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hey guys so today we're here with a video on the best camcorders and cameras for use on YouTube now this is gonna be a collaboration with my good friend Marcus you guys probably know him from the mkbhd YouTube channel and today we're going to be going over not only the cameras and camcorders that are best suited for YouTube in addition some general tips on how to use them the can fix a series of camcorders have always been very popular on YouTube and our choice is going to be the hf r 20 now with this you get full 1080p video quick capability which while not entirely necessary a lot of times 720p is going to be just fine for YouTube it's very nice to have the option that you can go ahead and bump it up to 1080p if you like you also do have a microphone input again very important if you're recording YouTube videos well the standard inboard mic is not going to be particularly terrible having the option to install something that's going to be much much better is always great always nice to have expandability options with kamcord cameras camcorders or indeed anything like that now on top of that it does have eight gigabytes of storage built in and on top of that you get two SDXC card slots so while that eight gigs is going to be probably just fine for most filming if you need more you can install it to more car SD cards and really expand the storage out as much as you need so storage definitely will not be an issue with this camcorder it does have a touchscreen um personally I'm not a big fan of the touchscreen typically I just like to use the the physical controls however it is nice from time to time to be able to use that touchscreen just for really simple inputs alright so a great tip when you're looking for camcorders especially when you're choosing one to buy is optical versus digital zoom you're going to want to lean towards optical over digital optical zoom is actually the physical movement of the lens element on the camera itself to zoom in on the image while digital zoom is literally just moving in on the actual picture so it tends to have a worse quality image zoom so if you can always get the one with the higher amount of optical zoom that'll be more versatile and if you see something with something like a thousand times digital zoom that's nothing much to be impressed about because that's all in the software well the best parts of having a camcorder is the fact that we'll have auto focus that's something a lot of DSLR is lack and what this will allow you to do is of course keep your subject always in focus now with a DSLR you're going to be constantly manually focusing and trying to keep everything perfectly in shot and that can be kind of difficult however with the camcorder it will do it all automatically however when you are picking up a camp there's one thing you should look for and what is the minimum focus distance and this may or may not be an issue for you but for example if you're going to be doing a lot of macro shots perhaps you're going to have it really close to products on your desk if you're reviewing something or you're doing your nature shots or whatever if you're doing going to have the key are very up and close to whatever your subject is just make sure that the camera does have a decent macro mode will be able to focus fairly closely so there's an entirely different category of cameras cameras if you will that can be used to create videos and they can also double as your still camera and these are DSLRs disallows are actually getting more popular on YouTube for the youtubers who actually want the most amount of control over the type of video that you get so DSLRs are mainly made in terms of a consumer budget for Canon and Nikon and one of my favorite cameras of all time is the Canon t2i and what I'm going to recommend as a DSLR for YouTube is a Canon t3i which brings not only a similar budget but a much more vast video features it's more video centered if you will so you get the articulating LCD screen you get more audio controls and if things like that a better body so overall the Canon t3i is a great choice for those of you who like Canon rely on Canon and really want to use a DSLR for your video work on YouTube one of the most important things to keep an eye on when you're filming with the DSLR is your shutter speed in your ISO now shutter speed is simply how fast the shutter is opening and closing now this seems very simple and it is typically you're going to want if you're shooting at 30 frames per second video going to be wanting to have it at one sixtieth of a second I don't mean that would be able to open and close that causing any problems with your video now in most cases that's going to be the ideal situation if you're going to have the maximum amount of lighting it's going to let everything else and the best way course sometimes you may want to kind of affect and change it around a little bit for example if you're shooting dark you may want turn down a little bit or if you're doing your action photography you may want to turn up a little bit but generally you want to have it at one sixtieth of a second now another thing is ISO now ISO is kind of like the digital gain on video so if you ever go into Photoshop you know you manually turn the brightness and up and down that's kind of like what it is on the camera so everything is going to be default kind of dark and as you turn the ISO up it will brighten the image up now again when shooting this video you want to keep this as low as possible if you want to increase you know the brightness or whatever you want to do that in other ways of an ISO however in certain situations you may want to bump your ISO up some most DSLRs today do have a pretty robust ISO feature where you can turn it up fairly high without having a lot of graininess or noise in your image but again ISO you'll typically want to have this as low as possible so another thing that you can change within the camera itself on a DSLR is the aperture so if you can imagine the iris in the back of the camera say this is the most open it can be the aperture when control in the camcorder f-22 would be sort of the smallest aperture and F's a 1.8 would be the most open the more open the aperture is the more light you're going to get and the more bright the image will appear and it also creates a shallow depth of field so it's more blurry when I reach out here or back there when the aperture is all the way closed or not all the way closed but almost all the way close say f10 or f11 or 20 you're going to have a much lower amount of light getting in but much more in focus so that removes selective focus but you do get much more in focus if you do prefer to have that anyway guys that's it for our video on the best cameras camcorders and tips on how to use both however that's not everything we have a full part 2 video where you guys can check out on Marcus's channel where we go over some microphones some lighting as well as some 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