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Check out our ultimate guide for setting up your church youth ministry YouTube studio with the best audio, lighting, camera, and set design recommendations! Enhance the quality of your online services and reach more viewers with professional tips and recommendations. Whether you're a beginner or looking to upgrade your current setup, this video has everything you need to create an engaging and impactful virtual church experience. Watch now and take your church's online presence to the next level!

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🕰️TIMECODES
00:00 Are you ready for another level?
01:56 Optimizing Space for a YouTube Set and Decoration Recommendations
05:32 Best Camera Gear for Churches
07:35 Lighting for Youth Ministry YouTube Channels
08:43 Audio for Church YouTube Channels
12:18 Which to start with if you can't afford them all at once?

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✍️TRANSCRIPT
00:00:00:00 - 00:00:02:06
Nick Clason
YouTube for

00:00:02:06 - 00:00:07:07
Nick Clason
youth ministry. We're actually in the eighth and now second to last

00:00:07:07 - 00:00:22:29
Nick Clason
episode of our playlist titled YouTube for Youth Ministry linked right here on screen. If you're watching on YouTube and in this playlist, I've explained to you the value of pre filming your messages, how to edit your videos, and exploring the other features available to you

00:00:22:29 - 00:00:23:27
Nick Clason
in YouTube.

00:00:23:29 - 00:00:43:18
Nick Clason
What if you've started doing those things and now you're ready to take it to the next level? You see, in my 100% completely free guide to Hybrid Ministry links right here on screen and down below in the show notes, I tell you how you can get started filming content on YouTube for under $100. But what if? What if you have a little bit of budget?

00:00:43:21 - 00:00:48:21
Nick Clason
Like what if you see the ultimate value in all of this and you're ready to take it to the next level?

00:00:48:21 - 00:01:01:23
Nick Clason
Well, in this episode, I want to take you on a tour of the set that we have built in our student ministry. You ready to invest? You ready to spend a little bit of money? I can get you all up and going for less than $5,000.

00:01:01:24 - 00:01:24:19
Nick Clason
Don't freak out on the sticker shock if you're interested in some of these things, because if you do want something cheap, I can actually offer you some coaching right now at a 100% completely free rate for just the first few people. So if you're interested, click down below, inquire to see if that is still available so I can help you begin to hybridize your ministry and reach more students with the effort that you're putting in.

00:01:24:19 - 00:01:25:28
Nick Clason
As a youth pastor

00:01:25:28 - 00:01:39:19
Nick Clason
with the message of hope and with the message of Jesus. But this studio thing, it's it's a next level type of thing. So I'm going to give you a tour, share with you some examples and some videos, and walk through every single piece of gear in every single element. And

00:01:39:19 - 00:01:43:12
Nick Clason
then finally I'm going to rank those different elements because we're going to be talking about the set.

00:01:43:12 - 00:01:57:01
Nick Clason
We're going to be talking about the camera, we're going to be talking about audio, and we're going to be talking about lighting. What's most important, if you can't spend it all right now, how should you prioritize? We're going to dive into it. Welcome to the Hybrid Ministry Show.

00:01:57:01 - 00:02:04:26
Nick Clason
And in this episode linked down below is a complete blog of every single piece of gear that I have built in the studio.

00:02:04:28 - 00:02:26:11
Nick Clason
And we're just going to walk through it. and so first we're going to talk and work through just the set, like just what's going on, where it is like what things look like. And so what I did, like I said, link down below in the blog. I did, some blackout curtains. We had two big windows in the room that we converted into a studio space.

00:02:26:11 - 00:02:29:12
Nick Clason
So I got blackout curtains, which would help me kind of

00:02:29:12 - 00:02:48:16
Nick Clason
control the lighting. And so I had to buy some curtain rod. So, we have a gold curtain rod, and then also got some white, thermal insulated curtains. You can see both of those links in the blog. also, I got a peel and stick wallpaper, brick wall paper, which was absolutely meticulous to hang.

00:02:48:16 - 00:03:16:21
Nick Clason
And then it didn't stay hung on the wall. So I actually ended up just going to Home Depot and buying a panel of, brick there. And we just did that as well instead of the the peeling stick wallpaper, but whatever you might want. And so what that did was that created for us sort of like a brick in the corner of one of the the living or in one of the, corners of one of the rooms created a brick kind of vibe, like, we also did some, like, neon signs and stuff like that, and then I don't have those linked.

