these are spot on, I think the biggest one people need to realize is COLLABORATE - competition is good, but winning together is even better.

#1 Gear: Most of us have cameras that are better than our skills. Most of us are not able to use the full potential of our cameras. As soon as I reach my camera's level I will upgrade my gear. The most difficult part in filmmaking is making films.

Good stuff, I'd also say, for most people, the difference between a $1k camera and a $10k camera can be minimal if you understand lighting. And another thing that tends to get overlooked is audio. People will overlook average image quality if the audio is good. But give them poor audio and they wont watch your perfectly shot footage from your expensive red camera.

I love it, "gear doesn't matter" like money doesn't buy happiness... I've never seen an unhappy person on a jet ski. Gear matters! as you put it so well

Meal Deals vs Reel Deals. Love that haha. This video is facts!

Skill + Good Gear = Quality Results; Case in point: shooting in low ight with a cheap video camera will get you much more noise than a more expensive camera that features 14-15 stops of dynamic range.

Dang this was a dope video. Subscribed 🔥🔥

I just got a bmpcc 6k and once I used it for the first time I truly realized that what people were saying about gear not mattering was total BS. I mean how can a iPhone or old canon rebel truly compete with something that has log or raw? It’s good to finally hear someone tell the truth. Great video

Just found your channel. You seem really genuine. Too many film makers on KZfaq try to play along with these lies because they sell and get clicks. Keep it up!

Dude, I have this same video in my que to make. Especially the part about the "gear doesn't matter" After finally getting some higher end equipment for my professional work I have come to realize gear matters...like, matters a lot. Especially if you are getting paid for your work. Thanks for saying this.

Depends on who you are asking. If it's an art-house director, story and creative direction matters most, gear can come second if not third or fourth. If it's the DP of a big budget studio film, gear matters. Some of my favorite movies were shot on bare minimum (Clerks, Tangerine) so to me it doesn't matter. Problem is is that people tend to get gear obsessed instead of focusing on the basics of story telling and film making.

Way to keep it 100. I've saying it for the past 20+ years...gear does actually matter. My audio/recording background taught me that years ago. There's a reason why some gear is so incredibly expensive.

Needed to hear this, great video!!

Dude, the meal deals and reel deals thing is amazing! You really are an amazing person! You have to know that!

Thank you for sharing all of this knowledge!! We highly appreciate it 🙏🏻 Your channel has a huge future ahead

I love this! Your content is amazing!

Thank you for talking about the business section. This was the whole inspiration of my channel! Keep up the great content🤙🏼

This was actually really real info. A lot of it I fully agree like the importance of understanding the business side of filmmaking. That's something I'm trying to learn as our production company goes from part-time to full-time.

Love it! This was so much honesty...I appreciate it brother.

Always love your content!

I love this video. this really opens up the business side of film making for me. thanks!

Subscribed ! Thanks bro look forward to watching everything

Great video bro! Everything is so on point here. ✌

Your content is ridiculously in depth and valuable. Keep up the good work!! 👏🏽🔥

Great video, love your content Brandon!

Another great video brother!

Video quality of this looks nice man! 👍👍

So glad I found this channel. You are awesome!

Very good points brother. I agree. Thanks for standing with me against the “gear doesn’t matter” myth. Although, I’ve seen people with more expensive gear that produce lower quality products, which means, like you said, it’s important to understand your gear. If you don’t, you could have the best gear in the world and still not produce quality content.

Top to bottom, this video was legit your best. Very well done and that information is on point.

You’ve got a new subscriber! Hello from Munich/Germany. Awesome video! Will definitely the Monday business series.

Excellent Information!!! Thank you Brandon!

I rarely agree on literally everything in a video but man this is all so damn true! Especially the first point that gear does matter definitely resonates. I can honestly tell that the biggest jumps in quality and knowledge I made were when I committed on buying a mirrorless and later on a cinema camera. I once read an article that it is way more effective for you to grow into your gear than the other way around and I can wholeheartedly say that this has been 100% the case for me. Don't get me wrong, learning and understanding the equipment you got definitely makes all the difference but it's way more difficult to learn about something you've probably already outgrown than to learn about something that is "above" your skill-level lol

The business side of film making is very important to create a sustainable career. Well said Brandon. Also, gear do matter when one focuses on developing the skills to leverage the gear. Keep up the awesome work Brandon!

