How to Create an Online Course: From Beginning to End

1. INTRO: Whoa! Hey, How's it going? I'm Riley brother, and in this course I'm gonna teach you how to create an online course. So before we get into it, I just want to let you know who I am. You know, my credentials, my authority to even teach on a topic like this. So I'm actually a music producer. I've worked with Grammy nominated artist, and I started to create music production tutorial. So that's kind of my niche market. Okay? I just teach people how to create better meets. So far, I've created about 10 courses and I want to teach you guys. You know what I have learned over these 10 courses, Everything that you pretty much see behind me. I've purchased through my online endeavours whether that be like my online courses or used to sell like sounds and so, you know, it's just really kind of exciting when she started seeing passive income coming in. You know, your financial situation becomes a lot more comfortable, and it also gives you more time to focus on the things that you really want to do. You know, if you like to create courses and you want to create lots of courses. You know, it kind of frees up time to allow you to create these courses. Okay, so now into the course details. Okay. So, for myself, I always use paper and pencil and like a notebook, As you can see here, you know how to create an online course. I first started, like, the credentials, and then we go into, like, what makes a course of impact That's actually a slide to a video. So I go over a slideshow video with you. But then I also teach you how to set up a slide show like that, because slide shows are very, very powerful. Way to teach your students and a lot of times and, you know, people's courses there. Slide shows kind of look, um, you know, not high quality, and it kind of makes it feel like even if the content is good, it kind of makes you know, just looking at it. Boring, right? So I show you how to kind of set it up to make it look a little bit more attractive when we actually is a free software to create the slide show. It's called liberal office. It's just an open source version of Microsoft Word so myself. I'm a very resourceful person that way. You know, I try not to spend money where I don't need to spend money, but I still look for high quality results. So with the core structure, we first start with pre planning. OK? And that's the biggest thing that I discovered. Through my years of creating these courses, you have to make sure that you pre plan. And if you don't, um, it's gonna make your recording process really unorganized and really choppy feeling for your student. If you are organized from the beginning, you know. So again, that's, you know, setting up all like the sections, setting up the videos that need to go in those sections, preparing any kind of artwork that you want in your recording. If you are going to record a video, you know, you've got to make sure that you have windows open on your screen. You know if you're going to be working with folders or showing them a website and stuff like that, you know, always making sure that like your microphone is on and stuff like that, because I have recorded courses where my microphone was it wasn't on. And then, like three videos and I realized like, Oh, I I have no audio So I had to re record those videos and again, it's just very, very tiring when these things happen. So that's just like the pre planning making sure that everything is in order before you actually get into creating your course on. Then we get into actually learning how to no record. Of course, you know. So when it comes to your camera on what type of camera do you need? Are you gonna be a 30 FPs or 60 FPs? Are you going to start recording a 10 80 p or four K? Cause that's becoming more like standard? Is that worth even recording in four K right now? And then, as we are recording, I'm also gonna explain how to fix, you know, So if I'm talking to you right now and if I screw up, how do you, you know, kind of slice in your video editing software and kind of overdub like your vocal or kind of start over again so that at the end of the video, it is saying what you wanted to say and I'm also going to talk to a little bit about, like, lighting your audio quality and with me being a music producer, that becomes a lot more natural to me understanding you know how to get high quality audio hunt, how to kind of fix it a little bit, make it sound a little a little bit better. And then we get into actually learning how to edit the videos. So by no means am I like a professional video editor, But I'm a very fast worker when it comes to working in video editing software. Um, you know, I'm just going to show you step by step, how to like you don't bring bring your video in how toe slice it, how to organize the audio fades. Um, you know, if you want to have some background audio and how to get that background audio to sound good with your voice, you know, So it's not distracting. We're also gonna cover how to create your artwork as well as, um, I'm just gonna let you be aware of, like, the kind of guidelines when it comes to what's required from your artwork from, you know, these course website. If you are gonna be releasing it on like, let's say you to me or skill share or any of these other online vendors of your courses. You know, they all have their own kind of, like works when it comes to specifications for your image. So I just kind of cover that kind of stuff. I explain how I create my art work in photo shop and just to kind of get you going so that you are doing the job. Once you're not having to know submitted, it gets rejected, I will fix it. And then finally, I am going to talk to you about, you know, actually releasing the course like, where can you release it? You know, how do you release it when it comes to like if you have, like, a newsletter or a mailing list to talk to you a little bit? Well, coupons kind of pros and cons and best practices with coupons again, this course is how to create an online course. I'm just gonna walk he through step by step, how I go about creating a course, you know, all the way from folder structure, because again, that's the pre planning stage And if you're organized, it's gonna make creating your course a lot easier. And then we get into, like, the recording of your course. We get into the editing of your course, we get into, like, the fine details, more of your artwork. And if you want a critic, a slide show and then all the way again to releasing your course. So again, I'm Riley. Well, there I will be your host throughout this course. If you decide to take the course, you know, I'd be very happy to have you as my student, so let's get into it. 2. 1-1 - Preplan Ahead: In this video, I want to talk to you about pre planning for your course. When I have an idea for a course, I usually lit it soak in my mind for about three to four days, sometimes like a week, and as that time goes on, I always write down ideas. I could just who knows. I could be like in the shower or I can be brushing my teeth, I could be making dinner, anything. I might just how all of a sudden have an idea. It's like, Oh, well, yeah, I got to make sure I add that in the course. I allow that weak time frame, just to allow for ideas to come in because if I'm going to be talking on a certain topic, it's like sometimes there's little fine details that get missed if you rush it. But if you take your time out, it's like those fine details. That is the difference that really help your students excel. That might really influence your student to leave a review because they want to tell other people that you've been such a good teacher. You just don't want to rush it, you want to make sure that you take your time and then you allow these little ideas in behind the big idea to surface so that you can write them down, and then you can somehow get them into your course, whether that be in a separate video, or it's just something you just want to mention in one of the videos or something like that. And the next part about pre planning is actually figuring out your course outline. So how these course websites work is they want you to create sections, and then inside the sections, they want you to create the individual videos. So they want to break it down into chunks for the student. Typically, whether that be like a two minute video, a ten minute video or a five minute video, kind of in that range. Don't get me wrong. Some of my videos have been like 25 minutes long or 20 minutes long or whatever. If you feel that, that Information all needs to go into that one video. That's fine. But the idea behind these course websites is, Yeah, they want to have you give them chunks for their students. Again, if I was going to be teaching, let's say on music production, let's just say we're talking about arrangement. Arrangement is the section, but now I'm going to be creating individual uh, videos on arrangement. So I might go for the intro. As you are making your song, you have your intro, I might make a video just on the intro, and then I might make a video just on the chorus, that I might make a video on the verses and then one on the bridge or something like that. Then I might also make a video on the transition. Well, how do you transition from the intro into your chorus or how do you transition from the chorus out into verse one or something? Just to give you an idea. So that's how that works. When you have your topic that you want to teach on, you have to first figure out what are the sections of the course, and then you want to figure out, well, how many videos do you need to get your information across in those sections. So Sometimes that's a tiring process. But again, if you go back to my first topic that I was talking to you about in this video. Again, I wait about three to four days, sometimes around a week and I allow all these little ideas to bubble. Then as those ideas are bubbling, I'm filling them in. Again, I'm always with paper and pen, as you can see, how to create an online course. I have my credentials, right up here. That's my credential section. Next one, what makes course have impact, so it's kind of hard to read, and then down here, here's the course structure, so pre plan ahead. This is what I'm talking to you about right now. This is the other section of this course. How to record a video. What type of camera? Do we want 30 FPS, 60 FPS, ten ADP, four K, we need lighting, audio quality, screen capture software, do you want your webcam? You're going to like your HDMI capture card if you want to be using a DSLR or stuff like that. These are just all ideas of this course that I'm covering with you. As you can see, I've broken it down to just thought about when I create a course. What is my process? Again, it all comes down to the folder structure, which I'm going to be showing you in this course, my folder structure for the course is because if you're organized even with folder structure, it makes backing up easier, it makes finding your files easier. These are all just things that I've learned over the years which I'm passing on to you. When you have an idea for a course, right off the bat, try and create your sections, try and figure out the videos that are going to be needed for those sections. Then again, just sit on it for about three to four days a week and just allow more ideas just to bubble and you'll really find that when it comes to actually recording your video, it's that much easier. Then the last point I want to make in this video with you is start small. If you haven't created a course before, I think a lot of times these online course websites, they want to at least five videos around there, or sometimes they have a time length, a minimum time length, whether that course be a minimum of 20 minutes or something like that. Again, you guys can always look on the guidelines for submitting a course, what did they require from you? That's very, very important. Even before you start creating a course, know what these course websites want from you so that as you are releasing the course, that you can submit it to this site and this site and you can be bringing income in from both of those websites. If you have laid out your course structure and the videos, you'll find that creating your videos is going to be a lot easier. Again, if you start out small, let's just say I was talking about mixing, I'm going to just maybe give them the basics. Then because if you want to keep creating courses, you don't always just want to give all of the content away in that one video. Sometimes you want to save some so that you can create another course and spin off of it, and you can maybe create another course with five to ten videos. Then now you have two courses that you are able to sell. I'm not saying to hold out on your students, but sometimes it's course is just maybe just a brief overview of what you want to talk about. Then if they want more details, they can maybe purchase this course, which is more specific on a certain topic. For example, with music, there's equalization when it comes to if you want the highs or the lows and stuff like that. Dealing with equalization for music production, that would be one topic. Then there's also a tool called compression in audio. That would be another topic I could talk about. However, mixing EQ and compression are all a part of mixing, but I can break it down and make specific videos on that topic. I just want to share that with you because I know creating a course can be really tiring and maybe feel really tense. But if you just take it slow and do your course outlines, figure out the videos that you need, and then you can record as you go. That's just how I approach courses. 3. 1-2 - What Makes a Course Have Impact: So in this video, I'm just going to be going over a slide show with you guys and explaining how to set your course up to have the most impact for your student, okay? And I'm also going to show you later on in the course, how to set up a slide show like this, because this is a really good way to teach your students, you know, especially when it looks a little bit more aesthetically pleasing. You know when it looks a little bit nicer. Sometimes you see people's slide shows and they're just kind of like boring PowerPoints. I'm not to say this is like an amazing looking one, but you'll see it's just a little bit more enjoyable to look at. Okay? So this is just the slide show, again, all I have to do here is I'm just going to click. Okay? So I click, and it says, what makes a course have impact? And you can choose, you know, the different types of slides, you know, how it slides in or whatever. Okay, so first of all, your course is simple and to the point, okay? So, you know, if you want to say something extra, make sure that you first tell them the point first, and then you can expand on that. So, as you're talking, don't start talking and then go on a tangent way over here and then a tangent way over here and then come back. A lot of the time, you just want to go simple and to the point, and then you can expand, okay? So the student has gotten the information that you want them to know, and then The information that you want to expand on may help them further. Okay? So that's just something that I find when I am teaching my students simple in to the point. I feel is most effective, and then I can expand and branch off of that. For example, if it was an experience that I went through, let's say I was explaining something, and I screwed up a long time ago, and it was just like, Okay, I learned from that, I'm not going to do that again. I'm still going to tell them how to do it properly. And then I might tell them the story of what happened. Okay? And then we go on to the next point. So that's just simple into the point. Okay, so the next point is, I feel that quality content outweighs high quality video and audio. Okay? So you do want to have, high quality video and audio, but if you're not able to afford it or if you don't know how to achieve high quality, as long as your content is high quality, that is all that matters because that is the reason why your student is taking your course is because they're wanting to learn the topic that you're teaching, right? But to put it a step further, you know, when it's high quality, it's more enjoyable to, you know, look at, more enjoyable to listen to, and it's also easier to sell, okay? So when you don't have high quality video and audio, it might be a little bit harder to sell your course. But again, if your content is there, if it's high quality, very, very informative, you know, it's really helping people, the reviews might just speak for themselves for your sales anyways. So, you know, when you're starting up, you know, Yes, you do want high quality video and audio. It is becoming more affordable nowadays, but your content is most important. And the only way to achieve that is, you know, by putting in some extra time and really caring for the education that you're trying to push onto your student. Okay? So onto our next point. So, again, like I just said there, the only way to show the quality content is, you know, time has been put into your course, and it shows, right? That is the difference. You've taken the time out to plan, to you know, to structure your course, figure out what videos your students need. To get the education that you want to get across to them in that section, and then then you can go to the next section. But it's just again, as long as you're organized, you've preplanned it, it will show in your course. It will be like the difference. And that many times will get your student wanting to review your course, by you taking the time out and it shows in your course, that may have an impact on your student. Okay. So on to the next point. So another way how, you know, what makes a course have an impact on your student is resources. So, for example, a checklist is very, very helpful. For example, I will be providing you guys a checklist with this course, things about, you know, before you even get started recording your course, you know, like, what do you want to do? Like, for example, like me, it's like I made sure like my cell phone was on airplane mode. I made sure I did a little bit of graphic design beforehand. I made sure that my lighting was good. I made sure that my microphone was on. Like, for example, like I have recorded courses where I forgot to turn on my microphone. You know, I get four or five videos in, I take a break, I come back, and all of a sudden I realize it's like I didn't record my audio. So I see the recorded video, I see my voice going like this, but there's no audio. And that's a horrible feeling because it's like, you know, creating a course is tiring. You know, it's like you teach, you talk, you talk, and you get tired, right? And all of a sudden you realize I didn't record like my voice, like the audio wasn't on. So to continue on. So again, checklists are a nice thing to add on for your students, templates. So for example, if you have a video editing program, you can set up a template so that whenever you open up your video editing program, it's always set up a certain way, or like, same with a music program or I'm sure probably with a photoshop or something, too. You can always set it up a certain way. And if you create a template for your student and just provide a free resource for them in your course, you know, let's just that little extra bonus. If you're teaching them a topic and you showed them how to set up a template, you can also provide them that template that you showed them how to set up. Okay? So onto our next point here, so organized, okay? If you are organized, it will have impact on your student because you got to think about time, okay? Your student's time is super super valuable, and if you are stretching the course on, unnecessarily, you know, kind of adding information which isn't really helping your student, you know, they're going to notice that. The time of your student is very, very important. And for me as a teacher, an online teacher, I value my students time. So I try to get right to the point and stay organized. Okay. And then this is the last one, and this is a really important one to really take to heart and really pay attention to, okay? So students can tell if you're honest or if you're just in it for the money, okay? Because if you're just creating course for the money, you know, your students go to tell because it's probably going to be rushed. It's probably just going to be, you know, copy and pasted information for the most part, you know, they might have just done some quick googling, found some information and tried to create the course to make some passive income, right? So, don't get me wrong. Like, that's the reason why I'm creating this course I'm trying to, you know, gain more passive income for myself. But you know, you can tell through my information and how I'm speaking to you, it's like, I'm not just in it for the money. L, I am wanting to create this course to help you to share the information which I have learned over the years, you know, where I've made mistakes, you know, where I could have saved time, especially in the beginning of like my blogging days and stuff like that. But this is probably the biggest point. So students can tell if you're honest or if you're just in it for the money. So when you're creating your course, you know, put your heart into care for your student, and it will have an impact on your student, okay? So that is the slide show here. And again, I'm going to show you how to set up this slide show, you know, and show you how to create the background image, how to make it all, kind of slide in with the points. It's really, really simple. But again, it takes time to learn how to do it, because a lot of times if you guys go watch other online courses, a lot of times the slide show doesn't look super attractive. It kind of looks like it feels boring. You know, just looking at it. It's boring. I kind of feel that this is a little bit more fun. It's a little bit more I don't know. I like the font. It's more pleasing on my eyes and stuff like that. Okay, so let's get into our next section of videos. 4. 1-3 - Folder Structure and Overall Layout: So in this video, I'm going to be talking to you about your folder structure. So, as you can see here, this one on the left, this is a music course which I have currently just released, and this is how I do it for all my courses, okay? I'll explain it to you in a second. And then here on the right, this is the course which I am actually creating with you right now. And I'm going to show you what I do and why I have each folder, okay? Other thing too, I'll mention quickly is it is also really important to have a backup plan in place for these courses because, you know, once you're done a course, it's like, imagine how much time you put in, and if it is bringing you in like that $20 a month, $50 a month, $100 a month, and if you lose it, or if you want to go and re upload it to another online website that sells your course, you know, it would not be fun to lose your course. So, you know, I do is I have a separate hard drive where I store all of my courses on, and then I make sure I have a backup plan for that hard drive. And to take it even a step further, you could just do this all in Dropbox or something like that, Cloud service for you. Okay? A little off topic, but it is something to talk about because especially this is a product, and you don't want to lose your product. It's not just like a song that, listen, you downloaded online or something. You know, it's like, This is your product. You put time into it, and it's making you money. You want to make sure you protect it. Okay. So to start off, so I create just a video template, okay? So for each video I edit, I always open up this template and I reuse it. So when it comes to my voice, and I'll show you all this when we get to the video editing because, you know, you want your audio to be consistent, you know, a consistent volume throughout video to video to video. So you don't want one video to be really loud in volume, the one video to be really quiet in volume. But I'll show you that when we get to the video editing section, but I create a template that sets up my voice. If I want background music, it sets that up too. So it's just a template, okay? Again, that's a resource which I would pass onto my students many times. So what I do is I create a video from my raw videos, and I actually make sure that I put the tag raw at the end of the file name because when it comes to exporting, then that's the official. So I'll show you what I mean. So I just open up this folder here, you can see that this was the actual recording. So as I'm teaching, obviously, I made mistakes in my voice, so I'm going to have to edit that out, right? So on the recording, I label this the exact same way how I want it to be for the official version, but I just put Raw. And then for the video editing file, I put it the same title, but I don't put R. Then when I export it, that goes into the official. So as you can see, this is the counting beats. So it's one, and it doesn't have raw there. This is the official one. Okay. So just to cover that again quickly. So this is the raw videos. This is where I edit my videos, and this is the sections, ok? So I don't go one for one video or two for the second video or anything like that. This is the sections. So, for example, if we go four here, so as you can see inside of four, I have two videos in that section. So I got 4-1 4-2. Okay? And then again, if we go into here, you can see 4-2, anfits expand this. You can see I put raw for the edited version, and then I didn't put R on the video edited file because when it comes to exporting, So we go to 42, so there it is. That's the file. That's the official one, which I would upload. Now, to go further in the raw video, so what I do is for the intro, I just create a folder for the intro and I create a folder for the Otro. And it's just as simple as that. And then if you come here to the official again, you can see I have my intro and my outro. Okay? And again, a lot of times, these websites which sell your courses, they like to have an introduction video. And, you know, It is probably in your best interest to create an intro video to kind of explain what you're teaching in your course, okay? So we'll go back to the folder here. Okay, so video template is just the actual video template where I am editing my videos, and I keep referencing off of that. And then the assets folder is the actual image for the course, or if I want to provide any resources or in this case, this is the music production file. So if I would open this up, this is the music program. Where I'm explaining how to make your music and stuff like that. This is the file that I use within that course in case I want to create a new video later on or if a student had a question, it's really easy for me to make another video really, really quickly. I don't have to just make a random video with a new file. I can just base it off of the course file and just keep progressing. Was another course. It was called releasing a professional beat tape. Okay. So in assets, you can see that I have my featured image, and then I have a check list. And just to show you, this is what the checklist was. So before you actually start creating a beat tape, you know, this is what I recommend. This is what I do. So just to give you an idea for like a check list, okay? So this is the folder structure which I use for my courses. So all I'm going to do here is just go C OC for creating an online course and go Video template. And then I have a net official. So COAC official. Done. So now, as I'm actually recording this course with you, I'm always just going to be coming here into the raw videos. So once this video is done, I'm going to go into my recordings here. So as you can see, this is the recordings. So I'm recording right now and it's going right into this file right here. So it's not done recording yet. That's why we don't see an image. Once it's done recording, Again, I'm going to relabel it. I'm going to put raw at the end of it, like you see here, and I'm going to drag it in here. And then again, I'm going to start organizing the structure. So you know, whether it be Section one, Section two, and then if Section two has multiple videos, again, that'd be like 2-1, 2-2. Okay, so that's just my folder structure. It keeps me organized. If you stay structured and organized, if you ever have to go back to an old course, If you always do things the same way, it's really really easy to go back, a imagine you create the course today. But then six years from now, imagine, you know, you want to go back, maybe you want to change out a video, you want to update a video, or you want to do something. If it's always laid out differently in each course, it's really hard to stay organized. But if it was all structured, just like this in every single course, you know, it's pretty simple. You just go back, you can just quickly swap out the one video or whatever. And yeah, it's just kind of plug in play. 5. 