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1. EP1 - Intro of All you need to get started as a Youtuber: Hello everybody. Welcome
to my youtube course. My name is flaw and the whole semester
flow YouTube channel, if you are here, is because
you are in the shoes. I once found myself in stepping into the unknown with
so little around me. Firstly, scared of
making this decision, which I know is not easy at all. It only took me 15 years
to decide on doing it. And secondly, not
finding enough all in one resources to get
started from scratch. This is maybe the only reason I'm going to do these classes. So I can give back what
I've learned during the almost last ten months in which I started from scratch. And God, my YouTube
channel up and running with zero
skills in a talking. Knowing what geared to use, knowing how to use a light, how to record, how to edit, how to script and so on. I did not pass
hundreds of videos. Now call myself a professional, also Danish I post in is
maybe overpopulated and people would not
give me a chance on getting to my
1,000 subscribers, nor people spending
enough time to get to the 4,000 h of watch time. My surprise was rewarded
by getting to dose to import the stems in monetizing
in less than three months? Yeah. You heard me well, less
than three months. Less than those 50, 61st videos that people
say you need to do prayer on getting and being
a YouTube partner. So if you think you
are ready to step in and build your own
story, don't hesitate. Let's have fun together
and join me in this class also in
discussions and who knows? I will probably
be that help that you need to get closer
to achieving your dream, which is not an easy one. I know I'm just at the beginning
of my YouTube journey, but I thought I will get
my knowledge out there, share from the beginning
and use it while all our grades are
the same and things that are working probably the
same way they did for me. So I don't want to hesitate
or taking longer to post. What I've already
learned at the end of the day is me getting
to those 1,000 subscribers and
getting those 4,000 h. So you as well get approved and become
a YouTube partner. To keep things simple
and very explanatory, I will create a new YouTube
channel during this class. Plus show you how I make a video and post in
one of my channels. I will edit. I will show you how I
did it, how I scraped, how I do every single step
from creating the new, the new YouTube channel into
posting in the new one, go through all sorts of
stats and learn so much more about how to basically
edit what gear to choose. And so much more
in these classes, I hope you will enjoy it. And I hope you'll find
everything that I share useful. And why not? Let's become friends
and then see how we can interact
with each other and how we can actually get into helping you in achieving
that probably dream, which I had for years and years, but I could not find it in me to start doing
it because now I've got a few steps in the
process and I'm happy to be able to share that with you and I hope you'll enjoy it. I'll see you on the other side and I'll see
you in the next episodes.
2. EP2 - How to chose equipment and software: Welcome to episode number two. So you know now who I am and decided to let me
help you as little or as much as possible in
getting your knowledge up to get you closer on getting those thousands of
scrubbers and 4,000 watch ours because we need these
details moving forward, I decided to do the equipment
episode probably first. I think talking
equipment while starting a YouTube channel is
more like a bad cliche. People avoid talking about
it and the importance of it. You want to have a very
good video quality, and you want to have
a good quality sound and obviously a good light. As a disclaimer, I'm not a professional and I don't
edit professionally. I would not say my light
and the way I feel is probably the best or the way I record I
will do is the best. I would not consider myself a professional nor my videos or the light or the quality of the sound is probably the best, but I only want to
share my quality and water I've chose for
filming and everything else. So then pretty much presenting all that I have
an older have done to be able to get to those
1,000 subscribers in and get approved by YouTube and becoming a partner in
less than three months. Because I did not know
where to start and did not find the perfect video
on explaining everything. I start asking questions, watching tutorials and so on. But because I want to share all details quickly
and in one place, will start sharing equipment. I used to use an
equipment I'm using now to be able to
actually create. Good to know that
most equipment I'm sharing is not a
must to start with. It's important to know because, because English is not
my native language and my editing skills
that are not perfect, I thought I would try this for having a good content firstly, and then good image
and good quality. I will say the image and the audio quality
is quite decent. It is important that people
are finding your videos useful and having the content
they actually clicked for. Also, I thought
it's important that the quality of the
video to be decent. This will only show
you're committed on delivering what
you want to deliver. Also, because most of the videos are made in front of the camera. I thought I'll offer people a clear image and
maybe a clear sound. So let me show you what
equipment I'm using and what alternatives you can
actually probably have. Maybe number one most
important a computer. Maybe it's not
impossible without it. But for all the edits controls, and pretty much
everything that I do, I use my computer brand is probably not important
because Windows or Mac, you can use them both to do it, but pretty much similar things. It's just what you
find easier to use. Maybe you can edit, create, and do everything
from your phones, but will not offer you the same control and
easy to do factor, but it's not impossible
to do everything. And start by doing
everything from your phone. Number two, obviously,
if you're filming, you need a decent camera. Our good font for
filming, again, a must for me
because I want it to get the best quality
videos I could. I decided to finance most equipment you'll
find in this list. I like to use credit
for everything that I try as part of my investments
are pretty much all beets. I have. I decided to take a loan and see how and when I can actually
start paying back. When I break even
on the investment with the money I will
actually make from YouTube their monthly payments
for what I had was less than 80, £80. So quite affordable from
a small YouTube channel. But let's talk
numbers and how much actually from YouTube
being in a later episode. So I decided to buy
these from a website, a secondhand actually used. So for my camera, I use a Sony Alpha 86400 meter or less because it has the
flipping display on the back. It can flick over. I thought it'll be a very
good camera to start with. I can actually see
myself freedom though. It's on a different
level from the lens. But trading the value for the quality is not very
expensive, but very, very good in terms of actually filming for the land
side decided to also go for a use Sigma 16
mm on 1.4 frames, which is Sony e compatible
lens. Very good. I would say. Okay, I have a camera and lens, a laptop where I can actually
save the files and edit. I need a tripod to haul my camera for the
tripod you can use any, not gonna recommend any. I don't know if it really
matters at the beginning, but the next for the audio, I'm using a use rod video mike, which I attached to the camera
