How I make my Tableau video tutorials

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0:11One, two, one, two, test, test. Okay, that

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0:16all I can do. That's just that, so the shot

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0:42That's a crying baby. I've got a recorder

0:45around that stuff. Anyway, let's get stuck

0:49in.

0:49Hey, it's Tim here. In today's video, I'm

0:52going to be finally covering a topic and a

0:54question that

0:54I'm commonly asked, which is how do I make

0:56videos on this channel? Now, this is

0:58actually a really

0:59hard video to do because the way I've made

1:01videos has essentially been a process over

1:03the years,

1:04and it's very hard for me to show you what

1:06that's been like because it's changed over

1:08time. So what

1:08I'm going to try and do today is try and do

1:10two things. The first thing is show you how

1:13anyone can

1:13record videos and put them out on YouTube

1:16and just get started, even with no gear,

1:18just a laptop and

1:19a phone. And then the next thing I'm going

1:21to do is show you my own process and

1:22basically all the

1:23detail that goes into how I make videos.

1:26That is going to be far more technical and

1:27it's basically

1:28going to be a little bit longer. So if you

1:30want to skip around, look at the timestamps

1:32, that's what

1:33they're there for. But otherwise, if you

1:35want to watch every single nitty gritty,

1:36this is going to

1:37be a long video. I'm not going to apologize

1:39for that. The other thing I want to also do

1:41is I also

1:42want to sort of set some context because if

1:44you watch this video and you walk away from

1:46it, and

1:46the only thing you see is the fact that the

1:49production level is high, for example, or

1:51that I

1:51have a lot of equipment that is maybe unatt

1:53ainable to you, then again, I'm hopefully

1:55going to prove

1:56to you that that's actually not necessary.

1:58Most of the work that goes into this is

2:00actually in the

2:01planning and the thought that goes into the

2:03video rather than the equipment itself. The

2:06last thing

2:06I'm going to say is that when people ask me

2:09how I make videos, I always in my mind have

2:12this sort of

2:13thing in the back of my head which is sort

2:15of shouting at me, that's the wrong

2:17question,

2:17because the more important question is why

2:20I make videos. Because if you understand

2:22why I make

2:22videos, you would never ask how because

2:24long story short, I'll do whatever it takes

2:27to get the video

2:28out there. How is just a matter of figuring

2:30things out, it's just a puzzle in many ways

2:32.

2:32So the why is the most important question,

2:34but again that's very much another video

2:36which I'll

2:37release tomorrow after this has been

2:39released. Okay I've said enough, it's time

2:42to get stuck in.

2:43Okay so the first step when doing any video

2:46is just planning it through. It doesn't

2:49matter if

2:49you know the subject really really well or

2:51if you think you've done the video before

2:53or maybe you've

2:54trained something and your idea is to just

2:56go to the keyboard and hit record and re-

2:59record whatever

3:00you did in training, it doesn't work. The

3:02reason is video is a very different format

3:05especially

3:05depending on where you share it. Let's say

3:07I wanted to make a video for Instagram, I'd

3:09have

3:09to make it in a completely different way to

3:11if I made it for YouTube and I'd have to

3:13make those two

3:14videos in a completely different way for if

3:16I made it for TikTok. They have very

3:18different styles and

3:19people are expecting different things. So

3:22the number one rule is know your audience

3:24on the

3:24platform you're recording for. In my case

3:26that's exclusively YouTube. Why YouTube?

3:28YouTube is the

3:29only platform that pushes 4k 60 fps video

3:32to absolutely everyone in the world for

3:35free. The

3:35second thing is it's also got the biggest

3:37audience so if I want to get my videos in

3:40front of people

3:40YouTube is just frankly the simplest and

3:43best way to do that and the best thing is

3:45it doesn't cost

3:45me a single cent. Imagine hosting a 4k 60

3:49frames per second video multiple times to

3:52hundreds of

3:53thousands of people. That's essentially

3:56what YouTube does at no cost whatsoever to

3:58you. Now

3:59obviously they do have a monetization

4:01mechanism, they put ads on videos and that

4:03helps pay for that

4:04hosting but fundamentally as a creator I

4:06don't have to fill up that cost up front.

4:09So this makes

4:09it a very low barrier for getting content

4:12out to people unlike other platforms like V

4:14imeo which will

4:15charge you as soon as you hit certain

4:16storage limits. The other thing to be aware

4:18of is your

4:19audience is normally looking for something

4:21okay they're normally looking for a

4:22question so when I

4:23make a video I have to ask the question

4:25which is is this video actually useful to

4:28anyone and so the

4:29best way to answer that is to actually go

4:31to Google and ask. So one of the things I

4:34always do is I'll

4:35go to Google I'll just go to google.com and

4:38if I'm about to make a video for example on

4:40level

4:40detail calculations I'll type the question

4:42that I think someone might start with so

4:44what is an

4:46LOD and I'll hit enter okay and you'll see

4:48that I didn't give it any sort of context

4:51so of course

4:51I need to give it a context of Tableau I

4:54hit enter again and this is where Google

4:57becomes really

4:58powerful because I'm not interested in the

5:00first hit not interested in the second hit

5:02but I'm

5:03interested in what people also ask. So the

5:06first one is what is an LOD in Tableau?

5:08Great what is

5:09an LOD in Tableau with an example?

