Today we�re going to break down the myth that you need to spend the big bucks to make

great video. I've been making video for more than five years now and I have never spent

more than a couple hundred bucks on something and that was the camera. So there is hope

for you if you think that this is way too expensive to do. So let's go over the essentials

that you need to make awesome video that's not only cheap but very effective.

First of all, the camera, I�ve definitely made quite a few videos about the cameras

that I use. I love the Canon PowerShot line. It�s just a point and shoot camera, very

simple, very easy, very easy to transport and just great for creating flawless HD video

and also depending on which one you choose the audio can be great as well. You have to

have external mics if the ambience is going to be okay for a built-in mic, these have

really good ones. So I will leave some affiliate links in the description if you want to check

out Canon PowerShots on Amazon, they are very easy to find and I will point you to the ones

that I use.

Next, let's talk about your setting. Like I said point and shoots are easy to transport

but if you want more of a studio setting like I have here, they're also very good. Just

get yourself the basic tripod and screw it in there and set yourself up and you're ready

to go. Definitely make sure that you pick a quiet room wherever you decide to film,

whether it's in your office or in your home and try to [not have] so big or one that does

have very many things on the wall and you definitely want it to be carpeted, anything

you can do to keep echo down for the audio is a good thing.

Also pick a background that is appropriate but not going to take all the attention away

from the subject. When it comes to lighting, you can always win very cheaply if you pick

a room that has great natural light. If you can sit directly straight onto a window and

just make sure it's not too bright where you are Casper the ghost and that works great

if you're like me and the window is on the side of you which is over here if you didn't

know that, then you can get a great little LED attachment to your tripod, that will display

some light on to you on the other side, so it looks a little bit more even and that LED

light attachment is right around 40 bucks on Amazon. So I will link to that as well.

Very cheap and definitely a good thing to have.

All right. Let's talk about editing, my favorite. Macs are really simple, they can come with

iMovie, it�s a very simple editor. I think you can download it for like 15 bucks, very

easy drag-and-drop music, the whole thing. PCs also have their own simple solutions as

well. I know Windows Movie Maker was the first application I ever used on a computer to edit

video and that worked great for a couple of things that I did. So if you just need something

really simple easy and zero dollars and that's a good one. What�s even better than that

is YouTube has its own video editor now. So you can just upload your content to YouTube

and then just start playing with things in there, you can do transitions, you can do

titles. You can do music, all that stuff. They can have you do it just there and that's

what makes it really awesome for you to just use your phone and film because then you just

send the footage through Wi-Fi or 3G and it makes it really, really simple to get this

stuff executed quickly.

If you are kind of on the next level and you want to go a little bit more pro but you're

not like final cut material yet, I definitely recommend Corel VideoStudio that was sort

of my like happy medium for a period of time, wasn�t ready to go to the pro applications

yet but I needed a little bit more in terms of features. I know that's right around 70

bucks, you can download that online. If you are pro level, then you could definitely invest

in Final Cut Pro. I don�t know how much it is but I know it's a lot. But I actually

like to use Adobe Premiere Pro because it is that same pro level materiel but at the

same time you can kind of rent it from Adobe. You can invest in their creative cloud and

you are able to download their applications and use them for a monthly fee of 30 bucks,

right around 30 dollars. So that's a really simple way to go pro very quickly.

And that�s how you can make cheap awesome videos. Thanks so much for tuning in, I appreciate

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up, yo, and yeah, definitely stay tuned. Tomorrow is Social Thursday and on Friday we�re definitely

going to have a [shoot to smith] with Roberto Hoyos from Throwboy. He was supposed to be

on couple weeks ago and he couldn't make it. Technical difficulties. But we still have

[kind of cassidy clan] if you haven't seen that, it's really good. But regardless Roberto

here Friday, 1 p.m. Eastern live on YouTube, if hope you can join, if not, you can always

watch the recording. That's awesome too. I will see you tomorrow for Social Thursday.