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title: "Recorder handbook"
description: "Your job: wear the headband, do real work with your hands visible, and upload clean footage. Here's how to make it qualify for payment."
---

<span className="otz-eyebrow">Recorder onboarding · Recording the future of work</span>

Your job is simple to describe and takes practice to do well: **wear the headband, do real
work with your hands visible, and upload clean footage.** Everything in this handbook
exists to make your footage qualify for payment and to keep everyone, including the
people and places you film, protected.

New to opentez? Read **[What we're building](/what-were-building)** first, so you know why
these details matter. Then everything below is your playbook.

<div className="golden-plate">
  <span className="golden-eyebrow">The Golden Rule</span>
  <p className="golden-rule">Hands<span className="dot"> · </span>doing real work<span className="dot"> · </span>in frame</p>
  <span className="golden-note">If that's true for the whole clip, you're almost certainly recording something we can pay for.</span>
</div>

## Your playbook

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Recording" icon="video" href="/recorder/recording">
    Before you hit record, while you record, breaks, and the safety rule that beats every
    shot.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Privacy and consent" icon="shield-halved" href="/recorder/privacy">
    Keep PII out, never film minors, and know the quick Texas option when an adult walks
    into frame.
  </Card>
  <Card title="What to capture" icon="list-check" href="/recorder/trades">
    The trades and hands-on work we're looking for.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Uploading & getting paid" icon="cloud-arrow-up" href="/recorder/uploading">
    How to upload, how payment works, and your pre-upload checklist.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## How accepted deliverables are measured

You are paid for **accepted footage delivered to opentez**. Each accepted deliverable is
measured in qualifying footage-hours. A footage-hour measures the usable video delivered;
it is not an hourly wage or payment for time worked or availability. Footage qualifies when
all three are true:

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Hands working" icon="hand">
    Your hands are visible and you're actively working.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Privacy clean" icon="eye-slash">
    No minors or exposed PII, and every visible adult has the required consent record.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Consent on file" icon="file-signature">
    Required consent exists for anyone and any place shown.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

Idle portions, out-of-frame stretches, and clips that break the privacy rules are excluded
from the accepted deliverable. The pages that follow describe opentez's acceptance
specifications for submitted footage, not how you must perform your underlying work.