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How can you make your YouTube videos more fun and engaging? What are some tips and tricks when it comes to looking good on camera, filming, editing, and post-production?How can a coach or consultant record videos that clients actually want to watch?
I'm going to show you how to look great and have fun on camera using post-production techniques to make your videos interactive and exciting.
00:00 - Introduction
01:05 - Tip 1: Stand
01:51 - Tip 2: Energy
03:19 - Tip 3: Jump Cuts
05:39 - Tip 4: Use a Teleprompter
06:33 - Teleprompter Tips
07:34 - Tip 5: Post-Production
09:09 - Tip 6: Lighting and Sound
10:41 - Summary
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Automated Transcription
0:00
Creating videos is so hard.
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I get so anxious and nervous when the camera goes on.
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I don't like to do this. Why am I doing this? Why should just stop right now?
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Creating videos. We'll have to be hard.
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You just have to kind of be you now. Okay. I know that's easier said than done.
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And the moment that the camera turns on,
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it's easy to freeze up and kind of tripled words,
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but do you know how you get better? That's true.
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You get better. The more you do something, right?
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I'm going to show you how you can make your videos more engaging.
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And I'm going to show you how you can also do some kind of fun things using
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post-production techniques to make your video kind of interactive and exciting
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and you know, real people in to get them really excited to watch them. Yeah.
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More of you
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Hey, Ronnie, here, founder of PLR.me.
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And I want to show you some really cool and simple techniques to make yourself
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really have fun while recording video.
1:04
So what I'm doing right now is I'm just standing because when we sit down,
1:08
we have a tendency to slouch and that doesn't look so good on camera. Now,
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when I was on a national broadcast for a daytime talk show,
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I found it interesting that their set,
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the couches that they use had no backs.
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It kind of only went up maybe six inches or so.
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And the reason why is they don't want you to slouch.
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They want you to be sitting up straight and looking really healthy and, uh,
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just having a good posture and that projects so much when you're recording video
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So, Hey...
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if you have a tendency of slouching or if your couch is so comfortable and you
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just tend to sink into it, stand!
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Stand up when you're recording my first tip. Okay.
1:50
So tip number two.
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How do you have a engaging video that people want to actually watch?
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Well, you need energy. Yes. You need energy.
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You need to be more of you. Now.
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What tends to happen when the camera turns on is we sort of get a
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little flustered. We kind of freeze up a little bit and you know what happened?
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We kind of talk a little quieter and sometimes too
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fast or sometimes really, really slow.
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Well, it doesn't work on camera.
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We need to have energy now. Not everyone's going to be a standup comedian.
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I am definitely not, but that's okay.
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It's just about projecting that energy and that enthusiasm.
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So the way I do it is I sort of build myself up here.
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Maybe you use your hands more,
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or maybe you actually just talk a little faster and sometimes pull back and
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sometimes you get louder or some things you get a little softer too,
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and that's okay.
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But you want to actually just put more into you now when the
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camera turns on,
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the biggest tip that I ever heard was he to magnify your personality and your
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energy by like 10.
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So it means you need to have more energy when the camera turns on, not less,
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don't pull back,
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push through and add more excitement and enthusiasm in your voice and
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your posture and even in your gestures. Okay.
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Tip number three. Now this is one of my favorite techniques.
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When recording videos, I like to do something called jump cuts.
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Wait, what's a junk junk.
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It's really fun because jump cuts sorta keep the video moving.
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It's sort of like a train.
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It just keeps chugging along and junk cuts lets you sort of hide
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mistakes, but also gets people engaged.
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And it's actually really simple. Sometimes when you complete a sentence,
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you can just pause for a second and then move. And when you do that,
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you can cut the pauses out, stitch it together.
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And now your video was kind of having this cool motion,
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this movement where maybe you start off on one side of the camera and then all
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of a sudden you're way over here. And Wu is magic. How did I get over here?
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Well,
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it's fun and it's engaging and it's a great way to actually just sort of be more
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you on camera, but also hide mistakes. If you flub up a few words,
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Hey that's okay. I'm surprised that I didn't flub up the word flub.
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So it's just a matter of keeping the pace moving.
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We don't want to see a video of that's 10 minutes,
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but really only three minutes of action.
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Cool content where there's seven minutes of um, yeah.
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So jump cuts. Keep the pace moving and it allows you to hide mistakes,
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but it just kind of is engaging and it's an exciting and sort of a fun way for
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people to watch your videos. Oh, and now one more thing about junk cuts. See,
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you don't just have to change your position. You can also zoom in.
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So when you're editing your video,
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maybe you can punch in or you can be farther away.
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And if you're standing, when you're recording,
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you can also just sort of move closer to the camera.
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Just like what I'm doing now to get more intimate and kind of get more personal
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and you can feel the energy it's different, right? I'm closer.
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It's different versus I'm going to stand here.
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I'm not going to move.
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I don't want to be too many hand gestures and understand super still.
