Run a YouTube Channel from Your iPad

1. Introduction: Welcome. This course is gonna be all about how to build a small YouTube channel off your iPad and have something that can be monetizable, something that is going to earn you some money. So as we talked about this, I have just under 10,000 subscribers. And since I've had about three to 4,000 subscribers, I've been making somewhere $1000-2 thousand US per month. This is not just off sponsorships, this is off other things. So we're going to talk about those things that have helped me monetize. I know from talking to many other YouTube channels that have say over 1,000, 100,000 subscribers, over 200,000 subscribers that I make far more money than they did, especially at my channel size. But until the renal 50,000 subscribers. And they are consistently surprised when I tell them that I made a $1,000 a month. I make $2,000 a month US. From this channel. They'd always say what really, how do you do that? And I would tell them how I do it. Now there also even more surprised when I tell them until very recently, late last year, I used my iPad as my main device for everything. I did all my video editing, all the sound editing, all the YouTube thumbnail stuff. So I'm going to show you how to do that, how to get in to YouTube with an iPad, with really not a lot of upfront investment, right? An iPad and ultimately for a camera, you can just use your phone if it's relatively modern, but we'll talk about that later. During this course. We're going to cover which iPad to purchase. What software do you need? What other gear is really going to help increase your video quality so that people will watch it more. Things to remember when you record. Talk about some set design tips, how to generate ideas, getting your first ten videos up, building a good thumbnail, choosing a good title, monetizing a smaller channel, and how to look at YouTube stats. And we'll talk about some editing tips as well just to help you increase your quality. By the end of this course, you're gonna be equipped to grab an iPad and start a YouTube channel and start building up your own workflow so that you can have a repeatable process that you can produce regularly. That's actually probably one of the biggest things is setting up a process, setting up a good workflows that you can do it. Right now actually have a kid upstairs watching some TV because we're on a protein. No kids at school. And that means I have one kid here tonight with my wife, luckily, but I regularly have to fit in my recording times around what is else is happening in my life because I am around for the kids all the time. I have to do that. And I still have a channel managed to build a channel that lets me spend actually about a day, two days a week on this channel. Every week. I can spend that because it earns enough money. For this course, I'm gonna focus on helping you build that production pipeline and giving you some tips that you can do it and you can build a YouTube channel, that business that is going to actually make a difference in your income. 2. Which iPad to Purchase: In this video, we're going to talk about what iPad you should purchase. The truth is if you have an iPad that's still getting software updates, you actually already have a device that is going to be fast enough to get you started. So there's no need to purchase one if you have a relatively modern iPads, something that's still getting software updates, you're good to go. But there are some considerations to make just to make your job easier, to make your life easier when you're looking at an iPad to do video production work on it first off is screen size. Now a bigger screen is just going to be better for you. The 12.9 inch iPad Pro is my iPad of choice because it has the biggest screen. It's the most versatile when I want to go edit video, say, Oh my deck or in some other places of the house because I have to watch kids at the same time as finishing up a video. Realistically, the iPad Mini can do it, it can work, and it can be a decent video editing machine because it's fast enough, but the screen is going to feel a little cramped. Now there are some updates with iPadOS, 16, which you can actually see in behind me where I have my iPad and then I have a monitor with my iPad screen as a secondary display. That alone actually kinda lead you towards, say, an M1 iPad Pro with USB-C, because then it can produce a second screen for you and give you a lot more screen real estate if you have a second screen around. So even then an iPad Air with the M1 processor and it will give you a second screen and it gives you a lot more screen real estate without bumping all the way up to the iPad Pro. Now I'm processing power. I've already mentioned that any iPad that is still getting software updates will work. I have done some test renders recently on my daughter's 9.7 inch iPad, just plain Jane iPad. I think it's I got the a 1,300 or 14. It's an older processor. It is still excellent that there is a minimal lag in any editing. There is a really, it's just rendering. You're going to wait an extra 20 s for renderers, it's not that big a deal. Now, if you're rendering in multi our videos, it's actually going to add up more the longer the video with, the longer the rendering time is going to take, and the longer the difference between the faster devices and the slower devices, it makes it more of a difference than. But ultimately, the biggest thing and processing power is looking at the M1 devices simply because they will support stage manager and iPadOS 16 and give you the option to have more screen real estate once, once you've started making somebody, once you start going and you've saved some more and then maybe you can get an external monitor. Now storage, if you're gonna be running a YouTube channel that you're gonna be generating a lot of video files. They're just big, I know recording with my iPhone Mini for K video at 10 min, it's gonna take about 3.5 gb of storage. So if I'm going to record multiple videos or have multiple a B-roll with this, I may end up with like 50 or 60 gigs of footage just using my iPhone 13, using my Canon 90 D, which is what I'm looking at it right now, I'll actually take up about a gig, a minute of video. So if I'm doing a 26 minute video off 26 gigs of video, then if I'm doing other B-roll on top of that, I may add, it could easily end up being like 50 gigs of video for a ten or 15 minute YouTube video for the one I use at the end overall, you may say that's not that much. If I get 128 gig iPad Pro or an iPad than plenty of storage, right? He's only talking about 50 gigs, that's fine. But what I've actually found is that you end up working on multiple projects at once. Often you have B-roll for something future you're shooting. I often do that when I've done a headphone review, I'm out shooting with a headphone or like, Oh, I'm gonna review this bag at some point too. So I have video stored for that as well because it's out shooting B-roll for a couple of products at once. When you get to that, then we're more than once I've actually realized, hey, wait, I'm at 500 gigs, or am I even got close to a terabyte once on my iPad Pro behind me. And then I had to look at offloading my storage, offloading some projects to other places so that I still had the storage around. I would suggest basically getting as much as you can afford. I think the minimum you can look at as 128 gigs if you are really watching your projects, making sure you don't keep around too many things too long, even better really is 256. It's just going to give you double the breathing space over 128. Look at 02:56, kind of I would say as your lower end. Now the other considerations and I mentioned this a couple times is USB-C. So you get USB-C on an iPad mini, and that will give you access to other thunder or the other docs. So thunderbolt for other things like that, that lets you connect to wired internet, other things. So that doesn't mean necessarily you get external monitor support. That is a good one for the M1 devices, but USB-C connector is going to open up a lot of possibilities and just usage of your iPad in general. So I'd highly suggest you get something with USB-C cable just because of the options opens up in connections for you. Now as far as recommendations, the smallest device that recommend is the 9.7 inch iPad. For a YouTube channel, I actually use a 9.7 inch iPad Pro for the very beginning of this channel. And actually I used the codon it to, I'll use that as my main development machine for work. And I used it as my main video editing machine when I was just starting to get into the iPad Pro line, starting to get into the iPad as my main device. Now for 479 US, you can get 256 gigs of storage with this device. The biggest drawback to it is It's not USB-C, doesn't have the M1 chip, so