Let's talk about how I make videos here for YouTube.
I'm going to walk through everything that I do to create these videos, including
some free software, some paid software, and just some sort of tips and tricks
and editing things along the way.
So tune in.
Hey everyone.
I'm James.
And I'm back with another video this time.
A lot of you asked me, how do I make these videos right here on YouTube?
And it's a great question.
Do I pay tons of money?
Do I have an editor?
Do I have all that type of.
Well, the answer is I use some free software and I use some paid
software, to be honest with you.
So a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
Now that being said, I do everything.
So I come in and I create all the content.
I edit all the content.
I publish all the content.
I have an amazing design team that works with me on thumbnails
and branding and design.
So those really cool thumbnails and me doing wacky, things like that.
Um, I have some awesome friends over at cinder that helped.
It's very similar to how I edit and create the podcast, merge conflict with
my buddy, Frank, just different software.
I'm in different editing software to create and edit it.
And of course publish it as well.
But just like that show, I do everything on the YouTube channel,
all of my spare time, super for fun.
So what I want to do is break down some of the different software that I
used to do it, so let's check it out.
So the first thing that I use.
OBS that's right.
Open broadcast software.
This is the same exact software that I use to broadcast to YouTube or to Twitch.
Uh, many, many streamers use this software and I made a video on how
to record your desktop with OBS and funnily enough, that's exactly how I.
So inside of OBS, I really, and I have two scenes and a transition.
Uh, the first thing that you'll note over here is that I have a bunch of
different sources on the bottom left.
Um, but I mostly use this one, which is web cam and overlay.
And then I have another one that is called computer, which you're going to
see a repeating over and over and over.
OBS inside of itself.
Right.
So nothing really crazy there.
So why do I use this thing?
Well, I use it because it's extremely lightweight.
It's really easy to record.
And it also does a bunch of audio processing.
I talked to my video, how I add some filters.
So for example, limiter and noise suppression, and I also have an overlay.
So for example, here, here's the overlay of my initials and my tags over there.
And I can toggle on and off my webcam.
Now a few things that I do is I just record a 1920 by 10 80.
So if we actually go into my settings and we go into video,
we can see 1920 by 10 80.
I just do just the normal desktop audio there.
And that's honestly about it.
The only other thing that I'm really doing is I have a stream
deck down here, which you can't.
See too much of a little bit.
And I just have a few buttons.
I have a web cam button.
I have a computer button and a start, stop recording button.
The cable's a little short, so I can't really show it there.
Um, and one to control my microphone and to be honest, that's all I do.
So I come in and I just simply start.
Recording it and that's it.
Uh, and then what I do is I set up this scene over here, uh, to have a source.
So for example, if I bring this up here is visual studio with my
coffee application in this case, and I am recording it right there.
So that's was pretty much all that I'm doing over and over and
over again, inside of this thing.
If I bring back OBS, then you'll see this here as well.
And sure enough, until you.
Now it was important is that you have a start recording.
You have a managed broadcast start broadcast.
You just want to start recording.
And that's it.
The thing that I do in the settings too, is when I go to my output, I just
output things at 3,200 kilobytes, and then I output it as MP4 just makes
it easier to edit it when I'm done.
And again, OBS is freely available and you can get it on Mac windows,
Linux completely for free, um, which is really amazing.
Now the other piece of software that I use is called Camtasia.
So Camtasia is an all in one sort of screen recording and video.
No, I don't use it for screen recording at all.
I use it only for video editing and exporting because it enables a very
quick cuts basically of the video.
And if we look at it here, there is a free trial.
I'm not exactly sure what the pricing is.
I think it was, I guess it was yeah, like 200 and some odd
dollars for an individual license.
Uh, and, and.
A long time ago and kind of upgrade along the way, most of the versions of
Camtasia Camtasia and the same there.
One of the things I'll mention those, a lot of people like DaVinci resolve, this
is completely like free DaVinci resolve.
You can get the studio version, you can export it.
It's, it's very advanced, got a lot of cool features.
Um, I've used it before, but for me, since most of my videos are
under 20 minutes, uh, Camtasia is really, really great for editing.
Anything, super duper long than DaVinci resolve is really, really nice for that.
So if you're looking for something there, definitely check out DaVinci
resolve, and I will put things into the show notes as well.
All right.
So I record right here in OBS.
Then what I do is I take that file ideally in one cut.
I don't actually stop recording ever.
I start recording and I keep going.
And the reason that I do that is because it makes it easier to do.
If I make any mistakes, no matter what I do is I'll pause.
I make sure I don't move my mouse or I don't move the code or anything like that.
I come back to my state and you'll see those kind of quick cuts if you will.
And that's really important because, uh, you know, you need to be able to edit
those in and out, uh, wherever you're at.
