 I wanted to make this video not to cover everything in depth as far as all the tools I use, but just to only give an overview. I've already done in-depth videos on how my studio is built. I've talked about the computer and the system I use, and I've got some tutorials on Kaden Live. But I want to quickly run you through the whole just quick rundown process and then link to the other videos if you're interested in learning more about what I do. So the basics of it is I start with a script to create a video. I write that script in my head. I just daydream out things and go, OK, what am I going to talk about? And I put it all together. If I'm doing something a little bit more intricate that's required a lot more cameras and more people involved, maybe I'll storyboard a little bit of it. But for most part, I just write everything and memorize it in my head. That's my general process. Probably leads to me repeating myself once while and maybe I should use a teleprompter. I don't know. I've been pretty happy so far with what I've been creating. But I'm always evolving and always changing hence why I'm updating these videos. Now, the first thing you notice is this weird inception thing going on. That's because I'm using OBS Studio, and I wanted to show that on Linux. Specifically, I'm running PopOS on this particular computer. So that is how we capture when I'm in here in my little office that has some basic sound deadening, nothing real elaborate here. I'm using the Blue Yeti Silver, which is right here. This is my favorite setup. And the majority of my channel is tutorial videos there for sitting in my office with my three monitors in front of me and the Blue Yeti right here mounted to the wall and then recorded on a Logitech HD Pro C920. This is like $59 here, 117, and the OBS Studio is free. So it takes very little to get started doing this when you want to do tutorial videos like I'm doing here. There's also, I think there's a $12 light on the other side. I just have a LED light that I picked up from Lowe's, plugged in, kind of bouncing off the wall to create the ambient you see right here with this lighting, nothing real elaborate, nothing real expensive. But we're gonna move over to the studio to talk about how we do some of the other videos so I can give you the entire workflow. So here in the studio, it's a lot easier to film product reviews. I have a large table in front of me. I have an entire behind the scenes and details of how the studio is set up. But one of the real big advantages I have here is when I switched over to using the stream deck. Now my computer does run Linux, Pop OS for those wondering, but the studio computer where all this is being captured right now is running Windows. And that's because of this. The Elgato stream deck and the OBS stream studio, great pieces of software, just don't work well on Linux, especially this, there's some hacky ways to get it done. It just doesn't work well. So until that issue resolves, I'll continue running Windows on the studio computer. It's really just a glorified capture device that records and it's gonna drop all the videos to my storage server in the back. Now the advantage again, if you didn't watch the full studio tour is this. I can quickly switch without, this is not an edit, this is a raw video being recorded from my laptop here and fed in. And I can just switch between these two views with the press of a button. I can also switch to overhead view. And now you're seeing things right from the overhead. Now I have a couple of different microphones sitting in front of me. And what this does is lets me use the mics when I want to have more people wider. For example, when we record the how they got hacked live streams. One microphone that is just on the edge of outside a camera would only pick up one person really well but the people further out would have a hard time. So that's when we use the microphones. Microphones all feed into the camera and some will point out you can feed the microphones directly in or I could get a USB mixer and feed everything into OBS studio directly. I know I can, it's not my to-do list to maybe switch things around but the nice thing is the, when I have it in the camera, everything's 100% in sync without any, where your voice doesn't match your lips moving and that's a real annoying thing to fix in post where you have to split the audio. Speaking of audio, no audio syncing is a huge part. So if you want to get videos done fast from take it from idea to published, that's part of the reason I do it the way I do it like this. Being able to quickly jump and say, hey, I got this idea I want to talk about. I want to talk about what's on my screen right here. I want to talk about a product and I want to show you something like, hey, look at this microphone right here and then we can just jump to the overhead and be like, oh, there's the product he's talking about and then I just press the button and I'm back over here. That is huge and keeping this all in sync. So that's part of the reason I set up everything to feed into the camera. And then the other devices, the overhead camera and the computer feeds are all just done with a couple USB, well, three USB captures. One for the overhead, one for the laptop and one for the camera with a pass here. Like I said, I detailed that out on my studio video. Now what happens once the video is done? Well, we're going to press the stop record button right here that's blinking and we're going to show you the next step. And as soon as we stop recording in the studio, we are back in my office where we finished the production process. So here's what it looks like. This is a TV, if you go through my studio video that's behind us is actually what I see, but we're remote controlling it. And we just take the videos that get created here and we copy them over and name them as we need to inside of here. So let's find the making a video. So we copy all the files from the studio computer, the Windows computer that captures everything and drop them into a folder on my free NAS box. And that's actually where all the videos reside. I do that because one, there's a lot of videos. So if we go up a folder here and look, there is just a ton of videos that I have archived in here and this is on a big rate array. So it doesn't fail or hopefully it doesn't fail and die and lose all my videos. It's also backed up a second time. I actually have a pair of these. So we have all this video, which I'm not sure how much I should keep. That's always a weird question because I have archives going back two years of video and I feel like I'm just hoarding it. I don't know. I don't really often revisit those old videos but maybe one day I will. Anyways, so I copy them over to here. I usually name them. So this is how to make a video and there's already a couple parts in here, part one, part two, part three and that is me recording from here to the next one to the next one just labeling like that makes the workflow easy. I drag them over to and actually if we started from the beginning here I have a basic template. So we'll go over here and what this does is those overlays that you're gonna see at the beginning of the video they get dropped on here and we just take and drop these videos right into Kaden Live here. And then we line them up part one, part two, part three. We look for any spots in the audio where there's nothing happening like the first couple of seconds. While I was getting started then part two we were in a studio. Same thing, I actually had a false start. So I started didn't know what I was saying coughed, changed, I'll trim that out and then this video will be done and we're all sudden done, we hit the render button and it's gonna get uploaded to YouTube but that's not the full process. There's next thing is gotta make a thumbnail for it. So my video workflow, how do I create video content? I just have these little templates pulled up and if you wanna know it looks like this open recent I always name them the same thing. I used to create a template for every single one of them and I realized that I never cared about the thumbnails once I created them. So basically I edit and copy paste whatever I'm gonna put in here. One of the other things I like to do is we're gonna go ahead and I'm using Kaden live. So I can type in like Kaden live logo, image search, settings, transparent. Yeah, that looks like the right size logo, copy image, edit, new layer, there we go. So I'll put Kaden live across there is one of the tools I use and quickly I build out the couple of things that go into my thumbnail like this and when I'm done I just export this out and upload to YouTube and that's it. That's the whole video process. This process does not take me too long to do and once the video is uploaded and I upload a thumbnail, that's it. I'm all set, the YouTube content creation process done I can go on about my day. So people ask, you know, how do you find time to do a lot of videos? A lot of it is having a clean workflow to get the videos done quick means I don't have to spend as much time on the videos and that's why I wanted to make this video about how I make videos to show that my flow is pretty fast on this and this is my methodology, no secrets as I always like to tell people. This is a methodology by which I go through writing and publishing content for YouTube and other places I post it and this will probably get posted to Facebook as well. 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