you're not going to get the extra screen real estate of iPad OS 16 or stage manager. And you're not gonna get the extra connections you can really get from USB-C type devices. Apple has some that you can use this lightening, but it's not as nice as USB-C. The next step up and kind of the sweet spot, I think for most people is the iPad Air. For 749, you can get 256 gigs of storage. It comes with the M1 chip, it comes with USB-C port. And it's just going to be best all around for your starting price point. I think it's very reasonable to start there. If you're getting your first device, if you're going to save up for it and get your first device to really start producing video as well. It's going to be fast. It's going to have just enough storage and it's going to have a good connection suite for everything you want. And it's going to support an external monitors to make your editing process nicer. Next step up from there is 899. And for the 11 inch iPad Pro, it has an M1 processor, has the USB for Thunderbolt ports. So basically the connection is faster. It's going to look exactly the same as USB-C port, but it's just faster, gives you some more capabilities. Really, that's the most expensive you need. The 11 inch iPad Pro at 899 US is really all you need, comes with enough storage, has the M1 processors, so it gives you external screens support and it is fast. It's just as fast as the 12.9 behind me. So I wouldn't worry about much more than that really. If you want to, you can, of course, get the iPad Pro, the 12.9 inch for two grand us with 2 tb of storage and maxed out. And that's great. But you don't need it. Might be nice to have, but you don't need it. I can certainly get by on an iPad Pro, just as good as I can get by on this 12.9. As far as speeds go, as far as connectivity goes to external devices, that's all you really need. 3. Which Software Do You Need?: In this video, we're talking about the software. You need to run a YouTube channel from your iPad. Let me start by saying that you do not actually need to buy any software on your iPad. You have Apple notes, you have iMovie. You can edit the videos you need. You can produce them. You can write all the notes you need. You do not need to purchase any software to start. But there are some tools that I have found more useful to a workflow to make your YouTube videos better if you're just getting started today. Use the iPad you have. Use iMovie, use Apple notes, and you're good to go. To step up. Let's talk about that software. My current note-taking and writing tool of choice is obsidian. Yeah, Apple Notes can do an okay job. But if city has so many more powerful tools, be it in the plugins, be it in the core features of it, that it's just really helped my writing workflow a lot. You want to know more about using obsidian. You want to, you, it was more about using subtle cast on the system. I used to take notes and do all my writing. You can find more courses that I've done right here. Big thing I love about obsidian is that it is a markdown based tool, so it just has text files with an MD at the end. That's it. There are just text files you can open up in any text editor you want and edit the files. What obsidian does is it simply indexes this folder of Markdown files and then it uses it's inbuilt functionality and uses some of the Community Plugins if you choose to install them, to add more features on top. So to see links between nodes, to do searches of notes, to do a lot more, say mind-mapping if you want that to run a Kanban board, which was, I used it for my work and it just has so much more power once you dig in past the basic features than something like Apple notes, one of the best things is that it is free across Mac, Windows, Linux, android, iPad, iOS, iOS, you can just use it. So it is a cross-platform. You never locking yourself into a certain system while we're talking about iPad here, if you decide you're a Linux person later a Windows person, you don't lose any of your notes. You have them as Markdown files. And that's all they are. Even if obsidian goes away, as long as you can read a text file, then you're good to go. Now if you do decide you want to stick with any other text editor like Apple Notes or IA writer or anything like that that works on an iPad. Then I do recommend you create a few folders to kind of get your workflow going. First off, I recommend you create a folder for ideas. That's just where you're going to dump all your ideas as they come up. So a link to a new application, an idea that you want to talk about for my book, anything, for an idea, put it in there. Next up working folder. This is where two or three things that you're actively working on. So for me, the things I'm actively reading, what am I actually working on to write, to produce, so it can turn into a video next up folder for ready, this is things that you have written that you feel are ready to record that you could sit down, look at the script and record them. We'll talk about scripts later editing. So this is videos that have been recorded. You have the RAW files for it. Even today, I'm actually recording multiple videos for this course in one shot so that I can just have them all in one shot and then I'll do all the editing later because batch processing makes things faster. So I would move something to editing once it's recorded. Finally, the published folder. So I use this for videos that are done editing this, they are ready and I just publish them right away. So this is a published one. Now if you're stocking them up and you're not sure about the order of them. Maybe ready to publish folder works for you and then a published folder. But ultimately creating the folders, these are the same ones that I kinda mapped to my Kanban boards and obsidian. And I use those to track the progress of things. So creating a good workflow like that upfront, the folders you need, it can help you stay on track with the videos that you want to produce instead of working on 27 different ideas and not actually getting anything to completion. Now for video editing, I've already said that you can simply use iMovie. It will do it. You don't need to purchase anything else. But if you're ready to step up a bit, then you can look at luma fusion. It is by far the best video editor on iPad. Don't even look at anything else if you're going past iMovie. Just use luma fusion. If you happen to be have a Mac as well, That's one. It also works on any M1 Mac. You can use it there if you'd like as well. One of the best things about this is that unlike a tool like Final Cut, which is what I use now, but unlike a tool like Final Cut, it gets out of your way. It has just enough features to get you started. And it has tons of power features when you really start to dig in. So you can do everything from color grading if you want. I'll talk about audio plug-ins later to silence the background noise and some audio. Right now my furnished just kicked on. So there is technically a background hum, but I will eliminate that with a tool called Bruce free, which we'll talk about later. It has enough of these tools that you can do so much with it. But at the beginning when you're just wanted to start cuts, you want to start getting your audio or your video together. It is not in your way like some other tools that just are honestly, I haven't found Final Cut overwhelming at first coming from luma fusion. There was just so much more to figure out and to do at the beginning. And while Final Cut might have more power, long term, let me fusion has enough for pretty much anyone, pretty much all the time. Later in the course you will cover some basic editing and luma fusion just to get you started. Now on the audio front, one of the funniest things about YouTube, but video in general is that people will put up with worst quality video. They'll do that more than they'll put up with worse quality audio. Your audio is actually really key to having a good YouTube channel. You need decent audio. But one of the pieces of software that really helps me, it's called Bruce free, BR you, fMRI. That is a plug-in for Mac. It's also on my iPad and it lets me cut out background noise. So let's just do a sample. Here is my audio with background noise. Now here it is treated with Bruce free with no background noise. You can see it really took out a lot of the background noise that you'd get just kind of being in any room that's not treated. Now, I've also done some treatment turn room, I have a moving blanket behind my desk and I have a curtain that's covers a wall with little tiny window in it, but the current covers the whole wall. Just to take some of the echo out of my room. I'll talk a little bit more about some of your rooms. I'm your set design later. Finally, thumbnails. Again, you can probably get away with what's on your