High-quality videos enhance your training or coaching significantly. Simply film yourself with your own smartphone and share the video with your participants, clients, or even the entire world. At blink.it, we have curated a selection of technical tools over time that we recommend for your video shoot with the smartphone. Learn now how the blink.it kit helps you create quality and affordable videos!
Good sound and good lighting in your studio@home
Creating video quality is incredibly easy today thanks to our digital companions: With any common smartphone, you can shoot high-resolution videos and share them directly with the world. For filming in your studio@home – that is, your own four walls – a handful of technical items will help you.
The most important is good sound, so we recommend an external microphone that you can easily clip onto your collar for a selfie video. A tripod with a smartphone holder and a bright floor lamp also ensure a stable image and good light. A self-timer is the icing on the cake – it helps you later so you have to cut less material.
You can find all recommendations for the tripod, light, microphone, and other tools in this article – or directly here as a concise list for download:
And if you're worried that the quality will not be sufficient with the smartphone despite the mentioned tools: Just try it out, and you will see that you do not need an expensive professional camera. Shooting with the smartphone is not only much cheaper (since you probably already own one), but also much easier.
Avoid the expensive purchase of high-tech devices, and save the effort of dealing with these devices! This way, you achieve 80% quality with 20% effort and cost.
Comprehensive information on smartphone video shooting can be found on our info page:
Create videos for online courses – easily with your smartphone
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If you film your videos easily on your smartphone, you create at least 80% of the quality with 20% of the (including financial) effort – compared to hiring an external video professional.
Our purchase recommendation for your video shoot: The blink.it kit
When we started blink.it as a startup a few years ago, we looked for ways to shoot high-quality yet affordable videos. And we found that it works!
Today, we support trainers, coaches, and companies daily in creating online courses. Videos are a popular medium here as well because they are entertaining, convey content effectively, and create a certain closeness between the trainer and the participants.
Since we are often asked which technical tools we recommend for video shooting, we have compiled all purchase recommendations in one list: the blink.it kit. The following aspects were important to us in selecting the blink.it kit:
Quality: Stability and high functionality are mandatory.
Price: You can get the entire blink.it kit on Amazon for under 250 euros.
Travel compatibility: You can easily store the blink.it kit in a small suitcase and take it anywhere.
For the compilation of the blink.it kit, we have extensively tested various devices and evaluated them based on the criteria mentioned above. Therefore, we can sincerely pass on all our purchase recommendations to you and use the blink.it kit ourselves in daily life.
The blink.it kit is a compilation of technical tools for your video shoot with the smartphone.
The blink.it kit includes the following tools for your video equipment:
Tripod
Microphone
Extension cable
Lighting
Smartphone holder
Self-timer Here you see the blink.it kit in detail:
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The blink.it kit: Our recommendations for your smartphone video shoot – with microphone, tripod, extension cable, light, smartphone holder, and self-timer.
Extra: For editing your video, we also recommend software that we have tested and found to be good – filmora as editing software for PC or Mac and filmoraGo as a cost-effective and quick option for video editing on smartphones for Apple and Android.
Our technical recommendations for video shooting in detail
Enough announced – here you will find our individual purchase recommendations for your video shoot on the smartphone:
Microphone
The most important thing when creating videos is good sound – while the output on the smartphone is often sufficient, you are on the safe side with an external microphone. Here we recommend the Rode SmartLav Lavalier Microphone for about 50 euros.
Extension cable
So you can stand several meters away from your smartphone and record yourself, you need an extension cable in addition to the microphone. Here we recommend the 3-meter cable from KabelDirekt for about 9 euros. Note: Be sure to choose the 4-pole headset extension.
Tripod
A stable image is important for high video quality, in addition to good sound. Attach your smartphone and light to a tripod and adjust the height to suit you. Here we recommend the NOMIS light tripod for about 40 euros, which you can easily fold and is thus travel-friendly.
Lighting
For your first test recordings, you don't necessarily need an external light – but it helps ensure you have enough light in your studio@home, even on darker days. We recommend the Yongnuo YN-300 LED Video Light 5500K for about 80 euros, including remote control, battery, and charger.
Smartphone holder
To attach your smartphone to the tripod, you need a clamp or smartphone holder. We recommend the smartphone arm Joby Action Clamp and the Joby Grip Tight holder for a total of about 38 euros.
Self-timer
A self-timer helps you during filming so you don't have to run behind the camera every time to start recording. This saves you time and nerves later on while shooting. We recommend the Neuftech Bluetooth Remote Selfie Trigger for about 7 euros.
Get started with smartphone videos
Do you want to share the purchase recommendations with colleagues or keep them for your own overview? We have compiled the stated purchase recommendations into a list – each with a direct link to Amazon, price, image, and description. To help with the actual shooting, our manual for the blink.it kit also explains step by step how to position the tripod, attach the smartphone, etc.
Perhaps you already work with one or another item from the blink.it kit? Then share your experiences with us and other trainers or coaches! We learn the most from each other – and we will keep the list of purchase recommendations as up-to-date as possible.