5:11Interesting so that's the second most asked

5:14thing people want

5:15examples so that's another piece of

5:17information. What is a fixed LOD in Tableau

5:20? Now I know what

5:21fixed LODs are but it's interesting that

5:23people are searching for specific things so

5:26those first

5:27three results tell me that people want to

5:29know about LODs it's a typically searchable

5:31thing

5:32they want to have examples and they want to

5:34explicitly know about the different kinds

5:36of LODs

5:37they've last for fixed but that's the most

5:39commonly used one so you've got to assume

5:41that if they saw include and excluded also

5:43want to see those. What is the difference

5:46between include

5:47and fixed LOD in Tableau? Surprise surprise

5:49that's the fourth most video. Now there's

5:51another trick

5:52here if I click on this title Google

5:54figures out that I'm interested in this

5:56question so it goes

5:58and repopulates the questions again okay

6:00and it starts giving you unrelated topics

6:03for example

6:04what does ATTR mean in Tableau? What is the

6:07ZN in Tableau? And if I click on those it

6:10keeps going

6:11and it keeps adding more and more context

6:13so if you're stuck for video ideas and you

6:14're sort of

6:15wondering what's going on Google's not just

6:18surfacing these because you know it thinks

6:20they're funny or it thinks you should know

6:22about them it's surfacing them because they

6:24're some of

6:24the most commonly asked questions based on

6:26the things I'm clicking so LODs will come

6:29up attribute

6:30function will come up ZN will come up and

6:32you'll notice that I make videos on these

6:34exact topics

6:35I've actually been focusing on functions

6:37for a reason because that is actually what

6:39people are

6:39asking for a lot of people aren't actually

6:41looking for the full built-out examples

6:43because not many

6:44people go into the detail of actually

6:46explaining explicitly how those functions

6:49work so that's how

6:50I get ideas for videos and that's how I

6:52sense check whether the video is even worth

6:54doing in the first

6:55place I also often get videos about you

6:57know Tableau server people always ask for

7:00those and I

7:01don't prioritize them because simply put

7:04the opportunity cost of setting up a server

7:07infrastructure

7:08setting up good examples that are easy to

7:10follow that people can actually relate to

7:12and then have those videos be watched by

7:14what would eventually be a very small

7:16audience doesn't

7:17quite make sense at the stage that I'm at

7:20at the moment I only have so much time so I

7:22've got to

7:22make the content that helps the most amount

7:24of people and once that's out of the way we

7:26can then

7:27start making more niche content and helping

7:29people who have more niche subjects so this

7:33is how I

7:34start with all topics I start here on

7:35Google and I just go through now once I

7:37have those ideas

7:38that's not enough you need to plan the

7:40video so one of the things I use is a tool

7:42called notion now

7:44this notion tracker here this page here is

7:46essentially a list of all my published

7:48videos

7:48and it's quite an old list I've

7:49deliberately filtered back to you know

7:51where I was in roughly

7:52November and you can see that there's

7:54actually quite a lot of information this is

7:57by no means

7:57an original idea I actually got this from

7:59another youtuber called Thomas Frank let's

8:01just go to his

8:02channel I've got the video up here I'll

8:04link to this video but you'll see that he

8:06actually has

8:06a very similar setup in his notion and I

8:09took this approach from him because

8:11essentially when

8:12I started a youtube channel I thought there

8:13must be other people who have this problem

8:16of needing to release videos every so often

8:18and haven't quite figured out how best to

8:21do it and

8:22then there must be some youtubers who do

8:23this all the time and do know the answer

8:25Thomas Frank is

8:26one of those people who's a productivity

8:28coach he does a lot of content on his

8:29youtube channel about

8:30productivity so I went to his channel and

8:33you can tell that I got some tips because I

8:35don't just use

8:36his notion setup in fact I actually use his

8:38notion template but I also use this really

8:41familiar

8:41circle here on the bottom right hand side

8:43that's not original I saw this on his

8:45channel and I

8:46looked at it and I thought wow he's got

8:48such a great relationship with the viewer

8:50and it does

8:51so many things I didn't think about doing

8:53this until I saw him doing it and then that

8:55's when I

8:56started researching how best to do it okay

8:58so take inspiration from other people who

9:00are already

9:01fixing the problem including my channel

9:02there's lots of other channels doing

9:04exactly the same

9:05thing it's the best way to go now the other

9:07thing I've done is I've also modified it

9:09another youtuber

9:10that I like to follow is another lady

9:12called Sarah Dietschy she does a lot of

9:14creative work

9:15her channel is really really good but you

9:17can see she's also got this really nice

9:19notion setup

9:20again I encourage you to go check out her

9:22video it's really really cool and she's

9:24customized in

9:25fact she's simplified it to just what she

9:27needs but let me show you the power of what

9:29this notion

9:29setup does let's just go back to our notion

9:32you'll see here I have a video and what I'm

9:34going to do

9:34is I'm going to pretend to create a video

9:36here in the publish section so I'm just

9:37going to go ahead

9:38and create a video I'm just going to call

9:41this um what is an LOD a video I'm

9:43recording scene

9:44and we hit enter and when we do that it

9:46just creates a line here and we can put in

9:48a few

9:48bits of information that could be useful to

9:50the user but essentially what we're really

9:52interested

9:53in is what comes after this step when I

9:55click open it gives me a blank slate and it

9:58gives me some

9:59it gives me some characteristics that I can

10:01use and I can essentially fill this out but

10:03this isn't

10:04where the gold dust is the gold dust is in

10:06this template when I click on this template

10:09it will

10:09apply a structure to this video and

10:12essentially it will apply this template to

10:15this page and so

10:16if you just wait for this to load and if we

10:17now look at this you'll see that it's

10:19loaded very

10:19quickly and we can see this list of content

10:22now it's applied this and this is very much

10:24taken from

10:25Thomas Frank's setup so I haven't changed

10:26many of the things because I actually quite

10:28like the

10:29structure I don't use all parts of this but

10:31I actually aspire to use all parts of this

10:33because

10:33there will come a stage where this

10:34structure will actually be very useful it

10:36splits this out into

10:37researcher notes and if I have some

10:39research and notes I can just go and put

10:41the notes there

10:42and it means that whatever I'm doing I'm

10:44always focused on that one thing if it

10:46needs a script

10:47I can come in here and write a script not

10:49all my videos require a script and but

10:51sometimes it does

10:52need a script and so I can actually write

10:54that in here and keep all my notes and

10:55everything in one

10:57place okay now if I just go back one the

10:59great thing about that structure is I can

11:01apply it to

11:02multiple items and in some cases I don't

11:04need that structure because this topic is

11:06either very short

11:07or is very simple so actually I can apply

11:09my standard sort of mental model of how

11:12this video

11:12should be done and I can make it work

11:14really really well let me show you some

11:15videos that I

11:16did do in the past and map layers which was

11:19a new feature recently released if I click

11:21open

11:21you'll see that this page also has its own

11:24template already applied and if I go into

11:26the

11:26research and notes you'll see that I

11:28actually took the notes from the beta

11:30processor this is where I

11:31put those notes just so that I can make

11:33sure that I've got a reference that's not

11:35on the

11:35tableau website and I can go back to this

11:37and add notes and I can do things like

11:39comments

11:40there's not much of that here and sometimes

11:42I might go look at other blogs other videos

11:44other

11:44bits of content that other people have

11:46created and I'll put that in here as a

11:48reference to basically

11:49say look you're going to make this video it

11:51needs to be either better than this other

11:52content or you

11:53need to add some additional value or angle

11:56that doesn't already exist it's just an

11:58important part

11:59for me because someone has done the video

12:01really well or has done the content really

12:03well already

12:03on YouTube what's the point in adding more

12:06noise why not champion that content instead

12:08and make

12:08something else that is missing in the

12:11community okay so that's one little step

12:13let's go back here

12:14and now you can see I have this I've had

12:16this pretty much for all content and I have

12:19this pretty

12:19much going up to today now there are a few

12:21occasions where I won't use this and that's

12:24literally when the idea is literally a five

12:26minute video and I can top and tail it

12:28without really

12:28having to apply any thought but what

12:30eventually happens is at the end of the

12:32month I go on YouTube

12:33and I grab all the titles and I put them

12:35into this table when it's all done so

12:36everything's in one

12:38place so that's how I plan my videos that's

12:40how I think about the videos that's how I

12:42research what's

12:42actually good to record and what doesn't

12:45need recording and then I put them in here

12:47and now

12:47we're off to the races this process

12:49everyone should do it doesn't matter if you

12:52have a production

12:53studio or if you've just got a laptop and a

12:55phone whatever you're trying to do you

12:57should always try

12:58and do the content of the best of your

12:59ability and I don't think you can do that

13:01unless you think