2-1 - How to Record Yourself [Overview]: So in this section of videos, I'm going to be talking to you about how to actually record yourself. What do you need and how do you prepare for it? In this video, I is going to talk to you a little bit more of like a checklist to prepare yourself before you actually start recording. Typically before I start recording a course, the night before, I will you know, make sure I'm organized in a sense of, are all my batteries charged for like my camera or in this case, I have a little audio recorder. I'm just talking in through this right now, and it just goes into this and then that goes into the camera. I'll break down my setup after. Again, making sure all batteries are charged so that in the morning or the next day or whatever, I'm good to go. I don't have to spend time setting that up. The next thing is, I will set up my recording situation, You have to make sure Right now when you're looking at me and you see my environment, sometimes if you set yourself up in a certain way, it's like you look unprofessional or it doesn't really look really good. That takes time, and it's also tiring. So I don't like to do that on the day of recording. I will do that the day before and then I'll just turn everything off and I'll leave everything where it is, and then again, the morning, everything's charged, I can pop everything in quickly, and then I have a really general idea of what I want to do when I'm recording. Let's get into our videos on how to record. We're going to first start with what type of camera do you need to start recording? 6. 2-2 - What Type of Camera Do You Need: In this video, I'm going to be talking to you about cameras. I actually have two cameras. I have a canon M six, is a little smaller compact one. That's the one that I'm recording into right now, and this is a canon 80 D. The reason why I got this. I first started with this one, and then I started want to get to the blogging, which didn't really pan out. I got bored with it. I also really didn't like people knowing about my personal life as I started to proceed. I think I did maybe seven logs and it got to the point where was I don't know. I just like to share about me what I want. I don't want to always be sharing. Anyway, I got this one because it has the auto focus. That's probably the biggest thing when it comes to these types of cameras is auto focus. During video. The M six allows for that. If I come up close, focuses, if I come back, it's good, as you can see. Same thing with the ADD, that is the biggest thing. That's the big selling feature of this. But the cool thing is just because of technology, you don't need a DSLR or anything that. If you have your phone, it does record very, very good video. However, the audio might not be the best. You might need an alternative to that, such as getting a handheld recorder and you can record directly into this, and then you can sync up the audio afterwards. I'll show you some tricks when it comes to that stuff later. But in terms of cameras and stuff like that, in all honesty, a lot of cameras, they're getting to that point where they're all very, very good. You're going to get very, very good results no matter what you get. But the biggest thing for you is you want to make sure it has auto focus during video. In comparison to both of these, if I were to tell you which one to get, I would say they're both good. It's like, do you want more compactness? Do you want to record, as you're traveling, whatever, for your course? Maybe the M six would be more your way. This is nicer to feel in the hands if you're more of a picture taker, But yeah, I don't want to go off topic or anything like that, but they're both great cameras. What I'm trying to tell you is most cameras that you're going to get nowadays are going to be great, just make sure it has the auto focus. The next thing I want to talk about is 30 FPS for 60 FPS. What that means is how many frames per second. It's not going to really affect the quality, it's just going to affect how smooth it looks. Right now, I'm actually recording 30 FPS, and just pros and cons to that. So 30 FPS is half the frames of 60 FPS. 60 frames per second is going to look very, very smooth, but the file size is going to be much bigger. In addition, when it comes to editing on your computer, 60 FPS is typically a lot harder on your computer as well. If you have a really good computer, you'll be able to edit 60 FPS. No problem. But if you have a bit of an older computer, you might want to lean more towards the 30 FPS. Then also as a little fun fact, I think movies many times record in 24 FPS. So again, I'm recording in 30 FPS here. You know, 60 FPS is kind of unnecessary. Again, it gives your video just a different look. So I actually do like the look of 60 FPS. It looks very, very smooth, especially when we go into the screen capture software. So in the videos where I'm on my screen, I record that in 60 FPS. You'll see the most looks very, very smooth, and it just kind of feels you know, I guess smooth is really the word to use. That's just the difference between 30 FPS and 60 FPS. Then when it comes to ten eightP and four K, four K is becoming a new standard. That's just the resolution that you record in. So 1920 by 1080 is 108. That has been the standard for many years now. But how this stuff usually works when it comes to cameras and even like YouTube and stuff like that, It takes quite a while for the new stuff to roll out for the new technology. So for example, four K, it's been around for quite a few years now, but it still it's too expensive for the average consumer, and it also requires a lot of power, like processing power to edit, and also the memory card, right? So you're going to need a significantly bigger memory card to record in like four K. So in my personal opinion, right now, it's 2019. I feel that four K it's close, but I don't think it's quite yet there for you to be creating your courses in four K. I record all my stuff in ten ADP. Again, the reason for that is it's a smaller file size. It's a lot easier to edit. It's just more Last thing I'll talk to you about in this video is just the memory card of your camera. Is it capable of recording ten ADP 60 FPS or 30 FPS or whatever you're going to be recording? Just make sure it's capable for that. Most memory cards nowadays will be because again, ten ADP is becoming outdated, but always just do a little Google research before you actually make your purchase, okay? So one thing I will talk to you about memory cards though, is I like the memory card that is a full memory card. As you can see, this one here, right? It has an adapter. So as you can see, this little adapter pulls out of this, and they just go together like that. I really don't like this type of memory card, and the reason for that is because it has this little lock on the side, and many times when I go to plug it in or whatever or try to delete content off this memory card, as I'm pushing it in, it locks on me, and it's just really really annoying. So just make sure that you get a memory card without that feature. Okay. So in this video, I talked to you about, what type of camera, DSLR, a smartphone, Like I'm saying, as long as it has a auto focus on video, I'm pretty sure you're going to be really, really good for high quality video. I talked to you about 30 FPS 60 FPS, 60 FPS is just going to be smoother. We talked about ten ADP verus four K. Again, I'm leaning more towards ten ADP still. I don't believe four K is yet there. Then we talked quickly about your memory card. Again, just do a Google research, figure out, does your memory card, is it capable of recording what you're wanting to record? That's pretty much all you need to know for your camera when it comes to actually recording. 7. 2-3 - Don't Forget About Lighting: Okay. So in this video, I'm going to be talking to you about lighting. Lighting is the difference between making your video look really, really good or making it look kind of kind of amateur. So right here, I do have a light right here in front of me. As you can see the shadows on my face right now and I take it away. You can also see one right here behind me. I don't have it on just because it would be distracting for the video. But that's what I use as I'm sitting at my computer and recording the video if I'm capturing my screen. You can find lights pretty cheap on Amazon. A lot of times they come in like a bundle deal, which I do recommend, a lot of times you save money that way. Another thing I got over the years was like this thing, I'll just zip it here. It's like a reflector, and it's just to help with shadows. I don't use it all the time, but I have a gold There's a white, just the side of it, and you can unzip it, and then there's more colors inside. There's a silver, there's another white right here. Then on this side, there's a black. You can put it underneath your chin and it just helps Right now it's here right now, but if I take it away, you can see that the shadow is gone. It's just like the difference. Right now, if I'm talking to you it looks nicer, but if I take it away, the shadow is there, and then if you want a gold flavor. You can see this is way too aggressive if I tone it down a little bit. Still pretty aggressive. The reason why I don't use at times is sometimes it's hard to set up when you're just a single person recording yourself. Sometimes I have clamps. These are sometimes handy too, and sometimes you can clamp this onto here onto a pole or something. That's a really common practice. Sometimes you'll see people on YouTube, they have the round light. But I personally find that when you're talking to somebody, they have round halos in their eyes. It looks unnatural, whereas it's just a little bit more natural light. Maybe it's a little close, by no means of a professional you know, person with light. Typically, you'd want to have one maybe on each side of you, because if one is just on one side, it's going to look like a shadow. This one is pretty much just dead on and I usually find that's pretty good. Even as I'm sitting here on this computer and the light is coming at me when I'm on the computer, just the one is usually pretty good. I actually do set this one up that's on here right now. I have two of these. I'll usually put that just to the side just to light up the room a little bit more. So it's just not so shadowy. As you can see, it's like in behind me is pretty dark, but I would have had to have taken this light and brought it out here too, but instead of it directing at me, I would have lowered the light, but then faced it up and then that would more get the shadows out of this room. When it comes to lighting, it really is just about being creative in a sense of just setting up the lights different ways. But while you're doing that, it's very very important for you to be able to see yourself. Whether your camera is able to flip up and you can see yourself in the camera or if you plug in an HDMI cord into a monitor or something so that you can see yourself in a monitor. Then as you are adjusting your light, you can keep looking at yourself and you can really see yourself very very well. 8. 2-4 - My Current Lighting Setup: I just want to quickly talk to you about my lighting. We actually have this little one here, and this one is really really cool. You can screw it on to an attachment. Many times the stands for lighting and stuff. They have these little thread ons, so you could have like that. Many times I just put it upside down, and it's just a nice little stand, or I can just leave it on the ground like that, and this goes really bright. I'll go full brightness. It's just super super bright. As you can see, it just lights up the room. If I put it like a certain way, you know, it just kind of helps with like the background shadows or something like that. But I pretty much only use that. You know, I I want some background ambience, or if I want just a little bit more light on my face or something, I'll put it on like a super super low setting, something like that. And usually that's just really, really nice. It just kind of takes the shadows out. This one right here, there's just two switches on the back and it allows you to control two different sets of lights. As you can see just gets a little bit brighter. I just didn't want both of them on me. It would have been very very bright in my face and sometimes make it look a little bit too bright. Then yeah, I just have one in the back here. Again, it's just the same light as this one. I just set it up so that as I'm sitting here, I can record. 9. 2-5 - Getting High-Quality Audio: In this video, I'm going to be talking to you about audio quality. Like I was saying, on the actual camera itself, if I show you the canon ADD here, all these cameras, at least, the majority of them anyways. They're typically not meant for high quality audio. They're meant for high quality video. Because of that, when you try to record you know, the audio through here, you'll hear that the background is really, really, you know, there's static, there's a hiss, there's noise. And you know, it kind of distracts from the topic that you're trying to teach, because you're trying to teach, there's background static, and it just makes it feel like low quality. And many times, the way to hide that is just to kind of play some background music. But if you have high quality audio, which if I stop talking for a second, it should be quite quiet. You're always going to have a little bit of noise in any type of preamp and stuff like that. Again, a preamp, because right now I'm talking into this microphone right here, but the audio signal is so quiet, it needs to be boosted and that's where the preamp comes in. If you have a low quality preamp, you're going to get noise. If you have a middle grade preamp, you're going to get some really high quality audio. You don't need to go spend tons of money even this thing, I think new, this things around $500. I got to use for maybe 250, 300 or something like that. I'm in Canada. But when I record into the camera, the trick with this camera. What you want to do is you want to put it to manual mode. You want to put it all the way to zero, then you want to put it up one or two notches so that it's super super super quiet. By doing that, you're using very, very little of the preamp in the camera. Then I use a recorder like this, and as you can see, if I tap the microphone ok. You can see that I've just moved on this. But right now if I tap this, it doesn't work. If I would unplug my microphone here, this would now work. These are just microphones. Again, on the actual camera, you put the volume super super low, and then you use this. This boosts the signal, this is the preamp now, and it goes into the camera and it records. The benefit of this is you're getting high quality audio, and it's also in sync automatically. When I'm talking, the camera is putting my voice in sync, which is really really awesome. If I were to disconnect this cable, which goes directly into the camera, I would then record directly into this, and then I would record my video, and then you would have to sync them. Which is where something like this comes into play. So I forget what I searched into Google for this or into Amazon. I use this specifically for my screen capture software because I'll explain more later, but I have an HDMI capture card and that allows me to use a camera like this, for recording with the screen. So I don't have to use a web. I can actually use a really high quality camera with my computer. But the problem with capture cards nowadays is the audio is out of sync. So if my voice is talking, the audio is like either late or early. So if I do this, it allows me to line up the audio to the video really really easily. Then you can actually sync it up so that it's just good to go and then you don't have to always do that all the time. So I'll just quickly talk to you about audio quality standards. So Without getting super super intense into them, But CD quality standard, back in the day when you purchased a CD of your favorite artist and put it into your car. It was 44.1 kilohertz, and 16 bit. That's very, very high quality audio. But people who really like video and movies and stuff like that, they typically record in 48 kilohertz, 24 bit. What that does is it allows them to record while pushing the noise floor a little bit lower. I don't want to get too intense with it, but your two options to record is 44.1 kilohertz at 16 bit or 48,000 hertz or 48 k, at at 24 bit. It's just that. But at the end of the day, they're both very, very high quality. The 48 kilohertz is more being meticulous. 10. 2-6 - Setting Up a Camera for High Quality Audio: So I wanted to make a quick video about the audio settings on your camera because I feel a very crucial point in order for you to get high quality audio. Because like I'm saying, these cameras they have very poor quality preamps. Again, when you talk into your microphone, it's a very quiet signal, you have to boost that signal and the cameras built in preamps are very, very poor quality. In order to get high quality audio out of a camera like this, I'm going to hit menu. We are going to find audio. As you can see, the sound recording is on manual. First of all, you want to set to manual, and then you can see that my recording level all the way at zero, then it is up one and maybe two. In all honestly, I would probably just go one, and that's it. I'm going to press set, it. Now when I plug in my microphone into this, I need a way to boost it. Every camera is different on how they work. As you can see, this one here has a microphone and a headphone port, which is quite a nice feature because a headphone port allows you to monitor what is actually being recorded. That's a very, very important thing because you never really know until you actually listen to the recording. But all you would do is you would just plug your microphone into here. Where it says, Mike. Now, I personally use this h4n. This is an amazing recorder. There is a new one, which even has better preamps, again, for less noise. There's also a cheaper version. It's the H one. This is the h4n. This is the first generation, it's the older version. There's a newer h4n out, but the H one would be a great alternative for you for you to get high quality audio. What's happening right now, this recorder, I am speaking into a lavalier microphone. Now, if I were to pull this out, I could just speak right into this microphone and right out of this cable, this would go right into the camera. Now you would go and watch your audio levels to make sure that it's not distorting, going into your camera. Because when you're recording, if you distort your audio, that's the worst thing you can do because there is software to help fix distortion, but you'll never fully fix distortion. What distortion is is in audio, zero is the loudest you can get in digital anyways. If you're dealing with analog audio, it can go louder than zero, but we're going to keep it simple. As you can see, this has zero right there. As you can see, there's minus six, -12, -24. I'm talking around -24. Zero is the loudest you can get and when you go under, -24. It's still quiet, but it's better to be safe and then in your video editing program, you can always increase that volume. You never want to record too loud, you want to be a nice volume. That's how I personally approach it. Also this has a thread in here. What you can do is you can buy I think it's called the hot shoe. And what you can do is you can slide right into here, and then this can literally mount on top of your camera. If you're going to be blogging or something like that, that's a nice way to do it. If your camera was further away, I would somehow bring this recorder closer to you. Because the closer your microphone is to you, the less room sound that is into the recording. When the room sound is in your recording, that can also be distracting for your student. For example, if there's lots of echo Again, background hiss, computer fan noise, stuff like that. The closer your microphone is to you, the higher quality audio you're going to get, which is the reason why people again wear like avaler microphones. There's different types of microphones like a boom microphone so that it can be offscreen. A boom microphone could be off screen and it's very directional and it could just focus right on you. You can get high quality audio that way. IDs had accorded Lavalier as you see, I play it right in. Some people have the wireless ones, those are quite expensive. Hopefully that helps you get high quality audio in your courses. 11. 2-7 - Seeing Yourself While Recording [Monitoring Yourself]: So in this video, I want to talk about being able to monitor what you're recording, ok? Right now, I'm talking to you off of the camera here, and I could just literally just flip the screen up on the camera and I would be able to see you. So I can see you right now obviously, but my screen is just right above you. That's fine. If you're talking, but the thing is if the camera is further back, it's like, you really can't fully see what's going on in your screen. It's just so small. So What I do is I actually plug this camera into this monitor. What I do for that is I plug in this cable into the camera and then into the monitor. Now, it's annoying sometimes with these cameras like when it comes to the HDMI cord, this is just a standard HDMI cable right here. But this camera that I'm holding, it takes a super micro HDMI cord, as you can see right here, is super super small, right. And then this monitor, it's an old monitor, so it doesn't have an HDMI input. It only has the white, which is DVI, and then this black, which is VGA, which is like the super super old style of plug in, okay? So in order for me to plug in an HDMI cable into this monitor, I purchased this little adapter, it's just a DVI to HDMI adapter. I'm just going to plug this into here, I'm going to plug this into the monitor. Then I'm just going to plug this into the camera. Right now, I'm still looking to you off of the camera here. But if I turn this on, as you can see, this is what it looks like. I know it looks really weird because this is what happens when you record the same screen that you're recording. But if I was sitting here talking to you, obviously, if it's like this way, I'm looking at the screen right now, I'm able to record, and I'm able to see on a nice big screen. Okay? So if you have a newer monitor that you can just go right from your camera, HDMI, right into the monitor, you know, you don't have to be getting like a little adapter and everything. It's just because I have an old monitor here. I'm just trying to save some money. I just bought a little adapter for probably like $4. And then now I can have a big screen to look at. If you have a TV, you can even set that up in the background, and then as you're recording, you have something to reference off of, and it just makes it really, really nice. You don't have to look off of the little screen on your camera, you can make sure that the lighting looks decent, that there's nothing kind of embarrassing in the way or messy papers or anything, you can set it up, you got to awesome monitor to make sure that your recording looks professional. 12. 2-8 - Setting Up Your Camera's Settings [Manual Mode]: So we're just going to cover these settings here. Like I'm saying, by no means, am I professional videographer or photographer, anything like that to do with cameras. I'll just give you a little basic rundown. Right now, I do have this canon ADD, as you can see here. I have it in manual mode, and you can see up here with the M. What that does is it gives me full flexibility on how I want to set up this camera. So ISO is how much I think it's like the digital light that you allow in. So when you increase it quite a bit, you can see it gets really really bright. But the downside to that is it increases something called grain. So it's kind of like the equivalent to that noise for the preamps, like I was saying cameras when it comes to audio, I think it had around 1,600. Okay. The next setting is the aperture, so that's the 3.5 here. What that does is it allows either more or less light in. It's kind of like the eyeball. When this number is smaller, It allows you to have that bouquet effect or whatever they call it. Right now, as you can see, we're focused on this very, very good, but in behind, you can see it's all blurred out like my hand back here, it's blurred. So the lower this number is, the more of the effect you get. And how that works is it comes down to your lens. If we look here at this lens here, it has 18 to 55 millimeters. That is the focal length, when we zoom in and zoom out. Then you can see over here how it has 3.5 to 5.6. What that means is that at the smallest focal length when you're on 18, you're able to get 3.5, which means that you'll get more of that bouquet blurred out effect. Right now as you can see, this is focused in good, but even the screen back here is blurred. If you are going to be purchasing a lens, you know how to read it. That's just like the focal length, the 18 to 55, that's like your Zoom. Then 3.5 is when you're on 18 millimeters and then 5.6 is when you're on 55, and then when you're in between, it's in between there. As you can see, when I actually zoom out and zoom in, you can see that 3.5, so I'm zooming in fully 5.6. That's the lowest I can get. If I were to touch that right now, You can see that 5.6 is the lowest I can get. But if I zoom out again, you can see that the lowest I can get is 3.5. Then another thing, you can also see how it has the STM. That allows it to auto focus during video pretty silently. That's also another benefit to having an external microphone. If you use the onboard microphone of this camera and you're not using very good lens, doesn't have the STM. You'll hear the camera zoom in in zoomo then as you're trying to talk, you can actually hear this, and it goes up stuff like that, and it's very distracting from you trying to teach your student. Then the last one is shutter speed, which is the 60 here. If I touch that, if you are in North America, you want it to be on 60, and the reason for that is because our electricity is at 60 hertz, a second. If you're in Europe or anywhere over there where you're at 50 hertz, you'll want to put this to 50 for your shutter speed. But if you don't put it at 60, It gives you a different look. However, if you have a digital clock or something like that. Many times you'll start to see like flicker in the screen or something like that. But if you put it at 60, it's because it's at the same cycle as your electricity, and it will be in sync, and it won't flicker. Okay? So again, if it's not at 60, if you put it at, let's say, you know, say 100, you are going to start seeing some flickering from, you know, some electronics around. But It's all up to you when it comes to being creative. If you don't have any digital stuff in the area, any of digital clocks or whatever, then you can be creative with that. But these are my settings. I just have it at 60, have the lowest aperture that way, I can blur out the background a little bit. Then your iso, that's all depending on your lighting. If you have pretty good lighting on yourself, then you can lower that IO down and then you're not going to introduce tons of noise. When you're inside, setting it up manually is going to give you better results. But if you are just starting up, you can just put it on auto. But the thing with auto is sometimes what's going to happen is the lighting sometimes can change and Throughout the recording, you can have different lighting levels and because the camera is adjusting it automatically, so you can have really bright sections and dark, and then sometimes it can even change the color of your recording too. So that's another thing I do is if I hit the queue up here, I have auto white balance, I put it to white, and you've also set it on a neutral setting, but you want to set it up so that your color isn't changing, and it isn't just going to start changing like the lighting on you because right now, if I put my hand close to the camera, you know, that's changing the lighting that the camera is perceiving. And sometimes, we do stuff like this. Would either make it really bright or it can make it really dark, then it would just keep changing on you. When you're recording for a course, you want it to be very, very consistent, right. That's why I'm suggesting to you, I would suggest setting it up in manual. You don't have to put your settings extreme. I usually just put it all to the neutral, and then I don't have to try and adjust it as I'm editing the video with lighting controls and coloring and stuff like that. If you have a good recording right off the bat, going into your course, it's going to make it a lot easier for you. 13. 