YouTube Video Editing Mastery: Premiere Pro & After Effects

1. Course Introduction and Learning Path: Welcome to this YouTube video editing course. As you mail right know, my name is Vlad, and I'm so grateful that you've chosen me to be instructor on this exciting journey ahead. This course literally has the ability to change your life. Whether you want to become a video editor for YouTubers, start your own channel or advance your editing skills to keep people watching longer, get more views, earn more money, this course will provide all the necessary information. You will master editing software, learn how to create high quality videos for YouTube, learn the YouTube algorithm, and so much more. Before we get to the content, just a couple of things. First, the course is laid out to be as complete and chronological as possible. We will be covering how to properly set up your work environment, how to work in premiere pro and after effects, foundations of YouTube video editing, advanced YouTube editing techniques. We're going to learn from the best creators on the platform like Mr. De Best and Ali Abdul. We're going to practice together. A lot more useful things in between. I know that some of you might have a fear of technical challenges, fear of being overwhelmed by information, or the course being too basic or too advanced. I want to reassure you that this course is designed to build confidence and competence gradually. We will cover both foundational and advanced skills. I hope you're excited. Without further ado, let's get to the first video. 2. Setting Up Your Editing Environment: Now, before we start editing, let's get into some important aspects. First, hardware requirements. Honestly, any modern computer will be able to do everything we will cover in this course. The faster a computer is the faster and smoother you'll be able to edit. If you don't have a fast computer, don't worry. I'll show you how to maximize the speed of computer that you have. The only downside of a slow computer is that it will take longer to do things. I currently work on a MacBook within MCip. It is a fast computer, but sometimes even it lags. Before that, I used to work in PC. It had a Gos 1,700 graphics nowadays, it's not super fast, but still workable. And before that, I used to work on laptop, which is even slower, but still doable. It's just it would take a bit more time and it wasn't as smooth. The next important aspect is software installation. If you already have premiere pro and after effects, just keep to this time. If not, stay here. What do you need to do? I you need to search for Adobe or just go to adobe.com, press on By here by now. Whether you are an individual, a business or a student, they have different offers. So for students, they offer everything for $20 per month, which is indeed a great offer. However, I think you have to verify it with your student email. For business, it's a bit more expensive, since most of you are individuals, this is what we need to focus on. So you have two options. You either can get all the apps. So that's Photoshop, that's Premiere Pro, that's Illustrated After Effects, every single app that Adobe has. You can get it for $60, or you can get it a bit cheaper for $46 if by Premiere Pro and After Effect separately. It really depends on your situation, if you are planning to learn or work in other apps. So depending on your situation, choose whatever works best for you, then just literally select, go through the whole process. Adopt made it as simple as possible to install the apps, and after that, you'll be able to use it. Now, there are some free ethical ways to download these apps for free. If you are in a budget, you can search how to do it yourself. I'm just letting you know because I've been in your situation. I didn't have money for food, and I'm not even talking about apps that cost $60 per month or $46 per month. So I've been in your situation. This is something that can be done, but that's on now, another important aspect is monitor calibration. The way you do it is you search for a color palette. You open the same color palette on your phone, and then you compare how the colors look. It should look like it is on your phone because most people over 60%, I believe, watch content on their phones, whether it's YouTube, Tik Tok, Instagram, everything. Just go in the settings of your monitor, tweak, play with those settings, and try to make it look like it is on your phone. Here are my thoughts and monitor calibration. An important aspect, but it's not as important as people think it is. First of all, different phones have different color palettes. So if you like how the video looks on one device, it might look different on other device. Secondly, people perceive the colors differently. There are some moments when it is super important and you want it to be super precise. And in that case, yes, you need to calibrate and monitor to be exactly the same. What I've done when I got the SMAC, I didn't do anything. I literally had no calibration. Clients love the way I do calibrading. I leave it myself. Everything is great. But when I worked on PC and I had a separate monitor, that thing I needed to calibrate because it was drastically different. So the next thing is optimizing workspace. What I have for video editing is a laptop, as you can see, there's a mount to the right of the laptop, have a big mat, headphones, charger for laptop. And that's it. It looks a bit messy because I'm requiring the scores, but usually it's just the MT, computer, mouse, headphones, and that's it. In other words, it doesn't have to be crazy. I literally have like, five things to work as a full