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1. Intro: Hey, my name is Ben and I'm
a full-time content creator. I've currently uploaded closely
with 2 thousand videos, both on my own personal
channel side projects and for other creators that
I've worked with in the past. So I spent a lot of time behind the screen
editing videos. I'm mostly self-taught. I've experimented a lot. And do you know what actually
the hardest part was? Getting started and getting comfortable with all
the fundamentals that I'd have to be using every single day as a content creator. So that is what this
course is about. I'm not going to waste
any of your time if all of the fancy features or with some editing tools that most other editing
courses go over. I'll specifically teach you
step-by-step how to go from scratch and properly edited video for any audience to watch. But most importantly, I'll help you become as efficient as possible to make
this whole process a lot easier than
actually seems. Hopefully by the end of it, you'll be able to
edit a half an hour video in under ten minutes. So I hope you enjoy the course.
2. Basic Setup (Getting Started): Let's go over the
general setup first, how the program works, how
you get started with it. It gives us this the first time actually opening Premier Pro, I'll just go through
the basics real quick. And then also how you get into the right workflow and how everything kind of
correlates to each other. This is basically the
screen and you're met with, as you open Adobe. These are all older
projects that I've worked on that are still on my computer
that I have not deleted. But if you create a new project, here's something
really important that you always have to keep in mind. Whenever I work on a video, I'm just going to like, as you see, I'm trying
to be organized. Think it's really
important to have all your files organized. So let's say I want to make
a video for my main channel. I haven't added folder, which all my edits are. And here's the Skillshare edits. So you always want to
make it specific folder for the project
you're working on. So if you're gonna make a video, make a folder titled ISIL
off your video or whatever, and select the folder,
then you can choose a title or discolored
Skillshare added as well. Then I just press Okay, now the reason why
you always want to be making a separate folder is, as you will see within
this Skillshare added to follow yours,
your project file. But also if you look at a previous project
that I worked on. Besides the project file, you also have an autosave
folder that it creates a motion graphics template
media, another folder. And on top of that, you can drag older files in here that you want to be using
for your video projects. If you need to download
pictures are assets, I can just dump them in here. Then once I'm done
with this project, I could just go ahead
and delete this folder. That's why you
mainly just want to have separate folder
whenever you make a project. Now, this is the
screener metric. If you're on the
graphic step now I, I always use the graphics here, but you can also do the
learning, the additive effects. Like a lot of people
use different layouts. I always use graphics, so that's the one
I'll be using if you want to follow
along because this has all the tools lined
out perfectly that I use on a regular basis. So I've known, I
haven't defined in media to switch any
of the other ones. Now sometimes the audio, if I want to mess
with, the audio tracks a little bit more. But the graphics basically
you see four panels here. They're all pretty
empty and they all interact with each
other in different ways. This is where you
video preview will be. This is where your timeline is, where you work on your video. Here is where all your
files are and the effects that you can
apply. This as well. Basically, one way to
manipulate the timeline more in depth effects or go
to the source clips. So all of this might
have not made any sense, but this will become
obvious as we go into the next classes or into the next videos and look
at how to utilize these. Now, the last thing I'm
going to touch on right now, once you're in this program
is that you want to get your video files in here. So I'm just going to
choose a random file from my recordings. So let's just go with this and you want to drag it
in your project here. Now, this is your projects. There's also ways
that you can do it if you go to Media Browser. And now you can just
navigate your computer for a folder where your video files
that you want to work on. I rarely do this because
this takes up more effort. But it gives you have multiple video
files in one folder with all your assets
already done. This is probably better
because you will just instantly have access
to all your settings, oral euro acids that you can
drag into your timeline. But I usually just go
to the Project tab and drag all the files
that I need in here, and then work from there. So this is the general
setup for Adobe. So this is how you launch it, how I usually go about
organizing a project, setting it up and
getting my files. And now let's get into
how to get started. The shortcuts and the editing.
