Video Editing Secrets: Practical Video Editing Techniques for Impactful Content

1. Introduction: Video editing. It's something often overlooked by beginners. No, I'm not talking about learning a new video editing software, nor about those flashy effects and transitions. And definitely not how to edit a video faster. What I'm talking about is the art of storytelling through editing, how to evoke emotions, capture interest, and ultimately increase viewers retention. Today I'm going to share with you the editing secrets that will transform your videos. My name is Idsing. For the last seven years, I've worked as a professional videographer and a video editor. Throughout my creative journey, I've not only worked on amazing film projects, but I've also built a sustainable audience. I've grown to about 96,000 subscribers on YouTube, and I have over 35,000 students here on Skillshare. And that, my friends, it's not by chance. I use many editing tricks and techniques that captivate my audience's attention and keep them watching until the end. And that's exactly what I'm going to teach you in this class. We'll explore different types of editing techniques, sound design, and all the editing secrets used in films and viral videos. So if that intrigues you, then let's get started with this class. 2. Class Overview: Before we go any further, I want to give you a brief introduction to how we would be working in this class. I'm going to teach you all the techniques about filmmaking and about video editing in the Vint resolve. But everything what I'm teaching that you can implement in either CAP Cut, Premiere Pro, final clot Pro, and the Winter resolve. And out of those softwares, C Cut, and, of course, the int resolve is free. So if you are someone who's new and who don't want to invest in the video editing software, of course, try out these video editing softwares. I have divided this class into three different parts. The first part is more about the technicalities. Where I'm going to discuss with you different types of cutting techniques or how to move from one scene to another, how to grab audiences attention, how to keep your edit smoother. That's what I'm going to teach you in the first section. The second section, I'm going to teach you how to enhance your storytelling by using certain editing tools that of course nobody talks about. After that, once we have learned all the tools and techniques, then I would break down some of my favorite videos that I have edited. We would go frame by frame in those videos, and I'll discuss with you my mindset and my thinking process when I was editing, and of course, we'll go through all the effects, all the sound effects, all the video effects that I've used in those film. Later on, I will also ask you to summit a class project. So a class project would be a 1 minute short video that you would be editing all by yourself, and of course, you have to use some of the techniques that I have taught in the class. And more information about the class project would be in the class project section. So now, let's finally get started with this class. 3. Pre Editing Must Knows: There are a few things that you should be keeping in mind before starting the edit of any film or any video. The first one, what emotion you want to convey. Is it a happy emotion? Is it a sad emotion? You want to motivate your audience with your films? You have to really determine what emotions you want to convey with your films already before you start editing. And the second thing you should be keeping in mind is How do you want the video to start? And how do you want the video to end? For example, in some of my videos, I tend to start really slow. I tend to start with just one frame being there for 10 seconds. In some video like this one, like the intro of this class, I wanted to start with a lot of cuts, a lot of fast moving objects. I wanted to have a very high intense moment because that's going to grab your attention. So those things I already determined before the edit, that that's the beginning I want. And according to that, you can choose the music, you can choose the sound effects. You can choose the clips, what you want to put in the beginning, because of course, if it's a fast pace syndrome, there would be a lot of clips with a lot of movements, or really a lot of shots clips. So those are things that you have to determine in the beginning, and you should also determine how you want to end the video. Would the video end on a climax, or would the video end on a conclusion? However the video ends, you have to choose the ending of the music track as well according to that end. I know all these things, they might sound super overwhelming, but we'll go through each step about the music and the sound effects and all the cuts throughout this class. Of course, yeah, you should determine all these things that how the intro would be and how the end would be. Because intro is something which grabs your audience's attention, and the end of the video is something which is going to leave that feeling with your audience. Because everybody wants to have a video for their audience so that when the audience finish watching that video, they can be like, Wow, that was a cool video. So yeah, you have to really keep in mind how the ending would be as well. That's also really important. And the next thing you should be keeping in mind is, what would be the pace of the video? How we can pace a video is by choosing certain types of sound effects, certain type of music, certain types of cuts. That also you have to determine already in the beginning that what would be the pace of the video. Of course, you have to watch all the raw footage maybe two times three times and then you would know that what all material you have and what you can make out of it. 4. J-Cut: In this section, we're going to be talking about different types of cuts that filmmakers use in filmmaking to make their stories more impactful. So let's get started. The first cut is a JCut. A JCut is an editing technique where the audio from the next scene comes before the video. And that audio can be someone's voice. For example, check out this video. I orchestrated a very unique main character retreat. It can also be a sound effect or an ambient noise, something like this. I am so done with editing for today. I wish I could just go on a beach and relax. Or it can be a music track like this. I think it took about four to 5 hours to fully charge. I will just put it on the paralysis Mod one. Now let's go for an adventure. Let's give you a simpler example. C heck out this video. In this DACA sequence, what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna go outside and film in this beautiful sunlight. But guess what? There's no sun today. In these scenes, the sound from the upcoming scenes start while the video of the current scene is still on on the screen, creating a sense of continuity between the scenes. And if you see the timeline of the edit, here is how it looks. So, here the video is. So I would just play it again to square the video. I am so done with editing for today. I wish I could just go on a beach and relax. So, just when I finish saying that I wish I can go on a beach and relax, as you can see here, the video still plays. I would just mark it with a different color. And this pink block, this is the audio section from the upcoming video. So the video from the first scene is still playing, and the audio already starts from the second scene. I wish I could just go on a beach and relax. That was the first example. Let's show you another example. So I'll make this clip pink as well. In this Jacut sequence, what I'm going to do? I'm going to go outside and film in this So this three word when I say, I'm going to go, that is already playing when I am already in the first scene. I'm going to go outside and film And of course, by this point, you also might be wondering why is it even called a JCOt. So if you see my timeline here, These are the video clips, and this is the audio. And you can see that there is a J structure in the video and the audio clips. This pattern, it is making a J form, so that's why the name is J cut. But now your question would be, why bother using JCT? You can just cut like a normal cut. Well, not. JCT provides a smooth transition. This is the technique that creates a smooth and often seamless transitions between two scenes. Usually, if a new scene starts, the audience, they get two new information. First is the video and then the audio. If you get both new information of the audio and the video at the same time, it can be overwhelming for the audience, and it can also look like an abrupt cut. So to avoid that, with the help of JCOT, we can introduce the audio first to the audience. And that audio prepares the audience for the upcoming scene. For example, the beach shot, what I told you before. I was in my office and I was thinking about the beach, and then I put a beach sound effect, you know, sound effects of waves, and that already prepares the audience at, Oh, something related to that sound effect, it's going to come in the next scene. So that's why JCO is also really handy. Because if I would have played the audio and the video together, it would have looked very abrupt. And the second reason why we also use JCOT is for emotional and narrative impact. It can build anticipation. It also creates a particular mood, and it also provides a context before the visual change occur. For example, check out this unboxing video of a bike what I did, so it would make more sense. So here in this sequence, I am doing a review of an electric bike for my YouTube channel. So I'll show you the clip and then it makes more sense. So let's get started. I think it took about four to 5 hours to fully charge. I will just put it on the paralysist mode one. Now let's go for an adventure. So now, if you see the timeline here, this is me talking, nothing is really changing here. Here, this is me talking as well. But if you see at the bottom, that is a music track, and I have already started playing the music track, even before the B rolls, the drone shots, the shots, even before they start. And the reason is that I am preparing the audience for an upbeat or more sort of action scene. You cannot have too much action scene in just a normal blog. But that's what I'm preparing the audience for that, hey, the upcoming sequence is going to be a bit more fun, where I'm going to have fun. So let's already build that anticipation already for the audience. But let's get rid of this music track, and let's just start the music track when the actual drone shot is happening. So let's see how it looks then. The paralysist more to one. Now let's go for an adventure. You see it looks a bit more abrupt because the drone shot is a completely different angle. This was more like a static shot, you know, more like a presentation shot, and the drone shot there's more movement, there's more action going on. So that's why to transition from one scene to another, I used a JCut. So that's what I was mentioning before the J cut can also be used to smoothly transition from one scene to another where the subject is in a completely different environment. So here I was just sitting and, you know, giving a presentation, and here I'm not talking anything, just enjoying a nice bike ride, you know, yeah, that's why we use Jacob as well. 5. L-Cut: O After the J cut, let's move on to something called as an El cut. A El cut is an editing technique in film making, where the audio from the current scene continues to play in the next scene. Today, we are planning to film outside, but it's not that sunny. Yes, I think it's super cozy to film here because I have this nice and warm cozy light on and this nice blue light. So yeah. Elkut is completely opposite of the JCut. And let me show you some of the examples, so it's more clear to you. And we're going to cover some distance today because they say that maximum you can write is up to 40 kilometers with one single chart, so let's try it out. A So here, as I'm talking about the specks of the bikes or whatever, I could have left this scene like this, you know? But to transition from my talking head to a third person's point of view, I reduced my talking shot. And as I'm still talking, I am already playing the B role from the upcoming scene. Up to 40 kilometers with one single char, so let's try it out. So that kind of gives again a smooth transition because if I haven't done it, let's check it out this way. Char so let's try it out. It is still not that abrupt as the previous one. But yeah, I I do an cut here, as you can see in the timeline, it shows that it's an L. If I do an cut here that helps me to smoothly transition from the first scene, and then I can leave the audio going on, and then I can already move to the next scene while the audio from the first scene is playing. And these little little things if you start implementing any your videos, your audience wouldn't notice that there is a JCut or an cut. But the whole video would be so smooth that they can just keep watching the entire video. And they wouldn't even realize that, oh, the video is finished now. So that's why it's really important to implement these techniques, you know, in your video editing to make your videos more watchable. What an ECAT also does is that it gives an emotional and a narrative impact to your audience. It can help to sustain an emotional tone, which means we keep the emotion from the first scene much longer, whereas in JCT, we wanted to transition the emotion from the first scene to another as quickly as possible. Let me give you an example so it makes more sense. My goal was here to move from a really chaotic environment to a super peaceful one. So let's just play and once we watch the video, and then I can explain you what's going on. So it's a bit of dramatic video, so let's watch. So you see what I just did here. So my main goal was to show a bit of chaos, and then in the end, make it look like I'm waking up from a chaotic dream. So all the music tracks. This is just a exported file, so you don't see all the tracks here, but all the music tracks, all the sounds, all the ambient noises. That I left it going until the end. So noise from this noise from this event, a noise from this event, noise from this device, which is making this wood noise. You know, I looped it, so I kept it like going, going, going. As you can see that even if this wood instrument, even