- I'm gonna show you all of the YouTube equipment you need
to make your videos look like this
instead of this.
And we're starting right now.
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Okay, so, everybody wants their videos
to look and sound as good as possible,
but you might not know how.
So, I'm gonna show you the stuff that I use
to make everything look and sound the way that it does,
and I'm gonna show you a few simple things
that you can do in your editing process
to really make your image come to life.
Number one and arguably the most important is lighting.
In my particular setup with the gear that I use,
which we'll get into that here in a little bit,
the actual lights are can lights.
In a nutshell, these lights make it extremely easy
to control the light in the room.
Instead of using big soft boxes
that are gonna wash light over the whole area
back here in the back,
I can put the light on me up here in the front,
and then that leaves the back area a little bit darker
so that I can do all the accent stuff
with the teller in the background.
On my right side when I'm recording,
I have one light up here on top of the shelf,
it bounces off of the wall,
and that light comes in and it fills the light in
from this side of my face.
The other light that I have is my key light,
and that light comes in and it puts
the majority of the light over here on this side of my face.
So, the job of the light on this side
is to be the primary giver of light,
and the light on the other side is simply
just to fill in the shadows so that I don't have
just a big dark side over here on the side of my face.
Let me show you what I mean.
This shot here is me with just the one key light
over on the one side.
This shot here is just me
with the fill light on the other side.
And this, of course, is me with both lights on
the way that they should be.
Now, if we go back to the back lights again,
you're going to see that I have
the blue lights that are shining onto the background.
A lot of people think that this is
a green screen or something like that,
but this is real light.
I basically set it up so that the blue lights
are gonna be shining onto the curtain.
In addition to the blue lights
shining onto the curtain,
I also have this little light here
that gives me just a little bit of splash
for this area right here,
because this area right here
typically ends up pretty dark.
So basically, that little light
puts a little bit of the blue splash there
and helps keep it from being as dark,
and that's also a compliment when I do my livestreams,
because that also fills in a dark spot in my livestreams
with the blue as well.
When I turn these lights off here in the back,
you'll see that, even though the image quality is the same,
even though I still have the same lights in the front,
it just doesn't pop without the lights in the background
like it does like this.
So much better, am I right?
And the whole idea here is simply
just to separate me from what's going on in the background
and make everything look a little bit more interesting.
For my audio setup, I'm using an Audio Technica
routing through a Zoom H4N audio recorder.
That Zoom is plugged directly into my DSLR
so I don't have to worry about
syncing things up later,
which makes my workflow faster.
Next up is microphone position.
If you look at this shot right here,
you'll see that the microphone
is just about a hand's distance away from my mouth,
and the reason that I keep it that close
is because it helps give my voice a nice full sound because
it's right next to my face.
When you look back here, you'll see the microphone
is nowhere within the shot,
and it's literally right here.
If I just put my finger up here,
I'm touching the tip of the microphone right now.
The reason this is so important is because,
if you put the microphone on top of the camera,
then what's gonna happen is
you're gonna create more space
between your camera and you,
which is also going to pick up a lot of the reflections,
or a lot of the sounds bouncing around the room,
which is really gonna have a big impact
on how your audio sounds.
And it's not a pretty impact.
It makes your voice sound real tinny,
and gives you tons of space around,
and it really takes away from your presence in the video.
Let's head over to the computer
and I'm gonna show you some basic things to keep in mind
to help your image come to life a little bit,
just in case you're not doing these things already.
Let's go.
For this, we're using Vegas 15,
and I'll have a link to this
down in the description below.
But basically, I'm going to show you three things
that can really help bring your image to life.
The first is brightness and contrast.
As you can see as I slide the sliders back and forth
on the brightness and the contrast,
you can see the image gets brighter,
you can see the image gets more contrasty,
and when that happens, that can actually help
kind of pop you out, that can really help
make everything look a lot more rich
and a lot more colorful, just by itself.
The second is sharpening.
Cameras do a fantastic job of giving you
a nice, clean, sharp image,
but if you wanna bring the whole thing to life a little bit,
if you add just a little bit of sharpening to your image
in your editing software,
it can really make a big difference on the end result,
as far as how crisp and clean everything looks.
Third is saturation.
When you adjust saturation on a video,
basically what you're doing is
you're bringing the colors out.
You're basically taking the color
that was maybe at a base,
and you're popping it up just a little bit
to bring the whole entire image to life.
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