Long Form Video Editing: Premiere Pro & After Effects

1. Welcome! Start here: Hi, and welcome to the course. Before we get into any editing, I want to be upfront about what this course is and what it isn't isn't a course about clicking buttons in Premiere and After Effects. It's about understanding why certain edits keep people watching and then building a repeatable workflow so you're not starting from scratch every single video. Here's how it's structured. We'll start with the psychology behind long term retention. The frameworks are personally used to plan and structure every video. Then we'll move into the actual editing workflow. Step by step exactly how do my own projects. After that, we'll cover the tools, including a few I built myself and finish with a full breakdown of a real video, sort finish. My suggestion is don't just watch the course. Edit long sided. Pick a video idea of Gord yourself or just use the practice fast. Get the practice in. And a quick background about me, I used to edit long from and short from content for clients, helping them groom their YouTube channels, Instagram, TikTok, and racking up some really serious views. But recently, I played everything I teach to my own channel. And over the last couple of months, it became the fastest growing channel in my niche, almost half 1 million views in just two months, and it's still climbing. So this is in theory. This is the exact process I use with my clients and I use my own projects that are getting real results. Now. I recommend watching videos and audit because every lesson builds onto the previous one. You can control the volume and the playback speed of every video to learn at your own pace. If you can stack you have any questions, be sure to drop them in queext section below. Just make sure to check the existing questions first because there's a good chance that the question you want to ask has already been answered in detail. At some point, you'll be asked to leave a review. Please wait until you had chance to really experience the material. Your honest feedback pan improve the course and better serve you and feature students. Thanks again for joining this class. I'm genuinely excited to help you build Premiere Pro and After effect skills and to give you the confidence to edit long term videos, whether personal or clients based. Let's jump into the first lesson. 2. Video Psychology 101: How Hormozi, Neistat & Abdaal Structure Videos: Now before we jump into editing the video, we have to understand the psychology behind it. I'd like to explain by drawing it on the screen. Let's begin with short fam content. That is your short, that is your real stick talks. So this is going to be our video. Let's imagine it's straight. And every video consists of the beginning, then we have the middle part and this is the beginning. This is the middle, and this is the end. You might have seen this in a slightly different format or it having a slightly different name like hook value reward or hook retention reward. It's exactly the same process. It's like each video consists of three parts. So we have one, two, and three. And this is short fm content. So let's separate the screen like this. This is going to be short from content. Now, talking about long term content, it's very simple because what we have at the top so let me do it like this. It's going to be like a summary. This is called unit. This is just a content unit, and long from content consists of many units of many content units. So if we're talking about long term content, then it's a similar situation where we have a line. This is our video. This is kind of the beginning, and this is the end. And the long term content consists of a lot of content units. Let's just say, however many there is like six. Maybe more. And then within that, we have the separation, so it's going to be like, smaller things like this. So whenever you edit a video, you have to understand that shortfm content, you know, it's a content piece, and we don't want to create one very big piece of long from content because people are just not going to watch it. Basically, you don't want to create a YouTube video that's boring to watch. You want it to have ups and downs, and this is the thing that's going to keep people watching. Now, another important thing to understand is that you can think of every video as a listicle. So this idea at the top is by Alex From Mose or by Casey Neistat. And if we scroll a little bit further, I'd like to talk about Ali Abdaal, he says that every video is listicle. What does that mean? It means that every video just consists of, once again, many small pieces. If we take an example, five mistakes video editors make. Those five mistakes, that's listicle. That's like a list of five. You know, ten ways to make money online. That's a list of ten things. Every video is like, let's say ten things. Every video can be broken down into listicle and then every listicle will be content tuned. When it comes to intros and outros of long from content or YouTube videos, the end of the video should be as short as possible so people People don't expect the video to end because if they expect the video to end, and I will show you this in their analytics a little bit later, they will leave the video. That's going to decrease the AVD, the average video duration. So YouTube is not going to push the video as hard. So we want to end the video abruptly, but at the same time, not just like in the middle of the sentence, we want to make sure it's not as expected for people. So that's it for this video. If you have any questions, let me know. And let's jump into the next video. 3. How Video Ideas Are Generated: This video, I'm going to show you how to come up with a video ID, and if you're not going to do videos yourself, I would still recommend you to watch this video because you'll understand the process of how videos are created, how to verify if ID is going to work or not. So even if you work with a client, they still be useful. But if not, you can skip to the video, we'll begin the editing. Specifically, with Long from content, which is going to be YouTube. My favorite tool to come up with the video ideas is called VidIQ. With VidIQ, you can identify which videos are performing, which topics are hot right now, and that's basically going to tell us what kind of video to create because you can create a video, I will get zero views, or you can create a video, I will get 100,000 views. That's a big difference, and this is the tool that allows us to do that. And there are a couple of things that are really important here, for example, the keywords. Here, we can see the search volume, we can see the competition and the overall score of a specific keyboard. And we can sort by the search volume by the overall score or by the competition. So what we're going for is for a keyboard that has a high search volume, a low competition that will have a high score, so we can click on the score, and it will show us how to use After Effects. It has 176,000 monthly searches with very low competition. So this is a relative score. This isn't the actual competition size, but it's a relative score. It doesn't show us the exact number of competitors. And then it shows us the overall score if it's good to do or not. For the motion graphics as well, you can see, very good search volume going to go back. So we can go into the top search terms, the rising keywords for specific topics, for example, iconic by mistake. I'm not sure what that is. But, you know, Fifth O World Cup, 4 million monthly searches. So that's a big this is in terms of the keywords. This is going to help us to optimize the video, let's say in the video description and overall, what kind of things are people interested in? You can click on one and explore further by clicking into every single one. An even better thing you can do is you can find outliers because outliers videos that have proven to perform in the past, outliers are not regular videos. Mr. Bies explains this in a way where if you see a cow on the side of the road, nothing special. But if you see a purple cow, you'll be blown away by and you will not forget about it. So you will stop, you will want to share it with everybody. We want to make sure we create a purple cow in our videos. And outliers are the purple cows. And if I click onto the video tab, by the way, I'm doing this only in the research. So you'll see that if I close the history, we have the research tab, then the optimization, the feed, I'm doing the research in the research tab. Here we have the videos that have performed in the past, and this is for the search Adobe Premiere Pro, but if I can just sub the search, let's go into videos again. So chose the outliers, and, you know, this number that's in the icon with the color, that is the outlier score. So this video was posted 16 days ago for a channel with 9.7 thousand subscribers, and it's generating 17,000 views. It generated. Scroll to find, a good outlier. Okay, so this is pretty interesting. Real estate videos so easy, it feels illegal, the only video you'll ever need. Once again, channel, 9.7 thousand subscribers and 100,000 views in six months. So this is a good example. And these real estate videos are actually performing really well. You might have seen me create videos about that because, I mean, I've gotten hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube from the real estate. So the way it works is you collect the outlers and then based on the outler once again with the stool, let's say I click here, we can find similar titles or we can remix the ties or mix the thumbnail, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is all great. Basically, we connect as many outlts possible. And then what I usually do is I just start new chat with their AI coach. It does all the analysis. You don't even have to come here. You can just go directly to the AI chatbot, and it's going to analyze all the videos, all the outlers, all the keywords, and just going to help you create the video. So I would just go to it, speak with it, actually say what I want to do, why I want to do it. And it will help create the video. It will do the research, et cetera. And it can create thumbnels for you as well. So VidIQ can do a lot of things, and you can just come to my YouTube channel to watch the video if you want to on the deep dive of VidIQ. So this is kind of the overview of coming up with video IDs, but can do a lot more things. So if I open up more tools you can see there's a lot more tools. By the way, I have a absolutely crazy deal with VidIQ. Anyone who wants to sign up for VDQ and try it out for themselves can get the first month for just $1. This tool is so crazy, you will get a lot more than just $1. And if you don't want to use it in the future, just cancel, but if you want to use it in the future, just keep on using it. But there's going to be a link somewhere around this player. Just go ahead and explore. And yeah, if you have any questions, let me know and that's jump into the next video. 