Great insight. @Johnbunn: if you would be filming alone, would you mostly or completely film with a monopod or a gimbal or something else? And why? Thanks in advance.

Tulsa 🔥🔥🔥

Great work. Loved watching it. Is the finished video now available? Greetings from Hamburg/Germany.

THE BACKGROUND MUSIC OF YOUR VIDEO IS REALLY DISTURBING

❤ this interview!

I find that hot keys not only save time, but more importantly, save my mental capacity to make decisions. Hot keys keep me in the flow state and save my mental bandwidth, which is the most valuable thing when it comes to creativity.

Ben Schnell sighting 👀

Do you think videographers can cater to the content creator market? and how?

Here is my honest opinion from Indianapolis. The wedding industry has changed vastly. Everything is a popularity contest in the high end space. The top 5-7 planners are all fighting over the same (2) wedding videographers (***and other services are seeing the same as well. It's crazy to see other vendors gravitating, commenting on other vendors posts who have the highest follower counts but ignoring other vendors who they could potentially build with***)- both have the highest follower count consecutively. The truth is, planners want their vendor teams to be the most sought out vendors to cast more light on their businesses. Ultimately, planners treat their companies as businesses over authentic relationship building that benefits brides on a price savings vs a planner building a wider net thrown with their vendor team. If you were a planner trying to scale, do you want to be seen with the vendors with the most followers in your area or the bottom feeders with 200 followers? That is the sad truth. So every single planner that is new, young, old, in the middle all are gravitating to the vendors with the highest follower count. It's all about the gram, follower count, etc. I think this is an unspoken truth that people will deny to their graves but the proof is in the pudding. Those top end relationships in the luxury market, they only want to be seen with the Jones' as well. So you're not going to take relationships and be referred by Ray Roman's planners, etc. Now the second part to this is videographers are all just ripping each other off at this point. Schools like this, that are cheap, accessible, and sky rocket people's capabilities so fast. that it's so hard to differentiate videographers now. I can give you my top 3-5 competitors here locally and I promise you, outside of color grades, you really aren't going to see some dramatic difference. We see videographers niche'ing down to Super 8mm, vintage, colorful, etc... there just isn't a lot none of us can't do. So the video industry is more competitive today than it's EVER been. We're all using MusicBed, we're all looking at who is getting engagement on their videos and just "running with the trend." I mean how many of you are going to use CINEMA on Musicbed in the next 2-3 months? It's going to be used like CHPTRS was in 2020-2022. We also have EVERYONE being an educator. The truth is, the wedding industry isn't dying at all. I'd say it's grown because of how good wedding films are now across the board. It's just WAY over-saturated and with a lot of people follower chasing and trying to seclude themselves to only working with vendors with the highest followers. So the problem is, there is no growth. Nobody wants to be stuck in the $2,500 range. But many MANY of us can't climb to the $5,000 range to make this worthwhile. Also Indianapolis has almost ZERO weddings from November to about May. It's just not the career choice people think it is. You mix everything he said in this video and it's a cocktail for disaster and bankruptcy.

Video is last on the list, always have been.

Thank you so much for this

Video is one of the first vendors, who will feel the pinch in the industry. A canary in the coal mine if you will. I think despite the election being over, the uncertainty is still extremely high with the new administration. Our economy is an overweight man trying to cross a high wire while eating a big mac. Last week's flash crash in the stock market was just a tiny slip of the mask. All Eyes on the Federal Reserve.

We're here for this marriage

I'm excited for you both. Scary is good. Scary makes you feel alive, gives you an edge, and makes you second guess and think differently. Also, FAILURE. Failure is HUGE. I have learned so much more from my failures in life than my successes. I look back at my failures and am thankful for what they taught me.

Lost too much money and time already with these people..

Great episode! I've started to see with the more you charge - the more you're using that money for travel fees or second shooters, etc. I've come to find out I really hate traveling very far and really found a sweet spot in shooting a 7-9 hour day within a 2 hour drive for me. I can still charge between $4k-$5k and keep a big chunk of that to pay myself/invest in my buisness. I live just about 1 hour from Atlanta, so I still feel like I could push a little more!

