Okay, so in this lesson, we are going to look at all things filming. So what sort of things you need to think about when you’re filming your course.

And first up, it’s about getting the right tech. And that doesn’t mean that you have to go out and spend a fortune on super video cameras or microphones or anything like that, there are a few things to think about. But actually, if you’ve got a smartphone, it is entirely possible to film a good quality online course just on that. 

But  I would suggest that that’s probably a little bit more fiddly than will make life easy for you at the moment. So there are three areas that I think you want to think about. Number one is your microphone. Now, we are as a race, humans, are much more forgiving of poor quality video than we are poor quality audio, there’s just something about the audio that if it isn’t quite right, or it’s a little bit annoying, or it’s a bit too echoey or too in the distance, we just can’t hear something properly, we will get really annoyed about it.

So I really want you to think about if you’re going to invest anywhere, invest in a good quality, external microphone. That’s external to your laptop external to your computer, whatever you’re using, even your smartphone. Something external will always provide you with better quality than something that is built in.  I also want you to think about that from the point of view of your camera. Now you know that I am filming this course, or at least this part of this course through a webcam, other parts of the course have been filmed differently.

But your camera is something that can make the difference between how easy it is for you to actually do what you want to do in terms of getting your message across. You might have a built in camera with your laptop or your computer, and that’s fine. But I want you to consider things like the angle at which you are filming yourself. This can make a big difference to how you are perceived when you’re talking about your online course. So if you’re intending to go on camera, and you absolutely don’t have to, when we looked at delivery options, you will know that you don’t have to go on camera, although I definitely recommend it for at least your intro and outro sections.

If you’re going to go on camera, then think about having either a separate webcam, or a separate video camera of some description in order to film yourself.  Then you want to think about your software. Personally, I think it is much better to do your recording and editing in the same piece of software. This does mean that potentially you will have to make a little bit of an investment here. But when we say investment, we’re not talking a fortune. In some instances, you can get something for as little as $40 $45 a year.

So it is absolutely worth thinking about that and thinking about how you’re going to go about the process of both recording and editing what you have produced.  If you are really accomplished at talking in front of a camera, you might be quite comfortable that all you need to do is top and tail, cut off the very beginning of your video and the very end of your video where you’re scrambling around switching things on or getting your slides ready, or where you’re looking to switch the recording off.

All of those sorts of things need taking into account. But there are software options around for you which mean you can do something a little bit more whizzy in between as well.  Definitely worth thinking about.  What you’re aiming for with your filming is what I would call professional amateur quality. And this is to say that nobody is expecting you to be able to record something that looks like it came out of Hollywood, or one of the big movie studios, Nobody’s expecting you to have all the bells and whistles, they’re not expecting you to have all the animations and cut offs and slides and all that kind of thing.

What they are expecting is for it to be a professional amateur quality. That is to say you’ve taken time to think about providing things in a way that will make it a pleasant viewing and listening experience for your audience. And there are definitely ways about going, ways of going about that.  Last but not least to think about with your filming options is accessibility. Are you providing a way for people who perhaps have difficulty hearing or difficulty with vision? Are you providing them with a way of easily accessing your content?

All of these things I will talk about with you in the How To section of videos in this lesson. But if you’re pretty comfortable that your setup is sorted and you know what you’re doing with it, then you can go on into the next lesson. Either way, I’ll see you there.

