John Markert
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I hear ya.
The wedding business was pretty good up until the dot bomb bust around 2000. After that a lot of unemployed people went out a bought a camcorder and put themselves into the wedding business by lowering prices and quality. Along with that the dee jays got into the act, following the photographers, by offering video on the side for cheap.
So the entire business has been over-saturated and cheapened for the last eight years so much so that the lone wolf videographer is becoming extinct. You’ve got to have a low paid staff and multiple videographers to charge enough for high end work, and there’s very little of that out there.
On the corporate side, things don’t look much brighter since the internet has provided a cheap alternative to marketing videos. The manufacturers continue to put out easy-to-use camcorders and the software makers like Apple put out easy-to-use software so that the guy in accounting with a camcorder can produce most of what the company needs. And the rest can go onto the website.
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50/50.
Unless you do a ton of business, neither of you will actually make enough to earn a living full-time It’s better if you shoot and edit by yourself.
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The best bang for your buck right now is the Canon A1, but it’s not 4:2:2 and it’s just okay in low light.
Sony will be coming out with new event cams in Feb. but expect to pay at least $5500. for 4:2:0 HDV.
The camera you want hasn’t been invented yet. Maybe at NAB?
You might want to look into the Canon HV30 for cheap thrills.