Literature or sources on making good youtube videos

[StarStruck]

I want to shoot some youtube videos for personal development. I don't really want to make money from it. Just to learn the skill and earn some experience in front of the camera. 

The thing is that I only have a good 1080p laptop camera and 4k video recorder on my phone.  I can't see myself when recording because the camera is on the back of my phone.

I'm just a little bit overwhelmed by all the moving parts. I could be just sitting in front of the camera and talk for a hour just like Leo does but I feel like I won't be satisfying that way. I need to know how to make good thumbnails, learn how to make simple edits and perhaps some entertaining/funny sounds: max 10 minute video each.

[LordFall]

https://www.youtube.com/c/JRAlli has good tutorials on making top-notch cinematic content. For real though, just start and post. It's not the knowledge that's limiting you but the limiting beliefs. You just youtube how to make a youtube video and any of the videos are good enough.

It's not making a youtube video that's hard, it's making 100 of them. 

[Yarco]

1080p is plenty good enough. Most people's internet isn't even good enough to watch videos in 4k. Don't procrastinate worrying about gear or quality. Nobody's first video is their best. Just start making stuff so you can begin the process of improving.

If you were serious about making money from it, then I'd have courses to recommend to learn it all in one package, in the right order, as efficiently as possible. But if it's just a hobby that you don't plan to ever get a return from, then I can't really recommend that. So instead you're just going to have to watch tons of Youtube tutorials and piece it all together yourself.

It's going to be an ongoing process for months and years. Learning how to talk to the camera, how to make thumbnails, looking at audience retention graphs to see what you're doing wrong and where people are dropping off, which of your videos perform best, what topics are hot in your niche... You can't just plan everything and put your first video out and have it be perfect.

For inspiration and people to emulate, check out:

@Average Investor - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLKxT3rSbBUMTOymk0C-DZQ

@BipolarGrowth - https://www.youtube.com/c/BrandonRohe

I think FitPhilosopher is also a member here but idk his forum username - https://www.youtube.com/c/FitPhilosopher

None of these guys use fancy editing or sound effects or record in 4k. They also don't make several-hour-long videos like Leo. But they all still make consistently great, highly-informative content. 

You only need a bare minimum in terms of video and audio quality (mostly audio), and the rest is all about whether you're providing valuable content in an engaging way with good delivery.

[dude]

this is my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbrppwH6T8miFRTlvS7op8w maybe some inspiration. I stopped tho since just parroting others like most people do (me included) helps nobody. You can read a book and make a video, but honestly that won't make you real progress in life. So really be honest with yourself why you are doing it. I started doing it because I read all those books and I didn't really know what to do with it so I started making videos to actually have a use for all the knowledge. But knowledge won't help you on your path, it just goes in circles and too much 'self development' can become very toxic. Realize that YouTube creators talk for a living, they don't embody for a living. Most if not all of the times they talk about things they haven't embodied themselves. Thus they are just bullshitting you, and watching the video is a distraction for you to actually go out and learn how to live correctly.

You just have to start and figure it out. And if you want lots of views do lots of research on Keywords etc. for example the last video I made went well because it's just the highest quality video on the subject so eventually it will top out on those keywords. Start with small niche keywords that only get searched for 1000 times. and then as your channel becomes bigger go for the bigger keywords. I'll copy and past my 'YouTube research' from 2020 that it still in my One Note lol:

Don't use the "post and pray" approach to video production on YouTube. Seek to fulfill the viewers demand instead. What you do to optimize your video in the first 48 to 72 hours is critical to the success of your video and how it ranks.

Keywords:

• Create a big list of potential keywords.
• Choose a keyword that has low competition. (You can see this at the "About 505,00 results") under the search bar.
• Also search in Google too see if the keyword has potential there, on some topics they put videos on the first page. This has the potential to be a very big traffic source.
• Check that the keyword gets at least 100-1K searches per month.

Use YouTube autocomplete to get a hunch or great idea's about topics. Then use AdWords Keyword Planner to go through keyword ideas and look at search volume. (tip: paste a url of a video in there to get related keywords for that vid.) Then you can use Keyword Tool Dominator to generate relevant keywords at (https://www.keywordtooldominator.com/k/youtube-keyword-tool) Google Trends: https://trends.google.com/trends/

Monetary Tools:

• Keyword Keg: https://keywordkeg.com/google-keyword-tool.html
• Keyword Tool: https://keywordtool.io/youtube
• YTCockpit: https://ytcockpit.com/

Tags:

• Use your exact target keyword first
• Then a few variations
• Use longtail tags, also do them first
• Maybe one or two broad term tags in the end.
• 500 characters max.
•  

Title:

• Should contain your target keyword
• Put your keyword as close to the beginning of the title
• 70 characters is best

Description:

• Include your keyword in the first 25 words.
• Make a description of at least 250 words about the content.
• Include your keyword 2-4 times.
• First 150 characters are visible, 5000 characters max.

Thumbnail:

• Make it stand out, Focus one one message you want to send to the viewer

Video Optimization:

• Say the keywords in your video so YouTube transcribes them and knows it is about this topic.

Promote Your Video:

• On Quora and other Q&A sites
• Put it in your email signature
• Use them in blog posts, guest post?

 

Your channel:

• Use keywords in your about section