Hello editing Ginette here
I have just finished filming the second How To video for this lesson. And given that both of those videos were more than 15 minutes long, I thought this was a good opportunity for me to demonstrate to you something else that you can do if you do end up filming something and you think do you know what, that really was very long I could have chopped it up and filmed it separately and shall I do it all over again.
Rather than doing it all over again, what I have given you in this lesson are both of the full length How To videos so you can watch them all in one go if you want to, but I’ve also chopped them up after the fact.
So I haven’t refilmed them or anything, chopped them up into their individual sections so that it’s easy for you to dive into one if that is of more interest to you than any of the other bits in there, but also to show you how easy it is to do it this way just in case you feel like you’ve got one video that is super long and the rest are all nice and short, because you’ve done it the way I have suggested you do it. I hope that makes sense.
This is just a really good opportunity to demonstrate to you that this is a way of chopping up your videos to make it a an easier experience for your learners if that’s what you want to do.
As you can tell this isn’t scripted and not planned in the slightest.
I’ve got none of my lighting on because I’ve opened up my curtain so got natural daylight and obviously you can see that I need glasses for the close up stuff as well.
All good fun! Anyway, just to demonstrate to you that it doesn’t matter how long you’ve been doing this stuff, there are still opportunities to do things slightly differently and times when you will talk and talk and talk and then realize you’ve been talking for quite a long time.
Enjoy!

Okay, in this first How To video, we are going to talk a little bit about getting the right tech.
And right as you know, falls into the same sort of category as best, there’s no such thing as the best tech, there’s only what’s right for you right now.
So the right tech will be very much dependent on a number of different things for you, not only what you’ve already got, but also what you’re aiming for, a budget, all of those different sorts of things.
So this is more about some guidelines for what to think about when it comes to and apologies for the awful drawing again. Choosing a microphone, choosing some kind of webcam or filming equipment, and then your recording and editing software, and perhaps a storage solution as well.
So things to think about when it comes to your microphone. And I would say that this is absolutely the first thing to invest in, if you’ve got nothing else other than your laptop or your computer and it has obviously a microphone built into it, I would still recommend that you invest in a separate microphone.
And the reason that I think it’s important to have a separate microphone is because you will get much, much better sound quality from a separate microphone than you will with something that’s built in. Even on a really fancy pants computer, I promise you if you set it up properly, and most of the ones that you can get are plug and play.
So for example, my microphone that is connected to my webcam, hello, to my computer, is a USB microphone, and it’s called a it’s by the company Yeti and it’s called a Blue Snowball. This looks very much like a Blue Yeti. So the company is Blue. Let’s get this right the company is Blue. And the microphones are either Yeti or Snowball. There we are got there in the end, but they’re separate and they’re USB and you just plug them in and away you go pretty much and they will definitely give you a better quality of sound.
The next thing to think about if you are either in the market for that or you’re looking for a microphone, is to make sure you have your microphone that has something called a cardioid quality to it okay, and all that means is that it takes the sound that is delivered to the front of the microphone and tries to block out any sound coming from the back of the microphone.
There are other microphones that will capture sort of 360 surround sound, but you want cardioid because you’re going to be speaking into the microphone. And in the second How To video in this lesson, I will talk to you about some top tips for how to get the best sound quality out of your microphone. But think about having a cardioid one.

You might also want to consider having a lapel microphone, which then plugs in somehow or works wirelessly with your equipment. And I did start using my lapel microphone actually to film these lessons.
Certainly the How To lessons but there was some kind of something going on with sound quality that I wasn’t very happy with. So I decided to ditch it. But I have successfully used lapel mics to film people outside for example, because the lapel mic literally sits on the lapel, it clips in, and you can get wind mufflers and all that kind of thing.
So it will only pick up the sound or at the very least it will majority only pick up the sound of the person speaking as opposed to anything else going on in the background. This can be really helpful if you have a video camera like I do that doesn’t have a normal headphone jack or a microphone jack. So nice work there Sony.
Or if you want to be talking to camera but be quite some distance from the camera. In much the sort of same style as a news report might be delivered for example, somebody walking along the street and they get closer and closer and closer.
Well you can’t have a lead going from camera to the lapel mic there it wouldn’t be practical. So that then plugs into a separate piece of kit like a Dictaphone if you remember those, or you can get separate microphones to take the plug from your lapel mic.
So just something to think about there. Absolutely not a prerequisite at all for filming your first online course, but if you happen to have that equipment it is perfectly safe to use. Some people and particularly since the pandemic, really like to use a headset and it is a different sound quality coming through a headset with a built in mic than it is to have a separate mic with no headset.
That’s entirely up to you. For me, it feels a bit too call centery, for me, but if that’s what you’re used to, and that’s sort of what people are used to seeing you using, then that’s absolutely fine. No problem there at all. And then the last thing that I would suggest you do is get something called a pop filter. And this is particularly if you are using a microphone connected to your computer.
So you can see here, I’ve got a pop filter, which is just like it’s like a an embroidery hoop. I don’t know if I’m picking that up on the webcam or not like an embroidery hoop with a pair of tights on it literally, is that I might be giving my age away there, but anyway, and this is designed to stop what are called plosive sounds from interfering with the sound quality coming through your mic, and plosive sounds are the hard sounds like D P S those sorts of sounds K is another one.
And so a pop filter they’re about a fiver I mean, they’re really, really cheap, certainly less than a tenner. And if you get your microphone from Amazon, then you will absolutely see that as “other people have also bought…”, and I would get it at the same time.

