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hey what's up guys it's Marquez from the mkbhd channel back with another youtube tips episode so thumbs up to that and this is actually a video featuring my good friend duncan three three three oh three Austin Evans so if you'd like to check out his channel BAM it's right there you can visit the other half of this video which will show you some more of these youtube tips that were going over to create better videos so we're going to start off with is the more off-camera things in this video in the other video we talked about the camera itself the first thing I'm going to talk about is sound and you might see my microphone right here the first thing we talked about in terms of sound is what type of microphone you're using so we'll start with a USB microphone a youtube favorite four USB microphones is the blue snowball very very popular you'll see this all over YouTube people really enjoy the convenience of having it just sit right on your desk plug it right in and play literally plug and play and just go right there so it's a very popular choice and you can get some options on the back for changing the patterns the second option for a microphone would be something that mounts directly on the top of the hot shoe of the camera itself a lot of Canon DSLRs and Canon camcorders have a microphone jack so the most popular I think YouTube on camera mic is a rode videomic you've probably seen this before just mounts right on top of the camera and hotshoe and is a very popular option for those of you guys who get a camera with a microphone input and last but not least there's a completely off camera stuff that literally sits next to you and you can position wherever you want not connected to a computer and the number one option for that would be the zoom h1 now you do have to post per dose you literally have to go back and sync the audio in post-production that's a step you don't have to do usually with on-camera microphones or usually with USB microphones so if you do prefer to have the most control over where you put your microphone and how much volume you get out of it the zoom h1 is a great option and very popular for YouTube when the best parts of having a DSLR is the interchangeable lenses what this means is you can swap out the lens for whatever you want so for example I'm shooting right here prime lens is going to be nice if I'm going to be doing a lot of zooming of course it's super zoom is going to be good if you just want to get by cheaply the kit lens on your camera is going to be just fine however for video I really like having a prime lens so for my pick on a candidate would be the 50 millimeter 1.8 now this is absolutely cheap lens it built cheaply called the plastic fantastic however it is fantastic so you're going to get some really nice depth of field and it's going to get some pretty sharp images for the price likewise if you like Nikon cameras the Nikon 50mm 50 millimeter 1.8 is also going to be a good choice now both of these lenses are not going to be absolutely superb you can absolutely get better as you spend more money before relatively reasonable budget both of these are going to be really good for filming YouTube videos so lighting is a pretty popular option also and in terms of YouTube videos you typically the more light the better you like to be able to see your subject and three-point lighting is the most popular way to get your videos lit so say you're lighting an object you can take advantage before you buy anything of a lot of free light lights for a you know comes from the Sun you can use some windows that you have you can use a video light that's completely out of the range you know you can have a light just from the top of your room and once you get all those lights on you just want to make sure you have a pretty accurate color representation before you go out and buy more lights if you do choose to buy lights there are some very inexpensive light kits from things like Amazon and some even dedicated retailers for video stuff but I suggest that before you go out and buy lights and take advantage of as much free light as possible that's going to help you out a lot of course at the end of the day no matter what equipment you have you're going to need to add your videos and my recommendation if you're on Windows is to check out coral VideoStudio Pro x4 so I've been using videos to do for the past couple years now well it's certainly not going to be as advanced as something like Sony Vegas it's also going to be a lot cheaper and a lot simpler to use so it does have plenty of power with all kinds of picture and picture support chroma key everything that you'd really need of course it's a little much cheaper price point it should run pretty nicely on most computers on a Mac I recommend iMovie now a lot of people kind of dismiss iMovie better that's a little unfair well sure yes it is free and it does come with all Macs that's not to say it's not any good so I movie does of course support a lot of the same things that video studio does a lot of the kind of mid-range features that most people would need but not a lot of they're really extreme stuff that stuff like Final Cut has that's going to cost obviously a lot more than free so that's basically it for this YouTube tips episode but keep in mind this is only part 1 so like I said before you can check out part 2 whenever you want is probably done watching this video now so check out part 2 on Austin's channel Duncan 3 3 303 and you can subscribe to him as well thanks for watching guys I'll talk to you later