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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by the LG G flex to buy LG life good what's going on everyone John render from TechnoBuffalo here when I do ask the Buffalo every week one question I seem to get over and over again is what equipment do I need to film a video I want to start my own YouTube channel I want things to look professional do I have to spend a ton of money and the answer that I always give is no with cameras on cell phones getting so much better what you have in your pocket can be a ridiculously awesome YouTube camera so this tutorial I'm going to show you how to use your phone as your main camera for YouTube we're going to use the LG G flex suit for this video you can shoot 4k when talk a lot about the resolution that it's got on it it's laser autofocus you can get really crisp images out of it's 13 megapixel sensor so obviously whatever phone you're going to use you can have a little bit of differences but the main thoughts here are going to be the same so first let's not use a front-facing camera let's go ahead and switch out of this guy and for subject let's pretend I'm filming this unnecessarily hard to solve route through books cube so a few things to know first the higher the resolution you're going to have the better it's going to lie to do sort of things like punching in in your editing software now I'm assuming that you're going to use a normal editor for this you're not going to editing on device you're going to import it to a their Adobe or Final Cut or Vegas whatever other software you want to use so before you start dialing into the phone itself check the lighting around you you want to try to make sure you've got uniform lighting what that essentially means is a single light source so if you've got overhead light and like coming in from outside and then you got a lamp it's going to make things look very weird on camera this is a good advice for really whatever camera you're using so either try to film outside or if you're inside you to try and turn off the overhead lights or using only light coming in or if it's dark out you can just use one single light source that's going to make life a lot easier for you the next thing is try and mount your camera if you can if you notice when I hold my hand up it's not resting on anything things get a little bit shaky if you don't have a mount what you can do is either rest your hands down on a table or put your elbows down and sort of use that as an anchor and then you can do it can add weight is going to keep it from shaking and it's going to help stabilize your shot next you want to see if your phone's going to let you have grids and we can do that here on the G flex so that just pulls essentially what it sounds like a list of grids here lets you kind of use the rule of thirds which is basically placing your subject at the intersections and next you're gonna want to turn off image products things you have more flexibility in color grading so things like HDR and such I get a lot more flexibility sort of tweak your colors and make them look however you want and also again high resolution the better high resolution is going to let you do things like crop again also leave it allow you to stabilize shots in post so this guy can shoot in 4k so you want to go through and check your resolution so we've got it set for you way too deep so you want to go ahead and keep it there and the next thing you want to keep in mind is audio and every phone's got a 3.5 millimeter headset jack and a headset jack can also be home to an external microphone so you can pick up a really nice cheap microphone and be good to go we use a rode mic and goes like 40 bucks and that is really it so things to keep in mind safety uniform lighting definitely try and auto lock your exposure find some sort of mounting system with the very least trying to get your elbows down or put anything is going to add weight turn on grids turn off any image processing things like HDR and film the highest resolution you can whether you got a phone like this one that can do 4k or 1080p try and avoid the front-facing camera and if you make mistake which are going to happen try and shoot a lot of b-roll you can just be roll to put over really anything if you have to cut out I mistake enough to have a lot of jump cuts it makes life just a lot easier and that's really all you need to use your phone as a YouTube camera so we're gonna have a video that I actually filmed using the LG G flex 2 starting right now in a time before time there was a man an Android man struggling to find his place the world as he knew it had changed and he had to assemble the world's mightiest heroes Mader eating glad was there Superman's pal Jimmy Olsen was there and every other be listed here you could think of joined together to help become the d-team Avenger