It’s just a piece of kit that will really just help enhance the quality of your audio. Now audio is absolutely the most important thing to get right first, but once you’re in the market for thinking about thinking about improving your video, then I would think about getting a separate webcam to the one that is built in to your computer.
Or you I mean you can you can use a smartphone for sure you don’t have to have a webcam. But if you’re going to use a webcam, then you definitely want that to be separate. And I cannot overstate how brilliant the Logitech series is.
So I use a C920 but they quickly went out of stock during the first wave of the pandemic, but their latest one which is I think it’s the Bria Brio Brio. Their latest webcam has got some very good reviews as well, I’m still going with my C920, just purely because there’s absolutely no reason for me to upgrade it, there’s no need to upgrade it, it works perfectly for what I need, which is a lot of Zoom meetings and a lot of recording to webcam.
So most of my online courses will be me talking into that webcam. And it’s great quality for what you’re likely to need certainly in the early stages of creating your first online course. You can, if you want to, you can use a separate video camera so much as I am doing here. And in fact, the video camera for me came long before the webcam.
But I think going back some now. But this video camera still comes in very handy for me when I’m running, for example, my online course creation bootcamp, which is an in-person bootcamp, that I run a couple of times a year for a very small group of people.
And I always film them recording an intro and an outro and a promo video and then I do the editing for them while they’re off doing their audio over slides, and comes in very handy for that and also for filming their testimonials at the end.
So if you go to GetThatCourseOnline.com/Bootcamp, you will be able to see some of the video testimonials on there that I have filmed. And you’ll be able to see some out there that I filmed in the open air using a lapel mic as well. So you can just have an example of that in there. Alright, you can as I said, you can use a smartphone to record yourself if you’ve got nothing else, because the camera quality will be fantastic.
I would still advocate the separate use or the use of a separate mic on there. And of course if you are using a smartphone, please invest in a tripod rather than trying to hold it in your hand because it doesn’t matter how steady you think you are, there is going to be some kind of wobble on that. And that will become very annoying very quickly for your learners.
Okay, and then when it comes to recording and editing software, certainly you want to be thinking about something to do the recording, something to do the editing. And then you also need to think about video storage and the storage I will come to very shortly.

