thank you guys welcome back to the nomadic fanatic show this video is kind
of a filler video so I can relax a little bit and catch back up but also a
very highly requested video from my viewers with some really helpful tips so
if you're looking to improve the quality of your YouTube videos without going to
college or school or getting any kind of paid education watch this video I'm
gonna try to keep it short and simple and you guys can use all of these tools
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anyway the purpose of this video is to help some of you out there who have
asked me how do you create better YouTube videos for YouTube and so I have
5 easy steps that you guys can take with you write these down practice them and I
promise you your videos for YouTube will change drastically in quality for the
purposes of this demonstration I am going to assume that you are using some
kind of a small camera or action camera like an sj4000 or a GoPro or you're
using your cell phone simply this is just for beginners I'm gonna dumb this
down as much as possible just so we can see how quickly you can
improve those videos so for this recording I am using my GoPro Hero 6
first one is this shot right here it's a very common YouTube shot you see this
all the time from channels I call it the nose shot where you look up and look at
the boogers in the nose hairs why do we see this all
the time people walking down the street and we're just looking at the sky right
I have a theory my theory is that people are a little uncomfortable letting the
world know they're filming so they keep it way down here away from everything
you don't just kind of keep it secret like that nobody likes the shot guys we
don't see any nature always see is nose hairs boogers in the sky bring that
camera up and concentrate on keeping that camera at your eye level all the
time everything you film I don't care how
stupid you think you feel with your arm up out like this keep that camera at eye
level all the time you get to see more the view behind you it's a more pleasant
appearance you feel like you're connected to the person that you're
watching on YouTube and it just helps the video get a lot more character it
keeps it level with the horizon in the background and it's a much more pleasant
view so the number one thing I can teach you is keep the camera lens at eye level
all the time while you're shooting all right we got to talk about this one the
camera shake camera shake in a youtube video can make it so that people don't
even want to watch the video anymore they will turn it off as soon as they
start getting seasick because there's too much camera shake why does this
happen and how can we fix this there are four different ways to fix shaky video
for different things you can do try one of these first of all get a camera with
some image stabilization like the GoPro Hero 6 it has fantastic 5 axis image
stabilization built into the camera if that's not enough you can also digitally
stabilize that video in post-production when you get there I do that on Adobe
Premiere a few times do some warp stabilization in post-production but
yeah there are lots of cameras out being made today that have some fantastic
built-in image stabilization another easy thing you can do to fix it is a lot
of people keep their arm perfectly straight when they film which creates a
lot more shake with the camera the reason for this is anytime you have a
longer extended pole over here it's not shaking that much over over by my
shoulder it's not doing a whole lot but at the very end of that pole and you
have a lot more shake out here so one of the easiest things you can do is bend
that arm use it as a sort of shock absorber for
the camera that way you can constantly keep as you're walking with that bend
you're going to keep the end a little more stable as you walk always keep that
bent plus it makes it so that your arm isn't always going to be in the shot as
much so keep it bent but don't keep it stiff keep it very flexible there in the
bend as you're walking around that really easy thing you can do is don't
handheld film don't just hold the camera in your hand and do this kind of stuff
put your camera on a tripod put your camera in some kind of a hand grip case
and I'll show you what I've got here this is my go-to setup for discreet
filming when I don't want to use my big Canon camera with the big fluffy
microphone is my GoPro setup here which is on a tripod up here so that I can set
that down on the ground somewhere this aluminum case was like 15 bucks
it says hero 5 on it but it's a 6 15 bucks on eBay and it gives me a lot more
control you won't see the tip of my hand in the shot holding the camera all the
time and it keeps my arm a little lower than the camera like that
also it's great for if you want to set it on the table and shoot something so
that the camera is not just sitting on the table but getting some type of
tripod or a hand grip is another easy way to stabilize the video and the
fourth thing you can do is also again really easy a lot of vloggers that
travel we like to talk and walk that's just what we do but as you can see it
can get very unstable so how about you just stop when you want to talk how
about that walk to where you're gonna get to go
and once you get there plant your feet and film easy enough right why do we
always have to move and film at the same time we don't I can still share this
with you works just fine there you go four easy ways to help stabilize your
video number three on my list of how to make better youtube videos is where is
the Sun or the indoor light source it's kind of a common shot we see on YouTube
all the time right it's not very pleasant to watch because
you're just staring at the Sun and I'm much darker and it's harder to see a lot
of detail but the reason why this shot is so common for youtubers is because
it's very comfortable for me to shoot like this the Sun is behind me it lights
up everything I'm not squinting at all it doesn't bother me to film this way
that this is the most comfortable way to film unfortunately it's the worst
viewing angle for someone to watch as opposed to if I rotate around and get
the sunshine on me and most importantly the sunshine behind the camera lens
that's right this is the most dynamic shot this is the clearest shot you can
get and this is where you get the most vibrant colors is when the Sun is behind
the camera so tip number three is know where your light source is all the time
it's a couple ways you can remember this first of all if you're not blinded by
some type of indoor light or the Sun then you're not gonna have a great shot
okay so if I'm walking around and all of a sudden I think wait a minute
there's no Sun in my eyes that means the Sun is on the lens okay as a vlogger I
know it sounds counterproductive but you want to be blinded all the time you