3. Shortcuts & Time Savers: So let's go over shortcuts. This is the most important
thing about editing. This is like the biggest
lifesaver that you should learn and that
saved me a lot of time. You go to the Edit
tab on the top left here and go to
keyboard shortcuts. You will see this pop-up, which is just all of these
shortcuts that you have. I'm going to change the
layout to the keyboard. And I have, basically, if you press a
button, you will see on the right side what it does. Now, I'll only show
you a couple of shortcuts that I use pretty much every time I added that I press nonstop and then have
become muscle memory. And these are shortcuts
that you also want to be using from the get-go. So you bolt and muscle
memory and that habit. And then you just, you enter this flow where you can be
easily added without thinking. Because if you don't use
short, because basically, if you drag this video file
on your timeline, here it is, If you will be editing
this, you will have to navigate these tools like
this is the Cut tool. You can make a cut here
and then you have to switch back to the
selection tool. And that is how I started
making cuts at first. And obviously that
takes a lot of effort or more effort than
just doing this. And there's a cut, I just press the single
shortcut button. And there's a lot of
other nifty things that you can do that
will save you a lot of time and all are easier than having to move your
mouse around the whole lot. Also, now you see how
these panels interact. So this is your files,
this is your timeline. And here you see the preview of the video file on the timeline. So going back to shortcuts, basically the one I just
used to add an edit. So it's literally
called add edits. So if you type add edit here you can see what is the
scientific currently. And if you want to assign a
new button, you can do so. I put it to a, which is all I need to change the keyboard
again, it is a top-left. You can choose wherever your hand disposition or
whichever butter you, you're most comfortable using. But make sure there's buttons
around that because you need to assign more
shortcuts obviously. But I've been using a so
whenever I want to make an edit, I press Save the next
one that you want to assign as ripple delete. So ripple deletes, I think is I don't remember what
the standard witness, but I have a set to the
bottom-right reason being I don't actually use it
that much anymore, but it's still helpful to use. Sometimes you can put
it next to the a if you want or somewhere
in this proximity. I just have it here and I
kinda learned it that way. So it's a bit tough to move
it now and re-learn it. I'm fine just moving my
hand around a little bit. But basically what this does is whenever you will have, let, say I make a cut here and I make a cut here and I have
this file in-between. Now what I would previously do, just delete it and then
bring them together. Right? Now what ripple delete does
is if you right-click here, you can see ripple delete. And then it just removes all the empty space between
the two clips. So that's kind of what
the shortcut first, you can also do it if
the file is still here. So I just made it two cuts
and instead of deleting now, I can press the ripple delete, and it automatically deletes the file and puts them together. So this is just a nice way
of getting out that air, but in those chunks
back together, again to streamline the
process a little bit more. And then there's
one more shortcut that you would need to have a scientist that I think I
use even more than this one. And that is called
a ripple trim. Previous edit to play head. This is a mouthful, a very
long sentence for a shortcut, but basically what this does, I have it on Q right
below the a for me. If I go back to the keyboard. So does basically
is a combination of the add edit and
the ripple deletes, makes a cut and deletes
everything in front of it. So again, assign it
to whatever you want, but I'll show you what it does. So I have this gut here. It's between those two videos. And instead of
making a cut here, and I'm parsing this
and ripple deletes, which I did before. I can just, before I
make this good here, press the Q now, which is the trim, ripple trim to
previous playhead. And did everything for me here. You might not have
noticed it, but if I Control Z and go back, if I press the Q here is
going to make this edit, select the previous
board and just deleted. And basically you will have made a cut that ultimately
puts everything together. So basically that's how
my editing process works, mostly with those shortcuts. I just go through
the video clip. I press a to add an
edit or add a cut. I mean, if I feel like I
want this to be removed, I press the Q and I made
an edit so you can see how fast this process
can be if you're editing a video and just
cutting out that space. So you want to get
used to those, start using those from
the get-go when you get sorted instead of any
of the other tools. And that way you will
build that habits are a couple other shortcuts
that are worth mentioning. Control as a saving obviously, but you wanna make a habit of
doing that whenever you did a big chunk of editing or wherever a
couple of minutes went by. Usually, whenever I
did a couple of edits, just press Control
S out of habit. Project is going to
save automatically. You don't have to
worry about it. Now some other shortcuts or guests buttons that
are useful whenever you're navigating
the timeline because that is mainly where you're
working most of the time. If you're scrolling, you
go from left to right. If you're pressing
Alt and scrolling, you can zoom out and
this way you can get an overview of your work
or if you want to add it's a little bit more
