Video Podcast Production in Boston

A video podcast is a long conversation on camera, which is work I've shot and cut before. For Cardillo's World on NBC Sports Boston I shot a four camera sit-down with Coach John DiBiaso and cut the whole episode. For Snowcap Productions I ran two of the three cameras on the PMC Unpaved fireside chat, Dana-Farber's President and CEO in conversation by a lake in Lenox, and cut it to just under half an hour.

The job is the same at a table in a library as it is on a stage: keep both people looking and sounding like themselves from the first question to the last, and give the edit a shot to go to every time someone makes a point. I come to you, whether that's your office, a library or a studio you've rented.

I'm happy to shoot it and hand you the files, or shoot it and cut it. If your show already has an editor, they get all the original footage and audio from every camera and every mic by download link, and I keep a backup for 14 days. If you only need a camera and sound on a day your own producer is running, that's camera operator and DP crew hire, and for a single sit-down there's interview and testimonial video.

Three cameras. One on the host, one on the guest and one wide on both of you. The Sony FX9 with the Canon CN-E 18-80 cine zoom, the Panasonic EVA1 and the Sony a7 IV are my own cameras, and all three record 4K. Cutting between three angles lets the editor take out a false start or a long pause without a jump cut, so a long answer can get shorter and still sound like the person said it that way.

A mic on each voice. Each of you gets your own Shure MV7X podcast mic on a stand, with a 25 foot XLR run and a Cloudlifter for clean gain. The mics record to a Tascam DR-40 and into the cameras at the same time, so every voice is captured twice. Having a mic in front of each person keeps every voice close and clean for the whole recording.

Light. A 600W key, a hair or back light, and bounce. Soft light on the face makes people look like themselves on a good day, and the back light separates you from the background. Everything I bring is on the gear page.

On the PMC Unpaved fireside chat I synced three cameras and a drone to one recorder and cut it as a live multicam: a close up when a speaker makes a point, the two-shot when they talk to each other, the crowd when a line lands. The stage mics came in low, so I rebuilt the dialogue and leveled it to streaming loudness before the client saw a cut. A podcast edit is the same work, the right angle at the right moment and every voice at the same level.

On Why I Ride I had three long survivor interviews and three minutes for WBZ, and most of the job was listening for the honest moments. Short clips for your feed come out of the same edit as the full episode, along with a vertical version. Every edit includes color grading, a sound polish and two rounds of revisions, and you can see everything I offer on the services page.

I quote every podcast to what it actually needs: how many people are at the table, how many cameras, how long you're recording, and whether I cut it. There's no travel charge in Greater Boston or on the North Shore.

Send me the date, the room and who's talking through the contact form, and I'll get you an exact quote within a business day. If you're curious how I build it, here's how I put a quote together.