Hi All, I own a cinematic video production company and also started the meetup group DSLR-Cinematography. We use serveral 60Ds, 7D, 5Dmk2, with bunch of lens and gears. We would like to do more short commercials and even a tv channel on youtube.

Hello all. I first discovered this forum about 18 months ago and I owe virtually every thing I have learned about film making to this forum. The different areas of expertise and the interest from so many allows questions to be quickly answered. Well done VK and all who contribute.

So a wee bit about what we do, we are a Husband and Wife team doing wedding films for people in the North East of Scotland, based in a small fishing town of Peterhead. I'm the technical part of the team, my wife is the creationist and she puts all our footage together. We started out filming School Balls and Proms and a couple managed to persuade us to do their wedding video. Reluctantly we agreed and armed with two Panasonic SD900s we managed to make a pretty good go for our first wedding video. They were delighted with the result and so were we. Two years later we have to turn people away because we are too busy and we like to take our time with each film that we do.

We now work with two GH3s and one GH2 as B cam for ceremonies. The best move we ever made equipment wise was downsizing to M 4/3rds and our work has definitely bettered and benefited from it.

Wedding work is tough, you have one moment to get it right. You are the director, the sound guy and the camera man in one and sometimes customers can make the day a breeze or very challenging. Anybody looking to get into event style or wedding related film work needs to always be mindful that its not about you and your work, its about them and what they want and expect from you. If you meet that and produce something that you are happy with then you are doing well.

Looking forward to potential GH3 hack, then GH2 will be replaced with GH3 to allow +30 minute recording!

Hi - I am working as a camera producer for european companies. Most of them are agencies oder industrial concerns. We are located close to München in the heart of bavaria. Our spectrum has a wide range - what the customer wants we shoot.

Hi, mates. It is fun to be part of this interesting community where knowledge is shared so generous way. I really like that and that's the reason why this site is always open in my browser. I'm glad to have discovered its existence quite from the very beginning. Vitaliy's hacking work has made many people all over the world more happy with their hacked cameras, but it also opened opportunity for many talented but low-budget (or no budget) film makers to do something on technically high level with little cheap cameras like GHx's.

My age now is somewhere between 40 and 50, I'm university teacher and kind of well-known artist. On my life road, I've lived in plenty of different countries so as logical result of it I speak fluently more languages than most of people do. My private life is not for sharing via internet, so I'll gladly skip that part and go directly to the area of our collective interests:

Videography: hobby, advanced level. Indeed some years of experience with S-VHS cameras behind me, but this area wasn't really fun until beginning of existence of High Definition. I still have to learn a lot here, it is very complicated. My first BD production was done in 2012, release as comercial BlueRay disc 2014 expected. Subject: classical music, multicam recording of dress rehearsal and concert under tungsten lighting. In PP synced audio & video editing for the final choice will be in stereo and surround audio. My equipment is listed in the next text passage.

Still photography: hobby, semi-pro level. Meanwhile 30 years of experience - in nature, portraits, macro (mainly flowers) and city night photography (long exp). Equipped with SLRs: Nikon F, Kiev 4, Canon T90 / DSLR: Nikon D800 / EVILs: several GH1s, GH2 and Sony Nex-7. Many, many lenses (friends, family and wife start to think I'm bit mad), mainly vintage Nikkor primes, but also few cool quite new ones, many Canon FDs, some Rokkors and Jupiters and some 3rd party brands. Some of my pics shot in very high mountains were sporadically published in the mountaineering magazines (I was quite freeky alpinist before). I otherwise made some money with my still pics only in one situation: still as student, when I sold quite many Ilford negatives to various magazines and newspapers. They were shot mainly in the nights on the streets of the city where I happened to live and study during revolutional changes which happened there. I accidentally lived in that city during turbulent time of its history. That money helped me to finance my study until my degree, few more years.