My preference and my advice is that you use the same piece of software to record as well as edit. So personally I use something called Camtasia which is the mid range I would say in terms of recording and editing software.
If you’re looking for something more budget friendly, then you can use either Loom or Screenpal, which used to be Screencast O Matic. Camtasia is certainly used by a lot of online course creators, particularly if you’ve got a PC, if you have a Mac, you can use Camtasia. But it can be a bit glitchy with using a Mac, so ScreenFlow would be the alternative to use if you if you are using Mac, as I say, but a budget option is Screenpal or Loom.
These are sort of mid range, upper range, you’re talking about the likes of Adobe Premiere Pro and those sorts of packages if you use that, and you’re comfortable with that great but if you’ve never used recording and editing software before, absolutely don’t go for Adobe to begin with, there’s far too many bells and whistles for you, you just don’t need it.
But for a very basic option, Screenpal or Loom will definitely get you started. There are free options out there. But like with anything, the more you pay, the more bells and whistles you get. You are very, very limited with the editing that you can do on the very, very cheap options. So just worth thinking about that. You can also have a look at if you want to do a bit better with your sound quality, you can look at something called Audacity.
Now, Audacity is an editing tool for sound only it won’t do the recording of video, but it will help you clean up your audio, which might be important for you. I tried many moons ago to use Audacity and for whatever reason, it doesn’t work with the way my brain works. But I know lots of people do use it so it’s definitely something that you can investigate if you’re comfortable with working with sort of sound levels and that kind of thing.
The reason that storage is up here as well is that depending on the type of hosting option that you go for, and we will go through those in a later lesson. Depending on the type of hosting option you go for, you may well need to either stream your videos in from somewhere else from somewhere else where they’re being stored.
Or you might need to upload them to the platform that is hosting your online course. In any event, I would always recommend that you have somewhere set aside for storage of your original videos. And you might need to get a separate external hard drive for that or store them in the cloud somewhere pay for cloud services.
Because videos themselves take up an awful lot of storage space. But if you upload them to your online course hosting platform, and then for whatever reason the platform goes down or you lose access, you will still have your original videos. So places for storage include somewhere like Vimeo, you can store on YouTube, but it’s not massively professional to stream in videos from YouTube.

Or you can use Amazon services AWS or S3 services from Amazon, Wistia is another one, that’s an option for you there. Or there are other platforms as well. So I use one called Adilo, for example. So plenty of options in there for you.
Lots of people use Vimeo just being a little bit careful with Vimeo because if you are selling your online course you need to have the appropriate business plan which is a little bit more expensive than their standard plan. So Vimeo, Amazon Wistia and I use as I say Adilo amongst other things,
I’ve got an Amazon account as well and this course is being streamed in from from s3 on Amazon. Alright, so some things to think about there for the right tech in the next video I will go through some top tips for doing your filming and what have you so that you can produce the best possible video and audio certainly for your first online course and then once you’ve done it once you, get better from there.
See you there!

Okay, welcome to this second How To video. And in this video, we’re going to talk about some top tips for filming. And a little bit more besides as well.
First up, it is really, really important to say that when you are filming or recording audio for your online course, nobody is expecting you to produce movie quality stuff, okay. And you can see from my videos here, they’re not movie quality by any stretch. And the reason that I’ve got the level of quality that I have is over many years building up the kit that I’ve got for the filming that I do.
So don’t beat yourself up for not producing something that’s worthy of the big big silver screen. That’s not what anybody is expecting from you, all they’re expecting is for you to produce something that I would call professional amateur quality.
So they want you to have thought about the quality of your audio, and the quality of your video, if it’s your camera, or obviously what you’re filming on your screen. Certainly what you’re showing them. So do the best that you can and that will absolutely I promise you be enough for now. And certainly till you get more practiced at it until you’ve made some money from your online courses and you can afford to invest in upgrading your equipment in whatever order you feel like doing.
But no matter what level you are at in terms of the equipment you have, there are some things that I think are really top tips for doing your filming, and will set you apart from a lot of other people’s output and give you that professional amateur quality edge. So the first thing to think about is what you do with your camera.
And there are two things that I want you to think about here. Number one, is the angle of your camera. Now this might sound a bit weird, but if you are not using sorry, if you are using your built in camera on your laptop, what a lot of people make the mistake of doing is having their laptop down on their desk, and they end up looking down into the camera.
So for example, I will try and demonstrate this right now, if I were to come over to my webcam here, and imagine that my webcam is actually part of my laptop, and it’s the angle is lower than my eyes. So what I’m doing is I’m actually talking down into the camera, I keep flicking to the left here, because that’s where I can see the visual, but I’m talking down into the camera. And the problem with this as a way of filming is that it can feel quite imposing on people.
And it feels like you’re sort of standing over them. So it doesn’t necessarily lead to developing that sort of sense of connection that I suggest you want. The other thing is people can see up your nose and who wants that? So that’s the first thing to think about.

