My COMPLETE video production workflow with the ATEM Mini Extreme ISO

i've finally streamlined my process for recording youtube videos and it's entirely thanks to the a10 mini xtreme iso this video is a detailed look behind the scenes and my process for recording youtube videos for this channel and this has saved me i don't even know how many hours so far this year hi i'm aaron pirecki i like making videos like these tutorials and reviews about live streaming gear and video production i have a huge list of ideas for my next videos and a lot of gear that i need to review as well and the only way i'm going to get through this list is if i can cut down the time it takes me to make each video a big part of the motivation of every aspect of this workflow is to cut down the amount of time it takes to both film as well as edit these videos i've been refining this process over the last few months shaving off a few minutes here and there and i'm excited to finally share this process with you in this video i'm going to take you step by step through the entire process from start to finish of how i make videos exactly like the one you're watching right now now keep in mind most of what i'll be describing can be done with any kind of gear there's nothing particularly special about the specific pieces of gear i use with one major exception it's really the atm mini xtreme iso that makes this whole thing come together and that is the trick behind the thing that saves me the most time in particular it's the fact that the iso model can record all eight inputs all the same time onto a single usb drive but we'll get to that in a bit there are a few stages of the process i'll be talking about and i have time stamps to each section in the description below in case you want to skip around these time stamps are also a trick i'll mention towards the end so to start off i want to first talk about the camera setup my videos are mainly these kinds of talking head videos where i'm also either demonstrating something on a computer screen or showing how a device works but the first trick is that just one talking head angle isn't enough now i personally don't really mind the jump cut style of editing but i know other people do and i will admit that it does look less polished than editing out all the jump cuts jump cuts can be used for dramatic effect but the main reason they would end up in a video is because you want to redo a sentence or take out some awkward gap so you would just cut out part of the timeline leaving a cut between the same angle one way to cover this up is to crop in on the video which can definitely work to hide the cut but if you are filming in 1080 and then crop in on 1080 then you're going to lower the quality of the final output now if you film in 4k that's great because then you can crop in a full two times on the video without losing any quality if you're publishing in 1080 but i don't record in 4k as we'll get to in a little bit so instead i want to also have a wide shot of myself which i can then use to switch to when i need to hide a cut so these are the main two angles i'll have for the whole video and that means at any point i can cut between the two angles as much as i want and hide the fact that there may have been some gaps in the actual recording now as for other angles it depends on the video i will sometimes set up two or three more cameras for example i like having an overhead view so i can show stuff from the top down i also like having a side view of the desk here which lets me show whatever thing it might be demonstrating on the table or i can hold up smaller things up to the camera as well and zoom in on it that way i may also have a third angle focused on the a10 mini or the yolo box or some other thing on the table for all these fixed angles like the main angle of myself i usually want fixed manual focus otherwise you end up with weird autofocus issues in the video but for the top down view and the side view i do want good auto focus because then i can do things like hold this up during the video recording or over to the side here and it will very quickly autofocus so for those i will usually use my sony cameras because those do have really good autofocus okay so this is a lot of cameras but let me explain why i do this with four or five cameras instead of just one i already mentioned the jump cut issue which is way easier to cover up if you have two separate cameras now of course the other angles could be done with these same cameras but it would mean i would have to move them around and it would also be a lot more editing work after everything was filmed the idea with having all of these cameras all running at the same time is it means i can record the whole video in more or less one take and that really speeds up the edit so let's move on to the next stage of the setup and the next key piece of gear that makes this all work which is the a10 mini xtreme iso the atemi extreme iso is really the key to this whole operation this lets you plug in eight video sources and it records them all at the same time to individual files on a usb drive before we get into the setup i feel like i should explain why this is so much better than recording in each camera separately i actually used to record multi-camera videos by recording to internal sd cards in all the cameras and then syncing everything in post later and it's true that modern video editors can do automatic camera syncing by matching the audio tracks up but even still just the amount of time it takes to go around to each camera hit record pull out the sd cards copy the files import them all into the editor and then do that sync it actually adds up to kind of a lot and there's a lot of room for mistakes like if you forget to import one of the sd cards or if you lose track of one part of the clip or just forget to press record what makes the a10 mini so much better is that when you hit record all eight tracks are recorded and they all start and stop at the exact same time and they're already on one drive so essentially what that means is i hit record i let it roll for the whole take i bring this driver to the computer and everything is already right there ready to be edited this also means i'm not limited to recording only cameras it's also a very very fast way to record a computer screen or ipad