 In this video, I want to talk about how I use the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K to record my YouTube videos and how I get great audio using two microphones, both inputs of the camera. I'm going to show you how to do it. So I don't have a lot of time to make these videos, but I really, really want to do it. So I have tried to find a way to make it as easy and as fast as possible, very little setup time so that I can have an idea, set everything up, go for it, start recording it, quick edit, and get them out. In effort to do this, I have taken some advice from a couple of other people on YouTube, including Caleb Pike over at DSLR Video Shooter. And I've tried to do a one-stand setup that can easily move out into the room whenever I'm ready to do a video or move away whenever I need to do something else. So part of this is good lighting. I have a decent soft light here and a good way for audio to be recorded. And so what I am doing here is I have a SM-7B fantastic microphone hooked onto a little boom arm like this. So get that back out of the frame. And I also have a lavalier microphone that is just plugged directly into the camera. It's not wireless or anything at this point, but I probably will go there at some point just for convenience. I have this, the SM-7B run into a box called a cloud lifter. And so what that does is it boosts the signal of this microphone. This microphone is great, has a great tone for voice, but it needs a little bit more juice behind it for most microphone preamps. So the good thing about the Blackmagic camera is that it has a mini XLR input and it can provide the phantom power for this microphone or actually for this cloud lifter box. So I have the SM-7B run into the cloud lifter box and then from there I have a short XLR to micro XLR cable plugged into the camera and then I have the phantom power for that input turned on. Then I have the lavalier microphone run through a cable and it is plugged into the other eighth inch jack on the side of the camera. And I believe it's a powered lapel mic, it's just a cheap one from Best Buy, I believe. The audio quality is not fantastic but it's great to have as a backup and just to kind of add to the sound. So now I'll give you an example of what they sound like, each one. So this is some audio with the SM-7 with the lavalier turned off. This is what that sounds like. This is the bulk of the sound. This is where it has most of the lower mid-range, the part that most people like about the vocal sound. And so I'll switch, this is the sound with just the lavalier mic, the SM-7 is turned off. So this is more of a backup microphone. I could move around a little bit, it doesn't matter so much if I am directly on this or not. So that's also good to have, especially since the camera has two inputs. It's nice to record that way. And they are panned out left and right. So as I am editing the audio, I can then just make it mono and I can choose how much of whichever one I want to go to both speakers at the same time. Or like in this demonstration, I can cut one out and just let the other one play. So as for recording the video, I actually used the HDMI out of the Blackmagic camera and I feed it through a FuelWorld Master M6 monitor. Maybe I'll put stuff in the description about all of this gear. I run it through that so that I can use the false color for my exposure. That's highly recommend that. Once I learned how to do that and what the colors meant, that was the best way to make sure that my skin tones were right and that I got the proper exposure while I was recording a video. So then I have the direct out of that monitor going out into a 4K HDMI USB3 input into my Mac mini recorder here so that all of my recording I can do directly with just quick time on the Mac. Saves me a lot of time as far as editing goes. Looks great, sounds great. It's exactly as it would be out of the camera. And so I can see my exposure. I'm recording here. I don't have to worry about transferring a memory card or running out of space. I can let it run as long as I want. Save the file, go back, chop it up, edit. Works fantastic. Alright, that's all I've got for this quick video. I hope this was helpful for someone. Certainly is helpful for me to get all of this set up in a quick way so that I can make these videos whenever I have an idea and try to build my channel and try to teach some people how to create some things. So if this is your first time here, make sure that you subscribe. I'd appreciate a like. It kind of shows me that people enjoy what I'm trying to do here. Leave me a comment if you have any questions about any of this. I'll make sure and put in the description the full list of all of my gear and the things that I use in case you want to look into any of that further. So I appreciate you watching. See you next time.