precisely, you can zoom in. Then another really helpful
one is if you go to the left side and here
you press Alt and scroll, you can make treks wider. So if you want to see
the audio more clearly, you can do so by scrolling here. If you want to see
the video footage, I mean, it's a bit
doesn't really work, but I guess you can make those larger maybe if you're
working with pictures. But generally speaking,
for me, the audit Tregs bigger if I'm
working on them so I can actually see the audio levels and work with
them a little bit better. And then one final
thing is that you can also press Control and scroll, which if you made
the audio tracks larger like so you
press control, you will actually just
scroll up and down. I don't use it that often, but if you're working
with multiple layers, Let's say you have like
five or six video layers, then the layers might go out of frame and now you'll
have to press Control and scroll in order
to reach those final layers. These are just ways to quickly navigate the timeline
when you're working. And there was
important shortcuts that you need to be using. One final shortcut that
you can also assign. But I don't think I
ever had signed it, but I just got used to the
habit of doing it as add fade. I think apply Video Transition
and apply Audio attrition. So if you go to apply
video transition for me as Control D and apply all your transitional audio
transition is control shift. The again, you can change
those if you want. So what it does is if
you press Control D, cultural shift D,
as you will see a fatal have appeared on
the code that you made. So if you work with fades is a lot of people
were could jump cuts, but I sometimes use fades. You can just don't
make a cut here. Then I just press Control D, Control Shift D when
selecting this girl. And I will have apply
to basic fades. If you want to
change this phase, you can go to Preferences and then timeline in the bottom. And then here you will see the default transition time if you want to change
it to frame seconds, how long you want it to be. That is about the
most useful shortcuts that I use on a regular basis. So get comfortable with. Now we're going to take
a look at the actual editing process and
the flow of how things go and how you optimize
well, making a video.
4. Workflow & Editing Process: So generally speaking, if this is me working on
actual projects, well, I'll do the same. Just drag on the video file
on here and get going. The first thing I do is make
the audio track larger. This has been one of the bigger lifesavers that
I've discovered as well, especially with the
game that I added. So I usually play Hearthstone, half an hour video, and I want to cut out as much, as much as that air as possible. Because in this game, just small moments
where nothing happens. And by looking at the audio, I can see myself or way I talk. And then I can see
where nothing happens, which is, for
example, this port. Then I can just get
this out without you having to look at the video. So this is how you can edit out the portions that you don't
even need to be seeing. Like, I know nothing
is happening there. I'm not talking. Nothing on the
screen is happening. So I can get it out like
here, nothing is happening. Don I just got out. I don't know what like
five seconds of that air. And that is how I go about
editing a very quick video. Now of course, if you just
want to do the bare minimum, that is how you quickly
get through like and how far video and maybe
like five-minutes. You don't even have
to watch the video, just skim through
it whenever it is, that air and you see nothing interesting is
happening on the screen. You just cut it out and then
you move on with your life. Again, the shortcuts I'm
using is the add edits, which is the a button for me. And then the ripple them to previous play head which
is acute right below it. And now if I, for some reason made
cuts but I forgot, Let's say I make a cut here,
but I forgot to delete this, but it needs to be deleted. Then I use the other
one that I assigned, which is a ripple
delete or you can delete it first and
then ripple delete. But yeah, that's an oral way that I can go about doing it. And again, if I think
of fate applies here, then I just Control
D and Control Shift. You've got those
basic fades in here. That is the basic editing
process if I go really fast, now, another life if
you want to go fast. So for example, I
don't know if I want to keep this bit of audio. I don't know what I'm
saying here or if anything interesting is
happening, but it's not. I'm just pressing space to play, so that's usually what I do. I just play and I
just look at it. You can press Space and then L, which speeds up time students. So every time you press L
is going to speed it up. And if you press
J, it goes back. I think you can also go
back, which I rarely use. It's not really helpful, but
you can press Alt space to play press and older and
older L and a faster, faster it's gonna go down. If you want to go through clips, I would recommend doing
it at twice the speed. You're going to save
even more time. Again, all of this needs
to become a habit. The first couple of videos
we're going to add it, it'll probably be a bit shaky, will still take a lot of time. But the more and more you will try this process and you
remember which buttons to press, the more natural
is going to come to you and a faster
you'll be able to navigate all of the clips and make something
beautiful out of it. And honestly, that's most
of the editing process, like I thought it, this one's
going to be much longer, but it is just about
looking at the audio, going through the
clips either by just dragging the playhead,
which I usually do. I don't play through
