Event Videographers in Austin

Silicon Hills is moving fast. Whether you are filming during SXSW or shooting a tech demo downtown, our Austin crews bring that perfect blend of professional polish and "Keep Austin Weird" creativity.

  • ⚡ 3 Hours Avg Response Time
  • 🕒 Booking Lead Time Available for next-day shoots
  • 🛡️ Insurance Coverage Standard $8M COI Verified

Shoots from $600. Fixed price before you commit - no call needed to get it.

  • Every crew member portfolio-verified
  • Insured crew, COI on request
  • One supplier, one invoice, any city

Prefer email? crew@fame.so

The short answer

In Austin, Fame Crew sends vetted local videographers and photographers to B2B events, including hotel conferences, SXSW activations, offsites, interviews and customer stories. You get a fixed quote, usually within about 2 hours, Mon-Fri. Crew are matched to the location and to whatever right-of-way or venue permissions it needs.

Some of the businesses we have shot video for...

  • Ramp - Fame Crew client
  • Zendesk - Fame Crew client
  • Workday - Fame Crew client
  • Alibaba - Fame Crew client
  • Paddle - Fame Crew client
  • Circle - Fame Crew client
  • Dell.com - Fame Crew client
  • Tiktok - Fame Crew partner
See Portfolio
  • Labrina Bedell

    Labrina

    A skilled videographer based in Austin, Texas, bringing a keen visual eye and local knowledge to every production.

    Kit
    16-50mm F/3.5-5.6 oss lensSony a6400 mirrorless cameraWireless Lavalier microphones for I phone/ IpadCannon 18-55 mm f/3.5 lens+6 more
  • Philip Thomas

    Philip

    Kit
    Leica Q3 43Leica M11Leica M10rLeica SL3-s (x2)+8 more
  • Dave Rehm

    Dave

    Kit
    GoProSony FS7Avid Media ComposerAdobe Premiere+6 more
  • Austin Anderson

    Austin

    Kit
    Canon 5d M3AG-DVX200 4kCanon c300F900+1 more
  • Samuel Balas

    Samuel

    Based in Austin, Texas, they bring a sharp eye and creative energy to every video project they take on.

    Kit
    Mavic AirS2Canon C100Black Magic 6K
  • Skip Hobbie

    Skip

    Shoots on RED One and EPIC, Phantom, and dSLRs with specialist skills in wildlife, macro, and timelapse cinematography, and rents equipment to productions in Austin, Texas.

    Kit
    wildlife filming techniquesmacro filming techniquestimelapseRED One & EPIC+4 more
  • Ulrich Von Dran

    Ulrich

    Based in Austin, Texas, she brings a sharp eye and local insight to every project she shoots for clients across the city.

    Kit
    Vinton Vision 100 Tripod2x Sony 35mm 1.82 1x1 Bicolor Litepanel Kit w/ Goldmount5" HDMI Bright Monitor+13 more
  • Dmytro Bondar

    Dmytro

    Kit
    Canon EOS R5C Cinema CameraCanon EOS R CameraLenses: Canon RF 15–35mmCanon RF 70–200mm+7 more

What you get

What one Austin shoot becomes

One shoot, cut into everything your team will post for weeks - and every frame graded before it reaches you.

A Fame Crew shoot1 shoot
  • 2-3 min
    Hero film
  • 60s
    Vertical reel
  • 45s
    Vertical reel
  • 30s
    LinkedIn cut
  • x20
    Stills

1 shoot → 14+ assets

Example deliverables · every package is quoted to your brief

Graded and mixed - a Fame Crew shoot
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Drag to compare · the raw side is simulated on the delivered frame

Pricing

Price your Austin shoot

Real prices from our standard rates. Pick the length and extras, then get the fixed quote that confirms it.

How long is the shoot?

Add to the shoot

Event videography · Austin

  • Senior videographer · Half day$900
  • Highlight reel$500
Typical total$1,400

Includes a 4K camera, pro audio, lighting and local travel.

Your fixed quote confirms the price, usually within 2 hours.

Happy Clients

"We absolutely will be using you guys as our videography service going forward!! Thank you so much for all your help so far 🙏 Fantastic service."

We worked with Hubscale to record multiple podcast episodes on two different days. Our crew member Andrew attended to capture the interviews in full whilst also supporting our host to ensure a seamless experience for the guests. The result? An "awesome" client experience...

Georgia Steel, Marketing ManagerGeorgia SteelMarketing Manager

How your Austin shoot works

Event videography in Austin, from brief to final edit

One Fame production manager runs your Austin shoot from the first message to the last file. You never chase a freelancer, and you always know where the shoot is.