13:02through the video before you hit record and

13:04again this is one of the best ways to do

13:06that so you

13:07don't have to set something as fully fled

13:08ged as this you can keep it simple but

13:10whatever you do

13:11grab a pen and paper and make sure you plan

13:13your video okay we've planned our video now

13:16the next

13:17bit is recording now for this I'm going to

13:19do it in two formats the first one is going

13:21to be the

13:21super simple setup the setup anyone can do

13:23with a laptop and a phone that's it let's

13:26get stuck in

13:27okay so it's time to hit record you've got

13:29the content planned you're wondering what's

13:31next

13:32I'm a mac user so the first thing I'll show

13:34you is how to do that on a mac without any

13:36software you

13:37can always record the screen on a mac then

13:39simply go to quick time let's go to quick

13:41time and when

13:42you do that um it pulls up this thing

13:43called quick time player and actually it

13:45looks sort of daunting

13:47because there's nothing here there's

13:48nothing that says record the screen right

13:50but if you go up here

13:51to file and you select new movie recording

13:54you can actually record the screen from any

13:56device

13:57including your own laptop if you plug your

13:59laptop in if you plug your phone in you can

14:02record the

14:02screen on the phone if you plug a tablet in

14:04you can record the screen in your tablet

14:06and it can

14:07of course record the screen on your mac now

14:09quick time is actually the best screen

14:11recorder on a mac

14:12because it's not using any additional

14:14software it's using the native software

14:17inside of mac os

14:18to record the screen which means you get

14:20the best quality picture out of the mac os

14:22system

14:23so if you're on a mac quick time is hands

14:25down the best way to do this every other

14:27paid option

14:28typically uses quick time to record the

14:30screen anyway so the only things those

14:32things are going

14:32to add it's a little bit of polish and a

14:35little bit of better quality okay so that's

14:37how to do it

14:38on a mac the other way you can do it on

14:40windows if i just go over to my windows

14:42section here you'll

14:43see that you actually have something called

14:45a windows game bar if i just hit command g

14:47it

14:48actually opens up this sort of gaming

14:49window and actually one of the features on

14:51this is to be able

14:52to record the screen now i can't do this

14:54because i'm running a virtualized version

14:56of windows

14:57but that's absolutely one way you can

14:58record the screen it's very easy you don't

15:00need to install

15:01any software and you're ready to go what if

15:03you want to use some software well let's go

15:06back to

15:06mac and i'll show you the tools i use i use

15:08a tool called uh clean shot now when i

15:11click on the

15:11screen you'll see that this red dot eman

15:14ates from this cursor and also when i hit a

15:16keyboard

15:17shortcut on the screen you can see exactly

15:19what's going on that's actually done by a

15:21tool called

15:22clean shot let me just bring that up on the

15:24screen if i just go to a new window and i

15:27just go to

15:27clean shot x and i search that you'll see

15:30that this uh tool is actually really really

15:33good and

15:33actually considering what it can do i think

15:35this is actually very reasonably priced

15:38okay if you

15:38hit buy now how much is it it's 29 on one

15:41mac and you can obviously buy more copies

15:44but this tool is

15:45hands down one of the best tools i've ever

15:47found on a mac for recording the screen not

15:49only does

15:49it do this capability where it tells you

15:52what shortcuts are being typed but it also

15:55does things

15:55like it will highlight the cursor it's

15:57actually what i use to create the circle on

15:59the bottom

15:59right hand corner at the moment if you're

16:01seeing that on screen it's because i've

16:02actually done

16:03that effect in post but actually when i'm

16:05typically recording videos that effect is

16:08actually done by this software

16:09automatically it's also cringe screenshot

16:11tool so it's really really

16:12good at creating screenshots it's nice and

16:14easy it's a great tool to use it's one of

16:16the best

16:17tools i've used on the mac you know when

16:18you find these pieces of software that just

16:20become

16:20invaluable and they save you a whole ton of

16:22time this is one of those tools so i highly

16:25encourage

16:25it i highly recommend people actually use

16:28this tool if they're on a mac if you're on

16:30a windows

16:31machine the best tool to use is something

16:33called obs um studio let me just go to the

16:36website here

16:37and obs studio is a free piece of software

16:39it's essentially for streaming content

16:42gamers use it

16:43to stream their streams out to youtube and

16:45so on and so forth and twitch but you can

16:48actually use

16:48it to record content on your screen if i

16:51just open it up um i don't actually have it

16:53installed on my

16:54mac but essentially it has a very good

16:56interface for recording the screen i'm on

16:58windows it's

16:59actually much much more stable than it is

17:01on a mac which is why i didn't recommend it

17:04for mac os

17:04systems use obs to record content on the

17:07screen on windows it gives you all the

17:09settings you need

17:10and it's really really powerful and it

17:12doesn't quite have the same sort of finish

17:14as clean shop

17:15but the one upside is it's free and you can

17:18create all those effects like the circle

17:20popover

17:21um very easily i'll actually put a link to

17:23the video that i used to create the circle

17:25popover

17:26in obs when i used it so i've shown you how

17:28to record videos on two platforms windows

17:30and mac

17:31and if you're on a linux machine i'm sure

17:33there's software there that works obs also

17:35works on linux

17:36but tableau desktop at least doesn't work

17:38on linux so you wouldn't be using that at

17:40all now

17:41the next question is okay you record the

17:43videos you get all the content out what

17:46settings do you

17:47use to record the video and this is a very

17:49passionate topic of mine i record videos in

17:514k

17:5260 frames per second and you might

17:54initially think that's crazy why why are

17:56you recording 4k

17:5760 frames per second when most laptops don

18:00't even post that resolution well it's

18:03actually a

18:03complicated issue because in fact most

18:06laptops do actually come with very high

18:08resolution screens

18:10but they are scaled down to a lower

18:12resolution by that what i mean is a laptop

18:14for example can

18:15have a 4k resolution but it's scaled down

18:17to 1080p and the reason it's scaled down to

18:201080p

18:21so that the graphics can be even sharper

18:24essentially the same icon will take up

18:25twice as

18:26many pixels which then makes it super super

18:28sharp now the downside of that is if you

18:31record your

18:31content in 1080p and then someone looks at

18:34it on one of those scaled down screen

18:36whilst you think

18:37your screen is 1080p actually the content

18:39ends up looking fuzzy because the pixels on

18:42the other hand

18:42are actually operating at the 4k resolution

18:45so the reason i record in 4k is because

18:48there are people

18:48out there with laptops that are very very

18:50high resolution and essentially i don't

18:52want to have

18:53to try and figure out what the optimum

18:55resolution and detail is for all the

18:57screens in the world

18:58i'd rather push that job to youtube and the

19:00only way you can do that is to give youtube

19:02the highest

19:03quality file that you can produce which is

19:05a 4k 60 frames per second file now the

19:08other thing is

19:09you're probably wondering well why the 60

19:11frames per second 30 frames would be good

19:12enough and

19:13again this is another one of these things

19:15where maybe i'm just panickety but your

19:17eyes can tell

19:18the difference between 30 and 60 frames per

19:21second there's no real way of me showing

19:22you this in this

19:23video because i'd have to somehow change

19:25formats in the middle of a video and

19:27because i'm uploading

19:28it in one format that's not going to be

19:30really easy for me to show you but what i

19:32will say is this

19:33if you go watch another tableau tutorial

19:36and you then go watch one of my videos at

19:391080p 60 frames

19:40per second you will notice that the mouse

19:42movements are a lot smoother when i click

19:44on

19:45things things don't seem to sort of lag as

19:47much and when i go from one place to the

19:49next you don't

19:50see this trail on the cursor essentially

19:52that's called motion blur and again it's

19:55because most of

19:55our laptops most of our computers in fact

19:58most of technology your phone tablets all

20:00operate at

20:01roughly that 60 frames per second zone so

20:03some screens come at 50 hertz but most

20:05screens operate

20:06at the 60 hertz place so again if you're

20:08publishing content to youtube most people

20:10do actually at 30

20:11frames per second that is fine because when

20:14you're doing a video like i am face to

20:16screen you actually

20:17want 30 frames per second otherwise it

20:19starts to look weird but if you're showing

20:21screen content

20:22and that is predominantly going to be

20:24viewed on another screen trust me you want

20:2660 frames per

20:27second so that's what i record 4k 60 frames

20:30per second it's really really simple the

20:32microphone

20:33i use this microphone let me bring it up

20:35onto the screen this is a shore mv7 i think

20:39it's a

20:39shore mv7 let me just check what it is and

20:45sure and it's a very interesting mic

20:50because what it

20:50does is it doesn't pick up noise as loudly

20:53as other microphones so if you've probably

20:56seen one

20:57of these blue yeti mics or these blue snow

20:58balls these are all great but they're based

21:00on a

21:01technology called a condenser mic now what

21:03a condenser mic does is it's very good at

21:05picking

21:05up sounds from all sorts of places for

21:08example if i was to drop a penny outside it

