<center>https://jerrybanfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NBP048-00th.jpg</center> <br/><p>Would you like to know about four video production software that you can use to film, edit and render your <em>YouTube</em> videos because this will help you decide which one to use?</p>
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<h2>Video Production Software: OBS vs Screenflow vs Camtasia and Final Cut Pro X for filming, editing, and rendering videos!</h2>
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<p>Let's look at different software options for filming videos on <em>YouTube,</em> but the software I'm using right now is called <em>OBS</em> and this is my personal favorite because it's free and there are so many different things that I can do, like move my face around the screen in real time. </p>
<p>The beauty of doing all that, it does not require any editing. When I hit the stop record button, I'm done. I don't have to render a video. It's super fast and it gives me a lot of flexibility to move my face around during videos.</p>
<p>I can put all kinds of screens and effects up as I want to. I can do things like mute the microphone and you can see how amazing that is. </p>
<p>Therefore, my first choice for filming software for <em>YouTube</em> videos is called <em>OBS.</em>  </p>
<p>It's called the <em>"<a href="https://obsproject.com/">Open Broadcaster Software</a>"</em> and it is free.</p>
<p>It's available on <em>Windows, Mac</em> and <em>Linux.</em> The beauty of <em>OBS</em> is you can also live stream to <em>Twitch, YouTube, Facebook,</em> and restream almost anywhere you can live stream with <em>OBS,</em> which makes this after all of the different software options I've tried for filming videos on <em>YouTube,</em> <em>OBS</em> is my absolute favorite.</p>
<img src="https://jerrybanfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NBP048-01.jpg" alt="Video Production Software: OBS"/>
<p>You can even do things like gaming videos if you set your studio up like I've got it. I have one main monitor, and then anything I put into that monitor I can capture directly into <em>OBS,</em> which means I can very easily do video game tutorials if I was still playing video games.</p>
<p>I used the same setup to film tutorials on my desktop on any subject for video games and even music production. </p>
<p>If you take a look at <em>OBS,</em> it's available on <em>Windows, Mac</em> and <em>Linux</em> and this is the basic setup for it where you've got your screen in the middle and you move all your camera and your sources and your scenes around.  </p>
<p>You can control audio and move scenes. You can start recording and streaming. You can change the audio on it. You can even put things like plugins on the audio, which makes it very helpful for getting a high quality.</p>
<p>For example, I can click on the audio down here for my microphone and click on <em>filters.</em> I've actually got a compressor and a limiter on my voice, which is awesome because this means I don't have to do any post-effect audio editing to get professional sounding audio.</p>
<img src="https://jerrybanfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NBP048-02.jpg" alt="OBS"/>
<p>I'd just get this <em>USB</em> microphone interface, a <em>Scarlet 2i2,</em> and then I get the <em>RE-20</em> electro cardio voice microphone or something like that, put it in here with a compressor and a limiter in <em>OBS</em> and it sounds great.  </p>
<p>I've set up hot keys so I can move my face around in real time. I've got a bunch of different scenes down here in the lower right. I've got sources where I can put various things up on the screen if I want to.</p>
<p>For example, I've got a color source that I can use and put anything behind it. I can connect <em>StreamLabs</em> to it. I can bring additional audio like system audio in here with it.</p>
<img src="https://jerrybanfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NBP048-03.jpg" alt="OBS"/>
<p>This an extremely flexible software that is outstanding for recording video tutorials. I've had videos do very well that were recorded directly with <em>OBS.</em></p>
<p>There are other options, and you might wonder, <em>"Well OBS sounds so good and what cases would I not want to use OBS?"</em></p>
<p>If you need to do a lot of editing, you might not want to use <em>OBS</em> because other software options that you use can give you a lot more flexibility with editing. <em>OBS</em> is set up for live streaming and it just captures the sources as they are.</p>
<p>I'm not able to move my face around on <em>OBS</em> after the fact. </p>
<p>On other software you can actually move your face and put it anywhere or take it off. Whatever I record on <em>OBS</em> is the final product. </p>
<p>The huge advantage is that I don't need any additional time to render it. As soon as I hit the record button again, I've got a file ready to use and upload immediately, which allows me to film online video courses and videos for <em>YouTube</em> very quickly. </p>
<p>However, if you're new to making videos and your speech is to the point where you need to do a lot of edits or you just need to polish off what you're doing, you want to be able to show keystrokes on the screen.</p>
<p>In that case, you might want to use one of these two options I'm going to give you.</p>
<p>The first option is called <em>ScreenFlow.</em>  </p>
<p>I've only used this a little bit myself. However, my friend <em>Tomas George,</em> who's a bestselling instructor online, he's made thousands of videos and music production. He loves using <em>ScreenFlow,</em> and if I didn't use <em>OBS,</em> my second choice on a <em>Mac</em> would be <em>ScreenFlow.</em></p>
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<p><em>ScreenFlow</em> allows you to do screen capture video tutorials of your screen and it costs <em>$129.</em> The beauty of <em>ScreenFlow</em> is there's so many different professional editing features on it. </p>
