- So, you are looking to start a new YouTube channel,
but you don't wanna spend a lot of money dipping
your toe into video creation.
In this video, I can show you how you can start creating
and editing videos just with your iPhone and your iPad.
Hey, my name is Jerry and I'm 11 months into
this whole YouTube thing and during that time
I've learned a lot.
One of the most important things that you need to do
to get started is just to get started.
Getting your feet wet and getting comfortable
with the process is way more important
than the content initially.
You don't need a fancy camera
and a high-end computer to start.
So, let's walk through how we can do this.
And, I know, I said just a camera and iPad,
but you're going to need a tripod of some kind
and a phone mount.
I am using an Amazon basic stand and a cheap mount,
which I will leave links for below.
For lighting, just choose a bright window
to sit in front of.
Let's start with your phone as a camera.
One of the questions you are going to ask is
do I need to shoot in 4K?
No, but you can.
Think about all the screens you have right now
and how many of them are 4K capable.
Maybe your TV?
A majority of people are not watching YouTube on a 4K screen
and so there will be little benefit to shooting 4K.
Also, 4K may require a higher end hardware for editing.
To do this video, we're going to be using
this iPhone 11 Pro.
Of course, you can use any old iPhone to record your video
and we're going to be using the front-facing camera,
so that you can see yourself.
Using the built-in camera, you slide to video
and if you want to adjust your resolution
or frame rate, you can do that at the top
or in the camera settings.
Next, you need to set your auto focus and auto exposure.
Doing this will keep the levels the same,
so that if the lighting changes or you move around
it continues to have the same level of exposure.
Now, just hit record and film your A-roll.
Depending on the type of video you make,
you may have A-roll, which is like the talking head
type video, like this.
Then, depending on what you are talking about,
you may want to shoot some B-roll,
that you add into the video later.
In this video, I'm going to be talking about
an Anker charger.
And, to shoot B-roll of the charger,
you might want to put it in different positions
and take short videos of it from different angles.
You can also take videos of yourself using
what you were talking about.
After you get comfortable shooting videos,
you do have the option to upgrade to something
like FiLMiC Pro as your camera app.
This allows for much more customized settings,
including white balance, color profiles,
shutter, ISO, et cetera.
All right, now that we have the A-roll
and the B-roll on the iPhone, we want to edit it,
so let's move it over to the iPad.
To move the files over, you can use AirDrop.
Simply select the photos in the Photos app
and share using AirDrop to your iPad.
For this video, I'm using the base 7th generation iPad.
You can get one on Amazon for $250 and it has
an Apple A10 chip.
Just like the iPhone's camera app,
we are going to be using iMovie today to make this video.
It's free and it comes with the iPad,
so there's nothing else you need to buy.
If you want to upgrade in the future,
you can look at something like LumaFusion,
which I highly recommend.
All right, so now that we have the photos moved
over to the iPad, let's go ahead and open up iMovie
and create a new project.
Click movie and we can see the three videos
that we have in our video library here.
We're gonna start with the main A-roll video
and hit create movie.
So, in here we have our timeline of our A-roll
that we just filmed and we can make it bigger
or smaller by pinching to zoom.
And then, what we're gonna do is we're gonna start
at the beginning.
Right before I start talking, we need to make a cut
so that when it starts into the video
it's just a little bit, there's no delay.
So, to do that, we're going to zoom in
and we're gonna look at what we got.
You can kind of see before I start talking
there's just blank space and we'll play it right here,
so you can see.
Hi everybody, my name is Jerry and today, we're gonna.
Yup, so we just wanna start right before the hey everybody,
so maybe right there.
And what we're gonna do is we're going to tap on the clip
and we're gonna get our set of actions down here.
We have actions, speed, volume, titles and filters.
We're gonna go to actions and we're going to hit split
and that's going to create a split in the video.
Now we can adjust each of these completely separately.
To delete the first clip, we're gonna tap it
and then down in the right-hand corner hit delete.
So, now when we hit play you'll see it goes
right into the start of the video.
Hi everybody, my name is Jerry and today
we're gonna be talking about this.
All right and we can also make that a little bit
more seamless by doing a fade from black.
So, we can do fade in from black in at the beginning.
Now when we start it, it's gonna start black
and then fade into the video.
Hi everybody, my name is Jerry and today we're gonna
be talking about.
Now this video doesn't have a lot of cuts
because I made it just a pretty quick, short A-roll video,
but we have to do the same thing at the end.
We have to remove the blank space at the end.
So, down here we'll go to where I stop talking
and then we'll make a cut there.
Thanks for watching.
Subscribe and whatever else you guys do.
All right, that seems like a good spot,
so we'll tap, it's split.
We'll delete that last clip.
And just like the beginning,
instead of fading into the video, we can fade out to black.
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So, now we have a nice smooth ending.
The next thing we wanna do is incorporate
some of our B-roll that we took.
So, to do that, we need to find a place that makes sense
for some of our B-roll.
So, right here, we're talking about the charger
and I think maybe a little bit further in the beginning.
There we go.
