 Time here for more systems and this is a little bit different of a tutorial. I want to talk about my solo creator workflow because yes The 1700 plus videos on this channel all but one was produced and edited by me I put it all together. I take and do the editing from camera a here to a camera b Which will be talking about how all that works And I want to cover this because I think the more I share this information It gets it out there to help other people who want to create tutorials and content now this is a very collaborative space in my opinion YouTube creators and creators in general and The workflows you have to develop it can be the challenge. Maybe you have a really good tutorial You'd like to get some information out there, but you're like, yeah, how do I get all this going now? This is not some definitive in-depth guide, but it's just an overview of how I Create things and the tools and parts I use which are in more detail linked down below If you're just looking for a hardware list, but I want to talk about this process and the ways I've simplified it now by doing this I know many of you will have comments of how to make it better and I'm actually looking forward to those comments I love when there's other workflow ideas to kind of help me out and get me further along because this used to be pulling cards and media out of camera and I was able to ramp up my process and speed it up by well the process I'm Worked it down to right here in March of 2023 So the first thing I want to talk about is that yes I do use a teleprompter but mostly just for as I would describe it keeping me on topic with some bullet points and Sometimes model or part numbers that are very specific that I don't want to be wrong or have to deal with being wrong when I go to edit So this is a Sony a 6600 camera with a Sigma 30 millimeter f 1.4 lens Which means this is not a poster after effect that's good separation You get and the fact that it has I focus is one of the reasons I like the Sony camera And I use it as my main camera sometimes I move around or scoot around and I don't want to lose focus So it is in autofocus mode, which is not something people recommend for studio They're like oh just sit still and get in a focus plane But I like simple and this is simple next is the audio This is all facilitated just off-camera here by my Sennheiser MK 600 goes into an Audient ID 4 and then over here the other camera that we'll talk about this whole process in a second is A Canon C100 mark 2 it was originally my studio camera But I decided to go with the Sony for my main camera still studio cameras more like a webcam But it has a sigma 1835 art lens on it also gives nice separation That's one of the first things here is having cameras that you can fine-tune a bit So I'm not shooting in a way that I have to color grade later This is not color graded this goes from the camera into OBS and over to The DaVinci Resolve that's open behind me. I don't want to spend any time color grading I don't think my tutorials would improve if I was color graded. I want good color good light out of the camera and Not having to mess with any of that That's something where people have offered to help me with the color grading and I'm like I just don't see the Big value in it. Leave a comment down below if you think I'd look better Color graded or my tutorials would improve because ultimately my goals get those out next let's talk about the actual process of ingesting this media using OBS and the switching I'm doing which stream deck This is how we create the stream and this is the part that's really important to this workflow So let's switch over to the other cameras. This is one of my favorite tools diagrams net I've used it in lots of my demos and how do we get to YouTube? Well, we have camera one camera two as I mentioned and camera one camera two one goes actually to an Elgato The other ones goes to ever media capture cards as I said, those are linked down below I just use the Elgato icon three times for those that are wondering the second monitor This is an important part that big widescreen That one that's kind of behind me over here That is my main computer running Linux that I do my work from then I have a second monitor that you don't really see It's a little bit off-screen now recording and capturing OBS on a widescreen would be tricky to present on YouTube Not everybody has a widescreen to match it So you want something that is more of a standard format. So this is just a normal monitor here There's an HDMI splitter So it's just like any second monitor has an HDMI feed to it But then it's got a splitter that goes over to the shutter capture card So we have the camera one camera two and then this all put in there now what I'm able to do is move Myself around let me use that I use a tool called barrier that allows me to have this Linux machine acting as a server To talk to this Windows computer to be able to grab control with my mouse and move myself around kind of as needed the goal of all of this and the way this works the Studio computer is running OBS it's got a big TV behind me so I can see what's going on easily on it and OBS produces a single Composited if you will from all these input sources stream, so I'm not trying to sync up different cameras I'm not trying to sync the audio. I didn't add the audio source here I probably could have but it was that Sennheiser mic is always one audio source So no matter which one of these you switch between I just ignore the audio on all of those that goes just over to a true NAS so in real time The studio computer is going to a true NAS then that goes back over to my computer for editing in case you're wondering why I Use an HDMI splitter versus