with a cable for hoarding. They're making good proximity. I use a mic stand, which again, you can buy US from anywhere, or maybe find a different
way of clumping the mike anywhere close to you. I don't like Mike's
to be attached to me as I move my hands a lot. As you can see. I like the freedom of
speaking to hanging Mike and still have the decent audio on the
videos for the lights, I suggest getting
a white light from either Amazon or
wish or anywhere. I started with the cheap light, and since then I've managed
to get myself for a non-life, which is a soft box. Our fourth data is quite
decent and I really, really like it and I can play with it even though,
to be honest, I only put it there to kind
of increase the quality of the video since the
beginnings I got a prompter, but you don't need
this to start with. Things will get a little
more complicated with it. But let's mention it and talk about it in probably
a different episode and show you how
the prompt or works and how we can actually
use the prompter. But that's, that's pretty
much the basics and this is the equipment I use
and keep on using. I haven't changed
a lot since then. I've probably added the
prompter and probably change the light from a
cheaper one into the, into this new one, which is a bit more easier to use and store and
everything else. And then I use the light in
the back just to create a lyric low and create the
depth for the image. It's not very expensive, not very cheap either, but I wanted to succeed. So as I said earlier, I wanted to commit what I do, so I decided to make
an initial investment. But now you can
actually see a new, probably already see
how I use this and how I connect them to get
ready to press record. If you're already
checked my videos, you'll see I fill in pretty much everything from exact same spot in
my living room. I kind of keep camera
this same kind of place, attach the mica
under the camera and on a decent it's pretty
much in front of me. I would say it's a decent
distance and also delight. I like it from one side
and a bit from the above. I don't have another
one to balance to have. You can actually see
there's a bit of a shadow on this
side of my face. I don t have a pretty face. My face doesn't really matter. It's the words that are
coming out from my mouth, which I would say are important. And that's what's sending the message that I'm trying to send on my YouTube channel. I'm not sure what niche
you want to approach, but I would say probably try to invest in things
as you go and don't let the equipment be kind of the stopper for you in
getting to actually start. As you can see, I turn all the room lights off
and only keep the lump in the buck to
create a good kind of debt for the
image and have that. Maybe you can see my
buddy in a good kind of glow compared with everything which is kind of
blurry in the back. I only use two
settings on my phone, which is the ISO, which you can control. And then obviously the frame and how much I can actually control that depth in behind me and behind the things that you
want to keep in focus. These are the only settings I ever change or use
depending on the light. You can play with them. But I saw will help you get more light in and
out from your lens. And then the frame will
help you get more or less blur behind
the focus point, which is me in this case, as I mentioned already, I'm not a skilled videographer. Photographer will only
share details about things you need to
get your content on YouTube and things
I need it for me in order to start in actually get to the point where
I want it to get, feel free to explore more
settings as you grow and learn. But for now, I would
say this is kind of a basic equipment and
this is a basic setup. I used and I keep on using the low probably
change one day. But this was in probably
is the equipment which I started using
from the first day when I posted my
first video up to till this day in which I
only improved a little bit. It doesn't have to be fancy. It doesn't have to be expensive. I don't have a proper
studio behind me. But these things did not stop me from posting and starting engaging with the
audience and kind of breaking that
15 years barrier, which I had in order for me
to actually start recording. If you can afford to buy it, I would say bite people, say don't bother buying fancy
equipment or doing that. I'm telling you if you've
got a good quality video, if you've got a
good quality audio, it will help you mentally. I would say if you want to start with your phone,
I'm not here to stay. You can start with your phone. You can start with your phone. You can start with any kind
of lights just to kind of get good-quality on your face to be able to have
that crisp image. And then probably invest in decent mic to have
a decent audio. I'm not saying I know
how to edit them all. I'm not saying I know how
to get the best beer roles. As you can see, I am got a
clue how to do that properly. I'm only only presenting
the basic skills I learned for me to get to those 1,000 subscribers
and 4,000 watchtowers. And I hope my honesty
in everything that I share will help you because
you need that push. I tried to find decent
different kinds of courses for
starting on YouTube. But the information is, so it's in so many places, you can find it all in one
place from how to start, to actually maintain what you already started
with equipment, with scripting, with
how we do things, how I changes they go. I don't believe in getting
into some sort of a frame. I didn't use a frame. I didn't use a magic number. I didn't post it. Who knows what hours. But you'll see,
you'll see for now, this is the Whitman and this
is how I have my setup. You see everything
where I sit down, how I keep the light in my back. I've got a decent flower, but not because I plan to heavy there is just
the flower in my room. Again, this is not a studio, is just part of my living room. And this is the angle I'm
using for filming everything. And you can see how I put
my camera and the light. If you decide to do this type
of videos, maybe as a tip. When I put the
camera on the stand, then if you want to get
this type of image, I tilt it slightly in angles. I'm looking a bit app and
into an angle to the camera. This is the level from my eyes. I tried to keep the
straight into the, into the lens and then on top of the lens through the prompt, or in my case, but you won't need probably
the prompter to start with. I can see decently the image and then
you can see I'm looking at the lens now. And now I'm looking
at the little screen on top of my camera
is just to get a good vibe of the background
and everything that happens around you to ensure
that everything is in place. Sometimes my wife is telling me, make sure you hide the
toys that I got from my daughter everywhere around and make sure you
double triple check. Because if you see in my videos, I'm kind of in, in those hiding videos in which I'm planting all
sorts of different objects. Surprise if they're not
some objects around me, which I forget by playing
with my daughter, or I forget putting them in the right place before I
actually start filming. But this is me
natural and VCs me how I do everything and how I've done everything
with the equipment, I have to get to those
1,000 subscribers. This is enough for this episode. Probably will introduce more equipment and
we'll talk about all sorts of different bits when they pop up
at the right time. But till then, let's
hope we'll see each other in the next
episode and see how we need to start on making
that first video and making a few decisions for you and your channel
and your niche. See you there.
