 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. So I wanted to record a video today basically just explaining what I've been doing over the last few months trying to keep a track of the Technical aspects of my video production. So I started doing YouTube videos the best part of let's say a year ago actively starting out with some kind of screencasts and tutorials and showing different how to do different things on Linux and stuff like that and I always kind of plan to do something a little bit more than that and still very much my aspiration Feel like I'm just scratching the surface but as I scratch the surface one of the aspects of video production that I feel very much drawn to Perhaps just because I'm kind of of a technical bend is the Technical aspects the gear the equipment that go into making video whether we're talking about Video blog such as when you're working with the one you're watching or videos out in the fields Shot with a camcorder and all that now What I like to do is Keep track of what I'm trying out and as this has gone on this hobby has evolved I've sort of started to build up my first pieces of gear and Keeping track of what I'm using what I have Becomes not difficult but slightly more important particularly when you're talking with people on videography forums or camera forums or you want to send somebody a link and Get their feedback on what did you think of the audio on this clip? What did you think of the lighting? What am I doing wrong? What could I be doing better? So for that reason those reasons and many more I've developed a couple of Been doing a few things and I wanted to just Show these things in case you're starting a YouTube channel and of course, this is not prescriptive This is just what I'm doing and I'm offering it out there to the world in case You think it's a good idea and I might work well for you. So Let me Get into us. So firstly first thing I did was build out a spreadsheet or I built out a spreadsheet And that's basically keeping track of what I currently have in terms of video and audio equipment Now I'm gonna just move myself down a small bit here to show you What I am using or what I've done to make the spreadsheet. So I'm gonna actually put myself over here So you can see the tabs So this is a spreadsheet that it's a work in progress as I am acquiring new things. I'm adding them, but I've Divided it according to a category. So I have starting with my cameras, you know the Canon Vixia HF R800 the kuau 20 and P action cam believe me It gets hard to remember all these different product names as you build out a kiss lenses I'm actually about to do that do that tonight along with lens filters because I just picked these up In the last week from Amazon while in the US. So I need to just take notes of Wash manufacturer Man, man, you factor or product Lens Etc. And that's kind of how it works. And let me show you one that I've actually fleshed out a bit more than this So here's an example. This is the microphones one and this is where I'm keeping track of my Burgling microphone collection now. I think audio is something that I find really interesting I've sort of dabbled in podcasting and audio production before this YouTube journey really kicked off and Therefore, I've kind of already had a few microphones Definitely not very high-end microphones. I am doing all this on a budget And what I'm trying to do is really cast a wide net to have one of everything Even if those things are not super high quality. What I've done here is just kind of noted the information that I thought would be useful manufacture and model and then I have Cancadenated these two columns because when you're posting on Forums whether on reddit or the kanem community or whatever else you typically refer to a piece of kit by Manufacturer model and it just gets really hard to keep all these straight You've got the Beetran WXM04 and the Mammon KMD2 and the Maono AU902 So there is another purpose for this and that will become clear Just in a couple of moments. I'll show you what I'm adding into my youtube video descriptions So I've noted the manufacturer model. I've noted the microphone. I've noticed noted what type of microphone that is connection type Analog or digital batteries. I've even put down what type of batteries the thing has and if I don't have the info I just kind of google it and Try to source it. So this is a for example, this is a Mmm. This is the powered lav mic This is the powered lav mic. The question is does it list the battery probably does or is it? I think this is an updated model that's charged from a micro usb So anyway, that's what I do. I try to create a good information source bringing all together the information because I buy stuff from aliexpress I buy stuff from amazon and I wanted to have this central look up so that if For some weird reason I happen to be outside an amazing camera store That is holding a flash sale and I say oh my goodness. What do I need? um, I can easily look up and see what's in my current microphone box and What might be the next logical upgrade? If you have any feedback on these microphones besides the fact they all kind of suck Do let me know in the comments. Uh, no, they don't all suck. That's I I've developed a relationship with these microphones and some of them are they're all None of them are outstanding, but some of them get the job done Um, so lighting is the next one and I've just noted and so on and so forth I'm not going to go through every tap here Um, so that's my spreadsheet and as he said it's a work in progress The second thing I do is um, I'm just checking the time here six minutes I have been for a while adding in These descriptions called I call them production notes. I don't know if there's a better word Um, and basically for every video I upload to youtube What I've done here is in the upload defaults. There is this setting for a default description And so that I don't need to type it in every time. I've just copied and pasted it here And I'll show you what my default is. It's basically uh, the camera Used plus the audio source. That's the microphone plus the stabilization if any Plus the lighting equipment used post production I just typically write did I do it if I don't do it? I write nil if I do do it I write kaden live or if it's another pro eventually I hope to graduate to davinci and then if there are some other notes, um, I put them in there too And that's in my upload defaults now I have found that the upload defaults functionality is a small bit buggy Therefore I do find that it sometimes doesn't get included in things I upload from my phone Um on youtube and therefore what I do is I go in batches and I will update Previous clips. Uh, so I just actually did this one for a previous take that Did not go so well. Um, so I'll just do this again and pretend you didn't see this So I just take a note and this is why um So this is why this is very useful because um, I can't