But you can't see does titles on TV, If you upload 1g it will use 1 credit which is not fair

What a great video about a great tool! Thank you sir.

After 11 years of creating videos, I’ve found myself increasingly excited about photography. It’s more challenging and pushes me out of my comfort zone, but it’s also incredibly rewarding and more appreciated.

YOLO! Do what makes sense for you and definitely don't forget living your life. Fresh challenges are the best!

This was great John! Evolving/ transformation is always uncomfortable at first. The best thing you are doing is pivoting for yourself and for your business! Keep at it homie The more you learn, the more you explore different avenues the more you'll enjoy and find that love for everything again. As much as finances are important, we are people first and sometimes showing grace first leads to more than you would ever know. Love seeing your change man!

Doing both photo and video. Photo will give you a relief from video at times. Don't have to carry all the equipment and it will help you keep it fresh.

Gosh I just find each video release to be such a downer in tone. Something else is enviously happening. And each host appearing separately.

I love Antigua Guatemala! I've been in so many weddings and enjoy every volcano and the bells.

One of my favorite episodes so far.

This was a very impactful video. Thank you for having this real conversation.

Such an amazing and refreshing episode! They are the absolute best!

DJI MINI 2 is the best drone and it is very hard drone , i love my dji mini 2 with my whole heart

Do I need my own musicbed license or does their license cover that? 😇

Really good to hear from you buddy. Hope you're doing alright and hope you get some clear direction! I understand completely the way you feel about fear. Even though I understand how to direct couples and I've done so many weddings, I'm still scared to mess up photography, and that's why I haven't offered it.

Appreciate the sentiment.

THANK YOU FOR THIS! In this phase right now!

2 weddings a year. How long does it take to edit each one and what do you do with the other 325 days of the year. How’s 2 weddings growth. I would assume less filming gives space and time to make elaborate films but… hmm. Understand your being open but it’s been a difficult one to understand.

You were right about the appreciation of authenticity in the intro as well. Very good. Even if us as videographer are always fighting between the raw authenticity of our production, or their well thought craftiness. PS : not sure if my english was understandable, but I tried.. a little.

In my current custom proposals, along with my showing my creative highlights, I also show examples of my doc. films (ceremony, speeches, etc.). Do you do this as well? Or do you think this is too much information to share?

It's 2024 Adobe ! How is it that you are so great and so terrible! I relinked hundreds of my audio clips after moving throriginal files to an external drive and ALL of them are on them are now in the wrong time code and there seems to be NO fix. WTFFFF

Is there any wireless ones?

Hi John and Nick! LOVING the podcasts lately, the transparent 'coffee house hangout' feel is amazing! I wanted to see if you guys could do a podcast / KZbin video on creating custom proposals. I have always had a package based system, but planners are recommending I change to custom proposals. That terrifies me but I am feeling motivated and ready to try it. Would love any and all advice on doing that! It could be really great to see you both take one or a couple of your students who do packages and show them (while showing us) how you would turn their packages into custom proposals? Any advice would be super helpful!

Didn't know you're a WWE guy, Nick! I watched the Mr. McMahon doc too. I've watched many others they've done on things that have happened on and off camera (Dark Side of the Ring, etc). ALSO, I'm working on a doc too!! I start filming next week! To coincide with the upcoming 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, I'm doing one on how it springboarded me to living the life that I have now. It's not going to be primarily about the storm, but I can't talk about my life without it playing a significant role. I was planning on just making this for my kids in case something happens to me while they're still young, but there seems to be interest from people that aren't even family. We shall see how this goes!!

The easy road! Did it last year too : )

As a new videographer. I don't like this 😡

great video but what key words do you use to find the type of music that’s suitable?

Get after it John!💪🏾

Can you please tell me what settings you use for your timeline sequence? I have a mixture of footage filmed at 23.97 FPS and some at 60FPS.

Great!!

Great stuff man.. thanks for your vulnerability!

That intro gave me goose bumps

I don't really do instagram, but I will leave you a comment here. Keep up the great work

Good Episode John! I'm encouraged to continue getting hungry -contacting people, calling people, emailing contacts, making things happen.

Great video guys!!