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An interesting and significant by-product of the digital revolution is that most of the gear used today to create television and film is now significantly lighter, smaller, less expensive and higher-quality than anyone could have imagined 15 or 20 years ago.
Many of us are using cameras that, for a little over $1,000, can shoot in high-quality 4:2:2 10-bit 4K-resolution formats that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. Heavy, heat-generating Tungsten lighting instruments have been replaced with much smaller, cooler, more flexible and versatile LED instruments. It’s now possible to easily and effectively edit not only on non-computer devices like tablets but to edit 4K video on our mobile phones.
Yes, although the digital revolution has given us these benefits, there’s a downside. Budgets. That’s right. If you were in video production in the 1980s, ’90s and early 2000s, it cost significantly more for clients to produce programming at any level. Gear was expensive, and the skills to use it professionally were rarer than they are today. The advent of web video has changed who creates video
