How to Make Videos

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

What Amazed Me was How Many People Search ‘How to Make Videos’ Each Month!

Though the number of searches are comparatively low, only about 2,000 for those specific keywords.

So if you arrived here from searching how to make videos I have really good news for you.

Today, even toddlers are making videos. And there are a multitude of ways and tools you can use.

Most cell phones (or mobile phones as we call them in Australia) nowadays have a camera as part of the features. Just pick up your phone, turn it on and start recording yourself. And depending on your phone’s memory, you can make heaps of videos too.

A great and inexpensive tool to create videos using images and text is Animoto.

Where to Save Your Videos

I joined this because of the quality and safety of my videos.

Last year I lost three of my videos when my YouTube account was shut down. Fortunately I got my account back after I appealed but the three videos that had been flagged and which caused the loss of my account were never returned, so I had to delete them.

I still upload some of my videos to YouTube mainly because of it’s Pagerank of 1 which brings some google juice to my blog.

Steps to Take that will help in your search how to make videos

Decide the purpose of your video. Is it to connect with certain people? Who? Is it to explain something? Is it designed to make someone laugh or respond in some way?

Plan an outline of your video. Will you do it all in one take? How long do you think you need? Think about what important points you will cover and in what order. Write out your plan but don’t read it, just use it for planning.

Decide Where to Film. Will you record inside, outside, with a fixed camera or moving one. Will you be in full sun or shadow? Do a short test run.

Plan Your Final Comments. Probably the most important part of your video. What is the message you want viewers to go away with? Do you want them to be laughing? Do you want them to take action on something? Be specific with your “call to action”. It’s a good idea to have just one final suggestion for viewers to do. You can also annotate (ie write a message over) your video using YouTube tools.

Do it Often. Don’t worry about your video not being perfect. Just keep doing them and reviewing each one looking for ways you can improve.

His training on How to Make Videos is frankly superb. You can access his new 30 minute training How to Make Videos free as a member of the Empower Network.

I am Still Learning How to Make Videos

Yesterday I tried making a video at my local golf course. I tried and failed 4 times! I was just going to junk the attempts, then I thought I’d make use of the frustration and show you what happened.

I don’t have a record of the first attempt, which was perfect haha. I did a brilliant preparation planning it all in my head, then filming all my thoughts in one take! Only to turn the phone around and find I had no memory to record it!

So I grabbed my husband’s phone and this is what happened the second time.

OK, don’t give up, let’s try again.

Oops! OK here comes my fourth and final attempt for the day.

So can you blame me for giving up yesterday? I intended redoing it when I got home but got tangled up with my previous blog post about Chocolate.

Anyway, today I revisited that filming session and talked about it plus something I had forgotten from an Inner Circle audio I had listened to ages ago and listened to again today.

David Wood was interviewing John Wells. I have already written one post about him.

I had forgotten that John, who was brand new to online marketing, had written 640 blog posts in 6 months! So now being able to write posts in quick time myself, I am setting myself the same target.

I gave up on splicing the short clips together – it would have taken time which I’d rather spend on marketing this post.

If you’d like to come with me on this challenge but are not sure where to get blogging ideas, just checkout my previous post What to Blog About Every Day.

And at the same time, you can make videos every day. I wonder if I can make three videos every day, one for  each blog post? By then I should really know how to make videos!

Wish me luck!

Til Tomorrow

PS To get access to the Empower Video Hosting service, join here. How to Make Videos.

How to Make Videos