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1. Course Intro: Today, I want to go over
the YouTube Create App. And if you haven't
used this app, it's actually pretty cool, in particular for social media. That's really its
target audience. And as you can tell
here at the top, they're really pitching
their AI stuff, too. They're VO three. You
can edit with AI. You can create images with AI, and you can actually
generate videos. So you create the images
and generate videos. Not really why I
would use this app. I'm using this app to
do social media stuff. Okay.
2. YouTube Create • Start a Project & Edit: Oh you simply create
a new project. So I go to videos,
landscape or portrait. And if you're going to
import multiple clips, grab them in the sequence
order you want to edit in. I know that seems a
little bit weird, but you would grab
multiple clips and you can see it
as one, two, three. So when you import them then, it drops them in the edit
timeline in that order. So now you have a very
rough assembly edit done, and you can go in and trim that as needed. You
can click on a clip. You can grab the handles, and you can trim it that
way if you'd like. That's the way I've been
doing it primarily. And when you find the endpoint, you come down here and
bring the next clip down. And it works okay, especially again for doing
short form video. This is all I would
ever use this for. And let's say, though,
that this is 16 by nine, but you wanted to work
with it in nine by 16. Click on aspect ratio, and you can choose that
nine by 16 or one to one. So if I wanted to do nine by 16, you can actually scale
the video inside there, too, just by pinching. And reposition it. But for this, we'll go back to 16 by nine. That's how the footage
was originally shot. But then if you want to make
an edit, you hit split, and now you've got
two clips and you can either delete one by
hitting the trash can, and now you've got
that short clip, or you could just trim it
like I showed a second ago.
3. YouTube Create • Video Effects: Within here, you've
got a lot of filters. These are almost like
Instagram filters, is the way I would
classify them. Changes the look,
changes the color. This isn't actually like
color grading or anything. You're actually doing a filter. But when you apply it, again, kind of like Instagram, you
can lower the strength. So these are all completely subjective and to taste
depending on your project. Effects are kind
of the same thing. They're more or less overlays. And I do like how they preview them right
as you click on. Most of these are kind of
gimmicky, in my opinion, but there are a few
that are interesting. Again, very subjective. One thing too, if you
find one you like, like this fade
look or something, you can hit the
apply to all button, and they'll apply to every
clip in the edit timeline. So now all those have it on
there. So I do like that. That's a pretty cool feature,
and you can undo that. You've also got
traditional adjustments, and these are actually
pretty good, too. Brightness, contrast, highlights, basically doing color correction
and color grading. It is nice that an
app like this has so many features because one thing I failed to
mention at the beginning, this is a completely free app. You also got a lot of different
transitions you can do. You click on that transition, and you can choose any kind
of transition you want, like maybe a TV glitch. Then you can also
adjust the speed. You can rotate a clip.
You can delete a clip. You can duplicate a
clip. Like when you duplicate a clip, it puts
it in right after it. So basically inserts it
to the right. We do that. So again, you have a
lot of control in here, surprising amount of control,
again, for a free app. And for doing social media, I think it's more than
fine in that respect.
4. YouTube Create • Titles & Captions: You can go to text, and so you can do plain text, and you can type in
whatever you want. And then once the
text is up there, you have the same
kind of handles, and then you can
position anywhere you want on the different
video layer. Then you can go to animation. Then you can animate
the text on or off. Or let me undo that. You can go to text effects. These are just stylized text. So some of these are
kind of gimmicky, too. Again, it's very subjective. You can do whatever you want. And then you have the
option to do captions. And so captions works just like it does in other apps
like Cap cut, et cetera. So you would choose your source, which is the sound from video, and then you would
choose your language. And in this case, it's English. And then from there,
it actually needs to connect to the Internet,
and it takes a while. I sped it up here, but it's
actually kind of slow. So it's analyzing
the entire edit, and now I've got my captions. New BinQ monitor, 32 inch four K. Hope it works okay
with the Max studio. And then you can customize them. You can go in and edit if
you find any mistakes, which there often
is, by the way. You can change the font, a lot of different font options. You can change the
color of the font. Typically white is what I do, but, you know, whatever
you want to do. Then you can change
the background. You can add a background,
which depending on what your video looks
like, can be a good idea. And you can bold, underline, italicize, a lot of
different ways to go there. And then you can,
of course, position the captions where you
want on the screen, and whatever you do to the
one, it affects all of them. So it puts them
in the same spot.
