 alright guys welcome back to another video today as you can tell I'm not using my phone to shoot a video I got my camera out of the closet put the mic on I still don't have my tripod I ordered a new one because the other one isn't in Los Angeles but right now that's exactly the topic what I want to talk about today what equipment do you need to get started the new year is around the corner and everybody is excited everybody has new year's resolutions and I remember when I first started shooting videos and I get those DMs all the time where people are like how did you get started I don't have the equipment I don't have money for a camera whatever it is you you do have a phone right let me let me get all my thoughts together this video is for you if you have a passion and you don't know how to get started and you're scared to fail because everybody's so talented on social media and on YouTube please watch this video and watch my first video yes my very first video I want to show you that and I'm not gonna interrupt it it's gonna be a reaction video type of thing so I'm gonna have it I'm gonna play it I'm gonna watch it and then I'm gonna tell you exactly why I think it's so important that you guys see that mind you that video was shot when was it shot six years ago six years ago on a camera I don't even know what that was it was I didn't even know if it shot in 1080 anyways I had a I downloaded Sony Vegas Pro for the very first time because I had no idea how to edit I didn't know what program I should use I hit the Google I was like what do I need to edit videos and then Sony Vegas Pro popped up for free so it's like okay that's great downloaded it shot this video I have no idea how long it took me to edit it but last thing before I started I cannot play the music because I used copyright music I had no idea make a move six years ago 640 views let's go so first of all I mean you saw it I had really long hair I was really skinny but here's the thing the location that I had was a gymnasium that I rented for $15 an hour and I held my fat burning classes in there with my clients so that's where I started and then one night I was like can I rent the gym or the gymnasium for two hours and they were like sure so I invited my friend Tino Tino I'm sorry if you if you're watching this I have to show it so Tino and I we were like okay let's just shoot this video we create this you know idea this concept this lifestyle just make a move don't stop you don't know how to get started just you know do one take one step and then what after that one step you take another one so you don't need to know exactly how many steps you you know you need to take to achieve your goal just take the first one and for me definitely paid off because I started with this six years ago that was my first edit obviously I had no idea about YouTube I just uploaded it I didn't know about the length of the video I had no idea about copyright music so I just used this song that I was a lot anyways the moral of the story is I didn't have the best equipment I didn't have the knowledge to edit I didn't have the knowledge about YouTube I didn't have anything and I uploaded only one video and those 640 views were a lot because mainly I think pretty sure 400 of those views were friends of mine from school because we just shared it with in our circle you know so everybody was just sharing and they're like oh what are you doing I was like yeah every Monday want to work out everybody's welcome to join so the moral of the story is no matter what you want just get started today yes right now after you finish watching this video whatever it is you want to achieve in life go after it take the first step I had a conversation with a friend of mine and he said he's unhappy with his life I was like what do you want to do and he was like I think I want to do personal training I was like okay cool so as soon as you hang up you sign up for that personal training certificate and then you get started that's the first step you've signed up and you get started that's the first step some people do it some people don't you know but if you don't take the first step you will never achieve that goal and for me it was that video that video that terrible video with like very cheesy and like a little cringy but it was the first step made me realize that I really like editing videos I like being in front of the camera and I like working out so I was like all that combined is gonna help me achieve my goal to move to the United States and guess where I am right now I'm in Miami and I'm shooting this video about six like about this video that I shot six years ago that was my first step so take that lesson and again as soon as you stop this video you start whatever it is you take the first step of whatever it is you want to do in life you go after this so my SD card was full and I don't really know when it stopped filming I think the last part that wasn't recorded was this so if you wonder why I thought about this video that I produced six years ago with no equipment no knowledge in editing no knowledge about YouTube or anything and why am I bringing it up now here's the reason I realized when I was shooting some quality content or at least I personally thought it was really good quality content with my friend and cinematographer Jan one good example is the video that I am gonna link up here it's how I trained or I trained like a firefighter for one day that video was just so good it made me feel so good because I love the quality I love the storytelling I loved how we showed everything how firefighters work and like how hard it is to just do that on a daily basis so with that being said when Jan flew back to Germany I thought like okay now I have to replace not only my cinematographer but also my good friend because you knew exactly how I want to shoot things and I was a little I don't want to say scared but I was like I had such a good team he trusted me with what I wanted to do I trusted him with the camera so it was a perfect team then I started thinking about the quality and like what I want to put out there and if you know I want to be proud of what I produce all of a sudden I was like I cannot just film with my g7x or I cannot film with this or that I need my professional camera I need my camera equipment I need my audio equipment I need my lab mics I need all of that so it's like sounds good feels good looks good and that just slowed me down and at that time I really stopped producing content at all like I wasn't I wasn't filming anything I wasn't vlogging I wasn't doing anything and that made me very unhappy and I at that time I didn't know what it was not saying I was unhappy in general I was just like I was missing something and then I realized it's crew it's producing content that's what started it like I loved shooting that and spending time editing it and then I just I just started again I was like you know what it doesn't matter what equipment I have it doesn't matter if I have a cinematographer I'm just gonna do it I'm just gonna wing it and if the content the message behind the video is good people gonna like it and I'm gonna be proud of it a great example is the video that I shot on the German the Deutsche Donnerstag I shot this video on my iPhone with no camera no audio and I edited the entire video on my phone no editing software and nothing I mean obviously on my phone and app but I didn't have to spend hours on my computer I did it in like 20 minutes probably and the entire thing was so exciting because I was speaking in German for the first time ever in a video and I was shooting everything by myself and I and I edited everything by myself and it was just it was raw and it was it was cool and it was great energy and people I'm pretty sure felt that too that just made me think and I was like I don't want to ever go back to the point where I feel like I can't do something because I don't have the resources take the first step and start for me it was like a restart or you know starting again need us in the photographer right now I have a cardboard box right there in front of me the camera is on top of it and I'm filming mess myself and I tell you the entire story and that's it now I can edit it and here we go I hope this example this story just shows you it doesn't matter if you don't know how to do it just read more there's Google YouTube just start doing things whatever it is don't wait for 2020 start today you got this I believe in you here we go