How to Record a Budget Video Podcast with Two People

[@bpmou9230]

Had been searching for a simple overview for a video podcast setup with the equipment. You crushed it and told me everything I needed to know in less than 15 minutes. Thank you!

[@danielkinney6325]

Your SOUND is really AWESOME. Whatever you are doing you are doing it right.

[@belmont93]

I know you guys do mainly videos but I’m trying to do a podcast and you killed it. I just want the meat and potatoes. I don’t need nothing else and you delivered. Give me the confidence this. Thanks you very much and best wishes to you. 🙏🏾👍🏾

[@ogonzilla]

Nice!! Thanks! Working on an update to this video

[@nchanathan5313]

It took me over a year to see the answer to my questions. Thank you guys so much .

[@DaCake2]

Hours of searching on youtube and I finally came across this gem of a video. You sir are the man. You covered everything I was curious about and I truly thank you. P.S. You guys are pretty funny haha. I'll have to listen to the show sometime.

[@sgkgurung8122]

LOVED your detailed yet short n sweet Info. JUSTTT WAT I NEEDED😘😘😘💃🏻

[@NubianHealer]

literally the best video I've found explaining a 2 people podcast set up. Thank you so much for this

[@ogonzilla]

Sure thing. I need to update it for remote online podcasting

[@NubianHealer]

@@ogonzilla omg please do🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@PlatypusAurelius]

What an excellent and simple setup that works without breaking the bank.

[@lstanfo11]

simple and straight the point without spending thousands of dollars just to get started. Great work!

[@JeremyGalloway]

Dang, Omar doesn’t half-ass anything! This is so pro!

[@MoeMorales]

Correct he is Full ass.... Er . Wait... What!?

[@rodneilrharris]

Just stumbled on this. You knocked this out of the park. I was totally stumped about the audio/video sync. Thanks Omar

[@ogonzilla]

Glad to help!

[@JayMacroPhotos]

Thank you for mentioning anchor. I’ve had trouble finding free podcast hosting.

[@JavierMercedes]

Running that backup! always a great idea!

[@ThedredgerTv]

Will try it out since we already have most of the equipment. Thanks a lot!

[@zackk8056]

This is the first video of yours I've come across and I just have to say you did such a wonderful and thorough job not only explaining your podcast setup but your workflow as well that I just had to subscribe. Thanks much for the words of wisdom!

[@adrianbenson2521]

This was great. Would love to see some more vids on audio/video editing, though I know that's not your focus.

[@finleydores-henderson8535]

Best podcast setup video

[@falatoronto]

Great set up. And your tips are easy to follow.

[@Christian-fs6yl]

Very very helpful! Might be starting a podcast soon!

[@mosspage4297]

Thank you Omar, you are awesome.

[@junior111292]

This was great!! Super helpful for what my friend and I are trying to setup.

[@darrencarter]

Great details. Thank you!

[@nicolassalascorrea]

damed!!!!! finally a great setup and perfect explanation . big hugs from brazil

[@mortarmopp3919]

FYI: That "rubber band thingy" is called a shock mount. Whenever possible, use an uncompressed audio/video file format as your raw material.

[@homewerk3355]

Thx Omar. Great video

[@LesShipsAhoy]

Omfg!!! Thank you sooo much for the thoroughness and informativeness of this video you don't even know how .uch of a help it was to see someone explain how they went through their process in a way that was easy to comprehend for those of us attempting to make our way through our own podcasting journey....THANK YOU✊👍

[@ogonzilla]

You got it! Link up your podcast when you get it going!

[@PeterV]

Exactly what I've been looking for! Thanks!

[@hafrica13]

Great info. Thanks for the video! Sharp watch too- looks like the SARB033?

[@whatcanwelearn9140]

Very informative video. Love from India 🇮🇳

[@joeh42032]

Awesome super informative answered a lot of my questions!! SUBSCRIBED!

[@FS890]

This is a great video. What did you do for lighting?

[@joshuareveles]

I would recommend getting the h4n Pro if you can’t get the h5. The h4n Pro has the exact same drivers as the h5 and the h6. I personally use it for my podcast and it sounds great

[@RussianwithDasha]

hey, thank you for the video! I recorded my first podcast and uploaded it on Anchor yesterday. I'm using a really cheap mic now, was looking for good and affordable solutions. thank you for your tips and easy explanations! I am going to download the Six colours patch and try it out.