4. Practice: For this video, I just want to quickly say that you also have practice files. It's going to be one of my videos that I've done in the past. Of course, you can just watch through the course, but you're going to get the best results if you actually put the practice hours in. So we're coming to download the files, and we'll begin by organizing everything in the next video, see you in the next. 5. How to Organize Your Premiere Pro Project Files & Folders: Welcome. Let's begin by editing the video. And the editing starts not in Premiere Pro or in After Effects. It actually starts in the folders. So I use MAC, but even if you use Windows, it's exactly the same process. Basically, we just want to organize things as much as possible. So this how structure, I have the YouTube, then I have the template folder. And this is the folder that I always duplicate and where I keep all these folders. So the assets is the things that I download from the Internet. Thumbnail is the thumbnail, but you don't have to do it if you don't do the thumbnail. Then we have the final edit. This is important to you as well. The demo project is not important to you, but the exports is important to you. Raw is important to you, and any sort of, like, research is also important to you, and then the kit is not really important to you. So in folder I've coming to have research, raw exports. Final edit and assets. And I recommend you to create a template like this, and then you just duplicate the template. Rename it to the name of the video. So let's do this as an example. I'm going to duplicate this template, and we will call it like test video, and let's call it like 100 dot test video. So it will be at the bottom, and I'm just going to put the raw files here, and you'll have access to those files once again, somewhere around the video player. So these de files, usually the next thing I'll do is I will copy the name of the folder and come to Premiere Pro. For the name of the project, I will just put the name of the folder, and then I will put the location in the folder. So I'll choose location. This is the test video 100. I'll go into the final Edit, select t click and create. Once in Premiere Pro, I'll open up the finder. Let's make it a little bit smaller, go into the draw, and I'll just select the files and drop them into the project panel. So this is the way my workspace looks is the best one for the long term videos for me because I want to have a big project here on the left and the rest on the right. So a couple of things we can go from here. We can either click on to create a new sequence, and we can use one of the presets, we can put our own settings, or we can just select one of the videos, drop them, and going to create the sequence. Now, when we drop the video like this, it will create the sequence, the same settings as the video itself. So if I right click media file properties, and it's going to tell us the information. So the video frame rate is 30, and let's do it for this one. So media file properties. Okay, so the frame rate 32, 74 and four K, the framerate and the image size is weird because I record it on a mac. So if I drag this file in, person command K, it's going to be the same frame size. And if we do it with this one, so let's drag it present command K, 1920 by 1080. I can either click on the sequence to set the right one or because the right one for me is going to be the video on the left, I just drag the video on left first, and then I drag the second video. And we have this one video, which fits perfectly, but this video is going to be really zoomed in because it's different in frame size. So what I usually do next is I go into Option Command K or Alt Control K. And here we need to search for fit to frame and field to frame. So let's search for fit to frame. And the shortcut for me is Control V, or you can put control or Alt or whatever. Shift V, whichever one works for you. So Shift V would work as well. The reason I have it so that by the way, we have one is fed to frame, and the other one is field to frame. So if we search for fill to fill frame, once again, another one. So what I do here is I press on control and then one of those circuits, and it will fit it differently. So the one does horizontal fitment, the other one does vertical fitment. And I go with horizontal fitment so that it fits on the right and on the left. And at the top and the bottom, you cannot fit it and you cannot even see it. So we'll click on Impack to fit the screen. And because we have two audios, we need to sync the audios. Select this clip, press on option up twice by using the arrow keys, and then down once so that they are on different tracks, and these are on different I select all of it. We can right click and click on synchronize or we can just add a shortcut, which is what I have as well. So search for synchronize. In my case, it's Controls. So either right click or add a shortcut Control S, and it will ask you how you want to do it. I usually just put it audiotrat channel one, click on a K it's going to think a little bit, and did it pretty quickly. Now, I know that I don't need this audio because it's a lot quieter. This is the great microphone. This is the terrible microphone. So I just deletes I just delete the terrible microphone, move things a little bit higher. Zoom to the very beginning and then just cut this video up a little bit like that. So it's all exactly the same. I'm just going to click here to select the empty space and then click on Delete. It's going to delete, so it's going to come to the very beginning. Now, in terms of organizing things in the project, it's also important to organize here. So I create usually a folder by selecting a present Shift B, and I'll call this one draw. And for the sequence, you can either put a folder for yourself or you can just keep it like this. It really depends on how many files you have. In the very beginning, you do have to do it. You can do it a little bit later, but once you have 100 files, can be a little bit tricky. The reason why I usually keep this one here like this, not in the folder is because let's say I press on Command W to close it here, I just have to double click on the sequence and going to reopen it. And for any folders that I want to create in the future, I will either select the files and press on Shift B or press on Command or Control and then this sideways line that's going to create another bin and after that, we're ready to go. So if you have any questions, let me know, and let's jump into the next video. 6. Cutting Your Timeline with Firecut: Now, once we have the video it like this, we need to cut the silences. It's just the boring stuff that we have to do. What you can do. Basically, take a look at the audio waveforms and then just cut the silences. So I'm going to press, for example, on Q to cut everything to the left, and then I can press on W to make a cut and cut this silence and go a little bit to the front and catalyt this. So for a video that's 30 minutes long, it will take me probably 30 minutes to an hour to just cut this. Let's press Option Command K. Usually you have ripple trim on the Q, and then you will have ripple trim on the W. On the W, I actually have add edit, which makes me cut instead of trim. So I will just make a cut whenever I'm pressing on W and whatever I'm placed with the blue thing. So you can put a shortcut for yourself for the add edit as well here. And then for the ripple trim, just move it to E. Now, if you don't want to do it manually, I will show you a tool. It is a pay tool, and if you want to test the tool out, there's going to be a link to it around the video player that will give you 10% of all the plans. It's called Firecut, and the way it works, I'm going to go through on the one feature, remove silences, but has a lot of other features, and I know that a lot of other features is super useful as well, because I use them quite often. But in this case, let's click on Remove silences. We can do it either by the basic, it's going to do it automatically. So the App is going to do it automatically, or you can click on Advanced, which is what I prefer to do. So if you do the basic, the only thing you can control is the loose cud and then the tight cud. You do not have any precision in the silence that will be cut. So that's why I go into Advanced, click on Analyze. It does the analysis. By the way, you don't have to do it. It's just if you want to do it, of course, it's going to save you a lot of time. It will save you at least 30 minutes to an hour of cutting silences. If you do videos like this, if you do longer videos, it will save you even more time, or you can just do it by by hand manually, it's up to you, of course. It detects the sounds threshold automatically, which in this case is -31 decibels. So it's saying that everything that's quieter than 30 1 decibel is going to cut it. But the minimum sounds duration, I keep it to 750. It's pretty good. For Ignore sounds shorter than here, I put 150. In other words, if you have let's talk on the settings. If you have 30 frames per second, it will be equal to three frames. So 150 milliseconds is three frames. If there's a sound shorter than three frames, it's going to cut it. I oftentimes do sounds like this, whether I, you know, maybe, like, hit the table or, you know, I sneeze, cough, I do some sort of weird noise. This is going to cut it so that I don't have to cut it manual because it's going to be like this little cut of two, three frames, which is weird. For the putt put this to 20, and I click on the second one specifically because if you change the first one, the second one is not going to change. I don't know why it's a little bit weird. Maybe they'll fix it in the future, but if you change the second one, they're going to update together automatically. And the settings I used for the whole video, I detected 191 sences to cut, and you can see the preview. You can click on every single sounds that is going to cut and it's going to preview it. You don't have to do it. It's really unnecessary. And then, of course, you can go into every single suns if you want, but I'm not going to do it. So I click on go. The wording is okay because it says that if it's above 100, then use the rapid, but I noticed that the rapid doesn't work perfect all the time. The perfect way to do it is the way we're doing it right now. So I click can proceed anyway, and I'm not going to cut this video. Let's see how long it takes. It will take maybe like a minute to do the cuts. So the way it does it is it adds jamler on top and just cuts with this adjustmler. So if I click on it, obviously, don't click on it. But if you were to click, that's how you can do it. So let me zoom in. Is this just here? I'm not sure, but it looks like it. Anyway, that's how we do the cut. By the way there's also a way to select the in and out points if you don't want to cut the whole video like this. But I usually just do the whole video and then do any changes in the future if I need to. The tool that saves me the most time is this one. I absolutely love this tool. There are other tools like this that exist, but the best one for me is the fire cut. That's why I use it. Okay, great. So once the video was cut, I just have to go through the video and, you know, cut any repetition. You see it cut 871 seconds of silence. In other words, how many minutes that is ten plus minutes of silence? So that was great. The video was like 28 minutes long. Now it's 14. So the fairy cut has another feature called remove repetition. It is pretty useful if you have video that is not as long. And if you click and detect repetition, just going to do it automatically, it's going to transcribe the text. But I found that it doesn't work the best for me. So Tonal detected one, petition, specifically in the in and out points. I don't find useful just because it's a lot easier and faster for me to go through it manually. But this is just my workflow. Please give it a try and see if it works for you. Another thing I want to mention is that you can do the scope here. You can see the full sequence or the in and out points. So whatever in and out points you have here, we're pressing on I and O, so I and O, you can just set that or you can press Option X to disable that. So I go through the video, and I just cut certain parts, delete the sentences, delete the repetition, just make sure that the video is okay. Once I'm ready, you know, we are ready to move to the next step, but there's still a little bit of boring stuff to do, but it's not as boring as cutting manually. It's it's a headache for me. So, if you have any questions, let me know that let's jump into the next video. 