**Shooting Video with a Cinematic Look**

When it comes to shooting video, one of my favorite things to do is to actually shoot in slow motion. I think this gives b-roll those sexy fancy product shots a much more cinematic look. But you don't actually need a dedicated slow motion mode in your camera as long as your camera or even your phone can shoot 60 frames per second. You can actually get slow motion, so on my Panasonic GH4, it's set to 4K 60 which when you play back normally it just looks too smooth and you have that sort of soap-opera effect. But in the Edit afterwards, you can slow it down to half speed or 30 frames per second. Of course, it's not quite as slow as a proper 180 or 240 FPS slow motion, but pretty much every camera can shoot at 60fps.

**Using the Right Equipment for Good Sound**

When shooting video, using good sound is just as important as using good light. I use a shotgun mic on top of my tripod to pick up all the sound going on around me and you'd barely be able to hear my voice. This is because shotgun mics are designed to capture sound from a wide angle while rejecting sound from the sides and rear. But this means that if I'm using a traditional mic, like a lavalier or lapel mic, it would pick up way too much ambient noise. So, I use a Sennheiser Me2, which is a great compact and lightweight option. The cord goes under my shirt to hide it, and it's balanced on the top of my t-shirt. This runs into a Zoom H1 recorder, which is a fantastic little device that can record high quality audio with low latency.

**The Cost of Good Equipment**

One of the biggest costs associated with making YouTube videos is equipment. When it comes to recording video, you're not just limited to the camera itself, but also the sound quality and stabilization. For 4K editing, I'd recommend that your laptop or PC has at least 16 gigs of RAM. Although, as you can see, it'll easily use 24 gigs. A dedicated graphics card will also help with certain tasks, such as color grading and 3D rendering.

**The Importance of Processor Power**

But the most important component when it comes to video editing is the processor. Ideally, try and get an i7 or even a new i9 but with an H suffix like the Intel Core i7-8705G that I have in this Dell laptop. You'll see much faster performance times with these more powerful chips.

**Traveling with Your Camera Gear**

When traveling abroad and staying in a hotel room, it can be frustrating to deal with all the different plugs and adapters for your camera, phone, and laptop. A super-easy tip is to bring one extension lead and then just adapt everything into that. All you have to do is plug everything into one adapter and unplug all the UK plugs into here. This saves a lot of space in my bag for storage.

**Storing Your Footage Safely**

As a backup, I use a Samsung T5 SSD, which is smaller, faster, and more reliable than a traditional hard drive. Since there's no moving parts on an SSD, it's much less prone to damage or failure. The one terabyte model costs about £200, although there is a newer X5 model that only works with Thunderbolt 3 and costs twice as much.

