Reddit mentions of LimoStudio Photo Video Studio 2400 Watt Softbox Continuous Light Kit with Overhead Head Light Boom Kit, AGG891

u/pastramiswissrye is totally right in that lights, sound, lenses, and media are all more important than the best camera.

My personal favorite camera in that price range is the Panasonic G7 and a good 12-35 lens. The G7 is like the little brother to the GH4 as it does 4k and just is missing some of the more pro features and is $600 for the camera. The lens is another $600 but you could just use the kit lens and upgrade your lens later.

Continuing with what Pastrami said, you should have good audio, lights, and media storage, in addition to the camera and lens. For audio, the rode videomic pro is a good all-around shotgun mic that you can put on a boom pole for good short film on location sound, however you will need someone to help hold your boom pole.

For lights, a good reflector will help you use the sun as a light when shooting outside on location for a short film. If you are in a studio, this four socket CFL light kit will go a long way to help. I personally use one of them and they are great for the price. Just pop in four cfl bulbs and you are good to go. If you would prefer LED lights which are smaller and don't heat up as much, but are pricer, you can get this LED studio light kit.

On the media storage side of things, you are going to want to pick up a few of these 64GB U3 SD cards for use with your G7 or any other new camera you get. Especially if you plan on shooting in 4K.

If you are going to shoot in 4K, your file sizes are going to go way up and you are definitely going to need to get more hard drive space on your computer. You may even have to upgrade your computer to handle 4K video editing. It all depends on what you have and what you want to do.

On the editing side, I personally use Final Cut Pro X on my Mac. It is $300 but a great piece of editing software, used by pros. If you are on a mac but don't want to spend money, just use iMovie, it will probably do what you need it to do unless you edit in 4K. On the windows side, some people use sony vegas, some people use AVID, some people use premiere pro, there is a bunch of them out there and you kind of just have to choose one. (I have never used any of them)

Like he said, there is no canon r6i. I assume you mean T6i, but you still need to do some more research. I hope this helps!

If you're doing this for your business, I strongly recommend you outsource the work to a professional instead of putting loads of money down and doing it yourself. Even with the below equipment, you're not instantly going to be able to put out a video of this quality - and having a poorly-produced video will do more harm than good. Even with the right equipment and software, you won't instantly be able to put out a video of this quality.

If you're wanting to break into videography, this probably isn't a good style of video to start with. Green screen is difficult to do right both in shooting and post-production, the animation may look simple but you'd be surprised how much work it is to get something that looks decent etc. Instead, I'd recommend you reel in your expecations and instead pick up a camera like a Panasonic G7 and a tripod and learn how to use that well before plunging into a very complicated project. One step at a time!

With that in mind, you could replicate this video with the following gear. This is a very cheap setup that probably isn't as capable as the equipment the video in question is using, but you'll get reasonably close results if you know what you're doing. It's also very specialised in reproducing the same style video that you've linked and wouldn't be very flexible for other work.

• Digital key background - $70
  
• 3-point CFL lighting kit - $120
  
• Vixia HFR600 camcorder - $200
  
• Magnus VT-300 video tripod - $65
  
• Sony ECM-CS3 lav mic - $15
  
  Plus I'd recommend an alowance of $100 for extras you may need, like extension reels, media, card readers, etc.
  
  In terms of software, I'd be willing to be that this video was composited in Premier with the animation assets being created in Illustrator or Photoshop, and the actual animation being done in Aftereffects. You could do the compositing in AE too, but that's arguably not a 'proper' workflow.
  
  For that, you'll need a full $50/month CC subscription
  
  So in all, you'd probably be looking at spending over $600 for equipment and software to reproduce this video. Again, I reiterate, if you're a business you can probably find a freelancer or production company who can be competative with that price and will get better results as they know what they're doing.
  
  As for learning, if you don't want to go back to school services like Lynda have really good tutorials for working with Adobe software, and there are also free resources available on YouTube and elsewhere that can help you pick up the basics. Other than that, it's just experience and practice! Look around at other people's work, develop your style, and build from there.
  
  
  
  
  

LimoStudio

I use my phone. I've had a couple of high end Panasonic and Canon DSLRs, but I switched to just using my phone a while back. The higher end models have a "pro" mode that will let you adjust just about everything. Most of my pictures come out super clear with an almost invisible background.

If you want to stick with your camera and just need more light different light boxes could help or maybe a light ring. Good deals on Amazon and eBay.

You could also just take pictures in natural light if that is at all possible.

I'm currently using a Samsung Galaxy S8+ and I was using these lights https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005FHZ2SI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_8GpaBbWCXSDTK until a few days ago when I found this kit in a Goodwill https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008GWH7VE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_GJpaBbG4K66S8

I am working on a series of YouTube videos. We want an infinite white background but we cannot seem to get it that "infinite white" color. I cannot afford to spend any more right now. Is there any type of post-processing that can be done to achieve that color or a way to overexpose the background in the camera? I tried spot and center-weighted metering, but nothing seems to work. I just want a headshot, not full-body. I'm completely willing to re-arrange the lights in any order necessary to achieve this.

Here are the details:

Really bad mouse-drawn schematic: http://imgur.com/DNvNL21

Current picture of background: http://imgur.com/qjQ6B99

Equipment:

Muslin Background

Lighting Kit 1

Lighting Kit 2

Adobe Premiere CS6

Nikon D3200

Thank you so much in advance!

I bought mine locally but this is the exact set I bought. in my video I was only using the one with the weighted stand. perfect for that overhead lighting and getting the whole kit. I absolutely love them all so far.

LimoStudio Photo Video Studio 2400 Watt Softbox Continuous Light Kit with Overhead Head Light Boom Kit, AGG891 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008GWH7VE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Rz5HDbDN9FYJ8