Role
AI for Camera Operators
Founder, Automation Squad
Operate television, video, or film camera to record images or scenes for television, video, or film productions.
Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film · O*NET 27-4031.00 · Job Zone 3 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database
Automation coverage
19 of 23tools on this list have an AI solution available today
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The tools this job actually uses
23 documented for this occupation. Showing 23, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.
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- Adobe Creative Cloud softwarehot
- Adobe Illustratorhot
- Adobe InDesignhot
- Adobe Photoshophot
- Microsoft Excelhot
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- Microsoft PowerPointhot
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- Adobe Dreamweaver
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Apple Final Cut Pro
- Apple Final Cut Studio
- Avid Technology audio visual editing software
- DaVinci Resolve
- Email software
- Google Drive
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- Pix4D Pix4Dcapture
- Video editing software
- YouTube
What this job involves
22 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 22.
- Compose and frame each shot, applying the technical aspects of light, lenses, film, filters, and camera settings to achieve the effects sought by directors.
- Operate television or motion picture cameras to record scenes for television broadcasts, advertising, or motion pictures.
- Edit video for broadcast productions, including non-linear editing.
- Instruct camera operators regarding camera setups, angles, distances, movement, and variables and cues for starting and stopping filming.
- Adjust positions and controls of cameras, printers, and related equipment to change focus, exposure, and lighting.
- Confer with directors, sound and lighting technicians, electricians, and other crew members to discuss assignments and determine filming sequences, desired effects, camera movements, and lighting requirements.
- Operate zoom lenses, changing images according to specifications and rehearsal instructions.
- Observe sets or locations for potential problems and to determine filming and lighting requirements.
- Assemble studio sets and select and arrange cameras, film stock, audio, or lighting equipment to be used during filming.
- Read and analyze work orders and specifications to determine locations of subject material, work procedures, sequences of operations, and machine setups.
- Set up and perform live shots for broadcast.
- Use cameras in any of several different camera mounts, such as stationary, track-mounted, or crane-mounted.
- Test, clean, maintain, and repair broadcast equipment, including testing microphones, to ensure proper working condition.
- View films to resolve problems of exposure control, subject and camera movement, changes in subject distance, and related variables.
- Direct studio productions.
- Set up cameras, optical printers, and related equipment to produce photographs and special effects.
- Read charts and compute ratios to determine variables such as lighting, shutter angles, filter factors, and camera distances.
- Set up and operate electric news gathering (ENG) microwave vehicles to gather and edit raw footage on location to send to television affiliates for broadcast.
- Write new scripts for broadcasts.
- Design graphics for studio productions.
- Stay current with new technologies in the field by reading trade magazines.
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