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4571 Combat Videographer

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Overview

Combat Videographers plan, capture, and edit motion imagery in studio, field, and combat environments using digital video cameras and editing equipment. They write scripts, add captions, audio, graphics, and effects, tailor products for different audiences, and perform quality control, transmission, archiving, inspection, and preventive maintenance tasks.

Minimum ASVAB: CL 100 or GT 100

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-19

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: navmc-1200-1l-fy26 (source date 2025-03). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

  • Video documentation for legal and investigative needs
  • Audience-specific adaptation across media formats
  • Closed captioning and graphics integration
  • Visual and electronic video quality control

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film

Acquiring motion imagery in studio, field, and combat environments using video composition principles transfers directly to civilian camera operation.

How to prepare: Create a camera reel from footage you can share, identifying your camera role and showing varied composition, focus, exposure, and lighting choices.

What the civilian work involves
  • 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.
  • Adjust positions and controls of cameras, printers, and related equipment to change focus, exposure, and lighting.

Film and Video Editors

Selecting and editing motion imagery, integrating audio and graphics, and rendering finished military video products closely matches civilian postproduction work.

How to prepare: Build an editing portfolio with a short finished sequence and a breakdown showing your footage selection, audio edits, graphics, captions, and final quality checks.

What the civilian work involves
  • Organize and string together raw footage into a continuous whole according to scripts or the instructions of directors and producers.
  • Edit films and videotapes to insert music, dialogue, and sound effects, to arrange films into sequences, and to correct errors, using editing equipment.
  • Set up and operate computer editing systems, electronic titling systems, video switching equipment, and digital video effects units to produce a final product.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Adobe Creative Cloud software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 4571

    [1] MOS 4571 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 45307; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Video documentation for legal and investigative needs, Audience-specific adaptation across media formats, Closed captioning and graphics integration, Visual and electronic video quality control, Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film (O*NET 27-4031.00), Film and Video Editors (O*NET 27-4032.00)

  2. O*NET: Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film (O*NET 27-4031.00)

  3. O*NET: Film and Video Editors

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Film and Video Editors (O*NET 27-4032.00)

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Predecessor codes

Historical codes with documented links to 4571. Each history page explains the change.

4671Combat Videographer

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