If you want to make a lot of videos, setting up a simple video studio might be the most cost effective way to go about it.Making video in a studio is easier, faster, and therefore a lot less expensive than making video using field production method. Why? A studio is more permanent, so you don’t have to take the time to set-up and tear down the equipment every time. More importantly, a studio production is edited live, which saves HOURS of post-production editing time. Here is some advice and a list of the equipment you would need to set up a basic TV production studio.
A typical TV studio has three cameras on tripods with dollys (wheels) for easy maneuverability. With a good director and decent camera operators, three cameras could be made to look like one-hundred, so you do not really need more than three. All three cameras are hooked into a machine called a video switcher. (Today you can get computers that operate like video switchers and also include graphics generators, but for the purpose of this article, I will just use the term video switcher.