if it passes, we can still hear the noise. Still hear the noise. So this is a bit of quiet scene, but you can still hear all the craziness, all the chaos. So here, what's happening is that this chaos The chaos was until here. Then there's more calmness. I I shot this video during COVID. So I wanted to show a bit more calmness, but I wanted to still show the chaos which was there before COVID. So that's why I kept this audio track from all these scenes. That's what I meant by JCT that with the help of JaCoT, you can elongate the feeling with the help of audio. So here, if I would have just shut down the audio, you know, from the chaos, then that feeling would have just disappeared just like that. Here, I wanted to sustain that feeling until I wake up. So I keep playing this audio track. But that's why it looks like an here. Here I'm still waking up, and you can see that there's still a little bit of audio track here, that is still the chaotic sound. And as soon as I open the eyes, the whole chaos is gone. You see? So in this section, the audio is still playing, so that's how you can also use Cut if you want to sustain the emotion from the previous scene. And for JCOT, we want it to transition into new emotion from the current scene. So that's when we use JCT. So yeah, that's a difference between an L and JCT. I use them, I think with almost all the cuts if I'm talking or if I'm just putting in some music. Yeah. Since they have learned them, it just looks so natural the whole editing process after using these two cuts. But yeah, we're going to go in the following section and learn about more filmmaking cuts. So let's go. 6. Jump Cut: The next cut, what I'm going to talk about is a jump cut. A jump cut is an editing technique in filmmaking where two shots of the same subject are taken from slightly different positions or angles, resulting in a noticeable and often jarring transition. So this is completely different from an L cut and NJ cut. Here, we want the transition to be very obvious. This type of cut can often give an effect of a subject jumping from one position to another. And that's why it's called a jump cut. And here are a few examples of a jump cut. And this might be the two box. And I'm assuming that this handle goes. So here as you can see this bike sequence, what I showed you, there was a really quick six job cut shots. Let's play them again. Box. So you can see that I have just kept them for maybe one, two, three, four, five. Those shots are there for just five framed. So that's like one over fifth of a second is just there. So say, for example, if you're doing something, and if you have this video, you know, which you want to cut it down. So what you can do is that if you do any sort of movement, then you can cut it according to the soundtrack. So here, I can see that there's a cut here. And after this, it takes an hour for me to do the second action. But in jump cut, the main goal is to show just the action path so that video looks really engaging. Another cut happens now. So what I do is that I just make it cut like this, cut like this. And then I bring them together. But of course, if you want to learn, what am I doing now, cutting, moving the clips and all these basic stuffs, I have made an entire video editing course on the inter resolve and on CAP cut, and they both are free editing software. You can learn there as well if you are a complete complete beginner. But yeah, you can see here that I did one, two, three, four, five frames. Then what I would do, I would make five frames here again. From this cut. Here it goes one, two, three, four, five, and then another cut comes. Because of cutting all these cuts with equal length, the video looks a bit more smooth. So that's how you can achieve a jump cut. You just need to cut out the p where there is no action going on, and you can just bring all the pieces together where the action is going on. And how you can enhance your jump cut is by keeping all those tiny video and audio pieces of the same length. If it goes for the same length for the upcoming ten sequences, that already makes it look so cool. But now your question would be why a jump cut is even used. Pacing and energy. They can be used to speed up the pacing of a scene, creating a sense of urgency and energy. Example, if I just showed someone a bicon boxing video, if I let the whole clip play, it would be so boring. And if I just chopped it down, it looks super high energy. And the second point is attention grabbing. Jump cuts can draw the viewer's attention to a specific movement or action, making the cut itself noticeable. For example, here is a video. You can check it out, and then let me know, what do you think? So you can see here that there are so many cuts. Only putting the clips where there is some action going on where we are progressing the story because of course, the goal from this video is to unbox the light, show what all accessories are with the lights, and then in the end show how the light works. So I am just putting all the important puts. For some people, it might be too much, but as you can already see here, we are just 15 seconds in, and there is at least 25 to 30 cuts, and those are jump cuts. What you can also do with jump cuts is you can show the progress of a story or you can show the passage of a time. I have a really good example for that. Let me show you. So I'll just give you a little context. So me and my wife, we were building our own camervan a few weeks ago. And then this is one of the steps where we wanted to build a kitchen. But then to build a sliding kitchen, which looks like this, The first step was to just to think. And we spent a lot of hours just thinking about how to design the kitchen. And I wanted to show that feeling in a video. So what I did was, I just let the camera playing. And whenever we would be changing positions, I would just show that part, so it looks to the audience that we're thinking. Oh, we're still thinking. Oh, we're still thinking. I'll show you the video, it makes more sense. Oh, what I was thinking. Like this stove needs $0.40. So it's just four cliffs, but it looks like we spent so much time thinking because we are a different position. Do you know, just trying different angles, and then we are still thinking? I'll explain to you what So, yeah, that can also be where a jump cut can be handy when you want to show the passage of time when you want to show the progress. I have another jump cut example, same in the kitchen is when we are building. So, of course, some of the shots are at different different angles. But I just put all the clips where the action is going on. And because of those actions, it shows that, okay, the time is passing, I'm getting a bit more closer to building the kitchen, the kitchen is being built. So there is a progress going on, and that's what I wanted to show. So don't blink and watch. Thank you. So you see after the entire like in the beginning, it was like this. And then in the end, after all the jump cuts, we ended up to this. So yeah, I could have also just used a time lapse video for this. But with time lapses, it can look good. There's no right or wrong. But sometimes it's also nice to just show the jump cuts because then you're actually showing the emotion. Then you're actually also letting the audience hear the sound, hear the noises, what is being produced when you are actually in that process. It just gives a bit more raw feeling when you're using jump cut instead of a time lapse. That's when you can also use a jump cut. If you're filming an interview or filming yourself, you can use jump cuts to eliminate the mistakes and pauses, what I am doing throughout the class. But I can also show you a good mixture of JCut, an Cut, and a jump cut, of course, let's get back to the editing software, and let me show you. So here, there is a talking shot. And if you see the timeline of the audio, I am using a lot of JCuts. My first camera was a go pro hero file. I was living in a I was living in so you can see I made a cut here, you know, because there was a lot of gap. So to make the audio more engaging, that's what they do like all the reels, all the talking shots that as soon as you finish the last word from the first sentence, the first word from the second sentence already starts, and that's what I'm doing here. So you can see here that the video, this is the video track from the first video, and the audio track from this video is already playing. It looks really smooth in the edit. People wouldn't even tell. But if you do it separately, then you can see a little bit of pause. Let's play it again. My first camera was a go pro Hero file. I was living in a shared host see? And that's what I've done at a lot of places. Here I am using a JCut. Okay. And I got the camera. I used it for I think 15 to 20 days. And then that camera got stolen. But if I didn't use the J cut, this is how the video would have looked. Camera was a go pro here of five. I was living in a there is a little bit of gap. But if I just move it like this, and then let the audio play. Op here of five. I was living in. I don't even get the chance for the audience to even blink with this method. Yeah, this you can also use when you make a little bit of pause in the video because as I showed you before, if I make this full video, there's a pause here. There's a pause here, there's a pause here, there's a pause here. So I cut out all those pauses with the help of Cut and a J cut. You can use them as well with a mixture of jump cut. That's how you can make a mixture of a jump cut with L N J cut. 7. Match Cut: A match cut is an editing technique in filmmaking that connects two different shots by either matching the visuals or the audio to create a seamless transition. If you have no clue what am I talking about, then check out these examples. Today, I have a huge announcement to make. And this is something I always wanted to do, and I cannot believe it's finally happening. The first example is what you saw, that was by matching the video compositions. Now check out this example. In the last two frames, you can see that the transition from one scene to another scene happened because of certain kind of sound effect. And later I'm going to also go on the laptop and just explain you how the match cut looks. There are different types of matchcut. The first one is the visual match cut. This match cut matches the composition, shape, or movement between two scenes. The transition appears smooth because the visual elements aligns closely together. The second type is the audio machcut. In this type, we use similar sound effects or music to bridge the gap between two scenes. And now let's show you how to achieve the visual match cuts in my editing software. And again, you can do all these things in any video editing software. So let's show you the first one. So here, what am I showing is the smartphone is at the same place. The composition of the Smartphone is at the same place, but the background keeps changing. And this can also be a mixture of a match cut and a jump cut because of the background changing, we can show to the audience that the time is also changing. So if we play it again, We have a dramatic music playing, but at every cut, I'm using this click sound effect, which is here. Of course, I'm keeping the similar composition. So yeah, because the composition is similar, it's easy to move from one frame to another. It doesn't look that abrupt. Now let's show you another example. Today, I have a huge announcement to make. And this is something you saw here that I am at this frame indoors. And in the next frame, I am outdoors and the position of my head. If I just put the cursor here, it's at the exact same place as how it was in the first frame. Of course, doing a match cut, it also needs a lot of planning because you want to keep the composition, you want to keep the subject at the exact same place as how it was in both the scenes. That's when the transition becomes more smooth, and that's what I did as well. But in reality, what happened was a lot of times if if I do like this, a lot of times, the subject often don't match together. So what I would do is that if you see the top video, I would just reduce the opacity, you know, if I reduce the opacity, then I can exactly see here in my display here that my head aligns almost together in these two shots. If you see here, if I go to the next frame, the first frame, and next frame. If I go here, you can see that my head is almost aligning with the next frame, and here, what I can also do, I can see that my head is a little bit smaller in this pot, so I can just zoom in and then I can drag it like this. A little bit. So see. Now my head is almost matching in both the scenes, and then I would go here, and I would increase the opacity back to 100% because what opacity does is that it kind of makes a transparent layer on each other. So then I can see that the layer which is under it, which is this one. I can see that layer really clearly. And once I have aligned everything together, I would just increase the opacity and bring so let's play it again and see. Today, I have a huge announcement to make. And So here the cut pause. Hey, I have a huge announcement to make. And this something I see, I also matched the dialogues because I already knew that I have to say, today I have a huge announcement to make in my living room, and then the next sentence, I would say in my back yes. It almost looks like I'm talking one single sentence, but the location changes, and that is also a bit more impressive for the audience. So those are the example of match cut when you're using the match cut visually. And now, interestingly, there are some examples where you are using the match cut with the help of movements. So what I did in this scene was. I don't know if you can catch it. Let's just watch it and see. So you see here, So here, what's happening is I'm moving from this scene, which is indoors, with a studio lights to outdoors. But this initially is just a static shot, you know, a top down shot of me just doing something with the paper. And because I want to transition from a static shot to a moving shot, which was this one, because this is a shot on a gimble. So to make the transition smooth, of course, from indoors to outdoors, from static shot to a movement shot. What I did was, I introduced movement in this shot. So if you see if I go frame by frame, the frame is not moving, not moving, and then