iPad. But if you're going to step up, I actually think that Canvas is the best tool Canva is going to give you suggestions for thumbnail layouts. So sometimes I use this and I really use the layout and Canada. Other times I look at it and be like, Oh, I like the colors, then I come with my own layer that fits the video undoing. The important point for me to recognize at least is that I am not a designer. So I'm not going to try and design something from scratch. I'm going to look at Canva. I'm going to often actually search YouTube for other people that have good videos with lots of views that have a decent thumbnail that feels like it's eye-catching and I tried to copy it. That's it. And they use Canva to do it. The other tool that I use regularly is Procreate. It lets me do some photo editing. When you see an outline around the video, Around say, iMac or an iPad or something like that. I usually use Procreate to do that by hand on my iPad. This is strictly a drawing tool, not necessarily for editing photos, There's other tools for that. But I find that as a good secondary tool that I use every couple of weeks at least to help make my thumbnails pop just a little bit more so that people are more attracted to them. If you're going to use one extra tool for thumbnails, one piece of software out of everything I've talked about, then you're probably going to be choosing Canva. It's going to be the one that's going to give you a huge benefit in just having videos if you want to see, because thumbnails are important and we'll talk more about thumbnail design later in the course. 4. What Other Gear: In this video, we're talking about what other gear you may need to get a YouTube channel running off your iPad talks about an iPad and you really, you could use it even for video recording, although I find that you probably want notes up. So right now I'm looking at my Canon camera in front of me. I have my notes up on my screen below so that I can reference them. You're probably going to want something separate from your iPad to do your video shooting, if you can manage it. Camera I started with was a cannon 60 d, not a great camera overall for this, it's ten ADP. Fixed focal length, no auto-focus, a whole bunch of things that were honestly a pain in the butt. But look, knowing at the time that the Canaanite Edi was likely to come out in the next while. I just waited and I didn't have the money. So that was just fine. But you actually don't even need to spend any money on a camera. I had the Canon 6D around. You can just use your phone if you have a relatively modern smartphones. So we'll do some video tests and I'll show you some of the devices around my house. For video. I just use my iPhone Mini as my B-roll all the time. I don't even take my Canada 90 day off its stand anymore because either as my webcam as well, if you have a smartphone from the last few years, I reasonably modern iPhone. I'll show you some video with an EC2 in a minute. Then you are good to go on a camera, like I've already said in a previous lesson. One of the most important things is actually your audio. If you're going to spend money at the beginning, I would actually spend more on the audio side. Make sure that you have decent audio right now I'm recording with a mic, just add a frame. It's a video micro that's mounted on a boom stand so I can bring it over and get it as close to my face as possible without being in the frame after getting the microphone that the road video micro, the biggest increase in sound quality I had was by getting a 20 dollar microphone booms, Dan used to have to set everything up and tear everything down and previous office and having a microphone booms. Dan, I could just kinda put it out of the way and bring put beside the camera and bring the microphone closer to my mouth. That was the biggest increase in audio quality ahead. If you're really on a budget, you happen to have other devices around. You can use any type of audio recorder that you can just put new yourself. The biggest rule on audio is to get the microphone is close to the subject's mouth as possible. Other options are wireless lavalier mics. I've used these in skating videos. So my wife is just getting coached. They have to do coach evaluations every so often. And we'll use a GoPro. I'll hook it up to a lot. And I was like a 50 dollar wireless lavalier mic that the coach wears. And then they can take a video, be far away from the coach and still get good audio. We get such good audio out of that. And it's so rare in her field that we regularly have comments from her evaluator saying, wow, the audio was so clear on that, that was awesome. Thanks for making my job easy. You can also simply use the headphones you have. Have you ever had a wireless headphones? Just use those with your phone? I have and I'll show you a clip of that video, a bike setup for streaming bike rides. And with that, I have, I don't even know they're super cheap. They're like $30 wireless headphones. That said they were sports headphones. I bought them cheap because I regularly kill headphones on my bike just via sweat. So I just wanted the cheapest things I could find, even with multiple fans running and placed at me. I've actually been quite surprised with how good the audio quality is out of those. So if you have a set of AirPods, AirPod, whatever AirPod Pros. If I set a wireless headphones, then the microphone and nose is actually going to be far better than the microphone being farther away from your face, even if overall the sound quality isn't great and the microphone people can't understand you better and they're going to be happier with your audio if they can understand you just because the microphone is close to your face. Finally, if you using some software like ScreenFlow to do screencasts, do screen capture, then you can often use a USB mic plugged directly into your computer to get your audio into your video. Now I've used the Blue Snowball for years. I think when I bought it as $130, it was like a cutting-edge microphone like ten years ago. Now it's like 50 bucks. It's a great microphone. The biggest thing I would recommend is that you don't touch it to your desk or you buy a shock mount for it because tapping your desk while you're working on stuff will actually add audio or bad thumps to it that transmit up the Boom stand. Actually have my road video micro amounted to a standard microphone arm, and it is mounted to the tripod that my camera is on, which is separate from the desk. So I can pump the desk and not necessarily transmit audio directly through the boom arm in to where I'm speaking, lights or lighting is another important thing you need to think about when you're doing videos. Right now I sit behind. This was like some 80 dollar LED panel. It's flexible, it rolls up, it's great. But you don't even need that. When I started, I actually just had a big window in my office and I lived in kilowatt, British Columbia, which is honestly it rains a lot, so there's cloud cover often and the sun shining through cloud covers like perfect lighting. So I simply face the window. That's what I did. That's all I did for a long time. Then I actually end up building, getting a mixing bowl of silver and a strip of LED lights and built myself my first light for like 20 bucks. Then I stepped up to the hundred dollar light. Now I have a few lights around. I have the one I sit behind regularly that stays mountain and I also have a newer one that has a battery in it as well. I use that at my bike streaming station. The final recommendation I'll make is get wired internet. That's kinda the other gear item that would be great if that means you literally just have to take your iPad, walk over to the modal, not sitting around the house and plug into it for video uploads. It's going to save you tons of time. So a video like this will end up at a couple of gigabytes. It might take 30 min to upload from my iPad wirelessly or 3 min to upload from my iPad when it's wired in an Internet. I'm lucky enough to have a station where I can just stick my iPad down one cable plug in and have wider Internet full-time is also one of the benefits of having a USB-C iPad device, because then you can have multiple choices. Usb-c hubs that have HDMI and Ethernet and all these other things out so you can connect to wider Internet. 