the entire thing because that's a lot
of waste of time. I just skimmed through it
and whenever it is a moment, I think I need to look back at if it's worth
keeping or not. Like an antibiotic like this,
I can just cut out already. I know nothing is happening, but I could just
double the speed. And that's it. That is just the basic workflow. I know there's a lot
of other things we can look at all of these presets, the effects step, all
these steps on top. Again, I don't wanna make it too complicated in case
you're starting out. Like I barely even use all of these things anyway
whenever I'm editing. So in the next class I'm
going to talk about it. Useful effects and
other useful tips that you might want to
include in your videos. Because of course,
just making edits like these makes for a
compelling video already, but is missing
that, that's pies. So we're going to add that
spies in the next class.
5. Important Effects: So how do we make stuff
more interesting in Adobe? Instead of just
cutting down that air? The first thing I'm
going to look at is this effect step in
the bottom left. Basically, if you go, let's say I want to
zoom in somewhere, like Li playing this court
records whenever I drop it. This part, Let's say I want
to zoom in on this happening. I've isolated the segments
you just highlighted, and then in the top left, you
go to the Effects Control. This is basically
all of the controls for the clip that
you have selected. And here you have
position, you have scale. And for example, if I
want to zoom in here, I can just drag up the scale. It's that simple. You want to move this
around academia, double-click here and then
I can move this freely, or I can just mess with these position coordinates and just move it around as well. And that's it. I made a highlight. So that is how you just
simple stuff like this. I use it frequently as well. This is something that
pops up like constantly me having to isolate
small clips and then zooming on my face. So I just go here. I zoom in and then
make sure that I find my webcam on
the bottom here. And then I just made a
short highlight my face. So I don't know what kind of
content you will be making. It could be game play,
it could be IRL stuff. So this might be less
relevant to you. But no matter what you'll do now you know where the
effect is located. Scale position, rotation, I guess if you
want to rotate the club, that's up to you. Anchor point, I wouldn't
look at too much. This is more useful if
you're actually planning on doing moving transitions or if you're zooming
in on things than anchor point is going
to be more useful for you or if you're rotating, I guess if you want to
rotate around the corner, basically anchor point
is the point around which stuff resumes,
resumes ends towards. For example, if I scale now you'll see I'll go
to the top left. Or if I rotate, It's going to
rotate around the top-left. So that's what the
anchor point does. But again, nothing too interesting if
you're just getting started and they have opacity, we're just makes things
more see-through. So if you have multiple
layers and want to make one a bit more transparent, you can use the opacity
and then I guess one other use quite often is a level as well over
the audio tracks. So I can just usually boost
the audio to about five. I think it's a bit silent. If I play music, I usually go to minus 30. But again, you can mess around with the audio level yourself. Now a couple of other
effects is that I do use on a regular basis. So I'm going to
mention them is what I have and order effects
that down here. So to stop effects
that mainly applies to the clip that you have
selected in your timeline. But if you're looking for,
let's say color corrections, things like that, I would recommend going to
this effect step. And the one that I use
mostly is the Lumetri Color. I've been Lumetri color. Here's the one. You can just drag it onto your video clip that
you want to apply to. And it is now applied here
and the effects up on top. So that's how effects work. If you're looking for video
effects and transitions, you can look at what this
has to offer in here. There's a bunch of
pre-made effects. You can even download
more if you want. You basically just
drag them on the clip. They want to apply them to
select the clip and then go in the Effects tab and it
should appear in here. The metric color
allows you to do stuff like basic correction, which is just the temperature
over the shoulder, which is that if you want
to choose a color exposure, so the brightness, contrast highlights makes the
highlights pop more shadows. All the basic stuff that you want if you're color
correcting and let's say a shot mostly outdoor
or off your face. And of course it's
also saturation, but I would recommend going
with the metric color. I use this most of the time. And another one that I use
quite often is color HLS, color balance, HLS, which does also some color balance,
but in a different way. It's way more simplified as you can see, if you can again, change which color you
want things to look like. But this is more very situational as many
lightness and saturation. So if I want something
to be very bright or very dark, I go here. And also saturation. If you just want
to play saturation and nothing else you
can go with. This. One is again more situational, just a more simplified version
of what we just looked at. The first order effect
that I would recommend is the Gaussian blur. I don't know if that's how it's pronounced, but here it is. Gauche, go Sean blur. This is just the basic blur
effect a lot of people use. If you need to blurt
out something, drag it over your clip again, highlight the clip,
and you can just drag up this blurry.