  1. 1Brief to fixed quoteTell us the date and venue. We match a vetted local crew and send a fixed price.
  2. 2A live status pageCrew confirmed, kit checked, on site - you see every step on shoot day.
  3. 3Clips while it's still onShort edits delivered mid-shoot, ready to post while the event is live.
  4. 4Raw footage, then the editEvery file shared the same day, then colour, sound and a professional edit.

Fixed quote back in about 2 hours, Mon-Fri.

  1. Brief
  2. Shoot day
  3. Clips
  4. Raw
  5. Edit

New brief

Shoot
Event videography
City
Austin
Date
28 Nov

Waiting for the brief...

Illustrative shoot · real Austin crew · real Fame Crew footage

Shoot day

Your event day, covered by the hour

Content goes out while the day is still happening - not a week after everyone has moved on.

  1. 16:00

    Crew arrives

    Venue walk-through and kit set

  2. 17:30

    Guests arrive

    Arrivals, atmosphere, the room filling

  3. 18:30

    Speeches

    Every word recorded, with audience cutaways

  4. 19:30

    First clips out

    Two vertical clips while it is still on

  5. 20:30

    The party

    Candid moments and the people who matter

  6. Next day

    Highlight film

    Recap edit and stills delivered

An example day in Austin · your run of show sets the real one

Recent Fame Crew work across the US

Recent shoots Fame Crew has delivered in Austin and in other US cities, by vetted local videographers. Each card shows where it was shot.

  • Event videography at ASTAR - FTC Solar

    July 2026Solar Energy

    Nicholas
  • Event videography at ASW Distillery

    July 2026Atlanta

    Isaac
  • Event videography at Baltimore Country Club (Roland Park)

    May 2026Baltimore

    Candace
  • Event videography at The Tall Ship Boston

    May 2026Boston

    Ryan
  • Corporate video shoot in Chicago

    July 2026Chicago

    Tommy
  • Event videography at McCormick Place

    July 2026Chicago

    Kiernan

Portfolio

Here are some of our videos...

  • Sidley Healthcare Investment

  • 2025 Lockton People Solutions

  • Product at Heart 2025 Highlights

  • EXL Growth Recap 2026

  • EXL Growth Recap 2026

Austin crew

Where We Film in Austin

Filming in Austin

Our Austin-based video crew serves the entire Central Texas region, from the tech hubs in Silicon Hills and Downtown to events at the Palmer Events Center. Because our team is local, we handle all Austin Center for Events (ACE) filming permits and logistics for you, saving you the cost of flying in a crew. We also provide seamless coverage for multi-city projects, with teams ready in San Antonio and Dallas.

Venues We Film At in Austin

We film at Austin's premier venues, from the Fairmont Austin with 140,000 sqft of meeting space to creative tech-hub event venues. Our Austin crews specialize in capturing innovation-focused conferences, tech summits, and high-energy corporate events.

  • Hilton Austin

    Downtown hotel with about 112,183 sq ft of meeting space, led by the 25,545 sq ft Austin Grand Ballroom, per a lodging listing.

    View our work here
  • Four Seasons Austin Conference

    Four Seasons Hotel Austin sits between downtown and Lady Bird Lake, with about 23,724 sq ft of event space, including a 7,029 sq ft ballroom.

    View our work here
  • Barton Springs Pool Event Area

    Three-acre spring-fed public swimming pool in Zilker Metropolitan Park, run by the City of Austin.

    View our work here
  • Driskill Hotel Ballroom

    The Driskill is a historic downtown Austin hotel at 604 Brazos Street. Its 2,501 sq ft Ballroom was originally the Grand Salon.

    View our work here

Producer’s Note:

From the tech campuses of Silicon Hills to the busy convention floors of the Palmer Events Center, our crews are experts at capturing Austin's unique, fast-paced energy. We always deploy top-tier wireless audio systems to ensure your corporate interviews sound flawless, even with the constant background hum of the Live Music Capital of the World.

Filming in Austin

What to know before you shoot in Austin

Filming permits and public-space rules

Austin says plainly that it has no universal film permit. What it has is a set of permits tied to places. The one you are most likely to meet is the right-of-way permit, and it is wider than people expect. It applies to filmmaking on or affecting streets, sidewalks, alleys and parking lanes, and the city specifically includes b-roll, still photography and student shoots, as well as anything that blocks or reroutes traffic. So a photographer on a downtown pavement is on the list here, even if a similar shoot would not be elsewhere.

City parks go through Austin Parks and Recreation's Special Events Office, and the Public Library has its own film and photography page. Filming at the airport is temporarily on hold because of facility and staffing constraints, which rules out an arrivals shot at the terminal for now unless the airport tells you otherwise. Check before you plan one.

If you are unsure which applies, the city's creative industries ombudsman at film@austintexas.gov or 512-974-1000 will confirm what your production needs, which is quicker than guessing.