3. EP3 - How to get started: Now that we're more
familiar with each other, we need to make a
few clear decisions. What is the name you want
to use for your channel? And what is the niche for the
videos you want to cover? So think about that before
you do anything else, maybe take some time, pause this video and
think about a name, and think clearly about the niche that you want
to use for your channel. Now that you've got a name and you know what
niche you want to use. Let's start talking
about how to build it. Don't worry, I will go with you step-by-step and
building this up, I'm using my Mac book to record my screens and record my audio from my camera while I speak. So let's create a
YouTube channel. To do this, please go onto Google and create
a Gmail account. I like using Google as
being my main email. Because in there the
way I can sync it with everything that I do
and all the data that I can have on all sorts of different devices because I
like to keep things simple. My e-mail was built from
my name with full stops in-between the words for pretty much the main
YouTube channel, because this will be
a legal entity moving into YouTube partnership
or tried to use my name is illegal
owner plus keep things simple so I don't
get into legal stuff later. And proving that myself
is the legal owner of the channel or for the
different assets when you want. Multiple accounts
may be worn matter as much what name you'll use
for your email account is, you will have to link it to the main account on
which you will activate all the legal stuff and all
the partnership with Google. And pretty much
from where you are going to be paid
for this channel, you can see I'm using chill
out with miss the floor. I tried to use the full stop. If for some reason I
was getting an error, probably I'll try to change
that later in case I want to, but for now, I'm going with that name for the new channel, I'm building up while
doing these videos. Now that we have our
first Gmail account, we need to activate YouTube and have pretty much our
own YouTube channel. You can see how that is done. Then you can see how I get
into customizing a few bits. And for that, at this
stage I want to introduce sound few software that I'm
using for making the content. I like using Adobe because
he was the easiest one to use and maybe the most common in terms of
tutorials and begin alert. Of course, on
Skillshare and YouTube are all different other
platforms for tutorials. So I'm using Illustrator
to create all the images. But you can also use Canva
as I used in this video. I use Canva as you can see, to create the cover page
for my top on YouTube, which is not the
best I would say. I can tweak it a little bit to make sure you can
actually get it into all devices to the
right size for computers, phones or different other,
different other displays. I will probably carry on using Canva and doing some thumbnails. And you can also use Canva
for pretty much anything. It's free to use. And
you can have all sorts of different templates
which you can use from day, makes things so much easier than actually starting
from scratch. And in case you don't want to
use Illustrator or pay for professional software
for doing these images. But in case you want
to start exploring and learning more
about Adobe products, you can benefit of so many discounts in
case you're a student, or maybe around £50 per month
for all their applications, which is not very much, but go get used them for 30 days free and see if it's something that
you want to commit to. For the long term, it's not a huge amount but
expenses we'll pile on. So think about it, but to start with, you can pretty much make
everything that I do for free with the free software like Canva or different others. But that decisions
should be your estimate. As a recap for this video, it's important to know what
name you use for the channel. This can be changed later
in case you want to, but are very important it is to know what is the niche
you want to start with. Because changing the
niches after you got subscribers interested
in the content you have, It's probably a bit
disturbing for your channel. I'm not saying it's impossible to change your niche as you go. But then the first
subscribers that you've got, It's kind of messing up the matrix or future
being kicked in which the guys who are
already subscribe to your channel subscribe for the niche that you're
posting videos on, then changing that
would just ask for a new type of subscribers. It can probably be
a bit, as I said, disturbing, but I'm not
saying it's impossible, but probably probably I would say if you want to do like
I did in my instance, some video in crypto world
marketplaces for stocks or business e-commerce in
which I tried to capture a, a big audience, I
would say do that. That channel miss the floor,
which is the main one, could easily be split in so many different
niches, I would say. Then obviously this
new channel focuses on a specific niche in
which I'm going to do some music for some free
videos that I'm going to pause and I'll show
you how that is done. But for this video and from
the outcome of this video, make sure you know what type of software we want to
use for the images that you're going to do for the cover of four different
other bits like thumbnails. I'm suggesting using Canva, which is fruit and
very easy to use. But then you can
look into Adobe, which is the bits that I
usually use for editing my video and editing my photos and all the images
that I'm doing. I'm not saying convey is not the way to go because
it's very easy to use. And I'm using it
in most instances. Whereas when I wanted
to do things quickly and I tried to keep a
standard on the things that I do now that we've got
our channel and we kind of customized it to the
way you want it to. We are ready to
pause the videos and let's get to do those
in the next episodes.
