Master Short Form Video Editing: Premiere Pro & After Effects

1. Welcome! Start here: Welcome to the vertical video editing course. My name is Vlad and I'm so grateful that you've chosen me to be instructor on this exciting journey ahead. Before we dive into the step by step tutorials, there are a few things we need to cover so that you get the most value out of this program. First, this course is designed for both people who are completely new to video editing, as well as current video editors and creators who want to take their skills to the next level. If you are new, I recommend watching videos chronologically one to time because videos are laid out in a step by step format that build one after the other. If you already have experience, I still recommend watching each video because even more basic tutorials will uncover key insights for you to get to more advanced topics. This course is for you. So if you prefer to skip to future videos based on title, you are free to do so. For each video in the course, you can adjust the volume and the speed of each video as everyone's preference is different. For any questions along the way, be sure to drop those in the QNS section of the course. And before you ask any questions, please search the QNS section first because there's a good chance that the question you want to ask has already been answered. Lastly, you'll be asked to leave a review, and I just want to ask to wait until you get a good feel for the material. Your support is immensely appreciated. If there's anything I can do to further improve your experience, you know in the Q&A section below. I am so excited for you, and I can guarantee that if you watch throughout the entire course, your life will change for the better forever. Now, let's get to the first video. 2. Setting Up Your Editing Environment for Adobe Premiere Pro & Adobe After Effects: Welcome. In this video, we're going to set up your editing environment. The next couple of videos will be a little bit boring just because we have to go through the technical stuff. I know you don't want to do that. I didn't that either, but let's just do it quickly, and after that, we'll get into some real fun stuff. The first thing we need to discuss is hardware requirements. So you'll find these links in the resources section for you to take a look. We have both minimum recommended requirements for Windows and for MacOS. This is for After Effects and we'll have another link for Premiere Pro as well. Honestly, I would say that most of the modern computers are capable of running both of the software. The only downside of a slower computer or an older computer is it will take a bit longer to do certain stuff. It's not going to be as smooth. And I'll say this that the computer that I'm working on, which is MacBook Pro three Pro chip, super technical. It's over the recommended settings, and even it sometimes has problems with running both of the software, it really depends on what kind of projects you have. But to be honest with vertical content, it's even easier than from content. So that's the first thing. The second thing is software installation. We'll come to this link. Which is adobe.com. You can still find it in the resources section. You can have a free trial. You can see all plans. If you come into all plans, you will see that these are plans for different situations. Students have a really good discount. You can see at $16 per month, all of the applications that you can see on the screen. All of these for just 16, which is great. I'm not a student, so I don't get this opportunity. So there are two options. You can either get Premiere Pro and After Effect separately, which is going to be $46 per month or if you want to use other applications as well, let's say, like Photoshop or light room or any of the other software, you can get all of the apps for just $60 per month. So it's just something for you to decide, select the options that work best for you. Adobe made it as simple as possible to set up the software. So just go through the process, and that's done. Now, let's talk about workspace optimization. So this is what my workspace looks like. It's just a computer, a mouse, a big mouse pad, a few shelves for some storage, and that's it. That's literally all I need. As you can see, I have another screen to the left. Sometimes I do use it for longer projects for long form videos, but for vertical content, it's just not needed. The other thing you might need to do is you need to calibrate and monitor. So you would come to Google search for a color palette. You would open this color palette on your phone. And compare what you have on the screen with what you have on the phone. And then just try to match the colors that's on the screen of your computer to the colors on your phone. A real world example is that when I worked on a PC, I had to do monitor calibration because the screen just had completely different colors. But working on Mac, to be honest, I had zero screen calibration. It really depends on the project that you're working on. If you need some super specific colors, then you do need to calibrate and monitor to have this super specificity. Other than that, you can ignore it. It really depends on your situation. So if you have something super specific that you're going for, yes, calibrate your monitor. If not, if you're just getting started, don't think about this. Also, if you're applying to work with clients or just with yourself, that's a big difference because if you work with clients, you can start with zero monitor calibration, and if they request something specific, then you can do it later. And the last thing is backup story solutions. So I have this It's a bit dusty. So I do have an extra storage. And to be honest, I don't use it to edit videos, especially vertical format because vertical format it's so short. The files are, like, so small. There's just not enough time for anything to happen with the file. So I don't really use extra storage for vertical format. However, once I edit videos, if it's client videos, I might delete them. If it's my own videos, I might put them on a hard drive so that it doesn't take storage of my computer. Okay, we covered the first part of the boring stuff, and I will see you in the next lecture about boring stuff as well. After that, we'll get into some fun stuff. 3. How to Fix a Slow Computer for Faster Video Editing: Have a slow or an old computer. What do you do in this case? Well, you can still work with an old or a slow computer. As I said, it's just not going to be as smooth or as easy. And by the way, if you have a small computer, we can just keep this video. So what to do in this case? First of all, go to Premiere. Or to after effects. You click on New project, we just need to open a project. It can be entitled. It doesn't matter. We'll go to the top left corner settings. And I believe on PC, it's sort of similar on Windows, but it might be through preferences. So we go into memory. And here, you want to decrease this number because this is the number that you can increase or decrease. And that means that RAM so for other applications, you'll have as little as possible. ARM available for after effects, Premiere Pro, and for other software by Adobe, you have as much as possible. Case, your computer will work better. The second thing you can do is you can close all the other applications on your computer. On PC, you can press on Control Command Delete, I believe, and you can see what's taking the power of your computer. On MAC, you can search for activity monitor. And you can see what's taking your CPU and your memory here. You can try to close as many of these as possible. And that way, you'll speed up the work of your computer. The last thing, and we're already getting started with premiere a little bit, in the playback, which you will have here, you can come to the bottom of the playback and you will have sort of a playback resolution, and you can decrease that. If let's say you play back a four K video, it's going to be a bit challenging for your computer because we're taking that four K, we're seeing exactly as big as it is, it's just a bit too much for your computer. So you can lower the resolution that way. And last tip is that work with HD files, not four K files. Four K files are basically four times HD. It's not just two times jump. It's four times, so it's four times as hard for your computer. So try to minimize that and work only with HD. So these are a couple of my tips. I hope that this video was helpful. If you have any questions, of course, let me know in the Q&A section, but other than that, I'll see in the next video. 4. Introduction to Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects for Beginners: Welcome. In this video, we're getting to some real fun stuff. In this video, I'm going to introduce you to Premiere Pro and After Effects. Behind me, I have a list of projects that I'm working on. That's why I'm covering that. But in the Premiere Pro window, you will have your projects behind where I'm at right now. We're going to press on New Project, and we'll create new project and do some work with that. New project name entitled I already have that, so I'll just replace. Welcome to Premiere Pro. What you have in front of you might look very different to what I have in front of me, and that's okay. The reason that is because we have different so called workspaces in the top right corner. Each workspace helps you do certain things faster. So let's say if we go into the color workspace, you have, well, because I don't have anything, you don't have anything here either, let's meet in the editing workspace. And here, we'll take a file. You will find that file in the downloadable resources, and you will drag that here. And then you will drag it onto your timeline. We have a video of sunset. Now, if you go into the color workspace, you will see that we have some scary things on the left here, although it's not scary at all. It's super easy. We'll learn that. Don't worry about that. So this is the color work space. If we go into vertical with this is where I started, this is for the vertical content because I need to see the video in to the right. And if we go into editing, here we're supposed to have a horizontal video which would take most of the screen. And actually, I can show you what it would look like. Let's say, 1920 by 1080. So this is how it would look like, but we'll go back. At this point, don't worry about the workspaces. We'll get into that a little bit later. You will also find that you can customize your workspaces. So let's say you're in the editing workspace and you want to move certain things around. You don't like how certain things look, you can just click on the name and start dragging it to the right, to the left, to the bottom. And if we put it to the right, like here, it becomes a vertical workspace, sort of similar, but not exactly. But you can see that you can customize it to your liking. You will find that very useful later. At this point, don't worry about it. I'm just showing you the capabilities of the software. When we dragged the file from the left onto our timeline, another file appeared. This is called a sequence. If I change this name to, let's say, V one, like Version one, you will see that at the bottom here, it will change as well. So I will click and it changes at the bottom here. This is our sequence. It's a place where we put files together. So we have visual files, we have audio files, we have effect files, and we put everything together. This is our sequence. At the bottom, we have our timeline. And what you will also see is that when I move the slider at the bottom, the slider at the top moves as well, so you can move both of them. On the left, you will find your most used tools, your selection tool, your track select forward tool, ripple edit, razor, slip, pen tool, rectangle, or that's not just rectangle, that's a shape tool, hand tool, type tool. And you will see that in the very end of each of the tools, there is a letter. If you press each letter, it's like a shortcut. So if I press V, I select the selection tool. Or if I press P, I will select a Pen tool. If I press T, that's text, H, that's hand. It's just a lot easier. Instead of going to the left every single time, we can just press a button and save us a couple of seconds. If you work for days on a project and you have to switch between tools pretty often, that saves you a couple of minutes every hour. But over the long project time that saves you hours. So shortcuts are a great thing. We'll discuss about this later as well, just for you to know that shortcuts will save you a lot of time, a lot of time. At the top right, you will also have your Properties panel effects panel. Actually, this is a bit customized to my liking because I have metric color as well. This is usually not here. For now, let's focus on properties and effects panel. So if I press on our video, this is the Properties panel. Properties panel shows you what you can do with the video. Effects panel is pretty similar Opis panel was added to Adobe 2025, and it has some useful features. So it's something new. It's very useful, and we'll talk about this later. But the Effects Control panel, here you can do most of the fun stuff like scaling up, moving position, rotating, moving arcapoids, but it's a bit technical. We'll get into that later. Let's try opening after effect. When it come to after effect, this is what you'll see. You have a similar window that will ask you to create new project. I just closed it, and this is what I have in front of me. I'll just drag the same video here at left. And then I will drag that video at the bottom. And you will see that it's pretty similar to Premiere Pro. At left, we have the storage for our files. At the bottom, we have our timeline. We have our playback in front of us, and we have effects to the right of us. You will also see that there are different workspaces at the top right, you can switch between them. At the top left, you have your most used tools. We have slightly different tools here, but don't worry. We'll go through that. Once again, these are shortcuts at the top. These shortcuts will be slightly different from the Premiere Pro, although in the future, you'll be able to customize that. I'll show you how to do that. In that case, you'll have exactly the same shortcuts in both applications. Now, there's going to be a practical exercise for you. Download this file, or you can use your own file. Come to Premiere Pro, and after effect, drag it onto the timeline, click around, experiment a little bit, click on certain buttons. It's okay if you click the wrong button because we're just learning. We're not creating a final project. The most important thing for you is to understand where things are located, what they do. And just to make yourself comfortable with the software. Don't be afraid. Actually, I encourage you to click on buttons and make the wrong clicks so that you learn. The more mistakes you make, the faster you learn. So do that if you have any questions. Let me know. But other than that, I will see you in the next video. 5. Basic Video Editing Techniques in Adobe Premiere Pro: In this video, we can talk about basic editing techniques. You already know how to import files. So you just drag something here, then you drag it onto the timeline and your file is on the timeline, is in the sequence. The next important thing to do is when you add more files, it becomes chaotic. And by the way, you can switch between different views here, how you view files. You can view it by names, can view it like that. You can view it. Even differently, I found that this works the best for me because I am a very, very visual person, and when I have lots of numbers, I just get lost in all of this. So when you have a lot of files, you want to make sure things are organized. So you can create a bin if you click here. You have a new bin, whenever you play something in the bin, it'll just stay there. Something I do with my clients a lot to make sure the products are organized is to call bins certain names. Let's say this one will be called sequences. This one will be called, by the way, you can also right click or double click on TouchPad and you'll create a new bin. The other one will be called Raw. So these are raw files. You can also move bins around and I will always have a bin which is used as a bin. I'll create a bin and it's just going to be a you will learn this in future videos. Whenever we have certain nested sequences, I know it might sound scary. It's not whenever we have those, I'll just put them in the bin or whenever I add some overlay and I want to make sure it's not scattered throughout the project. I'll just put them in the bin. So it's a bin that's used like a rubbish bin. I put all kinds of stuff there. I forget about this and I just make sure things are organized. It's like when cooking, if you look at how provinsional chefs cook, they always have, like, a little bin on the table to make sure they can put the stuff that they don't eat there. Instead of running to the rab bin, they just have it on the table with them. So it's like having a rap your bin on the table when you cook. The next thing I want to show you is to you can lower or make sure the size of this video is a bit smaller. The reason for that is to be honest, I don't like when there's this line that controls the opacity, and sometimes I might click it accidentally. I want to take the clip and move it down, and I'll click it, and then I have to either press Commandse or Control Z to go back. It's just it takes an extra time. So what I can do is I can make it smaller, and I can make this one smaller as well, and this one smaller as well. So now, let's say we want to cut the video. We'll just press on the razor tool, and then we can make cuts. I can also highlight them for you so that you know, you can see that these are different videos. We cut it into small pieces, and then you might ask, why on earth do we have so many tracks? Like, we have one, two, three, four? Why do we need so many? Well, that's because if let's say I want to have video at the bottom, but I want to have an effect at the top, I'll put an effect at the top. I can give you an example. Let's say we can create an adjustment layer. Adjustment layer is just a layer with which you can put effect on, and it will affect everything that's below the adjustment layer. So I will go into effect and I will search, Oh, actually, what we can do is we can go into ometric color and I will decrease the saturation. You will see that the clip that's below the adjustment layer has been affected. And if I turn off the adjustment layer by clicking on this icon, the video will be back, right. Turn it on. It turns black and white because I decrease the saturation. What you can also do is you can right click on the end of any of the clips and you can press and apply default transitions. So these are default transitions. Volatility the adjustment layer. It just dims the video and you can adjust the default transition. At the bottom, we will also have audio. For this clip, we don't have audio, but it would be very, very similar. With the audio, we can adjust the loudness of the audio. We can do all sorts of effects with audio, but we're talking about the basic stuff right now. As you saw, in the effects panel, we can scale the video down, we can adjust its position. And one thing we can also do is if we come into properties, is we can crop the video, so we can crop it at the bottom, we can crop it at the top. And this is a recent update for premiere pro 225. In the previous versions, you would have to search for effect here, search for crop. Put it onto a video and only then make crop adjustments. So the properties panel is very good. Then you can also press on these buttons, which is filled to frame and oops, I see what I did. I had this clip selected. I was doing the adjustments, but because the playhead is on this video, this video is not being adjusted, so nothing happens. So I can click on this one. I can press on fill, and it will fill the screen with the video. By the way, why are we doing this in this workspace? We need to go into the vertical workspace. Yes, this is better. Okay, so now you can see things better. Whenever we edit vertical format, videos, this is how I do this. One more thing before we continue to after effect, I recommend you going into settings again. We will go into general and we will search for it because I don't remember where it is. Okay, autosave. It says that it will automatically save every 5 minutes. The maximum project version is 150, we can put even more. It doesn't matter. The reason for this is because sometimes Premiere Pro will lag it will freeze and everything that's not saved will not be saved, and it will have to start from scratch. Save it every 5 minutes, 150, press on Okay. One thing you can also do is press Command S, and you can see that it's saving on the screen. That's on Mac. On PC, it's Controls. Now let's go into after effects. As we found out in the previous video, after effects is pretty similar, but it has some differences. I always work in the default workspace in after effects. Why? Because I really like having this part of the software with effects, aligned properties. I animation composer. We'll talk about this in the future video. I like having this part here, and we can definitely make it so that there's no part on the right. We'll put the video to the right so that it takes full screen. And it's just something I found out that's not as useful as in Premiere Pro. First thing, let's go into settings here as well. We'll go into autosaves. If this is available here, let's go into general. Okay, what to say? It is here. So we have every 5 minutes, 260. The maximum project versions doesn't really matter, but don't make it like ten. Make it over 100. Price okay. By the way, in after effects, whenever you drag something, here, you create a sort of sequence. But in after effects, it's called a composition. So at the bottom, we have our clip. At the top, we have composition. So whenever we have this icon, this is a composition. And we can change the name of the composition. We can call it V one as well. And you will see that at the bottom, it changes from this word number to V one. Aftereffect it's not as easy to cut because as you can see at the top, we don't have a cut tool. The way you cut after effect is you cut with a shortcut. You press Command Shift D or Control Shift D on Windows, and that's the way you cut. In order to create a default transition, like we did in Premiere Pro, we need to click here, transform, and then we need to go into opacity. We need to create a keyframe. Keyframes in general allow us to time certain effects. So let's say we have our opacity here at 100, but I want to make it zero, and instead of it being either at zero or 100, I want to make sure it goes 0-100. So we do this with keyframes. We create a keyframe here, and we make sure this one is at zero, move a bit further, and then we make it to 100. And there you have it, the same default transition. You can also press here to make sure the background is not transparent, and now instead of being transparent like it is here, it will be dark. It might be a little bit confusing at times when you hear so much stuff happening. Trust me, just go into the software, take 30 minutes to just click on all these buttons that I'm showing you, click on even more buttons to see what they mean, and you will learn this very easily. You just have to do a little bit of practice. Trust. In Premiere Pro, we also have keyframes. As you can see, we have in the Effects Control panel. So let's say we do not have the default transition care and want to make it as we did in after effects, we would come here as well. We would search for opacity. We would put this one to zero, go a bit further, put this one to 100. And here we have a default transition as well. So that's how we achieve exactly the same effect in Premiere Pro and after effects, even though it might look a bit scary and it might look a bit different. Now, it's your time to come to Premiere Pro to After Effects, Import our video, play around with this a little bit, try creating a default transition, clicking different buttons, make sure you're getting used to the software. If you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 6. How to Export Videos Properly for YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok: In this video, we're going to learn how to export in Premiere Pro and after effects. In Premiere Pro, first of all, what we need to do is we need to tell Premiere Pro what it should export exactly. We would come to the very beginning, we would press on I I on the keyboard, that's shortcut, and then you come to the very end and you can press on shift so that it sticks. You can see we have this little triangle appearing. And then we press O the other thing we can do is we can, let's say, I am located here. I will press up on the arrow key. It will go to the very beginning. I will press I as well, and then I will press arrow down, I need to move everything to the bottom. And then I press arrow down, and it will go into every single cut. So arrow down, arrow down, arrow down will come to the very end and press O. And you can see at the top, this is the area that we're saying export this area. So if we press here and press O, it will also export the area where it's super dark. It doesn't have any information, anything here, just like here because we deleted the clip. By the way, we can press here, click on Delete, and everything will move to the left. B person O but. And this is a very big but, and this is a little bit annoying, and you will see why. You can see when we press O, there's this extra frame for no reason. Why is that? So let's say a press to the left, I press O, and it's still behind. Go to the right, press O, there's one extra frame at all times. It's just what Premiere Pro does. What we do about this is when we come to the very end. So let's say we're located here, we press arrow down, and then we press arrow left, and then we press on O, which means that in the export, we will not have this dark frame in the very end. Although it looks dark here, it will not be dark when we export. Okay. So we have discovered. Now we go into Export. First of all, at the top, we can create a name. We can put my name Vlad. And then I will use my preset. So this is the one. We go into video. More and just make sure that all the settings that you see on the screen here are the same as you will have on your screen. So here we have match source. You'll probably have that in the beginning as well. Then we have render it maximum depth quality, use maximum render quality and render it maximum depth. Frame sampling, hardware encoding, high 4.22 oh three, target bitrate I recommend setting it at about 19. If you go higher, it's going to be a super good quality, but social media will just cut that quality down to save the space. So target bitrate, make sure the audio you have is on. If you will have captions in the future, you can put the captions on as well. And then you come to the very top where it says preset. Click on the three dots and save the preset. Give it a name, press yourK and then every time you can just come here and click on the preset, which is, in this case, is my name, and it will have exactly the same settings every single time. So you don't have to do it manually every single time. One of the things as editors is we need to save time in as many ways as possible. This is one way to do it. Let's go to after effects. In Aftereffects, it is slightly different. We need to go into file, export, add to render Q. It will add to the rendqu everything that's selected with this bracket here and with this bracket here. So we come to the render Q, and here we have the best settings. Then for output module, this will save you a ton of time. Make sure you have high quality with Alpha selected. It will be lower here for you. So under high quality, high quality with Alpha, then press on this thing here, give it a name. You can even just say one, press and save, and then render. The reason why we select high quality with Alpha is that because we want it to be high quality, and Alpha means that if you create something that is transparent, like a PNG picture, you can create a PNG video. So with Alpha, it means that it will say PNG. If you select just high quality, it's not going to be pingi. But with this one, whenever you save a full video like this, or let's say you save a circle that's Ping, it works in both ways. Then you just press on render. In Premiere Pro, you just press on Export, and now you know how to export in Premiere Pro and after effects. If you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 7. QT Gamma Fix: Solve Color Issues in Adobe Premiere Pro Exports: You might have noticed that when you export in Premiere Pro, the colors look slightly differently. And if you haven't, you can take a look. It's a slight difference, but it is extremely annoying. It took me a lot of time to figure this out. There's explanation online on how to solve this issue, and when you try to solve it, it's still not exactly the same. What you need to do is you need to go into settings. You need to go into color and set the display color management. Whenever press Okay, you will see on the right that the video is going to be a bit darker. Take a look, three, two, one. See, it became just a little bit darker, and we need to do that. And now we need to go into Export. In our preset that we saved, you can see that I have my normal preset, which is latislov and then I have Latislav with right colors. Right colors means that it is colors. You can see this video is a lot darker than it is. Here because I have this preset available and set up. It's called QT Gamma compensation. It's a thing that Adobe is aware of. It's a super technical explanation, but long story short, you just set this up. You go into the color and select the color management. And now each time you export, you have exactly the same colors. So you go into export settings, you go into effect, set the lumetri look slash atnPress here, press and select. And in the downloadable resources section, you'll find this QT compensation Gamma lat. You added here, and the colors will be solved. It was a very, very big issue for me because my clients requested a very specific color, and the color was always off. And so it took me months to figure this out. People online usually talk about only QT Gamma compensation, but you also need to go into color and set this display color management so that it is for some reason, this one solves the issue, but the other ones don't. Now that you know, I can sleep calmly. If you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I will see you in next video. 8. Understanding Social Media Algorithms: Welcome. In this video, we can talk about social media algorithms. Here's the thing. We're going to talk about evergreen concept. We're not going to talk about specific algorithms, although I'll share that with you, but it's not what we focus on because the algorithms change so frequently, both on search engines like Google or YouTube and also on social platforms like Instagram. The algorithms change so often. If you're watching the six months after the recording of this video, it's going to be different like guarantee. Nothing stays unchanged. Especially with AI, everything changes very quickly. So here are some concepts. You want to keep people on the platform for as long as possible. Why? Because that's how social media platforms make money. The more they keep you on the platform, the more ads they can show you. Pay attention to when it's called on Instagram. Every fourth or fifth post is an ad. Why? Because that's the golden ratio. If you look at TVs, for every 47 minutes of content, there's going to be 13 minutes of ads because that's the way you can maximize it. If you add more ads, people will leave. If you have less ads, then you're maximizing profits. So every fourth or fifth is going to be an ad. The longer you keep people on the platform with your content, the more social media platforms can throw ads, and therefore, the more money they can make. So your goal is to keep people on that platform for as long as possible. And then for different platforms, it's going to be different. For example, for YouTube, it's going to be if we're talking about long form, it's going to be CTR, which is click through rate, and then AVD, which is average view duration. So you want as many people to click on the video, and then you want these people to watch these videos for as long as possible. It's very similar with sorts where people either click on the video or they scroll, and if the video appears, there's going to be a stat that shows how many people swiped or how many people stayed to watch the video. And the great thing about YouTube compared to any other social media platform gives the most analytics in YouTube studio. You can literally spend the whole day there and you'll find a lot of information there. There's a lot of great information. So how many people swiped away or how many people watch. And for how long do people watch? It's not in YouTube's interest to show a video that people will swipe away or the ones that do not swipe away and start watching, you know, they watch only like 10% of the video. It's not really good satisfaction, and that's why they will earn less money. So that's in terms of YouTube. In terms of Instagram, currently, the recording and the recording of this video is April 2025. The algorithm is that Instagram is trying to become a social platform. You know, YouTube is social media. You can kind of comment and stuff, but Instagram is taking to the next level, where if you look, you will see that the videos that go viral have a lot of shares. And also an interesting fact is that if you do not speak any videos, your videos will get more views. Why? Because it appears to more people because more people can watch the video. But if you speak English or your local, your native language, less people will be able to understand the video. So, the more people share the videos, the more views you'll get. And that's information that comes from the CEO Instagram. If we look at Pinterest, I think Pinterest is about up votes. X is sort of unclear to me. There's definitely some boost with having a paid, verification badge. In terms of TikTok, it's the easiest platform to go viral. However, if you go viral, it's not as sustainable as it is on other platforms. So you can go viral very quickly. Still, it's number one, and CEO of Instagram confirms that. By the way, this video is Colin and Samir, they interviewed the CEO Instagram and also Mark Zakoberg where they speak with Mr. Past and just the CEO of Instagram because Mark Zakoburg is not the CEO of Instagram. You can search that on YouTube. So whenever you're watching this video, different platforms have different ways to keep people longer on the platform, and your goal is to help them stay on the platform for as long as possible. Here's something for you to think about. Can a video go viral without editing? Yes. Can video editing go viral without a video? Like, doesn't even make sense. The way I like to think about video editing is it helps support the video. The idea is the main thing because you can record the video. It's going to go viral with literally zero editing. It happens a lot of times, although there might be a long preparation process to get to that point to record it and not edit it, but editing on its own cannot go viral. So editing helps the video. And this is what this course is about is for you to understand how to edit the video, how to support the idea and the video. How to create a video so good that people want to watch it again and again, share it with other people. And here's the important part. Editing will not bring virality. The video ID will bring virality, but video editing will help it go even more viral. Or it can actually break the video as well, but we're not trying to do that. What we're trying to do is to support the video. With video editing, I'm going to show you as much information as possible, and it's going to be great. Like, I know what's about to come and trust me, like, you will learn a ton. So if you have any questions, let me know, but other than that, I will see you in the next video. 