If you have a project that pays the bills and looks really good on your reel, and it is a food product that you're filming, would that be a Real Meal Reel Meal Deal? 🤔

Man you continued to feed out the good knowledge! Filmmakers need to hear this.

Love this vid so much I double smashed the Like button 😉

Great overdub at the 11:57 mark! Lol. It was so seamless that I almost missed it. Love the videos.

You hit the nail on the head with every point! Thanks for the knowledge!!

I am a big fan of this video. Been at this a while already but it's always nice to hear well-thought inspiring words.

Brandon how in the world did I not connect with you and you're in Houston??!! Amazing information. Thanks for debunking alot of the lies being told that hold aspiring filmmakers from scaling and getting better.

Thanks so much for sharing! Impactful and super invaluable information that I can make practical use of everyday 👍🏽💯

Loved this video. Love the real honest talk.

Super valuable information, appreciate it!

I love this video. Your hitting things spot on. This makes me excited to start! Do you go over the business side of real estate in your class by the way??

Nicely said my friend!

Great Video! And so true . . .

Agree on all fronts man, great video!

Thanks man! Big help!

Dude this was fire!!!!

Crazy honest video the gear does matter really hit me. I can relate to it once you start getting better you need to upgrade pieces of gear to keep growing.

Great video bro. Really insightful

Great content! Easy follow

I love this Brandon. I agree with all your points. Keep it up. -Ted

You're anointed Brother! Keep up the great work!!!

Great thoughts for sure. I resonated the most with the first and last "lies"/tips. Gear definitely can make a difference in both usability and final image. I run with the GH5 on projects I have to be fast and nimble because getting the shot matters more at a lot of events than straight up image quality. Narrative and commercial projects I'm grabbing the FX9 because the raw image output and usability of the camera is suited to those jobs. If I was a bigger fish I'd be reaching for the Arri. And very true about charging. I'm working on a project now that I really low balled that has taken SOOO much time I'm probably making $2 an hour on it. I knew I should've billed more or walked on it, but I didn't, and now I'm paying the price. And definitely agree about collaborating. I've got a few go to guys that I call in when I need more people on set, and visa versa.

Brave, contributing & committed - to the mass. Well done man! Best wishes for your successes.

Great video, bro. I'm glad you made video for the audience to learn something about the industry.

Hey man very helpful, thanks!

As someone trying to transition from hobby to jobby, this video was inspiring thank you, subbed

What a great video!! Soo wise!! Thanks a lot Brandon! Greetings from Madrid!!

Brandon I totally appreciate your videos I’ve learned so much from. I’m an amateur videographer so thx you.

That “gear actually kind of matters” is spot on if you are working commercially - for a paying client, it does unfortunately matter what you show up with to do the job, be it either the brand of your camera and lenses (a lot of people book gigs just because they own REDs) or, quite simply, how your camera rig looks. If, however, you are focusing of doing docs and fictional narratives for portfolio and to submit to festivals, trying to kickstart a career in traditional filmmaking, then, given how homogeneous cameras have gotten, gear doesn’t really matter. And this brings me to your point that nowadays it is very easy to close the gap between a beginning filmmaker and an established filmmaker. An established filmmaker hopefully has much more going on for them than simple teachable knowledge, because if it all came down to stuff you can learn online, them everybody would be extremely articulated with video, and that is definitely not the case. Out of the hordes of filmmakers that exist today, you’ll be hard pressed to find someone who clearly stands out from the rest. And when they do, it’s because of their taste and sensibility - and those things not only cannot be taught but take quite some time to learn by yourself and to be properly developed.

Soooooo many big facts spoken here! 🙌🏾

Great video !

This was refreshing. Great content.

Great video and point on.

Amazing information. Spot on.

Spot onnn!

He speaks the truth, back in the day I was commissioned to do a safety film for a wind farm and I quoted £1500 because I was young, as the person in charge of producing the film was a friend he told me his bosses will expect a larger amount so we settled on £6000, lesson learned. Great video man.