PA: About 7 years of gigs experience, mainly ampliflying smaller rock concerts (with 1000-8000 visitors). I don't do it anymore since long time, I never did big concerts on stadiums or so, my father didn't own so much equipment. It's not my hobby, just helped family with money earned on those gigs- I don't really like rock music and life attitudes of most rock musicians I knew is disappointing.

Accoustical audio recordings: semi-pro activity, on quite high pro quality level. Only classical music (chamber music prefered) and natural sounds samples for PP editing for film effects. Equipped with MOTU firewire interfaces (up to 20 tracks), some 20 microphones, mainly Schoeps and Neumann, several BayerDynamic and Rode mics. My recordings had several comercial CD releases, some were released by the top labels. I don't do it often, for lack of time and I also never wanted to rip away gigs from freelance guys who badly needed such gigs to survive, and some of them are damn good.

PP & editing: for audio I use mainly Magix's editing software, simply because I know it well after years of using it, so I can work very fast with them. Interesting, how few people here seem to know and use their video editing software. I've started using it just out of habit, but didn't have to deal with most of PP issues people here seem to struggle with. Having that said, I don't make comercials as I know also Magix' weaknesses.... well, nobody and nothing is perfect.

Sorry everybody, my text got much longer than I wanted.

My name is Todd, I am from just north of Seattle Washington. I have also lived in Oregon, Hawaii, Mexico, Nevada, California, Alaska, and I currently live in Japan working as an English teacher. I acted all throughout school, and into college, but took most pleasure in writing classes and film study. I sorta got stuck in a town with no prospects for way too long, though the life experience there was immeasurable, and I did land a role as an extra working with Jennifer Love Hewitt back when she was a tender teen, and even shared a moment with her before being shooshed by the casting director. She also attended my school, and as crazy as it sounds/was half the saved by the bell cast (the men only) showed up to my homecoming dance to hit on the way to young for them miss Hewitt.. Moving on...

I never really stopped creating, and documenting ideas. I bought a panasonic DV cam about 5 years ago, and filmed what I could, whether it be my mad talented musician brother, drunkeness, nature hikes, or short skits... I continued writing, and upon moving to Japan decided I should do my best to take things to a new level. I knew my camera and skills were lacking, so I did as much research as possible for a professional entry level camera, and it led me to the GH2, which has exceeded all of my expectations thanks to VK and the many Patch creators. I think I am more of a right brained filmer. I have studied the basics and understand framing, and some of the basic rules, and try to use it all, but I suspect I see things a bit different than many, and I try to capture a feeling more than a technically correct look, or maybe that is normal, I really don't know. I am now at the level where I believe at the very least I can start reaching out for paying gigs (other than the very low pay stuff I was doing for one of my English schools). It is a bit difficult being that I after nearly 2 years my Japanese is not very good at all. However I am slowly meeting others with similar interests. I have connected with one other GH2 user recently, and have begun helping him out with a project.

My ultimate goal is feature films, Documentaries, and perhaps some Snowboard (I am pretty good on a stick), and Scuba footage, I have ideas written on scraps of paper going back nearly 10 years, some are terrible, but some I truly believe are great. Now the trick is really writing them out and taping into my long idle/somewhat forgotten script writing skills.

I am very grateful for this forum, and all of the experienced people here. I have learned more through posts on this forums or links from members than any other resource. Thanks to all !

I grew up surfing in Florida. Joined the US Army Airborne when I was 21. Served with 82nd Airborne, 1st Special Forces Group and SOCOM. Spent 8 months in Baghdad in 03. Got out and went to school for Interior Design as everyone does once they get out of the Airborne. It's an old story. You've probably heard it before. Met a girl there who convinced me to move to LA to become an actor. I figured I'd give it a shot since not too many people do that. Seemed really easy. (sarcasm) Spent a few years on HGTV as a Design Assistant and Carpenter. Did some small films here and there. Did the Soap Opera round as all actors do. Got pulled into Precision Driving for movies, tv and commercials. Actually make a living as an actor now, took 7 years to do that. Waited tables one day at Elephant Bar in Burbank and walked out. That was 7 years ago :) All along people told me I should be behind the camera so I finally took that advice a couple years ago and picked up an HVX200. Started a production company with my girlfriend who is a writer called FIGMO films. Any vets out there might get a kick out of that. The past year or so I've really put all of my effort and energy into production. I've been lucky with commercials and driving gigs to have the time and money to really concentrate on the craft.