**Conclusion**

I hope you found some of those tips and tricks useful. If you think I've missed any good ones out, let me know in the comments below. Thank you so much for watching guys hit that like and subscribe button if you want to see more of my videos.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enit is cold today hey guys I'm Tom the tech chap and as you may be able to tell I'm not in a studio today because this is gonna be a bit of a different video now I'm incredibly lucky as a YouTube creator that I get to travel all over the world for product launches conferences conventions and one of the things I've had to learn to do is shoot on the go well shoot edit publish make youtube videos on the fly with nothing more than what's in my backpack including travel tripods GoPros lavalier mics gorilla pods so I want to share with you guys some of my top tips and tricks from making videos when you're out about a big thanks to HMA VPN for helping make this video possible and also by having by far the best name for a VPN provider HMA or hidemyass it's fast secure and I use it to stay safe while browsing when I'm traveling and maybe watch a bit of us Netflix when I'm at home in the UK and with nearly 300 locations in 190 countries check out the link in the description if you want to give it a try and I'll tell you more about - at the end of the video first up if you get the option pick an airline that offers in-flight Wi-Fi I fly with Norwegian air all the time as they offer great value fares the operator premium isn't too expensive plus they've introduced Wi-Fi on most of their flights a few months ago I was on a 10-hour flight and I wanted to edit a video in Premiere Pro but as soon as I opened it up they asked me to log in and sign in and because I didn't have an internet connection basically I couldn't get any work done at all so yeah Wi-Fi especially on a long flight can be very useful one of the first things I do when I arrive in a new place is go on the hunt for great places to film whether it's your fancy hotel lobby and nearby coffee shop a local park or maybe even in the middle of Times Square so you may recognize this setup it's my studio at home in the UK but I shoot less than half of my videos here I was in New York the other day and I moved terraced with natural light and some cool backdrops was far nicer than my dingy hotel room for filming the phone it can be a bit unnerving filming in public places but that's why I find guerrilla pods are so useful as you can keep a pretty low profile and generally like this I'll record my voice over afterwards rather than talking straight to camera in the middle of a Starbucks oh and if you are recording a vo back at the hotel put a couple of pillows in front of you or pull the bed sheets over your head to give you much better acoustics I promise you every youtuber has done this at some point if they haven't they're lying or they've never stayed in an echo a hotel room so I always carry a gorilla pod with me because well that's really good for gorilla shooting when you don't want to attract the attention no security guards asking for permits you can attach it to anything from railings to trees and of course you can also use it to vlog with the camera on there like that but sometimes there is no substitute for a proper tripod and if you are out and about shooting by yourself and you don't have a camera person or friend you can get to hold the camera having a tripod is really really useful I've gone for the Manfrotto be free travel tripod with a fluid head on top and once it's shrunk down it's not much bigger than my backpack okay here's a quick tip now if you're ever filming in bright sunshine like this it doesn't happen in the UK very often I've had to set my camera the GH five to ISO 100 and the aperture all the way down to f-22 so I'm not completely blown out by this really bright direct sunlight and so see what happens when I then raise it to something like f 2.8 yeah I'm still here so the solution is one of these an ND filter and if I just clip it on to the front of the lens so I can widen the aperture let's put it back to f28 and it looks really nice and you get bit more of a blur background I can adjust the filter I can just twist it it's a variable ND filter and you can see how that's affecting the image and the result is I can use a much wider aperture because without it it looks a bit like that unless of course I put it f-22 again and then you've lost all that background blur now it's not so much of a travel tip but one of my favorite things to do when shooting video is to actually shoot in slow motion which I think gives b-roll those sexy fancy product shots a much more cinematic look but you don't actually need a dedicated slow motion mode in your camera as long as your camera or even your phone can shoot 60 frames per second you can actually get slow motion so on my Panasonic gh4 it in 4k 60 which when you playback normally it just looks too smooth and you have that sort of soap-opera effect but in the Edit afterwards you can slow it down to half speed or 30 frames per second of course it's not quite as slow as a proper 180 or 240 FPS slow motion but pretty much every camera can shoot at 60fps so any of you can do this and I think it can make a big difference to your videos so let's say you are using a tripod like this it's about 15 feet away from me if I put a shotgun mic on top it would pick up all the sound going on around me and you'd barely be able to hear my voice which is why I use one of these a lavalier mic or a lapel mic so this is a Sennheiser me2 I've got the cord going under my shirt here to try and hide it just balanced on the top of my t-shirt and that's running into a zoom h1 