4. EP4 - Your first video: Now that you've
got your name for the channel and you know the niche you want
your videos to be in. Let's talk about
that first video, which is probably one of the hardest videos
for you to do. This first video is a bundle of emotions and maybe the
video which will help you be who you want
to be in the video which will impact the
most your future and how you want to create and
what will be the vision of a channel is up to you
if you want or not, to sit in front of
the camera and talk. Not sure how you
plan your channel and how much you want
to expose who you are. But I'm a very introverted guy. I'm over 35 now, but still shy on having a
conversation with strangers. I never sat down in front of a camera and talk for me to make that first video only
took like 15 years. That lens there is not a void, is like the worst thing you can stare at when you start
filming that video. But before moving forward, let me tell you something. I don't see it
like that anymore. I got so familiar with it as used to it
that I don't see it anymore and I don't have
the same nerves and emotions that I had when I actually made the first videos. It does feel like I'm in front
of a bigger audience and talk the bits that I learned and I know and I want to share. And funny enough, it's not scary anymore nor freaking me out. But now back to you. You are going to freak out maybe and have multiple takes on it. But do it, do it and don't
dwell too much on it. It will never be perfect. And you, as you're
pretty much on critique, will never find it perfect nor anywhere near to be decent. But actually gone with it and just think about
it and post it. I decided to go with it and
put all those emotions into, into it and start talking. We'll do recommend having a script for your first video in which you want to know
what you want to talk. So at least you will have a clear structure
of that video. The way you want to
record it this to maybe memorized sentences
and shoot them. This is how I started, what I would stitch lots of
many sentences together in my first video to help
me break that emotions of talking and forth in
front of the camera. And also the nerves
behind the fact that my family will see it. My best friends will see it, the neighbors will see it. My ex colleagues will see it. Anything will see it. And you just freak out and
all those people are in front of you and you don't know what to do and you're thinking, should I carry on
recording these videos, should actually post anything, should actually expose
myself and do it. I did it. And I
decided to go with it. And I decided to close my eyes and ignore all those
eyes looking at me. After you post your first video, these are the giants that
you need to fight between you following a crazy dream of having a YouTube
channel and you, let me tell you, not everybody will encourage you on trying. And for most people, starting from zero is a waste of time because you'll never
get 100 subscribers. You'll never get anywhere
to 1,000 subscribers. And these are the voices that
you always hear around you. Funny enough. Even some of my brothers
were laughing when I started and probably some
people will laugh for me. It was the constructing
laugh because it kind of gave me that passion to
even to try one more. Because the most
challenging step is getting to start and filming that first video
in which you draw the direction and
vision of your channel. And you are calling
for your niche. And those people who are
interested in hearing your story or enjoying the content you're keen
on sharing actually. So if you want, go get that first video done, make as many takes, and let's start putting
them all together. Because for my channels, I don't have to make
those first videos. And for the new channel, the first video in which
I'm drawing or giving the direction of the channel is not going to happen with me sitting in front of the camera. I'll go and do one first
video for the new channel. And then I'm going to do a different video for
Mr. Flores channel in which we're
going to see how I scraped and how I put
all things together. And most of all how I edit
and basics of how I edit, which is very easy. Again, I'm using Adobe
Illustrator to do that. You can use it for free for 30 days and see how you
come along with it. I'm using all your food keys and just a few pretty much ways of editing that is
probably not the best. But again, I'm sharing what I've learned and what I've done to get to that goal of 1,000 subscribers and
4,000 watchtowers. I see you in the next episodes.
5. EP5 - Content creating for a new channel: Welcome back everybody. Let's start making some videos for the niche we want to serve. Two, we start creating the first video for the new channel in
which I will be using some free few teach forum pexels.com because I'm
passionate about music, will make my own
music which will be the highlight
of my new channel, also will create
videos of over ten, 20 min as being a
relaxing music. I assume people would like to listen for minutes, maybe hours. So maybe the same video, we'll make it in multiple
events and pause it multiple times using
different titles. I'm selecting some footage, would say in this instance, this video, the image one matter as much as a
sound probably plays. I like to ensure the
clips I'm using are not breaking any
copyrights will always link from where I found
probably on the description and popping up on the
right or the left of the of the video
footage I'm using S, as you can see, I went
to record something. I do it on my piano, which you can
actually see there. I left it there. And then we'll combine and
you can see how I'm combining the videos as well with the, as well with the audio
for editing the video, I will use again
Premier Pro from Adobe. I find it easier and part of the package and paying for
editing videos and images. I'm also using Logic Pro for recording my piano
and some drums and other bits and bobs
that recording or different trucks
and creating, if you're interested in that, let me know and probably I'll, I'll do more on different
episodes on that bit. Once my audio is exported, together with the
row video found, we'll import them as new
files in Premier Pro. I don't use too many settings, so I'll just go buy
whatever new is. I just go on your project
and that's pretty much it. I drag the audio and videos into the library and
