 how to make videos with your iPhone hey you've been wanting to make videos right you've been thinking oh my god I don't want to spend all this money for a fancy camera and lighting and all these things which actually I'm looking at right now but I will tell you some of the most successful channels on YouTube that people use iPhones now are there other good phones out there yeah but you clicked on this because you probably have an iPhone and you know what iPhone is good and you know what iPhone has good sound and you know what iPhone has good video and guess what I have right here I got me an iPhone it's got my little timer on there so I know how long I'm talking right I use it for so many things it's a timer it's my email it's my stocks it's it's video it's everything okay now when we film videos oftentimes we use iPhone so I want to do this video and show you guys how to use your iPhone and how to get the best results out of it let's get started right now if you're not making videos now it's be probably because you don't think you have the resources you don't have the time or you don't have the money you don't have the equipment and odds are it's sitting right in your pocket right now if you've got an iPhone now mine never sits in my pocket really it always sits next to me because I gotta get really close to it right I gotta be there but what I want to do is give you a list of things to do to get the best quality videos from your iPhone now the first thing number one find a quiet place now this may sound really obvious to you but it's not obvious because if you look at a lot of the videos online it's really noisy there's stuff going on in the background there's dogs barking there's trucks driving by and all this and I understand if you if you just don't have any place you can go then you're gonna have to have a noisy environment but I bet you do I bet you could find a quiet room I bet you could shut a door I bet you could go outside somewhere where there's no traffic go to a park I mean we have parks all over in San Diego so I can just stand by a lake somewhere and shoot a video but try to find a quiet place that's number one your sound quality is so important now I use an external mic and I have one on right now however you don't need that right now with an iPhone as long as you're within three or four feet of the phone you're gonna be fine now when you start to exceed that what happens is the range of the microphone gets everything so if there's a noise 10 feet behind you or 50 feet behind you it's gonna grab that too so understand that if you're gonna be shooting with an iPhone you want to shoot within maybe three or four feet to get the best quality sound number two I know I know this seems obvious to make sure you have enough storage on your phone too often we take tons of pictures and I'm guilty of it too maybe we're taking a screenshot to send somebody or maybe we're taking a picture of something that's broken or a shirt in the store to send you know a relative and we don't go back through and we don't delete all those things those useless videos those useless pictures they eat up the memory in your phone and if you don't have the memory in your phone you're not gonna be able to do videos so make sure you clear out your phone that you may get this recording on your screens in this recording here it says cannot record video there's not enough available storage to record your video you can manage your storage in your settings now if we go over two settings you're gonna see a screen like this and it's it's your under your general tab storage and iCloud usage it says used and available and then it's got a managed storage there so you'd want to click on your managed storage okay and you can change your storage plan now if you want to keep this stuff on your phone you can change your storage plan I think I pay $2.99 a month for my storage plan and it gives me all I need for $2.99 so you may want to check that out now number three is when you're recording on your iPhone understand that if it's like it is to you it is to me I've got my Facebook on there I've got my email on there I've got all kinds of stuff on there I've got my stocks on there and if you've got a bunch of notifications coming in when you're filming it's gonna mesh up so the first thing you want to do is turn off all notifications all you got to do to do that blanket to everything without having to individually turn off your notifications just swipe up click on the crescent moon on your iPhone and that will shut down all those notifications here's a picture of it on the screen right there you can see it all you do is click on and we call it do not disturb but basically it's turning off all of your notifications so that you don't get them now here's a pro tip okay do not disturb is a great way to watch YouTube videos play games and sleep interrupted too so if you're wanting to do all these other things and I can interrupt and turn that on when you're doing it number four we're getting into a little bit of equipment but not much here and I'll put a link below as to where you can get one of these use a tripod oftentimes if you have somebody holding the camera or you're holding the camera then it's going to have a little bit of a shakiness to it so if you can get a tripod of some sort and even if you don't have a tripod you could stack up some books or some boxes or whatever and put your phone on top of that so it gives it more stability that shakiness in a video can turn people off number five man this is the biggest one is it's called light your video now i'll give you an example of my lighting here real quick so you can see it okay so here is the lighting there's my camera and you can see i got a light there i got a light there i got a light there i got a light there so there's a lot of lights i've got one in my office now do you have to use all these lights of course not as a matter of fact you don't have to use any lights whatsoever but