Any quick wins since Tuesday, just take one or two, I'll give people a few minutes to jump on anything you guys want to touch on.
See, I have a quick one. Go for it. I've been getting more followers.
Like on every like, even in YouTube, I got two more followers. On Instagram, I got a follower. And on TikTok, I have quite a few. So I was like, Oh, okay, Lord. And some of them I was, because honestly, I'm just being 100% honest, I kind of gave up on YouTube.
I'm not even gonna lie, because I'm just so discouraged. But then when I saw that I had two followers, and I had like over 100 views on two of my shorts, I was like, okay, like I got like a fresh win. So just wanted to share that.
Awesome.
Take one or two other quick wins. You can just unmute yourself and get Marian. There you go.
This is really, I just happened to do four videos this morning. That's a win for me. I know, I know I still need to do several more to make it through the week, but it's a start.
So, yeah.
Very cool.
So excited about being 2000 last week is now 3500. Wow.
I had a friend who has nothing to do with this got a word from the Lord to pick those things that you get good responses and really push them in and that they will resonate, and that I need to do it in myself before I'm teaching other people.
So it's kind of fun to have God giving words from other people that have nothing to do with this.
Got it. That's awesome.
I would like to share that the more the, just the, the things that I'm sharing, God is just giving me so much more revelation, and like the depths of the word and whatever he's giving me it's just how it's just helping me and it's giving me revelation
of what I'm giving to others and just the energy of God is just, he's just increasing my energy, you know, because his word is true you know when we, the more we give out, the more we receive.
And it's just been a blessing that alone and of course the my followers have increased.
And, yeah, people want to hear. It's like people want to hear what I have to say and I'm like super surprised.
Very good. We'll get to hear you got from you guys, and we're going to jump in to a bunch of tech things today I'm going to try to cover quite a bit of ground.
Let me just share my screen ready a lot of screen share so the script so let's, let me share this, and just feel free to drop any questions in the chat.
And then what we'll do like we did last time is we'll take any questions while we're doing this about the two topics we're going to talk about today.
If you have specific tech questions that are not related to anything here I still want to get those answered we'll just do them towards the end. That way people do want to jump in.
We'll keep to that one hour time for as far as the training goes and the discussion. If you've got tech questions I'll stay on after and you know we'll, we'll help you out before we leave.
So we'll do that. Awesome. So, the things that we're going to cover today.
I do want to give you guys a few ways to get videos that you shoot from your phone, getting them to your computer and then back to your phone.
Again, these are all, these are all things you don't have to start implementing this today you'd have to do it even do it this week, you may not even get to this stuff in any time during, you know, the entire eight week intensive, but I do want to
just in case you're wanting to batch content and just put this training in there so there is some other training I'll link to in Kingdom Messenger TV.
Monica did some fantastic training here in the bonuses somewhere here. Where is that. Let's see, I think it's in roadmap. We'll make sure this is available to you guys.
Let's see here I think we had.
I will, I will have to go find it because now it's of course it's not here but there is some training on how to like edit videos on your phone but not in Tick Tock.
I will have to find it maybe to American look.
Well, because I thought it was right there.
Monica did, I think it's like 10, 20 minutes
that you just walk through like some different apps
you can use on your phone.
So I would be doing that today,
but we've already recorded that training.
So we'll just link to it and make sure it's
in your KMTV dashboard under the, oh my goodness,
eight week intensive, there we go, this group right here.
So we'll make sure it's in there for you guys.
Okay, so we'll jump into a few ways here
that you can get videos from your phone to your computer.
So if you film a few different videos on your phone,
and then you wanna edit a few of them all together
with whatever apps you want,
and then bring them back to your phone
to publish on TikTok, this is how you'll do that.
So the first one I'll talk through
is just through Google Drive.
So Google Drive is just basically storage in the cloud.
You can set up an account on your computer
like I have here, and I have some videos,
and then you can also set up the app on your phone.
And so then what you can do is you can just upload them
from your camera directly into Google Drive.
And then when you get to your computer,
you'll have those videos.
And this is a great way to get things in and out.
So that's probably, I'll be using this later today
when we talk about Descript
and getting things to your computer and back.
But I just wanna show you that feature.
So it just, anything you upload in Google Drive,
you'll see here.
I'm gonna try to switch between my computer
and my phone a few different times today.
So we'll see if this will work.
Working, no, no.
Let's see.
Okay, there it comes.
So that same folder, if I go to the Google Drive app here,
I can actually open up this September thing like this.
So I can see all my videos.
So those same videos you saw on my computer,
they're also listed here.
And then if I wanted to add them,
I hit this big plus at the bottom and I can say, you know,
upload, and then I can go to my photos and videos
and I can click from any of my,
so right now I've got,
I think I've got a little folder I can use.
So I can go to my recents and I can pick, you know,
some of these TikToks here at the top and hit upload.
And then it will upload them.
You know, you can do four at a time here.
And so I'll let those upload.
And then when we get back to my computer,
you'll see all those videos I just uploaded
have been added now.
So I've got some Notion TikToks we're doing recently.
So all of those have now come in here.
And if I double clicked on this,
I could then play this in my computer here.
And so that's one way to do it.
You can also then, you know,
get these out of Google Drive if you need to.
So you can download these to your computer
and edit them if you need.
I won't get too much into Google Drive
because then this is going to confuse people,
but you can also connect Google Drive to your finder
or if you're on a PC,
you can have it connected.
So all of those are going to be in this short form October
so that you can see all the clips added there here today
at 3.08.
So they're all syncing.
If I were to edit some stuff in here
and then I went back to my phone,
I can kind of reverse that process as well
if I go back to my phone.
And I can take a video like this
and click on the little three dots on the right.
And then there is a,
you actually open the phone like this.
And at the top right,
there is like a save a copy,
which is, you can say open in
and it will export it out of Google.
And then I can open it and add to my,
you can save to files.
I can save to my photos app, I think,
or add it to a shared album.
So that's how you would get it down off of Google Drive.
So that's how you can get things
sort of in and out with Google.
So I know that was kind of fast.
I'm not thinking a lot of you guys
will use that right now.
That's one option to get a file.
So just use whatever is easiest for you
if you need to even do this.
You don't even necessarily have to get videos
off of your phone and into your computer and back at all.
But this is just if you did want to try
some other editing techniques.
We're going to give you a lot of different tools.
It'll be up to you guys to figure out
if these are working for you or not.
So let's see, Holly's got her hand raised.
Hi, so I've just been airdropping things back and forth.
Does that lower the quality of the...
Oh, no, no, no, that was my that was number three. So we'll talk about that as number two.
Yeah, so if you're on, if you have an iPhone, like Holly said, like she's got a phone, and she also
has a Mac. There's this wonderful thing called airdrop. And I'll just show you guys really quick
because I know some of you guys do have that I'll show you how that that looks. So if we are in our
photos here, I'll jump over here. And let's see if we've got so there's my video, go to all photos.
Oops, okay, so I go to the bottom right, there's like this little up arrow
that will take you to something like this. And if your phone and your computer on the
same Wi Fi network, you will see something that says like this is my I have a Mac
mini here that's running our zoom call. So I can tap on this here and actually send
that file over the network directly into my computer. So that's another great way to do that.
