Mastering 7 Skills For Content Creation In 7 Days
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- Becoming a content creator means having to learn and master dozens of different skills, from time management, time organization for creators, editing, graphic design, idea generation, filming, and this list could go on.
I wanted to challenge myself to learn, and "master" 7 skills I think are the most important for content creation, in just 7 days.
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How To Grow On Twitch?
If you want to grow your Twitch stream, it is important to be critical. Being critical isn’t a bad thing, people say, “Oh don’t be so critical of yourself!”.
But there are a lot of things you can control and improve, such as your visuals, audio, and most importantly your content that you’re creating. Watch back your VoD and be honest with yourself, is it up to scratch. Does your mic sound good? Are you engaging? Is it easy to watch and enjoy or is there something that is off-putting? Be honest, push yourself to grow, and become a better entertainer!
Because at the end of the day, the only way you are going to grow your stream is by growing yourself and being critical in a positive way.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 Mastering 7 Skills for Content Creation in 7 Days
0:15 How to organize your time as a Content Creator
0:55 How I split my projects up throughout the week
2:30 What I am learning about Time Organisation this week
5:08 How To Master Public Speaking and Presenting
5:48 How To become more confident on Camera
7:20 Example of becoming more confident on camera
7:49 How to master research as a Content Creator
8:58 How to increase retention rate on UA-cam videos
11:28 How to make a thumbnail to boost the Click-through rate
12:01 How to research Thumbnails to become a better creator
13:28 How I Made A UA-cam Thumbnail To get Views
16:18 How To Film UA-cam Videos Effectively
17:14 How Dunkey Films Gameplay Footage To Edit Faster
18:27 How to organize gameplay footage to edit faster
19:38 How to review footage to edit UA-cam videos faster
20:00 How to script a UA-cam intro to increase retention rate
20:48 How I edited my UA-cam video intro to increase retention rate
23:09 Why Self-Critique is the most important skill to master
23:39 What I hate about "Organisation"
24:48 What I loved about practicing "public speaking"
25:34 What I learned about "Research"
26:12 What I learned about "Thumbnails"
26:40 What I learned about "Filming for UA-cam"
27:16 What I learned about "Editing for UA-cam"
27:55 Skillshare Sponsorship
29:22 Revealing My Intro
30:01 Did I Master 7 Skills for Content Creation?
What Bitrate And Settings Should I Use For Streaming?
The easiest way to understand bitrate is by calling what it actually is, your upload speed to the Twitch servers.
Now you’ll need a higher bitrate depending on how high quality you want your stream to be, this means 1080p 60 frames per second will need a bitrate of 6000, which roughly equals 6megabits upload speed on your end being taken up
By lowering your resolution and framerate, you can make it a lot easier to stream, for example, if you set your base canvas size to 1920x1080, but change your output to 1280x720 otherwise known as 720p you drop down to only needing a bitrate of 4500 or 4.5megabits.
If you still want 1080, you can even just lower your framerate from 60fps to 30fps and then adjust to 4500bitrate.
For more information visit this Bitrate graph: stream.twitch.tv/
The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.
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A bit of a different video today, but I hope seeing my actively doing the skills I often teach was powerful? Helpful? Subscribe if you enjoyed :)
Love this! But am I blind or is the Notion template link missing?
Nevermind...I see it in Discord lol
honestly the most engaged ive been in a video in a while... well except for mr beasts last video, but it was close ;)
Y have i been kicked outr the discored
I just found you, and I immediately subbed because of the sheer genuine personality you have, BUT i would like to ask a question. Dunkey's way of doing the clips seems simply too messy with dozens of clips. Have you thought about doing it so that you only talk when there's something going on that's interesting, and then using an AI Silence remover like TimeBolt in order to just automatically remove your silences before putting that into Adobe Premiere Pro/Sony Vegas? The clps are considered CUT, so if you wanted footage from right before or after you talked, you just have to drag that clip out to reveal the cut footage again you want ot use.
I've thought about doing it Dunkey's way, but like I said, it just feels like such a messy way of doing it.
I love the difference the video has because it feels more like a case study with us along for the ride instead of a lecture or presentation. We are in there fr
Hope it helps! :)
Huge W putting the sponser at the end. I have clicked off videos due to creators mentioning the sponsor at the start. And for the intro... Crushed it
I think this is a really important video. I want to say thank you for the time and effort you put into your craft, although I suffer from the affliction of getting overwhelmed by my systems, it really gave me a boost to hear all the steps laid out. I am truly grateful.
Thank you so much for doing these videos. I remember hearing in another video that these aren't as successful as your other content, but I look forward to watching them and actually getting long-term education in more than just streaming/content in general. Thank you again for helping me grow as a person, and I hope you're doing well!
