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1. Welcome to the course: In this course, I'm going
to show you how to create good quality videos
fast and have allowed me to generate more than 850,000 views on
YouTube in a year. This course is my playbook that anyone can follow from planning, editing, filming,
and publishing. Yeah, no prior experience. This is the right
course for you. I'm so excited and I'm really looking forward to see
you in the course.
2. Setting up a Home studio: I never defined myself
as a creative person. But I guess that I have
sort of become one. We won't actually mean
knowing about it. And as part of that, I've got a little recording studio or it's just room
where I do my videos. Most of my videos nowadays in last 34 months are learning this dedicated
room than I have. But in the past and
made many, many videos, have been actually
successful and have made them in
this exact same spot. You guys, it will depend
on your circumstances, but any place that
you decide to film, if you can stick
to the same place, if you've allowed us, if you're doing tutorials are a lot of it is just
talking head videos. You don't need to
be anywhere else. Then consider having
the same spot for at least your first
20 to 50 videos. The reason why is it convenient? Because you already
know a lot things about this environment. First of all, it's easier because you don't need
to worry about too much about the
background and how the camera is sort of
focusing on pointing. So you have the already sorted. You can have your camera
fixed on a tripod, e.g. so it's right in
the same position and it's where it needs to be, you know, about the lighting. So you can feel my anytime of the quality of
the audio stable. So it really helps having same fixed position I will be their advice
I would give you. Let me tell you a
bit of a story. I actually, when I was in the first few videos
and I was making, you would have that
creative moment. Okay, Now let's go, let's film. I know what I'm doing. And then I'm like, okay,
where's the camera? And we look for the
camera, whereas the SD card company SD
cards, the cards fall. Oh, now I'm missing my battery. My battery is not charged. So all of this hassle trying to find the bits and
pieces on a tripod and with a microphone and just not being organized was really a
motivational killer. And at the end of it, I
was really frustrated and tired before I
actually started filming. Nowadays, it's so simple
for me to start recording. I have this little remote
control for my lighting, which I can turn
on and turn off. So you can see this is off and I can just turn his back on. Our camera fixed on
a tripod right here. I have a lavalier microphone, which I just attached to
myself and start recording. This set up is you can replicate this setup in
any way you want really. You can use a mobile phone, a smartphone over there to record a ring light or some sort of light or natural light if
you wanna do it in the day. And then some sort of
microphone system. The way whatever you wanna do, the action I want to give you is to time how long it takes you from doing a different activity to actually start recording, okay, How long does
that take you? If that takes you
more than 30 s, then I will start questioning
your solar panels. Start thinking of how can
we actually improve that. And thinking about that
will really help you along way of recording a lot
of videos quite quickly.
3. When to film and when not: Something that I got wrong at the beginning was when to film. First of all, I was
trying to film during daytime because I have
really good lighting. Daytime was really the best time where I can get the best videos. But during daytime had a
lot of constraints with family life and limited time. So I was trying to get these
videos aren't very quickly. That was actually
quite frustrating because every single
mistake I made on camera, and I'm going to show you,
I may still make a lot. And I made a lot
back in the day. It was so frustrating and
it was a waste of time. And I'm sure that the my initial videos and
you can actually go and watch them weren't even
that great In this video, I'm going to give you three
tips to stay on course. First step is to film with
your audience in mind. I'm looking at the
camera lens right now. And I'm thinking who's
actually going to enjoy this course and who will
be looking at this course? And I'm talking directly to you. This actually makes
me frame my language and makes it easier for
me to express myself. Second tip I can give
you is don't force yourself if you're not
feeling in the right mood. Don't film. I think people pick
up when people are in a bad mood or they
just feel nervous. And a lot of times when you're shooting, repeating,
shooting repeating, you can see that
after the tenth take you've lost that initial smile that you're trying to have. And it's not something that
comes natural to everyone. Fatty part will give
you a start. Simple. Just don't think of all of the complexities of videos and all the different
angles and shooting. Just start simple. Just talk to the camera masters. Simple practice, and
get in the habit of recording and editing and
publishing quite frequently, as could be the best way
to get you to learn quick, to publish as much
as you can and to rapidly increase
that video quality. Now let's remember one
thing feedback is gold. Really want to get
feedback from our videos. And feedback needs to come from the right people
is the compromise your audience don't
mistake yourself in trying to send these
videos to France. Are trying to show them
to your Facebook friends even because I will
guarantee you, you're not gonna get the
right feedback you need. First of all, because
they normally aren't your intended
audience unless they are. Second of all, you want
that harsh feedback, which many people that know
you are not really going to give you if you want to get
in touch with me directly, and I'm happy to give you a bit of feedback
on your videos. Hope you enjoyed this
one, say the next time.