from there on the stage. Also, as you've seen already, all my panels in Premier
Pro are as default. I'm not adding anything
nor no shortcuts, no other ways of me trying
to make my stage look like I'm just using
it as is pretty much. I would say everything will
look pretty much like iMovie, which is a free software
on the MacBook menu, can start editing without one. You don't necessarily need to
pay a software for editing. You can probably
use Da Vinci or use different other free softwares out there for editing video. Because I'm not using
any fancy things. As you can see, I'm only
cutting the bits that I don't like or stitching
videos together, add the RDD I would do on the bottom and just
multiply it in this instance. And then probably
in the next episode I'll show you when I cut it, the bits that I'm talking and cut the bits out
that I don't need. Or maybe I add some titles. Just very, very, very simple. Editing is all that
I'm doing pretty much. That's why I don't think
you necessarily need Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut to be able to
get these sorts of videos where there
is not much editing, I need to do these type of videos apart from being a bonus, they said, unfortunate
footage I use for doing that, I just use text. Usually the font that I'm
using is called bulbous. It's a free font
and usually behind the text depending on
the contrast they are, the rectangular to
keep things simple. As you can maybe see
in all my videos, I try to just keep things
very simple without too much motion or sparklers
or movements or sounds. I like things simple
and funny enough, it works, it worked for me, so I'm sure it
will work for you. But once happy with how many times you copy the
videos and audio around, and happy with the length of the videos, it's
time to export it. And you've seen how
exported for this again, I use a standard
settings and you can see I've created
and save that preset for me in which I'm dropping the quality little bit to ensure the video is not having
too many gigs to wait hours for it to upload, especially for me hearing in UK. But now you can see I'm
using again Canva to design the first
step in a photo or video and get ready to upload. I use free features
from Canva seen previously in the videos that I use or use different templates. As usual, I'm keeping
things simple. Simple images, large titles. Most of my lessons
on doing thumbnails, just big texts so people can read it from the
little thumbnail. And then maybe some
sort of an image of yourself or whatever. Like in this instance, I would say that maybe
my thumbnails need improving and making them
stand out a bit more. We learn more and maybe in
future share more insights on thumbnails and when they
actually know more about it. But I would say this is descent and always ready to be uploaded. I will not dwell too much on it because you can go back in. To your videos and
edit thumbnails, edit titles, descriptions. Once my thumbnail is ready, my video is ready. I can go into the studio, YouTube studio and upload
the video as I don't either an intro video for
this type of channel. This will literally
be my first video on the new YouTube channel. I tried to build a description of the
video with some text. As usual, if depending on your niche and depending
on what you're going to post, probably most of
your videos won't be made for kids
in case you don't decide to do Kids
YouTube channel. I always stick the box
of nutmeg for kids. And just go into
more options too. All the other bits and bobs
from there you can add as many keywords as you think are relevant
with the content. And because I will be, will have repeated content, I tend to create some nodes
from where I can copy and paste these key words so
much easier in the future. Also, you'll discover that
some bits you can copy from different videos that
you've got on your channel. I like to pass the
location for where I'm posting the video and the
language is not relevant. It's music is a common language for everybody in the world. And once you're happy with
all the details filled in, I will just allow the video
to upload and publish. I would say this is a
very simple process. Things will change
slightly as soon as you are approved for monetizing, as you will have to go through all sorts of different
other checks. But uploading first videos, videos like this is very easy. So I hope you managed
to make your own video, decided on what sort of editing
platform you want to use. Stitch up some footage
in case you want some B-roll which you
can use from pexels.com. Your video, then break it down
with all sorts of B-roll. Have some audio on the bottom. You can lower down the volume for that one
in case you want to talk on top of it just to create some dynamic
for the video. But once you happy, exported to the quality you want by changing a few settings
in case you want to. If you limit it, don't
be upload bandwidth or you're restricted
or who knows? As I said, I don't have a brilliant band for internet
connections here in UK. And I'm using, I'm
trying to lower down somehow the
size of the video. Because the quality that
YouTube is processing, it's not necessarily
going to matter. In case you've got
a very good camera. Some people will notice, but most people don't
have an educated eye for that sort of details
when it comes to four K. Once my video is exported, YouTube studio
looks very simple, especially now at the beginning in which we only want to add videos and try to add as many videos as possible
and just upload them. Complete all the details, as much description as you want, which will some sort of index and maybe be
fundable for Google, algorithm uses many
keywords as possible, copied them in case
you want to have standard keywords
for different videos in case they're repeatable
type of videos. So it makes it easier
instead of having to type all the time and then fill all the other details
and publish your videos. And yeah, this is a very easy
video that I've presented. Obviously. I've done
a bit of music on it and then just downloaded
some free few teach. But we'll go into
the next episode in which I'm going to
share how I'm going to script and make a
video for Mr. floor channel in which I will
present different other bits, which will be a bit
different than having to having to do a video
like this one. Thank you. I'll see
you in the next one.