looping it through like in and out of a capture card What you'll run into is I did you have to have the studio computer on for the second monitor to work So if you want to use your other monitor when the studio computer is off, which it's only on when I'm recording Then you probably want to use an HDMI splitter to solve that problem then once it comes over here to my computer the Pauses I do I pause there purposely to show you like I'm gonna go and trim those out if there's a Delay from when I switched or sometimes I switch to a camera I compose my thoughts a moment stare at the ceiling, you know, whatever I have to do to get to the next line It's okay to have pauses With the pausing you just kind of go and trim those out Sometimes you'll put a graphic over the top of it That's a pro tip for when you have too many pauses or when you're doing a very technical tutorial You're reading from a very detailed script because you're typing out commands and occasionally you'll do a typo And you'll just backspace that out You just take yourself off the desktop so no one notices any of the pauses that you have done or any of the typos You just go back through and edit it now the editing process. Let me show you what that looks like This is a timeline for DaVinci Resolve and This is pretty much me just trimming out like here I trimmed out a couple pauses I had at the 152 mark, but I also put over the top like how much something costs I think I pulled from a website. I do drop in a little bit of extra b-roll sometimes I'll pull up a website just make it full screen hit record. That's all I'm doing It's really really simple like with these cameras actually had recorded a scene for updating one of the strategy cameras I recorded their website, which you can see is up here So I just drag it over there and those are perfect opportunities If you need to shorten your video a little bit or you pause or you had to really think or you miss spoke on something I'm just trimming those out So this is all one timeline even though I'm switching between these different modes whether I'm screen capturing From camera up to with a screen capture or just a screen capture or going back over to camera one It's always just one timeline edit This saves you a ton of editing time because you're just pulling in the extra things and maybe just refer to things and copy Those websites over now the next part of this process I had mentioned and we'll do this right here is that we have Canva on the list here So as we pull all this in we're gonna go over to Canva and If you haven't used Canva, it's just great It makes it so easy to make these thumbnails and things like that matter of fact Let's go and show you like if I delete myself here And I want to add another version of myself There I just I have a green screen I just stamp a bunch of photos of selfies and I will just click background remover and All right, cool now. I've got that version of me in there It's This is how I do thumbnails and if you're wondering how do you find these templates for all these thumbnails? They have a ton of them on here. You can just choose from so here's some of the ones I've made in the past but you can choose from a lot of templates. I can't recommend Canva enough for Being easy to use drag and drop and you don't have to be a skilled designer to grab a template And yes, I have gone for more putting my face in there because I know the AB testing works I don't really like that it works It almost bothers me that when I've done some of the AB testing and I use a tool called TubeBuddy to Try two different thumbnails one with me making a stupid face and one with not every time people click the one with the stupid face Hence I've decided I have to put stupid faces where I won't get the views. I'm sorry I don't want that to be true. I keep running those AB tests But they are true back to the creative process though TubeBuddy You're probably the last thing I mentioned that I use here It just helps with doing things like make sure you have all the titles and tags correct and putting those in those There's some details for uploading YouTube But this process does allow me to get things done quickly get the edits done quickly Publish all the videos that I have on my channel very quickly and that's what I wanted to share It may help some other people who want to get into this market of creating content It may help you get through that barrier of what are all the technical challenges of creating content because I think there's a lot Of people out there that would probably be really good at it And I don't want the how do I get this set up or how do I build the studio? Or do you have to have a whole team of editors and I don't I'm doing all the editing myself now because I do it myself I think constantly about How to make it more efficient and I'd love to hear from you if there's some thoughts on how to make this better By the way, the capture cards are all HDMI Someone always usually suggests like going really high-end if you think that make my tutorials better Leave me a comment as to how so people said time you should go with like this this and this or you know Linus is using one of these really high-end this this that cameras and I'm like, I don't know that I would look better I mean those red dragons are cool from a technology standpoint, but nonetheless, I don't get too off topic here Love hearing from you leave your thoughts and comments down below on ways to make this more efficient Or if you're interested in getting into this I'd like talking to people that are also in the creative spaces and if you want a more in-depth discussion with me or Reach out and connect my forums are a great place to do that. All right. Thanks