4. When is the video good enough?: Is this good enough? This is the main
question you're to be asking yourself when
you're filming. Remember our goal. Our goal is to film
as many videos as we can and to increase that quality point that we
get comfortable with quality. But we obviously
not the beginning, we're not going to
be up to scratch. But sometimes some videos just shouldn't be going
out on the Internet. But some other times we just have to publish and
just keep on going. How do we decide that, that bar? How do we actually
set for ourselves? First thing we need to
get out of the way. Don't compare your videos
with other video makers. Now, they might have a lot more experienced than you might
have been doing it for longer. So that's not really your goal. The first thing is
complete decency. That's the decency bar. First thing is to look at
yourself. Are you presentable? Are you happy with
what you're wearing? If you've got any vegetables or any something in your teeth, if you're all okay. What about the background? Because the background is Ali, any noise or a cable maybe that maybe that's also
available for you. That won't bother me too much. I don't pay too much
attention to what's backdrop. But if there was something
that was really awful, then you need a reshoot
the audio levels. If the audio level
is completely gone out of whack or
some sort of issue happened with your
camera and anyone out-of-focus than that would
be a reason to restart. Adam. Very, very beginning. You all spot mistakes that
you've made in editing. Some of them you'll
be able to cover up, some of them you will not. The important thing is
to keep it out there. Remember the expectations that you set yourself
from the beginning, especially if you're
new in free videos, just to start with,
people will not be too picky on you and they will
not harm you too much. I found that comments
on YouTube, e.g. have been quite supportive. So the main tip I
want to give you for this one over here is two, do not attempt to reshoot
the same video free times. Attempt to have the enough time and enough preparation
to shoot the video in one session and shoot it in one session and edited in a different
session if you want to, you can combine them together
if you have enough time, but try to separate out
those two sessions. At the beginning of our journey, we know we're going to be
making a lot of mistakes, but let's not focus on all of those crazy things that we're
going to need to learn. Let's just pick one. If we just picked one aspect of our video that
we want to improve. And when I keep everything
at the same level as it was before we make
that one improvement. After you meet those 100 videos, you're made 100 improvement. And I will guarantee
you that's going to be the best way for you to get to where you want
to be on camera, to be able to shoot the video is to get the views
that you want. Now in our next chapter, we're going to be looking
at equipment which is very crucial
for your success. I hope you enjoyed this one. See you next time.
5. Planning a video: Hey guys, welcome back
to this course today we're going to look camp
planning your videos. So it's really important to have a good plan before you
actually shoot your videos. I recommend you start planning
your videos a few days or a week before the actual data you are going to be filming. We shouldn't be a few days before the day that
you want to publish. So always have a
good pool of ideas from idea generation could be something that you could do. I have on pen and paper, Excel notepad notion that are so many applications
that I've used in the past. Sometimes stick with one,
sometimes move around. Yeah, just do as
you feel really. So I'm going to show you
now on the screen when I'm actually doing over here, we have the radio
project tracker for YouTube isn't something that
you can pick up for free. It's a template. And I started using this. As you can see, I have
all of the videos. I don't have all of them. I started at a certain
point and it's not perfect. I mean, the numbers are
all over the place, the statuses of them, some of them are scripting
videos and never did. Them have been published. Research mode and I
just got forgotten about I just didn't have
any interest anymore. I'm making them. So it's not a
straightforward process that there's some videos
that I thought I was going to make
the world of work. And then based on feedback
that I got from other videos, I will connect you to them. I thought, Well, if that didn't get interest and
I'm not going to film it, I'm going to switch it over. So there's a lot of
pivoting going on. And you'll see that
happening depending on what your use cases. So what I do run around here is, is I have an idea of when I'm going to
be publishing videos. Now, I do so stick to this, but I also don't. So you can see that I had a video that I published
here on Monday. There was actually a
video that I did on Friday and actually did
another spot in the moment. I filmed there on Friday and I just publishing or
Friday afternoon. So it was an
unexpected video that wasn't even in here
really to be fine. It was just something that
I've thought about in my head and I just jotted down a few notes and off you
go and I posted a video. Remember this is not front-facing or there's
not customer facing, so no one sees this tool that you're using
doesn't have to be perfect thing that you get
your concepts out there. You get your videos out
there as quick as you can. Sort of doesn't matter. Also have a category for ideas which you can
jot down some ideas. And then I have the
old videos over here. Sorry Mish, give you an example. So fast colon and
I click on New, and I click on e.g.