2-9 - Why a Tripod is Crucial: Okay. So in this video, I'm just going to talk to you about tripods. Okay? So there's not tons to really say about them, but you do want to make sure that you do have a lot of options in terms of, like, you know, if you want to move it and that it's smooth, this one, I'm able to move if the cameras on there, it can go up and down. So this is like the actual tripod that I used. As I was recording, talking to you with you can just tick my face and like my computer and stuff back here. The setup was pretty close to that. How it works is your camera comes with one of these. This literally just screws into the bottom of your camera. You just use that to twist it in. Don't tighten it down super tight, but you want it decent. And then you see how it has lens. So this would go the way of the lens, so I would screw it in this way. Then this literally just goes onto the camera. It has a locking system. Then when you pull it out, this allows to go in, and then it just locks in and your camera is on your tripod. This tripod is actually man foto, as you can see it is right here, man foto. I believe my green bag is actually man Foer two, very, very high quality, expensive stuff. But great quality, you will always be happy with them. No, you can just adjust all the legs, you can snap them and adjust them how you want. If you wanted to, you can also these things rotate. If you rotate it, it allows you to bring it back even further. Sorry I rotate it the wrong way, so they're real. I can rotate it back even further. What that does is it allows the tripod to go on an angle so you can see, I can pull this lever and then I can move this middle one to get some more movement out of it. Finally, this one here, I can do it to rotate to get it level. So a tripod is super super important if you are wanting to record yourself. It allows you to get the right angle of what you want. It is the difference. 14. 2-10 - How I Record Myself With a DSLR: In this video, I'm going to show you how I would record myself. Imagine you know again, I'm sitting here. This is the setup that you saw, like the intro video and stuff like that. Imagine this camera set up, facing you. So, I'm looking at the screen, making sure that everything's kind of looking good. I have the battery in, I'm making sure it's full life. I'm making sure that the memory cards in, I'm making sure that this thing has full batteries, as you can see, we only go 2 bars. So it's just something that you have to watch now as you're recording. So when you go from video to video, just make sure that the battery life is good and stuff like that. There is a remote that you can purchase that you can kind of plug in and you can hold it like your thumb or whatever, and you can then you put off to the side or whatever, then when you want to stop or when you want to record again, you can just push you can just push that button again. Typically, how I would record myself is I would just be like, Okay, I sit back in my position. I can see that everything's looking fine, and then I'll literally just lean over. The record button is actually just right here at the top. It would show a red dot up here, and then now it's game time. Whatever you want to say, however you want to record, you can say whatever you want to say. Sometimes, if I screw up a couple of times, I will stop recording, and then I'll start recording again. The reason for that is so that The actual file that I use for editing isn't full of unnecessary stuff, making more space on my hard drive unnecessarily. Now, don't stress about it tons because that's going to be a distraction. It's going to make it hard to record your videos because you're going to be like You know, always like, Oh, turn it off, turn on, turn off, turn on. As long as you just turn it on, you can record, you can do your thing. But if you've been talking for like a minute or two, and then all sudden you realize you're like, where am I going? I don't even know what I'm saying anymore. You can just turn it off, come start over again, and you can just try it again kind of thing. Also, a lot of these cameras and stuff, they come with an app, and they allow you to just hit record and stuff, right off of the like your phone off of your app, so you can use your phone as like that little clicker thing, which is cool. One thing I found was I wasn't able to plug it in and watch off the HDMI out. That's what's happening when you plug the cable into the camera off the monitor. It's called the HDMI out. When you plug in the HDMI out to the monitor, I wasn't able to use the app at the same time for the recording, and I found that this was more important than being able to sit back and hit record. I didn't mind just reaching over hit record, and then I can still monitor myself. 15. 2-11 - How to Fix Mistakes While Recording [Overdubs]: Okay. So in this video, I'm going to be talking to you about how you can fix your mistakes as you're trying to talk into a camera. If I'm talking to you right now and then all of a sudden, I screwed up, then you have to remember what you were saying before, and you can start off from there. For example, if I was saying, I really love orange juice, but I don't like lemons or something like that. If I was like, Oh, I really like orange juice, but I screwed up, K will You got to remember. I really like orange juice, but I don't like lemons. Then how it works is in your video editing software, you literally just slice out your mistake and you can just chop yourself back together. To get yourself saying what you want to say at the end of your video. Because that's the most important thing. Once we get into the actual editing of your video, the most important thing is, does the video say what you wanted to say? Because you can talk for 20 minutes and it's just like, Oh, well, I'd never really said what I wanted it to say, or your video could be like 5 minutes, and even if it's chopped up and stuff like that, it might say exactly what you want it to say. That is the most important. As you're talking, you have to make sure that if you screwed up, you start over maybe a sentence back. You just, where was I? I was a orange juice or something like that and it's like, where was I going with it? You're like, Yeah, I wanted to go to the lemon juice or whatever. Now you'd be like, you start from the orange juice, and then just in the back of your mind, you might just be like, with the orange juice and you're like, but, I don't like lemon juice. Then when you're in the editing software, you would just cut it at but, orange juice, but, I don't like lemon juice, and then you can just combine those together. So it might sound more complicated than what it is, but it's just really important that as you're recording, that you make sure that you finish that sentence. Even if you screwed up, just make sure that you say that sentence again because then you can always just slice it and you can just squish them together and you can continue on with your editing. Because the worst thing when you are going to edit is all of a sudden when you're done recording, because right now, I look this way with my beard, my hair, with my T shirt or with my shirt on, and now say tomorrow, it's like, well, I just woke up and I'm going to edit, and all of a sudden you realize you're like, Oh, well, it's missing that one sentence that I need for this video. And yes, you can overdub your voice. And what that means is you can just mute the original recording, and then you can speak into a microphone. And you can say the words. But the thing is, now you have to maybe try and line it up with your voice and sometimes you can get away with the odd word. And many times, for example, when I do my music production tutorials, sometimes I record my face and sometimes I don't. It just depends on how I'm feeling. But if I don't record my face, then I can easily just mute the original audio Then just record the new vocals over top of that part of the course. Just the biggest takeaway from this is just make sure that you are trying to say what you're trying to say in your video right here and now as I'm talking to you. Again, if I screw up, like, Oh, well, where was I going with it? Then even if you have to go back and then start from 30 seconds back. Even if you have to do that. It's worth your time to make sure that you have said everything you wanted to say because when you bring it to your computer, when you start editing, you don't want to have to come back to recording. Because again, I look a certain way right now, I'm not going to look this way in a day or two, even tomorrow. M vier can maybe just growing fast one day or something. I don't know. I'm just saying. So I'm just trying to get across to you. Make sure you say everything you can in your video, get it proper, when you go to edit, you're good to go, and then you can actually flow good. 16. 2-12 - How to Get Your Point Across in Videos: So in this video, I want to talk to you about how to say what you actually want to say in your video, okay? Because sometimes you know, the record button is hit and I'll send you freeze. You don't know what to say, or you might be able to talk for a little bit and then what happens is you screw up and then you don't know where to continue. And again, if you go back to the previous video about me talking about you know, how to fix your screw ups. So if you're talking right now and then I screwed up, you got to go back to the previous sentence or go back previously so that you make sure that you get what you want to say for when it comes time to edit, that you don't have to come back to the recording stage. So Anyway, the main way how I am able to speak on a camera like this so easily with you is I think about the main points of what I want to get across to you. Okay? So I talked to you in a previous video in the pre planning section when I was talking about, you want to make sure that you first structure your course in the sections and then figure out the videos inside those sections. And because These courses are like chunks of information in each video. In each video, I think, well, what are the main points which I want to talk to you about? Once I figure that out, then as soon as I hit record, it's like, well, I have three things I want to talk about in this video with you. Then I'll cover the first one, and it's like, well, I've done that one. If I can't remember the other two, I can always just stop here, I can grab the notebook, I can quickly look, in this case, because I've structured my course, it's like, is it 30 FPS or 60 FPS or ten eightP or four K, you know, stuff like that. This is the benefit of being able to record yourself from home or whatever, you can just simply edit out that gap in between where, you forgot where you're going to go next. So as long as you finish that first point that you wanted to get across, you can quickly look, what were the other two points. Then now, you can just start off and start talking about the second point, and in the video editing, you can just again, slice out the gap in between where you screwed up. That is how I talk on a camera. I know the main points before I actually start talking to you, and then it makes recording a lot easier. I will be honest like myself talking into a camera. When I am talking, it's good. But then there are times where I get stuck and I start to stutter and I just can't get the words out. But then once those words start going, then I'm able to start flowing. But until I'm able to actually start talking, sometimes I might stutter, I might be like, Oh, and I don't know how to get out of it. It's kind of a really weird feeling. But as soon as you just go and you just kind of break free of that, then you start flowing and it's kind of becoming more natural. It's kind of a good feeling, but The annoying thing about that is then when you come to video editing, there's lots of slices and you have to put them up to each other. Then when you're watching me, see right now, I've been talking good consistently for the past minute here. You're not seeing lots of slice and edits. But if I do screw up, you see lots of slice and edits and Sometimes it's not too noticeable, but sometimes it can be it can be distracting. If I'm trying to teach you something and all of a sudden it's just slice slice slice and I'm here, then also I'm here talking, then I'm here and talking and then here and talking, you've probably experienced this from watching videos on YouTube. As you just saw, I just screwed up. I just slice this in the video editing program and put them together. All I'm trying to get across to you is, you know, prepare your main points. It's going to make recording your videos a lot easier. Again, because you have broken down the sections, broken down the videos in those sections, each course doesn't contain tons of information. You know going into that one video, it's like, well, what's the main point I want to get across? Is there two main points? That's fine. As long as you have explained the first one, you can easily just stop even as the camera is still continuing, you can just quickly pick up your note pad or whatever to look, you're like, Oh, yeah, I want to talk about this point to, and you continue on and then it's done onto the next video. 17. 2-13 - What's in My Camera Bags: Okay, so in this video, I just want to do a quick little overview of the bags that I used to carry some kind of camera and video equipment in. So this one is where I actually kind of keep my cameras, the batteries, and the chargers and stuff like that. I also just have like an extra lens. One thing I didn't mention about your cameras is they have to be a certain type of lens to get the auto focusing and to be quiet. I think it's STM lens for canon anyways. This is just, if I want to zoom in super super close and stuff. Again, I don't really take pictures and stuff like that tons. I actually got that as a gift. But, this is one I use for memory cards, batteries, and for actual camera stuff. This one here, I use this mainly for my video equipment, stuff that I use a lot. For example, audio cables and stuff like that. The main ones I use, I always keep in here. I also keep like that light. I usually keep in the top right here. Inside here, I usually keep this recorder. This usually stays in here. This is the case for it. This is kind of like a cool little attachment. You can put this on like a tripod. You can put your camera on there, you can put a light up here, like a microphone on there, you know, This stuff isn't tons of money. I think that the thing I just showed you, like the little L bracket was only $15, and it's like I have it forever now. This is a wind screen for a microphone that's in here. This is just a different type of microphone. It's more mobile. This is like the road microphone. It just plugs in. Let' plug it on the back and then it just plugged into your camera. Again, if I were to plug this directly into my camera, it's going to be very very noisy. I'd still end up plugging this into this recorder right here. Then you'd be able to see me talk just like you are right now. In all honesty, it would be nice to see these cameras improve on their preamps. That way you wouldn't have to be doing an outside system and stuff. That's pretty much just the bags. I just wanted to show you if you ever wanted to see, it's like, Well, where do you keep all your stuff? I just use these two bags for my cameras. This one is for cables and this recorder. F actual audio cables and stuff. I just keep them in these containers. I keep them organized. For example, like this one down here, this one is just strictly RCA cables. RCA cables like the old school ones, the red and white ones and stuff like that. That's RCA. I have those all bundled together, and then have miscellaneous ones just from over the years with music production and stuff like that. Just a quick video, just to give you a little bit insight in case you want to organize your stuff a certain way. This might jump 18. 3-1 - Introduction to OBS Screen Capture Software: So in our next few videos, I'm going to show you how to record your desktop with a screen capture software. You'll be able to do stuff like this. I can transition. Now you can see my mouse on the screen, if you were teaching with the software, like photoshop or your music program or whatever. So the software I use is called OBS Studio. You can just type this into Google. It's called Open Broadcaster software. You guys can just download either Windows, Mac or Linux, whatever operating system you are on. And the best part about OBS is it's free and open source. What that means is that people are constantly contributing code and updates, and you guys just get the benefit of it. It's absolutely amazing. OBS allows you to get 60 frames per second, so as you can see my mouse looks nice and kind of buttery smooth and stuff like that. So when to download it, install it. OBS looks like this. Then how it works is you can have different scenes. So for example, if I click on Vixia, it's just going to be the cam order, I'm going to be full screen. But you can't see my desktop. If I click this, now you can see my desktop and me. If you want, you can hide me. I have set it up on the camcorder there, or this would be like the desktop recording. Okay. So I just want to talk about a few things before I get into the specifics, okay. So if you're going to be recording with a webcam, you can do that. I'm actually recording with a high quality camcorder, okay? And how it works is it plugs in through an HDI capture card, and then I'm able to record, a DSLR camera or this camcorder here. But it's a little bit finicky, and why I say that is because because sometimes your voice isn't in line with your audio, and it's just really really annoying. So for example, if we right click down here and go advanced audio properties, you'll see that you have the ability to offset your audio. So your voice from the video. That's the reason why I purchased this over the years. I'm just going to go full screen for a second here. So all you have to do is you don't have to get something like this. People can just clap their hands and stuff like that. I got this. It's just a nice way to do it. All I do is just open it and close it, and then I can actually see how out of sync my audio is to my recording, okay? And what I would do is I would do a test recording, bring it into my video editing software, and I would just kind of adjust it until it's set up. Once it's set up, you're good to go. It's just kind of the setup process, which is a little bit tiring and just takes a little bit of time. But once you get it set up, this looks really high quality, you can see my camcorder. As you can see, it's just high quality, and then I can record the screen high quality. And this is kind of like the best of both worlds, okay? Next thing that I would recommend to you. Again, I'm going to show you how to set all this up is to have two different audio sources. So, for example, if you can see down here in the mixer, I have one from my microphone, and then I also have one from my desktop audio. So because I do music production tutorials, many times there's music being played as I'm talking. And if that was all in one audio signal, if the music was way too loud compared to my voice, I wouldn't have control over it, and it would make my course be really unprofessional because they couldn't hear what I was trying to teach them. So when you have two different audio sources, when you go to edit it in your video editing program, you actually have two audio sources, so you can turn up and down the volume of each individually, the voice to the music. And as a little pro tip on the music, you can actually carve out some EQ. And what that does is it allows the vocal to stand out because the frequencies aren't fighting for that space anymore. Again, I'll show you how to set that up. It's a really really cool pro tip. But if you didn't record two separate audio channels, you wouldn't be able to do that. So, you know, just over the years of using OBS, I've just set it up to where I'm very, very comfortable, and then I'm just able just to record my course. And that's what I want you guys to achieve out of this whole course in general, too, is just I want you guys to know the tools that I use. Most of them are free. So let's get into the videos, which, you know, are a bit more specific showing you how to set up OBS to get the best results for your course. 19. 3-2 - Setting Up Scenes in OBS: So how OBS works is up here, you have your scene collections. Now, for you just recording your courses, you'll just need one scene. That's all you'll need. Just over my years of using OBS, If I open this up, you can see that I had one for recordings, like for example, if I was going to be recording my course, and I've set that up a certain way. You'll see in my previous courses with you in this course, I have a little circle cut out for myself, and I'll show you how to set that up. Um, but I set that up only on the recording, so I have a little circle. Just kind of a nice little touch. I must have set myself up differently on the slide show. Maybe I wanted myself just to be a little bit smaller so my student could focus more on the content for streaming. I must have set it up a certain way. And then I wanted to try out the canon M six for streaming, so I must have set it up that way. And then currently, I'm on this one right here. And then how I have that set up is I have the full screen, so you can see this, and then I also have the desktop and me. Okay? So, like I'm saying, you're only going to need just one scene when you're just starting up. I'm just showing you that if you want to set up your OBS a certain way, for example, if you want to set up a certain way when you are recording with your webcam, you can set it up that way. And then if you had a camcorder, like, in my case here, you can set it up this way. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to stay on this video camera, and I'm going to go duplicate, okay? And I'm just going to label it online course, okay? Now we can start over fresh. What I'm going to do is I'm just going to delete this one. Now you're going to see me and the desktop. I'm going to delete myself here, but I'm going to leave the display capture. Otherwise, you will not be able to see what I'm doing. In order to add something, such as like a webcam, all you do is click the plus, video capture device, and I'm just going to label it Vexia. That's the name of my camcorder, so I'll just go. We go to monitor xia, you're going to see that I'm still big screen. There's nothing different. But you can just literally just click this and just resize yourself. You can literally just click and drag it. It's so cool. OBS is so flexible. Now if I go between the cam order, full screen, but you're not able to see my desktop, and if I click this, now you can see my desktop and me. Now here's a little cool pro tip. You hold on Alt and click on the side here, and you can just cut out the unnecessary stuff. It allows your student to focus more on the content of what you're wanting to teach them, and I was going to make myself a little smaller, put myself in the corner. And that's it, okay? So full screen myself. I have the desktop, I have myself in the corner. And then one last thing I will tell you in this video is right now, we are capturing our screen, obviously, right? But what that means is we're capturing everything that happens on our screen, whether we want it to happen or not. So, for example, if I had the tool bar down here and maybe you didn't want people knowing the different programs you use or something, you only want to show what you want to show them. That's display capture. Now, if we go window capture, so I'll go window capture here, you can actually select what you want to show if you want to be like photoshop, you can label that photoshop because if you're always doing courses on photoshop, it just keeps your scene very organized and your source organized. For example, I have a folder open on another monitor here, and this is where I'm currently recording these videos into. When I'm done each video, it just goes into a folder, and if we click that, you can see this is the folder right here, we can make it bigger, just press it ok. Okay, we can expand it. It's going to make the text look a little bit weird. And then again, this is just like photo shop when you have layers and stuff like that. So if I put this, it's going to cover me, but if I put this underneath me, you know, now I'm over top of it. I just wanted to show you that, you know, a window capture is sometimes a really powerful thing, too. But if I bring my mouse over to the recording, right now you can't see it. I actually have to focus on the recording, and now you can see my mouse, only on there. And as soon as I take it off, you know, it's gone. Okay? So like I'm saying, I just wanted to show you, you know, how you can use OBS for your benefit. Because, again, like I'm saying, sometimes you don't want somebody to see your whole screen. That's what the display capture is. If you want to capture a specific window, you can do that. And you guys can just kind of play with these to figure out how they all kind of work. But the scenes are how you set up, you know, your sources a certain way, however you want to set them up, okay? Then you can just transition in between your scenes. You can fade in between them. So for example, if I just go cut here, it'd be like this, now there's no transition in between. Personally, I really don't use the transitions much and stuff like that. I was just more showing you just to show you what's capable with the software. Sometimes it kind of sparks creativity, but I keep it really, really simple. I typically will have a full screen of myself. I'll have myself and my desktop, and then if I just right click and duplicate this, I'm just going to go just, monitor. I usually write this stuff in Capitals. And then instead of deleting it, you can just hide it, in case you ever want to use it quickly or something. But this is how I would usually set up a scene. So you have just your desktop in case you don't want your recording of your face or your webcam camcorder. If I want both, there's both. If I want the camcorder, there you go. To take it a little step further, you can right click and you can have filters. Right now, if the colors or if it was so bright and stuff like that, you can just simply add color correction right out of OBS, which is pretty cool. Um, you know, so you can do stuff like that. That's how I got the circle look. I'll show you that in just one sec. So as you can see, this is how I record my courses, okay? So you can see my face up here. I also added in a cool little drop shadow. And if I right click here and go filters, just like I just showed you. So right now, I have a circle. It's what you call a cookie cutter. It's an image mask blend. That's the filter. And then I just used just a circle. I created in photoshop, and then we'll turn it off and on. Right now, this is what it would look like. But I personally like the little circle look. It's not as invasive. People are still able to see content around you and you're just there. It's just a nice little touch. On our next video, I'm going to show you how to set up your audio. 