21:10would pick it up

21:11however this mic doesn't do that this

21:13actually is based on a slightly different

21:15technology where it

21:15only picks up noise from around the

21:17microphone let me show you how that works

21:20so right now i'm

21:21talking on top of the microphone this is uh

21:23part of something called how you how you

21:25sort of

21:26position yourself around a microphone if i

21:28move it away you'll sort of notice that my

21:30voice sounds

21:30like it's much further away and if i keep

21:33going back and i keep going back you should

21:35slowly hear

21:36the mic dropping off essentially you should

21:38no point hear anything but i'm actually

21:40talking at

21:41the same volume in fact right now i'm

21:43actually shouting to get the voice across

21:45the screen so

21:46this is what the microphone does naturally

21:48now this is not a cheap microphone and it's

21:50actually

21:51quite an expensive one relatively speaking

21:53but you don't need to have something like

21:55this to record

21:56good quality content let me show you

21:57something that is about 30 pounds and

22:00sounds just as good

22:01this is a lavalier mic or lapel mic as you

22:04might know it and essentially what it does

22:07is it just goes into your computer it just

22:09literally goes into the microphone jack

22:11where

22:11your speakers would go you put this in on

22:13your on your on your clip you sort of clip

22:15it on

22:15onto your face it's kind of struggling to

22:17focus here let me put it closer let me move

22:19back and

22:20put it closer there we go literally you put

22:22it on your chest and you sort of just clip

22:25it onto your

22:25t-shirt like so and what that will do is it

22:27sits next to your body now the reason these

22:29are so good

22:31is because they sit close to your body it's

22:33really hard for sounds outside in the other

22:35room to

22:36basically infiltrate the microphone and

22:38interfere because your body acts as like a

22:40sponge essentially

22:42and it soaks up all of that sound that you

22:44can't hear so this is a really nice cheap

22:46way of getting

22:47into this but again if you've got nothing

22:50you can just use the laptop that you've got

22:52and all you

22:52need to do is make sure you do some very

22:54basic noise cleaning to that once you edit

22:57it so you

22:57can get rid of any noise obviously if you

22:59don't have equipment you need to make sure

23:01that the

23:02environment is as well treated as you

23:04possibly can that doesn't mean you know by

23:06studio foam

23:06that just essentially means record when it

23:09's quiet maybe put up some blankets just to

23:11dampen the

23:11sound a little bit and you can help the ac

23:13oustics a lot more so that's exactly the

23:15recording settings

23:16i use 4k 60 frames per second a decent mono

23:19mic and i try and keep things as simple as

23:22i possibly

23:23can now if you're recording your laptop it

23:24doesn't matter whether you'll have a

23:26production studio or

23:27not this is basically going to be the best

23:29way to do it just record 1080p 30 frames

23:32per second and

23:33get the content out there no one will

23:35honestly notice the difference unless you

23:37're me of course

23:38so as you start to develop your content

23:40just make sure you spend a bit more time

23:42increasing the

23:42quality in small ways whether it's the

23:44audio whether it's a refresh rate or

23:46whether it's the

23:46screen quality all of that is really

23:48important there is one downside to

23:50recording content that

23:52high though because essentially you have to

23:55edit it so if you're doing sort of one take

23:57hero shots

23:58and that's it then you'll find no editing

24:00required upload what you record but in my

24:02case i do a lot

24:03of editing so when you record a 4k 60

24:05frames per second video you need the

24:07computer that can

24:08actually edit that smoothly and efficiently

24:10and then render it smoothly and efficiently

24:12to be able

24:13to get the video out so that's something

24:15else to be aware of okay we've talked about

24:17just hitting

24:18the record button how you can record in a

24:19very basic setup i've also showed you the

24:21tools i use

24:22if you want to go and buy some software

24:24other software you might know of camtasia

24:26studio snagit

24:27these are all great tools i think they cost

24:29too much for what they actually offer all

24:31you need to

24:31do is to be able to record something on

24:33your screen and considering you know camt

24:35asia is

24:36something like 200 whereas clean shot which

24:38i just showed you does exactly the same

24:40thing as 30 and i

24:41think there's a world of difference between

24:43the quality of what they capture although

24:45camtasia

24:46does do some editing i don't think you need

24:47to pay for an editing tool because other

24:49editing tools

24:50exist i'll touch on that in a second but

24:52that's pretty much my viewpoint record with

24:54the cheapest

24:55software you can find including free

24:58software and then if you can record it in

25:00one take post it up

25:01to youtube and be done with it okay so i

25:03just wanted to take some time to show you

25:05some of the

25:06stuff i can't really show you on screen so

25:08the first one is an automation that i use

25:10literally

25:10all the time and it starts off with this

25:12device called a stream deck now a stream

25:14deck is

25:14essentially this small little device with

25:16programmable little screens and each one of

25:18those can be customized to do an action now

25:21one of the actions i have is to actually

25:23get me from

25:24this setup which is essentially my desktop

25:26setup to recording setup with one click

25:28essentially these

25:29three buttons here on the right hand side

25:32are essentially sort of short quick actions

25:35that

25:35allow me to activate a bunch of different

25:37things immediately so check out what

25:38happens to the screen

25:40as i do these things notice that this

25:41screen here has my desktop if i just angle

25:43the camera away

25:44from me a little second here you can see

25:46that this item has my desktop now and when

25:49i hit this button

25:50it activates switches and now this screen

25:53is completely clear and all the icons and

25:56everything

25:57on the desktop has gone over to the left it

25:59leaves me with this command line terminal

26:01here which is

26:01actually what i'm using to change

26:03everything and i now have a screen that's

26:05ready to go has this

26:06one nice thing here but that's just

26:08basically the audio recording you'll also

26:10notice that the

26:11pop-up the dock doesn't turn up here

26:13because it's all the way on the left over

26:16this side so

26:17this is not going to interfere with any of

26:19my tutorials whatsoever so everything is on

26:21here

26:22nice and clean setup when i'm done i hit

26:24this other button here and what that does

26:27is it

26:28switches back to my normal setup which is

26:30actually what i use for editing and it

26:32opens this piece of

26:32software here called permute and that's

26:35again all managed by an application called

26:37keyboard maestro

26:38it's essentially doing a bunch of different

26:40things it's firing command line uh commands

26:42it's also

26:43paying attention to what's going on on

26:45screen and in some cases i've even

26:46programmed it to do very

26:48specific things um in in basically a couple

26:50clicks so you can actually tell it to sort

26:52of do certain

26:53mouse movements and then activate those on

26:55the screen so that automation is one of the

26:58most

26:58important ones and then once i've finished

27:00recording i hit that button then i

27:02immediately

27:02hit the premiere pro button and you can see

27:04it brings up premiere pro on the screen so

27:07now i can

27:07start pretty much editing how i want it

27:09sort of has this bug at the moment where it

27:11opens up in

27:12the top right corner and i can't get it

27:14back on screen but as you can see anything

27:16i need is

27:17instantly available on here if there's some

27:19sort of bug or if there's anything that's

27:21not going

27:22right on my computer i can just hit the

27:23activity monitor and it pops up straight

27:25away and then when

27:26i'm done with all of that and i'm editing i

27:28'm in the flow i can just hit this button

27:30and figma

27:30opens up ready to go and then when i if i

27:33let's say i forget something i need to go

27:35back to sort

27:36of recording mode because everything opens

27:38on this screen everything here goes to that

27:40screen when we

27:41go back to recording mode so if i hit

27:43record you'll see that my screen is clear

27:45again and

27:46everything is now on that window which

27:47makes it very easy to go back and forth a

27:49lot of time

27:50recording is spent just setting up so if

27:52you can automate that on the desktop then

27:53you're going to

27:54make your life a lot lot easier and you're

27:56going to make it fun and easy to record

27:58videos and that's

27:59basically how everything works the last

28:01button i haven't showed you is this red red

28:02button here

28:03at the top right and that is essentially

28:05the button where i hit record and when i do

28:08that it

28:08activates the screen recording setup i

28:10choose a section of the screen i get all

28:12the settings ready

28:13to go and we basically start the recording

28:15and this is how it all works it's all

28:17driven by this

28:18little stream deck and everything's there

28:21that's my gopro going off again

28:22unfortunately based on my

28:24sound and it's going off again which is

28:26really really annoying me so that's pretty

28:29much how the

28:29whole setup works there's not much more to

28:31it i have a bunch of other things

28:32programmed in here

28:33for example if i wanted to go to youtube

28:35studio i just hit this button and it opens

28:37up youtube studio

28:39on my page ready to go and i can actually

28:41start editing so this little stream deck is

28:43actually

28:43completely optimized around video editing

28:46and everything on there is just for video

28:48editing

28:48and it means i don't need to have anything

