[00:00] tells you. So, today I sat down to write out 10 tips for new streamers starting content. From settings to free tools to how to use YouTube or TikTok, dispelling
[00:14] myths or misunderstandings, setting up your audio, fixing your webcam, how to network, practice skills, and generally just how to be a better creator. You name it. This is the master video for you, the person who actually cares and
[00:26] wants to improve, made by me, the person who's been a full-time creator for over 6 years. So, grab your pen and paper, make a checklist as we go of everything I will also warn you, I can be a bit blunt and I will be giving a few tips
[00:41] difficult to hear. Counter on the screen, timer on the screen, let's get into it. When you start your journey, you're going to have zero viewers and you just have to be okay with that. Just kidding, screw that. You don't have to.
[00:55] energy into gathering one on more discoverable platforms first, such as YouTube and TikTok. In fact, I will cover how to do that in full around tip ignore that entirely if your goal isn't to grow. When you start streaming, you
[01:14] should be realistic with yourself about what your goals actually are. Are you doing it to grow an audience and earn an income or are you just doing it as a fun a fun side hobby and also want to grow an audience. But, where you need to get
[01:30] doing what is fun doesn't line up perfectly. That's just how life is. right now on that piece of paper that's in front of you. And I will say, if you
[01:44] can't do that small task, you're probably going to struggle to do anything at all, ever. Now, I want to show you the best way to avoid giving up because this stuff is hard and there is an awful trap that makes so many new
[01:57] creators quit within weeks of starting because they just feel like crap. But first, let me show you this amazing microphone I'm using today and use in a lot of my videos, including viral gaming videos with 500,000 views, the FIFINE
[02:10] K688. This is a dynamic mic, which means it has better noise reduction to cut out so viewers don't hear aggressive clicking when you try to change that. It's dual USB and XLR, so you can plug it right in now and use it like I am.
[02:24] which saves you money. As you can hear, it also sounds amazing and the absolutely insane thing about this microphone is it costs only 80 USD and over and video for a long time now and when I've shown blind audio test to you
[02:42] guys comparing it to the Shure SM7B, [music] nobody can tell a difference. Thank you to FIFINE for sponsoring this video and for always doing so much to creators out there. If you want an amazing microphone, this one will be
[02:56] linked in the description. Now, how do we avoid quitting before we even get the have no control over, meaning you need to write smart goals. Specific,
[03:08] measurable, actionable, relatable, and time-bound goals. This means get hyper-specific about the goal. Make sure whatever it is, you can measure. Make your overall goal and set a deadline for it. For example, a terrible goal is to
[03:26] say you want to reach affiliate or partner or get 15 viewers or 50 followers because you do not control those things. Everyone else does. You can't spend 6 hours of your time working away right now and know you'll be
[03:38] affiliate by the end of it. An amazing set of goals could be script five YouTube shorts this week. That's specific, we're scripting shorts. It's and script them right now. It's relatable because learning to use other
[03:52] platforms helps you grow as a creator and person. Finally, it's time-bound as the very least write down your smart goals on the paper in front of you. And
[04:04] goal seems to be growth, you need to plan your content with an audience in mind. If you are streaming or uploading videos, let's say about Zelda and the thinking about your audience. You ever watch Kitchen Nightmares? You know,
[04:21] Gordon Ramsay yells at shitty restaurant owners? Yeah, that same way Gordon dishes on a menu with no photos and says that's why the kitchen is slow and [ __ ] gravitate to the same topics because they like those topics. The goal is to
[04:39] saying not to play Battlefield 6 on stream and you really love Battlefield 6, well, tip five, not everything in your life is meant to be content. Look,
[04:52] thing online, but you're going to hate yourself if you do that. Pick an audience, appeal to them, and keep the rest of the things you love for [music] yourself. Don't turn everything you enjoy into something that is work. And
[05:06] that's also why you need a schedule. Your [ __ ] restaurant might now only serve fish dishes. Awesome. But if people love your stinky fish on you're not open or don't even have a schedule on the door, they're not going
[05:20] streamers I don't watch anymore because I have no idea when they're going live? So, pick at most three days, go live for three to four hours on those days, and stream. Learn to edit script offline videos and vertical content. And when
[05:36] you say you're going to be live, then go be live. Speaking of being live, before click store broadcasts and publish broadcasts, and then a little below that set this up as well when you schedule a stream. And for the rest of these
[05:53] settings, I will mention if YouTube has an equivalent or not. Doing this is the most important reason why you should be saving your VODs is so that you can use the 15 555 rule afterwards. What is that? Well, it's tip number eight,
[06:08] dummy. Go to your latest stream and watch the first 15 min- Hey, hey! I closed that. I saw that. I said watch the first 15 minutes. I didn't say put the first 15 minutes on, then open up a game or a different video, or pick up
[06:21] your phone. Watch the [ __ ] VOD for 15 minutes. And if it's so boring that you and paper and while you watch those 15 minutes, make notes of what to improve.