5. Recording Time: Now we're gonna talk a little bit about set or getting your environment setup for recording. One of the biggest things you need to do is at least look behind you and see what is behind you, what is going to be in-frame. I'm lucky in this office that I can decide what is in frame because I have control of the entire office. But even today, I looked behind me and realize there were some cord sticking it onto my shelf and I did my best to hide them away because that's the best I can do at the moment. Also, while you can reduce noise and post, one of the best things to do is to do some sort of sound treatment in your room. I literally just bought big curtains, stick a coaching their sticker and all the books behind me help stop reflection. I am in officially the closet for this room and I have a sound blanket or a moving blanket that I bought for moving up here behind my desk so that it just dampens the sound. When you look at your environment, look around and think about the sound, you get something soft in there. And thinking about what's going to be n view your videos. We'll look far more professional if you just do a little bit of office cleanup, a little bit of cleanup of your surfaces just to make sure that you don't have stuff you don't want in there. The next thing to do is to rehearse your script. So we'll talk a little bit about writing a script later. But it's important to do this because then, you know, if things work, so in-between each little tag here, I look down and make sure that I am ready that I've read the next paragraph, the next couple of bullet points, and I know what I want to say. So they've rehearsed it. I even do takes and I just cut them out later is important to this. So you are prepared. I've even had rubbed on software tutorials where the software has changed so much over a week since my last one. That when I go to rehearse and I say, Hey, wait, these buttons are different and I have to go back and redo this script after Reduce screenshots for the blog posts, I have to change what I was going to say. I have to update it so that it now fits with where the software is. But it would never know that if I hadn't rehearsed. So rehearsing is important. Those are the two biggest things. Get your environment set up so that it's as quiet as possible. I used to record underneath the kitchen in my house, and I have three young children and so they walk like monsters and they'd stomp around even today, knowing I have one kid home. I said, Hey, you can do your screen time. So she's upstairs watching her hour of screen time while I'm recording because I just set up my overall environment in my life to be conducive to recording. Usually I wait, I do all my writing, get all my prep, all my rehearsal done to help get the kids to school. And then I record as soon as they are at the door and I record them so that I can not worry about the noise later. Now we're just talking about a role and B-roll the astute among you have noticed that I'm wearing a different shirt because I forgot to record this the first time. Would you also didn't notice is that I used B-Roll to cover this cut here. So yes, I came in wearing this different shape, but you didn't actually see the transition between these talking one time and me talking about a Roland B-roll. A role is me talking to the screen like you see right now. Rollers all the other shots so they overlay over top to keep the video interesting. So I'll use those shots to show off a product, right? When I talked about which iPad to buy and talk about USB-C iPads. I showed you the back of my iPad setup so you can see the USB for, I guess you guys before thunderbolt four hub that I have on the back of my iPad so you can see it. It's the, all the other things that I add on top to make the video interesting. When you're doing a shooting, you need to remember that you'd need to do both Errol talking to the camera and B-roll to overlay over top so that your video is maintain interests. Now, if you don't want to shoot it all, you can go to a service like motion array. It's relatively inexpensive for the year of couple $100, and you can download clips for them once you have paid the fee. I do this regularly to add different spots to my video just to make it more interesting to people. So make sure you allot time for both of them. As you get going, you'll actually do better at knowing when you need B-roll, what you need so you can shoot it upfront. 6. Generating Ideas: In this video, we're going to talk about generating some ideas for your YouTube channel. The best thing I did to get started to just learn a production workflow was to use exactly what I was doing during my day. So as a programmer when I started, I had a site called WP theme tutorial. And if you look far enough back on this channel, you will see my original tutorials because that's the first number of videos I did. What I did was when I struggled with something, when I couldn't find online resources. When I finally figured it out, I stopped. I ended up blog post and a video about it. So I use literally what I was doing in my day job as my video content to big extra good things for me. Number one, was it meant I didn't have to go searching for video ideas. I was new to the job, so I was learning something every day and I could do multiple videos a week sometimes because I would literally stop in the middle. And I would, once I had the problem-solve and I would actually just do a video on it. So I would show it right then and I would publish it right then. The second side benefit of that part was that I learned it better because I was always went to explain it. I would realize, I don't actually know why this function works this way, why this code does this, and I would learn it better to solidify my own knowledge. Now the second big thing and the biggest thing that really helped those video early video is be worthwhile. Besides my learning was that people would watch them. Then people would say, Hey, that solves my problem. And more than one video, I'd have someone's, I'd solve someone's problem. They'd say, Hey, we have an online store. I have these other problems too. Can you solve them for me? Right? So one video I did on WP e-commerce, which doesn't even really exist anymore. I solved that problem and because of that video, I worked with a client for five years at about 15 to $30,000 a year for five years. So I count that is monetizing YouTube channel that hey, that was perfect, that already earned me money. Again, the second kind of related benefit to that is I built my career so people got to see what I could do. I built the contacts in different softwares that I use. Now I know the owners of many of the softwares I use WordPress. Many of the people that I got to meet through my initial tutorials as they were learning to are now C-suite executives in big hosts or other lead developers over here, or they run their marketing department of something else. So this has literally, those early videos are literally built a career that I get to use today to earn a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year, only working three days a week. That can be one really big benefit to doing something that really relates to your career, especially at the beginning, you are building your portfolio as you go. You are showing people what you know. Now, I don't do programming so much right now. I do the other things I'm interested in like obsidian, like generating ideas, like using my iPad because that's what I'm interested in. This is again, continuing to build my career. I regularly have people from my programming days say, Hey, I was looking at the new knowledge management stuff. I thought you were doing videos on it and I said, Hey, that's perfect, Curtis, I already trust him from previous stuff where I looked at my iPad as a development tool. I saw your videos on it. What are you doing now? This is still been really good for my career, for my YouTube channel because of my early videos. Now, if you're just getting started, you're starting from scratch, you doing something not related to your initial query, not say using your sawdust as they say using your byproduct of what you're doing. Here's some questions to ask yourself so that you can start generating ideas. Number one, what are you interested in? Number two, what do you already know? I could do videos on bikes, have been a bike mechanic off and on for a decade. I am an avid cyclist. I could talk about bikes that I do to bike bike videos. Mainly just to write up buying stuff, but I do bike videos as well. What did I struggle with today? So if you're looking at job, What did I struggle with today? What did I learn today? And what kind of talk about for hours. There's lots of topics I could talk about for hours and then we take a longer script to write. So all the books behind me, there's many ideas in there that I have in mind, settle casting system and obsidian that I could talk about for hours. So that's another thing that I could look at. Doing videos on, that I will do videos on in the future. So take these few questions. What are you interested in? What did you struggle with today? What did you learn at work today? What what devices do you have around if you're starting reviews? What can I review right now? I could if I wanted to review your Rubik's cubes, I wanted to be Rubik's cubes. I could take this Rubik's Cube, the classic one and talk about it versus the other one that's on my desk behind me. I could talk about the benefits of the monitor behind me, which I've done already before, which I have two of them in front of me as well. I could talk about all the different gear that I have around. I can review my wife's. So when I drew my daughter's stuff, there's things that you can do just to get started with the things you have around you that you're interested in. So it takes some time right now, generate ten ideas because we want to have videos up reasonably quick in this to build a good production workflow. 