9. Class Resources: How to Find and Use Them: Welcome. In this video, I want to walk you through some of the downloadable resources you have. You will have other resources as well, and by the way, you can find all of them below the video that you're currently watching in the projects and resources section. These resources are going to be your tools. So we have the ripping paper background, which is for some reason, so troublesome to find online. I'm not sure what the problem is with this, but, you know, it's this effect here. Then there are going to be Seft, sound effects. Currently, these are all the sound effects that I use. This is my sound effects library. So, you know, I'm not holding anything back. I'm giving you access to absolutely everything. Okay, then we have the checkmark and the XmRk both transparent. And then we have the safe zones for social media. You will see that when you upload videos to social media, they get cropped a little bit. These are the templates that will show you by how much each video will be cropped. And, you know, if there is, for example, on the right side, there's, like, a like button, a share button, common button, it shows you where these buttons are. Even though the buttons are transparent, it's still good to make sure you know where they are so that you don't put anything important there. Okay, so we have, first of all, all platforms, straightforward. Then we have reels. We have reels, feed, and we have regular reels. Feed is when you just in your feed scrolling, and it crops from the top and from the bottom a little bit extra than just if you have reels open. Then we have TikTok, as well, and YouTube shorts. So once again, you can access everything below. There's going to be a lot more stuff than just this, but these are going to be the tools that you will need in almost every single edit, aside from these guys and from the ripping paper background. If you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 10. Advanced Cutting and Storytelling Techniques for Viral Videos: Welcome. In this video, we are going to get a bit more advanced. So we're going to introduce shortcuts. We're going to get into the timeline and learn some new stuff there. We're going to introduce third party apps to save time for you. You will see that there's another video in the future just about the shortcuts because shortcuts will save a ton of time for you. So we're going to start introducing shortcuts so that you learn them as well because it takes time to learn them. And that's the first thing we can do. We're going to go into settings, and by the way, there is a shortcut for shortcuts. So it's this one. And instead of going here and pressing shortcuts because you'll be learning shortcuts, and it's way easier to do a shortcut like this. You just press Option Command K on Mac, on PC, I'm not sure. So just come here, double check. You can even click here and search for shortcuts. So you can see keyboard shortcuts, and there they are. So the first shortcut we're going to do is on W, we're going to put add edit application sequence at edit. Now, it sounds weird. The way you search for this is add edit is this one. Sequence at edit W. Then we're going to do Q ripple trim. So we search for ripple trim ripple trim. For E, we're going to put this one. For Q, we're going to put this one. So previous and next. I'm going to explain what all of that means. It's just gonna save you a lot of time. Okay, and then for one, we're going to have shuttle left. Shuttle, okay, shuttle left one, shuttle right three, and then shadow stop for two. The way you add a shortcut is you just press here. And let's say I want to put H and we're going to have H there, but I'm not going to do that. Okay, so now we have shadow left, shuttle stop, shadow right, ripple trim, at Edit and ripple trim. By the way, in the downloadable resources, you will find this file is just a file of me speaking onto the screen. This is the footage, and this is our sequence. So we'll call it V one, and to make sure things are organized, we will create a bin. So one will be called raw. So this goes there and this one will be called sequences. We'll put V one here. Okay. Another shortcut I want to show you because you might be confused how I go from how I will change my timeline. First of all, we cannot get rid of this mix, and if it's open, if you touch this line here, it will adjust the audio loudness. So I just make it as small as possible to make sure there's no line here. If you go into this icon here, can actually save a preset on how our timeline here looks. The way you can customize the timeline is, first of all, you can go hand by hand, go into each and one of these and do it like that. I don't like it. So there's a shortcut, I believe it's shift plus, yes, and shift minus. So that increases and decreases the size of each tracks. And then you can also press command or option. So command will increase or decrease just the video part and the option plus or minus. Will increase or decrease the audio part. Now, once you like the way it looks, let's say this is the way you like it. You come here, you save it as a preset, and then you give just a name for the preset here, small track height, preset, manage preset. Track height, preset one, track height, preset one. I just put K there. So anytime press K, it's going to go into this form. Now that you know that, the next thing we're going to do is we're going to add a premiere composer. It's a website called misterhors.com. It's a free third party app. You just press on try for free, download it, go through the settings, install it. It's super easy to install. And then you are going to have it. For example, I have it here. When you first set it up, it's going to be in the extensions and premiere composer. It's going to be here. And when you press on it, it's going to look like this. It's to undock. It's going to be a floating window. I don't like the way it's floating, so I will just put it here. Now, whenever I need to do something, what we have here is text boxes. We have text presets, different transitions, social media stuff, for example, the click off, like the mouse cursor, it's really good shape elements. Maybe you use these sometimes, and the sounds sounds are really useful. I use sounds a lot from here. I just use the free version. I don't use the paid version. Now, let me explain the shortcuts. If I press on three, it's going to start playing the video. If a person one, it's going to go backwards. If a person two, it's going to stop. Stop the video. Then if I press 32 times, it's going to speed up the video. Again, again. So you can see it speeds up the same. We do with a present one, it goes super fast. If a press on two, it taps the video. It's just to save you a lot of time, works super well. Your hand is usually located near one, two, and three buttons. So whenever you press on those, it's going to speed up the process. Now let's talk about Q W and E. So let's say make a cut here and I'll make this another color. Instead of cutting something, instead of pressing on C or even going here and then cutting something, you can just press. Now, you can press on W, and it's going to make a cut. See, WWW it's making cuts. Think about this. Instead of having to go here every single time, whenever this playhead is located, you press on W and it's making a cut. How convenient is that? Let's say, instead of making a cut here, deleting this part and doing like this, what if instead of all of that, we come here and we just press on, and everything that's to the left will be cut. So let's see. Boom. I just press on Q. Now, if we do the same part here, but press on E, everything that's to the right of the playhead and before the cut will be cut out. So let's see. It is so useful and it will save you so much time. These are just six shortcuts. So we have one, two, and three Q W, and E. I added these years ago, and it saved me dozens and dozens of hours, maybe even hundreds of hours of editing. Now, let's watch through the video. This is the hook. Okay, so I'll press on W. I know there's just silence here. I'll come here and I'll press on Q, so it will be cut. And I'll press Q here as well. Well, this is the value part, the middle part of the v. You want to, and now they're watching the video and you're giving them the main part of the video. And then in end, there's something early socle CD or, and you're giving them the main parts in the video. And then in the very end, main parts in the video. I'll make cut here. I'll make this orange. And then in very end, there's something usually socle CD or Bastion, you ask him to do something to follow to go to your website or whatever. It's not necessarily the best thing to do a single. Whatever it's whatever. So I'll mark this one as well, and I will put this one aside. So now, what I'm talking about here is three parts of the video. This is hook. This is the value part, and this is the CTA. Usually, it looks more like the hook is something like this. The value is something like this, and then the CTA is something like this. It's even smaller than the hook. Because I'm trying to explain everything to you, it looks slightly different. But usually, it would look something like this. So if this was a minute video. The hook would be, actually, it would be something like 5 seconds. The value would be the main part, and then the CTA would be super super fast in the end, like, follow, subscribe, and I talk about this in the video. Now, let me talk you through a couple of techniques, more advanced techniques than just having videos side to side like this. And keeps them watching the video. This is the Okay, let me do it like this. So I'll select these. I'll put them on different layers like this. By the way, if you're getting familiar with shortcuts, anyone tries something new, here's a shortcut for you as well. If you press on option or Alt on PC and then press on arrows, you can move these around. So instead of press on K to make the tracks the same size. So let's say, instead of me going like this, I can just select and be like, just with option. Double arrow up and then one arrow down. And that's it. And then if I press option, I can also scroll with a mouse, I can also zoom in and zoom out. I just went too far. I will press A to select everything to the right because I know there's an extra video here, and I wanted to move, as well. If I was to select just this and move it, there would be an empty space here. But if I press A, I will move everything. As you can see, here we have a special cut. It's more advanced cut that's often used in TV and videos like YouTube videos. But Instagram well, there's an el cut, and there's a Jacut. Honestly, it confuses me every time which one it is. This is either a Jay or an el cut. It's just the name of the cut. This It's when I still have a face from the previous shot, but I'm already starting talking on the background, and then it switches to me. This is the value part. As you can see here, or we can do it vice versa. So we can move these around, move them like this. Watching the video. This is the Actually, it should look something like this. And keeps them watching the video. This is the value part. I'm still talking from the previous clip, but there's an overlay from the next clip. Watching the video. This is the value part. I would say that the one we had before, this one is used more often. This cut is also great than watching the video. Or I should say it like this. I use it less often. It's still a great cut. It's just I found that it's not working as well for me. Here's a CAT and a JCAt. In vertical video, just like in horizontal videos, there's a thing called pacing, and pacing is basically how fast the video flows. It's done with sounds, and it's done with visuals as well. So whenever there's a cut, there's a scene change, and whenever there's a sound supporting that, it creates a sort of rhythm, the space. The way you can change the pace is you can make the cuts a lot faster or you can make them a lot slower. If we were to do it slower, we would just not cut this video, right? And we would move the second clip further so that there is this sort of, like, pause here. Watching the video. Super slow. But now, if we do the cuts, watching the video. This is the value part. And I could also cut the pause here the video. This is the value part, the middle part of the video. Now, let's take a look. This is the value part, the middle part of the video. You wrap the viewer with a hook, and now they're watching the video and you're giving them the main part of the video. As you can see, I speak quite slow here and just sped up the video. You can create also different rhythms with this, and you can still do the LCAT and JCAT to it. What we have here is a very slow beginning and then a faster pace a bit later. Let's take a look. This is the hook. It's a part that grabs the viewer, that catches the viewer and keeps them watching the video. This is the value part, the middle part of the video. You grab the viewer with the hook and now they're watching the video and you're giving them the main part of the video. It's not a perfect example, but you get the idea. The rhythm changes. It goes from uncut to being cut a bit more. I can definitely cut this video and speed it up even more. The second part. That's the pacing. The rhythm. When we create the video, you will see the way I created. It's just to be honest, I don't really think about this. It comes kind of natural. It's very easy to do for people who are good at music, and it's harder for people that are not really good with music. And it's just because when you sort of know how to play an instrument, you really feel the rhythm. You know exactly when you have to hit a certain, note. And so it becomes a lot easier for you. There's also a thing called Montage. Many people actually confuse what Montage actually is. You need to think of Montage as about memory. When you remember something, you don't remember things in a particular order. You remember things. It's like different sort of memories coming up and it's different emotions. And it's like when you remember a trip from last year, when you remember when you saw your family last time or relatives from faraway last time or something that was a bit emotional for you. You remember those things, like different pictures happening in your head, and that's how you create a montage. Let's say if we were to put a montage here, we would just put different clips of people recording a video and creating a video, like putting sound design and visuals and stuff like that. So we can try and do it. So let's go into pixels. Okay, video editing, and we can do filter, verticol. Okay, so we have random footage, right? We'll just put it here. And if we were to do a montage of this, although it's really bad example of me trying to explain all of these things together with this specific example. But anyway, we'll try to do that. So let's listen. This is the value part, the middle part of the video. You grab the viewer. The thing is that I'm talking about a completely different thing, but let's imagine I'm talking about something more magical. Okay, this is what we have. We'll just put it here. Value part, the middle part of the video. You wrap the viewer to the hook, and now they're watching the video. I also need to decrease the size to 50% on each of these because these are four K, and let me give you a better explanation. We have a video that is four K that is big. Our video player here to the right is smaller size. It's like this small, but the video is this big. So that's why it's cutting these corners. And in order to make the same size, we need to decrease the big video to the size of the video player. So we're decreasing by 50%. So this would be a sort of a montage, where we put things together, not in particular order, just kind of flashes of memories. And imagine I'm talking about something more poetic than trying to technically explain how like what a video consists of. This is the value part, the middle part of the video. You grab the viewer to the hook and now they're watching the video and you're giving them the Okay, it would be better to say something, okay? Let me turn off. It would be something like when I first got into video, we had to do audio and video, and then we had to put everything together in different software. So it would be something like this, you know, not explaining what video consists of. The last thing I'm going to show you for this video is premiere composer. We're going to get into sound design a bit later, and you can see, there are a lot of different sound approach. All sorts of sounds. Some are really good. The ones use the most are swooshes. So just search for them. Actually, I just come here like this to the startup park, and I just search for them. Pop is also pretty good here. And then if you like something, you just press on add, you add it and you can see it's been added. The same works with transitions. Instead of, like, an L cut or a J cut, we had a normal cut, and we wanted to do like this transition. But we come to exactly the cut, I have to press shift so that it sticks. You can see we have these sort of like triangles, gray triangles appearing. It means it's sticking, and then it's exactly in the middle and then press on add watching the video. And this is the value part, that's how you get transitions. I mean, of course, there are some transitions from Premiere Pro. If we go into video effects, if we go, first of all, into effects, then video effects, then we go into video transitions. There it is dissolve. So that's how you add a transition. This is deep. Looks very bad. Deep to white. This is Hmm. This. Actually, this is something that I would use. I didn't even know it existed there. I would do it from scratch. The way you can do it from scratch is you can create an adjustment layer, puts all sorts of effects there. But you can see you have transitions here. These are just pretty old, not so good transitions. I'm not sure if people use these. I don't ones I use are premiere composer or just handmade. You like something, you press on ad and you add it shape elements. Ooh. This is the valued. Okay, interesting. What if we make it smaller to fit the screen? For. Interesting. By the way, these are done in after effects, and we can easily replicate that. Now you know about premiere composer. Now you know about shortcuts. Now you know about putting Montage together, CATs, JCATs. You learned a couple of new things, and this is amazing. The next thing for you to do is to have got this and practice. Come to Premiere Pro, come to Premiere keyboard shortcuts, add shortcuts, download this video, experiment, and, you know, there's this part of the video which I didn't show you that you can listen to as well. There's a better explanation of the ending of the video. Play around with this. Once again, this is not a final video. You don't have to pressure your head with anything. The more you practice, the faster you will become better. If you have any questions, let me know, but other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 11. Advanced Audio Editing for Sorts, Reels & TikTok: In this video, we can talk about advanced audio and sound design. When we're talking about audio and sound, we're talking both about a person speaking about background music and about facts happening on screen. And then we're talking about loudness of each of those things, and this is what we're going to talk about today. First of all, let's work on the audio on my audio of me speaking. I will select all the clips, all the audio clips. There are two ways you can go about this. You can go into the audio panel and you'll have it to the right here or you can have it in your, let's say, vertical panel because it's more convenient for me this way. I just come here and I can come to Window central sound, and I'm going to have it here. Instead of going to a different panel, it's a lot easier for me. First of all, your sound is bad or overall, if you want to make it better, you can press on enhance. There's a thing called Adobe podcast, and it's basically taking it's using AI to do this. As you can see, it's in the progress. It takes some time to do it. I did 30 something seconds in 10 seconds or less. Or call to action where you ask people to do something either to follow them or I notice that you can control the mix amount, and when it comes to seven, it's a bit too crazy. It's better to put it like three or four. And to be honest, I started using it less and less in the last couple of months. It's still a great thing if you're just getting started, but if you are getting to a more advanced professional level, it's not as good. So it definitely does some adjustments to the audio. So called CTA. Let's say if you put it to three. So called CTA or call to action where you ask people. As you can see, it's removing the background noise because I have an open room. I'm not speaking right into the microphone, speaking into the room. There's echo and it's removing that echo and it's just the voice becomes a bit unnatural with this one. The way I like to work right now is I go and automach it. Automach just means that So called CTA. It's just making it louder overall. What we want to pay attention to is this sort of panel here. This basically represents the loudness. I've been going very, very deep into the audio lately. And to be honest with premiere with with built in tools that it has, it's not possible to achieve the same level as TV production does that level. It's far, far, far from that. What you see here is not necessarily the best of the best, but it is still very good for YouTube, Instagram, for other social media. So let's work with what we have. First of all, we will automatch I will make it louder, pay attention to hear, and we want to make sure it doesn't hit zero because when it hit zero, the voice starts to sort of crack. For call to action, where you ask people to do something You can say it doesn't hit zero for the CA. For the loudness, we want to make sure it's around three to nine or three to six somewhere in that range. Just make sure it doesn't hit the zero, but it's also not too quiet. Or call to action where you ask people to do something. So we can make it a bit louder, by the way, when I select the audio, a present G, what you can do is you can right click and then select the audio gain. But the default shortcut is G, it's the same thing. Instead of just clicking, it saves a lot of time. Adjust gain, which is gain by how many decibels, which is what we have here, it will increase. So let's increase it by two or three. Call to action. And let's listen to the loudest parts. Usually a song called CTA or cult fat. So these are the loudest parts. As you can see, it's pretty good. It's not hitting zero. It's in that range. For the music, the background music, it's usually at around -24 decibels. I just added a song, and I'll take parts of the song. Oh, person G, it's -24 to -30. My clients prefer when it's -30, so I'll just put it straight away to -30. I just gain by -30. Where you ask people to do something either to follow or and then in the very end, there's something can see, it's very quiet on the background. That's just the audio levels. When it comes to audio, if we delete the music, if we going into effect and we search for parametric equalizer, this one, and we put it, let's say here. We come to Effects Control, and we search for parametric equalizer, edit, then we will search for vocal enhancer. What it does, it automatically sets the wave graphs. And I know it might be confusing, so don't worry about this. It does it automatically. You press here. And it does this sort of wave. And there's a big difference in sound, so then at the very end, there's something usually a so called CTA or call to action where you ask people to do so. It makes the voice a lot clearer. Obviously, I did not do a good job at recording the audio here. But if we were to listen with our headphones and I recorded a good quality audio, you could really, really feel the difference. So called CTA or cult action where you ask people to do something deep. Now, let's go back to music. I want to show you something as well. In music, there's, like, in the short form content, we have three parts. We have, sort of the beginning, the middle, and the end. If you take a look at the music. This is the beginning. This is the middle, and this is the end. The way I like to work with music is I just take parts of the songs. So the beginning of the song goes into the intro or, like, the hook. The middle of the song goes into the value part, and then the end goes into the end. So that's how we would do this. Usually, I search for a place where the beat starts. So it's usually it will be here. So I'll just search for that. And I will press on I to mark this part, and then I will press O somewhere a bit later. And so I know that this part, it needs to be a hit here, basically. Watching the V as you can see, the hit happens just one frame later here. You'll get it with time and with more practice. And then I just drag it out, and I know that we have a beginning here and we have a hit exactly here. Actually, let's do it something. Move the video a bit to left so that you feel the difference. Audio G, we put it to -30. This is the Okay. Now we will search for effects. There's also this is my preset, lower music for voice. It basically takes the higher notes of the music and it makes it quieter. So I do with every single audio piece that I have, you will just search for simple parametric EQ, this one. You drag it, and then you put the same settings as we have here. So 13 60 hertz four and -18. We'll basically have the base of the music mostly with some heights as well, but heights will be a lot lower. So we would have something like this. This is the intro, this is the value. And then in the end, we have CtA, and then once again, we would come to music, and we would go to the very end, and we would search for when the music becomes quiet. It doesn't have to be the very end. Sometimes it can be the end of the bit, and then the music goes kind of. And we can take this part and we can put it here. Just for you to hear it better, I will disable my audio. So we will come to effect, and we will copy this simple parametriQ from here, Control C or Command C and paste it here onto the part that we just added. G, -30, make it a bit longer. Okay, you can see that there's this kind of weird sound. Okay, we can get rid of that, then we can apply a default transition, something like this. Okay, this works great. So I will table it as well so you can see that in the beginning, we have this audio, which is the intro. We have beat starting here. Then in the end, we have the end. Usually, you can also add, like, so that it becomes a bit quieter. In the beginning, we can make it a bit louder. So now let's listen. And then just becomes quiet. So usually, this is what I do with shorts with shorts with vertical format with, like, reels and Tik Tok, it's a lot easier to do it like this. With long form content, YouTube videos, you have to work with different songs, you have to play around. And long form video, usually, it's just a combination of short form videos. So the way you would do is for each part of the long form, you would do a song. So let's say for a long form video, you would have five YouTube video editing tips. For each tip, you would have a different song. But right now, we have the video that is super short, so we have just one song. So this is what we have in terms of the music. Now, let's talk about Sex. Sex or sound effects. People call different things, different names. I call sound effects, SFX. Sx is usually very creative. Usually, like, for instance, this is a very great example. This is a part of the video for my clients, and you will see that we have some things happening on the screen. But how do we What sound do we add here? Let's take a look. What on Earth do we add here? We have a line that's happening at the top here around. We have this line happening. We have this text appearing, and we have this text appearing. What on Earth do we put here? What kind of what's the name of the sound? The thing is that this sound doesn't exist in nature. What we have to do is we have to creatively think about this. We can also add a couple of different sounds, but it turned out in reality that when you add too many sounds, for one animation, it becomes a bit too much. So I actually have a folder called Eseffx as you can see here, and I'll just drag it. And by the way, the place where you can get a lot of songs and sound effects is called Epidemic Sound. I was able to get you guys a seven day free trial if you want to try it out. I've been working with Epidemic Sound for the last six years. It's a great place to find sound, to find music. So if you want to take a look, you can come to this website. What you have here is you have music, so you can search for different genres. Modes, themes, whatever you want. It's pretty good. The Grammy goes, too. You can discover the playlist. I just click here today and it's really good. Sorry. Okay. You get the idea. You have a lot of different songs here. You can just search for sad music and get yourself side music. Or you can search for something bits or, like, energetic. Okay. And also, for sound effects, I love the sound effects library they have every single time, find something that I need. So user interface Great. Great, great, great stuff. So anyway, if you want to come, this is a great place. So day free trial, take a look. If not, the other best option to find musical sound effects is YouTube. This is a paid version. Paid version is obviously better because they put everything together very well. If it's a little bit tight on the budget side, then YouTube is a great place because you can also find a lot of sounds, a lot of songs, a lot of royalty free songs there. If you come here, you will see I have a lot of different sounds. Where's this one? This is the sound that I eventually used for this effect. To be honest, I have no idea what this sound is. It's called Ratchet plastic. What on Earth that is in real world? I don't know. Actually, we can search. Plastic ratchet. Let's see. Hmm. Well, something like this. I don't know. So what I used is I used this part in the end, and it represents this circle. So something like this. I O, press on audio, drag it here, and just listen. Oops. Put it here. This is what it looks like. So you just have to creatively think about different stuff. Let's take a look at the library and see what we have here. We have a beep. So when somebody swears, this is the sound. This is a so called riser. It's usually put in the beginning of the video or went to create some sort of tension. Error sounds, error. This is a film projector. Too loud. Fire. As you can see, some of these are videos, and I probably got them from YouTube. Flickering sound flickering light. Gain points. I love this one. This is like, so basy. It's really good. Keyboard, marker, mouse, notification, paper, another paper. So, for example, for premiere composer, they have this transition with light. So it goes like this, but doesn't have any sound. And I would add this sound here, and you will see. Oops. Here. We have pencil. Pop, plastic ratchet that you saw ripping paper. A lot of risers. This is a riser again. This is so good. This one. I got it from Epidemic Sound recently. Sci Fi sounds. Usually, when you draw something or something happening on the screen, you want to visually support that. You just have a library, search through it and see what you have. I love it using this sound effect when we put pictures together and it's like many pictures. I like to put this sound. Tir pretty good when you need it. This is sort of similar to this ratchet. Not as good. Typewriter effect. When we go into after effects, I'll show you an effect. And it's really useful there. Vine, you know, this platform had a hit. So this is the one Keys fireworks cash register used very often when talked about money, camera shutter. So when we talk about sound, we put some of these to support the visuals. To be honest, there's no particular way to do this. You just put it here. You put it to -20 so that it's not very loud compared to the voice, very subtle in the background. Put this one to -15, and it just adds a lot more life to the video. Let's go through it again. When you have audio, you select it, you come to essential sound, and you customize it here. You also have different presets here, by the way. I don't really use these ones, the way audio sounds naturally works the best for me and for my clients. You can play around with these headings as well. Usually it's better to record voice properly, and then you don't have to play around with this. If the voice is bad, if the audio is bad, the audio enhancer might save it, but it will not necessarily save it. Might be pretty if it's bad, it might stay bad. This is what you do. You select the audio. You come here, you add the music. You put it to around -30 -25, add this effect, which is in my case, lower music for voice. By the way, you can save it as a preset. You just click on it, save preset, give it a name, and you will have it in your presets here. And then when it comes to sound design, it's a bit more creative. You can also ask Cha GPT. If you don't know what sound can represent what? You can ask HAGPT. What sound represents a text, for instance, you ask ha GPT, notification tone, Dingdong, Oh. Ding or ping bubble. Interesting. So you can ask different questions. It will help you with that. I hope this video helps. If you have any questions, please let me know. Other than that, I will see you in the next video. 12. Color Grading Basics in Adobe Premiere Pro: Welcome. In this video, we're going to discover color grading, color correction, and all other sorts of fun stuff that's related to color. First of all, you will find a file that's just an old video of me, and we're going to color it. As you can see, it's pretty kind of yellow, has pretty warm colors, and we'll fix that. We'll make sure the color looks great. And first of all, before we get into that, let's talk about what is color correction, color grading. What on Earth are you trying to achieve with that? As I always say, I think people overthink this because it's pretty simple. And some people prefer one looks, other people prefer other looks. And the thing is that it's so creative most of the time. What you need to focus on is just having good quality, making sure that you have the right white balance, and white balance is just that the white colors, as you can see here, the white is white. Here, the white is yellow, as you can see, because that's a white wall. You just want to have good quality. And then when it comes to stylizing, creating sort of cinematic looks or adding lots on top of your footage, that's all creative. That's just your personal choice for the choice of your client. Let's talk about the basics and how to make sure your videos are just good quality, so that people want to watch it because that's the main goal. Okay, well, first of all, I'll drag this video onto the timeline. I will rotate it 90 degrees. And then Command K for me to open the settings 1080 by 1920. So there we go. So you can see that's me. I look very yellow. My skin is indeed a bit yellow but not that yellow in real life, and we'll go into the color workspace. What we have here on the left is lumetri scopes. You have all sorts of different options the way you can preview it. So we have the vectorscope and we have the waveform. Don't worry about the names. You'll see what we use, and that's it. Don't worry about the names. Just make sure that you open these two. Why? Because the one on the left, it shows how bright or how dark certain areas of the video is. On the bottom, closer to zero, as you can see here, these are the darker areas. So zero is black. 