Hello!

My name is César and I've been working in the film industry as an audio technician for 6+ years, mostly out in Los Angeles. Due to the recent struggles the industry, and California, have had recently I've decided to branch out and set up my own podcast studio back in my home country.

I'm familiar with multi track audio recordings, as that is my job, but I'm a little green with multi feed video recording in this kind of set up. At the same time I'm not sure what kind of gear is best for something like this. My budget for setting this up is around $5,000.00 (hopefully not that high) and I've been looking at Lumix cameras and Rode XLR mics to start off. I already have the audio interface and software all sorted, as well as what lights would be ideal for this set up.

Any advice on gear is more than welcomed, as well as how it is best to record multi person podcasts. To my understanding some people press record on all cameras and let it run, but others do live switching which I'm familiar with but I'd have to learn more of before even attempting it.

Thank you so much for your time!

I am the Station Manager for my college's radio station and we are looking at building a podcast studio! We are very excited, and we have a lot of people that know how to choose and use audio equipment, but we need some help on the video side.

In total we will have over 10k for both lighting and cameras, and I was curious what you all thought would be a good use of that budget. We are going to need 2 cameras and lighting to go along with it.

I cannot provide too much information because of University policy, but I was wondering if you all had any insight.