00:03:16:28 - 00:03:35:20
Nick Clason
but if that's something you're interested in, you can go shopping. We got a custom one made. then I created another section of our room, another section of our space with, like, a kind of like a photo background. And so I got the the ten by ten photo backdrop stand, and then the photo kind of, studio fabric that just rolls down.

00:03:35:20 - 00:04:01:07
Nick Clason
And we use that for a lot of, like, standing sets and a lot of, teaching videos, especially where we want to have a lot of text off to the side or, or behind us. And so I really, really like that one for, for those types of like educational or informational videos. And then the other like corner the corner that's kind of opposite the brick so that you if you're counting, we got brick and then we got the photo backdrop and then the white, we got a white wall as like a corner.

00:04:01:09 - 00:04:20:01
Nick Clason
and I'm not going to link any of this below, but we just used white paint. So go to Home Depot, get some white paint, and then create whatever sort of decor you want. And again, I'm not going to link every single thing because I didn't buy all of this stuff. Like we repurposed some furniture and we repurposed some shelving and we repurposed some decor.

00:04:20:05 - 00:04:40:25
Nick Clason
We bought some decor. but like one fun thing we did is we, we have like, mugs. And so we'll use a different mug every single one of our teaching videos. This is a little kind of like Easter egg type of thing, but but we had a student who, like, brought a bunch in as, like a donation. or I've just found random things like on, on Amazon or Walmart.com.

00:04:40:25 - 00:05:02:09
Nick Clason
And if I'm looking, I just might search something like, you know, teenage boy room or teenage girl room decor. I don't know, you know what? What's in these days? And so I'm a 34 year old youth pastor, but but searching that type of stuff, we've come up with these like Spiderman, kind of like neon lights and, just, you know, some other, like, kitschy, kind of like, tchotchke type of things.

00:05:02:12 - 00:05:18:01
Nick Clason
so you'll see, like prior to this, you know, if you're watching here on YouTube, prior to this, we would just kind of film anywhere we could find usually, like in one of our offices. and because our offices are already decorated, it sort of created a little bit of a set. But now we have our own set.

00:05:18:01 - 00:05:39:18
Nick Clason
Like, we've been able to create sets that look a little bit more like this or like this, and looks just a little bit more meaningful, a little bit more purposeful. And of course, the nice part, right, is that you don't supplant someone from their office when you're getting ready to film. next we'll talk about camera. And I've been mentioning mentioning it here, in this playlist, the Sony ZVE-10.

00:05:39:20 - 00:05:59:01
Nick Clason
we use it. It's phenomenal. It's a fantastic, valued $699. It's linked in the blog down below. and then we also got a, tripod for about a little over $100. So $111 is what this one I found here. Walmart is comparable. And then we got a teleprompter. you're also going to need like an iPad.

00:05:59:04 - 00:06:15:08
Nick Clason
if you want to do the teleprompter type of thing. and then I just use a free app, out of the App store, where we can, like, script out all of our messages, type them out and put them on a teleprompter, and then, walk them through. And just a little hack, at about 11 or 12 speed.

00:06:15:08 - 00:06:36:25
Nick Clason
And every teleprompter is going to be different. But the particular app we're on 11 or 12 speed and then like two, a 2000 to 2400 word seems to be the sweet spot for length of video for YouTube. I try to keep our YouTube videos, that we pre film anywhere between 10 and 15 minutes at the absolute maximum.

00:06:36:27 - 00:06:46:03
Nick Clason
and you'll notice like this is a difference between one being shot on a cell phone, his cell phone. And here's one. Once we started using the, the Sony ZVE-10

00:06:46:03 - 00:06:53:20
Nick Clason
also, I'm going to cut you to a clip in just second. this is one without me scripting it. Some kind of just, like, ad libbing it and talking to the camera.

00:06:53:23 - 00:07:02:16
Nick Clason
and then the next one right behind it is going to be one of me actually using, a teleprompter. How do you find

00:07:02:16 - 00:07:20:08
Nick Clason
true friends who believe what you believe and allow you to enter into a community of, like minded people who think the way you think, leave the way you believe, and like the things you like.

