- What's up, everybody? Peter McKinnon here. It is Tuesday, which means, for those of you who follow this channel, it is Two Minute Tuesday. Now, I had an idea already
worked out last week. I have lots of ideas, surprise. However, when I started
to make today's video, I thought, you know what? Let's scrap this and do
something completely different. What if today's Two Minute Tuesday was how I make a Two Minute Tuesday? And I thought, wow, that's super meta, and I love that idea, so that is what we're doing today, but first we gotta rewind. (suspenseful music) (rock music) See, it usually starts with a notebook. I like to write all my ideas down in this here notebook so that I can have a decisive,
clean, straightforward path through my thought process, so that my video ends up
exactly how I want it to end up, because when I don't have a plan and I don't use a notebook, things can sometimes get a little wacky, and then, you know, hours and hours go by and you're like, "What am I even doing?" So, writing it down to start is the way that I love to begin a project if I'm gonna do it properly. So, for instance, I know that
I wanna talk about my process through making a Two Minute Tuesday video, which means I need to show the
equipment that I use for it, I need to show the
setup that I use for it, how I position certain
lights, certain cameras, right on through to the
color grade, et cetera. So, to start that, I've
taken out the Mobi Pro here, because I'm gonna use that to capture some of the B-roll with regards to showing
the equipment that I use. So, now I will balance the
1DX II on the Mobi Pro, get those shots, and meet you back here. And a little side tip is that, while I'm talking about the fact that I'm going to use the Mobi Pro, I've already shot a couple
handheld slow motion clips of the Mobi Pro to overlay
on top of me talking about using the Mobi Pro. I'm pretty sure that made sense. It made sense to me. Watch it back if it didn't,
but I'm pretty sure it did. Okay. All right, I'm going to set up the 5D to do a little time lapse
while I balance the Mobi Pro, so that I don't just suddenly go right from sitting down to Mobi Pro shots. Let's go with 24 mil, and put these on the Gorilla Pod. I will face this that way
while I balance this camera. Let's do that. (dreamy music) All right, so after you
have shot the B-roll, which we just did, I like
to put everything away as I work because it makes me a little bit more efficient, knowing that my space is clean. Sometimes it gets out of hand and I can't always keep up with that, but I've shot the B-roll, the Mobi is back where it belongs, all the cameras are
back, everything is back, the ND filters are back, desk is clean, and that way I can kind of just nicely and neatly move on to the next segment of
shooting, which would be setting up the lights, making sure the mic is in the right position, and getting the C200 ready to go. That is typically what I'm looking at when I'm shooting a tutorial or a Two Minute Tuesday,
anything like that. I shoot everything in-studio,
in-office, on this C200. It tracks my face
ridiculously fast, it's 4K, I can shoot in C log three, which color grades nicer in post, which I will show you. I used to shoot everything on an H4N and record the audio separately. I used to use lapel mics,
but just being able to swing this over, position
it where I need to so that it makes sense with my videos, it's out of frame, I don't
have to wear anything external. It just makes my life so much easier. Turn that on, turn that
on, and then this bad boy is what lights me from the side. So, this is the Aputure 120D. It's always on, so that
I can use the remote. Everything is plugged into the back, so it's behind the desk, so it's out of the way when I'm shooting, so all I gotta do is sit
down, grab my remote, make sure I turn it on,
and there you have it. I can adjust the power
and everything from here. Same for the light that
goes in the room behind me, which I'll show you in just a second. Next thing I do is I
move this big light bar to this side so that it's in-frame. It gives me a little bit of Tungsten light to kind of separate itself
from the background, which I gel and light
completely differently. This just has a nice
little toe switch, boom. Actually using a Lightstorm LED panel for light number three that
you never see in the videos, but it's what lights this room up. And I use some gels here to
make that Kelvin nice and blue, so that the room itself isn't
as white and washed out. It's got a little more of a tint that contrasts nicely
with the light bar here. Let me show you that. All right, now that that's set up, it runs off the same
remote as my main light, just a different button, and there you go. Now we've got that nice blue
light inside the gear room, we've got the nice Tungsten light here, and the last thing to do
is to turn this one on, but the lat problem is the window light. So, I've actually put
these hooks in the wall, and I've actually put them on either side so I can hang this acoustic blanket, which does two things. One, it cuts all of the
light out from this window, which lets me control
the scene way better, and it dampens the sound, which
makes my audio sound better. Okay, now that all the lights are set up and the window's blocked out, and the audio's ready to go,
and the camera's prepped, gotta stick a lens on it,
we got this all situated, ready to go, now is where I
would actually start to record the tutorial itself, before
I even take into post and do all of the post
processing, and color grading, and exporting ready to upload
