- I'm gonna tell you five easy ways to make better videos
for YouTube and we're starting right now.
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My name is Nick, welcome to another video.
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Okay, your videos are a product
so it's really important think about,
just like any other product,
how can I make my product better?
And just like any other product,
you want to make sure that you
are making it as good as you possibly can
because you want to represent yourself in the right way,
you want to make sure that you can keep people interested
and keep people watching which
is something that happens when you create a good product,
a.k.a. a good video.
So, I want to give you my five top tips
for making your videos better and real quick,
if you make videos on your phone,
my brother Dee has a video about the same exact thing
but related to a phone and you
can check that out at the top of the screen.
(tongue trills)
First on this list is to use music.
When you use music in your videos,
you can use that music to help you create a mood,
help you create an atmosphere of sorts around your content.
Your choice of music is also gonna help you connect
with your audience which
is also extremely important here on YouTube.
You want to make sure that you're using the right music
for the right people and if you can do that,
then it's gonna help you make your videos a lot better.
Personally, for my videos I use Epidemic Sound.
I have a link to them down in the description below.
You can get a free trial as long
as that's still going on when you see this video
but overall, Epidemic Sound is awesome for YouTube music.
Number two: Use b-roll in your videos.
B-roll is basically extra footage
so while you're sitting there talking like right now,
what I'm showing on the screen,
this is an example of b-roll.
It helps illustrate what it is you're talking about
and it kind of helps break things up
so that it's just not that boring shot
of you sitting there looking at the camera,
you sitting there playing your game,
you sitting there knitting in that same exact position
or whatever it happens to be.
It just gives you additional content to work with
when you're editing your videos.
My brother Dee and I actually in the process right now
of creating our free resource for you to where you
can get free stock vids to use in your videos
without any copyright headaches or anything like that.
I'll put a link to that down in the description.
Make sure that you head over there and subscribe
so you can get that content as it comes out.
Number three: Cut out your um's and ah's.
It doesn't matter how good of a presenter you are,
it doesn't matter how vibrant your personality
when you're on camera, it's important that you cut
out your um's and ah's and the reason for that
is if you're watching a video and the pacing
is moving along and everything is just flowing
and then, um, people start, ah, trying to think
of, ah, you know just trying to think of what it is
that they're, um, that they're wanting to say, um...
Like what just happened, it's important that you cut
that stuff out because you can see how
that completely killed the momentum of the video,
completely killed the pacing of what is going on
here in this particular segment.
Now, keep in mind, it's not a big deal if you do it
from time to time but what I'm getting at
is if you are just really messing up momentum, the pacing
of everything that you're doing
and regardless of the type of content you're making,
this still applies and you can fix it in the edit,
if you are messing up the momentum, the pacing
of what is going on in your video,
it's really important that you cut out those um's and ah's.
Number four: Make sure that you
have enough light in your video.
This is gonna make a huge difference in
how people respond to your video.
It's extremely critical to make sure you have enough light.
Me, personally, I use Aputure lighting.
I have an LED of theirs hitting me from this side
and then I have another backlight hitting me over here
to give me this nice crisping and a little bit of light
to separate me even more from the background.
And they even come with remote controls
so you can do this.
Pretty cool, right?
And you can also adjust the lighting,
making it brighter and dimmer and all that stuff
which I'm not gonna do because I like
how this looks currently.
Next on the list is to make sure you put time
into making sure that your audio sounds good.
Audio is half of the video experience so it is critical
to make sure that your audio is at least acceptable.
There's tons of microphones that you can use.
I actually have a microphone video that I'll link
to and I'll link to some other microphone videos down
in the description because it's extremely important
that you put a lot of effort into making sure
that your audio sounds as good as it possibly can.
Next on the list is learn how to edit in general
and the reason this is important
is because it's going to help you make a better end product
for the people that are watching your content.
And if you have a better end product,
you're gonna get more people sharing your content,
you're gonna get better audience retention on your videos,
you're gonna just get a better overall response
on the content that you're putting out
and at the end of the day, isn't that what you want?
I'm gonna put a link at the top of the screen right now.
Go ahead and click on that link if you want to learn
about software that you can use to edit
because I know a lot of people that
are watching this probably are using some basic software.
The software that's in that video is going
to help you make better-quality videos,
it's gonna help you edit better
so that you can create that better end product
for the people that are watching your videos.
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Thank you so much for watching.
I'll see you next time.