from here, you can see that the video, the frame is going this side, and the camera is moving on the right side. If I go right, right, right, and here the transition happens and here again, the camera is moving towards the right side. So that is also an example of a match cut where you are sort of making the cut based on the movement. So all these things I key framed. So later on, I'm also going to show you how to key frame and why key frames are really important. Here, what I did was I chose the initial position to be here. And when the clip is almost about to be over, the final position is here. So there is some sort of movement in the static frame. And that static frame matches really good with the movement in the upcoming frame. You see? And if it was static, then I can show you how it looks. It's still looking okay, but if you make the screen move, then it looks much better in my opinion. So until I've shown you the example of a match cut where you are matching both the scenes together with composition, which was here, keeping the subject in one line at one point and then the background changes. And in this one where we are sort of doing the cut on the movement. Those two are done, and now let's show you the really interesting one because I barely see anyone using it. Here, what we are doing is, we are going from one location to another location, one scene to another scene. With the help of sound effects. We are cutting on similar sound and similar action. The first scene, what is happening is it is outdoors as soon as the door closes, I am introducing another sound movement in a completely different scene. Surprisingly if we put them together, it looks really cool. Let's show you. I'm also using this riser effect. All the sound transition, all these sound effects. I'm going to teach you later as well why to use it, when to use it. Here I'm using the user riser effect. You can see that as soon as we transition from one scene to another, I also cut down the music which is playing in the background. If you see here, the audio tracks, the audio from the first scene, when the does and the book slams on the table, they are really closely aligned with each other, and that's why this cut looks super impressive. Let's watch it again. I also got inspired by stranger things for the shot because in stranger things, if you haven't watched it, it is just a cinematography masterpiece. So I have seen a lot of match cuts, in stranger things they have used with visuals or these kind of sound effects. Let's show you another one. So here, the match cut is based on the movement of my hand because I'm closing the door. Outside, and then in the next scene, I'm closing my window, which is in my house. And those two I'm matching with, of course, the closing sound of the door and the sound effects. So let's just watch it. So here I'm giving a little bit of context or where is it happening? Then I give a close up shot. The first shot is here. You see here I move from one scene which is outdoors to another scene which is inside the house by just similar actions, you see? Here, I use the same action to go up. You know what could be better in this scene. Now that I see it, I recognize that here, the subject is here. The point of interest is here. Yeah. When I move to the next scene, I've left the cursor there, the point of interest is there. What I can do, you can also do it in any other software. I can maybe flip this. If I horizontally flip this, both the point of interest are the same place. I literally just saw it now, let's try that out. So you see, now, both the point of interest, if I leave the curse are there. They are at the same place. They're almost at the same place. So now what's also happening is that our audience, they don't have to look on all the sides of the screen because their attention should be at one point of the screen. And this I'm going to teach you later as well. But, these were a few examples of match cut, and how you can do it is that we put the two clips together and put any sound effect which can be a oh, a riser, or any other sound effect. You can put and try and see what looks smooth, and then as soon as there is an action, there's a sound from that action. You can match both the sounds like what we did here. You see the sound from the door which closes here outside, and here is the sound from the books. Yeah. Keep the audio elements as close as possible, and of course, the video, and then the match cut would look really smooth. Course, if there is a sound effect, that makes the whole be look more intense. Yeah. That's how you can achieve match cut and it just looks so impressive. Lot of times you might have seen in movies or other creators using it, but you don't realize it. But now that you know about match cut, now you would know that, oh, that's why this thing is looking so impressive. And yeah, I saw it in stranger things, and I was like, Wow. This is so cool and I'm going to use it in my videos as well, and I use it. But people don't realize, but I see that if I don't use it, the transition from one scene to another is so abrupt, and if I use it, it's just so smooth and so impressive at the same time. So yeah, that was match cut for you. 8. Music Track Choices: After we have discussed all different types of cuts. Now let's talk about the ado. Imagine watching this beautiful video and the mute button is on. How did it feel? Yes, that's my point. Oreo is one of the most important part of a video. And in the upcoming lessons, I'll teach you how we can make use of the Oreo to create an impactful video. The first one is music. When to use them, which music to use. But before that, let's discuss what a music does to the video. Music is something which will help you as an editor to convey your messes to your audience in a very effective way. If you want them to feel happy, put a happy music. If you want them to feel sad, put a sad music. It's that simple. As a filmmaker, you should always ensure that the music matches the emotional tone of a scene. It should enhance the intended feeling, whether it's surprise, joy, sadness, or excitement. But what choice of music you use is very subjective. People always have different opinions about which music track would go with a particular video. Of course, you can use a happy music, but there thousand different happy musics to you. So that's also very subjective. But what rule I implement in my videos is keep the music as authentic as possible to the video. For example, if I'm filming a nature video, I would put a calm and a peaceful music because that's a feeling I want to convey to my audience. But if I'm showing a particular culture in my film, then I'll use the music that is related to that culture. A lot of times I often see people using their favorite music track on a particular video. And it just wouldn't go. They would feel nice that yeah, they're using this music because it's their favorite track. But according to what video they're displaying, it just wouldn't match. So the feeling what the audience would get is no. And with the help of music, you can also determine what pace of the video you should have. A fast pace music with fast cuts makes the audience, of course, feel more energized, or sometimes it makes them feel a bit more unrest, or sometimes it also makes them feel a bit more curious. As a slow paced music with slow cuts that will show a bit of rest and harmony in the scene, and that would give the audience a bit more relaxed be when they're watching that video. I'll give you an example of this really incredible video I edited a few years ago when I visited aranasi a few years back and I wanted to make a travel video, but then I saw that there is already hundreds of travel videos there. I wanted to make something different, something a bit more dramatic, something a bit more real and authentic. And I came up with this video. And in the beginning, I wanted to show a bit more dark and drama side. So that's why I chose this track. But if you chose a funny track, the music would be completely different. But yeah, let's play and then eventually the music track changes as I go through different chapters in this video. So let's go through it and see. I don't know if he saw here, but here, here, I use a little bit of J Cot. I already put the sound effect of the train even before we see the train in the scene. And in this shot, what am I doing is the train is not even there. It's a bridge for It is a train bridge because here there are vehicles and here there's train. But in this scene, what am I doing is, that I waited for a train for at least half an hour, but the train never came. So what I did was, I put a sound effect of the train. So the sound which is there, I I continued that sound effect and made it look like it's from afar. And then it almost looks like the train is coming on that bridge. Let's hear it again. Mabe. And now I put a shot of me in the train going on a similar bridge. So it almost looks like someone has shot that shot from outside, and then we are in the train again. So that was the first chapter. The be was quite neutral. But then is one of the oldest cities in the world. I put at, and then I wanted to show, a bit more. I this really weird soundtrack, but it worked. So let me show you. You saw the music already started. So here, I already wanted the audience to feel that, okay, it's not going to be happy scenes in the coming sections. So prepare yourself. Super dramatic, of course. So this it goes for a while, you know, while I'm at this location. And then after this, I wanted to change the vibe of the video. So you see how I quickly I changed the music and then the whole mood changes. As you can see in the first two sections. The music is quite dramatic, quite slow, quite heavy. And the reason why I chose is because that I wanted to show just beautiful static shots. There's not much action going on. And then I wanted to change the mood of the audience and make it a bit more comedic or make it a bit more joyful and I wanted to show these men going in the water. And they're feeling cold, and, you know, there's a bit of action going on. There's a bit of humor going on, and then I completely changed the soundtrack. And then the whole mood of the video changes. And there's a lot of movement as well because I am on the boat, so you see me moving, you see the camera moving. So that's why this track suited the theme. But if I put a sat track here, the story would be completely different. So you see by changing the music and by changing the cuts and the movements in the video, you can change the emotion, what you want to show to your audience. 9. Music Track Mistakes: So now that we have discussed the importance of music track in a video, let's talk about some of the common mistakes, what people do. People choose their favorite music as I discussed before. Sometimes the music what they use is too loud as compared to the audio from someone talking or audio from the surrounding. That's when the music track becomes a bit more annoying because you can only hear the music, you cannot hear anything else. And all the other things, the sound effects, the ambient noise that also adds up to the emotion of the video. Yeah, the music shouldn't be too loud in your videos. And the next mistake, what people do is using the same music for the entire ten minute video. That makes the entire video really boring. Music gives an emotion to a video. And how you can keep the audience watching your videos is by changing their emotions throughout an entire video, so that it almost looks like you were taking them on a journey where they felt happy, then they felt sad, then they felt inspired, then they felt that peace. And all these emotions you can make them feel is by changing music tracks. And that's exactly what I did in the Varnasi video as well. And that I do in any video, which is more than 30 seconds. I keep changing the music because I want to change the mood of the audience. I want to change the pace of the video, and that you can do with the music. So yeah, don't use the same music for the entire video. Another mistake, abrupt start and end of the music. Here's another example. I made an after movie of an event for a client, and here is another example. So you can watch the soundtracks as well. So here it goes. It would go really quickly, so don't blink. I orchestrated a very unique main character retreat, where I took businesswomen on a journey. So you see, as soon as she starts talking, if I go to the music track here, I put the volume of the music a bit lower. And as soon as she's done talking, I bring it back to where it was at the beginning of the video. These things you can do in any video editing software. So yeah, really don't forget to do that as well. It's a bit of an extra work, but it just takes the video to so next level. But yeah, let's move on to the point, what I came here for. Okay, so right now, it's a very exciting moment because we're going back to Falux kip. So here, if you see, I had this music before, you know, of really fast paced music, and then I wanted to move to a bit more slower paced music, a bit more dramatic music. So here what I did was. This impactful, I let it go out slowly. Okay, so right now it's very excellent. You see this line, what you see, which is like a curve, that is slowly lowering the volume of the music, and it slowly disappears. And at the same time, I'm introducing a new music. So that's also a really cool way by which you can overlap two musics together, you can bring two music tracks together. And the audience wouldn't even notice because if they were quite abrupt like this, then you can hear the if this music ended here and this music started here, let's hear it. Right now, it's a very exciting moment because we're going back to Fox's hip, the big sailboat. D you see how abrupt it looks, even if she's talking, and still here in the background. Let's try it again. Exciting moments, because we're going back to Fox's hip, the big sailboat. This sounds really weird. So that's why if I do this, overlap both the tracks and then slowly reduce the volume of the first one and increase the volume of the second one, that's how you can overlap music tracks. So these are the common mistakes. What every beginner does is that they just abruptly cut the music, and then they abruptly start the next music track. Another mistake, what beginners do is that they listen to the music tracks while editing on a really