time editor. And by the way, I also have this storage here. So the way I work is I always have a little bit of free storage on my laptop to work on every project from the storage of the laptop. And whenever I finish a project, I either delete all the files or I move them to the hard drive. It's great to have a hard drive, but it's not necessary. I literally work here most of the time. And after I finished with the project, I just delete all the files, and I have free storage back again. I hope this video is valuable. Now there are some tasks for you to do. Download the software, optimize your workspace. Try to remove as many distractions as possible. It saves your brain energy and it's easier to work. If you don't have a storage, don't worry about that. Calibrate your monitor. If you have any questions, please let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 3. Introduction to Premiere Pro/After Effects Interfaces: Downloaded the software, you've optimized your workspace. Now it's time to get into the software. So in this video, I'm going to introduce you to Premium Pro and After Effects. And even if you already have experience with the software, don't skip this video. Every time I watch a video of somebody using the software, whether it's new effects or some issues, I find that people have interesting setups. They use shortcuts that I don't use. So if you already have experience, you're still going to find this valuable. First of all, let's open Premiere Pro. In the top left corner, press New Project, give it a name. And then here, press and Create. So here is where all the fan stuff will happen. It might look slightly different from you because mine is optimized to how I want it to be. In the top left corner here, you will always have your files. In the resources section, you'll find a downloadable file that you can use here. Just open it on your computer and then drag it. Here, you can preview it by hovering over it, or as you can see below the pointer, there's this thing over here. You can press with the left click of a mouse and then press space, and it will play. It's like a little preview. At the bottom here, we have a timeline. This is the place where we will work with our projects. This is the place where we can move them around, create effects, add music, and a lot of other stuff. So if you drag this file from here to the timeline and then drop it there, the way you can move through timeline is with this slider here, hold it and then move it. You can scale up and down by holding the end of the slider, as you can see. Before you in the big screen on my screen, it's here on your screen, it's probably to the right. We have our preview, and if I press play, I can either press on space or I can press here. It starts playing. Now, if you go to the top to the segment settings, we can see that this video is in four K resolution. But if you want to change it to full HD, we'll just enter it here, 1920 by 1080. Press our. As you can see, it kind of zoomed in and it zoomed in because First preview shows in four K, then we make it smaller, and it shows only HD. But the picture itself is still bigger. So now what we need to do is we need to press on our file, and then in the top right corner, this scale, we just scale it down to 50. Or we can actually just enter a number. So it was 100, now I want to scale to 5,550. There you go. As you will see on your screen, the playback it's to the right, but I actually prefer the effects to be to the right and the playback to be right in the middle because that's where I look most of the time. This is what it looks like for you, probably. So you can put it to the right. As you can see, there's this magnet that's highlighted in blue, and it will show you where it's placed. I put it to the right, and then with these sliders, I can adjust the scale. I found out that this layout works the best for me, and this is something that you will just have to try out for yourself and see what works best for you. Now to the left here, we have our tools. The most used tools are selection tool, which you can choose by pressing your shortcut. The other one is razor. You can just press on C. And as you can see, each tool in the end has a letter, and that letter is a shortcut. So if I press A, it selects this one. But if I press B, it's going to select a Pen tool. One of the most important things is saving your files. A lot of times, when you work on big projects, your computer might get a little tired and it will lag and it will freeze. And if your file is not saved, you will lose all the changes that you've made. So one important thing is for you to press Command C or Control C, depending if you're Windows or Apple user. And another thing, click here on Premiere Pro settings, AutoSave. And if you're on PC, just click on File preferences, and then it's going to be the same. So we go into AutoSave, make sure you have automatically save projects on and then automatically save every 5 minutes. So what this means is Premiere Pro will automatically save your project, whether you save or not. And it will happen every 5 minutes. Just press on okay, and that will be done. Another thing is if we once again go into settings, and let's search for memory. If your computer is not fast, the way you maximize the speed is you go into memory, make sure that you either increase this one or decrease this one. So what this means is that the memory of your computer will be prioritized, will be given mostly towards premiere pro, and then after effects will do the same in after effects. And it will be less for other applications. Press on okay. If that's still not enough, then you will have to close