7. How to Add B-Roll, Overlays and Zooms in Premiere Pro: Now the next step to editing the videos is to add some sort of overlay or to add Zooms. The way I do this is I can select the track number two, click on option, and make it a little bit higher. Usually, for the intro market with specific color, delete kind of the screen recording, lower it down, and it's going to stay there. And then once we go further, this is how it looks. So a couple of things we can do. We can add overlay, which is going to be screenshots, for example. So let's say I will search for Google. If I'm talking about Google, I would take a screenshot, make sure we save it, and then I would just drop it in here. So it will be added to the left into composition or in our project, and to will be at here as well. Once again, a very useful tool. Remember when we did the fit the screen, so I'm just going to fit it like this as well. And if I need to customize further, I will zoom in, and I would just go through the video. Obviously, if you wanted to be on top of the person, just put it higher and it's going to be on top. The Zooms, I have a very specific process for the Zooms because my Zooms are extremely smooth. The way I do it is I click here to create jasmler. Click on o, and I will add jasmler I recommend you to do it. I mean, it's pretty painful in terms of doing it because it does require quite a bit of effort, but these Zooms are really useful. Obviously you can zoom in on any layer itself like this. But if you have cuts between the layers, it becomes problematic because if you zoom in on one layer, the second layer is not zoomed in and you'll have this jump. So that's why I add jasmler and I add a transforms transform transform and this transform. I drag into the jasmler. Click on this scale. On the position keyframes and increase the shutter angle 280 to add motion blur. That's thing that's really useful. So I usually put it to the very beginning, and let's say, after some time, we zoom in. Let me select the transform. Let's say let's zoom in, like, on the right, like this. So let's take a look. The Zoom is terrible. It's not smooth at all. There's a tool that I use for this. It's called Blinkl. So Blinkl is another tool that is currently free. I'm not sure if they will make it paid in the future. But specifically, this smotifi tool, this is what I use. So if I click on it, it opens the graph which we can customize. Basically, it's like the flow extension After Effects. But for Premiere Pro, which is something that didn't exist in the past, but this allows to do some crazy stuff in terms of, like, to smooth the keyframes. So we can customize how smooth we want the keyframes to be. Let's say I want to be like this. So I just I just have to come between the two keyframes, open Blinkle which is also here at the left. Click on Apply or just press on Enter, it's going to apply the keyframes. And if I let it play, we'll have incredibly smooth Zoom. So that's how we do my zooms. That's how MKBHD does it. Although he doesn't edit in Premiere Pro or After Effects, he does it in other software. But this is kind of how to do the smooth Zooms. Of course, there's a way to do it. So if I click on two more keyframes and let's zoom out to 100. We can select right click, click on is out, and then select C is in, and it's going to be a little bit smoother, but it's not going to be as smooth as this one. And of course, yes, we can open this up even further, and then we can customize our keyframe so that they're even smoother. The Zoom is even smoother. But the problem is that, for example, for the scale, if we drag it, you can see it goes up and down, so there's no way to do it precisely. Even if a press on shift, it's not going to do it properly. So even my computer start lagging. And this is a bit of a problem. It doesn't allow us to do the super precise zoom. So that's why I don't do it like this. After Effects, it's very easy to do it, and I'll show you how to use After Effects, of course, but it will be really problematic to take this into After Effects every single time. So that's why we do it here. Blinkl has other really useful tools. So if you come to home, like any paste, for example, it's like a really interesting thing. The beat detector is also interesting the important Moji interesting. To be honest, I don't really use it. I only use smdify here. By the way of Sodify, you can also, for example, you do your own customization, and then you can save it as a preset. Because you will give a name to your preset, just remember that name. Come to home, go to settings. They have also a ring, which you can activate by presents shortcut. There's the shortcut. ScocoPlus and just search for your preset. My case, it's lod. So whenever I'm in Premiere Pro can just press on the shortcut to activate the ring. And I'm just going to slide the mouse a little bit to the top to the right, click on it, and once again, it's going to add it automatically. And the Zoom is going to be super smooth. And by the way, whatever, you know, the smoothness of the keyframes you had in the past, it's going to ignore that completely, and it's going to override it. And if you want to delete it, you have to go into Blinkel Smoothify, click on delete this is the way you have to go to delete. That's how you do the Zooms. That's how you do the overlay. And for the overlay as well, I usually do another jasmler. I'll add on top. We can change the color of it to, you know, red clip, change it to another color. Make it a little bit longer. Foot length, actually, if you press on Command R, press you can type 150, zero. It's going to be 15 seconds. Whatever seconds you want to put here, just put the number and then with two zeros, it's going to be in seconds. And for this, we can add another transform to do a slow Zoom. So I'm going to press on scale, move this keyframe to the very front and put this one to 115. To zoom in by 15, go to the very end, and it's going to add this slow zoom. And whenever I have overlay like this, I just put adjustment layer on top. Once again, of course, you can put it directly onto the layer, but it would be a lot easier to move the adjustment layer onto another overlay than to copy the motion and paste it onto another overlay. So that's why I do it like this and going to have this slow, smooth zoom. Makes the video a little bit more dynamic. You can do exactly the same thing for the opposite, so for the zoom out instead of it being instead of zooming in, two out. So if you have any questions, let me know, add the that, let's jump into the next video. 8. After Effects Workflow for Long-Form YouTube Videos: Welcome. In this video, we're going to explore how to connect Premiere Pro with After Effects and all the interesting work we can do in After Effects. So there are a couple of ways we can do this. First of all, we can click on any footage, right click and click on replace with After Effects composition. Let's click. It's going to start opening After Effects. After Effects is jumping at the bottom. Now that it opened, I'm going to go into our text project and just save the After Effects while there. I usually save it in the same boulder as the Premiere Pro. Project. So this one is going to be the final edit, and we can give it a name at the top. Usually, I don't give it a name, but if you are going to move this file later, it's important to give it the proper name. If you're not going to move it, you don't have to give it a proper name because if you move it, you will have to find that file. And if, let's say, well, let me give you, an example. For example, we have a ton of YouTube videos here. And if I was to name AfterxFle the same name, in hundreds of folders, then it's going to be a problem to find that exact file whenever you want to move it. But if you're going to keep it in that folder all the time, then it's not a problem. So I'm going to come back to After Effects. And for this, I'm going to put Untitled project that's going to be just named like that. But then for the next, I'm going to name it something different, like untitled project one or two, three, so that we're not going to replace the same file. So let's click on Save and it's just going to open this video. Because After Effects and Premiere Pro, they do things slightly differently. This video here, which was just me in the corner, it looks like this in After Effects. I'm going to come back to Premiere Pro and press and commands at two and two. Now, let's just try to replace Nt videos. By the way. In After Effects, this video is going to stay here, but in Premiere Pro, we're going to undo. So let's come back to After Effects, and we can come to the project and just delete these two. So going to press and delete, click on Delete. And now, if I want to do the same thing, but let's do it, let's say, with the screen recording, right click, replace with After Effects composition. In this case, it's going to add it to the same project, which is going to be entitled Project, and it's going to add both the audio and the visual. Now in Premiere Pro, that's how it's going to be here. I do have a bit of a problem with After Effects because I'm not sure why it is exactly, but most likely it's because of the way I record my videos. I record them on the iPhone, and there's a bit of a frame mismatch because in premiere, it says it's 30 frames per second, but whenever I take it into After Effects, let's come back here. So if we go into the composition composition settings, there it is, or I'm just going to press the shortcut. The frame rate is a little bit weird here. So it's 30 then zero, 04. Super weird. So I created this Vlad Tools. And if I click just 30, it's going to make it 30 frames per second. Sorry if I click Command K, 30 frames second. Now, why is this important? Because if a person commands that, we have this 30 and this weird number, I come back to Premiere Pro. Let's zoom in and take a look. We have this just one empty frame at the end because of the frame mismatch. I can try to extend it a little bit, but it's always going to have a bit of a problem. With some of the clips overlapping. So if let's say in After Effects, we added a number of clips, when there's a cut between them, like in this situation here, there would be one frame missing as well. So that's why I just click on 30. It turns the composition 30, and then I'm going to extend it here until the end, and it's going to be perfect. So we can keep the After effect file here like this. And then whenever we edit this file, we're just going to edit it, and then all the changes that we do in After Effects. So let's add, like, a shape here on the screen. Let's make it white. Then it's going to be updated in Premiere por right away. If you have a very slow computer, it might be bit challenging because it will eat powerful computer. If you don't want to do it this way, what you can do is whenever you replace with After effect composition, just press on Command Z or Control Z to undo. It's going to keep everything the same in Premiere. But in after effect, things are going to stay the same. So whenever you do any changes, you just export the video from here. So click on File. Export at Render Queue, export the video. So let's actually do it. Click on Render. And when we come back to Premiere Pro, I'm just going to find that same file. So this is the exports. This one. I'm going to drag it into Premiere Pro, put it here, delete the audio, and the file at the top is going to have the change that we did in this thing at the top. No, I will say it's not really convenient because if you want to do changes, you will have to re export the video. It's a lot easier to do changes directly in After Effects and have the After Effects file in Premiere Pro. That's the easiest way to do it. But once again, if you have slow computer, you might want to do it this way if you want a fast preview in Premiere Pro. Now, I'm going to close this file. We're going to click and save. There's another way to do it, which is if we create a new composition, we whatever we do going to be the length 10 seconds. Now, let's do a simple line animation. Let's make it white. I'm just going to apply preset so I don't waste your time. Okay. So for 2 seconds, we have this line animation, and I'm going to clue command as to save this file, and let's call it a line animation. Okay? Come back to Premiere Pro, and let's go to final edit. Then we have our line animation After effect file, which I will drag into Premiere Pro. It will ask which comp you want to add. Click on Okay. And you can just drag this comp here. And because we drew a line, you're just going to draw it here like this. So we have three ways to do it. Remember, we can select it, right click, replace with After Effects composition. Edit the file in After Effects and keep everything the same here. So that would be equivalent of like this. So this is the first way to do it. The second way to do it is to press some commands t, work with the After Effects file, export it, put it into Premiere Pro. And the third way is to do work directly in After Effects and then just drop the After Effects in Premiere Pro. Now, when it comes to After Effects work, I mean, there's qua drillian things we can do, literally quadrillan things because we can add motion graphics. We can do V effects. We can do just simple movement, certain glow effects, which is something you cannot do in Premiere Pro. So I would recommend you to watch my After Effects courses because it's going to teach you what you can do with After Effects because I mean, we can go forever here, and we can spend like 10 hours in this lesson, still not going to cover everything. Watch the After Effects courses to learn how to do the work in After Effects and what you can do with all of this. And if you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 9. How to Edit a Scroll-Stopping YouTube Intro: Welcome. In this video, I'm going to show you how to edit an intro. First of all, why do we edit the intro not in the beginning of the