<p>For example, you can record all your sources in <em>HD,</em> and then you can put your face wherever you want it. You can bring multiple screens together very easily. If you need to edit your audio, you can go in there and do that. </p>
<p>You can sync things up if your audio and your video aren't perfectly in sync. There are options where you can record on your <em>iPhone</em> or <em>iPad</em> to get high quality demonstrations.</p>
<img src="https://jerrybanfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NBP048-05.jpg" alt="Screenflow"/>
<p>There's media management, you can put closed captions in there. You can stick pictures in, bring other movies in. There are a lot of things you can do with <em>ScreenFlow.</em></p>
<p><em><a href="https://www.telestream.net/screenflow/">ScreenFlow</a></em> is a great option for recording your videos if you want to be able to do the highest quality professional looking tutorials and you know you're going to need to edit your videos and especially if you're working on a <em>Mac.</em> </p>
<p>I find <em>ScreenFlow</em> works good on <em>Mac.</em> I personally do not use <em>ScreenFlow</em> because it takes too long. I can make better looking tutorials that are more edited and polished, but here's the way I look at it. At the same time, I record a video that might have some minor imperfections like while I was talking about the <em>Mic</em> earlier, I tripped over that a little bit.</p>
<p>However, I can make two or three videos like this in the same amount of time it would take me to make one video using <em>ScreenFlow.</em></p>
<p>Also for me, because <em>OBS</em> allows me to sync everything up automatically and the audio settings, I've got it, so the camera and the microphone I use are perfectly synched up with <em>115</em> millisecond offset in <em>OBS.</em></p>
<p>I have to do that manually every single time in <em>ScreenFlow,</em> which is annoying, especially when you have to chop the clip up, and then sync the audio every single time. </p>
<p>Again, it takes me about the same time in <em>ScreenFlow</em> to make one video that I can make two, three, sometimes four videos in <em>OBS,</em> and I'd rather make four videos, than do one in <em>ScreenFlow.</em> </p>
<p>There's another scenario where you'd much rather use <em>ScreenFlow</em> and that's if you have a video editor. </p>
<p>If you can just film your videos and pass them off to an editor like <em>Tomas George</em> does, then you can just talk your way through an entire subject. The editor will hand up all the polishing and professionalizing of it, and the two or three people you have on your team, can make some outstanding quality videos. Everybody can pitch in to make sure it doesn't take any one person too much time to do this specific part of the workflow. </p>
<img src="https://jerrybanfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NBP048-06.jpg" alt="Screenflow"/>
<p><em>Tomas George</em> can do <em>5</em> or <em>10</em> video tutorials, then give them to his editor in <em>ScreenFlow</em> who takes about the same amount of time as <em>Tomas</em> did to film them, and then gets them all looking beautiful. </p>
<p>Then, when students take <em>Tomas'</em> courses, he's got very professional appearance with it. </p>
<p>I'll give you another option besides <em>ScreenFlow</em> that you might prefer to use here. </p>
<p>If <em>ScreenFlow</em> isn't your thing for some reason or you've heard of <em>Camtasia,</em> and you just want to know your options, <em>Camtasia</em> is the screen recorder I've actually used the most on <em>Mac.</em></p>
<p>I have not been happy with how this is performed on my <em>Mac.</em> </p>
<img src="https://jerrybanfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NBP048-07.jpg" alt="Video Production Software: Camtasia"/>
<p>That said, I used <em>Camtasia</em> with the first screen recorder. I used it a lot to film my online courses. </p>
<p><em><a href="https://www.techsmith.com/video-editor.html">Camtasia</a></em> worked really well for me on <em>Windows</em> and on my first <em>iMac.</em> For some reason it does not work that great on my <em>Mac Pro</em> and hangs up and does awkward things and <em>ScreenFlow</em> works better.</p>
<p>However, this worked really well on my <em>Windows</em> computer and on my <em>iMac</em> to record screen capture videos. I recorded thousands of videos in <em>Camtasia.</em> </p>
<img src="https://jerrybanfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NBP048-08.jpg" alt="Camtasia"/>
<p>Like <em>ScreenFlow</em> it is a very powerful screen capture software allowing you to record your face, record several other screens and camera angles if you want to and put them all together into one document, that then you can professionally edit or do it yourself, try to make it look professional and get it into one beautiful video.</p>
<p>The nice thing about <em>Camtasia</em> is that it can also be bundled with <em>Snagit.</em> I use <em>Snagit</em> to just take screenshots and edit screenshots, <em>Snagit</em> works really well. </p>
<p>You can get the two of those and last time I checked, a <em>Camtasia-Snagit</em> bundle, which is nice to get those together, is currently at <em>$249</em> for one license, and it costs significantly more than <em>ScreenFlow.</em></p>
<p>However, you can put this on two different machines, which means that if you have an editor, with one license, you could both use it on two different machines and work on it that way. </p>
<p>Why would you want to use <em>Camtasia</em> versus using <em>ScreenFlow?</em> </p>
<p>They do have a significantly different interface and feel to them.</p>
<p><em>Camtasia,</em> as far as I can see on <em>Google</em> <em>Trends,</em> it could be just for branding, is more popular. You can always check which software is more popular on something like <em>Google Trends.</em>  </p>
<p>You can search <em>Camtasia</em> and <em>ScreenFlow</em> just like that and see which one's more popular.</p>