every single application on your computer aside from premiere pro on after effects, whichever you're working with. So on Mac, it's either a force quid or you just have to go to every application and press and quid. On Windows, it's Control, I'll delete, and then open task manager close every single app that you have to make sure you're not taking the power of your computer towards something you're not using. Let's get back to the timeline. At the top here, we have our video files. At the bottom, we have our audio files. Because this video doesn't have any audio, it's blank. You cannot hear anything. But if I add a music to our file, I'll just double click on the video, and then I'll click here to drag the audio only, and I will hold drag the audio and I will drag it down. And you can see that the video is 1 minute and 35 seconds, and the audio it is 5 minutes 37 seconds. And you might be wondering, why do we have more tracks with audio at the bottom, with video at the top? Well, that's because if I want to have another video at the top, then when you change it somehow, I can do it like this. The same with audio. Let's say I want to have a couple of audio files. We can do interesting techniques with this, but that's something we will cover in later videos. In the top right, you have your different panels, effect panel, captions and graphics, and all the other ones. I'll be honest, I'm just using the editing one, captions and graphics, audio, and that's it. If you go to captions and graphics, you can see it changes a little bit. And if we go into audio, it's going to change as well. This application is capable of a lot of things, and you are not going to use 90% of the things that this application is capable of. The same will be with after effects. You might know the 80 20 rule. 20% of people produce 80% of work. 80% of people produce 20% of work. You will do 80% of the work with 20% of the tools. You don't have to know absolutely everything. I forgot to introduce you to the effects panel. If you add some sort of effects or if you want to manipulate the audio or the video, you will do everything here. So this is your control center, control room. This control room controls everything that's selected here. So as we did in the beginning, we increase the size, right? This is what we did. Actually, let me delete the top part so that you're not confused. We can decrease the size. We can move it around. We can rotate it. We can decrease, increase the opacity. Or we can press Control or Command Z, Z, Z, and it's back to normal. Or if we want to undo undoing the changes, we can press Command Shift Zt or Control Shift set and we'll go back. Now, we can also come here. We can go into effect. This is the place where all of your effects will be stored, just for the sake of saving time. I don't use all the other panels here. And I just use what I have here. We have a lot of different effects. We have lumetri effects, audio, video transitions, video effects, and then you can go into each folder and see what kind of effects we have. As you can see, it went black and white. This is Premiere Pro. Now, let's get into after effects. It is similar but slightly different. Open after effects, create a new project. Press over here, create a new composition. You can change it to HD instead of four K. One thing is, well, if your computer is fast, you'll be able to edit in four K way easier. If it's not fast, I would recommend sticking with full HD. So this is what after effects looks like. Here to the right, we have effects and presets. This is the same thing as effects here. We have our timeline at the bottom. We have our preview here. We have all of our files over here. So as you can see, it's very similar. All of our files here, here, this playback, it is here, our timeline, it's over here. Now, why don't we add the same file? We just drag and drop it, and then we drag it from here to here. And once again, because the resolution of the playback is foolish D, but the picture is four K. We just need to scale the picture down. So we click on our video, press S. It is for scale, press 50, and we've just done the same effect. Remember how we decrease the scale here. So we just did the same thing here. And by the way, we have similar tools at the top. Let's go into after effects, settings, AutoSaves or on PC file preferences autosave. Auto save every 5 minutes, and then go into memory and performance, Make sure that RAM shared for after effects and Premiere Pro is as much as possible. Then click on. You can see here at the top, we have different workspaces, different tabs. I always just use one. It just saves a lot of time for me. I know you might be thinking that that's a lot, that's super hard. I cannot do it. Trust me, you can. It's not as hard as you think it is. For this video, we're going to stop here. If you have any questions, leave those below. Although I recommend you watching the next videos, it will answer some of the questions that you have. But if you do have any questions, please let me know and I'll see you in the next video. 