7. Writing a Script: Now once you're going to start working on idea, it's important to write a script. I would do this even back in my programming days because I would learn something and I go to write the script and suddenly realized that I didn't know as much as I thought I didn't understand why some function works that way, I'd write a script and that also lets people see visual learners, or I guess people who want to read it and look for the code for me earlier, let them go through it first, fast way. And then if they, people that wanna watch videos can watch it in the video format. I think both formats are good and I definitely earned money from people wanting to work with me. Beginning when I did coding stuff from either format, he will, I saw you on YouTube. Oh, I read your blog post. Same thing, earned me money on both fronts. Now, it doesn't have to be a full script. In fact, for this video, I just have bullet points. That's it. There's some bullet points about what I want to talk about and so I can reference them and then I can add live in. Now, that might not be something you can do at the beginning. I've done, I don't even know how many hundreds of videos and hundreds of hours of podcasts. So I have living works for me. If you find it really awkward at first, then literally stick to the script. Don't do extemporaneous talking, just stick to the script. Another big reason that bullet points or a script is useful is it gives you something to reference. So I literally reading a couple bullets and then coming back and talking to the camera, looking at it, making sure I make good eye contact with it. That's an important point of having a YouTube channel making eye contact with your camera regularly so that the viewer feels included, but also gives me references when I'm doing a software tutorial, doing something else. So I can go back and look at the screenshot and say, Hey, that button move, Where'd it move? Then I can go back. And because they are rehearsed just before I read this whole script, all the bullet points before I started recording to the camera. Then I know that I need to redo this one chunk of the script so that it is accurate so that I can go back and reference it again. You're doing reviews and also gives you a reference for the speeds and feeds. If you want to know, say, what processors does this thing have? What is the Video Codec, the audio codec of something. You can have your speeds and feeds your numbers accurate. A script gives you a reference for that so you know what to say and that you get your information accurate. You're still gonna make mistakes sometimes, and that's okay, but it gives you a much higher likelihood of not making mistakes. I'm getting everything accurate. If you have a script, not like I already said, it also gives you a much wider audience. If you have a script that you can publish with code, and I did actual code in it. So I would write about what I was doing when I do a lot of my tutorials now, a lot of my stuff on obsidian. I have screenshots as well so people can find it that way via text search and Google, YouTube is a huge search engine. Google is even bigger though, so getting to search engines on the web, it just helps me have better SEO, better content for my site so that my site is more authoritative and more people come to it. I see as much traffic to my site as I do to my YouTube videos regularly and they continue to get traffic, whereas a lot of my YouTube videos seem to fall off later on where my site continues to get more traffic. People continue to send me emails about it. And it's all because I have a text visual content of it. They are in the script and then people can watch my videos on the site as well, because I embed them. Another big thing that a script can do is help make your videos tighter so that you stay on point so you don't add labor and go off until, you know, never, never land and bore people. Later on when we talk about stats, it's also really good to have your script there so that you can look at your script and look at your stats and say where do people drop off and start cutting out some of those things. Maybe it's visual, maybe it's what you said, but you start cutting out some of the things that people get distracted by that they drop off the show. They're uninterested because they stopped watching your video. Having a script around lets you highlight some of the things that are important, some of the things you said, and then it try not to say them because you are following your script. Florida encourage you no matter what you're doing, whether it's a review and you already full scripts are like full written out, say blogposts style script, which I prefer for a lot of stuff. Or whether you're gonna do bullet points depending on where you're gonna deliver your content to. It's important to have some written content first and not just ad lib all the time because especially the beginning, you're going to be terrible at it. Using a script, using bullet points will help keep you on point. 8. Your First 10 Videos: Your first ten videos we're going to talk about in this lesson. The biggest thing in your first ten videos is to build a good production workflow. It is not to be the best editor, it is not to polish everything off. It's to start building our production workflow that you can continue to use working out the kinks because in your first video you're gonna do some recording and you realize, wait, I didn't catch that. You're going to do something and it's good to be a problem even at today as I have hundreds of videos that I recorded, my eighth video today, there was a flaw in the first video and I had no video, so I had to do it over again. That's going to happen. Sometimes it's just going to happen. So having a good production workflow, kind of minimizing all the parts, getting things working well for you is going to help you at the beginning so that you can really produce video as well. You cannot monetize, You cannot produce courses, you cannot do anything if you don't have videos up. First thing to prioritize getting ten videos up, don't expect them to be amazing either. Go back to, so my first videos, they're terrible if you go back to, I don't know, after I'd done 100 videos, maybe even there's still terrible. Now there are a lot tighter or they're a lot better because I have nicer gear, I've got more practice. But your first videos are not going to be amazing. You will learn far more from editing ten videos, one-hour each than you would from spending on 10 h on one video editing. You'll do a video, you'll watch it, you'll have some things you weren't happy with. Write them down, watch some other YouTubers, Watson, other people doing video content and see how they solve those problems. Say, Hey, I really like how this cut worked in this video. I want to reproduce it in mind. You're going to learn far more, far faster if you approach it that way as opposed to spending all your time on one video. Another thing to remember in your first ten videos is people are not going to watch them every time we want to open up your YouTube stats and you want to check them. Stop yourself. Open up your notes, write a new video or do something on your video. Do not check your stats. It's not worth it. It's not a good use of your time. I know you want to I want to all the time too. And most of the time, probably not all, but most of the time I stopped myself and I start working on a video instead, or I go do something else with my family. I do something that is more productive with my time because my stats actually don't matter unless I'm sitting down to analyze them. When you only have ten videos, there's literally nothing to analyze. So they don't matter at all. 9. Thumbnail Tips: In this lesson, we're going to talk about what makes a good thumbnail on YouTube. There could be an entire course on YouTube thumbnails. We can have 50 h on it. And honestly they need to be updated every quarter or so, every couple of months. As thumbnails change, you will need to keep paying attention to what thumbnails are doing good in your specific niche. Something I do when I'm unsure, especially when I'm