video? Well, there's a very specific reason, and I'm going to give it to you in this video. Let's take a look. All of this, all that is highlighted on the screen is the intro. Intros are roughly 30 seconds. YouTube depends on the video. Sometimes there are outliers. Intros can be up to a minute long or they can be 10 seconds long. This intro for this video is 30 seconds long. And then we have different I mean, you can see marked with color. We have different chapters or different content units. And I'll break down one of the videos later, but for now, I just want to show you the intro. So the reason we edit the intro once the main part of the video is edited is because we can take a lot of those edited parts and put them into intro. For example, let's take a look. Okay, so first of all, in the beginning, you did some custom work in After Effects here because this is text animation master class. This is all done in After Effects. So this stuff for the first 15 seconds, I did it in After Effects. But then if we take a look later. Whenever I show what's going to happen in the video, I just take those things from later of the video. So everything we see here, all of these screens are taken from later in the video because you don't want to do the same animation twice. Why would you do? And if let's say you did something in the intros, but then later, you have to do something slightly different in the middle of the video, it's just going to waste a lot of time. So that's why we edit the middle first, then we take it into the beginning. I do it is I just kind of lift something up. Person option, it's going to make a copy, and then I just drag it to the beginning, shortened up to be a specific size like this and then just drag it down, for example. That's literally how we do things. Now, how do we edit an intro? In terms of graphics and visuals, you want to have the most saturated part in terms of the graphics and visuals in the intro. Because the longer somebody watches the video, the longer they are to keep watching the video. This comes from Mr. Beast. So in the very beginning, you want to hook people in, give them as much as possible, and then by the end of the video, you can have very little in terms of editing graphics. I mean, if you have nothing, it's not going to work great, but you can definitely have a lot less. And if you take a look at my videos, usually, they're very heavy in terms of graphic zoom ins, all sorts of stuff in the beginning. And then by the end of the video, it just becomes a little bit less. Like, for example, in the very last chapter, I don't even have any Zoom ins. I mean, it's also because of how the video is structured. But for the last minute, I don't have any zoomins. I don't have my face full screen. Like for example, what we have here like this. We don't have it at the very end just because there's no need. People that have watched 14 minutes of this video, they will probably watch another minute, even if I don't like, cut or or do, retention editing. Retention editing is basically you stuff the video with graphics, and in a way, you even confuse people with how much is happening on the screen, and this confusion just keeps them glued to the screen. It is interesting because there are a couple of ways you can think about this. Yes, retention editing helps keep people watching longer, but it doesn't really do the satisfaction for people. Maybe it does for some, but not for everybody. And if you take a look at how platforms are optimizing videos or optimize the reach of the videos, is if the video is not satisfying for the viewer, that video is not going to be shown, although that video is going to keep the viewer glued to the screen. So we have to kind of balance this out a little bit. We want to do retention editing to keep people watching, but we don't want to overstimulate their brain to the point where they cannot watch the video because it's just too much. Now, in terms of the visuals for the intro and for the middle of the video, it's a good idea to take a look at what others are already doing in the industry. And there are many ways to do this because if I show you how to do this, it's not going to work for vlogs, for example, where if I showed you how to do for blogs, it's not going to necessarily work for talking head video. You want to follow what's happening on the screen. For example, I talk about the stages of how this video is broken down, and then I show how this video is broken down. So we have the three kind of bigger chapters or bigger topics of the video, and then we have smaller chapters, which are also blurred out. I use mosaic for this effect. It's both in premiere and After Effects. This mosaic in order not to give away what is going to be in the video. And as the video progresses, I reveal those things of what's going to happen in the video. So going further, there's going to be kind of the first one, and then there's going to be the second one. And then viewers are discovering it, and that's the reason why that's one of the reasons why they keep on watching. Now, if this seems a little bit unclear and some of the points are how to edit Nintro or maybe even the middle part of the video, I'm going to take one of my previous videos and then break it down for you so that you understand exactly what's happening, but it's going to be in one of the later videos. I just want to talk through the theory first, and then I'm going to show you exactly how everything is structured everywhere. And, of course, if you have any questions, just let me know. In the core intersection below. Other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 10. Sound Design for YouTube Videos: Music, SFX & Mixing: In this video, we're going to talk about sound design, so that's going to be music and sound effects. Now, let's listen to the same intro, but without some unilocumute, which is a very useful button. Let's come to the very beginning and break this down. First of all, let's work on the sound effect. I'm going to mute the music as well. Let's break this down. The first like 1 second. First of all, we have the swoosh, and the swoosh works pretty interesting because we have two things here. We have the Zoom out, and then we have the text appearing on the screen. There's the text. So this very first zoom works for both, but I usually use this big Zoom for the zoom out. And I'll talk about where I get all the sound facts just break this all down for now. Then we have two other faster swooshes. And these two swishes work when is the complete peers in the screen, and then when the word this falls down. Now, you can add sound effects for every single animation, and for every single movement that's happening in the screen, you can absolutely do it. And you can make it less loud so that it's not overpowering and doesn't take away from the video, but it adds to the video. But sometimes we have to balance because, for example, like, currently, with the amount of work that I'm doing, I'm just not able to make the video, let's say, like, perfect. And there's no such thing as perfect. But I'm not able to, like, really polish this video. So sometimes, yes, I skip some of the things just because I don't have time to do things, for example. You could add, like other small swooshes or like the UI sounds when the text appears, like the words text and the word animation. I didn't do it. I could have done know to make it better. Now, at the end, we have another swoosh. And this woosh happens when the text kind of moves the shadow of the text moves up like this. And then we have another big swoosh, and then we have this sound effect, which is kind of the flash transition, and then we have another swoosh. And you can see, we have a bit of clipping here. You can hear it in order to not have this clipping. Basically happens with this audio. You just need to add the default transition, the smallest bit like this, just one frame. But the reason it happens is because we go from no sound to very loud. And when this happens, we have this clipping. So if I play it now, we're not going to have clipping. It's very smooth. But before we would hear like this little click and we can hear it very well in the audio, when, for example, the person is speaking, and when we cut it to say, here, but then I'm going to cut it here. When we paste it like this, when we go from nothing to very loud, that's when clipping happens. So just add, like, a default transition in order to avoid that. So the flash transition is pretty straightforward. The Zoom is pretty straightforward as well. Then for this kind as we're going down, I have another swoosh. And then we have this marker sound for each text highlight. It's just a regular marker sound. And then we have computer clicks for every single thing that's appearing on the screen, and then a typewriter. Then we have another flash, then the swish transition, then we have another flush, another flash. That's it for the sound effects. So you can see, even in the intro it's heavier with sound effects in the beginning than this at the end. And also we have more in terms of, like, editing. We have more stuff happening in the beginning of the video, in terms of the animations, you know, all things popping up, moving, things like that. But then as we get closer to the end of the video, it's not as crazy. I mean, we still have it, but it's definitely less crazy than we have it in the intro. So, sound effects, how do you work around that? Well, you just have to add sound for whatever movement is happening. That's kind of the simplest version of it. As you practice and develop, you can develop your own understanding of it. But for now, just think about whatever movement you have on the screen, add a sound for that. It's going to just simplify things for you. For the sounds and for the music, I use Epidemic Sound, which have an extension here in Premiere Pro. You can add the SFX, you can do the music and, you know, there are a lot of other useful things. The reason why I use Epidemic Sound is because if you use a free library, oftentimes you need to reference the author of the music or of the sound effect. And if you don't do it, you might have a copyright strike on whatever platform you use, and they might ask you to take the video down. So if you edit those for clients, especially, that's really important. So that's why I use Epidemic Sound because it is under subscription. You just purchase that subscription. It's monthly, and then or you can purchase it by yearly. And then you don't have to think about it. You have a library. They have some crease numbers. I think they have over, like, dozens of actually, let's find this out the specific numbers. Okay, so here's the crease number. The Epidemic Sound has over 50,000 tracks, so that's 50,000 musics. And then hundred 200,000 sound effects. So that's why I use Epidemic Sound. And if you want, there's going to be link in description for 30 day free trial if you want to give it a try. Now, sometimes I also use Animation Composer for some sound effects here and there, just because it's already good. Like, for example, if I click on transition, the transition comes with the sound effects. But for music, we have to use Epidemic Sound. I mean, there's no other way to go about this. So for Epidemic Sound, if I click on music and scroll down, you'll see that they have different themes, or you can just search for specific you know, whatever you want to do, or you can chat with an assistant. You can tell it. Basically this is like AI, describe what kind of video you're doing. It's going to suggest songs based on that. And the way we edit music is very simple. Remember, we have to come back to the content unit, which is hook, retention, reward or beginning, middle, and end. Every song like, every video, like every content unit has the beginning, has middle and has an end. So it's the beginning of the song for the beginning, the middle, for the middle and the end for the end. I've been using this system for years. It still works. It's really great. It's very simple. So, for example, we have the song, which let's find the same song. So which song is this? This is high tech Rocket JR. Let's search for it. High tech. The song. Okay. So I already have downloaded. We have it here in the timeline. So I'm going to re click on it, and let's reveal in project. It's going to show us where it's located in project I'm going to double click on it. Let's zoom out, see what we have. So let's listen. Mmm This is clearly the beginning of the song. So because it's very clear, we can use this clear thing in the