this video here. So planning to film videos. So once I've created that, I haven't opened as a page,
so I can create that up. And now I can use a
project template, which is the only tamper a half, which is this
template over here. And this sort of pre-populates
a few things to use. Now I didn't create
this template, I just use the number
the way I use it. You can have title ideas. If thinking about them, the
keywords you want to use, the sponsor information,
if you have the sponsor, the list of B-roll
footage that you need to take which
can add over here. So e.g. lamp, B-roll shot
of a lamp over here. I have some more things
around research. I can sort of just
down some notes. I also have a scenario
called script or hey, hey, there isn't a framework
called the high framework, so it's the hook, intro, venue and then the end
sales or the sales page. So that is sort of a framework. You can, you'll have your
own framework to film. But normally you
would hook the intro, then the meat of the content, the value, and then the
n cells takeaway from this lesson is your plan
doesn't have to be perfect. You don't have to
script word by word. Everything that you're doing, an outline is just great. But having an idea of your title while you're
filming the video, high level, hive, a hook intro
value, and outline outro. That will be also great. Remember in each video to have an exact point where you're
doing your call to action. Don't forget your
call to action. This could be subscribed to
your channel or check out my course or whatever
is your call to action. Remember to include them
in your video as always, I hope you enjoyed this
video and see you next time.
6. Camera, lights and mic: In this video today we
will talk a little bit more in detail about
the gear and I'm using. Now, I am a firm believer that
the gear that you actually have would be entirely
dependent on your goals. Is this a hobby? Are you trying to make
money out of this activity? So are you going to be
creating online courses? Need a certain level of
quality of your footage, of your camera, your
microphone, and your lighting. So those are the
three components, camera and microphone
on lighting. I am not a videographer, photographer really to be fair. So I am I'm not even
going to attempt to learn everything that I
shouldn't be knowing about ISOS, exposures, all our staff, this is not the course for that. What I am doing, I'm using a Sony Z v1 to
record this video right here, right now, the sun is EV-1 is on autofocus and
it's on automatic. And I've shot all of my
videos for all of my courses. I've generated all those views
and all those thousands of pounds that I mentioned
earlier with auto settings. So the huge time-saver
I can give you is use auto settings and use a camera that can basically
be plug and play. I looked at the cern
is if you want, and I found that it
was the best one for in terms of
the old focusing. And it is a little
bit expensive, but you can use anything from your mobile phone or whatever
you have and you can afford to start filming apart from the
altar focusing look at the Flip camera to the
Flip camera is useful, but it can be also a
little bit of an issue. So on the left now
actually looking at the flip out camera
and I can see myself, I can see how it's aligned
because he has recording. But you might have noticed
that my gauge shifted. So having that little camera
by the sine of u is good. But it won't distract
you an element. And we don't wanna do is have something that
doesn't have it. And you're wondering
every time you filming, but this is still recording
or is it stop recording? Because sometimes
things like the camera or overheating or the
battery needed ion. Unless you see that from that little screen, you
will know about it. So it could be an issue. Another thing to consider
is the microphone inputs. Microphone input is a
crucial part of the puzzle. Even if I'm not entirely
using it anymore, I used to use it with a rode
microphone connected on the Sony's EV-1 that had
a shotgun effect on me. But the problem is the room
that I'm affirming and now hasn't really got the great sound proofing that
it should have. Because I'm not really
wanting to change the aesthetics of room
just for recording videos. I've actually adopted using this love on their microphone. So if you have actually
a shotgun mike on top of the camera, e.g. you're even cutting your time. Even start filming even quicker
than what I have to do. But the advantage with this is that if I am doing
a tutorial video, if I switch and I'm looking
at my monitor over here, the audio quality
doesn't change. If AB shotgun mike, move like this, the audio
quality will be different. So that is a crucial difference with losing a loved one there, Mike versus a shotgun mic. Lighting is going
to be fundamental. Writing is fundamental
because if you don't have a proper lit shot, It's just not going
to look good. Now, I had a softbox
to start with, two soft boxes, but
