Hello friends welcome back to my channel if you're new welcome my name is Christine so today we are
actually in Seattle I also have no makeup on because I just got my brows and lashes laminated
I thought I would share a quick little tips video on how to elevate your video content game so I've
been testing out a new camera and I've been using the Nikon z30 it's what I'm currently filming on
right now but I have another one here to show you I'm going to walk you through some of the
settings that I use for shooting some of my Vlogs videos I've been shooting some tick tocks on here
as well and these are just like really quick settings I'll walk you through some tips have
helped me and some general advice that I have for elevating your video content game whether
you're creating on Tick Tock reels or YouTube the most common misconception about diving into video
content is some people think that they need to have a really expensive camera or gear to
get started and honestly when I first started my YouTube channel I just started recording
on like my family camera that we've had for years and years and years but if you want a
really affordable option and I've been loving the Nikon z30 and that is actually today's sponsor so
I've actually been testing out this camera for a couple of weeks now and I really enjoy it it's
really small and compact as you can see really great for travel and it does have a retractable
lens as well so if you wanted to take off this lens and replace it with something else that is
really great especially if you're just getting into videography or photography it's a great
starter camera once you get more advanced and you want to start playing with different Legends and
stuff you can play around with swapping this out for something different another thing that I love
about this camera is there is a flip screen as well I've had little compact cameras that don't
have a flip screen and this just makes vlogging recording yourself on the go so much easier I
do have the flip screen open right now so I can see currently like if I'm in Focus how the frame
looks you don't need an expensive camera to get started at all you can use what you have but if
you're looking for a really good starter camera I highly recommend the Nikon z30 I'll go ahead and
Link it down below and then I'm going to show show you some of the settings that I've been using for
this camera as well I'm in Seattle right now like I said and it is freezing there's literally snow
outside right now so I currently have the here on so please excuse if that is noisy but tip number
two that I have is to learn to shoot on manual mode a lot of the times you can see sometimes
the light will flicker the lighting situations will change I think it'll really work to your
advantage to learn to shoot in manual mode manual mode doesn't mean manual focus you obviously set
your camera to auto focus so whenever you're doing like product shots you can have the camera focus
on what's going on but manual mode just allows the lighting to be a little bit more even it
just gives you a little bit more flexibility when it comes to editing as well and it just looks so
much more professional so this is actually a brand new Nikon z30 and I haven't done any of
the settings for this yet so I thought it would be the perfect situation to walk you through this one
thing I really like about this camera too is very user friendly very easy to use and so first we're
going to go into the menu and let's go all the way from the top this camera is great because quality
of it is really nice if you want to shoot photos or videos on it especially when I travel it's
nice to have a nice little compact camera that I take for videos and photos something that can do
all of that and you can see in the background it gives you that really nice background blur as well
so that is a benefit to using you know a little bit more of a professional quality camera first
thing that we want to do is go to image quality I always shoot in raw this just makes editing so
much easier it gives you so much more flexibility gives you the highest quality photos as well and
then for video recording I just do 14-bit that just gives you the highest quality we can leave
all this the focus on the Nikon is really sharp and really really fast as well so I just find
that the setting works if you're just taking like photos though and you want it to focus on
one area and hold that Focus then you would want single autofocus but since I use this for photo
and video I'm just going to leave it on autofocus the area mode I just just keep two people because
I am people this is for a stabilization for when you're vlogging out about you want it
to be kind of like steadier footage so we'll just keep it there everything else we can leave
then let's see to the video recording menu the frame size if you want to shoot in 1080 you can
go ahead and just leave it but I prefer shooting in 4k it just gives you so much more of a higher
quality video some of my viewers watch at home on their TVs as well and the TV really blows up your
videos so I just find 4K is the best quality I like 30 frames per second you can play around with
it some people really like 25 or 24 that gives you a little bit more of a like cinematic smooth
type video but I like 30 frames I just find that it's crisp and clean and if I want to throw any
clips into slow motion I can do that all of this doesn't really matter we're just going to leave
all this as is and then here for auto focus mode for video I'll leave it on full-time autofocus and
that just allows you while you're moving around doing product shots vlogging it's just constantly
Auto focusing all the time which is what you want I always shoot on whatever the frames per second
is so we had set this to 30 frames per second so we want to set the shutter speed to 1 over double
of whatever the frames per second is if that makes sense so since we have 30 frames per second we're
going to set our shutter speed to 1 over 60. if you set Yours to 24 25 you would have your shutter
speed to 1 over 50. also currently have it set to auto mode I'm going to go ahead and turn this to
manual mode and go ahead and also switch from video to photo mode and it kind of holds your
settings that you set for each of that for photo mode we can actually leave it at any shutter speed
depending on like if you're shooting movement stuff like that usually like to keep that for
photos around two or three hundred but video definitely want to keep it to 1 over 60. it's
a little exposure button up here if you hold that button down you can turn the dial and kind of play
