 Hey there, Chad Bonsu here for High University Libraries and today I'm actually showing you my office to kind of give you an idea as far as how I make videos for my business blog and a lot of people ask me how do you do that kind of stuff and so this is actually going to be a video about making videos. So first little topic about the kind of equipment I use, I'm actually using this guy right here which is actually a old Sanyo Zakti camcorder on a little flexible tripod. You can also use, I've also used this before. This is just a little Canon point and shoot. You can get these for like a couple hundred dollars, two fifteen, something like that. And then you just put it on a tripod like that, hit record and you're good to go. You can also use, I'm actually recording this with a dedicated camcorder but you can also use a DSLR if you're inclined with that or something like kind of a high quality super zoom point and shoot kind of camera as well. So lots of different choices there as far as what kind of equipment you want to use. If you're just getting started, something like this will work. The newer work versions of this will core 1080p video which is a really good quality video. So this video is going to kind of walk you through how I shoot my videos in my office for a business blog and other educational type videos. Now typically I will start out the video with a personal appearance on camera. I like that because it gives me, it gives people to know who is delivering the video. Obviously me. Gives them a little information about my face. Who I am. So they see me in the library somewhere on campus and they kind of know who I am. So here's how this works. I actually just go over here and start my camera and you'll see me do this in a second. Hey there, Chad Bonds here for High University Libraries. If you're doing any kind of economic research or equity research or looking for information about bonds, historical prices, things like that or historical prices of a stock index, particularly international stock indexes, data stream is a great resource for that. And this video is going to show you just the basics of how you can do use data stream to download information to excel format for your needs. So here's how you use data stream. And then I will usually actually give a, in the same clip, I'll just cut it in half. I will actually do a closing deal as well. Hopefully this helps you. If you need more help about using data stream, look for the contact link on my business blog. Be glad to help you anyway. Take care and have a great day. And so that's the part that's done with the camera. And then we're actually going to walk you through how I do a screen cast using ScreenCast-O-Matic. So to record my screen, I actually use a resource called ScreenCast-O-Matic.com. And obviously you're going to record your screen, you need an audio input. One way to do that is just with a standard webcam. It's just a cheap like $40 Logitech webcam. It works okay, but I do find I have to adjust the sound and when those live movie makers kind of dial it down a little bit. And the sound quality is okay. You do get a little bit of echo in here in my office with that sort of thing. The other option that we've been using lately is this Turtle Beach headset. And this is actually like a gaming headset like you would use to play PC games with. And I got this idea because I use this at home on my Xbox, but we use this for not only recording videos like ScreenCast, but also for doing webinars. Nice thing about this is that as you record yourself or as you speak through it, you can actually hear yourself through the headset. So that's really nice. You don't have to feel like you've got to talk really loud when you're doing a webinar or a video. So these are just Turtle Beach PX21s. It's a really nice resource to do video of that sort of thing. So I'll take you into ScreenCast-O-Matic and show you how I record a video that way. Now generally you wouldn't do a camera of a screen like this, but I don't have a way to capture, do a ScreenCast or capture a ScreenCast. So that way I'm doing a camera of capturing ScreenCast here. So here's how you do it. You go to ScreenCast-O-Matic.com. It's a free service. You can actually create an account and pay like 12 bucks a year that gets rid of the water mark. But here's how you do it. You just go and actually hit record and start talking. Okay. So the easiest way to use Datastream is to open up Excel on the dedicated Datastream terminal in the library. What you'll do is once you open that up, you'll see a Datastream ribbon up here. So you can click on Datastream there. And that will give you all these options here. So we're going to go in and create a time series request because we're looking for time series information, historical pricing, that kind of stuff will be a time series request. So we'll do that and click start time series request there. So once you're done recording, you've got several options of what you want to do with it. You can upload it straight to YouTube. I'm actually going to do some little bit of editing, just kind of string my clip from the camera together with this and Windows Live Movie Maker. So I'm actually going to click on video file. And typically I find in Windows the AVI format will work a little bit better. If you want to match the MP4 will work a little bit better. So I'm just going to do AVI and then I will save the video. And typically what I will do actually is save a folder. I've got a whole directory just called Chad's Video Files and I'm just going to create a new folder and call it Datastream because that's what this video is about. And save the file as like something like Datastream Screen Cast and then click save and it will export it to my hard drive where I'm then going to bring it into Windows Live Movie Maker to edit. So we have our Datastream file on my computer now, downloaded from Screen Cast I'm at it. Now all I have to do is actually drag my clip, the intro and outro clip that will split in the Windows Live Movie Maker here in just a second down to my hard drive and we will go into that video editor and kind of splice together the film. So this is Windows Live Movie Maker, just a basic video editor. I don't find anything more fancy than what this allows me to do. You can also do the same kind of stuff in iMovie or another software like that. You don't need Adobe Premiere or even Sony Vegas or Final Cut to do this sort of thing. So all you got to do is drag your files onto the storyboard there. It's going to render the video. This video out right here is going to take a little time to render that and then