  • Police (APD) application: at least 5 business days before filming.
  • Commercial or mobile film permit: at least 3 business days before filming.
  • Required with the application: a site plan with an overhead view, APD approval and a certificate of insurance. Non-mobile filming also needs property notification signoffs and a notarised notification record.
  • One application per shoot covering all locations, with a separate application for b-roll. The city asks for road segments rather than addresses.
  • Fees change each fiscal year, so ask TPWFilmPermits@austintexas.gov or 512-974-6501 for the current amounts.

Drone rules

We did not find a current official city page setting out drone rules for filming in Austin, and secondary websites disagree about what applies in parks. So we leave those claims out. Before planning an aerial, ask the ombudsman's office and Parks and Recreation in writing.

What is firm is federal. Commercial flying falls under the FAA's Part 107, which requires a remote pilot certificate and prior air traffic control authorisation in controlled airspace. Drones that must be registered must also comply with the Remote ID rule, and altitude is limited to 400 feet above ground level, with an exception close to structures.

Crowds are where festival-season plans fall over. Under the Category 3 rules, a drone may not fly over open-air assemblies of people, and it may only fly above people in limited circumstances, such as a closed or restricted-access site where everyone inside has been told. Since a takeoff point on a street or sidewalk may also bring the right-of-way permit into play, raise the launch location when you apply.

The business event calendar and districts

The big fact about Austin's event scene is a building that is not there. The Austin Convention Center closed in April 2025 for a rebuild of about $1.6 billion, with the new centre expected to open in early 2029, ahead of SXSW that year. Check for updates, since that timing dates from 2025 reporting.

Until then, business events have moved into hotels and off-site spaces. Trade press describes clusters such as the Red River group of the Fairmont and Hotel Van Zandt, and a Marriott group of the JW Marriott and Austin Marriott Downtown, with some groups splitting sessions across hotels. For a crew, this means more ballrooms and short walks, rather than one big hall and one loading dock.

SXSW remains the anchor, in March 2027, and has moved towards a spread-out, hub-based format across downtown. For 2027 the organisers have announced a new Podcast Festival on 17 to 20 March, along with new hubs at hotels including The Thompson and The Westin. If you are making podcast or founder content, this is directly relevant, and it is worth pinning down which hub your speaker is in early, since the map has changed two years running.

Practical logistics

With no convention centre, the permissions you need change. Instead of a single exhibitor manual, you are likely to be dealing with a hotel's events team, an organiser's media desk and possibly a street permit. Ask each hotel about power, internet, where kit can be stored and when a room is free for a quick portrait set. Labour rules can differ between these hotels, so ask each venue.

Reserving public parking for a shoot on private property also goes through the right-of-way office, so a company filming at its own offices may still need a parking permit if a van needs a kerbside space.

During SXSW, plan on moving kit on foot between nearby hubs where you can, and leave more time for each move than the map suggests.

Confirm all of this with the city's film contacts, the FAA and the event organiser before a shoot. Rules change, and in Austin venues are changing too.

Filming in Austin?

Tell us the date and the venue and we will send a fixed quote, usually within about 2 hours, Mon-Fri.

Powered by Fame OS

Three tools your last videographer didn't have.

Most crews hand over a drive and a link. Every Fame Crew shoot runs on our own software, so you can see what is happening before the shoot, find any clip after it, and approve edits without a single email thread.

  1. 01

    Footage Log

    Every clip from the shoot, organised and labelled, with the whole log searchable - and every clip transcribed, so you can find the moment someone said the thing by typing what they said. No scrubbing through hours of rushes.

    Open a sample footage log →
  2. 02

    Shoot Status

    One page per shoot showing exactly where things stand: crew confirmed, brief signed off, kit list, call time, payment status. You never have to email to ask what is happening.

    See a live example →
  3. 03

    Asset Review Tool

    Review every edit in the browser and leave comments pinned to the exact second. No download, no version confusion, no thread of timecodes pasted into email.

    Try the review tool →

All three come with every shoot. There is nothing to set up and nothing extra to pay.

Austin Videography Market

Live insights into the Fame Crew talent pool currently active and available for hire in Austin

  • Current Capacity

    ‍⚡ 3 Hours Avg Response Time

    🕒 Booking Lead Time Available for next-day shoots

  • Top Equipment

    🎥 Top Camera Systems Panasonic Lumix BS1H, Sony Venice 2, Canon C500 Mark II

    🎼 Audio Kits Neumann KMR 81 i, Wisycom Wireless Systems, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II

  • Reliability

    🛡️ Insurance Coverage Standard $8M COI Verified

    🎬 Local Projects 39 Completed Projects in Austin

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes, we offer flexible hiring for half-day videography services. Perfect for smaller events, interviews, or quick turnaround projects where you don't need full-day coverage. Half-day rates are available and ideal for specific moments or shorter events. We can discuss your needs and find a package that fits your timeline and budget.

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