Let's see here. What is okay, that's just my desk here. Let's get back.
Cool. So does that make sense? So when files come back in to you, I know I'm jumping around
and some of you guys are like you're going 1000 miles an hour, I don't want to spend a whole lot
of time on this. I just for like a few of you guys, this is going to be helpful. And then we've
got the the training down. I know I'm going really fast. But you can go back and watch it later and
pause it. And then when you when your files come in, they'll actually get sent to your downloads
folder. So there's the video I just sent over through the airdrop is coming up right there.
And then I could move it wherever I wanted to. And so you can also drag things back to your
phone. So you see there's my iPhone. And the way you do that is you just drag I'll go like a video
like this, I drag it over to airdrop and just hold down for a few seconds. And then I literally
drag the file and I just drop it on my iPhone. And it sends it. So all good. Marion, you had a
question? Yes, in fact, you answered a question I had for later. But what I want to know is can you
upload shorts to YouTube on your phone? I know that YouTube is on the phone. But
is it is it good enough to do that? You upload? Yes. Videos from your phone to YouTube shorts
directly to YouTube. You can. Yeah. And does it it does it give you the one minute?
It should be just limited to 60 seconds. Yeah. Okay. Sure. Okay. I believe I don't have to
transfer them. Okay. You don't have you say you don't have to do any of this. Like if you guys
like this is crazy. This is very much extra. It's just I'm showing you guys like a different tool.
Like I said, don't feel like you have to move things from your phone. Everything you need to
do for the you know, for these eight weeks, I would say just use your phone, recorded on TikTok,
publish it like last week. For some of you, I'll show you some other ways to edit. And once you
see it, you may think like, oh, my gosh, that looks so, so easy. So it may be worth going through
this process of bringing them over to your computer. And then, you know, we'll edit them.
I'm going to show you how to edit them in a minute using the script, and then get them back over. So
anyway, that's good. Cool. The last way we had was just through Notion. So let me just show you that
real quick. So if you remember, we did, if you wanted to use Notion, and I'll bring up our
little template we had, which was called Kingdom Content Planning. This is the template we did on
the first week. Come on. There we go. So you could have all of your episodes, like I did this on that
very first, the warm up week, we talked about Notion. So you can actually open up, say your
episode here, and you can drag and drop files from your computer directly into Notion like this.
And that works as well. It kind of backs them up. And what's cool about this way is if you
are tracking in Notion with your description and, you know, whatever scriptures you used,
and then the script, you can kind of just drop the video in there. And then everything related
to this video is now in one place. So if you're batching stuff, it is another way to, and it can
just leave it up there forever. It doesn't, it can just stay in Notion. So you'll see this video,
which was I uploaded the wrong one, but that is how
work and if I went to the Notion app then on my phone and we went over to Notion here
and I went back to that same thing I think it's called content planning which one I put it on
episode three we went down you can see the video is is here as well so that same video and I can
click these three dots at the top right and I think you can hang on sorry zoom is making this
difficult so you can open this video and you should be able to download it if you open it
let's see here that's just some construction on our house from years ago sorry where is the
oh you can say move to I think to another page where's the download sorry the original
and there's the file there so I can hit the little bottom three uh this this little uh
the bottom right there's like a um share button I can save that to my to my computer as well
to my photos uh app so you can't go from Notion directly to TikTok but you can save it from Notion
to your camera on your on your camera phone and then go from there cool it's all gonna make more
sense when I show you that we can actually record and edit videos on our on our computer so could
anyone have any questions about moving files around like like that I know I'm going through
it really quick and I'm sure there'll be a lot of questions in a week or two as well when people
try it but yeah Marion so the Notions is on your computer and on your phone right so if I upload
something to Notions on my phone it will appear on my computer yes yeah it's all synced so so then
I could actually use that file on my computer um put it in my photos or whatever and transfer
it that way exactly yeah it's just a different way different place to put it the general concept is
we're just putting it on something that's synchronized using the internet to synchronize
your phone and your computer so okay that's helpful yeah thank you cool I do have a question
is I have a Mac and I have an Android phones I have Android phones and I have a Mac um is it
easier to get myself an iPhone um you know to make this process easier or does it make a difference
um I would say use what you're comfortable with right now um I would use Google Drive because
Android just is you know is built by Google and Google Drive obviously they'll talk to each other
really nicely so just on your Mac then you know I would get the Google Drive app on your Mac
and that way as things are added to Google Drive it'll just show up immediately in on your Mac
that's actually an easier transition to figure out what I just said there than for you to like
now go get an iPhone and then try to figure out how to use an iPhone for the you know um I would
just use the the the device that you're most comfortable with okay so there's so that's a
process and um to download the Google Drive right okay yeah you have something that shows it or is
it just somewhere I can just find it um you'll just look up uh Google Drive Mac um it'll look
like this there's um I think it's just that drive slash yeah um and because you're on Android uh if
you're on Android Google Drive is going to be your friend because they're all it's all very
integrated um if you're on Apple as well you can use iCloud I think we've talked about that in
past trainings as well but um you can use iCloud the exact same way as Google Drive
you have an iCloud Drive and you could create a folder here called Kingdom Messengers
and then just drag all your stuff into this and then same thing when you get over to your phone
there's an app on your on your iPhone called Files um and then all your stuff will be there
as well so that's a that's another great way if you like to have a kind of in folders and all of
that you could kind of do it every like that okay cool a lot of different techniques all do the same
thing and that's really just to enable us to do the next view which um I want to take you guys to
uh Descript so we're going to talk a little bit about this and this is a free app so don't um I
would recommend just kind of seeing how this goes process you may
I think it's really awesome and you want to try it out.
And if, and if you don't want to mess with this and you're happy just to record on
your phone, keep doing what you're doing.
Don't, um, don't stress about, uh, you know, having to use this new tool.
I just want to give you guys another tool that's possible.
Um, and you guys can keep trying lots of different ways so that over time, um,
you'll figure out what, which one works for you.
So you can go to just descript.com.
You can hit, get started and get that set up.
Um, you just go through a few steps and there'll be an app that you will
download at some point.
And then, um, that will actually look like this once you open it.
Okay, cool.
Um, then what we'll do is we'll hit new project.
I'm going to say, you know, tick tock, um, posts.
And so you can make a project with lots of different posts in it.
And then here, it has a place for you to drop your first clip.
So I actually have some clips from Lindsay.
I have not pre-edited these.
I'm going to do it kind of live for you and kind of show you how
I would edit Lindsay's clips.
Now, the ones she has here, she did upload them in their
entirety to TikTok, um, as is.
What I'm going to show you guys here is you can upload a 60 second
clip to TikTok, and then we could make one or if not two variations of
the same 60 second piece, and that now creates another two posts for you.
So you've recorded one video, but technically you could have two or
three different posts that come out of that, um, if you wanted to.
So I would experiment with this because sometimes you can get just one
scripture, one idea over very quickly to someone, um, first, like sometimes
there's like longer options, uh, like a longer way to say it.
