 Hey, so I've been asked how I do my videos currently what's like my workflow and such and given that right now I am a way in vacation and I don't have anything to do for a week like at least I'm doing this video before but when when I publish this it's gonna be vacation I thought I would do this random video showing my workflow for those interested so first of all let me tell you that this is my room it looks quite bad it's literally just one home and whenever I'm recording it's a mess because I have to move things around a lot but you can just get an idea like I sleep here when there's nothing on it and then this is my habit tracker which is usually kind of empty because I'm super busy and I don't have time to do anything I've got a library with some cool stuff like drawings books drawings by Revelli Revellius by the way which is so good you know a bunch of things and then of course I've got a recording setup basically half of my room is my studio so how I'm doing this currently is so for the lights which is the easier part I've got behind me three LED RGB lights which are of how is it called something I don't know I bought them on Amazon and they work really great and again I can control them by the mephone which gives me the possibility to do a lot of cool things like yes this is red and blue I can also do yellow and green and to be honest I can do literally whatever I want with them like I don't know green and red or I can even do like the real light stuff I just can do whatever I think that stuff like this can look decently good and then because I'm using just the center wind right now so it's kind of aura around me and then there's blue which works particularly well let me show you this is what everything is blue looks like now wait like this okay this is all blue and I think it works really well you know I just can have fun with colors behind me I do use a couple of mirrors because I want all the light to be on the wall and not in the rest of the room of course that's not gonna be perfect but it's crazy cheap and then I've got my main lights for the focused person which is here an Elgato K light here which I both on Facebook marketplace for 60 bucks and then here I've got my other light which is you know to for the other half of the base otherwise face otherwise I would look like this which cool but no and this is actually just a Nakia light well it's a smart so I can just control it if I wanted but I don't see any reason to actually then of course there's the main source of light in my room but I never use that whilst recording it's just you know the light bulb it's also smart but you know this is the light set then I've got my camera right over there and it's a Fujifilm XT3 which I also both on Facebook marketplace it is using a lens which is F slash 1.2 I think to the minimum but I use it at 1.4 1.8 maybe 1.6 and remember and it's manual focus which means that I have to always stay still in the same place otherwise I get out of focus it's very annoying and its focal length is 35 millimeters which actually makes me sit very far from the camera but also means that the background is captured correctly like it's only the background doesn't gather anything else which is pretty nice but anyway I forgot to mention but yes I do also have LED straps of lights throughout my room but those don't actually contribute to the video anymore because they're not bright enough but you know it's still looks cool I guess what else yes I was talking about a camera so how I do this how I record my videos is actually talk about a microphone first so the microphone is a Samsung Q2U this is the second one I buy I actually killed the first one but it's super cheap I got it for like 50 bucks so it's also super useful it is a USB microphone so it doesn't require any particular setup and it does have a USB sorry a jack output that connects to the input of the camera so I'm recording the audio with a microphone and also with the camera like it's transmitted to the camera sadly enough sadly enough the camera has this weird beep constantly so I don't actually use the audio of the camera I at the same time also record the audio with audacity on my computer so I record in both places places at the same time but it makes it much much easier to you know sync the video feed to the audio that I'm recording because I can just literally say okay I actually use a little we'll get to that let me finish off this first I'm I'm not doing this correctly so to record the video I could use some like professional capture card that records the video to some SSD or stuff but that's expensive I don't have the money so I just do an actual recording which by the way is limited to 20 minutes so every 20 minutes I have to stop the video and do it again and then I have to separate the audio into 20 minutes chunks to realign everything it's a bit of a mess but you know it works to actually see myself whilst recording which is super important I need to know that I'm in focus that the lighting is correct correct and you know all of that I actually use the HDMI out of the camera not into a capture card but directly into my monitor so I start audacity and then I change the monitor HDMI input and then I just have the camera nothing else where do I actually see my script then well I always with me my little tablet which is the jing-pad actually so I keep all my notes in my jing-pad and you can often see me reading the notes I am not ashamed to say that sometimes I do have to read them most of the time I can just talk and whatever to also check that the camera is recording correctly I have to use another mirror because I with this I see my image I don't see anything else though I don't see any UI I actually have to put a mirror behind the camera that bounces off the image of the camera so I can actually see that yes right now it is recording and nothing is wrong and if I get better eyes I could also see what how much time I had left I have left but it's too far I can see but yes this is like this recording setup it's a bit of a mess I also have the camera plugged to power so that it never turns off then what I do is that of course I record on the SD card I remove the SD card put it into the computer and then once it's into the computer I start the editing phase so first of all I need to get my files in order right now I have my audio and then I have a video feed different files so I use this little tool which I found on github which is called the sync start which analyzes the start of the two like the video and the audio