28:50about video editing on my desktop and i can

28:52open the

28:52tools i need ready to go as and when i use

28:54it now you can actually set this up to do

28:56loads of other

28:57things but i'd like to keep my automation

28:59simple otherwise they become work as well

29:01and so it's

29:02really hard to work with now the next thing

29:04i'm going to show you is a couple of setups

29:06that i

29:06actually use on my desk and some setups you

29:08might think to use even if you've got a

29:10phone i mentioned

29:11earlier that if you had a phone you could

29:13basically recreate the setup that i use to

29:14get everything

29:15going so i'll show you that now with the

29:17first setup essentially just being a laptop

29:19and your

29:20phone camera to create the effect that i

29:21create okay let's put this down let's

29:23switch the cameras

29:24around and let's get back to it okay so i'm

29:26basically sat in front of my laptop i've

29:28got

29:29nothing else plugged in i've got a camera

29:31to the right hand side so you can see

29:33exactly what i'm

29:35doing here and as you can see i've got

29:36nothing plugged in and this is roughly the

29:38quality i can

29:39get i'm just using the webcam from my mac

29:41book pro and that's pretty much it the exact

29:44same setup

29:44that i do my tutorials in if i go in here

29:46and i start opening up superstore sales you

29:49can see

29:49this is the exact same setup so nothing

29:51fancy it's very very simple to use and yeah

29:54as you can see

29:55it's very easy to do and the quality you're

29:57hearing is coming from the microphone of my

30:00macbook pro so i've got nothing plugged in

30:02i'm wearing nothing there's nothing sort of

30:04fancy

30:05nothing wireless and this is just what the

30:07laptop can do and what i'll do is i'll show

30:09you how i can

30:10treat this like this to sound a lot better

30:12and essentially now it should sound a lot

30:14clearer

30:15the noise should be removed and any

30:16background noise should hopefully not be

30:18coming through

30:19so that's basically what you can do with a

30:21very very basic setup with no equipment

30:23essentially

30:23just your laptop the screen and some 20

30:26software and you're pretty much good to go

30:29okay the webcam

30:29could be better quality but honestly at the

30:31size most people will be watching this

30:33content it won't

30:34matter so much now i'm going to show you

30:35what you can do if you plug your phone into

30:37your laptop

30:38and increase the quality of the video that

30:40way okay let's do that now okay so now i'm

30:44back i'm

30:44still recording from the laptop the audio

30:46is just coming out of this the only thing

30:48different is

30:49i've actually plugged in my phone and now

30:51you can see the quality of the video is so

30:53much better

30:54one thing that really helps if you're going

30:56to use a webcam is talking directly to the

30:58camera

30:58especially on an iphone it can be difficult

31:00to know which one is actually the camera

31:01but

31:01essentially if you just talk in that

31:03general direction it just helps carry the

31:04audience

31:05a little bit and they're not looking at the

31:06content on the screen but when you go back

31:08to

31:08your software you can just keep doing

31:10things as you are again very simple i've

31:12just plugged in my

31:13phone via a cable i've not even got my

31:15laptop plugged in but you should ideally

31:17have your laptop

31:17plugged in if you're trying to get

31:19everything going but as you can see this is

31:21just the simplest

31:22of setups and all that happens essentially

31:24when i sort of hook myself into a desk and

31:26a better camera

31:27is i plug in my microphone i plug in my

31:30camera and the quality goes up a very small

31:33amount but

31:34the quality between this and what you

31:36actually see on youtube is tiny okay the

31:38games we're talking

31:39about are very marginal your camera just

31:41allows you to do things a little bit more

31:43flexibly so

31:43you just have to work around the

31:45limitations of what you've got and you can

31:46achieve the same

31:47results so this is a very simple setup on a

31:49laptop it's admittedly a macbook pro but

31:52nevertheless you

31:53can do the same on a windows pc with the

31:55exact same software and some free screen

31:57recording tools

31:58on your laptop okay that's pretty much it

32:00that's all i wanted to do to show you two

32:02simple setups

32:04that means anyone anyone can honestly start

32:06making videos and then you're pretty much

32:08good to go okay

32:09let's head to the next section where we

32:12talk about what happens after you've

32:13recorded the content

32:15and you need to start making it into

32:16something the edit process okay so you've

32:19recorded the content

32:20it's now time to edit the content now

32:22ideally if you haven't got lots of

32:24equipment you haven't got

32:25editing software and you don't want to

32:27spend time editing then this step doesn't

32:29really matter

32:30because what you should do is try and

32:32record your content in one go that creates

32:34some challenges

32:35because essentially you want to try and

32:36keep it as short as possible and succinct

32:38you probably need

32:39to do some practice runs as well and the

32:41longer the video is the harder that's going

32:43to be so

32:43if you're going to be doing one sort of one

32:46take sort of shots and try and do them no

32:48longer than

32:4810 minutes because i guarantee you after 10

32:50minutes you start to make more and more

32:52mistakes

32:52and it starts to become a less fun process

32:54but if you've got access to editing

32:56software and you

32:57don't mind learning how to do basic things

32:59like cutting the video and cutting the

33:01audio then you

33:02can do a lot more things with your video

33:04because you don't have to get it perfect

33:05the first time

33:06now the other thing is when you're editing

33:09content what you want to try and do is

33:11realize that you're

33:11actually adding another level of

33:13communication to the video so whatever

33:16editing tool you use

33:17you need to decide how much editing you're

33:19going to do you're going to do a lot to try

33:21and

33:21make it more creative or you're just going

33:23to basically try and tell a story in my

33:25case i just

33:26try and tell a story i just like to go from

33:28a to b i'm not adding too much filera on

33:30top of it i'm

33:31not letting anything else get in the way of

33:33what i'm showing you because it's a video

33:34tutorial i

33:35don't think you're here for effects i think

33:37you're mostly here to get the information

33:39and get out of

33:39the way and if the effects get in the way

33:41of that then in my view then you know this

33:43should soon be

33:44there so let me show you what i do the

33:46first thing i do once a video is recorded

33:49is i typically open

33:50up a piece of software called adobe

33:51premiere prey hey it's tim here i'm editing

33:54this video and i

33:55realized i forgot to talk about another

33:57video editing tool called da vinci resolve

33:59now if

34:00you're learning video editing for the very

34:01first time and you've never touched a

34:03single tool in

34:04your life um there are lots of great places

34:06to start the first one is imovie imovie is

34:08free on

34:09a mac and so it's very very easy to get

34:11into now on a windows machine i'd actually

34:13recommend you

34:14consider something like da vinci resolve

34:16and da vinci resolve is also available on

34:18the mac now

34:19da vinci resolve is essentially free

34:21editing software that is used by people who

34:24work in

34:24hollywood and essentially tools like adobe

34:27creative cloud are more targeted towards

34:29people

34:29who work in marketing sort of influences

34:32and promo and that sort of market da vinci

34:35resolve is more

34:36targeted at people who make movies for the

34:39cinema so hollywood uses da vinci resolve

34:41and they release

34:42a free version that's essentially free for

34:44everyone and there's another paid version

34:46called

34:46studio now the funny thing is the free

34:48version works for 90 of the things you'd

34:50ever want to do

34:51in an edit and to be all to be honest with

34:53you i personally could have used the free

34:55version all

34:56along for all my videos there's nothing

34:58that i do that requires any paid feature in

35:00da vinci resolve

35:01the reason i don't use it is because i've

35:02only discovered it in the last two years i

35:04've known

35:05about it for a while but i only really

35:06looked at it in the last two years so i

35:08didn't want to break

35:09sort of five years of workflow that i'd

35:11learned through adobe premiere pro so i'm

35:13actually

35:13learning how to use da vinci resolve but it

35:16's not yet worth it for me to change my

35:18workflow to that

35:19purely because i've still got a lot of

35:21hurdles to overcome and the only way to

35:22force myself to learn

35:24it is to use it for some edits so every

35:26three or four videos i basically try and do

35:28the edit in

35:29da vinci resolve to see how far i've come

35:30but there's some sticking points for me and

35:32i just

35:33haven't had time to basically go out and

35:34learn those particular sticking points and

35:36then start

35:37using it more often but if you're thinking

35:39of getting into editing a video you want

35:41some basic

35:42basic tools you don't want to pay anything

35:44and you want good tools da vinci resolve

35:46hands down the

35:47best option unfortunately adobe premiere

35:50pro doesn't have a free version at all so

35:52it's not

35:53a great option at all if you're trying to

35:55get into this at low cost with no effort so

35:57i just wanted to

35:57add that in there because um you know it's

35:59very easy to again look at all of this

36:01stuff and really

36:03rack up the bills as it were of things that

36:05you might want to go and get but for

36:07editing software

36:08you don't have to pay any money for good

36:09tools go on youtube look at other youtubers

36:11they'll say

36:12exactly the same thing da vinci resolve is

36:14a great tool so consider that instead of ad

36:17obe premiere