00:07:20:10 - 00:07:46:02
Nick Clason
God won't give you more than you can handle. Have you ever heard that before? Well, spoiler it's actually 100% inaccurate. All right, now let's talk about lighting. So, we bought some different like lighting boxes. So I got the apurture light box. 30120 12 by 48 at $69 value. And then also the apurture light octa dome 120.

00:07:46:02 - 00:08:12:16
Nick Clason
That's $129, as well as some different stands. So we got the show Maven ten foot light C stand. That's 119.99 And then the newer professional photography studio stand for light reflectors that, I think there's two of those for $40.99. Those are kind of the, the things to go with the lighting. But then we got apurture, Amaran, and apurture, Amaran 100 x bicolor, and then 200 x.

00:08:12:18 - 00:08:30:20
Nick Clason
The 200 x was $349, and the $249 was was of the one. And so, this is example like you'll see here on screen of us doing it without the lighting, we would just use either natural lighting or like a ring light. and in some cases it was pretty bad. but then this right here is

00:08:30:20 - 00:08:39:18
Nick Clason
once we started using these lights and this is one of the most important things that that we did, to really, I think, level up some of our quality and production.

00:08:40:12 - 00:09:03:14
Nick Clason
but the last and perhaps, well, not perhaps definite, the, the most expensive, is what we did for the audio rig. so we got to focus, right, Scarlett? Two eye, two USB audio interface, third gen. actually, we didn't get that one. This is, a two channel, one. So if you have two people on camera, and you need two audio inputs, this one is $189.99.

00:09:03:16 - 00:09:26:29
Nick Clason
the one that we got, though is the focus, right? Scarlett? 18i8 In-n-out USB audio interface, third gen that has four audio inputs and that one a little bit more expensive at $359.99. and then we used, the Sennheiser EW 112P G4 portable wireless lavalier microphone. those that's where the expense comes in, right.

00:09:26:29 - 00:09:34:15
Nick Clason
Like and you'll see this this is like Stephen A Smith wears this on ESPN on TV. But $699.95 we bought

00:09:34:15 - 00:09:51:06
Nick Clason
three of them. so we have three different people on camera and on microphone at any given time. but honestly, we typically only use it for like one sometimes maybe two for do, some social media type filming where we do some sort of banter back and forth.

00:09:51:11 - 00:10:09:23
Nick Clason
so depending on however many you want of those, if you want one, it's, you know, $699, but if you want 2 or 3, obviously it's going to make that more expensive. And then we also did get a shotgun microphone. my friend who is an audio engineer said, I like to put a shotgun microphone there too, just in case something happens with the wireless packs.

00:10:09:26 - 00:10:33:13
Nick Clason
you still got something. And so the shotgun mic, the Sennheiser MKE 600 shotgun mic with an XLR plug into a jack of 18 18 inch cable is $329. And we do use that a lot, especially with students, because the, lavalier microphones, while they are portable, they do need to be plugged into the focus, right? Which does need to be plugged into a wall.

00:10:33:15 - 00:10:47:11
Nick Clason
Meanwhile, the Sennheiser shotgun microphone is battery powered, so we can take that kind of like out on the street and do a little bit more, quote unquote, like man on the street type of stuff. and then of course, the last thing you're going to need is you're going to need some good headphones. And so here's what I recommend.

00:10:47:11 - 00:11:06:03
Nick Clason
Sennheiser HD 569, a closed back wired headphones at 199 95. Now, listen, I get it. It's expensive. And you're looking at this know does this really make a difference? Well here let me show you what the audio, if you're listening, is you're going to be out here. This is what the audio sounded like with just a little bit of an elevated upgrade.

00:11:06:03 - 00:11:25:28
Nick Clason
This out of my iBook, less than $100 microphone, filming direct camera. This is what it sounded like. And then directly following it is going to be. Once we started using the focus, right. And some of the other microphones and stuff that I just recommend. So check it out. Like what do you want to do when you grow up?

00:11:26:00 - 00:11:51:23
Nick Clason
Like, have you ever really thought about what you're going to do with your life? In this video, we're going to explore the value of the final word. So as you can see, it definitely does make a difference. Now here's the thing, right? Keep in mind if you're like, dude, that's a lot, I understand, I get it, okay? And you may not be in a spot where you want to level your gear up to the spot.