[@entretenimientonacionaztec7839]

You have a new suscriber! awesome video!! thank you so much for all the effort in this video, one can tell.

[@davidzaph2501]

So what kind of video recorder would you suggest for recording up to 2 hours of video? Your audio and video is really great and high quality, a half hour wont cut it for what I'm trying to do, oh and something that may be budget friendly, thank you so much for any help.

[@mikecastles]

So, not really photo related, but very cool. I've not even thought about what goes into a vlog/podcast and this was pretty cool to learn something new. Thanks Omar!!

[@ogonzilla]

Thank YOU!!

[@janetmorris90]

This was super helpful. Thanks!

[@TheYaquiVegan]

Thanks! I just uploaded my 1st video podcast 🙏🏽

[@jaywilliam1567]

This video is perfect! Thanks for making it

[@reyvictor75]

I just found you. I already like you! Awesome content!

[@a-musing]

Thank you so much. Really in depth and explained a lot.

[@duringthemeanwhilst]

wow all this to produce your podcasts??? and the secret is they still look thrown together ;-)

[@MoeMorales]

during the meanwhilst hahahaha soooo sooo hurtful

[@CollectingWeekly]

Totally blown away by this video! Thank you!!

[@ogonzilla]

You are welcome!

[@danielho5635]

6:00 You probably know this already -- this is for others. Don't blow your Canon 5D's mic in. Your levels out of the Zoom are line level, but the Canon has a mic in (lower voltage), so there's a voltage mismatch. When using this setup, you should have the line out on its lowest setting and the Cannon on its lowest setting and then bring the line out level up very very carefully. You can easily blow the Canon's mic inputs. There are 2 "more official" options -- A. Use a DI box, say a "Multimedia DI" from Radial Engineering to get the levels matched better. B. Use a small mixer with a mic level outputs. Alternatively, if you have a more capable mixer, you can do all the routing to the Zoom and Canon there -- routing the line level output through a DI to get mic level for the camera. It can also be your headphone amp via a splitter. 9:30 FYI, "Raw Audio" sounds much better than the processed one. The processed one has too much compression and a definite high end roll-off. I personally suggest doing some EQing of the raw audio before converting to mp3. I personally suggest a bit rate of 128 or 160 kbps CBR (constant bit rate) or a experimenting w/ VBR (variable bit rate) because it's speech

[@ogonzilla]

Thanks for your input. Appreciate the time you took to help others!

[@PoetWithPace]

This was so useful. thank you! How did/where the splitter for headphones work?

[@halofourteen]

Wow! Thanks again Omar! Always knew something new!

[@elnuevemendez]

This was great. I loved understanding the setup. How do I go live and record at the same time.

[@brandonkriegerKNSS]

great video, I would have loved to hear you talk more about your video setup. With the Canon do you have the 29-minute recording limit?

[@Noealz]

I got me the Zoom H1 - it's for people as poor as me : )

[@gattizone]

Super helpful!!! Thank you!!

[@russellhays4982]

great video, what is the all in cost ? thanks

[@es38143]

Thanks, guys! This was so helpful!

[@garyschumacher9461]

Omar awesome video, thanks so much

[@Aesch]

Bookmark 2 self 1:10 Video Podcast Setup :)

[@SecdumSociety]

Learned a lot ! Q. Is there anyway you can record audio and video from a camera ?! I have a Sony a7iii and a blue yetti !

[@skakdosmer]

Wow, full frame cameras for budget podcasts? We're obviously talking LARGE budgets here!

[@DiilanDh]

instead of the Atomos you spoke about for recording maybe you can use a elgato camlink and record your camera feed on a computer?

[@childishrare]

Yes everything I need very helpful

[@leedsman4]

How have I only just learned you have a podcast?! There’s my day gone...

[@ogonzilla]

Robert Chambers Haha. Stretch them out. Lol. No binge necessary

[@Tonyvpodcast]

Great video! Are you able to go over camera settings, I have a rebel T6 with a kit lens and 50mm lens. Am I able to shoot with that to get video like yours ??

