 Hello there It's a bit weird coming in straight into these live streams without a countdown, but they go We haven't got time for that. This is day three of my cd content creation vlog and so today I am just going to give you an update of where I'm up to but the idea is as I go forward with these It's not just a case of me popping on and saying. Oh, here's what I've been doing yesterday The idea is that I am going to be also sharing some some information and hopefully some content that you'll find Useful or enlightening or something like that. I'm not sure that that's quite the case today, but we'll see So I've already had a bit of a screw up to be honest because there was supposed to be a video that went out at five o'clock this morning But it didn't go out. So let me just make my excuses right now for that Hey, Paul, great to see you You're just in time for me to make some excuses So This is my schedule and what I've done is I've colored in green at the videos that I've already made So not actually gone out necessarily like these ones are for tomorrow, but I have actually Made them at least. Hey, Dina, great to see you too long time no see, of course But this is what this is all this is all about indeed. Thank you. My excuses are perfectly valid And I've got a really valid one today. So I made my my e-cam videos So these videos I've made all of these ones over here And then I made my discord one and I've got some others to make there But these ones my TubeBuddy ones. I hadn't actually made these yet But then I was I was kind of thinking in my head. Oh, I'm gonna get up and do those this morning But I was forgetting about everything else that goes on on a Sunday morning for me. This is my Sunday morning So obviously doc was having Ray Edwards on his live stream this morning I will go back and leave a link in the description to that because it was awesome I'll be going back and watching it again But I did set my alarm to get up to watch it and I don't ever set an alarm I haven't set used an alarm for like 20 years something like that, but occasionally there'll be some thing that I'll say right I'm definitely setting an alarm. I always wake up before the alarm anyway So I set my alarm this morning for half past midnight I normally get up at three o'clock, but I said it for half past midnight and then woke up at woke up at quarter past So there we go But then having watched that and then obviously there's other stuff going on on a Sunday morning with office hours and other things like that accountability groups and so on so Yeah, that's that's just didn't make my TubeBuddy videos. So there we go slap on the wrist But what I'll do is after I've finished this I'm intending to just go and basically record Probably maybe maybe the whole weeks worth of these TubeBuddy videos or maybe four of them or something like that I'm also going to finish my these discord videos today as well And and then we'll see I don't think I'll be able to do any of these weekend ones But I'll try and do those maybe tomorrow morning And then if I could do that what that would mean is tomorrow morning Monday morning if I just got up and did These videos it would mean by Monday morning I'd have my whole schedule done for the week except for these these couple of stream day ones So that is the plan But what I have done is I have gone ahead and just created my thumbnails for all of these Ecum videos. So I've got this I'm all about this spreadsheet. You know that so I've got my little tracking sheet here Then while that's doing there, I got my little tracking sheet here. These are my long-form videos These are my reels. So this is kind of like the things that I've got to record So I'm gonna give them a little cross when I've recorded them Little cross when I've put the thumbnail look at that. I've already screwed up those should be over here So this is basically the the thumbnails that I've made So now it's one less thing that I have to worry about. So this morning I Was actually I was actually quietly in the background at times making my thumbnails So here we go I've got a load of a load of thumbnails ready for all of those videos to just soon as I've made a video I can that queue them up and then drop the thumbnail in and I was chatting this morning about thumbnails with somebody and You know asking about my process because and yes process not process my process with this because All of my thumbnails do look like not just a similar theme. I mean they look identical in most cases I'm trying to switch that up a little bit. So you can see that I've tried to do that here a little bit Maybe not not immediately obvious But the reason why that they why they all just do look exactly the same generally is because I Tend to spend all of about, you know, five minutes on on making my thumbnails So I thought what I do in this short little live stream is just basically show the process that I have for doing these and the reason Why I do it this way is because when I started my channel as I know most of you know It was a case of me just having to squeeze it into this small amount of time I had in the mornings like a couple of hours to actually record the video Upload it and create the thumbnail and everything like that. So that's why they all had this sort of fairly consistent look and it was out of Out of out of laziness or lack of time Let's let's call it lack of time. I would love to have the time I know I would love to be able to make the time to Craft some sort of works of art like tombock. He is my thumbnail idol I think that hands down his are the best I mean, there's lots of well-performing thumbnails and things like that that, you know far more Intelligent people than me create But he has certainly got just such a unique style and all of them just genuinely look like something that you could frame All right, you know, I would they really appeal to my taste But I know that you just spend a lot of time on them I wish that I could do hand-drawn lettering like he can it's it's really quite a skill that he's got and Yeah, it's not forming itself So but that isn't how I do it. How I do it is like this. So this is my little photoshop file with my stupid face on it and Here down at the bottom I've basically just got I took Like a hundred pictures or more. I mean this one's picture number 96 I should really go through and actually change the names