6. EP6 - Content creating for Mr.Flo Youtube channel: Welcome back. It's time to get into making
our first script and get ourselves ready to do a stand in front of
the camera video. I will talk about another
app which you can download on your phone and
my cryptocurrencies for, for this video, for the script, I wrote it all in my notes within my notes on my computer. And you can see a screen print, a print screen on
how that looks like. These type of videos are
quite short and don't take a long time to
script, feel an edit. Hopefully, I won't have
to do too many takes. Since I started using
my new prompter. I feel like the editing time dropped due to the fact that I can be more on point when I
actually write the script. So after I write the
text for the script, word by word, everything, I write down everything. I copy and paste it within the
free app for the prompter, which is called
inmate teleprompter. And you can easily
see how the program works and how I paste
manuscript for, for the video in there. This will be mirroring, reflected back from
my font screen onto the, onto the prompt, that kind of
mirrored glass once, once then I finished the video, I transfer my cart used with
my raw video on my laptop. Again, insert video in
Premier and New York or in your whatever editing software for the
video you're using, then most of the images
are screenshots or me filming my my phone will be
air dropped to my laptop, which is quite easy for me using an iPhone Air and MacBook. From there, as you'll see, the editing is done very easily, and it was only two
keys, three keys. And they are C, V, and delete. And actually I'm using the space from time to time to
restart the video. When I stop it. With C, with the key C, you can see I trim in places I want to have gaps
between the phrases. And you can actually notice
the gaps in the audio layer. This helps where to cut. Once I cut, I select the cat
passage and I delete it. Also clicking the gaps
and use Delete key again to kind of get the videos back together in between
all the cats, I use the V key, which is the arrow to help
me click anywhere around. I added my intro, which we'll talk more about
it in my last episode. Editing these type of
videos is very easily done. Export as I did previously, and have video ready
to be uploaded. Uploading is done pretty
much the same way. Only difference is sticking all relevant boxes for monetizing and waiting
all the checks, prayer of the video
being published. Also, you can see that I'm using Canva again for
making the thumbnail. Which is again, the same kind of principle in which
I use my face, which is a print screen of the video I used at
the beginning of the, of the videos that kind of pose. And then I just make
a screenshot of that. Use the video or use that
use the picture and use my face to stitch it
up with all sorts of different words and create a thumbnail, which
is quite easy. But in the last video again, I will talk about
more tips about how to create a white background behind me and use that
as the thumbnail. Again, I hope you find
this video useful and will help you gain confidence
more than anything. Because you need to
gain confidence more than pretty much
any other skills that I'm trying to present here. Scales will follow up and you'll gain more and more experienced
the more you do it. Thank you for watching. And let's catch up in
the last episode in which I will present all
sorts of different types. And probably what is my
biggest secret on kind of what helped me to achieve
that goal over 1,000 subscribers and
4,000 watched hours. Also, in the last
episode, I'll show you, kind of go through the YouTube Studio on
my computer and show you the revenues depending on my views and
different other tips. I hope I'll see you
on the last one.
7. EP7 - Biggest secret + Tips & Tricks: I'm glad you've managed to
get to see this last episode. I will go through
all sorts of tapes. But firstly, I will start
with what was kind of my strategy on getting to data thousand subscribers
and 4,000 watchtowers. And then after all the tips
that I will try to present, we'll go and have a look
in the YouTube Studio. What is my biggest secret? Probably if you go through
Mr. floor channel, you'll see that I've
started talking about my story of me moving in
UK, starting a business, how I get my business
to where it is, and how I got to start from nothing and get
to a decent size business, which gave me a decent
amount of money. But probably there are
hundreds of thousands of different YouTubers plotting that and starting with that. And obviously, I did not get too much people watching it apart from probably
friends, family, and new views from new users probably interested in the subject is good to know. I never promoted any of my videos with Google
ads or anything. My strategy was to get, to talk about cryptocurrencies, being passionate about
stock markets as well, then e-commerce and how I got my e-commerce websites
to actually work. I could probably make more
videos about all those. The process of looking on what videos are
actually working. I realized that at some point after making a video in older niches
I wanted to present, I've seen which niche
is picking up the best. I've seen that in my case, talking about
cryptocurrencies and earning free cryptocurrencies
from your phone. It was a subject
that I'm getting new people to watch my videos. That was my strategy. Kind of test the waters and see which one is the sweetest. So I posted about my business. Suppose the bar stock market, they start posting about crypto. And I've seen that there is a quite big audience which
is interested in new videos, as well as probably
the main popular ones. But dad got me to realize that this is something that
I want to double down on. The secret is, just
see what it works. Test maybe 510 videos. Don't get disappointed. If you see that
they're not working. I know there's a lot of work
to start with recording, editing and doing every single
beat that you're doing. But if you want to
go on this journey, you have to kind of embrace yourself because it's not
gonna be an easy process, but with the help
from everybody and probably would help for
I'm presenting here. You'll get to reach that goal in which you are going to get rewarded for the hard
work you're putting in of building up a
good YouTube channel. So the secret is doubled down. Doubled down on the things
that you see there, picking up and use titles which are intriguing and would not
say use click bait titles. In case those click bait titles are not actually the
subject of the video. I was talking about
Pine Network, which is a network in which people kind of mine a free
crypto coin on their phones. It's not launched yet. It's still a huge way to go probably in the process of building something like that. But I've seen that
they got a huge, massive base of users. And they decided
to double down on that subject because
everything that I would post, even if I just started
talking about it, people will just
pick it up on it. It was a very good niche
for me to double down. And this was my secret. To get to those 1,000
subscribers and 4,000 h, I kind of sacrifice all the other playlists
I've got in my, in my channel and post
from time to time in them. Just to keep that, I will not say that
you have to post every three every
