Hey everybody, it's been a while since we achieved
our milestone of 100 ,000 subscribers on YouTube
and we felt it necessary as a tribute to show
you just how much it takes to produce a season
and an episode. And if you're one of those watching
this right now, thinking of starting your own
vidcast or podcast, you might just want to stick
around and see just how much we do just to produce
a show. First things first, if you guys are thinking
about starting your own podcast, you must make
sure that you've got at least a good PC. I would
not recommend anything else but a PC with Windows.
And make sure that you've got a good graphics
card. You've got more than enough required. If
you're doing a video... A vidcast instead of
just a podcast, you need to have a lot of space.
So you really have got to configure a very good
PC, okay? We've got two screens. You can see
one here and one over there. That's our preview
screen. And that's what our guests and myself
as a host will be able to see when we are actually
shooting and recording over at the other end
of the hot seat. I like to call that the hot
seat. So, and the next thing you need to find
out for yourself is exactly what hardware we
need. And you can have a sound card. You must
have a sound card. You can either have an audio
interface or a mixer board. We decided to have
this mixer board right here because we need to
have at least four channels going at the same
time. And I know for a fact in the space that
I can fill right in my hot seat area. would be
at least myself and two guests right there. And
my video producer Kai, he would need to have
a microphone. I'm using his microphone right
now. And of course, where microphones are concerned,
you can see I'm using a wireless mic, which Kai
uses during our shoots. And this is in a Shure
SLX2 wireless mic. But I do not use any other
microphones except for Shure. I mean, these guys
are in the forefront of, especially for podcasting.
You can see that most of the mics I have are
all podcast mics and they're dynamic microphones.
In my hot seat, we have plenty of Shure mics.
uh i have some spare as well as a matter of fact
everything you see there are all sure the mv7
series uh the sm7db that's my personal mic uh
and uh and that's what you need to also plan
to have and in shot as you can see i have uh
several cameras these cameras are basically Webcams,
they're Logitech's. We decided to use those simply
because it's a plug and play and they're all
HD quality anyway. And we've been working this
way all the while and we just fit them on tripods
and there we go. So we actually have a three
camera setup. And we can have four, as a matter
of fact, as you can see the one we're using right
now, I'm being shot at with my phone as we're
recording this. So what else do we need? What
else do we do right here at CCBTV Podcast Studio
is that we also use, of course, your typical
Google Drive. We use our typical Google Drive,
and this is where we start planning stuff. And
what do I do? Of course, on WordDoc, we plan
talk sets. I'll just give you an example. These
are all planned out. And how do I plan this?
I do a lot of research and I use my AI to help
me do it. So we plan all of our talk sets, questions.
Everything is here, including my voiceovers that
I usually would use. I mean, since we started
season six, we use intros, voiceover intros for
our guests before we start the show. So it's
all here. My scripts are here. Questions and
all are there. And at the same time, before we
start a season, Kai and I, we go deep into some
planning, and then we have a format of how we
plan our season production schedule. For each
of our series, you know that we've got a lot
of series. We've got from the tribute show to
Singapore's Music Icons, to the I Love My Job
series, to Hobbies and Lobbies, and to the ones
for the writers and authors called Ink Spill.
and so on and so forth. So we got all kinds of
series, and we actually planned them out in our
production sheet. Now, we decide who we're going
to pay tribute to. We decide on the people that
have got interesting jobs or stories to tell.
And then after doing that, we actually work on
sending out... our text messages to them to ask
them for their assent if they could do us the
honour of being on our show. Beyond that though,
I will send out invitations and I have got all
my invites ready, templated. So I send out invitations
to my guests, official invitations with the dates
and details, dates, times, venues, etc. to appear
on the show. So all these are all the pre -production
work that we do. Once we've got all that started
and going, then we wait for shoot days to occur.
Now, before anything else, before we started
out working on this podcast, we realized there
are a couple of things we need to have. We decided
that we will work with RSS .com because with
this platform, it goes out to so many podcast
platforms. All I need to do is upload my audios
here. And the audio versions of the shows goes
out to multiple, multiple platforms, including
YouTube Music and to Spotify. And then we upload,
of course, first in our primary platform, which
is YouTube. We upload it into YouTube Studio.
