If you are planning to make some marketing videos here is a checklist and also some very useful tools that will improve the quality of your videos.
Step 1: Decide what type of video you will make. There 5 big types to choose from.
• Company promo
• Testimonial
• How to
• Product Demo
• Service Explainer
Step 2: Decide what will be in the video. You have 5 main option.
• You speaking to camera
• Interview a customer or colleague
• Just photos, text and music
• PC Screen recording
• Animation illustration
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Step 3: Understand that your video will be a lot more effective if you get these things right.
• Your video should be well edited. There are lots of great editing tools you can use
• Great audio in order to keep people’s attention. You need to use a microphone.
• Footage (B Roll). You should try to show what someone is speaking about not juat have a person on the screen.
• Great music to add energy and pace to your video
• Eye catching text to illustrate your points.
Here is a list of useful tools and resources.
1. Video equipment to record someone speaking
• Your smartphone will record HD videos
• Rode wireless Go microphone
• DJI Osmo Gimbal to keep your phone steady as you move
• Neewer ring light – to provide excellent lighting indoors
• Camkix bluetooth camera remote – to start and stop recording
2. Where to get good music
• Facebook’s Sound collection (8K free tracks)
3. Tools to edit your video
• Filmora (PC / Mac)
• iMovie
• Inshot app (phone / tablet)
• Filmora Go (phone / tablet)
• Cute Cut (phone / tablet)
4. Tools for making animated videos
• Powtoon
• GoAnimate
5. Tools for recording your screen
• Filmora Editor
• Camtasia
• Loom (Free Chrome extension)
6. Tools to add captions / subtitles to your videos
• Quicc.io
• Kapwing
• Sonix
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