[06:34] Once the 15 minutes is up, randomly skip ahead and watch for 5 minutes. That is simulating a new viewer clicking your stream. [music] You're forced to watch for 5 minutes, but they can leave. So, what can you improve? Write it down.
[06:47] minutes and watch that as well. Once you're done, look down at your paper and you should have an entire page of improvements you want to make. This is
[06:59] called active reflection and it's how you actually improve rather than we're in our settings though, specifically the dashboard settings and
[07:11] stream live for 90 seconds if you disconnect randomly and it'll show a start an entire new stream and it won't kick all your viewers out of the stream,
[07:24] ruining your average viewership. YouTube has a small version of this built in as latency. If not, leave it as normal. Often, chat engagement when you're small is a big aspect of growing, so keeping this delay low can help a lot. And
[07:39] scroll further, you can see this let viewers upload clips button. If you want vertical or horizontal clips of your content to their channels with your
[07:51] Twitch name attached to it, leave this on. If you don't want them to do that, they can rip all of your stuff, download it, and share it anyway. And below that, we have raid settings. Essentially, you can set permissions on who can raid you.
[08:05] requirements like the raid requires at least one viewer and it needs to be from an account that is over 30 days old or whatever else you want. recommend making does have a version of raids, it's just not as good, but you can turn that on if
[08:23] protection because a safe and fun stream is good for growth. Specifically, let's set up auto moderation on Twitch. It [music] is amazing. It is the gold
[08:37] understand how good they have it. At the top, we have chatter permissions. This everyone chat as long as they have a verified email of over two weeks
[08:51] well and I will say, don't listen to people who say this kills chat activity. phones and phone verification turned on anyway. If you're making content for
[09:04] children, well then maybe you're going to struggle a little bit more, but also because that sounds like hell. What does kill chat activity though is using follower or sub only chat, which is below this. Turn it off. Don't use it.
[09:18] change your chatter permissions we just talked about. And also click this button set up auto mod and message filters. Exiting advanced, we also have auto mod
[09:32] increase it as you need. Below that is the channel protection section. I again email of over two weeks. Again, this just helps stop spam raids or hate
[09:45] Harmful chatter detection essentially lets Twitch help you catch potential to get around said ban. I set these to monitor only, so Twitch warns me and my
[09:59] little tool that stops banned users from viewing your stream. I had a guy who I banned who would hate watch every single stream constantly and then send me lovely messages across all my other socials about how I should off myself or
[10:14] watch you. Sadly, you can't do that here on YouTube or else you watching this While we're talking about protection, I've got a few final tips before we move
[10:26] personally I think protecting chat from people who ruin the vibe really is the think you guys don't appreciate that. Next up, let's get a little
[10:38] controversial. Don't give mod or VIP status out to randoms or chatters you barely know or even hardcore regulars. You guys are too willy-nilly with learned from it. One bad mod or bad VIP can ruin the entire chat vibe. Only give
[10:56] these to trusted people who don't even ask for it. Seriously, if someone ever asks for mod or VIP, write that name down and never give it to them because want status that puts them above the community. Keeping it moving, for the
[11:12] your birthday, name of your dog, your cat, your mom, or anything else. Seriously, the internet is forever and there's a lot of weirdos on the looking at my reflection. But when you decide to start making content, then
[11:28] addresses that cannot be traced back to you and your personal life. Protect about any of these people, at the very least maybe just you care about
[11:40] Moving on, get BTTV. It's an extension of your browser and if you have it, you'll suddenly understand why everyone keeps writing kekW or other weird crap in chat. Those are emotes. Millions of emotes are being used daily by millions
[11:55] that apparently every Twitch user needs to have. Next, write better titles. I'm then lazily making your title the word Battlefield 6 or some other basic crap
[12:10] is not going to work. Write a funny title, write an opinion that'll get wrong, but trust me, people will click it to debate you. Write something that enough thought into your content. Because when you go live, you're not