So I do that and that makes it really easy to cut those different sections out.
And then I take that MP4 and I bring it into Camtasia to start editing.
So let's head over to Camtasia and take a look at how I do that.
All right now, we are over inside of Camtasia.
Now I have a template that I use over here and it basically just has some of
my animations and it has those little pop-ups that probably annoy everybody.
And then my outro as well.
So I just kind of created this template and then export it.
Now Camtasia is very, very simple.
So inside of your media library here, you have some assets.
So here are my intro and outro my icons.
And I used to do that thumbs up over there, which is nice.
Uh, there are some other things like library, so there's some
like intros and lower thirds.
You might've seen those.
If I had something in my background, I don't do much with, uh, annotations.
As you see some texts that pops up on the screen.
I'll bring those in.
Or for example, you can also blur and highlight things too.
So if I wanted to, for some reason, like blur out MOOC's face here, I could
blur that out, which is quite nice.
And those are all really built.
Or lots of arrows to arrows, always good.
Some of the transitions that are nice as you can do like different fading.
So actually I like, I actually apply a fade here and as it
fades out as well, which is nice.
Um, and then there's flips and folds and all that stuff.
So let me, let me show you what that looks like.
Uh, the first thing that we're going to do to actually get some of this
stuff in there is I'm going to go into.
Video folder here.
And this is the video I'm recording one right now in OBS, but here's my other one.
And I'll go ahead and take that and drag that in.
So that's that opening that you saw in the beginning, uh, over
there and it's about a minute long.
So I'm going to go ahead and put it in here.
Perfect.
There's me fantastic.
Then what I do is I hold down control and I kind of zoom in here and start to get a
lay of the land of, of what I want to do.
And these are in layers, so tracks.
So you can see that this layer goes on top of another layer and goes from.
So, what I'll normally do is I'll come in and I will trim the very, very beginning.
So you don't just have to stare at my face.
There we go.
And then I will go ahead and do that.
Now there's also transition.
So I usually put a fade on, on there, so that does that nice little
fade right there, which is cool.
I wanted to get crazy.
I want to put a flip for some reason, so you can do these flip
animations, lots of nice things there.
I like a nice, simple fade, which is nice.
And I just go ahead and fades in.
I can also check on the audio on the right-hand side.
And if for some reason it's coming through as, um, uh, stereo, but only
out of one ear, you could always mix Tamana, which is great too.
So this is pretty nice.
So what I do is I come in and I say, okay, where did I stop?
I stopped right here.
So let me go ahead and right click on this little thing.
And I can say.
Split selected.
So I select this bottom track, say split selected, and I can start
to move these segments around.
Sarah can just kind of move this around, move this around.
And I line up my different texts.
That's going here, like, as I'm hearing it as I'm listening to it.
So there you go, tune in blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Amazing.
And I also have these little bumpers, so you can copy and paste these around.
And if I wanted to, we can see that that shows up on there too.
And it's very, very, very nice.
Um, so that's pretty much it, to be honest with you, uh, some of the
other things that we do, I mean, it's really, it's really, honestly simple.
I'm not going to lie is, is mostly do animations.
So let me bring in one more track, which is the screen recording.
So here's that screen recording?
I did.
So I'm gonna bring that into the media and drag this over into.
Awesome.
So this is going to be what I would like fade to afterwards.
There we go.
Cool.
So I'd probably cut this out here and do a cut and do some transition
or some fade that I would build.
Um, but here we have these different settings, so here's me talking
and we can see there's audio here.
If I needed to, I could adjust that cause that's going to come from Cantasia where
I recorded it and I can adjust it just to kind of make sure the levels are correct.
Uh, there are some audio effects.
So if I wanted audio compression or fade out or fade in, I can
add those to the track as well.
So you can control the.
The biggest thing that I do is like here, for example, I'm showing the
scene on the, on the bottom left here.
So what I can do is I can do this animation and I can zoom in and
do this here and, uh, basically pivot this zoom panel over here.
And what that's going to do is it adds this little, little thing down here, and
then it actually zooms it in as I'm going.
So we'll see right there.
So Zoom's it into as much as you want.
And then I hit this scale to fit, to zoom it back out and that we'll
go ahead and zoom it back out so we can see that animation play in
here or zooms in and zooms back out.
Uh, and of course I can remove those as well, or you can,
you can move them around too.
So if you need to move it around, you can do that too.
Or.
So I'll go through and I'll edit this video.
I'll take out any of those weird cuts where maybe I mess up.
And then what I'll do is I will go ahead and slap a few of these,
you know, little registers subs, you know, sign up type of things.
And then I'll put this bumper at the end and I'll say, okay, amazing.
Let me go and put this in here.
And.
Now, of course I haven't finished this editing because I'm literally recording
the video that I'm editing in real time.