Liked that intro a lot, and the process you went through to improve and get it done. a lot of the organization tips and other things here I need to work on as well especially planning and editing the thumbnail first. always a pleasure watching your videos. setting up those folders definitely helps. I edit for another channel and deal with vods several hours long.
Thank you for taking the time to go through everything in the right amount of detail. Excellent video!
This was INCREDIBLY useful!
My goal for this summer is improving on all of the different aspects of content creation and this was a great beginning. You gave me tons of ideas and ispiration. Thank you Eljay
Bro, this is exactly the kind of video I needed to see. I just recently started working for myself and have been having a terrible time staying focused and figuring out how to even do this content creation stuff. I got SO many ideas from this, it's unreal! I've been a big fan of your videos ever since I started streaming, but this one is probably the most useful one I've watched so far. Thank you so much for this!
Glad I could help! Or hope it helps! Hahaha
I've only watched about 1 minute and 40 seconds and have already ended up on a 2 hour StreamScheme rabbit hole. Really looking forward to the rest of the the video and the resources/tools mentioned. Always bringing up great stuff!
This video is amazing it really sheds the light on being a creator! I’ve been trying to figure out a balance between 40 hr a week plus stream and I couldn’t find anything that is this helpful! Thank you!
Eljay, you are consistently one of the most motivating creators I watch in this space. I've been in a massive slump with productivity because of IRL obligations and while a lot of this is daunting its also really encouraging to see and hear your struggles and successes as well. Each day we just have to get a little better!
Absolutely love the transparency in the creative process. This one’s a real banger. Gonna incorporate this in my personal works!!
Thanks! Just hope it helps! :)
Great video, great ideas, cant wait to watch it again and take notes this time. Also, you're actually hilarious. Thanks for helping us be better creators.
Would love to see more of the process/study things like this video! Helps me see better how to really break things down for a video!
Honestly I really liked the intro, feels like a direction that I recently been shifting too, setting the mood, and the tone, with context to draw someone in and bring them into an idea that we as creators want to share with the viewers!! Really good job! And some major points in this video that I really enjoyed!! Keep it up!
Hey thanks! Glad you liked it! :)
Thanks for this video, totally awesome to get immersed in as theres context, not just a random list of tips that no one really remembers 😄. I've had an interest in this sorta stuff for a while but I get ADHD burnout - much like you did in this video - when I try to do this around a fulltime job, so its awesome not just to see that too, but how to get around it.
Gonna save this one into my favourites to rewatch and use as motivation, thanks LJ!
Thumbnails lately have been looking AWESOME!!! Videos are great as always! Thanks for all the tips Eljay!!!
Happy to hear that! :D
This is one of my favourite videos of yours as of lately! I feel like I'll be revisiting this one a couple times to see what I can learn from each day properly!
I think you'll be saying the next eljay video is your favourite when you see I named one of my main Pokemon after you lmao
But seriously, I appreciate the kind words so much dude, hope you're well Dezz
Loving your videos. Learning a lot and excited to start implementing these things myself. Thank you.
Glad you like them mate!
Great video! Thanks for always trying to educate while also learning.
Thank you so much for all your valuable info.
This video is simply amazing and extremely helpful. I sincerely thank you for uploading this, I had been stuck in a "perfectionist" mindset which in turn made me do no work at all, this video showed me how to stop that and get to work on uploading content. I appreciate this video a lot.
Glad it helped! Thanks for such a kind comment!
So insightful Eljay, thank you. Beginning a push into content creation online after getting twitch affiliate!
Ooooh that was a good intro! And loved the entirety of this video!
you have been a big help with organizing things on my channel thank you so much!!!
You are a goat. Keep it up bro thanks for all the help from your channel
This video was full of INSANE value, the editing/scripting sequences are SO incredibly useful.
Thanks!!
Very insightful and helpful vid, I'm new to the streaming, record and editing my video, i wll try to implement step by step so that i can improve especially at public speaking 😂😂... thanks for video 👍😁
The new intro is awe. And this form of creating content is an interesting process. I will test it in the next few days.
thank you for the video. Super helpful
Great video! I bet the scripting and planning for this video took a lot of time and effort, but it definitely shows. 🙏
Fantastic video. I have been inspired and will be stealing some ideas from this video to make content
Thank You For All your hard work
I did try this. It completely changed my life. I started to do everything i had postponed. ❤
I really enjoyed your editing tip, I would have never thought to just throw the webcam and scene on the same display and just crop it later
Dude, respect for doing such deep research and going all out with this video. I'm really enjoying your content as it relates to growing a twitch stream and creating better content. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Glad you enjoyed it mate! :)
Great vid, can you make a video on how you set up your recording in obs such as separating your sources to not be burned into each other, etc.