[12:28] just playing games, you're making content. That means you should plan should be good enough that a viewer can understand the goal from the title. also be engaged enough that they want to be there at the end when you reach the
[12:47] goal, which leads us to tip 23, episodic content. It just doesn't work online anymore. Content needs to be drop-inable, which I know that's not a Whether it's a stream or a video, it doesn't matter. If you create something
[13:03] and enjoy it, such as maybe they needed to have been in an earlier stream or watched an earlier video in the series. Well, if you do that, that new piece of
[13:15] content, you lose 50% of your viewership on episode 2 and by episode 10, you're ConnorDog play giant games in one sitting like Final Fantasy or Elden
[13:30] it every day for two or three weeks, by the end they would have no one watching them anymore because they had so much previous content that people had to absorb in order to enjoy where they were up to. It's also why these creators now
[13:45] upload one large edit that any viewer can click, watch, and enjoy without >> dozens of other pieces of content first. Next up, make a playlist or folder of engaging for the background of your stream or just for editing. For
[13:58] Good Kid who have given full rights to use their music. You'll find you have a lot less dead air on stream if you both have good music to keep you going, but use whatever copyright music you want. And no, VOD removal isn't a genius
[14:16] workaround. You can still get banned, you are still using copyright material, and honestly, hard truth time for you. If your stream is so [ __ ] you need to use copyright then damn, I'm sorry, dude. That's
[14:28] rough, buddy. Speaking of rough, don't do giveaways. Well, okay, I've done exchange for giveaways. Mostly because in some countries that's actually illegal, but also if you get 2,000 new followers or new YouTube subs thanks to
[14:44] offering a giveaway, congratulations, that's 2,000 people who will never watch your content ever again and that tells YouTube you make [ __ ] content. But if people to watch the video in full and then comment something down below. That
[14:59] tells YouTube the video retention is high and engaging, which boosts it in this giveaway, watch to the end to find out how." And it works really well. don't think you should make a Discord. Everyone will say to make one
[15:15] immediately or very soon after creating a stream account and they're not wrong, really, but the time investment to keep it active there's probably no point right now. And as you grow, really it becomes a
[15:30] discussion around your time to manage the community versus time to create. lot of time encouraging and engaging every new member to keep it active, losing time that you can or should be spending on YouTube and TikTok content.
[15:46] member, so the server stays dead quiet because the reality is unless there are already a base of 15 to 20 people actively chatting each day, likely new
[15:58] members will never look at it again. Your best bet is to focus on learning to over and over. And when you [music] have grown from doing that, promote your new community server. The flood of a group coming in all at once makes it easier to
[16:13] keep the server alive. Next up, this is a weird one, but can we stop copying big it will help them grow, but in reality, you're just being lazy and inauthentic, which viewers can smell from miles away. Seriously, one of the biggest reasons
[16:28] people struggle to grow is they have no opinions or thoughts of their own. They just never grow or gain anything, you just look a bit dumb. At worst, you end
[16:40] and acting like a teamer version of him only to find out that you're impersonating a guy who cheats on his wife and hits on kids in their DMs.
[16:52] watching big streamers all the time. Go watch smaller creators. Pay attention to what they do that you like and dislike, what they do well, what they don't do a whole lot more doing that than going and watching someone do whatever they
[17:09] attention from that big creator. And before we move on to budget gear, external socials for growth, fixing your audio, webcam, learning to master new skills, and even networking, the last two tips of this segment are just ignore
[17:24] all those tips so far and start. Jump in, get your feet wet, realize it's not scary, and then slowly work through everything you need to do and don't feel overwhelmed because there's no rush to finish all of this. Creating content is
[17:37] a marathon, not a sprint. So, you can do it slowly, at your own pace. And on the ignore streamer Twitter. You gain nothing from engaging with those idiots,
[17:49] doesn't matter from some wannabe streamer laughing as a journalist on view count, which is actually perfectly on schedule cuz we argued about that six
[18:02] is exciting because I can't wait for when we debate starting soon screens in All right, let's talk about budget gear, everything you'd need outside of a PC.