intro, it's going to be like this part. Then for the middle part, I usually start on the beat. So let's listen. Did you hear like this bit here? Let's listen again. It's usually very easy to find that beat, and whenever that beat happens is when I do cat. So let's listen to just the song. This is how you usually do it. So how do you do it in practice? Well, you just take this piece, you mark it out on the beat, you drag it into the timeline, and then you just extend it to the left. So let me play the solo. Let me do G -25. It's in terms of, like, the loudness. So let's listen. Very similar thing as we have above. Maybe we need to move it like one frame to the left, but you get the idea. And then because we have kind of let's mark it with color. So we have the beginning, then we have the middle. Let's mark it with another color. We just need to find the end. So for the end, I just come to the very end and I search for the end of the song. This is the end. Like, it sounds different. So that's why I will find to the point where it transitions roughly here. And then I would just drag that here. It works perfect for this song, in terms of, like, the timing because this is kind of the outtro of the intro. So this is the end of the intro, and the timing works here perfectly because the song will end before the video starts. So, what I would do here is just to decrease it. But what if it didn't work perfectly? What if we wanted to end, for example, here? Like, where the playhead is. Well, I would just cut a little bit shorter. And when the sounds stop, we just get to that point, it doesn't have to be super precise. Then you can kind of hide the cut on the sound effects quite often. So I'm just going to apply a default transition. And if we let it play, you will notice that the sound is because it's basically the same sounds, the same song, it's the cut is not really visible. It depends on the song. Of course, some songs have very visible cuts when you cut them together and put it together, but for this one it's pretty straightforward, so let's listen. See, like, you don't even hear the cut, and especially when the person is talking when we have the sound effects, that's not visible at all. So I just do it like this, then I put everything onto one truck, and I can just copy this transition, put it here. Let's make this one louder as well so I can hear things better. I just add this default transition because it's the best. It's the easiest way to go about this. Of course, we can break our heads and do incredibly seamless and do proper music customization. But we also have to think, how much time are we willing to spend on this? Because if google not get paid enough to do this, why would we waste our time doing it? So that's why I don't waste the time. It works perfectly fine. For 99% of people, they will never notice this. That's important to note. So, let's listen. Pretty smooth. So if it's smooth enough, I just keep it like this. I don't want to optimize it forever and make it perfect because there's no such thing as perfect. And then for the other parts of the videos, like for content units, I do pretty similar thing in terms of, you'll see, like, for example, for this orange one, let me highlight for this one. I have the beginning of the song, the middle of the song and the Outro. The same I have here for this one. So begin so basically the beginning and the middle, I can kind of use this one clip because if you remember from the beginning, these two are pretty close to each other. So they post like this, the beginning, which is this, and then the middle part, they're usually positioned very close, so I can just usually do it like this, drag this beginning and then just put it somewhere like that, it's going to work, but I'm going to delete this. It works the same here. Here and here. Sometimes when I have very small content units, like, for example, here, I can use one song in order to have different ones because I would have to find a song or do it for, let's say, 11 minutes, 23 seconds until 11 minutes 57 seconds. So for 30 seconds, find a new song. Of course, if you want to take it to the next level, if you get paid enough, yeah, you can certainly do it. Always have to balance, like, how much effort are we putting in versus how much we're going to get? Because, yes, of course, we can optimize it forever. But do we get paid in proportion to that? Because if not, why would we spend our time doing it? So, a couple of lessons to just wrap this video up for sound effects. Whenever you have movement, add a sound for that. You will understand the intricacies with practice. So practice as much as possible. For music, use the middle for the middle, beginning for the beginning and the end for the end. And for music. Epidemic Sound is my library of choice. There are other libraries, but with Epidemic Sound, I've been using them for many, many years. So we're talking like seven years. Plus minus, maybe plus. So these guys are really amazing. We really recommend them. And once again, 30 free trial if you want to give it a try. And by the way, they also have this thing, which I'll show you. So the way it works is you have, like, a safe list here. And if you have a subscription, you can just add your channels here. And you can also add your clients. It depends on the subscription. They have different tiers of these subscriptions. So you can safe list video videos for clients here. So clients don't even have to have their subscription. They can have subscription. They can give access to you to their account so that or they just have their own subscription. It doesn't matter how you do it. But if they don't have subscription, you can raise the price and just put their videos here, and then you can add YouTubes, Instagram, podcasts, websites. If you have questions, let me know. And that list in Pinto the next video. 11. The Final Review: Last step before we publish the video is to export the video. So I would just come to the very end the misumen. If I just press O here, it's not going to export correctly because we'll have one frame there at the end, which is annoying. So I would just come to the very end like this, press one arrow to the left, press on O, and it's going to export correctly. Then I go into the exporting. So we just need to put the settings in. Usually, I just match the source because whenever I record, I record it with my phone. So I really like the settings that I get if I match the source. But you can put your own settings, and I'll give you this as an example. So I always match the source in terms of the video settings, but then we can click on more and we can customize it further. So the round the word maximum depth quality using maximum under quality frame sampling hardware coding, and you can just copy these settings. For the target Bret, I usually put 19 just because if you put more, it's going to increase the size of the video, but it's not going to make the quality insanely better. So we keep the kind of good quality, but not making the size of the video too big, so you can copy these settings, but oftentimes you can just match the source and you don't really have to customize even further. Then we just export the video and we watch the video. The reason we watch the video is to identify if there's anything else that we want to change that will make the video better. And I only do this revision once because I usually do it once, because we don't want to optimize it forever, because we can take forever to optimize. We don't want to do that. We want to take a look at it once, take a piece of paper, like, write your notes, and then just do the changes. Export the video again. That's it. I do recommend taking some time off, especially in the beginning. Like, take an hour off or maybe like a day off, do something different. It's going to really allow you to get distracted from the video, and then you will watch it with a fresh eye. Now, when you watch it, try to watch it as the viewer. Like, a person who clicks on the video for the first time and try to see, does it make sense for them? Like, what did it make sense for you if you watch this video for the first time? Is everything great? Is there anything you would change? If yes, do changes, if not, then maybe the video is good to go from the first try, it happens sometimes. This is a very important step because it helps you understand what you do wrong, where you can improve. And also just helps you think from the point of the viewer because you do this video for the viewer. You don't do this video for yourself or you don't do this video just to robotically, manually add certain things on the screen so that the video just just you don't want to make it robotic. You are a creator, where you can create for other people if you have clients, but you are always a creator yourself. You create these videos, and we don't want to be just the boring stuff. A lot of the stuff comes with experience. It's just doing it so many times that it would be unreasonable for you to not understand how it works or for the video to be bad. And it's just a part of the game. You have to do something so many times that it becomes boring to you, but then you become great at it because you understand how things work. Once it becomes boring, that's when it's right. So export the video, watch it. But that than that, if you're questions, let me know and I will see you next video. 12. How to Create Scroll-Stopping Visuals: In the speed's talk about how to create visuals. Long story short, you have to look at what already exists and just try to make it your own. That's the easiest way to do it. So we still like an artist. We don't just copy it one to one. We don't do the same thing and call it our own. We don't do that. Actually, this is from book called Still An Artist. I recommend you to read this book, it's a brilliant book on how to actually develop your skills. If you watch MKBHD, you know that or you might not know, but anyway, he has this background here that's moving. If I let it play, there it is. And I was so fascinated by this background that I decided to create a similar one but make it my own. So this is the background that I've created, which is it's a similar idea of, you know, these kind of dots appearing and moving, being squashed, things like that. I also added glow on top of that on top of the dots being different, the moon being different. And this is kind of where I got the inspiration from, and this is where I ended up. MKBHD is really good example of simple videos that are just well made. I like that he gives this example of iPhones and porches. These companies, they're just really consistent. They're really stable, and that's what people like about them. And MKBHD himself is kind of like that. He has simple or videos that look simple, but in the reality, they are not as simple. And so I really get a lot of inspiration from him. We're talking about Instagram, then I get really inspired by creator, creatorly. He has these kind of, like, Apple style animations which are very smooth. It's it's so good. I really like these animations. And so that's where I kind of get my inspiration from. And here's something that you have to do. You have to find your own inspiration. There are definitely things that you like on the Internet. And so I would recommend you to just break those down and try to replicate those. When you try to replicate, even if you know how it's done, trust me, when you try to replicate, it's a completely different process. I really recommend you just give it a try. Try to find a video that you like or created that you like. Download their video. If you need a downloader. I use this one. So t down dot or just search for, like, a YouTube downloader in Google. Download the video or download the Instagram video, break it down, try to replicate it. It will take you to the next. If you don't have someone, then the question for you, do you like mysel? If you do, then just try to break down mystyle and try to replicate my style. This is the thing kind of we're not just stealing. By combining a number of different people or inspirations, we create our own style. There's nothing wrong with copying in the very beginning and just trying to develop the skills. So you're very welcome to do that. And I would also recommend you to follow myself because you can ask me questions directly, and I'll be able to help you out. So just drop it somewhere, like, ask me questions on how it's done, or you can watch the YouTube videos, and I do a lot of breakdowns there. And another important thing for videos is that there's