- Batch recording content makes
YouTube and social media easier when you have
a nine to five job, run a business full time,
or if you're just a busy body like me.
So let's say I'm gonna walk you through
my step-by-step process for batch recording,
editing, and filming your videos
so that you can go ahead and make a month's worth of content
in just a few days.
Hey everybody, this is Roberto Blake,
helping you create something awesome today.
Welcome back to the channel.
The first step of batch recording your content for YouTube
is to actually plan your ideas in advance.
Start with how much content you wanna make for the month.
If you're like me, and you're doing three videos a week,
Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
then that means 12 videos for the entire month.
If your content is driven by news and trends,
then this might be a little bit more challenging for you.
Once I write down and brainstorm 12 ideas,
I do my keyword research and SEO in advance,
and I use TubeBuddy to help me do that.
It's a tool that I use. That's free.
I'll link to it down below,
if you wanna check that out.
Next, I take my 12 ideas and I actually write
bullet point outlines for each of them.
These are not complete scripts.
If you do use scripts and a teleprompter,
then go ahead and just write as many
of your scripts in advance as possible
to make it easier to plan, film, and record.
Sometimes I actually make my thumbnails in advance
for my videos because that's just one less thing
to worry about.
When it comes to filming my videos,
I actually leave most of my gear set up
in terms of my lights, my cameras, and my tripods.
This makes it easy for me to just hit record
and make the content as quickly as possible.
I also filmed these videos back to back.
Now, the way that I handle this is I actually batch record
usually about three videos at a time.
In fact, this is the third video
that I'm recording in this session right now.
Filming the talking head portion of the videos,
what we call the A-roll is the thing
that actually takes up the most energy
and you have to make sure you have a quiet time
to actually do this and so I try to prioritize,
filming as much as possible versus editing
as much as possible.
I can edit, regardless of what's going on in my environment.
I can't film when there's noise or distractions going on.
Because I often wear my own merchandise in my videos,
I usually don't have to worry about wardrobe issues,
but your mileage may vary on this one.
Also, obviously this is easier
if you're a male content creator
versus a female content creator.
I will bring someone onto the channel
who can actually share their batch recording process
as a female content creator in the future.
Separate from the talking head A-roll
if there's any B-roll that I need to film,
I try to do that separately
and I try to do that ahead of time
and advanced as much as possible
and use my outlines to help me know
what shots I need to take.
When it comes to editing, believe it or not,
I actually still edit all these YouTube videos myself.
I'm actually planning to change that.
When you can afford to, please make sure
you invest the money in hiring a good editor to help you.
But if you're like me and you're editing by yourself,
then there is a process to it
that can make things a little bit simpler.
Since I do my own editing, I set aside 90 minute sessions
to do those edits.
For me, this can be one video or two videos at a time.
So I will sometimes do two editing sessions in a day
and that would give me enough time
to edit content for the entire week.
If I do it, now if I want to do that for the entire month,
that means it's gonna take me anywhere
from three to five days of editing sessions,
if I'm giving myself only a few hours at a time
versus editing all day.
Now, depending on the complexity of your videos,
this could be more, this could be less.
When my videos were a lot simpler and there were
a lot less edits in them, I used to actually
probably be able to edit about maybe six videos
in a single session, in a single day.
I keep my edits as tight as possible.
I've also shifted to an editing format
that is optimized to get better viewer retention,
more people finishing and completing the videos
and bump up my watch time and average duration in YouTube.
Something that I'm gonna do a dedicated video on,
so you might wanna subscribe for that
if you want a video editing tutorial that helps watch time.
The simpler your formats, the faster your edits.
You can also use presets like I do in Adobe Premiere Pro
to make things a lot simpler and easy to do,
I also use B-roll from story blocks,
which I usually pick out in advance
and keeping in it's own folder
that I bring into my projects.
I also get epidemic sound for background music
and sound effects and I've already picked that out
in advance, and I know what videos I'm gonna drop that in.
Let's talk about posting and scheduling your videos.
With YouTube, you can actually upload your videos
in advance and schedule them to release
on the time and day that they're likely
to get the most views for your audience,
something that I will cover in other videos.
And because we've done our keyword research
and SEO and advanced using TubeBuddy
and using its SEO studio feature,
all of that stuff is prepared for us.
And if we've done our thumbnail in advance,
once we upload, we can go ahead and apply
all of that to our video with basically just a few clicks.
By working ahead on our content,
we could go ahead and we could take, you know,
one to two days and actually prepare
an entire week in advance.
And if you go ahead and if you are very consistent
and very aggressive about this,
you can take just a few days
and have your entire month set up,
even if you're doing 12 pieces of content
or more each and every month.
This keeps your YouTube channel growing
with you, getting new views and subscribers,
while also taking a lot of the pressure and stress
off of you as a content creator.
Obviously this is something that becomes easier
when you have a team, but remember,
I've done over a thousand videos by myself on this channel
without having an editor or help to do any of it.
Question of the day. (bell dinging)
Are you batch recording your content right now?
Why or why not? Let me know in the comments.
Hope you guys like the video.
I'll catch you on the next one. Stay awesome.