So you could, people may like one or the other.
It's, it's hard to tell.
Um, here, so let me just, I'm kind of talking and trying to do something.
Okay.
Let me find, uh, okay.
So I'm going to grab, let's grab Lindsay's, I'm going to grab
the video she talked about on.
So here we go.
So I dragged the video and I just drop it into, um, here.
And then it will ask you, um, for a speaker name.
So I can just say this person is Lindsay.
If you're doing two people and you're back and forth, um, like some of you
guys, if you're, if you have two people on camera, you can, I just give them
each a name and Descript will try to figure out who's speaking at which times.
And it's going to transcribe everything that's in her video.
Um, here, and I'm going to, I'm doing this in real time.
So you guys can see it's actually extremely fast.
It's almost done, um, here.
So I'm giving it just a more, another minute and we're actually
going to edit the whole video.
Okay.
So there it is.
Like there's every word she said in the video.
Now, if I were to play this, hit the space.
When I don't know what to pray.
Okay.
So it's pretty cool.
Cause you can have, you have all the text here and now here's where the magic
happens with Descript is you can just edit this at the top here, um, like it's
a word doc and then it will edit the video for you, um, while you edit the doc,
if that makes sense.
So, um, so let me find something that I could, I don't see if
we can cut this down a little bit.
So like, um, so she says, um, here's, I'll play this clip.
And that's okay.
I don't need to know.
We don't need to know all the details.
We only need to know who our God is.
And he shows us his character all throughout his word.
A great place to start.
Okay.
So she says this whole thing about like, we don't need to, um, that's okay.
We don't need to know.
I'm going to just take that whole clip out.
And all I do is just hit the delete or the backspace key.
Okay.
And now if I go here, I say a great place to start is relations.
You see that it just took out like all those sentences.
Um, this is great as well.
Uh, if you are doing what I'm doing in this exact tutorial and saying, uh,
um, uh, yeah, so here, um, is where, um, this is where you need to, um, do this
other thing, um, they call those filler words and you can actually go here and
there's an option, she doesn't have any filler words, but you can say remove
filler words and it will go and take all your ums and ahs and it will take them
out of the video for you in one click.
Um, it's quite amazing.
I should use one of the videos with me talking, uh, so you can
see all the problems it has.
Uh, so that's just, it's just a nice little thing.
You have a lot of fine control over every word that you're saying.
And you can see here at the bottom, if I zoom in here, you can see it says,
you know, this is what I pray when I don't know what to pray.
So you can actually see the words on the timeline, uh, which
is, which is kind of cool.
And then, you know, we've.
We've taken, so if I start the clip here at the beginning and I hit play.
This is what so she does like a breath and then she starts speaking.
So we actually want to get rid of that front part.
So you just go to the edge here and you'll see this little toolbar.
And I just drag it to the middle here.
And now if I start the clip, it starts immediately with this is what I pray.
This is what I pray right as she starts.
There's no breath there.
And so you do want to cut your TikToks back, whether you're editing it in
inside of YouTube, inside of TikTok or Instagram reels.
You need to cut this back either way.
So it's just very easy to visually see that those words.
And the other thing is there's some gaps here.
So there's like some gray, gray spots here where she breathes and stuff.
So you can actually go up here and you can say shorten word gaps.
And it will go through the whole tool for you and process that.
So I can see if I click on the right thing.
Cool.
And even then I could just grab the word
pray here or the word and and just drag it closer to the word pray.
And then if I want to say prayer, because the circumference, I could just drag this
where it says that to touch that and kind of get rid of those gaps there.
So if I click over here and hit play and often I don't know what to pray
because the circumstances of our life is just a little bit snappier.
Now, this is not happening here as much.
But you can see something like this.
She has quite a bit of a gap and that's okay.
It's not a huge gap, but you'll notice this.
And this is very, very powerful.
I would go through this process at least
once because every time I do this, I am shocked by the random words
that I use like and and the various things that you'll do.
It's very painful when each of the words
are being written out and you realize how much you're either repeating yourself.
Let me let me show you.
Let's just go show you just for fun because we do this.
We've been using this for our July training.
We did some I'm going to see if I can do this for you guys.
So when you have, especially when we do like an entire
these are all promotion videos.
Let's go.
I'll just see if I can show you.
Okay, so we'll also go through.
So this is the training we did on Zoom that was about an hour or so.
And then we went through and highlighted like you.
There's a highlight tool as well, the clips that we thought would be good.
So if you do have a long training that you want to shorten,
this is a great tool for that as well.
I'm trying to I think I may have removed all these before.
Yeah, I can see that they're in there.
So let me see if I can grab hoping to find one that was not edited.
I sleep first.
So you can see here we've got Lindsey speaking, then I speak and then Lindsey
speaks, so if you have two people is very nice, I think if I go here.
I think I already did the remove filler word.
So sorry, that's not as exciting, but you'll see when it will highlight all
of the and Oz throughout the entire document, and then you can delete those
with one click, so some of the features we have here are almost all the features
I'm showing you are free.
Someone was asking is it paid or there is a limit to how many hours of content you
can use, so I think for Tick Tock, it's going to be great just for the short
form content for the short content.
If you are doing much longer pieces, it may you may want to go.
I think the paid version is $25 or $30 a month, I think.
But I said, I don't think you even need that for what we're doing here.
Let's get back to our project.
So we're going to go through and edit this, and I'm going to
I'm going to take this piece out and try to see if I can make this make sense.
So she says, and I don't always know all the full details behind the prayer
request, a great place to start is Galatians five, where the fruit of the
spirit is good, and now his word.
So it's not perfect.
It has, like, never period changing.
Okay, so we can just correct this if I just delete that period.
And I'm going to show you why we want to fix the words.
We're going to put some captions on here, and it'll make it look really cool in a
second. So what I pray.
is God makes, make what is real realized, make it real, but you, your kingdom, your plans,
your purposes. Okay, great. Has set me free. So that all looks good. And we did take this clip to,
it's now, if I drag the end out here, it's kind of shortened some of these gaps where we're at
like 48 seconds. So we were about 60 seconds when we started. Now you could definitely take like
just sections and kind of cut this back even further. If you wanted to, I'm not going to
try to mess with her content for the sake of this. I think you guys get the concept of what's
possible. Also think about this. If you had recorded two or three hooks at the beginning,
you could delete, duplicate this. So you would write, you go up here, you would duplicate this
to another version. And you could say, this would be like my post with hook one and then duplicate
it. Right. And say post with hook two. And then you would go to each one of these and just delete
out the other two, like hook that you didn't want for that particular one. And then very quickly,
you would have, you know, one, you recorded one clip, but you've got lots of different hooks.
