4 Steps to (Budget)online video production.

  1. First off you need material, your going to need to film some "B" roll. Grab a camera. My smart phone does really well even though it is cracked. Take pictures, film the journey in motion, and perhaps just a couple clips for a blooper reel. Now we have about 20 or so smaller videos and pictures.

  2. Once we get all those items collected we must put them in a storage device so we can name them and prepare for conversion of said files to make it easier for editing. Shotcut is a great program, it is open source and free. You can open said files with Shotcut . As these files are saved they are converted to the proper format. It is important to allow the conversion to reach 100%. So the process may a a hot minute , going one at a time. If you are impatient you will corrupt files.

  3. Shotcut is a video editor you can use to convert files to be able to be edited. It is also an editing software for video and audio. This is where you string along videos and trim them so you can make a video. You can use Canva for free and use it on other applications. Edit the videos so you can put it all together in the next step.

  4. Export the string and it will be combined into one video. Exporting will take a hot minute. You must be patient and wait. You can then upload to Youtube. You must follow all the steps or Youtube will deny your videos. I tried every other way this is the best and most direct.

Free to use programs:
studio.youtube.com
shotcut.org/download
canva.com

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