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And no, no don't do that. We,
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we want to have some motion. We want to have some movement. We want to be real.
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We're not robots.
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We're not robots. We're not robots.
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Be you use your real voice. Use your tone,
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use your style and your energy. Again, just be you.
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One other tip is to use a teleprompter teleprompter. Yes,
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a teleprompter. And it's actually really handy.
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The one that I have is the pad caster, parrot teleprompter.
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And honestly it is fantastic. It just clips onto the camera.
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And then you use your phone as the actual teleprompter.
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So you get a free app and you can actually read the phone. Who's that with the,
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um, the special glass that comes with the teleprompter, uh,
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there are other teleprompters that you can use your phone as the camera and I'll
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link to those in the description. But here's the thing.
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Teleprompters are only as good as you. Okay.
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We don't want to sound robotic when we're talking. And honestly,
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you probably can't tell when I'm using a teleprompter and when I'm not okay
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right now, I'm not using a teleprompter,
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but there have been many videos where I am using a teleprompter.
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And quite frankly,
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you probably wouldn't have guessed why a few tips write the script as though
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you're speaking it, add in. So an almond eyes, if you need to,
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just so that it can really pop and sound like you sound like you're speaking and
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that means you can't write it. Like you're writing an academic paper.
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It's not an academic paper. You want to write like you're speaking. Okay.
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So another tip with teleprompters is to practice. Okay?
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Practice. If you get familiar with your script,
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you'll really get comfortable with it.
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And especially if you're writing as though you're speaking, Hey,
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you can actually kind of sound natural.
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And sometimes what I do is I add pauses.
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When I'm speaking where I kind of look away a little bit.
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I don't always focus only on the words, but Hey,
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just kind of look around, feel comfortable.
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And when you're using junk cuts, Hey, you can just cut something out, pop it in,
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zoom in, zoom out. It can all be together,
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beautifully in post production.
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What other tips do I have? Okay.
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In post-production you can add other visuals,
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things like text on the screen that emphasizes your point or
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screencast. If you're showing something on your computer,
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you can scroll through and actually show the webpage or the product or the image
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that you're working on. Right? There's always B roll B.
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Roll is your best friend.
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Wait where's BMO B roll is simply footage that
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you can pop into your video. That could be, you know,
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if I mentioned galloping horses,
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we can show a bunch of galloping horses on the screen.
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Or if I mentioned a chef preparing a beautiful meal,
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I can show that footage on the screen,
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or I can show a video of clowns juggling at a circus that's B roll B roll
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can really add excitement and engagement into your video because it's not just
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you talking for five minutes straight or 20 minutes straight.
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It's just other footage that sort of adds excitement and engagement that your
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audience can watch.
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But there's something else that's cool about B roll B roll also hides
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mistakes. So Hey,
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if you need to look down at your script to remember what you're saying,
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Hey that's okay. You can still record record using the exact same setup,
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exact same mic. So the sound sounds the same,
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but the B roll HIEs that you're showing else something other than your
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face. So that's what I love about B roll. Uh,
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it allows you to make it different, make it interesting, make it,
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show some other visuals, but also mistakes. Okay.
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And for the last tip, uh, honestly,
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a really good part of good videos is just good lighting and good sound.
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Now you've probably heard of that before, but it's true.
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It really is. And honestly, your phone,
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whether it's an iPhone or whether it's an Android, if it's fairly modern,
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it's good enough to record videos.
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All the latest iPhone for the last several years are recording and 4k.
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So you definitely have the camera that you need, but honestly,
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a big part of it is just good lights.
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Now I have some very simple lights on right now and you can buy cheap lights on
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Amazon and that just, you know,
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you put it right behind the camera and that'll be good enough.
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I'm also using a little lapel mic and it's really simple.
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You just plug it right into the camera.
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And it's really simple because it captures beautiful sound. And it's right here,
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right near my mouth.
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You can't hear the crazy kids playing upstairs and you can't hear the baby
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crying and all that other stuff going on in my house right now because you know
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what, it just captures me and it captures my voice,
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but the sound quality is going to be great.
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And it's going to be really absolutely more than enough
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for what you need when recording.
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Now I'll put links in the description below for the lights that I'm using and
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the microphone that I'm using now in terms of the camera,
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I'm using a Panasonic GH five, Hey, you don't need that. Honestly. You really,
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really don't just use your phone. That's more than enough. Honestly.
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I think you're going to find that gives you great video quality,
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the bigger pieces, great lights and great sound. Well, that's it.
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Those are my main tips that I use when creating video.
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And it's a matter of getting comfortable in your own skin about having energy
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and really bringing 10 times that personality and using tools using the
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teleprompter or using good lighting or using a good microphone and also
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using jump cuts. And the cool thing is it just,
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it can really bring things together, making your videos more, engaging,
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more exciting, more interesting to watch. All right, well, that's it for me.
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I hope that you found this video very helpful. Uh,
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if you have any other video recording tips,
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