a rule by Mr. Beast. So if we open Mr. Beast, let's take a look at the first, like, 15 seconds. So we have Zoom, one frame change, two. Three, four, five, six. So in 15 seconds, we had six cuts on top of having effects on top of having sound effects on top of, you know, just emotions and presentation, Zooms in 15 seconds. So this can tell you something that I remember I did a calculation of how fast does Mr. Beats change his scenes, his cuts. So he does a cut every two to 3 seconds throughout the whole video. So his video is like 35 minutes long, which means that he does like how many cuts? Crazy. So let's do it with 35 times 60 times like let's say two. So he has 4,200 shots roughly on average for this video. M in the beginning, we have more editing, by the end, we have a little bit less editing. So this is the ideal thing that you're trying to achieve. Try to do a cut, a graphic every two to 3 seconds. Obviously, if you do it alone and you don't get paid like crazy amounts of money, you will not be able to do it. So try to do as much as possible. And if we take a look at my examples, well, my example is interesting because I do quite a bit of, like, for example, Zooms, a lot of the times, like, for example, the and these zooms do act as different scenes. And because I changed between a lot of the sub, it is kind of like a cut. So my videos are unique and these tutorials are unique in the form that it makes a different scene, even though it's not a different scene. But if we're talking about talking head videos where it's just a person speaking just like I am full screen to you right now, then for those kind of videos, just try to do as much as possible. Even if you have, like, a graphic every 10 seconds, every 15, 20 seconds, it's going to be great for long form video. And you also have to take a look at Analytics, which we'll talk about one of the future videos to see how the video performs. So get inspiration by other creators. Don't be afraid to steal and replicate. Your goal is to find your voice, and we do it by practice. We get practice is by doing the work. So, if you have any questions, let me know and that let's jump into the next video. 13. How to Build Reusable Editing Templates: I City will talk about how to create templates. What are templates? First of all? Templates are just files that you don't have to recreate from scratch. It's basically an already premade animation, for example, or a premade graphic that you don't have to create from scratch so that you don't waste your time. And templates are really good if you do similar things. So let's say you use the same graphic multiple times, then instead of you recreating from scratch every time, you just create it on, save it as a template, and then the next time, use the same graphic, you can change a few things, but you don't have to create from scratch. So there are a couple of ways we can go about this. So if we use something like Premiere Pro, let's say we want to create a simple animation or not necessarily the animation, but let's say we create this graphic, and then we can put by selecting this graphic, we can add some text. Let me delete it. And let's say I want to save this as a graphic. Well, I'll just right click Export as motion graphic template or in other words, a moger save the project because I'm requiring a video to not be able to do it, but just give it an and save it to the local template folder and click on Okay. Next, whenever you go into motion graphic templates, which is graphic templates, you have it go to Window and scroll a little bit down graphic templates, there it is. You'll have graphic templates that you created, and then you can just dragon drop it. It's going to appear, and, you know, this is like a highlight or like, like a premiere pro, so it's going to just a transition that's going to appear on the screen like that. But this transition is actually from After Effects, and this is something that I want to talk to you about as well. So there's another way to create Mgrit in After Effects. Then you can use those After Effects Moorts in Premiere Pro. But here's the interesting thing. You can create Mgarts in both After Effects and Premiere Pro. You can create them in both software, but you can use them only in Premiere Pro. So let's create a new composition, and let's once again, draw something like this on screen, and we can add some text to make it black. So let's say we want to save this as a Mgart. Well, we need to go into essential graphics. We need to select composition. So this is going to be come number one. You can give it your own name. And whatever we put right over here is what we'll be able to customize later in Premiere Pro. If you don't put something in here, you will not be able to customize it. Meaning if we want to change the scale, for example, we need to drag the scale here and we'll be able to customize it later in Premiere probe. If we want to, let's open text, put the source text here. So if we want to change the text like this in the future, we need to put it here. And this is something that you have to think in advance. You don't have to break your head with this. Just think, Is there something that I need to customize? Great, then put it. If not, don't put it, because you can always just save this as a template, which I'll show you how to do and be able to change it in future. But in this case, let's just call it like test for show and click on Export motion graphic template. By the way, if you have any animations, that's also going to move. So let's do an animation as person P, put the keyframe, that's going to be the final one, and this one's going to go to the left. So let's do something weird like this. Export motion graphic template, save the project. So let's save it, and we'll ask where you want to put it, put it in the local template folder, and include video preview. It's just it's going to be bit easier. And let's go save. So it's going to save. Let's come into Premiere Pro preview, meaning that whenever you scrap over them, it doesn't work here for some reason, but let's go into editing workspace. So if I go into motion graphic templates, I'll be able to preview them here as you can see it kind of shows what we have. For some reason lagging right now, probably because I'm recording the video, but it should work. And this usually takes like half a second, but because I'm recording the video taking quite a bit longer. Let's open up Okay, so if we open top, we can see the preview, this. Okay, great. Okay, so it's saved in After Effects. Let's come to Premiere Pro. Let's search for test, and there we go. Test for show. So if I op it in here, we'll have this weird animation with the text. Let's go into properties. We can customize the text, and we can customize the scale of the shape layer, as you can see on the screen, and we can customize the text like that. But let's delete all of this. So this is how you can save Mgrits. Now, how to save templates? Well, templates are something different. And a template example will be transition template. I'm going to open this project. And this project, you can really see it on screen, but this is a transition. So I just use this project whenever I want to create those flashy transitions like flash. It's this project here, which, you know, I do the animation. I save the whole thing as a project. So this is going to be like the whole Premiere Pro project. It's called transition. And then I can save it, close this project, and let's come back to our test. I'll open the folder with this transition. I will drag it here and import entire project. And then I will have the sequence, which I will just drag on top we'll zoom in, and there we'll have this flashy transition. Boom. So that's a way to save templates in Premiere Pro. You can just drag another Premiere Pro project right over here. It will ask you what you want to add exactly, you want to add the sequence, for example, then drop it in. Then there are two ways to do it. You can either import it like this, which is exactly what we need. But by clicking this button, you can also import it as a next sequence, which is going to be worse in this case, but it depends on the type of project that you work. Because if let's say you have a video there or a finished graphic that you don't want to be transparent, then this will work perfectly because it just shows everything that's in there. But if you don't want it to be green, you want to just add every single thing, then just drop it like this and it's going to be added. Now, a similar thing works with After Effects. So let's say we want to save this as a template. We just save this file as a template. And then whenever we come to Premiere Pro, I'm just going to find the same file, which is this untitled project. I just dropped here and asks which composition you want to add in Premiere Pro. And we're just going to add it. And it's a similar situation to, you know, how we used it before when we combine Premiere probe with After Effects, like how to use the dynamic link. And there's another way to do it because if, let's say I close this project and I will save it, I'm going to create a new composition, so it's going to be like a new project. What I can do is After Effects, I can import this project here. It will add it as a folder, and then in the folder, it will have everything. And so you can just drop this composition here. It's going to be the same thing. And if we double click, we open this composition. The great thing about this is that this file, the original file is not changed at all. So even if we do changes here, for example, let's change the background to red color like this. And if I close this project, I'm not going to even if I save this project. Okay, let's do it like this. So ntitlePject two, if I come to the first one, the background is not going to be changed. So the original file does not change. We only change the template that's added into the project. This really helps once again if you do the repetive stuff. Let's recap. You can create Mgords in both Premiere Pro and After Effects, but you can use Mgords only in Premiere Pro. You can create templates in both Premiere Pro and After Effects. You can use Premiere Pro templates only in Premiere Pro, and then you can use After Effects templates in both Premiere Pro and After Effects. Templates save time. If you have any questions, let me know. In that list in Pinto the next video. 14. The Best Long-Form Video Editing Tools: In this video, I want to walk you through the plugins and tools I use as an editor and a video creator. These are extremely useful. We've already talked about some of them, but I want to show you kind of a few more. So first of all, we have the fire cut. Remember, it's this tool where we did the cutting, where we remove the senses, but it also has a lot of other stuff. So it has, like, Romo fillers, repetition, profanity can add Zooms, add chapters. A chapter is really good. I always use it for every single video. Remove sounces I use for every single video. Captions, I don't really use it right now, but this is pretty good as well. The voiceover and the titles, other stuff is pretty useful as well. So I use it mostly for remove sences and the chapters, but it's pretty good for other stuff as well. Now, blinkle dot IO, and by the way, you'll have access to all of these tools as well. And some of these tools will give you like special offers. Like, for example, like DVAQ, Epidemic Sound, Firecut, it gives like 10% off. So just make sure to use these links because it will give you, some special deal on some of them. So for Blinkle, it's this application that has some interesting stuff in Premiere Pro. I think it works for After Effects as well, but I use mostly for Premiere Pro. At the recording of this video, it is free for the tool that I use mostly, but may become paid. At this point, it's free. My favorite thing about Blinkl is the Smooth if, and if I open top, this is kind of the grab that exists. So in Premiere Pro, there's no way to do smooth keyframe, or there is a way, but I'm going to show you. So for example, we're going to animate this thing. So let's change its position. This going to be the final change the initial position, sick. It's going to appear on the screen. It's smooth. We can right click, click on Is out, click on I's in. It's going to become a little bit smoother. Not perfect. We can open to, smooth it out even more like this. And this is pretty good. But the problem is that we cannot do the same thing with scale because if I have two keyframes for the scale, click on it's out