So it just shows there's a little bit more flexibility with this. If you are, you know,
don't like doing this kind of editing on the TikTok app, you could definitely do some of this
on the TikTok app. It's just sometimes it's easier to do it in this way. And a lot of us are very much
used to using word or, you know, some sort of word processor. So this just, they've tried to make it
as user-friendly as possible. When you're done with this, you can click on share, you can go to export,
and you can send it out as a video. And then that video is what you would then get back to your
phone. So you can upload to TikTok. And that's, you would add the music, you would add text and
things over in TikTok. Still, you don't want to add the music here. You can, but you would want
to use the TikTok music as well. And let me show you really quick. If I go to the plus here,
we can also add something called fancy captions. And they're actually called fancy captions like
that. And you'll see here, and if I go to the settings, let's make this a little bigger,
it will actually add captions to all of your comments. I'm going to make this really big.
I'm going to add a background to it. Yes. Like that. Let's make it like that.
And what it's done is it already knows all the words that you're saying. So it's just going to
go ahead and create this for you. So if I play it now, this is what I pray when I don't know
what to pray. And often I don't know what to pray because the circumstances of our lives are...
Okay. And then I would just drag that across as much as I wanted to do, like as much of the
video here that we wanted to have captions. You just drag this through to the end. Okay.
So you can definitely add the text here if you did want captions like that.
I would definitely recommend having some sort of captions. And that's good. So it definitely works
for TikTok portrait content. Yes. But you can also use this for your YouTube videos. If you
have a long form content, this is a great tool as well. There's a lot of other things I'm not
getting to here, but it's worth kind of... Even just what I'm doing today, it's kind of
worth doing as well. I'll show you some... Should go back to the July, the challenge training.
So we did a video like this where Lindsay was talking to the camera and I had a text. This
was actually for our ads. So I was able to add text at the top here and I was able to have the
text down here. So her message stirring in your heart right now, but you just don't know how to
get it out there and share it with the world. So the text down here will change with the captions.
And it's got this one question that it just holds up there the whole time. And this is for an ad.
It's a little different, but I just wanted to show you that I've made this in more of a square
aspect ratio. And then I edited a few of these very simply. So awesome. Can you break up the
caption to be on the screen you want? Yeah, you can definitely do that. Let me show you.
So let's go. Can we... Oh, it's one of these. Yep. So you can either create... I have just
one line. It's pretty smart. You see how this is why it's called fancy captions.
bigger up the box here, you can have it show as much text as you want.
And you can, I think if you do it on a new line like this, I believe.
These are kind of each a sentence so her sentences are just a little bit long but you could break
it up by sentence if you wanted to.
Cool.
Awesome.
Any questions, thoughts or Xavier.
I know you've used the script as well.
If you have any pointers that you'd like to share as well, I'll take them.
You are pretty much.
I mean you're you're pretty much covering everything I found it.
I actually didn't start using it for video editing I initially started using it just
to try and scribe stuff from work, because it's one of the best transcription services
that I found.
But then I got into editing with it and as you've seen it's it's it's really, really
very simple.
So someone had asked just whether or not you could use it and Instagram or whatnot.
It attaches your captions to your video.
So once it's there, it's there.
Now of course you know people can turn on and off the captions for YouTube or whatever.
But I've actually found that when I upload to YouTube or I upload to to TikTok or whatever.
I modify my captions greatly.
Let's say you know if I use he or him for God, I like to capitalize it.
So I capitalize mine and it shows up in their transcriptions for somehow they they read
it from what you've already put in there, but it allows you to do transcriptions and
you just upload it to wherever it goes and it will always be there.
So you can adjust it, you can, as you saw, you can adjust the size, you can adjust the
colors of the placement on the screen, just however you want to do it.
But it's really the fastest and easiest way that I found that gives me more control.
But I think you've pretty much captured everything else.
As far Oh, the one thing I saw that you didn't do Bruce was just in terms of the replacing
the gaps.
Okay, if you apply to all you can adjust the amount of time.
So you say any gap that's longer than three seconds, it will go out there and if it doesn't
find one longer than three seconds, nothing will come back.
But let's say you want to bring that down to a second and replace it with a half second
or whatever.
Yeah, then you can adjust that however you want.
Okay, so it's longer than a second.
And then when it goes out to find it, you know, if it finds anything, then you can adjust
the amount of time that you want the that gap to be replaced with as well.
So go line by line, point by point.
And you can decide, yes, I want to replace this one or no, I don't want to replace this
one.
So you just want to be a little careful when you're replacing gaps you with the apply to
all that will replace everything.
Yeah.
And so you don't want to you don't necessarily want to do that.
But yeah, I found the same thing initially my arms and my eyes and, and my likes.
It will catch all of that, you know, when when it's going through to clean it up.
So it's actually a really good tool.
That's awesome.
Now, and so I kind of want to, I could have used a different example here where Lindsay's
was a complete finished edited episode kind of by itself.
This is me doing mine.
And you can see literally every single sentence or a few words is another cut.
And well, the reason I do this one, it's a little bit more different, I'm showing more
like a tutorial.
But when I record, I just record one clip.
And so I will say, like, I'll start me like, hey, today, I'm going to teach you how to
organize your files in notion.
And then I'll say, let me do that.
And then I'll just like, today, let me show you how to organize your file in notion, like
with a different, like, it's all the same clip, right?
So you can see when I'm done, it's all going to be in like a Word doc, and I'll just see
which one I like the best.
It's just a good editing trick when you're did a lot of like, filming in the day, and
we would do some sort of movement or have someone say something, you just get it, them
to say it two or three times.
The recording is cheap.
So like, you're not spending money, like, you know, you're not wasting money by wasting
time on your, you know, on your video, just record a few different versions.
And then when you're sitting down in Descript, you can just say, kind of listen back.
It's always easy to take stuff out, but you can't be sitting there editing and be like,
oh, I really don't like how I said that, because then you can't go back, right?
You kind of have to use what you've got.
So I'll even do it each line by line, like not, I don't have to do two or three versions
per line, but if I like the line, I'll just move on.
But if I think I could do the beginning.
the beginning or the ending is typically where I'll do two or three takes at the beginning to three days of the ending, but I'm just hitting what hitting record once and then doing all of that so it may take three to four minutes, but then when I go back
to edit I can just make you kind of pick the best takes as well.
Just makes it easier to move one file around and hitting start and stop.
So, instead of one last thing you go ahead. First, I was just gonna say one last thing is you can also take fragments, you know, of your sentences and move them around in your video.
So if you have something at the end of that you thought well this will be better at the beginning, you can easily cut that and paste it into the beginning, and it makes it seamless so perfect.
I was saying yes Hillary it makes me a much better speaker than I actually am.
So, awesome. Mary and you had a question.
Yes. Do you put this up on your phone or your computer, or can it be on either. Just your computer will work and then, but you'll see you'll see to get your videos to your computer and then back to your phone.
Does make sense to do this if you have, let's say, all your full week of seven videos for the whole week. Go ahead and move all seven videos, spend a little time editing all seven move them all back and then they're ready to go to post.
Yeah.
Cool.
Awesome. Any other questions, we can talk about this if you have other questions.
Like so same Susie has kind of a variation, like, if there's something you want to show, you know, clip you want to show or another piece of another video Can you add other videos to this one project, that's a good question.
Yeah, so you can only go back to this example.
So Lindsay's got actually she has a great, let's do a new one so I'm in the same thing called tick tock posts I can just make another composition under here and we'll call this like two videos or whatever.
