What worked:
- Separate audio recorder, specifically Sony PCMM10, does an outstanding job. It offers me a sense of safety - I know I can up the sound in post without adverse consequences.
- Nikon D600 proved to be a capable video recording tool. Nice skin tones, shallow depth of field even at F10. Good in low light. Used it in A-mode. The need to set aperture in advance was a non-issue. EDIT: now I sticking to manual only.
- Canon HF S200 does a great job of capturing talking head video. Used it with face-detection auto focus.
- Simple $100 Sanyo video camera does a decent job of capturing presentation.
- Sony Vegas is extremely capable and pretty easy to use tool. I have the entire process of creating Picture-in-Picture video nailed. If I need to learn something - a simple search of YouTube gives plenty of instructional videos.
- EDIT: When I look through the list of videos I shot, I can immediately notice that day when I bought Linco Flora lights. Nothing in your face. Just the shadows disappear from under the speaker eyes.
- Camera has to be close to speaker to make a video which makes impact. Better closer than you think.
- Lighting in a typical office /conference room environment is horrible. Bad skin tones. Owl eyes.
- D600 limit on the clip length (20min) makes it impossible to use it as the only camera. I am unclear on why it changes ISO when auto ISO is not selected - this is different from its operation as a photo camera.
- Nikkor 80-200 zoom when used for video is noisy while auto-focusing. Still usable though.
- Need to go PRO version of Sony Vegas to get B-roll and multi-camera support. Work around is possible but inconvenient.
- Need to improve my color-grading process in Vegas.
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