or any other device outputting over hdmi so the idea is to connect all the camera angles as well as anything else i want to be recording into the hmd extreme iso so that usually means all of these cameras as well as my computer screen or an ipad or iphone that way i can show apps running on these devices too so if you have two monitors on your desk you can use one for the multi-view of the atm and the other for your computer screen i have this big monitor here but because my computer is routed through the atem i can actually press a button on my stream deck and turn this into a computer monitor if i need to navigate something on the computer meanwhile my computer screen is recorded as one of the iso inputs into the atem if you're not using companion and a stream deck then these little output buttons on the atem will also change what goes out of that hdmi one so you can full screen on one of your inputs whether it's a computer or maybe you want to get a close-up look at one of your cameras speaking of which this is a good time to go and check the focus of each camera you can go full screen each camera look it on the big monitor in front of you and make sure that each of these is in focus the other thing i like to make sure i have on the multiview is this recording status and that's just so i can make sure that it is in fact recording and i can see how long it's been recording and to make sure i've got enough disk space left on the drive for the rest of the time i need so the last bit of setup here is the audio really you just need to make sure that your main microphone is running into the atem somewhere because this is the iso model all the audio is recorded from each input into separate files now whatever your program audio is will be recorded onto all the video tracks so it's usually a good idea to make sure that the program audio is your good audio so that could mean you have one microphone running into one of the cameras and then you enable that camera's audio source or you can run a microphone into an external mixer and run it into one of the eighth inch audio inputs that's what i'm doing here you can see my mic one is the only active audio in this mix right now so once this is all set up i'm ready to record this is also the point where i'd like to have all the stuff ready to go all the time and i actually usually leave everything set up like this except for maybe one or two cameras i leave most of the cameras where they are and that way when i'm ready to record i don't have to go through this whole setup process before each video i like to be able to just jump in here into the studio hit record without spending an hour setting up beforehand but before i record there is one more thing i will do i've actually found that the editing process goes a lot faster if i make fewer mistakes when recording to make fewer mistakes it helps if i'm working off of a very detailed script sometimes that means writing out literally word for word what i'm going to say and putting that on a teleprompter sometimes it'll be a bullet point outline of something i want to show about in a device or in some app but in either case the main goal is to have the whole video planned out ahead of time that way by the time i'm ready to edit all i'm really doing is cutting out the mistakes and the gaps in the recording otherwise if i have to go search through my hard drive for clips and rearrange things it just takes way too long and that's why this script or outline helps so much now i do realize that reading from a teleprompter and making it look natural is not easy for everybody but part of that's actually the source material i write my scripts in a very casual tone imagining myself reading it out loud as i'm writing it that means when it's written down it looks like really bad writing since spoken language doesn't follow all the strict rules of written language things like starting sentences mid-phrase or partial sentences these don't sound bad when you hear them out loud but they look wrong when they're written down so get over trying to use perfect grammar when writing your scripts and your teleprompter reading will already sound more natural the other thing that makes reading from a teleprompter look more natural is avoiding scanning your eyes back and forth ideally you want to be looking at a fixed point in the center of the screen the whole time so when you're adjusting your teleprompter make sure that you're using a big enough font that you can see the whole line without moving your eyes back and forth like this that makes it so you can look at the same spot and see the whole line at once without scanning back and forth and that really helps avoid making it look like you're reading off the teleprompter okay so at this point i've got the script written and i'm ready to finally record the video so if i'm working off of an outline i'll usually just open up the outline in google docs on my computer or whatever and mirror that screen into the teleprompter if i'm going to be reading a full script then i do want to use an actual teleprompter app that will scroll the text for me i like the ipad app called teleprompter by joe allen pro i usually write my scripts in google docs and then just copy and paste from the computer into the ipad you have a few options for how to get this into the teleprompter itself this ipad app can do the flip the text flip itself if you want to actually stick this in the teleprompter but you can also connect an external display with an hdmi cable or like in my case airplay to an apple tv if you do have your ipad sitting in the teleprompter then you can actually use a separate ios device to control it as a remote control but if you're using airplay then you can actually interact with the teleprompter app on the ipad and then just see the output on the screen up there and that's what i've been doing lately i have an apple tv as part of the studio setup so i use airplay to connect to the ipad mirroring its screen to that apple tv and that shows up as a second display of the ipad and then i'll have this on the desk next to me and it wirelessly shares the screen to the apple tv which is then routed into that monitor that monitor is the lilliput a11 which actually has that screen flip feature built in and that makes it really good for using with an apple tv or a