So I will use this.
So what I'm going to do is I will, when I'm all finished and I
bring this in is I'll export it.
So there's a few different settings that I use an exporting.
Uh, the first thing that I do is I do an MP4 audio only, and the reason
I do that as I bring it into an application called de script, and what
D script will do is it will go ahead and do machine translations on it.
I showed that in the podcast video, I'll put a link up over there somewhere.
So I'll go ahead and just go through and I'll say whatever
the name is, I'll finish it.
And it exports it pretty quick.
The MP, a them for a audio track and it exports it and puts it onto a file.
And boom, I have something ready to go.
And once I export the audio track, I'll start the translations and the
descriptions and all those things.
I'll be ready to go because actually exporting the MP4 takes some more time.
So then what I'll do is I'll export.
I use custom settings MP4.
I removed the controller because you don't need like a whole webpage.
My size is 1920 by 10 80, my video settings, I usually set to around 80.
Compression 30 frames per second.
Use the rest of the default.
1 28.
Audio totally is good.
Um, I've never really done 100% quality because you know, YouTube is going to
reanalyze it and do some things too.
But you know, as they say here, the settings above 75% is basically
exactly the same, but if you want to get crazy with it, the higher you put
this, the higher it's going to be.
I just hit next.
If you make sure you uncheck watermark or anything like that hit next to
wherever you want to go and you finish it and you're done, that's literally it
and you've finished it and you upload it to YouTube as some information.
And you're like, totally good.
Like how amazing is that?
To be honest with you.
So honestly, There you have it.
That is how easy is it to actually get started creating your own
videos with OBS completely for free.
Now, if you don't want to do any editing, it's not going to cost you anything.
Or you can use things like DaVinci resolve or I'm sure there's other
free editors on the internet too.
So.
We don't have to do that much, to be honest with you.
As long as you set up your OBS to do some nice, um, audio mixing for
free, which is built in, um, start recording and then export it and upload
it to YouTube, you are good to go.
The most important parts that I've learned is make sure that you have a nice title.
Obviously, a nice thumbnail.
Uh, like I said, I have a whole, a nice design team that helps me out.
But when I got started, I didn't, you know, I just made a nice
little template for myself.
Uh, there's an application on the internet that I'll show everyone as well.
It's called a photo p.com.
What's cool about photo P is it's Photoshop on the internet.
So you can create a new project just like this.
Do all this stuff here.
They have templates.
They have everything in there.
It's really, really cool.
So you can use photo P you can create your thumbnails.
I have YouTube cover artwork for you, like the, have the templates that you already
need right there, which is really cool.
And you can start putting something out onto the.
Like I said, I'll put it to 1920 by 10 80, or capture it and export it
there and you'll be totally good to go.
The other thing that you can do too, is YouTube does have some editing
inside, um, of YouTube studio itself.
So if you're just making small tweaks or need to highlight things that
you can actually cut and edit, there does take some time to post-process,
but you can upload your raw file and do some editing as well, which is.
Like I said, don't forget to put those thumbnails.
Don't forget to put like a nice title description.
The other things that you'll really want to do, uh, at the end of the day
is make sure that you actually put in, um, some other additional, um, caption.
As well.
So I upload the captions here.
You can see overlayed there, but definitely take a look down here in my
show notes, or I have links to code.
I have links to join the channel by swag, follow me, but also add chapters.
Those are really, really nice because those are going to enable you to
do these nice little overlays and it gives you everything you need.
Yeah.
And then of course, one other thing that you can do is add
these hashtags down at the bottom.
So here's the chapters here, the hashtags, they show up right above
the videos and you can tap on.net and I'll bring it to more.net videos
and see other related things there.
There's Nick, there's Scott over there.
Um, so a lot of cool things happening in that room.
Anyways there you have it.
It's actually not hopefully too difficult to get up and running and
started creating your own YouTube videos going into visual studio or
wherever editor you use, put out some awesome stuff that you know, that you're
really passionate about and show them.
That's going to do it for this video.
Hope that you enjoyed it.
It's a short, quick one overview I'll link to my other videos like doing screen
capturing and also how I edit the podcast where I show you D script, which is an
application that can actually machine.
Uh, your application or your audio to close captioning.
Uh, if you have any questions, let me know, and I can do a
follow-up video or a lot more.
Um, I'll put that into the show notes.
That's pretty much it I'll put a link to the stream deck, which
I love completely not necessary.
And of course, you know, you can use your webcam.
I'm using a GoPro.
I have a GoPro hero four, um, that actually outputs
to an El Gato, uh, captured.
Uh, as well through HTMI, that's what I'm using.
Nothing fancy.
And I just have some cool stuff on the background.
That's it?
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I'm James.
Thanks for watching.