TJ Walker and others discuss video gear for YouTube and online work. Use your smartphone, a $200 camcorder for travel, or a Canon XA20 if you want to upgrade. The real advice: start creating instead of waiting for perfect equipment.
Questions this video answers
Canon XA20
"A couple thousand dollars" (as described in the transcript)
$200 small camcorder
Chapters
What is the best video camera for making online videos for your own YouTube.
Channel, your own media outlets, doing Skype video interviews, or for practicing your media interviews in advance on video?
Here's the answer.
It just doesn't really matter now.
People ask me this all the time.
If you want to know what kind.
I use, I don't even remember.
It's the XA20 Canon.
Canon makes it. It's a couple thousand dollars. It's a prosumer camera and it does all I need for doing Skype video interviews. Those of you listening to itunes may occasionally want to come over to our YouTube channel, YouTube.commediatraining you can see the video versions of these and you'll see.
What it looks like.
Most people most of the time waste way too much time worrying about video cameras.
It's kind of like obsessing over what.
Email program to use when sending an email.
If you're out walking on the street.
The email program on your cell phone.
Is probably going to be great.
If you're at your office, your desktop is fine.
If you're sitting on your couch on.
A Sunday afternoon, the email program on.
Your iPad is probably going to be fine.
It's whatever is closest and easiest.
Use that now.
I do trainings with high level executives.
CEOs, fund managers, political leaders around the.
World, and I typically am using just.
A $200 small camcorder because I'm not.
Worried about the quality at all.
I'm worried about convenience being light enough.
For me to get on a plane.
Without having to check the bag and.
Making it really easy.
So I don't care at all about.
The quality for training and rehearsing for.
Creating online training videos, doing Skype video interviews with major TV networks.
It's nicer to have a little higher quality. So I upgraded from a webcam to the prosumer couple thousand dollar Canon version that I mentioned. But you don't have to have anything that fancy. My main recommendation when it comes to cameras for your own productions, for your.
Own video rehearsals is just grab something.
Use it, get comfortable with it. Don't use the selection process of a.
Camera as an excuse to start to.
Start creating your content.
Create something today.
Use the cell phone camera right there in your smartphone.
After all, that's high definition.
It's better quality than $20,000 cameras from 10 years ago. So you already have enough firepower when.
It comes to video cameras.
Most likely the hard part for most.
People is actually getting up the nerve.
To have something to say whether it's their own video creation or whether they're rehearsing their interview.