you need to think about your lighting in advance so if i'm going to shoot a video and i'm by a window that has light i'm not going to have the window behind me you don't want anything back lit if you have a back lit your face is going to look dark if you're going to film in front of a window what you want to do is stand facing the window and film from the window towards your face and that way your front lit if you're front lit you're going to show up better nothing's worse than watching a dark video now here's another piece of equipment you don't have to do it i recommend it and i'm doing it right now and that's use a microphone there are plenty of microphones you can hook up to your iphone i have one right here and it's hooked into the camera in front of me now i'm not using an iphone to film right now but we oftentimes will use an iphone i know my wife uh does a question and answer thing for pets and we will set up the main camera and then we'll set up the iphone off to the side so we have two angles and we film those at the same time so we're actually using the iphone and a dslr camera too we choose to use the audio from the microphone though not the iphone because it is going to be a little bit better it doesn't mean you have to do it but understand like i said in the beginning if you get more than three or four feet away from a subject and you're using the microphone on your iphone it's not going to be as good a quality and you want his best quality audio that you could possibly get this is number seven and oh my guys this drives me nuts when i see this i see these two black bars turn your phone horizontally don't have a vertical video i see so many people holding their phones up and it's vertical and i know i know they're going to have those two black bars on the side okay so don't do that if you turn your phone sideways horizontally and hold it like this or put it in a bracket like that you're going to get a whole lot better video that's going to fit on youtube it's going to fit on your video screen it's going to fit where it should fit number eight don't use your iphone's zoom now you say why well because it distorts the video if you're using the zoom on the video you're not going to get the quality that you could get if you don't use the zoom now if you have to i get it you have to but if you can stay away from that please do so you'll get a whole lot better quality video number nine lock your exposure now iphone's are really good for adjusting to exposure but while filming a video if they constantly adjust it can affect the quality of your video so what you want to do is set up whatever exposure you know you have and then lock that exposure here's an example on the screen right here where i've got the actual exposure locked so that it does focus correctly on the subject number 10 edit not on your iphone here's where we get away from the iphone you want to edit on a computer you can do so much more on the computer and i know there are ways to edit on an iphone and there's a lot of apps that helps you edit on iphone i still use a computer i use a good software i use camtasia i'll put a link below the bottom line is if you edit on a computer you're going to get a lot better results and you could do more things with it so there you have it you can film videos with your iphone there's some things you're going to need to do there's going to be certain ways you're going to need to go about it you know maybe the lighting you're going to need to look at maybe a microphone you're going to need to look at you want to look at the distance of course you want to make sure you you go horizontally okay those are important but bottom line is don't let it stop you you may not even have an iphone maybe you're watching this video and i'll just oh my god you don't have an iphone the world's coming to an end no you still have something you could film with if you have a phone and you do a video think about this for a second you do a video and it's not a great phone it's not a great video but you do a video and you put it up on youtube how many views you're going to get okay set that aside now pretend that you don't do a video and you don't put it up on youtube how many how many views are you going to get approximately that's right none so something's better than nothing you say well jr i want it to be perfect i want it to be so good i want to look so good you're never going to achieve perfection this is not going to happen okay every time i do a video i've got mistakes somewhere every time i write something i've got mistakes somewhere every time i work out i got mistakes everybody has mistakes you got to deal with that perfection and i've seen people say oh i'm a perfectionist i'm a you know you're not because you're not perfect okay you may strive to be perfect but you'll never achieve it so you're not a perfectionist what perfection really is is procrastination that's disguised okay so if i if i say i want to do a perfect video so i've got to have the right camera the right lights the circumstance the right script all this and i just don't have all that together yet all i've really done is just procrastinated i've just put it off i've just not done it it allows me to not do something and call myself a perfectionist you're not perfect you never will be perfect if you are perfect post below and say hey i'm perfect i would love to hear that and i want to hear why you think you're perfect but if you're not perfect post below and tell me why you're not perfect tell me what your experience has been in filming have you done any filming have you used a camera do you have a camera have you tried to use your iphone before put that in the comments below now if you have any questions about how to do any of this if you have questions about these lights or cameras or scripts or any of that stuff put that in the comment section below and don't forget also you need to subscribe it's 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