As like the resident YouTuber for pretty much everybody that I know,
I get a ton of questions about YouTube, about being a content creator and don't get me wrong.
I absolutely love it because I love YouTube. That's why I make videos is because I love
making videos. I love YouTube. I love the platform. I love learning about YouTube and how.
Better videos kind of learn about the algorithm and all the intricacies that come into being a
content creator. That's what I do in my free time. I make content. And then I learned about
being a content creator. It's my jam. I love it. So I love talking to people about it now,
along with getting a ton of questions, something that I have come to realize is
that people who asked me about YouTube might not realize it.
I like to share that information. And when I say I like to share that information,
I put information in the description of all of my videos, as well as I make videos about making
videos, I call those videos, my keeping up with the content creators. Series, if you will, I've
got a playlist, like down below, I put a lot of information online about being a content creator.
And I feel like sometimes people just aren't aware one of the most popular things. I am
asked by people in my real life who know me as a person first and then a content creator second,
which I'm still a person, if I'm a content creator, but they know me.
On lease in real life. And then they find out I'm on the internet.
They ask me what equipment do I use? What software do I use, essentially the
listicle of how do you make your YouTube videos? Now I get the question of like,
Hey, this is me. Do you have any recommendations for me? Is it the type of content I want to make
for equipment? And then I get the people who go what's offered or use.
What lens do you use? I want to make videos that look like yours. So just tell me the thing that
you use so I can buy it. And then that's how my videos are going to look like yours. That's not
how that works. I've been a YouTuber for almost 10 years now, which is crazy to think about and
this whole setup and everything that I have, and all the products have been nicely curated.
And I tweaked everything and Rome was not built in a day. People, this did not happen overnight,
but I understand just wanting to know. What do I use? So that's
what this video is in the description of every one of my videos from like the last
two years is a list of exactly what products and software I use.
It's all there. It is even. With a link, it's an affiliate link, which
helps support my channel. So if you purchase using my links, it really helps me. So thanks
in advance. But anyway, I digress, I still get frequently asked what equipment do I use?
This is me reading to you. My description of my YouTube videos from like the last two years
and telling you, and also it's a little bit updated too, cause I've updated some things.
And like literally the last one, like a month and a half of every piece of equipment
and every piece of software I use to create my YouTube videos.
Gosh, I just realized, I didn't say hi to y'all yet. Hi y’all it's Annelies.
And let's start with the thing. Do you want to know the most about is what camera do I
use? So the camera I've been using the last like month and a half, cause I literally just got it
is my Canon. five. It's a mirrorless camera when I'm shooting on right now is the 50 millimeter.
It's the nifty 50, it’s the F 1.8, but I'm shooting at F 2.8. That's typically
my preferred for my YouTube videos. And I have the F to RF adapter because the lens.
Fit straight on the camera, but the camera that I've used for like the last four years
is this one. This is the cannon add, I am a cannon household.
So every camera that I use and every lens that I use is cannon on it is the 10 to 18.
I don't know. Oh, 4.5 to 5.6, even though the 10 to 18 is on here right now. That is
not the lens that I use for most of my videos for the last like four years. I have used the
24 millimeter F 2.8. I think it's like one of the perfect focal length.
I also have been using the RF 24 to 1 0 5 F four lens because this is what
came up with. R five and I didn't have the adapter to use my other lenses for a while.
So some of my videos have been filmed with this. So many of them have been filmed with
the 24 and then I've been like dabbling with the 50 and it comes to focal length.
I typically shoot between 24 and 50 millimeters. That's like my sweet
spot. And then when I do videos that are more. Of log style thing,
or I want to carry the camera around with me. I use a wider angle. So the 10 to 18 is a go-to
speaking of like vlogging and stuff. I use the Canon X mark three for any.