The second thing is to think about the quality is the sound. And in particular, you want to think about sound proofing, which is understanding that where you are filming will determine the quality of the sound that you produce, the closer you are to your microphone, that will make a big difference.
So for example, if I were to step closer, sorry about this, stepping closer to this particular camera, you will see the difference in what the camera microphone is picking up lost my words there. And again, if I were to step over this way, and get even closer to this microphone, you can really tell the difference between speaking into it there and pulling back a little bit.
Now this room that I’m filming in at the moment is my office, it’s not the best in terms of soundproofing. If I had a lapel mic, that will be a different quality of sound as well. But the sorts of things that I can do to improve this are things like having soft furnishings, which will absorb sound as opposed to hard surfaces, which will bounce the sound back again and produce that echoey sort of quality.
Play around with what you’ve got. I have known people to create little mini studios out of cardboard boxes just to get that really crisp and clear sound. I would think about it in terms of you know that there’s going to be a tipping point between the amount of work you put in to get the quality of sound as best as it possibly can be, and the amount of hassle that that causes in order to get there.
So definitely test around what gives you the best effect for what you want to create. of your camera that you are using, you want to at minimum be filming in HD, which is 720p for those of you that have seen those sorts of things, I film in 1080. If you’re really fancy pants, you might film in 4k. Okay, the other thing is to think about your vocals. And this is to make sure that you do a vocal warmup, and to really get your mouth muscles moving before you start speaking, because your propensity to trip over seemingly simple words, as you’ll have seen me do many times actually in these videos, will increase exponentially if you don’t warm your voice up.
So if you sort of rock out of bed in the morning and switch your camera on and try and speak straight away, then there’s a very good chance that you are actually going to end up re-recording a lot of stuff because your voice just isn’t ready to speak.
The other thing that I would definitely recommend is that you try clearing your throat and also between takes, And you can see here that I have got my wall behind me I’ve got my bookcase and if you look in the webcam, you’ll see that I’ve got some furniture over here. And doesn’t it all look nice and neat, you do not want to see what is in front of the camera, I expect you probably do but I’m not going to show you.
So this is to make sure that the backdrop is something that is just pleasing to the eye, or at the very least not distracting. It is absolutely fine if you have a book case or bookshelf or you’ve got all the bits and pieces no problem. But if you’ve got a load of stuff that is just frankly, just a very messy room, then it is worth thinking about other options for how you can just improve your backdrop.
I personally would not recommend that you go down the route of thinking green screen. I know a lot of people, when they first get into recording online courses go green screen, I’ve got to have green screen. No you don’t, it is an awful lot of hassle to get it looking really good quality without having that sort of green halo effect behind you. Just don’t get distracted by that particular shiny object. Just make sure it’s neat, just make sure it’s tidy, make sure it’s not too distracting.
And I promise you, nobody’s gonna worry about it as much as you do. So that’s your backdrop. All this means is the the quality of the picture that you are producing. If you are unable to film in at least 720p which would be really unusual these days, you’d have to go some to find some equipment that didn’t at least give you the minimum HD quality, then I would have a little think about how and when you want to be on camera and see if you can invest in maybe renting something that will give you the quality that you want.
But these days, it is very difficult actually to not find something that is at minimum 720 for HD quality. Alright, the next thing that you want to think about The next thing to think about is your clothing. And you will notice I’m sure throughout this course, that in the What and Why videos, I’m just wearing this black top and in the How To videos, I also have this top on as well, you’ve probably noticed slight changes in the hair.
top tip this one is that you have some water on standby and water with a little spout, I cannot tell you the number of times that I have been on a live stream and gone to take a glass of water and spilt the whole thing down myself, great! So you really don’t want to have to wait for your clothes to dry out before you start recording again. So just in between takes just have a sip of water, just keep those vocal cords lubricated. And you will hopefully be on a good path. There are lots of other things that you can do.
So by all means, have at it with YouTube, and finding some videos with good warm up exercises for your voice. in between filming so you go from very long hair to very short hair or you change the color or whatever, unless it’s part of your brand or part of what you’re talking about, yes, people are going to notice that of course they’re going to notice that but it won’t be an issue okay, as long as the quality of your content is there, it’s really not as big an issue as you might think.
Alright, the next thing to think about is the visual. In various other bits and pieces, I have tried to keep them to a minimum. But inevitably, with something as big as this course I can’t get it all filmed in one day. So there are going to be different changes.
So I’ve tried to keep things as consistent as I can. However, this is not the be all and end all that is my personal choice and preference to do that. If you need to film over a number of days, and you’ve got different clothing on and all that kind of thing. Do not worry about it, okay, it’s fine. At the very most your learners will go ‘huh they look different’, and then move on, because the quality of your content will soon distract them over what it is that you look like.
If you have a massive change The next thing with your visual is to think about the lighting. Now you might rely on external lighting just remember that your strongest light source will always be what your camera picks up.

