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How to Create Videos for YouTube - The Basics: Recording, Editing, and Uploading

teacher avatar Patric Miller, I love Art, & I want to share my skills.

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    • 1.

      Introduction to Class

      0:36

    • 2.

      OBS Studio - Recording

      6:00

    • 3.

      DaVinci Resolve - Editing

      8:48

    • 4.

      YouTube - Uploading

      7:58

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In this series of videos, we'll going over the basics on how to use three different pieces of software to create videos for YouTube. You will not only know how to do this for YouTube, but TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Meta, Artstation, or even SkillShare themselves.

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1. Introduction to Class: What is up everybody in this class, we're gonna be learning how to use OBS Studio to record our face, our camera, or audio for games, for our selves, for YouTube, for Skillshare, whatever you're going to upload it to. On top of that, we're gonna be learning how to use Da Vinci Resolve to edit those clips, edit those videos, put them together exportable, get them ready for YouTube or, or wherever they're gonna go. And the final thing we're going to learn is how to upload to YouTube itself. Okay guys, we're gonna go ahead and hop into the video. 2. OBS Studio - Recording: What is up, everyone? In today's video we are going to go over how to record yourself and your screen, your audio, your camera, all that kinda stuff to be able to make videos for YouTube or maybe just Facebook or Twitter or TikTok or whatever it is that you're using your video four, we're gonna be using the OBS project program, The OBS open broadcast software. Obs Studio is what I call it. When most people call it. You can use this software to record your voice through a microphone, through your camera. Or you can use it to record audio from your computer itself. Or you could maybe if you wanted to, you could play the audio from your computer and not record that, let your microphone recorded. If you wanted to do something like that. You can record your screen. You can record either monitor if you happen to have two. There's a lot of stuff you can do with this program. And the best part about it is that it is Free, Free, Free, Free the best price. So you're going to just go ahead and click on whichever one that you need to download. I'll be on Windows. So this is the one that I'll be using already. Have it downloaded. I'm going to go ahead and drag it to this monitor. Now if this up here looks a little weird, it's just because it's recording the screen that it's on and it's doing that mirror in front of a mirror effect. Down here. You're not gonna have any of these down here. Basically what you're going to want to do is go ahead and click this plus sign here. You're going to want the audio input capture, audio output capture. Let's see where's the other one? Display capture and video capture device. If you're using a camera and audio input capture is only if you're using a microphone. If you just want to record your gameplay and not record your voice or your face or anything like that. And you can just use audio output capture and display capture and you will be good. The audio input capture. When you use select that one, you'll want to check the little bubble here. You can see make sure you're selecting the right one. And then you will just click on this box down here and then click Okay. For the next one. Audio output capture, you will select, Add Existing, select Desktop Audio and click okay. Display Capture. You will not select Add Existing, you'll just leave it as it is, and then just click Okay. If you are using a camera, then you will select video capture device. I'll go ahead and show you this one. I'm going to remove it. We're going to select the video capture device right here. You'll just leave it as it is as well. And you will click Okay. You'll be greeted with this screen here. Make sure you've got the right camera selected. Hello. Then you will just click. Okay. And if you don't want this screen as big as it is, you can grab these little top parts up here. You can drag them down and you can shrink it down to whatever you want it to. If you're playing a video game, I would imagine you would want it somewhere around to this size in the bottom corner. Now if you don't want it this big, then you can right-click your box here. Go to transform, edit transform. And you can crop the picture down here. So I'm going to change this to 400, names, this one to 400. I'm gonna change this one to a 100 and this one to 100 as well. And I click Close. And now I've got this much smaller box that's going to cover up a lot less of the screen when we're playing our video game. Supposed to go ahead and open up fortnight. You can check it out. And my face is over here in this bottom corner. And so now you can go ahead and play your game, record your session. Now, if you're going to want to record, then you'll go down here. Let me move my face up here. Actually let me go ahead and just hide my face again. The basically, if you go over here, it's going to say start recording on recording as we speak obviously. But it says Start Recording