around with how dark or light you like the colors to be and I actually prefer to have it actually
up 0.3 if I'm shooting for tick tock I'll actually take it down to negative 0.3 for a little bit more
of a darker moodier aesthetic it seems like for the short videos people kind of like that so we'll
just leave it at plus point three for now and these are the settings that I use hopefully that
wasn't too confusing that was just a quick little crash course some of the settings that I use for
my camera you can actually use those settings for whatever camera you're using as well it's just
kind of like General guidelines to help you but obviously if you have the same camera as me you
can go ahead and just use the same exact settings that brings us to tip number three so this is
something that I actually struggle with a lot this is to keep moving the camera to keep the viewers
attention four sit down videos it's a little bit harder because you obviously have the camera set
in one place but if you're out vlogging and stuff like that it's nice to move a camera in different
angles and it kind of helps to keep the viewers interest so for example we now have the camera
in a slightly different location and it just gives the viewers something new to look at also if you
watch a lot of YouTube like I do I've noticed a lot of the YouTube channels that have a lot
of views and high engagement they typically like to add a lot of interesting Pops to do Quick Cuts
quick editing especially now with the tick tock and reels and shorter videos people's attention
spans are shorter so you definitely want to cater to that for me if I'm doing like a jewelry video
or makeup video I'll show different angles I'll crop in the camera a little bit closer I'll add in
some product shots I'll do some text overlays and just anything that you can do to help add to the
experience for the user and make it feel like you put in that extra effort people always appreciate
that I think it's worth the extra effort because it definitely pays off and makes your video look
Just A Step Above tip number four is to invest in your camera accessories once you get a little bit
more advanced and you start playing around with different tripods mics even if you do a lot of
vlogging it's nice to have good travel gear I actually have the creators kit for my Nikon and
I do have a mic that's attached to the camera right now so this is what the audio sounds like
with the microphone and this is what it sounds like without the microphone especially in bigger
rooms and environments sometimes you can hear a lot of background noise echoing back home in my
studio it has really high ceiling so there's a lot of echo in there so I actually use a little
tiny mic that'll clip on to my shirt as well tiny little improvements that you can do to the camera
gear helps to just Elevate the viewer experience which is what we want to maximize to up our game
anyways as I was saying I have the creators kit for my Nikon z30 and it comes with this tripod
with a remote that is really useful so I can actually use this remote to sync to my camera
and I can take pictures I can take video videos I can adjust some of the lighting things with this
remote control as well and it's really nice if I'm like really far away and I want to do some like
really cool cinematic Clips I can use my remote to help do some of the clips if I want to take some
of my own pictures I can use this as a little Bluetooth clicker it's really handy I like that
it's like part of the tripod because when I'm out and about I can just clip my camera on here and I
have everything that I need and this tripod is also great because it also doubles as a grip as
well so if you're out and about and vlogging it's just really easy and then if you want to set it
up on some sort of like counter or something like that and angle it and then you have your
little flip screen and remote so it's literally everything that you need to do a little hands-free
on the Go video content creation last tip that I have is lighting is very important it definitely
needs to be prioritized because if I go to watch someone's video and it's dark it almost distracts
me so much that I can't even watch the actual video and a lot of the content creators I really
like to watch I shall play around with editing lighting so add on some filters for their videos
so it kind of just makes it almost cinematic and fun to watch so I think good lighting is a
bare minimum for me most of the time I use natural light so I am sitting in front of a window right
now so it gives me that really nice wash of light it lights up my face and my features and anything
that I'm showcasing or holding up it's very easy to see and there's nothing really distracting or
taking away from that even if I move over just a touch you can see how much darker the clip
gets or if I am backlit you can't see anything you can't see what's going on I would never do
a makeup tutorial like this and then even if I go behind this wall back here you could see
it's still lit but it isn't as nice and bright as if I were right in front of a window so good
lighting always a must I always like to have the source of light right in front of me and I'll set
my camera like on windowsills or even on a tripod in front of a window to get that really nice light
another hack for me too is if I'm somewhere where it's a little bit darker it is like like bright
white outside because it's snowing right now in Seattle so we are lucky to have a lot of really
good light right now but if I'm in somewhere where the light isn't as bright or the window
isn't directly facing sunlight you can always buy additional lighting fixtures or little LED lights
on tripod to help add a little bit more light as well you can also buy white reflectors to go ahead
and pop in some pictures of some reflectors that you can buy and I used to buy like White cardboard
from like Michael's or something like that like any white reflector and you can set it up like
just sitting or leaning on cabinets next to you and it helps to bounce off that extra light and
it just makes such a big difference especially if you're doing a sit-down video makeup tutorial
or even like a fashion outfit try on video it's just always nice to have really good lighting
with all of those tips in mind I thought it would be fun to take you behind the scenes
take you along on a little bit of a vlog with me today we'll take all of those tips and combine
it into a video and you can kind of see what the final product looks like though let's go
face wash away the baby put some makeup on my face
see myself see myself every day hey repeat itself
they say
telling myself