This video is very epic and even motivational. You have summarised many years of experience into a 30 min video for the newbies.
Hope it was a good watch!
@@StreamScheme great ⌚
Great video Eljay! Question for you I do enjoy doing the public speaking for 10 mins! I've really like how I sound on camera so thank you for that! I guess the thing I'm struggling with is believing what I have to say is valuable/ helpful/ entertaining!
I think that’s still helped with the exercise! Since you see it and watch it back, and continue to adapt.
It builds confidence because you can watch how not engaging you were and how far you’ve come, and confidence helps make what you’re saying feel more valuable.
I'm 6 months late but this vide was awesome to watch. I loved the whole progress, and the donkey tip is golden. Awesome stuff, keep it up
Thank you :)
I think this is genuinely one of the best videos on this channel.
I’m happy with it :) just hope it finds the right audience, but the structure and rougher/off the cuff approach seems to be hurting retention rate
man, i really have to stop watching all these videos and get to recording haha
I was just thinking this myself, asking from the future, have you started by any chance?
I am aware this has been covered before elsewhere, but how do the preparation/productivity/off-camera parts apply to livestreaming? Another way of putting it is could you please touch on how you approach your actions/planning in advance and any "ritual" in the same-day-as-stream lead up to a stream session. Also what do you do after a stream ends to connect that one to the next session's plan? How do you adapt a plan if the preceding session didn't go the way you hoped? I find a lot of similar vids only talk about creating videos, as though live doesn't exist in the realm of content creation.
You didn't fail by not moving locations. That is... silly. And I learned a lot from your video. I created the morning dump, a brain storm template in notion. And learned a lot just by watching you edit your video. Nice work man. Have a great day.
Loving the step by step guide! Umm dude, do you do this full time?? I ain't got time to sit and do all that stuff. 😂😂❤❤
I've done this both when I had 3 jobs and worked 7 days, and now when I am full-time content.
It's.... not easy hahaha at all, its brutal, but a bigger creator told me early on, "Content creation doesn't care about what you have going on, It just cares about good content"
I use Toggl Track and a white board to plan my content creation.
So if there's one big take away from it all, get a whiteboard that you can always view in your room!!!
Did a great job!! The only thing I personally don't like are the subtitles, they seem a bit short on screen/ talking a bit too fast.
I was listening/watching this video while cooking dinner and my husband comes I and says “is this guy really saying Morning Dump?” because that’s what he calls his poop in the morning. I couldn’t help but laugh every time you said it. Aside from that, I appreciate the video and have been following advice for awhile now. I’ve created a small channel on twitch and finally got up past 11-12 people average. The growth is happening ✌️ I love the videos thank you!
When you have the double wide footage, are you also streaming at that time? My OBS files have been massive when recording so I've resorted to downloading from twitch but that mashes all audio and visual layers into one.
A really good software for public speaking is this VR game which has audience leave if you use fillers like "Um and And" or if you take too long of pauses, also if you are hard to understand. The university I went to had it and I downloaded it on my computer, it is very useful if you have a VR Headset.
Thanks for helping me set up OBS
How would you go about saving time when editing VODs? Most of my footage is VODs that I record while streaming and it takes a lot of time for me to comb through footage to find the best bits.
I loved the thumbnail section! Could we get a full video on thumbnails?
I’ve done a few before but sure :)
when you talk about morning dumps, I wish you spoke on the difference between night owls and early birds! I work evenings, and while I have the option on my personal time to go to bed around 1AM and wake *fairly* early (10am-ish) I also frequently choose to stay up until 4-7am and sleep until it's time to go to work the following evening. I am unsure about whether not I want to lean into this habit, or commit to early rising and staying awake for 14-16 hours with no naps, which is easier to do when I sleep until 4pm, go to work for 8 hours, and then stay up 6-8 hours after working. I just feel like waking up early in the morning and staying awake until 1or 2am is TOUGHHHH. what do you think? I am also a streamer and content creator.
I feel like I talked a lot about how it just didn’t quite work for me, like in detail and how I felt it’s better to found my own route and stick to that rather than pressure myself to fit another persons
Watched this when it first went live, but I am back to watch again. Since I can't like again I will leave a comment! Thanks!
Hope it helps :)
The title says Mastering. As in, in the process of. I think you did good. Honestly, technology and trends change so fast that I don't think we can really master any of it. What matters is that we continue on the journey imo. Also, how do you normally have 6 audio tracks??
