Do you wanna share your smiling face with
the world on YouTube? I'm Brighton West
and in this video I will share how to use your
built-in webcam on your mac to
record first youtube video. This feature
was built in to YouTube until January
2016 but they turned that feature off.
Don't worry about missing out it was
pretty clunky.
One of my biggest pet peeves is looking
up people's noses when I'm watching them
on a webcam. So the first thing is make
sure your webcam is at eye level and not
looking up at you from down below. So
what I do is I take out my painters
ladder and set my
laptop on a ledge where you typically
set the paint tray. So it's kind of a
little wonky set up but it makes the
video looks so much better because my
viewers aren’t looking up my nose. So I'm
gonna switch over here to the computer
and show you how this works. So we'll
head down into applications and to Photo
booth which is on every Macintosh computer.
When it starts out, you'll see that it starts out
on the photo mode and you have to take
it over here to record a movie clip. And
you'll see that this red button is
changing from a camera to a video camera.
So the next thing you're gonna do is
try to get this right so you're looking
good on camera.
You don't want a whole heck of a lot of
space above your head. It just kinda looks a
little funny when your heads down there
if your eyes are in the middle of the screen that's a bad
thing you want them up to two-thirds
levels. Let's do that let's do that. get this set
just a little bit of space above it so
there we go. That's perfect. So what
you'll do is start by looking directly
at the lens. On my MacBook Pro
there's a little green light that shows
me where the lens is. But it’s typically
above the screen. If you look down at the
screen to see what you look like while
you're recording, you’re gonna be looking
underneath your audience. So be sure to
look directly at the camera, not at the
screen.
Of course check out and make sure you're
looking good beforehand and then start
talking directly to the camera. So I like
to smile, take a deep breath and looked
directly at the camera before the start.
So what do you do if I can find this
button here and I'm gonna push record is
going to give me a three second countdown and
then I'm gonna start talking after that
three seconds. And I'm going to you push
the stop button when I am done talking.
So here we go:
Hey this is an example of a video shot
with a webcam using Photobooth.
There we go. I push stop at the end same button.
And it's a pretty simple I want you to
stop and once again smile at the end of
your video, so that you're not kind of
like, looking around at the end of the
video going where's the stop button? That
doesn't look professional - we want to
look professional on film. So that's
pretty much it. From there what you will
do is go over and choose the file that
you just recorded. And go to File Export
and you can put this on your computer. I
like to put things on my desktop just
because it's easy for me to remember
where they are. And you can call that
whatever you want. Click Save. And then
that is the file that should be
uploading to YouTube. And if you are new
to YouTube I’ll show you very quickly how to
upload. So you'll come over to
youtube.com. In the upper right you'll
see an upload button which will ask you
to login with your Google account.
Get signed and drag and drop that file from
your desktop onto this window. Once your
file is on YouTube there's a lot you can
do with it. You can edit your video using
the built-in
editor. And I have a check list of 10
things you should do each time you upload
You can get that on my website by clicking the
button. The checklist will help you fill
in each spot that will help people find your
video. So many people you put videos but
they never get any views because they
don't upload them correctly.
Be sure to grab that checklist