So, we got a spot where I'm talking about the charger
and then I just kind of start rambling on,
so I think right there is probably a good place
for the B-roll.
So, to do that, we're going to go to moments
to find our video.
We'll choose this first one here.
And what we're gonna do is hit this little three button
or three dot button and we have
a couple different options here.
Cut away, picture in picture, split screen,
blue screen, audio only.
We want to do a cut away.
We want to keep the audio from the original clip playing
and just do a cut away to our B-roll video.
So, we'll tap that.
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Now, just like with the A-roll,
we're going to need to cut a little bit of that out.
And, right at the beginning, I think,
'cause we have a camera shot where I'm looking at it
and then we kinda just curve a little bit around it.
So, maybe right around there we'll cut it.
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And then we'll delete the first one.
So, now you can see when it's playing,
the audio will continue,
but it will cut away to the other clip.
With you and it's really nice to be able
to go out and charge things on the go, now.
All right, now let's add the second B-roll clip in here,
by doing the same thing.
We'll do a cut away.
And, I know I want this one to just kind of rise up
from the bottom, so we'll start probably right around there.
We'll go ahead and split that clip, delete the first half.
And, we wanna drag this guy over a little bit,
so we're just gonna tap and hold and drag him over.
So, now same thing, the video will overlay
and the audio from the original A-roll
will continue to play.
Hear what I'm saying here.
But on the side here we have one USB A port and we have.
Awesome.
All right, so I'm not gonna go into every feature
of iMovie on the iPad, but I do want to add a title
at the very beginning and I want to add music
as kind of of a background music for the video,
so you don't just hear my voice rambling on.
So, to do the title we have to actually make a cut,
so that the title doesn't just play
over this entire A-roll video.
So, probably around four seconds is what you want
your length of your title to be.
So, we're just gonna put my Twitter handle in here
as a title when I'm introducing myself
and let's find a place for the cut.
Today, we're gonna be talking about
this Anker PowerPort II.
All right, that seems about right.
So, we'll tap, we'll split the clip and over here
on this we want to add a title.
So, you have a number of different options can choose.
You can play around with some of that.
We're going to go with gravity in the lower side
and we'll just go ahead and add my Twitter information here.
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All right, so now when we play this we're gonna see
the title pop in and then go away after that cut.
Hi everybody, my name is Jerry and today we're gonna
be talking about.
All right and you might've heard that sound
from that title.
To turn that on and off we're gonna go back to the titles.
We're gonna turn sound effects off on that.
I don't think I want that.
Hi everybody, my name is Jerry and today
we're gonna be, PowerPort II with.
All right, so that's how we add a title.
Now, let's look at adding a background music track
and iMovie has a number of tracks built in,
so we'll just go ahead and add something from the library.
All right, so to add audio we're going to choose
the audio section over here.
We're going to choose soundtracks and then we're gonna
just pick a song that might work.
Let's try this guy. (bass music)
Maybe a little too bass-y.
All right, this probably works, so we're just gonna hit add.
So, you can see down here that we have the audio track
that was added to the video.
So, what you're gonna see when I hit play
is that the volume for the audio is a bit too loud
and kind of drowns out the A-roll audio.
So, let me show you.
Power delivery.
This charger is a very good.
So, what we need to do here is we need to lower
the volume of the audio by tapping on it,
going to volume and we can just drag the slider up and down.
And, let's try that and see how it sounds.
Good charger, it works on so many.
And it's incredibly subtle right now.
So, we can bring it up just a little bit maybe,
but we don't want it to drown out or make the audio
of the A-roll difficult to hear.
So, let's go up just a tad and hit play.
And you can take it with you wherever you go.
Okay, yeah, that sounds about right.
So, that is pretty much all you need to create
a video using iMovie on the iPad.
We have our A-roll, we have our B-roll,
we have underlying music, we have a title.
You can get into other things like transitions
and speed ramping and filters and things that,
but we're not gonna go into that today.
I just wanted to show you the basics of creating
a video for YouTube, shot on your iPhone,
edited on your iPad, things you most likely
or may already have.
The only other thing you need to do with this
is save it out to your library,
so that you can use the YouTube app to upload it
or send it to a computer to upload
or whatever you want to do.
To do that, we're gonna click done on our video
and then down here we have our share button.
And from here, we can save video and that's going to
save it to your photo library or you can save it to files
and you can choose a location you want to do it.
We'll save it to our library.
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Choose the resolution for the video that you shot
and wait a couple of minutes for it to export.
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Now, you can see the video inside the Photos app.
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And there it is.
We're gonna be talking about this Anker PowerPort.
And that is how you can make your first video
for YouTube using just your iPhone and your iPad.
Like I said earlier, I have learned a lot about this stuff
in the last 11 months and I will have a lot more
to say about it in a few weeks.
So, hit subscribe if you want to hear more about that.
If you want to see more about my process
and other apps I use, let me know in the comments below.
Getting started is hard, but you can start
with an iPhone and iPad you already have.
If you want to see additional ways to move files
between iOS devices, check out the video over here
and I'll see you next time.
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