[18:15] products while being just as good if not better. First up, microphone. I mean, insanely long time. The FIFINE K688, link to this microphone and a full video
[18:32] one of the best audio upgrades you can do is by mounting your mic properly. As and you can grab the FIFINE arm alongside the K688 in a bundle.
[18:46] Personally, I am using my THRONMAX S6 low profile because I've had it for years, it's sleek, out of my shot, and it has full 360° of movement. Most it. But I will say the THRONMAX is much more expensive. In fact, you can get the
[19:02] mic arm and the K688 [music] in that bundle for cheaper than just this mic arm. And it comes in pink and white. Next, the OBSBOT Me 2 4K is the best webcam. It is insane. Look at some of this footage. It is 4K, it is F1.8, it's
[19:15] crisp, clear, it has tools built into it so it auto tracks when you move around, and it's under 100 bucks. I did a full video on this webcam, it's insane. I'll link it below. Next up, lighting. I've covered lights a lot on this channel,
[19:27] probably far too much. I use Neewer lights, specifically the Neewer GL-1C RGB, they have presets like fireworks, police sirens, you name it, it's got it,
[19:39] and they are cheaper than other lights on the market that get recommended more up on the price range of the Neewer's, so I will also make sure I I down below a video as well as some of the less expensive ones that are still much
[19:54] better than all the rest of the ones on the market. NEXT UP, STOP SPENDING MONEY a little too intense. Let me try again. Stop spending money on expensive crap every day by big influencers, they aren't genuine recommendations.
[20:12] Influencers recommend expensive products to you because if you buy it, they earn more than if you buy a budget product. That's why they're recommending you a $300 mic. Not because it's good, but because they get a higher cut. And
[20:24] need to wrap this gear segment up by saying, stop spending money because you're too lazy to learn how things work. I would say once a week, in fact, no, I take that back. I would say twice a week I meet a small creator with zero
[20:37] viewers who has bought an entire second PC and is trying, but failing to set up dual PC streaming and recording because their OBS or game is lagging. And when I don't even know where the stats panel in OBS is. And the reason is because
[20:52] right or what the type of lag was or how they had to fix it. They just leaped straight to spending money. Why? This happens with audio as well. You don't need a Shure SM7B or a fancy mixer. If you can't sound good on an inexpensive
[21:06] USB setup, you are going to sound worse on expensive SM7B setup. Okay, let's talk about discovery platforms. I'm so excited for this one. This is like my your audience and kept them in mind? When it comes to YouTube and TikTok,
[21:22] just one topic. You're appealing to the same audience, and to find them, it requires time and care. But, the actual tip here that I need you to listen to really carefully is once you have an audience in mind, you want to appeal to
[21:37] them and then never use the word algorithm ever again. The algorithm is not a mystery. It can be explained in a single sentence. Are you ready? Listen very carefully. The algorithm is how the audience reacts to a video. If YouTube
[21:53] because it's aggressively pushing small creators right now, and people click your video because of the title and thumbnail, and then watch a large or above average amount of it, then that is a positive audience reaction, and
[22:07] YouTube will try to show the video more. However, if YouTube shows it and people don't click it, or if they do click it and then leave immediately, that's a bad audience reaction, so YouTube will stop sharing it. Don't ask why the algo is
[22:19] hurting you. Ask why or how you aren't appealing to the audience properly. Now, when it comes to getting clicks, it is almost entirely down to two things. The value, but the second is more difficult to understand, and that's TAM, T A M or
[22:37] total audience metric. This means creating content that is understandable losing focus. I like to imagine I take my title and thumbnail down to the old premise, I've done a good job. The best way to understand this is with a test.