normally. Now, if I was to select Stop recording and you want to go find your video. I'm going to use this screenshot here to show you is this Start Recording. Once you click it and then you click stop recording. Then if you look down here, you will see where it is saved. So it saved under your C drive users, whatever your desktop name is, Videos and then the name of the video that was to go there on my computer. I can show you this. You'll have something that looks something like this. This is actually the video I'm recording as we talk. It's the one that has the most recent time and date. And all of my previous recordings from other stuff is just under your seat drops is C, Users, metric and Lena, and go to videos. And then here we are. This is the one we're on right now. So if you're wanting to make videos from your video game play to upload to YouTube. What you can do is you can use this, record, your gameplay. And then once you're done, go ahead and click stop recording. After you've clicked Stop Recording, go find your video. And we will open up the next program that you're gonna be using. 3. DaVinci Resolve - Editing: With this program, this is how we're going to edit our videos. We're going to put together all of our different videos that we recorded with the OBS Broadcaster Software. And we're going to use its own black magic design.com, and it's DaVinci Resolve 18. So what you're going to want to do is go to the da Vinci resolve 18, professional editing, color effects and audio. Post it down here, you've got free download now. So what you're gonna wanna do is go ahead and download this. Once you get it downloaded, you're going to want to get everything set up. It's not hard. You just go through the basic setup. I won't be going through that because it's not a very difficult you will, you'll understand it as soon as you get into it. So basically, once you open it up, let me minimize this one. Going to open up Da Vinci Resolve. You'll begin to see a screen that's like this. It's just loading, just wait just a minute. It looks like I have an older version. You'll be greeted with a screen that looks something like this. This has all your other projects. Yours will just have the one over here. But what I'm gonna do is click New Project down here. New project, I'm not going to name, I'm just gonna leave it untitled project one click Create. And now you will have this screen. So it may look a bit overwhelming, but I promise you that it is simpler than you think. Basically over here, there are no clips in the media pool. What you can do is import media. You'll go find your videos over here and grab whatever video that you're wanting to click wherever your videos are that you've been recording for with OBS. This is the first one I recorded for the EOPS part of this tutorial and this one will be for DaVinci Resolve. So I'm just going to grab one of my videos from destiny two. And I'm going to open it. And I'm going to click Don't change frame rate because I would rather not leave it the same. It'll load, give it some time. Isn't over here in this area. What you're gonna do, want to do is just drag it down here. And you'll see it do this little thing right here where it's popping up over here, let go of it. Your video will appear right here. I'm going to mute this right quick so I can talk over it. Click Play. You'll be able to watch your video and watch it. Go through here frame-by-frame. And you'll see how long your video is if you check up here, eight minutes, seven seconds. And you can just kinda look at it. And so this is one of the clips if you wanted to cut out this loading parts. So right now I'm loading into the mat. That's a PvP mode. We'll wait just a minute. You'll see that it's loading steel iron and showing off all the characters. If you don't want any of this stuff up here, all you've got to do is pause it at the stop button here. I'm going to drag it to where I want it. Show me, grab this little bar right here, this one. And if you see your mouse, it's going to turn it into these two little arrows to the left and right. Drag it to where you want it. So the match looks like it has started. I'm going to just start right here, right before we get really going into it. You're going to right-click wherever you want it, wherever this bar is. Just right-click and click Split. What this is gonna do is gonna cut your clip into two parts. You don't want this first part is to select it, right-click it and click Cut. Now you're not going to have your loading screen anymore. And the very start of your clip is just gonna be you running into there. It takes some time to load, so give it a second. And it's going to show you running into thing playing the game and everything getting into it. And you don't even have to make your viewers sit through all of the loading. You can go ahead and click stop and say you want all of your recording. But maybe there's this really bad part where maybe you just did really bad in the game and you would rather not everybody see it. So what you can do is if you don't want everyone to see you mess up or something, if you wanted to only record. Whenever you defeat an enemy or something, you can just split it right before you die. Rep for you lose, rapped before whatever thing you don't want the viewer to see us get to where it's just past