How to Be More Confident on Camera (Even If You’re Shy)
It is easy to try to pretend that appearing in front of the camera for online content is not necessary these days.
We can grab a bunch of b-roll from stock sites, we can do some screen grabs or screen shares, hell, we can even get some A.I. avatars involved!
The bottom line is that most of the really successful online content creators appear onscreen and they do that for a reason.
Humans are always going to react more positively to another human rather than anything replacing the human or substituting for one.
So, in light of that and if you are anything like me (hates the camera!), here are some great tips for appearing more confident on camera.
Just note that I said “appearing” more confident, not actually BEING more confident!
Want to Use Video Masking? This Is How Its Done – PowerDirector
It’s pretty safe to say that at this point in the ongoing development of PowerDirector, masking is going to be well within its capabilities.
In this video Maliek covers the basic tools, settings and access points to masking in PowerDirector.
In addition to that he also covers a few examples of how to use it effectively in your own projects.
Title: Animation – PowerDirector Basics Tutorial
This is another in a recent series of videos created by CyberLink on how to use their video editing software, PowerDirector.
There are about twenty videos in the series all aimed at users who have never run the software before and are very good.
For existing users they are also pretty handy due to recent changes to the user interface and updates, if you are a little at sea with it all these ones are great.
How to Do Object Tracking in Video Editing? – Movavi Video Editor
The Movavi Video Editor is a bit of an unsung hero in the crowded marketplace of video editing software these days.
It is a simple yet fully featured program that I have recommended for few years now.
I think of it as the natural successor to the best simple or easy to use category that was previously held by Filmora.
Here’s a look at the tracking features in Movavi and is a good indication of how a program can seem quite simple on the outside whilst retaining some pretty powerful features under the hood.
How I Make Money on YouTube (My Honest Earnings Report) – Jacky Nguyen
Some people make buckets of money on YouTube whilst others make nothing.
Bear in mind that some people have no real intention of making money on YouTube in the first place.
It is hard to get an accurate picture of exactly how much money some people make because they keep it pretty quiet.
Anyway here’s a video from Jacky, who I regularly refer to for tips on Filmora, giving a rundown on his own earnings.
Bear in mind he is not a huge channel with about 47,000 subscribers but it gives a realistic picture.
Best AI Voice Generator 2025 My #1 Pick
We really are getting to the point of A.I voice generators becoming incredibly good and pretty hard to detect as being A.I.
There are basically two ways I use A.I for narration and the one mentioned in the video below in particular.
The first is when I need a professional sounding voice to narrate a video or a particular style of voice that lends itself to the video in question.
The alternative is a professional voice-over artist and too often this tends to be expensive and have a turnaround time that makes my life difficult.
The second is for clients that I work for on a regular basis.
In that case I spend a little time with them getting a full sample of their own voice, feed it into ElevenLabs.io and I forever have their voice “on tap.”
After that all I need is a script and ElevenLabs creates the voiceover in the clients voice and even they are real sure which is them and which is real!
Get Your Export To Look GREAT on YouTube
I just stumbled on this short video from Daniel Batal today covering project and render settings for video going on to YouTube.
This pretty much applies to video going on to any online platform and although shown in DaVinci Resolve the story is the same for any editing software.
There are two key points to take note of here and the first applies to the Project settings in your editing software.
It is very important in editing any video assets to maintain the parameters of that video throughout the entire editing and rendering process.
This greatly reduces the chances of quality loss and actually makes the entire process way less stressful on your computer.
If your footage is1080p at 30fps then set the project that way and render that way.
If your footage is 1080p and you try to render at 4K, you are asking the software to somehow make something out of nothing!
The second key point to note is that if you upload to YouTube at high quality but when you watch it on YouTube it looks bad, it may not be a problem with your rendering or file quality.
The problem may be that YouTube has determined that it cannot stream smoothly at a higher resolution so is actually presenting a lower resolution version to you.
How I Start Every Project in DaVinci Resolve 20
I learned this trick a while back now and unless I am starting a new project with parameters previously unused, it’s how I always get started.
I generally create two types of video which is short from and long form.
My short form is always 4K, 9:16 at 30fps and the long form is 4K, 16:9 at 24fps.
That is determined by the device I use for those projects but I rarely deviate from the above so having a fast way to load a project without having to think about everything is great.
So instead of opening Resolve, starting a project then carefully settnig all the parameters, I just do this.
Check it out.
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