[@jonathanRodriguez-vq4tb]

Hola estos microfono samson Q2U se pueden conectar directamente a la cara con un adaptador plus o no..?? saludos

[@adrianagil9224]

What equipment do you recommend for a beginner podcaster who will be on the go? Something more portable/manageable

[@katherine.roesler]

So helpful thank you !

[@geraldguzman1537]

so you sync the audio then take that and put it into anchor? Do you use the ads anchor gives or do you not do reads?

[@arpitsharma]

hey great video.I have 2 USB mics I want to know dos Zoom H5 will help to connect and record or I would need to buy a special recorder for those mics

[@PaulWon]

Zoom h5 takes XLR and not USB mics. Hope that helps

[@ofthewayministries]

This is extremely helpful as we're considering the video podcast avenue for creating content. Why did you process the audio in Garageband prior to syncing the footage in FCP, instead of simply syncing the footage and post-producing the audio directly in FCP as you would for videos/movies? Thanks.

[@blakekircher3852]

What camera do you recommend in 2021 for podcast on a budget ?

[@endtimeswriter]

good tips to consider

[@Kit2Canada]

Excellent info, thank you!

[@inSpyr]

Hey Omar curious if you’re still using Anchor for your podcast distribution ?

[@ryans_life]

Great video Omar.

[@rafaelsilvaalmeida7071]

Hi. Great video! I want to star a video podcast. Could I use a Canon sl2 or iphone 11 to record video? I pretend record something around 1hour. Thank you so much.

[@TheNewArtSchool]

How did you get over the 29min 59sec limitation on the Canon?

[@nicolas.leger3]

Hey Omar awesome reviews. Please come with some recommendations for batteries for Fuji. I tried the Wasabi power after another youtuber recommendation but they get drained super fast...

[@chrislj2890]

Great tips Omar! This makes me want to duplicate your whole setup, and I don't even do videos. 😜

[@Dirgabishal]

Tyankyou U made me clear❤

[@gavinhanna1214]

Hello i have a question about the zoom h5 recorder, my question is do i need some type of sd card to insert into the recorder to record the audio on?

[@cyprussportsclub580]

how do you deal with the camera battery when is down when you have a 3 hour podcast?

[@mcponce]

Great video. On fcpx how do you make the main audio file sync with the video clip and not the camera audio. My video is getting part of the zoom track and then halfway though it puts the camera audio as the main audio and screws up the sound. Thanks for the video.

[@BrokerMartin]

Stupid question,but how does audio and video link up. You using garage band for audio. How do they combine.

[@loufonolleras5544]

Great tips..thanks O

[@MoeMorales]

LOU!!!

[@loufonolleras5544]

Moe Morales Hola Papito! Missed seeing you on the set with O.

[@DomGio]

I'm on anchor also would this setup work for 3 people also

[@robertv58]

So I am looking at doing a pod cast with a friend but we live different places would have to be phone call in can I use a zoom model? To do this what do I need?

[@ToothyBeej]

This was helpful, thanks

[@romainries2723]

Thanks ! Great video ! It definitely helps !!

[@joshpitre13]

For the on stage stand do I need to buy a separate clip piece to connect with my microphone? I’m thinking of getting the atr2100. Will that work ?

[@ogonzilla]

Stand doesn't come with. But my mic did.

[@jonb6206]

So what are your noise gate settings like sitting that close with someone? Do you experience any mic bleed if one of you laughs loud while the other person is talking? That's an issue I'm currently trying to figure out now so I can do 2 person conversations. First try had so much mic bleed it went to the recycling bin.

[@luke_1234]

Do you need a soundboard?

[@thenexthobby]

Always dig learning the secret sauce! I've been curious how the sound is synced to video. Does this stuff use a timecode, or? I mean, you start the camera, start the Zoom ... but even if you started them within a second of each other ... you see what I'm getting at? Does Final Cut analyze and "know" how to do the sync? Thanks. I also agree with Daniel Ho below. The "patch" seems a little heavy-handed, sonically. The raw audio is really pretty decent as-is (Zoom or Canon audio), and the plugin patch does roll off the highs more than necessary. It's giving your voices some "weight" (FM radio deejay effect, i.e. pronounced mid bass boost) which is perfectly fine. Cheap mics have a tendency to sound "bright" (like blown jpeg highlights you can't fix in post) but some fairly simple edits in GarageBand should mitigate that and add that "heft" the patch plugin adds. FWIW I listen through Grado SR60's; not the last word in accuracy but not phone earbuds either. I view audio edits like I do image edits ... I make change, go "wow, that's it" and then maybe _back off a little bit from the change_ because I know first impressions are more about the change and less so about it being as "right" as it should be. Hope that makes sense. Don't forget to audition your audio edits from a few different devices. You've got those Klipsch there, use them also.