And she has one where she yesterday.
Let me see if I can find it real quick.
So this is about the scripture she is referencing and then just make sure I find this one.
A seven.
So let's go in here.
I think for this morning. And so now when I go to add something it already knows, asks it because Lindsay's in the same project here I can just choose Lindsay now it doesn't really matter because there's only one person, just if you had multiple.
On some of the premium versions that you do pay for there's a thing called overdub as well I don't want to get into too much of it right now but you can actually go to a clip like this and delete the word pray and add the word.
When I don't know what to say, or something like that like you can literally change the word and it will use AI to like recreate the sound of your own voice and like put basically putting words back in your mouth that you did not say.
This might be a little terrifying to everybody sits for it so easily. But yes, you can essentially.
If you have to train it and there's some things you have to do to get it set up.
But, but short version is if you do say a word wrong or something you can actually go back and tweak it just just this right okay so let's go back to this video example okay so she says, she has this idea we want to read the scripture.
And then we cut to another video so we can kind of do this in two ways. I think fastest ways just bring it in like this.
Let's grab.
You can say,
I've been editing and tick tock all morning so it's a.
What is the fastest way Xavier that you're doing. Oh, there you go. So I'll just drag it in like that you just drag it into this side like that so she says, Hey, I'm going to show you this.
I'm going to show you like the scripture we're going to read today and then she cuts to this right here is one of my favorite.
And then she talks the Bible, so we can even cut that back so if I zoom in and you can pinch and zoom here and then I can cut this out so it's a nice quick.
Okay, so this right here is one of my favorite.
Then she talks here and it's still transcribing that so we'll let it go there and then she comes back I think at the end.
Okay.
With another clip I'm not 100% sure what the other clip is but you can kind of, she goes, Hey, I want to let's let's read this word together, she goes to the Bible, then she comes back to like her final closing statement and so you can have kind of one
clip two clips three clips.
You can do this exact thing in TikTok as well,
just letting you know you can do it in here as well.
Awesome.
Okay, so Bruce, again, slower.
How do you insert into the middle of something?
Yes, oh, so in the middle or?
Yeah, I got that impression that you were saying that.
Yeah, so I'm just dragging the clip from my Fino,
so I dragged it and I just drop it at the end here
and then it, see how it just pastes it in?
So this gray one is the new one that's there.
You can, if let's say I wanted to put it
in the middle of this clip,
you can also, I think it's Command D, there's a, oops.
B for blade.
Yeah, for blade, and I can split these two clips up.
See there?
And now I can drag this actually in the middle of those two
if I wanted to.
So now I can go right in the middle of her sentence,
cut to this other clip, and then come back.
Okay, so obviously I'm not able to see
how you are dragging that.
So you're taking your finger.
Yeah, let me see if I can show you my whole screen here.
It's just because of the way Zoom, like,
okay, can you see this?
Make it a bit bigger.
You guys see my files over here?
Okay.
So I'm just grabbing it from Finder
and just like literally dragging, dropping it in.
Okay, so Finder is just another screen on your desktop
and you're able to drag it from one to the other.
I haven't done that at all.
I can drag it just as easily from anywhere.
That's just a list of all the files on my computer.
So let's say I have something on my desktop here.
So we can go, I can drag this video
and just drag it into that.
I have no idea what this is,
but that is another video you can drag in there.
Okay, thank you.
Where are all your items stored?
So Descript actually-
No, no.
Oh, actually, actually what you were about to answer,
I should just be quiet because that's good.
I just was telling Susie what the Finder is.
It's your file system where everything is stored.
Oh yeah, where all your files are stored.
Yeah, so it's everything on your computer is in Finder.
But that's good.
You were about to answer a question I didn't notice.
Yeah, kind of a different question.
Everything you work on in Descript
is automatically being uploaded to the cloud and backed up.
So if you do have this on one computer
and you go to another computer,
that whole project is automatically,
it's in Descript servers essentially.
That's how they're doing all this fancy transcribing.
So it's not taking up space necessarily
on your own computer.
It's just being using their place to store it.
Cool.
Okay.
Good.
Bruce, I have a question.
Yeah.
I tried to,
the other day you showed us how to,
through TikTok, how to go into clipping your videos
or editing every specific video.
And I went in there and I tried to like add
words or where you said you can add a picture,
you can add words,
but I didn't have any option
when I was editing each small short video,
I didn't have any option that said,
okay, add captions or insert anything.
I didn't have anything like that.
I couldn't see anything.
My screen didn't show any option to be able to do that
only to just reduce the video from the front or the back.
Got it.
I got your question.
So let me do this again.
Okay.
Delete all the sounds so you can hear me.
So once you have the video here,
I know some people are not seeing the studio
and some people are seeing a just clip.
So the just clip is definitely has less features
and that's maybe what you're talking about.
Is that right?
You're saying you didn't get it.
No, that's on TikTok, right?
Is that on TikTok?
This is TikTok.
No, yeah, I haven't seen that.
I just see my video and I'm able to shorten it
from the front and shorten from the back,
but not add any captions or not insert anything.
Okay, and this is on,
you're talking about TikTok specifically?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't, so it's weird.
because even on my iPad, I don't have the studio, but on my iPhone, I do have the studio.
The studio definitely has more features. I'll just link you to the training that Monica did.
There's another tool called, I think it's Mojo, is what she taught on in the TikTok course. So
maybe we'll find that for you and drop it into the chat if we haven't already.
Okay. Is there a difference between the kind of phone that we have?
No.
That we have the studio or?
It's just totally random. TikTok will give some people some features. It makes it
very annoying to teach you guys how to do it because they just randomly show some people
some things. But we've got a little, there's another free app you can get that will do all
the features of TikTok studio outside of TikTok. And you can do all the editing and
add all your stuff, export it, and then you import it back into TikTok.
Yeah. So once we save our video on TikTok, we can't edit it any longer unless we, is that right?
Once you edit, you cannot change it. That's correct. Cool.
Yeah. Okay. Great.
Cool. Okay. So we'll take any other questions you guys have tech related. I know you guys
are reporting, trying to get daily posts out now that you're actually in there posting.
This is just something, again, don't, if you're like, if this last 45 minutes,
an hour, like totally overwhelmed you, like, please don't,
please don't worry about it. Like keep editing on your phone, do whatever's comfortable with you.
Like what we typically do, even when we're doing our own content,
I have a ton of different ways to edit it. I have so many different apps on my phone and my
desktop. I just got to pick the right tool for the job.
Okay. So just know, like, depending on what you're trying to accomplish, if you're doing like,
like if we're taking an hour long clip and cutting it down to just a bunch of short clips,
Descript is great. If you have a, you know, a video that you have a lot of different takes
that you want to figure out, Descript may work. If you're doing something on a timeline,
you may want to use other tools, but it's just knowing like which one you feel the most comfortable
with that you think will get the job done fastest. And if right now editing it on your phone and
uploading it from your phone is the fastest, then please do that. I don't really don't want
you guys like spending two hours this next week, trying to figure out how to use Descript
and then not posting anything, if that makes sense. Denise, did you have a question?