of all these pictures So all these little pictures down the side are other stupid YouTube face style pictures So we've got that one. We've got this one And the thing is I cycle through the same. They're just ridiculous my yeah My daughter does a lot for all of my silly YouTube faces But I basically it was one of the things I did when I was starting my channel is I had like a month before the first You know time that I went live and I sort of set that date and then gave myself a month to set up my website set up my You know, buy me a coffee all the affiliate programs stuff like that learn ecamp was another one You know figure out how to use the stream that get all that set up build out all my scenes figure out What I was going to do with everything and one of the things that I did in that month was just stand in front of my camera in front of a green screen and take like a hundred pictures and most of them were to my mind unusable and I was left with some others which arguably still should never have seen the light of day But those are the ones that I'm stuck with so I haven't actually changed them since then so what I need to do is After after cedar, I think I'm probably going to try and have a complete sort of Taking stock situation of where I'm up to and one of the things I'll do is probably try and update these pictures a little bit And I'll probably as well try and be a little bit more creative with my my Thumbnail so basically what I do is I just come in here. I just pick some stupid Alec face Click in here type whatever it's about And if I've got like e-cam or something if I can spell I can't I can't ever talk and type at the same time it turns out I might sort of resize that and by the way, I'm talking about thumbnails here This isn't intended to be a look. This is the way to create thumbnails because I've got This is just the way that I do it. There are far more Experienced and clever people than I that they can tell you all about thumbnails and stuff like that So yeah, it's definitely it's definitely not a case of this is the way to do it. It's just the way that I do it And then I've got like these little sections down here So where this one at the bottom is my where like if I'm doing something about e-cam Then I'll have that if I'm doing something about the e-cam 3.1 release. I created this so I can basically just toggle these on And off so it is actually really quickly if I'm going to do a video about some set up app Then I'll just come down here toggle this one on come and change the title So when I say it's like a five-minute job for me to make the thumbnail It's just because I've got all of these different things Queued up here like when I do my live stream. I've got a separate little thing here So my little live stream lower strip I just stick that on there and then type in the subject so it's yeah It's basically that's that's that's the level of the thought that goes into it What I have tried to do is put a little bit more thought into Them recently so let me just see if I can make these a lot of me and begin these or maybe even I could change to Change the gallery view. I never actually use this view in In here now, how do I in big in that I need somebody to make a video on this How do you zoom them in here? I've never I don't think I've ever actually used this particular gallery view I'll just do it like that for now. So I've tried to Do a few different things so take out a little bit of the text So that's one of the things that I'm Just playing with I haven't done with the e-cam because I think I don't know the e-cam stuff is It's really for a specific audience. I might be completely wrong about this And so just big bold letters about what it is related to e-cam. You're talking about Taking e-cam live into teams This one talking about my masterclass mobile recording setup Stuff like that. I'm trying to be a bit more It's gonna say I'm trying to be a bit more creative here, but all I've done is just write Write something big bold letters, but yeah, just trying to mix it up a little bit with the the thumbnails But what I don't do is what I ordinarily would have done which is like totally sweat over these things And spend too much time. I mean, I probably should be doing more than I'm doing to be honest Hey, Carly, great to see you and Mr. Doc Rock the man himself So yeah, just going through my sort of process for creating my thumbnails because that's what I've done the last Well, in fact this morning in fact some of them while I was in class, but don't tell the teacher so yeah, just created some thumbnails for the the next few videos and It's yeah, it's always been this thing of I'm trying to get over my perfectionism And I would usually spend ages tweaking these like making sure things were spaced But obviously as you can tell I've become a little bit less a little bit less focused on them Than I used to be but one thing I'm going to do going forward is because as I've mentioned on a last couple of these sort of daily updates I've been trying to focus or trying to Allow a little bit more time for the all of this sort of stuff So whereas before it was just this like two-hour window in the morning or three hours as the kids started getting up a little bit later So sort of you know four till four till six or seven I am now sort of carving out a little bit more time to devote to it and certainly in April I'm doing that. I'm carving out quite a bit more time in April to get all of this done But actually after April going forward. I I Will be I will be trying to devote a bit more time to it And so what I'll be doing then is I will be trying to focus a little bit more on creating better more creative thumbnails than Just these sort of like two-minute throwing together jobs I've just coming in here and literally picking a stupid picture changing the title and throwing in a few elements and stuff like that I still haven't got into the canva thing because I just feel it's it's so quick for me to just do stuff in here in Photoshop that this is the way that I work. I've got a load of sort of product Shots down at the bottom. These are all my silly YouTube face pictures and then I've got like, you know my little Things like this that I can stick up. I don't know where that one's gone This one so stream deck So it's they're all just there ready to throw in and because I sort of talk about the