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The Best Teleprompters and On-Camera Monitors for Solo Creators
Film yourself for a while and you meet the same two problems on every shoot. You cannot see…
Tripods, Gimbals & Support for Solo Shooters
Handheld footage costs nothing on the shoot day. The bill shows up in the edit: Warp Stabilizer grinding…
The First Lenses Worth Buying for Hybrid Shooters
Pull focus during a take and watch the edges of your frame. On a lot of lenses the…
A Creator Lighting Kit Under $500
The most expensive lighting mistake never shows up on the receipt. It shows up in Resolve, weeks later,…
The Best Key Lights for Talking-Head Video
Every colorist I know has a version of this story. The talking-head footage arrives, the exposure is fine,…
Audio Recorders & Interfaces for Video Work
There are two kinds of box in this guide, and they solve the same problem from opposite ends.…
The Best USB & XLR Mics for Voiceover
Shopping for a voiceover mic looks like a spec problem. It’s two decisions. Decision one: USB or XLR,…
The Best On-Camera & Shotgun Mics
Buy a shotgun mic and the box will tell you two things: a polar-pattern diagram and a range…
The Best Wireless Mics for Creators
Put the current wireless mic kits on a table and they look like one product in five boxes.…
The Talking-Head Studio Kit
A seated talking-head video is the easiest thing to shoot badly and one of the cheapest things to…