unsure about thumbnail. As I go search YouTube and I look for the top videos that are similar styles. So iPad desk tutorials. And I looked at them and said, Hey, what are the ones that are doing really good? And then I looked at my office and said, I cannot shoot like that because I do not have this clean shooting environment. I have a room that needs to be remodeled, that is possible but not stellar. In fact, where my iPad is, there's this weird like gold mirror that I don't love. But That's what I have for now. It's done. I had to come up with alternatives to that. One of the big things you need to do also is make sure your thumbnail, it looks good at a small size, most people are going to see your thumbnails as a recommendation at some point in YouTube. So you need to make sure that they look good, small. That means not a whole lot of words because people are not going to read them. Whatever you're talking about needs to be front and center. So I did my AirPods Max review, you'll see me wearing my AirPods is what is most important to there. So you see a shot of me wearing them when I did the iPad desk video, you'll see I've kind of framed out the multiple monitor, the screen, the keyboard so you can see it's kind of an iPad desk thing because I do not have a clean shooting environment like most other people are using. Now the thing that seems to do well on YouTube is faces. You see people with a shocked face is right there. That seems to do well. I actually hate it, so you'll almost never see me doing it. I did spend some time experimenting with it and I found I didn't like it and it didn't make a big difference for my videos. So I stopped doing it. I still do it sometimes, but most of the time I'm not gonna do this shocked face or the me my head in it. I'm going to try and focus on what I'm talking about. So for an obsidian video I did recently, but pop-up windows, you'll see I had two copies of the window on one kind of popped out from the other so that you could see it. Those are the big things then you just need to practice. This is why again, you do your first ten videos, start practicing this. This is why you use Canva as a base for your thumbnail. So you can start by using their suggestions and you can start to build on your own style and how you want them to work. But the biggest thing is to get out your videos first. Do a thumbnail, do your best to start, and then keep moving forward. 10. Choosing a Title: This video we're going to talk about choosing a good title for you to, just like thumbnails. Unfortunately that we can teach an entire course just on choosing good titles, it would change every quarter as the algorithm changes, people's desires changed. So we're going to talk about some good rules of thumb that I use for my titles. First off, make it obvious. So if I'm going to be reviewing my AirPods Max, I, my first title is we're going to be AirPods Max two months in or something like that because I didn't get them right away. I not now for reviewer enough to get them early, I didn't purchase them right away because I had another headphones and couldn't afford it at the time. What I ended up doing after I wrote my script was realizing that one of the big key sellers that I liked about them was the noise canceling was so good that I couldn't hear the rest of my family thumping around the house and I got more work done. So let's title focused on the AirPods Max, increasing my productivity. That was a title that people said, Hey, this is great, I really liked that and I liked your take on it. I liked that increase your productivity and that the noise canceling was that good. There's lots of other things. I'm not an audio file, actually a fairly bad tinnitus, so I can hear a constant hum all the time. So I can't look at it from those standpoints because it's just not my forte, but from I'm getting more done and my kids, I can't hear as much. That is a good angle. I can take it from when you're making your titles, writing ten or 15 of them and testing them out, saying which ones you like and just trying different variations. Seeing which ones you like isn't important thing so that you know what works for you and so that you can find a title that is obvious. That's not like I'm still shocked. Oh no, Mike, come up, AirPods, Max are getting divorced because I don't hear my wife come in. I could come up with titles like that because she's literally snuck up on me and it scared me and I didn't hear you say, Oh, I'm gonna get divorced because I can't hear her some time than I like. But that's not really accurate. People might click on it more, but is it really going to give them the information they want when they come to it? Probably not. Oh thing is to make it short, just like your thumbnails will be seen in a small version. Lots of times your title will be truncated. There'll be small. So you need to be obvious from Pearson needs to look at it and say, Hey, why is this video good? Why would I look at this AirPods Max video versus some of the other ones. So it increases productivity. Well, I wonder why it increases productivity. So we're going to look at it. Be like, Oh, that's a question, right? Or iPhone mini review. That's a good title because it's obvious it's a review. Right now. Sometimes people will do a review, stash six months in something like that so that you can take some different angle on it or something that makes it obvious to the users. Again, like I said at the beginning, you could research this, you could do a lot on this all the time and continue to update it and you should. But the most important thing at the beginning is just to get some videos out. So pick a title that's obvious, right? Four or 56 to ten of them, and pick one that you liked the best and then move onto your next video. You will learn more from even from your titles, from going back later on and adjusting them, seeing what works with your market, with your videos, then you will from agonizing over title for hours. 11. Monetizing a Small Channel: In this video, we're going to talk about monetizing your YouTube channel. First thing I can recommend is that you don't go into this thinking that it's going to solve all your monetary problems. Building YouTube channel that has some sort of sustainable income, say a $1,000 a month, $2,000 a month, or even enough to really support you is going to take awhile. It is not just overnight. The very few people we hear about that or overnight are by far the outliers. Most people that start a YouTube channel or nothing, almost all the time and they don't go anywhere with it. Some work, but if your strategic, there are some things and I'm going to share them with you that I found it made me money vastly more than YouTube channels that are actually even larger than mine. My number one best thing ever has been courses, courses on Skillshare. I have a course on dental cast and have a course on some of the productivity tools I use. They are by far bring in the majority of the income that I earn from my YouTube channel as you get started doing some sort of course, if you can, is probably one of your best bets. Put it up on Skillshare, and make sure that you use your sada. So I will use these course videos, some of them as marketing for the course. I will do courses on other tools and use the videos from those courses as YouTube content. That is by far the best way I have monetized. A second step in that is actually selling those courses. I sell them on the side on my own site. And I also do memberships for them. That's another Neil get increasingly large driver of revenue. I make three or $400 a month from memberships on my site for people getting my courses, getting a newsletter that I write as well. But they came to it because they saw on my YouTube videos on this and they said, hey, I want his courses, I want some of their content and they are supporting me that way is by far the second biggest driver of revenue consistently for my channel. I don't think you can do is again, selling other products. I know matt Birch at birch tree does wallpaper packs. He does other things like that, selling t-shirts, but I'm wearing a LTT store.com t-shirt right now and I'm probably wearing Oh, that's a Captain America shirt, but I also have other ones from LTTE store. I have other ones from other YouTubers where I have bought their merchandise because I liked the shirt. That's another thing you can do is sell merchandise. Now finally, in what everyone often goes to right at the beginning of sponsorship. And got to be honest with you, even at getting up to 10,000 subscribers, the sponsorship deals offered me most of the time are terrible. They're, Hey, we want to dictate everything to you and you have to do exactly what we say and we're going to give you almost nothing for it. So I am lucky that I have a second job that