So at the moment I’m filming with 1, 2, 3 different light sources. I’ve got a blackout blind down because natural daylight isn’t reliable enough for the amount of filming I need to do. If you’re filming one video for five minutes, then yeah, absolutely you can probably rely on natural daylight. But just do a bit of a test looking at the difference it makes between where you film and where your camera is and where your largest or strongest light source is.
I promise you it is going to make much more of a difference than you think it is, particularly looking at the difference between what our eyes pick up and what a camera picks up. You do not have to go out like I’ve got a big lighting rig you absolutely don’t have to go out and buy that. But I would definitely suggest that you buy something along the lines of some kind of lighting source.
You can get something really simple, so I’ve got one here. Ta dah! And this is just a clip on little ring light, which I put it on, you can see it’s pretty bright. But you can see the difference that it makes just having – ooh ghostly – having a light. And this is a rechargeable one. So these are really good. I use these on just on a Zoom meeting, and I don’t have the big rig up that kind of thing. So they can be very handy. And they’re just they’re sold as, selfie lights, ring lights, very cheap, very easy. Just to give you that extra boost of lighting source.
Definitely test your lighting, don’t do all your filming, and then come back and go ‘oh the lighting isn’t as good as I thought it would be’, test first and then do your filming. Okay, the next one is oh, yes. One of my favorites: smile. So, at the beginning of every video, and at the end of every video, start and end with a great big smile, because it will make life a lot easier for you in the editing process.
People who haven’t got a lot of experience of doing filming can sometimes tend to start talking almost before they look into the camera. And you can see if I was to provide you with an edit of that, which I will do right now. So I’m going to cut and then I’ll start speaking before I start looking into the camera. And that’s what a lot of people do. So in order to get yourself out of the habit of that because it’s it’s just not nice to not be looking straight into the camera straight away.
What you want to do is start each video with two or three seconds of you. Smiling, and then ending your video, as you see I do in all of mine. Thanks for watching. See you in the next one. And a nice smile. If you’re not comfortable with your best full wattage, or it’s not appropriate for your subject matter, just please try and find a nice neutral friendly face.
So that you’ve got somewhere to edit in and edit out, I promise you, this will make a huge amount of difference for you.
Alright, the next one is editing itself. So things to make life easier. When it comes to the editing process. If you are in full flow, and you make a mistake, for whatever reason you trip over a sentence, you say the wrong word, whatever that might be, and you feel like you want to do it again, instead of re-recording the whole video, what you can do, I’ll put my pen down for this one, otherwise it won’t work, what you can do is create what’s called a spike in the audio.

