screen recording overhead videos pov or point of view videos are
three ways that you can make youtube videos without even showing your face
so let's dissect how to create pro looking videos without using your face and we'll
talk about voiceovers and audio too hey there it's meredith marsh here and this channel is dedicated
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and we'll dive right into screen recording screen recording is one of my favorite type
of videos to create it doesn't involve my face i create a lot of tutorials and how-to videos
and i love it because as you can see here i'm talking to the camera my hair is done my face is
done i'm wearing something you know other than an old hoodie and when i'm just recording my screen
i don't have to worry about any of that stuff now yes i do an intro in an outro with my hair and
makeup and you know actual clothes on and then all i have to record with my face and hair done
is my intro and my outro so here are my favorite options for recording your screen
number one screenflow has been my number one screen recording secret weapon for a long
time now what's great about it is you can record your screen but you can also record your camera
multiple devices plus a microphone and then you can use the powerful built-in video editor to edit
your screen recording video into the final version that you can upload to youtube now screenflow is
only available for mac and i've done a ton of videos on how to get started and how to edit your
videos with screenflow i'll link to those down in the description below so you can get a deeper look
number two camtasia is also a great screen recording option it's a little bit like screenflow
you can record your screen record your microphone and then edit those with the built-in editor plus
it's available for mac and windows users so i'll link to camtasia in the description down below
now the company that owns camtasia techsmith has another screen recording app called snagit
where you can record your screen it doesn't have a robust built-in editor but you can trim the
beginning and the end of your screen recording lastly loom.com has a free browser extension
where you can record up to 25 screen recording videos they all have to be
less than five minutes long you can record just your screen or your screen and your face and your
microphone so if you're looking for a free option on a quick project check out loom.com
now overhead videos are often associated with cooking and recipe videos and craft videos and
for this you'll need a camera and a special tripod or your phone with a special mount overhead videos
are especially tricky because you need like a nice wide surface you need a place to stabilize
your camera or your phone plus space to actually work on the thing that's going to be in the video
without the camera or the phone getting in the way of making the video i've done this before with
a boom arm that connects to my tripod where the camera goes on the end of the boom arm and then
you have to counterweight the other end of the arm so that the whole thing doesn't topple over
it's still a little bit wobbly i know that lots of people recommend something called a c stand
which is quite a bit more stable and then for the iphone i love this iphone gooseneck holder it just
kind of clips on to anything it's pretty secure and as long as you can clip it overhead of your
project area that you're filming then you can kind of position it however you want to
now if you want to be active in your videos if you're moving around if you're doing something
you might want to try a point of view video a pov where the camera is not facing you it's facing
what you are seeing so this could be accomplished with something like a gopro camera which is you
know waterproof action camera works great for this you can mount it using a chest mount you
could mount it to your head or a hat and this guy tom from the channel tedward has
a whole video explaining how he uses a gopro to create really great pov driving videos you know
in my next life i might have a car review channel i think that would be so much fun now depending
on what you are filming you might just be able to use a handheld camera or your phone
and just use it facing out it doesn't necessarily have to be mounted to your body
now let's talk about audio are you going to be recording your voice while you're recording this
faceless youtube video are you going to record a voiceover and then edit it over top of the video
those are kind of the two things you're going to have to decide before you create your faceless
youtube video now for screencast videos you could grab something like the audio technica atr
2100 this is like a podcasting mic it's super affordable it's around 100 bucks this is what i
use now if you're using a camera or even a phone you could use a wireless lav mic that's what i
have here it's connected wirelessly to the camera and the camera is recording the audio all in one
you could also record audio to a separate external recording device with a podcasting mic or
a lapel mic then later you'll have to sync up the video that you're recording with the audio so you
could record your audio while you're recording the actual uh faceless youtube video or you
could record a separate voiceover where you're walking through or talking through everything
that the viewer needs to know as they're watching the video so for overhead videos you
could still use a podcasting mic as you're recording that overhead video you could
record directly into your computer or to an external recording device or you could just record
a voiceover separately and just edit those in later now for a pov point of view video
anything active you're really going to want to think about the audio especially because you may
have things like road noise background noise wind and weather so if you're using a gopro camera yes
it's going to pick up your voice if you're talking to the camera but it's also going to pick up
everything else going on around you it might not be that great of quality but you could use a good
wireless lapel mic you could record it right into your phone i'm using the rode wireless go it's
plugged directly into my camera so it's recording my video and my audio together so if you're not
using a gopro if you're using a regular camera you might be able to just plug in a wireless lapel mic
and go that route that'll probably be the easiest or like with the others you can always record a
voiceover later or not have any voice in the video at all if you're brand new to editing
youtube videos though grab my edit like a pro cheat sheet so that you can get my best tips and
tricks for creating pro looking videos even if you're totally new to the whole video creation
thing plus i have a great playlist on video editing for beginners you can check out over here