Was just in your clubhouse group and I wanted to say ima big fan I would love to know how to get started doing gear videos

thank you for this!

Appreciate for sharing, I am just getting started and I agree with you that we need to learn more about the business side of things.

Bro @brandonW you’re so right. I upgraded from bmpcc 4k to 6k and I saw images I had never seen before. So I decided to do same on my lenses and picked up the DZOfilm cine zoom and holy smoke, now I know there are levels in this game. Of cos it’s good to use what you have but as soon as you can, UPGRADE!

@Brandon Washington, thank you very much for the video. But I have one question: What is the big difference between photographer lenses and cinema lenses? Once I have informed myself about the difference between sigma cinema lenses and sigma art lenses. Maybe the cinema lenses have a bigger focus ring allowing you setting the manual focus more smoothly and more precisely. But the cinema lenses are about 3 times more expensive than the art lenses... and when using them at the Canon R5 with autofocus, I am not able to understand the advantage of the cinema lenses... Thank you very much for the response...

I think many people say gear doesn't matter because they don't want to discourage people who don't have a big budget to get started. Alot of gear is expensive and starting out many wont have the network to borrow or or don't know about renting equipment. Great video 👌🏽.

ur videos are great! Cheers from Brazil

Wow , wonderful video, could you please make a video of your settings and how you shoot this kind of video? Awesome video tips !!

Great video Brandon 😁 Do you know a good place to start in regards to networking with other content creators ❓

Subscribed🔥🔥

Great advice💪🏽

How do I get started as a beginner freelancer if I don't have a certain niche yet? I shot travel for about a year (and then covid), did gym shoots for half a year and just got retrenched cos the company's in the red. I still don't quite know what I really want to do, so I guess I have to shoot a lot more. But how do I find clients and how do I convince them I can do the job even when I have 1 or maybe even zero clips for that particular genre? E.g. I want to try real estate, but I don't have any work to show.

Thanks for all the advice, actually just starting. I have a solid buisness backround, so lets see if i can make the Video and photo thing work. Yr so right about the cost and the tech coming so long way, its actually possible to start this busieness. Some years ago, i thought maybe Photography one day, but video seemed out of scope. Now the cost is reasonable, all the tutorials and practice for the last year etc. But hey, here we go.

You are so right.! Thanks

Definitely! The gear doesn't matter really cracks me up!

Awesome video

This was most helpful.....Thanks a million......

This is my first into a person with interest and beginners leve.l want to creat youtube videos myself. I am new and on a budget. I have seen videos produced with hunted cameras. I like the video image quality that am seeing. From the Olympus O MD 5 markiii. I am also liking the image quality from some of the Canon's. So here is my question, Am I better off creating videos with. Micro four thirds, APC, or a full frame hybred camera?

This is EXTREMELY Helpful! Wow, Thanks for Openning the Back Door and Letting us In

this was great knowledge man... do you ever think about doing internship programs, I would love to collaborate with you in Dallas or any other city.

My x boss told me that gear doesn't matter too. But can't shoot on small product because of no marco lens...so tell me isn't lens a "gear" ?

Thank you so much, honest opinion

What room are you in. I have gotten great gems in the Videographers!!! Club. I do wish in could have you as a mentor. I have been following you for the past year. You have helped me tremendously.

The Meal VS Reel thing was great, definitely true!

Fire video!

The way one interprets "Gear doesn't matter" says more about them than anything else. I think it is obvious that it does not mean that better gear don't make a difference. But I wouldn't be surprised if someone with GAS feels the need to be defensive about it.

Excellent!

I love you Brandon ❤️ all of these is very true man.

thanks for this tutorial amazing bro

My take on the gear doesn’t matter line is that gear matters you need gear to create however having the gear itself won’t make you a better creator or filmmaker. It’s your knowledge of the techniques and the gear that will allow you to make better work. If you don’t know what you are doing shooting on a 1DX or a Red will make little difference cause your knowledge of the techniques and craft isn’t there. You don’t need the most expensive gear to make great work but you do need gear and you more importantly need to understand the gear you get