5. YouTube Create • Audio Tools: You've got audio cleanup, which is exactly
what it sounds like, it's using AI to clean up noisy audio or if you
have Echoe audio. You've also got volume, and so the volume just does
exactly what it says. You can either mute it
or you can lower it. And that's on a
clip or on music. Audio features in this are really weak. That's
its weakest point. For instance, you
can't separate, at least in this
version of the app, you can't separate
audio and video clips. There are workarounds for sure, but you can't
separate them. Also record a voiceover
directly into your phone, directly
in the timeline. Sound, you can add music, and you can use the music
here that YouTube offers. They've got a note right
up here at the top, zero cost royalty
free soundtracks. So assuming this is YouTube, this would be cleared
to work on YouTube. You could also pull
sound effects, or you can bring
in your own music. So for these
purposes, we'll just grab this technoi thing. Drop it in, and now
it's on the timeline. And just like I showed earlier, the audio controls
are really limited, but you can hit that and
pull it down and mix it, so to speak, to taste. There's no audiometers
or anything like that. And so if you had a
voiceover in there, you would just need to
mix it to your ear. And I'd probably recommend using headphones when you're
doing this T B told. And so it's a pretty basic
setup, but it does work.
6. YouTube Create • AI Video Tools: Now, I mentioned at
the beginning, they're really selling their AI
tools, and they are. You can see right here,
Create with VO three. So if you want to
do that, you just simply click Generate video, come in here and do a prompt. I'm going to just stick
with the default offer, but every one of them changes. Vintage car doing doughnuts in the desert during a sunset. Style, I'm going to go with
vintage and then lighting. I think I'll do lens flare, and all you do is you
generate an image. And again, keep in
mind, this is free. So you're not having to
pay for this like you do with a lot of
AI type software. That's a pretty
cool looking image. So then you click on the
image you want. I like that. And now you can
either use that image or you can create video. Now, this will take a little bit longer than the
image generation. This does take about
20 to 30 seconds. And there's the video,
and it actually looks pretty darn
good. It's in Slomo. The sound effects
are there as well. So now I've got that
in my edit here, and I can do whatever
I want with it. I can go through and do effects,
just like I did earlier. I can zoom in, leave
it where it was. Probably more useful
thing than just doing a one off clip is
while you're editing, let's say you need
a B roll shot, you could generate that clip,
drop it into your edit, and then just continue
without having to worry about going out and shooting car in the desert or whatever. I think the YouTube Create
App is actually pretty good. Does it replace CapCut? No, it's not as full
featured as Cap Cut. It's in the same
neighborhood, I would say, as the Adobe Premiere
mobile version. Adobe has a little
bit more control, but you have to
pay to use some of the AI features in Adobe. The App is free for
everything else. Here, you get the AI
features built in.
7. YouTube Create • Export & Share: So let's say you're
happy with this edit. What you would do then is hit this button at the top,
and you can export it. You choose the frame rate. The file format is only MP four, and the resolution
they offer four K, which this video
was shot in four K, but 1080, especially for
social media is probably okay. And in particular, if
this was vertical video, that's usually all I ever do. Then you can change
the frame rate, 24, 30 or 60. This was shot 24. Then you can export that. It's saving it to
my phone right now. So now that's on my phone. But what I could also
do if I wanted to is I could upload it
directly to YouTube, and I'm logged in with
my YouTube account. So that is a nice feature, again, especially
for doing shorts.
8. Adobe Premiere • App Intro: I'm going to look at another
mobile video editor, Premiere Mobile that actually
just got a nice update and how it compares to
the YouTube Create up. And so here is the splash
page when you first log on. You've got a bunch of templates and such, which I
would never use. But if you're a beginner,
that might be a good option. And then across the
top, you've got different things to
start a project. I'm going to do
New Blank project. You can pull video from files. You could create
for YouTube Shorts, which is just setting it up as a nine by 16 project, I believe. There's a lot of
different things here, but really best way to start for me is just a New Blank project. So when it opens, you
just got the interface. And then you come down
here to the bottom and you've got video and images, music and audio,
titles and captions. And so what you would do
is hit video and Images, and then you have a lot
of selections there. Photo Library, which
is on your phone, Adobe stock if you want to
pull stock footage from them, then you've got
three AI features here, and then you have file. Files just simply pulling media off the phone in the
files directory. But if you want to do
the generative AI, this is one big difference
between YouTube and Premiere. With Premiere,
you've got to pay. And YouTube, they're using
their VO AI video generator, and it's really pretty good. So just keep that in mind. But what I mainly use
these apps for is just traditional straightforward
social media editing, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram reels, et cetera.
You know the drill.