100 is white. Whenever something moves on the screen, you can see things are moving on the left here as well. The best way to explain this is that what you see in front of you here here is just a reflection of this video in another format. This thing basically shows the colors. And this line here, it shows the skin colors, and we want to make sure that our skin is not blue, is not yellow. We want to make sure it's the right color. As you can see, it's a bit off, but it's pretty good. However, the whole image is sort of yellow, so we'll need to fix that. So first of all, in terms of rightness, darkness, this video is pretty good. If this video, let's say, was a bit dark, something like this, but would make sure we increase the exposure. Or we would make sure to increase the highlights and whites, and we can reduce the exposure. So you can see it's pretty similar effect. The way you sort of do this is you just look at the screen. There are certain areas that need to be brighter, certain areas that need to be darker. You just take a look, see, and, you know, do all sorts of adjustments. One thing as well, I want to recommend you is that with vertical format, usually because the video is so packed, you need to direct viewers into seeing certain things. And you can do it by creating masks. So we have our lumetric color effect in the Effects Control panel, and we can create a mask. So let's say I want to highlight the light switch. I will highlight it. Then we can increase the exposure or vice versa darken it. So using masks is oftentimes a big deal with short form content, vertical content. We'll delete the mask here and we'll make sure that put this to zero. By the way, you can just press on reset at the top to just go back to where it was. You can try and do the white balance manually by going here and adjusting it. It would be probably something like this. But to make sure it's very, very good, we'll press on auto. It's really good at doing the white balance. So let's see. The wide balance is good. However, it's also doing all sorts of other adjustments, and I don't really like what it does. So I'll just put everything to zero. This one also to zero ops to 100. It's usually putting saturation, decreasing the saturation. Not sure why. Usually, I would actually increase the saturation. So let's see. Actually, I would say maybe a bit more to the cold because Okay. But the way we can do is we can just compare sort of this wall to this wall because it's the same color. So it's more or less okay. In terms of the skin color, I'll give you hack. What you can do is you can create a mask and we'll mask just my face. And we'll see that actually it is the right color. I wish I could give you an example but bad color so that we could work on it. Okay, but we'll do something with this. We will make the video worse on purpose so that we can fix it. So we have a little metro color. If we go to HSL secondary, we can use this thing to select certain areas. Okay. We just want to make sure it was like the skin, and we'll make it I don't know, red on purpose, and we will see, it is, actually. I mean, it's pretty difficult to show. Let's say, that's the way our footage looks. So what we would do is we would create lemetric color. We would add we will add another lemmetri color. Now we have two lemmetric color, as you can see here. We can also name it so that we can rename this to bad skin and this one to correction, just to make sure that when we switch between the two, we have different names here. So we have correction. What would do is we would come here to HSL secondary. We would select this. We'll select more. Okay. Let's see. Okay. Actually, this is pretty good. And we would take a look at this, and we would look, Okay, it's pretty red here. First of all, what we can do is we can use the slider and put it to the opposite of red. We'll pull it to the green. It's already better, not perfect, but better. And I'm just trying to make sure that all the skin, all the colors is set on this line. That's what we have selected. Okay. Let's see what we have. Full screen. Not bad. Potentially, we can play around with this as well, make it a bit colder, add a bit more green. Now we will select just the skin and we'll see where it's located. As you can see, it's on the line. So we had a bad color. You made it on purpose, but you get the idea. So let's say you have a bad color, and this is what you do. Now, we'll just delete the mask. So what we did is we pulled the colors a little bit. What you can also do is you can open here and just play around with different tones. Shadows, mid tones, highlights. That's the way you do this. Another thing I want to introduce you to is not creative yet to the curves. So curves, you can set different points, let's say, here, here, and here, and then you can sort of move them like this to make sure has more contrast or you an opposite way. I like how this looks when we drop the highlights down a little bit. So this is a curve. Curve also represents color, and then when you create a curve and you move the line around, it also influences the footage. Usually, what you would do with the curve is you would set three points here, as I did before, three points, and then these are your mid tones. These are your highlights, and these are your shadows or blacks. You can just play around with this. You can also move it a bit to the left. Like this to the right, this is basically the best thing that people do is they create this sort of like curve, just to introduce more contrast, you can achieve exactly the same effect by going to. Here, increasing the contrast or increasing the highlights. Take a look here. We're increasing the highlights and we're reducing the blacks. So we're stretching the graph, and that way we create more contrast. In this case, we don't need more contrast. It's pretty contrasty as it is. Now we come to hue and saturation. Let's set a certain color. Let's say we want the blue and my shirt, Let's select it, and then we can change its hue, saturation. And we can either, as you can see, make it black or we can make it blue, even more blue. This is the way we can play around with saturation. Then we can come to hue, once again, for press to blue. And we can change the hue. As you can see, right now, it's a big green, and we can change it to red and everything between. Let's select my skin, and you'll see what we can do. I can make myself a Shrek, can make myself somebody else. And also Luma. This is basically like how bright certain things are. So dark or bright. Usually, you don't need that much color. Some people don't even do any color. It's just it really depends on what you are trying to achieve. Color wheels, color match is basically the same thing as this one. It's just instead of altering a certain portion of the video or an image, we're altering everything, right? So now everything is sort of blue. Now, everything is blue. Then there's this sort of vignette. If you want vignette, you can add it. Usually, wouldn't do anything with this one. Now, if you go into Creative, you can add lots here. You probably heard this word lot. What is lot? Well, lot is like a preset in terms of color. You add a lot and it adjusts the colors. You can add it here, press and browse and search for the lot. Is this lot? Yeah, these are probably lots. I'm not sure where these are from. Probably somewhere in my computer. I'm working with a ton of ton of files, ton of projects. So yeah, it looks like these are lots. So let's say you find a lot, by the way, where you find lots on different website, you can go to creators. They oftentimes have certain lots where you can purchase lots on websites like Ertist and ato, motion array. You can just the intensity here. Usually, I found that lots destroy the image oftentimes because it's like saying to people that every single image, you need to do this in to increase the exposure, and to increase the contrast and things like that. And then you use the same settings for every image. And it certainly works if you want to if you're going for some specific sort of mood in the video. However, what I found is that if you look at YouTube videos, you know when people use these lots, and just it doesn't look as professional. Best in my opinion, the best thing to do is to make sure the video is in good quality. The color is set good, the white balance is set good. And that's it, don't worry about lots because that's extra time, and it may destroy the footage. That's just my opinion. But you can certainly use this. As you can see, this is where we started. This is where we your videos where you sit down, you can also add masks or not necessarily when you sit down, just something head in mind, is that let's say the color of the face is different from the color of the skin of the arms, and you would create another lumetri color, and then you would create a mask and you would make sure that it only selects arms. You could do it like this. Then you would increase the feather so that it's not as sharp on the edge. As you can see, it goes from a little bit of red into no red at all, and it's not super sharp, like it is here, right? We have. Shut. Super sharp. So now, it's your time to do some phone work, download this video and play around with it. The biggest thing you have to do is to set the right colors you can see, it's yellow, very yellow. Go to the metric color. Try to do it yourselves. Something like this or use the Auto tool, play around with these. Make sure to familiarize yourself with these tools. You don't necessarily have to use it every time to the full capacity. You just want to make sure that you know these so that when the time comes, you know, which buttons to press. If you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 13. Easy Motion Graphics for Beginners in Adobe After Effects: Welcome. In this video, we're going to talk about after effects and how to integrate after effects into your workflow, how to connect it with Premiere Pro. We can talk about motion graphics and all sorts of other fun stuff. So let's get into it. First of all, we have our video, and it doesn't matter which portion of the video we use. I will not use audio, so I will just select it with option and delete it. Actually, I just want to select a portion of myself where I'm in front of the camera. Okay, something like this. Oops. Okay, so I'll cut everything out except for this. How long is this? 5 seconds. It's okay. It doesn't have to be very long or very short. I'll delete the audio. Here's another shortcut for you. Well press Option Command K to open the shortcut. And then we search for after effects replace with after effects comp composition is another word for sequence. We have our sequence here and we'll just replace it basically with after effect sequence. I put a shortcut for myself, option A. So now, let's say, I select this. I press Option A, and you can see, start jumping. So it opens automatically. If you don't want to do that, I'll show you how to do it another way. I'll just save a file somewhere. And then I usually come back here and press Command Z because what we have here is we have after effects composition. So I'll give you an example. If I do it like this, you'll see that we have the same thing happening in premiere. So both applications are linked together. When you do a change in after effects, you have a change in Premiere Pro. However, in Big, however, it really slows down your computer, like, really, really, really. So a person commands it to make sure that I just come back to what we previously had just lip. Although here, nothing changes. So you can still work in this clip. It's just it's not linked. And the way we do this in the end is we would export this portion and we would just put it in Premiere Pro, and that's it. It's a lot better on your computer on your time and on your mental health. And another way you can open this is you can select, right click and replace with After Effects composition. Instead of clicking double clicking or right clicking and pressing here, you can just press Option A with a shortcut, and it will save you a lot of time. Come to after effects. Okay, so we have our composition named weirdly. Let's make sure it's called a person enter, we'll call it main. And there are a couple of things that After effects is used for. You can do all sorts of fun stuff here because if we come into animation, presets, text. And here we have all sorts of text presets. The ones I really like, for example, is fade up lines, characters, words, fade out lines, typewriter effect is really good one. And we have all sorts of fun stuff here. I'll give you an example. Let's say, use this camera. So let's say I was saying these words, and I would put this here. I would make sure it's extra bold that it's thick and I will click on this text, and I will put it in the middle. Instead of pressing on T and typing, you can press the shortcut Command T or Control T on Windows. This is what we have. Let's add some shadow drop shadow just to make sure that we see the text. Okay. Use this camera. Let's say I was saying these words. I would come to animation, presets, text, animating, fade up characters. As you can see, we have a very cool text. Unfortunately, for some reason, premiere pro doesn't have features like this. It's a lot more customizable in after effects. Another interesting thing you can do is, let's say, press here, we will do a different blending mode called difference. It's sort of interesting effect. If I zoom in, you can probably tell what this is. This is what it would look like. I love this effect. It's kind of popular right now, although not within the whole world, but within, like, a niche of creators really like this one. First of all, we want to animate the scene, and if I select the text, I press you on a keyboard, it opens whatever you have animated. Animation in, we'll do it within 1 second. And then let's do Animation Out Animation out. We'll search for Fade Out by character. Well, add it in, we press again, you and there we have it. So now we have animation out as well. Animation in. Animation out. Great. And we have this very interesting effect. Another thing that after effects is used for, and this is probably the most that will be used for you if you use this feature. That's definitely for me, I use this for almost every single clip that I use in After Effects. Select the footage, press Command D or Control D. I'll press Option W or Alt W. It opens E Roto Brush Tool. With the Roto Brush tool, I'll make sure the top layer is selected. I'll double click. First of all, what this is doing is it's selecting myself to make sure we can put the text behind me but in front of the background. Because right now, what we have here is just text, it has to go through the process. We have text on top of me. I want to make sure it's in between the background and myself. So we need to do it here. Usually, you have this circle. I'm not sure why I don't have it. The way you can resize this circle is you have to press command and then press on your mouse, left button, and then just slide up and down or right to left. And this is how you can increase or decrease the size. And then whenever you add something, it's going to add. If you want to subtract, you just have to press option. Or Alt on PC, and there you go. Okay. Let's just make sure I'm selected well here. You can see it has this purple line or pink line. Okay, everything's well selected. And now I will just press on space. And it just going through the whole video and selecting the whole video. The reason I'm sideways is because we were sideways in premiere. The reason we file is sideways. As you can see in the very beginning, because I selected not from the very beginning, but from around here, I started selecting my face as well. So if something went wrong, let's say, you find a place where it went wrong, now you just select. By the way, I move on the image by pressing space. Okay, everything looks great. Let's let it play. Now, I'll press and freeze. Now we just have to wait a little bit. Depending on the power of your computer, it will do either faster or slower. Now that it's done, we'll come to composition and now the fun stuff. Okay, so we have texts like this. If we put the text between the two layers, it will be behind me, but in front of the background, really cool effect. We can also make sure that we have a blending mode normal. We'll get it back to normal, and we have a white text now. If we press P, it's going to open position and we can move the position a bit higher so that people can see what words are used. If we press on S, it's going to select the scale, so we can scale it up and down. But if we want to select both scale and position, we have scale, which is press shift, and then P. Now we have both the scale and the position. We can also add things like a point, rotation, opacity. If you press shift, I can just close this. And basically the same thing as just opening the properties and pressing here. It's a bit faster instead of opening every single time, just press on P a TA That's how you do it. Now, let's talk about motion graphics. Motion graphics is something that's not as often used with vertical format, although it is fairly often used, I don't use it as much. Use it a lot more in long form content. And the thing about motion graphic is I can create a whole separate course motion graphics because there's just so much to it. It will be over 100 hours long. There's so much to it. The only limitation with motion graphics is your creativity. You just have to think what you want, how to visually show what person is saying, you're saying, or your client is saying, and then you just have to do it. If you don't know something, you just have to Google. That's literally what I do still to this day after ten years of using Premiere Pro and after effects, I come to Google and search for things, and that's just something you have let's try to add motion graphics. So Let's say we have this text, use this camera. Let's try to create motion graphics with the camera. Actually, I have something interesting in mind. What we will do is we will select everything. We'll press Shift Command C or Shift Control C on PC and we will precompose. It's the same as coming here and pressing option C, it's called nesting sequences, and this one is precomposing. So it's the same thing. We're just combining everything and putting it in a separate sequence or composition. I want to move this down a little bit, and I want to create a rectangle, and I'll just double click on the rectangle, and I will make sure that they have none on the choke selected, and I want to make sure I have a solid color. If you don't have the properties panel here, you can come to Window and properties. I have this selected. Actually, I want to put it on the background. And the reason why I'm doing this is because I want to have this solid color to be the same as the background. And you will see why we're doing this. We'll put the position back. I'm not sure exactly the shortcut to put this back. There's definitely a shortcut. I just remember 540 by 960 a pentle by the way, I can press on G. I'm trying to imagine how should we do this? Definitely move this down. And we'll do it something like this. So what I'm doing here is I put a pen position here, then I put it here, and I drag it with shift because I want this line to move like that. And by the way, did I was I creating mask? I was, I believe, creating mask. Yes. We'll start from the beginning. Like this, like this. Yes. Instead of a solid, we'll put a solid stroke. Great. We'll put it Mm. Anyway, we'll figure stuff out. I'm not sure about it right now. We'll open it. We'll go to taper, use this camera. Okay, we'll start it from here. Okay, so where is it? Is it end? Yes. Something like that. Okay, we'll taper the end and we'll taper the start. And by the way, I don't remember all of the stuff. It's just I'm searching, experimenting, and that's how you can do this too. Actually, we'll not give her that, but that's okay. Now, what we will do is we will add trim paths. Trim path, we'll open it. We'll animate the end. And we'll animate the start as well. It's just we're going to move it a bit. So let's see what we have. As you can see, we have this sort of interesting line. We want to offset it a bit more, probably something like this. Mm hmm. Interesting line. I like it. I want to make sure that line is towards behind me. So we might need to put it into this composition, but let's see. We'll do this a bit later. Let's create another composition 1920 by 1920. It's going to be square. It's going to be 50 seconds. Now, let's do 10 seconds, and we'll press okay. Now let's try to draw a camera. I'm not sure how cameras look, but we'll do something about this. Rectangle, we will increase the roundness. I'll select it, and we'll make sure it's in the middle where the properties where they are. It's in the middle. Now we'll create other parts of the camera. We to create a big circle in the middle. Oops, we'll put it in the middle. Actually, when you put this one in the middle like this, as well. And then this one we can **** Probably in another a smaller circle. So I press Command S and decrease the scale, and I'll just put it in the middle, even smaller. I'm not sure how cameras look. It's just there's something weird about this. Okay, so now I can select all three of them and probably go to the color of the stroke and make it white. Or actually let's make it dark because we have a bright background. And we'll make sure to put this one. Actually, what's the name Comp one. We'll make sure to put it here. P and S will decrease the something like this. Let's make sure we animate, add trim paths. It doesn't matter which one you use it for. We'll animate the end. This one, 100. This one is zero. We'll press F nine. If you're using on a laptop, it's probably FN, F nine. If you're using AMAC on PC, it's I believe just F nine, as well. Why? Because we want to make sure the line starts slow and it ends fast. So this is how we have it. You can see it's not very slow and not very fast in the beginning and end. So we will come here to graph editor, we'll select this layer. These are our key frames, and we'll just make sure to drag these out a little bit like this. It looks a lot better. Starts slow and ends slow. We can make it even more like this. Perfect. We will copy the trim paths, Command C, and we will put it to both of these guys. So Ooh. Oh, yes. This is cool. Now we just need to move this to the beginning as well. Perfect. That's our camera. So now, actually, it's at 1% here. Apologies. So I thought it was a zero. Yeah. Now we don't have these black dots, which is 1% of our animation. There you go. We can make this line here black as well to make sure it's contrasting yes. This looks great. No, it might be a bit confusing, and it is indeed a bit confusing. Now we need to combine everything together. To make sure it starts behind me and goes up, we might need to take this line and this camera. Mm hmm. Okay. What what's the position of this 11817. So we need to put all of these. Actually, we will probably have to do everything in this composition and not in the two compositions. We'll create a null object. We'll select everything we have here, aside from the line, and we will pan them to the null object, press on P and move it to 1,800, so we move it down. And now we have our line just like we had it in this composition. Great. Now we'll select everything. Actually, we still have our line here. No, what's this one? Oh, it's the background. Okay? I suggest we select the camera, press Command X, and we will put it here. And then we need to select the background, Command X, and put it here as well. So now that we know the position of everything, you know, this one needs to be here. Actually, it needs to be on the background on the bottom. And now, while we have this position, we will connect everything, we'll connect the line, we'll connect the background, and we'll connect the camera to the null object as well. So now, whenever we move everything backwards to where it's supposed to be, you can see what's happening, right? It's now parented to the null object, and whenever we move it back, everything kind of moves back with it. So, into 1960, sorry, 960. Now we just need to animate the position of we animate the position to 1,800. We'll press. Actually, let's select both of them. F nine, we'll make sure it eases in and eases out. Let's see. Move these further apart. Use this camera. Okay. Whenever we have this line starting, we'll make sure that we're starting to move as well, and we'll make sure to move a bit faster. Whoop. And we have our camera here, so we'll just start it a bit earlier. So, that's great. Is this the line? Yes, it is. We'll put it behind the head. So let's see what we have. Start and end. I don't like this very end. It's, it's a bit thick in the end, but other than that, things look very well here. So I have text. Appearing behind me, we can move the text a bit higher so that it's visible better probably to something like this. Use this camera, very cool animation. We have motion graphics on the screen. We have a line that leads us from the word camera to the actual camera. And, of course, it's a bit harder and it's a bit slower because we don't have a video. We're just coming up on the spot with some stuff. But imagine you have a little bit of practice. You know where you're going with this. And it's a lot easier to create stuff like this. You can also create motion graphics in Premiere Pro, definitely doable, but it's definitely easier to do it in after effects. One more thing I want to show you is I want to show you three D in both after effects and Premiere Pro. In after effects, you can make anything three D. So you can make this three D, and then you can move things around. You can rotate it. We can move it further away, rotate it like this. Once again, the three D stuff in my opinion, it is a bit easier in after effects, or the way you do this in Premiere Pro, you can put it specifically on a layer. So we search for three D, basic three D, put it here, and we can, you know, do some stuff here as well with three D, which is great. The way actually, we can move the distance and, you know, move it like this. However, you cannot add volume to objects here. In after effects, you can definitely add volume. However, you need to have sure if you can. Yes, you cannot do the geometry options. Can you do it? You can do Geomet options, but we need to have Cinema four D enabled for this. The cinema four D is needed if we are trying to add volume to a composition. However, I'll create another composition just to show you as an example. Let's make sure we have some solid white background, and we will create a circle. Make sure there's solid. We'll make sure it's black. Actually, let's make it grade. Something like that. We'll delete the stroke. Make sure it's in the middle. Actually, we don't have to do that, but Okay, we'll make it three D. We will come to advanced three D camera. We'll go to geometry options and now transform. So let's. We're basically turning it right now, and now we can add the extrusion depth. Oops. And there you have the three D stuff on the screen. It has some limitations. If you install the cinema four D on your computer, you can definitely do it. For example, you cannot add a gradient to something like this, but that's a whole different story. So you can see that after effects pretty much it doesn't have any limitations. The only limitation is in your head. The same with premiere pro I just with after effects, you have motion graphics, and in order to do these motion graphics, you just have to be a bit creative. If you struggle with creativity, I do suggest very, very much HGPT. It can definitely help you just explain to it what you want or what you have and ask it. How on Earth do I show it visually? And how do you do things not reflect? And it will actually tell you step by step how to do certain things. I still use it in my project because it's really good. And now what we would do is we would come to file, Export and add render Q, which you can also, as you can see here, use a shortcut. Option E. That's a shortcut that I believe I created for myself. I'm not sure if it was here. Ref you press Option Command, and then, actually, let me show you whether we have shortcuts, keyboard shortcuts. Yeah, this is the button that we have the shortcut. So if you press the shortcut, it opens the shortcuts, and then you can search for Export and add Export for you. This is what I did for myself. Then I just press on here, save it, render Great. Now we drag our file to Premiere Pro, and now let's see what we have instead of having just Instead of having just the boring video of myself, now we have this interesting animation. If you have any questions, let me know, but other than that, I will see you in the next video. 14. What We Can Learn from MrBeast: Welcome. In this video, I'm going to introduce you to the Goat of YouTube. It is Jimmy Donaldson, and this is not Jimmy. This is someone who we're going to talk about as well. This is hitting Hillary Smith, but we'll cover him in the next video. So Jimmy Donaldson, AKA Mr. Beast. Here's the thing about Jimmy. He's been on Fullsm podcast. He's been on Colin Zamir, Joe Rogan, Lex Friedman, and many more different podcasts. Certain point, when he was specifically talking about growth, I watched every single of his videos. And there is one specific thing that Jimmy talks about in almost all the old podcasts, he talks about, one thing, and that is retentiry. Specifically, he's talking about 70% retentiary. And specifically, he's talking about long form YouTube videos. However, if you remember, the goal of the social media platforms is to keep people on the platforms for as long as possible. Retention rate, in other words, average percentage viewed is how long people watch the video. So if the video is 10 minutes long, 70% retention rate means people on average watch 7 minutes, which is very, very good retention rate. However, it's not always possible to hit such a high retention rate unless the video is, like, super viral or there's, like, a superstar, whatever. It's pretty hard to hit that number. You want to aim to hit as high a retention rate as possible not only on YouTube, but also on Instagram on TikTok on X as well. Here's another tip that you can go and follow Mr. Bees on Twitter. And if you scroll down, you will be able to see interesting analytics from him from, like, years and years ago. So we'll see on the screen August 10, 2022, and you can see it shows how many impressions he had. He had way less subscribers and views at that time and still very, very crazy results. So you can go on Twitter or x and take a look there. There's another guy called Patty Galloway. He's a YouTube strategist who worked with misty Beast, who worked with a lot of different creators on YouTube. You can learn a lot from him, as well. So let's get back to 70% retent rate. You want to try and hit that, and 70% retent rate cannot be done only with video editing. You can get 70% retent rate basically with zero editing. The editing is a big part of that, as well as the idea. Idea is always number one. Then comes the video editing. So how do you achieve this? You become better every day, and we're specifically talking about video editing. But if you were to come up with ideas, it's the same thing. You become better every day. In terms of video editing, you make new facts. You try moving footage in a different place so that the video is slightly different. Learn some new techniques, check analytics to see where people drop off so that you see what you want to avoid adding to the video next time. And that's how you become better. How do you access analytics? On Instagram, for instance, if you go and click on the video, there's view insights at the bottom. You know, I might change slightly in the future. The whole point is this. On Instagram, view the real insights, come to the watch time, and here you'll see that the average watch time is 9 seconds. And let's say the video is 13 seconds. I believe this video is 13 seconds, right? So now you do the math because Instagram doesn't show statistics as well as Sup. So we do 9/13. This is actually 0.69. It means that the average percentage viewed is 69%. Here's another interesting stat for you. The shorter the video, the longer the average view duration needs to be for it to go viral, and the longer the video is the shorter it needs to be. So, for instance, for this video to go viral, because it's 13 seconds, the average watch time needs to be around, like 15 to 20 so that people rewatch the video and stay on platform long. However, it's not always that straightforward. There are a lot of things that influence the variility of the video. That's just one of the things. Terms of the YouTube, you need to come to YouTube Analytics. Click on specific video analytics and you'll see it at the bottom. So this is the part that we're looking at. And you can see for this video, which is still getting views, and it has 182,000 views, the average view duration is 11 seconds long. You can see that the video itself is only 9 seconds. So let's do the math, right, 11, divide by nine. That is 122% retention rate, which is more than 100%. How does this work? Because when people watch the video for the second time, you get these numbers. And then you'll see that state to watch 65% of the people. That's also a big thing. How many people see the video and how many of them swipe a how many of them stay to watch the video? There's no clear statistic on how these platforms identify whether people stay to watch or not, how many seconds they need to watch the video so that it counts as somebody watches the video or how fast they need to swipe a waiver to not count. But what you need to focus on here in analytics and here in a patch time. So this is Mr. Best. You can watch a lot of his podcasts and you'll find mostly the same information. Increased retention rate, and if we're talking about long form videos like YouTube videos, increasely click the rate. For any platform, for any medium, these are very important statistics. Have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 15. Editing Lessons from Haiden Hillier-Smith: Welcome. In this video, we're going to talk about the goat of editing. Who is this person? Well, as we've discussed from the previous video, it's Hayden, Hillary Smith. So, Hayden worked with Mr. Beast. Hayden worked with Logan Paul. Hayden is a video editor. And just with Logan Paul lone, he got over 6 billion views. And he used to work with Logan Pol for many, many years. So from the very beginning of Logan Pol's career to like, until he went through the roof stratosphere him. You can find him on YouTube, on Instagram as well. Really, really great content. I watched every single of his videos, like, literally every single one. That's not you'll see that he has some very old videos. When he was, like, a kid, he was just playing around. But when he talks about video editing, he's really good. Okay, so what is hitting Hillary Smith's secret ingredient? Well, it's the triangle, the triangle here. It is the emotion, story, and rhythm. Whenever you edit, you want to come back to this triangle. Let's break it down. What is story? Story answers the question. Where is this going? What is emotion? Emotion answers the question, how should I feel? And the rhythm. The rhythm is, what is the flow. So whenever you edit, you want to come back to this triangle, and you want to focus on one thing at a time. You either tell the story, you either tell the emotion or you either show the rhythm. You can combine the two, right? The emotion and the story are connected. The story and the rhythm are connected, and the rhythm and the emotion is also connected. So you can use both at the same time. However, I know this is kind of confusing. Like, what is story? What is emotion? What is rhythm. Just try to pay attention when you scroll through social media. You will start identifying patterns, patterns of story, patterns of emotion, and patterns of rhythm. Story is usually when a person is telling the story, like, there is a background like voice. Emotion is really good shown with montages. What's montage? Amontage is a combination of clips put together with music. And you can you really feel emotions. Like when you have flashbacks when you try to remember your childhood, you remember and you feel emotion. So montage is sort of like remembering the childhood. And then the rhythm is the music, it's like, how fast do we cut? Because cuts really help identify the rhythm. The faster you cuts are, the faster the rhythm is. The slower the cuts, the slower the rhythm is. This triangle is really powerful. However, I don't use it all the time. Hayden uses it still to this day, he's getting great results with it. It is really, really good starting point. That's why I'm sharing it with you. So, story, rhythm, and emotion. And last, murder you darlings. So, this is the concept that was introduced by Hayden. When I joined Creator now, I think, a couple of years ago, and Hayden was teaching at that time, he really put a lot of emphasis on this, and it's really important because what is murdering you darlings? It's when something is emotional to you. You want to keep something in the video, but it's not going to help the viewer. You need to cut it, or it's not good for the creator if you're a video editor. So you need to cut that, and you need to really cut that. Like, it's not just a little bit, like, really cut that out. Like, it's not about your emotions. You need to manage your emotions. It's about what's actually going to make the difference. What's going to bring the results, Murdering you darlings. So that means if there's some sort of shot that you really want to use, but you want to use it just because it's beautiful to you or, you know, it brings some emotion to you. But it's not going to help the story, cut it out. If there's, like, a song you want to use, but it's not going to help the story, cut it out. So things like that, where you just want to cut things that are important to you but not important to the story, to the audience. And it's not always the case. There's always, you know, like, always in life. We sort of need to find the balance of what's acceptable, what's not acceptable. But it's not like, acceptable for other people. What's acceptable to you? What life do you want to live? What rules do you want to live by? There are many questions, not many answers, a bit philosophical, but, you know, Murder darlings is definitely an important one. So, if you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 16. Edit With Me: Complete Short-Form Video Editing Walkthrough (Part 1): Welcome. I'm really excited for this video because in this video, you're going to see me edit a full video from the very beginning to the very end. You also, take a look, you also will have access to these four files, and these are the videos that I recorded today that we will edit today and that you will have access to, so you can just take these files and literally just copy exactly what I do to make sure you get some practice. The more you practice, the better things will be and faster things will. Okay. I have so much to say about this video, but I think let's just go straight into it. I'll select the four files. I'll put them here. Okay? So the first two files, it's just me speaking this script. The other two files is, like, extra B. Put these files. We'll drag them onto the timeline. I'll press K to make my timeline the size that I need. We need to command K. Now we do 1080 by 1920. Okay. Now we'll come to effects and we need rotation to -90. No, we need rotation to 90. There you go. By the way, we need to go into the vertical workspace. Okay, we copy this motion. We base it here as well. We'll be using the rotation of the motion, and we will not add the transform effect, which is something I used to do in the past, because when we put these clips into after effects, the transform effect in after effects does slightly differently to how it does in premiere pro. And by the way, this is our view one. So we'll call one ben sequences, so we'll put it there, and we'll create another bin which is raw. We'll put them there. We can actually also organize is this me breathing? Yeah, breathing and sneezing. I know it sounds weird, but you'll understand. So we'll create another folder called virol. We'll put these two together just to make things organized. Okay. I'll also make this Okay. So let's just cut everything. Let's listen. I don't think people understand how much time it takes to edit the video. The floor cracks? I don't think people understand how much time it takes to edit the video. Okay, let's try putting what's it called save zones. Okay, so we'll put the save zone on top, just to see, I'm not well visible here. Or here, here, here, I'm okay. Visible here. Yeah, I like this one. So we'll definitely need to use the last two. I don't think people understand how much time it takes to edit the video. I don't think people understand how much time it takes to edit the video. Okay, we need to decide. It's either just the words start appearing on the screen, and then I come into the frame, or I come into the frame when the words are appearing at the same time. That's a great question. We'll use the first one because we're trying to get attention with people. And with short form content, it's even less time than with long form