Video for Photographers

What you'll learn

• Explain which stills skills transfer to motion work, identify the new skills video requires, and plan how one person or a small team can deliver both stills and video on a client job.
• Choose frame rates, shutter speeds, resolutions, codecs, bit depths, chroma subsampling and picture profiles for hybrid deliverables, and calculate slow-motion factors, storage and card speeds.
• Expose standard and log footage with zebras, waveforms and false color, calculate neutral density requirements, configure autofocus for video, and select and balance stabilization systems.
• Cover actions and events in edit-ready sequences using shot sizes, the five-shot sequence, B-roll, natural sound, shot lists, continuity and shooting ratios, including vertical and horizontal versions.
• Plan motivated camera movement and composition in motion, avoid judder, compose for 16:9, 9:16, 4:5 and 1:1 deliverables within platform safe areas, and plan time-lapses.
• Light video with continuous sources, estimate required illuminance, manage color temperature with mireds, avoid flicker on 60 Hz mains, light interviews with small kits and plan battery power.
• Record clean dialogue and natural sound by applying the inverse square law, choosing and placing microphones, setting levels with headroom, managing rooms, wind, wireless systems and event feeds, and following recording-consent law in Canada and the United States.
• Produce interview-driven pieces with research, open questions, off-axis and two-camera setups, planned B-roll, paper edits and releases that reflect publicity and privacy law in Canada and the United States.
• Edit short pieces efficiently using verified backups, proxies, selects, string-outs, structure, pacing, music-led cutting, J and L cuts, titles, licensed music and managed review rounds.
• Finish hybrid deliverables with color correction and grading matched to the stills, audio cleanup and mixing to loudness targets, captions that meet accessibility expectations, export masters and delivery files, and quality control.
• Scope, staff, schedule, insure, price, license and contract hybrid photo-and-video jobs, including usage terms aligned with music licenses and releases, raw-footage policies and sales tax considerations.
• Plan, shoot, edit, deliver and reflect on a complete hybrid photo-and-video client package to professional standards.