Quality vs. Garbage.
Not if they want professional grade video lessons/ recordings (think Udemy or LinkedIn Learning quality, not 10-year YouTube streamer quality at 320) for teaching use or resale.
So yeah, they want me to use Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Protools and Camtasia, I’m not sure in the hell not buying those packages, or using my personal licenses that I did pay for. While there are free open-source crapware products that I could kludge together, it’s not worth my paid time and effort to do so.
And no, I won’t buy or use $40 Chinese-branded garbage camera. Looked on Amazon. $40 was all that cheap Chinese garbage, definitely non-production grade cameras. I needed 4K that can be down-sampled to 1920HD. None of the $40, or even $200 Chinese cameras could do that. Bought it and got reimbursed for it. Ended up with a higher-end Logitech.
And Microphones? You go ahead and do steaming/ production/meetings on your $40 camera with that lovely built-in camera microphone. Good luck with that. Think even the cheapest Sensheimer has that beat by miles. Same. Bought a nice sensheimer mic as was reimbursed for it.
Just today, they were reviewing video footage and they were complaining about my mouse control problems (you try drawing complex or even simple math equations using a mouse on a digital whiteboard). So they are now reimbursing me for a lovely 16” Wacom cintiq tablet. Yeah they suggested at first I get a cheap off-brand Chinese tablet to do it. I refused. Told them no Chinese-branded products in my house unless there are absolutely no other options. (Other options was an iPad or Samsung tablet, not well-suited for Windows use)
They suggested I install another camera, a camera-switching streaming deck, and a white board wall be installed, with later reimbursement. They eventually went with the much cheaper option, the Wacom cintiq.
To summarize. It my employer wants professional grade videos (even the zoom classroom sessions are stored and edited), they sure in the hell will pay for it.
Nothing crying about it.
>>To summarize. It my employer wants professional grade videos (even the zoom classroom sessions are stored and edited), they sure in the hell will pay for it.<<
OK, we are all impressed with the fact you are in a niche industry with special requirements. If your company does not provide you with the tools you need to do the job you should by all means leave that company. It sounds like you had special needs and the company fulfilled your requirement.
MOST people who are teleworking for everyday stuff and are using Zoom in place of the meeting room around the corner do not need all of that.
My niece is an architect. When she was forced to telecommute her company equipped her with a high end laptop with the specialty software needed to do her work. She still had to go into the office occasionally to pick up large plans, etc. since a blueprint printer is sort of beyond what you would equip a normal home office with. had they not, their work would have been completed by companies that DID do that. Now that it has proven successful, it looks like they are going to make it permanent and just have the office for the printers and admin coordination.
It is like when I was asked to do some documentation and lead a project. I just said that was not going to be possible unless they supply me with Visio and MPP.
It just never occurred to me to bitchbrag about it.