[22:55] reviews as an example. Title A, Throat Guzzler 3000B XLR vibration review. Title B, Throat Guzzler 3000B gives perfect vocals on a budget. Title C,
[23:10] this microphone has perfect quality audio on a budget. Which do you think is best? I'll give you a second. Okay, that's that's a second. If you said A, congratulations, that's the worst possible answer. That video title only
[23:22] appeals to people who know what the Throat Guzzler 3000B is, and even worse, specifically want to know about the XLR version of it and are seeking a review. That is a tiny portion of your total audience metric. If you said B, you're
[23:35] better off, but still [ __ ] This one gives value to the viewer, making them more likely to click by saying it gives perfect vocals on a budget. Awesome, but it still uses the name of the mic in the title, which means people need to know
[23:47] what that is, and I do feel like using the word vocals will lower TAM by being hyper-specific about how viewers have to use it. Title C, we are getting much closer to what we are looking for. Our value is perfect quality audio on a
[24:00] budget. Okay, it's amazing audio and it's inexpensive. But, we also open the title by saying this microphone, so people know it's a microphone video, but better that they don't know what type of microphone it is immediately because now
[24:14] they're intrigued and they have to click to find out. Check out creators like Scamboli who use this concept and rule to make their anime video essays absolutely explode in views. And you'll see it consistently happening across
[24:27] every single niche. In the same vein, TAM absolutely and heavily applies to thumbnails. You'll see Scamboli doesn't use his face anywhere, and lots of creators blowing up now refuse to use their face in thumbnails because nobody
[24:40] and throw your face into your thumbnail, but you don't realize you hold no value to a new viewer. TAM is mostly for titles in long form, but it also heavily
[24:53] the intro 3 seconds are hyper-specific and aren't understandable or relatable to you. Well, you're going to keep swiping. So, you need your intro, your first three to five seconds, to be relatable and have context for the
[25:08] largest TAM, so they don't just swipe away. I love Shrimpy's art shorts as an example when I try and help people learn about an opening hook. He opens almost amazing at getting a viewer to stick around. It is aimed directly to them and
[25:26] is usually followed by a relatable struggle like learning how to draw hands. He's talking to me. >> [laughter] stream footage and stream clips for your YouTube shorts or TikToks, you're an
[25:42] to, which is a little bit worse, to be honest. A bit back, myself, Reap to use short format on YouTube. And what we found was that stream clips being
[25:55] converted to vertical, 99 out of 100 times will fail to even break the testing phase of 5,000 [music] views. Which, side note, if you didn't know, if your vertical video is getting under 5,000 views, it usually means YouTube
[26:08] tested it to a group of people and it didn't perform very well, so it stopped sharing it. In fact, the lower the number, so let's say you get 200 views it. Twitch or stream clips almost always failed because there's no real format or
[26:24] structure to them that keep people sticking around. Yes, sometimes they do want success if you cannot continue to capture that success consistently. that was specifically designed to have a hook, a goal, and a reason to keep
[26:41] watching, we started seeing huge numbers. Reap's to this day is still converting Twitch clips to vertical is usually given by giant creators who succeeded by doing it and don't understand they are the exception, not
[26:55] the rule. [music] Survival bias is a very real thing, and these people don't [music] That's also why so many of you are failing at long form. YouTube these
[27:07] said, you don't understand TAM, you don't get clicked. And if you do get stream footage, montages, compilations, or reactions that viewers just don't
[27:21] care about. YouTube in 2025 can be best described as story. You're sending your viewers on a journey, either literally or metaphorically, setting out with a obstacles to get there. But, when the video finishes, they're going to leave
[27:38] having felt something and being changed. Look at Shonew or Floidsen with their the story and journey are engaging, unique, and above all else, hugely by wanting value from them rather than offering value so good they naturally
[27:55] support you. Asking for likes, asking for subs, all of that crap before even a single piece of value, before the video has barely even started, that's crazy. When you create, think like a viewer because, let's be real, you are one. And
[28:08] when you, as a viewer, saw creators spam you and take ages to give you what you clicked for, you got mad. So, focus on story, offer people value, and So, you know what? Stop using every single set of social media. Just pick
[28:23] streaming, making shorts, making videos, Insta posts, Twitter, all of it, blah blah blah, then congratulations, you're going to stay [ __ ] forever. Hell, I having two channels where I make two different forms of long form content is
[28:40] hell on Earth for me. And I'm a dad, so I have absolutely no time to myself. Stop spreading yourself thin and uploading garbage. Focus up, focus in, and become amazing at one format until you have the experience, resources, and
[28:52] audience to expand into other formats. Because, getting just good, not even great, will take hundreds of uploads, thousands of hours of work, and that's becoming good at something is better than anything you've ever felt. Looking
[29:06] at the first video you uploaded versus a year later, oh my god, it's amazing. So, before we move on to audio quality, webcam quality, how to master skills, by saying I made two videos. One showing how I monetized a new faceless gaming