20. 3-3 - Audio Settings in OBS: In this video, I'm going to show you how to set up your audio. In the mixer, I like them to be vertical layout. So right now, you know, they're horizontal, but it looks kind of super big. I just like the vertical layout. This is usually how I would see it in music production, too. Usually just goes up. How audio works is in digital audio, which this is, zero is the loudest that you can get, okay? And then anything quieter goes minus. So for example, minus one is quieter than zero, minus ten is quieter than minus one. And as you can see, even when I'm talking, like -20, which is a very, very comfortable level. You know, you can push it up a little bit higher if you want, but then you risk clipping, which is distortion. So when that happens, You can never really recover it. There is certain types of audio software to help recover distortion, but it's just best practice. Why even risk it? Why even put your audio that loud? So, right now, even though I have this at zero, you know, this is just the audio fader. So if I turn this down, you'll hear I get really really quiet. Quiet quiet. I. You can barely hear me. So I just leave this at zero, and then what I do is I just adjust my volume on my preamp, which I showed you earlier, and then your audio interface as well. Okay? So L I'm saying, this is a nice level coming in. And then to bring it louder, I would do that in my video editing software. What we're going to do is we're going to go to our settings. I'm going to go file settings. And what I'm going to do is just go down right to audio, ok? So for your sample rate, you can either put it at 44.1 or 48. I just put it at 48, you know, It most humans will not hear the difference between that. But I just put it 48, you are going to get a little bit of a bigger file size, but you know, that's okay. For the channels, I just put it to stereo. For the desktop audio device, I selected my audio interface. You might just want to select default or whatever there. And then for my microphone, I've also selected my focus right audio interface as well. And that's all I've done for that, okay? Now, in your output, what you want to do is you want to go recording, okay? And then, right now, I can't select any of the stuff because I am recording at the moment, but you want to put it to advanced, okay? And then down here, what you want to do is I just select the recording pass. So I just record this to a separate hard drive, as you can see right there. F my recording format. I just have in MP four, but you can read down here that if OBS crashes, you can't recover the lost recording. Personally, my computer is pretty stable. OBS never crashes on me. Like, I don't think it has yet. Typically, it's I screw up myself. Like, I'll say the wrong thing or I forget what I was going to say. And so I have to redo my course. So for myself, I've usually found MP four to be fine. But as you can read down here, so certain format such as FLV do not support multiple tracks per recording. So MP four does allow multiple tracks, because, like I was saying, you want to have one for your voice. You also want to have one for your desktop audio, okay? That's my own personal recommendation to you. So I'm going to read this for you, though. So warning. So recording saved in MP four will be uncoverable if the file cannot be finalized. So for example, if I was recording right now, and then that means blue screen of death. So that means, like your computer crashed, and then the blue screen comes up and it gives you an air code. So MP four will not allow you to do that. So if you want to record multiple audio tracks, consider using M KV, and then you can re Mox the recording. So, for example, I'm just going to click cancel here. So to remox a recording, all you have to do is just go file, and then you can go re Mox recordings right there. So, you know, you can record in that MKV. And then just remox it. I just keep it MP four. That's just how I've always worked. It's a little bit more risky, but that's just how I flow, okay? So I just keep it MP four, again, like they're saying, you can go MKV in case your computer crashes, you can keep it. But these do allow you to have multiple audio tracks. So I keep it MP four F my audio tracks, now I'm going to put one and two. So that's my channel one and my Channel two. I'm going to close out of this. And now if we right click here and go to Advanced audio properties, you can see here, So I'm going to make this bigger so you can see the whole thing. Right now, I'm focused on my desktop audio and my microphone. Vexia, the volume, I should just put it to zero because I don't need that, and it's muted anyways. For my microphone, I have that mixed to monel. You don't want to mix the desktop audio to mono because that is stereo. It's a little off topic, but what makes stereo is it's the difference between the left speaker and the right speaker. That's what makes things sound wide. Now, with a microphone, you don't want it to be different when it comes to a voice. You want it to be monel. So I just make sure that a microphone is monel. I do that, ok. Here's the little offset thing when it came to this thing. Now, here is where the tracks come into play. So you can put your microphone on one and your desktop on two or your desktop on one and then your microphone on two, this Vexia, you know, I'm just going to disable it. I don't want it on any tracks. I don't want any additional tracks. As you can see, allowed the microphone to be on track one and I've allowed the desktop audio to be track two. That's really really important. Again, it doesn't matter if desktop is on one and microphones on two, you just got to make sure that they're both not on the same track. Otherwise, when you record, it's going to be the voice is going to be with the music or in that case. I'm going to go close. Again, we're going to go file settings. We're going to go output recording, and you can see that we're only selecting to record one and two. So that means that we're going to get our microphone and we're going to get our desktop audio, and we're going to have full control of them when we go to edit our video. For my encoder, I've set it up this way. I put it to 1920 by 1080. That's what I want to record my course in. And then I'll just quickly cover these settings here, too. So this is just how I've set up my OBS. I really don't know the stuff too well, and even when you read into it, it is quite confusing. But I found that this to be quite a good setting. You might want to maybe go a little bit higher on the bit rate. But the thing is, what happens is when you are editing your video and you go to export it, and then when it goes to these course websites, they compress it so hard anyways that, you know, it's kind of unnecessary space that's on your hard drive, okay? So that is the audio settings, okay? So just the biggest thing is in your audio, you want to make sure that you're setting up your microphone to be, you know, enabled. In this case, I have an audio interface, and I'm using this microphone here. There's 48 kilohertz two, or you can go 44.1. It's less a personal choice. In the output, you know, you just want to make sure that you are choosing a recording format that allows you to record multiple audio tracks, whether that be the MP four or the MKV. I just keep it MP four, keep it simple. And then the audio track, I just enable one and two. And then when you come here, right click go advanced audio properties on the mixer. You got to make sure that you're selecting one for the microphone, two for desktop, and then you're good to go. You know, so the biggest thing is that you just want to make sure that you're not distorting when you're recording. So again, that's your vocal, but that's also your desktop audio. You don't want it to be super loud. So you can always turn this down to make sure that you're in the green to the yellow. And then when it comes to the actual video editing, that's when you could fully adjust the volumes. If you distort it going into the recording, you know, you can't really recover it. So just play it safe, have safe volumes in the editing process, you can fine tune your audio and perfect it. 21. 3-4 - Using High Quality Microphones with Your Computer: Okay. So in this video, I just want to talk to you quickly about getting a microphone like this into your computer. Okay? Whenever you are recording audio with your computer, and if you're going to be typing and stuff like that, you always want to make sure that you mount this microphone off somewhere else. So as you can see, I have just mounted it to this table here. A, this is like a road PSA one. I think is this actual what this mic stands called a road PSA one. And then this is a sure SM seven B. This is actually quite an expensive microphone. Again, you know, when I first started up, everything was quite affordable, and then just as time has gone on, I've kind of kept upgrading. And as you can see, I also have a video camera here. And you can see that it's not mounted on my desk. It's actually on a microphone stand, which I have this little adapter. This is what you call a dynamic microphone. There's two main microphones. There's dynamics and condensers. Condensers are very, very sensitive. It's actually what I'm talking on right now. This one here, and I believe it requires something called phantom power. Again, condensers are very, very sensitive, and what that means is that because they're sensitive, they're going to pick things up like your computer fan noise or right now, the furnace is on in this house. This microphone that I'm talking to you in, it can pick this up. These are just things that can distract your student. This is actually a dynamic microphone and it doesn't require anything called phantom power, as you can see here, phantom power. Phantom power, you need that to operate a condenser microphone. Again, it's just more sensitive. It picks up all these background noises. This is a dynamic microphone, it doesn't require phantom power. However, it just requires a bit more juice. A lot of times this is an audio interface, I'll break it down for you in a second, but this alone, sometimes like this unit many times might not power a dynamic well enough. You might need to drive this extra hard. This is the volume control right here. You might need to turn that up like full in order to run this. That's the reason why I've gotten this. This is called the preamp. This is actually called the single channel strip, and it's not just the preamp. It actually has more features. So at the very beginning of it, you have your gain. This is where you can set the input volume of the microphone. Before it goes through all the other processors. As you can see right here, this is a compressor. As your audio goes through, you have a threshold in a ratio, so that's taking a little bit off topic, but This allows you to get a little bit more control over your audio, and then here this is like the EQ section. It allows you to adjust your highs or your lows. But in my opinion, I recommend leaving this stuff pretty flat. In other words, just really really subtle if you're going to do it because this is permanent. You can always bring it into your computer and you can always work on that audio to however you want with the digital tools, which is really really cool. Then finally, we just have the output volume here. If I just talk into it, you can see hello, hello, hello. It's cool. Anyways, how you set this up is I have a dynamic microphone and this allows me to get really really high quality audio. Because it's not super sensitive, it allows me to record my tutorials without distraction of background noise and stuff like that. It literally just plugs into here. As you can see, this is the input. This literally just plugs into the front, and then from here, another cable goes right into the front here. This allows me to record if I wanted, I could record two microphones. This is what you call an audio interface. What it does is it just allows you to record these high quality microphones. It also allows you to plug in these types of speakers. You have volume control for your headphones, volume control for your speakers, and then this is volume control for the actual microphone. In this case, I have all the way down because this is providing the volume. If I want it, I can always get more volume out of it by turning it up or whatever. Then again, this one right here provides the option for another microphone. That's just a little rundown on my microphone setup. I just have a dynamic microphone, which is what I recommend. It's just less sensitive. The background noise isn't going to get in there. It goes this is a preamp. Again, you don't have to have this. This is just a nice touch. It allows to boost the signal a little bit better. It also gives more control over your audio signal, and then it goes into an audio interface, and then this plugs in just USB. This is the USB cable, this goes right into my computer. And that's it. These two cables, that goes to one speaker, and that goes to another speaker. 22. 3-5 - Webcam and Videocam Recommendations for OBS: In this video, I want to talk to you Bo, a recording camera. Whether it be in this case is a camcorder or a webcam, a webcam is the simplest way to approach this. This one, I'll show you here, the Life Cam studio. This has been a great webcam. You can get some really really high quality results. The only bad thing about this webcam right now is when it updated to Windows ten, Microsoft didn't really provide good support for this thing. So for example, in Windows seven, you were able to have a customization window for this. You were able to adjust, you know, the white balance, the focus, all that stuff. And now with Windows ten, it's like they took it away. And it was kind of just why would you do that? But when you could set this up manually, I was able to get some really, really good results with this. If you do have a webcam, which does allow you to, you know, fine tune with brightness and focus and stuff like that, make sure you do select like manual so that it's not like auto focusing and stuff like that. So in other words, set your webcam up, figure out the focus, don't allow it to be auto, as well as the white balance to. A lot of times there's like an automatic white balance that these webcams have. Make sure to set it up to Manuel, okay? So set it up, you know, how you like and leave it. And you'll get some really, really high quality recordings out of, you know, most webcams that allow you to get 720 P and ten AP. This webcam does allow you to get ten ADP. Yeah, so this one was the Lf Cam studio, very happy, very happy with the purchase, except I wasn't very happy with Windows support once it went to Windows ten. But like I'm saying, a webcam is your easiest route. Now, I'm going to talk to you about my cam order and how to set that up, okay? So what I did was, I got a capture card, okay? So there's different options. So, for example, if we open like this one up. So this is like a USB one. So this would plug in USB to your computer, and then you would plug your camera into here, okay? And, you know, this works too. Again, it all has latency, which is, you know, if you have this, you can set it up, and then once you set it up, you know, you're good to go. So, by no means, is this route cheap? I you know, you're starting to pay a couple of hundred dollar for this device and a camera. But you know, you're going to get these kind of results. You're able to see a high quality camcorder, and, you know, you can still capture your screen. I actually personally selected this one. So whenever anything connects directly to your motherboard, you know, with a PCI slot, that's where this plugs into. You're able to get you know, the fastest speeds that are available. And that's the reason why I went for this route. You know, I'm not going to be plugging this into a laptop and then recording off a camera that way, I would be here in my little home studio doing it like this. You know, that's just my personal choice. So this is the one I currently have. They actually have one for four K. Let's see if we can see some images here. So how this works is, I literally have my camera, okay? And it plugs from the HDI from the camera right into this, and that's it. The out is if you wanted to be doing like streaming and stuff like that. So if I scroll up here, you can see, you know, this is like the streaming and stuff like that. So I didn't use this capture card for that. I just purchased it strictly so I can capture a high quality camcorder into my computer. And that's all it is. So you plug this in, you install the software, you plug in your camera, and then in OBS, just how I showed you with your capture device, and then you select the algado. Now, I just want to talk to you a little bit about your DSLR and cam orders, okay? So they're a little bit finicky. So for example, this cam order allows me to send out an HDMI out without any of the on screen display. So for example, a lot of times, like when you have your camera, you know, you have a lot of different things that are on there, whether it be like the audio meter, or whether it be a graph of the white balance or just little things you can touch on the screen. So on some cameras, when you plug in your HDMI core to the HDMI out on the camera, those buttons and display, like, they follow. So, in other words, right now you see me, you know, you would see all these different like buttons and stuff like that. And it just you know, it's really really annoying, and some cameras don't allow you to like disable it. So, in case you're interested, the camcorder that I'm using right now is a canon Vxia, H F R 40, okay? So, by no means, is it an amazing camcorder? It allows me to capture ten ADP, it's 60 frames a second, ok? That's important. It allows you to get like that smooth feeling. And especially when I'm just recording into OBS, you know, it's like, I have a hard drive with tons and tons of space. So it's not like a real, you know, this camcorder. I'm not recording into a memory card. You know, It's just recording right into OBS into your hard drive. So that's really really cool because I'm not really concerned with, space, how long the video takes and stuff. That's pretty much what I want to talk about. Your webcam is your easiest route. I really like that Life cam studio. I think Logitech makes 12. It's like the C 90 or something. This is the one I was talking about here, but as you can see, they've also released one, maybe a little bit better. Allows you to get to 60 FPS, and then this one here is a four k one. The webcams are guess are starting to improve a little bit. Hopefully that helps and let's get to the next 23. 3-6 - Final Suggestions Before Recording in OBS: So finally, I just want to talk about a few points for you to think about before you actually commit to recording your course, okay? So the first thing is make sure to test, test, and test. Make sure that your voice, you can actually hear your voice, make sure that the video quality looks good. Make sure that everything is just in line. So you know, just record a video, talk into your microphone, act as if you're going to be recording the course, and then just stop and watch it. Okay? Even bring it into your video editing program and make sure that it's actually working good in your software because I have experienced before, I set up a weird way, for example, in file and settings, if you go output and recording. So here in the encoder, you can set up different encoders. So, for example, you can use your video card to help make OBS run smoother and stuff like that. And in my experience, when I tried stuff like that, it made the end result video file react weird with my video editing software. Like, for example, it was all out of sync and then whenever I would hit play, it would be like a black screen. And then it would take time for the black screen to go away. And it was just annoying. And I recorded a whole course that way. And it was just like, was a horrible experience. So I just found that, having the settings, the way how I'm showing you here, just like this, this has been the best results for myself. Okay? Now, another thing I'll talk to you about is just the recording path. So I'm just going to bring over this folder here, okay? So this is where I record my recordings into. As you can see, this one right here, this is actually the recording which I'm recording right now. This is one that I previously did just for an example. So I'll do is just go recordings. I just make a separate folder, and I just put all the recordings in there. And then once I'm done, would literally click this. And let's say the topic was on like, setting up audio in OBS, and then I just make sure I put raw. And then when I'm done, you know, I would highlight these and I would bring them over into the official folders where, you know, they would be going. But I just make sure that I labeled the one that was good, because, you know, as you're recording, all of a sudden, you'll come here, and you're going to click Stop recording, right? And what's going to happen is now this will be an official file, just like this. So right now, this is not an official file, so I'm going to delete it right away, just for myself to know. Another way how I know if it is a good file or not a good file is typically the size of the file. So, for example, this was introduction to OBS screen capture. So that was our first one. That was a little overview of OBS and, you know, first introducing you to it. So we click on it. You can see it's 300 megabytes about. This one was setting up OBS, you know, how scenes work, sources, stuff like that. So we click on it. That's almost a gigabyte, right? 700 megabytes. We click on this one, you know, 600. We click on this one. It's only 27 megabytes. So you know, that's kind of a sign to be like, well, that video is less than like 30 seconds. So I'm just going to delete it, but, you know, I just wanted to show you how when I'm done recording, you know, I put it all in this folder. I make sure I labeled the one that was good. And then, you know, I just bring them over into the folder that they officially go into. So that is just my rundown on OBS. Okay, I showed you how to set up the scenes, how to see yourself. You know, how to set up your audio. And then, yes, it's just a matter of coming here and clicking Record. If you wanted to do the streaming that is in file settings output, actually, sorry, streaming, and then you have to set up with your stream key and stuff like that. Then also in streaming, this is the quality of the stream. Again, I'm not going to get too much into that because we're focused on the recording. This is the streaming if you wanted to stream. This is the settings. If you want to record, this is the settings that it's going to save a file, which you can edit, which then you would upload for sale. Okay, so just the biggest thing I want to get across to you is make sure to test. Honestly, it might sound, you know, kind of like, whatever. But if you start recording your course and you finished all your videos, and then you go to edit. It's just like, trust me, when I recorded those files with the weird encoding setting, when I was in settings here, when I was in output, and on recording, and I set this to help with my video card to help OBS run smoother. Was a horrible experience. You know, editing the video was just very cumbersome. So just test test test. You guys will be super super happy. Hopefully this gets you guys going. Hopefully, you guys create some awesome courses with OBS and setting it all up and stuff like 24. 4-1 - Editing Videos - Introduction: And so in this section of videos, I'm going to be showing you how to actually edit your videos. So as you can see, this is Vegas 16. So it used to be Sony Vegas. Sony got bought out by a company called Magic. Okay. Now, something I have kind of learned over the years is when you start to work with a video editing software, I recommend sticking with that software, okay? So sometimes it's like, how do you know if you're going to like it? I think sometimes they offer trials, so you download it, try it and see what you like. The reason why I say that is because As you progress, you know, if you ever want to go back to a video or whatever and open it up, it's like it's always the same software. You don't have to always have multiple softwares. And with that said, like, I don't always upgrade. So, for example, I think I bought Vegas maybe 13, and then I allowed 14 15, and then 16 came out and and it had some features that I liked. So I was like, Okay, well, I'm going to pay the upgrade fee to get the new version. That's just something to think about when you are getting your video editing software. What do you like? I know there's ones like Final Cut Pro. I think that's only like a MC based one. But you guys can do some research. I decided on Vegas. By no means, is this the perfect video editing software? There's some quirks about it. But at the end of the day, it does work quite well, and it allows me to get high quality results. It is expensive, too. Another thing I want to talk to you about in this video is sometimes there's files, temporary files, and I just want to introduce each of those. So we're just going to click one here, we're just going to drag it in, and it's just going to say, do you want to match the project settings to the media that I just added in? I'm going to say, yes. So now if I go back to the folder, you're going to see that it created these temporary files. Now, Vegas creates these so that your software loads faster the next time. So you're safe to delete them if you want. But just remember that the next time you open up that project file, it's going to recreate these files for you. So, you know, if you're going to open up that file again tomorrow to work on, don't delete them because it's going to have to recreate those files anyways, which is going to take a couple of seconds. So that's just one thing I wanted to share with you because before I started to get into video editing, I was like, What are all these kind of temporary files? Okay, so that's everything I wanted to say in this video. It was more just a little introduction to, you know, what we're going to be covering. I'm going to show you how to set up Vegas here. I'm going to show you how to create a template, going to show you how to slice, edit, do fades, and just prepare your course for release, ok? 25. 