 If you're doing any sort of video production and you are finding my videos useful, then I think you're gonna wanna know about these other five channels which will be useful too. Hello and welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec and in this video I'm gonna basically be talking about other people's YouTube channels for a change and I'm guessing really that most of these people will already know about cause I'm just at my, just over a hundred subscribers, 125, 26, something like that and all of these channels I'm gonna show you are into the thousands so probably you will have heard of most of them. But I do know that some people haven't necessarily heard of all of them so that's the reason why I'm doing this. I did a live stream the week before last which I'll link to in the description where I talked about all of the different things that I did before actually launching my channel so my channel's only been going for just less than 50 days and I've been posting a video a day to it and yeah I, as I say, did a live stream all about the preparation I made before actually launching the channel. And one of the things I covered in that live stream was five other YouTube channels that I watched that I got lots of great information from before I actually made a start and so that is the point of this video. So without further ado, I'm gonna get straight on into my screen sharing and you're probably gonna see some familiar faces here but as I say, maybe some of them you haven't heard about. So the first one is the master, Caleb Pike over at DSLR Video Shooter and he's been doing this for over a decade now creating videos all about how to create video specifically using DSLR cameras but now also talking about lighting and all sorts of other things like that. So 8M Minis and so on. The thing that's really great about this is not just his overall style and the way that he does things in his tutorials but it's also the fact that there is such a wealth of material there and even if you are using a slightly older camera and by slightly older, I'm talking about my camera is a Canon EOS 60D, a 10 year old camera and believe it or not, there's still reviews and things like that about how to get the best out of it in terms of video and DSLR Video Shooter is the channel to go to for that because as I say, he's been around for over a decade and it just really inspires me to see all of his videos and whilst I am working off a 10 year old camera and some rather low budget lights at the moment, it does give me some inspiration to create my dream studio at some point in the future using all of his information and knowledge and insights. So I highly recommend that channel. I'll be leaving a link to that down in the description as well, obviously and I'll put a card up in the top corner linking to it. I can do that, I think I can. So definitely want to check out. Now if he is covering mainly video, he does cover audio as well but if you want the sort of the audio version of that, then I'd recommend this next one, which is podcastage and Bandru over at podcastage basically just deals with purely audio and any microphone that you're thinking that you might want to get or you want to review of you can be pretty sure that he's done it and he does reviews of microphones, audio interfaces and so on. And when I was looking for a microphone so I've got the Shure MV7, I did my review of that over and I'll leave a link to that in the description but Bandru's review is probably a little bit more thorough from a technical standpoint because he is at the end of the day a far more knowledgeable audio expert than I am. But yeah, it's a really great page, a really great channel rather where you can find, as I say, reviews, in-depth reviews on all sorts of different audio gear. So if you're not aware of that, that is podcastage. So then that's my audio and my camera and lighting sorted. I watched hours of their videos in order to get my set up the way that I wanted it within my limitations, I should say. Now the next channel is probably the thumbnail master. Mr. Tom Buck and I do believe and I've said it many times before he does have the nicest thumbnails in the business. I'm not entirely happy with my thumbnails and I'm sure that comes as no surprise. I don't really have the time to do them quite to the level that Tom does because he really does make a real example of exactly what you can do with a thumbnail and have it still have a level of uniqueness and interest that mine are certainly lacking. So one day I will aspire to match his creativity in that space. In fact, I'll leave a link to the video he did all about how he makes his thumbnails because that in itself is a great video. But Tom is a great resource for all things about creating video content in general and specifically more kind of like the sort of stuff I am doing because he does a similar sort of format sitting in front of a desk, giving tutorials and explainer videos and things like that. So yes, watching his content was a real big help to me when I was trying to figure out how I was going to get things set up and yeah, it certainly gives me something to aim for in terms of quality of production. So that is Mr. Tom Buck. Now, the next one is somebody who maybe you might not have heard of if you are coming from the sort of e-cam community. This is somebody called Alex Lindsey and his channel is Alex Lindsey, L-I-N-D-S-A-Y and he is coming from a sort of different level of video production really. So he worked for ILM, Industrial Light and Magic on the Star Wars movies and has done lots of really sort of high level video production work. He's also been into live streaming from for quite a number of