same sorts of things It's easy to just throw these things together like that And yeah, I'm not sure I'll make it onto that. I know that Eileen was talking about canva but I'm not sure that I'm ready to just sort of turn my attention to that at the moment just because this is a little bit a little bit more Comfortable although I probably should give it a look at least if not to make some videos about it But yeah, Carly, sorry to answer your question. It's been up there for ages and I still not addressed properly I did do them in front of a green screen. So it was basically I mentioned earlier. It was just when I was Started my channel in the sort of month before we actually Do my first live I spent a month setting everything up and one of the things I did was just stand in front of the green screen took a hundred pictures and Dismissed the vast majority of them and then was left with some of these ridiculous ones that you see before you and just And Just yeah, just just removed all the background again in Photoshop So I just dragged all the pictures in and then did a bulk thing to remove the backgrounds from them Although in some of them, I've still not removed the the green tinge Because you are left sometimes with a sort of let me see if I'm fine one probably won't I've got that many in there I probably won't be able to find one But if you look in some of my thumbnails because you get these sort of reflection of the the green on you sometimes if you are a Non-professional photographer like like me so there's some of them where I've got like green around my head you can actually see the the This all green halo if you like or not halo, but it's actually on my my skin tone from the reflection So I did go and take it out of most of them But some of them I just forgot so there is still some of these pictures where I'm looking a little bit a little bit green in there So yeah, and yeah into I definitely feel it's just so quick for me to do these things in Photoshop I've still just not got into where it can be I've got too many other things going on and too many other tools to learn to think to learn another one the only reason for me to do it really would be to Learn it to then teach other people about it But I've got enough other things to be focused on at the moment But I do certainly see how it is a good tool and Photoshop is obviously a paid thing, isn't it? So, you know, it's part of creative cloud. I can see how Canva canvas paid for I know as well But yeah, the I can see the the appeal of it, but I've just not not got around to it yet. I might look at it still later Hello, Gary nice to see you Someone to mix in with all of the the wrench mob that we've got in at the moment with all of the Moderators I might as well just make everyone a moderator really hunter everyone so so well behaved in here And so yeah, that is and speaking of which hey rich another another wrench mob in here So that is that is where I'm up to really and I am keeping these live streams deliberately quite small because There's only so much you can say about some of these things But in terms of what I've got planned is I am going to make some more shorts as well today So I'm being cross-posted in my shorts so those have been going to YouTube and then Instagram. I still haven't actually put them out to their Facebook and Tiktok so I'm glad to start getting back into that really because it's been It's been a very hit-and-miss sort of thing and I figure if in the next in the next month I can get to the videos that I want to make done Then then it should stand me in good stead. So just a quick recap on that part What I am looking to do is not just create the videos for this month But also create the videos for May as well and then also I've got yeah 30 shorts And then I haven't listed them here, but I'm going to come up with some other ideas For hopefully another month, but maybe another two months worth of shorts if I could think like right I've got the whole quarter done and part of this whole thing as well just to come back to this is For me to just practice this idea of batch recording stuff rather than just trying to fit everything in into you know One little morning or something like that and seeing how I can get a workflow together to just create a whole load of stuff And then schedule it to go out. So I mean if I could get into the process of Creating a month's worth of content in a week for example I could do that for a couple of weeks and get a couple of you know a couple of months ahead And then I could start to just like every month It's just kind of like one one week where I just focus get a load of stuff done And then it's all all out to the door and then I can I can concentrate on other things like course content so things like The e-cam live masterclass which you can get at e-cam live masterclass.com where you can figure you can learn all you need to know about e-cam live and it's basically your online resource for Everything related to e-cam live now and crucially in the future. So it's always up to date I've got loads of e-cam live videos going out as part of CEDA and all the videos in the masterclass are not repurposed They're all custom made for that particular course So although I'm creating more content for e-cam. I'm not slowing down on what I'm doing on my channel There'll still always be a whole load of free content Not just on e-cam, but on all the other things that I cover on this channel But the issue is it does get out of date sometimes and so that's why I created the e-cam live masterclass So you've always got this online place to go where you know that you've always got the absolute latest information It comes with a hundred and fifty dollars worth of bonuses and those include things like icon packs discounts on software Discount on e-cam live in fact actually as well if you are new to e-cam live and the cost of the course is a hundred and forty seven dollars So head over to e-cam live masterclass.com. There's a video over there That'll tell you a bit more about it as well and then yeah Look forward to seeing you in there and if you do join the e-cam live masterclass part of what you get as well is access to a a Members only area of the discord server So definitely join my discord as well at take one tech i o slash discord And then that's free for anyone to join of course And then once you sign up to the