[@ogonzilla]

Final Cut Pro does it automatically. All you have to do is choose both the video and audio track and choose sync from the clip menu. Pretty easy. Thanks for your audio insight! I think we were going for radio Howard Stern deeps with our post...I'm wondering if a more open clear/clean sound is better for podcasting. Like Serial or This American Life...

[@thenexthobby]

Thanks, I figured syncing would be easier than I imagined. re: audio What you're doing when you design or choose a signature sound is essentially mastering. And mastering is shaping the sound for a given playback method (historically.) I'm not as familiar with Serial as I should be but given that This American Life is on NPR, they're aiming for what used to be referred to as "broadcast standard" quality. That just means professional, accurate sound, so that _the better your playback gear, the better it sounds_ . Stern is closer to FM DJ sound (no surprise), very compressed sound that deletes nuance or inflection and favors the attention-grabbing aspects of minimal dynamic range. This technique helps hide or mask flaws in cheap speakers and other crap gear. Think "loudness wars" in pop music. (Or don't.) So ... an argument could be made that mastering intentionally sacrifices best sound on decent gear if the final product ironically sounds better through laptop speakers or phone earbuds. That could be very smart, or not. But to me that's like saying you'd never make better images when all someone's gonna do is look at them on a phone. One day ... they might want a big print.

[@thenexthobby]

And don't forget you can give each of you different EQ tweaks. Moe's already got a deep voice and benefits from the clarity we heard without the patch thing; you could always boost yours a little if you think its a little too nasal. After all, Howard Stern probably sounds a little different in real life.

[@evanhanley8429]

I have a Galaxy tab s6, can I record with the focusrite 2i2 using a type-c to type-c adapter? And what program would you suggest? thanks!

[@ejgutierrez9039]

I learned a lot. Thank you

[@davidberlant57]

Question, the mesh pop filter you recommended is unavailable. can you suggest another one that will work with the Samson Q2U? Thank you

[@KlockoFett]

Google: K&M pop filter

[@michaelscarn9146]

Is there any cheaper recorder for two people?

[@nathancass3559]

This is great! Thanks heaps for sharing 🤙🏼

[@theartofcompetition5965]

so you dont use a mixer? did i miss that part?

[@AnamariaDS]

When you set up your video, did you have any problems with focusing on both of you at the same time, even when you moved a little bit on your seats?

[@ogonzilla]

AnamariaDS yes. Some of our videos are blurry. Now we use the Sony a6400 with face tracking

[@LooHan]

Would this setup work for a live stream? Otherwise, what setup would you recommend for a live stream?

[@PointlessFilming]

Hey Omar! Love the setup! Just a quick question: I’m currently running a setup with my gaming laptop. I got 2 Blue Yeti’s and want to record my podcast off of OBS. I’m gonna probably end up buying the camera you mentioned in this video. Would I be better off just going the same route as you with the Zoom H5? Keep in mind, Blue Yeti’s are USB only, not XLR. Thank you!

[@ogonzilla]

No, I wouldn't go Zoom for your setup. Instead, use a computer/laptop for the microphones. Maybe a good webcam or a Camlink which turns any camera into a webcam. PS: We don't use this camera anymore. Now using the Sony a6400 because there is no record limit.

[@PointlessFilming]

Omar Gonzalez Photography thank you for the quick response! I snagged a widescreen Logitech webcam, which will be about 5-8 feet away from us on the table. Thank you, you’ve earned a subscriber!

[@anetteemilie2188]

Thanks - this is awesome.

[@fatimahgoni]

Is it possible to just use the two Microphones directly to the camera without the ZOOMH5?

[@Glee_world]

Nope because the camera only has on mic impute which goes into the zoom , were the two mics are plugged in , hope this helps .