high quality headphones or high quality speakers. Now, you might be surprised that what am I talking about? Aren't you supposed to listen to what you're editing in high quality speaker and high quality earphones? Yes, you should. But you should also be listening to your video projects on just a normal speaker of the laptop and also a normal speaker on your phone? The reason is that your audience, wherever you load, if it's for a client or if you're going to upload on YouTube Instagram, TikTo whereever people are going to not watch your films on a high quality earphones. They're going to be watching in their television or in the laptop or in their cell phone. And a lot of times, what happens is that if I have the headphones on, then the music track is almost too loud in the headphones, and the audio is not that loud. And when I listen on the laptop or on the phone, the volume which I reduced of the music track, that is almost too low when I'm listening it on a computer. So that's why when I'm editing, I listen on two, three different devices, if it's a really big project, so that I am sure that even if someone consumes on a smartphone or on a laptop, they can still hear all the sound effects, all the ambient noise, and the music track. And the music track is not too loud or the talking part of the subject is not too loud. So yeah,'s good idea to own a good pair of headphones, a good pair of airpods. But, you know, like, honestly, I am just editing on my laptop, and I'm just listening on my laptop because I know that my audience are going to just consume on their phone. So why would I put headphones on and then change the volume every time when I'm getting back on editing with the laptop. So yeah, Editing on a high quality headphones is an optional idea. You don't really have to buy it. You can just edit or use your normal speakers when you're editing. So. 10. Optimising A Music Track For Your Video: Now let's talk about how to use a music track effectively. The first one and the quite obvious ones is cutting the music on the beats. Here are some examples of me. I just edited some videos, and I cut the music on the beat, and they just look so good. Wow. And the second one is, this one is really important. Changing the length of the music according to your video. So let's get back to this after movie, what I made for my client. And let's show you something really cool. We are gonna be going here. Care of them. Here, I'm using this track where I'm showing some B roles, and then there's a voiceover of my client, the person who hosted a retreat. So there's a voiceover of them, and then there's a music track. So what happens is that I want to end this whole sequence of us on the ship, and then I move to somewhere indoors. I wanted to end that in a dramatic way. Then there's a little section in the music track, this section where there is a really cool climax, and the song it ends really good. I wanted the song to ending here. But when I see the actual music track, that portion is not even here at all. So I cut out that portion from where it was. I brought it on my clip. So first, I edited the end pot and it goes with a beat and all the shots are coming on a beat, and then it ends like this. So you see there's like four shots, they go like pamper p and then they end like that. But this music track was not ending at this point. So I edited this part, and then what I did was here, I just go a little bit this way, and then what I do is that I overlap these two tracks. So they are kind of cross fading. This cross fade is an effect which is available in all video editing software. So here, this track cross fades with another time stamp in the audio pot. The deep inner guidance. That's It's gonna change, but you don't really hear it because the audio of the song is already a bit less. And I'm being a little bit sneaky and changing it when she's talking really loud. Say maybe here. Where your message. Let's see if you listen. When we go on a boat, that deeper part of you, it can now come to the surface. And from the experience of the ship and all the love and the way we all to care. You see the music changed, but you don't really feel it. You don't really have that abrupt cut between the different pots of this audio section. So that's what you can do as well, that if you have a climax already in the end, put the sound track at the climax and then go back and then merge the two sound tracks when there is a bit of noise in the video or when your subject is talking so that when you are just playing the video in the background, the music changes, but people don't realize that the music changes. So these are really cool cool stuff, what she can do to take your videos to the next level, and a lot of beginners, they don't do it. So yeah, I think if you learn it and if you implement it in your daily projects, your videos would be already so much better than 99% of the people. 11. Why We Use Ambeint Sounds: The next step is ambient sounds. Along with the music track, something which is really important is the ambient sound. Check out these two videos and then tell me which one you like. Adding a music to a track is nice, but adding ambient sound takes the video to the next level. Usually, I try to record ambient sound with my external mic in my camera so that when I'm editing, I don't have to find certain tracks online. But if it's a drone shot, of course, a drone shot cannot record the sound bytes, so I download those sound bytes from online. So whether it can be from YouTube or I also have subscription from a website called Motion array, so I can download the sound clips from there. And then I add it to my videos. Let me show an example. So here, in my client's video. There is something what I missed here was that during these sections, you see, there's a lot of shot with boat and water and it's super windy. But if you see the audio track, there's only music track and the voice over track. The ambient sound track is missing. What I would do is I would go to motion or YouTube. It's really up to you. So I would search for a sound effect. So what I can search ship. Searching for the sound tracks can also be sometimes I'm going to say frustrating because sometimes what you want to search is just too difficult to find. Are y pirates? Or are y, girls. You see, that's what I'm talking about. Let's say in Finn gusts. So I can do windy Mountains. I think this can go. And then I would also do sea. Because we were in the sea so sea storm. Let's try that. Why not? Let's check out ocean storm. I think I'll go with this. It's not too much. So I would import this in my editing software. Of course, you can do in any editing software as well. And you can also download these for from YouTube. But because I work for my clients or because I have my own YouTube channel, I don't want to get copyrighted strike. Because then I cannot monetize my content or then if my clients if they get some sort of copyright strike, then I have a problem as well. So, that's why I use motion. If you want to know more about motionar, I can put them in the description or you can just ask me in the comments. But yeah, let's try this sound effect. So what I'm going to do. Put it here. Just going to bring it here, or maybe just bring it here a little bit lower. And I would go really low because this is just a background noise. It's not the main audio. So let's go. Let's make it ale bit loud and see how it sounds. A big sail ship, where they experience now. I'll go a little bit lower. Gushing against the ship. You see? Was blowing in their hair. The waves Gush. This is without, and this is with. Where the wind was blowing in their hair, the waves gushing against the ship, and where they could experience space. And just gaze into space because it makes you conscious. See how much difference it's making by just using some ambient noise. Yeah, that's why it's a bit of work, because you already are editing the video. You already found the music track. You already fine tuned everything and now you have to add another audio track that is the ambient sound. Yes, it is a bit of work, but once you put everything together, then the finished product is just top notch. Yeah, ambient sounds are, in my opinion, really, really important. Going to make your life easier. What I usually do is, as I told before, I would just record high quality audio sounds when I'm filming something. So when I started videography, when I didn't have to talk in front of the camera, then I wouldn't record with my external mic or this lab mic. I only used it when I had to talk. But now even if I'm recording an ocean or even if I'm recording a city, I keep my mic on. So my camera when it's recording the video, it's also recording the high quality audio from the surroundings. So then I don't have to make this extra effort to find the music to find the ambient noise track. So, that's also really important to keep in mind. 12. How And When To Use Sound Effects: O Now, let's talk about sound effects. You might have heard sound effects like this, this or this so many times. Trust me, they are just the most overuse things on the Internet. A lot of times beginners, they just don't know when to use them, or they get confused because some videos who use the same sound effects, they get millions of views, and your video is not. So you tend to use them more and more. But there is an not proven fact, but there is a way to use certain sound effects to enhance the storytelling. The first one is the Wooh sound effects. Tank. The 00 sound effects you can use when something is wiping out from the screen, like this. Or you can also use them when you're introducing something in the screen. So his to creating freely to or you can also use them when you're zooming in or zooming out in the video like this video editing. The next sound effect is click. Click sounds like. This, of course, this you can use when you're using a match cut, or when you introduce a film burn like so. The next one is the subrops. They sound like this. You can use them when it's a moment of impact in the video. Or when you want to end the song, but the song track is a bit abrupt, so you can end it with a sub drop. The next one is a riser. A riser sounds like this. When you want to move from one scene to another or when you want to end one scene, then you can use a riser. Let me show an example on the same video where I've used certain sound effects, and that can give you a bit more clarity on when to use or not use. So let's start the video here. Here, there is a reverse Woh sound effect. Let's see how that sounds and Is it even adding anything to the video? Let's start. Sac, I wanted to have a bit of anticipation in the first 1 second for the audience to kind of feel that, Oh, where is this going? Where this going and then boom. And as soon as this boom happens, this reverse wooh happens, then the clip starts. And if it was not there, it would be it would still work, but not that great. You see, there is a little bit of im, more impact in the video. I orchestrated a very unique main character retreat, where I took businesswomen on a journey. So here, I used a sub drop because, of course, the video ended, but I wanted to end the clip. I wanted to have a blackout screen with a bang. And here, you can see that another sound is coming. So this sub drop is also acting as a bridge. So let's hear it again. The sub drop was not there can see. There's not much impact and if I do it. That's when I use sub drop. Then there's another place here where I use another reverse bog because I wanted to cut from one action to the another. This is also called riser, the reverse boe. I wanted to just end the scene really abruptly and then quickly move to the next one and I'll show you how I did it. Well, it's wind 46. We will set sail today at 11 with main character. And So if I didn't have this, then how it would then it would just end abruptly. S today at 11. With main character. It It just shuts down like that. And if I have the audio clip, you can see. Today at 11. With main character. S. You see how much impact it makes by just adding these little sound effects. I also have example of the ooh sound effect. Here is the oh, the fireball transition, what they call. And as soon as this wave goes up, I have put a p transition. CC. Something is passing by on the screen, and then I just use just like a tide. That helps as well. And then we have some similar sound effect at some other places. It is here. So Has to creating free. Has to creating free. So I am introducing my hand in the video. It should be probably here. And as I'm bringing my hands in in the frame, there is a oh sound effect here. So he to creating free to me. You see? So he to creating freely. To make but if it was not there, the video would still look okay. H to creating freely. It just looks like there is something missing. So that's when I put the ooh. H to creating freely. That's how I use the sound effect. But the thing is that if you are not editing videos a lot, if you are just a beginner, it would be a bit more difficult in the beginning. To know when to use what. But the more you do, the more natural it becomes. So yeah. The advice what I would give you in the beginning is that if you're not sure in the beginning, if you should put it or not, don't put it, because chances are that you might be over using them. And later on, I would also give you a complete breakdown of some of my favorite projects. There I would discuss some of the sound effects, what I used. And I would also discuss with you my thought process. So it's a bit more clear to you when to use them and when not. So yeah, that was sound effects for you. 13. Slow Zoom In Technique: The slow zoman technique in video editing is a powerful tool that enhances the emotional and psychological impact of a scene. Here's how it affects the audience. It draws attention. Gradually zooming in directs the viewer's attention to a specific subject, object, a detail, emphasizing its importance. Here's an example of a slow Zoman. I recently made a little short film. Creativity is everything. So here the first scene, I am just sitting, and I wanted to make the scene a bit more powerful, a bit more impactful. I wanted to draw the audience more towards me. I wanted to show them, what am I feeling. So I used a bit of slow zoom in. Creativity is everything. It comes and goes. It's really subtle. It's so subtle like you wouldn't even realize that it's there, but it