inside installations — online course 'video registration of installations'

Pre-production – Determine budget and quality Categories of Quality The quality of a production can be roughly divided into three categories:
—	amateur or consumer
—	semi-professional or ‘prosumer’
—	professional
These categories are derived from the quality of the equipment used, on the presumption that the hired talent will have sufficient experience and knowledge to use the equipment properly. There have also been attempts to categorise according to the acquisition format:
—	MiniDV for consumer level
—	DVCAM/DVCPRO, prosumer
—	Digibeta, professional
However these categories are arguable as some miniDV cameras can produce a better image quality and have more professional controls than some DVCAM cameras. With the introduction of various tapeless and high definition (HD) acquisition formats, the format landscape is fast changing, making it difficult to define categories and make judgments about what kind of equipment to use. Furthermore it is not completely unlikely that the format developments will continue to accelerate and even remain unfixed (similar to the computer industry). There are constant engineering advances; what was considered to be very good quality only a few years ago might today be seen as mediocre. This could be an argument not to invest in your own ' in house' equipment but to hire as needed. Another measure to go by is the price of the equipment. For example:
—	consumer: for productions that use camera equipment that cost less than € 3000
—	prosumer: between € 3000 and € 15 000
—	professional: above €15 000
One more thing to consider is how to invest the budget you have. For example, a skilled cameraman can get relatively good results out of inexpensive equipment and an unskilled cameraman can ruin material on the most expensive equipment. Whatever quality you opt for, ultimately the most important issue to consider is why the videos are being made. Also, how they are going to be preserved and in which format is important discuss and take into account.