[29:25] channel with zero self-promotion or zero telling my audience about it in just six uploads. That'll be linked in the description alongside a video all about how I got millions of views on short format content without promoting it at
[29:37] all to any established audiences. All right, let's talk audio. I'll smash this out and link a more detailed video below, but first, for God's sake, learn to properly use your microphone. I'd say 90% of audio quality comes from
[29:49] them or aiming it away from their mouth entirely. Hell, I have a mate who kept complaining about his audio and then when I finally cracked and asked where his mic was, he said it was behind his monitor. He was talking at nothing. The
[30:04] the the sound the sound comes out of your mouth guys. Put the microphone in comes out of then max out those physical knobs that control sensitivity or gain show you allowed but not peaking or over exploding which is usually inside yellow
[30:22] near the top with headroom for laughter or yelling. Also, try to keep your mic mechanical keys that you don't actually need or use properly. If you don't graph for you. If your audio is hitting the top of the red, it's likely too
[30:39] quiet. Your voice should land around minus 10 to minus six, your game audio be around minus 20 to minus 15. The background music would be about minus 22
[30:52] to 28 and then remember all of these rules are just kind of like guidelines to get started and the best way to actually check your audio is to set it Stop. Let me finish. Listen back to it while
[31:07] watching your audio levels. I saw you listening back with just headphones. Do not trust your headphones or speakers or whatever else you're using. They will says, okay? And then next, once you've got everything set up, you need to learn
[31:23] thankfully you're going to get that right now. The first thing you have to learn is that audio filters actually apply in a chain one leading into the next. If we're using OBS for example, then filters are applied top to bottom
[31:37] will do, make you sound [ __ ] Once you place your mic correctly and leveled it properly, you likely want a noise gate. Imagine [music] audio is like water. when a lot hits it all at once, it opens before closing again when it feels the
[31:55] rush has died down. So smaller sounds like mouse clicks, [music] background noise, things that are far away won't manage to open the gate, but your voice leveled properly and placed properly will open it. Now, reminder, once the
[32:08] noise, it'll come through when you speak. This isn't removing background noise from your audio, it's just not letting it activate your mic. When it comes to removing background noise entirely, there are three methods.
[32:23] First, fix the placement and sensitivity of your microphone. Get it closer to sensitivity slightly. Second, just remove the background noise entirely.
[32:35] Personally, when I record, I turn off my fans, my air conditioners, I wait for my wife and my daughter to be at work or daycare which I couldn't do today so you fire fine, but the goal should be to create a quiet environment so that you
[32:50] can get clean recordings without filters. And if you can't do that, then lightly. Do not go crazy because voice suppression is not clever. It's not
[33:02] going to use some crazy or magical tool to cut out everything except your voice. It just cuts out certain frequencies and usually only works for white noise like fans and air conditioning. If you apply [music] this too heavily, your voice is
[33:14] going to get cut out or scratchy or high-pitched and just sound gross and those influencers on Twitter that [ __ ] blast a fan or hair dryer or some other crap right next to themselves and then they turn on some magic branded
[33:30] noise suppression tool that they've been paid to promote. They turn it on and then speak really carefully and leveled like perfectly so like it doesn't break the audio. But in reality, if you use those things and then actually try to
[33:42] record or stream, you would sound like ass. You don't naturally have a perfect voice when you record and those tools will affect you as well. Another amazing quiet sounds back up with makeup gain. Essentially, it levels you out nicely,
[33:58] but like all filters, don't use this heavily. Just add a light compressor or you'll begin to sound flat and boring again like I do in my day-to-day. you don't need all those external audio tools anymore. Seriously, Voice Meter,
[34:14] Sonar, Elgato's Wave, whatever. It had a place sort of for a while, but OBS has been updated so much, you don't need any of it anymore. Keep life simple, keep it easy, stop overcomplicating everything. Speaking of simple and easy, I'm going
[34:28] to break down webcams or at least camera exposure in just three tips that will change your life. Are you ready? I don't I I got I can't hear you. I I recorded this weeks ago. First, you need to understand exposure. This is how
[34:42] is correctly exposed using specifically the exposure triangle. All cameras or webcams have an F-stop. This refers to the aperture inside the lens that opens
[34:55] and closes to let light in. A lower F-stop means more light is let in and it's better for blur or depth of field as you can see behind me. This is an F1.8 so I have depth of field and I have blur and it's great. Next corner of the
[35:08] triangle, this is your digital brightness. You're digitally using this to raise or lower the sensitivity of your entire image and because it's digital, you're going to create digital artifacting or noise degrading the image
[35:21] when you raise your brightness up with this. Final corner, shutter speed. Now, this will sit double your FPS. So 30 FPS, 60 shutter. 60 FPS, 120 shutter.