There you go. That's just the basic blur. Now, the last effect
that I think is worth including is the crop, which as expected, a crop stuff. So if you drag this
onto a video file, crop appears, you can just choose whichever
region you want. You can even just do it manually in here. So that's the beauty. You can just either go in here, but if you need specific
numbers or percentages, you can just drag it in here, whichever one you prefer. Those are the effects that I use most of the time when editing. Those are the ones that I
made presets for us all, which is something
we're going to look at in the next class, which is how you
automate all of this, how you make things more
streamlined, more easier, and some other
important extra steps that I think could help
you along your journey.
6. Keyframes, Presets & Other Tips: Now time for some extra tips and important things
that I think you should know if you are really thinking
about editing more. And that is first
of all, keyframes. Keyframes is an
important concept. Let's actually make
clear timeline. But a video file back in. And I'm just going to
select the first part here. Basically we looked
at the effects that we can scale and
things like that, but we want to have something
more dynamic and moving. And that is where this
sidebar comes in handy. If you, let's say press the stopwatch here,
toggle animation. You will see something appear
here, which is a key-frame. This means that at this
point in time, scale, 100. And I wanted to zoom in, let's say I go here and
I'm going to up the scale now to a 142 in this case. Now in-between these
two keyframes, it will go from the one hundred thirty,
one hundred forty two. I can move this around, but then went to the
edges and now if we check the video, it zooms. So that is how
keyframes worried. Basically, if you
want things to move, you can change positions,
you can choose scales, rotations, opacity that is mainly used if
you're doing a fade, for example, you can already
do a fade as we saw before. If you press Control
D, field is applied. If you click on a
fade, by the way, the effects that also
opens up and you can extend it if you want. These are the fade looks like
from black into your video, or you can do it manually if you just select
the video file, go to opacity again,
click the stopwatch. You start at 0. If you find it's kinda baked,
so it's always a bit messy. You'd want to do this on
shorter clips so that way you can manage your
time a little bit better. But let's say I wanted
to be in focus here. Yeah, you can't
really tell right now again because I'm using
like a half an hour file. But if you drag here on this timeline or this
thing in the bottom, you'll be able to zoom in and
see both of the keyframes. Now, it goes from
0 to 100 as well. Just little plasticity. So that is how keyframes work. Basic animation stuff. If you want to have more
movement in your clips, something I use
regularly as well. The next one is custom presets. So if you go to the
effects that you might have noticed that
there's a presets folder which probably is going to
be empty for most of you and minus filled with a
bunch of different things. And basically you can turn anything they want
and to preset. Therefore streamline
the process. You can see a bunch of
color corrections here, which are basically
calling corrections I did for certain shots, like for certain situations, uncertain camera angles,
certain times of day. And I can just drag
this onto my clip and you will see
it automatically applies the Lumetri Color, which has a bunch of settings
that I put in already. So if you want to
make your own preset, Let's say you want
the color HLS preset. So you just drag Color HLS on. You change the settings
to whatever your leg. Let's do this. This, this looks horrible, but whatever, you just
want to highlight, color balance,
right-click, Save Preset. And it's that simple. They just give it a menu press, Okay, and it should
appear in that folder. And then every time you
want to reuse the settings, you can just go to
your presets folder and just drag it onto your clip. And you can do this
with anything, even if you just make
like a zoom effect, for example, this
simple popping effect is the one that I saved. Let's take a random
picture like this. One of me when I was a kid. And I want this to pop in here. What I would do is just drag
this on and if I play it, you see it kind of pop in and it also has an automatic
shadow applied. Basically how does worked
as I just did a scale. I'm going to zoom in here.