9. Adobe Premiere • Start a Project & Edit: So when I go to
the photo library, you choose the videos you want, and it's best to choose
them in the order you want to edit because it will lay them in the
timeline in that order. And when you first drop them in, you'll see it is nine by 16, and the cool thing is they do this blur for you
in the background. So if you have 16 by
nine and you want to upload it in a nine by 16 video, it'll do that for you,
which is kind of cool. That way there's no black
bars on the top and bottom. Since this is 16 by nine, I'll go to the aspect ratio
and you can change it. You can go to Auto, 16 by nine, 43 or one to one. I'm going to choose 16 by nine, and now that clip is in there. Backed up to another clip. This is a before and after of
some new video gear I got. And from there,
you'll just edit. And this app works, again, a lot like YouTube Create,
similar to Capcot. It's pretty intuitive,
truth be told, you can grab these
handles and edit. You've got your waveform here. You can see the audio. Let
me play that real quick. New BNC monitor, 32 inch four K. That's just me doing a little bit of
narration in camera. And so if you like
that part right there, then you could split
that clip or you could take that and you
could actually delete it. And so now those
butt up together. If I wanted to duplicate a
clip, you hit that button, and it duplicates it instantly, and it pushes it
to the right, so it pushes it down the timeline. And if you want to undo that,
you click the Undo button.
10. Adobe Premiere • Audio Tools: Now, one thing that I do really like about this app compared to YouTube Create and
some other apps is you have more
control over the audio. So of course, you
can click volume, and this is the
same in other apps. You can mute it or you
can reduce the level, kind of mixing it, so to speak. And you can do that
to every clip. So if I lower the
volume and I hit that, it would adjust the
level to all the clips, but I'm going to undo that. What it does here, though, that I do like is you
can extract the audio. So I'll click on that and
I'll hit Extract Audio, and now it pulls that audio
down to an audio track only. The original audio
is still there. You can see it's grade
out and it's muted, but now I have more
control over that and I can actually trim
the audio by itself. Which again, just gives
you more control, which I do like. Now, beyond doing that, you
can enhance the speech. So you turn it on, now the
AI will enhance the speech. I would almost never do 90%, and I usually use background
noise around 10%. Unless I want to bring
some of it back in, then I'll usually
do 15 to 20% range. But on speech
enhancement, depending on how bad the audio is, normally I keep it around 50%, but now I enhance that, so let me play that back. The new monitor setup,
that's the new one there. That's the old one
I had in my Shad using it's nice to have that
built in, and that is free. Their other AI
features are not free. And then the other thing they
offer is music and audio. So you can do soundtracks, which is their music library. You can record a voiceover, which will drop it
right in the timeline, and then you could enhance
the audio if you need to because you're just
using the iPhone mic. You can actually generate
sound effects if you want. You use a prompt
and type this in. Now, I do think this
actually costs money. I have some adobe credits, and so that's probably
why it's allowing it, but that is a nice
feature to have. You can extract the audio,
like I showed earlier, you can bring in your
own music or you can bring in music from files if you've saved
it on your phone. And their soundtracks
are from Adobe stock. I'll go ahead and drop
this one in just for fun. Takes a few seconds to download. So it puts on the
track down there. I want to have one shed, using it as a video display. And it's a little bit hot,
but it doesn't sound too bad. I'd probably bring that
down to about maybe, I don't know, 15%.
Let's try that. Wing Premiere Pro. And
there's the Max studio. So when you're mixing here, though, it's really
hard to hear. So if you're actually
gonna be mixing, I would absolutely
recommend using headphones.
11. Adobe Premiere • Using Effects: And then beyond
audio, of course, you've got effects and
such that we can do. They call it looks. I've heard these are presets
from Light room, but to me, it would be
like an Instagram filter. Like an Instagram, when you
put something on there, you can lower raisy intensity. And then, of course,
you can undo. Then you actually
have quite a bit of control with color grading
and color correction. You can adjust the exposure, the contrast, the highlights. This is under the light menu. And color, you can do the
temperature tint vibrance. Vibrance is good if
there's skin in there. That way you adjust the
saturation around it, but the skin doesn't
really change. Mix is almost like a secondary, and so let me grab this
orange. Watch that table. Let me pull the saturation. See the table, the saturation's coming out
of just the orange color. Wall there, too a little bit. So that's definitely
convenient to have. And then grading allows
you to go in and fine tune even more with the
midtones highlights, where you can do global
adjustments, which, you know, for social media type stuff, I'm not doing a lot of
killer grading, honestly. I mean, I may tweak it a
little bit here and there, but for the most part, I'm
not as worried about that, but it is nice they
have all this in here. Including a vignette, I
do like using vignette. This one's a little bit heavy, but nice to darken the edges to focus your attention
on the center. And then they actually
have grain in here, which is pretty nice
whenever you shoot iPhone footage or any
mobile video footage, often it's nice to add a little bit of grain
to give it a texture. Sometimes it can be too sterile. And then you can
adjust the speed. You can reverse a clip. Enhanced speech clips cannot be reversed. So
that's good to know. But you can also
do a freeze frame. And then if I had shrimp
that clip back like that, I could click on
this button here. Instead of having to manually try to figure out exactly
how that goes back, I can just hit fill and it'll
fill the frame instantly. So, you do have a lot of editing features in here for
audio and video.
