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How to Create Your Own Professional Music Video from Home
Today, many who go web-surfing run into spoof music videos that get millions of views. Sadly,
more than half of those people who got 1,000,000+ views missed an opportunity of earning
$20,000 or more from just that YouTube upload. Why is this so? I will let you know near the end of
this article. Shall we get back to the topic?
For those who think it isn't possible to make a high quality music video from home like the ones
you see on television, I am here to tell you that it IS possible to make even BETTER videos. You
may not be able to create one as good on the first try, but again who is? It takes perfection;
following these 5 steps:
Step 1: Music
Of course a music video isn't a music video without music. Find an instrumental that you want to
create a song to and download it. A good program that I recommend for downloading
instrumentals would be Frostwire. You can download it from frostwire.com. It is completely free to
download and use. Or so it was the last time I checked. Be careful when downloading from
Frostwire though. The first two or three files at the top are usually tricks, but you can easily tell
them apart. The false ones usually match your search phrase word for word, letter for letter, and
are lower case. Also check the file size to the right of each result. Instrumentals and songs are
usually at an average file size of 1,000 Kb for each minute of a song. So if an instrumental you're
looking for is about 3 minutes long, the file size should be around 3,000 Kb. The false ones at the
top are usually at a small file size, around 10-30 kb.
I used to use Frostwire until I began creating my own music with music production software. If you
want to make money from YouTube, I suggest you make your own instrumentals like I do. Anyone
can learn to make a simple beat. Some good music production software I recommend to use for
the PC would be Fruity Loops Studio. The latest version is FL Studio 9, but FL Studio 5, 6, 7, and
8 are just as good. If you want to pay for it, you can buy it at your local computer store or online at
flstudio.com, but if you want it for free, I suggest you use Frostwire, since it can also download
programs for free too. For the Mac users, your computer should already come with a music
production software called GarageBand. In my opinion, GarageBand's instruments sound more
professional than Fruity Loops. Both programs have user manuals available in the help menu and
Garageband has a beginner tutorial. For any other tutorials, I suggest that you search YouTube for
Fruity Loops Beginner Tutorials or Garageband beginner tutorials.
Other PC Music Production softwares include Reason, Sonar, and Nuendo. Another Mac music
production software is Logic Pro. The music industry itself specializes mainly with a software

2. called Protools. It's compatible with both PC and Mac, but is usually the software preferred for
studio recording. If you decide to use Protools at all, I recommend that you buy it rather than
downloading it for many reasons. Trust me on this one.
Step 2: Lyrics
Of course, music videos don't ALWAYS have lyrics, but if you do decide to, make sure you write
lyrics to the instrumental and keep them for the studio recording, which we will get to later. (Lyrical
tip: Keep your lyrics fairly clean and it may be more marketable! Make it hilarious or comical, and it
may get more plays! Ex. Search "White and Nerdy" on YouTube)
Step 3: Home Studio (Session) Recording
The best software for studio session recording starters is Cool Edit Pro. Cool Edit Pro is only PC
compatible though. I learned it on my own through experimentation, but for tutorials, I'm sure you
can find them on YouTube. There is also a user manual in the help menu. You can also download
Cool Edit Pro for free using Frostwire. For the Mac users, once again, congratulations! You can
record yourself using Garageband! To do so after you have finished creating your instrumental on
Garageband, at the top click Track> New Track> Real Instrument> Create. You will notice
that on the left, a track for recording appears that is titled "No Effects". If you have a microphone
plugged in, test it out by speaking into it. The green bar next to "No Effects" should rise everytime
you speak. If not, check your System Preferences for Sound and switch to Built-In Mic/Internal
Microphone. Most Mac laptops have a built-in microphone. Most of them are found on the left
speaker at the bottom right side, but only on laptops. For PC laptops, your microphone may be
found in the top of the monitor in the middle, left, or right corner.
For more advanced users, session recordings can be done with Protools. You can buy
microphones, but the cheap ones are usually not good recording microphones at all. If you have a
built-in microphone, you're in luck; because believe it or not, it is better than most microphones
under $50. Just make sure you adjust the volumes of each separate recording you do accordingly,
regardless of which mic you use. You can make a bad mic sound much better than it does by
altering the volumes.
P.S Tip: How to Autotune
Unfortunately, I only know how to do Autotune with the Fruity Loops users and the Garageband
users. For the FL users, you have to download a plug-in called Antares and drag it into Fruity
Loops. As for the Mac and Garageband users..... you guys are very lucky. GarageBand comes
with a built-in Autotuning system. To use it, at the top click Track> New Track> Real
Instrument> Create. If your Audio Region at the bottom is not visible, at the top, click
Control> Show Editor, or just press Apple+E. Turn the "Enhance Tuning" in your Audio Region
all the way up. Then look just below that switch, and check in the box "Limit to Key".
Step 4: Recording the video
To record the video, you're going to need a decent quality camera. But just because you have a
decent quality camera alone doesn't mean that the video is going to be great. It's all about how
you put it together. As far as quality goes, I recommend the Jazz Elite HD Portable Camera for