and tells me how far apart they are and then I use ffmpeg to firstly cut a bit of the audio I always start the audio first so I have to cut a little bit of it and then another ffmpeg command to switch the audio of the video with the audio of the microphone and luckily enough this takes very little keep in mind that I am recording everything at 4k 60 frame for seconds so we have like I have like 20 gigabytes of video right now with me so it's important that everything is fast in this space then once I have the actual video with the correct audio I can use auto editor which very nicely enough just cuts off the silences which is the first thing I would do anyway so how I do that is that I don't actually let it do its thing because it would take hours on 17 gigabytes of video what I do is that I tell him to export to a premier file but luckily enough kid in life is able to import premier files so after all of this I finally have my video on kid in life where you know I can actually start editing adding images and such I'm still experimenting a bit to find my own style of editing personally I just fell in love with the various why perfects that kid in life has I'm just loving them you you will start seeing me use them everywhere sorry about that but you know it's the editing part I add a little bit of background music I change the colors this is important I pump up the saturation a little bit of lightness I correct the white color and then since my skin at this point is looking horrible I use a three-point thingy I don't I never study colors I don't know how any of this works but I just select the color of my skin with the middle one of the three points thingy and then I make it much less saturated and towards the center and my skin kind of gets back to normal but everything is more light full and everything so this is how I do things and I also add a little bit of contrast so I do a bunch of color editing before I publish everything audio in study is pretty much left without any kind of editing that that's my actual audio I don't know if I should be changing anything to be honest finally how I actually manage the whole project from a organizational point of view I use notion which by the way I totally hate I hate notion point is it works and I wouldn't know how to switch to something else so how I do this is that I have a giant table of all the videos and all of its info and each video has a script or not quite script but summary like all the important points I have to talk about so whenever I take my gym pad I just open notion on my tablet open the summary and I just read one point and then I just talk about that point then I stop read one point and then talk about that and then auto editor is going to cut the assailances that works pretty well in my opinion I also do the surveys on my Twitter fostered on and telegram channels very often sometimes I don't do them because I have a clear idea in mind sometimes I do and basically what I do is that everything is organized still in the notion you can see that projects have like ways to tell them their how many people voted for them and then I have a voting phase and then the best one gets into the in progress category so I actually do it the worst one gets into either the trash bin if I it's trash or the recycle bin if I think there is any potential to use them in the future again and that's pretty much it there's also like a sponsor category if I'm doing sponsors I don't I don't like doing them but you know I'm spending a lot of money with all of this so it never hurts what else I mean I think that's pretty much everything that's how I do things around here it's very complex but the funny thing is that I'm also doing this for other things so the tripod which by the way is new that was a quite expensive as well allows the camera to also rotate vertically which I use for tiktok because I also do tiktok content basically in the same exact way since start auto editor and then Kenyan live and you know I do tiktoks about poetry and such and then right now I'm also working on a very complex video about still a rap so poetry but sunk and it's the same exact setup I do the same things and it's actually much more complex those videos are much more complex to do but you don't care about them I guess let's skip what else I think I talked about everything so I do have a bunch of things that I would need now to improve my setup first of all this microphone love it I need a better one like this was literally 50 bucks and I think I can get higher quality if I finally get a sound card XLS microphone this kind of I have to do it sooner or later I prefer sooner also by the way I haven't said that but to get my microphone close to my face since I have to get very far from the camera even further than you know my own desk I use an Amazon box and I just put a microphone on top of it I would love I would kill for a microphone stand that actually reaches my mouth but Amazon Prime box it is for now I also would totally need for a decent capture card right now if I want to do like a live stream or such I just bought that $10 one which does up to 1080p 30 FPS whereas my videos are 4k 60 FPS so I mean yay but I would like to step that up a bit that's everything it's the fourth time I say this but I think I said everything this time so no no thanks for following this more jokingly video and I would like I would I would really want to highlight the fact that if I do this and then I do this and then I do this like this looks like I'm the bad guy of some movie that that is pretty fun and also whenever you see this video this style this is literally not in special like right now I just turned off all the lights behind me so the background is black and I just can't put some text on top that works pretty well I think so thanks for following so you should see my sponsors now if you want to help me go on and buy new stuff new lights I've got too many lights that's it but you know microphone capture card this kind of things external GPU I would totally kill for an external GPU then you can just you know join the pattern help me out these kind of things thanks for following and I guess final thing if you see me with anything on my hand it's either my pen my phone if the tablet broke and I'm reading the notes from the phone I've got notion in here as well or this little ball ball of something which is I use it as an anti-stress like it's nice to have something in your hand to play with that that's it I'm cutting the video because I won't stop talking otherwise