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Shooting Webcam
Videos

There are three ways to record a video for YouTube. If you
have a big budget, you can go with a professional record-
ing, complete with lights, sound, professional-grade video
cameras, and the like. If that’s outside your budget, and it
probably is, you can record with a consumer-grade cam-
corder. And if even that sounds pricey to you, you can
record your videos with a standard computer webcam.
In fact, recording YouTube videos with a webcam has
some benefits, chief among them the immediacy and flex-
ibility that come from the format. And it’s a very low cost
solution: You can purchase a webcam for as little as $30.
Should you record your business videos with a webcam?
And if so, how do you do it? That’s what we cover in this
chapter.