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What's up? My name is Devin, also go by Infinite or Prop by Infinite. And today, I'm going to be showing y'all why the video quality doesn't look the greatest. You mean why the lighting looks kind of weird, why everything just doesn't feel like what it's supposed to be doing. And that's because today I'm showing y'all how to make content as a music producer.
In 2026, we need to be making more content than ever. It helps you grow your own brand. It helps get you more independence, helps get your name out there. It brings opportunities to you because as long as your videos are online, they're always working for you. It's like, you know how they say passive income? It's like passive networking. You feel me? Because like your videos are always working for you.
So, in today's video, I'm going to show y'all all the gear I use, alternatives that you can use for your setup, and the process and editing process for making short form videos. So, let's get into it.
All right. First things first is going to be your camera. You can always use, you feel me, your phone, you know what I mean? Just go open up that camera app. Go hit your settings, you know what I mean? Make sure you're recording at 4K, you know what I mean? And then just do a test of like what your setup feels best with between the FPS, like 24 fps, 30 fps, 60 fps. They all do a great job. You feel me? It's a whole bunch of nerdy stuff. I don't know that much about cameras. I just know enough to get by so I can make my videos for social media. That's it. I'mma be real with y'all. I don't really know stuff like that. But just just play around with those three different settings. Just make sure you're filming in 4K.
And then if you want to take your quality up another level, you get yourself a camera. You feel me? This is the one that I personally use and I've been using for like the past year, year and a half. It is a Sony FX30. Yes. It's like the little brother of the Sony FX3. And for a majority of my time using this camera, I was using a 18 to 105 lens. I'm be honest, this was kind of overkill because I would only use the 18 setting. I would never have to zoom in enough to like actually use like the lens zooming capabilities and stuff like that cuz I'm putting the camera right here and I'm filming right here. I'm usually like an arms length distance away. But lately, I got this Viltrox lens right here. I think it was like $2 $300 or something like that. And it's a 9 mm. Now 9 mm is kind of a weird range cuz it's just super wide. It captures everything. So it's kind of overkill, but I've just been digging the vibe of it. I like the look. It's really cool. And then before we move on to the next thing, uh I'll do a little sideby-side comparison of the 18 versus the 9 right here.
Now, something that is arguably just as important as the actual camera you're using and the lens and everything is lighting. So, I think we've all seen my videos where I have like the colors and the background and everything like that. I use this light right here. Uh, I'm not even really going to tell y'all the brand because I looked on Amazon. It's not there anymore. They don't sell this particular light anymore, but if you type in flood light, then it'll pop up and then you can just go with whichever one has the highest rating and that works well for your budget.
Now, that covers the lighting that's going to be behind you. What's going to cover the lighting that's going to be on you so you actually look good for your videos? I use Can y'all see? Boom. This right here. It's a Elgato light. Basically, it clamps on to your desk and then it turns it on and it makes everything really bright. You don't need a bougie one like that. I just got it cuz I liked it. You can definitely get like a ring light or you can get something called a box light. Depends on your setup cuz everybody's setup is different. Depends on how much space you have. But those are going to be your options. Get that Elgato, get a box light, get a ring light. Whatever works for you, run with that.
And then a little miscellaneous one, something that I didn't know about for like the longest time, but if you like film outside, sometimes like the sun is just too harsh, the lighting is just too much. So you can get something called an ND filter. You put it on top of the camera lens and it kind of like helps you control like how much light is being absorbed by the lens or something like that. Basically, if things are too bright and you can't really adjust your settings to it, you slap that on and it helps.
And then a couple other things that people don't really think about is uh high quality SD cards. The SD cards I use are what are these? A Lexar. Oh, I didn't even notice, but this is the same. The SD card reader. It's a Lexar as well. I didn't know this, but there's like different levels to SD cards and SD card readers. Higher quality ones go faster. Um, literally, I guess you can just copy these settings, whatever it says on here, screenshot it, take a picture. This one's pretty good. You know what I mean?