I had two keyframes, one at 0, now one add 100, and I added a little bit. If you click this arrow
here, this more advanced, I add a little bit of an effect to it, a little bit of a curve. But just if you go to motion
and then save that preset, you can even save scales or animations or
whatever you do. Just press it has two things. It has both the drop
shadow and the motion. So if you want to select both, just hold the Control. Click both. Now you can right-click
Save Preset and both of these are gonna be
in your preset, but that is how you make your
own presets and apply them. Now, another thing I
think is really important if you're looking to make
some presets as well. I made, for example,
this highlight, which highlights a small
part of the video. I also have this version
which is just a yellow box. If you want to do that,
then masks are your friend. Mask is really important. Basically what this
is is I'm going to again go to Color
HLS, and this is, this is why I use color
HLS over Lumetri color sometimes if I apply
it here and I make it, let's say completely black, but I don't want this to be
applied to the entire clip. Then you can collect,
for example, this rectangle or you can draw
freely or create a circle. I'm going to click
the rectangle. And you have yourself a mask, which is just a part of the video that is
affected by this. You can do this with anything
but color corrections. But for example, if
you just want to color correct me in the bottom, rights can make a mask, but it over top the
camera here and then just color corrected and it's only going to
apply it to this box. Does something useful in case you do want to do highlights. That is how masks work. And I think they're a flight to most effects if you want to. But the effect is probably best applies to is the Gaussian blur. So let's say you have a blur and apply it to your timeline. Usually. You want to blur out the
specific of your video. Let's say you want to
censor something that is inappropriate or you don't
want the viewer to see, then you just drag
your brush on on you just up the blurriness
through as much as you want, as much as you think
is appropriate. Now, if Gaussian blur doesn't
do the job, there's also, I think, yeah, mosaic and
that is just a pixel effects. So in case you want a pixel out, something mosaic
will be your friend. But if you go with blurriness, you again just add
a mask and now you can just blur out whichever part of the video you want. Mask fatter bite away is
just how soft the edges or if they had just edges have to be really
rough, like here. You just have 0 if you
want the edges to be a little bit more software,
you can just up this. Again, just mess around
with the settings until you find something
that works for you. But these are just
the effects that I use most of the time, how to apply them,
how masks work, and how to create
presets out of them. So that way you can just go to your folder and
just drag them onto your timeline
without having to do the same thing over
and over again, I even create a
new folder zooms, which is just certain cameras
states like if I do this, it's going to automatically
zoom on my cam because well, that's the motion that I put in. Two more things
that I want to show here that these are
not affect base. So these are all the effects
that I wanted to get out of the way and the presets, Let's say I have my
video file here, but what if you have like a
one or a two hour video file? I don't want to use
default two hours. Then you might have to
be looking in here where the clip is like five-minute is that
you want to be using. But there's a faster way
if you go to source here, this is most of the time
we're going to be empty. But if you drag your
video file in here first, you just get a preset
of the entire file. And now let's see,
you want to find that five-minute clip and that's the only thing you want
to be using to edit. You can just press the I
button and the O button, which stands for in and out. So if you find the
start of your clip, your press I as n, and the n, you press O as Arctic coastal, drag it around if you want. And now you've
highlighted the clip from this source that
you want to be using, then you just drag
this video file on your timeline
and you're done. Now, another cool
thing you can do is just drag from here, which is dragging the video only or dragging the audio
only in case you just need to use the video footage or you just need to be
using the audio footage. That is possible as well. Just keep that in
mind. And if you want to be using different
portion with video, you can just right-click
the timeline here and just click
on Clear in and outs. It's going to remove
the markers again, or you can work with the
full video file again. The last thing I
want to touch on are the cuts that I use. I usually just to jump cuts. Jump cuts are just straight
up cuts like these, which helped us jump from