provides most of my income. And I can just say, now, I don't do sponsorships because they are so bad. And I can't imagine people at the beginning of YouTube actually working on sponsorships and thinking that it is excellent. Once you have it big enough channel where you can start dictating some of the term is saying, No, I don't do that now, if I'm doing a review of your product, you do not get to approve every sentence I say the whole time and get to cut things. That's not how a review works. If I'm going to do a review, you can pay me for the review and I will do it. When do an add, then you get approval once you can have some of that because you have a big enough Channel, great. But monetization via sponsorship is probably not going to be the best thing for you at the beginning. By far, the best thing I would say to do is some sort of course and some sort of membership site that they get the courses included for that. My tools of choice, our WooCommerce on WordPress, because honestly this would have done for ten years. I built membership site, so it's fairly easy for me. Other things to look at our member full. It has a really good system as well for you to use. 12. YouTube Stats: In this video, I want to talk a little bit about YouTube stats and what numbers actually mattered to you. So you can see here right here on my dashboard, what people often focus on is sort of drivers and honestly subscribers almost doesn't matter. You can keep an eye on it, especially at the beginning because you can't monetize your YouTube channel at the beginning until via ads, until you are actually have enough subscribers. Think it's 1,000, although that changes as well. Sometimes you can even see based on my subscriber count to my channel, my views, I make $125 ish every 30 days us not a lot by far, I make more off my courses. The stats that actually really matter though, if we come into our content and let's look at, oh, let's look at this. Our AirPods Max increase my productivity. So these are the stats that more matter. Looking at how many views had got and the retention of it, right? So we can see our reviews. It's kind of at my lower end of videos. So maybe this is not something that my viewers want to see from me. Even better. Probably is the engagement. So when you go to engagement, we can come down here and we can see right at the beginning that's above typical retention. Right here. This is where people jumped to or they went back to the controls where I talked about the controls. This is where I look at it and say, Hey, they went back. That's a good thing. I can see right here. Similar to typical retention and it goes way above. So my recommendation also people started and they went back to it. They jumped to that video back-and-forth. This is important. Sometimes you actually see 110% engagement on a video because people went back a few times to see if, say, a photo comparison or something else like that on your video. These are more important to you also want to watch where people dropped off. What did you do where there was a big drop-off can be another important thing. So using the YouTube video thing, I can actually click to a spot. I can hit Play. I can actually see exactly what I was doing at the time. That is probably the most important stat for you to look at at the beginning so that you can build a better videos so that you look at it and say, Hey, where did people drop-off? Where did I get boring? Where do people keep going back to? This is the type of content they want. That is the most important stat for you to follow the beginning. Don't worry about your subscribers. Look at what people are resonating with you in your video, what they're going back to multiple times. And those are the things that you need to focus on at the beginning. 13. Editing basics: In this lesson, we're going to look at some basic editing on luma fusion, specifically going to show you editing one of the videos for this course, which follows almost all the same principles that I would use for editing a YouTube video. So we're going to do video eight. And all I've done so far is anoxia deleted, even delete is I went into my folder and open up my first ten videos, and I can drag and drop this into my timeline. Now one thing that for every application you really need to learn are the keyboard commands. So I'm going to start by hitting a form, which is going to open up my sound Options. And I'm gonna go to the plugins and they're going to start Bruce free and add this to my projects. Now I can go hit the spacebar to play your first ten videos we're going to talk about. And now I've actually used Bruce free to cut out all that background noise like I talked about. So next I'm going to cut so you can use the scissor tool here. I actually most often use the command X. To do that. You can see all the keyboard commands. If you hold the Command key and you can see the keyboard commands right here, right? So something to learn as you keep going. As you learn to edit videos on this, then you need to learn to use a keyboard commands. Go make something so much faster. So now that I've highlighted the beginning, I can trim that off. And that was just that blank space at the beginning of every video to make sure that I can cancel the background noise. I'll use the up arrow. I'm also going to hit Number five to get into my selected actually were five to get into my color correction. And I'm just going to use SAT one-thirty. That's what I like. And so this is kinda changed how the look of my video works. So to something that I like. Don't get hugely detailed into color grading at the beginning. Make a quick adjustment if you want across the whole clip and that's it. Don't do anything else because you're just going to be wasting your time at the beginning trying to do that when you're not really ready for it. And again, a whole courses can be taught on color grading. And there are actually people showing entire courses on color grading and luma fusion. So now that I've done that, the next thing I need to do is go down to the Project button down here. Click on that. I'm going to come up to video seven because what I want is right at the beginning of this video there is my title sequence. So this little check mark down at the bottom, that doesn't allow me to select multiple clips, kinda changes the mode so I can select them all and I'm gonna hit Command C to copy. I'm going to go back into my number eight project for this video and paste. So now I have my title. Now come into my title. And this is, was this one. Make sure you spell it. Profit. First ten videos. I can go back the back or on the top corner and make sure yes, I am correct. First ten videos. So now we go to edit your first ten videos we're going to talk about in this lesson. So now you can see from the waveform right here we have a blank area. I'm not talking, so I'm going to use Command, the cut command. And then I'll use C to highlight the clip. And I'll delete it just to keep it tight and trim. Talk about in this lesson, the biggest thing in your first-time videos is to build a good production workflow. It is not to be the best editor. It is not to polish everything off. It's to start building our production workflow that you can continue to use working out the kinks because in your first video you're gonna do something. And you realize, wait, I can't read it in catch that you're going to do something and it's good to be a problem even at today as I have hundreds of videos that I've recorded, my eighth video today, there was a flaw in the first video when I had no video, so I had to do it over again. That's going to happen. Sometimes it's just going to happen. So having a good production workflow, kind of minimizing all the parts, getting things working well for you is going to help you at the beginning so that you can really produce video as well. Okay, I see another blank here in the waveform, so I'm going to cut again. You can use the arrow keys to adjust and shift arrow jumps. The left and right arrow shift arrow jumps ten frames. I'll cut again. C and delete. Can really produce. Well, like I said, I've had a kid upstairs for part of the day watching some screen time now she's up playing with friends, so I have opportunity to record. It was not going to record the rest of this course today. But the opportunity presented itself. I have a tight video workflow, so I can sit down and record a three or four more videos quickly. That's the biggest thing you cannot monetize, You cannot. So now I'm actually unsure if that diversion about my kid is worthwhile. So that's the biggest thing you let me do this. I'm going to highlight that, delete that diversion and hang out until the cat to really produce video as well. You cannot monetize you. No produce cord. So in every video almost I've gotten a little bit