[35:34] means less light and slower speeds means more light obviously because if it's opening and closing slower, more light can get in. This also affects your
[35:51] motion blur and how you move as well cuz a higher shutter speed will capture more little bits of your motion. So, rough starting point in order to get the best and as I said, shutter speed double your FPS for that natural look. If you do
[36:07] your key lighting which are those newest I linked earlier. If you do the triangle light's brightness or raise your F-stop slightly. Granted, that will also remove
[36:23] your skin tones might look a little bit weird. That's because one of the most common mistakes people make is not setting their white balance correctly. White balance is the number that refers to or tells your lights and camera what
[36:37] type of lighting you're in and what to read the colors of that lighting because all light has color. For skin tones like mine, I personally set my lights to around 4700 Kelvin and then match that on my cameras as well. As you can see,
[36:50] my t-shirt looks quite white. When it comes to lighting yourself, try to keep temperature or else it'll start to look weird and it also helps if you do this me that's 3200 Kelvin and that'll help separate me from the background. Some
[37:09] people also actually shoot the light onto the shoulders and hair which will lights like the ones I have in the background and they're overexposed or blown out, they'll likely look a bit white. You can solve this by either
[37:22] you can raise your key lighting that is on yourself to be brighter and then try to lower the ISO overall or if your ISO is as low as it goes, you increase your
[37:34] doing is if your background is overexposed, you want to bring your foreground, your subject, to also match that overexposure and then you're going to cut the entire image's lighting and exposure down so that neither you nor
[37:49] your background are overexposed anymore. All right, let's talk mastery. How to gain skills, how to learn, and how to improve. First up, Streaks. It's an app or script a YouTube short. And every day I do that task, I tick it off. The goal,
[38:06] of course, being to build a streak over a long period of time. Why? Because most which becomes habit and when you have habit, you no longer need motivation. I and when I said a literal calendar on the wall to write X's on, I got called
[38:24] still use to this day. Next up, if you're trying to master something, don't let's say you want to learn the skills of becoming a video editor. If two
[38:37] editing and one person has the goal of being a better editor while the other has the goal of learning how to level audio properly, who is going to learn more in those 60 minutes? Spoiler, it's the person who came in with a specific
[38:52] to focus on. Now, in terms of learning, one of the best things you can do as a potential creator or streamer is learning to speak and you might think, projecting so your voice doesn't sound boring or flat or most importantly, so
[39:09] advice that I have given [music] to thousands of different people at this point and I know only four or five people who have taken it on board and
[39:21] creators who do this for a living. This is the 10-minute daily recording exercise. This is when you sit down by yourself, turn on your phone camera, and
[39:33] record for 10 minutes straight trying to fill all the 10 minutes with you speaking. Do not open a game. Do not put music on. Don't do anything else to help you. Don't plan out what to talk about or add dot points. This is just you and
[39:47] the camera off the cuff with no planning. Then, when you're done, stop recording and do not watch it back. Go about your day, go have dinner, do 10 minutes in full. Focus on it without distraction and make notes about what
[40:03] you need to improve. Immediately, as soon as you're done, hit record and do another 10 minutes. Repeat this process every single day and within a few weeks person, and within years you'll never pause, hesitate, you won't say um or ah,
[40:18] and of course, as I said, you won't cringe at the sound of your own voice anymore. I am about to be harsh, but if you can't find 10 to 20 minutes to practice arguably one of the most important skills a creator can have that
[40:31] will also hugely benefit you in your day-to-day life, you probably won't make up because they listened to this advice and became great speakers. They blew up
[40:43] because they listened to the advice, thought that could help them, and then put it into action. The effort they put in is where they differ from the people who listen to this and then won't go on and try it. That's why they succeeded.