Flogging type things. Now, the girl doesn't vlog a lot, but when I do, I like this one,
cause it's nice and small. When it comes to the things that go in the camera, I use
SD cards as most cameras do my SD card of choice. Like the brand is SanDisk, but I have like the
ultra and the extreme pro ultra and the extreme ultra pro ultimate blah, blah, blah.
I can't tell a difference between any of them when it comes to filming. So I just use Sandra. Cause I
like to stick with things that I like now. That's for the video side of things. When it comes to
audio, I actually that's my microphone for the sake of the audio quality. I'm going to leave.
Down here, but I use the road video mic, plus I've used this for like the last, I wanna say
like three plus years, but when I'm feeling fancy and what I've been doing more so since I've had
like my studio set up, like this is, I use the blue Yeti, this is a USB condenser microphone.
This I'll have plugged into my Mac, but pro, which is just off screen,
I'll record within garage band. Right. Smush everything together in my editing program,
but we'll get to software later, other visual things. So I've got a ton of lights here. My
main light is this light right here. It is the 18 inch newer ring light.
Um, I actually have an excessive amount of flights right now, just, just because,
so I have two soft boxes right here. These are limo studio. Um, softboxes think they're like
60 bucks on Amazon together. Then I have two led panels. These are bicolor led 660. LEDs panels
also newer with soft boxes on them. And then when it comes to lights in the back for like all
mediums, I have a smart light bulb in that lamp that is a USB strip glued behind the bookshelf.
I have an IQ. Desk lamp pointing the wall to like, give it a little bit of depth. And then I have
this newer led panel light, which I just, I love this thing so much. I have this
pointing in the back. You can see, well, the color has changed so much. Oh my gosh,
I do have batteries for it, but it's plugged into the wall right now.
Speaking of batteries, I have spare batteries for everything, whether it be my vlogging camera or my
main camera, which is my five. And my add, luckily they both use the same battery, which is just.
All the shifts, kisses, and then the battery for, uh,
that little led panel lights. And for this monitor, this is the 4k field monitor.
I use this HDMI cable to go from my camera to the monitor. If I want a closer look or if I
have to be like looking away from the camera in order to get a shot or something like that,
that typically happens when I'm doing like product shots, because. Five feet
away from my camera right now, I can't really reach myself or see the two inch LCD screen.
The battery brands that I use are new wasabi power and Rav power.
A lot of this stuff is on Amazon. It's cheaper than the name brand things. And
I think they are very reliable. Well, I've had great experience in the realm of tripods
and how I hold my camera. I use the Sunpak ultra 7000 TM tripod. I've had this thing.
Seven or eight years I got it on clearance because it wasn't in the box at best buy. And
I only paid like half price for it. I love it. It's great. And then the tripod head,
because the tripod had broke of the tripod. I got a new one. It's the newer. Newer
heavy duty. Gosh, I hate Amazon listing sometimes.
How would I say that? More concisely, newer fluid drag pan tripod head,
and then an alternative option for my tripod is the Joby three K tripod. I
have like a little phone Mount on it, but this thing is what I use when I travel. It's got,
yeah. The Bambi legs and they work great. Okay. So that was everything relating to filming.
Now, when it comes to post-production the equipment like the machines that I
use for post-production things, which makes me feel so fancy saying night
is my 2018, 15 inch Macbook Pro. And then I also use my 2017, 10.5 inch iPad pro.
When I edit my videos, I edit them strictly on my MacBook pro and I use final cut pro 10
I've used iMovie movie in the past, on my iPad, but for like the last like seven, eight years.
I'll say seven, I've edited all my videos on Final Cut Pro X. I do use
two other programs for like video related things. And that is the script that I use to
caption my videos. If the auto captioning doesn't work, if you want to know how I
captured my videos, I have an exclusive video on my Patreon. So if you join my
Patreon and support me there, you can watch that video on how I captured all my videos.
So that video talks about how I use auto captions. But when that doesn't work. A
couple of months ago, I had a video up for like a week and it did not ever generate
auto captions. So I was freaking out and found this program called the script. So they are a
wonderful captioning service. And then I use a website called runway it's runway, M l.com.
