Video Making Process
Edited: Sunday 5 January 2025

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General

  • No stock photos, videos or music. every element is either original or bought from the creator

Topic Sourcing

  • Pick something you are doing now or interested in

Scripting

Sources

Tone of Voice

Shooting

  • 2:1 aspect ratio
  • 25fps - 1/50s
  • Focus
    • Focus: Auto Cont.
    • Face/Eye focus priority
    • Focus area: Wide
  • Picture profile
    • Slog2 and slog-gamut
    • Details -7
    • Saturation: +18
    • Zibras: 105+
  • Exposure Compensation: +2.0
  • Audio gain:
    • Shotgun mic: 14
  • eye-level shot

Gear

Delivery

  • Delivery is calm and clear like a normal conversation
  • Clothes should be the same every time (White T-shirt)
  • Talk while standing

Lighting

  • Day light
  • Keylight: bright to the side on the left - motivate the window light
  • Fill light: less bright to the right, higher than key light
  • Rim light: less bright than Fill light, back right, hits the top of the head
  • Practicles: back of the scene, colorful.

Text

Editing

  • Timeline
    • : 2:1 -> 3840 x 1920
    • Setting -> image scaling:
    • Color management settings
  • Cut A-roll
  • Add transitions
    • 6 frame cross dissolve (calm short transition)
    • 6 frame smooth cut where applicable
  • Add B-Roll
  • Add memes

Audio

  • Analyze the audio track
  • Enable Audio Isolation (Amount: 30)
  • Change the audio track to mono

Color grading

Rendering

  • Resolutions:
    • 4K 2:1 -> 3840 x 1920
    • 3K 2:1 -> 2880 x 1440
    • HD 2:1 -> 1920 x 960
    • SD 2:1 -> 1280 x 640
  • Normalize audio for Youtube

Thumbnail

  • 1280 x 720 ref

Share

Uploading the video to each platform gets more views than uploading to YouTube and sharing the link

  • Facebook - 4k (ignored by FB), HD worked
  • Twitter - max width: 1920 - Max: 1GB
  • Linkedin - 4k - Max: 5GB 15min
  • Youtube - 4k

References

Backlinks

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