remember the the name of every single Uh microphone in my collection, even though there's only like 10 microphones in there But some of them are kind of new to me um, so between the maonos for instance, um It's not sure I can always remember all these three off the top of my head But I can just look up this spreadsheet and quickly add in my source Um, and I try to include as much information Given the given the fact that there's two purposes for this Purpose one might be I am listening back to um, this particular uh previous youtube video and I say I really got the audio the audio really came out nicely in that clip So therefore I want to include as much info as might be useful. So I can actually remember this particular one It was a flight Um that we took between Philadelphia and Dallas and there was some turbulence and I One of the things I picked up in the u.s. Was this action camera And it was before I'd figured out how to get the action camera out of its waterproof casing and so the audio was really muffled in it So that's the kind of thing I would just put in um internal Microphone while in waterproof case Uh, and you could even say the one that came was the product now. Um, clearly there would be other ways to do this You could keep an offline spreadsheet and by putting it in the video description Everybody is going to be able to see it now. The reason I did it like this is because um As I said, I might want to share these for critiques or feedback when I get a bit better You could do both you could keep a spreadsheet. Um, just so that would probably be the better approach in fact Every video keep a spreadsheet Keep your description in the spreadsheet. Keep production notes as a separate part of the spreadsheet and you can decide Um, if you want to share one particular production note with the public and then hide the rest of them But the way I'm doing it right now is just like this. So stabilization nil. This is if I use a gimbal or not or Um, in the future, I would love to experiment with steady cans and those manual ones Lighting and again, I'm just trying to be descriptive. This was cabin lighting only So it was variable because it was in an airplane and the cabin crew changed the lighting a bit So I'm not not just going to write, you know, artificial lighting or led lighting Uh post production is, you know, whether I do it firstly or not Some of the videos I put up on youtube are just raw and others I've edited and as he says, um, I would like to get to Da Vinci, um, eventually so that way I'll be able to just go back And see and look through a clip and say, okay, that was Caden live So I can kind of see the way the transitions were done. There was a bit different and etc So that's just one video Description and as he said, I go back through these in batches and I'll do sort of like 10 or 20 at a time Uh, I try to do this obviously as soon as possible so that I can still remember the microphone I use it's unlikely. I'm going to remember a year later Whether I shot a video blog using a lapel mic or using a shotgun microphone So that's why I try to capture that info ASAP post shoot um, okay, one final thing I do is You could call this my hacky maybe um a little bit, but um, I basically will I'm just going to go through and get open a playlist I thought I did this before I started rolling this clip, but apparently not Let's just go into this one. I just created a demo one for the purpose of this video. Um, so here we go So what I will do um, a lot of the time or sometimes is choose test clips around the house, um using my phone or um, edit them a little bit And these are just for me to test out a functionality. So I did one a few days ago using a microphone on a boom pole and testing around my apartment now. I didn't want to put that up publicly because of the fact that you know, it's my apartment And there's kind of a privacy issue there. So what I did instead was I've created um about five or say, I'm going to say 10 Probably five or six playlists and I call them production. Um, and what I have is a bit like this I have one main one called production I have production audio Production lighting production stabilization Production um Um production uh cameras and You know each one is uh, so that I can quickly Go into a playlist and it's going to be Test of a specific function. So right now I'm testing at microphones. So when I upload a private microphone test Um, I will basically uh tag it or add it to the playlist Production and production audio. Those are all private playlists But I have them bookmarked and that means I can just go in to a private playlist and listen to a few different tests I did Um, and that is basically it another thing you can do is create an alternative approach that you may prefer You can create a separate youtube channel Just for testing and then set the upload default On that youtube channel to private. So that's that's another thing you can do. Um, I've done that too, but I Find it's typically easier just to work Everything in the one channel But um, if you wanted to add different brand managers or you're you're burgeoning crew Uh to a channel but not to your main channel. Um, then that would be an option I think where that kind of a thing would make sense. So this is basically what I'm doing so far. Um, right now I'm excited and trying to Level up as quickly as I can but in the usual course of things I kind of Do this at a lesser pace, but um, I think all together between the Spreadsheet and the private playlist and the video descriptions Um, it's a reasonably good system for keeping track of all the different Technical aspects that go into producing video and you know from my perspective right now the ones I'm focused on are audio video lighting and Stabilization and that's and post production editing But I'm trying to get those kind of core technical skills down before I start doing more sophisticated things like interviewing people and etc because I did my first interview or one of my first interviews um recently and uh, well a few months ago and I didn't have the gear that I've just got in and uh The audio was absolutely unusable. Um, and that kind of taught me that I should probably learn get my Skills down and get my gear down Before I waste anybody's time having them sit down with me for 30 minutes to tell me an interview Only to have to write right back and email or facebook saying I'm really sorry, but I can't do anything with that audio. It's just like Not usable. So that's kind of my goal is to sort of avoid those Situations from happening again. So I hope this video is useful. Um, if you have your own uh methodology for YouTube videos and for um editing your youtube videos and making things better Then please feel free to leave me a comment telling me what you guys do Or how you how you think this system could be better. Thank you very much for watching And if you want to get more videos from me, please feel free to subscribe