Yeah, several as usual, but I'll try to be brief. How do you, how do you copy it to,
I did it once, but then I forgot how I did it, from TikTok to YouTube. And do you just copy the
link and then paste it into YouTube? Is that pretty easy? Say it one more time. Okay, well,
so I found this thing where you can link your TikTok account to YouTube. I don't know if that's
a good idea to do. So I did that, but I didn't, but I don't know how to copy to get my TikTok
into YouTube. Are you talking about just adding it to your profile in TikTok?
From TikTok, a video over to YouTube. It's, I know how to get it. Yeah.
What is that tool called? Well, I don't know, but I found it somewhere on the internet and they said,
here's how you link it. You can, there's some, we're gonna, there's some tools we've been
playing with. So there's a couple of things we're looking at for that. I would, we're always
encouraging you guys to post them natively on every platform, meaning you go to TikTok,
you post it there, you go to YouTube, you post it there. Each platform has different hashtags,
they have different descriptions, they have different things that work better. So just get
familiar doing it that way. I understand, like I'm doing it myself. I'm looking at some places
for our own TikTok channels because it's getting crazy right now to keep up with the same video
going to so many different places. There's a tool that we're playing with called Repurposeify or
Repurposely or something like that, that we're experimenting with. I know. Yeah. So that's,
that's one. I want to get to know it and make sure it works and doesn't affect your views.
But if we record on TikTok, then we're not, how do you, you're saying if you do the video on your
phone and you can upload it to all your different social media sites separately,
but what if you just record it on TikTok and not on your? Yeah, you should only record it once,
that you should only ever do it once on recording. And then you can take the video that came out,
when TikToks, when you finish editing on TikTok, it will save a copy of that video to your phone.
So you can immediately turn around and upload that to Instagram if you want.
That's an option.
Another way to cut it up like we did with Descript, you can do it without the music,
and that way you can take the version without the music, put it on TikTok,
and the music, the version without the music, and put it on Instagram.
That tends to do a little better, we found, than just straight copying and pasting them.
Okay.
Okay, that's helpful.
And so if I did make, accidentally posted a video, I wasn't done editing,
so I went on TikTok and deleted it, but I don't, I'm not still sure if I've deleted it because
I can't figure out between the drafts and the actual,
if it has a little sign by it on your profile, a little,
and it has numbers by it, that means you've posted it, right?
And if it says drafts, if it says drafts, then it's a draft.
Yeah, you'll see that the drafts will only appear here at the top left box right here.
Okay.
Whatever's in here could be a draft, but all of them are kind of stacked,
so when you tap on it, it'll open up the drafts.
I don't have any right now.
Okay.
But that's kind of where it would go.
Yeah.
If you see all the views, like these little triangles,
and you see the plays, then obviously that's public and people can watch it.
That's the number of plays.
Yeah.
Got it.
And then, okay, I had one.
I do want to show you guys this one little trick that just,
this is like, this came out like a week ago.
So this is very new.
That's why we haven't taught on it before.
But I would encourage all of you guys to go in to edit your profile.
And now, where you see the name here, I know this is not the same kind of concept,
but let's say it was like Bruce and Zale.
Then you can do the, it's called like a pipe, like the line here.
And then you can say like, social media, you know,
I don't know if you could say like, just say Bruce.
And I'll say, if you guys have seen everybody,
everybody is doing this on TikTok right now.
Social media coach or something like that.
Or if you're doing like marriage coach or relationship coach
or something like that, or prophetic coach, like whatever that sentence is.
If you do that and you put the little line there,
what will happen is, I'm not going to change it right now.
But when people go to watch your videos,
they will be on the bottom of every video.
I'll try to show this.
Well, every time I do, the sound is like ridiculously loud.
So I won't do that.
But if I go into one, okay, I'm not going to try to show it to you guys in here.
But basically what it'll do is at the bottom of everybody's videos,
it will now, they've now placed your full name there.
So on the bottom of your videos, it will say, you know, Bruce.
And then it would have a line as like social media coach or something.
And so it tells you people like what they can expect from you,
but it's at the bottom of every video.
And it's bold and it's easy to read.
So they don't have to look at your description.
They can just know like, oh, this is his name's Bruce.
And I would always use your, at least your first name,
maybe your first and last name.
And you could say, you know, whatever your niche is,
like whatever your title is or something next to it.
So they know what they can expect to get from you.
That's like a little thing that you could tweak
just to improve some of getting.
That just helps people know, should I follow this person or not?
Like, does it fit?
Yeah.
Did you have a question, Denise?
If, why does TikTok erase your captions?
Because I put captions in and then I post and it's erased.
People can either have the captions turned on or off.
So it's not, you can't force the captions to be on
unless you do it through something like Descript
that will force the captions to stay on there.
So I must have mine on off
because when I play it back to myself, the captions aren't on.
So I must have turned that off.
Okay.
Could be, yeah.
Okay.
Awesome.
Cherie, did you have a question?
Yeah, kind of a weird thing.
Like I posted this video on TikTok and I had zero views
and I'm like, okay, that's just like not even normal
because I did everything.
I mean, I did video with the music, with the title.
And so I don't know.
So I had my friend pull it up
and it's not showing on her phone.
So it's like evidently somewhere it's stuck.
But when I click on it,
because I thought maybe it was like I put it in drafts,
but it's not in the draft
because it doesn't give me the option to post it.
And when I comment on it and liked it,
it showed up.
So, but is that to like it's set to the everyone can view it.
Okay, so tell me what I do for that.
Let me see.
Maybe I accidentally change something.
Let me, let me bring up my phone again, let's see if I can do this without the sound coming through.
So like if you pulled my TikTok up.
Like, I don't know if it's on.
Okay, you know, if anyone else is seeing it.
Got it. Okay, so this is hopefully not sending the sound through which is great because now I can talk over this but yeah if you go to the bottom right here, and you click on
where you started. Sorry.
I'm on my profile here. Okay.
And then I can tap into a particular video.
Okay.
And then on the bottom right, there is like these three dots down there.
And then if you scroll all the way to the right.
There's something that says privacy settings.
And you do want to just make sure that this is set to everyone.
Okay, that's always good just good to check because you can't have it just going to friends and you can even have it just go to only me.
What I'm pulling it up, it's showing like when I'm actually looking at the video and saying there's 15 lights.
When I go back to my main screen, see, it's not even on there. The last video that I'm talking about. Okay, on there.
Yeah, it's online but it's not on yours.
When did you post it.
But when did you post it like a day and a half ago that's not
Yeah, now when I click on it like on the actual screen under the heart. It says 15, so like 15 people have liked it, evidently.
Did you post it as a story.
Hang on.
Did you post it as a story though.
Oh, I don't know. I didn't plan that. I don't know how to do that. So, let's see users.
How did you actually get to stories but I wonder, is it.
I wonder if it's like it was there for a while and it's, it was gone stories here and it would have like more than zero views.
Yeah, because at least my friends would have seen it so
like I don't know if I need to like deleted and reposted or.
It's so bizarre that you're not, it's not even coming up on your.