computer where your source may not be able to actually flip the screen itself that teleprompter itself is the glidegear tmp100 which fits that monitor pretty nicely in the bottom there okay finally ready to record again the goal here is to make the actual recording go quickly and record it in a way that's easy to edit later so again with the a10 mini xtreme iso it will record all the camera angles at the same time and this is where i'm taking full advantage of the iso model i actually don't record these videos like they were live what i mean by that is i don't switch angles on the a-10 while recording the way i would in a live stream i also actually leave really large gaps if i'm recording and i need to pause to like go grab something off the shelf rather than try to pretend it's actually live so i'm ready to start recording right when i start i'll do a clap that's visible on all the camera angles and that way i can actually sync these up better later i'll talk more about that in the editing section when i start recording the goal here is to read through the whole script in order if i make a mistake with one of the lines i will pause back up and just do it again the goal with recording this way is to make it so that when i'm editing all i'm doing is cutting out chunks of the video rather than assembling it from a bunch of small clips while i'm recording i'm paying close attention to what i sound like as i'm reading the script if i noticed my inflection was off because i didn't remember how the sentence was going to end if i noticed my inflection was off because i didn't remember how the sentence was going to end i will just stop talking and go back and record that bit again now of course sometimes things don't go entirely according to plan and i realize that after i'm done i need another sentence or to insert it into the script in those cases i'll just stop recording entirely start a new file for each segment i want to add and at the beginning of recording that segment i will say out loud a description of where i should insert that segment basically that helps when i'm editing that way i'm not trying to figure out where everything goes once i'm done recording the a-roll it's time to take this into the editor and start chopping it up so like i mentioned before the a-10 mini extreme iso is a key part of this workflow both for filming as well as in the edit now you might be thinking of course he's going to take that resolve project that the atem creates and open that up and edit right well no and i'll explain why for starters i actually don't want to mess around with cutting live while i'm recording i would rather just have all the angles recording all at once but secondly i actually don't like the way it creates the resolve project on the drive itself so instead i'm going to create a multi-cam clip myself and then do the edits in two passes so first things first i'm going to import all of the iso recordings into resolve and then i'm going to create a synced multicam clip now since these all have the same audio in the same time code it creates the same clip instantly once this is created there are a couple of tweaks i need to do before editing now since my cameras are a lot of different models they all have a different hdmi delay on the outputs i usually sync my audio to the main camera that way it's in sync when i'm streaming but it will very likely be out of sync with some of the other cameras especially if one of the cameras is also showing the multi-view which may also be introducing its own delay because of how many things are in between here and there so before i start editing i will actually go edit that multi-cam clip and then shift each video track a few frames to make sure that that clap is lined up across all of the angles now in the editor this is also a good time to go name all the angles that way they're easier to find once i'm editing i'm also going to go ahead and remove the audio from all but one of the tracks or even just make a new audio track just for the audio this is also a good time to make any color adjustments to the individual camera angles if you want to doing it here in the multicam clip means you can go back and change it later even after you've chopped everything up and any changes you make to the original will also affect all the times you've used it in the timeline now that i've prepared all the videos i'm ready to actually start editing i do a few passes of editing but the goal of the first edit is to get the dialogue and the timing right for now i'm not really worried about what it actually looks like only what it sounds like so i'm going to set the multi-cam clip on the timeline to the main camera and the main audio and then go through the whole thing chop out the retakes chop out the gaps and as i'm doing this i'm also going to add chapter markers to the timeline for the different segments of the video this part usually goes pretty quick because again really all i'm doing is taking out bits of the timeline the whole thing is mostly in order so all i'm doing is i'm gonna go and find where i've done the same line like three or four times and then take out all but the last take of it again this is possible because of the way i record where essentially it just means that as i'm recording i make sure that the last time i say a line is the good take so as i'm editing if i hear myself repeat a line i will just skip ahead to the last time i say that and remove the rest i'm also paying close attention to how the dialogue sounds and i do the fine detailed edits for timing making sure there's no weird gaps of silence or other problems with the audio once this first pass is done i might do a second pass if there are particular other angles recorded that i know i want to show so for example if i have a side camera that's looking at the atem or something then i'll do the cuts to show this close-up because i know i want to show those in the video but i'm not worried about jump cuts yet i'm gonna leave the jump cuts in and i'm gonna deal with those later so once i have this first edit done it's time to go film b-roll so of course the goal with b-roll shots is to both show close-ups of products that i couldn't get while filming the live a-roll but also to cover up any jump cuts in the a-roll i usually actually film the b-roll on a whole