is there. And there's another zoom in here. More followers, more likes, make money, but even then something still feels missing. We forget why he started this journey. So here, what am I doing is that I didn't zoom in already in the beginning. But as I am looking towards the camera, as the dramatic music becomes more dramatic, as the music becomes more louder, as you can see from my audio track. Here, then I started slowly zooming in to give the audience a bit a bit more idea that something exciting or something interesting is about to happen. Let's check this out again. But even then something still feels missing. We forget why we started this journey. A slow omen, as I mentioned in this chapter, it also helps you to increase the intensity, tension, and suspense in the scene. It also creates a feeling of closeness and intimacy with the character, which was myself in this case. And let me show you how to achieve the slow omen in any software. So I would give an example from the in resolve. Let's take this clip. You know, This is how this clip looks in the beginning. Yeah. What I would do is there's certain thing called key framing. That is available in all the software. What key framing does is that you can save the position and the zoom of a particular video at position A and at position B. At position A, I would leave the zoom to normal zoom like zero or whatever the normal value is and then at position B, I'll increase the zoom. At position A, my zoom value is this, and when I go to position B, then I increase it like this. And then as we are going through the video, See, I didn't put key framing. Here what I would do at the transform section here. I would do a keyframe here and I would reduce it. I would go here. Then as I am going towards the end, I would save the keyframe and slowly zoom in. As we're going through the video, you can see that zoom in happens slowly. It's a bit fast to be honest, which looks a bit more comedic, a bit more too abrupt. I wouldn't make it that abrupt. Now it's going really slow. So you can make it a little bit faster. This is how it's really simple effect, but it just makes the video so much more impactful. Here, it looks good. That's how we can achieve slow zooming, so you need to be using key framing that is available in all the softwares, and you have to choose initial zoom position and the final zoom position. That's when you can achieve this slow zoom in effect. 14. Slow Zoom Out Technique: Slow zoom out effect. The Zoom out technique in video editing is very different than the slow zoom in technique. And here how it affects the audience. Revealing context. Gradually zooming out provides the audience with a broader view of scene, revealing the surrounding and placing the subject with a larger context. It shows the audience the scale of the location or the situation where the character is placed. A slow zoom out can also show isolation and loneliness. A slow zoom out can also give a sense of relief or release, especially after a tense moment as the audience is gradually pulled back from the intensity of the scene. Let me show you an example. So here we're going to the same video. So I showed you that there was a lot of impact, lot of craziness happening there, right, just before I opened my eyes. F. We slept in a world and woke up in another. So you see, there was a lot of chaos happening here here here. Then I show a close up shot, and then slowly I'm zooming out. And this zooming out, it gives a sense of relief that, okay, the tenth moment is over. And after that, I show another close up shot in a completely different environment. And that gives the audience that, Okay, the tens moment is gone. Let's move on to the next scene. This scene is a bit more calm. The music is a bit more hopeful. Suddenly. Disney has no more magic. So, yeah. That was a slow zoom out effect. A slow zoom out effect can also help you to transition to a new scene. It serves as a visual transition to a new scene or setting, smoothly guiding the audience away from the current focus so that they can easily move to the next scene without any distraction. Here's an example for that. So a lot of people, they move out from here. The most famous village, let's take you to a lesser known town elder. This slowly zooming out can also create a sense of detachment, encouraging the audience to not be emotionally connected to the main subject anymore. And how you can achieve the slow zoom out effect is the exact same way, how you did the zoom in effect. You just have to zoom in already in the beginning, and then you zoom out to the end. And then as soon as you play the video, the video kind of slowly zooms out, make sure to put the key frames. 15. Fast Zoom In Technique: Next one, fast zoom in. A fa zooming technique in video editing creates a dynamic and impactful effect on the audience, producing several emotions and psychological responses. It also creates a sense of urgency. In comedy context, a fa zooming can exaggerate the character's reaction or the humorous element in the scene. I've used this technique a lot of times in my vabll videos because we made a lot of mistakes, and after that, we will have this funny reaction, and just when we are giving the reaction, then I would kind of zoom in to our faces to show the audience our reaction. And that became a bit more comedic element in that video. This is how you can achieve a fast zoom in effect. Here, what I also do is that if you don't want to do a fast zoom, you can just do like this. Okay. This is my saddest moment of hole built. We cut it on the wrong side. You see when she says, we cut it on the wrong side, then I'm zooming in, but you can also do Woh zooming. Let's try that. What I would do is select the video clip, then I go to the Zoom section here, and then the position section here. By clicking this diamond, I make sure that whatever changes I'm going to do from here, it would be key framing that motion. Next, what I would do, I would go maybe four frames. Next, or maybe five or maybe six, not too much. And then I zoom in here, and then I bring the subject where she was. Bill. He cut it. So I would reduce the distance between the initial and the final position. So it's three now. So let's see. Both. He cut it on the wrong side. Here, what I can do is that I can also use a woh sound effect or classic. So I can do this effect, maybe. We can use some other ones. We cut it on the wrong side. Here, what I can do is that as I am zooming in, I can also put some blur motion blur. Let's go blur. There is a term called Zoombler in the winter resolve. I'm going to use that and I'm sure it is also in other software as well. Here in the middle, I would use the Zooml to the highest. But if I go here, I would keep the Zoom blur to zero, go here, keep the Zooml zero. Then You cut it on bills. We cut. Yeah, that's how you can achieve the fast zoom in. But of course, I think it's a really short tutorial of how to achieve it. So to really know in depth about that, check out my avente Z of class or CP cut class. But yeah, or you can just search on YouTube about whatever software you're using that how to achieve fast zoom in effect in your software. My job here is to tell you when to use them. So I hope it's clear for you. 16. When To Use Slow Motion: Now, let's talk about slow motion. Slow motion shots are also something that gets overused a lot. However, when should you actually use it? The first one is action scene. Here you can use slow motion to showcase the detail of a fast action sequence. Slow motion allows the audience to see every detail of what is going on. And an action scene not specifically represents, you know, a fighting scene or a crazy stunt. It can also be just someone running, or it can also be some climax of a travel video or someone just doing any sort of active movement in the frame. So that is also considered as action scene because I don't expect my viewers to make a Hollywood movie where they're filming someone playing with a sod. So yeah, slow motion can also be used in dramatic moments. Here you can use slow motion to emphasize a particular emotion or a dramatic content, such as characters reaction or an important event happening in the video. So let's take an example of a travel video. So if you're doing a hike, and if you reach, you know, to the lookout point, then you can show the slow motion shots of your reaction, of how the entire place looks, because that is kind of a climax of a travel video. Or if you're making an Instagram reel and if something really significant happens, or if something really important happens, that is showing the character's reaction, that's when you can use slow motion. Slow motion can make the audience feel the weight of the moment more deeply. I see a lot of travel videographers or anyone just making a normal reel or a tik talk, just because their camera can film in ultra slow motion, they would show the video in slow motion. I have been guilty of that. When I bought my first Sony camera, it could film in a crazy slow motion and I would use slow motion all the time. But now that I am growing more as a filmmaker as a creator, now I realize that when is it really necessary and when is it not? 17. Why Use A Timelapse : Speaking of or using something, I've also seen a lot of people over using time lapses. I have done it a lot. Wherever there would be a nice sunset or I see clouds moving or I see people moving, I would just set my tripod for half an hour. I'll make a time lass and I'll put that in my videos. And I would be like, Oh, wow, this looks so beautiful. But in the end, it's not impressive for my audience because there is no sort of connection of my audience to the time lapse. It's just things moving. It's cool. The clouds are moving. You see the sun coming up or sun going down. It's really cool. But is it adding anything to the story? If not, then don't use it. Now I'm going to talk about when you should even actually use the time lapse. A time lapse can be used to show the passage of time. So if you are building something or if you are waiting for a sunrise or waiting for or if you're just waiting for something, or if you want to just show the passage of time stead of putting a text in the video 2 hours later or 5 hours later, you can just put a time lab. Because time labs is, of course, showing a change in the frame in one single frame. That also represents the change in the moment. For example, if you're making a time laps of a crowded street in the city. In the beginning, it was not that packed. But then later in the timelaps you see that the street is getting packed, packed packed. And that kind of represents that the city is coming to life. The city is transforming from sleep to awake. The city is getting busier. So that's also showing the audience that moment that initially was come Slowly we are moving to the chaos of the city. I now usually use the time lapses at the end of the day. So if I want to show the audience that I'm moving from one day to another, I would just put a time lapse of a sunsetting or I would make a time lapse of, you know, a shot which is lit up, and then later it becomes dark and then the night, and then later on, I show another shot of the next day. So that's when time lapse can also be used when you're transitioning from one day to another. A time lapse can also be used as a transition clip. Say, for example, if you're at a particular location, and the next shot is a shot from a completely different location. So what you can do is you can put a time lapse in between those locations, and that time lapse would show that now we are transitioning from this scene to the next. So that's when time lapse can be used. Nobody cares how long it took you, to make those time lapses. Unless it's a time lapse movie, or unless there is something really crazy transformation happening in the video. Other than that, nobody cares how long it took you to film the time lapse or how beautiful you think it looks. As long as it's not really making the story go forward, it's a waste. In the beginning, I remember when I started making travel videos, I would just put the tripod anywhere and make time lapse. And my girlfriend at that time, wife now, she would be just so annoyed that again, another time lapse, another time lapse, it's not even looking pretty dy, like, why? And at that time, I was just so blinded by the cinematography, what I was learning that Oh, it's gonna look so cool. But yeah, in the end, no. Those are things what you learn when you evolve as a videographer as a filmmaker. So, yeah, guys don't overuse time lapses. 