It's not. Yeah, I'm not seeing that so
maybe it's just a weird anomaly, but I just thought I would ask everybody in case this happened to somebody else or it happens to somebody else.
If there's so what, what to do to fix it. So, I guess I don't need to delete it because nobody's saying anyway, but just read, read, post it.
Yeah, it's been a day and a half we did have a, I have seen someone who posted it and then like no matter what it was not showing up and then randomly six hours later it was on that person's profile.
But yeah, this one's definitely not on here. I'm just so proud of myself I did the music background, I did the I did all the things you told me.
That's the one that doesn't show up.
So, I feel like you may have done it as a story.
That could be what it is. So when you go here to when you're posting, I go back to home.
We post. There is. Yeah, that's great.
An option to do a story right here.
And then or the camera so you can, it's just two different there are two types of content for tech talk and even if I do the recording, I do record here.
And then I go.
Next, see there's a post a story option.
If you post this to the story, it will just be there for 24 hours and it'll disappear.
And then it will never show it on your profile.
That, that could be what it is but I can't see it so it just seems like even if it went to the story would. Oh, I guess if it disappears it wouldn't show if anybody saw it or liked it or where did the tick tock story show up.
Well, it may have gotten may have disappeared now although you said you can.
see it. Yeah, it's on my screen. That's I'd have to see it on your Yeah, I'm not even
sure why that why that is. It could just be an anomaly for sure. Yeah. Cool. Okay. Yeah,
it is definitely a different video than what we're seeing. So in the end, yeah, the privacy,
look, tick tock. It's it's buggy. It's it's one of the newer social media definitely.
We've definitely seen some quirky things with it. So cool. Okay. Anyone else have anything
tech question related I can help you with? You're welcome to go. I know we're over our
hours. You're welcome to head out if you need to. Um, I do have a question. And I'm
gonna jump into last night, I was actually doing another video, and I pressed it. And
I thought it was saving. But automatically, it just like I have absolutely no idea what
happened to my video on tik tok. So I was listening about the draft. So maybe it's in
the draft. Is there anything that I could have pushed that just erase the whole thing while I
was trying to save the video that I'm not normally saving it. But when you're editing it, you can hit
the back button at the top right. And then it can kind of get you out of the editor and then just
lose the whole you can lose the you know what you've done so far. Or sometimes if the app quits
or you get out of the app and come back sometimes it can it can lose that. Okay, yeah. So again,
this is another reason why we use the phone app, I wouldn't record them necessarily in
tik tok. Unless you want to use that you just want to do something quick. But the, you know,
having it at either recorded on your camera, the phone on the
camera on your phone, or using another app can be a safe way to have that backup. And then all
we're doing on tik tok is adding music, adding text and then posting. So you're not actually
doing any editing on tik tok. Just again, see which one works best for you. Having another
step in between there definitely makes this gives you a way to save in case something does
quit and crash. Okay, so the last time that we went through this, you said that it was actually
a good thing to record through tik tok. Because they're saying is saying if you run into it,
if you're consistently running into that problem, where like, you're losing stuff on tik tok, and
you're like, I'm about to throw tik tok against the wall, like, then you do, there's other ways
to there's other processes to go through that takes the pressure off tik tok. But it is when
you're getting started, definitely try recording and tik tok and go from there. So let me go to
Joe had a quick question here about YouTube. It probably happened as well because of the
the music being copyrighted. Is that I don't know if Joe's still here. Yeah, there he is.
You said it was a copyrighted music, or there was a music from tik tok.
No, no, it was actually music from YouTube. I picked it from YouTube. And when I as soon as I
attached the music, my voice cuts out completely. And I didn't know if maybe it was an issue of
like, if I went ahead and posted the video, it would bring the voice back.
Because I went and I looked at some of Lindsay's and or, yeah, Lindsay's and I saw that, you know,
her music only played for like the 15 seconds, just like mine. But you could hear her voice
through the whole through the whole thing. And I went ahead and posted it. I did it on my phone
and YouTube app. Yeah. Okay. And then let me look at that and see if we can figure out a different
we can figure out a different way.
Because I've tried it a couple of times on different days, and it was the same result every
time. Okay, and you can definitely post it without music for like, if that's happening,
and you do want to still get your stuff out. So I would have to yeah, yeah, I hadn't posted
anything on YouTube. I wanted to start. Fortunately for that, when I posted it,
and I looked at it, I was like, Oh, there's no sound. There's just the music in the beginning,
and then there's no sound. But I posted it to my wrong YouTube account anyway. So okay.
Wasn't a big deal. But yeah, I was gonna post it without the music. But
I just wondered if I didn't know if it was an Android thing, because you guys are doing Apple.
I didn't know. Yeah, maybe it'd be better if I did it from the from the computer instead of the phone.
I'm trying it now on my phone. I don't think it's going to be an Android iPhone.
But let me, let me test it out a little bit and see if I can figure that out.
If I maybe I can post something in the Facebook group with the response there.
Okay.
I'll see if I can figure out, see if I can get it to redo that.
Again, in the meantime, you could do either without sound, or you could even have you tried just taking the tick tock edited version just uploading that directly.
I haven't tried that yet. No, try that.
Works because then it was and the music will be all kind of intertwined together so it should not try to do that. It may also that's when you may run into copyright but you'll get a notification about copyright stuff if that's the case.
Okay, yeah, Susie had a quick question.
Um, yeah, when I was reading the Bible, I don't know if it's the way I was holding my phone maybe it's too low that my voice sounded much different as I was reading the Bible, then when I was up regular, and I was wondering if it was even possible for me
to like, read the Bible, like you're seeing me, and then impose or inject or whatever the actual Bible picture.
So you could still hear my voice but instead of seeing my face you'd see the Bible clip.
100%. You can in.
So, let's say you had.
Let's say this was Lindsay's clip here she read, she said hey I want to tell you about this verse. Then she you know she read the verse out here and it was just the same, Mike, what you can do is I just took the clip that was to the side here and I actually
dragged it and dropped it on top.
So let's just pretend like for your example like you're saying, this clip up here didn't have any sound. It was just, it was just the, it was just the Bible, like this like you're seeing.
So, if I hit play here.
So here you're hearing the voice here but you're seeing this clip.
I think that's what you're asking.
It's kind of like what you do on da Vinci, you do on da Vinci that way you can do it in the script you can also do it in the tech talk studio option or mojo all those will work to where you can just record the whole clip and then come back and add what
they call is like the role so like while you're talking, you know you can see something else that's that's from a different clip.
You can turn the sound off from whatever that thing you're in.
So, thank you. Okay, and Marian.
Yes.
If I go on YouTube and try to post a short it only gives me 15 seconds. How do you fix that YouTube short, it could be a story as well. Typically anything that's got the 15 second timer on it is going to be a story.
Okay, but I put when it says create it says create a short pretty short, and it comes up with 15 seconds. Oh, here we go. Let me show you.
Yeah.
So at the very top, you can see like right here. Yes, you can actually change the tap on it will change it to 60 seconds. Just a minute.
Okay, just a minute.