You need to create your channel there. You also
need to pay for subscription here for rss .com.
Okay, you got to pay for subscription. Beyond
that, of course, naturally, we have to start
our own pages in our business suite on both Facebook
and Instagram, where we also upload our trailers
and our reels. So we decided to do stuff that
after each shoot, we have to cut a particular
segment of the show that we think would be great,
good enough to be for the purpose of being a
teaser or trailer. We decided on Wednesday nights,
trailers go out. for the full release of our
videos on a Friday night. So we upload these,
only the reels and the trailers, onto the Facebook
and onto the Meta platforms, Facebook and Instagram.
And then, of course, they also go out on TikTok.
And then when Spotify got Spotify Video, because
the audio has already gone out through the RSS
.com platform. And from there, once the audio
launches, I can actually launch videos by uploading
a video onto the audio platform. And then what
you'll see in the Chris Hansen conversation,
if you, you know, I hope you've got us in your
playlist on Spotify, you will see us all on video.
So that's that where, you know, the planning
and the pre -production and the post -production
is concerned, but not entirely because we got
to also plan our folders and where we have all
guests as you can see. So we create our season.
Of course, naturally in my folders, I have the
Chris Hansen conversation and we have all of
our seasons and assets all here. Our assets would
mean our opening reel, our outros, our intros,
etc. And also all logos that we've created and
designed. And we do most of our designs and thumbnail
designs as well. That's also another thing that
we need to do for our shows. And I do all of
the thumbnail designs using Canva Pro. We also
pay. for Canva Pro subscriptions. And then, of
course, per season, as you can see, we create
folders. And in each of these folders, we have
our episodes that after post -production goes
into our export folder. Raw folder would mean
that all of our, whatever we've recorded using
the OBS goes in, for the shoot itself, goes into
this raw folder. And from these folders, from
the raw folder, What we do is that we then go
into using Adobe Premiere Pro. Now that's the
big chunk that we actually spend money on because
it's really expensive. It's on the Creative Cloud
application. And using Premiere Pro, when we
come here, what we do is that we bring our raw
footage and import in for post -production purposes.
So as we're using the Adobe Premiere Pro, import
in the raw footages that were shot during the
actual interviews. And after doing that, then
Kai will start doing the post -production on
those videos. When we say post -production, it
means in the end it looks like, let's just pull
out a video or something that we've already done.
Like, for example, what we're shooting right
now is what we're showing you how we're actually
doing stuff, okay? So he brings in and he imports
in everything from the raw folder. And there
you go. It's all imported in. So what Kai would
do is that he will also bring in our assets.
As I showed you earlier, we have an assets folder.
And that would bring across our opening reels
and our end credit reels. You can see that we've
got plenty of versions. So Kai has brought across
our assets already. And this is where we will
start taking a look at the audio now. So the
Chris Hansen conversation, we pride ourselves
to really ensure that we provide or we give you
clear, good audio. And in order to do that, because
it's great working with Adobe, you can bring
across from Adobe Premiere Pro over to Adobe
Audition. And that would be the digital audio
suite. There you go. And then we start. to put
in our presets. We built our own presets and
this is one of them. And then after that, we
start playing to listen. And we need to turn
on the... We have a monitor and the monitor is
a studio monitor and we monitor the sound from
there and then after that, we do our post -production
work. There's one important factor as well that
we forgot to mention. As you can see, there's
a glow coming on this side. And the glow is because
we've got a soft light. We make sure that we
also have proper lighting and that everything
is going to turn out really nice on our HD recording.
Okay, so that's about the size of it, everybody.
This is what it takes for us to run a show. And
believe you me, it's not easy work. And to those
of you who continue to support the show and to
all of our subscribers, once again, Kai and I,
thank you so very much. You've seen the effort
that we put in for each and every show. It's
never been easy for any single show. Every shoot's
a new shoot. Every show is a new show. And we'll
do our best to continue bringing you some more
quality content. This is Chris Hansen. Thank
you for joining us. See you again. Bye -bye.
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