OBS records 6 tracks and I sent different sources to each :)
@@StreamScheme oooooh duh. Thanks
GREAT VIDEO MAN. THANKS FOR THE TIPS. WHERE IS THE TEMPLATE IN THE DISCORD?
I’ll post it today, didn’t think people would want it but I’ll get it up :)
@@StreamScheme Lol thanks man. Im a visual learner and have a hard time sometimes getting organized.
I have long covid too, 😢, it is a struggle, but Streaming keeps me lifted
Hey, I was just wondering what the font you use for the subtitles in the intro of this video is called? Great video btw
Tommy soft :)
Thank you so much!@@StreamScheme
loved this video
still love it lol
i think that adding tasks to your morning dump kills the idea of the dump. of course its different for everyone but for me the concept is not to start focusing and figuring out what to do, but to get rid of all the extra stuff running around in my brain bucket. adding goals and tasks to the morning dump would be counter productive to me, and I beleive thats why its taking you an hour. try just 5 -10 minutes of "stream of conciousness" just write randomly whats there to let it out and then your brain can focus.
Everyone’s different, the tasks take no time for me, it’s the actual writing I put detail into. As I say in the video, “Do what works for you”
Man, I still don't understand how to add subtitles swiftly. Everyone is just adding those animated subtitles everywhere as if it was just writting down. synced with the speech. I'm clearly missing something :\
To master something is to be able to use it effectively, consistently, yourself and to be able to teach the skill, to master level, to another. So far I think you are good.
The morning dump had me rolling lol
at 16:50 you described how you separated the audio channels (game play versus camera) which i already do, but you indicated that they aren't burned into each other. What do you mean? How would you extrapolate the audio only from your microphone versus the game if on same file?
Explained in another video on OBS :)
But I add audio sources to individual tracks inside OBS, so for example I'll send the USB mic to just 2, and the Game Capture source to just 3, etc.
Any guide on OBS recording for Audio should cover this as long as it isn't a beginner focused video or site :)
@@StreamScheme YES! i’ve heard this before but i never understood what that meant and your 5 second example made it clear to me. thank you! oh my goodness! a thousand thank yous!!!
Thank u for the vid! 🙏 anyone know what fonts he uses for photoshop?
Tommy Soft :)
@@StreamSchemethank you so much !
This IS a cool video ❤
I really hope you like it!
I'll follow this to a T. You can consider me your guinea pig Eljay!
Discord notification at 8:01 had me jumping
Hahaha sorry
@@StreamScheme all good! Thanks for the content.
Link for notion would definitely help
Will post in discord today :) didn’t think people would actually want it
"This just took 2 hours"
*me sweating*
"but i do my entire videos in two hours?"
*also me*
"WhY AreN'T i GrOwInG?"
2:52 “Now I already do a morning dump after my coffee everyday…but apparently this is a bit different.”
Me/my brain processing this while my morning coffee kicks in:
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…🙂…
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…🤣🤣🤣!!
Cheers 🍻 for the funny😆 and helpful video! 😎👍🏻
4:10 ... I don't have to say it right? lmao
Ngl, I thought the “morning dump” was gunna be something else. ☕️ 👀
Hahaha I did say I already do one!
Okay but how does this work while also working a full time job
Sadly its the same for everyone.
I worked 3 jobs when I started, and did all of this at night. At the end of the day, platforms and audiences don't care about our personal hurdles.
Alright alright, you convinced me to play the game, happy?
... What game? hahaha
These are some great ideas and tips for beginners and pros alike. Thanks for the help. I am still struggling to reach just 1k Subs on my channel. I am sure these tips will really help me up my game.
A dump after my morning dump? Imma need more toilet paper 🧻
Fourth.
yo
Earlygang! Let’s go!!
Can we please get a different name for morning dump? Every time I hear it, I laugh
Good! Lets keep it fun hahahaha
why not combine the 10 minutes of public speaking with the morning dump by doing 10 minutes recording yourself doing a morning dump orally (that's a horrible sentence to type!)? Maybe add a few minutes of prep to collect your thoughts so you have a rough idea of the ground you want to cover so that you can fit it into a relatively brief recording?
Because that defeats the impromptu nature of the 10 minute recording, the entire point is zero prep forces you to learn, adapt, and practice.
I think it would be better if you show some different interesting pokemons when you say " hundreds of Pokemon to catch" .
Big props Eljay, this video must have taken forever to make. These learnings are super helpful for so many of us. Thanks for the epic content as usual 🫡
Early as hecc
Early as!
This was delightful to watch. And I plan on using some of it as inspiration for my own videos in the future.😊