4-2 - How to Set Up a Video Editor Template: So in this video, I'm going to be showing you guys how to set up a template. This is just how I work. You guys can work your own way, but a template just saves you time from having to reset everything up every single time. Especially when you're working on the same course for a couple of days or a week or whatever weeks. You want to make sure that your audio settings are the same, your video color correction, for the most part is the same, and stuff like that, you know, because if you are always recording in the same place at the same time, you, you want all that to be consistent. So if you set up a template, this allows you to fine tune your settings and do it only once. The thing to mention too is, if you're recording with 30 frames per second and 60 frames per second. Right now, I am actually just recording off of my computer, which is at 60 frames a second. But my canon M six, that I recorded at 30 frames per second because I just thought it was unnecessary to have a larger video size. That was just my thoughts, but I could have recorded it in 60 frames per second. The reason why I'm telling you that is because you might want to create maybe two different templates depending on the frame rate you are working in. The reason why I say that is because when it comes to the export settings, it's going to say, do you want to export in 30 frames per second or 60 frames per second. So when we are working with 60 frames per second, you want to be exporting at 60 frames per second, okay? So even if you add a few video clips that are 30 frames per second, that is okay. You can still export the project at 60 frames per second, but I just want you to be aware about that. So sometimes, even if I have two different microphones, so for example, right now, I'm talking to you on the St SM seven B right here. I would set up a template for my voice with this, okay? And then I would also save another template for myself when I was talking with my aver microphone. So this is like a lavalier microphone, you know it has like a little clip. You could just clip it onto like your shirt like that. And, you know, so I would set up a different template when I'm dealing with this because I want all this audio to be consistent. And so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to drag a video file in here. And what that does is it automatically creates a video track and an audio track for me. And depending on what file, I drag in here. So if it was captured off of OBS, so the screen capture software. Again, I want two audio channels. I want one for my voice. I also want one for my desktop audio. So then this would be creating a video track, an audio track, and an audio track. So's click and drag this in here, and you can see that. So it's going to say, do you want to set your project settings to this media? I'm just going to go yes because this is going to be my 60 frames per second template. So as you can see, this is a video one and these ones are audio with the speaker. So what I would do right off the bat is here we have our effects. So if you can't see those in Vegas, you can click this and go edit Visible button set, and you can click Track effects, Okay? So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to click this. Now, I have third party plug ins. So what a plug in is is it's like an EQ or it's a compressor. These are just the built in plug ins. They call them stock plug ins that come with the software. I'm actually going to personally add my third party plug ins in. You'll see they're just a lot easier to work with. They're a lot more attractive. Es are buy a company called Fab Filter, an amazing company. They make some really, really good stuff. So I'm going to add an EQ. I'm going to add a compressor, and I'm going to add a DS. SR helps with your Ss. That is something that could be very distracting to your student if your S is very, very like that. And there's different types of Ss, too. Some of them are more noise, some of them are more of like a whistle. So I'm just going to go to the noise gate here and I'm just going to hit remove and the track compressor will going to remove. And with audio Depending on what order you have your plug ins in, it does have a different effect on your sound. Now, again, I'm not doing a course on audio and music production, but I'm just going to kind of fill you in on some tricks and tips, okay? So, for example, if I had the EQ after the compressor, you know, we can get different results. They might be subtle, but it might be the difference of what we want to achieve. I'm going to also get a multiband compressor here too because sometimes this can be used for a little bit more control. I have them in this order, I have an EQ, a compressor, a multiband compressor, and then a DSR. I'm not going to get too intense, but I'm setting this up for myself. As I'm going to be editing my videos, I want to set up because this will be the template that I use. So that is what I'm going to set up for that just for the time being. I haven't listened to my voice yet, so I will set up the EQ. So for example, like these are your lows, these are your highs, and I don't do anything intense. I just kind of clean it up a little bit. And the biggest thing when you're using these types of plug ins and tools is you want to make sure that you can churn off and on, and you also want to make sure that the volume level is very, very similar. And the reason for that is if something is louder, we typically think that it sounds better. So if the audio is the same volume when you turn the plug and off and on, you can actually have a fair comparison and be like, Hey, I actually like that better with my voice or with the music or whatever. Now for this other one down here, this one would have been for my voice. This one I'm just going to put an EQ and a compressor on, and I'll explain why. So with the music, I'm going to want to compress it. That way, the music becomes very, very consistent, and what that means is I can actually turn it down in volume because it's more consistent in volume. And then I can EQ it to carve out some frequencies to allow for my voice to cut through. Okay? So I'm just going to put a compressor in EQ. Now in Vegas, because when I recorded my audio, it was quite quiet. That's fine because I don't want distortion and I just want a nice clean signal. What I can do is you can click this and make it bigger, you can see a little bit of audio. If I hold on shift and the arrow up, you can see it expands the audio wave, and it's like, well, this is a lot better. We can actually see what we're doing. So if we come here and I click Play, you know, I'm talking about something that so we can hear the audio. Now, it would be up to me to set up my EQ and compression, the DSR, and you know, you don't have to use a multiband compressor. That's probably an advanced tool. I'd probably say ignore that. But I'll give you a little rundown on what each does. So an EQ is like your lows, your mids, and your highs. So typically what you want to do is you want to create a low cut filter. And so what this does is it removes the lows. And Typically, the low end is like from rumble. So for example, if your microphone was on your desk, which in the beginning, I was saying not to, you always want to have your microphone on a separate table that way. If you touch something, I'm now, I'm just touching my desk, that would vibrate into the microphone and it'd be really really annoying, even if you have a shock mount and stuff like that. That just helps with vibrations. So always have it separate from your desk. Now, a low cut filter, it would remove these types of rumbles, like, you know, stuff like that, like the transfer of sound to the microphone. It also removes noise like your computer fan and stuff like that. So you have to be careful on how much you cut because your vocal can start to become thin. Because your vocal does have some base frequencies in there. So, you just got to make sure as you're fine tuning it, I'd say maybe around 60 to 80, and if you are a female or a male, this also determines the frequency too because a female doesn't have as low of a voice. A male has a lower voice. On a female, you could probably even cut a little bit more. Now, again, not to get super intense. So, that's probably a nice starting point around here. And the biggest thing too is you have to make sure that you're listening to it as we are editing it. So I will just put on some headphones here, and we can just listen for how my voice sounds here, okay? So I'm just going to double click this, and what that does is it makes this window the same size as the plug in. So I'm just going to double click. And for example, if it opened up like this one, you know, and then we come here, right now, it's bigger, so I'm just going to double click. That's just a little cool trick in Vegas, okay. So let's just listen to the vocal here. I'm talking about some The analyzer is off. Like I'm saying, this is the benefit of working with a third party plug in. These guys really know what they're doing behind their code, Fafilter. They're an amazing company. Well. I'm talking about something that isn't related to this course at all. So as you can see, that's like my vocal. You know, this is something where I'd have to be quiet and listen to myself, and I would listen over a multiple, you know, over a long period of time, because you can kind of listen to, you know, how does it sound, and then you listen to like the Ss, you listen to, you know, does it sound consistent and stuff like that. So I'm not going to really walk through how to EQ and how to compress and stuff like that. If you guys would want, I can make a separate video, you know, just leave me a message, and I will create a separate video showing how to set up your vocal to make it sound, you know, I guess professional. So that's how I set it up, and this would be my template. Then from here, I would literally just hit delete and I would delete this media. Then now if you had any intro or if you had any logo that you want to have as a watermark over your video, all you'd have to do is just right click and go insert a video track, and you can just double click here and you can put logo. You can load like your logo in here, and then depending on how long each video is. You can always expand it or shrink you could do that. For courses, I typically don't really use a logo or really an intro either just because you know, the student knows that they purchase the course from you and they know who you are. It's not like it's like on YouTube or something like that where you're always trying to promote your brand. You know, so that I'll leave that one up to you, creating a template, as you can see, It just saves you time. So now my vocal would be the same. Again, if I bring back this video here. So right now, this is probably fine for color correction, but if we were going to bring in a video Where, you know, I was talking. Okay, so for example, so this is like the video like of, like, where I was, you know, talking to you about whatever, looks like I was talking about a camera or something. So, you know, here I would color correct, okay? So I would just make sure that, you know, Everything kind of looks natural. Maybe increase some brightness a little bit, looks a little bit dark or whatever. There are meters and stuff like that. So if we go up to view, there's window, and you'll see that there's a video scopes. So again, this is getting kind of more intense, but this allows you to see where your white balances, as you can see, I could increase some brightness in there. And something for you guys to look up is broadcast standard colors. And there's actually an awesome video by movie Studio Zen, I think. He is a guy on YouTube who does a lot of videos about Vegas and stuff like that. Has a video on broadcast colors and color correction. It's a little bit longer, but it's something really worth your time to watch before you get into editing your videos, because if you watch that, you can learn about broadcast safe colors. And then off your first video, you can color correct your first video. And then since all these videos are going to be pretty much the same because I've sat here, I've recorded And, you know, the lighting was the same, the audio is going to be pretty much the same. So, you know, I would make a template based off of this. And then, again, off of this one, I would create a different template because on this one, I was talking to this microphone. I'm just recording off of the computer screen as well as I have a nice bright light on me right here. You know, so in this case, I would probably create two different templates, one for my screen capture, one for my actual camera. And now, when it comes to the template, so it's just a matter of saving it. And how I approach this is what I would do is I would right click here, okay? And when I open up a template, I would pin it to right here. And so now whenever I am working on a new video for this course, I would open up that template, and then I would load in the video file. And then I would always make sure to go save as and create that videos project file because I don't want to overwrite this template, because it's like I've created this template, it's done, it's good to go. A way around that sometimes is you can right click on that project file like within the folder. For example, this is just like a photoshop file, but it will still serve the point. If you right click on any file, you go properties, you can put it to read only. So what that does is, it doesn't allow you to save that file. A message will usually pop up and say, this file is a read only file, you can't save it. You'd have to go save as and create a new file off of that file. But the reason why I'm telling you that is because sometimes some software doesn't respect that read only, and you can still overwrite a read only file. So again, that's just my workflow. I set up a template I would pin it to here. In this case of this course, it sounds like I'm going to have two templates, one from my Lavalier microphone, and using the on M six, the DSLR camera, and then one for this one, where I'm screen capturing, I'm off of my camcorder, and I'm off of the S SM seven B. I'll have two templates. I'll make sure to create two templates and I'll pin them and I just right click on the Sony Vegas file here. Then I can just easily access them. Then again, when I'm going to work in there, I would drag in that video I'm working on and I would just click on File, Save As, and then make sure to save that project. 26. 4-3 - How to Edit Your Videos: So in this video, I'm going to introduce you to how video editing works. You have your raw recorded video. Again, off of that file name, I make sure I go dash and then put the word Raw at the end of it. That lets me know that that is the unedited version. That's not the official version which I'm going to release. So how it works is you could just press S. And as you can see, it just made a slice there. And so let's say like I screwed up there. And let's say around here. L it kind of looks like maybe I've screwed up depending on the vocal. And you'll see as you start to edit your recordings, you'll kind of start to see where you start to screw up. So as you can see there's like a dead space in here, so maybe I screwed up there. So let's actually zoom in on that, and let's listen. Like my voice, like the audio wasn't on. See I screwed up. And then here, I must have sometimes for me, it takes a little bit to get started. So I might be like, Okay, and, and then finally, I can say, Okay, and then now we're going to start. So sometimes that might be a little bit of that. So if we kind of listen to that, you'll see where I screwed up. So as you can see, right? So right here, there's dead space, is on. I would come here and I would hit S to slice, and I'd come here and I'd click again, and I'd use my scroll wheel to zoom in, I just want to make sure that I'm pretty close to that. I don't want to be cutting here for the breath. I would probably cut around here and hit S again. Now I'm going to zoom out, and now Vegas has something called auto ripple. If auto ripple is off and I click on this and you literally just hit delete, not backspace, but delete. I'm going to hit delete. You'll see that it doesn't collapse. It doesn't put this all the way here. So I just hit Control Z to undo. Control Z. That's a very, very important one to know. Then if you're ever unsure because every software does the undo a little bit different. If you go edit, you'll see that it shows you your undo as well as your redo. In this case, control Y or Control Shift Z is redo. I usually just use Control Y. Undo Control Z, redo is Control Y. For example, we made those slices of a height control Z, it takes it away. If I hit control, why, it brings them back. Now, that's just really, really important as your editing. It's something to be aware of. It's a really awesome shortcut. In this case, I want to be here and I'm going to enable this auto ripple. It's just this arrow here. I going to click it on. Now watch when I click this one and hit delete, you'll see that it collapses for me. That allows me to be a lot faster as I'm editing. I'm going to click here and we're just going to listen through to make sure that makes sense. And you get tired, and all of a sudden you realize I didn't record. Like my voice, like the audio wasn't on. Okay. So to continue on. So again, as you can see, it just transition. Now, if I even wanted to add that in there, you know, who knows? Like, I have to take the time out to figure out what I'm saying and what I'm trying to tell you. So how it works is right here, this would be it'd be a really, really fast transition. So let's just make this a little bit bigger so you can see this screen up here, okay? So I'm just going to zoom in here, okay? So right here, we can put a transition, and what a transition is, it's just like a fade, it fades from one scene to the next scene. Whether it is like a fade, so a cross fade. If we just right click here, or sorry, we have to right click in between the scenes, as you can see, whenever you're doing video editing, it's really important to always watch your cursor to see what it's telling you. Right now, it's just the mouse, and if I put it here, you can see it turns into a bar with arrows. Now I can right click here and you'll see transition. I can just highlight here and's go insert cross fade, or the shortcut is the divide symbol or the forward slash on the number pad. So as you can see, now it's going to transition. So if we watch, you know, it might not be much of a difference because the background stays the same, and then I might just be looking right there anyways. Okay. So if I remove the fade, so I'll add the fade back in. Okay. Now, if you want to spice the transition up a little bit, You know, you just click transitions, and then you can use any of these. So for example, I can just click on the spiral here. For example, I'll just drag the default one on and we'll see how it looks, okay? So I'm just going to hit play. Okay, so to continue. You know, so you have to think about your student, and you have to think about kind of, like, does it look chesy? So a lot of these transitions do look very, very cheesy. Many times, you know, you just want a simple kind of fade. Sometimes you can pay for high quality ones. I think you might be able to download some ones that people have released online. But typically the ones that come stock with your video editing software are pretty low quality, and they make your video look pretty cheesy. So, in my opinion, I would probably just go for like a simple fade, or if you can find a really cool looking transition, which isn't, you know, kind of over the top, but it does the job. So sometimes there's ones like glow. So for example, I use like this fade through black. I'll let you look at that. Okay, you know, we could use something like that. This one, it goes bright. Okay. So to do something like that. Maybe we'll try one more, okay? So To continue that one wasn't very noticeable. But again, it all depends. Right now, the background is staying the same the whole time, so you're not going to see so much of a transition sometimes. Where these transitions where you'll really notice them is again, when it goes from one scene to another scene and they are quite different. Okay, so far, I've shown you how to slice and then delete and how to add a transition in. That's pretty much just how I flow, okay? Another thing I'll show you in this video is how to fade in and fade out like audio and stuff like that. So in Vegas, anyways, so hopefully this content relates to your video editing software, but for the most part, they're all very, very similar. So how you fade in audio is just you put it up here in the corner. So as you can see right now is the hand, this is how you control the volume up and down. Or you can control the master volume. This would control the volume for all of the slices. Right now, this I can control differently than this one. As you can see, the volumes become quieter, but these slices are staying the same. Whereas, if I would turn this down, it turns down the volume for this whole track, and you can just double click on it to reset it. So to fade in, all you have to do, and sometimes, right now, it's we don't see the end of our clip. So a lot of times I'll just zoom out and zoom in to move around. So I'll zoom out, I'll click over here, then you can zoom in and zoom out and zoom in. It just allows you to move a little faster. So I'm going to click here. Now my cursor stays there, I'm going to zoom in. Now, all you have to do is just put your mouse up here in the corner and you can see that this fade happens. And if we click this, you'll see that we can fade in our voice. So for example, if you're working with background music or something like that, this is where this can come into play. So we'll listen to the Fade. On in the course, how to set up a slide show like this because, listen again. Later on in the course. Okay. So as you can see, it's just lowering the volume, it's fading it in. And then the same thing with your video, you can do this. But in this case, it's weird because there's a slice here. Going to show you later on in the course. Okay? So typically, at your intro, you would do that. So I'm just going to do this, go more to the intro. I probably screwed up right here. Okay, so in this video, I'm just going to be, no, I didn't. Okay, so that's good. So sometimes I can just tell from editing my own voice so much. I can kind of see where I've screwed up and I know how to delete stuff and stuff like that. But right now, imagine this is the intro. It's kind of like a hit play. Okay, so in this video. You know, it's not bad. But typically, you know, I usually have a little bit of a fade in the beginning. It kind of makes it look a little bit more attractive. So for example, imagine your student is listening right from the beginning. They're kind of like, Okay, so that's again, fast. We're going to make it a little longer. Zoom out here. So I'm going to put it to maybe one. Okay, so in this video, I'm just going to be going over a slide show with you guys, right? And then it would go into, you know, a transition here. Again, just because you have a slice doesn't mean you need to transition, especially if you're talking, in this case, if the slide hasn't changed or anything like that, I probably wouldn't use like a fade or whatever. You know, it all depends on, it doesn't look weird on myself, right here. Like, do I look weird? When I made a slice? If I do, you know, I might put a little fade. And one thing just to mention is, if I come here, and again, the shortcut was the number pad forward slash, if you recall. As you can see, it made the slice there. Now, I have to make sure I click on the video clip and then go in between in order for that slice to happen. So right now, I clicked on the audio, so I'm going to click now here, and if I click again, the Forward slash, it's going to fade the audio. You'll see that it fades the audio. Okay? Again, you can just come here, right click Ingle Fay type, and you can change the bend and stuff like that. That's getting pretty intense. But when you first create a fade like that, there is a default length that your software gives it. So for example, if we go options, we go preferences, and if we go to editing here, can see right here cut to overlap conversion. This is where the frames happen. I think they give it to you at one or something. I usually find that's a little bit long for a transition and I just set the default at 0.35. You guys can set this whatever you want, but you'll see the transition when you default added in. Sometimes it's like, that feels a little bit long. And with Vegas, sometimes it makes it a little bit tricky to fix afterwards. For example, if I put this fade in right now, it's kind of like, if I try to make the clip smaller, it's kind of like starts to overlap weird. Watch this. I kind of like I don't know. I just I just find Vgs is a little bit finicky when you start dealing with transitions, you can turn off that auto ripple and you can have more control. For example, now if I do this, it's not following it. So for example, when auto ripples on, and if I move this, you're going to see that the whole thing moves over. But if I have auto ripple, off, you'll see that I can move this without anything moving. Watch is just going to stay where it is. So you have a little bit more control with the auto ripple off. In this video, I talked to you about how to slice, how to delete the auto ripple transitions, as well as kind of what to think about as you're editing your video. The biggest thing I want to get across to you when you're editing your course is you want to make sure that does your video actually tell your student what you want them to say? As you're editing, even if that's removing sentences that Don't even pertain to what you're really trying to get across. Sometimes you can cut out the fluff, even though you've recorded this eight minute video or whatever, it might only end up being 4 minutes because you have removed a lot of the junk and you just kept it simple and to the point. You know what I mean? Don't get me wrong. There are times to add that content in for that little extra because that little extra can be your own personal touch which your students love. You know, they might like that about you. They might like that little extra content that you add in there that they're not getting anywhere else. So they're willing to pay you that extra. In our next video, what I'm going to do is I'm going to bring an audio track in here, like a song, and I'm going to show you how I would EQ it against vocals so that we can make them both stand out clear, and we can both have them loud in volume. 27. 