for hauling, I'm just gently keeping the stuff together in one place.
I'm currently handcrafting the inside of my hardcase's dividers using diy materials like EVA foam and corrugated plastic sheets and so on.
I can redesign and rearrange the dividers but I want to settle on a good one already.
What's the professional, streamlined, smart workflow for this:
If the package the client pays for includes revisions: what level of quality - or file size - is smart to send them for review?
For example if using cloud storage: a full quality version can end up being quite big and maybe cumbersome for the client to download/view.
Conversely a low quality one may lack the high quality details they are partly paying a professional for.
Then exporting, uploading and client downloading revision 1, then 2, etc, same questions arise.
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What is considered industry standard cutoff point, beyond which handheld shake is just simply unprofessional? Also not asking what is "unwatchable". I think that can vary among people. I'm asking what's unprofessional, and WHY?
- Is it unprofessional, because the majority of clients have an expectation conditioned into them by the collective result of the professional work they see in media of our current time?
OR
- Is there a universal threshold of tolerance the human brain inherently has towards shaky footage?
OR
- Is it cultural? Could people in another country be used to a totally different style?
I notice that my FX3's IBIS and my Tamron 28-75's LACK of stabe together produces a type of shake that is so weird:
It's like a split second of nice smoothness and then a jolting jerk in some direction until it re-establishes stability again, and repeat a bunch of times every second. I assume you guys know what I'm talking about.
And this makes me almost just wanna turn off Sony FX3's IBIS altogether and just go full handheld zero stabe, and add gyroflow only when needed in post, or use gimbal (once I can afford to buy one) for the shots I KNOW for sure need smooth footage.
Thanks.
Using a phone isn't really my point, but rather that I don't want clients to think its just my equipment, or my technical knowledge of the equipment that they are making a smart choice of hiring me for. I want them to see that I can do something with images and moving images that they can't.
In unpredictable environments with natural sunlight, or a cloudy day, I want to be good at using that natural light to make the picture better than just snapping it from a random angle as the client might. I want to feel "necessary" or "irreplaceable". I want them to see why they can't replace me with the "budget option".
I want to know how background interacts with foreground to create a great subject-environment relationship in whatever situation I'm in.
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I have some experience and general understanding in every aspect of videography and filmmaking. But that general understanding alone isn't enough to significantly set me apart from someone else who has the same equipment I do.
What would you guys recommend as good resources or approaches to learn great techniques for framing, lighting, and shooting in a completely natural, unpredictable environment where I can't change anything except what I do with my camera.
Title says it all.
It's an every day sedan style car.
I wanna do anything as long as its videography. I currently have 1 xlr shotgun mic, 1 Deity TC1, Deity PR2, 2 DJI Mic 1's.
I know this isn't enough for weddings, events, marketing videos, etc.
What type of audio equipment do you guys recommend I expand my arsenal with?
Thank you.
Are zoom and focus rings a kind of technology that is pretty much figured out fully, or is that also something that gets improvement the higher up we go in price
I have a Tamron 28-75mm F/2.8 Di III VXD G2. I'm somewhat new ish to freelance videography. Did a run and gun gig, and in editing I notice that my zooms ins and zoom outs are fairly jerky, and I don't know if it's because I was somewhat nervous and indecisive about framing so I kept adjusting, or if it's because the zoom ring on this prosumer lens is more prone to jerkiness than a higher end one like a sony/canon/zeiss/etc...
The FX3 or maybe all of Sony seems to be causing skin tones to have a yellowish tint to them. I tried messing with color temp, sliding tint towards magenta, but thats it. Still looking yellow. Client ain't diggin it, and honestly I might dig it, but I'd rather learn how to bring the natural red humanity back into people's faces.
The footage I'm trying to correct was white balanced using the lens cap of the fx3 lol. I'm getting a grey card though.
Shooting took 3 hours, single camera.
Video 1 was an instagram style, fast paced cut, 2 minute vertical video. It was all cut around the structure of the music. Single song.
Video 2 was 8 minutes long, also for instagram, but less fast paced cuts, mostly 3 mic'ed speeches being given, with a similar 20 second fast paced hype sequence at the end to wrap things up with excitement. No music at all, just at the very end where the exciting 20 second fast cuts were.
The 10 uncut clips are color graded but with zero cuts, but still gyro flow stabilized and exported, do its not dozens of GBs total.
What is a reasonable turnaround time for this?
Is it more professional to have a little redundancy and safety built into how one frames their shots such that they can crop in and reframe later in post, or is it more professional to learn how to shoot in a way that one doesn't have to?
If you respond, please mention what content, events or things you do shoot usually.
Is 'the right people connecting with the right people' or 'the right info reaching the right person' really such a viscous, slow moving process on its own naturally, that it has to be intentionally and expertly moved along?
I'm asking this at a fundamental level. Sort of like analyzing some phenomenon or process or structure in biology. Except it's marketing or advertising.
Why is it that when an independent contractor or freelancer of some sort is the first to catch a client who is new to needing that kind of work done, and will need it done again and again in the future, that they just stick to this one freelancer or contractor from here on out. And other contractors or freelancers are sort of "locked out". So this freelancer wins this client.
Why doesn't the client diversify and connect with more similar freelancers? Do they not want to put in the effort of going through the stress and anxiety of vetting yet another freelancer for this new work they are needing from here on out?
And I'm genuinely asking the folks who enjoy getting philosophical about this sort of thing. I'm not trying to skim the surface. I'm asking deeply on purpose.
So I just wanna make sure some humans with real experience on here confirm what AI tells me: Creative Commons license CC0 allows free use of music in videos I make for paying clients with zero need to give credit or pay anything for the use of that music. That's what CC0 means right?
Second question: Is FreeMusicArchive.org really such a nice source of a large selection of CC0 license music? How come it's not discussed more often on here? I searched in this sub and I saw no mention of it in the first few posts.
Martial Arts Gym Owner Client wants two videos: A marketing one for the gym, and one about the grand opening and belt promotion just for sending around within the community across gyms and between friends.
The videos will be on instagram only. A lot of the client's clips on their insta have music in them. I have no idea if they have the copyrights to use those songs, or if they pay for a service, or if they just "got it from somewhere".
Given that they seem to really know what they want most of the time, especially that they told me it's gotta be all vertical, and they decisively market only through instagram, I'm wondering if I should also turn to them for preferred music genre and sourcing. I'm not paying for anything like artlist.io or any of that yet, and here's why:
The thing is, I'm doing this gig for free, as I'm fairly new to working with clients, and trying to shove my foot as deep in the door of freelance videography as I can, as fast as I can by building a portfolio and reputation and networking and practicing as much as I can, before I start swinging my rates at them. So given that they aren't paying me for this, I don't know what to do about the music, as - I assume - usually videographers factor in the price of music licenses into the price of their service.
Thank you thank you.
Or is that simply considered not professional?
I'm newish to freelance videography for paying clients.
I'm asking because I got a fully rigged out fx3 with monitor, xlr mic, sidehandle, but no gimbal, and I'm realizing I don't feel safe taking gigs because I can't be certain my footage won't need stabilization in post, and 60fps just looks weird and soapy.