content. So when I come into the frame, it's people call different names, but it's like a thumb stopper. So that's why we're using this version. And that's why I recorded. Mini versions. Just how many versions was that? That was a lot. Like, we can check. That was one, two, three, four, five, six, six different versions. I recorded, and we're just using one. Okay. So this is the one we'll use. What we're doing now is just finding basically the script because I had a script written, and we're just cutting that right now. Okay, so here's our video, 26 seconds. This is all we are going to edit. To give you a bigger explanation, I recorded the video. We're going to edit it. We have some V roll. So now what we'll do is we'll just cut out these sort of small pauses, silent pieces. I don't think people I don't think people understand how much time it takes to edit the video. With the video, you need to color correct and color grade. Great. Cut out the pauses, sneezes, breathing. Because I'm not looking at the camera, I'll just diselect this clip so that I know it's empty Command Shift E. So it kind of we just hide it. Sneezes breathing. A overlay text ecs, Zooms, music, Sex. The video will be 21 seconds. Okay. So let's just double check that I'm always looking at the screen. Okay, now let's work on the color. We'll go to the color workspace. More or less okay, the white balance. The skin is good as well. Actually, this video is so well balanced because if you look at the top here, first of all, the skin, this is the skin line, so we have our perfect skin. Left. Then we have I don't remember what this one is called, but we have nothing hitting zero. We have nothing hitting 100, so everything's in between. It's balanced. They're super dark, they're super bright, everything's great. Let me see like this. Video. You need to color correct and color great. Mm hmm. I think we might lift the shadows up a little bit. How much time now, we will copy this effect and put it onto this one because I'm just trying to see the dark part of my face here. Wrecked and color great. Yeah, I think if we use a bit brighter shadows, that's going to be a bit better. So now we'll go into vertical. I don't think people understand how much time it takes to edit the video. Okay, so straightaway, I will option A, and it will open after effects. We'll call it after effects, and we'll give it number one. Now, this is the interesting part. So first of all, a press Command D, and then a press Shift W. It selects the proto Bar tool. Double click, and I completely forgot that it's sideways, but it doesn't matter. Oops. Wha happened there. So we'll select if you are having trouble remembering how to use the Roto Brush tool, then if I press command, then by pressing on the mouse, I can slide it up and down. And that's how I increase or decrease the size. And then by pressing option or the equivalent of that on Windows would be lt. So if I press Alt or option, I delete the certain part. If I press command or control, then I increase or decrease the size. Okay. So let's double check that everything is well selected. Things are well selected. Okay, now we will play it. So you can see it's not well here. Where does it start? Okay, we need to find that. Okay, but actually around here. We actually don't need it to be, like, super super well in the very beginning cause we'll have no text on screen. By the way, what we're doing is we'll have text on the screen, like, on the wall. Let's continue. How much time it takes to. Why does it jump? Maybe because my neck is too bright. That's why. Okay. It's having trouble. I'm not sure if we'll need this part, so we'll just freeze it at this point. Potentially, we'll have to adjust it a little bit later, but it's not necessary right now because we still don't know the text. Maybe we'll just do the extra work right now, and the text will be fine. So let's come here. Now, if we turn it off, this is what we have. Not perfect, especially around the here or my fingers. It's okay. We'll see how it goes. Okay, so let's listen to what I say. I don't think people understand how much time it takes. I don't think people understand how much time it takes to edit the video. Let's write this text. I don't Make sure it's centered, then we will center it again. Just moving text to different sort of flayers as P, make it a bit smaller. Okay. I'm also trying to make sure that there are no spaces between the texts because sometimes there's this little space when you have space between the text, and then you move it onto the next row and still have that little thing. So I just try to delete it. Well, let's try to put it behind. Okay, let's make it black, just to make sure we can see it. You know what? We need to see this one. I'll just put it on top. Great. Okay. Actually, let's keep it, and we'll just increase the height, the space between the lines of the text, and there we have it. In terms of the color, usually when I work with clients, they already have a color palette. Instead of me just experimenting with color, I would just ask them, and that's it. I'm thinking about something blue, potentially something like this, like, with the hint of green. Now I will search for my orange glow, which is not very orange in this case. Ooh. This looks very interesting. It's interesting. There's, you know, it's like a sort of gradient. Didn't know this effect could be achieved. I think the shadow is a bit too much. We need to Interesting. So we're making shadow the same brightness as the shadow on the background so that, more or less not perfect. We can make it perfect. It will take me like an hour to do it. So let's just forget about it. Also, I have water with me at all times. Having a bottle like this saves so much headache, so I love it. For the text, still about the color, I want to make it a bit less gradient tea. By the way, just today, I learned a new thing, which is, if we go into animation presets text, and we have to search for blurs Blur and fade in. I really want to try this one. I've never used it before. But instead, I could also search for the shortcut and what is this? Blur and fade in. Now I will just press on you so that we have our thing pop up and t's see. I don't think people understand. No, not this one. Blur in by word. This is the one I need. I don't think people understand how much time. Okay, I thought this effect would be a lot better. Let's try other effects. Definitely not my cup of tea. Okay, I will search for fade up words. I don't think people understand. So it's not going to be a blur, but it's going to be something. I don't think people understand how much time it takes to edit the video. Okay, so here we need to have it just to the point of understand. Here, we need to people. Okay, I know it looks a little bit like I'm on a psychopath, and I'm just listening to the exactly the same thing, but I'm not. The color the color, there's something with the color. I don't like the color. I like pretty much everything except for the color. Okay. I think I'm covering too much. Okay, I have an idea. What if we make the text, like, a headline at the top? Very big, and then we'll have this text sort of, like, here, so just so that the text is not so wide and I don't cover as much. Yeah, I like how it looks, it's just covering too much. I don't, so we'll probably need to separate, I don't think from the rest because it will be a bit hard to do that. So we will delete the range selector, and then everything disappeared. We need animator, not range selector. We need to disable myself. We need to delete, we need to P and S. We need to put it in the middle. We need to increase the size. And change the position to something like this. Don't think people understand. And then for this one, we'll just do it. I don't think we'll have people. Okay, this will be great. And then here, we'll make everything the same size so that it's like a square, like, it's balanced. Okay, to edit. Space there, to let it. The way I identify it is just by seeing that something's wrong. If you do it 1,000 times, you can understand things pretty easy. Now, we just go into Premiere Pro and we'll command Z that one. Okay. What do we need to do? We need to everything is centered, everything is in the middle. Okay, let's see. Oh, we just need to pay up words. You now we need to re animate the one at the bottom. These guys. Yeah, that's what I wanted. Hell, two times to open the waves. Great timing. Okay? I love everything. Let's disable the top part. I don't think people understand how much time it takes to edit the video. I don't think people understand how much time it takes to edit the video. Let's export it for now. Okay, so I will just click here to make the name, present save, Enter Done. Okay, now we come back here. We create another folder called AE, which is Aftereffects. And we just drag this video here and we drag it on top. Let's see what we have. I don't think people understand how much time it takes to it. By the way, it's so quiet. We can definitely work on the audio. So we'll go into essential sound. We'll go to Automach The first thing we'll do Automach. Wait. Okay. I don't think people understand. This one is too loud. S gain to 10.3. And for let's say, this one is a bit too much. Yeah, in terms of the audios, pretty, pretty good. How much time we have? 2 hours, more or less. Probably less. And we just did the first 3 seconds, although that's still not the end. I'll show you something cool adjustment layer, drag it on top. Search for Transform. We'll go to facts, click here, make shutter angle to 180. We need it because when we zoom in, there's going to be a little motion blur. You can see this sort of slide motion blur here, everywhere. That's why. We do 120. I don't think. Then we do. Okay. Sorry, guys. Bit tired. We click Is Out, is in. Then we open the scale, and then we make it smoother. I don't think people understand. More space? I don't think I don't I don't think people I don't think people I don't think people under. Sure, I think we can zoom even more 140. I don't think people understand. I don't think people understand how much time it takes to edit the video. Love this. Okay, so we have this sort of interesting Zoom. Now, put it like this? You need to color correct and colour great. Color correct and colour great. Let's do something about this. If you know what a log footage is, and I can give you an example, okay? It's gray, basically, almost gray. You can see it looks like this. So we need to almost make it gray so that I don't have a camera that records in log. By the way, we can save this, we can close it. My camera, which is this camera, it does not record in log. And therefore, in order to show the log for the video editors who know the log, it will click and for other people as well because I will cut just the top part, which is great. We'll go into loometr. I believe I just need to decrease the contrast and saturation. You need to color correct and colour create. We'll create keyframes for that? Color correct. Put it to basics. It's to edit the video. You need to colour correct, and you need to co. You need to colour correct? You need to colour correct? To be honest, because my video looks super good and I'm also not going for anything specific, we can make the colors a bit wrong in the beginning so that there's sort of contrast and understanding for people. So I deleted the second part of the video, which I thought to do it slightly differently to have to color correct and color grade each clip and then apply a default transition, but now I'm thinking about this. It's easier to do it here. Let's time shadow, so that's what we want to achieve in the end. Mm, actually looks pretty good. What else could we do? Let's go into Lumetri in color, workplace sorry. Now we'll see what's happening. Should we blow the highlights? Let's try. It's going to work. Perfect. So in the beginning, we have it too bright without saturation. Basically, you receive log like this. You need to color correct and color grade. Cut out deposes, sneezes, breathing. Okay, we come into raw. We'll go into Broll, which is what I recorded here. Unfortunately, we'll have to look at it like this, or what we can do is we can search for effects transform, apply transform here. We'll do rotation 90. We'll command X it. We'll put it onto Broll. So I just like to clip of where I'm posing. Lo great. Cut out the poses. Sneezes. Now I need to sort of sneeze. Sneezes. Poses, sneezes, deposes, sneezes. This sneeze does look natural. Let's try this one. Ayting A overlay Sezes sneezes. Okay, this is great. We'll drag both of them. The way I'm dragging both of them is by grabbing it here. If we grab it here or here, you can see that's just the audio or the video. At the overlay. This is too abrupt, so we'll add little transitions and make it a bit quieter. Just breathing. At the overlay breathing. At the overlay breathing at the what this one bit here. Breathing. At the overlay text effect thing. At the breathing at the overlay tech. By the way, to add Dimetrolor to these clips as well. So I recorded this buule as well just to make the video a lot more fun. And this will be kind of what am I saying here? Export test. Export test. Make changes Upload. And for MakhangesUload, we'll have where I'm sitting in front of the computer. Okay, so let's find the clip that works. By the way, I'm probably breathing very loudly at the microphone right now. Sorry for that. I like this. We'll add another adjustment layer. By the way, I may be going very quickly, but you're seeing a real life example of how I do things, and by the way, the fact that I'm speaking is also slowing me down quite a lot because it's taking some brain power. If I'm working on a project, that's how fast I work. And you don't have to remember every single thing. When I watch videos of other editing videos, I just look at interesting effects do they use? Like, how do they do stuff? And the speed just comes with time. I know it may be bit hard to follow sometimes, but I really wanted to show you, like, what it looks like. When len send me footage. I work maybe just a little bit lower because I'm not familiar with the footage and I have to come up with some ideas because I had some ideas here, but it's 90% the same speed, maybe sometimes even as fast or even faster. Okay, we'll search, transform. Okay. So we'll do one transform where it zooms in and the other one where it zooms out. So scale 120, this 180. Okay, this one is out, is in. And that's just the and that's just the I'm doing the Zooming exactly on the word part because that's pretty that's a pretty strong word, so I want to emphasize that. And that's just a part of what you have to do. It can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days to edit a short video like that. Here's what we'll do for the end. And by the way, we'll do some stuff here in the middle as well. It's just I'm having ideas, and I'm making them happen. Okay, so we'll just move these guys around, make this one is out, this one is in, like this. H. Od. And that's just a part of what you have to do. It can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days to edit a short video like this. Share it with a friend who needs to hear it. Perfect. That's just as I wanted. We can move all of it a bit up so that it's more organized on the timeline. Let's forge from the very beginning. I don't think people understand how much time it takes to edit the video. You need to color correct and color great. Cut out the pauses, sneezes, breathing. Okay, we need a sneezing sound. Actually, maybe we can use just the sound from that video or am I sh, I'm sneezing here. Is breathing. A overlay text effects, Zooms, music, Sex. I have an absolutely next level idea. We have so much space from the walls here. Export test, make changes, upload. We can use these walls to put text on them. Ooh, that would be so creative. Oh, yes. Let's do it. Ooh. This is going to be so great. Okay. We need to select these two and these two, to select. Okay, basically into it. Delete these guys, put these. We'll try. I'm not sure if it'll work, but I suppose it will. We will precompose everything, Shift Command C. We need to R rotation to 90 degrees. Now, we need to go into every single one. We need to go into these, delete the transform. Sorry, I'm being a bit stupid. We need to copy this rotation, put it on every single clip here. That's how it goes. And now we need to make this one go back to zero. So what I did is I precomposed, and so I'm rotating the sequence, which was already kind of cut. You know, when these videos are sideways, I already have it cut on this side and this side, and if I move it, it's going to have cut side as well. So we just need to make sure that we put it on the clips and not on the composition. Now we'll go into motion tracking track camera. It's tracking the camera. Mm hmm. Now we need to find a position on the wall that'll work for us. Okay, that wall is pretty easy. This wall is a bit harder. Okay. Let's try this one. Create text, solid and camera, and then we need to do it one more time on this side. Create solid. Mm mm. No, I don't like it. Create solid. Okay, we will potentially just move it ourselves. It's okay. Let's listen to what I'm saying. Export. Export test. Okay, so this will be the green one. Okay, we need to precompose it. So Shift Command C or Shift Control C, and we'll do the same with this one. So we delete this and we need to put the word export. We can probably change the composition size to a bit more 1080 by 1080. And now we go into default, put it in the middle, and let's see what we have Export. Great. Okay, we'll call it left wall, we'll call the wall in the right, right wall. So let's do the one left. Let's move it. Oh, yeah. I love it. Export test. Test. Okay, so the one on the let's do the same 1080, 1080. We'll delete it. We'll just probably copy the text and say something like test. Make sure it's in the middle. Okay, so it's not the way I want it to be on the right wall. Let's move it to the left. We need to sort of Now, let's apply orange glow. Here's well, orange. Actually, we can just copy the shadow onto the other one to make sure it's the same on both sides. Now we just maybe potentially change the color. I don't really like the color. Okay, we can take this. We can command X and put it onto each one of these guys separately and then delete it from here as well to make sure that whenever we change the color, we see what's actually happening. Actually, we might keep one of them, the export, let's say, for instance, but the test, let's change the test color to something else. In this case, we can try and make it somewhat blue. Here we'll just make a mask around myself. I don't need the roto brush too. Okay. For this 'cause we just need to cover, like, a small portion, and I'm not moving. Doesn't have to be, like, super perfect. Let's see. Yeah, that's perfect enough. Or maybe not. Okay, let's try to do roto brush. Export test. Okay, now we just need to make the text appear on the screen. This is pretty cool. Here, we could use a typewriter effect. So we just put it on the background to have a sound on the background. Export test. Export. Now come here and I'll search for a type writer press you. Test. We also need to have a typewriter effect. Right now, I'm just thinking, how do we put the second part to the text? Mm hmm. We need to change this one a little bit as well. Upload would be here definitely to make it a little smaller. So right now we're trying to make it to be on the same level, right? We're just experimenting with different things. Okay, let's see what we have in the final video. The fact export, test, make changes, upload, and that's just a part of what we have to do. Okay, everything's great. Let's take a little pause, and after that, we will continue. 17. Edit With Me: Complete Short-Form Video Editing Walkthrough (Part 2): Okay. That was pretty intense. 1.5 hours of non stop recording and speaking. I took three minute rest. Now we'll just get straight back into this. I'm excited to finish this. Text effects, reading. At the overlay. Now we'll focus on this part, just on this part. So what do we need? Overlay text effects. Overlay text effects. Text Effects, Zoom Zooms. Music, SFX. Music SFC. Okay, the only thing I don't know what to do with is overlay. The word overlay. Do you have anything interesting in the Bureau? Nothing interesting. Okay, let's go to pexels and search something there. What do we call it? Over Like video editing. Is the interesting here? Mmm What can we have in terms of overlay here? Think Overlay overlay overlay. Ola overly overlay. Okay, let's keep it for now. Text effects. Okay, so we'll have the word text at the top. Text will go to properties. Already have a preset. The way you can have a preset is you do all kinds of changes like your font and your colors, everything, then you just come here and save on create style. Let me increase the size, put it in the middle. Then we'll do another one. Text effects. We'll do the same for Effect, put it in the middle. We'll move it down. And here, we'll do the difference, the blending mode, difference. Overlay text effects, Zooms, music. Zooms, music. I have one idea. It will take a very long time to do it, but it could be worth it. No, it's not worth it. Okay, we'll have Zooms here as well. Very beginning. Okay, for SFC, we'll just go to this folder, put it here. Let's find something dark, like a hit. This one. Just drug it. Let's make sure nothing was there. Zooms, music, SFX, export test. My x, export test, make changes, upload, and that's just a part of what you have to do. At the overlay. Yes, so we need something for overlay. This looks interesting. Let's try it out. We'll download this. At the overlay, texts Zooms Zooms Music, FX, export test. I don't think overlay text effects. For music. Okay, I don't remember what I have in terms of music, but let's, okay, this is not what I want. Kestrel, retro. I know what it will do for music. Hopefully, I don't forget this. Sometimes when you have this epiphany and things just become so much easier and better, we'll have music throughout the video. We'll just make it a lot louder during that point. That's it. Okay, let's search for music. Okay, I really like this song. So we'll just delete all of these songs. Put this one here. Okay, I'm losing it. I'm already losing it. It's only 7:25 P.M. On Saturday, by the way. Poses. Great. Cut out the poses. You got poses overlay text effects, Zooms. You got poses. I don't think people understand it takes too in detail. You need to come correctly. You got to pass. Too fast. Okay, I really like the sound f. You need to put it in the end somehow. And that's just the part of what you have to do. It can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days Okay, listen to this again. I'll turn off everything else. Listen just to the song. Mm. Everything's great except for the very end, we can definitely make it so that the slower part doesn't come as a prop. Okay, we need to put it here. Yeah, this is even better. Listen to this. Yes. This is really great. Let's work on the sounds here. I don't think people understand how much time it takes to edit the video. We can Okay, sorry. I just had something in mind and I want to do it. The water's empty about 2 hours later. Okay, we need to add a typewriter effect. Is fact typewriter. Okay, let's come here. Export. G -20 roughly Fex export, test, make changes, upload, and that's just a part of what we have to do. It can take I don't think people understand how much time it takes to edit the video. You need to color correct and color grad. Also, what I want to do in the very beginning here is to spread this until the very end. I don't think people understand. I'm probably almost pushing the limits for this. I don't think people understand how much time it takes to edit the video. You need to color correct and color grade. We'll add a so called like a rise to get people excited about the video. You need to color correct. Okay, the last thing, well, first of all, we need to add captions, as well. When you play video, you can just take a look at the captions and see the correct spelling and that the words are correctly used AI might mess up things sometimes. It's pretty good. Great captions. I make the maximum length in characters to as manimm as possible lines to one. That's just so that we don't have a few words together on one line. Just we have one line, first of all, and then we have one word per line because sometimes you can do it that you have two lines, you have multiple words. People like one word, one line, more. Okay, this is what we have. I'll select everything. I'll go to properties here. Select the style. As you can see, it's there at the bottom. I'll do it like this. Then I move it down a little bit. I'll make the captions to 100 in terms of sites. I don't think people understand how much time it takes to edit the video. This is will delete it. It's unnecessary. Actually, we can just disable it so that we don't have to edit if we want to edit again. Time it takes to edit the video. I select the text now that I know used in the background and Shift Command E to disable it definitely need to add a little bit of shadow because it's hard to see. So we'll come here Shadow very, very little shadow. Can you even see it? Yes, that's exactly the kind of shadow that we need. N the color correct and color grade. Okay, one thing I really want to do in the beginning to edit the video. We need a Jasmin layer. Where can we get Jasmin layer, Jasmin layer. There it is. We need to add two effects. So we need Gazian blue, and we need loometric color. So with Gazan, three, four, five, six. Let's do something like six. So here we have it at zero. And in the very beginning here, we'll have it at something like this. And then for exposure, we'll do the same. So here we'll have it at like 2.4. It's okay. Did the video. You need a bit more. The video. You need to come. Now, we do the other one, but we just do everything the opposite way. So we start with this. We start with this. This goes after one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, eight frames back to normal. Edit the video. You need to call. Edit the video. A bit less time, so let's move it to one, two. One, two. Video. You need to color correct text. And now, I'll sub the video. I'll find what I need to find and we'll come back. I Din't want to bore you finding this what I was searching for. But basically this thing in the very middle, in the very beginning. It's like, and I really love that sound. So I want to use that sound in the very beginning and basically the same effect what they're doing here, you know, when it becomes actually, how many frames do you do? One, two, three, four, five. Okay, so we can do five frames as well. One, two, three, four, five. Okay? We can do five, five here as well. With the video. You need to color correct and color great. Cut out the video. You need to color. Also, if you're going to premiere, Oh, yes, we need to add the sound when we have changes. Oh, yes. Okay, let's see where we have that. Okay, let's move everything bit to the bottom. For a fax and texts, we have a pop sound, this one. Okay. Make it Mr.. It tags, effects, Zooms, music. Okay, for me, this video is finished. Maybe there are a couple of things you can do better at certain points. The problem, or I should say, not the problem. I mean, it's like with everything in the world, you can always do things a little bit better. So first of all, you will probably would want to do things slightly differently. Even I want to do a few things slightly different, like, in terms of the color. I potentially don't like the color of the text. And that's okay. Each video doesn't have to be perfect. There's no such thing as perfect in this world. There's just how can we make the next video better? If I was to make the next video for myself, what I would do is I would research color and advance. Other than that, I think things went pretty well. This video is, it was pretty fast. As you can see, the video itself is just 23 seconds, as you can see here on screen. If we did the same amount editing for a video that was a minute, that would take almost three times as much. So instead of 2 hours or how many hours we spent together, 2.5 hours, it would take, like three times as much. And first of all, I hope it was understandable, and if something was not understandable, please let me know. Your feedback will let me know what I should do well, I should do better. If some things are not as great, please let me know. If you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I will see you in the next video. I don't think people understand how much time it takes to edit the video. You need to color correct and color great. Cut out the pause eases breathing. At overlay text ecs, Zooms, music, SFX, export test, make changes, upload, and that's just a part of what you have to do. It can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days to edit a short video like this. Share it with a friend who needs to hear it. 18. Content Creation Strategies: Learning from Alex Hormozi: Welcome. In this video, I want to introduce you to Hormzi. It's this gentleman here. Homzis a very interesting character. When he was 23, he left his job, that was paying him well. He went to another state in the United States. He went bankrupt many times. He started nine businesses, which failed, and now his net worth is over $100 million. An interesting character, and he's like, 34 by now. Not sure exactly, but around that age. In the last couple of years, and you can see it on screen, he's gotten pretty big on social media, especially in the business space. Like, he's super big in the business space, one of the biggest creators in the business space. And it took him two years to build an audience of over 5 million people. At this point, it's even more. And what I really like about Hormuz is because he's a business person, he's not just creative. He likes systems. I love systems myself. Because with systems, you can recreate it because, you know, a creative person might say, you know, whatever it comes naturally to me. Business person is slightly different. So sequel specifically, I want to talk about the Hermzi theory, and I'm going to talk about a content unit. A short from content is one content unit, and long firm content is ten content units. Okay, you might be confused. What is a content unit? Well, it's this thing here, what you can see on the screen. So it's hook this part, then it's retention, this part, and then the reward. So what is the hook? Hook is the beginning of the video. It's when you scroll, and then a person says somebody and they hook you in, like, hook like hook on a fish. Done in many different ways, for example, I can say video editors, and then you stop because you're a video editor or you want to become a video editor. And I would say something like upcoming video editors or movie lovers, music lovers. Whatever. If I say a name, it already identifies you, so it's more likely to stop you from scrolling. That's just like one of the hundred ways to hook somebody in. Okay, that's the hook retention is when you hold people in, for example, you tell them a story. When I started video editing, I didn't make any money for eight years. And it was for three following reasons. Reason number one, reason number two, reason number three. And then the reward part, the last part is when people finally get their answers. This is what they've been looking for. This is their anticipation when they get all three answers. And this is just an example for you, right? There are many ways you can build this up because there are different hooks, there are different Retention methods, there are different rewards that people can get. A reward that people can get can be also like a step by step guide to do something or that people get a special link or special code or something. There are different ways to do this. But this is important because whenever you watch short form content or long form content, you will understand this. You will see this once, and then you will not be able to unseat because it's a pattern. It's a system that you will be able to see. It's always it's not everywhere, but usually people follow this format. If there are people that don't follow this format, it's called an outlier. And usually, if you take a look at any graphs, you know, throughout life, there's this graph, and I'm going to show it to you. So the graph goes like this. The most things are happening in the middle, and then there are sorts of lines on the sides like these two lines. So like this one and this one. And whatever happens outside of these lines are called outliers. This is a very bad example of this graph, but hope you get the idea. Most of the people will follow this format. They will follow Hoktention reward and people that do not follow, they will be outliers. And there are still outliers that will go viral that will have great videos that will make money with their videos. And whenever it's going on social media, Pay attention, learn from people, overall, not just pay attention to this, but overall, what is that people do to hook people in? What exactly do they do? How does editing support it? There are probably captions, there's probably, like, animation. And here's a secret. There's usually more editing in the beginning of the video to hook people in, and the editing definitely slows down by the end of the video. It's usually a lot of action stuff in the beginning. Slows down. However, recently, you might have seen people started popping up that have zero editing. It's very slow. It's a little bit boring in some ways, but it's come. So people prefer different things. Currently, there are both sides where people prefer action and people prefer less action. But overall, there's going to be more sort of action in the beginning of the video and less by the end of the video, because the more people watch the video, the more likely they are to keep watching. If you have any questions, let me know, but other than that. I'll see you in the next video. 