recorder so all I need to do is press record on the camera and then press it on the mic and I've got video audio coming from here so you're not picking up anywhere near as much ambient sound and when I'm done I just press it again it saved onto a micro SD card slot pop on the laptop and usually when I start a video I'll clap a couple of times so in the Edit I can see those audio spikes all then we're looking about 200 pounds for the mic and the recorder when it comes to making YouTube videos shooting the video is only half the battle then you've got to edit it I record at 4k and use Adobe Premiere Pro and for 4k editing I'd recommend that your laptop or your PC has at least 16 gigs of RAM although as you can see it'll easily use 24 gigs so if you cannot great to say - that will help a dedicated graphics card will also help with certain tasks but I found the most important component when it comes to video editing is the processor the CPU ideally try and get an i7 or even a new i9 but with an H suffix like the eye 78758 that I have in this Dell you'll see much faster winter times with these more powerful chips one super-easy tip when you're traveling abroad and maybe you're staying in a hotel room and you've got a billion charges and plugs for your camera and your phone and your laptop and you adapt us for everything is to bring one extension lead and then all you have to do is bring one plug adapter I'm in the u.s. at the moment so I can just pop that on there and unplug all my UK plugs into here and it just saves a lot of space in my bag for storage and as a backup I use a samsung t5 SSD it's smaller much faster and more reliable than a traditional hard drive since there's no moving parts on the SSD I have the one terabyte model that costs about 200 pounds although there is a newer x5 model but that only works with Thunderbolt 3 and it cost about twice as much and to be honest the speeds of the t5 up to 500 megabytes per second read and write is more than quick enough for my needs I take this thing everywhere I go and I highly recommend it so I hope you found some of those tips and tricks useful and if you think I've missed any good ones out let me know in the comments below thank you so much for watching guys hit that like and subscribe button if you want to see more of my videos and I'll see you next time right here on the tech chure a big thanks to HMA or hidemyass VPN for sponsoring this video we're features like IP shuffle which keeps changing our IP address so it's more secure and with nearly 300 location 190 countries you always get a great connection and low ping which is ideal for gaming or streaming 4k Netflix movies as well as the VPN they also offer free privacy tools on the website including tests for DNS and WebRTC leaks which are definitely worth checking so if you need a secure and reliable VPN check out HMA and if you use the promo code tech chap 20 you can get 20% off a 12 month plan not too shabby so if you fancy giving it a try I put a link in the description belowit is cold today hey guys I'm Tom the tech chap and as you may be able to tell I'm not in a studio today because this is gonna be a bit of a different video now I'm incredibly lucky as a YouTube creator that I get to travel all over the world for product launches conferences conventions and one of the things I've had to learn to do is shoot on the go well shoot edit publish make youtube videos on the fly with nothing more than what's in my backpack including travel tripods GoPros lavalier mics gorilla pods so I want to share with you guys some of my top tips and tricks from making videos when you're out about a big thanks to HMA VPN for helping make this video possible and also by having by far the best name for a VPN provider HMA or hidemyass it's fast secure and I use it to stay safe while browsing when I'm traveling and maybe watch a bit of us Netflix when I'm at home in the UK and with nearly 300 locations in 190 countries check out the link in the description if you want to give it a try and I'll tell you more about - at the end of the video first up if you get the option pick an airline that offers in-flight Wi-Fi I fly with Norwegian air all the time as they offer great value fares the operator premium isn't too expensive plus they've introduced Wi-Fi on most of their flights a few months ago I was on a 10-hour flight and I wanted to edit a video in Premiere Pro but as soon as I opened it up they asked me to log in and sign in and because I didn't have an internet connection basically I couldn't get any work done at all so yeah Wi-Fi especially on a long flight can be very useful one of the first things I do when I arrive in a new place is go on the hunt for great places to film whether it's your fancy hotel lobby and nearby coffee shop a local park or maybe even in the middle of Times Square so you may recognize this setup it's my studio at home in the UK but I shoot less than half of my videos here I was in New York the other day and I moved terraced with natural light and some cool backdrops was far nicer than my dingy hotel room for filming the phone it can be a bit unnerving filming in public places but that's why I find guerrilla pods are so useful as you can keep a pretty low profile and generally like this I'll record my voice over afterwards rather than talking straight to camera in the middle of a Starbucks oh and if you are recording a vo back at the hotel put a couple of pillows in front of you or pull the bed sheets over your head to give you much better acoustics I promise you every youtuber has done this at some point if they haven't they're lying or they've never stayed in an echo a hotel room so I always carry a gorilla pod with me because well that's really