Hey guys whats up this is Seth from the
REtipster Blog and in this video I
want to give you a little
behind-the-scenes look at the camera
setup that I use when I'm making these
videos. This is something I know probably
not everybody is going to care about but
I know there's some people out there who
are curious about this kind of
thing - if they want to make videos for
whatever reason, so I'm just going to
give you a quick look at what I use and
hopefully you'll find it sort of
interesting. I've got to an iPhone here
that I'm going to use as a
backup camera to show you around here.
The camera that I use right here is
called the Canon 70d, you can actually
see me right there. If you're familiar
with the vlogger Casey Neistat
(I learned about him about a year ago), for a while
this is the exact setup he was
using. He's the one that I got a
lot of these ideas from but it's really
nice camera, it's got really good auto focus
so as you'll notice, I can like move up
really close and I can move way back and
I can move over here and it just sort of
you know the camera can't follows your
face and automatically focuses in and a
lot of the cheaper Canon cameras and
really other brands out there don't do
that, so it's kind of a nice thing.
So it's the canon 70D and the lens that
I'm using is the 10-18mm lens
and it's really nice
because it's a wide angle and you can
just sort of see a lot when you
zoom in you just kind of get
really good view - it's sort of a unique
perspective I always kind of thought it was cool the
microphone I'm using here this is the
Rode VideoMic Pro and it's a really good
mic just for getting high quality
audio a lot of the built-in microphones
to these Canon cameras are really not good.
This is a great way to get much
better audio quality. Rode also makes
another version called the Rode VideoMic Go,
which is less than half the price of
this one and it's actually a little bit
more user-friendly in some ways that's
another good option - I think the quality
of that is not quite as good, but it's
really close so if you're looking for a cheaper
option check that one out.
This interesting little tripod I have here is
called the Joby GorillaPod Focus and the
Ball Head X - these are actually two different things,
this is the ball head and then this is
the Joby GorillaPod. Again I got this idea
from Casey Neistat too, it's an awesome
awesome tripod because it's flexible you
can like bend it however you want and it
will just kind of stay in place. You can
wrap it around a telephone pole or you
can set it on any kind of uneven surface
or even a desktop like I'm doing here
and it just doesn't really good job.
Something else you might have noticed is
I have these big white box lights and
got one right there another one right
there, and the reason I have those - I do have this
window right here that kind of lights up
my face but not that well, because this
is a basement office and that's an
egress windows so I don't get a ton of
sunlight through it - so I just have these
lights here so I can just control
lighting a lot better and it just helps
to light in my face you can see me
you're not squinting trying to see who I am.
So yeah, those white box lights, I
survived for a long without them, so I
don't think they're necessarily a "must"
if you have an office with good daylight
that comes in, that could be more
than enough, but if you're sort of a
darker place like where I'm at here, they
can be really helpful. In terms of
webcams, sometimes you might see videos
with like this kind of perspective of me
in i'm just using the webcam that's
built into my Mac, so it's not
like the highest video quality but it's
good enough it's really all I need
it for. Prior to this computer I was
actually using just a normal PC, which I
still have right there, and the reason I
have that is because I need it sometimes
when I'm sorting through lists or doing
things in Excel. Sometimes the Microsoft
Office software on a Mac just isn't
quite the same, it doesn't have the same
feel, sometimes I get a little
malfunctions that don't happen on the PC
version, so every once in a blue moon
I'll need the PC for that kind of thing
so that's why I still have it and when I
when I was using this primarily, I had
a different webcam called the Logitech
HD Pro Webcam C920 (kind of mouth full)
it's a great webcam, it has really high
quality. It's not quite the same as
one of these cameras but it's still
really good if you're just looking for a
user-friendly, cheaper option that
does a lot of things pretty well, it's
a really good choice to work with. One other
thing I'll mention is this mic right
here, this is the Rode NTG3.
It's a pretty expensive mic
and it's really good if you want to get
professional level audio quality.
It has a very dynamic range, it sounds awesome.
I will say, I don't think it's really
necessary to get something that's this
expensive. You can
get really good results with much much
cheaper options. This is what I use
whenever I'm recording screenshot
recordings where you don't really see my face,
you just see the computer screen, this is
mic I'm using. Prior to this I had a
different mic that was called the
Audio-Technica ATR 2100, which honestly, I
think is a great mic and it's not even
that much worse than this one
it's not quite as good but it's still up
there and the cost is like less than a
hundred bucks, so if you want a much more
budget-conscious mic that still sounds
great, I think that's a great option to
work with and it's really easy because
you don't even need a mixer or anything
you can just plug it right into the USB
slot of your computer and that's
all you gotta do, so it's a really really nice one
to work with. In terms of the screenshot
tutorials that I make where I'm like
taking you through how to use a website
or document or anything like that,
the software that I'm using for that is
called Camtasia from a company called
TechSmith. It's just awesome awesome software
it works really really well it's easy to
use you can get it both for PC and for
Mac. It has a lot of nice features built
into it, I can't say enough good things
about it. I can tell you there are other
options if you have a Mac another
software is called ScreenFlow that I
think is even a little bit cheaper and
and it's it's really popular, a lot of
people like it. I've used it a little bit
but I'm just more famili ar with Camtasia
so that's kind of what I've stuck
with but ScreenFlow could be a great
option if you're a Mac user. If you're on
a PC, I'm sure there are other options
but honestly
I just haven't investigated those very
well so Camtasia is the only one I've
ever really used and I'm familiar with
on the PC end... but anyway, Camtasia really
good option, I've used it to make
dozens of videos. As long as you have a
good mic and you can
talk along with what you're saying that's
really all you need is just your
computer screen, the mic and then the
Camtasia software. I will also mention
that when I'm editing videos, the
video editing software that I use is
called Final Cut Pro X and that's only
available on a Mac. If you're using a PC, there's
also Adobe Premiere, which I've used a
little bit, I found it to be a little
bit less user-friendly but it can
definitely work. So that's pretty much it,
that's all the basic equipment I use and
it's just a one-man show, I don't have any
other people editing stuff. Hopefully you
found that somewhat interesting and
informative and if you're a video maker, I
wish you all the best and I hope you're
able to make some awesome videos with
either this equipment or something similar
so that's it, thanks for watching. See you next time!