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hey guys it's Danny with the first in my series of videos showing you how to improve your video quality and we'll get this question asked all the time how do I get better video quality how do i improve my audio my lighting this that does that so I'd like to do for you guys split it up and kind of explain some of the things that I've learned over the years to hopefully help you improve your video quality now the first thing I want to talk about today is equipment now equipments kind of a funny thing on the one hand the better equipment and you can get really good stuff it's going to definitely help you out it's super important on the other hand though you would be absolutely surprised at how much you can do with cheap stuff with stuff you may already have around your house so there are a couple of things that you're going to typically need for when you're going to make videos first of all it's going to be a camera now contrary to what you might think that this may not be your best option a lot of times it's not half bad to get a camcorder or you may already have a pocket edge point-and-shoot camera that has video or even an iPhone iPhone 4s have really good video so there's a lot of different steps before you decide exactly what you have so what I like to do and what I did when I was first starting out is figure out what you have and make the best of that now if you have a lot of money if you really would like to get into video and whatnot then you can slowly start working your way up with maybe a camcorder maybe something like this maybe something better you certainly do that so as far as the camera goes typically going to want to look for something with 720p really right now I mean for video quality is not the most important thing but if you're going to get something with less than 720p video generally it's not going to be very good and you'd be better off just not wasting your money on that so you know some smartphones are pretty decent like I said there's some putt cameras you there are some smaller cheaper camcorders and then up and up and up all you wait till you get to DSLRs and professional camcorders so that's number one thing you should look for now of course video quality is not everything with just the camera you know I mean you might buy one of these and think oh that's going to be the best video quality no matter what that's certainly not the case is you need other things to back it up take for example what I'm doing right now while of course I've got this here I'm obviously I felling I'm filming with the instead a sends a cue camcorder this thing is about a hundred bucks right now so with good lighting with good audio with this quality is certainly not half bad so getting away from the cameras I want to go ahead and talk a little bit about your audio as well you're lighting so audio can be handled in a couple different ways when you're first starting out it's best to just use the inboard microphones on your camera typically that's going to be really simple it helps on video editing and it helps you with not having to get external microphones and sync it with video editing on kind stuff so it really simplifies it so like that it's really cheap obviously it's going to be built into your camera and it's just going to work however if you want to improve your video quality you want it to sound better and all that kind of good stuff you're going to want to go ahead and either get something like a rode videomic if you have something with a hot shoe what a rode videomic is I actually do not have one but it's basically a shotgun mic or some kind of external mic for your camera now not all cameras have microphone inputs and that's definitely something you should look for when you're buying a camera is whether or not you can actually improve the quality by buying an external microphone that's one thing you can do you can also get something like a zoom h1 it's like a pocket camcorder or pocket a voice recorder rather um that will get you good audio quality or you can even go with something simple like a desktop microphone so you can have it off the shot like I have one right over there but can't show you guys since it's off to add a frame but that's what I'm using to report right now so there live four ways you can go about getting good audio but of course like I said if you're just starting out or whatever just using the standard microphone that comes with the camera not worry I will be okay now one of the most important things right up alongside audio is your lighting now it depends now lighting is kind of an interesting thing because it depends on what you're doing so for example if you're shooting outside if you do like outdoors kind of videos you're probably not going to really need lighting the Sun is a pretty bright but if you're shooting inside which I'm sure most of you guys will be then there's a couple things you should look for now again when you're first starting out just turn on as many lights as you can you have extra lengths around the house do you have other light you know any kind of light will definitely help you well okay I don't want to say any kind of light but pretty much any kind of light that you know lamps overhead you know fans when you name it it's got a light more than likely it's going to be nice to turn on and help you improve your video quality because cameras absolutely do so much better and good light compared to bad so you really be surprised and if I turn off all these lights in fact I'll do that right now turn off a couple of these lights and I start pulling so now I've got still sunlight in the rooms you guys can see the video quality got much worse if I start opening everything back up turning on my studio lights back on because I see that the video quality improved quite a bit so that's just kind of a general way to do it if you can get more lights I mean and it doesn't happen it's not like you have to go spend a ton of money on light boxes I mean if you have a lamps around the house that's going to be great just be sure to do it where there's not going to be a lot of glare and also you typically were going to want to have more than one light so instead of having one overhead light I might have a couple lights from the side as well as from behind me so you know it's good to have lighting from multiple angles I'm not going to get super in-depth into that but that's definitely what great way to go and as you improve and as you decide you need to upgrade then you can certainly go and you know get into that some of those lighting boxes or buy more lamps you can do whatever you like there now as far as computers video editing software goes I'm actually going to cover that a little bit and later on I can go over to the computers really quickly but like I said I'll do the video adding little bit later on on as far as I can cure pretty much any modern computer should be able to video at it that's that's kind of a broad statement but it's pretty much true I mean everything from an iPhone and iPad all the way you know to laptops and even desktops should be able to video edit basically now obviously the faster the computer you have the newer it is more likely it's going to work better than something old so in this case usually just try it on your computer right now if you see it's really lagging it's really glitchy you know you might have to know improvise but if you have a newer computer especially if it's been bought in last year two years or so more than likely unless it's a netbook you're going to be able to do some decent video editing and of course like I said as you move on as you get nicer computers and whatnot you can certainly do video editing much faster to take you less time do more cool stuff so guys that's it for my first video talking about how to make better videos hopefully this kind of helps you guys out kind of get a good idea of what kind of equipment you need I definitely stay tuned for future installments will go over tips on actually filming what settings being in various camera such as DSLRs and typical camcorders as well as how to video edit and all that kind of stuff if you guys enjoy the video definitely be sure to subscribe up above and let me know what you want to see the next installments