I am an editor with years of experience working mainly on tv commercials and music videos. My first job out of college was working in shipping and receiving at a dupe house. I worked my way up from there. Get a job doing whatever, after a while start playing with the equipment after work, move on from there. If you get a job as a runner, be the best runner and things will happen for you.

Otherwise, get a job and invest your earnings into buying a camera, lenses, lights, read books, take night classes (community colleges sometimes have video production classes on offer), join groups and clubs in your area and really put effort into learning the skills for the what you want to do and do it.

Try to be around people smarter than you and listen to what they say and learn from them.

If this were an easy industry everyone would do it. But its not. You have to work hard at whatever you do and invest in yourself.

*tips hat and steps down from his apple box*

I am using BMPCC with Canon mount. And am buying Rokinon Cine lenses. I figure these lenses give the most bang for my buck. My camera will change over time and I can always use the glass for my own projects. When I get to the point where I can charge money, then I can just rent better lenses (and cameras for that matter).

Agreed, just start shooting.

I use a LaCie 10TB 5big Thunderbolt with my late 2013 6-core mac pro. I work on media composer, nuke, and resolve. Really happy with my setup.

Agreed.

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