[40:57] They heard something could help them, they did the thing. Which is tip 64, to with sucking. Discomfort usually means you have a chance to grow as a person,
[41:09] and that is [ __ ] sick. I love being uncomfortable, as weird as that sounds to say out loud, because it means I usually have a chance to be better. [music] wow, does that make me cringe. >> [laughter]
[41:26] Twitch, it's lazy and can be against terms of service, but on platforms with actual algorithms listening to audience feedback, it will kill your channel. if YouTube tried to share a video to those followers and they chose not to
[41:44] click. That negative signal will destroy you. When you spam self-promo and get fake follows or fake subs, you're telling platforms that people hate your offer you. The amount of people who I thought I was great friends with who
[41:59] collabs is real sad, man. Like I I'll message people still to this day and be nothing. It's incredibly common with streaming
[42:12] and stream communities. It's less so on YouTube, actually. I find YouTubers uh much more community focused with other YouTubers. So, what do you do? Well, one of the best things you can do for networking is to slowly and naturally
[42:24] meet people. Find people you mesh with and create your circle. Find the people you trust who have the same work ethic as you, same morals as you, and try not to get dragged into drama or hate. I'm not saying avoid engaging in the wider
[42:36] community, but just try to be kind to those around you and keep your head down focused on creating your content or your art. A great example of getting dragged important. I went to a convention last year in 2024. I went to PAX Australia,
[42:52] and their entire brand is about kindness, [music] positivity, and inclusivity, approached me at a Twitch partner only event and began saying they
[43:04] hated me, that everyone in the region hates me, that I'm annoying, awful, and shouldn't engage apparently in the Twitch partner Discord anymore. When I asked why, they didn't really have an answer except for saying that it seemed
[43:19] like I was either autistic or had ADHD, which I was so taken aback, I didn't even realize how gross that was at first. To say that I'm essentially awful >> [music] >> Like, what? They did this in front of
[43:31] the room, so they then tried to get me to leave and go one-on-one with them to walk. Thankfully, the core, the people I trust, were around that night, so I was
[43:44] able to tell that person no, get out of that situation, and then I stuck close staff as well for that entire weekend. They were uh fantastic safe place for creators like myself. But sadly, not everyone is
[43:58] and don't have a support network, which is why I'm trying to encourage you to find your support network early. Next tip is sort of still connected. I don't that I canceled my attendance to PAX this year, and I probably won't go to
[44:14] another convention anytime soon, but that point aside, I think in this day and age, sometimes we get so wrapped up in thinking we know the creators we see talked really. We've never interacted. Uh maybe some surface level back and
[44:30] forth, but they don't know me. I don't know them. They don't know what I stand for, what I like, dislike. We don't know each other. So, tip 68, don't allow your character to determine your worth. And in reverse, don't assume you know
[44:47] everything about other creators you're looking at. We can never truly know empathy because some people are really struggling out here, man. And you you
[44:59] community? How do you combine all of this? Not self-promoting, improving yourself, finding like-minded people who value being better every day? Well, you do that over a long period of time, and it's actually the core reason I started
[45:14] creation or streamer servers, and it was all shitty self-promo, scams, and drama. But now, our server not only has over 80,000 members all working hard to
[45:27] improve themselves, but also a dozen volunteers who range from tech experts to full-time content creators who are there to offer support and education. On the side, I have also created dozens of free animated overlays, stingers,
[45:39] effects, and more that you guys can use. Just don't go and upload them to your keep happening? But seriously, you're welcome there and you're welcome to get last time I gave this piece of advice, the video went viral, got 3 million
[45:55] views, and it really upset people. I told you guys at the end of a very big if you were at zero viewers on Twitch, zero viewers on your videos, if nothing was working, then to stop. And people got mad. They turned off the video
[46:10] immediately and they missed the entire end of the sentence, which was, "Stop doing the same thing over and over expecting results, and instead, step back, protect your mental health, be critical, be constructive, focus in, and
[46:23] improve yourself so you can succeed." Just just just like let me finish speaking for 3 seconds before you angrily comment next time. Come on. Come everyone else is the problem because viewers don't care about the fact that
[46:38] we work a 9-5 or work three jobs like I or have kids like I do now or have a you wear a hat and a jean jacket in 34° weather. Anyway, I hope this video was
[46:51] helpful in some way. I will see you guys next week. Subscribe.