e-cam live masterclass you can join all the other people who are on the masterclass in the discord so although the course itself is Really sort of like online only learn at your own pace sort of thing with pre-recorded content. There is still then that added feature of being able to Talk and chat with other people who have done the course or are doing the course as well So that brings me on to other things that I'm doing for cedar. I will be getting my zoom course Wrapped up and out of the door before the end of certainly before the end of next week Because then I've got a whole series of zoom videos that coming out on the channel as well Which total disclosure here the idea of those videos is to cross-promote the the course which goes into a lot more detail I mean the zoom course is over 150 videos And as part of the zoom course you will get the the e-cam course as well But if you've already bought the e-cam course, then you'll get a discount on the the zoom one when it's released So I've got content to create for that as well So what I haven't listed in this schedule is the videos that I'm doing for my courses And I've got a couple of other courses that I've got in the pipeline as well So I'm sort of working on those a little bit in the in the background as well So this quarter is going to be quite epic for me in terms of the stuff that I'm going to be putting out And I hope by the end of this quarter There should be five courses up on my on my on my site and a hell of a lot more content And I'm thinking of sticking with the average of a video a day on the channel I always felt like once I reached this year of doing 365 videos in a year That I'd probably reduce down to one or two videos a day But I'm feeling like with the workflow that I'm building up through Cedar just continuing that momentum so that I can you know have you know Block time out to really sort of crank it out as it were and then have it all queued up So hopefully we should be continuing with the sort of video a day on the channel But then the the courses of people who want a little bit more Organization to their information and that's the the idea behind it So that is at my little update for the day and thank you very much Paul and Carly for dropping the links in and Yeah, I think how it will nearly be 365 videos in a month actually I'll count up and Show you what they are at the end of it But yeah as well as the sort of 200 for the the channel In fact, yeah if I can if I do another X somebody it's all just all just a number isn't it? But yeah, it'd be interesting to see anyway at the end of the month I'm not going to maintain this pace. I shall say that much though So so yeah, that is that is all and I will say though. Thank you very much rich. I will say that being a member of Such a supportive community or communities. I mean there's very in different levels There's the e-cam live community first of all, which I've got to say is just such an awesome place I mean, it was like one of the most welcoming communities to be a part of and the way that everyone is sort of rooting for each other and Sharing of information and it's really you know to have so many people in it And yet it still have this for me at least I feel it's got really quite a nice or cozy family feel to it with people always helping out and that has been a real source of encouragement for me to Be a part of that community, but then as we go, you know talk about the LGL community That is just fantastic and you know a specific focused group on their sort of content creation Sorry, I just got distracted by your comment therefore. Yeah, I'm gonna do a weekly sleep stream a one week sleep stream Hey, Sammy great to see you too So yeah, when you talk about like the LGL community in Docs community, so There again, it's like if e-cam is you know a very broad community and you've got all kinds of different people doing all kinds of Different thing with the software, but then LGL is more you know focused in on Livestreaming youtubers that sort of thing so we've got an even closer community and then you know There's various different groups and things like that. That's that I'm a member of member of and it's just it's just that is being such a source of motivation and inspiration To me in doing what I'm doing with all of this and certainly you know having my my content creation coach Mr. Doc Rock I've actually got a video that I can I'll probably play when it's when I get to my day 365 Which was after I'd been started for a week because when I started my YouTube channel I did my first live stream to nobody Nobody was subscribed or anything like that It was just me and then I did the next very next day was office hours with doc and I didn't start I didn't start office hours Before I did my first live stream because I didn't want to get distracted by going into office hours I knew that there'd be loads of great people there who would be talking about all sorts of different things And then I thought would I start second guessing what I was going to do would I start getting distracted thinking I need to do something else before I start so I figured right Well, let me just make a start first and get my direction that I wanted to head in clear And then I would join the the group afterwards. So that's that's kind of what I did But I did save a little clip where I he mentioned my channel the first time on his channel because I've been watching him for a couple of months at that point You know getting all watching all the tutorials on things like that. He was doing and you know He was just sign off with And doc rock your content creation coach and that's how I've always felt about it So it's in large part what I'm doing now is down to Certainly down to doc and the wider community. So thanks everybody for all of your support So that is it I better get on because I've got a I was gonna I was gonna for the first time on my channel use an expletive. I have got a lot of videos to make a Something load of videos to make so that's what I'm going to be doing right now So I'm going to sign off, but thank you all for popping in it's great to see so many Friendly faces and thanks all for everything you've all done So I'll catch you all later. Have a great day, and I'll see you same time tomorrow. All right Bye everyone. And if you're watching on the replay, of course check out these great videos