of a tangent somewhere. And I know in the script video I say, don't do that, but you're going to do it at some point and I'm just kinda trimming out to make sure that it's relevant to keep my video tight. Really produce video as well. You cannot monetize, you cannot. Now I'm actually gonna go back to another project again quickly just to grab my title sequence, iPadOS 16. So we're having some bugs and see that clearly quit. So I'm gonna go back to here. I can use the multi-select again. So I've set these titles up for this course. I did this in the first video. When I did the first video, I established the style for this course already. And now I'm just reusing it. So I'm going to come back in here and I need to edit my title. Well, you cannot monetize, You cannot produce courses, you cannot tell. I'm gonna put a title in here. Because the most important thing at the beginning is to monetize or not to monetize, to produce your video's. Getting things working well for you is going to help you at the beginning so that you can really produce video as well. You cannot monetize, You cannot produce courses. You can not do anything if you don't. Videos up. First thing to prioritize, getting ten videos up, trim out and it was only 0.2 s, but still getting ten videos. I don't expect them to be amazing either. Buccal. Now I know in the clipboard is still that title sequence, so I can paste it again. And to select what I actually did there is I grabbed the title at the beginning, double-tap or double-clicked. And I don't actually remember what I was going to say now. So what does it say? First thing to prioritize getting ten videos up, don't expect them to be. So I'm just going to say, you're first videos don't have to be great. The point is getting a production pipeline setup. That's kinda my idea. My main thought behind this section. First thing to prioritize getting ten videos up. Don't expect them to be amazing either. You go back to so my first videos that are terrible if you go back to, I don't know, after I'd done 100 videos, maybe even there's still terrible. So now there were lumped. You've got I want to take out that breath. And why I said so that is something I say too often and I'm trying to work on are still terrible. Now there were a lot tighter other a lot better because they have nicer gear. I got more practice. But your first videos are not going to be amazing. You will learn far more from editing ten videos, 1 h each than you would from spending 10 h on one video editing. So you'll do a video, you'll feel like that was a good succinct point. I'm not sure that the next little bit is going to be worthwhile. So I'm just going to create a cut here so I can edit later if I need to, if I get a little bit and realize that I've rambled a bit. So you'll do a video, you'll watch it, you'll have some things you weren't happy with. Write them down, watch some other YouTubers. Watson won two people doing video content and see how they solve those problems. Say, Hey, I really like how this worked in this video. I want to reproduce it in mind. You're going to learn far more, far faster if you approach it in that way as opposed to spending all your time on one video. Just not going to work very well for you. So I end up, dude, I do like that, but I don't like that. Just not going to work very well for you. Come in and cut this again all your time on one video. Another thing to remembering your first ten videos is people are not going to watch. The rest will be another title which I still have in the clipboard. I'll double-click the tidal layer. Say people won't watch your videos to start again, just to break it up and give some more visual interests to this video course. Far faster if you approach it in that way as opposed to spending all your time on one video. Another thing to remember in your first ten videos is people are not going to watch them. Don't need to worry about it. So every time you want to open up your YouTube stats, again, I'm not sure that I liked that little bit of a diversion. I'm gonna come in here and cut it. So as well. People are not going to watch them every time you want to open up your YouTube stats and you want to check them, stop yourself. Open up your notes. Write a new video or do something on your video. Do not check your stats. It's not worth it. It's not a good use of your time. I know you want to I want to all the time too. And most of the time, probably not all the time, but most of the time I stopped myself and I start working on a video instead, or I go do something else with my family. I do something that is more productive with my time because my stats actually don't matter unless I'm sitting down to analyze them. And when you only have ten videos, there's literally nothing to analyze them, so they don't matter at all. Okay, so that's the end of the video and I'm going to use the archae to get myself some blank. I always like to leave 10 s of blank at the end of my YouTube videos, I'm going leave five and this because that's what I've decided for this course. That's really it. Now, in some videos, I would actually come back into some areas, say like this long blank, I'd look at it and be like, Wow, there's a lot of blank there. And I might look to see if I have other B-roll that have already shot, but I can add over top of it, same with this one up front because there's just a lot of blank space video, but I can see the video is only 2 min long, so I'm not convinced that I really need to. I think that there's good enough tight content and they don't need to throw in extra visual stuff in there to keep people's attention. And this is also a slightly different medium because it is a Skillshare course, because you're gonna be taking this course from me so you can look at it and people are more invested in the course, especially once I got to this point. So I not that I'm trying to do a worst job, but I'm not as concerned about it as I would be in a YouTube video or want more interests, more B-roll and I would put a little more effort into into that because it's a different medium and it needs that effort. Really, those are some of the basics of editing. I'm really just cutting. I'm trimming, keeping it tighter. I'm adding a title for the course and visual interests and that's it. Especially when you're starting, that's all you need to do. Spend more time on your content, making sure that you are a good presenter, making sure that you have tight scripts, making sure you really know what you're doing. Don't worry about all the fancy edits that you see will do it when you watch MK PhD with his robot arm. Don't worry about all those things. Focus on just a basic edit. Delivering good high-quality contents is simply for your users, for your viewers. That is probably the most important thing to start. 14. Wrapping Up: They'd been through the course, you should have a basic idea of editing, getting some sort of workflow down so that you can have a YouTube channel. You should know the software, you should know the gear you need, you should run it off your iPad. Realistically, you can transfer a lot of your good workflow once you've set it up to any device you want. So I could do the same thing on my Mac that I'm looking at. I can use a lot of the same editing fundamentals that I learned to luma fusion at the beginning in one of our tutorials that you could use in Final Cut as well, the biggest thing to remember at the beginning is to get our production workflow that works for you and just be consistent with it. So a video every week, if you can, is a really good way to start, just to be consistent so the subscribers keep coming. Now not every channel needs to do that, but the big thing for you is that you are continuing to make progress all the time and to actually ship videos. Second biggest thing is to start using your sawdust and look at the different monetization methods. Whether it's AdSense, whether it's courses which have by far been the best thing for me. One of the things that I'm really doing in late 2022 is focusing on doing courses and using just the sawdust for my YouTube channel. Not focusing so much on the YouTube channel on its own, but doing the courses so that I can continue to bring in more revenue and then hopefully turn this into a 100% full-time thing for you. For assignments, I'd love to see below what is YouTube channel. I would love to grade some of your videos if you have ten videos out, let me know what your channel is and I will look at it and give you some tips on things that I think are useful or not useful, things that I like and don't like in your videos, you have an individual video would like me to look at by all means, leave it in your course so I can look at it and give you some critiques on it so that other members can give you critiques on it as well. Have an awesome day.