always want that Sun on the subject that you're capturing so the Sun needs to
always be behind the camera and in your eyes it can kind of be in the middle on
one of the sides that's okay but you never want it to be more on the lens
than on your face so and this works for interior lights too we'll go inside
again same thing if we around this way the lights are all
behind me facing the camera that is bad turn around have all of those lights on
me and behind the camera cool so start thinking about that in your videography
start making sure that that Sun is both in your eyes and behind the camera lens
on the opposite side of the camera lens go number four is the we'll call it the
the bad panning or the oh look at this rock problem with filming YouTube videos
it is a very overlooked issue that a lot of people have with filming YouTube
videos there's something in our mind where we think the world sees it only
through our eyes and the camera doesn't matter
let me just reproduce this real quick well I'm just walking through here in
the - oh my gosh look at this I see this weird bush was that weird or what I
really like this bush in fact this bush this might even be the same book sorry
about trying to make you guys sick there but what we see that all the time you
know we get really excited as a video creator and we don't think about what
it's like for somebody on the other side just like if you're a passenger in a
vehicle the driver is in control the steering and the brakes and he's not
thinking it that the passenger might get carsick from doing all these maneuvers
he doesn't know what you're about to do or what you're about to show you know so
I can't just be talking and be like oh my gosh squirrel look it's it's really
really unpleasant so along with this we also have the panning thing that happens
and that's when people are showing something and they pan too fast because
they get so excited they just want to show you all this stuff I mean look at
the RV look at these mountains over here I mean look again look at my RV and look
at these mountains over here I'm exaggerating a little bit but we don't
we don't think about the viewer oftentimes when it comes to panning just
slow down take your time with those pans what I often do is if I see something
like if I want to talk about that tree right there I'm gonna stop take my time
turn the camera around and I'm going to edit out that part where I turned but if
you don't have time to do that there's a very easy way to do it just swirl
down and use a second hand for instance this is a beautiful spot whoa look at
this tree I'm gonna grab the camera with my other hand to help stabilize it while
I turn it and I'm gonna keep talking while I slowly turn the camera there's
no need to do this quickly this shrub I don't know how long this shrub has been
here but it's just beautiful isn't it actually it's really not it's kind of an
ugly shrub and again slowly back to myself
put this fat pan back on and take this one away see how much easier that was to
see to visually enjoy on YouTube it's a small thing and it's really really tough
to learn this one down it really is we always I even still pan too quickly and
turn the camera around too fast and to show you one more time oh look at this
cool fence over here you guys I don't know how long this fence has really been
here but it is definitely keeping cows off the road isn't it and there's also a
cattle guard over there but it's really nice as opposed to oh they put in the
big fence over here for the cows to keep the cows off the road yeah I'm sure that
probably works I don't know how about that again
exaggerating a little bit here but practice slow pants okay in fact even
while you're talking if you want to move around and show stuff plant your feet
twist at your waist and do it slow we're in the Sun there another technique I'll
use is just to twist my wrist while I'm going to show you that fence and it
looks something like this again I'm just doing it really slow but I want you to
see that fence and then I'm gonna bring you guys right back slowly that was
probably too fast actually we are all guilty of this but step 4 practice slow
pans and be very very careful when you're pointing out stuff guys just be
nice if somebody starts to get seasick watching your video it doesn't matter if
it's a fantastic ten-minute beautiful video the second you start jerking that
camera around or doing your pans too fast people click away because it's
unpleasant to watch it doesn't matter how good the rest of your video is and
lastly let's talk about the most neglected part of video audio
technically is the exact opposite of video but guess what the best video in
the world can be absolutely garbage with bad audio and by bad audio I mean audio
that is not captured well audio that has too many ambient sounds going on or the
infamous audio ruined by wind you guys have seen this guy on here on me for a
while now this is a dead cat muff on a lapel microphone this is a Purple Panda
wired lapel microphone I put this into the adapter for the GoPro six and then
plug it in and this way I do not have to sync audio separately from my sony sony
recorder device if it's possible guys get a microphone get it close to the
source your mouth and put a dead cat windproof muff on it so that it doesn't
ruin your audio there's nothing worse than spending a whole day out in
wilderness thinking you captured the most amazing stuff and then you get back
and it's just ruined it's just ruined by wind it's literally ruined but I didn't
want to upload this to YouTube it's so bad and we don't want to watch it either
we don't want to watch your video that has horrible sound so if you don't want
to do the little Pelle microphone there are some other options again we're
strictly talking about action cameras and phones so if you have a big DSLR you
can actually put a big shotgun microphone up there which would work too
but you can go on eBay you can buy what's called a right coat mic over mic
over over I think mic over anyway it's a piece of
adhesive that you put on the microphone of your source whether that's your
action camera or your smartphone after the adhesive is on then you put a wind
muff like this right on the camera that way when the wind hits the camera it's
going to protect your sound it can work I have seen where it doesn't work as
well on smart phones but the best alternative you can have is to plug in a
wired lavalier microphone with a dead cat windscreen right here for your
videos again I hope this video was helpful for you guys I hope you can take
some of these tips and incorporate them into your very
next video I'm really excited to hear about how this helped you guys so let me
know in the comments below if you've had some success with any of my five quick
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