It's a machine learning website that I use to do like green screen effects
in some of my videos. That's really great. They have a paid option. If you want to
do better things in the graph that I do, when it comes to my thumbnails, I use Pixelmator Classic,
and I've been like learning reluctantly, how to use Pixelmator Pro, but I use Pixelmator,
which I like to call the poor man's Photoshop on my MacBook pro to do most of my thumbnail editing.
But then I'll go onto my iPad pro where I use procreate for so many things, whether
it be doing things for my thumbnails, like drawing or writing or whatever,
but I also create graphics and like, Art, I've done little silly edits of like general iPad or
apple juice. And I've like edited that in procreate.
Or I have like arrows that I've hand drawn or just annotating things or making, making gifts or
whatever. I'll put the stuff on screen that I've made. I use procreate on my iPad pro
with my apple pencil to create all that stuff. I also use plugins, which are like titles or
animations or whatever. So when you see that, like a subscribe thing pop up or like, Blink or
like whatever I put here or, I mean, I made a titles or all that stuff.
A lot of that is from a company called motionVFX. Those are plugins that I've
purchased from them. I also get plugins from a creator named Ryan
Nangle. I always say his name wrong, but he has a YouTube channel. He does tutorials and. Plugins
and presets and stuff. So that's where all my stuff comes from.
In addition to the plugins that I use to put things on screen,
when it comes to my royalty free background music,
I mainly use epidemic sound. I have a subscription to them and a link in the description to get you
like your first. I think it's like month free or something like that. So check out that link.
If you're interested in epidemic sound, it's like it's an investment,
but the best investment I've ever made for my YouTube channel. And then I also
sometimes. The YouTube audio library, which you can get free music from them,
all of it royalty free. And then when it comes to my audio, like I said, I use GarageBand.
When I record it with my Blue Yeti, I export it as an MP3 inserted into final cut pro,
and then you can sync clips in there. So that's really great when it comes to storing my data,
I've got a lot of hard drives. My hard drive of choice is a way. Al the Western digital hard
drive. I currently have libraries saved on the, my passport ultra for Mac, but I also have backups on
all of their, like my passport via every single one of these, except this one, which is a Sheba.
And this one, which is a Nope, that is also nevermind. They're all Western
digital. I'm a Western digital Stan. Oh my God. I like their hard drives and
they are cheap and they are reliable. So there's that I believe with that being said, Everything,
every product, every software that I use to make my YouTube videos.
If you want to learn more about them, consider subscribing to my channel,
leave a comment down below on a video that you would like to see from me.
Let me know what you would like to see, because even though I am not a channel
that makes videos about making videos. I love to make videos about making videos.
So I would love to have an excuse to make more. And like I said,
everything that I listed products, some of them may be affiliate links. So just
as a heads up, it doesn't cost you a dime just helps support a small creator
like myself links to all the products, the names, as well as the link to the video.
If I have one, please for future reference, check the description of every one of my videos,
because he might find information like what equipment I use and what software I use, or you
might find some little. That might be enjoyable for you in the future. It'd be hoops you, but
along with what's in the description of my videos is the link to my Patreon,
because like I mentioned, I have a patriarch and of course I had
to take a moment in this video to think all of my top tier Patreon supporters.
Thank you to all these beautiful, lovely people for supporting me
in my channel and all the things that I do and all the videos that I make,
the small little community. They're just starting to grow and flourish. And so if
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cool and also put your fingerprint on this channel and my patreon patreon.com/annalise.
I have tiers from $1 to $10 with all, all sorts of exclusive benefits, like
a shout out in all my videos. How rad is that? But thank you so much all my top to
your patrons and all of my patrons of past present and future. Otherwise that is it for
me. Stay beautiful. Have a marvelous day and I'll see you on the next one.
Bye.