4-4 - Setting Voice and Music Levels: So what I'm going to do here is I'm just going to drop and drag my music file in here. Now as you can see, this is a small loop. Sometimes this is just how I work. If I'm working on a little track, whatever, and I want to feature it in one of my videos. I'll just create a little loop like this. Then what I will do from here is I will just line it up to so I can copy and paste because right now if I would copy and paste this here, and we listen to this. I'm just going to turn it down and be a little bit loud. This is a track I've created just to give you a little taste of my style of music. We're going to listen from here to here and you'll hear, it's like it doesn't flow. Okay. So what I do from here is let's just make this bigger. So 1 second, I'll just bring this down a little bit, and we'll make this bigger. So we can see the audio file a lot better. So again, holding on shift and the arrow up and down makes the audio file bigger or smaller. This is the smallest I can make it right now, so it doesn't help too much. But what I'm going to do is, I'm just going to zoom in here to the beginning. As you can see, there's a gap. I'm just going to bring it nice and close to the beginning. I'm going to take this fade off. Now, on your keyboard in Vegas anyways, you'll see your square brackets. The right underneath like back space really close to the enter. I'm going to hit the left bracket, left square bracket, and you can use your arrow key to make it bigger or smaller. I'm going to probably put it around here. This allows you to fine tune it. Now here at the end, I'm going to zoom in again to. And so I'm going to leave it right where it is. I'm going to hit control C and then control V, and I'm going to line up this audio. So we're lining up right here, and we'll listen to that again. Okay, what I'm going to need to do is again, I'm going to hit the right square bracket. And I'm just going to use my left arrow key to kind of cut a little bit on the end there. I think it's just too long. Okay. I'll let you listen to just how it transitions. Okay. So it sounds like it's a constant loop now. Now what I would do is I'd click here, I'd click delete, and I'm just going to click this, go Control C, and then I'm going to press Control V here. I'm going to put it all the way to the end. And now, since that cursors all the way at the end, I'm just going to use the scroll bar here to go up a little bit. So however long the song is, I can go control V, just constantly like the whole way. And now I know that this audio can be played. For this long, we're going to make this a little bit smaller now. We're going to scroll up. We can see everything now. Make this one a little bit smaller too. I'm going to hold on shift and the up arrow key. I'm just going to tap it a couple of times so I can see the vocal. We're not going to be able to see like the audio waveform of the music, but it's okay. I've set it up. That's good to go now. Now, watch this. If we click play here, you're going to see that the music and the vocal are going to fight, right? Okay. We can't even hear my vocal. So right off the bat, we're going to open up some plug ins here. And I'm going to go just plus here, I'm going to open up an EQ, and I'm also going to open up a compressor. We're going to go to the stock ones. We're going to remove it, remove it, and remove it. Okay? I'm going to click k. So I'm just going to leave the plug ins the way they are right now. First of all, let's come to the vocal and let's just boost up the volume quite a bit, and I'm going to actually mute the music. I'm going to bring up the vocal and I'm going to watch for the volume. I obviously don't want the vocal to distort. I'm going to hit play here. We're going to watch this through. Okay, so this vocal is very, very quiet. I can boost this up by probably, like, ten, 15 decibels, okay? So I'm going to go 15. That is the slide show here. And again, I'm going to show you how to set up this slide show, you know, and show you how to create the background. Okay, so again, I'm just looking for my loudest peak. So minus eight, so I can still increase this. I think if I put this to maybe 21, that'd probably be a safe number. That way, I'm not risking distortion, as well, you know, I'm still getting more loudness out of the vocal. So we listen again, money. So when you're creating your course, put your heart into it, care for your student, and it will have an impact on your student, okay? Okay, I can even go a little bit louder. I am going to go 25, okay? So we're going to 25, we'll listen again for the money. So when you're creating your course, put your heart into it, care for your student. Now what's happening is since I boosted up a 25 decibels, again, your audio goes into plug in into plug in. So as you affect it here, the affected signal goes into the compressor, and then the affected signal in the compressor goes to the next sound. So as you can see what's going to happen on the compressor is it's going to be compressing it a lot. So just a little quick rundown on what a compressor does. So One of the main ways to use a compressor is to use it for volume balancing. In other words, when a sound goes too loud, it will turn it down in volume. It's like an automatic volume control. That's a way to look at it. When I'm speaking to you and if I go, hello, and then hello, a compressor can actually make those they could be the same volume as you're listening if you compress it real really hard. How it works is you have a threshold. If your audio goes over the threshold, that kicks in the compressor, which means that it's now going to work. If the audio never goes over the threshold, pressor will never work. As soon as it goes over that threshold, then your ratio, attack, and release will work. The ratio is how aggressive your compressor is going to be. The attack is how fast that compressor is going to clamp down. Again, we have a threshold, the audio goes over and now the attack is how fast are we going to get to this desired ratio? Release. After the audio goes under the threshold, your compressors actually still compress in the audio, but the release depending on how long you set it, that's just the time it takes to let go of compression. Again, this isn't an audio production course. That's just the basics, just to get you up and running. Typically, to get you going, I'm just going to put the put the threshold around -24. We're going to go maybe a two to one ratio, and I'm going to open up this attack a little bit just so that it's a little bit more natural sounding. It's just not sounding so aggressive, and the release we're going to bring up a little bit to. Okay? So we're going to watch this, and we're going to see we're going to have a lot of compression in it for the money. So when you're creating your course, put your heart into it, care for your student. And In this case of this plug in it has an auto gain, I typically turn that off and I will manually boost this up. For example, if it's reducing my audio by about 3 decibels, because this is the gain reduction, I'll bring it up around maybe two to 3 decibels. Then again, you want to turn off and on the plug in just to do a little test run to make sure it's like, are you actually benefiting your vocal? Okay, so I'm just going to leave my vocal just here for now, okay? And it for the money. So when you're creating your course. So, you know, imagine I liked it in the sense of, like, you know, I've token my time, I've adjusted some EQ or whatever, and I like the vocal. Now we're going to play our music again. Now, we're going to kind of here in between. It's like, are they still fighting for space? So it for the money. So when you're creating your course, you know, put your heart into it. Okay. So let me too loud, right? So, you know, a simple way to do that is just to turn on the volume. So, maybe we'll go And personally, I usually just double click here and then put in the number. So I'm going to go minus. Let's go 15. So it for the money. So when you're creating your course, you know, put your heart into it. Okay, so see, I feel that that is a good volume for the music to the vocal, but I feel that the vocal is still getting kind of there's still competition in between the vocal and the music. So what you can do on your music, is just open up your EK, okay, so I'm going to open this up. And what I'm going to do is, I'm just going to kind of cut around here. This is a good frequency for like your vocal, as well as maybe around kind of more of like the body of your vocal too. Again, I'm not trying to make this like a music production course. I'm just trying to show you this is a real cool pro tip. So watch this for the money. When you're creating your course, put your heart into it, care for your student, and you can the voice really good and the music really good. That is the slide show here. S. I'm going to show you how to set up the slide show, you know, and show you how to create they kind of fighting for space. Kind of slide in with the points. It's really, really simple. But again, it takes time to learn right now it's the because a lot of times, if you guys go watch other online courses, times the slide show. So we hear the audio. Um, because of our EQ settings, it's not fighting so much with our vocal. So again, you can kind of set these up and be as aggressive as you want. Again, when you're using a third party plug in, this allows you to kind of do stuff like this. You can highlight multiple things and adjust like this. You can bring them over together. Like I'm saying, Fat filter is an amazing company. Okay. So that is how I would set up my vocal against music. Now, I'll show you one more thing since we're on this topic. Now, imagine you are talking with the music in the background. But then let's say you want the music to stop playing because you're going to start playing more music or something, like a different style of music, whatever, but you want this background music to come in eventually. In Vegas anyways, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to click on this audio track here. So as you can see, when I click here, it highlights the audio track, and it's highlighting this audio track now. So all you do is click V. And you can see that this volume envelope opens. So imagine rate around here, I want it to kind of duck, and I want to talk a little bit, then I want to come back in. So all you have to do is you have to click a point, you have to click another point, and you have to click another point and another point. And it's kind of confusing, but the reason for this is because our volume is going to stay the same up here. Our volume is gonna stay the same over here. But right here, it's gonna be pulled down. Okay? And then those were our fades. So it's kind of tricky, but that's kind of how it works, okay? So watch this. We're gonna hit play. You're going to hear, it fades out, and then it'll come back in. Care for your student, and it will have an impact on your student, okay? So, that is the slide show here. And again, I'm gonna show you how to set up this slide show, you know, and show you. Okay, so that was just a matter of hitting V, and then you can just double click to create points. And then finally, I'll show you one more thing here, okay? So Right now, these are all just the individual tracks, okay? And what happens is audio always goes to what you call a master bus. And that's the audio here on the right. You can see it's the master. So it always sums down to two channels, which is your left and your right. And if you remember earlier, I told you that what makes stereo is the difference between the left and the right speaker. So that's what makes something sounds wide. Your voice, we always want that to be mono, so there's no difference between the left and the right. The exact same audio is coming out of both. But stereo, the left is a little bit different than the right and that gives you that stereo sound. So what I'm trying to tell you is on the master track, what you want to do is you actually want to put a limitor on there, okay? And what a limiter does is it prevents distortion. It prevents the audio going over a certain audio level, okay? So in this case, you know, you guys can just open up the limiter that comes with your software, so I'll just go the FX limitor, just for an example. I believe that this comes with a Vegas 16 here. I'm just going to open up the limitor that I use all the time. Again, it's by fad filter. A limter is like a compressor, except the limiter is way more extreme. If you remember when I was showing you about a compressor, it has this ratio knob. What limiting is in theory is anything over ten to one. If we go ten to one, you'll see that is limiting, or it can just go infinity to one. In other words, whenever any audio goes over, it never goes over that threshold. I'm just going to remove that So on your limit on your output, I always put this up minus one. The reason for that is, again, it's getting pretty intense, when your audio gets converted to MP three format or a compressed data format, there could be this conversion process where there could be a spike in your audio. Again, this is more of the technical audio stuff, but on your limit, if you put it to minus one, you're going to be safe. Then even if the audio goes over the limitor, it's fine as long as you're not hearing audible distortion, And then also one other thing I'll tell you is, you will want to get like an audio meter to. You don't have to, but I would recommend that to you because that allows your audio to be the same level throughout course video to video to video, okay? So nowadays, there is something called LUFS, and it's a new standard, okay? And it's to do with loudness normalization. So back in the day with TV and stuff like that, when your TV show was on, you know, it was a certain volume, and then also a commercial would come on, and it'd be super super loud, right? And then all a sudden, you know, you'd always be grabbing your remote and you'd go and turn it down. And, you know, that always really annoyed people, especially, you know, you're watching your show or whatever, and you walk away for a second, also and it goes into a commercial. It's just it's like, Why is the TV so loud? And then it goes back to the show and it's super quiet. So anyways, there's now standards coming into place, which are, you know, kind of putting laws saying that, no, it's like we have to have a standardized loudness level. And it's called LUFS, and there's meters nowadays coming out that allow you to monitor this. So what I'm trying to tell you is if you have a meter on your master channel, and again, you want it as a very, very last plug in. And that will allow you to measure your audio to let you know how loud like your voice or how like the audio is within your videos. You know, let's say it was -11 LUFS. Now that's kind of your target that you want to reach from video to video to video, okay? So not getting super super intense, but I do want to break this down just so that you are knowledgeable so that as you are releasing, your courses and stuff like that, that your audio level is consistent, and it's not bothering your students. Meter that I personally use is by a company called lean. It's a free meter. He also has a paid one, but the free one is what I use, and it allows you to measure LUFS. However, I noticed up here in view, and if we go to Window, you'll see that you have loudness meters. What it is, you want your integrated loudness, I believe, to be like that minus ten to 11. You guys can do a little bit of research on what the loudness should be. I just want to tell you that just so that you are aware so that you can get good audio levels for your course. 28. 4-5 - How to Overdub a Screwup!: So in this video, I just want to talk to you about how to add in, you know, imagine you were recording, and then you screwed up so that now you have to add in that overdub or whatever, okay? So again, it's just a matter of coming to your actual clip, clicking here, clicking slice, if you had another video file, you know, now you would just you can either drag it directly into here or you can drag it into your project media here. All I would do is I would just click here and I would spread it out. I would drag it in here, the new overdub version that is the proper words that you want to say, just drag it into here. Going to zoom in here. You just drag it in, click Play, make sure it transitions nice, and then you're just going to come here, and you're just going to just put this right beside it, okay? And then again, you can click here and you can fade in. So if they're buttoned up like this, we're going to come here, we're going to right click, you can have your transition, and you can just go like cross fade, just to keep it simple, or you can go to the transitions here and select one that isn't teasy, and makes your course look professional. 29. 4-6 - Exporting Your Course Videos: So in this video, I'm going to be talking to you about export settings. So again, how I do it is I create save templates from export settings. It's really really simple that way. I create a 30 FPS version and I also create a 60 FPS version. They're pretty much the same except just for the frame rate. That's it. So once you're done editing your video in Vegas anyways, you're just going to come up here and click Render As. You're going to get a little window that pops up. Now, as you can see, I have the filter on and I have show favorite. I'm going to disable that. So I select the magics AVC, AAC, P four. Now, in every single version of Vegas, this is always going to change. But anyway, this is what I choose. I just select this. I think I selected the Internet, ten eightP. Then what you do is just go customize template. Then what you do is, you can just label it your own, so my own template and then you go like 30 FPS, or you label it 60 FPS K, and then you would go save, and it's going to save it for you right here. As you can see, these are the ones that I've done. I'm going to go filters. I'm going to go show favorites only. Let's just start with the 30 FPS. We're going to go customize template. This is how I have it set up, it's checked off to include the video. The framer is 1920 by 1080. The framer this is actually what 30 FPS is, if you click the arrow, this is what it gives you, and that's what 60 FPS is. Um, you know, so this is how I have my settings, the variable, I have it like this, the code mode. This allows it to export a little bit faster, so you can either use like your video card or nowadays on your CPU, that also has a video card. And you can just kind of offload some of the work to your CPU, as well as like the video card, and it can kind of help render faster. For my audio, for the sample rate, I have a 48,000, k. So again, if you remeber OBS, I put it to 48, or if it was 44.1, I would put to 441. The bit rate, this is like MP three. So back in the day, if you remember, you can have a 128 MP three or 256 or a 320, that's just the quality of your audio. I put this to 320. Okay. I want decent quality audio. And then for the system, I don't touch anything there. And the project, I put this the best, and that's it. And then I make sure to save it. Then again, for the 60 FPS. All that would be is on video. I just make sure I change the frame rate, and that's it. So all the settings you see here, this is what I use to export my video. I click save, and then in the case of Vegas, it would save you in here with all these other ones. And then it's just a matter of clicking the Star, and then I click this and I click Show Favorites, and then you want to select where you want to save it. Your title and click Render. And then that's it, and then just make sure to watch it after. That's typically how I do my videos. After I export all the official ones. What I'll do is, again, I'll take a note pad, and I'll watch from the beginning, the intro video all the way to the Otro video, and I will literally with a pencil and paper, I will write K, I'm on this video, if it was good, checkmark. And if there was something wrong, I write the time at which it was wrong. Okay? Because if the rest of the video is fine, well, I don't need to go back and check that. It's like I just need to go if it was like 5 minutes and 42 seconds, I just write five Colin 42, and I would say like, Oh, you know, video glitched, or you know, what I was saying didn't make sense. I don't like what I was saying there. Let's just remove that. So it's like, Okay, so 542-621, it's like, I want to remove it around there. So I'll make sure that when I open up that project file, I start around 540 and I'll hit play, and I'll let it play all the way through, and it's like, y, there it is, slice, slice, you know, delete it, bring over the whole project. Might have to do a little path. Done. That's my expert settings as well as how I walk through testing my video to make sure it's ready for release. 30. 4-7 - Getting Better Performance When Video Editing: So in this video, I'm going to share with you some tips to get some better performance out of your video editor. I know for some people, to get better performance, what they do is they actually have two hard drives. So whatever hard drive Vegas is on, I would make sure to have my files that I'm editing on a separate hard drive. That's just one kind of little tip. Another tip is to make sure you have an SSD hard drive. There are a new type of hard drive in recent years. Absolutely a game changer. Solid state hard drive is so fast. The next thing is, when you're actually previewing your video, so right now, we'll look at this, k. I'll make this bigger. You'll see up here you have different quality controls, okay? So if we go draft and go like quarter, you're going to see it just looks horrible. You can't even see anything as you're editing, okay? So if we go draft half, you'll see it starts to get a little bit better. We go draft full. You know, it's looking a little bit better. So for me, I always work with multiple monitors. So I have a monitor here that I'm working with you right now. I also have a monitor behind the camera where I have OBS on. But if I was even video editing, you know, I don't have this screen here. Like, I would actually click this and it puts this screen to preview on a separate screen, and then I can edit and view off of two different screens. That helps a lot for fast workflow. But anyway, so I would usually go maybe around good half, or I would go around preview half to full. Okay? And you'll really notice where the performance really takes a hit is when it comes to these transitions. So for example, if I click here and make a slice and then go to transition and then, drag this in here, you'll notice that, sometimes if you click play, the transition, we won't even play. The way to get the transition to play is right now, I'm just going to zoom in on this, you literally have would click here, and then you can hit play. Your course. And you can see the transition. Your course. Okay. So sometimes if you click from back here, to structure your course. So it actually worked pretty good. But if I go best full, let's see if it works, okay? To structure your course. So see we didn't even see it. So if you want to see it on high quality, you can click at the very beginning of the transition hit play. Course. And so even there, we didn't even see it, just because it's on Best full. So, you know, typically, I always work about good half or preview half or full, okay? So that's another thing to help you get better performance out of your computer. So right now, again, your core. Another thing I've done in Vegas here is in options and preferences, depending on what kind of computer you have, if you go to video, I believe, the GPU acceleration of video processing, I have chosen my video card for that. And that's pretty much all I do to get better performance out of my video editor. If you don't follow what I've suggested, you'll really notice that your video editor is really slow, and it's really hard to do stuff. But sometimes it'll even start crashing on you too. So if you have it on a lower setting like I'm showing here, Um, you know, you'll be able to kind of make a lot of slices and stuff like that, and it will really help you. Another thing to keep in mind too is as your video is playing. So right now it's playing. So what course? So if you were to make, like, a slice in the middle of that, and then sometimes delete and stuff, too, that is also going to be really buggy in this video editor anyway. So typically when I'm working, so there's two different types of plays and starts, okay? So for example, if I hit the space bar, figure and hit the space bar again, you'll see that it goes right back to where it was. But if I hit enter figure and then enter again, you'll see that it's now stayed here. So for example, if I was listening to this course and I was kind of, you know, just listening to see if there's any mistakes or anything like that, I would, you know, maybe hit enter around here, or I can hit the letter K. That's another short cut here in Vegas. So K is pause. L is forward. J is how you go backwards. Okay. So, you know, as I'm listening here, figure out what courses see I screwed up there. So I would hit K. So that puts the cursor right there. So, if I started here and I hit space bar, what courses? So now the cursor stays here. So now it's like, Hey, well, where was I? So that's where I would use Enter to kind of stop the cursor here because I know I screwed up. So I would go here, I would hit S, and then let's say, you know, I'm going to start here again, I hit S again, and I'm going to delete that. So I just want to make sure that the video isn't playing when I'm making delete and stuff like that because you know, this editor has crashed for me quite a bit when I do stuff like that. As the actual video is playing, you know, you can click around, and you can see you have different areas where you can make a slice. So for example, if I screwed up just right here, I'd be like, Okay, I screwed up. So I'm going to click there and slice. And maybe I'll let it continue for a second, and I'd be like, Okay, well, I'm going to hit Enter. So maybe I want it to stop around here two or something. Like, well, all this was screwed up. So I'm going to make a slice here. And right now as you notice, I paused it, and then I would hit delete, and then I would hit spacebar, and I would continue like, Okay, well, I'm waiting for this. It looks like I screwed up here to. So I'm going to come here. I'm also going to zoom in. And the reason for that is because I want it nice and close. I don't want to have, you know, something where I looked away or something. I'm going to come here. So sometimes, again, when you start editing your own videos, you'll get to know when you screw up, okay? And I'm pretty sure this might be a screw up here for me. So I'm just going to make this bigger. Again, as you can see. Case see, I again. That's what I did. What I'm going to do is I'm going to listen. Again, as again, as you can. This is where I would put the cursor. I'm going to slice it and hit delete. Now you might have had again, again, as you can see. I said again, again, I would come here, I'd slice this, delete this. You might have had again, as you can see right up here, however to make it flow. But that's how I generally work. That's how I get better performance out of my video editor. 31. 4-8 - Tricks and Tips When Editing: In this video, I just want to give you some tips and shortcuts which I have discovered over the years of video editing. Okay? So knowing the shortcuts is going to save you a lot of time. So things like control S for saving or control Z to undo or control y to redo or just S to slice. If we come here, we hit S to slice, or the difference between hitting Spacebar and Spacebar again or spacebar and enter where the cursor changes. Or if we click on one of these slides like this and if you click the square bracket, it takes you to the beginning of the clip or the right square bracket, it takes you to the end of the clip. Other thing which I've picked up over the years is a little controller like this. This is actually called a shuttle pro. This is an older version of it. They have a newer one now. As you can see, I have a beginning of clip, I have my slice, I have delete. You have a little jog wheel. This allows you to go fast in between your scams. This isn't plugged in right now, but usually, I just use this jog wheel. And what it does is if you watch the cursor right here right now, I'm able to move it forward and back really really fast, like this. This is helped speed it up, and then I also kind of have some buttons down here too. But that's been a really, really cool one just to help with, you know, work flow. I am literally just able to just put my two hands. So I have one for my controller and then my other hand, obviously, they're further away. But I would have one for my controller and I have one for my moose, and I honestly barely even have to touch my keyboard. It's pretty cool. So those are just kind of like the tricks and tips which I want to pass on to you. Make sure that you learn a lot of the hot keys for software. Again, if we hit a track here and hit V, that's the volume envelope. You can just double click, double click, double click, double click, and you can just kind of bring it down like that. The reason why I do that is so that the volume stays the same on both sides. I don't click here, click here. I don't bring it down, and then click here, and then here because I don't know where it was originally. Okay? So those just some kind of tricks and tips. Hopefully, they help you out and speed you up. And let's get to our next 32. 