one scene to the other. This is mostly using YouTube. This is fine. I use this all the time and
I think most people do. That's the quickest
and it's effective. What you can do if you want
to make it a bit softer and less flow a bit better, you can just add a transition, which I do sometimes and that way they could have less harsh. One thing a lot of
people seem to enjoy, as well as an L and J cut, which is basically
just the audio file being a bit earlier or
later than the video cuts. So I'm not a huge fan of this. Most of the time
it takes a lot of extra seconds put into
every single video as well. But in case you want to do
LNG codes, how it's done, you just press the button while dragging in the direction that
you want. Hold Alt again. And that way you get to make cuts independently
of the audio track. Well, if you do this
without holding Alt, you're just going
to do a normal cut. You're just going to move
the video file like this. But holding alt allows
you to mess with the video or the
audio separately. Making special cuts like these. Those are most of
the things that I use when creating my videos, all the shortcuts, my
whole editing process. And I hope you can see
how you can add it like half an hour videos
within ten minutes, which is just, for example, I can skip this entire dead air. Whenever I'm talking,
I can go through it twice the speed, see if it's relevant
to keep it or not. I would never want to add
an effect or something. I can just go to my
presets and drag it on and areas. Now
let's close this out. And the final class
where we're going to export the projects.
7. Rendering + Class Project: We are now done. Last thing we have to do
is just export a project. If you go to File Export Media, you'll get welcomed
by this screen. Now here format, you can
mess around with these. I always go with the H.264. That is what I think
most people use anyway. But if you want to make
an audio file only, let's say you're doing a
podcast episode, go to MP3. It has audio or video
files you need for certain whichever platform
you want to upload or maybe they want something
specific you can do. So preset, I usually
just keep here. I have to be honest, I'm not too familiar with these presets as Twitter presets,
YouTube presets. But I just used the high betrayed Match
Source output name. This is where your
file is located. I usually don't put this in the same folder
where that the edit. So if I go to Edit, here is the Skillshare editor
we're working on right now. I said I have a folder with Finnish wear off my
finished videos go. So that way I can just delete all of these edit
folders that have all these extra
files in them that I downloaded or that I don't need anymore. Now audit on that. I think most settings
should be pretty standard, should be relatively the same or you shouldn't
worry too much on things. Now, if you have
runner issues, again, there's probably multiple ways that you can look
for a solution. Probably older people that
could help more than I do. I have hardware encoding
instead of software, I usually follow these
boxes unchecked as well. Just click export and the video is going
to start exporting. And you're done. You just got to wait until the export process is finished most of the time the stakes, I mean, it depends
on your project and the files that
you're using, of course. But whenever I work on an
half an hour video like this with music editor,
thinks like that. It takes about ten
minutes to run. There also depends
on your computer. But if it's over an hour and
you feel like you just have very short video and it makes too much sense that
it's taking that long. You probably have something to fix in these settings here, or your computer is running a bunch of tasks
in the background, just make sure that nothing is interfering
with that process. Now, as this class
goes through close, There's a couple of
things I want you to take away and I would like to see as you're all
working on Skillshare, I think you can post
your project down below. So if you've made
your first videos or you have made or
learned editing, want some feedback
lever down below. I will take a look.
I will let you know what I thought of it. What are things you could
add or experiment with? Again, this class
is meant to just give you the basics
to get started. These are all the
things that I learned after days of watching
tutorials offered, no weeks of messing
around with shortcuts. Some of the shortcuts like the ripple trim to
previous play head, thinking like half a
year to figure out, I just wanted to make this
very condensed droid thing with everything that I
use on a daily basis. And I know a lot of editors
probably use as well and that is just going to hopefully become a
routine for you as well, adapted to your style
and you getting the content now and YouTube
on a pretty good level. Thank you for taking this class. I hope it was helpful
and have a good day.
Ben, Content Creator