4. Basic YouTube Video Editing Techniques: Welcome to this lecture about basic YouTube editing techniques. Your goal is to edit the video using my instructions. In the resources section, you'll find these two files to download. Let's begin. So we will open Premiere Pro. We will create a new project, give it a name, press and create. You will put the two downloadable files in our project. First, you need to put myself. Into a timeline, and then the screen recording as well. We're putting myself first because the resolution of this video is 1920 by 1080, and the resolution of the screen recording is slightly different. It's smaller. The sequence will have the resolution of the file that we drop into the timeline first. So the first thing you will see is that there's a screen recording, and then there's me talking to the camera. As you can see, the audio is not lined up. So what we need to do is we need to select everything, right click and click on synchronize. Leave everything as it is here, click Okay, and now it is synchronized. So let's listen. Usually for Di head videos, this is the Super. Now that we have the video lined up, we actually don't need two audio files here, so we can just delete the one at the bottom. I will press Option or Alt on PC, therefore, I can select just one of the files. So if I just click on the audio, you can see it selects both the audio and the video. And actually, one of the other things you can do is you can right click, press on Link. These files will not be linked. You can move just one of them. If they are linked, whenever you move one of them, the other one will move to. Or I can just press Option or Alt and then press on delete. That's it. By using the razor tool, we can click on here or we can press on C on our keyboard. It will bring up the razor tool, and then we can cut. So let's just cut it here. I press V to go back to the selection tool. I will select it, press and delete. And delete this so that it starts at zero. So let's see what we have here. I will turn off the screen recording by pressing on this icon here and let's see what we have. Hi, everyone. This is the test. Razor tool, cut, razor tool, cut, select, delete. You can kind of tell because there's an empty space. There's no speech here. So therefore, we can just cut the silence here. See, cut, see, cut. Delete. The same we will do in the very beginning. By the way, I can press on the empty space. It will kind of select it, and then I can press on delete. And therefore, it will move everything that's to the right. It will move to the left. Hi, everyone. This is a test video for you to practice. Usually for donkey head videos, this isn't. Usually for donkey head videos. You can see I repeat myself, so I'll just keep the second one because I finish the sentence. Usual. Usual. So around here, I will cut it. Dn cut the bottom part. Usually for dokey head videos? Because we already have a cut here, we can just select everything and then move the cursor to where the cut is. This red icon appears, so I can just drag and everything will be dragged from right to left. So we are basically cutting this part here. Instead of pressing on C and cutting, I can just select and move it because there's a bit of silence here. Introduction part. You will notice that the screen recording is separate from this video here. So once again, cut, cut now, if you've already worked with Premiere Pro, you might know that there's a fast way to cut things. This is something that I will show you in the future videos. For now, we're just using the basic techniques. So we know this part is good, and we'll delete this part. We will also apply transitions. We will. Don't worry. I'll show you how to do that. It doesn't have to be perfect. We're just practicing here. Around here, we will need to show the screen because that's an important part. So I will click on the icon here. Everything will appear. And what I will do is I will select everything that's here, and I will press Command Shift E or Control Shift E, and it will disable all of the files that were before we show the screen because the screen recording is on all the time, but we don't want to show it in the beginning here. Just want in the second half. Now, another thing is that we want it to fill the full screen, so we will increase the scale. But if we increase the scale, you can see it kind of cuts the corners.Ono thing we can do is we can create a rectangle. So go to left, bottom, rectangle tool. You can create different shapes here, by the way. So we can create a rectangle, increase the scale, make it white. So once again, just follow my steps shape, fell make it white, and then we can select the clips. Then I move them to the top. And as you can see, because we created this rectangle, it fills the rest of the screen. Another thing we can do is we can come into our project, present new item. Black video, create. Okay. I will make it 5 seconds long. Then we can go into effects. We can search for color replace. Then we drag it onto the black video, set a target color. So this is the color that we will replace from and replace color is the color that we will replace too. And make sure to click on solid colors, then we'll have it. So there are two options to do it, whichever works best for you. Choose that one. Now, because we will have the background for the rest of the video, we will need to drag the video to the end. So that's how we do it, but we'll delete the rectangle so that it's a bit easier to navigate through everything. Why don't we make my face in the bottom right of the screen so that viewers can see the person who's talking. In order to do that, we need to move myself above these layers. The reason is is because we need to be on top of this. I'm here. If I turn on a layer that's above me, it's above me. It's like on top of me. But here, because this layer is on top of me, we need to move everything from the bottom here. Once again, select everything with shift or you can just select it this way, like you select on your desktop. Move it up. Now, click on one of the videos, and then in opacity, create a mask, lips mask. And then increase it by pressing shift, I will make it a round circle. But if you don't press shift, this is what it will do. So press