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All right, so we're gonna cover my recommended camera and equipment for this business model now before

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we get into this.

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I want to let you know that there will be some affiliate links here.

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You know, so feel free to skip this lecture if you feel like you don't need recommendations for camera

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equipment or recording equipment or basically anything that entails this business model and how to make

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it easier.

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These are all things.

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Yes.

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There will be affiliate links.

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But these are all things that I use in my business and legitimately recommend for this business.

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So this will make your job easier.

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It will make you produce better content.

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And it will really help you along the process.

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Now, my goal is not to sell you in this lecture.

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I'm not trying to pitch you on any of these products.

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I'm simply trying to give you my best recommendations and also I'll give you free alternatives.

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You know, if you're on a budget so that you get the best free alternative if you can't afford the one

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that I'm recommending.

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So I'll go through and I'll recommend a both for the people out there that are really kind of looking

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to not spend any money or really kind of put as little money into this as possible to get going, because

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I know I've been there.

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I get it.

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So I'm going to give you the best examples of both.

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So everything first and foremost, before we jump into this, I'll be popping pictures of these things

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up on the screen for you.

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Everything in this is linked.

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A camera that I recommend and use is the Lumis G7.

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OK, the limits G7 is a super lightweight camera.

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It's very versatile.

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So you can use it in like a vlog setting.

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You can also carry it.

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It's very, very light.

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There's also a lot of different things that come with it.

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Now I will put the Lumis G7 and I will also put the limits.

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She said seven bundle that I bought.

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That was like a hundred dollars more.

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That came with literally everything.

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It came with like a shock on Mike.

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It came with an extra battery.

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It came with a charger, came with a lens already as well.

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So I recommend that you start with that bundle bundle.

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It's a lot cheaper than all the other cameras, but the quality is practically the same.

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I still use Olympic's G7 in my business every single day.

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Now, I've I've since tried DSL, Arz, because a couple of my friends I network with have them.

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I want to be perfectly honest and I'm not like a like a camera or like an editing guy.

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Like I'm not like a full like full on the editing head.

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But like I personally don't notice any difference between the lummox and the DSR DSL or if we're being

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completely honest now, the recommended in the industry, the recommended standard is the DSL.

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Ah, it's a little bit more expensive and obviously you're gonna have to buy a lens for that most of

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I recommend that the limits G7, if you're looking for a high quality camera that's super affordable,

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super versatile meaning, can you.

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You can use it in a number of different settings.

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Comes with a lens that basically adjusts in and out for a wide range and, you know, basically a good

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snipped piece of content.

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If you're looking at a record like a targeted YouTube video or a talking head video that bundle the

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starter motto for the Olympics.

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G-7 has lasted me about two years and I've never had to buy another camera.

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I've never had to buy another bundle.

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I highly recommend that you start there.

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Now, if you're really on a budget, I recommend that you use your phone camera.

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I have an iPhone.

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I'm sure you have an iPhone or a Droid or whatever it is that you have.

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And your phone, chances are, has a really great camera.

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So if you're on a budget, I recommend that you use your phone camera.

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Now, your phone camera can record almost as good as a video camera can.

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It's got slightly less capabilities, but it's it's really almost up there in quality.

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And most people, to be perfectly honest, won't know the difference.

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Now, you can also use your computer and record with a screen recording software as well.

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And that's 100 cent free will get into that in the neck in and in a few slides from now on.

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But like I said, if you're on a budget, just use a camera and get yourself a tripod that will hold

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A lot of them come with adjustments that will literally just hold your phone.

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If you can't afford a camera, then then off, obviously, too.

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If you have a a computer or something like that, you can use screen recording software and we'll talk

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about free alternatives for you when we get to that lecture.

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So moving on to mikes and audio now.

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Now I use and recommend the blue snowball microphone now.

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It's basically a plug in microphone into your computer.

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Now, I started off with the recommended industry.

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Standard is actually also made by Ballu, who's the company, and it's a blue yeti.

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There have been so many people that have had issues with the blue Yeti.

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It's a little bit better quality when you get it working.

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What I'm saying is the blue snowball Mike is practically as good.

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I've bought two yeti's in my time and I think they're both like a hundred and 15 bucks.

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Something that not worth it.

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They always came with a static issue that you had to kind of jump through hoops to.

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microphone, through is my blue yeti plugged into my computer air, my blue snowball plugged in my computer.

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That's a route that you go your audio quality is Paramount's a people, for whatever reason, will stick

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around to bad video quality and watch a bad video.

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But if you're audio quality sucks, very few people have patients.

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So this is something that you should take very, very seriously.

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Now, there are cheap alternatives in ways that you can improve your audio quality.

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They're not going to be as good as the three on the top.

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But I will talk about them in a second.

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Either way, if you're not doing anything, you should definitely do a least one of these.

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So if you're recording from a computer and screen recording, use a blue snowball.

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Mike, I recommend that.

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Now, if you're recording from a camera, I recommend using a shotgun, Mike.

