If you could say only one thing to a beginner...

I'm a beginner at video and I want to learn from the pros. That said, let me give a little history:
I'm only 23, but I've been in the pro audio industry for almost ten years now and I currently run a small recording studio and I do pretty well at it and make some pretty good money. I've got extensive audio experience with studio work, live sound, and installation. That said, I think I understand technology fairly well and so I'm hoping I'll be able to transition to video fairly easily (though I know it's going to take a lot of work to learn everything!) I'm just finishing up college (I graduate in May '09) but my school has already hired me full time. They want me to take my skills in technology, learn how to do video work, and then create over a hundred 5-10 minute promo videos for use in fundraising and admissions. They're pretty much investing a couple months worth of my salary (which isn't bad either!) in getting me trained in videography and video technology.
I'm having weekly training sessions with the Film prof at our school and he's teaching me a lot of stuff with compositing and framing and how to use a camera from an artistic standpoint.
I've spent the last four weeks reading forums here, at dvinfo, apple, adobe, and more, just trying to learn. I'll be using the lynda.com tranining videos to learn FCP, After Effects, Photoshop, and Flash (a lot of the stuff I do will also be developed on our website).
Right now it looks like they'll be buying me an HVX200A with an extra 16GB card (means I'll have two 16gb cards), a Mac Pro with FCP and some basic video/audio hardware (looking at the Blackmagic Intensity Pro for video--want to be able to use HDMI outputs to monitor on HD screen--and the M-Audio ProFire 2626 for Audio--allows me to use a lot of the pro-audio gear I already own including an ADAT HD24 for multitracking and it works with ProTools M-Powered if we decide we need to purchase that eventually.) Then I'll also be getting a good tripod (looking to spend somewhere around $1400 and I'm looking at a Manfroto head on Cartoni sticks). For lighting, I put myself through college by working construction so I already have three 1000 watt lighting trees. I can get old color films and diffusers from our theater department here at the school. I've also read (I think it was here) that hanging a shower curtain in front of the lights is a great difuser.
So I've pretty much got the equipment stuff figured out and planned out. I've been able to keep the total cost for everything under $15k which I think is pretty good. Now I just need to spend time learning the art of the trade.
That's where y'all come in: Three questions for y'all:
1. What's one thing you wish someone had told you when you got started in video?
2. What's the most valuable thing YOU would like to impart to a beginner?
3. What's one piece of equipment I haven't listed that you would like to recommend or what's one piece of equipment I have listed that you think I should reconsider?
Y'all's advice is much appreciated and I look forward to reading your responses!
David

They want me to take my skills in technology, learn how to do video work, and then create over a hundred 5-10 minute promo videos for use in fundraising and admissions.
Skills in technology doesn't make someone a skilled filmmaker. At least you are getting SOME training with the film/video professor there. But what puzzles me is you getting hired to do VIDEO work when you only have an AUDIO background.
Let me put it in this light...I know video editing and shooting. I can use an Avid and Final Cut Pro, and I was a professional videographer for 2 years when I got out of college. A school just hired me to teach audio editing and to make hundreds of radio spots using ProTools.
See what's wrong there?
If you were starting out in a lower level position, I'd understand this. But to be teaching something you don't know about, and working professionally in a field you are not skilled in, makes no sense to me. Ahhh, academia.
1. What's one thing you wish someone had told you when you got started in video?
Well, when I entered the job market everyone asked me for my demo reel. The college didn't mention anything about this...so I didn't have one, and didn't have access to tools to MAKE one. SO I had to shell out money to rent an Avid for a couple days to make one.
2. What's the most valuable thing YOU would like to impart to a beginner?
Don't be afraid to work for free. This is how you get experience and a reel...and known.
3. What's one piece of equipment I haven't listed that you would like to recommend or what's one piece of equipment I have listed that you think I should reconsider?
LTO tape drive for archiving all that P2 footage.
Shane

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