36:17pro if you're starting for the first time

36:19otherwise if you already use adobe then use

36:22the

36:22thing you already know now what i'll do is

36:24i'll just create a new project i'm not even

36:26going to do

36:27anything sort of snazzy here i'm just going

36:29to create a new project and what we will do

36:31is we'll

36:32just call this i'm not going to put it in

36:33the split function i've actually just

36:35uploaded this video

36:36so what we'll do is we go to the desktop

36:38hit a new folder and we'll just do test and

36:41we'll just call

36:42this um test folder and we'll call this

36:44project test and i'll just show you the

36:46flow of how

36:46everything works i don't change many of

36:48these settings i'm not recording sort of

36:50cinema video

36:51or any sort of video production or anything

36:53i'm just trying to get the content out

36:55essentially and

36:56so what i do is i end up with this pretty

36:58blank a template and i go to this tab here

37:01called tim

37:01perfect assembly now what i have to say

37:04here is i've spent years working with adobe

37:06premiere pro

37:07so this is second nature to me but this can

37:09look daunting for a lot of people and

37:11especially if

37:12it's the first time you're using it but it

37:14's really simple essentially here on the

37:15left i have my

37:17videos and my design files or everything i

37:19need in the middle i have my effects on the

37:21right i

37:22actually get to see what i'm editing and at

37:24the bottom i have this timeline that's all

37:26it is so

37:26what i'll do is i'll actually start by

37:28importing a template project now this is a

37:30template project

37:31that i've created and i've mastered over a

37:33long period of time you can see the last

37:35time i edited

37:36this was on the 5th of february 2021

37:38because that's the last time i needed to

37:39make a big

37:40change to the template and what this

37:42template does it essentially brings in a

37:45project which already

37:46has things like my introduction my audio

37:48settings everything already really well

37:51configured because

37:52ultimately i use the same microphone i

37:54record the same screen and i use the same

37:56gear why would the

37:57presets change from video to video they

37:59technically shouldn't they may maybe need a

38:01few small tweaks

38:02but that's pretty much it so i import

38:04everything into a project i get some

38:06warnings about fonts i

38:08always get those and small bug in my video

38:10but it brings in a bunch of different

38:13things let me just

38:14go through those an adjustment layer which

38:16changes how the video looks a progress bar

38:18an end screen

38:19which is what you see at the very end an

38:21export timeline and actually if i just

38:23double click on

38:23some of these you can see what they look

38:25like these are just the things that i use

38:27throughout

38:27my video and they are there because they

38:30help me speed things up now i've also got

38:33these two

38:33timelines here main timeline and export

38:36timeline if i open up the main timeline you

38:38see that it

38:38has nothing in it but if i open up the

38:40export timeline you'll see that it already

38:42has something

38:43in it so you're probably wondering how can

38:45you have something when you haven't put

38:47anything into

38:48your folder well yes we haven't put

38:49anything yet but the thing is about a

38:51template is you can put

38:52things where you need them and then

38:54everything sort of picks up from there on

38:56so let's just say

38:57that i'm going to go and bring some of the

38:59videos that i recorded yesterday when i was

39:01doing a video

39:02about the split function so let's go here

39:05let's just go and drag this file here i'm

39:08going to bring

39:08the mov file drop it in and now that that's

39:11there i'm just going to drop that into my

39:13timeline

39:14you can see um you can see it coming in

39:16here and there we go that's our video and

39:19now it's

39:19in our timeline and you can see the

39:20timeline starts to come to life and then i

39:22just start

39:23editing essentially i just go in here and i

39:25just hit play and i just start listening

39:27okay

39:27essentially what i also try and do is i try

39:29and add markers these red markers here are

39:32cutting

39:32points where either something will happen

39:34and something else will start changing okay

39:36so i try

39:36and move these to match things you can know

39:39areas where i cut out whole sections of

39:40video because

39:41you can see here i didn't say anything so

39:43what i do is i just start cutting those out

39:45they're not

39:46really important i know for a fact i didn't

39:48say anything meaningful because if i'm

39:50talking those

39:51gaps wouldn't exist i don't even bother

39:53wasting time figuring out what's being said

39:55there i just

39:55go ahead and cut those out also there are

39:57instances where i start the video multiple

40:00times so i'll go

40:01here i'll see say something i think i'll

40:03mess it up and then i'll go back here and

40:05start again so

40:07i am fairly certain that at least this

40:09first one here um is not me saying anything

40:12useful and so

40:13i've immediately cut out about 10 minutes

40:16of bump just because and they weren't

40:18useful and now what

40:19i'll start to do is i'll start to edit this

40:21i'll start to work with this it's really

40:22hard for me to

40:23show you here unless i have actually

40:25something real that i need to edit so what

40:27i did is i

40:27created a time lapse of the editing process

40:29so i could just show you how that works

40:31really really

40:32quickly i'm not going to sort of do

40:34anything cool but what i will do is i will

40:36just quickly open this

40:37in quick time bring it on screen here and

40:39then we can see how it works so this is

40:41exactly the

40:41editing process i took the other day

40:43including this window that you might might

40:45have seen before

40:46where i have all the videos okay it has a

40:48few other steps in there but essentially if

40:50i just

40:50sort of play through this what will happen

40:52here if i just scrub through this i will

40:54get the content

40:54and i'll put it into my transcoder here in

40:57permute permute is essentially um a transc

40:59oder that changes

41:00the file type so that i can edit a little

41:02bit faster towards the end of the editing

41:04process so

41:05in parallel whilst i'm editing something

41:07else is happening so that the end of the

41:09process i can get

41:10a faster output at the very very end sounds

41:12a little bit weird um but it's there i won

41:15't go

41:15into this command line what it's

41:16essentially doing is it's changing the

41:18settings of my screen

41:19so it's ready for recording that's all it's

41:20doing it's using a command line tool to do

41:22that

41:23if i keep going across you'll see that i

41:25actually get into the body of the video

41:27but what i will do before i do that is i

41:29will also create a screenshot here so what

41:31i'm doing here is

41:32creating a screenshot this will help for my

41:34thumbnail a little later on i'll show you

41:37how

41:37that works so you can see the section of

41:38the screen that i'm actually recording in

41:40this

41:40particular case if we keep going forward

41:42you'll see that i open up the project and i

41:44go ahead and

41:45import the files as i did today and so uh

41:48you can also see that i got invitation to

41:50the tabular

41:51ambassador and zen master meeting uh there

41:53but i think i kind of scrubbed through that

41:55very quickly

41:56and here i bring in all the files that i've

41:58just shown you including this timeline you

42:00can see that

42:01it's hazed out and all i basically start

42:03doing is start editing and i just work my

42:05way through each

42:06and every minute of the content so

42:08essentially if i record a 20-minute video i

42:11need to watch it for

42:12at least 20 minutes if i'm editing it and

42:13it will take slightly longer because i'll

42:15do things like

42:16this well cut out sections i'll zoom in

42:18just to make it easier so what's going on

42:20here explicitly

42:21i just go back i'm choosing a section of

42:23the video i'm cutting it out and then i'm z

42:25ooming in you can

42:26just see that happening here on the top

42:28right then i'm placing that zoom in the

42:29place that makes sense

42:31and then once that's done i'm moving on to

42:33the next section so i manually insert

42:35things like

42:35those zooms because then it means i don't

42:37have to remember to do it whilst i'm

42:38recording and it just

42:40gets applied to the edit so uh when i get

42:42to the end i've basically done this a bunch

42:44of times

42:45and now this is when the magic happens once

42:47i've edited that first version what then

42:50happens is i

42:50switch over to my export timeline which is

42:53like a nested timeline so the main timeline

42:56is its own

42:57timeline i bring all the new content into

42:59that i edit and cut it but i don't do

43:01anything fancy

43:02then i go over to my export timeline and my

43:04export timeline contains my main timeline

43:07and that saves

43:08me a lot of time so essentially what that

43:10means is i've got all the things i need

43:13ready to go i've

43:14even got things like the titles the banner

43:16the progress bar that i have on the screen

43:18everything

43:18is already configured and they just need

43:20tweaking to match this particular video so

43:22if i go ahead

43:23and just scroll through this you can see

43:25that the title here for this is wrong it's

43:27using the

43:27template from the zn function video that's

43:30actually when i created this template and i

43:32basically just start editing this and just

43:34trying to make this a lot better and as i

43:37do that all i'm

43:38now doing is i'm adding the flare so at

43:39this point i could actually record i could

43:42actually upload

43:42the video to youtube but i'm not going to

43:45because essentially um i've still got a lot

43:47of work to do

43:48in terms of the things i'd like to add to

43:50the video that i feel will help you the

43:52viewer

43:53understand what's going on so that includes