years now and he was responsible for a lot of the really, really high profile Google Hangouts streams that were put out. So such as the Barack Obama stream from the White House a number of times and various other really sort of high level live streamed events. Admittedly, these weren't done with software such as e-cam live. They were more with a more technical video production year and hardware rather as opposed to software. But nevertheless, he's coming to it with a wealth of experience obviously. And for the past year since, well probably March 2020 I believe he's been doing this thing called office hours. Now I know a lot of people have got their own office hours but his office hours is basically it's free to go along to and it was over Zoom, although they're taking it now more into their own platform. And basically it is a collection of, if I just pull up some of his videos, it is a collection of experts in their fields and all sort of audio visual guys and girls and from all around the world. And as you can see the Zoom meetings that they have are broadcast over Skype and it is, sorry, over YouTube. And it is a daily thing for up to two hours a day and the format of it is, the first hour is just general Q and A and you can go along and be a part of it and you can ask any questions you've got related to audio visual matters and the panel will answer the questions for you. And then in the second hour they have a sort of specialist hour where they talk about a specific topic and that could be a package, maybe DaVinci Resolve or something like that for video editing or maybe it's all about a particular audio interface or they'll have a showcase of a particular person who's doing something interesting in the field of streaming or audio visual and so on. And so it really is a wealth of knowledge there. And as I say, they've been doing it every day, two hours for a year and that's Monday to Sunday, literally every day. So if you go and have a look at that page, that channel rather, there is really a wealth of information there and what they're basically trying to do is they are trying to get to the point where it's been an evolution over time so that they can get to a point of having really fully produced shows that are controlled by all of the people involved in it. So you have some people, maybe the guy controlling the audio is in Australia, maybe the woman controlling the color correction is in Arizona or wherever. They are all over the world but they're all working together to actually create these productions. And the other heavy focus that they have in there is all about education and the new way to take education online. And rather than sort of mimicking a classroom environment in an online environment, so fake whiteboards that people are writing on, turning their back to the camera to try and teach the class in traditional methods, it's all about how to actually modernize the whole process of online education. And from my perspective, I find that really, really interesting and engaging because as I've said before on my channel, part of the reason for me to start this channel is for me to practice the on-screen presentation skills in order to do a better job at delivering my course material for my other courses that are unrelated to this channel. I could go on and on about all of the great things that Alex Lindsay is doing but I suggest that you go and check him out for yourself if you haven't already. And he's probably considering all of the great stuff he's doing, I'd say only 7,000 followers subscribers on YouTube. There's probably a few of you in the community that haven't heard about him but probably should because I think we can all learn a great deal from him. So as I say, he is somebody that I've watched extensively as are all of the others. And the fifth and final channel that I wanted to mention, obviously I've got to leave the best till last, is DarkRock. I've found all of his tutorials and the community that has been built around him and the others involved in the community in the Ecum Live community. He is also obviously the Ecum Live community manager but people like him, Diana Gladney and so on, all doing great things and really building a really sort of warm family environment within the community. And I just find, if Caleb Pike is the audio, the visual guy, Bandru is the audio guy, Tom Buck is doing all about online streaming and everything. The thing I find about Doc is just his absolute wealth of knowledge at all levels are across a vast spectrum of things. I've rarely heard somebody fire out a question and the answer come back. I'm not really sure about that. He can always go into a very deep level. I'm sure most of the people who subscribe to my channel already are aware of him but I just had to give him a mention and give props because it's been a real help to me in actually launching this channel and all the things that I had to do in preparation for that. And I should also mention Doc's office hours as well. So he has an office hours himself and you can get to that by going to buymeacoffee.com slash docrock and there you can sign up and come and join in with that weekly calls every week where it's full of lots of like-minded content creators all doing their own thing in their own different unique ways and spaces. And yet we've all got this common passion and enthusiasm for what we're doing and looking to help each other out on YouTube journeys. I hope you found that useful and I do hope there were maybe one or at least two channels in there that you hadn't heard about that you can perhaps go and check out and you can learn something from them as I did as well. 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