it. Split. And then you can click the part that you didn't want, because now you've got before and after, and then you've got the part you don't want. Right-click that and cut it out. Now you don't have the part that you didn't want anyone to see. And then the same thing for the very end. If you would rather not everyone's see all of this extra loading and stuff where you forgot to turn off the camera. Just bring it all the way back to the end of the match into the game wherever you were. Since your team want or you can go ahead and just right-click there, split it, grab this, and cut it. And now all I have left is the Beginning as soon as the match started, a cut out all the parts that we're in, you know, at died or were I just didn't do well or maybe there was something on my screen I didn't want someone else to see. Then down at the very end, all you see that remains at the end is just the victory screen, the end of the match, you no longer see all of the loading and memory forgetting to turn off the camera. When you're done with all of that, you go and when you're finished editing your video, to get it to where you want it to be, you go to deliver. And again, a lot of this can look overwhelming because da Vinci Resolve is a program that the biggest movies, movie companies use, like Marvel has used, has used a Da Vinci resolve on their projects. And they just allow us to have a free version. And although is limited in some ways, overall, it gets you what you need really, really easily. So over here, you can leave all these settings the same. Once you get into using it a lot more than you may realize that you want to change this to him before or do you want to change this to 30 or whatever it is? You just you just change the settings as you learn as you go. So you, whenever you are ready to render your video, you'll go to Add to Render Queue, add to Render Queue, click that. It's going to give you this little pop-up and it's going to tell you where you're saving this. And let's just say I want to save it to the desktop. So what I'm gonna do is change the name of it to tutorial. On even know if I spelled that right, but Save, it's going to pop up over here into this corner. And it's going to say Untitled Project Online one. And then you'll see the directory right here. And then down here you'll see the name of it, tutorial dot MOV, because that's the file type. When you're done with that, you'll just go ahead and click render all. Slap that button. You'll wait for it. And it's going to show you how much time is remaining and the percent that it has finished. When it is done, it will this will turn green and it'll say that it is done and you can go and watch your video. So we're going to wait for this to finish. When the video is finished recording, you will see that it's completed in however many minutes. And if you wanna go find it, just minimize this and you'll see the video on your desktop or wherever you saved it. You want to watch it, you just double-click it. You'll be able to watch herself play the recording and you'll see your edits. Anything else that you did in the video, you'll be able to check it out. It's going to close this one now. We're gonna go ahead and get into the next part. So now that you've got your video, you know how to record your video, you know how to find your clips, you know how to put your clips into DaVinci Resolve. And now you know how to edit it a little bit and Da Vinci and how to render dementia. So now that you've got your finished video, we're gonna go ahead and just go to YouTube. 4. YouTube - Uploading: Okay, so for the YouTube portion of this guide will not be going over the how to create YouTube channel, but instead, I'm just going to show you how to upload your video. So if you go up here to Create and click upload videos, you'll see this screen here. You'll go ahead and select the files. And you will click on whatever video it is that you're wanted to upload. Click Open, wait for it. You will see this screen here and it's uploading the video. Your thumbnail options are loading. And it'll put the title of whatever your videos named so you can name it whatever you want. Tutorial, video. Select the right spelling there. Put yourself a description, video or skill share. But whatever it is you want for your name, for your title, for your description, whatever it is. I believe YouTube recommends that you actually use proud about 300 to 500 words for your description and your titles around, I think seventies what they prefer, but you can go up to 100 characters. Thumbnail, definitely make your own thumbnails, but you don't have to. Once these load, they're going to auto-generate you some thumbnails. You can click on those and just use those instead. But there are plenty of other programs. You can use Microsoft Paint if you want to. Create your thumbnails, whatever it is, would recommend creating your own. Instead of just using these, you can select a playlist if you want to use those. You select if it's made for kids, if it's not made for kids, you go down here. If it includes the sponsorship, you'll check your check this one here. And you can add your tags, skip all this and you go down this way. You can select what your game is. If you're in the gaming category, you select whatever category you're in. And when it is finished, you'll