I got up early this morning and edited three videos. I use an app called “Open Shot Video Editor”. Like most open-source software, you can send the makers some money. I try to do this once a year for the various apps I use. My faves are OpenShot (video), Musescore (music notation), Audacity (audio editing), GIMP (photoshop equivalent), and Inkscape (Illustrator equivalent). I encourage you to use these. You'll be supporting real people instead of corporate greed-pigs and it'll actually cost you less money.
To make a video, I mount my phone on a mic-stand and play the song. Any more than three takes and I gotta go back and practice some more. It doesn't have to be perfect. I want it to be real. I do, however, want good sound. The phone is fine for recording but I use an app called ffmpeg to extract the sound from the video so I can compress and EQ it with an audio editor like Audacity. Then I dump it all into OpenShot, edit, make titles, and finalize the video. I upload the video to YouTube and copy the link to the video page on my website.
Making videos is more stressful to me than playing live. I get hyper-sensitive to every little nuance. Sometimes I freak out and screw up perfectly simple things. Playing live, the time flows by and you interact with the audience and the other players. Still, I guess it's worth it. I have some record of a segment of time. I don't get that many views but according to my YouTube page, people do listen.
An early morning spent productively feels good. I hope you experience something similar in your day too. Thanks for visiting my page and letting me share my thoughts with you.