for every five days. I don't think there's a
secret recipe in that. I used to post one video a
week or two videos a week, three videos a week. Everything was ad hoc. I never follow a rule because I don't necessarily think
there's a rule for that. If you decide to post a subject that people
are interested in, it doesn't really matter
what are you post it. It doesn't matter what day
you post it and it doesn't matter on how many times
you post the week. I don't believe that people trying to sell you that
it did not work for me. I did not follow any
recipes for when what our work what's the
best day, blah, blah. I only posted when I felt
I had the time to do a video and then editing
in the evening in UK, most of my videos. We'll probably be uploaded
after midnight in UK. And it's not because
I want it to follow recipes because
I was getting home. I was filming my videos. I was going to put
my baby to sleep, gets to edit the video
and by the time it will upload will be 123 in
the morning and UK. So I did not follow
a recipe for that. The only recipe I followed
in my head was to double down on the videos that
you're getting new views. I would know what average views I would get from my friends, my family when I
started posting things. And then when I've
seen video speaking up new views without
me doing anything, just posting about something
that I see it's working. I knew that I have to post
more videos about that. I knew that I do have to do more research about
that subject. And I knew that I have to
come with something new, something intriguing, something to make
people click on it. And if there's a subject that
will interest many people, and you bring something
new to the table, even though you wrap
it up differently, people will like to hear your opinion doubled down
on things that are working. That's probably
my biggest secret about getting to that goal
of getting monetized. Different other recipes. My work, I don't know. I tried to listen to everybody. I've tried to hear
everybody's opinion, but listening to everybody, I could not fit
into any schedules, any kind of ways of doing it. So I decided to do it my way
and guess what It works. It worked for me and
I bet it will work for anyone who's keen on trying. Another good tip I want to talk about is probably the lighting. I think in the episode 3.4, if you think if you remember, I decided to make the
videos during the daytime, the light is way better than doing it the nighttime
now is the daylight. But it's kind of a nice blue sky and you don't have
any clouds out there. So you won't see any sort
of variations in between light from shadow to bright
light when the sun is out. So in case you decide to make your videos during
the daytime and show you block your Windows very well to be able
to control the light. Otherwise, you will
see how in my video, sometimes it's very bright,
sometimes it's darker. Again, this is not an impediment
for me in making videos. As I'm not trying to promote
my skills in editing, my skills on how
to use the lights, and my skills on how to become a cinematographer or
whatever you want to become. This is me just sitting
in front of a camera on, but probably this is a good
tip in case you want to keep the same type of flight in all your videos have
probably tip number three. You will see probably in my
videos I've used an intro. Again, my skills,
you've seen them already are not great in
when it comes to motions, when it comes to this interests. So what I've done,
I've paid somebody, I think around 20, £30 to build an intro for me. I've shared a few
pictures varied. I've shared the titles
I wanted to use, told him how long I
want the intro to be. And guess what? After probably, I think only one or two little
changes that he had to do to the video they
release is very, very nice. And I think it's
just adds a bit of a flavor to your YouTube,
to your interests. Go on Fiverr. If you'd
be interested in knowing which which user
I've used on Fiverr, let me know and I'll
share the link with you. Tip number four. If you've seen I've used in my thumbnails, I usually use my ugly face. And I pose in all sorts
of different faces. And I'm using dot width, big banners, big text, which helps people to
read my thumbnails. And this is kind of the way
of me doing my thumbnails. I'm not sure if you've
got an iPhone and if you manage to duty to
the last update, but if I take, let me take let me take
a selfie to myself. So take a selfie, you go on the picture and
then with the new update, you can hold on the picture. And then it will just
share or copied that. You will see a subject in the
subject there, a thumbnail. Let me share that with my wife. And you'll see is
just copied out and just copy it out
pretty much my face. And making everything else. And wide screen. It's an easy way of creating that white
background around you. Without you having to do too much cropping in
and doing too much cutting in Illustrator
or whatever software you use for doing
white backgrounds. I thought he was easy trick
to use for iPhone users. Or if you want, you've got the same
options in Canvas, but you'll have to be on
the Pro version of it, in which we'll just eliminate any background and will make you stand out when it comes
to making thumbnails. Tip number five, as I
talked in the last video, the way I do thumbnails, when I start recording before I kind of laid down
all my content, I tried to pose and I'll try to make all sorts of
different phases. And then I open that video, I pause it and go
with the arrows on the laptop just to
go frame by frame. And then whatever frame I like, I'll make a screenshot of that, copy myself or use the
image as is and just make make the thumbnails
straight from the video. I don't have any
green screens and in black screens or anything to make pictures against is just
my face from those videos. Actually a video like this
in which I'll just pose it, make a screenshot and that'll be my thumbnail for the video. Probably not the best. But I'm only sharing as always, what I've done to get to my
goal of being monetized. Again, maybe tip number six, a very, very, very
interested one. I was in the debate
of posting or not. My first video on all the
social media as I have. I talked about making
that first video and how those giants of
the people around you are the people that you look onto getting to
subscribe to your channel. Kind of getting to like
what you're going to do. And it's the people who you
are interested on helping you pass those emotions and getting to post more and getting
to make a YouTube channel. Again, some people, they
don't like to do that. My suggestion, just post
it on your Facebook, Instagram, share
it with everybody, and ask them to share it. This is going to
be the new you in case you want to decide
to do a YouTube channel. Why not sharing that with the people who are
closest to steal? It will just help you. I mean, the subscribers and views will just
probably helped the algorithm of starting a new YouTube channel to
kinda pick up momentum. Yeah, I mean, for me, it was
not easy to kind of make that first video and then
just jump in a line then, because that's how
it feels when you actually post that
video on Facebook and all your friends and family are going to react
in a way or another. Some people will be positive about what