different day than the first recording that way i've actually had a chance to do the first pass edit before i get to filming the b-roll i'm actually going to go watch through the whole video i've just edited and i'm going to make a list of shots that i need i'm going to make this list in order of where the shots will appear in the timeline and in that list i'll make a quick note of roughly the time stamp it will go into the timeline at so once i have this whole list written out now i'm ready to actually go film the b-roll so i take this list with me i go back to the studio and i set up whatever i need for the b-roll shoot that's usually not going to be using the same camera setup i have here it'll probably be a handheld camera and stuff on the table that i'm showing so again the goal with filming the b-roll is to do it in a way that is very easy to edit later without spending a lot of time trying to organize clips and that's the reason the list of shots is in timeline order that way the files that i record on the sd card are easy to find and i do usually film the b-roll on a separate camera on the internal sd card of that camera not using this multicam setup usually i use just one camera sometimes two but it's definitely easier if all the clips are just on one camera's sd card i also like to make sure i'm recording super short individual clips that match the list of shots in my notes and that way they're easier to find later i again i don't want to have a 30 minute long video where i'm pulling bits and pieces out of it i would much rather have 30 5 to 10 second shots where i'm just trimming the ends off those shots and inserting them for the timeline so i'm gonna go shoot all this b-roll and check them off the list as i go once i've got through the list it's time to go back into the editor so now i'm gonna make a new bin in the resolve project and dump all my b-roll clips into there first i'm gonna copy everything from the camera's sd card onto the drive that all the a-roll was shot on and then import those into resolve and again they're gonna be all in order of the shot list once i drag them in because they're all in order in the camera and now it's time to go move them into the timeline i'm going to take that list of b-roll shots find the time stamp on the timeline find the matching shot in the bin find the start in the end and drag it into the timeline and do that for all the shots so once all the clips for the close-ups and all those kind of things are done it's time to do the final edit to remove any remaining jump cuts so at this point i'm going to scroll through the timeline i'm not going to play it in real time i'm going to scroll through the timeline and i'm going to look for any instances where there's a cut that isn't covered up by b-roll i'm then going to either add more b-roll on top of that cut or switch one side of the cut to the wide angle the goal here is to remove all the remaining jump cuts so once this is done the main edit is complete and it's time for now text overlays and the title on music i actually have a video clip of my title sequence that i drag into the beginning and end of the video and then i'll go look for a song on art list for the beginning and the end of the video lately i've been adding music to only the beginning of the video rather than under the whole thing so i'll have it during the intro bit and then through the title graphics and then through the next 10 or 15 seconds really up until i start getting to the actual main content and then i'll fade it out gradually i'll also bring the music back up towards the end as i'm starting to wrap up the video if you're curious about why i use art list i've talked about it a few times on some past live streams when i was dealing with some incorrect copyright claims and they've always been very good about fighting those for me i'll link to those videos in the description if you're curious now it's time to export the video and move on to the last step publishing this is honestly the most frustrating part because by now i've got the whole video finished and i'm so excited to share it but before i can do that there's a whole bunch more busy work to be done so first i need to export the main video that's going to be uploaded to youtube and there are two ways to do this in resolve you can actually connect your youtube account to resolve and then have resolve render and upload the video directly to youtube one of the nice things is if you've added chapter markers to your timeline it can then actually go add those chapters to the video description when it uploads it now if you don't like the idea of uploading directly from resolve you can of course export it manually first and upload it yourself in that case to get the chapter markers out of resolve you can actually go to the timeline right click choose timelines export and then choose this timeline markers to edl this will give you a file that has the timestamp data but you need to convert it still to something for youtube i actually built a little tool that converts this file for me to plain timestamps for the youtube description i'll link to that down below basically you upload the file it converts it to normal looking timestamps that you can copy and paste into the youtube description so once that's ready for youtube i'm ready to carry on with the captions but before i leave resolve there's one more export i like to actually keep a version of the video that doesn't include the music track and that's just in case i want to later use clips from this in another video or if there's some licensing issue with the music i happen to use that way i can always go back and add different music later so i'm going to go mute the music track and then do another export and label this one no music that just stays on my hard drive in case i need to use it later so moving on to captions i like to make sure that all of my edited videos have captions on youtube that's both because i tend to talk pretty quickly because i prefer videos where people talk quickly but i do realize that that's not always easy for people to understand especially if you're not a native english speaker and captions can really help with that of course doing captions from scratch is a lot of work but on the flip side youtube's auto captions are not great so i need something in