then what happened? What happened with that? Well, first of all, they're bulky and I just
couldn't leave them in the room. And if you have
little kids going around that you
break this off box. So I'll find a
different solution. I found this fun,
this newer light, and put it on this poll. And with this remote control, I am able to commanded
turning on and turning off. So I've got basically a
light touch on the banner. Whereas before add
to get it all out, put this ball, then screw it in. It was just they taken me 2
min is to put the lights up. Again. It was friction because
there was one other thing that you had to do and he had to undo when you're
finished filming. Whereas just turning on
and turning off from his easy behind me you'll see
a little bit of light. This comes from my book shelf, and I also have a little
light at the bottom. You can add some light behind
you that will look so good. So as much as you can
add different colors, different effect,
that will be good. Now if you're really
struggling with them, their budget and you can
film during the day, then feel free to just
use natural light. Some of the videos
I've made during, when I was good light
outside during the day. No problem. Just using natural light.
7. Recording a video: Welcome back to the course.
Today is a crucial day. Today you're going to look
at filming your first video. Now, what are the things
we need to look at? Remember we talked
about the planning. So we have a video idea, we know exactly what
we're going to film. We have it aligned
as much as possible. We have our environment
around us ready, we ourselves are ready. We have enough time ready. We have told everyone
that's in the house, don't make any noise or
no one in the house. Even better. You have enough time
to get this job done. An idea for you as you're trying to shoot
five-minutes video, 10 min of a video. That should be enough
for the beginning. Don't try and shoot
1 h long videos. In a five-minute
video might take you 20 to 25 min to shoot. Depending on how much
of a perfectionist you, on how good you are
with clarifying and exposing ideas and communicating them clearly to the camera. So now let me show you a different point of
view of my setup. So you can see the Sun
is y1 stashed this poll, this poll sort of
attached to this arm. There are a lot of cables going on because I'd been
doing a lot of editing. And dusk is a little
bit of a mess. I have my iMac over here where
you can see some editing, what I was doing previously. I have a space over
there for a tablet. Sometimes I keep
some key information as maybe a script,
the script node. On top you can see
the arms extending. Actually have a
microphone which I use nowadays just
for live streams. And I have over here. So the main light that lights
up, down at the bottom, we have to love in their
mind because I told you earlier, this might be, you can see this time we
have the recording symbol, the voice levels, which
goes higher and lower. And you can see that going down and the battery level control. So all this is quite neat. Little record button over there. So what you do is
you turn this on. Then I turn the recording. There are a couple of
things that actually check is the fist autofocus or reset a product-focused
depending on if you're doing some Bureau and also really
just setting up your video. So except for K or ten ADP
and whatever you wanna do. And important thing is to
attach your love them. They might do yourself
and you're good to go. A really crucial part is
talking directly to the lens. So you might get distracted
with that pop-up screen. Like I mentioned before when we're talking about
the equipment, the really crucial thing
is look at your lens. And if you forget
something that you need to say, just take a pause. Gaze over to your notes, wherever your notes are
on paper. Read them. Once you're ready. Do not start talking while
you're facing. Eyes are looking at the paper. Just look up the paper, look up again and
start talking again. That is an easy thing
to cut in editing. And it's perfectly
fine to do that, especially if you're
just starting out. Well, you don't want
to do is having a talking while you're looking
at something different. Now, if you do that, don't worry too
much, but remember, try to avoid as much as
you can and try to smooth it out as you create
more and more videos and you'll get feedback
first few times also do an audio and visual checks and ensure that your
camera is recording. Your audio is working. So try not to bad produce a lot of videos at the
same time without actually checking the audio levels so
that you all your lovers and your video level and
everything else is good. And do that without
actually planning a video, just think about
that separately. So I'm assuming that
you've already tested that your equipment
you're happy with. And now in the next video
we're going to look at more whether it'd be
doing any editing phase. I'm going to show you
how I edit one of my videos and we'll see
you in the next one.