be able to go. You'll be able to see your video and all this kind of stuff. You gotta next. I'm just gonna go and select this go to next one is not done yet, but you can go ahead and go to your next thing. You're going to add an end screen. You just click Add here you select your format. This says import from latest video. One video wants subscribe or playlist. One subscribe, two videos. One video when playlists when video, when platelets one subscribe. This different stuff that you can click on to. This is the one I use. This is the format I use, like you can move these around. So if I select this default one, I can move this around and moves around like your profile picture, you can center it. Good because it has this grid that you can just line everything up on. I prefer to just use this one because it has everything where I want it already. Now, you have your face is going to pop up here and over here. You can change this to video for best video for viewer. Or you can choose a specific video if you want to send them somewhere. Very specific. This down here is the length of your video and everything. These bars are when the subscribe or profile link pop up. And this is when the video over here pops up the recommended video. And if you watch your videos slowly like this, then you'll see your face pop up over the video and then you'll see this pop-up over the video. So if you have something on there and you don't want it to cover up the video that you can move these around wherever you want them. Some people like to do it like this. There's a bunch of different things that you can do for how you want this to look. If we go to the next page, this one is just checking if there's any copyright issues. It'll tell you yes or no. Usually you're fine as long as you've not posted anything that's copywritten. K The last part, this is where we're going to publish your video so you can make it private. If you just want to make it private video just for yourself. Maybe you want to share it to a group of friends, but you don't really want the whole world to see it. You could do something like this. Same thing with unlisted, I believe you can anyone with the video link and watch your videos. Same thing. So really these are very similar. Private is you invite specific people to see it unlisted. It's like you can send it to your friends and you could tell your friends they can send it to whoever, but people won't be able to just look it up on YouTube. And then public is you can just publish it immediately as soon as it's finished. Instead, Premiere is the one where you and your viewers will see a time likes this video is going to go live in 30 minutes or something, or on this day. And so you can you and your viewers can schedule a time to watch it together. Yeah, that's just kind of a cool thing you can do. I don't ever really do it. I prefer the schedule. So you select your day. So if I will select today and then if I want it to go live at 5PM, which is one of the recommended times. Five PM and 12 PM are the two recommended times to get the most views. At least that's what I've read. It might be different. Where do you live? But for me, this is the typical time. Then I will just you're, you're basically done and you just click Schedule. Soon as it's done processing and checking and everything. Your video will go live at five PM as long as it's done with this stuff. Anyway, guys, that's gonna be it for this portion of the tutorial. I'm not actually going to save this. I'm just going to close it and get rid of that one. But go ahead and delete forever. Anyway, guys, if you found this to be helpful in any kind of way, if you found it to be useful. If you're going to use this guide to publish your own videos to YouTube or TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, any of these places, definitely, definitely give it a shot. If at the very least you just want to make little montages for yourself, then by all means, go do that. Creating montages just for your own personal enjoyment. There's a lot of fun. I did that in the past. I played a game called Titan fall too. And I loved zipping around the map, making all these cool clips and everything. And I would just sit down and I would make a montage of a lot of the cool stuff I would do. And it's definitely a lot of fun, at least for me, it is for the project. What I want you guys to do is open up your favorite game, open up whatever it is that you're wanting to do. I don't care if it's a video game or whatever. But just do something, record yourself doing it rather at your face and your voice and just post the video and just let us check it out. Maybe make a YouTube channel and send us the link. Will gladly go check it out. Um, yeah, so that's the project. Just found a game that you like. Jumping that game, recorded, record yourself, record your gameplay, post a video to YouTube. Post the video here for us to check out. And we'll have a discussion about it and give you some tips and tricks. Different stuff that you can do to maybe push your video a little bit farther. Anyway, if you guys have enjoyed the video, it'd be cool if you left me a good review. It. If you left me a follow, whatever it is, I just appreciate your viewership. And anyway, it's been read, Patrick, and I will catch you guys in the next guide piece.