18. How To Emphasise Important Moments: Now we have discussed different types of editing techniques, different types of cuts, different types of shots you can do to tell a better story. Now let's talk about how to even edit to tell a better story or how to use certain tricks to convey the emotions even ten times stronger to the audience. Let's start. So the first tip is, pause the music when something funny or something important happens. Let me show you an example. Million thousand. And now. Go. Oh. Sh. Oh, really? Our drill broke. As you saw the example, I would show you the timeline view of this as well. So let's play it again. Oh, my girls. What? What did he do? I'm in the freaking table. Oh. So just to give you a little context, we were building our van. And it happened with us a lot of times that every time we were cutting something, we would also cut the table instead of the wood. So that's what happened as well. So in the beginning, I'm showing that, you know, everything is just super casual. We're building, the process is going on, and there's a nice and fun music playing. But as soon as my wife cuts the table, there I pause the music, and I'm telling the audience, hold on, hold on, hold on. Something really stupid happens. So let's watch. So that's what is happening. But you saw the first type, what I did. But now if we just continue playing the music, and if I just reduce the volume, now let's see if that moment is still impactful or not. Oh, my girls. What? What did you do? I'm the freaking table. In my opinion, it's not. It is still funny, but if I cut the music out, that really tells the audience Wait. Something really crazy happened. You have to pay attention. I can give you another example as well. So here what's happening is we are casually just insulating our van, and then my wife says something funny. That's what we thought that is funny. So then I pause the music. Is building pamper. This has to go really good. That's. Yeah. Yeah. No, this will keep us warm in the winter. So as soon as she's saying, this will keep us warm in the winter, that's like a sarcasm. So then I pause the music because I want the audience to really focus on what she's saying and really interrupt the pattern of building the v. And then I also use this in effect, what I told you before, that if something important is happening or if you want to grab audience's attention, then you can use this zoom in effect. So yeah, you can use this technique as well. Pause the music or pause any other sound effect which is going on when something funny or important or sad happens in the video because that really grabs the audience's attention and that makes the whole emotion ten times more. 19. How To Make Smooth Cuts: The next step is, use similar movements in each shot. Of course, you don't have to use similar movements throughout the entire film, but if you use similar movements in the next four to five shot, the whole sequence, it looks really impressive. Let me show you an example. So here if you see in this video. These are all static shot. Yeah. And here I'm in the process of making the storyboarding shot, and I'm saying something dramatic or emotional in the background. And in every shot, I'm using the slide zoom in effect. Because if I just keep the shot static, it just looks a bit boring. So I wanted to use a slight zoom in effect, and I'm using that zoom in throughout the entire sequence from here to here. So let's check that out. I mean in the first place, let's embrace the ups and downs. And in those moments of inspiration, let's make something that truly matters. There is a really slight zoom in. I think there's no zoom in in this frame. So that's why it looks a bit weird. But there is a really slight zoom in in each frame as we pass through the video. You can see here, the zoom is at one, and if I go until the end of the scene, the zoom is at 1.34. Speaking of similar movements, I have another really cool shot, really cool video that I want to show you. Let's go back to the Varnas video. And here there is a sequence. Yeah. This is a temple. And this is the first shot of this temple. And I'm showing a wide shot, later on, I want to bring the audience in the temple. So what am I doing? Let's play this. So, there is a pushing shot going on in this frame. So, in those three to four shots, they all had really similar movements, where I was pushing in. And that push in also means that I'm bringing the audience to something significant in the video. So that was a really great example of using similar movements in the shot. And then later on, I show them everything, you know, what is going on, what process is going on in the temple. And once I am done, showing them all the process, then I'm zooming out. And in the next two, three shots, it's all zoom out. So let's watch that. So here I'm going out of the emotion, going out of the sheet. Oh Oh Sac. Here, what I did was I used a zoom in technique, you know, similar zoom in movement in each shot and zoom out as well. So yeah, these are kind of similar movements you can also use to make a smooth transition to make the video look a bit more intentional. Because you cannot just put shots after another and after another and then nothing there's no relation between the first scene and the next scene and the next scene. Everything has to be super intentional, and that's how you can tell a really good story to your audience. Yeah. Using similar movement in each shot as much as possible makes the video look much better. 20. Changing An Emotion In A Video: So the next point what I'm going to discuss, I also discussed with you when we were talking about the JCOT, is that when you're playing a sequence, you know, if I'm talking to you. And then I already start a fun music or a dramatic music, even before I disappear from the frame that already tells the audience that something fun is about to happen. That's the same example what I gave on a bike video that let's go on an adventure. And as soon as I tell that, the fun music already starts and the drone shots, they come later. So this fun music already builds up an anticipation, but it also gives a good feeling to the audience that, Oh, wow, something fun is about to happen. And they use a lot of times in movies or even really or even good Tubes, they use this technique as well, that they start the music already before showing the B roles, just to let the audience know that something fun is coming. So yeah, a lot of times you can use this technique as well that start the music already before showing the B roles. 21. Contrast Editing: O Contrast editing. I know a lot of you might not have heard this term before. But let me explain, and then it would make more sense. Contrast editing is what I did in the intro of this class. Let's show you video editing. It's something often overlooked by beginners. So what happened in the first frame? In the first frame, Video there's no sound effects underneath just this one here, but it's almost disappearing. There's nothing going on. There's just me with this frame. And then after a sound effect, there's some craziness happening. Editing. It's something Another clip, which has no sound effects underneath this. And then as soon as I tell that, another craziness happens. Think often overlooked by beginners. No. And this craziness happens until this point. And transitions. And definitely not how to edit. This is exactly what I meant by contrast editing. Contrast is a difference between two things. So here we're talking about difference between two different types of scenes, two different types of emotions. The first emotion, what I want to show you in this video is a raw emotion, where I'm talking to you face to face, straight in this camera, without any effects, without any craziness going on. That is a super calm moment. And as soon as I finish my sentence, there's bum. There's craziness happening. There's so many different types of fast cut, so many sound effects. The music picks up, and then everything goes, goes, goes, peaks up, and then bom You have this shot again. And why am I even using this to grab viewers attention. By changing the monotonous tone of the video, I change the emotion, what my viewers go through. And because there is calmness and chaos and calmness and chaos, it really hooks viewers to watch it more. Because imagine you are watching something and it has the same tone, same pace over and over. How long can you watch it for? And then at a point, of course, you're going to get bored, and that's when you can use contrast editing. And this happens a lot of times in movies as well that they show a crazy action scene And then later on they show something really calm. And then the crazy action theme starts again, and then something calm. And that is just to show, just to grab the viewers attention. Later on, I'm going to give a full breakdown of this intro video because I think there is like the whole course is on one side and this entire breakdown. If you just listen to me really carefully, then I can show and discuss with you my entire thought process of why I use certain sound effects, why I used certain cuts, and when you can use them too. So you can get a lot of inside, lot of information when I give you the complete breakdown of this intro video, and then I'll give a breakdown of another short film what I made. So that would be really helpful. But yeah, let's move on to the next step. 22. The Overuse Of B-Rolls: The next hip is, I think I've also discussed previously is beautiful drone shots, time lapses, beautiful be roles. They serve no purpose if they are not moving the story forward. I am, of course, guilty of this because I'm a videographer. And when I got my first ron or when I bought a new camera, would want to show the audience something really cinematic, something which looks really beautiful. But in the end, they were just shots. They were really there was no emotion. There was no purpose of that shot, and they were not really moving the story anywhere. And that's what a lot of beginners do. They make this mistake is they put the drone shots for maybe too long or the time lasts for maybe too long, or the beat roles, what they think is really beautiful for too long. And that's when they lose the attention of the audience. Yeah, if all the beautiful shots you have, if it's not moving the story, there's no purpose of you putting them in in the final film. 23. What Are Transition Clips: Next one, transition clips. These are the clips which help viewers move from one scene to another. Let me give an example of the bike review video. Or in your apartment, and that would barely take any space. The DI UC two has three levels. In this video I, my goal is to, you know, advertise this bike, you know, as good as possible, and I'm talking about different different features. But to make the video not boring, I want to talk about those features at different different locations. Because in general, I really like filming outdoors and I really like outdoor shots with natural light. If I'm testing out an e bike, so what better? Why would you sit inside your garage or B at one place and show. That was my goal that talk about the features of the bike and also show beautiful shots at the same time. But then the features, I wanted to talk at different different places. But if I just talk about one feature and then immediately cut to me at a completely different scene and talking about different feature, it would just look so abrupt. That's when I put transition clips. All these drone shots, what you saw, I can maybe mark them in yellow or so. All these shots, what you saw, they are transition clips. There's also transition music. It's still the emotion of the video is not changing. The tone of the video is not changing, but just to avoid this abrupt change from one scene to another, I use transition clips, and that would barely take any space. So you saw the transition clip. But now what I'm going to do? I'm going to delete that. And then let's see me talking here and then see how abrupt it looks. So let's play it again. Your apartment, and that would barely take any space. The DVI you C two has three levels of pedal It looked so weird that I was just here, and then bump. I'm at a completely different location talking about a completely different subject. It's still about the bike, but a completely different feature. Let's watch it again. Comp back and just put it in some corner in your apartment, and that would barely take any space. The see Tracy, it makes the video a bit more boring because even if it's a review video, I'm still telling a story about my adventure. So I want to show audience like, how did I even ended up here. So that's when I put the transition put it in some corner in your apartment. And these transition clips are showing to the audience that I'm transitioning from one location to another. So the transition clips are also really important, especially when you are filming a travel blog or when you are showing, you know, any Even when you're filming a documentary, transition clips are really important. And transition clips, they also set the mood about how the video is to the audience. And that's why it's really important when you are filming at a location, film a lot of B roles. It's always good to have a lot of footage then to have less footage. Even if you end up not using all the B roles, it's still really handy because now at least you have a lot of options to choose from. And that's what I do as well. Whenever I'm filming something, I film a lot of B roles, I film a lot of drone shots, I film a lot of time lapses. And then I put them in the video, and then I see if they're really serving the purpose of showing the audience that we are transitioning from one place to another, then I'll put the B roles, and if not, then I wouldn't. But yeah, that's when transition clips are really handy. 24. Focused Framing: Focused framing. I gave you this example in the match cut shot as well. When I flip the video of opening the door, and that is a great example of focus framing. Focus framing is something that keeps the main subject of interest on a similar spot in the frame in each shot. And that would help the audience not move around. So I'll give you another example. If you see here, the main subject is somewhere in the center. Here, as well, the main subject is somewhere in the center. Here, everything is in the center. Here, as well, everything is almost in the center. Here as well, things are in the center. I'm not telling you to put everything in the center because this is a great example. So here you can see that my feet is towards the left side of the frame. And then here as I'm entering, I'm also on this line. I'm not in the center. And then I go here, here, you can see that I'm also on the left side of the frame. So that is kind of keeping the eyeballs of the audience towards the left side of the frame because they know that something is happening on that side. So I just need to focus on that side. Check the next frame. I'm also doing something on the left side of the frame. And then here, you see the coffee changes. To make something. And here it looks a little bit weird. So what I would do, let's flip it and see. Okay to make something that mean. It looks more smooth in my opinion. So that's also mistake, what I did. So now when I'm going back again, then I see that, oh, the focused attention changed. So and I'm going back here. So my attention was here. Then you go to next frame, attention is here again. Yeah, those are the things what you should also keep in mind when you are making a video that keep the focus of the audience. Try to keep it as much as possible at the same place of the video. The next tip is Kill darlings. Koings is a really special term used in filmmaking. This is a term which means that if I've told you before as well, but I didn't really define it, but now let me define it. Kilo dings is something where if some scene or some act is not really adding to the story, stick it out. The main goal of a video editor should be to cut down as much as possible that in a short amount of time, you can give as much emotion as much information to the audience. Because now we are living in a day and age of attention. If people lose attention, it would almost be considered as an unsuccessful video. So that's why Kilo Darlings