And then for the portable mics I use in studio sessions or when I'm just like on the go are called the DJI mics. Comes in this little thing right here. Pop it open. Boom. You got a little receiver. Then you got two mics. Really cool. And then the camera, not the camera, the mic that I use for when I'm talking and videos at the crib is a Sure SM7B. Basically like industry standard type mic. Sounds really good. You don't have to do a whole lot of editing to it. It's It's pretty fire, not going to lie. And I think that's it, bro. I think that's everything I use to get content done. Oh, actually this a white sheet and we're going to get into that in just a second.
Let's get everything set up real quick and I'm going to show y'all the actual process of me like making content. So, first thing I'm doing is I'm turning on this light. Now, lighting is super important because it greatly affects your video quality. Like, I'll do a side by side little thing that we can pop up right now where it shows the light on, the light off, and then the light with a sheet on top. Now, basically what the sheet does is that it softens the light. And shout out Lifestyle because he's the one who told me this trick right here. Like if you look at pictures or videos of like box lights, you'll see that it has like a little cover on top of the light and it basically softens everything. And like this is like a a ghetto way of doing it cuz this is like a a $5 Walmart sheet. You feel me?
Now, since we're talking about lighting, I think you'll also notice I have my blinds closed right here. And that's actually for a very specific reason. is because you need to control the lighting in your room as much as you can. So, if you have like the blinds open and you have the sun coming through, it's going to be different at noon, it's going to be different at sunset, it's going to be different at night. So, you can never really get a consistent lighting if you're messing with like natural light like that. You would have to film at the same time every day and hope that the weather is the same every single time. So, that's why I always close the blinds and I use like a light like this. It's so it's always consistent and it looks the same in every single video. Uh, but with that being said, we're going to be turning off this light right here, too, cuz dude, I'm telling you right now, like top down lighting is like the devil when it comes to uh trying to get good video quality.
And then I just got this little stand right here just because this light right here, it just needs to be a little elev. It needs to be above the bed so it can actually capture the background right here. Depending on where you're setting it up, you could just like throw it on the ground, but just me and my specific setup, I need to have a little bit elevated. And uh that's it for the setup for real, bro. Now, all you got to do is just turn that camera on. Find a good little place for you to do it at. Start getting busy, bro.
So, I'm going to turn on my camera. Oh, I'm also going to turn on OBS. I'll link a video in the description on how to set up OBS. Oh, also a quick tip for people. Since we're recording separately with the camera and then separately with OBS, you will have to line up the audio and the video and everything like that. So, something I do to make it super easy is to clap three times really loud. That way, you'll get a spike in the audio waveforms and then you can just line it up by the spikes.
And now what we need to do is transfer the footage. So, we're going to get this SD card out real quick. We're going to get the uh the Lexar thing that I was talking about earlier. And then we're just going to take that footage, drag it over here. And we're going to take that OBS recording that we did, throw it over here, too. And then for editing, I use Premiere Pro. If you don't want to pay, there is something called Da Vinci that is really good. You can also use Cap Cut. I'm just used to using Premiere Pro and I don't want to relearn everything.
Oh, something I didn't mention, but it is super important when you're filming. If you're trying to make the videos that I do on my like Instagram, Tik Tok, YouTube shorts, and everything, and yes, is completely okay. Take my format and just run with it. I do not care. Just don't copy my beats. That's the only thing I care about, bro. To get the exact format and style that I do, you have to record both uh horizontally, sideways, like this. I mean, when you're filming, film like this. If you're using your phone, film like this. And I'm going to show you why in just a second.
So, what you're going to do is you're going to go to sequence, sequence settings. You're going to change it to what is it? 1080 by 1920. And that makes it the vertical. You know what I mean? And then from there, you just resize it to where you need it to be. So, this I already remember the numbers because I've just done it so many times. You just resize it to where it needs to be. I've been putting my videos on the bottom lately because um for Instagram reels and Tik Tok, it will have things at on the top. It'll say like FYP or X whatever and stuff like that. And I noticed it would cover my face a lot. So I started throwing my face on the bottom instead. And then yeah, you just resize everything real quick, make it look all good and pretty and fancy and stuff.
