Thank you for your recommendations, Mark. I think that sounds like a great way to learn more about the gear and save money.
Let me explain what I meant about the quality of the videos. I didn’t mean that we plan on or endorse creating bad content. Eventually, my boss and I agree, that we would like to have a high production video department with a full studio and trained staff. Right now that’s just not possible. You just can’t compare a one man band to a controlled environment with three or four well trained people. Since I currently don’t have experience behind a camera, my boss doesn’t know what to expect or plan for, and because we take training very seriously and want to create the best content possible, we plan on spending a year or two doing a trial run of training videos to figure out the best way that we can accomplish effective training. That year or so of figuring how we want the videos to be shot, what content to put on them, how best to relate that content to them employees probably won’t ever be released to our staff. For us, it will be used to gain experience and learn how to create better videos. I’m sure you would agree that every brand new venture, regardless of what it’s in, doesn’t start off flawlessly. We’re not trying to cut corners, this is just going to have a large learning curve for the scope of project that we are working on. I assume that no matter how hard I try, after gaining a couple years of experience I’m going to look back at this first round of videos as terrible. Again, I’m apologize for communicating that poorly and thank you for your input.