is really important, at least in this day and age. It doesn't matter how dear that scene is or that emotion is to you. If it's not adding to the film, take it out. 25. Why You Should Edit Before You Film: O And now, the last tip is edit before you film. I know you might be thinking that, how can I even edit before I film because I don't even have the footage. But write the storyboards. Already, if you want to use match cut, already plan all the cuts that I'm going to use this cut here at this scene. So that's how I should film it so that the cut is easier. For example, the match cut what I did when I was in my living room, and then I matched cut myself to outside. Of course, I planned it. I planned the exact frame, I planned the exact dialogue, and that's why in post, it looks nice. Also, the match cut, what I did when I close the door of my garage, and then I slam the book on the table. Of course, I planned it. I planned all the sound effects, what I'm going to put, and that's why it looks really smooth. Like all these short films, what I do. I plan every cut, I plan the sound effects. A lot of times they work, sometimes they don't work, so I film it again. So yeah, edit before you film, and that would take you. That would already separate you from 99% of the filmmaker of content creators out there. But of course, if you are filming Run and gun videos, a lot of times it happens with me as well that if I'm filming for a client, I know the theme of the event, I know what is going to happen. But I don't really know there's no storyboard there's not really much planning. So there you cannot do much about, you know, planning beforehand. But yeah, if you're making a short film or if the film is in your control, then really plan out these cuts, and then then film according to that. So that's what I meant by editing before you even film. Of course, with the Run and gun, the more you film, the more experience you gain, and then you can already edit while you are filming because a lot of times now it happens with me with making travel blocks is that even if I don't plan anything, if I'm at the location, it really clicks super quickly to me that, Oh, at that position, I can do a lot of match cuts. If I see all the buildings there aligning together, I can do a lot of match cuts there, or I can do a JCAt there, I can do an Ecat here. So yeah, the more you film, the more awareness you have, that when can you use witch cut when you're already filming at the location. So a lot of times, I'm filming and I'm already editing in my brain that h, like when I'm actually editing, I would do this, I would do this. So to do this, I need this shot, so I would immediately get that shot. But yeah, don't get frustrated. It really comes with time. So all you have to do is that just film more edit, more and then repeat, film edit, repeat. Keep going, and of course, you would be a great, great video creator, great great filmmaker. Yeah, those are the few tips that you can use in your videos to take them to the next level. I can guarantee that if you do them more and more and more, you would be so good in no time. So yeah, if you have any questions about the class, let's leave them down in the comments. We're not done yet, but if you have any questions, let's leave them down in the comments. And of course, if you have any confusion about this class, just watch it again because I have named the chapter separately, and all the chapters are so clear naming wise that if you feel lost or if something is not clear, just go watch it again, and it would be clear. And if you want to re learn video editing, I have made an entire course on the inter resolve, and also on CAPCOT. But yeah, now is the fun time. In the next section, I'm going to give you a complete breakdown of two videos. Let's start that. 26. Editing Breakdown - Part 1: So this is the intro video, which I'm really proud of, it took me a lot of time to film it. But as I told before that I would use the contrast editing technique in this video. So I already planned everything that all the yellow marked clips would be the clips with no sound, and all the blue ones would have some sort of be role. So the first shot, what you can see here is that there's a bit of blur, and the footage is already zoomed in, and if I move I'm just moving one frame at a time. On the fourth frame, I already have my self just talking normally. And why I did that, that was to grab audience's attention. I am almost treating this video as a short form video because Skillshare is also a platform where you have to really grab and impress people already in the beginning so that they can end up watching the entire class, because I know this class is good, but if I have a really bad introduction, they would be like, this class is not worth my time. So that's what I wanted to show them as well. But these are things what you can learn with editing. So that's what I use. I am zoomed in at 1.550 here. And I put a key frame, what I discussed before you can use key frames in any software, you know. And then after fourth frame in 0.5 seconds, I'm already back to here. And that already grabs the audience's attention. The video doesn't starts just super casual. There is a bit of like bomb. Let's go. And to compliment this effect, I've also used Woche sound effect. So let's just play it quickly. Video editing. So there's no music here, me saying video editing because that's exactly what is the topic of this class. So we go. Video editing. And here, as soon as I say video editing, people would think that I'm just going to say something, but bomb, some other clip starts. Here, as soon as that clip starts, I am using another wooh sound effect because I'm using this overlay. All these overlays are in the description. This overlay in a normal life, it looks like this. It's just a black screen with a light going from left to right. Yeah. But I wanted to show, I wanted to transition from this scene to this scene with some effect because this is a completely different setting, this is a completely different setting, completely different mode. I wanted to quickly move from here to here. That's why I use this fire flame here. All these overlays, how you can use it is, I can bring them to the timeline. Then in the view mode or in the composite mode, you can change the opacity to screen. This is possible in CC, FCP, final cut Pro, and Premier Pro as well. But if you're using Davin, you can just follow the same thing what I As this is going, I'm using the wooh sound effect. And as everything is going on, I'm using this dramatic music already. So this music already comes in as soon as there is Wooh and this and this fire flame. So it doesn't really look like super abrupt. The music already enters the video, and we don't even realize it because of all these effects. Let's watch it. Video everything. So as I'm showing these B rolls, there's still more effects going on. So here, as soon as my hand enters the frame, I'm using this oh sound effects as well. So Wooh is a sound effect, which is commonly used, but there are so many varieties of bohes. So that's what you have to experiment and keep trying on your videos and see which one matters the best. And the more you do it, the more you would know that, oh two is looking good there, oh ten is looking good. So yeah, the more you use it, the more you would know, and all these things are available for download. So as soon as I bring my hand in, I am using another whoosh effect. And then in the next shot, as I'm clicking the mouse, I'm using actually a mouse click effect, which is this one. So in each scene, there is things going on. So here, my goal was to move really quickly to impress the audience with the sound effects, and obviously that I am coming back to my desk and turning on the editing software. As you can see here, it's not a coincidence that the music is over here. I chose this music specifically because this music has this thing that for a few seconds, it goes crazy and then bump, it's dropped down. Then the music here continues. You see the music here continues, but I have cut it out. I've cut the music out here already. And then started the second part of the music here. So yeah, that's how you can also manipulate the soundtrack. That's a good part about, you know, learning videography and learning any editing software is that you don't have to just use the music as how it is. You can just manipulate so much. And then here I'm coming back to the screen again. It's something often overlooked by beginners. And you see what I'm doing here. So I'm saying it's something often overlooked by beginners. I'm trying to really emphasize on that thing. And as I'm saying that, I'm slowly zooming in. So if you see the zoom bar here, it's something often overlooked by beginners. So I'm not doing crazy zoom in, but I'm still zooming in here, and you can see here, I'm using a JCT. As soon as I say look by beginners. As my beginners S is over. I'm already starting the music, so I'm not letting the audience even time to think. And as soon as one sentence is over, the music pom starts again. And here, I took some screenshots of some editing projects, and I have put them one after other for three frames. And as soon as they are going I have made a compound clip. So if I do decompose clips, you see, they are just for three frames, three frames, cut cut cut. Here, what I did was, I went a lot of times back and forth that how long these clips would be. Sometimes I made them long. It looked a bit boring. So then I kind of shorten it down, shorten it down, and then I saw that when is the point where I can just keep them next to each other and it looks really cool. And three frames was a good number. So you see 123 after every three frame of screen shots changes, one to three. And what am I also doing that because these are just screenshots. So I made a compound clip, I put them together. As the video passes, I'm slowly zooming in. So it's like similar movement in each shot. You see, it's similar movement in each shot, and that movement is carried in the next shot. You see here, also, it's just a static shot. I'm still zooming in, and that zoom in continues. And of course, I use some click effect, you know, that's all the description as well. Because at each cut in these kind of videos, if you're using some sort of sound effect, the cut looks more intentional. And a lot of times these cuts they don't even have to be realistic. Woh is not a realistic sound effect of me bringing my mouse in, but we use it because it just looks nice and it looks super exaggerated. But it looks really cool when you are putting them together. But yeah, it's more about trial and error. And here I'm just using nothing special. I'm just zooming in in each frame. So this also, I already decided that I would do some jump cuts, you know, and I have this RGB light, so I can change the color of the light, and I can use t it almost looks like a photo frame. It has no purpose. It's just to make the video interesting, and it also matches with the tune of the video. So what happened was here, there was a lot of titi, a lot of craziness going on. Then there were some static shots, some sort of rest. Some sort of rest, and here, again, as the music picks up, another craziness happens. Another fast cuts happen. And slowly, I introduced the timeline. So the timeline of video editing software. It almost looks like as I'm editing, the timeline of the video appears here. So I'm using this fade in effect, you know, this video, because if it was coming abrupt, it would look like this. You see? But if I use a fade in effect, I sort of fades in the frame like this. But it should already stop here. No, I'm not talking about learning a new I would just go No, I'm not here my voice over still goes on and I have reduced the volume of the music. This is also, you have to be really mindful that the volume shouldn't go too low that the audience cannot hear anything, but it shouldn't go too high that the audience cannot hear your voice. Yeah, keep the volume at really optimal level, and you can obviously wear nice headphones. You would see that the volume is different if I wear my airpods. Music volume is almost too high as compared to real life. But if I use my just laptop speakers, the volume is almost really good as how it is in the smartphone. So that's why I edit on the speaker as well. So I really be mindful of how high is the volume of the audio of the character, the vocals, and the volume of the background music. About learning a new video editing software. Nor about those flash. So I'm still using some sound effects. So here I'm using a click because it's a mouses. Learning a new. So it almost looks like it's happening in real life. Video editing software. And as soon as this goes small, I'm using another oh effect. Now video editing software. Nor about those flash. And as soon as I'm clicking on this, I'm using a click effect. Flashing? Like a camera click, I think, The effects and transitions. And here, I'm using a riser called reverse crank Bell, because as soon as I'm going back here, the music goes up up up, but I want to bring it back to our first scene, so I go like so it grabs the audience's attention as well and that really this sound effect really helps to end the chaos and move to the next scene. And ti. And if I get rid of this sound effect, let's check it out. Transition. And tiff. It looks a bit more abrupt, but when you go with the sound effect, it sounds so good transition. And definitely not how to edit a video faster. And as I am saying my last words here, I'm already putting this, another type of wooh effect here. And this is again, acting as a JCOt that something crazy is about to happen, and I already start when I'm talking to you. And this oh also helps me to bring this music quietly without any abruptness. A video faster. So you see Wooh kind of brings like pomp. Let's go again. It a video faster. What I'm talking about is the t. Here is just a voice over the music and some Ra. So these are all B. Lot of storytelling through editing. How to evoke emotions. Capture interest. And here I had nothing in my stock left of how can I move from this scene to another? So I use like a camera shutter, click speed, click camera shutter, you know, noise effect, sound effect. And then I use this film burn transition. So you can also check in the folders, what is given film burn transition. Of course, I used the composite mode as screen. And