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Now, the Luminex G-7 bundle that I recommended during the camera comes with a shock and Mike attached

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If you're in like a secluded room now, it's not going to give you as good a quality as like the wireless

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And on top of that, you can literally just put it on top of the computer and assume you're on top of

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computer, on top of the camera and press play.

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model and keep their their initial purchases as low as possible.

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Don't spring for this.

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Just completely honest.

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Don't spring for this.

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I think cost me a hundred fifty or two hundred or maybe even 250.

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So the people that are serious about scaling this business all up and getting the best, basically best,

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you know, putting in the best content and best, you know, production quality that they can right

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Go ahead and get this.

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looking to build the business as cheap as possible initially and then maybe even come back and, you

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know, spend some your profit on some of these things, then that's what I would recommend, just simply

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going with, like a blue snowball or, you know, Shaq and Mike or going after the lummox, you know,

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bundle that I talked about before.

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I've been there.

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I will pop a picture of my iPhone headphones up on the screen right now.

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fifty YouTube videos with iPhone headphones.

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The audio quality wasn't amazing, but it was better than just recording.

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the recording and microphones from your camera or your phone.

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Now, I've used probably five to ten screen recording softwares in my time, and I've paid, you know,

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ridiculous amounts for screener recording softwares.

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and all the different things that they offer, I still find that OBSS is the best one that that's out

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there for me.

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It's literally recording the screen as we speak right now.

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This is all B.S. It's free and it's I find that it's still the best.

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It's better, in my opinion, than some of the good paid ones out there.

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It's free now.

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It might take you five minutes.

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It's very, very easy to set up.

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It's very beginner friendly.

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It's literally just like you click a button and it records your screen.

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You don't have to set anything up.

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Now there is a free and a paid version for screen cast sematic.

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The paid version is very, very cheap and I think it's like nine bucks for the year or like 12 bucks

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It's beyond cheap.

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The only difference is the free version puts a little watermark down in the bottom left corner down

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That's the only difference that end that you can only record for ten minutes.

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So it cuts you off at ten minutes.

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I use Adobe Premiere Pro that comes with both on both Mac and P.C..

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I think there's so many more things he can do with it.

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out Dobek America's I don't necessarily Herbsaint care about the quality of that that much.

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I'm just kind of clipping the videos that are already produced, high quality, all my dough on my Adobe

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the best free editing software out there.

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Photo editing.

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Why is photo editing important?

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Why is it even on here.

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We're not doing any photo editing.

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The premier pro and Shakar.

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we will talk about why that's super important for converting people and why it's going to sell your

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course more than anything else.

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Photo editing is crucial for courses both on Udemy and Skillshare.

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Your YouTube thumbnail is gonna be what entices people to click the most.

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actually pretty solid for free, for a free thing.

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you'll do like a YouTube.

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There we will be a Photoshop linked directly above.

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I also recommend Roberto Blake starter kit.

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Now, what it basically is, put simply, is obviously it's like a it's a tutorial course teaching you

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photo editing, which I haven't actually gone through yet, but I plan to.

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But more importantly than anything, it's going to save you a lot of time in creating or thumbnails.

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How is it going to save you a lot of time and how is it gonna help you make better thumbnails?

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Channel, so it's comes with, like, I think, a hundred prenatal premade YouTube thumbnails.

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You're getting like the potential to create thousands of premade thumbnails because it's plug and play

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right there, templates that look great already.

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Highly, highly recommend that if you're serious about this.

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course thumbnails and YouTube thumbnails.

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Believe or not, it makes a massive difference.

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So I recommend an umbrella light and ring lights.

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I didn't want to like have you miss any any of the certain information on the slides.

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But right now, currently, for the majority of times when I'm filming, I'm using a ring light or umbrella

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They make a massive difference in your lighting quality and they will pay massive dividends in the way

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that your videos look.

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So, like I said, umbrella lights and ring lights also linked above.

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But if you're just looking for a free alternative, if you don't want to put any in any money into lighting,

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where there's good natural lighting and obviously have to be time sensitive.

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And you were going to not invest in one of them, for starters, remember, all of these are important.

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But if you were going to not invest in one of these, for starters, it would be it should be lighting.

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It's not more important than like you're editing.

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It's not more important than, like your screen recording software or your potential, you know, anything

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like that.

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If you're going to skimp on one of these, it should be lighting.

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Invest in some lighting because it makes a massive difference.

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It's amazing, amazing, amazing quality.

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It's sturdy.

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It folds into a small little thing that you can carry anywhere.

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I have two of them.

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I have one where I film usually and I have one back at my apartment.

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I found that this one's the best and it's not that expensive for Tripod.

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super cheap hand-held one on Amazon for like ten dollars.

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And honestly, like, they're not they're not the best, but they're not the worst either.

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Like, you can get away with it and it'll hold your your camera or your phone, you know, just fine.

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So it's good on a table.

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I also recommend a handheld one just because you can it'll give you versatility.

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You'll see the difference.

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Both of those are going to pay massive dividends because obviously, unless you have somebody following

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you around the Gary V all the time with a camera, you know, you're going to need a tripod that's going

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to hold your camera for you while you film.