a single video to YouTube. What's up, everybody? Peter McKinnon here, and welcome back to yet another Two Minute Tuesday. It's so great to have you here, see all your smiling faces. Today, we're talking
about how I actually make these two minute videos,
which, let's be honest, are never two minutes. Today's no exception, forewarned. All right, now I've done
my intro, ready to go. The rest is basically
talking to the camera, and then we jump into post, figure out the rest of it from there. That was pretty good. I'm running low on water. Been drinking too much coffee today. Taking a little break! So, the reason I wanted to show
you guys this process today was for several reasons. One, I get asked all the time how I actually make these videos, and people wanna see the process. They wanna see what goes into it from the beginning to the very end, and I thought that's a great idea, I just never got around to doing it. And today I wanted to do another part of our Two Minute Tuesday that we talked about last week, which will come, but I thought it would
be really interesting to make today's Two Minute Tuesday about how to make a Two Minute Tuesday. I think there's a lot
of insight to be learned about how different
people do different things throughout their workflow and online. Like, I'm fascinated
to see my friends work. I love watching different people's setups, I love looking at behind the scenes, I love looking at
different lighting setups, and audio setups. There's so much to be learned doing that. This isn't to just boost my ego or make me feel good about the amount of work I put into each video, but hopefully you guys get to see this whole process and think to yourself, "Wow, I never thought about
blocking out a window like that. "I never thought about an acoustic blanket "to actually help the
audio from a boom mic "sound a little bit better. "Hell, I need a boom mic!" So, it's all these little things that, hopefully in you seeing,
you'll be able to take little bits here and there to help your own workflow,
make your own videos a higher production, and a
little more professional. I never used to do all of this. I used to light everything
with window light, I would wear a lapel mic, I would just set up my
DSLR in front of my desk and just start riffing. It wasn't until I met Matti and started seeing how he worked, and talking with him,
and jamming with him, and shooting together, and vice versa that he learned some things from me, I learned some things from him. Mainly, use a light and a mic, and it's improved my workflow and my video quality dramatically. So, it's all part of, he would say, it's all part of that filmmaking process, which it most definitely is. It's the same reason I think people do what's in my camera bag
and why those video series are so popular, because
it's very interesting to see what other creators are
using in their camera bags to get the content that
they're putting out on a weekly basis. Now, it's important to also say, I hope this process
doesn't discourage you. It should not, it's not
meant to whatsoever. I understand that it's easy
to look at something like this and say, that's a lot of gear, it's really easy to make great videos when you have a mic, and you have lights, and you have fancy cameras that can just stay stationary so that you can make these tutorial videos, but I did not start with any of this. I started with zero. When I left my last job, I had to send all my gear back, so I started with nothing. I bought one camera, I bought one lens, I had a set of lav mics from
when I used to do weddings, and I would mic up the groom, used those, and just used the available light and the knowledge that I had to make the best videos that I could. Different types of videos,
different types of people, different types of workflow, different types of equipment, but that's the best part
of this whole thing, that there is no right
or wrong way to do it. It's just however you like doing it, and this is how I like doing it. All right, no more talking,
because I've blown that timer. I can already tell. Haven't started editing yet,
but I know I'm way, way gone. This is like a 15 Minute Tuesday. But let's jump into the edit, and let me show you how I organize, color grade, export, and upload, finish one Two Minute Tuesday video for you guys on YouTube. Let's go. Once I've shot all the
footage that I need from all the different cameras, and the C200, everything like that, I get
all the memory cards together, and I start to organize
that within one single file, which is the name of the
video that I'm trying to make. So, for instance, I'll make a
new folder and I'll title that "How I make a Two Minute
Tuesday," hit enter, and inside that folder,
I'm going to name a folder for each camera that
I've used, 1DX Mark II. I used the 5D Mark IV, and I
also shot these talking points on the C200. Once I've done that, I will stick all the memory cards in the computer, and I will begin to dump
and copy the footage into the appropriate
corresponding folders. Once we've done all
that, I open up Premiere, and I start a new project. I go over to the project
panel and begin to make bins based off all those same folders. So typically I will make a
folder for the 1DX Mark II, C200, the 5D Mark IV. I'd like to make one for
my screen sharing files, my intro, depending on which one I use, some miscellaneous stuff,
depending on what goes in there. Another one for music. I save the project and
that's pretty much it. Now I'm gonna go through to the folders where I actually saved that footage, and I'm gonna dump all