and it's in, and let's change please make this one bigger. Open the scale. The problem with scale is that if I select it goes up and down, so it can go weird like this. It's not smooth, so this is a bit problematic. In After Effects, we have the graph editor, right? We have this thing here, which allows us to press F nine. Select the keyframe, press F nine. It's going to become smoother and we can do all sorts of crazy stuff. And Blinkels basically the flow extension in After Effects, which I'll talk about in a second, as well, because I can just get in between the two keyframes, open a blinkle and then customize how smooth I want the graph to be. This, for example, click on apply, and it's going to apply and it's going to be really smooth and going to be really consistent. Now, we can save it as a preset, you have the Blinkl ring. So if I close this up, you have this ring where you can put a custom smoothify like a preset here, and so you don't even have to go there. You can just activate this by a shortcut. It's going to be super useful. The way you do this, you go into settings, and then you have your ring configuration or just go into, like, home book setting, click on the ring, and then you can customize the ring here. So that's why I love it. I don't use it for other stuff, to be honest, because I don't really need the other stuff right now, but smdify is really good. If you come to further, I have also Premiere Composer, or now it's called Animation Composer, used to be called Premiere Composer, now it's Animation Composer for both Premiere Pro and After Effects. It is free. You can get into, like, updated plan to have even more assets, but the free plan is actually, really, really good. So, I only use the free plan. It's this thing here it has, you know, transitions, sound effects. You can just select them, click on ad, and it's going to add it into the timeline. Looks a little bit weird right now because we don't have a background, but usually it's pretty good. So I use it for both Premiere and After Effects. So this was for Premiere Pro. Now we're going to talk about After Effects. We have TextEvo. It's free text animation. If you want to get it for free, just put price of $0, but make sure to read the terms, and if you're able to support them, of course, please do so. Next, let's go to and precompose. This is also After Effects. This is also free, so just put your own price of $0. What it does is, let's say in Premiere Pro, we have some captions, or let's just write some text from Premiere Pro. I'm not going to transcribe the text because I have a very long video here, but basically you go into text. You have your transcription here. Right click Create captions. Customized settings, I usually put the link to characters minimum single line, click and create, but it's going to be a lot of caption. I want to get into After Effects. Let's actually say we have two texts. We need to do it on another layer. So let's do it here, text. So we have two text layers. Right click, please with After Effects composition. When we add this into After Effects, we have two texts. One text will be somewhere on the right, the other one will be on the left, but it's all precomposed. Double click to open the composition, double click here to open the composition. We don't want to do that. We don't want to come there and select pressing command X to cut it. So you just select these two layer and precompose, click on, and it's going to precompose and just put all layers here really useful. Then we have the effcs console by video Copalt which is free. It's really useful because we can just instead of going to effects and presets, searching for effects here, we can just press it and activate by shortcut and then add any sort of effects like we can add a shadow, for example, or we can add a glow or we can add Okay, saber if you want to really useful. By the way, you can also do shortcuts with it. Like this tool is pretty insane because it's also free. So you can go ahead and explore it. Then we have the flow that I talked to you about before, which is by AE Script. It's this thing here on the right. I use it every single day, probably. Basically, if you have any sort of animation, so let me delete this. You have person P, change the position. We have this animation. We can make it smoother by selecting G frames, pressing of nine, go to the graph editor and customize it further, right? A lot of unnecessary movement, and it's not opera size. What this thing does is it just it controls the easing. So if I click on the Shapler just double click whatever I need, it's going to customize the easing. So we can make it straight. We can make it a little bit curved. We can make it like this. We can make it whatever. You can see the graph changes so that it speeds up the process significantly because when you learn what each one does, just use me like three of them. This one, this one, this one. And when you learn what each one does, it's pretty crazy how smooth it does it and how fast it does it. Let's go further. We have deep glow by A is crimps, as well. So the Deep Glow just it's a very good glow. In After Effects, you have your glow, which is going to be regular glow. You can see it's almost nothing. If you want to make it really glow into duplicate, make the glow bigger, duplicate again, make it even bigger like this. And steel is not going to be as good, I'm going to select all these effects delete. Let me apply just the deep glow. You can see how good it is. It's much better than this, and you can customize, you can make it crazy. You can just play around with it. So it's really good and really recommend it. Some of these are patent. These are free. Then we have Animation Composer. I usually have it here on the right. Really useful as well, all sorts of stuff here. So there's a way to, like, let's say, I'm going to cut this lay. And duplicate it like five times. We can do stagger ascending and descending. Basically each layer is going to appear one by one. So if we change the color of the second one to something like this, going to change the color and everyone's going to be offset by the same amount of frames. Really useful. But then you can use it for sound effects and transitions as well. Then for other tools we use VDQ we've already talked about this, gives you one day VDQ for three in order to know which videos perform. Epidemic Sound we already talked about, as well, really, really useful in terms of, like, the music, really useful in terms of sound effects and the copyright strikes. You're not going to receive it. So, these are the most tools I use. If you have any questions, let me know. And that let's jump into the next video. 15. My Personal Editing Toolkit: In this video I want to walk you through the tools that I've created, which are pretty useful as well. We're going to talk about three tools, QuickImport, Vlad Tools and the Depth Script. Now, let's begin with the Depth Script. It's not the script that I've created. In terms of I'm not the creator of this idea. The original Depth Script was lagging for me, so I just created this one my own. So my script does a little quirk sometimes as well, but I find it to be more reliable than the original one. So I'm going to create, let's say, these two things here, and the Depth Script works with three D. So if I turn these layers three D, and let's say I want to move them in three D, to create depth, to create the parallax, I'm good to press on P, and I'm just going to start moving it further away. But as it moves further away, it becomes smaller in the screen. That's the problem. So what this tool does is, if we select our two layers, make them not three D. So if we put the layer distance to, like, 500 and put this to, like, 500 as well, so set depth. These two will be moved in three D, although they were supposed to most slightly different limb. So let me disable one of them. For layers, basically let's put like 1,000 and I'm going to suck it in three D. So the way it works is these two are now the same size as they were before, but now they are positioned differently in three D. So one is closer, the other ones further away. But if I was to move one of them closer, it would be a different size than it was when we created it. So they both say the same size, but now they're just positioned in three D. So it works really useful for three D stuff. For the LAD tools, it's a tool that allows a couple of things. First of all, you can clear cache. If your After effect has a lot of cache, it's going to start lagging. So if it starts lagging, just clear the cache and it's going to work faster by clicking this button. 30 turns the composition size or composition frame rate is 30, so this one is the weird one. Click on S 30, it's going to put it to 30. Lip masks is a really useful tool. For example, let's take a screenshot of the tools, for example, and I'm going to drag the screenshot of the tools here. I'm going to create a lot of small masks. So I'll create the first mask. Actually, I'm going to duplicate the layer. I'm going to start creating masks. The layer at the bottom is going to act as a template to see what we need to do. So I'm going to create a number of masks to do an animation, for example. So I'll disable the background, we have this layer with a lot of masks. And by splitting the masks, each mask becomes its own layer so that we can animate it. But the QuickImport panel is just some of the files that you want to import in After Effects. So I'll come into Project, delete everything from here, and I will click on MKBHD going to add the MKBHD and it's going to play this video here. And for the other tools as well, so this is just to import templates so that you don't have to search for them in new folders. Really useful, saves a lot of time. You are welcome to use the way to use this Click on Plus in order to put a specific After Effects file, or it doesn't have to be After Effects it can be, like a video or something, and then click on Delete Click on Minus if you want to get rid of it from here. And you know to Import, just double click on it, and that's it. So I hope you find these tools useful. If you have any questions, let me know. But than that, I'll see you in the next video. 16. How to Grow as an Editor Using YouTube Analytics + Volume: Welcome. Before we get into the video breakdown, I want to talk to you about how to grow, how to improve, and we do it with two things volume and analytics. Volume, it means you do it so many times that it would be unreasonable for you not to achieve success with it. In other words, you do it so many times that becomes boring for you and you just do it automatically. That's the volume part. That means editing as much as possible. By practicing as much as possible, you'll become just great. It works in any niche in any industry. It works, you know, in whatever you do in life. That's how it works. Now, let's talk about analytics. So every single video, if you go into analytics of every video on YouTube, even if you go into overview and you scroll down, you will see the audience retention. Here's how we break it down. So let's om in a little bit. This graph shows when people are still watching the video. So you see for this video, even though do it like this, even though this video has performed really well at 26 seconds, only 46% of people watch the video. But then this video is getting like it's 118,000 views and it's getting 2.5 thousand views every 48 hours. So it still it keeps on getting views, even though the analytics let's say are not super great. That's why I was talking about, like, the importance of VidIQ is just because the idea of the video itself is so good, it's going to push it to more people. So here's how we read analytics. Basically, we need to click on the chart guide. So when line is straight, it means everything is great. When the line is going down, it means that viewers are losing the interest a little bit. When there are spikes, it means that viewers are rewatching it, and dips means that viewers are skipping it. So for this video, it's just people lose a little bit of interest over time. There are a couple of spikes here and there, like these two parts, but nothing crazy about this video. Now, if we take a look at, you know, let's try to find another video that didn't perform as well. Okay, so this video, for example, the intro, you'll see that it goes a little bit weird because it's supposed to go, like, straight, but it goes a little bit up. So people are watching maybe people are skipping here. So it means that 36% of people watch at 49 seconds, but then it goes to 43%, so it's just weird. So it means that I did something wrong here and it means that I have to take a look at this part and see what I did wrong there, try to identify it and then just not do it in the future. Simple as that. The same thing here, there's a dip here. This is the part where I talk about a community, and this is where people skip the video. So it just means that whenever I'll be talking about the community, people are going to skip and the total. So you just have to look at the chart, see where people skip, see where people rewatch the video, and just analyze and based on that. Just try to improve a little bit. It doesn't work in every single video, and you shouldn't try to completely change every single video. You should try to make it 1% better. If you make it 1% better in one year, it'll be 37 times better. But if you become 1% worse, you'll be almost equal to zero in one year. So this is the power of compooning. I just want to make sure you improve bit by bit. That's how you do it. So if you have any questions, let me know and that I'll see you next video. 