12. Adobe Premiere • Titles & Captions: Now, if you want to do
captions or titles, that's really easy in here, too. Let me back it up to the start. Title is pretty
self explanatory. You would click on it and
type whatever you want, and then it ends up being
like a B roll clip on the second layer and you can
control the length of it. You can add fades to it. You can add animations to it, whatever you want to
do, animated in or out. And then for social
media, especially, let me get rid of that,
captions are important. So captions will just analyze the speech in the video
and create the captions. So it did it just that quickly. And so you can see the captions on the
second layer up there. And then what you
can do from there is you can either edit
the captions if you see some typos or you can add style to them, which
I would recommend. So there's a lot of
different presets. Click that and I want to play
it back, see how it did. Got the new monitor setup. That's the new one there. That's the old one
I had in my Sd. So that did a pretty good job. And again, you can go in and customize those even further. And compared to the
YouTube Create App, the Premiere App is much
better with captions. You have a lot more control. It creates them far
faster, surprisingly fast. So if captions are
important to you, then Adobe Premiere
Mobile definitely wins.
13. Adobe Premiere • Additional Features: The other thing this
app does that I like, let's say you want to
make this a B roll shot. You would just push on it
and drag it to the top. Now you've got multiple layers, and you can move
that around on top. So now it's on that.
Let me hit Play. Q monitor two monitor
setup Forks the new one. Well, and right now I've
got double audio going. Let me mute this. Let me
actually delete that. I just wanted to
show the BRL feature because in other apps
like YouTube Create, there's an overlay feature, and it's not nearly
as intuitive, and you can't just easily drag the video up and
down in the layers. But I like how Adobe
has implemented here. And one feature
they have now and I don't think it was in
the app originally. Let me click on the clip. Now I'm going to come
down here to transform. Yeah, transform.
Now, in transform, you can actually add keyframes. So you've got scale, rotate, and then X and Y axis. And so let's go to Rotate, and I will rotate the image by, I don't know, 16%, let's say, so I'll add
a keyframe there. So then I need to go
back to, like, there, I'll add another keyframe
and I'll put that to 0%. Now when I play, you
can see how that acted. I'll scroll back here to it. You can see the keyframes
on the timeline. That's a really fast effect, but nonetheless, you can see how cool it is to be
able to add keyframes. When you want to get
rid of the keyframe, you go back to it, click on it, go to transform and then you hit minus, now that
keyframe is gone.
14. Adobe Premiere • Export & Share: So now we'll say
this edit is good. So I'll come up here
and hit this Export button and you get this screen. I would do 1080 or four K. And then you pick
your frame rate. This was shot 24
frames per second. And then I would
always choose high. No reason to go low or medium. The file size here for this
video is only 80 megabyte. Let me see what it does
when it goes to four K. Four K does jump
up quite a bit. It's 350 1 megabyte and four
K. So for social media, I tend to stick with 1080, especially if you're doing
Shorts nine by 16, only do HD. There's no reason to
do four K. 16 by nine, depending on the
project, I will do four K. Then you would
export the video. But one really cool
thing if you're a Premiere Pro user
on the desktop, you can come over here
and you can actually save the project
to Creative Cloud. That way, if you
were doing almost like an offline edit in the app, you could polish it with
all your effects and plugins and stuff you have on your desktop by
using this feature. But again, you'd have
to be a Creative Cloud subscriber to use it. So overall, I think
Adobe Premiere Mobile is really pretty great. It's better than YouTube
Create, but in a different way, YouTube Create will get
you there for sure, especially for really
quick social media stuff. And then, of course, if you
want to do generative AI, they have that
built in for free. But for anything more advanced, whether that's a
color correction or the way the timeline works, moving the clips around, I think Adobe Premiere
has it beat. And again, I can't
stress enough. This is a free app. Oh.
Blake Calhoun, Filmmaker