Hopefully I can continue to do this and earn some what of a living from it.

Creative type that has been involved in pro audio, photography and custom multimedia projects for about twenty years or so. Just bought a new canon 5D Mark3 and am excited to undertake some film making for multimedia projects, maybe a documentary or two... and of course some high end family video ;) Glad to have come across this site. Cheers!

My name is Don and I've been Peter Nap since the pre-internet BBS days. I'm a part time farmer, Political Activist and an old time photographer turned videographer.

I make Documentaries. I enjoy it and actually make a living at it. I have no artistic talent and struggle to keep up with the technology....but I damn sure have fun.

I've worked on exactly two major productions...there won't be a third.

Like Rambo, whose career I've followed for a couple of years, I'm stuck at being 18 years old but won't ever see 60 again.

I love this place. There is more talent and less attitude than any other I frequent....except maybe Rambo's.

Haha .. VK, my life is interesting, but not me, unless you like 60 yo Ex hippies that love spending lots of time with their Grandkids :-) ( I entertain my 2yo Grandson full time 3 days a week outdoors, he's my camera mount guinea pig)

G'day from sunny Sunshine Coast Australia. I've been called Rambo for 20 years ever since my coach named me so for climbing an outrigger with knife between my teeth and re-rigging the securing ropes mid -race, yep we still won.

My business Ocean Sports Media (just me) travel the world circuit producing video for, yep Ocean Sports. I like to work alone with my GH1/2s and GoPro cameras and tend to not follow the normal sports video reporting formats or templates, preferring to let my camera work tell the race stories with very little commentary. But that's what interests me and obviously my viewers like what I do ( I had 3.2mil video plays/hits to my vimeo acct in 2012 from embeds on various distribution websites). As well as shoot and produce I also promote the videos so the events get exposure as well as their sponsors.

I'm probably in the minority here as most seem to be in or want to be in the filmmaking business rather than sports reporting, but I see that as an plus as I don't have many competitors.

I love the travel, I get to go to many awesome places like Tahiti, Hawaii, NY, San Fran, Italy, Cook Islands, Fiji, NZ, Hong Kong, Slavakia and this year additionally Mauritius, Portugal and Sth Africa as well as travel my own country.

My success as a Nationally ranked competitor has opened doors for me and given me race knowledge and contacts that others lack, so what limited skills/experience I have in production and camerawork, is supported by my race and on-water experience. This explains why I can operate as a single cameraman and still capture as much action as a crew, plus I'm normally very mobile on the back of a jetski.

If you love what you do, you will never "work" a day in your life, following your passion is the single best advice anyone can give.

Cheers R

ADDITION - My clients love me because I'm affordable (happy to sleep under a coconut tree), get the job done (video is up 1 week after the event) and I only drink Coronas and Ouzo (not together).

My name is J-P and I've been in production since 1995.
I've actually worked many jobs with rockroadpix back in the day!

I transitioned from PA to Art Department then to Producer.
I got tired of sitting behind shitty editors so I took up the craft on my own.
Since then I'm known as a PreEditor and work for History, Discovery, A&E and many others. At the same time I've also been directing/shooting/Editing television programs for History and Discovery. I started with a DVX100, moved to the HVX200, and then on to the GH2.
Although I still have to go Alexa or Red on occasion 'cause the client thinks 4K is the "best"-whatever. Its cool to read everyones intros!

Hello. My name is Haris and i feel good! Location Greece, freelancer videographer in weddings mostly and had make some short films and be glad that two of them took 1st place in domestic festivals. First camera Panasonic DVX100A and now proud owner of GH2 and FZ200 and GF3, various lenses with or without adaptors!