And the reason you want a spike is so that it’s really easy to find when it comes to the editing process. So if you, for example, are standing in a certain place, and you are starting your sentence and you think no, I got that wrong at the point of getting it wrong, so, I got it right, no, I didn’t, I got it wrong. And instead of going back and re-recording the whole thing, what you want to do is clap, you will see a spike in the audio.
And I’ll show you a screenshot of what I mean on this. And that will tell you the place where you can then go back and restart your sentence. If at all possible you want to minimize those. But the clap gives you a really easy spike, you can click your fingers or whatever you need to do as well on that one. If you know that you are going to re-record a certain bit, so for example, occasionally I get sirens going past in the background, loud noises, that kind of thing, and I might be in the middle of a sentence. So this is slightly more accomplished work. But what I will do is stop in the middle of a sentence. And then carry on when the moment has passed. And hopefully that edit point, I can just cut out the bit where I’m just still with no sound. And you will see that it doesn’t create too much of a bump in your viewing pleasure or your listening pleasure as well.
Okay, da da da da breakpoints yes. So I would think about. So you’ve got the clap, we’ve got hold. And then we’ve got breakpoints. And yes, for those of you who are feeling sniggery I did say we’ve got the clap. Anyway. Breakpoints is where you have natural points in your filming process where it will be a natural break point for you. In which case, you can then put an edit point in there and it won’t seem too jarring.
It’s not in the middle of a sentence, that kind of thing. Okay, so the final point on this top tip for filming is to take your time, because I promise you that filming and editing is absolutely going to take you way longer than you think it’s going to take and it will take you much longer to get this stuff right than you think it’s going to take. No worries, it’s fine. But don’t beat yourself up over the fact that it’s a five minute video how can it take so long? It will take an awful long time.
Alright, the final thing that I want to cover and I appreciate that both of these videos How To videos have been quite long but they are important points. The final point I want to cover is something called accessibility am I’m just going to pop it up here, in this corner of the flip chart, and I bet you, I can’t write it in, let’s try.
Oh look at that had more room than that I thought. This is about understanding that there are potentially going to be some people who struggle to consume your videos and your audio in the way that a lot of other people do. So they might be hard of hearing, they might be hard of seeing, you know, whatever it is. So what you want to think about is how accessible your videos are for people, and in particular, the use of subtitles or closed captions.
Now, you will see that all of my videos have the option to include subtitles if you want to. The difference between the two, subtitles simply give you the written version of what is being said, closed captions will give an indication of other sounds that are being heard as well. So for example, if I were to play some music now Ac-cess-i-bil-i-ty. [music playing] how lovely! You would see that there and I’ve inserted into my subtitles, the closed caption of music playing, or words to that effect, I might change it when I come to edit.
The way to get subtitles or closed captions, there are three choices available to you, you can either put them in yourself if your editing software gives you the opportunity to do that. Or you can get one of the AI models to do it and I use something called otter.ai. And this is where a bot interprets, I can’t get the, there we go, the E in there, where a bot interprets what’s being said and provides you with the subtitles that you can download and then add into your video if you want to.
You will have to do some editing on that or your final choice is to use a service that provides a human to actually type the subtitles for you and that will be something like rev.com And again, a much higher degree of accuracy well I kind of say much AI is getting much closer, a higher degree of accuracy, certainly from a human providing subtitles and rev in fact provides closed captions, not just subtitles, but you will still have to go through and just double check and hopefully your editing software will allow you the ability to make changes where you need to make changes.
Okay, that was unbelievably even though it’s almost 20 minutes long a whistlestop tour of some top tips for your filming and for your editing process. But as always ask any questions in the community if you have them. Because this is absolutely something that you will need to practice and go over and gradually improve.
Don’t expect to go from naught to perfect well, no such thing but naught to brilliant straightaway.
I will see you in the next lesson.