3. starters. It's a $500 high definition camera, but you can get it for only $240 at
electrotech.totalwarehouse.com. I haven't found a cheaper high definition video camera online yet,
but if I do, I will let you know. Also, looking into getting a tripod would help for stabilization. You
can find those at Wal-mart for pretty low prices.
Also, if you're trying to make money on YouTube, make sure to keep other company products'
logos and titles out of the video as much as possible. YouTube can prevent money making from
almost any logo being shown publicly in your video. This also includes logos on shirts, so just
make sure that whatever clothing you choose to wear for the video, that the emblems or logos of
your shirt's producers are not visible.
Step 5: Putting the video together
Hook up your camera to the computer and transport all of your video clips in a folder. For PC video
production beginners, I recommend using Windows Movie Maker. It comes with every Windows
computer. If you can't find it, just click Start (or the windows icon for Vista users) at the bottom left
side of the screen. Go to Programs> Accesssories> Windows Movie Maker, or Programs>
Accessories> Entertainment> Windows Movie Maker. If you can't find it in either of those
places, go to My Computer, open up the Local Drive (usually C:), and go to the Program Files
folder. Look for a folder called Windows Movie Maker and look for the startup icon. For Mac users,
there is iMovie. The video clips can be dragged or imported into both of these programs to use. If
your PC or Mac came with the Adobe Collection, you may also use Adobe Premiere Pro, which is
compatible with both computers. Adobe After Effects is a more advanced software to use for
special effects, but you can easily learn it through 10 short tutorials at videocopilot.net. A much
more advanced video editor is Final Cut Pro for the Mac users, used by real industry movie
makers.
There are video tutorials for all of these softwares on YouTube, but, in my opinion, Windows Movie
Maker is ridiculously easy to use; but Adobe Premiere has more tools and effects that you can do
to your video. Adobe Premiere also has green screen keying, which Movie Maker does not have. If
you are looking to make music video production or music production a future career, I suggest you
look into a college called Full Sail University. It is known as the "Harvard of Entertainment and
Media Schools" and has one of the three best film programs in the world and the top 5 Recording
Arts programs in the country. It is a high-paced school, and you can receive your Bachelor's in
either program in 20 months. To look further into this school, visit the Full Sail website.
Make sure you render your video in a high quality setting too. "Rendering" just means saving the
video in video format. The higher the quality, the longer it may take to finish saving the video, but it
may be worth it. If you have the Jazz Elite HD Portable Camera, you may not have to worry about
quality as much.
Extra Step: Earn Money Through YouTube
To earn money, simply reach over 200,000 views with your video. YouTube will send you
instructions on how to set it up and will review your video to make sure that there are no copyright
infringements.
But as for music videos in general, I've seen the best and I've seen the worst. The quality of the

4. final product all comes down to how you use these tools to the best of your creative ability. Show
laziness in production, and lazy is how the final product will appear to be. Happy music making!
Zachary Esters
CEO/ Country Boi Entertainment Music
Logo Designer/ Light Productions
Film Student / Full Sail University
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