Hello, it's Rob here from Rob cabin.com. Now we've talked about the what and the why. And now I'm going to tell you how to do video. And it's really not that difficult. Many people find that analysis paralysis rears its ugly head more than ever when starting with video. But really, this is all you need.

Before you start thinking about cameras, I would advise you to invest in a decent microphone. I think a microphone is really important. When I started out, I used a blue snowflake microphone, which I would say would be the cheapest one you should consider although I now use more expensive ones and they are 10 times better. The blue snowflake sits on your desk and you should put it on books upon your desk. Otherwise It will pick up on some vibrations and it can rest quite far away from your mouth but the problem there is that it will pick up a lot of the surrounding sounds. So you have to wait for a very quiet moment and if you live in a city or even in the countryside and there are disturbances then they will be picked up by the mic, however more expensive mics and I would include the Blue Yeti or the sensor Meteor which I am speaking through now, these are around about hundred dollars, so not much more expensive and not a lot of money and they are much better in that you have your mouth only a few inches away from the microphone with what's called a pop filter.

And that will cut out a lot of the background sounds. Now I've been doing a lot of audio in Thailand recently. It's a very hot country where you need to have air conditioning on and you can leave the air condition On and the microphone won't pick up the air conditioning, it will just pick up your voice. The downside of these sort of microphones is they pick up everything that comes out of your mouth and that includes breathing. But breathing isn't the worst thing in the world. The only thing is the PS which I mentioned before using a pop filter.

If you say P, the air from your mouth sometimes carries through into the microphone and can cause a disturbance. So these mics the Blue Yeti and the sensor Meteor will need pop filters with them, you get what you pay for. And I would go for the more expensive option, as video will make you a lot of money and there's not much to invest in so you might as well invest in a good mic. Second to that you need screencasting software ScreenFlow for Mac Camtasia for Windows Camtasia is available for Mac but it's more expensive. than ScreenFlow ScreenFlow unfortunately, is not available on Windows. These applications record your computer screen as well as your voice.

They also have awesome editing functions and tools to highlight certain areas of the screen, zoom in, zoom out and add graphics such as arrows and text. Now I have created over 20 hours of video footage, and it's mostly done with a cheap microphone and ScreenFlow ScreenFlow costs less than $100. Now to create your slides, you can use PowerPoint. So let's have a look at PowerPoint here. So you can choose your PowerPoint presentation templates, but there's one important thing you've got to remember. And that's go File Page Setup, and choose 69.

So remember, all your videos should be in the 16 by nine ratio format. This is the more wide video that you see everywhere on the net out nowadays. So 16 nine is what you see on YouTube. And it's the format that all the online learning platforms use, like Udemy. If you're on the Mac, you might want to use keynote. So let's go into keynote choose the wide themes, wide presentation, and that is 16 nine ratio, very important.

So once you've made your slides, and I do urge you not to rely too heavily on slides and just reading the bullet points from the slides. That's very boring. So make them exciting as possible, but I'll come on to that later. If Daniel slides, all you've got to do is prepare your presentation and speak over it. I would save the presentation as a PDF and just scroll through the pages as I'm talking. But I'll show you the ScreenFlow process.

So in ScreenFlow, you would go new, make sure you have selected your mic and as I say I'm using the Samson Meteor at the moment. You don't want to use a built in mic but I told you which mics to use and your preset, you can choose this one or this one. And make sure those two numbers are as they are there or as they are there because they are also in the 16 nine ratio. And then you'll get a very good high definition video from your screencasting software and you'll get a very good audio if you have bought a decent high quality audio mic. And the last thing to remember of course, is just to do it, the tools are important ScreenFlow if you've got a Mac Camtasia if you've got a PC invest maybe $100 in a good mic and then you go the owner thing you've got to do is practice.

Start making the tutorial and presentation videos, start speaking, start editing and put them out on YouTube first and you will get better at it if you just keep at it. So the last thing to remember is practice and consistency. Okay, lots more to come on video, but that's just an introduction into how you get going very easy. screencasting software and microphones very cheap, and you can get going straight away. Okay, this is Rob from Rob carbon calm. I'll see you in the next video.