Context
I joined TeamGantt in 2014 to do video, and I owned it top to bottom: planning, shooting, editing, color, audio, publishing and measurement. Over ten years that came to more than 300 videos, from single-presenter tutorials to narrative ad campaigns. Later the team grew to include a second video person.
Before TeamGantt I spent twelve years as a technical director, designing audio, video and lighting systems. That background is why I lean into the technical side of production.
The pipeline
Most content videos started from articles already on the marketing site.
- Script. I reworked the article into a script in my own voice.
- Shoot. I recorded myself presenting from a teleprompter.
- Post. I edited, color graded and mixed the audio.
- Publish. I posted to YouTube and wrote the title, description and metadata, with links back to the related pages on the marketing site.
Once that publishing process was defined, a copywriter took over titles, descriptions and metadata using it.
The kit ranged from Canon, Sony and RED cameras with cinema and photographic lenses and wireless follow focus, to wired and wireless audio recording and screen recording software for product walkthroughs.
A remote series
Coffee with Brett was a weekly YouTube series with project management expert Brett Harned. Brett wrote the episodes; I owned production.
We defined the format together, and I set up his home office for filming. Brett recorded video plus separate audio on a dedicated recorder and sent me the files. I assembled each episode from his script and notes, with titles and lower thirds.
Later I built him a permanent set in his basement with pre-positioned lights. Recording became simple: set up the camera, switch on the lights, record.
A media hub on a budget
As projects grew and we added a second video person, footage needed a central home. Turnkey media servers were out of budget, so I built one.
- A NAS where we uploaded source footage, edited directly from it, and archived finished projects.
- A VPN so we could reach it from outside the office.
- Off-site backups to an AWS bucket, since TeamGantt's product already ran on AWS.
- Dropbox projects synced to the NAS automatically, then backed up to AWS with everything else.
It was the team's media hub for quite some time.
Range
Alongside the presenter-led tutorials, I was responsible for production on narrative pieces written by colleagues.
Outcome
The feedback I hear most is that I'm a clear communicator who makes complex things easy to understand. That's what I aimed for in every tutorial.