00:11:51:25 - 00:12:11:17
Nick Clason
Let's just be honest, most of the videos that you're going to be showing to students, like they're going to be probably watching them on their cell phones, and so does the 4K quality matter. Like probably not. You know, in some cases, does audio quality really matter? I, I, I think audio really matters. And so that's, that's why I want to rank this.

00:12:11:17 - 00:12:24:25
Nick Clason
Right. I want to chat through and rank. Like if you were to start with one of these for lighting, set audio camera. What's most important thing to start with. And of course, this is

00:12:24:25 - 00:12:38:04
Nick Clason
my ranking. This is Nick Clausen's custom hybrid ranking of of elements to level up your gear beyond just $100 mark. to go a little bit more premium, for a youth ministry budget.

00:12:38:06 - 00:13:02:04
Nick Clason
but you can figure out what you want and what is most valuable and meaningful to you in your context. But for me, I would start with lighting, like leveling up the lighting and getting away from just like ring lights only, or natural lights only like having some good quality lights are powerful that are customizable. You can even buy some gels to like, throw flash color on to there and stuff like that.

00:13:02:04 - 00:13:06:23
Nick Clason
If you want. lighting really, really makes a difference. And you can see that

00:13:06:23 - 00:13:13:02
Nick Clason
in these examples here before and after. the second thing for me that I would do is I would do

00:13:13:02 - 00:13:26:13
Nick Clason
audio and, the only reason that audio is not more, not ranked higher than lighting is probably because of the cost. The cost is quite a bit more, and the learning curve is also a little bit more.

00:13:26:13 - 00:13:46:22
Nick Clason
I thought, man, I tell you what, I don't know anything about audio engineering. I'm just I'm kind of hacking it. but the Sennheiser, the portable lavalier microphones like those gave me a run for my money the first time that I was getting them up and running. now, now we got it all figured out. But like, that first time, I was like, dang, I was, you know, I was watching YouTube videos and trying to figure those things out.

00:13:46:24 - 00:14:13:11
Nick Clason
The third for me is the camera. Like, I still think that, comparably, like side by side, my cell phone camera, has a pretty comparable picture to what the Sony ZV ten does. And I mean, and maybe it should, right? Like, my cell phone actually costs more than the Sony ZV ten. But the fact is, my cell phone also has a lot of other functionality on it that the Sony doesn't.

00:14:13:11 - 00:14:25:05
Nick Clason
And so, I think you can get by longer, even if you wanted to go with like the tripod, and the teleprompter rig, you can, you can teleprompter to a cell phone. And so, that would be my third

00:14:25:05 - 00:14:34:23
Nick Clason
one. And then fourth and final is just to set like it's I'm in a very fortunate situation where I was able and afforded to take a room and really make it a priority.

00:14:34:23 - 00:14:52:03
Nick Clason
Like we have said, hybrid ministry and digital integration. It's it's not an option anymore, like it's a necessity. We are reaching students, generation Z, Generation Alpha, who are no longer just digital natives, like their digital dependents. And so to have a studio or we could pull students

00:14:52:03 - 00:14:57:29
Nick Clason
in after Wednesday night and film with them and have a space is completely crafted and curated in any moment.

00:14:57:29 - 00:15:09:13
Nick Clason
We're we're like, you know, a couple weeks ago, we wanted to film some videos for our incoming fifth graders, and I just pulled our team mates together and said, hey, we're going to film this. We walked in the studio and popped the lights

00:15:09:13 - 00:15:13:14
Nick Clason
on and clicked record, and off we went. And then we were done. And then I took that, and I.

00:15:13:19 - 00:15:40:27
Nick Clason
I went and edited it like, it's nice to have that. It's nice to have that space. and honestly, it's also become a space that other people have wanted to use, for different like video projects and stuff like that throughout the year and different divisions of ministries within our church as well. And so if you have the space and if you have the buy in from leadership to allow you to to convert a space, I would recommend it because digital and hybrid ministry, they're just they're not going anywhere.

00:15:41:03 - 00:16:00:08
Nick Clason
And advice from my very first co-host on this podcast. His name is Matt Johnson. Shout out to Matt episode one through seven. Co-host on this podcast. He told me when I said, bro, I'm thinking about certain podcasts. His advice was, you know, he gave me some tactical things and some gear like recommendations. And he said, but do you want my real advice?