once it does that we're able to edit it and splice our clips together. So splicing the clips together is usually pretty easy, it just involves playing your video and then basically picking a spot to split it. Once you split it there you can actually delete the clip. I'm just trying to get close enough to... So here's how you use Datastream. Well, see I messed up there. So we're going to split that out and then boom. And it looks like I did this take a couple different times here. So we're going to split that. Hey there, Chad Bond here for High University Live. Listen to myself. You actually have to listen to yourself a little bit there. I'm going to try to get to... Historical equity index pricing. Things like that. You want to check out Datastream. It's a great resource that allows you to get that data that you need and download it to an Excel format. This video shows you the basis of using Datastream and how to download information that you need in Excel. So pause there, split and we'll drag this guy down here on the other side. So this is the end part. We will play it. Hope. Oh, got my hope. We want to back up a little bit and split there. Delete. Hopefully this helps you. If you need more help, look for the contact link. We'll be glad to help you. Anyway, take care and have a great day. Stop there and I don't want myself... We will try to end with my smile here. That's the challenge. Have a great day. Okay. There we go. That's good enough. Put it there and we can delete that. Now the next part here is to add captions. And what you all need to do in Windows Live Movie Maker is go up here and click on caption. And actually, what I like to do rather than actually typing the same thing out over and over again, I actually have an Evernote note that I will show you here that actually has what I call video cut and paste. So my caption here is Chad Banger, Business and Economics Specialist. I'll copy that, go back to Windows Live Movie Maker, and then click on caption. And all I have to do is paste it in there. It depends on where you want it. You can actually resize it, that sort of thing. I like it to not take seven seconds. I'm just going to do three seconds and I like it to fade in. And you can preview it. Hey there, Chad Banger here for High University. And that's good enough. And then we can go back to my note here. I'm going to grab my URL to my website and go over here and kind of scrub to where it says Contact Business Blog. I'll be glad to help you. Went a little too far. Let's see. Contact link. That's good enough. Do caption. Put that in there. And I like to make that a little bit smaller. So let's do maybe 14 is too small. Let's do maybe 18. We can leave it down here. We can move it up here if you wanted to. I'm just going for the sake of consistency. Leave it down at the very bottom down there. And then we should be good to go. I know this is pretty good, all this content through here. So I'm not really going to edit any of that stuff. So we see I've got a four-minute 58-second video, which is a little bit long, but Datastream is pretty complicated. So we'll leave it at that. I'm going to actually, before I forget, just save this. And I'm going to go into my Chad's Video Files Datastream folder and just call it Datastream Basics. And then what you can actually do is click on Save Movie to render your video out. And I've actually got a setting for 1280 by 720. You can do for high definition, but it's going to do 1080p. And actually, the video recorded in Screencast Imaniq was recorded in 720. So I actually prefer 720p. So I'm going to do 1280 by 720 here. And we'll go back to the Datastream. And there's Datastream Basics. And then we'll click Save. And it's going to take a few minutes to render our movie out for us. So we see my video is actually done rendering. Just a side note, you can just click the YouTube option. It will render the movie and then upload to YouTube from this interface here. But it actually puts it into a file folder that's not the one I've been working in. So I kind of prefer to keep things a little bit more organized, which is why I just do the Save Movie that way. So you can open your folder, see where it is. And here's our folder there. Oops, missed it. Datastream Basics there, all you have to do. Is go to YouTube. And let's grab our Datastream Basics there. And it's as simple as dragging it there to start uploading. So now as far as titles go, I'm not going to call this Datastream Basics. I'm going to call it How to Download Historical Economic Company. So after some tweaking off my care, I actually decided that my title would be How to Download Economic Equity and Financial Information with Datastream. I need to fix that, it looks like. But we'll go back and fix that in a little bit. Actually, let's do a little magic there with a spacebar. We're good to go. I've got a description here. We want to put some tags in there. We can actually go in and start doing things like finance industry, things like that. Once again, I actually prefer to go back to my note here and actually have some standard video tags that I use regardless. And so I will put those guys in there. And then I will go in and put in finance. We'll do stock. We'll do market. And this is kind of just increases your finability of your video. So we go in and we do Datastream, things like that. So we have all kinds of information that we do that. We can choose a video thumbnail from here. I'll just do, we'll just set that as our thumbnail. And then we can choose a category. Mine's educational. I actually want to do creative commons because I feel free to share my stuff and that kind of good stuff. And then we go in and click on and all changes are saved. And then later it's going to be on YouTube and the magic is there. It's out there for people to use. We can embed it on our blog, put it, send it out via Twitter, all kinds of good stuff that way. So that's how you make a quick video. With Screencast-O-Matic, Windows Laboomaker, YouTube, and some sort of camera. So this video has kind of showed you basically how I do my videos. So nothing to do with fancy to it and really not too much fancy equipment. And it just takes a little bit of practice. I've been doing a little while. So, you know, I've kind of got a good workflow, but you may find that you've got other things that work better for you. So if you've got questions, just leave a comment on this video. I'll try to answer the best way I can. And hopefully it helps you make your own videos. So wish you the best of luck and let me know if I can help you anyway. So take care and good luck to you. Go make some videos.