19. Monetization Strategies: Welcome. In this video, we're going to talk about monetization and how to edit ads. Usually, it's a very big thing. That's why the videos are created to make money. Some people rarely create videos just for fun, but most of the time, you want to monetize that. There are many ways that you can monetize your content. And the more I think about monetization, the more I think about just simplicity. You want to make sure things are as simple as possible for people to do. It's as easy as possible to understand and it's as easy as possible to do. So it's not necessarily about editing, but about editing as well. You don't want to make it difficult. Things are already difficult. Whatever you think is not difficult is difficult, and you don't want to make it more difficult. One of the ways to advertise, for example, YouTube is through YouTube partner program, where YouTube will pay based on the number of views and the duration. I mean, there are many things that are involved, and it will show ads in between the content. That's one way to there's also a similar thing with Facebook. Facebook pays very well. It pays currently doubled in what YouTube pays for the same amount of views. There's not this system set up for Instagram, but I think there is one for X or X Twitter. That's one way to monetize. And in this case, you are trying to get as many views as possible, and you're just trying to make the best video possible so that people watch it for as much as possible for as long as possible, as many times as possible. However, there are other ways to monetize, for example, Instagram, currently, I mean, it's been for a couple of years, to be honest, it's just they're making the system simpler. When you say a specific word, message me editing and I will send you my preset, something like that. There's an automation setup so that when people message the word, they get the automated message, and then they get Link and things like that. How on Earth do you do this in terms of editing? You literally just put the words on the screen. Usually, I put the word above the head. Can also say that things are located in Bio, however, there's an extra step that people have to take. So instead of them clicking on the comment button, they will have to click on your profile and go to Link. So that's an extra step, so that's a bit harder. If that was to be done, you can also put an overlay of the Instagram page behind the person, something you used to do or just full screen overlay. That can be done as well. In terms of ads, you're just trying to make it creative so that people do not skip it. Usually with short from content, people watch it definitely more than long form content. The ad itself is a lot shorter because the content is a lot shorter. And so I usually just watch the ad in short from content, and in the long form content, I will skip it because an ad can be for a minute and I can just quickly skip it. But I'm afraid I might lose some content if I skip the short form the other thing you can also do is to either you or your client when they do something in the video at the same time as they're talking. Mr. Beast is very good at it. If we take a look at his videos, so if we come to reels and let me find one, this one, for instance. Enjoy, sir. This is beef. What? What is this? F. It's the gravy for the beef Wellington. You're not supposed to drink it. Mm. That was so good. Okay, here we have festivals. What flavor is it? Broccoli. This is like a choke. You don't think broccoli flavored chop? It's not super interesting, this one, but it's fine another one. There was a good one. I remember. Something about football or this one, for instance. There was a follow button in the end, right? But let's search for something else. There was a really good example. Or Lnchli, for instance, you know, the ads for Lenchl. Whoa. Watch where you're going. W. Yay. That's me. Je ja. You're a genius. You saw it. Super simple to make, doesn't cost a lot of money and be creative. So, to be honest, there are as many ways to advertise as there are ways to make videos. You know, you're just trying to make it as simple as possible, as easy to understand as possible. Currently, it's changing so fast that I can only recommend you to read books in order to kind of make the ads, $100,000,000 offers and leads by Alex Romose absolutely amazing books, even though we're video editor. You can still read it. It's still an amazing book. Trust me, you'll learn a lot. So if you or your client are interested in monetizing, you want to make sure you check each platform policies if you want to get a partner program like with YouTube or with Facebook or with X. When it comes to advertising within content, just make it as entertaining as possible, as easy to understand and as easy to access as possible. If you have any questions, let me know, but other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 20. Branding and Consistency in Your Video Content: Welcome. In this video, we're going to talk about branding and consistency. Whenever you watch somebody, you know that it's, like, their style, and usually you watch people online, like you follow somebody because you like their style. And if they were to change their style, like, there's a possibility that you would not like their style, and you would stop watching them. So whenever we look at, let's say, Mr. Beast, we know it's Mr. Beast. We know his style. It's always him or his friends, there's usually just always him in the videos, getting millions and millions of views. And the editing is similar. The way everything looks similar. The loudness of the songs or the sound effects, everything is very similar. I would say, sometimes it's exactly the same. So that was the Mr. Mystic example. Now, let's take a look at Ali. And when you watch his videos, like, let's take a look at the reels. You know it's his it's him. The camera is set up in a similar way. The lighting is similar. The editing is similar. That is consistency, and that is branding. And that means using the same fonts. That means using the same visual style, the same audio style. That means using the same effects. It means saving templates, creating presets, reusing all of that. And the important thing that it's not necessarily strictly applies to branding and consistency, but it does. In a way, you don't have to reinvent the wheel. This is something I used to do in the past where each video, I tried to add something new, and that's great. Not always new is great. That's the first thing and the second thing that's exhausting. What do you want to do is you want to be consistent. And once you become consistent, once you can replicate exactly, just become better. Become a little bit better, and that comes to your future clients or if you want to create videos for yourself, both become better or just yourself become better bit by bit, every video. And after a year, you will be so much better that you'll be surprised to decisions you took a year ago. Branding and consistency also means uploading at the same time the same amount of times per week. It's just everything you can think about in terms of consistency and branding is really important. When you cannot predict something, it's not good. If somebody is waiting for your video or for your client's video, let's say, sometimes you post five times per week and the other week you post once per week, and then the week after you post 20 times, it's a bit weird. The algorithm for short form content is slightly different to long form content. It doesn't apply as much, but still it does apply. Like the little things do apply. Create presets, create templates, and make sure that you are consistent in terms of everything. If you have any questions, let me know, but other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 21. How to Use B-Roll, Music, and Templates to Improve Your Videos: Welcome. In this video, we're going to talk about templates, B roles, music. We can talk about both free options, paid options. Depending on your situation, you can find the best solutions for you. First of all, the links will be in the resources section below. So you can just go ahead and click there instead of having to type the links in. First, let's talk about free options, then we can talk about paid options. For the free options, the best solution is YouTube. Whatever you're looking for, you can just type it in, and it has the most free stuff you can find. For example, if you are looking for something with the green screen, you can probably find it on YouTube. So let's search for airplane Green Screen. A lot of planes. Click on it, download it. If you don't know how to download it, you can open it and you can click on the link. You can come here, press as here before YouTube and after the dot, press Enter and you'll be able to download it. You can just come a bit lower somewhere. Download with low quality. The other thing you can do if this downloader doesn't work, you can copy link, come to another website. And by the way, it's way better to download in Chrome than if you have Safari. So you can come to this website, td.com, Pastink here, and you'll be able to download it. So that's the first thing you can do. Second thing you can do is you can search for creators. Usually creators have some free options. It's like any other, like, website or service. They have some free options. And the interesting thing is that if you collect enough free options, it's just as enough than if you had just paid option. So we can search for Premiere Gal. She has some stuff. Probably. I'm sure. Toolkit website. Okay. Let's look at her toolkit. Okay, she's got something. It's not cheap. Okay. Then we can search for motion Doc motion Duck. Oops, I almost wrote a different word. Sound Duck, not Motion Duck. Horns? Okay, so these guys definitely have some free stuff, 100 templates, yeah. So, I actually downloaded these. These are good. I just to be honest, I don't have a need for them, so I don't really use them, but you can come here download it. By the way, Motion Duck is both for premiere and for premiere pro and after effects. These guys are sort of similar to Mr. Horse, which I also wanted to mention to you. Both are great. I still prefer Mr. Horse, just based on my workload. You can download both, try it out. You can try it for free. There's no subscription, there's no limit by days. They just have limited options for you. You can download it. And as it says here, 4 hours done in 2 minutes, very much the truth. Like, it saves a lot of time. I think Motion Doc doesn't have sound effects, and with Mr. Horse, you also have sounds. Really really recommend both. Both are great. These are in terms of, like, templates. In terms of the l, you can find a lot of l on YouTube, as well. In terms of the music, that's the big thing. So on YouTube, you can come and search for royalty free music. Instrumental no copyright. And then what I recommend you do is to come into the description and take a look at the license. It's free to use on YouTube and social media, but you must include the following credits in your video description. Okay, so it's this part that you need to put into the description. You can use this song for free. You just need to put it in the description, and you're good to go. And you can search for all sorts of music. So this is instrumental, and you can search for royalty free music, dark yeah, dark, mysterious, something like this. Let's say if you found a channel that produces great music, you can just click on their page and look through all kinds of songs. One thing as well, is if you look into popular, sometimes the popular music is better. For example, if you look at the oldest, this song is probably not as good as the most popular. The most popular ones are the most popular for a reason, something I used to do in the past, but now we can talk about some other options and solutions. So we'll close YouTube. We'll Close Motion Doc, premiere Gull and missed a horse. And now we have paid options. First of all, I want to introduce you to Epidemic Sound. I was able to get you guys a 30 day free trial with epidemic sound. So if you want to try it out, you can come and take a look, and I'll quickly walk you through the Epidemic Sound. This is the main page. You can discover all sorts of stuff here. In the music tab. This is where you can find music, all sorts of genres, moods. You can either click on them or you can search for them. And then here, you have sound effects. First of all, quickly go through the music. So let's say you like electronic music and you want to select a specific mode. You want to choose angry mode, right? Yeah. Angry electronic music. Great. I think the themes are great. There's something I'm using the most currently. So, for example, if I go into ads, and then we go into, like, bad as ads, for instance, and then you just listen to some of these songs. And these songs, in my opinion, it's like setting the most popular filter on a royalty free YouTube channel for music. These are, like, the best of the best in my opinion. Yeah, it's like, really, really good. In terms of the sound effects, whatever sound effect you have, you just search for it, glass, and you search for a glass, or you search something for water. Search for plane whatever you're looking for, you can use it. Absolutely, great. Really recommended. At this point, I've been using Epidemic Sound for the last six years. Really, really great. I recommend using epidemic sound because it's specifically made just for music. If you want to give it a try, give it a try, but let's close Epidemic Sound. Now, let's talk about Brolls and templates. In terms of free Broll, I recommend you this website called pxols.com. You can search for both photos and videos, and let's say we search for a car. Everything that you see on the screen is free to use, aside from, like, these ads, something like this. But like 99% of what you see on screen, you can just click. You press on free download, it opens it, then just download the video, and it's free to use. What I like about this is that it's very like it's free to use. You can go into licensing at the top right corner. You can see what's allowed and what's not allowed. Attribution is not required. So what you have on YouTube, where you have to put the link in the description, you have to do nothing here. It's just appreciate it. You can modify to however you want, all pictures and videos are free to use. It's a really, really great website. If you're just starting out, let's search for horses. Is pictures? Okay, let's search for videos. A lot of great, great videos. I downloaded hundreds and hundreds of videos from this website when I was just starting out. However, now let's talk about some of the better stuff. Now, let's talk about rolls and templates by subscription. And the question is whether it's better to use free or something with the subscription, and obviously, something that's paid will be better than free. Not always, but in this case, it is true because these platforms earn money, they're able to invest, therefore they earn more money, and therefore they invest more. These platforms are specifically designed write the best quality possible. So, of course, paid is better. If you're on the budget, I totally understand. That's how I get started, and you can totally use the free stuff. If you have a little bit of a budget, Drucommend you these three websites. These websites are very similar to one another. We have Motion array, we have art List, and we have in vato elements. I've used every single one of them. I'll tell you about the differences and more. So let's start with Motion array. It's actually the first website that I saw using sometime in the past. It's a great website. You have video templates. You have presets, you have motion graphics, you have lots of footage, voice over, music, sound efects, graphic, photos, plug ins. So you have a ton of stuff here. I would say that it is the most creative one out of the three websites. If we talk about art List, I would say art list is the most. If there's a word to describe a website or, like, its contents with the word cinematic, then this is the one. Because you can see, even sort of in the very beginning the background is cinematic. It looks kind of expensive, like a luxury. And it's true because the music here is absolutely great. The footage is also great. By footage, I mean, rol, we can come here and we can search for. By the way, you can also buy only footage, and it's called Art grid. I'm currently using art grid for, like, 98. 99 98. Let's say, 95% of all the rolls that I use. It's been trusted by all of these companies. Sure. Yeah, I mean, it's really great. It's not the most convenient. I think the most convenient of the three websites is Invato. And with Invato, you basically have the same stuff. Actually, about the art list. They do have templates as well. I never used their templates, so I'm not sure how good they are. I used a lot of templates from Invato. Vato, I would say that the reals here are kind of childish in a way. You can tell it's been recorded in somebody's home, whereas with Art List, you can tell it's really good quality. It's like movie quality. You can see it. Anything in front of you is, like, very high quality. So anyway, into to has a lot of great templates. I think it's the most sort of versatile because you have a lot of stuff for the websites. Other websites potentially have it, as well. I just use Invatu the most for this because I got access to it. Other websites are probably as good. If I was to choose something, I would still probably go with Invatu even though the roles are a bit worse than artless, let's say. Motion arrays be too creative for me if I was to choose all of them. However, this is my opinion is based on working with these websites for a couple of years. And to be honest, whatever option you choose, you will level up your content so much, it will be day and night. Like, the difference will be unbelievable. If I was to choose one, I would probably go with vato because it's the most versatile. The next one would be artless, and motion ray would be probably the third one for me. One thing about Invato as well, let's search for mountains, if I spelled it correctly. I did not. So, let's say we have stock footage. And the great thing about it is that you can just click here, download, and it will download it like this. Whereas, let's say with Artlist you have to press on, Oh, actually, maybe it works like this here, but whenever I use art grid, I have to click on the video, add to card, go to card, check out the card, and go into footage and then only download instead of just pressing on a button like this here. It takes an extra two, 3 seconds, but let's say you download 100 videos or 200 videos, it becomes a bit more significant. And the time does build up. Instead of a couple of seconds, it becomes a couple of mites, a couple dozen minutes. Of course, if you have any questions, be sure to let me know. Other than that, I will see you in the next video. 22. Managing Video Editing Clients and Setting Expectations: Welcome. In this video, I want to talk about working with clients and managing client revisions. If you are taking this course to work as a video editor, it's going to be super useful. So the process is very similar to Long form where I get files through Google Drive. I download it to my computer. I make sure things are organized on my computer. And then I started working on the video in premiere. But here, instead of getting one video, if we were to do Longfm, I get ten, 20, eight, a bigger batch of videos together. Then I do the same organization and then a graded project here kind of a slight difference. Instead of having a premier project and working on one video, I have a premier project and I work on all the videos at the same time. So if I get ten videos, I will work on the ten videos. The reason for this is because first of all, is the color grading because if they're sat in the same position with the same lighting, I will have to do just one color correction or color grading, and then I can just copy paste the same effect onto other clips. But if they were in different locations, I'd have to do it for every single video. So it just saves a little bit of time. And also interesting because the clients are in one mindset throughout ten videos, I can sort of use the same effects, the same overlays sometimes because they're talking about the same thing. Because when you think about something, more likely to sort of repeat it. Well, I can give you an example. Let's say I'm reading a book. There are some things you have to do in real life from the book, and I will keep that in mind. And so I'll do that stuff. However, when I forget about this book, when I read another book, I'll do stuff from the new book. I hope it makes sense. When you are in a certain mindset, you will think in a certain way, and I can utilize that to save time for myself and to save just a lot of headache and extra work. So once I get that, I edit the video. Obviously, these videos are way, way faster to do than the long form. Then I upload that video to frame dot IO. The clients review it. They send me the video back. I do the changes. I do V two. Whenever I do Version two, I make sure to duplicate version one and then start working version two. Instead of me having a one sequence that I change all the time, I have two sequences or three. So version one, I do it, I send it to them. They send it to me. I duplicate version one and start working version two, and then rename it two as well, just to make sure that you keep your mental health. I also noticed that whether it's a long form or short form video, it does not matter. You will have misunderstanding all the time. I thought because these would be short videos and these are a lot easier, it's easier for me to understand what the client is looking for. It would be better. However, I would say it's more or less the same. However, instead of, let's say, up to 100 changes for a long form or let's say, on average, 50 changes in long form, the client requests. Here, I would say the average is probably about five to seven changes for each short form video. That would be change, overlay, some sort of effect, potentially text. So it's not significant. It's pretty quickly to do these changes. It's not like it doesn't take any time. It does take time, but it's a lot easier. And I just kind of made peace with the fact that there's always going to be misunderstanding. Every single video, there's one thing that I don't understand. Why are they making this choice? That's fine. I had to make peace with that. I did make peace with that. It's their vision, and it's also interesting to kind of think about human psychology from the standpoint because whenever they say something uncertain, something ambiguous that can be thought of in two different ways, I usually choose something different than what they would. Give you a very specific example. When they're talking about setting goals, because of what I'm trying to achieve and because of my perception of this life and my current circumstances, I think of goals as sort of writing something or, like, working something. But they're talking about sort of goals and achievements as something that they've already achieved. Whenever this happens, I put a video them writing something, working on something. But then they request to change it for something like them having rest or them, you know, enjoying life or something that because that's a different mindset, and sometimes you have to identify that pattern and just cut that pattern, your pattern. You can definitely work on your videos and do whatever you want with your videos, but whenever you're working with somebody else, you're trying to deliver what they're looking for because they are requesting that, and you should do it. Then we just go back and forth. Then I send the video back to the Google Drive, they download it or their assistant downloads it, and then or social media manager downloads it, then the post it to social media, and that's it. So I would say the hardest thing about everything about both long form and short form is just sort of murdering your darlings, as Hating Hillary Smith says, something that's dear to you, and you should just cut it out because that's just that's you. That's your sort of ego or whatever you can call it. It's something in your head, and if that doesn't fit, if the client wants something else, you just have to cut it. It's painful in the process. I'll be honest, last week, I was completely mad with that went so mad, and I had to message them and tell them because there was also a bit of confusion because they're husband and wife and there's some sort of misunderstanding sometimes because one person wants one thing, the other person wants another thing, and I totally get it. You know, it's just in the process when so much stuff was happening at the same time, you know, I had to message them and ask them to do things slightly differently. Depending on your situation on your clients, there's going to be some different challenges. Whatever it is, you also need to listen to your gut. If it's something that's just unreal, it could be unreal. That's true. It could also mean that you just don't have enough skills and you need to really work hard to develop those skills and achieve whatever they're requesting. And I know, it sounds a bit ambiguous because it really like, it depends so much on what's going on with you. I totally get that whatever you're going through, I probably went through as well because I went through a lot of stuff with video editing. Don't say that you're not alone. Things happen. If you ever have any specific questions, be sure to leave those in the Q&A section. But other than that, I will see you in the next video. 23. Frame-by-Frame Breakdown: MrBeast & Ali Abdaal Editing Secrets: Welcome. In this video, we're going to break down videos frame by frame, one of Mr. Beast and the other one of Ali Abdel. These are one of my favorite creators. Mr. Beast is great. Just in general. I've been watching film for many years. And Ali Abdel, if you don't know him, he's definitely less known. It's a guy about productivity. So this is him. He used to be a doctor. He became an entrepreneur, got into productivity and built a very successful business. At least I know that it is successful. I'm not sure about the truth. And you probably know Mr. Best 'cause Mr. Beast is an absolute genius when it comes to YouTube and other social media. First of all, let's take a look at the videos, and then we're going to break them down frame by frame. Okay, so this video is 17 seconds 21 milliseconds or actually, it's double the milliseconds because I have it counting in 30s. First of all, the great thing about breaking down things frame by frame is that when you break it down, you realize what it takes to make a great video. This video is actually pretty simple to make. It'll probably take me probably something like a day to make this video. It's like, it's not difficult, maybe even less than a day. This video, specifically for Mr. Bes is pretty simple. I'm saying it is simple. In reality, it's a bit harder than just super simple. Anyway, let's break it down. What happens is he's cut ring, and you will see that the text. So we'll see right away. There's no zoom in, no zoom out. It's like, very stable. People know exactly what's happening. It's just the text is glued to misty Bs, probably to his nose. Whenever you want to do a text like this, you need to track something. And you need to track either his eyes or his nose, and his nose does look pre or, like, it doesn't have to be his nose, but they probably did something around his face. So they track motion around his face, and then they just put text on top. And you can do it in Premiere Pro. However, it is way easier to do in after effects, and usually people do after effects to do this. I use after effects to do this. Then at the top, we have this animation. One thing you will notice is that it starts like sort of green at zero, and then whenever things spit up, the animation sort of grows in both sides and then by the end, it becomes orange and red when the speed grows higher. So this is the after effect as well. It's pretty simple to do. There's nothing crazy. The interesting thing would be to know if these numbers are real. These numbers, like to animate these numbers is pretty simple as well. You need is a little bit of code in after effects, and then you can save it as a preset and then reuse the growing numbers or the downgrading numbers. So it's pretty pretty, pretty simple to do. This format works really well for a couple of reasons. The biggest reason is that the video is interesting, first of all, people want to know what's about to happen. So they anticipate that's why they keep watching and then they might re watch it as well, because why not? Then second thing is that misty Bes doesn't say anything. So that's the big thing with social media. Aside from YouTube, I'm not sure if there are any other platforms that allow different audio tracks for different languages. This is something that Mr. Bes does on YouTube. That's why he gets so many reviews. But, for example, on Instagram, whenever he speaks, his viewership is definitely less. That's what he talked about to Mark Zuckerberg about. He can work this interview on the Hollen and Samir podcast. Great guys. All of them are honestly, there's this video is very simple to do. One thing you'll notice as well is that the text is not super straight because they will try to do three D, and yeah, the text is a bit three D. Or I feel like it is. Or No, the text is not three D. It's not. But what they did to the text is that they did a little bit of don't remember what it's called, it's like distortion. They distorted the text because this is what we can do. And you will see how unstraight the text is. So, there you go. Yeah, I mean, in terms of this video, it's super simple. Maybe we should take a look at Abdul. 4,000 years ago, in ancient Egypt, these two brothers competed to build two pyramids, and the winner would win a lifetime of riches from the Pharaoh. This is what happened. The first brother, Azura got to work immediately. He physically dragged all the stones into place, and in a few months, he built the bottom layer of the pyramid. But his brother Chuma didn't lay a single brick and just spent all day in his workshop. So Azur asked his brother, Hey, why aren't you building the pyramid? The Farah is going to see you and you're going to lose the race. And Chuma replied, I am building my pyramid, leave me alone. Two years passed, and Azur started to struggle physically. He kept on putting in more and more bricks, but they were getting harder and harder to lift, and he was really struggling to complete the pyramid. Tuma meanwhile, had just started getting to work. Turns out for those years, he'd been actually building a crane in his workshop, so he got his crane out, and he started just laying brick by brick and building the pyramid up in no time at all. Azur was so totally exhausted that a year later, he actually died from physical exhaustion while Tuma completed the pyramid and earned a lifetime of riches from this is a story from the Millionaire Fast Lane, a fantastic book by MJ Demarco. And the moral of the story is that we want to find leverage that lets us do more with less. I really love Lab Dell's style because it's simple and it's unique. I absolutely adore his style. So let's break it down. This video is 24 and then yeah, like exactly 1 minute long was probably created before YouTube pullout more than 1 minute, more than 60 seconds. The video starts these two. And it moves at the top, like this. Obviously, he's cut out in after effects, or I know, potentially in other software, but pretty sure this is after effect. Then there's something on the background, then, you know, he's put back on the screen in a little Zoom transition. Okay. So this is something that I did something very similar, and then he's going down. Yes, this is very interesting effect. And also, you have to do this in after effects if you haven't seen it already. If there is a cut, like, for example, there's a cut here Pyramid. But his brother you know, still they keep them here. The background, you can see, is a bit darker, and there's some sort of, like, effect, like old school effect, whatever it's called, like, a film effect when something's like appearing butterflies, whatever is appearing on the screen. There's just movement, and take a look at how they do things. They keep things in the center. Because that's what we're used to. We focus on one thing and it's usually kept in the middle. And if something were to appear, like, here, we would not pay attention to that. We would, like, have to come from here to here. We usually look at the eyes. So from here to here, then we have to go back, so it's not convenience. So the important lesson here is to keep things in the middle. The same with Mr. Beast. If we take a look at him, you know, he's always in the middle, as you can see. And you'll see that Ali is not cut out perfectly from the background. Like, look at this cut out. It's not really good. You can do it very good in after effects, but he didn't do. Flash transitions. Flash transitions are suprised doing premiere composer, where you can download it from Invato or other websites. Little bit of Zoom. Zoom in, Zoom out. Is there anything else interesting here? Oh, yeah, he's moving a little bit. I mean, to be honest, it's like, this video is pretty simple. Once again, compared to long form for both Mr. Bistro and Ali, there's, like, a big difference. With Long form, they pour a ton of resources. Their videos cost a lot more. Ali's video cost 1,300 for a single long form video which lasts, let's say, like 20, 30 minutes, so 1,300. And he has two video editors. I mean, to be honest, this is pretty simple. These sort of captions used to be in the captions app. Currently, you can do captions in premiere. Like, it's very, very easy yeah. I mean, for this video, to be honest, they are doing things. There's nothing crazy. There are definitely videos that are crazy in terms of shorts. So here's the interesting thing. Ali's video are harder than Mr. Best videos in terms of editing because Mr. Beast is like, Look at this. It's super simple. It's very minimalistic. And then for Ali, it's all sorts of interesting stuff. I mean, it looks beautiful. I love the storytelling that Ali is doing with Mr. Beast just as simple as possible. And that's one of the differences in terms of the views, because Mr. Beast, this video got millions and millions and millions of views. And Ali's video at the recording of this video, got 4.3 million views. This is done in after effects. This is done in after effects, at least the bigger portion. Usually, the effects are done in after effects, and then in premiere pro, everything is just put together. Video, the audio, maybe some overlay effects, but most of the stuff is done in after effects for both of these creators. If you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see you at the next video. 24. How to Replicate Editing Styles of MrBeast and Ali Abdaal: Welcome. In this video, we're going to replicate missed Beast editing and Ali Abdel editing. I'm going to show you how they do stuff and how you can do the same. We have the two videos. We're going to drag them in. One video is Ali, one video is Miss Beast. Then we're just going to drag one of the videos, and we're going to use in after effects. I'm going because we're working specifically on effects, like, the hardest part because you already know how to do audio. You know how to do the easy stuff. Now, let's work on, like, the hardcore stuff. I'm just going to drag the video here and then to the composition icon and there we go. First, let's begin with tracking. So we'll come here to the right and we'll go to motion tracking. We are going to select this one, track motion, and we're going to set this thing on his nose. Then we're going to make it bigger. So it's going to analyze everything that's around it, and then the thing itself. Potentially, we should put it to his eye. What exactly are the tracking? That's the interesting thing. But sometimes you need to go back and forth. We can try his eye if it doesn't work. We'll try something else. And let's find the moment of when it switches to a different We will cut it here, Command Shift D or Control Shift D on PC because I'm only going to work on this video here because we have one full video here, but when he was working in the video, he didn't have it. So we will track his I, we'll press here, analyze forward, and it's going to work. And it did. I did a pretty good job very quickly. So now we're going to create a null object. You can right click New and then object, or you can press Shift Option Command Y. It's going to create new null. We're going to cut it as well like that. The way I can sort of magnet things to the left or to the right is by pressing Shift. So if I press shift, it's going to magnet here. Then I'm going to edit target. I'm going to put null Okay. And I'm going to apply X and Y. Okay. So here's the interesting part of how they did this. Let's say we put some text. Let's put some text, something like I don't know. Mr. Bist will come to default. We'll make it Montserrat. I think Ali Abdel uses Mans write as well, we'll make it white. Going to put it select all the text, put it in the middle as something like this. Okay, a shift, P, so that we open both P and S. And now we're just going to minimize this as well, put this on the bottom, and we're going to parent this text to the null object. And so now, whenever I play, You saw what happened, right? But now we need to distort it. So what we can do is we can make this text three D. We can come here, make it three D, make the text three D. Now we can rotate it. We can do something like this. Is it similar? We just need to make it similar. We don't need to make it perfect because even misty Bs videos are not perfect. So we'll change the P and S. In the very beginning, we're going to put it to the bit lower, a bit to the right, something like this. Then what we can do is we can take a look at what he did with text. There's definitely some white glow here. Let's take a look. Mm hmm. We will need to add stroke. We're going to make it black. We're going to make the stroke. By the way, if you don't have these panels, like properties, you can come to window properties, and you're going to have it appear on the screen, then you can just drag it to the right here. You can drag it like this, you know? We are going to increase the stroke. Then we're going to add a glow effect. I'm going to search for glow. Let's increase the We need to experiment, to be honest, I don't remember exactly how to do this. Glow intensity. Okay, let's take a look at the full screen. Mm. So there you go. This is how you do this effect. We would definitely play around for this more if this was my video or Mr. Bess video, but this is how you do this. Then the thing at the top, let's try to replicate this. We just need to create a shape. Actually, how do they do this? This is the interesting part. We need to create an ajamlayer. So press Option Command Y to add an jamerO you can right click New Adjamer. Then we need to search for lumetri, apply it, basic, decrease the exposure, and then we're going to add a mask and our mask is going to be actual select the pentl. We're going to mask around this thing. The reason we're doing this is because you'll see that whatever is in here is darker than the outside. So we're doing exactly the same effect. So now if I move the adjustment layer by pressing P, you can see, we have a very similar effect. But we just adjust the exposure. This is how they did it. Like 99%. There could be another way of how they did this, but we're not trying to find exactly how they do this. What we're trying to do is to understand how they do this how to achieve the same effects they do, potentially even faster than they're doing it. Then we would just add some sort of text, MPH. Let's select the text, make it smaller, put it in the middle. I want to disable the stroke, MPH, make it a bit less transparent by pressing T, decrease the opacity, something like that, right? Then in order to increase the speed, or these numbers, we would have to create a text, like put one and then search for growing. In my case, these are growing numbers. And now, whenever I adjust the angle, I'm going to have the numbers grow. The way you do this is you need to add this expression in the text source. You need to apply the angle control. And to be honest, I recommend you just searching in Google how to do this because there are people that teach people how to do this. I'm not the one to teach how to do this effect, but I can teach you some other interesting just Google how to do this. You'll be able to. It's pretty simple. You're going to just animate this, set a keyframe, move this a bit further, set another keyframe, so you'll see that in between, we're going to have the numbers grow. So that's how they do it here. So, if you have any questions about this video or about any other effects, let me know. Now, I suggest we get to ALP doll. So let's add his video to the timeline as well. So the Zoom in simple, right? The way you do this in premiere pro or in after effects is you create an adjustment layer. So we know this Option Command Y, then we applied the transform effect, and then we increase the scale. That's one way to do this. You can obviously animate the scale. Set keyframe so that 4,000 years ago Zooms in. 4,000 years ago, in ancient Egypt, these two brothers competed to build by the way, by pressing you, you can see what exactly is happening so you can see this is at one, two, three. This one is at 100. Okay, so that's one thing to do, right? The other thing to do is to have this thing on the background happening. Let's do this with the beginning of this video. We'll do it until here. We'll cut this. Command D, duplicate it. So I'll just delete. Actually, let me keep the other part. Let's just put to the bottom. Select the top part, and I'm going to select the Rodobr tool. I'm going to double click on the video, and I'm going to select around Ali everywhere around him so that he is selected. Then I'm going to make sure things are selected well like that. I can zoom in, zoom out by pressing option. I can get rid of some of the stuff. Now I will just let it play by pressing space. Ancient 4,000 years. 