00:16:00:12 - 00:16:17:10
Nick Clason
And I said, of course. He said, just start like, just do it. And that's what you got to do with this YouTube thing. Like just start. We've talked about it now. You know what it takes. You know, like all the gear you use, you've seen my studio, but you gotta do it and then you gotta do it again for the next series after that.

00:16:17:14 - 00:16:41:09
Nick Clason
And then you got to do it again for the next series after that. And you might be wondering, like how do you maintain and how do you not grow weary of this? Because it's you put a lot of energy behind getting up and off the ground, but how do you how do you maintain this creating over and over, sort of momentum to continue to continually show up in a hybrid space and hybrid ministry on YouTube, on social media?

00:16:41:09 - 00:16:59:00
Nick Clason
Well, I'm actually glad you asked because we're going to be talking about that in the next and last final video, episode 99 linked right here on screen as we are trying to make digital discipleship easy, possible and accessible. So as always, stay hybrid.

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Should Churches Quit Live-Streaming their videos to YouTube?
If YouTube is as relevant and powerful of a platform, it seems as though we should be making it a top priority
How can youth pastors grow as video editors and make the maximum impact on their students and teenagers?
Follow along as we unpack how to grow on YouTube for Youth Ministries
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🕰️TIMECODES
00:00 How to Show Up Digitally for your Students
01:40 Livestream or Pre-Film: The Power of Editing
07:43 Video Editing Platforms
10:28 Growing as a Video Editor

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✍️TRANSCRIPT
00:00:00:00 - 00:00:30:01
Nick Clason
Youth pastors My guess is that you would like to be there for hurting and struggling teenagers and be able to ultimately point them to Jesus. What if I told you that you could show up in a place where 95% of them have been will go or plan to go? You would probably do whatever it took to find your way there and help point those kids

00:00:30:04 - 00:00:55:19
Nick Clason
to Jesus, what if I also told you that that place was YouTube? Well, it's true. According to Pew Research, 95% of teens are on or have been on YouTube. Here's the good news. We are currently in the middle of a playlist linked right here at the top of the video about YouTube for Youth Ministries, Everything you need to know from the philosophy to the tactile, getting it done and getting it posted.

00:00:55:19 - 00:01:26:04
Nick Clason
And today we're talking about the dreaded editing, editing of videos like Subscribe and Turn On the Bell, because I want to help you show up where 95% of your teenagers are. And I'm doing it on YouTube 100% completely for free in this video. I want to explore the debate of livestream versus pre shooting and pre filming. Your messages how you as a youth pastor can grow as a video editor and designer.

00:01:26:06 - 00:01:53:15
Nick Clason
We're also going to talk about how you can get professional YouTube videos edited for completely free by somebody else. Sound too good to be true? Stick around to find out. So should we livestream our services and post them online or should we pre film our messages? Well, for me, as a youth pastor, that was a debate that I had when I started at the church that I'm working at right now.

00:01:53:17 - 00:02:16:22
Nick Clason
Started here in September of 2022. And I wanted because we were a in-person church, I wanted to livestream our messages. I wanted to livestream our messages mostly so that I could take the livestream long form video, clip it up into shorts and post it on social media throughout the week. I didn't want to do double work, and pre filming feels a little bit like double work.

00:02:16:22 - 00:02:46:20
Nick Clason
And so eventually I landed on pre filming our messages. Not from a strategy standpoint, but honestly from a needs standpoint. We weren't going to retrofit or make the the room have the accommodations to livestream. We weren't going to put the budget resources behind livestreaming our services. And frankly, I didn't even want to livestream as much as I just wanted to live capture the message via video more than just a cell phone on a tripod in the back of the room, on the sound booth.

00:02:46:21 - 00:03:09:20
Nick Clason
And so we started pre filming our messages out of necessity. But one of the things that I noticed and have discovered and come to now, so that was out of necessity, but now out of preference, I would say I will probably forever and always pre film my messages because think about it when you're on YouTube, this is often what us as churches are going up against this on screen.

00:03:09:20 - 00:03:47:29
Nick Clason
If you're not watching, if you're just listening, you can head to the link in the show notes, watch the YouTube video. Mr. Beast and his thumbnail and his 15 minute YouTube video is a type of content that most people are going on to YouTube to watch in an entertaining sort of manner, entertaining sort of fashion. Meanwhile, churches are an hour and 37 minute service with all of the pre-roll announcements and all of their worship services and songs and pastor and announcement and everything is dropped on YouTube without any sort of custom work on a thumbnail or titling or description.