And then what you need to do is you need to line everything up. So where we had the three claps is this right here. So, these are the I'm going to make it bigger so y'all can see, but these are the three spikes I was talking about. So, you can just cut right here at the beginning, drag it over to the side, and then you can find the one over here. You just cut right there, and then boom, you're lined up. And now we can start chopping up everything. So, I wanted it to start with me listening to the sample. Then, we just make a cut right there. You don't necessarily want anything to be too long. Usually for like social media, you kind of want to limit everything to like every clip or every cut, something needs to change like every like four to six seconds. Uh, and that's just like the pacing that I use for like my videos. Okay, now I'm just cutting up all the parts that we did. Just getting rid of all the fluff.
So now we're going to do all like the fancy stuff which is like the zooms and the edits and the movements and stuff like that. So I click right here. Then you go over here to I think it's called what is it called? Key mapping. I don't know. I forgot what it's called. But basically we're going to make it zoom in as I'm listening just so there's always something moving. There's always something going just to keep the the watcher the viewers interest in mind. You mean? So, we're just going to zoom in to where we want the end point to be. Boom. So, now we have the starting point right here. That looks cool. Oh, that's so funny. I forgot to I forgot to clear off my bed. That's the thing. Like, if I was using the um the 18 lens, this right here wouldn't have been captured. That right there would have been captured. So that's the thing with using the uh the 9 mm lens is that you capture so much more. You know what I mean? So there's just some things you kind of just forget about.
Okay. So now we can do the little key frame thing. So zoom in to like 200 cuz I like being very close in. Uh the numbers are going to be different for everybody. So just keep that in mind. And there's no real rhyme or reason of why I'm moving something somewhere. I'm just kind of moving it to where I think looks good. Like this feels pretty balanced to me. So we're going to start at the beginning. hit this button right here. Like I said, I'm not an expert in video and video editing. I just know enough to get by and do what I need to do. So, let's watch that back real quick. Make sure it looks good. Yeah. Um, I feel like it could have been moving faster. So, what we can do is we can make this go faster like that and maybe cut off the clip right there. Or we can cut it off like right here. Let's try that one more time. That looks great. Um, and then we're just kind of do the same for all the other ones real quick. Nothing too too crazy. Technically, what you should be doing is that you should be lining up everything so it looks very similar and uniforms. I don't really feel like doing that. It's social media and it's going to be there for like literally 2 seconds. So, I don't think it's that big of a deal. As long as it looks cool, you know what I mean? You'll be all right. And then boom, we got the very last one, man. We can lowkey leave this alone. We can just cut it off right there. You know what I mean?
Um, sometimes what I do is I'll take this effect called glow and I'll throw it on OBS and it'll make like all like the the lights that it can detect in the video and it'll like make it glow. So, you see it's kind of like glowing and I don't know, I just think it looks cool.
And then the last couple things I do is um I'll use Motion Bro, which is a free program that you could add on to uh Premiere and I'll just throw a couple transitions on. So, I like throwing a transition in the beginning of the video because it's um what do they call it? They call it a visual hook. It makes it um it like catches your eye. So, I'm just going to drag that over there. Drag the little sound effect thing over here. There might be an easier way to do this, but I don't know. This is just what I'm used to doing at this point. Uh and then I use like another one so when we transition from like showing the stems to showing the actual beat, we can have one. And then I just move it over here. I know what you're thinking. like why don't you just like click right here and then you do it. I it just it just be messing up when I try doing it. So I just do it on the side and then I drag it over. It's just like a a quick little easy fix. And then then after this I would think of like a text to throw onto the screen when I'm posting on like an Instagram or Tik Tok or YouTube. I'll think of the on-screen text and then I'll just add it on there and I'll just post it, bro.
That's how I make content for social media, bro. Making little short form stuff, a little Tik Toks, a little Instagram, a little YouTube short. Um, with that being said, that's going to conclude the video. My name is Devin, also by Infinite or Proud by Infinite, and I'm out. Peace, bro.