4-9 - Recap of the Video Editor Template: So I just want to do a quick overview of your video templates, because I just feel that these are really, really important to speed you up and your workflow. In the case of this video course for myself, I'm going to be creating two video templates. One when I was using my Lavalier with my DSLR camera, and then one when I'm actually doing the screen recording here with you with the Sur SM seven B. Reason for that is because I can adjust my audio differently to make them sound consistent, okay, from video to video. And so whenever I'm working off of the DSLR camera, it's like, you know, I recorded probably ten, 15 videos. So I know that, you know, once I set it up, you know, the audio was correct. And then I'm also going to be doing a little bit of color correction there too. And what I would do is I would open up the effects here, and you can see that there's probably color corrector or something like One thing to point out is sometimes these color correction tools can really bog down your system, make it go really really slow. So I might just adjust this to where I like it, and then I make sure to disable it. And then before I export, I make sure I enable this, ok? So sometimes it's hard to remember. So, you might just want to leave it on and then leave this preview, kind of at a low quality so that, you know, the effect isn't really slowing you down tons. Then again, on your master channel, what I do is I make sure to put a limitter, and I put it to minus one. This is just a safety net in case of distortion. Then if you want a loudness meter, you can have that two, and then you always want to reach for that same loudness level. I think what you're looking for is the integrated loudness. That's the overall loudness from beginning to end of that video. That's pretty much all I want to say about the template. It's all about just setting yourself up. For me, I know that I'm always going to be working with my video, I'm going to be working with my voice. Then if I choose to have music in the background, I've created this one too, and I've put just like an EQ and a compressor on here. Then on the music one, you can cut around here. This is a good frequence to cut to help the vocal stand through as well as maybe like the body of the vocal. I'm just cutting the music to help the vocal stand out. If I were to save this, Again, this is now the template, which I always keep pulling up. I would drag the video file in here. I make sure to go file, save as, and then I save it whatever that project is going to be, in the case of let's say it was like a OBS overview, ok? So I would save it like that. So that's just my little overview of a template. I really want to stress just how important it is to speed you up. Um, it really is the difference because instead of you having to go and manually open up Vegas and then, you know, set all this up, one by one, I'm sure you are going to forget something in one of the videos, and you're going to be like, Oh, you know, so if you set up a template, keep it all consistent, it's going to be really, really simple, and then it's just a matter of, really, you're just editing your video, making sure that it's saying what you want it to say. 33. 5-1 - Creating Your Course Artwork [What to Look Out For]: So in this video, I want to talk about your course image. Before you even start working on your course image, it's very, very important for you guys to check out the guidelines that these course websites suggest, because otherwise, it could fail. They might say, you need to fix your image and you just wasted your time. Because again, time is very, very valuable, and it's not just the time It's also the effort you put in, you know? So if you did it once and you can get tired, and now you might not do as good of a job the second time or whatever, okay? So, for example, these are uoms guidelines, for example. And I just typed into Google, you know, Utomi course Image specs, okay? So they say that the minimum dimensions are this, okay? So that's the minimum. Now, I know some other course websites, they actually have a bigger dimension. So what I suggest to you, so 750 by 422, to Google, I typed in aspect ratio calculator because, it's just a ratio. So 750 by 422, okay? So I would say 2048 by 11 52 is a good number when you start getting into these ones. Okay? I'm going to explain what I do when I create my courses, okay? So again, just make sure you check out the specifications because some course vendors, they don't even allow words in your image. So, for example, as you can see in the title here, this is skill shares, because I personally like the title. It kind of explains to the student, you know, what the course is. But to me doesn't allow that. So as you can see, this is the same image, right, but I put a speaker. So again, you guys can just check this page out and just kind of read what they recommend. So for example, use of text, Utomy doesn't like text, they want it like that. And then they just want it looking professional. They don't want it looking busy, but you guys can just follow that. That way, again, you're creating it once. So how I do my course image, because I sell my courses on multiple sites, including my own site. So for example, if we come to my own site here, you can see that the way how my theme from my word press theme, you know, it's a square image, okay? So first of all, I design it as a square. You can design it with like 3,000 at 3,000. I think I did this at 100,000, but I actually do recommend 3,000 by 3,000. The reason why is because again, when we come to the aspect ratio calculator, that 2048 by 11 52, again, I know a website that actually, that's the minimum dimension. So if you create this square, 3,000 by 3,000. You know, you can resize this easily if you have to send it somewhere or whatever. But this way, you have a square if you're selling it on a website that has, the square image. And then what I do is I do this. So I kind of like chop it up. So, for example, if we are on this image here, what I would do is I would go image. We're going to go canvasize. And again, I'm just going to check out the UNM specification. I'm pretty sure it was 750 by 422, but we're going to double check it. So come up here to the minimum dimensions. So 750 for 422. I got it. I'm going to press okay, but you're going to see that it just crops everything. So what I do here is going to go to the text here. This one and this one. I'm holding on control and clicking on both of those. I can press control and t. We're going to make this smaller. Bring in an over here, and you can rotate it. That's where I did just a little bit here. I'm going to hit the check mark. Then I just created an image of myself like this. This is becoming a common practice that you see a lot of people do. I just copied that. But it does allow your students to see your face, and if they like your style of teaching, they see your face from course to course to course. So it's just a branding thing. I literally just come here, I just copied this layer. Right now we're working on our own. I pasted it in here, and I literally just dragged it in the corner. It's like, that's what we got so far. Maybe I could fix this a little bit. Control T. My make it as a little bit bigger, bring it over and down, it enter. Then what I could do here is I could also make this image, this one, the background image, I can make it a little bit smaller since I shrunk it. I I is going to make this smaller. It Enter, see how that looks, something like that. For example, this would be the image, which I would upload to skill share in this case, because they allow text on it. Then if it was you to me, I could just simply just come here and just disable those. Then I could just send it that way. But what I did was, I used to run a website called beachrug do com. I I just disable the gauge and blur, you can see beach struggles. That's the speaker. That was a part of my brand, my logo. That's what I was using here. Again, you just have to follow each course website specifications. That way, it's just super simple, and you can just upload it once and you know the rules and you're good to go. But if you do it the way how I'm explaining here, I'm just going to come up here into the history and just go to how it was opened. So this allows me to upload it to my own website, and then I would just go file, save as, and I would put skill share or whatever, and then I make it the dimensions. In this case, I would put it that this one should be 3,000 by 3,000. And then you make your image, your Canvas size 2048 by 11 52, because again, this is just a ratio. So we're just making it bigger and whatever size we make this bigger by, we have to make the height bigger by to keep the aspect ratio. So that allows me to create this image. And then it's just a matter of, you know, you to me doesn't like the text. So all you have to do is just go boom. Boom, you know. And then in my case, I have this speaker logo. And then here's just another example, too. So this is another course I released. It's called FL Studio Mixer Workflow. So again, this is the square image, which I upload to my own personal website where I sell the course. And then, again, this is like the UT to me slash Skill share version. So again, U to me does not like the text. So it's just a matter of coming here and just doing that. Done. I can upload this to UTM. Good to go, okay? So I just wanted to explain how I approach the course image. I start with the square, and then I break it down for the scale share Utomi, and then I just remove the text for Utomi. So just make sure that you read the guidelines. It's going to help you a lot, and I hope the best with your course image creation. 34. 6-1 - Creating Your Slideshow [Advanced Version]: So in this video, I'm going to be showing you how I created the background image for the slide show. So I'm actually going to be creating two videos. I'm going to be showing one for more advanced people, people who know how to use photoshop. And then I'm also going to create another video for those of you who don't know how to use photoshop, and I'll walk you through step by step. But in this video, it's just going to be nice and quick. You're going to see step by step, how I've done everything, and you're going to see how it translates right to the slide show. So the biggest thing for your image is just making sure that it's the same resolution as the recording. So that's 1920 by 1080, and that's 1080 P, okay? So, you know, you just make sure that this image that we're looking at right here is 1920 by 1080, so it looks nice, crisp and clean. So just to reference back to the slide show. So I added the logo in the slide show itself, and I put this text in the slide show itself. But you can always come into here in the photoshop and you can add it in here, and then it's just on the image, and then it's just a matter of adding in your points. Okay? So for the ayo pretty simple. I'm not super good at photoshop at all. But what I did was, I just had an image here. So this is like my studio. And what I did was, I shrunk it. If we just scroll out here. I shrunk it here a little bit like that just so it will look a little bit. I could see more in the banner above. So I have one layer there. I made this background square. And what this is is this is where the content is of the actual points. The white, that's the content. Then what I did was I made a little border here. If I turn that on, you'll see it, so I'm going to zoom in here. So you can see that I just made up blue and it with a gradient to purple, and again, turn it off and on. So just kind of makes it stand out a little bit more. And then what I did was, I made some blue just up here. And what that does is it allows text to stand out a little bit better. Okay? And that's it. That was all I did for my slide show image. So I made a little banner up top for the image, put my logo, put my text, and then I just made a white area here for the actual content of your slide show. 35. 6-2 - Creating Your Slideshow [Beginner Walkthrough]: So again, this video is more for the beginners who don't know how to use photoshop and they're wanting to create a slide show background image. So here in photoshop, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go file. I'm going to go new. I'm going to go 1920 by 1080, the gray scale. I think we want RGB color. I'm going to go 16 bit, something like that. Again, I don't really know photoshop super well, but this will be good enough for us to get going. So what I have here as I have an image of my home studio, when I was living at a previous house, And this is what it looks like like this, okay? So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to hold on shift and Alt, and it's going to expand it from both sides. If you don't hold on shift and Alt, you can skew it all weird and kind of distort it, which I don't want. And I hit control Z or Z to fix that. Let's say I did this and I, Oh, I want to go back, control and Z. So I'm going to hold shift and lt and I'm just going to drag it to both sides. And I might go a little bit bigger just to get more into the actual details of the image, like the speakers. Sorry, I let go of Alt and Shift. That's why it did that weird. So I'm just going to zoom out here like this. And I just going to hit Enter. Okay. So now the next thing I'm going to do is hold on Control and T, and I'm going to hold on lt and the squirrel wheel down, allows you to zoom out and in. And I'm going to hold shift and lt again, and I'm going to grab from the top, and I'm going to to squish it. Again, this will all allow us to see more content in the top banner, and I'm just going to hit Enter. And then you hit control and zero that allows everything to go full screen like that. So I'm just going to hold down shift and the arrow, and we're going to get more of the speakers, and I'm also going to move it a bit left, because we want to see more of the speakers. Now the next thing I'm going to do is you can just create a new layer. You don't have to create a new layer. I think if you just click the square, it will create a new layer for you. But this is where we're going to create white background for the content of our slide show. Here in Phil, I'm just making sure that it's white. Right now, we have white up here. I'm just going to drag from edge to edge, and then go straight down. You just have to be perfect. Don't worry. Even if I go outside, it's okay. I'm going to hold down control and tee on that now, and I'm just going to drag it right to the edge and to the bottom. Then I'm just going to zoom out a little bit with ult and the scroll wheel down. I'm literally just going to click this and drag it until we see that pink line. You can see the pink line right there or do it again. That's when you know that it's locked on. So let's move this up just a little bit. We want more area for our actual content. But as you can see, it's like, Well, this, that doesn't look very good. So what you do is you just click on the lit layer. Okay? Or right now we're locked in because I hit control and T, that allows you to kind of morph the actual object. So I'm just going to enter or click the check mark. Now we can click on the background image, and I'm going to hold on shift and the arrow up. If I don't hold on shift, it just goes super super slow. Or right now it's not moving. So you have to make sure that you're on the move tool or you hit V. Okay. So now if I hit the arrow up, you'll see it but it's going slow. If I hold on shift in the arrow, it goes faster, okay? So again, I'm going to squeeze it a little bit more. So control and T, and I can drag it from here. So shift in ult, and let's just squish that a little bit more. And you can see, I'm able to see a little bit more of the content. Something like that. Now what I'm going to do, I'm just going to click new layer again. I want this to be on top of this layer because we're going to create a little border. I had before. I was like that blue to purple. Again, it just makes it stand out a little bit. I'm just going to grab it from the square. Also, if you hold down, you can select different ones here. I'm just going to click from here over to here and just create just at border here. The time being, let's just make it like yellow just so we can see it. So I'm just going to hit V, and then I'm going to hit control and T. I'm just going to zoom in here a little bit, and I'm going to use the scroll bar right here. I'm just going to make sure it's dragged all the way to the edge, and we're going to move it up a little bit, make sure overlaps this so that we don't see a white here. I'm going to come here and make sure this is to the edge. So use the scroll bar again, and I'm just going to double check. So as you can see, it's the pink line. Control and zero, and now just going to hit the check mark, and maybe we'll make it just a little bit smaller. I'm going to hold alt and zoom in on that. I'm just going to click here and just drag it up just a little bit, something like that, and we're going to go back. Control zero. On this one here, you can also double click these and label them, so this would be border White content area or something like that. And then, so you guys get the idea. So I'm going to click on the border, I'm going to go ex, and I'm going to go gradient overlay. This allows you to go from two different you can see this is the exact thing that I had before. But I'll show you how to do it. So when I went to gradient, it gives you this. When I initially did this, this align with layer was on, and I wasn't able to adjust the gradient at all. It was always just stuck in the middle. So if you disable the align with layer, then you can be more creative with this. For example, like the angle, you can see that like purple is over here down, blue is over here, if we go down. See that it's now all blue, maybe a little bit purple over there. However you want to do it, I'm just going to cancel, and we're going to do that again. So gradient overlay. Again, that's disabled. Sometimes playing with this stuff in photoshop gives you cool effects too. You also have it on every individual one. To get to the point, sorry. We're going to click here on the color. So let's just give it like a yellow. Then we will give it a blue. Or maybe a green, sorry. Maybe like this. Then this, I'm just going to click and delete. You can create colors in between your colors and you can drag it to be more aggressive if you want the gradient to happen, not as not over the whole span. Something like this, maybe. I'll click this. Maybe we'll go a bit darker. Something like that. Then another thing I did was I created color here. Again, the reason why I did that was just so that the text would stand out a little bit better. Again, I'm going to go up just a little bit on this background image, more like that, just so it isn't so white. You can also affect this too, if you wanted to style your image more or be more creative with it. I'm just showing you just a rough idea of how to do this, okay? What I'm going to do is get one more layer. We're going to bring it up here. I think I want it to be under. Actually, this is actually where I want it to be. And the reason is because I want it to be under the white layer. I want the white layer to cover it. So I'm going to hold on here. I'm going to go to the ellipse tool. This is a circle, and I'm just going to click from here. Again, if I don't hold on shift, see right now, see it's a perfect circle, and that's what I want. If I don't hold on shift, I can skew it to how I want. So I'm going to hold on shift and make it a boat maybe this big. Again, I'm going to hold on V, and I'm going to just use my arrow keys, and I'm going to put it around here. Just so it covers this area. I'm going to go a little bit bigger on it. Control T and just expand it a little bit and hit enter. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to again, go to the ellipse tool, and now you can still change the color and let's just make it like that blue that I had before. Then I'm going to go up here to filter, and I'm going to blur it quite a lot, so gauge and blur, and I'm going to create it to a smart object and watch this. If I just crank this up, you can see that it's going to look a little bit cooler. 1 second. I'm trying to move that. There you go. It's like this. Maybe just a little bit more. It like that. Again, I'm going to control t and I'm going to make it bigger. I just want to expand it out a bit here, like that, move it over. H enter. That's looking not bad. That's where we can put our text. Sorry, I want to go you can double click on the gauge and blur if you want to adjust it even more or whatever. I'm going to go a bit more. A little bit less. So let's just go like 350. Okay. Just keep it simple. Okay. So there we go. So that's kind of what it is right now. Another thing you can do is you can also blur this image so that, again, when you put your text on a blurred background, it stands out a lot better. So I'll just do that quickly, so gauge and blur. So we don't need that much blur for our image. I'm talking like 1.5 kind of thing. Maybe like two, I'm going to go. Watch this. If I turn off the gauge and blur. If you're looking at the image, you're going to see that it's clear, super clear. But again, if you write text on that, it might be hard to stand out. If I enable it, it's blurred. It makes a little bit easier for your text to stand out. Now to save this. Again, if I'm in creating an online course in the assets, I just create a folder slide show. And this is where I would save it. So as you can see, this is the official one when you watched the actual slide show when, you know, what I feel, you know, gives your student the most impact from your course. This is that one, okay? So as you can see this one right here. This is what it looks like. This is the one I've done with you. That was the one I used in the course. Now, if you want to export it, so I'm just going to go to this one now. You hold on Control Shift Alt and W, and this window pops up, and I'll show you where to find that. You would go file, you're going to go export, and as you can see, it says export as, and it's Alt Shift Control and W. I know it's a super long hot key, but that's what it is, And as you can see, I put it on a JPEG, JPG. And sometimes it might come up to you as a PNG. I just look at like the file size. So, a PNG typically is if I want something to be transparent, so let's say I had like a little logo, but I don't want a square background with that logo. I just want like the logo, so I can put it onto stuff. That's what the PNG is for. In this case, I'm just going to put a J PE, and as you can see, it's the difference between pretty much double the size, right? So I go JPEg. And in this case, it's only 100 kilobytes, super super small. I'm going to keep it at 100%, and then I just export it. And then that is the image right here that I use as the background for the slide show, okay? So in our next video, I will show you how to bring it into your PowerPoint and how to set it up. Again, I use Liber office. It's a free open source version of like Microsoft Word, and it allows you to, you know, create your slide show or if you want to write a book or write your checklist. You know, it's tool to do that kind of stuff. 36. 