00:03:48:00 - 00:04:20:08
Nick Clason
So all the the, the livestream with the way that we're approaching livestream on the back end, setting it up uploading, and we're going to get into all of that in this playlist as well. So make sure that you are subscribed, but all of that type of stuff matters as well, because as I mentioned in our most recent video, when a student is hurting, you want to be able for them to you want to be able to send them content and videos and resources and things that can help them make sense of the pain that they're experiencing.

00:04:20:11 - 00:04:39:09
Nick Clason
But you also want people to find it. So maybe a student you don't know or student doesn't feel comfortable, whatever the case might be coming to you and asking you that they need help, but you want them to stumble on your YouTube channel and you want them to be able to make sense of the pain and the suffering that they're that they're facing.

00:04:39:09 - 00:05:05:16
Nick Clason
And they're not going to be able to find that. If you have, like your youth group. March 13th, 2024 service. Like they don't know that the topic was on, you know, the problem of evil and how to attach yourself to Jesus when you're going through hard times. So actually, let me do this. This is if you're watching and you're going to probably want to watch this part or at least go back and check it out.

00:05:05:19 - 00:05:20:01
Nick Clason
If you're watching this, right here is a video that I have shot and have done no editing to, now, you can do that and you could post that to YouTube. And so let me just show you what the first like 10 seconds of this video look like.

00:05:20:01 - 00:05:30:13
Nick Clason
this video, we're going to explore the value of the final word. Final words are meaningful, right? Whether they're good or whether they're bad. Think about it.

00:05:30:13 - 00:05:36:26
Nick Clason
All right. And then let me show you what an edited version of this video looks like.

00:05:36:27 - 00:05:42:03
Nick Clason
Same video, same content, but now there's editing on top of it. Let's check it out.

00:05:42:03 - 00:05:49:21
Nick Clason
video, we're going to explore the value of the final word. Final words are meaningful, right? Whether they're good or

00:05:49:21 - 00:05:51:13
Nick Clason
whether they're bad. Think about it. If you've

00:05:51:13 - 00:06:08:19
Nick Clason
You see. And when we simply just drop our our non edited, unfiltered teaching on YouTube, the content can still be delivered and it can still get to the end user. Correct. Is it optimized and is it optimal?

00:06:08:19 - 00:06:17:19
Nick Clason
Right. Like like you wouldn't show up to an expensive White House gala dressed as if you're going to a football game?

00:06:17:26 - 00:06:42:14
Nick Clason
Right. And a lot of times that's what we as churches are doing on YouTube. And and YouTube is a great platform to capture and even post videos. But a lot of times we don't play the part where we don't go into it with the expectation or ability of of attaching ourselves to the appropriate, culturally appropriate kind of moment out there.

00:06:42:14 - 00:07:05:02
Nick Clason
And that's what's going on when we're just simply livestreaming and just dropping the live stream without any sort of other work or editing or titling or tags or a thumbnail or anything on to YouTube. And so you wouldn't go to a gala dressed like you're going to a football game. So don't just drop your on edited unfiltered services on YouTube, right?

00:07:05:03 - 00:07:24:15
Nick Clason
Because once you pre film your message once you capture your teaching somehow, someway on phone on a on a more expensive camera linked down below Sony ZVE-10 the camera that I recommend if you do want to go to the next level or if you want to start using your phone on YouTube, all of that is laid out 100% completely free e-book.

00:07:24:22 - 00:07:58:05
Nick Clason
But once you start posting those things, right, once you start crafting and capturing your messages, you can then off of that dovetail into more of a robust and holistic social media strategy for youth ministries and for churches, one that has your voice and your face and your messaging woven all throughout your social media and your leaders and your students on camera.

00:07:58:07 - 00:08:23:28
Nick Clason
So what platforms can you use to edit? I mean, very simply, if you are looking for a budget or more value engineered experience, there are two platforms that I recommend that are Free CapCut is a web based editor, and if as long as TikTok doesn't get banned, hopefully CapCut will be safe. CapCut and TikTok

00:08:23:29 - 00:08:45:20
Nick Clason
are partners or CapCut was even created by TikTok.. And so it's definitely optimized for short form vertical based video which by the way, side note is good for your short form, vertical based video, but you can also drop in a full length teaching and you can do and have edits and animations and lower thirds and text on screen.