Great to short. Okay. Now mine does not, it says 15 seconds just above the start button. Yeah, doesn't have it at the top. So if I click on that.
Oh, thank you. There you go. Yeah, sometimes they're kind of placed differently but that's why I stopped doing them. Okay, well there we go.
Thank you.
Yeah. Awesome.
So, we're experiment, Gloria had a question about Spanish so we were experimenting with that we actually have some of Lindsay's contents been translated into Spanish for posture so we're experimenting that unless you speak Spanish we don't speak Spanish, but we had
translated for us. We have just not even posted it because we realized we're about to start something we couldn't finish, because people are going to then start commenting in Spanish and then we're like well we can't help them.
And so we are just put that on pause for now but if you're going to do it, I would.
Yeah, great. I would do it just in the same account for now I wouldn't try to do two different accounts. Just keep it all as one.
TikTok, the algorithms are super smart now they know that you're not that you're not speaking English they'll show it to people who speak Spanish, and it'll kind of split your audience automatically.
So I wouldn't, I wouldn't worry about starting a second account. It's just a lot more headache to have two different things.
Okay.
What was the other question I asked you I just forgot but I can't even see the question I asked you on there.
You said how to about the Spanish, or something else. Yeah, Spanish was one of them and there was another thing I asked.
It's on the chat.
Should I save the videos?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Should I save my videos?
And where should I save them?
And yeah, just keeping them on your phone is fine.
Those are normally pretty much backed up automatically on your phone, it's fine.
Or you can use something like Google Drive or...
Is it a good idea to keep my videos?
I would, yeah.
I'll keep a backup.
We have every clip Lindsay's ever recorded in Google Drive.
Awesome.
Thanks.
Cool.
All right.
If there's no other questions, we can call it a day.
But yeah, if you guys have anything else, just you can find us in the Facebook group.
And we'll also...
Oh, anyone have tips for recording on glasses?
No matter what I do, there's always a glare.
I know that is frustrating.
Generally, trying to get the light source as high up as possible and changing the angle.
So if the light source is right around my eye level, where a lamp is or a desk lamp,
or even if there's a window, that's the light's coming out of.
In our room here, we actually have these curtains I closed, so there's actually no daylight
coming in.
And then we just have one very soft light that's not even pointed at me, it's pointed
at our ceiling.
And then it just radiates a lot of soft light in here.
So there's no actual source.
And we do have glasses at times when we're recording stuff.
So just moving around till you get...
So if you're facing a window, or just see if you can cut any harsh sources of light,
essentially.
I know that's not a very specific thing to do.
But that or raise the lighting up if you can.
So...
Hey, Bruce, I just want to comment.
I've been using a different kind of light, but I went out and bought me a $25 circle
light that I put behind my phone now.
And it made such a big difference in my lighting.
It was a $25 light, and now I've just started using it a few days ago.
And it's amazing how good the lighting is now, during the day or during the night when
I need it.
Yeah, that definitely is good.
Yeah, there's a whole set of lights that we'd recommend that are very like all under $50
on the Kingdom Messenger TV.
There's some recommended gear.
We won't get off on a thing, I'm not a fan of ring lights.
So don't, if you're going to get something, don't get a ring light, because most people
use it incorrectly.
And then you get these giant circles in your reflection of your glasses.
So don't do that.
And if you do have a ring light, and you want to use it, just get it as high up as you can,
as far away as you can, and just make it as soft as possible.
There's probably a lot we could talk about on lighting.
The best lighting we have found by far, hands down, for TikTok in particular, is not to
use any lighting at all.
Even if it's dark, even if it's kind of gloomy, like just use natural light, go outside, don't
be in direct sunlight, but just use natural light, it looks the most natural.
When you're doing a studio, or you're doing lighting or sets and stuff, people spend so
much time trying to get it to look natural, but controlled.
So if it's just a short 60 second clip, just move around your house, look at different
windows, you know, is the sun on this side or the outside of the house, like just try
different things until it works well.
So cloudy days are great for filming because you don't have that harsh sunlight.
It's like giant diffusion if it's cloudy, and it just looks really good outside.
So if it is cloudy, it's actually way better than if it's sunny.
So that's all for free.
My only problem with that is then what's behind me is not necessarily what I want anybody
to see.
Yeah.
Which is a big...
So I held it up there, the lamp that you suggested for me, I don't know if everybody saw that.
I really like this.
Which one did you get?
Your lighting looks great, by the way, like right where you are right now.
Okay, my lighting right now is the window that I'm looking out, and it's a, yeah, overcast
day.
But this is...
Okay.
And that's looking more at me, so I could adjust that.
Which light did you get?
This one.
Something dog.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
So that's just like a single light with like a big diffusion on it.
So that works great.
And it adjusts three different bluenesses and four different intensities.
It looks fine.
Yeah.
You can...
I would even maybe just turn the intensity down a little bit.
One of the things with your phones and your webcams is they try to...
to make the camera, the thing, your video look good,
no matter what.
So what it does is if you put the light brighter,
it then closes the shutter even tighter
to get less light in, to make it look normal.
And then if you turn the light off,
it like opens the shutter.
And so basically you're fighting back and forth
between the camera,
because it's trying to just make it look good
no matter what.
So like our camera here,
like the settings all stay the exact same.
So if I turn my lights off, it would just go black.
And there's not, yes, it doesn't, it's not,
it's not trying to turn all the auto stuff off,
but if on your phone for TikTok and all that,
it's going to try to make it look good.
So it just, you end up having to like fight the light
a lot of the times.
So if you do have lighting,
I would try to like bounce it off of the ceiling.
So even on your CC,
like one thing to try would be to take the diffusion off
and get it as high up as you can and close to the ceiling
and try to see if you can like bounce it on the ceiling
and just have it come back to you.
So you're not getting this like harsh light on yourself.
I had actually moved this upstairs
and had not adjusted it for a bit, yes.
And now this is showing, this is more up.
Yeah, and this looks, it looks great.
Like it's, you don't want your entire like face
lit up perfectly.
You actually want it to kind of fade off naturally
to make it look natural.
That's why if we say, you know,
you're filming in front of a window,
you actually want to turn 45 degrees
and be a little bit off centered
so that you actually have a dark side of your face
and a light side of your face.
That's actually what you want.
You don't want it to be perfectly lit up with no shadows.
That just looks very unnatural.
So, cool.
Anyway, this was less than $50, easy to set up.
And I like the softness of the light and the adjustment.
We use it, you know, I wouldn't use this lighting
that I'm on right now for a TikTok,
but for Zoom calls and doing training
and all the other content we do, we do use it.
But for TikToks, we found the like less professional
it looks, the better it does.
So, like even we're doing some of these tutorials,
I'm literally, I'm not even recording my screen
in a fancy app.
I'm taking my phone and I'm like holding it over my screen
and like filming the screen share that way with my phone.
And people love that.
They don't like it when we do the nice crispy,
like beautifully recorded stuff.
So, be encouraged.
So, awesome guys.
We'll see you guys on Monday.
If you have any questions, find us in the Facebook group
and good luck, happy posting.
We'll see you soon.
Bye.