Hi my name is Greg Kong and I'm going to show you what you need to get started.
If you want to start your stock footage videographer career okay number one.
You want to get a good camera in 2016 most cameras can film full HD so that's 19 20 by 10 ADP full HD
is at least the baseline standard.
But if you haven't purchased a camera yet now's a good time to invest in a camera that can shoot for
K resolution.
Other things to look for in your camera are can it supports different types of lenses.
Some cameras you want to shoot wide angle or maybe you want to get in a little bit close so it's nice
to be able to zoom in.
I myself use a Canon 60 SLR camera and I can use different types of lenses but my lens workhorse is
24 one or five lens which allows me to do wider shots at 24 millimeters or for want to get getting close
I can go to 1 or 5 and it's a good quality lens.
So as long as our camera can support different types of lenses some recommendations for cameras in 2016
are the Forte Merrill's cameras.
The Panasonic G4 is one that's been around for now and many stock footage videographers have supported
it the Sony a as is a newer four came fearless camera that apparently performs really well in low light
it is a bit pricier if you can't get into the four came meritless market yet.
What I would recommend is looking at Cannes and that's Lars or any type of SLR camera that can shoot
high definition but allows you to support different types of lenses.
OK after you've got your camera sorted out the next thing you need is stabilization because agencies
are pretty picky about handheld shaky shots.
So the first thing that can help you with that is to get a tripod so you can get a tripod that supports
your camera.
But if you have a smaller camera maybe you can get away with having mini tripod legs like something
that's supporting my audio recorder or maybe you can get the gorilla pod legs which wrap around and
you can change them into how you like anything to get decent stability.
I've actually sold quite a few handheld shots because my lens has image stabilization so if you can
get a lens with image stabilization that's going to help you get away with hand-held shots.
All right.
Number three after you've got your shots the next step is you need to edit it.
So you need a video editor if you're just starting out you can try something like a movie if you have
a Mac computer.
I think there is a Windows Movie Maker that you have on windows and what you want to do is cut up the
best parts of your clips into 10 to 20 second long video clips.
So to make sure while actually shooting shoot at least 10 to 20 seconds of stable good quality footage
so you save yourself time in the editing process all right after you've cut up your video clips then
you have to figure out which stock footage agencies to work with.
I've created an in-depth blog posts and video on this.
So if you want to check it out and find out more I'll put the link below.
But the top three that I work with are porn five shutter stock and video blogs.
All right.
Once you've picked your stock footage and see the next thing you need to do is to upload those video
clips it may take a while and you may even need to send a portfolio that gets approved before the stock
footage agency will prove your account.
So get together your best 20 video clips and put that together as part of your portfolio.
After you upload them and you get approved.
Now it's time to publish your video clips.
What I mean by that is you need to be able to provide a title a description and a tag so that when customers
are looking for those clips they can find your clips easily.
OK.
After that's done you have to wait for a curator to prove your clips and then they're online.
The last thing you need to do or you don't actually need to do this is just promote your video collection
and you can do that using a YouTube video or social media.
But the stock footage agencies as their job to market and sell your footage but any effort that you
put into that will only help it.
Okay.
So that in a nutshell is what you need to get started.
I recommend just trying to get your first 20 clips up there get familiar with the process.
The next step if you want to take this seriously is to scale your efforts so that means getting more
video clips up there learning the workflows for the agencies getting your video clips on more stock
footage.
Agencies that pay out and to get this information I've got that in my stock footage course where I've
got all the workflows for the agencies that work for me.
I go step by step how I do them I also go behind the scenes to show you how I do my stock footage video
shoots how I work with models when I shoot with models how I actually edit them live upload them the
entire process and that's the advantage by course is going to give you is going to give you that extra
bit of information so that you can scale your efforts and save your time and frustration from learning
these things that I had to struggle with.
OK.
I hope that video helps.
And I hope to see you in the chorus.
If you want to learn a lot more.
But if not.
Good luck on getting your collection started.
And thanks for watching this video.