Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “MKBHD YouTube Tips | #4”.
Hey, what’s up guys, it’s marquez from the mkbhd channel back with another youtube tips, episode so thumbs up for that, and this is actually a video featuring my good friend duncan 33303 austin evans. So, if you’d like to check out his channel bam, it’s right there. You can visit the other half of this video, which will show you some more of these youtube tips that we’re going over to create better videos, so we’re going to start off with is the more off camera things in this article. In the other video we talked about the camera itself. The first thing i’m going to talk about is sound and you might see my microphone right here.
The first thing we talked about in terms of sound is what type of microphone you’re using so we’ll start with a usb microphone. A youtube favorite for usb microphones is the blue snowball very, very popular you’ll, see this all over youtube. People really enjoy the convenience of having it just sit right on your desk, plug it right in and play literally plug and play and just go right there. So it’s a very popular choice and you even get some options on the back for changing the patterns. The second option for a microphone would be something that mounts directly on the top of the the hot shoe of the camera itself. A lot of canon, dslrs and canon camcorders have a microphone jack, so the most popular i think, youtube on camera mic is the rode video mic.
You’Ve probably seen this before just mouse right on top of the camera in the hot shoe and is a very popular option for those of you guys who get a camera with a microphone input and, last but not least, there’s a completely off-camera stuff. That literally sits next to you and you can position wherever you want not connected to a computer and the number one option, for that would be the zoom h1. Now you do have to post products. You literally have to go back and sync the audio in post production.
That’S a step you don’t have to do usually with on camera, microphones or usually with usb microphones. So if you do prefer to have the most control over, where you put your microphone and how much volume you get out of it, the zoom h1 is a great option and very popular for youtube. One of the best parts of having a dslr is the interchangeable lenses. What this means is you can swap out the lens for whatever you want. So, for example, i’m shooting right here, prime lens is going to be nice. If i’m going to be doing a lot of zooming, of course, the super zoom is going to be good if you just want to get by cheaply. The kit lens on your camera is going to be just fine.
However, for video i really like having a prime lens, so for my pick on a canon, it would be the 50 millimeter 1.8. Now this is a absolutely cheap lens. It’S built cheaply.
It’S called the plastic fantastic. However, it is fantastic, so you’re going to get some really nice depth of field, and it’s going to get some pretty sharp images for the price. Likewise, if you like nikon cameras, the nikon, 50mm, 50mm 1.8 is also going to be a good choice. Now both of these lenses are not going to be absolutely superb. You can absolutely get better as you spend more money, but for a relatively reasonable budget. Both of these are going to be really good for filming youtube videos, so lighting’s a pretty popular option, also uh and in terms of youtube videos, you typically the more light.
The better you like to be able to see your subject and three-point lighting is the most popular way to get your videos lit so say, you’re lighting, an object you can take advantage before you buy anything of a lot of free light lights. Free, you know comes from the sun. You can use some windows that you have. You can use a video light, that’s completely out of the range you know you can have a light just from the top of your room, and once you get all those lights on, you just want to make sure you have a pretty accurate, color representation before you Go out and buy more lights if you do choose to buy lights, there are some very inexpensive light kits from things like amazon and some even dedicated retailers for video stuff. But i suggest that before you go out and buy lights, you take advantage of as much free light as possible. That’S going to help you out a lot of course.
At the end of the day, no matter what equipment you have you’re going to need to edit your videos and my recommendation if you’re on windows is to check out coral video studio pro x4, so i’ve been using video studio for the past couple years now, while It’S certainly not going to be as advanced as something like sony vegas. It’S also going to be a lot cheaper and a lot simpler to use. So it does have plenty of power with all kinds of picture and picture support, chroma key everything that you’d really need. Of course, it’s a much cheaper price point.
It should run pretty nicely on most computers on a mac. I recommend imovie now a lot of people kind of dismiss imovie, but i think it’s a little unfair. Well sure. Yes, it is free and it does come with all macs. That’S not to say that’s, not any good, so imovie does, of course, support a lot of the same things that video studio does a lot of the kind of mid-range features that most people would need, but not a lot of the really extreme stuff that stuff.
Like final cut, has that’s going to cost, obviously a lot more than free. So that’s basically it for this youtube tips episode, but keep in mind. This is only part one so, like i said before, you can check out part two.
Whenever you want, is probably done watching this video now so check out part two on austin’s channel duncan 33303, and you can subscribe to him as well. Thanks for watching guys and i’ll talk to you later peace, you .