those corresponding clips into the corresponding bin that I just made in Premiere Pro. This way my project is
completely organized, I know where everything is at any moment. I can just drop one of those bins down, all the files from that camera are there, and it makes editing
and the whole workflow way easier and way faster. Now, depending on which
camera I shot with more, that clip's gonna go
onto my timeline first. When you drag a clip into the
timeline for the first time within Premiere Pro, Premiere Pro is gonna change those sequence
settings to match that first clip you're dragging in. So, if you've got something in 4K and you've got something in 1080p, which is our case today, the C200 shoots 4K, the
1DX was shooting 1080p, I gotta decide which timeline settings I'm gonna favor, 4K or 1080p. In this particular video,
I have more 1080p footage, so I'm gonna start by dragging
one of those 1DX clips onto the timeline, so
that the sequence settings are adjusted to what the
settings are of that camera. If I had dragged one of my slow
motion clips on there first, that sequence would be set
to 120 frames per second, and then everything would be off. You wanna make sure that
you're starting with the right clips so that sequence is set from the beginning, good to go. Now, from this point,
I just start cutting, start editing the intro,
start editing my clips, make sure things are where I want them, I try to position it,
just move and repeat, and cut and repeat, and
back up, and delete. Now, because we started
with a 1080p sequence, when I drag one of those C200 clips in, you'll notice it's zoomed
in twice the amount because the footage is
twice as big, it's 1080p. So, the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna highlight that clip, go over to effect controls,
and bring that down 50%, which is gonna fill the frame. That's what I was saying
a few months back where your 4K footage scaled down to 1080p is still better quality
than just regular 1080p. This would be a perfect example of that. Now, I shoot all my videos in log, which is no exception here. This footage looks a little washed out because I shot it in a log format, so now I have to color grade it so that it looks good and
I can copy that look across all the C200 clips moving
forward with the edit. Now, I use a third party
plugin called Colorista. They're not paying me to say this. I bought it full price. I'm going to do a full on review of this because I wanna update
my color grading video because I do things
completely differently now, but I basically go through
and I find that plugin within Premier Pro, I
drag it onto my clip. Now, when we come over to effect controls, we can see all my shadows, my midtones, and my highlights are here. And from this point, it's
just a lot of tweaking. The curve gamma, I can tweak
to bring down the shadows and pump up the highlights. I can take those reds in my skin and make them less saturated, and I can pump up the oranges. I can basically change my
skin tone to whatever I want to match the lighting. The same thing goes for
the color of the midtones and the color of the shadows. This is a very in-depth, incredible tool for color grading that I promise we will get into in another video. But this is typically what I do to get that one standard look across all my footage in a tutorial. That way, once I add a new clip in, I can just right click and go up to copy, and then I can add another clip, go over to paste, and I
can paste those attributes, so that it's matching and
I don't have to go through that whole process again. Lastly, once you've done the whole edit, you've moved everything to
where you need it to go, you put the intro in, you've color graded, you've done all of that,
it's time to export. And the export settings within Premier Pro are actually very easy. All you gotta do is come up to file, hit export, choose media. This dialogue box is gonna pop up and over here under preset, you just scroll to the bottom
and choose YouTube 1080p. Now, if you did shoot that in 4K, that option is there as well, depending on which clip you started with and what you're favoring. From that point, I do a little
bit more custom tweaking by hitting match source and
use maximum rendered quality. I change my output name and I name that to whatever the episode is, in this case, How I Make
a Two Minute Tuesday. I hit save, export, and you are finished. Once that video's done exporting, I upload it to YouTube, give it a name, give it a thumbnail, I hit send, you guys get notified, the comments begin, and we start all over again the next day. So guys, that is how I make
a Two Minute Tuesday video. It's quite involved. I hope you've learned
something from the process. Even still if you didn't, I hope you enjoyed watching the process. It's something that I'm
really passionate about. I love doing it, I love, like I said, watching how other people work and the workflow involved. Let me know what you guys
do for a workflow below. I love hearing about this kind of stuff and we can get that conversation started, so hit that like button
if you liked this video, subscribe if you aren't already, and, and I will see you
guys in the next video. Oh, but wait, you're probably wondering, what about the timer? And because I just blew
it so bad in this video, I didn't even bother putting the timer in, because let's just say it's just getting embarrassing at this point. Two Minute Tuesday is more
of a phrase at this point, but I still throw it in there every now and then to try
to keep the theme going. All right, that's all I got. Now I'm officially done. I'll see you guys in the next video. (dreamy music)