8. Editing a Video with Final Cut Pro: Hey guys, welcome back
to this course today we will be editing a video. I'm going to show you how I
am using Final Cut Pro now really is not a Final
Cut Pro tutorial specifically because you might be using different
type of software. And actually, I would recommend you not to use Final Cut Pro because it's licensed
base and you need to pay for it to
find a free option. The editing tools
work in the same way. And I'm only expecting
really some basic, basic editing for your
first ten to 20 videos. And then slowly, slowly
ramp up the features and the things that
you introduce into your editing if you want
to introduce them earlier. Good for you, but
try not to spend too much time on a single
video at the beginning anyway, because it takes
time for you to be discovered through any
platform I actually using. So let's dive right into it. First thing to do is
folder organization. So you can see I've got my mastermind videos that
have caught over here. This is quite poorly organized, but I'll show you other
strategies that I've been using. My YouTube video. I initially started
organizing them by numbers. But then what happened was that the publishing days change, so I had to switch
that around them. I just went move
project names and then that also get a
little bit more confusing. So in the last few months going with this order
over here, 1,110.9. Here you can see I've made
56 videos in October. In each one of these, I have everything that I need to actually build the video. But going back to a
Muslim man examples, so let's say we are going
to be creating a new video. I would recommend we
have a row video. And inside here
we're going to put all the videos from our camera. Then we can have an audio folder for our audio tracks and
then have images. And if you really want, now remember that
you can have this as organized as you want button. The fact that you have an
organized folder structure is not going to add any
value to your audience. So think of every activity you do behind the scenes
is slow you down. If your scope is to
get things out quite quickly and you're not
too interested in names. And if you can figure out
things, you are good. So in Final Cut
Pro specifically, there's a concept of
events and libraries. So you can see I have
a specific event, which is this whole course. I have little projects. Each project, so the interim, the course, the motivational
tapes is good enough. You can see I've named
this because I need these to be accurate name so I can remember
which one is which. But I don't necessarily need to remember what the
audit track was. And how I've actually done
that is that batch filmed this course in basically
in one setting. And I actually done that. So I've looked at the 0000 and the zeros are zero was the first thing I
was going to film. So I knew exactly where
I'm going to fill. And I went through that list, that's going to make
you go quite fast. I would only recommend
this only if you've actually film before. And you know that your equipment
workflow and you haven't changed your settings once you've got that ribbon working, then if you have an eight to
one to six videos to plan, should the mall in Mongo move
them all at once via e.g. USP and put them in
your editing tool. Now if you're not
going to edit them, immediately, potentially
go and rename them. Sometimes I've done that. I've kept the numbers, but also just put
a name on to them. Right-click on this event,
merocrine, new project. I'm going to do the intro
quickly again just to show you. You can set for k
If you're using for K or ten ADP, I'm using for k. So we have this new project. You can see it's empty,
so I'm double-clicking. So over here we need to drag a video file so you can ignore
everything else for now. So go and find your video file. Now if you're doing this
for the first time, you'll probably
have only one file. So I've got my file
and drag the file in. This file over here, hasn't got my audio
and video altogether. The first thing you'll
notice, black, green, and you can see
some audio tracks. So the oral tract
starts right here. So you can see this red line. This is the chopping points. If I do Command B, I can separate these two clips and I can eliminate a clip. So now if I play this back, you can see it from the previous
screen right over there. You can see it all going
and going and then pause, and then post and then,
you know that these are pores is the long
pauses you make. The easiest spot in a cut, cut, cut, cut until you've cut. All the pauses are. Now after that you would
