I’m Aaron Eacott.

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A traveling videographer and photographer with a passion for outdoor and adventure sports.

For the past few years, I’ve documented freestyle cliff diving, filmed extreme sports events, and captured BASE jumping, skateboarding, highlining, and more. Today, I’m on the road making commercial content for brands that want to tell better stories.

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It started with my mom’s old Canon Rebel T3i. I was filming myself playing piano and somehow, on that very first try, the lighting turned out perfect.

That moment stuck with me — something about using a real lens, I wanted more of that.

I started filming everything — family road trips, adventures at Zilker, friends cliff jumping, Austin sunsets.

I taught myself how to edit through countless YouTube tutorials and lots of trial and error. Just kept pushing myself to learn how to make the videos I had in my head, or figure out how other people were making theirs.

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In the of summer 2023, a friend in Dallas invited me to film a cliff jumping video. I bought a camera just for that trip, but I knew right then this was what I wanted to do. It was terrifying — I had no idea what I was doing. I don’t know how I got through it, in all honesty. I knew hating what I made was part of the process.

The fact that I didn’t want to quit despite the self criticism told me everything I needed to know.

That video wasn’t perfect (I hated it), but my friend loved it. Not long after, he asked me to film a death diving documentary in Puerto Rico. It was my first full video project — and my biggest challenge up to that point. I learned how essential good audio is, how to travel with gear, and how not to overshoot everything.

That trip sharpened my eye for quality and taught me how to shoot on the fly — “run-and-gun” style, no set times, no studios, just whatever was happening in the moment.

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By the end of the trip, I had a perfectly optimized system. My gear stayed clean, protected, and ready — no matter how rugged the conditions.

Editing that project took three months back then. Now, I’d knock it out in two weeks.

A social media influencer saw that video and reached out. That kicked off a YouTube series and a bunch of social media content of cliff jumping, road trips on a converted school bus with 20+ people. We didn’t plan anything out, so I just filmed the whole thing and found an understandable storyline to bring out of the chaos.

I mastered speed with focus and exposure settings; specifically learned to expose in difficult lighting conditions. We were shooting all day and in harsh sunlight, but I made it work. Got quick with lens changes and focus/exposure settings while trekking through rough terrain like water, dirt, generally poor weather.

I had to keep my equipment safe, protected, clean and always be thorough. None of my stuff ever failed.

I was hanging off the edge of cliffs, crawling through mud — never even scratched a lens. 

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I wasn’t being paid really. I was just doing it because I loved it so much.

I loved constantly working to get better, capturing memories in a unique way that no one else could. It’s my purpose, my escape, and it’s a cheat code for me in the world.

I can be in my element wherever I go. It lets me be wherever the fun is, where all the action is, where things are happening, and be a part of it all.

It lets me be in my own world and in the present at the same time.

This career has allowed me to witness incredible things in the world. I've filmed friends doing gainers off 125-ft cliffs, BASE jumping from 500 feet, and captured the U.S. record for the highest death dive. I’ve followed cliff jumpers coast to coast, single-handedly documenting their stories on YouTube.

When I’m not filming, I feel like I’m missing a limb.

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Eventually, I ended up in Hawaii filming highliners. I loved the footage so much, I started interviewing the athletes.

Before I knew it, a YouTube video had turned into a full-on documentary. That project taught me the power of storytelling — and now I’m itching to do it again, but better.

I want to tell real stories that move people and look beautiful doing it. I’ve been invited to Norway, and I hope that’s where the next chapter begins.

In the meantime, I’ve been diving into commercial work — and that started with Annie.

She was traveling with the cliff jumpers and runs marketing for an agency.

She brought me on to film content for her clients in Austin, and that led to projects in other states.

One client turned into many.

One city turned into a full U.S. tour.

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Now we create scroll-stopping content for all kinds of industries, all over the map.