Hello filmmaker friends, and welcome back to K19Studio, the show where we talk about
how to make Youtube videos, both from a technical and creative perspective, for young women.
Thanks for stopping by!
Today I want to discuss with you a more general view of the whole “Youtube How-To” thing,
and that is my over all workflow for making Youtube videos.
A little while back, I made a video called “my youtube creative process,” which described
how I go from idea to product, and the sorts of things that I think about along the way.
Today I wanted to give you a more practical version of that, basically describing all
of the tools that I use during my creation process and when I use them.
This is more about the “work,” than the “creativity.”
It all starts with the idea though, of course.
I usually record mine in Evernote.
I make schedules months in advance of the topics of that I want to be covering in my
videos.
Lately, I’ve been trying to schedule travel related videos for Wednesdays and Videography
videos on Fridays.
I’m trying to stick to that, but I know it won’t always stay like that depending
on what content I feel like making.
Some videos I script, like this one, but honestly most in the past I don’t.
I’m trying to get better with that, because it makes captioning for me so much easier,
which means I will actually do it.
Which is important and I need to do more often.
Thankfully, with the types of videos I’m moving into, it makes more sense to be scripting
them than my previous off the cuff rant videos.
So then I will script my videos in Evernote as well.
I have one note for ideas and scheduling, and one note for scripts.
Once the video is scripted, which would usually be during the week before I plan for it to
go live, I will film.
Even If I didn’t script, I will usually be filming it this much in advance as well.
Sometimes though, under special circumstances, I will film a bunch of videos in advance.
(Like this one!)
I only film on weekends, in general, because I need the natural lighting of day time that
is hard to get before or after my work day.
Also, the work week just tends to get really busy.
After filming, I will take all of my footage off of my camera and on to my laptop.
I never use iPhoto for this, because I have a vendetta against it.
I always just click and drag the files into my desired folder.
That folder is always my “to be edited” folder.
After I edit the video and export the completed version, I delete the rough footage, because
I just don’t need it anymore.
So usually a few days after I film, during the evening after work, I will get around
to editing.
I edit in premiere pro, and I usually get the whole video edited roughly, and then I
will add in my into with the color wash and title, and then of course the end screen.
I used Photoshop to make my end screen, and I just use basic premiere functions to make
the opening title.
Once I finish exporting, I will upload the video.
I always schedule it, because I’m never available to upload at the time of day I want
it to go up.
I schedule for Wednesdays (or Fridays) at 9am.
While the video is uploading, I make a thumbnail in Photoshop.
If you want a full video about how to make a good thumbnail, let me know because I would
love to make it!
I’ve rotated through different thumbnail styles, but at this point I’ve settled on
dividing the topics that I discuss on this channel by colour, and sorting them into playlists.
I always use the same fonts, for the most part, and try to keep a consistent style.
Then I’ll add the thumbnail to the uploading video, and add all the appropriate details.
I’ll tag it with anything that is relevant to the video and that I think people might
be searching about.
Usually, I’ll write up a quick tweet to go out with the link once the video is published.
And then I hit “done"
Unfortunately, Youtube doesn’t allow you to add scheduled videos to playlists, so once
the video has been uploaded, I will go and add it to the appropriate playlist.
I will also try to add captions either right after the previous step, or once the video
goes live.
So that, very briefly, is my work flow when it comes to creating Youtube videos.
I hope it was helpful for you to learn the sort of timeline that I work within, and also
the tools that I use for creation.
If you want in dept tutorials on any of the topics that I touched on during this video,
please let me know in the comments below and I would be happy to make some more detailed
videos for you all!
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Thanks for watching, and happy creating!