[Amp into Reactive Load] or [good modeler] -> IRs -> interface -> DAW
That's the fastest and easiest way to make your guitar clips sound pro. The key to getting the best sounding high gain tones from there is finding the right IRs for you. They're more important than the amp for getting the best high gain tones, imo.
There's nothing inherently wrong with IR tech. Anybody who says they can tell the difference in a real cab/mic recording and an IR of that same mic/cab is full of shit. They can't. I agree with
@DanTravis62 that you should probably audition a bunch of IR's and find what works for your specific purposes and what sounds best to your ear, rather than just going with some flavor of the month IR pack that some influencer was paid to say sounds good right now.
Aside from that, find an interface and a DAW you like. Make the recording process as frictionless as possible. Learn the DAW, setup hotkeys that work for you, and always keep anything you want to record staged and setup for recording. That way, when you get an idea, putting that idea to tape will be as simple as opening some program on your computer and hitting the big red button right at that moment.
If you want to make video, then use another camera or iphone to record video simultaneously with the DAW recording. At the start of the recording, click your hand against something on camera to give you a target to sync video and audio during editing.
The best free video editor I've found is called Davinci Resolve. It works for PC and I'm pretty sure it works for mac as well, and it's easily fully-featured enough to do anything you'd want to do on youtube. Within your video editor, import the iphone video and remove the audio. Then import your DAW audio alongside your video. OR, you can just take a picture of something and use that as your "video" while your audio plays. Use the hand click you did to sync up audio and video and start cutting and editing from there.