go and re-watch the video, listen to what you're saying and cut unnecessary parts out of it. Once you have your first cut, cut version of the video. Then at that point what you
do is you would have a Biro. Biro would be like
secondary footage. So e.g. you could drag some
footage like this over here, place it on top. And now this footage on top
is replacing the collision. The bottom. You can add all sorts
of things like tax, sound, a sound effects,
all sorts of things. But apart from some basic
below and some texts, that should be it
really for you. So focus on getting the arrow clean and having an idea of how long the video
is going to be. Once you're happy
with that export, if you couldn't do it
tonight, TP or for k. And remember to name the actual file that you are going to be
exporting in the right way. The reason why is
because when you name your file and you
can see it over here, I want to know what file
is the definitive file. This file you're going to be storing and keeping
backup copy of. This is your final product. And if you're really
low on space, you can get rid of the raw facts which take up a lot of space. If you look at these,
how much space they take up compared to the files, but keep them maybe
for at least 90 days because you if you need to reedit your video
because you made a mistake or there's an update. You've got the raw
video files for them, and you've got them
in your editing tool. So it maybe it's just
a matter of, right, I need to trim this
part derivative out anymore because it
doesn't make any sense, then you just go and do that. So this gives you a basic
understanding of editing, and I'll see you next time.
9. Where to store and keep videos: In this video today
we're going to look at how we can actually take that footage that we've
got from my camera and microphone and actually
package the app altogether. Every video you're
going to make it, you're going to have to do
a lot of editing to it. Everything is laborious,
is time-consuming. And depending on how good
you are on the camera, it can take a lot of time
at the beginning, right? So we divide things
can take a long time. So it's worth learning. A specific video editing tool. Our idea, I use iMovie for Mac because I'm a Mac
user and it was free. And I start with iMovie
for around the 95th video. And then I switched to Final Cut Pro because it had some budget because I was fighting
making money some of the courses that
I was selling. And I felt I needed to
do an upgrade and I tried it for a free trial
and your work very well. But the lesson I'm
trying to tell you here is stick with one anything to quite quickly maybe try a
few in the first few weeks, but then tries to
pick one and learn as much as you can about it and tutorials about that tool. Obviously you need a machine, the ad seeing on paying if
you're doing ten ADP or four K or you might struggle
to current computer. Now, I did some edits with
a 2016 Mac, which was fine. And I purchased an iMac
at 20:19 versions for me, I have no problems. And even if things took
a little bit longer, I wasn't that much of a rush. But if you need some hardware, think about how the resolution
that you actually filming. So apart from the
editing software, the other consideration
is gonna be storage. Then you got to be
producing a lot of videos and you're going to have a lot of raw
copies of the video. So let's say a row copy of
video could be ten gig. Then you grab the audio, then you might have some B-roll, which is secondary images
that you actually shoot. And all that adds up over time. So let's say you have ten
to 12 gigs of footage, raw footage, then you
have the final footage, which could be four weeks. Each video produce good. Take up some space to
think of your strategy. Where are you going
to store that? Have you got enough space? Do you need to buy
some hard drives? You need to get a NAT
network attached storage. You need to use the Cloud. So you're going to think about maybe not on the beginning, maybe not the first
five to ten videos. We need to keep as
much food as you can. I would recommend you might
reuse it in other videos. If you're trying
to save some time, you can reuse footage, but yes, but you do need
to think about that, especially if you're
producing a lot of videos and you
produce them quickly, what you don't want
to do is to having issues with disk space. I had a lot of the problems
at the beginning and it was just a pain every time that
I was in creative mode, add to stop trying to
find something that could delete or backup in the Cloud and wait for
the transfer time. I was just a mess. So get yourself organized with the storage and the editing software that
you're going to be using.
Gio Langella, Smart Home Makers