17. Real Video Breakdown: In this video, I'm going to break down one of my videos so that you see the behind the scenes and let's jump into it. So I'm going to come to Premiere Pro, and I did lose a couple of files because I moved a couple of files, and I will not be able to add them right away. So we just have to bear in mind that a couple of songs are missing. But overall, we just have to go. So in the very beginning, let's take a look at the video, and by the way, this file is also missing, but everything else should be good. So let's take a look at the intro first. A while back, I showed you how to do basic real to speed amps and After Effects. That video covered the fundamentals, but today we're doing advanced. We're going to combine speed ramping with text tracking and animation, transition smoothly between the scenes, and I'm also going to show you how to add motion blurr to speed ramped clips. Now, After effect doesn't normally have motion blurr when you time remap. But in this video, we're going to force it back in. So we have quite a bit of missing in the intro, but let's break it down. So in the intro, right away, I always try to start it with some sort of movement. And you'll see that we have kind of this graphic, and this graphic was just done in After Effects. I just recreated the way YouTube I looks, and I actually copied this from Nick DiGiovanni in one of his videos. I'll be able to show it to you. As you see, I have quite a bit of, like, templates just because I use it very often. So let's search for previous video. It was the one. Let me find a short sort of screenshot. It was this video here. So I ate breakfast from every country, and I saw how Nick did the Zoom out. And I thought that would be very interesting for me to kind of start the video because I have to mention the previous video. So it's just kind of I just took screenshot and then remade the whole thing in After Effects and make it as a template so that I don't have to remake it every time. If I open the template, let's open After Effects file. There you go. So this is the template, and I'll be able to just put any video here right in the middle, but I'm got person Commanjt and close this file. And then right over here, the video we lost the video. So that's why I'm not able to add it here, but we had a video here where I showed just a previous video of me. So then we go a little bit further, and this was done in After Effects as well. You see that we have the very smooth Zooms. So the fundamentals that was animated with TextEvo advanced is also animated with TextEvo, the check mark, and the XmRk. I have a template for that as well. So it's very simple. We just have to After Effects checkmark, so we have the check mark and the X mark. These are just simply animated, and that's it. Then when we go a little bit further, this is something we talked to you I talked to you about as well, is it did the intru a little bit later because everything we have here is just taken from the video later. I have an adjustment layer on top that zooms in. So if I make the adjustin layer longer, I make it shorter right until the keyframe. It is like 15 seconds or 10 seconds. Then I zoom in for 15, so I increase the scale to 115 in 10 seconds, and that's how I get the smooth zoom. So it just zooms in a little bit. These are taken from the later video. This is just the export of the video that I will show you how to do. And then here, we cannot really see it, but basically, it's like two screenshots of and I'm actually interested in why we cannot see it. So another useful thing is if you click on Option k1k and Reveal, so we can do Reveal in Finder, seta shortcut for yourself, and then another shortcut Reveal in project. Let's scroll down. So Reveal in Project and Reveal in Finder. If I click on Reveal in Project, it's going to show where this clip is in project. And if I click another circuit, it's going to show the project file of After Effects. So I'm going to double click on it. To files are missing, so let's link them up going to be useful for you as well. So just right click and replace footage and file. But you can lon this circuit, which is going to save you time. So I'm just going to press on the shortcut, and I just have to find the file. Or we can just double click on the video. Okay, so let's find that specific video and needs to be one of these. So it's 532. I just take a look at the end. So it's going to be this one. I just take a look at this number. So because the screenshot, again, I know that it's going to be this 532. This is 532. Click on open, it's going to find the other file as well. So we had this thing. And now when I come back to Premiere Pro, it's going to do the same thing. And then on top of that, I have an adjustment layer that does kind of the smooth Zoom. So take a look. I have this. And then for After Effects, it's a transition that I made in After Effects, so I can just drag it on top to redo it in graphic templates. Lower down, this is what we'll have. It's just a transition. Now, I also create these chapter titles. It's really useful when you have the listicle because it's easy graphic that you can recreate. The way it's done is it's a very simple text animation, so it's just text coming up on the screen, and then we have something in the background. I save it as a mogert and then if I search for this called Chapter, I can easily reuse it by just dropping here and that's it. So let's go further. In the very beginning, we have this, then the practice files is just the Mgert that I have. And for every movement that I do, every click that I do, I try to zoom in to help people understand where what is happening. I do this with Jamiler I go into the Effects Control, this is the transform. So I animate the transform and you see that the first one is done by myself, and the second zoom in or Zoom out is done with Blinkle. And then I just have to go through the video and do exactly that. Then you see that in the middle of the video, I have another After Effects fall. Here, I just I was talking about the red outline of the text, and I just decide to highlight. And I did this highlight with a simple path animation, and I added a deep glow to it. So if I click on Option Command F to Reveal in fider, I can open the project, and save this one. So here's what we have. We have a simple shape that has a deep glow. If I disable it, we just have this thing going around, very simple, but it looks pretty great. And then I animated the start and the end of the path. So I use the trim pads, re click trim paths, and that's how I did this animation. And if we listen, let's listen to enable acted. We can see the red outline of the text, so we can see these dots I used a magnify effect, and I just added six of them so you can see as I moved on screen. And for this one, I added the swoosh, as well as it was going around. Now, let's go further. For the music, we cannot hear it, but I basically used one song for this first part. So for the first 2 minutes, I just then we go a little bit further. I talk about the Editors club, and as we go even further, once again, I do Zoom ins for specific points in the videos, and you'll see that I have motion blur. The way I'm able to do motion blur is when I apply the transform, if I can just increase the shutter angle. The maximum we can do is 360. It's going to do even more, but I feel like it's a bit too much, so I don't do 360. I do 180. Although in definitely use it. Sometimes I try to skip the boring part of the tutorial with me speaking directly to the camera so that we switch a little bit between. It just makes the video more dynamic. Then for this part, I also added some text on screen when I was doing the shortcut with the sound effect. A little bit later, I also did a simple animation After Effects when I was talking about how to animate the graph, and if let's take a look for clip, it's going to be the highest speed of accelerating. The al clip is going to be the highest speed of decelerating. So I think this was an interesting part because when they meet when the go closer, I added a simple sposh. For this graph sound, it's taken from Epidemic Sound, and for the first one, you'll see that it's going up. It's like it's increasing in the pitch. One clip it's going to be the highest speed of accelerating. The clip is going to be the highest speed. The other one is accelerating. So the clever part here is, I just clicked on Command R to reverse the speed, and it's basically the same sound, but this one is just reversed and this one is the original one. For this animation, once again, to reveal and finder, we have four shapes. So we have one shape of the graph and the other shape of the path. It was all done with a Pentl. So if I was to do it the same, I'm just going to draw a line, and I'm going to di select and select it again so that I start drawing another line. So I'm going to draw a line by personal shift. I'm going to make it straight, then I'm going to delete it. And if we start and draw and drag the handle, we'll make it smoother. Disable the solid color and have just the stroke, and there you have your line. And then I mated it with trim pads, and for the one that's on the right, I actually just duplicated the one on the left. So duplicate, put it to the top like this, and right click Transform, flip horizontally, and just going to flip it, and it's going to be the same thing, but on the right side. Let's press and commandst and do all of this. Okay, let's go further and see what else we have interesting. For the last chapter, also have title screen. And another interesting thing is that whenever specifically for me, but some other creators do this as well, there's a point where I didn't speak, but I need to show something on screen. I make the music louder. Let's take g. Let's do it. Let's watch from here. So it's going to become louder here. A little bit like that. Let's say glue. At this point, the ski then becomes quieter. And in between, I just use 80 fool transition. The same thing is right clicking, apply default transition, or you can press rocut Shift Command D, fight the Lita Shift Command D, zoom in, and make it bigger. You can control how big it is by default by going to the settings. So if you go into Premiere settings, and I don't remember where it is here, but maybe let's go to general. No, it should be. So in the timeline, video transition default set to 25, that's for video and audio is set two frames for me. Because most of the time, I later select the audio so that remember we talked about clipping so that we don't have any clipping. I have to add this two frame transition. So I usually add it, and then if I need to add a bigger one, I just make it copy, and let's say I want to put a transition here, I'm just going to click in between. Pace on Command V, and is going to pace the transition. So this is how I do my videos, and by the way, at the end, I have this called Mr. Bolen ending. So there's a YouTube by Mr. Bolen and I notice that he always has the same ending. So he's dressed slightly differently. And I decided to record the ending once. I did last week and have the animation of the subscribe and just to say goodbye and say that, you know, watch this at the video, said to do the ending to not have to do it, to not have to add this animation every single time, it's always going to be perfect. So if there are any specific questions about this, let me know. 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