What equipment do you need to make a video?

The equipment required for video shooting is as follows:

First, the host and the camera

Now that the home DV market is shrinking, the first choice for ordinary people to shoot videos must be cameras, and the video performance of many cameras is almost the same as that of entry-level professional cameras.

Nowadays, all cameras can shoot video, but if video shooting is the main purpose, the factors to be considered include: camera video resolution, video frame rate, whether there is 10 bit 4:2:2:2:2:2 video, and whether it is possible to shoot log video.

How to choose a lens? Video shooting, the requirements for the lens and photo shooting are different. Video shooting doesn't require a high aperture, and it doesn't need a large aperture of F 1.4, but the most commonly used focal length for video shooting is wide angle, such as 16-35mm, and the other is medium telephoto, such as 50- 135mm lens.

In the current camera brands, if you want special users to shoot videos, the first one is Panasonic's camera, because Panasonic's body is the absolute first echelon leader in video quality and video function. And if you are not good at manual focusing, especially focusing on video autofocus, Sony camera has an advantage in video focusing performance.

Second, stable equipment

Video shooting requires very high stability. First of all, video shooting can't be held all the time. You must use a monopod, tripod or stabilizer.

Let's start with one foot or three feet. If everyone's requirements are not high, most monopods and tripods for photography can be competent, but when shooting videos, you need to replace the video tripod. The role of video pan/tilt is to realize uniform damping change through oil pressure or hydraulic pressure, so as to realize the "shaking" action in the lens, so video pan/tilt is very important for stabilizing the equipment.

In addition, there are many stabilizers in the choice of stabilizers. Generally speaking, it can be divided into mobile phone stabilizer, micro-single stabilizer and SLR stabilizer (large load-bearing stabilizer).

When choosing a stabilizer, the bearing capacity of the stabilizer should be considered first. If we use small micro-stabilizers, such as Zhiyun WEEBILL-S and DJI Ruying SC, this is ok. However, if the equipment we use is heavy, even if it is a miniature stabilizer, and if the lens is large, such as using a lens of 24-70mm f/2.8, it is recommended to choose a larger SLR stabilizer, such as Yunhe 3 or.

For stabilizers, we need to consider two factors. One is whether the stabilizer and camera model we use can carry out electronic follow-up focusing of the fuselage. If not, we need to consider buying follow focus. The second is that when using the stabilizer, it must be leveled. Although some stabilizers can be fuzzy leveled, strict leveling is more efficient to use.

Third, radio equipment.

Broadcasting equipment is the most easily overlooked video equipment, but video shooting is image+sound, so broadcasting equipment is very important.

It is far from enough to rely on the built-in microphone to receive sound. We need an external microphone. The most common microphones include wireless microphones, also known as "bees", or directional microphones, which are also common set-top box microphones.

There are many kinds of microphones, and different microphones are suitable for different shooting scenes. Wireless microphones are generally more suitable for live interviews, online lectures, live video broadcasts and other environments, while set-top microphones are more suitable for some live listening environments, such as microfilm recording and multi-person interviews.

There are many types of overhead microphones, which are mainly distinguished according to directivity. 1. Microphones can be divided into omnidirectional microphones and directional microphones, which are generally used for indoor stage radio reception and rarely used for daily video recording.

Directional microphones can be divided into heart-shaped, hypercentric, figure-8, gun-shaped and other different directionality. In daily shooting, we usually choose heart-shaped or hypercentric microphones as sound receiving devices, which are more suitable for recording our daily Vlog videos, while gun microphones are more used in video interviews, film recording and other environments.

Usually, in order to better ensure the sound reception effect, if the camera has an earphone interface, try to use monitor headphones to monitor and ensure the sound is correct.

In addition, when shooting outdoors, the wind is the biggest challenge to sound collection, so when shooting outdoors, we must use windbreak walls to reduce wind noise.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) lighting equipment

Lighting equipment is also very important for video shooting, because video shooting is human-oriented, so we often need to use lighting equipment. However, lighting equipment is not necessary for daily video recording, but if you want to get better video quality, lighting is essential.

If you go to a film studio like Hengdian, you will find that lighting engineers have a high position in the film crew, because in general, lighting engineers are all manual workers. Because video lighting needs a huge coverage area, the weight and volume of large lamps are very scary. A good lighting engineer is very important for improving video quality.

However, for our daily shooting, we don't need such a big lamp. Some small LED fill lights are actually enough.