you're going to do. Some people, as always, you'll find lots of haters
like internet is calling them. Don't worry about it. Just do what you like to do and just do what you want to do. If you will, only carry
on thinking about it is just going to postpone and
correspondence both spawn. Just start doing it and
post it to everybody. You don't need their approval because you've already done it. That video being posted is just sharing what you
already started doing. Getting some
subscribers on the way. It's even better. So that's what I decided to do. And that's how I kind of
got the first boost of my channel in which I've got probably after the first video, around 200 subscribers,
which was overwhelming. So why not, Why not starting with that and see
how your friends, family will react and ask them to share it
with everybody else, depending on the channel
and depending on the niche, may be apart from
having the first intro, YouTube, maybe post
12 more videos about the niche
you're going to get into before sharing everything. Again, it depends on how and what you're going to
share with people. But in case you want to get
people to know what you're doing alongside of you presenting the vision
of your channel. Maybe show them in 12 videos. What is that all about? And try to share it
after that in case you decided they intro video is not necessarily going to be enough to show what you're going to do. Or maybe give them a flavor or what you're going to
do in the first video. These are just some tips for me which worked for
me and probably will carry on working
for the people in case they want to start
making a YouTube channel. Okay, now the last part, let's talk a bit about how
the YouTube Studio looks like on the computer and probably see how
it looks like for me. As you can see, I've got 8,746
subscribers at this stage. Going into the left side, you've got the navigation. You've got your content in which you've got
all your videos. You've got the playlists, which is depending on what
platelets you want to use. You got the analytics in which it presents the analytics
for everything that you do. Good to know that
probably my videos raise lots of
multiple subscribers, but not necessarily a
huge amount of views. As you can see, I have
in the last 28 days, I'm 36,000 views, which is generated around 80
pounds AT British pounds. If I go into the revenues, you'll see how much
I'm actually making. I have months in which
probably I posted a bit more or had the video, which you start one
which has generated more than 169 pounds. It's good, bad, to be
honest, I don't know. For me, it's
overwhelming because anything it's very
good at this stage. And then you can see
this video has got more than 83,000, 3,000 views. As an overview, you can change that and let's see
from the lifetime. And you can see how
things evolve and how things actually
got to where I am. You can see I have a head
days with more than 400, 400 subscribers a day. That was the days in which
I used to post videos about things I used to
double down on and try to, and try to create
content on that. You can see, if we look
at the subscribers, you can see how many
videos I head back then and what videos I used to have in March that
help people clicking on and subscribing
to my to my channel. I did not do lots of shorts. I think I probably have like
five shorts on my channel. Maybe shorts is something interesting because the
more views you get now, you'll probably get ways of monetizing by, by doing shorts. You could go into the
life count and see, and see how many, how many subscribers you have. And then you can
go on the lifetime and see how you actually evolved and how you got how you got your
thousand subscribers. So you can see, I got to my thousand subscribers
maybe on the March 13. March 13, which is probably
three months since I started. Since they started
doing YouTube. Again, watched hours
will come with it. I have to say that
you will probably get closer of getting your
thousand subscribers then actually the watchtowers, especially if you
do shortish videos, people are not very keen on
listening to everything, or they use two weeks, one-and-a-half fix speed of beats and the edges
go scroll through. As you can see, if I go
back on the dashboard, last video off posted, It's got 1.2 k, which is the video I've
posted in the last episode. But video, the video
is got 3.30 min. And then if you look, you've got only an
average of 1.5 min. People listening to my video. Again, this is something
to keep in mind because people will like
to go fast and get fast. The reason they
clicked on the video. So maybe first few seconds of every video will be
important to tell them what the video is about
and somehow try to make it in such way that
people will want to watch. People don't want to
watch in general. And if you think of yourself, even I, when I want to
listen to something, I go quick through all the, all the drama in all the videos. People tried to post a plus minutes videos because then from a monetizing perspective, people will like to get ads
during the, during the video. Otherwise, if it's too short, you'll probably get as keypad or skip ad at the
end of the video. Yeah, it doesn't look
too complicated. See you see my latest
posts in which I actually posting
between my community. It's like a tweeter,
each very easy. Apart from that,
you've got comments, subtitles, any copyrights in case you have any
copyrights with anyone. And monetization in which you will see all
the bits that you, that you have, all
the shopping from a membership perspective and super chats and everything else. Again, they're easy
customization is the bits that we've
done at the beginning. And then obviously, as soon as you start posting
more videos, you could feature them and use the channel trailer or anything else in
the audio library. It's a very important
tool because you got free to use type of
music and sound effects, which might help you
editing or adding different music in
the background or different audio
during the video. Apart from that, everything
else looks quite easy. And I would say you
will do a great job dealing with it because it's not requiring
too much knowledge. And it's just very intuitive, very easy to use. And in case you'll have
more questions about it. I hope you'll ask them. I'm glad you got to the end of this mini course on how to
get monetized on YouTube. I hope you found it
interesting and insightful. And we'll just give you a boost. Because if I made
it, anyone can. I'm sure you can do it too. And I dare you start your own project and
share it with us here. I will help you with
the first subscriber. Make sure you share your YouTube channel here in
the chats and discussions. And let's help each other grow, and let's help each other build an interesting community of small YouTubers which are there for sharing what their
passions are about. Thank you very much again, and I hope we'll see each other in maybe
a different class. After I get more
knowledge about it, I'll try to get them
more and more and more. And then when i'm, I think I'll be
ready to share more. I'll probably do a second one. Till then, I'm wishing you
all good health, happiness, and don't forget to look after yourselves and your
families and stay safe.
Florin Andrei Cornea