4,000 years. And you will see that it's going weird with the text, so I need to go back, select the text here as well. 4,000 years ago in. Okay, to go back to select this part as well. 4,000 years ago in ancient 4,000 years ago thousand. Okay. It's not perfect, but it doesn't have to be. It's ago in ancient 4,000 years ago in. Select this thing here 1,000 years ago in ancient, 4,000 years ago Ben. Okay, perfect. And now we just need to press on freeze in the very end. What we need to do now is we'll disable whatever comes after. And then we have the background, and we have the foreground. This is the foreground. If I disable, nothing happens, but if I disable the background, you can see what happens. Or if I disable this, I enable just the background and just the foreground. So now we have just Ali and we have the background. We can do is we can put something in between Ali if I was Ali and the background. And we would have tags kind of behind me but in front of the background. So that's how this effect is done. So we can search for mountains. Let's try. This works for us. Now, whenever we put something in between the two layers, you'll see this is the background, right? Very interesting. So I can scale it down by pressing S&P. I can increase the scale, change its position, and we can animate so that Ai is going down and this background is appearing on the screen. So the background, let's say, it comes from below, we'll put a position here. We'll move a little bit further, and then we'll put the background all the way back, something like that, and let zoom in. Okay? The background comes, and then we need Ali to go down. So we will select these two. We can animate them with the null object. We'll create null, and then we will parent the foreground and the background to the null, and we're going to animate the null. Going to press P position. This is where it starts, and then this is where it ends. By the way, we can make the position of this guy, can make it just bigger to make sure it takes full frame. Let's say we want Ali to start moving just as the background takes full screen. Move it even lower. 4,000 years ago engine. So it looks like the movement is not smooth. The way you can create a smooth movement is by pressing F nine. On MacBook, it needs to be FN, F nine, and then select the other two FN F nine. It's going to be smoother. 4,000 years ago gin? It's not super smooth, and let's move Ali a bit further. This one a bit further. Now, select the key frames. Come here to the graph, then select the key frames again, and you need to move them like that so that the movement is even smoother. So let's check. 4,000 years ago in the movement is even smoother for the background. And now, in order to do this, you need to come here and select the edit speed graph. This is the one. Then select the other ones. Come here as well, select move these. So let's see what everything looks like in the end. 4,000 years ago in engine. 4,000 years ago in engine. You can also add some motion blur, which will make it even better. So we'll add motion blur to epores on background. We'll add here, sorry, this one and this one. Okay, so let's see. So you can see we have very like we have a great motion blurer on the background. 4,000 years ago engine. So this is how you do this effect. Other than that, let's check what Ali has if there's anything interesting other than this. So he's just going about telling about the stuff. I mean, you already know how to do the dark background from misty Best composition, right, where we add the lumetri color for the adjatment layer and then just lower the exposure, right? You do basically the same thing just with the background. So you put the adjustment layer behind the foreground, and that's it. So he's just going back and forth. Yeah, to make things great, once again, add lmentar color and make it great to just decrease the saturation. So the way we can do this here is let's put this back to zero and saturation, and it makes it black and white. Anything else? Like, this is probably taken from, like, a documentary or something of how the pyramids were built. The same with the book, I can see it. There's a little bit of motion blur comes back from behind, brought up brushing the lumetri color to make the background darker. So this is it. I really hope this was helpful. If at any point you have any questions, be sure to leave those. I would be glad to assist you with anything, or you can ask Chat DPT. So, if you have any questions, let me know, but other than that, I will see you in the next video. 25. Congratulations!: Congratulations. If you're watching this, it means you've made it halfway through the course content. I know we've covered a lot, so congratulations to you for making it to this point. And there's a lot more valuable content coming soon. But before we get to the next video, I want to simply ask if you found value up until this point to take 60 seconds to leave you honest review. Of course, I will immensely appreciate this, and also your feedback will help hundreds of future students in choosing the best course for them. So leave a feedback now. And of course, if there's anything I can help you with, please let me know in the Q&A section below. You're doing great. Keep going. And with that said, let's get to the next video. 26. Find Any Video Effect Fast with ChatGPT + Google: Welcome. In this video, I'm going to show you how to find any technique, effect, whatever you're looking for, in just 5 minutes or even less. Something I used to do in the past is to use Google. Literally, try to explain whatever I'm looking for. I might remember that from a movie, I might remember that from YouTube video, I would literally describe it in as much detail as possible, and I would search it in Google. You can still do it. However, there is a way better way to do this, and that is to chat GPT. Whatever we're looking for, we can literally just tell it, and it will find out and it's going to be way faster and a lot more accurate. Plus, it will ask you questions, and that's how it will help you even more. I'm working to do in fact, in video, and working and After effect. I'm not sure what this technique is called. I'm not sure what effect this is called and how to do this. But I know it can be done. So it looks like Neon going around a neon, going around a specific path. I saw it on YouTube video where it goes around a car where it goes around cars wheel. So help me find that technique potentially send me a YouTube view or even something else better. Sometimes I'm not the best at describing, but let's see what it does. Searching the web, Neon Light Trail. Oh, yes. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create an animated neon effect for logos, text or any kind of shape play in After. That's exactly it. So you can just ask Chat GPT to find your stuff. And it is called the what's it called? The plug in by video copilot. That's exactly what I was looking for. I was looking for a different video I know there's a different video, but this is great. So whatever you're looking for, just try to describe it to Chat GPT. We can do another example. Now help me find this technique where if I zoom in or zoom out or move, like, within Premier Pro, I want to smooth. I'm not sure how to do this. I know, NKHD uses this in order to zom in and zoom out. It's a very smooth zoom. I want to know how to do it as well. Okay. Yes, very, very good. You know, temporal interpolation. This is what we're looking for. Is in is out. Works really well. If you cannot find exactly what you're looking for, potentially, you want to redescribe it because I often find that when I'm speaking to hATTPT it will find what I tell it to find. And sometimes what I tell it to find, it's not exactly what I'm looking for. So you need to potentially change your description and it will help you find that. So if you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 27. “Steal Like an Artist”: How to Ethically Learn: Welcome. In this video, I'd like to introduce you to stealing. But to a specific thing called stealing like an artist. It's actually a book that was written in 2012. I never read the book. But this book gives some really good principles that I used many, many times, and I found all of these principles on YouTube. You can even ask Chad GPT if you don't want to read the book to just summarize it for you. And one of the main techniques that I want to share with you is take a look at what you like, like, the creators that you like, and you take a look at how they do things, what they do. You watch them. Learn from them, you copy them in a way. You copy one creator, and then you copy the other creator. By taking the two approaches, you will create your own because you take one approach, you take the second approach. By combining them, it's already unique. It's very rare that somebody did exactly the same thing. But then you put your own twist on it and it becomes even more unique. It becomes even more just specifically for yourself. And imagine you do this with 100 creators, you will find your voice, and you will find your techniques this. Some of the people that I am really inspired by are mystery Beast Ali Abdal channels like Zander Bik, Carwow, Throttle House. I'm really inspired by movies as well, and I use a lot of movie techniques in videos that I create. For example, I am really inspired by one producer or whatever you call it. Gentlemen, the movie, I really like it. The guy Richa. He's like, probably one of my favorites. I love every movie that he has. I haven't watched all the movies, but the ones that I watched I'm just in love with it. Some of the other ones are like Avatar or Tron the legacy. In the throne, I really like kind of the mood when it's dark, it's very kind of calm and minimalistic and neon edge. You know, this kind of I love it, and that's why I love to add this effect in the videos. Kleinsmit not always love it, but I will still try to use. Why not? If it makes the videos better and like it, why not try it? So I combine movies, even music. You know, movies, music, YouTube videos, books, things, you know, that are unrelated to videos, but I can somehow, you know, connect the videos. And by taking dozens of different artists, putting them together, I create my own style. From YouTube, I also enjoy Casey and I Peter McKinnon, they don't create videos as much, which is a shame, but, you know, when they did they were, you know, those guys, absolutely amazing. So, still like an artist. And the more you experiment, the more you find out, the better you will become. No question. If you do it, you will become better. You will even become better at stealing like an artist if you practice it. Do that. If you have any questions, let me know, but other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 28. Breaking Down a Real Client Video Edit (BTS Access): Welcome. In this video, I'm going to break down videos that I edited for my clients. As you can see on the screen, we have three videos, three random shorts. Actually, not necessarily random. I quite enjoy every single one of these. Like, I enjoyed it more than I usually enjoyed. So I chose these three. We can take a look at the videos first, then we can take a look at the project file so that you see the way things worked out, we're going to first, take a look at the videos and then go into Premiere Pro and After Effects. The first one on left is about email. This one is about two books, and this one is about the dananKrger effect. Let's watch the first one. Immediately increase your productivity in peace with this simple hack. Once a day, whenever you're going and checking your emails, unsubscribe from one mailing list that you don't want to hear from again. Do this every day. And, of course, gradually, you'll see your inbox starting to clear up. You'll have less anxiety when checking your inbox and you'll have way more peace and clarity. It's so simple yet so powerful. Share this with a friend who needs to hear. Potentially you're not hearing it through the best quality. The reason for that is because I'm recording with a microphone, and I cannot record the computer sound and the microphone at the same time. Let's just quickly walk through this video. There's always sort of a zoom in or zoom out in the very beginning just to help catch the viewer, what's it called a thumb stopper so that you stop their thumb. We have some action, then we have a line in the background. Then we have trees coming on the screen, and I'll walk you through exactly how it did everything. And plus we have captions. Transition, some roll. This rol is actually from Artist or art grid. Yeah, I mean, we'll take a better look in after effects and the premier pro. Let's take a look at this one. Why are books like these so much more expensive than books like these? Both of them have covers. They have white pages. This one has lines in it. This one just has words in it. So why such a dramatic price difference? Well, think about it. Let's say that this book, which it does not. But let's say it contains an exact step by step guide that shows you how to make more money than you currently make completely online within as little as 11 months where this book is just a notebook with line pages where you can write down your ideas, right? Still cool. But obviously, you can see a much higher return and would be willing to pay more money for this book which totally makes sense. The point here is, even though two products or services seem very similar on the surface, what really matters is the value behind them. So if you want to make money online, you need a highly valuable product to sell. So if you want to learn the most valuable and profitable product to sell four total beginners this year, comment freedom, and we'll send you our entire free step by step training. I mean, I can go on forever and come in forever. Let's just take a look at the third one and then take a look at the projects. This is why the dumbest people are the loudest. So this is called the Dunning Kruger effect. And basically what happens is when you learn something new and you start increasing your knowledge in that topic, your confidence goes way up, right? You're learning a new subject. You feel like an expert, you're on top of the world, but guess what happens. You start talking to actual experts in the field or posting content on social media and realize you know way less than you thought. So as you continue to increase your knowledge, your confidence drops as it should. Now, the key here is to keep going because as you continue to increase your knowledge, your confidence will continue year after year to build and build and build until you become a legitimate expert. So follow if you want to become an expert in making money online. Again, a lot to comment on. Let's jump into Premiere Pro. This is what it looks like on the back end. This is the unsubscribed from email. This is the Dan in Kruger effect and the two books. Okay, let's take a look. First of all, I never turn captions into graphics. I just leave them as captions. So one thing you can do is you can come to graphics, update caption to graphic. I think that's an unnecessary step. So I keep things simple. I come to transcript. Make sure the text is correct. Go to captions. Actually, create captions from graphics, and that's it. Next step you can do is you can come here and upgrade captions to graphics if you select the text. This is something I don't do because that's an extra step. First of all, we have an adjustment layer, come to effect controls. We have the transform effect with easing, ease out, you can see with easing out. Everything that happened in the background that was done in after effects. So I do a rotoscope with a Rotobs tool. I select the subject, and then I just added this graph animation in the background, and then I also added the trees. Trees and the graphic behind was downloaded from Invato elements. I isually just put the graphic. I do time remapping to speed up the graph behind because it's a lot slower in real life. And then for the trees, they're just slightly animated so you can see them moving a little bit. And then what's this sound? Immediately increase Oh, okay, so this sound, this is the beginning of the song, but because I wanted to show the peace part. So when the trees appear, his name is Sumner, Sumner is talking about peace, and I wanted to show it with trees and the sound of the birds. That's what we have here. We have birds here. For the graph, I'm using this sort of sound effect. So when we combine everything together, this is what it sounds like. Immediately increase your productivity in peace with this simple has. Once a day, then we have a transition. This transition is from premiere composer. So if you come here, browse transitions, lightly, this is the one. Then I just add a paper sound effect, something I downloaded from the Internet. I think it was actually downloaded from YouTube because I didn't find what I was looking for epidemic. Done, this is the rl from Artlist or Art grid, just a person with a very, very interesting cool effect. This is done with premiere composer as well. So you will see that they have social media, YouTube button. It was this one. So I just added in, change the text, and there you go. Then I added the color mat to make sure the background is white. And whenever you see this orange screen that pops out, it's actually not a screen at all. This is what it looks like if I turn of the color mat. So it's just a cato and something I did on Photoshop, I first did it in after effects. And then in order to sort of create this as a template and save a lot of time with this instead of track matting, then we have the glitch transition from premiere composer, as well, very simple. Then Zoom in. This is zoom in, as well. Then we have this thing. It does look like it is from an iPhone, like iPhone nification and they're talking about decreasing the number of nifications or something like that. Let's listen. Gradually, you'll see your inbox starting to clear up. The inbox starting to clear up. I couldn't find this animation or anything similar anywhere in line, so I did it in after effect. I just downloaded the icon, and then I animated the numbers and created this background with numbers. And you'll see it perfectly fits here. Like the number perfectly fits here. But then whenever the number becomes less than 100, it doesn't fit perfectly because there's more space here and here than in the beginning. I could animate the red part to make it smaller, but it's a bit difficult in after effects because whenever something with rounded angles, you stretch it out, so you increase the scale, like the width or the height. I also distorts the angles. So it's not perfect. I just decided to leave it like this and not spend a lot of time because it's such a small thing people will not even notice and they didn't on the background, we have this sound effect. If I turn this off. Hopefully, you can hear it. It's called a ratchet, like a plastic ratchet, and that's how we get the sound. Then, once again, zoom in. And you will see that this is an interesting zoom in where the text stays in the same position. The way you can do this is everything that's below the adjustment layer whenever I zoom in, it will stay in the same position because if I move it up, so you can see the difference here, the text is not moving, but here it is moving. Kind of looks more professional three D, in my opinion. And for this light sweep effect, it's called lighting effect. Create a light, kind of customize it a little bit, and then you basically just animate it. And that's it. That's what I did. Then I saved it as a preset. So now, whenever I apply it on text, I get this light sweep effect. And then I add it's called Sci fi sound. Exity when check. So luck. Super cool. And then in the very end, this button appears. I created this button. You'll see that it's three D. This is something the client requested. And then because there was nothing like this online, once again, I create this in after effects, saved it as a preset. So I have the project files still, and then I saved it as a video, as a MOV video, and now I can just reuse it. It saves a lot of time. I also saved it with the sound on so that if I turn this off, you'll see the glitch sound here. So, there you go. This is one of the videos. And then, of course, I do some color adjustment as well. If we go into effect controls, so I have to move myself around. Let me just make myself smaller, and I'll put myself here. Color adjustment. This was before, and this is after. So you can see the difference. Before, after, before, after. If you have any specific questions, you can let me know. This client is a husband and wife. When they're put together on the screen, they usually have a different color tone because wife, Ali, she probably does makeup, pretty sure. And then the husband, Sumner, he doesn't do makeup. And so they have slightly different color tones, and then whenever they're put together on the screen, have to create mask around him to make sure they match better because there is a big contrast, big difference in their skin tones. Now, let's talk about this one, about the two books. Okay, this was a bit challenging. Way because you will see that whenever the book moves, the text moves as well. And it was done with tracking in after effects. Basically, what you need to do, you can come to after effect or actually, let me show you, Okay, I opened this project in After effect. This is what it looks like. Might be a little bit intimidating. That's because it is a little bit intimidating. It was a bit but to be honest, it's very simple. You just need to understand what's happening, and then it becomes easy. So we have a video. I don't remember which video it is and where it is exactly. This must be the video. Yes, this is the video. So this is the video. I would go into motion tracking, and I would track the motion. Oops, I had something else selected. So I track motion. I select the keyframe, let's say, like in the middle of the rows and I track motion. Basically, you set a position, press here, analyze forward, then you create a null object. You edit the target and set the target as a null object. In this case, it was null object, and then you just apply things on a null object, and then you parent whatever graphic you have to the null object and change its position. So I know it might be a bit confusing because it's not very straightforward with this. You track motion, you apply it to a null object, and then you parent or connect graphic to the null object. So these three steps. And then I just have to create the graphic. So this is the graphic, probably this one. Yeah. So I created a lot of graphics, and you will see that it just changes to money, cover pages, words and money again. And this is what we have on the screen. We have money, cover pages, words, and money again. The same I did for the right side. It's simple. It just takes a lot of time. And specifically, the challenge with this video was because you will see that whenever he moves the book up or down, let's take a look at this one. There's nothing sharp in order for tracking to work, you need to have something sharp. So you would usually put this to, like, the end of the leaf or, like, to the edge of the picture. But because it's not sharp, I had to manually track the motion, and it was a bit painful. Than that, this was the first part straightforward. Okay, then I did this animation, put it on top. Nothing is connected, and then animated it with premiere composer. Then probably copied the previous animation. This animation, we can try to find it step by step guide. This is the one I probably just made a copy and I did lines. You can see we have lines here and we had lines here. I probably copied these lines and just put them here. You already know how I did this, but you'll see that the text goes behind his head. Mm. So I just did a Boto brush tool and just did the text, and that's it. This video took me good amount of hours to do, but the result is great. No. Let's take a look at the last one, the Dunning Kruger effect. And by the way, if you have any questions, of course, let me know. I know this might be confusing, especially if you're just starting to learn this, and it's totally fine. Just let me know, ask me questions. I'm there to help you. Okay the Dunning Kruger effect. So it's just a picture. If I take away the background, you'll see what it looks like. If I had the background, that's what it looks like. A picture of Jim Carrey and whatever this thing is, the loudspeaker. So for this guy, I believe there is a mask. Yes, there is a mask. So I create the mask around him and just put him on the screen. Whenever something slides onto the screen, I use swooshes from premiere composer. This is the one I use mostly, and you will hear it here. And then I added this sort of siren when this thing appears on the screen. Okay, this is done in after effects, and let's go to after effects. Okay. And you will see that everything that's from the very beginning until the like roughly 13, 14 second mark, everything is done in after effects. This is all after effects because if I disable it, it's just Sumner on the screen. So if I enable, this is after effects. It's a bit confusing at times how to do this. But basically, you need to once again, roto brush the person. Then you need to have a screen tear, like a paper tear animation screen in order to do this. And then you just track mat. The background, where is the background? I'm just trying to find it. Yes, this is the background, and I believe you just track mat it. Yes. So what you do is you roto brush the person, and then you track mat the background. So I do the track mat to the terriect and this is the effect you get. And then for everything that you see here, for all of these animations, you just create the line here, a line here, and you might think, How do I do this perfectly? Well, I don't do it perfectly because if you take a look, these are not perfect length. I could probably make it perfect, but people don't even notice this. So I add two lines. I add trim paths to it. I create text, create another text. In order to create the glow effect, you just search for glow. So you just add a glow. You can all see that there is a bit of shadow here because when the text appears here, I want it to be the shadow so that it's better visible. For the green line, you animate trim paths as well, and you will see that the edge is a bit It's not sort of like 90 degree, you know, and the stroke. It is. What is this? Sideline. Main line. This is the one. What's been done to this is shape and length. If you change it, you can see it changes the line. So by putting it to two, you will see that I changed the line at the end. So this is how it's been done. And then I just animate it till the very end. And you can see this is the composition of 40 seconds in after effects. In reality, if you go back to premiere, this one is 13 seconds, and this one starts at 24 seconds and until 40 seconds. So I just cut this part in the middle where I had some extra Brol. Let's take a look. Yeah. So Tony Robbins Bro Zooms Zoom out, then continues. Zoom in zoom out, you know, the glitch effect from premiere composure, glitch effect, glitch effect. And let's take a look at the sounds. So this is the music. Number one is Sumner talking, and let's listen. Well, well. Actually, I could probably add a sound when he disappears, but sometimes I do not add sounds when the movement happens because it becomes a bit too much. Okay, let's take a listen further. Like when he says expert, word expert appears, and then there's this pop. And then in the end, the follow button that I created in Premiere Pro wasn't done after effects, it was done Premiere Pro. If I go into social media, I think you can add a button here as well. I probably used something like following or something similar. I don't remember exactly, because I just have it as a preset, I forget about it, and then I save a lot of time. Oh, I remember how I did this. If you're going to shape elements, we will have social media, the mouse cursor. This is the mouse cursor that I use from premiere composer, the rest of the text that you see. Was done by hand. In the very beginning, it's just orange button because it's actually button from Instagram. You will see it's very, very similar, but they don't have the orange background because this orange is this client's color. And then when I click, it changes the color. So I just put things together and the mouse also makes a sound, I believe. Yeah, like clicking sound. So this is how it's done. If you have any questions, please leave those below. I know you'll have questions. It's sutly fine. Other than that, let's go into the next video. 29. How to Find Clients as a Video Editor: This video, I'd like to share how I started working as a video editor and how you can find your first client if you don't have first client or if you want to find more clients. The first step would be to look at your circle, at your friends, at your colleagues, at your acquaintances, look at the people that you know, and if there's someone know someone or someone who's looking for a video editor, it's always way easier to just ask someone you know because there's a lot more trust, and it's done a lot quicker. However, if you don't know anyone from the space, you want to get into the new space, your current circle, there's nothing related to YouTube or the video editing. I really, really recommend this website. It's called IT JOBS, and I think it's the biggest platform for talent search on YouTube. So you can see there are huge channels like Micro, like Mr. Bies, but you can see that a lot of the huge creators, ARC, as well, use this website. The way this website works is you login with the same account as your YouTube channel, then you will have your profile, so you can come into the profile. You will need to fill this in as much as possible. I recommend you coming to portfolio and adding videos here. You can add a batch of videos like this or actually this is one by one, and you can add a batch of videos by clicking here. So say you can up to 100 videos. I'm not sure about the posts. I never actually used it. The timeline, you can see whatever you did last videos. Come here, fill in as much information as possible about yourself. If you've already worked with somebody, would be really great to ask the client to leave a review. Or you can actually adjust your own channel. As you can see, I have my own channels, I have clients here. Not everyone I worked with isn't here. You can do as much as you want. The more you do, the better. Once you have your profile filled in, by the way, you can probably start at the top here, you know, filling in information. Then you go into jobs. And here, you can see, I believe these are sort of the latest O, you can search for categories. First of all, what kind of position you're looking to do. So it's not only about video editors. If you have other skills, you can do that as well. Tumnail designer. Sure. YouTube strategist. Sure. Scriptwriter. You know, some other stuff. If you're looking for projects full time, part time, then you can filter by a location, whichever works for you. One thing as well, you can also send proposals to channels. I never use this. It could be a great idea, but I think it does cost a little bit of money, so I never used it, to be honest, and you can still find success on this platform, even without spending money. So then you just click on any of these. At the bottom, you'll see that they're sending examples of what they're looking to do some information. Make sure to read through many of the people ask for something specific in their description to potentially message them like a specific word or do something. That's to make sure that people are actually paying attention because there are a lot of people. For example, when I first applied on this website, the clients that I started working with, I asked them, like, how many people other than me, applied, and they posted, you know, this position to other platforms as well, and they had 1,500 applicants. So that's a lot, and you can eliminate a lot of them by putting like a specific word. If you like something you can press and apply, make sure that everything is great. Then you click on next. And here, describe where you're a good fit for this position. Whatever command you do. Before you actually click on this is come to the profile. Click here. Click on I believe it's on the name, and it opens the website. Once you are here, go through the description, find their name. I mean, this one is pretty easy. This is Matt. But let's say they did not have a name here. You would come to their Instagram, you'd come to their website. You can search in a as page on the website, find their name. And you would start with, like, Hey, Matt, my name is Vlad. I've been working as a video editor for X. You're looking for this, so we could be a great fit because I have what you're looking for. And I believe you will be asked to, like, on the third step to include one of your previous videos so that they can review it. But you can also, like, message them here because there's a limit to only one video, and the one video that you will send may not be enough for client for potential client. So you can message them here, and by the way, it has limit of only 500 characters. So you can message them and tell them that I can send you extra stuff, let me know because there's just a limit to one video on this platform that I can send, something like this. And then you just send as many as possible. Because I was in marketing for a couple of years, marketing, sales, business and things like that. Like, I can tell it's a bit brutal when you are starting out, and the only way you can get results is by just doing crazy volume. I remember in order to get the client from this website, I had to send like 60 to 80 different applications. And I did some tests. I did some tests for free. I did some paid tests. I did a lot of tests, and only one out of 60 or 80, you know, decided to work with me. So don't get discouraged if things don't work after you sent 50 emails or 50 applications. The bigger your portfolio, the better your portfolio is, the easier it is to find people on this website. One thing as well is that if you're working for a channel, the channel is growing. You can start small with the channel, and then you can help that channel develop. You will develop with the channel as well. I mean, depends on people, there's no guarantee, but this is sort of what happened to me. And I started with one sum of money per month. And after about ten months after working with these people, I was making like four times the amount. After ten months. It's not going to happen every day to everyone, but it happened to me. So I'm just giving you real life example. To be honest, there was a lot of luck, and I was working like crazy crazy hours, a lot of Like it was brutal, pretty brutal, but if you put enough effort, you can definitely get results for this. You can also invite and earn money through this if you know a lot of YouTube channels and they search for somebody or something like that. So this website is really good for what is helping you achieve. That's how I got started. I really recommend you this website. And by the way, the sort of limitation with this website, I'm not sure if there's been any changes to this, but when I got started on this website, I had to have at least six videos on my YouTube channel on the YouTube channel that was assigned to my email, at least six. If you don't have videos, what you can do is you can edit shorts for yourself, for instance, where you don't even need to speak, you can just do sort of compilation or something, put it together so that you show your skills. And also, you'll have some videos for other people to look at. So you do have to have six videos or you used to have to have. But initially something changed, but I'm pretty sure it's still the same. If you have any questions, once again, be sure to reach out. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 30. Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects Shortcuts to Edit 2x Faster: This video and the next couple of videos, we can talk about productivity in premiere program after effects. If you ever thought to yourself, you know, I'm doing the repetitive stuff, how can I eliminate this? This portion is exactly about it. I have spent a lot of time optimizing everything I do, and I'll be honest. I'm probably two to three times more productive than I was a year ago. It is insane. And why is this important? Well, let's say you get paid $20 an hour. If you double or triple your editing speed, you'll be able to do twice or three as much projects as you used to do. Well, in this case, you will also earn two to three times as much because you'll be able to do two to three times as much work in the same amount of time. It absolutely transform the way you view premier pro after effects. Let's get started. In this video, we can talk about shortcuts. Also, it's important to note that I'm working on a MacBook. And so all the shortcuts that I do are slightly different on Windows. So whenever I press command, it's the equivalent of pressing Control on Windows, just for you to note. And whenever I press option, it's the same as the equivalent on Windows of pressing Alt. I will press Command K in Premiere Prome and on Windows, that will be Control K. Do you see how it works? So let's press Option Command K. On Windows, that is Alt command K. And it opens this window. These are shortcuts in Premiere Pro. Now, if we go into after effects, we need to press Option Command, and then, honestly, I don't know how you pronounce this thing, but I will show you where it's located. So we need to press Option command, and then this little thing here, whatever this is called. In English, if you say that something is somebody's, you would put this thing at the very end of the word before a. If we press it, we open shortcuts. You already know some of the shortcuts like shuttle stop, shuttle left, shuttle right, ripple trim, add edit ripple trim. And this is for premiere Prom. Now I'll walk you through even more shortcuts. Let's create new sequence. By the way, I'm currently experimenting with this layout, and I'm really liking it because at the bottom, I have only the project files. At the top, I have premier composer, eax and texts, and then on the right, I have even more stuff. So I'm quite liking this layout. And give it a try. Now, we will create a color mat as well for you to see what's happening on the screen, something white. All right. Then I'm going to create a shape, create two shapes. Okay, so first of all, let's say I wanted to move these shapes, and I would animate them with the position. Actually, this is 2 minutes. We don't need it to be that long. Let's say, let's cut it to 20 seconds. Okay? So we have our keyframe here. Come to the very beginning, we'll move them to the left. And so whenever I press Option three and option four by selecting this one is three, this one is four. You will see that it moves. Actually, this is too slow. It's moves like this. It is a bit smoother. Instead of it being like this, it was a bit smoother. The way you do this, basically, it's the equivalent of coming here, pressing each one of them, temporal interpolation and ese out and easing. Instead of having to click there, I can just press Option three, option four, keyframe, temporal interpolation. For three, it's ease out. So it's the first keyframe, and then the second one is easing. Okay, so it's located under effect controls panel. And this is it. This one and this one. In my case, I don't see the whole phrase. When it's E, it means that it's easing or ease out. I'm not sure if you have the same issue, but if you do, then this is how you solve it. Next, we have colors. So if I press these three, I change colors. It's super easy to organize things instead of me having to right click, coming to label and then searching for specific mango. I can just press and change it like this. I can select many things and change the colors of it as well. So Option Command K, then we come to option one. We just search for purple, mango, and then for this key, which I'm not sure how to pronounce it, what or what it is called. I have IRs. So if I search for purple, it's easy to find. Just add a shortcut here, the way add shortcuts is you click here and you'll be able to edit the shortcut. If I press four and five, and I have this panel selected, I'm going to switch between different key frames. So instead of me having to go here and search for that or having to press shift like that. So instead of me using the mouse, I can just press them. Look at my hand, four, five, four, five. Switch it like this. Now, let's take a look. So we have four and five. So we select previous keyframe or select next keyframe. Select previous keyframe and then do the same search for the next keyframe. Let's say you have folders. So we'll put this into the folder, and we'll put another folder in this folder, and we'll go into this folder. Oops. So you will see that I have one, two, and three folders. So actually, it would go something like this. So instead of me having to press here, like, come here. So, let's say you have, like, 15 different folders instead of you having to, like, come press here, so something like this on the right, and then search through them or having to press here and here. What you can do is you can press now, you'll be able to press Option one, and you'll just come back to the main folder. So you can switch between folders like this. Actually, let me show you the other ones, and then we'll customize it. Then for option two, we have the Effects Control panel. For option three, we have properties. Option four, we have effects control. Option five, we have text transcript. It opens the text to Option six, graphic controls, and Option seven, there's nothing for option seven. Now let's customize it. Option one, projects. Let's search for projects. We need to go to Window workspaces, projects, Option one, go and search for effects, Window effects, Option two. So on Windows, that would be Alt two. And by the way, yes, you do have other shortcuts set for some of these buttons. I did overwrite them because for example, honestly, I so rarely use the Pen tool that if I put something on P, it wouldn't be a big deal. A razor tool. Actually, I do use razor tool. Like a Zoom tool. I never use it. I use other shortcuts to do the Zoom. So that's the effects. Properties, search for properties, window properties, and you do the same for the other stuff. So we also have effect controls, text, and graphic templates. Something very useful and the shortcut was not in Premiere Pro. I stole it from from after effects. If I have selected here, I press Option Command Y, it's going to create an adjustment layer. If you have to create lots of adjustment layers, which is something I have to deal with, then it's really important. So option command Y, option command K, then we option Command Y, adjustment layer. Let's search for adjustment. So new adjustment layer, option Command Y. You can set a shortcut for yourself. Also, for L, I have full screen, toggle, full screen, L. Really, really useful feature. Let's say I zoom in here and I want to reset it back. So instead of me having to come here, press and fit, I can just press option F and it's going to resize it back to normal. Some of the shortcuts are similar in or potentially even the same. To be honest, I don't remember. I just at this point, after you get used to this, you don't remember. But some of them are similar to after effects. Some of them are different. You can make them the same, but a lot of them are different. So at this point, these are the most used shortcuts for myself. The way I create this is I just think, Okay, I'm doing the same repetitive stuff every day. How can I eliminate this? And then when I see pattern, I just create srocut to avoid it. If I do it at least like five, ten times a day, potentially even less, like, it really, really depends on the situation. It can be a thing for a project, and then I can sort of ignore it. But if I have to do it every single project, then I can probably create Troket and save a lot of time for myself. So imagine how much time all of this can save you a ton. Now, let's go to after effect. In after effects, to be honest, I did not have or I do not have as many shortcuts. We'll create a composition. Some of the shortcuts I use here is shift control option Command S, and it's going to close the current project, which I'm not going to do. But instead of me having to reopen after effects or have it loading the project in the background, I can just close the project when I'm done with it, but keep the after effects open. After Effects, this is the one close current after effects project. And by the way, I remember something in Premiere Pro. Let's say you have these windows here. You can press Command W and close the current window. And it doesn't matter where it is, you can always do it. So you can do this in Safari. You can do this in other applications that have tabs. So even in finder, now let's go back to after effect. Option Command Y will create a jama layer. Shift Option Command Y will create a null object. Let's say I have a couple of things on the screen, and actually, let's just do it with one. So if you press Shift Option Command H, it's going to align whatever you have in front of you horizontally. So it's going to make it fit like this. But if I press Shift Option command G, it's going to align it vertically so that the sides are touching the side, you know, so it goes like this. If I want to duplicate anything, I press Command D. If I want to use a Roto Brush tool, I use option W. If I press Option W again, it's going to select the refine edge tool. It's something used for hair. Because let's say this is the sharp edge, but this isn't the sharp edge. So in order to work with this, you can use it. To be honest, I never use it. That's a hack. If I have to work with her, yeah, I would probably use it, but, you know, all the hair that I have to work with is pretty sharp, so I don't use it. If I press S, it opens the scale, P, it opens position, it opens opacity, A, it opens anchor point, or it opens rotation. Instead of me having to come here, however, we can also open a couple of them at the same time. So if I press S, and then I press Shift P AR we're going to have them all open. It's like opening the transform, in fact, all of them are open. If we have something animated, like, let's animate the position. And I want to see everything that's animated for that layer, I will press you, and it will show me everything that is animated. Let's see if we have some text. And by the way, we can create text with Command or I should say, we select the text with Command And if we press it again, it's going to select the vertical type tool, but we need a horizontal type tool. So we have a text and we can make it black. And let's say I want to add a typewriter effect. So instead of me having to search for it here and coming here, all I can do is just press you and it's going to open it. By the way, this thing here, it's going to be a live changer as well, absolute live changer. It's called the Console. It's from video copilot. Whatever recommend you do is come here, download it, it's absolutely free. Then you'll be able to press Control Command space, or you can customize it to whatever you want and you'll be able to apply effect. Instead of me coming to effect, searching for certain effects here, I can just press on any layer, press the shortcut and search for any effect. L. Okay, let's search for text and apply my orange glow. If you use a orange text, it's going to look great, but with black, it doesn't look great. So these are some of the shortcuts that I use. If you have any questions, be sure to leave those below. Just remember that these shortcuts work really well for me. It might not be the case for you and you might need other shortcuts. So just try to search for patterns in your work, and then just see if it's possible. A great thing that can be done as well is to ask Chat GPT. It's not always correct, and you have to go back and forth with it for a little bit of time because sometimes it's not accurate. I'll tell you that. An effect exists, but in reality, it does not exist. Play around with hat GPT, if you're looking for something specific, and you're going to speed up your work like crazy. You're going to save hours and hours. I'm not kidding. Two to three times than I was a year ago, two to three times this speed of editing. Let's get to the next video. 31. Using Presets to Edit Faster in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects: This video, we're going to talk about presets. Presets, once again, save a lot of time. And the way you create presets in both premiere pro and after effects is, let's say you created this animation that we did in the previous video, right? When something is moving onto the screen, we will make sure it is animated like this, and I'm just going to click Save Preset, give it a name, vector motion preset. Okay. And whenever we come to effects, vector motion preset. This is the one. But I'm going to delete it because I don't need it. It's as simple as that. Let's say you have in apo of effect, let's say you apply a black and white. Actually, in this case, it's not going to be relevant because it is black and white, but let's say you add shadow. You can see a little bit of shadow. Let's make it soft. We'll increase the opacity. Yeah, you can clearly see that there is shadow. If I select both of these with command, let's say I select the drop shadow with command and then the vector motion with command as well. So by just pressing command, I save these two, and then whenever I apply it in the future, it's going to have the drop shadow effect and it's going to have this exact animation. Isn't that crazy. Now, let me walk you through some of the interesting presets that I've created. The ones that I use here the most often are, first of all, let me create the adjustment layer. You can see how quick it was instead of me having to come here, adjust my layer and drag it in. We have the easing. If I ease in, it's going to actually let me delete this animation so that you see what's happening. Okay. Very slow Zoom, very smooth zoom. So is in when we zoom in, is out is when we zoom out. It's just the names don't matter as long as you can understand them. You know, these names don't make sense because it's what you do on the right, is just something that makes a lot of sense for me, so that's why I did it. The way you can create this is you need to search for the transform effect. This is the one. Actually, let's delete this and add the transform effect. And let's make sure, by the way, another shortcut is Command R, and I want to make sure this one is 5 minutes. You can sort of work around this and make this quicker. If I want to say it's 5 minutes, I would need to come here at five here, sorry, not 5 minutes, 5 seconds and delete this. And we can press okay. It's going to be 5 seconds long. But instead of me having to go there, you can just look at the digits. So you can see that it's five and starting from whatever we need five here. So it's going to be 500, basically. I can select everything, right, 500, it's going to be 5 seconds. If I need it to be 10 seconds, select everything I write 1,000. It's going to be 10 seconds long, right? It's exactly 10 seconds. I can write, I don't know, 1,500, it's going to be 15 seconds. Right? 15 seconds? 15 seconds. And the thing about this about the transform effect is that whenever you do the transform effect, let's say we do it on a five second adjustment here. Then when you apply it to an adjustment layer that's longer, it's going to stretch out the effect. So you want to make sure that if you create the effect, you apply it to the same length of adjata layer. The way you can remember this because if you have many effects, how can you remember this? Well, because when you name the effect, you can name it here. For example, I have a slow Zoom and you can see 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 15 seconds, zoom out, 15 seconds. So just that you don't forget, this is how you can do this. Okay. Adjustment layer. We add the scale, move this to the left, put this to 120. Command three, command four is in, is out, so is out, is in. And this is what we have. Slow Zoom, slow and smooth. Perfect. Then you save it as a preset and there you have it is in, is out. Then we have light sweep for text. So if I have any text here, actually, let me remove the adjustment layer so it doesn't affect and let me change the text to something. This. So if I apply this effect, you're going to see it's going to have this, like, light sweep. And if I spit it up, if I add sound effect, it's going to look absolutely great. So this effect is called lighting effect. So basically, you need to animate these two, and then you just need to create a mask, animate the mask. So what we have here is just a mask moving, as you can see. And you have the light sweep effect. Okay, some of the other stuff, by the way, the presets can be saved for voice as well. So if we had something for voice, we don't have it here, but if we did have it, we'd be able to add it. To be honest, I don't remember what these are exactly for. I've not used them in a very long time. We have motion presets. These are actually not created by me, but something I've downloaded from Motion array. The Mac screenshot? If I take a screenshot and Mac I can give you an example. Let's say, I take this screenshot and I put it here. So if I press Mac screenshot, it's going to just add it. If I'm going to press McQrinso two, it's going to add it too. The difference is because when I use it in Safari, sometimes when you have tabs at the top, the tabs take some space, and I don't want tabs to be visible. So Mac screenshot, if I have no tabs, if I have just one big tab, but Mac Screenshot two, I have a couple of tabs, and the tabs take space at the top, so that I move the screenshot a little bit lower so that I don't see apps. And then for Mac video, let's I'm recording a video. I want to add a video here, and instead of me resizing it, I can just press Mac Video and it's done. I'm not sure what's this. Then we have position in. So let's position it in left. That we have it's done with the same transform effect, and by the way, if you click on this button and then add the shutter angle, you'll see that it has a motion blur, which looks great. I love motion blur. So we have it here. The way you animate this, once again, you can create transform effect. And then the important thing is that it's a lot easier to do with, let's say, screenshot. Let's set it to it like this. If I was to animate this effect with these guys, let's say they are out of frame, but if I click on the vector motion, you see that it's not fully out of the frame. And if this was a screenshot, it would basically be the equivalent of this, something like this, right, when it's not fully out of the frame. So what's really important when you're animating these you create positioning and position out something coming in and out of the frame is you working with, like, a full screenshot or you work with the color mat, for instance, because color MT is also full screen. So we have a color mat at the bottom. If I move it out, and then position it in. By the way you can just click here to reset the parameters going to be back. So like this, instead of you having to go back and calculate everything. Then we have a big screenshot. This is something very interesting, by the way. I never knew how to do this, and now I know. So I would need to actually, here's another shortcut for you, option C, and you can nest the sequence. So I nested this, I come here. I will make sure the composition is 1920 by 5,000. It looks weird. And then I'll press on first screenshot. And then, let's say, I took a screenshot of a page on the Internet or like a long document, and I have lots of them stacked on top of each other. And so it looks like one big screenshot. You can use a big screenshot, like, you can take it with, like, specific tools on the Macbook. Honestly, it's awful. Like, it really I don't know why, but it like, completely kills the computer, even, like, a very powerful computer. This is the best way to do this. The interesting thing is that when you animate this, because I have scroll down effect for this, as well, you can add the shutter angle. And so whenever it moves down, you'll see that we have this motion blurr, and it looks so good when you there was just one specific effect that I was looking how to do it. And this is basically how you do this. It's like, super simple but very creative. Then I have this slow zooming. And by the way, when you have a big screenshot, you can just animate it and, scrolls down similar to what we did in the other stuff. Slow zoom in. So whenever I have an adjustment layer, I can apply it. You can see the difference in time. So whenever I have it, you can see very slow zoom. Sometimes for a screenshot that's on screen works absolutely great. So these are some of the most common ones that I use for after effects. Depends. I don't have a lot of presets here. Let's see what kind of presets I have. I have one for growing numbers, which is a bit hard to explain. Trust me, it's going to be way better if you Google it, because you have to paste a code and I don't remember what COVID it is and how to customize it. It's just I now apply this effect to the text and have growing numbers. Light sweep across text, probably something similar to what we had before. Oh, yes. Oh, this is great. Basically, it's very similar to what we had before. And then for the glow, yeah, you saw this sort of orange glow. If I make this text orange, selected or red, you can see it's glowing very nicely. Yeah, it's actually so good. Anyway, these are my presets. Make sure to use them. It's going to save a lot of time. Instead of you having to do the stuff every time, you can just use a preset, and it's going to be great. If you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 32. How to Use MOGRTs (Motion Graphics Templates) in Adobe Premiere Pro: Welcome. In this video, we're going to talk about graphic templates, and specifically graphic templates created in Premiere Pro, AKA Mgurts. There are also Mgords that are created in after effects, and we'll discover those as well. But in this video, we're specifically talking about Mgurds or motion graphics from Premiere Pro. First of all, as you learned from the shortcuts for press Option six, we're going to have graphic templates or motion graphics. And you can see, there are some that I've created. There are different folders. There's a lot overall, and what do these do? So, for instance, let's say I have a map. It's a map of Montenegro. Okay, I want to highlight the text, and I want it to be highlighted in specific would usually do is I would come here and I would, you know, create a rectangle. I would come, change the color, something like that. Come to the bottom, make sure we do multiply where it's multiply. There you go. Potentially zoom in, adjust it slightly. Then I would go to effects. I would search for crop. I would apply crop. Now that we've applied the crop effect, we need to animate this, right, go to the left. Actually, it should be the opposite way. So would do something like this. Is in is out. Boom, there you go. This is what I wanted to create this sort of highlight effect. Instead of me wasting a minute of my life, you can just press Option six. Come to the bottom, choose this highlight effect, selected Option four to open the effects control. Make sure you have motion selected, drag it, something like this. Man we can change the size and, you know, do something like this. So you can see a lot faster. And you can do a lot of stuff like this where you save something as a graphic template and saves a ton of time for you. By the way, you can also save screenshots. So you can see this is a full screenshot if I select. You can see, it's very, very good quality, full screenshot of a page. You can also add all sorts of icons. So, for example, I created a lot of these icons for lots of different logos and different companies. I have lists. This is something that was created in after effects and I'll show you how to do this in the future. We have overlay, lots of great stuff. So how do you do this? Well, you need to have a graphic in order to do this. So let's say you have a graphic, something like this. The way you create this sort of graphic file is when you create a shape or use a pen tool, you know, it creates a graphic. Honestly, I'm not even sure how to create graphic from scratch. Like, to create an empty graphic because you can have an empty graphic. You know, if you come here to the properties, I delete this, it's an empty graphic. But how do you do this? Honestly, don't know, and it doesn't even matter. So we'll just delete it. Then into right click Export motion graphic template. It's going to save the project. The same is going to happen in after effects. Then you're going to give it a name at the top. We'll call it test, and then the list destination. This is a folder where you will save it. To make sure things are organized, right? You'll create a folder somewhere on the desktop or in other location, create a folder called motion graphic template, and you create different folders there, and then you choose a folder from this list here, make sure things are saved. This one will be in the lists, and I'm fine with that. You can click the checkboxes here. If you want to be warned with motion graphic template, phones are not available in Adobe font, and if Motion graphic template uses Nets not included in Premiere Pro. Also add keywords in order to search, to be honest, I don't really use it the keywords part and also don't use these guys. So we're going to click Okay. It's going to be saved. Whenever we go to graphic templates, I'm not using the mouse. Option six. We'll come to lists. This is where I saved it. And now whenever actually let me delete the previous one so that we see the difference. So we deleted this one. Now we're going to drag this one here, and you can see it appeared on the screen. It's also exactly the same length as you saved it. To be honest, I don't need it, so I'll just go into the folders. As you can see, I have motion graphics PR, so Premiere Pro, then I come into lists. This is the folder, and then this is the test. It's this test here. So whenever I delete it, move to trash. It's probably going to be deleted from here as well, because it takes some time to load. Yeah. There you go. Oh, I even crashed Premiere Pro. Okay, now that we're back, let's go to graphic templates. And I'm going to show you some of the ones that I've created. So a list of things. This is the first one. It's just a list of different things appearing. It looks slightly weird because I'm using the vertical format. But if I use horizontal format, so, actually, let's give it a try, 1920 by 1080. Yeah, you can see it became different. This is the one that's used when things are just appearing one by one on the screen. Then we have the arrows very useful. We have some animated arrows that are showing when things are linked in the description below. Then we have another animated arrow then we have another checklist, probably going to have a similar effect, and it does. I showed you this one. Then also like a selection or, like, a highlight of something. What is this called? When you want to show it like this, delete it. This thing here. If I want to use a track Mat, so let's say I go to Effects Track MAD, play it here, Effects. Video two, you know, this is what it does. If I wanted it to be perfect, I would probably ponce to nest it, and then apply, and it's perfect. But we're going to go back. Then we have some text, as well. The animated text when text is appearing on the screen. Pretty good. The way I did this is I animated the opacity, I believe, yeah. So this is one frame. And then whenever it's one frame, it's the same as appearing. And then I just do it for many words and many words appear. And that's it. And by the way, because it's motion graphic and because it's text and a text created has a graphic. What we can do here is we can change the sort of position of it and we can change the position relative to each other, which is really great. If you just align it to the middle, it was great. In terms of the circle icons I've already told you about. So this is Amazon just appearing on the left. Then if I want, I can just change its position, something like this. And Show. Option six. So overlay. Okay, so this is actually I downloaded from Envato. Pretty interesting thing, but it was done in after effects. So it's like something is being typed. So this is Imogor created after effect. I would say that we went through most of the stuff. Obviously, if you have any questions, please let me know. This might be a little bit confusing. Don't worry about it. Just let me know. I'll clarify whatever questions you have. Now, let's get into after effects. 33. How to Use MOGRTs in Adobe After Effects for Professional Motion Graphics: Welcome. In this video, we can talk about motion graphics created in after effects. Here's the interesting thing about motion graphics. Motion graphics created in Premiere Pro can be used in Premiere Pro. However, motion graphics created in after effects can only be used in Premiere Pro. So if you create something like motion graphic in after effects, you can only use it in Premiere Pro. What an interesting thing. This also means that whenever your motion graphic, if it's intensive, it's difficult for a computer. It will be hard on your computer when you're working in Premiere. So it will be something simple, which I'm going to show you today, then it's going to be fine. But if you create something three D and you can certainly create all sorts of stuff after effect, if you use that in Premiere Pro, it's going to slow down your computer. So just something for you and you will not be able to use it in after effects. Interesting. So if you want to use a template in after effects, we're going to have a video on that as well. There's a workaround around this. So let's grade composition 12 80 by 12 80. Fine. And by the way, let me show you what exactly we're trying to achieve here. I had this done in after effects, and I'd have to go to after effects every single time to animate this. Now, able to customize it in Premiere Pro, so I can just change any text, you know, to something like this, and I'll show you how to do all of this. By the way, it's not aligned, it looks weird because it's done for a horizontal video, not for a vertical video. Anyway, let's come to Aefect and we're going to create a circle. By pressing Shift, then I'm going to open it, and by the way, we're going to have a solid color for the stroke and no for the field color. Going to reopen and add strokes or dashes. This is what it's called. Okay, it works for us. Then we're going to add trim paths, and we're going to animate it. We're going to animate the end, move it a bit further, and this one will be zero. So this is the animation that we have. Perfect. Then we can put, let's say, one in the middle. There's something I had there. We're going to change its color, going to position it in the middle. The same we're going to do for the shape, position in the middle, connect one with the two. And let's animate T. The show this as well. Put a keyframe. Here, move it to the same one here, and this is the animation that we have. Obviously, you can change things around. I'm just making it very quickly to show you how to do the similar effect. How do we save it as more from graphic template? Great question. We need to go into Window and search for essential graphics. And we need to decide what exactly we want to do with this in the future, because you will only be able to customize things that you choose right now. What do you want to customize? For this, we're going to customize the text. So we're going to place the source text here. In this folder. And by the way, we need to choose the composition and we need to give it a name. We'll call it text circle. Then we're going to add the source text here. So one, this is the name. The first one is the name of this property, and the second one is the actual property itself. So I can name this circle number, something like that. And here, we're going to add another text, let's say, high, one high, and you can see changes here. So whenever you change something here, it's going to change it on screen as well. Actually, let's connect these two. Parent one to the other, and we're going to change the position. So now, whenever we change the position of one, the other changes the position as well, because they are linked because the circle is now linked to the one. And so we have the two things that we can customize now. If you want to customize a lot of things and you have a project that's quite intensive, then you can certainly do it. Now, the next thing, we're going to export the motion graphic template. First, we need to save the project itself, the After effect project. We're going to save it somewhere. And now we're going to save the motion graphic template. We're going to save it on desktop. Okay, because we had this selected, worry me. Once Rd is not from Adobe, but have it installed on my computer, so I can use it in any way. Price okay? Now let's come to Premiere Pro. We'll go into Option six. And we're going to add it to lists as well. So I just grabbed it from the desktop. I'm going to put it here to the list, and you'll see that it's going to load here as well. And there you go. This is the list. Here's our animation. We can enable the background as well. You'll see that it's transparent because there's nothing on the background. And then if we go into properties, we select it. You can see that we'll be able to customize the position and we'll be able to customize what's inside. Let me show it to you like this, right? We can put any text inside. So that's how you do it, and after effects, you can create whatever you want. The only thing is that you will not be able to use it here. But in the next video, I'm going to show you how to use it. If you have any questions, let me know, but other than that, let's get to the next video. 34. How to Build and Use Video Editing Templates: In this video, we're going to talk about not graphic templates, but just templates. So let's say if you have a graphic template like we did in the previous video, but we want to reuse it in the future in after effects. How do we do this? Well, basically we just need to save the whole project and then reuse the whole project in the future. Because we already have this one saved, and this is the one, we can just save it once again. Command to quit, and then we'll come to after effects again. New project. Okay, let's add a composition. Just grab the project that we saved previously. I'm going to drag it here and you will see that we have decomposition here. Whenever I drag decomposition, this is what we have. I can open the composition and change and customize it. I want to show you an example of what is possible with this. Here's what's possible. This is something, let me close this. This is something that I use pretty often with my clients. In this right rectangle here, I will add a phase, so it would be something like this, but the phase would be cut out to the rectangle behind it. Oops. What happened? Just make sure we go back in size. Okay. Now we have this thing on the background, this sort of neon line moving on the background, around the face. And then whatever is here, we can just create an animation, do some explanation, whatever. We can put anything there. And it looks really, really, really cool. And I just have it saved as a template because I cannot save it as a motion graphic template. What I had to do is I just had to save it as a template. Is After Effects project file. And you can see that there is a message animation. This message animation was from Invato elements, I believe, real camera shake from Invato as well, smooth sliding numbers, I Vato as well. And then this is the one that I created for my clients. Very cool, super simple. And once again, these templates, they save so much time instead of me having to do this, to create this every single time because you'll see that, you know, we have some stuff here. Actually, this is the most intensive part. So I just put the footage here, and then I just drag the footage here, track mad it, and that's it. And then in the end, we have the globe animation. That's how it's done. If you want to use it, the only thing to do is to come to after effects, file, save as, save it, and that's it. If you have any questions, let me know. Butt than that, I'll see you in the next video. 