<p><em>Camtasia's</em> a lot more popular in the <em>USA</em> at least over the last <em>12</em> months than <em>ScreenFlow,</em> and way more popular, although they seem to be converging a bit. </p>
<img src="https://jerrybanfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NBP048-09.jpg" alt="Video Production Software: OBS vs Screenflow vs Camtasia and Final Cut Pro X for filming, editing, and rendering videos!"/>
<p><em>Camtasia</em> is very functional. It does a great job recording videos and allows you to do about all the same kinds of things that <em>ScreenFlow</em> does. </p>
<p>Both programs have good post effects, audio processing, you can add. Those have gotten a lot better over the years. Both of these will do a great job for you for filming videos. </p>
<p>Alternatively, instead of using screen capture software, you can  just film videos with a camera or an <em>iPhone,</em> and then just use a strictly editing software for them. I use <em>Final Cut Pro X.</em> That's the main editing software I like because it's powerful.  </p>
<p>I've gotten it on my <em>Mac</em> and it does a great job editing. You can make professional videos this way and if I need to edit something, then I do it on <em>Final Cut Pro X</em> because this gives me the option to do whatever edits I need for my videos. </p>
<img src="https://jerrybanfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/NBP048-10.jpg" alt="Video Production Software: Final Cut Pro X"/>
<p>You can add annotations and there are all kinds of effects, lots of audio effects and transitions you can add. You can bring multiple sources together.</p>
<p>One very helpful feature in <em><a href="https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/">Final Cut Pro X</a>.</em></p>
<p>If you've got a camera or you're using multiple audio, like if you're recording on a camera, then you've got something like a professional microphone you're using, <em>Final Cut Pro X</em> is great because there's a setting where you can put two clips together and sync them on the audio, which is nice. </p>
<p>For example, if you're using like this <em>Canon XA11,</em> I've got then the <em>RE-20</em> microphone. These I can sync up if I needed to in <em>Final Cut Pro</em> because the camera would have a lower quality audio on it, then the microphone has the higher quality.</p>
<p>I've done that before on my <em>G7X,</em> which also records audio. The <em>G7X</em> is a camera and I've got a blogging setup where I'll take out a <em>Zoom H5 Shotgun</em> microphone with the Canon G7X.</p>
<p>I go into <em>Final Cut Pro</em> and sync that up, and it makes one clip with both the audio in the same clip. </p>
<p>Then, I just turn off the <em>Canon</em> audio, and then I've got beautiful video and beautiful audio.</p>
<p>This is only on <em>Mac.</em></p>
<p>If you want to use a software that can edit your videos and do screen capture, <em>Camtasia</em> or <em>ScreenFlow</em> is great for this.</p>
<p><em>Final Cut Pro X,</em> is just for editing videos, not for actually capturing them, although it does have some options with the webcam. </p>
<p>Thus, I've given you the things I use on here.</p>
<p>I started off using <em>Windows Movie Maker.</em> There is <em>iMovie</em> you can use. I haven't spent much time using that. </p>
<p>What I can say is the software you use makes a big difference. The software you use can make things so easy or it can make things really difficult. </p>
<p>The most important thing to get right with software is your workflow and as you can see that's what I've done. I have a workflow that allows me to take the minimum amount of time to take an idea from my head and execute a vision of that idea through me speaking and teaching what I know, and then having that ready in a format to share. </p>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/y6umOot69Ls">This video</a> currently is <em>14</em> minutes long and as soon as I am done hitting record on it, I'm immediately ready to upload it and put it in my online courses, and what I do is put it in <em>Final Cut Pro X,</em> throw on an intro and an outro, render that and stick it on my <em>YouTube</em> channel.  </p>
<p>Then, every <em>YouTube</em> video sells people back to my online courses and all of it is very easy to do, very quick to set up.</p>
<p>If you use something where you need to render a video like <em>Camtasia</em> or <em>ScreenFlow</em> or <em>Final Cut Pro X</em>, the rendering time can add a significant amount of overall time to a production process, and if you're getting a slow rendering time on any of these, the key things to check are your processor, your graphics card and the hard drive, the memory you're using.</p>
<p>An <em>SSD</em> hard drive, fast multi-core processors, it seems processors that have faster speeds on each individual core are working better for me to render videos faster, and then the better graphics cards you have sometimes on different machines can help with it as well. </p>
<p>Thank you very much for learning about video production software with me for <em>YouTube</em> videos, I hope this is helpful.  </p>
<h3>Final Words</h3>
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<p>What you're going to love is when you buy this course, you'll get three weekly group-coaching calls with me included and a lifetime to my students group on <em>Facebook</em> where you can share your <em>YouTube</em> channel, ask questions, get help, get love, get all that support you need for being a <em>YouTube</em> creator from me and all of the community of students along with you.</p>
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<p>I imagine once you complete the purchase, you'll be so excited to use the link to log in, use the link to view the course, use the link to apply to the <em>Facebook</em> group and be ready to take your <em>YouTube</em> channel to the next level. </p>
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