From the course: DIY Video Production for Content Creators, from Setup to Editing

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What's the purpose of your content?

What's the purpose of your content?

(upbeat music) - All right, before setting out and hitting record, some pre-production can save you a lot of time later on, if not avoiding having to do it all over again. Whenever you're creating content for the internet, it's important to think about some things first. So the first thing is going to be defining where this video is going to end up. If it's going to be on a website, if it's going to be on social media. If yes, which one? If you're going to post it on YouTube, for example, this is going to dictate some things like, for example, the format, if you're going to use it horizontally or vertically. And also about the pacing and the length of the video, which is going to change dramatically depending on where you post it. Instagram or Facebook stories, TikTok or YouTube Shorts, they're all in vertical format and it's 1080 by 1920. This is also called in many cameras as 1080p or full HD, and for this, you're definitely going to be better off recording already vertically. Now…

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