35. How to Organize Your Files and Projects Like a Pro: In this video, I'd like to talk about file organization. We're going to talk about just general file organization, and secondly, we're going to speak about project file organization because both are really important. Waste a lot of time, and let's jump into it. First, you'll notice that on the screen in the folders, I do have emojis. You can add emojis both on Mac and on Windows. Usually, with emojis, it just really helps to identify things a lot better. If I was to have ten folders and they would have just text. Be hard to find exactly the folder that I'm looking for, especially if they were to start with the same letter, sometimes it happens. But instead, you will see that on the left here, specifically, I have different emojis, and it really helps to just easily identify what I'm looking for. Next important thing is that you want to make sure things are organized, you name them correctly. You put the right emoji that associates with the specific thing for you. It doesn't matter to me, however you name it. The most important thing is that it works for you. So you want to make sure that you add emojis and you want to make sure that things are organized. Folders within folders, within folders, within folders. Just to make sure that you know where things are located. If you create a folder, it's going to be unnamed or whatever it's called, it's going to be a bit of a pain in specific parts of your body. The way you add emojis on Mac is you press Control Command space. So if I wanted to add Emoji here, control command space. And I just search for emojis. There's one other thing, you can go to Mogi PDM, and you can search for all kinds of emojis here if, let's say you working on Windows. Just make sure that you don't change emojis too often because if you are working on a project and changing emoji, you are basically changing the name of the folder. And premiere prof, some reason is not very good at searching new things, new folders, something changed the name. Every time you log back into Premiere or to A efects, you will have to put the path of the file just because you changed the emoji or add demoji. Thing I want to talk about is project file organization. You will see that and I had to blur a lot of this stuff, but you will see on the screen that I have a folder for premiere pro and for downloads. Because I noticed that when I started working on like ten plus projects at the time, it's hard to keep track of where things are because, when you log into Premiere, you can only see the last eight projects or like, I think it's the last eight projects, the most recent ones. And let's say you're working on ten projects and you lose the files and you cannot find them anymore. Like the project files. So you have to go into Adobe folder, you have to search for it, and it's a bit of pain once again in specific place of your body. By creating this, you will know that the project files are located in a specific folder. That folder is specifically about that video, so it's just a lot easier to work in it this way. Then the downloads folder as well, because when you work on ten different projects at the time, let's say, you download things, and it's in your download it's folder. But let's say you run out of space, you need to delete it, but you cannot delete it because you don't know which file is used in which project. So you want to make sure that you have downloads folder and specific project folder. And for that specific project, you will put downloads and things are going to be organized. So that's what I started doing. As you can see, this is for short firm content. This is how I do this. So I have Premiere Pro. Then there's the folder of the short form content. Then there's after effects, exports, and row. And last thing I want to talk about is color organization. On MAC, if you don't know, or if you do know, there are tags. And tags, these are the tags. Green means it's finished, orange in the process, purple means purple, but I know that it means project files or the downloads. You can rename this and make sure, once again, things are organized that it's easier to find. These are just like filters that you can put for yourself. For your brain. There are different alternatives on Windows, which work great as well. You just need to press on a folder, right click properties. Go to the very last tab in the properties, and at the bottom, you're going to have changing the color of the folder. Once again, it doesn't matter to me, whatever you name it. You want to make sure things are organized, things are sorted, filtered, and it's easy to access to find. You know where things are located, as you can see at the bottom, like, how many folders do I have? A lot. That's how you do it. If you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 36. Productivity Tools for Editors: How to Use Alfred for Mac: Welcome. This video is specifically dedicated to Alfred. Alfred is an application on Mac specifically, and there are Windows alternative, but I'm specifically going to show you Alfred on a MacBook. Alfred is very similar to the spotlight on a MacBook. But instead of just it being a spotlight, it has like 1,000 different things. I'll see it up front. It does cost either 34 pounds or 59 pounds. So this is a single license. This is the mega supporter Lifetime upgrades. Have no affiliation. They don't even have an affiliation, so I'm just recommending because it is an exceptional tool. It will save you a lot of time, a lot of headache. I use Alfred probably like 50 times per day, maybe even more. No kidding, it saves a ton of time. Let me show you what it is. For example, first of all, what you can do is you can search different things in the sort of, like, spotlight. You can set the same command command space. I can search for maps, for instance. I have a specific keyword that allows me to go to Google Maps directly. And you can see, I set myself a logo here. So if I press here or I can press on Enter, it's going to take me to Google maps. I can do the same and I can open, Aart grid, and it's going to open Aart grid. Or instead of even having to search for something, I can press three buttons, which would be Command Shift one, and it's going to open Artbrid. Interesting, right? I can press another combination, and it's going to enter a specific color code. For example, as you saw, I wrote HO five and rote the color white. There are different things you can do with Alfred. That's just the very little things. You can also do temporary email. So it will put an email here and going to open a new tab. So, let's say, if you want to come to website and it requires you to enter email, but you don't want to be spammed in the future, or whatever you can do this. You can search for Emojis, black cat, camera, whatever. You can search for anything, or you can search for, like, a checkmark because there's nothing you cannot add a checkmark. And then you just add it here. You know, Alfred saves a ton of time. So I'll walk you through how to use it. First of all, when you download Alfred, you need to disable the spotlight. Okay, you need to come to keyboard shortcuts. Then we search for spotlight and you just need to disable it. And then on Alfred, you need to enable it. So go to General and by pressing Command space, I'm going to enable the new spotlight, which is Alfred. And you can customize the way it looks. You can do all sorts of stuff, but let's talk about the important stuff. So first of all, let's go to Snippet, and you can press here, create new Snippet, give it a name. You don't have to put anything here. You can also add a logo or something to make sure you identify things easily. Let's do test. Then we'll add on the right here. Test name, test, then the snippet, the keyword, Okay, we'll leave it to test. 17 35, that's the time right now, okay? Save. And so now, whenever I write the word test, it's going to add the snippet of 17 35. So let's try. See, but I don't want it to happen every time I write the word test, so I'm just going to delete it. Okay, so you can do all sorts of stuff. You can do it with colors. Colors work great. Also write like an email or a specific phrase. Every time you can shorten the time to write it here. The clipboard history as well, like, you can the histories within the last 24 hours, the last three months record everything you copied. So instead of having to copy a new thing every single time, you can copy like ten things and bring them to new application and work grade. Then you have websearch. So this is something I showed you. When you search for something, like I show if I search for maps, it's going to open Google Maps. If I search for YouTube and I can just open YouTube, if I search for YTD, it's YouTube Studio. If I search for YouTube and I search for a specific phrase like I know, Mr. Beast. Is going to search YouTube? Mr. Best. So you can create your own ones. For example, press on customized Search, add the URL that you want to add, give it a title, a keyword. Keyword is what you will actually search. For example, from YTD, it's going to be YouTube Studio. YouTube Studio. This is the URL, so studio.youtube.com or whatever that is. And then for the keyword, that would be YTD, and you can do it for a lot of websites. So instead of having to search every time, you can just do here. Now, one very mind blowing thing you can do is you can use workflows. Let me give you an example. Basically, I can create custom stuff. If I press a specific combination of buttons, it's going to do a specific stuff. So, for example, if I press Command, Shift Y, it's going to open a YouTube downloader specifically in Google Chrome. So let's try Command, Shift Y. And there you go. Because whenever you download something from Safari, it doesn't work. There's something weird happens. Also, I can hide desktop icons. For example, for this video, I hit all the desktop icons by pressing this hot key. Whenever you want to do something person plus, blank workflow, I'm going to call it test, okay. We'll create one. Then you have all sorts of stuff here. To be honest, I don't even know how it works. Every time I wanted to create something, I would ask HATGPT. How on Earth do I do this? I want to automate this. For example, I want to open Download folder from here, like, you know, the stack of download folder, and I want to have a specific combination of keys. So I asked HAT GPT, and the way I did it is right click, and then hotkey, I put a hot key and you can put, you know, these hot keys plus a specific letter, Shift Command J, for example. And then you add in action, which you can also create a script. So run a script, for example, and I would put Apple script. This one, would just copy it from HGPT, enter it here, save it, connect it to with this thing here, connected. And so whenever I press this combination, it would do something that I wanted to do. So let's give it a try. Let me open hGPT. I need an offered script. I'm going to open on the Mc. I'm going to open YouTube else to offer. Okay. So, this is the script. Add it here. Save. So now let's try. Shift Command J. Okay, something's not working. I'm not sure what exactly is not working, so I need you to identify the issue. I created the hot key. I connected it to action called Run script. I entered the script that you created. Potentially the script that you created is not suitable for what I put there because I put Apple script in the Run script thing. So what could be the issue? How to solve it? And you literally just go back and forth with TAG PT about it. Okay. Okay, so this would be the Apple Script. Okay. You can also add Bash. Honestly, I have no idea what this is. Something is here, definitely. But okay, let's try this. Okay. Now it works. It opens YouTube. Absolutely fantastic. But I'm going to delete it to make sure that doesn't happen to me. So you can do all sorts of stuff. The things that I use the most with Alfred is Emojis. Or actually on Mac, I can do Emojis by pressing control command space. It's going to open this window where I can search for ImogesO I can do the same with Alfred. To be honest, I use sometimes both. I don't know why, but I do. Okay. Then the next thing I have is TF. Honestly, I don't even remember what this is. Special character by type facts. Okay. So what you can do is you can search for different stuff in Safari or Google, and it's going to give you like Alfred workflows. This is special characters by typeface. Honestly, I wasn't able to find this on my own. I asked DPT to find it, experimented for like 10 minutes, found what I was looking for, and it worked. Paste it in. Type facts, Alfred workflow. I think this is the one. As you will see that I have folders shortcuts so that whenever I press Command two times, it's going to open the downloads folder. Whenever I press Shift double time, it's going to upen screenshots. Then I have other stuff for other folders. I'm not going to show you because it has some sensitive information there. Then I can open specific websites, and once again, I ask hATTPT to do it. Instead of me going to private Window search for a website, I can just press three buttons, and it's going to open site shortcuts. Yeah. So Shift Command zero is going to open frame dot IO or Grade fi press one. A lot of great, great great stuff, and it's not even all the capabilities of Alfred. You can also do calculations like you can do on Mac. So 88 times ten, you know, 800. 11, you know, does calculations. So really, really useful. There are alternatives for Windows. Unfortunately, I don't have a Windows computer, so I'm unable to show it to you right now. The alternatives are not exactly the same. You can definitely achieve some of the capability of Alfred, but, you know, I used to use Windows in the past. I've never heard anything similar to Alfred. It's absolutely mind blown. So if you have a mac book, you can use it. If you have a Windows, just ask HTGPT for alternatives because there are different alternatives for what exactly you need. So instead of me showing you like ten different things, it's way easier for you to search on your own and find exactly what you're looking for. This is Alfred. Alfred saves a ton of time. Obviously, if you have any questions, let me know, but be honest, the best way for you to go about Alfred is to ask HAGPT because it knows JT GPT knows Alfred throughout. Once again, if you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I will see you in the next video. 37. Using ChatGPT to Speed Up Your Video Editing Workflow: Welcome. In this video, we're going to talk about hat GPT, specifically how I use HAGPT in order for it to help me with all sorts of stuff to either save time or to boost my creativity. Let's jump in. First of all, as you've already seen, it does help me with Alfred, or it helps me with after effects when I need to write a code because I'm not a coder. I have no idea how to code. Instead, I can just ask HAGPT and it helps and works really great. So anything code related, HAGPT does an amazing job. You just need to explain it. If something goes wrong, you just tell HAGPT something went wrong. I use it also for notion. If you don't know what Notion is, it's like this thing that helps you organize your life or your business life. There's a lot of stuff you can do with Notion. It's absolutely amazing. Recommended as well, but sometimes you need to write a code here. I do it with hATPT necessarily for video editing. I use Notion in order to track different stuff, specifically in terms of video editing, what videos are in the process, what videos are already edited, which videos need to be paid for and so on. One thing I like to use HGPT is to find something I don't know how to find. So I will just describe things to HGPT because in the past, what I would do is I would go to Google and I would not be able to find something. I was like, I was stuck, and that was the end of it. I mean, I would search for different keyboards, but I can just tell to HGPT what exactly I'm looking for. So for example, let's say I'm looking for an effect and let's describe an effect. Like, Okay, for for videoing that I can do in pro and inspect, it's when many pictures happen one after the other. They are two patients in the same place. And. And it's really in the beginning of the youa with you. So I need to know what this is, and I yeah, sort of, this is what I was looking for. Specifically, I was looking for a match cat. I believe it's called, to be honest, I don't even know what it's called. I just know how to do this effect. But yeah, he's exactly on the right track. Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's really good. Whenever I need to find something, I'll just describe it to HGPT. It'll probably ask me questions a few times a week because I'm unable to speak clearly. Hopefully, I'm not as bad at teaching as I am at trying to find things with HAGPT. And another thing I really love using HAGPT for is searching for specific clips. When my clients speak in the videos. I can open transcript. I can literally copy word for word exactly what they're saying and tell Cha JBT. And I would put something like this. Find a famous movie scene and send me Tub link with the scene. The scene needs to be short around two, 3 seconds. Here's what the scene needs to visually show. And then I just past whatever I copied from Premiere Pro. So, for example, that would be work smart, not hard. Okay, let's strike. I mean, This is Goodwill Hunting. And he's talking about Captain America. You were talking about Captain America, but you sent a video link to Goodwill Hunting movie. Okay. So there's Link. I would just copy it, open YouTube Downloader, past the inkn search, download, and download. So this is my workflow to find a movie. You can also ask you to find a movie. For example, there's a website called Clip Cafe. Yes. So you can find all sorts of movies here, and you can ask it to find movies even on this website. It's not always good, and it definitely has problems with movies. Interesting thing about HGPT is its knowledge base is based on everything that has ever existed on the Internet. And so sometimes it gives you links to videos that are not available anymore or the websites that you cannot open. Hopefully, HGPT team will solve it in the future, but currently, this is the issue that they have. It's not always the problem, but sometimes it can be an issue. Honestly, you can use HGPT for anything. Whatever you struggle with, whatever you have, whatever you want to ask it, it's literally it's sort of like a friend. It's like your helper. It's like your assistant. Sometimes it is a pain in specific place of the body, but, you know, sometimes I am, too. Obviously you can create custom HAGPTs to help you with specific things. So it would be something similar to like creating shortcuts or workflows in Alfred. You create a custom HGPT. You upload, specific books or specific knowledge into it, like PDF documents, and there's a limit to how many you can upload, but there's more than enough that you can upload for it to be a lot better than just a general HAGPT. So you upload stuff, you tell it what to do, and it's going to be better. The general HAGPT especially the free version is not as good. Currently, I'm using the free version when I use the paid version, it was definitely better because the free version uses the previous GPT model, and the newer versions use the newer sorry. The paid version uses the new HAGPT model. The interesting thing is that you don't know what you don't know. So you can ask HAGPT what exactly you don't know. A lot of the stuff about the shortcuts, about everything that I've created in terms of, like, my workflow and the way I work is thanks to HGPT. Sometimes it is absolutely awful certain things, but a lot of the times it is great. So just search for whatever you need to search. I will probably help you more than you even imagine. If you have any questions, be sure to leave those in the Q&A section below. But other than that, I will see you in the next video. 38. How to Plan Your Capstone Video Project: Welcome to the last section where you're going to create your own Capstone vertical video project. In this video, specifically, we can talk about planning because without planning, you're not going to have your project done. First of all, make sure to use the skills and techniques that you learn throughout this course. Next, when it comes to planning, the first thing to do is to come up with an idea and to decide what kind of video you want to create. Do you want to create a video of yourself or somebody else? Like a compilation of things or do you want to have no compilation, known people, just some sort of animation and after effects and Premiere Pro? You need to decide what you want to do. What really helps is brainstorming. And recently, I learned that it's a bit difficult for some people to brainstorm. So I'd like to share some tips as well. When you brainstorm, you want to come up with as many ideas as possible. Like, literally, don't limit yourself everything that comes into your head, put it on a paper or put it on your computer. Let's say you're interested in animation and not in people. Then you think, What exactly do I like about animation? Do you like the neon colors? Do you like graphs? Do you like three D? You need to think of what you like, and then you sort of associate these things with something else. That's the way I brainstorm. I have no limit on creativity. I just put everything that comes into my head, even the most the weirdest stuff that comes into my head. I just put it on a piece of paper. After you come up with five, ten, 50 different ideas, you can look at the list and see what you want, what you don't want. But in the process of brainstorming, just try not to limit yourself. If you are a stock, you find this task a bit difficult. I recommend you go online, you definitely have some creators that you follow. So just take a look at what they're creating. Since you'll be just practicing, you can literally copy and paste. I recently discovered that we know what to do, and that's why we don't do it. But that's kind of stupid. Even if you know how your favorite creators do something, try to replicate it one to one. First of all, you'll find out that it takes a lot more effort than you expected. Secondly, you'll build your skills, and you'll find out that it's not as easy as you thought it would be. And then thirdly, once you actually do it, you'll have that skill, and then you can build on top of that skill and progress. So either brainstorm or take a look at your favorite creators. After you have ideas and you've selected the idea, you need to plan your video. Working with clients. And I'll show you this. So if you don't have a plan, it's usually a bad idea because well, it's always a bad idea to not have a plan. So these are some of the notes from some of the client videos. So I have a video name at the top, and then these are for vertical. Content specifically. So you'll see that I have seconds. I have zero to three, and then I'm saying that behind. So something will be happening behind them. And then three to 12 seconds, it says it will be full. And then I go through the whole video, and I think, if it's a person, something will be happening behind them, or there's going to be a full screen overlay. So there's going to be no person. There's going to be a picture or some sort of animation or something else. And by behind, I mean, we'll be working in after effects. I'll be cutting them out and then putting some sort of effects there. If I was to do this for my own self, I would think even more in advance, even before recording I would think through, I have some ideas. How can I make it real? And then I'd go ahead and do it. And one more very important thing is a timeline or a deadline. And the reason for this is because when we don't have a timeline or we don't have a deadline, I mean, these are different, but sort of similar because in a timeline, you have a lot of small deadlines. Whenever you have a deadline, you will work to finish things before the deadline. So you will put extra hours, extra effort, extra attention, extra everything in order to finish something before a certain time. If you want this to really change your life, then take the extra time. Take five extra minutes. Plan how long it will take you when you are going to do this, when you are going to plan when you're going to record and things like that. If you don't do this, if you don't put things in your calendar or if you don't even use the calendar, start using it. Trust me, it's going to completely change your life. You might think that you already know that, but if you know it, are you actually doing? The last thing and it also accounts for the future videos where you're going to record and edit, your first video will suck, and that's fine. That's great that it will suck because you will learn so much from it. Don't try to make the perfect video. The only thing you're trying to do is to do it. Don't compare yourself with creators who spent ten years in the field. Don't compare yourself with me. Don't compare yourself with anyone. The only thing that matters is you becoming better every day. The only thing you need to make sure is that the next video is 1% better. That's it. There is no pressure, absolutely. The only thing you're focusing on is just completing the project. Then just making sure that you send the project, I can take a look at it. Other students can take a look at it, and we can give you feedback so that you can improve so that the next video can be not 1% better, but 2% better, and it will suck until it becomes great. And that's the great thing about this. If you have any questions, be sure to let me know. But other than that, I will see you in the next video. 39. Executing and Editing Your Capstone Project: Now let's talk about executing and editing your project. First, if you're going to record yourself, you're probably going to use your phone. If you're going to use an iPhone, make sure that you set the camera settings to most compatible because if you don't set it, there's something weird about iPhone and Premiere Pro and after effects. The format that Apple uses, it doesn't work really well with Premiere Pro and after effects. Is going to be a bit of a headache to edit videos like this. So just set it to the most compatible and you'd be good to go. There's no such problem with Android devices or with cameras. So just a tip. When it comes to editing, try to use as many of the techniques that we discussed in the course. And if you forget something, don't worry. You can just come back to one of the lectures. Take your time. There is no rush. Just make sure you do it. But don't strive for perfection. Perfection will absolutely destroy you, and we don't want that. If you're facing some problems or you don't know what to do, you can always reach out to me to other students. Or you can use the power of Google and just Google something. Almost every single day, I Google something. Or actually recently I've been using CHGPT because it's been getting pretty great. So you can use Google ChIPT or reach out to me or to the students. Now that you know all of this, it's time for you to actually go ahead and do it. So go ahead and do it. And if you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 40. How to Publish Your Video Projects: This video, I'm going to show you how to present and publish your capstone video. First of all, before you upload a video online, give it 24 hours. Usually, I find out that after some time passes, I look at the video at a different angle and I see some new things that I didn't see before. And sometimes I think, Yeah, I mean, I can change that, but it's probably not going to change the video for the viewer or that's something will actually do big deal and will change the way the viewer receives the video. I know you might be a bit tired at the end, and you might be a bit lazy at the end. It's your life. You do whatever you want with it. What I would recommend you do is if you feel like you can make the video better after you give it 24 hours, then put a little bit of effort into it. If not, once again, it doesn't have to be perfect. Do whatever works the best for you. Now, let me show you how to get the video online. You would need to go to Vmeo. So you just searching Google Vimeo. You will need to create an account or login if you already have an account. You have a limit of 500 megabytes per day of uploads and 5 gigabytes in total. Once you're logged in, just click on you, upload the video from your computer to this platform. And then the important thing is come to share at the top. Make sure it is unlisted or public so that we can view it either with Link or once again, Wink that is public. Then copy it Link, then come to Skillshare. In the bottom right corner, click on submit the project, click on the video, pase the link here. If you have something to share about the project, give it a description, give it a title. To be honest, there are no expectations, whatever works best for you if you have something to share, that would be great to hear. If not, you can give it a title as simple as my project or something like that. Then just click and publish and that's it. And once you do all of that, I really, really, really recommend you take a piece of paper and write down everything you've learned. The thing about this is it will help a lot in the future, because you will remember this better. You'll remember everything you went through, planning, you went through the shooting, or just editing, creating, uploading. You went through the big process of a lot of different stuff. So now, try to remember everything you've done, put it on the paper. And one more thing I recommend you do is to do something to spite your adrenaline. It's an ancient technique when kids would be thrown into the river. So after they learn something new, because it would spike their adrenaline because the river was cold. When we get adrenaline, we remember things better. It's something I recommend you do as well. Or the next thing would be to remember it even better, practice it and do it again, and then do it again. And the more you practice, the better you'll become and just remember, become 1% better than you were yesterday. Don't look at anybody else. It will absolutely destroy mental health, and I would recommend you not doing that. It's always better to just focus on yourself because there are always people who are better than you, and there are always people who are worse than you. Focus on yourself and become better. If you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 41. How to Overcome Creative Blocks as a Video Editor: In this video, let's talk about being productive and overcoming creative blocks. And I'm specifically talking about your mental health. Things we'll discussed in this video don't just apply to video editing, but to life in general. And I would say the best way to go about any sorts of blogs or any sort of dark times or anything that's not good is to learn yourself, observe yourself because if you know what reaction you will get, if you can sort of predict the future for yourself, something this happens, that will happen to me. If you can do that, then you can control your state, can control your future. And it's really powerful. I mean, if you can control the way you feel, what you do, when you do, it's just it's next level. So in order to do that, I really recommend you to learn yourself, whether you plan to create your own videos or you want to work with the creator as a video editor. At some point, you will hit a bottom. And I want to show you this graph, which shows the knowledge and confidence over time. So in the very beginning and if you knew nothing about video editing, your knowledge grows, so it goes to the right. And so grows your confident. But then, once you start learning more and talking to people who are in this field and just doing more stuff, you'll realize you actually don't know that much, and so your confidence will go down. And it's very important. Like, this part is the most important part, in my opinion, because you will hit a point where everything in your life well, sort of suck because of this. And it's very important to just continue continue learning, continue developing and don't give up. The problem that a lot of people face is that they go up all the time when they think of something new to do. They started, and, you know, it seems great. But then the more they do something, the more they learn that, Oh, actually, I don't know enough about this. And then, you know, their confidence starts to go down, there are many graphs, you know, showing the same thing. And if you don't stick long enough, you will not get success. So this is really important to you and answer this question for yourself. Is this important to you? How important is this for you? Then whenever you hit that bottom part, just stick with it, continue learning, develop. And then, over time, your confidence will start to grow and you're going to just you're going to crash it. If you'll go through that, you're going to get great results. Also, I know how tough things can be at certain point, so be sure to reach out. This is not my first year of teaching, and students have reached out to me, and it's fine. Like, I understand what you're going through because I've been in your situation. So if I can help you in any way, be sure to reach out. Also, very important thing. Eye drops. Because I sit in front of the computer for a very, very long time. I use eye drops. Get a pair of these for yourself as well. It will be game changer. I use it absolutely every single day, no doubt about that. And then when I run out of these, my eyes get a bit tired. In terms of the health in general, I would say that you need to take care of your health. It doesn't matter if you do video editing or something else. Start with something super easy. You basically need to create a new habit, create a new habit just walking out of your house in the morning, get used to that. Once you're used to that, you know, just getting out of the house and coming back. Once you're comfortable with that, walk 50 meters from your house, then come back. That's literally what I did. A couple of years ago. I started going out in the morning, then I started walking, and then I started working out. And I think I started running 4.5 years ago. And literally in five days, I'm running a marathon. On top of that, I work out every single week three times a week. I do stretching two times a week, and you would think that video editor, I'll be honest. I don't know video editors who do as much as I do in terms of, like, their health. Also, eating is very important. Don't eat junk food. Like look at what it's made of. It's made out of plastic, plastic. I mean, there's no plastic, but you get what I'm saying. Like, eat meat, fruits and vegetables. That's what your body needs. I mean, it depends on your diet. If you're vegan or vegetarian, I'm not sure about the difference, but, you know, I'm not so just eat healthy, take care of your body, whenever you get to certain mental blogs, observe and try to answer a question of why is this happening? Once you do that, you learn enough of yourself. You'll be a different person. In terms of creativity, because video editing is creative in a way, and it's also not creative in a way. Well, if you run out of creativity, just go online, get inspired by other people. You can always ask CHATTPT for it to help you. Just ask it to. You know, I run a run out of ideas. What should I do? Like, help me with that? And you can give a bit more detail, but it will probably send you some inspirational videos in the field that you're working in. I'll be honest, at this point, I do not run out of creativity because I know so many things. I've learned so many things, I've seen so many things. I'm able to just remember. And if we look at movies, if we take a look at, like, Batman, Mad Max, James Bond, all of these movies that are produced in the 21st century are remakes of older movies that were produced in, like, 60s, 70s, 90s. It's all just old stuff that's been updated. I feel that it's very similar with video editing. I just remember a lot of stuff, and I don't have to think and come up with stuff every single time because I just remember. Also, if you run out of creative ideas, you can ask AGBT to help you with that because yeah, sometimes when you're working ten different projects at the same time, and I currently am actually more than ten projects. Then yeah, sometimes you need a little bit of help of artificial intelligence that knows better than you. That's fine, as well. Make sure that your working environment is also good enough for you. If you're just getting started, yeah, things will not be perfect. The more you work, the more you develop, the better things will. You have any specific questions, be sure to let me know, but other than that, I will see you in the next video. 42. The Power of Tiny Gains for Massive Growth: Welcome. In this video, we can talk about the power of tiny gains. It's from a book by James Clear, and it's a book called Atomic Habits. Absolutely incredible book. I recommend it to everyone, because with this book, you'll be able to learn how to do anything in life, literally anything, how to add something new to your life. And the power of tiny gains. It's all about maths, and maths is incredible, especially in this case. So if we become 1% better every day, which is 1.01 to the power of 365. That's 1% better every day. In a year, you'll be 37 times better. But if you become 1% worse every day, you're going to be almost equal to zero. So 0.99 to the power of 365. And it goes like this. Exponential growth, and, you know, this one is just going to zero. You literally take one step at a time and you try to become a bit better every day. Every time you do something, you try to become a little bit better. And after some time, you will become better. And so you will see that, you know, this graph is familiar, you know, this growth that goes up. It's very familiar to this graph here. I mean, it is slightly different, because in the end, this one kind of flattens out, the confidence flattens out. And here, the confidence if this was confidence, it would go infinitely up. But it's true, and it's like that with anything in life. And specifically about video editing, what you want to do is to learn a new technique, effect, feature, learn something new and become a little bit better, but don't just learn, like, actually practice that because knowledge without practice is useless. You just forget about it. So the power of tiny gains become a little bit better, and you will become 37 times better by the end of the year. Imagine what happens in ten years. The growth is exponential. It could be insane. If you have any questions, let me know, but other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 43. Last Step: Congratulations to you. You are nearly 100% done with the vertical video editing course. There are just two small steps you need to do. First, take action. As Kafuia said, the journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step. So if you haven't already, take your first step by editing the first video. All the best information in the world means nothing if you don't act on it, and even small steps lead to massive outcomes. Lastly, if you found value in this program, I would really appreciate if you could take 60 seconds to leave you honest feedback. I will be immensely grateful to you and your feedback will massively help future students in deciding the best course for them. Although this course is complete, your journey has just begun. I'm so excited to see you edit online, so be sure to keep me and your fellow students posted. Remember, I'm here for your success. So if there's anything you need, be sure to reach out in the Q&A section. Thank you again for choosing me as your instructor, wishing you all the best, and I'm looking forward to seeing you in future courses.