ultimately increase viewer. So you see when I'm saying, ultimately, increase viewers attention because that's really important to you all. So then I kind of slowly zoom in. And here it goes again after this viewers attention. Today, I'm going to share with you the editing Here I'm zooming out. Today, I'm going to share with you the editing secret in eat scene, I'm zooming. That will transform your videos. My name is Adising. For the last seven years. I worked as a professional videographer. Here, I didn't use this trast effect because I thought that it was getting too repetitive and too obvious for the audience. So here I'm just introducing myself, so I don't have to be Oh, my name is Adising, I'm this. Like, I can also just say casually. So that's what I'm doing is slowly introducing me casually in the scene. Is for the last seven year. With the theme of the video going on, I'm not stopping anything. H I worked as a professional videographer and a video. Here is just voice over, some music you see. And what happens is, I have to end the music track here on this node. So I already put this clip here, and then I was going backwards. While going backwards, I found a nice place where I can just cross fade these the same sound tracks, but a different position together, and my audience wouldn't even notice that the tracks are overlapped. So if I put it at somewhere where I'm saying something loud or saying a full sentence, you wouldn't even notice that the tracks are overlapping each other. Videos. My name is Adisin. For the last seven years, I've worked as a professional videographer and a video to see you don't notice anything. You editor. Throughout my creative I've grown to about 96 So here I'm showing my subscriber account, and I search for a sound effect called Price heel. So I have the subscription from a website called motion array, but there are tons of websites where you can get the sound effects and music subscription, or you can also check on YouTube. If I do price heel sound effect on YouTube, it's there as well, and there are so many ways to download YouTube videos and audio. So here, yeah, as the counter is going up and up, I use the price feel, you know, in casino, that sound effect. I've grown to about 96,000 subscribers on YouTube. And I have over 35,000 students here on Skillshare. And that and as soon as bum. So here the music track is intentional. I know that it stops really nicely here, obviously in the original track. So that's why I put it there. On Skillshare. And that you saw the bum. And then the quietness is super obvious. Friends, it's not by chance. And this as well, I already knew in the music track that that's a nice place to start a powerful, you know, scene. So yeah, if you want to use your music track to listen it a lot of times, so then you would know that which part of that track, you can use it when. And that would be really helpful. I use many editing cri. And here I'm cutting on the beat. It is from the creative video, what I'm going to show you next. I use many editing. It really yeah, it's really nice to cut on the beats because that kind of makes the music almost look like the music was meant to be on these videos. I use many editing cricks and techniques that capture as you can see here, I'm really smoothly increasing the volume of the music track, and then reducing it as I'm starting to talk. So here I'm starting to talk. The track volume goes down, down, down, down. And then here it goes a little bit up, a little bit. Activate my audience's attention and keep them watching until the end. Teach you in this class. And here, I had to, of course, end on this note, what I'll show you what I mean by that. I wanted this sound to be here. So I put that sound here, and then I went backwards. I had to put this sound here, and I had to put this sound there, you know, this By chance. And then I had to put this in the end. Tart it with this class. The end I wanted to be here. I put a little clip of this track like this, a little clip of this track like this, and I brought them together somewhere in the middle and just overlap them, and it can be overlapped as I told before, when we are talking and audience wouldn't realize. By the end it was nothing really crazy. Here what am I doing is That's exactly zooming out, what I'm going to teach you in this class. We'll explore this. I'm slowly introducing all the editing craziness, what is going on. And then here I am. So if I disable this, I'm just making it look like I'm looking at the screen, you know, editing like this. But in reality, the camera is here. There's no screen there. And I have put these clips. But what I've done is I've reduced the opacity. It almost looks like the camera is behind the screen and it's filming the screenshot of the video of the video editor, and it's also filming me. Different types of editing techniques, sound design, and I have obviously done some movement as well in the screenshots. Nine. It's actually video screen recording. All the editing secrets used in films and viral videos. So if that intrigues you, then let's get started with this class. 27. Editing Breakdown - Part 2: O This video is completely different because this is just like a simple shot film, and I'll give you a little bit of context. In this video, I want to start as a bit of not sad theme, but a bit of low theme in the beginning. And then here, I am transitioning from a not happy creator to be building something, to be making something, and then in the end, I am actually doing what I said that I am a bit down that I cannot do that. So it's like a kind of motivational video. In the beginning, it's a bit of sad kind of vibe, and then it becomes more inspirational, more motivational. The energy picks up later. So let's start here. Creativity is everything. It comes and goes. So here, what I did was, yeah, first seen as just me just zooming in slowly in the video. And then as soon as this wave starts. There's just a sound effect here. Pump and this sound effect continues for a few seconds, I think four to 5 seconds. And then as soon as the wave starts, I use the underwater sub crisp. This is the sound effect of the ocean waves, and this is the sound effect of just an impact sound effect. It comes and goes. Just like a t. As soon as the wave goes up like a wipe transition, I'm using another fireball sound effect. So I would link them down as well to transition this back to me and my studio. Sometimes we find ourselves caught up in trying to press. So here I'm showing that I'm watching reels, and I'm also playing, you know, audio from the real. What am I watching. Caught up in trying to press people. So that's why it's really important when you're editing any film is that give as many ambient sounds necessary as well, so that it really looks to the audience that it's almost real because here I'm watching the reel. So I almost want to, you know, give the audience the feeling of how they hear when they're swiping up and changing the reels, so the sound effects comes one after another. So that's what he can do here as well. Get more followers, more like. So this is just I can explain to you the track. This is the video track. This is the audio from this video, but there's not much sound going on. And this is the voiceover, and this is the pulsing sound of this music. So I purposely chose this a bit of sad music. And here, as you can see, this sad music is kind of transitioning into a little bit of not that sad music. If you now you pay attention, then you would hear. Make money. But even then something still feels missing. It's a bit of hopeful music. The first one was a bit more completely depressing. Now, the pace of the video is really picking up, and you can see in the upcoming clips that there's a bit more action going on, the cuts are becoming a bit more faster. We forget why he started this journey. It wasn't for the numbers or the mou. It was to express ourselves. So here I'm making a coffee. That's the video of the coffee. That's the audio of the coffee machine. That is really important. And then the voiceover and the music, nothing really crazy going on. So it almost just looks like a normal film. Not much craziness as the previous video of what I showed you. Express ourselves. Rep with pots, to make something that means a lot to us. And today, I want to change that. As soon as I say, and today, I want to change that. I want the shot to be changed, and I want the music to be changed. And here, when I was listening to the music, I saw that there's a moment where the whole tone and the pacing of this music changes, and that's when I want to transition from this coffee making to my office and to do some change with my life. Because that's what I say that I want to change it. And that's why I put this music here at this exact point. I want to change that. So you see, just when the happens, I get back to work. I'm in the flow, you know, I I make something without any borders, without worrying, if it's trending, or if it even looks good on my portfolio. I make something that comes from my heart with the same spot. The cuts are really normal. I'm just, you know, filming from different different angles to keep the video interesting because if I just do maybe three shots, it would look really boring because the audio the voiceover is also kind of mellow. The pace of the video is not really changing drastically. So my main goal here was to grab audience's attention by showing different different clips, you know, Then here the paper comes out of the printer and I have the click as well. As soon as I press print, there is a small mouse sound effect. So all these little things that make the entire video super impactful. So his to creating free. So you see here, my hand enters the frame, and then there's a ooh sound effect. In free. To make something true to ourselves. Let's remember in the first place. And here I told you before I'm using, like, a slow zooming movement in the first place. Let's embrace the ups and downs. And in those moments of inspiration, let's make something that truly matters. You see, there is an overlay here because I had this certain change in pace of this sound effect of this music track here. I wanted to really put it at this point because here I'm moving to outdoors and I wanted the music pace to be changed to have a different emotion. Then I used already overlay here so that later it looks really smooth. This I showed you before as well when I was talking about the machca transition. And to compliment this movement, I'm also, of course, using a oh effect, you know, and then here is the bicycle chain sound. And you see, this is not the sound from this exact video because this is 546, this is 554. But I had a similar music audio track from some other clip and that I used here. And you see, you have to edit video until this much detail. Here, the track is a bit more higher. The volume that was already in the audio track. And as the bicycle goes further from me, you don't really hear the sounds of the gear of the chains anymore. And that looks really realistic because if this was at the same level, then you would always hear on the same level and then it would look like that you're using some sort of sound effect. Now that this volume reduces by itself, it almost looks like, Okay, yeah, of course, the bike is going further away, so you cannot really hear the sound of the chains. So you have to edit the video until this much detail if you really want the whole film to stand out. Let's create something meaningful. And as I told before, as well, that I'm smoothly, you know, reducing the volume of the audio, and then when I'm doing the voice over. And all these little tracks here, they are the sound from the original video because I wanted the audience to know as well that they are with me, you know, they are in this jungle in this forest with me. That's who we are, something that makes us. And as soon as I pass the frame here, I have put another wooh effect. You see I am going in this direction and in the next scene, I am also going in this direction. But here, it looks a bit weird because here I'm going away from the frame, and here I am going towards the frame. But there is one thing in common is, you see I'm going this way, then I go there. One common is that the whole camera is moving towards the frame. Here, also, the camera is moving towards the subject. Sorry. So let's look at it again. That reflects the camera is moving towards the subject. Something that. And here, even if I'm entering the frame, the camera is still moving towards me. Big. And there were similar kind of match cut, you know, that I'm going this way, and then here also, the match cut happens. So here I just had to cut the video down because the entire step of taking my bag out and walking to the location where I wanted to do something was taking long. So I just did like a just abrupt cut, cut here, cut here, cut here, cut here. And here I wanted this sound of this music track to be here. So I, of course, you know, cut it already before, just blended it together. And the blended really good. So you have to also, kind of move them around and see where I can blend them together, so it looks really snow. You see you can also hear the forest in the background. Creativity is everything. And today, I choose to create with all my heart. So you see here, something significant is happening cause here I'm happy. And here, suddenly I become worried. And as soon as I become worried, the music is out. The music is over. So that tells the audience, Oh. Why is the music out? What's going on? And next, you can see what's going on. And here, I didn't put any sound effect, raw emotion, raw sound effect, raw sounds from that place, raw sound of me doing. That's it. And then I put another kind of impact sound effect when the text appears. Yeah, you can watch this video again and again and get more insight. Of course, every time you watch it, you're going to be seeing something new. That was a breakdown of the second video. 28. Outro: Was it from this master class, and I hope that you got a lot of value. Again, if you like the class, just give a review and you can give your honest feedback if I have to improve something, if I want to teach something else on Skillshare, please give me some suggestions as well so I can make them in the upcoming classes. But, I hope that enjoyed this class, and yeah, don't forget the class project, and I'll see you in the next class.