good for gorilla shooting when you don't want to attract the attention no security guards asking for permits you can attach it to anything from railings to trees and of course you can also use it to vlog with the camera on there like that but sometimes there is no substitute for a proper tripod and if you are out and about shooting by yourself and you don't have a camera person or friend you can get to hold the camera having a tripod is really really useful I've gone for the Manfrotto be free travel tripod with a fluid head on top and once it's shrunk down it's not much bigger than my backpack okay here's a quick tip now if you're ever filming in bright sunshine like this it doesn't happen in the UK very often I've had to set my camera the GH five to ISO 100 and the aperture all the way down to f-22 so I'm not completely blown out by this really bright direct sunlight and so see what happens when I then raise it to something like f 2.8 yeah I'm still here so the solution is one of these an ND filter and if I just clip it on to the front of the lens so I can widen the aperture let's put it back to f28 and it looks really nice and you get bit more of a blur background I can adjust the filter I can just twist it it's a variable ND filter and you can see how that's affecting the image and the result is I can use a much wider aperture because without it it looks a bit like that unless of course I put it f-22 again and then you've lost all that background blur now it's not so much of a travel tip but one of my favorite things to do when shooting video is to actually shoot in slow motion which I think gives b-roll those sexy fancy product shots a much more cinematic look but you don't actually need a dedicated slow motion mode in your camera as long as your camera or even your phone can shoot 60 frames per second you can actually get slow motion so on my Panasonic gh4 it in 4k 60 which when you playback normally it just looks too smooth and you have that sort of soap-opera effect but in the Edit afterwards you can slow it down to half speed or 30 frames per second of course it's not quite as slow as a proper 180 or 240 FPS slow motion but pretty much every camera can shoot at 60fps so any of you can do this and I think it can make a big difference to your videos so let's say you are using a tripod like this it's about 15 feet away from me if I put a shotgun mic on top it would pick up all the sound going on around me and you'd barely be able to hear my voice which is why I use one of these a lavalier mic or a lapel mic so this is a Sennheiser me2 I've got the cord going under my shirt here to try and hide it just balanced on the top of my t-shirt and that's running into a zoom h1 recorder so all I need to do is press record on the camera and then press it on the mic and I've got video audio coming from here so you're not picking up anywhere near as much ambient sound and when I'm done I just press it again it saved onto a micro SD card slot pop on the laptop and usually when I start a video I'll clap a couple of times so in the Edit I can see those audio spikes all then we're looking about 200 pounds for the mic and the recorder when it comes to making YouTube videos shooting the video is only half the battle then you've got to edit it I record at 4k and use Adobe Premiere Pro and for 4k editing I'd recommend that your laptop or your PC has at least 16 gigs of RAM although as you can see it'll easily use 24 gigs so if you cannot great to say - that will help a dedicated graphics card will also help with certain tasks but I found the most important component when it comes to video editing is the processor the CPU ideally try and get an i7 or even a new i9 but with an H suffix like the eye 78758 that I have in this Dell you'll see much faster winter times with these more powerful chips one super-easy tip when you're traveling abroad and maybe you're staying in a hotel room and you've got a billion charges and plugs for your camera and your phone and your laptop and you adapt us for everything is to bring one extension lead and then all you have to do is bring one plug adapter I'm in the u.s. at the moment so I can just pop that on there and unplug all my UK plugs into here and it just saves a lot of space in my bag for storage and as a backup I use a samsung t5 SSD it's smaller much faster and more reliable than a traditional hard drive since there's no moving parts on the SSD I have the one terabyte model that costs about 200 pounds although there is a newer x5 model but that only works with Thunderbolt 3 and it cost about twice as much and to be honest the speeds of the t5 up to 500 megabytes per second read and write is more than quick enough for my needs I take this thing everywhere I go and I highly recommend it so I hope you found some of those tips and tricks useful and if you think I've missed any good ones out let me know in the comments below thank you so much for watching guys hit that like and subscribe button if you want to see more of my videos and I'll see you next time right here on the tech chure a big thanks to HMA or hidemyass VPN for sponsoring this video we're features like IP shuffle which keeps changing our IP address so it's more secure and with nearly 300 location 190 countries you always get a great connection and low ping which is ideal for gaming or streaming 4k Netflix movies as well as the VPN they also offer free privacy tools on the website including tests for DNS and WebRTC leaks which are definitely worth checking so if you need a secure and reliable VPN check out HMA and if you use the promo code tech chap 20 you can get 20% off a 12 month plan not too shabby so if you fancy giving it a try I put a link in the description below\n"