6-3 - Setting Up Your Slideshow Bullet Points [Make it Look Fun and Professional]: So in this video, again, I'm just going to be showing you how to set up your slide show. The software is called Libra Office, as you can see it is right up here. They have different parts of the software. So they have Libra Office writer and Liberate Office elk, and that allows you to do spreadsheet stuff if you want to add stuff up and stuff like that or create lists and stuff. This is called Impress, and this is your slide show, your PowerPoints, okay? So this is it Fresh. I just opened it up and it gives you like a template. We're just going to hit the X. And what I'm going to do is click on this up here, okay? And I'm just going to go to the blank slide. We don't want anything on there. And if you were on here, you can also just delete these too, okay? Okay, so we're just going to go blank slide. The next thing you want to do is you want to bring that image that you just exported from Folder Shop in. So you just right click, you go properties. You're going to go to background here, so just background. I just go to Bitmap, and then you want to add it in right here. I'm just going to go open, we're going to go, and you're going to see it looks all weird. What we want to do is you want to click the arrow here, you go custom position slash size, and then you just go scale. And it's like. Now, as you can see, this looks like what we want. I'm going to hit, and it's like, ki, there's your image. So so far, we're good to go. So what we're going to do is the next thing. So impress doesn't give you the options to edit your font right off the bat. It's kind of weird. So in view, going to go tool bars, and it's down here at the bottom, you're going to go text formatting, okay? Now this is like where you can choose your font and stuff like that. So up here, you're going to have Insert text box. So I'm just going to literally just come here and drag this, and we're just going to type in creating an online course. Maybe we'll go like this. Again, you can always come here and hit Enter to create a new line and then I'm just going to press control and A to highlight it all, and we're going to go to center. There we go. So now I'm going to select a different font. So there's a cool font, the one I used in the slide show with you, and that's what I'll use here just to keep it simple so that you can see exactly what I did. It's got a fine. It's called Black out. Okay. So select it. So let's make that bigger. Let's make it to, let's say 30. So might be a little bit too big. Let's go 26. Okay. So we're also going to come here to the font color. Just click this, and I'm just going to select yellow. Okay? I'm going to go right click on it. We are going to go character, and this is where you can do stuff. Like, for example, you put like a shadow. Okay. So as you can see right there. So a shadow helps your text to stand out. So right now, this is what it looks like, but watch with the shadow, so I'll press okay. You can see that, it helps it to stand out a little bit more. I'm going to highlight that. Again, go character. We are going to go position, and this allows the actual words to space out a little bit. So let's just maybe put it to like two to see what it looks like. Kind of like that a little bit more, and we're going to go maybe 28. Okay, that's looking good. You can click here and you can move it around with your arrow keys. Again, just up and down is how you move. If you hold on lt, you can move down really slightly. That's really really helpful a lot of times if you want to move just a little bit. I'm also going to drag my logo in here. This is just my logo here, it's Riley Weller. It's just my name, and you can see it's really big right now. I'm just going to click on that. If you click on it again, it allows you to rotate, but we just want the blue. We want the blue squares. I'm just literally just going to click on that, and as you can see, it's keeping the aspect ratio, which is what we want. I'm just going to make it smaller, and I just going to bring it in. As you can see it's still too big, just make it a little bit smaller. Bring it over. Maybe just a little bit smaller. Then I just use my arrow keys. As you can see, it's just a little bit hard to see with this over the speaker. In your photoshot file, again, if you want to put here I put blue. In this case, purples here, but blues here, I could have maybe put purple up here and had the blue there. That might have been a cool touch or something. Again, that just allows the text to stand out. You can see that the creating an online course stands out easier than Riley Weller. It's just kind of subtle things that I find. Anyway, so I'm going to hold an alt and down, just get it where I want, and we're just going to leave it right there. Okay, that is the layout. Now what happens if you want to reuse this slide, you can just go duplicate, duplicate slide, and now that's the same thing. So if you came here and you're just like, put some text here and said, Hello, a So as you can see, slide one doesn't have the hello, slide two has the hello. But I'm just going to delete this because I'm going to show you how to set this up. So it's like kind of like a template. So, again, if you would even want to reuse this for another course for your slide show, you could just simply just come to this template, change out from creating an online course to whatever your next course is and you know, maybe change out like the background image or however it relates to your course. Okay, so to start off, what we're going to do is How I do my slide shows, okay? So I create a basic slide like you see here. So I have my logo, and then I have what the actual courses, like what we're actually doing, okay? So where you are creating an online course. That is the whole course. Now, how I do this is I would put a title, and then I would put the points about that title, okay? So, for example, when I did the slide show with you, it was, you know, what makes a course have an impact? And then I was just kind of backing up with my points that statement of the title. Okay? So, for example, creating an online course. So imagine we were doing like marketing or something like that, right? So I'm just going to just put this, and I'm just going to go sorry, I'm in Capitalog, so marketing. And I'm just going to click away and it keeps it. What I am also going to do is that it's going to hold on Control A, and we're just going to get a nicer font. I used this Comfort ta, I think, font, this font right here. I'm just going to go maybe bold and make it bigger, we'll go like 26, and maybe I will write it all in Capitals, so marketing, and then just a colon. You can also hold on Control A and go right click again and go character, and we can put a border underneath it, so underlining. We can go like single, Or again, you know, whatever you want to do to kind of spice it up with your own touch, you know? So in the video I did with you, the slide show I did with you, I did double. So there's marketing. Now, for each of your points, so I'm just going to create one of these. And then for the other points, I just copy and paste it because I'm going to style this with you, and then that style is going to follow, so we don't have to keep styling every single one. So what I'm going to do is rot out the bat. We're going to come up here to the bullet points. And I'm just going to select the arrow. You guys can use like the check mark or whatever. I'm just going to use this one here. Okay. And we can go SEO. Let's go search engine optimization. Okay? So I'm going to hold on control in A. We're going to right click on that. We're going to go character. What I want to do is I want to give some spacing to that. And then I think we can even just choose the font from in here two. I'm just going to go Cm Fort so there we go. And then the font size, let's maybe make a little bigger. Let's go like 24. Maybe 22, because you also want to add your information into. So let's go 22. Okay. So I'm just going to click here. We're going to bring it up just a little bit. So now, just to give you a reference to the slide show I did with you, so for example, sometimes, like, C I did organized, and then I explained a little bit about it. But then sometimes I just state the point, and that's it. So, however you want to approach it. But in this case, so here I would go control B to make it bold, and it's like, there we go. Now, if you want to style this bullet point, What you want to do is just highlight, we're going to go more bullets. Now you can style this. If you want to make the arrow really really big, obviously it doesn't look good, but I'm just showing you how you can do stuff. Also you can adjust the spacing in between two. The width of the numbering. If we want to go like one, so it pushes it away a little bit, just to get your own style to make it look a little bit better. The relative size is make that 60, and then the position, we'll go in just a little bit more. So I think that's good. So now like I'm saying. So this is set up. Let's just maybe bring it down one or two, I'm going to control in C and control in V, and then I'm going to go shift and down arrow. And then let's maybe go like one, two, three, four, five, I think that's about good. Again, I'm going to go copy and paste, and then I'm going to go shift down on one, two, 345, copy paste, shift down, one, two, 345, do it one more time. So copy paste, shift down, one, two, 345. Now, again, the reason why I did that is so that the styling stays the same. Now, if your actual point goes longer than one line. So for example, if we reference this. You can see that this one here, it went two lines. So in this case, it's like, well, this wouldn't work. All you have to do is just take your one, you can delete it or whatever, you can move the ones up, however you want to make it work. But by setting yourself up like this, this saves me a lot of time. And it also saves me a lot of time when we do the animation stuff, which I'll show you here in a second. It's like advertising. Okay. And for example, I'll just put, Google ad words, and we'll make that not bold. So just to give you an idea. So now what you want to do, if you want to do the animation slides and stuff like that, is you click this one right here, okay? So animation, this will pop up. Okay, so how this works is you literally just click on the one that you want to animate. So that's the reason why I created a textbox for each individual one because we want to animate each individual point. We're just going to click this. You have to click the plus. Okay. And then you get to choose what you want, the style. I'm going to go fly in. And what we want to do is I'm going to go from left. And I turn off the automatic preview. If it's on, you get to watch it every single time. So in this case, I want to slide it in from the left. Okay. So as you can see, that's what it looks like. I am going to turn it off though, and we're going to do that for every single one. I'm going to click this one. We're going to click the Plus, and I'm just going to fast forward this, but again, that's all I'm doing. I'm just selecting it. We're going fly in. We're going from left. I'll do one more with you. So I click the plus, we go fly in. Again, you can be creative with this. For example, if you want two points to come in together, you can go with previous or after previous or so it just gives you options, or you can just go on click, which means that when you click, that is coming in next. So again, so it's from left. And so what's going to happen is when I click, this one comes in, when I click, this one comes in, when I click, this one comes in. Okay, so I'm done here now, as you can see here, I have all my animations done. Now, sometimes if things get screwed up, whatever, sometimes this one is like way down here or whatever, you know, And what's going to happen is if we watch this, so what I'm going to do is go to the slide show, and we're going to go start from first slide, okay? And watch. I'm going to click through and you're going to see that it's going to be all weird. So Marketing comes in, search engine comes in, this one comes in. Well, what about this one? I say this one, and then this one, then this one. So, you know, if that's happening to you, what you have to do is you have to click, and you can't click and drag it, you actually have to click these arrows, okay? In this case, advertising second, so we want marketing, SEO, advertising, the rest, I'm assuming are going to be good. It's confusing because we have SEO, SEO SEO, so we can go like SEO two, SEO three, and then SEO four and SEO one. Just a show here. We have SOO one, two, 34. That showing us that they're in order. Now, it's really really important before you start doing your slide show before you hit record. That you actually manually go through the slide show and make sure that all your slides, all your points are coming in in proper order, you know, that they're all the same effect. Like, typically, I find when it's the same effect, it looks better. But, yeah, just choose one that you like. I usually like them to come in kind of faster. When they come in slow. You know, you want to get simple into the point, just like I was explaining in my slide show with you guys. Now, a little bonus thing that I have found that's helped me a lot is having two monitors as I'm doing the slide show, because what happens is you guys are able to see the slide. However, I'm able to see on a separate monitor the next slide that's coming up, and I'm able to see a little bit more detail. What I'm going to do is I'm just going to right click, and I'm going to go duplicate slide. Now, you can see that because I've set up my first slide this way, when we go to the second slide now, if you were to change this, now we're on to, let's say, recording, which is actually a section of our course. Recording. So in this case, let's go like camera, you know, Cannon's Nicon for example, okay? So as you can see, all of our animations they're already done for us. Like we see we have camera here, we have advertising, you know, recording, as you can see out there, so it's already done for us. So now we don't have to do that for every single slide. It's just a matter of just right click, go duplicate, and then you can just change out the text. And this has been the fastest way for me to do slide shows and stuff like that. So now, let's say you had all your slides done or whatever, Again, you go slide show, you go start from first slide. And then, again, just make sure you manually go through your slides before you actually start recording because that's the worst, you know, especially if it happens like on your second or third slide, and you've already recorded the first two slides, and you're just like, Oh, now, you've lost, like your train of thought. Trust me. This stuff has happened to me. So I'm just trying to tell you best practices so that you save energy and you only do it once, okay? Once dot two. Okay, so I'm just going to click, and there comes marketing, there comes SEO one, advertising, I'm just going to go a little fast. So now you can also have a transition in between your slide two. I'll show you that in a second here. But now we should see recording. Okay. We should see the camera come in. And then now we're back to the advertising and SEO. And then it will say, now it's done. So you click again, and we're back here. So if you want to do a slide transition, It's I believe it's this one. So slide right now, we're on animation, so the individual ones, you can go slide transition. So go Honeycomb here, and this is what it would look like. But anyway, that is how you set up your slide show, okay? So I showed you how to bring in your image. I put a logo of my brand name. I put the course title. And then again, how I approach it is I put the title of the topic that I want to talk about. And then these are just the points which I cover. Again, if we go to the one I did with you guys, you know, what makes a course have impact? So this is covering this title, pretty much. And that's just how I do slide shows. You guys can do them however you want. And as you can see, I actually had even more spacing up here than that. So Okay. So that's how I do slide shows. Hopefully, it helps you out again, when it looks a little bit more appealing, when you have nice font, when you have kind of cool animations, it makes it more enjoyable for your student. It makes it also more enjoyable for you, it's more pleasing to look at. And yes, so hopefully this helps your courses sell a little bit better, helps you teach your students a little bit better. And let's get into the next section. 37. 7-1 - How to Release Your Course [Marketing + Sales + Communication Tips]: So in this video, I want to talk about actually releasing your course, okay? So by no means, have any of my courses like real really exploded? I still have a lot to learn when it comes to marketing and advertising. But I just want to cover some of the basics of what I do when I release one of my courses, okay? So the first thing I want to talk about is your newsletter slash e mail list. If you don't yet have a subscriber base, you know, your website, make sure you have some type of sign up form or pop up with the form where they can enter their first name and e mail. I usually like to ask for the first name because you can make the e mails a little bit more personal. You can always make it say that like the person's first name, like whoever is on your list. I kind of more of a personal touch. For myself, I like mail chimp. The reason why I like them is they allow you to have 2000 subscribers for free. They allow you to have like automation, so drip campaigns and stuff like that. If you don't know much about that, you guys can do some research. It just allows you to set up e mails beforehand. And then whenever someone signs up, it automatically sends them e mails. And you can do this in multiple ways. Like, if someone signs up on the pop up, you can send them different e mails, and if someone signs up on like a different form, you can send them different e mails. So it just allows for a lot of creativity in your marketing, okay? Just to give you an example of my own website. This would be like a pop up here. I actually offer someone a free course. If they sign up, when they sign up, they get a coupon, then they can take the course. Down here, I have this, so someone clicks this. Another pop up will appear. Again, I'm just offering that free course again. And then at the very bottom of my website, I also have just to sign up right here. Okay. So just to kind of show you, you know, how a form looks and stuff like that. And once the subscriber start coming in, it is such an awesome feeling. L you're able to just contact these people whenever you want directly to their inbox, and it's just an amazing thing. So when you release a course, you know, I e mail my list, and then, again, I can see the opens, clicks, and see how they're I guess, interacting with my e mail. The thing too with your e mail list is many times you can give them some extra benefits because they're on your newsletter, right? Whether that be, giving them a special coupon that you can't get anywhere else. For example, on your social media pages, you might offer a coupon, but your newsletter might get the lowest possible discount coupon. Just to make them feel that they're special because they're on your e mail list. So again, depending on where you are, you may not have an e mail list, but it is something that you want to start learning how to build up. It is such an amazing thing just being able to send an e mail to 1,000 people or 2000 people, or if you have 20,000 people, like in a matter of literally a click, you can contact that many people. Okay. So this is pretty much the same point. But when you are uploading your courses to these, course vendor websites, they also have forms of communication, too. So if we're talking about you to me, for example, you're able to send promotional e mails, and if you've had, 10,000 people sent up to your course, that e mail, you can contact, those 10,000 people. Again, it's just like your newsletter list. However, it's on the course vendors website, and you don't really have, you're not able able to access the person's e mail, you're only able to communicate with them. So really, you want to be able to capture the person's e mail on your own list. That way, you kind of control that information. Was here, you're still able to market and contact your students, but you're not able to contact them outside of the site, which is a pretty big con. But hey, if you're making sales on that site and you're able to talk to those students, you know, then you kind of keep it rolling. The next thing I want to talk about is coupons to help encourage sales as well as some communications. So there's pros and cons to coupons. You will read about that a lot. So some of the pros is obviously it's going to encourage sales. But to talk about some of the cons, it's like, Well, now you're not making as much on the sale, but still at the end of the day, a sale is better than no sale, right? Then there's also a mindset with coupons that when you give someone a coupon and they purchase, So a lot of times maybe they'll never purchase again until they get another coupon. Sometimes when you hand out coupons, you attract the cheap crowd, people who aren't willing to pay money for content or a service and stuff like that. They're always looking for a deal. Again, when you're handing out coupons, many times you attract that crowd. But again, at the end of the day, a sale is a sale. Now, another look on that is Again, with talking about communications here, because it is all about, being able to talk to your subscribers, your students, whenever whenever. So this is kind of a cool approach because with you to me, if you hand out a coupon, and it's a free coupon, let's say you had 1,000 students join your course. Now, even though they didn't purchase, you're now able to contact those 1,000 students. So that's kind of a different way to look at this too, because if you have free coupons and as well as coupons just offering a discount, and you keep creating all these courses, and if these free coupons are bringing in thousands of students every month, You know, it's like you are growing the subscriber base of students that are wanting to take your course, even if they're not paying, but you're still able to talk to them. And then, maybe on your newest course, maybe you only offer a coupon that they at least have to purchase. So it's like now at least you are talking to maybe 2000 students or 3,000 students, and even though they haven't paid for your other courses, now there's an opportunity to maybe capture them as a customer. Onto our next point here, So pricing. When you are pricing your course, this is something that you really got to think about. So look at the other courses in your industry on the same topic to get an idea, and I want to read this for you. How long did it take to create the course? That is a factor. Did it take a long time for you to make your course? And then is this knowledge students can't find anywhere else? Because if this was you and you were searching on Google, YouTube, and it's just like, you've always just found these bits and pieces all around, but maybe you found your information by trial and error, learning the hard way, by making mistakes, and maybe reading books and stuff like that. So, you know, how long did it take for you to obtain this knowledge that you were passing on to your students in your course? And these are all just factors, you know, to price in to your course. Now, one thing I'll talk about like you to me and stuff like that is they have sales all the time. So, they give you the option. Do you want to sell your course for $30? Do you want to sell it for $90? Do you want to sell it for $200? And it's like, Well, even if you priced it for $200, it's like, you know, this week, they might be selling that course for $13, and then the next week, they might be selling it for $10. So even though you've priced it for 200, you know, it just maybe makes it look a little bit more attractive to the student. I's like, Oh, well, now they're getting 80% off or like 90% off. So if you are pricing this on your own website, you know, then you are in more control of what to price your course at. So obviously, you don't want to charge too much and gouge your students, but you do have to factor in your own time. Like, if you want to create another course, you have to make it worth your time. And, pretty much your students have to make it worth your time. And another thing again to think about is, if you're selling your course for $100, and in six months, you've only made one sale, it's just like, Okay, well, maybe if you drop it to like $30 and now you brought in like five sales, it's kind of like, well, would you rather have five sales at $30 or would you rather have one sale at like $100? And then also, you know, when you have these multiple students purchasing your course, it's like they could be leading reviews now, they could be telling their friends, and who knows, right? So it's like the more people that are interacting with your course, the more potential to bring in future sales and all that kind of stuff. So You know, you kind of got to factor that in. I understand, it is all about making your money through your time and your knowledge and your efforts, but there's a really fine line in between charging for what you think is right and greed. Okay? So that's just kind what I want to talk about pricing. Now, another thing, is everything spelled correctly on your product write up? Does it look presentable and everything like that? Have someone look it over. I always send it for someone to read over just to see like, Hey, what do you think? I'll let them watch like the intro video, and I'll just get a little bit of feedback from them. Even if that person has no idea about the topic, they could still read the product description and might be like, Oh, you've misspelt there, because there is a very, very common one for people to screw up on. There's T H E R E, or there's a TH E Y, apostoph, RE, so just kind of have someone proof read your stuff. When you're releasing your course, you could be releasing on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit is a very very popular area, too, especially if you can get yourself in there in a way that's not spammy, in a way that's actually really helping people and these people actually want to pay for your course. That's a very, very hard thing to do. But Reddit is a very, very cool community, if you can get yourself in there as kind of like an authority, someone who's really respectable without being spammy. Then the last one I'll talk about is just Google Adwords. This allows you to pay for your advertising, but it allows you to get your course in front of your potential students' eyes. Okay? So, you guys can just look up YouTube tutorials on how to use Google Adwords and stuff like that. Again, you're going to have to pay for that kind of marketing. Everything else has been free though of what I've been telling you so far, which is really, really cool. So again, like I'm telling you, throughout this whole course pretty much, I'm a very, very conservative person that way. I usually try to use free tools again, like the Open source Lb office or like OBS, it's free. But sometimes you have to pay to advertise to get your name out there on a larger scale to really get to your potential students. So that's pretty much just how I release a course. My newsletter is probably my biggest I guess, form of contacting my subscriber base and students. It's also my favorite way, especially when you can contact them in a way that isn't spammy, you know, because these are people who have signed up and they want to know you. They want to know more information from you, and, you know, it's just up to you to provide it. Another thing to mention with your newsletter, if you do have a newsletter and you're only sending an e mail once every six months, you should try to do it at least maybe once a month because otherwise, your e mail list can become stae. And what that means is just like, you know, a lot of these people on your e mail list are like, who's this person? I don't remember signing up to his e mail list or you know, stuff like that. So as long as you're sending an e mail maybe around once a month is, it at least keeps your name in front of their eyes and kind of in the back of their mind. They always kind of know who you are. And I always just tried to provide quality content. Even if that is a paid course, for myself recently, most of my e mails that I've sent to my students have been about courses and stuff like that, because for me at this moment in my online career, it's like, I need to start making enough passive income to be able to have more time to do other things. I've just been creating a lot of courses and most of the content that I'm providing to my newsletter is about my courses and stuff like that. But then again, I am giving them the insider deals of the lowest price coupons and stuff like that. Hopefully, this video helps you out in releasing your course, and I hope you bring in some sales. 38. OUTRO: All right guys. That is our course on how to create a course for you guys to upload to site that sells courses. I hope this course has helped you a lot. I hope it really starts bringing some passive income in for you guys. It is honestly such an amazing feeling to even 20 bucks a month, $50 a month. The thing is as you start creating more and more courses, they start adding up. If you've created ten courses and they're all bringing you in 20 bucks a month. Another thing too, that's really really important is, if you start creating all these courses and someone just finds that about you on one of your courses, that's potential for them to start taking your other courses. As you're creating your course, never be afraid to say, Oh, yeah, I also talk about this topic in my other course, or you can also say, feel free to check out my other courses. Just to let them know that it's like you have multiple courses. Another thing too is never forget to ask them to leave a review, especially when it comes to sites like Utomi and stuff like that. They have a messaging system. I always say to people, it's like, if you want to leave a review, that really helps my online business, I'd really appreciate that. If at any time you ever had any questions, you guys can always leave a message to me, and I'll reply to you or if you guys want another specific video on a certain topic where I was confusing or I didn't even cover at all, I can easily create it and just add it into that section. Again, the same thing goes even for this course. If there's any which I wasn't clear on and stuff like that. I can easily create a video for you. But these are the things that I say to my students throughout my courses. Again, I started on that first course and I started to see some sales and it's just really really encouraging. It's, well, I'm going to create another course. And then all of a sudden you see no sales on that second course. But the first one is still selling a little bit, you're like, well, I know that there's a potential. You know, so you just keep creating, you keep going, and you start building up this passive income coming your way, and it is such an amazing feeling in your life. So again, I'm Riley Weller. Again, I'm a music producer by the artist and producer name gratuitous. So if you want to check up a music, you guys go to its gratuitous.com. Again, if you guys want to leave a review, again, I would really really appreciate it. It helps my online business course grow. And if you guys want to see additional videos for me, additional courses, or if I wasn't clear or anything in this course, you guys can always leave a message, and I can create another video, whatever. Thanks for taking the course and hopefully I'll see you guys in future courses.