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In this course, Caleb and Wistia walk through the essentials of what you need to know to start shooting and editing videos as well as how we create our videos here at Fizzle. Whether you're just getting started with recording your screen and talking over it or you're ready to invest in some equipment, this course will teach you what you need to know.

Benny Lewis can speak over a dozen languages, has been traveling full-time for over a decade, and runs the travel/language learning website Fluent in 3 Months. Over the past five years blogging he has built up an audience of half a million readers a month, spoken at TEDx multiple times, and nearly 20,000 subscribers on YouTube alone (with almost 3,000,000 views).

Choosing a host for your online videos is a complex and confusing decision to make. In this quick course Caleb will help you figure out which host to use, the pro's and con's of going with a free versus paid one, what to consider when you want your videos to be private or behind a paywall, and why video analytics and SEO should factor heavily into your decision.

Video is one of the strongest trends in online communication. It can be the essential catalyst for your business or play a killer supporting role alongside other materials. But making videos can be an exhausting, all-encompassing task. It's easy to get bogged down in questions, confusion and doubt and, ultimately, end up making something that works against.