00:08:45:23 - 00:09:02:21
Nick Clason
And so it's web based and so you don't have to download anything like new to your device or your computer or your program. So that might work. Well, if you have a really basic computer and don't have a lot of hard drive space, memory or RAM available to you, the next kind of layer up, I guess I would say, is Da Vinci Resolve.

00:09:02:21 - 00:09:29:15
Nick Clason
They do have a free version of it as well as, of course, as most things do, a paid sort of tier. Beyond that, full disclosure, I have never edited a full length video in cap cut, nor have I ever even opened Da Vinci Resolve because what I use and I'm not trying to sound boujee or anything like that, but I do use Adobe Premiere Pro out of the Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Suite.

00:09:29:18 - 00:09:55:09
Nick Clason
It is probably one of the more expensive options, but the good news is that our church has a creative cloud license and so I'm able to be added in to that. And so you may check and see if as a youth pastor, your church is willing to to dig deep and spring for a more powerful program. And and all I'll say is this is while CapCut is a great free editing tool and DaVinci Resolve, I've heard amazing things.

00:09:55:11 - 00:10:16:24
Nick Clason
You often get what you pay for or are willing to pay for. And so I can do just about anything. I have a vision for in Adobe Premiere Pro. And sometimes when you're using value or free software, you're really only going to get what you know, what you pay for an honorable mention. Of course, I also don't want to leave out Final Cut Pro.

00:10:16:26 - 00:10:40:21
Nick Clason
It's a favorite of many people. Again, I've never used it, but these are just different options, suggestions and things that you can check out. Now. The the thing right. The question at hand is if you're a youth pastor and you have no design, no editing skills, how do you grow as an editor? Is that even necessary? Well, let's talk about it.

00:10:40:24 - 00:11:06:12
Nick Clason
So how did you learn to ride a bike? Hopefully you learned how to ride a bike dropdown in the comments below when you learned how to ride a bike. But probably my guess is that you just did it a bunch. You practiced and in a lot of the same ways. Linked down below is my time management strategy. If you want to grow as an editor, create time time block for yourself.

00:11:06:12 - 00:11:32:00
Nick Clason
Tell yourself when you're going to learn this and then go learn it. I also have a link to below three different Adobe Photoshop in Adobe Premiere Pro. So if there is a platform that you do decide to go with editing videos, how to edit long form video, long form teaching videos, short form teaching videos and create graphics for them using Adobe Photoshop, all of that is available for you, but you simply just got to put in the work.

00:11:32:03 - 00:11:51:11
Nick Clason
Like we live in a microwave culture where we want a quick fix, quick answer, immediate results. Right now that looks great and is professional, but the God honest truth in all of this is like if we want to get better at something, we have to start investing in it. And so

00:11:51:11 - 00:11:55:22
Nick Clason
if editing your videos is important, then you should put the time in.

00:11:55:22 - 00:12:31:17
Nick Clason
Now, here's another little thing, and I have a limited time offer, very, very limited time offer. I have currently opened up three free spaces for you or anyone as a youth pastor to get a series edited by me completely for free. That info is going to be linked on the screen or down below, but I will do your video for free as I am trying to grow in my ability for editing as well as my offerings for youth pastors.

00:12:31:17 - 00:13:01:28
Nick Clason
And so if it's something that you're interested in, reach out to see if it's still available. If not, I do have a budget version of it as well. If those three free spaces are not available, but reach out to me because you might not be an editor and you may not have the time to learn it, but I would be more than willing and more than happy to help you take your editing to the next level and not not in like a coaching type of thing.

00:13:01:28 - 00:13:39:17
Nick Clason
Like, I'll just I'll do it for you. Like, I will take your videos, I will edit them, I will make them look professional, and then I will post them on YouTube for you, or at least show you how to post them. Because once you have edited long form videos, that is going to help you lay out, dish out and flesh out a full social media strategy where everything on your social media is focused on the message that you're teaching live in youth group that week, which is actually what we're going to talk about in the next video in this YouTube playlist linked right here on screen.

00:13:39:19 - 00:13:51:30
Nick Clason
I hope you watch that. I hope you check it out. And I hope that you continue to make digital discipleship easy, possible and accessible. As always, stay hybrid.