43:54the progress bar there's a little red

43:56progress bar

43:57that goes across the bottom of the video in

43:59fact it's going across the screen right now

44:00if you

44:01don't see it i've probably forgotten to put

44:03it in but i'm 100 certain it's there that

44:05shows you how

44:06long this section has left essentially and

44:08for people who notice it they find it

44:09valuable and if

44:10you don't notice it great because it's not

44:12supposed to be something that takes over

44:13the whole screen

44:14and i basically add those in i add editing

44:17points i add things like titles and then i

44:20make sure the

44:20music goes to the very end i go in and i

44:22tweak the audio now this is not something

44:24that i have

44:25to do all the time but for example in hot

44:27weather i will sound different to cold

44:30weather in uh

44:32certain situations let's say it's been

44:34raining a lot the room will sound a little

44:35bit more damp so

44:36i need to come in here and tweak these

44:38settings ever so slightly and i'm not going

44:40to go into

44:41detail about this this is basically very

44:43basic voice editing um things that i do i

44:46just try and

44:46make things sound a little bit smoother and

44:48i don't try and act like i don't try and

44:50change

44:50my voice in any way i'm just trying to

44:53accentuate the actual frequencies where my

44:55voice sits so my

44:56voice is even clearer and those gains come

44:58back to help us a little later on when

45:00youtube then tries

45:01to do transcription on this because the

45:04clearer your voice the easier it is for it

45:05to do better

45:06quality transcriptions and so as we play

45:09through this you'll see the last thing i'll

45:11do is i'll

45:11look at the sound i'll also make sure there

45:13's not much echo i record in a small room i

45:16do have some

45:16sort of noise dampening devices on the wall

45:19but they don't do a like a studio quality

45:22job so i

45:23do the rest in post because i know that

45:24they can reduce the levels of noise down a

45:27little bit

45:28dampen the echo a little bit and then in

45:29post i can remove nearly all of it and so i

45:31go in there

45:32and remove the noise and we have a pretty

45:34full timeline we're ready to export this

45:37video and

45:38we're pretty much ready to go now what i'll

45:40do is i'll hit the export button and you'll

45:42see this

45:42interface i'll label the video i'll even

45:44mark the things i need to mark for youtube

45:46because when

45:47adobe premiere pro finishes it will push

45:50this off to the cloud and youtube will

45:52start ingesting it

45:53essentially so this is all done inside of

45:55the software i'd rarely actually go to

45:57youtube and

45:58manually upload a video it's mostly done

46:00directly out of the software in this

46:02particular case and so

46:03now as i play through this video you'll see

46:05that the next thing i do is i queue the

46:07video so if i

46:08just go back i'll hit q rather than export

46:10so let me just go one frame here you'll see

46:13that this q

46:14button is is pressed here and essentially

46:16what that does is it sends the video to

46:18another piece

46:19of software which will then start rendering

46:21it so that you can see the final output

46:23okay so that

46:24will pretty much go on as it is and um you

46:26'll see that this is the software open i'll

46:29save the file

46:30i'll actually archive it i'll take all the

46:32files put it on my external hard drive and

46:34as we play

46:35through this you'll see that now the video

46:37renders very very slowly but it's there and

46:39it renders and

46:40that can take a long time for a typical 10

46:43minute 4k 60 frames per second video that

46:46can take about

46:4640 minutes to render so this video for

46:49example really cutting it fine i don't

46:51think it'll

46:51actually render in time for when i said i'd

46:54post it so i'm hoping i'm hoping i can edit

46:56this really

46:56quickly and get it out there super super

46:59fast okay so that's pretty much the editing

47:02process

47:02now you don't need to edit videos to this

47:05level and standard this is just something i

47:07do to make

47:08my videos stand out from other people you

47:10could put your video up without any of the

47:12flourishes

47:12that i do and so i don't want you to look

47:14at this and see oh this is the level of

47:16standard that i

47:17have to do to put content on youtube you

47:19don't people will still watch content on

47:21youtube even

47:22if it's not this good let me just show you

47:24some examples of that when i first started

47:26doing this

47:27i didn't have any anything like the

47:30equipment i have today it was an absolute

47:33um uh you know

47:33challenge for me because i was someone who

47:36always prided myself on uh sort of my

47:39content and so i

47:40just paused myself there if i just go to my

47:42videos and i just um go to the video upload

47:45s i just go to

47:46the very first videos i ever recorded let's

47:48just go all the way back scroll all the way

47:50down and

47:50these are still public for the record the

47:52very first video i recorded 10 years ago

47:55was this video

47:56about um adobe uh in design okay and if you

47:59're on my channel go and watch this video

48:02and just see

48:03and listen how bad the quality of the audio

48:06is i even did some noise canceling in this

48:08video

48:09and it's awful it literally kills my soul

48:13every time i hear it but guess what 83 000

48:17people have

48:17found it useful and have watched it 304

48:20have even thanked me enough for the lack of

48:22noise

48:22cancellation and a people have probably you

48:25know died inside just listening to that

48:27thing but i

48:28record this video in 5th of april 2010 i

48:31learned something about um adobe in design

48:33and i shared

48:33this out and i thought wow this is amazing

48:36look at this people really enjoy having

48:38content that

48:39helps them so i did it again i did it on

48:40another video showing people how to install

48:43a piece of

48:43software i did it again for typography and

48:46long story short you know i was creating

48:49these videos

48:49that were getting tens of thousands of

48:52people interested and i had no equipment i

48:54use none of

48:55this and they're actually some of the best

48:57viewing numbers i've had yes they've had 10

48:59years to get

49:00there but it just shows that people will

49:02enjoy content regardless of what's going on

49:05okay my

49:05layout container videos to this day still

49:08watched roughly 50 to 100 people watch this

49:10every day

49:11i use the piece of software called camtasia

49:13here um to record it and so it is slightly

49:15better it's

49:16slightly sharper but the audio is no

49:18different it's just as bad and so you can

49:21sort of see the

49:22quality of everything and it's taken me a

49:24while at least the thing i did do here was

49:26i recorded it in

49:271080p which uh you know a few six years ago

49:29was actually quite hard to do and upload it

49:32took a lot

49:32of effort and time um so i don't even know

49:34how i mustered that but nevertheless you

49:37don't need

49:38great quality equipment to record good

49:39content you can also see that i've been

49:41doing this for

49:42a while so over the four years if you

49:43literally go back across my channel you'll

49:45see that i didn't

49:46even do things like focus on the thumbnail

49:48all of that stuff is just stuff that i've

49:50developed over

49:51time i even did vlogging at one stage when

49:54i went to the austin conference in um in

49:57texas and you

49:58know i learned a lot about vlogging i

49:59learned that that was really hard to do and

50:01it wasn't worth the

50:02time maybe um in the future i might do

50:05something more targeted just for conference

50:07but yeah it was

50:08really hard to do a vlog and then i

50:10realized maybe i can do something around

50:12the new product features

50:13in tableau and then you can start to see a

50:15pattern evolve i started making videos

50:17about new features

50:19and that was my jam i found my niche and

50:21that's exactly what i've started doing over

50:23time and

50:24that's pretty much it now the reason i've

50:25been talking for a while is because when

50:27you upload

50:28a video uh that's not the job done if in

50:30fact there's actually a lot more left to do

50:33still

50:34especially for youtube so the last thing to

50:36do is the thumbnail now the thumbnail is

50:38really fun i

50:39find this really fun uh essentially i have

50:42a template now the template itself has a

50:45story

50:45but let me show you the template first so

50:47this is actually where i create all my th

50:49umbnails i have a

50:50figma template and believe it or not i have

50:52actually sat in front of a green screen and

50:55taken a bunch of different emotions and

50:57recorded them and basically removed the

51:00green screen out

51:00of them now i discovered really quickly

51:02that doing these every single time i was

51:05going to do a video

51:06was actually much harder than doing them

51:08all in one go i did actually try this i

51:09took a photo

51:10myself then realized i needed to cut out

51:12the background then realized that was just

51:14you know

51:15never going to work every single time it

51:16actually took me half an hour the first

51:18time to edit out

51:19the background so if you want to know how i

51:22actually did this um i created a little bit

51:24of

51:24a process around it because of course you

51:27have to do these things if i go to uh the

51:28dropbox

51:30folder and i go to my assets and i go to

51:34profile pics and i go to um chroma key pics

51:37you'll see that i actually have a folder of

51:40uh images which are just green essentially

51:44so if i

51:44just open this window you'll see that i've

51:46taken a bunch of photos it's a bit

51:48narcissistic but

51:49nevertheless yes i stood in front of a

51:50camera in front of a green screen

51:52pretending to react to

51:53emotions which i was inspired by in emoji

51:55so i basically went to the emoji section

51:58looked at a

51:58few expressions and just tried to recreate

52:01them so if we take uh this let's take a

52:03reasonable one