between and that's why i've landed on this tool called sonics.ai they're not sponsoring or anything but i'd be happy if they did i just really enjoyed using them the trick with sonix.ai is that it does do a first pass of auto transcription of your audio so i'll go upload the video or even just a dialogue only track to sonics and then it will sit there for a few minutes and do the transcription and give me a big screen full of text but this is now where sonics makes this a lot easier than other tools you just get what looks like a regular text editor and you can now correct the transcription that it's created so it does have a feature where you can edit the dictionary it uses for auto transcription and that will already make it better than just youtube so i've got things like hdmi atem yolo box you know those words that are not in a normal dictionary i've given that to sonics and it does an okay job of using that custom dictionary but it still often gets a lot of it wrong but correcting the captions in sonics is extremely easy because all you're really doing is you're scrolling through the list looking for typos or things that don't make sense and you just type over it to correct it you don't have to worry about time stamps or anything like that it manages it all for you if i find a spot in the transcript that i'm not sure what it was supposed to be you can just quickly play the recording at that point and then hear what you said and then correct it right there so really it just takes a few minutes to skim through the whole thing and look for the mistakes and correct it in line and then you can just export this as an srt or vtt file and upload that into youtube with the timing already in it so i upload this file to youtube telling it that it's a file with timing i don't use youtube's tools at all for dealing with captions next i need to fill out the video description so that's going to be writing a quick intro sentence and then also adding in links to products or other videos i mentioned in the video this takes me a while to figure out what i want to include and i have to go deal with my affiliate links and all that stuff so that can take some time then of course the thumbnail i really hate thumbnails i wish it wasn't so important on youtube but it really is i'm not going to claim i have the best thumbnail game and i am not going to give you any tips for that here but you have to upload a thumbnail the way i do my thumbnails is i've actually got a keynote file on my mac with the template graphics and all those things saved in it and i will go and copy and paste the previous one i've used and swap out the image as far as actually shooting the photo to use in the thumbnail i will usually do that either while i'm recording the a-roll or while i'm recording the b-roll if i can remember i sometimes forget and then it's very frustrating to have to go do this again later so before i'm done shooting b-roll i'll try to get a photo or a video of something about the product that i'm i'm talking about it's usually helpful to think about what i want the thumbnail to be before i start recording otherwise i'm in the situation where i'm in now where i'm recording this right now and i don't know what the thumbnail is going to be so i can't really do a thumbnail shoot right now maybe the thumbnail of this video will be a photo of the multi-view of my atem we'll see so once that's ready to go basically that's it i will usually schedule this video to go live on youtube in the next day or two rather than publishing it immediately when i'm done editing one of the reasons for that is youtube does a bunch of background processing work on the video to transcode it into all the different quality settings and i don't want to publish it before the hd version is ready so at this point i can sit back and look forward to that video going live at usually 6am my time and then watching the comments come in so that was a lot that's a lot to keep track of and for me i've usually ended up forgetting one of those steps at some point when recording videos and it usually comes back and bites me later so what i actually did is i made a complete checklist for myself that i use for filming these videos and i've turned that into a planner that you can actually buy if you want to follow the same process this is my youtube channel organizer which has both monthly pages for keeping track of when you've published videos or done live streams as well as individual pages for actually planning out your videos this is where you can list out the video topic come up with title ideas write down a few main key points you want to hit in the video but where this was really useful is actually a checklist of all the steps i just described in this video this is how you can make sure you've actually done all the steps things like making sure there's enough free disk space on your drive you're according to checking the focus of all your cameras checking your audio levels and importantly once you're getting to editing doing the main a roll switching your camera angles adding the b roll clips remove the remaining jump cuts add the chapter markers add the intro outro add the music this has already saved me a lot of time just having it in a checklist form that way i make sure i'm actually doing all the steps and i actually like to keep track of how long each step took whether that's script writing filming editing and thanks to the process of editing from the iso recordings that really has sped up my edit time a lot and i'm actually now getting down to the edit taking only a little bit longer than filming like in this yolo box chroma key video two hours editing hour 45 filming if you're interested in using this planner yourself you can find it on my online shop shop.airmpk.tv it comes with undated monthly pages as well as 52 spreads for your videos so i hope this video has been helpful if you have any questions about my workflow that i didn't get to in this video feel free to leave a comment down below or join me on an upcoming sunday during one of my weekly live streams i go live every sunday 10 a.m pacific and we chat about live streaming atems yolo boxes whatever you want it's always a good time alright thanks so much for watching and i will see you in the next one you

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