Recent content by chad556

I have a very small LLC video production company. We provide video and editing for all sorts of venues and occasions. Weddings to Real Estate shoots. We already pay out the "rear end" for insurance liability. Its a $3,000,000 liability plan that also covers our drone services. Our primary source...

You heard me correct. If you are a freelance news photog (Stringer) or have ever shot evergreens, sports, etc. for a newscast, chances are your footage has been sold by another company for big $$$. Perhaps I'm late in finding this out, and all of you have known about it for years. If my anger...

I'm in a pinch fellas. I've been a freelance news stringer for a number of years, and make a decent living doing it. When I started, I was able to get by with using a Sony DSR-250 with only a 1/3" CCD DVCAM. I sold that, and purchased a Panasonic HMC-80 HD AVCHD camera. Now before we go any...

I'm a bit ashamed to admit this, but I'm crossing into a territory I have never been in before. I have been a freelance stringer for many years and have always dropped my footage off in person to the stations via P2 card or DV tape. I'm a pro at ingesting the footage into each of the 5 stations...