-Hey guys.
My name is Tim Schmoyer, and today
we actually have a member of the video creators community
here with to share with you their YouTube tips
and ideas, suggestions, and advice.
-Hello fellow video creators, my name is Andy,
and I run a couple channels here on YouTube.
My most notable channel probably being my tech channel,
called MyTechMethods.
But you will probably be more interested in my new project
called Channel Empire, as it's all about how
to create a successful YouTube channel.
And you can subscribe to that channel at YouTube.com/
thechannelempire, or go to channel empire.com.
In today's video I want to share with you
some tools that I use to help me in my video creation process.
Basically there are 5 free software tools and apps
that I use every single time I create a YouTube video.
So here they are and how I use them.
The first tool is the Google Keyword Planner,
and this is free for any Google user.
You can find it by signing into your Google AdWords
account at AdWords.Google.com.
Then go up to the top and click Tools and then Keyword Planner.
The Keyword Planner will show you all the Google search
statistics for certain keywords or keyword phrases,
so it's a great tool to use when you're planning and researching
a video idea.
So let's say I want to do a video about the best iPhone
apps.
I can get the search volume stats
by entering my video's keyword phrases
and clicking Get Search Volume.
This will give me any additional keyword ideas
and show me the monthly search volume
on Google for my video's keywords.
So once you find your perfect keyword phrase,
that exact phrase will be the title and main point
of your videos.
Now once I know what my video will be titled,
I use a free tool called Evernote
to plan my video outline and sync it across all my devices.
First, I create a note and title it
with the keyword phrase from the earlier,
so I know exactly what I'm going to name my video when
it's uploaded to YouTube.
And in the note area I outline my video
by creating different segments and covering
all the main points that I want to talk about
in my video, along with any details that I want to hit on.
Once my outline is complete, it automatically
syncs to the cloud, and now I can access it
from anywhere using my iPhone or iPad.
This comes in handy when I'm actually recording the video,
because I can look down at my phone or tablet
and make sure I'm hitting all the main points in my outline,
like I'm doing right now.
Now after I record and edit my video
and it's ready for YouTube, I always
create transcripts to increase my ability
to rank on Google and YouTube, and instead
of having to manually do the transcripts myself
I use a free app called Dragon Dictation for the iPhone
that helps me do the majority of the work for me
by converting voice to text.
The Dragon Dictation app will record audio
in one-minute segments, so all I do
is hold up my iPhone's microphone to my computer
speakers and play back my video one minute at a time
until it has transcribed my entire video.
So we won't be 100% correct, but it will get about 80% of it
right.
I then email myself the transcript directly
from the dictation app, and then I
head to my computer to fix the parts of the transcript
that the app did not get right, and once I have
the transcript perfect I can upload it to YouTube
and move on to the next app.
For most of my videos I use a free web
app called PicMonkey.com to create my custom thumbnails.
It's an easy-to-use image editor online,
and it has a pretty cool features
that allow you to create an image that's
pretty eye catching.
Usually, I'll take a screen shot of a specific frame
of my video, then upload it to PicMonkey for editing
or I'll design a new image that is 1280 x 720 pixels.
With PicMonkey, you can add cool effects, borders,
text--nearly anything that you need to edit your image exactly
how you want it.
Once you have the perfect image, you
can save it to your computer, then go
into your video settings on YouTube
and upload it as the custom thumbnail.
Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
We're down to the final tool, and this fifth and final tool
is called Buffer.
This is a free web browser extension
for Chrome and Firefox that you can
use to share your YouTube video across all your social networks
at once.
So once your video is uploaded to YouTube,
when you're on the YouTube video page
you can click the little Buffer icon in your web browser
and it will pop up a window where
you can type in your post and any custom links or hash tags
and then share it across multiple social networks,
mainly Twitter, Facebook, and GooglePlus.
And the cool thing about Buffer is
you can have custom short links in there
to track the clicks on the link, and you can also
share it at a specific time in the future.
So those are my 5 free tools that I always
use when creating a new YouTube video for any of my channels.
So my question to you is what are some other software tools
or apps that you use that benefit to you as a YouTuber.
Just leave a common down below.
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Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you guys around.