52:04i want to take one that sounds silly let's

52:06let's take this one we open it up in phot

52:08oshop and it

52:09took me half an afternoon to figure out how

52:11to do this literally two hours spent in

52:13photoshop

52:14to do the following process and i you know

52:17i learned just by going on youtube finding

52:19a blog

52:20and um essentially i found a blog that

52:23showed me how to turn uh this into a green

52:26screen image now

52:28the difficult thing with this is it leaves

52:30lots of artifacts and so on and so forth so

52:32what i did is

52:33i obviously created an actions now where's

52:35my actions window here we go if i just

52:37bring this

52:38action window here so you can see that a

52:40little bit more clearly actually let's

52:42bring it to the

52:43top and bring everything down okay i

52:45actually have this action right here so if

52:47i just hit control a

52:49this is a tool called presentify by the way

52:51um it's a really great annotation tool you

52:54can do it

52:54whilst recording as well so this this

52:56little action here is a green screen tool

52:58and if you

52:59just look at this i read a blog and it

53:01turned out that removing the green screen

53:03color here

53:04accurately actually was quite a few number

53:06of steps i think i counted something like

53:0945 to 50

53:10steps in total and so if i go over here

53:12select that action and then i click run on

53:15that action

53:16because i figured it out once i recorded

53:20the steps i turned it into an automation in

53:22photoshop

53:23and now i can do it pretty much on the fly

53:25is it perfect no but at the scale you're

53:27going to see

53:28it's never going to matter and then what i

53:30did is this automation actually

53:32automatically saves the

53:33output one of the last things it does is it

53:35saves the output so i pretty much sat there

53:38and open 50

53:39files because i couldn't figure out how to

53:41make a script that ran all the files

53:43through photoshop

53:45so i just opened every single file tap this

53:47automation once and before you knew it i

53:50had a

53:50folder of all the different expressions i

53:53could pull and the thing is once they're

53:55done they go

53:56into this folder so they go into this

53:58folder called processed and if you look in

54:00here you

54:00actually see that um the most recent one

54:03here was today at 8 37 so you can see here

54:06the day

54:067th of feb which is when i also made that

54:08template uh it's the last time i actually

54:10took a bunch of

54:11photos and i've done a few others since but

54:13that's when they were all done and then

54:15once that's all

54:16done it goes into here into uh figma and

54:19then in figma what i do is i basically

54:21spend another sort

54:23of essentially half a day creating a

54:25template for my thumbnails because um th

54:27umbnails on youtube are

54:28a funny thing um i'm not sure about the

54:30science of this but every youtuber will

54:32basically tell you

54:33that you need to have a face you need to

54:34have a title and you need to have a brand

54:36really clearly

54:37displayed so i built a template that i

54:39thought was that i could probably spend

54:41more time doing it but

54:42essentially let's say we're creating a new

54:44a new video i just come in here and i'll

54:46call this test

54:47video okay and we'll just go in here and

54:52change that to that i will say um how to i

54:56'll add some

54:57sort of context i'll select this triangle

54:59and then we're pretty much ready to go now

55:01the software

55:02image i normally take that from tableau so

55:04if i just delete that what i will normally

55:06then do

55:07is go to the screenshot i took earlier on

55:10where i basically took a picture of tableau

55:13right after

55:13i did the demo and i'll drop it into the

55:16software and then once that's done i'll

55:18drag it into the

55:20right position so in this case it just

55:22needs to go here i'll make it a little bit

55:24larger then i

55:25need to drop it lower inside of the view

55:27and now it's there i'm now ready to go now

55:30sometimes the

55:31spacing isn't perfect so what i'll do is i

55:33'll just sort of space this out i'll try and

55:35sort of find

55:36that sweet spot where it's just large

55:38enough but also that it's it's there now

55:40the other thing i'll

55:41do is then i'll choose a face to go kind of

55:43go with this um so if i just come out here

55:46um and

55:47maybe let's choose this face here so let's

55:49just grab that i normally just grab them

55:51and then drop

55:52them in and once i've done that we're not

55:54done yet because of course this doesn't

55:56look natural

55:57because essentially uh there's no sort of

56:00shadow so it just looks like i'm flat on

56:02the screen so

56:04what i'll then do is i'll then grab that

56:05add an effect of a drop shadow go into the

56:07drop shadow

56:08itself increase the x axis sort of distance

56:10you can sort of see the shadow popping out

56:13there

56:13increase the blur a lot more then make it a

56:16lot darker so that it looks more like a

56:18shadow then

56:19sometimes i might actually increase the

56:21blur even more but what that does is it

56:23just gives it a

56:24little bit of depth and it makes it look

56:26like i'm in front of the screen and

56:28actually i can i can

56:29sort of do this because i can sort of

56:31imagine the light is coming from the top

56:33down so if you shift

56:34the x uh x axis across and down it gives it

56:37a little bit of diagonality and it's sort

56:40of in

56:40the opposite direction to the title the

56:42titles have the shadow going that way and

56:44there's a

56:45little bit of symmetry with the my shadows

56:47going in the other direction towards the

56:49bottom right

56:50and then i always try and make sure that

56:51the focal point of the thumbnail is

56:52actually what i want you

56:54to see so these eyes are normally move this

56:56here so that it makes a lot more sense but

56:58obviously

56:58this is not great because it's not a long

57:00title but typically the title would sort of

57:02be up here

57:03and i'm looking at that and so you're sort

57:04of drawn to what i'm looking at that's

57:06exactly how

57:06it works and then once that's done i just

57:09go into the desktop here export to general

57:12and i have my

57:13thumbnail ready to go so if i go back into

57:15my test folder i'll just hit thumbnail and

57:19we're basically

57:21done that is that is the thumbnail ready to

57:24go once that's done we then go off to

57:26youtube and

57:27essentially there's a there's a whole sort

57:29of process around youtube and it's actually

57:32quite

57:32easy it's quite an easy thing to do but

57:34what i'll do is i'll show you a video that

57:35i'm actually

57:36waiting to sort of um i'm waiting for um

57:39for it to sort of get produced and if i

57:42just go into content

57:43here and then i go into the this one here

57:46uh i you see all the sort of necessary

57:49stuff that i have to

57:50fill out so i have to fill out a title a

57:53description um i can see the the rendering

57:56process for hd and

57:574k 4k takes forever hd takes a long time in

58:01my case because i have a 4k clip otherwise

58:04this video

58:04would be live already it's nearly nine o'

58:07clock and this video is supposed to go out

58:09um four or five

58:10hours ago but for whatever reason the high

58:12definition in 4k version just haven't

58:13rendered in

58:14time you don't get to control that that's

58:16just youtube for you the standard

58:18definition version

58:19launches so you know what i might just make

58:21this public anyway um very soon but i have

58:23the

58:24thumbnails here i'll go in change the th

58:26umbnails i'll give it a playlist title like

58:28add an end

58:29screen if necessary it's essentially the

58:31ending that you see and so this overlays

58:33onto the graphic

58:34that you see sometimes that i add so that's

58:37how this works there's a template layer and

58:39there's

58:39an overlay on top and that is pretty much

58:42it um i mean i say that's pretty much it i

58:44've been talking

58:45for a long while but yes that is the start

58:48and end process of making a video okay now

58:51just to finish

58:53this video off there are a couple of things

58:55that i haven't covered and they essentially

58:57revolve

58:58around um sort of making things go faster

59:01okay and part of the video editing process

59:03is actually just

59:04optimizations and that is a really hard

59:07thing to convey because it doesn't make the

59:09video you don't

59:10see the output of that in the video but

59:12what it does do is it means that i can

59:15spend less time

59:16making uh you know adjustments and more

59:18time making videos okay so we're pretty

59:21much done

59:22that's pretty much everything that i could

59:23think to fit in the video um it's a very

59:25long one so

59:26thank you so much for your patience i

59:27really really appreciate it um if you've

59:29got any questions the

59:30comments are the place to go please drop

59:32them in the comments or if you're on social

59:34media just

59:34tweet me directly and we'll have more than

59:36happy to reply i try to get some messages

59:38when i can but

59:39if i don't then the best way to do it is

59:41just ask publicly because then someone else

59:43can also answer

59:44the question if they know the answer but

59:46apart from that thanks for watching thanks

59:47for your

59:48patience i hope i've inspired some of you

59:50to make videos i hope i haven't put you off

59:53and if you do

59:53start a channel about tableau let me know

59:55in the comments below and i will do the

59:57best i can to try

59:58and support you and share your channel as

60:00much as i possibly can and if you get in

60:02touch on linkedin

60:03or twitter by all means get in touch i'm

60:05happy to have a screen share session and go

60:08through some of

60:08this in more detail and help you organize

60:11your content so um the first thing to do

60:13though is to

60:13make a video and put it in the comments

60:15that is the only caveat because it's very

60:17easy to have

60:17chats with people who are thinking about

60:19making content but actually the most

60:21important step is

60:22making that first video