and shift and then put it in the middle, something like this. And now, if we make it smaller, move it to the side. This is what it looks like. For instance, for this video. However, we can definitely make it a bit bigger, something like this. I like to keep it in the corner. So now what we do is we need to copy what we did here, this mask to other layers. The way you do it is you do not copy mask. You copy opacity. So Command C or Control C, select the other files, press on Control V, and magic will happen. And actually, we forgot to copy motion as well because we move this layer, press on motion, Command C, Control C, and then Control V. Press it, and as you can see, now we're in the bottom. So before, Control V, and there we have it. Another thing we can do is we can add a border around myself. In this case, we need to come to shapes ellip stool in order to see the other options you need to press and hold. Ellipstool then we create an ellipse pressing shift. In order to change the color, just come here, change the color to whatever color you want. This color works great for me. I will scale it down and I will move it to here to something like this. Make sure it's in the middle, increase the scale a bit better. Now, once again, we need our background to be behind ourselves. So we need to be on top of the circle. We select all the files where this is myself speaking and we need to move it above. And then for the circle, we will extend it to something like this. So we don't need audio as much, so we will move the audio part to the bottom. It looks too big. I will just do a little bit of adjustment. That looks great. So as you can see now, we have this border around myself. So let's see what we have. Everyone, this is a test video for you to practice. Usually for is, this is in ashbar. You'll notice that screen recording is from this video here. So you will need to synchronize the video with the audio, both files with the audio to see how to do that. In this video you need to stream out the ones for example, the silence, we also apply traditions. This is just to get you used to the software and capabilities. It's basic, but this basic creates a based foundation that editing stands on. So again, that was kind of the intro if we are talking about it for video for YouTube. And then usually we will transition into what we have on screen or something else. So for instance, police video, s is. So, why don't we experiment with transitions? Later in this course, I'll show you how to do advanced transitions, how to save a lot of time with transitions. For now, we just come to video transitions. We have a lot of different transitions here. So first of all, one thing we can do, the easiest and fastest transition to do is when there's a cut. So for instance, we have cut here, we need to right click and then press Applied Default transitions. So let's see. Practice. Usually for donkey headbt so this is the default transition. I know it might be confusing, so why don't we add it here? So because we have a lot of layers here, one thing we can do is we can nest it. What nesting does is create a new sequence. Actually, it will be easier for me to just show you. So select everything Right click Nest. Okay. And as you can see, it created so we have our sequence here, and it created a whole other sequence with everything inside. So everything we've done, you just put it here. It kind of combines everything to one file because we are not using any of the screen recording here, we can just delete it. We can move the video to the upper part to match it with the nested sequence. And then we can add transition here instance this video. There you go. And you can see it added a transition to both the video and the audio. We don't need it for audio. You just click on it and delete it. In Premiere Pro, you have a lot of kind of basic transitions. This isn't something that people usually use, but it's still something that's done. Actually, I remember some of them. So I will just search for them. There's something you can do. Light leaks. So you can see under video transitions. And if we delete this transition and apply this transition here, we just literally drag and drop it here. For this video. Boom. Now you see there's this interesting transition. But we have a lot of other transitions. Cross Dissolve. Let's see what it does. Actually, it's very similar to. Isn't this the same one. Anyway, sometimes I do use some of them. For example, cross Zoom. This one is used sometimes for this video, So, for instance, for this video. Let's finish the video. Is an e. So this is something you can do for the rest of the video and practice just for the sake of time. I will not do this because you understand how it works. Now we just need to practice. I want to show you something else. Let's say this was cut like this. It goes from super quiet to super loud in, like, split second. So what we can do here is we can create a audio transition, but make it super small so that it's not as abrupt. Maybe let's cut it from this side as well. Something like this transitions is just to get you. Transitions is just wouldn't cut half of the word, but just for this example, sometimes it happens when a person speaks very fast and you need to count specific part, you use this method. There are also shortcuts for this transition. So if you press Command D, it will do the video. If you press Shift Command D, it will do the audio. Then once we have an audio transition, we double click on it, and then for the duration, we just delete, don't have to put the zero here, you will understand. But then here, we put two. So as you can see, it became super small. So let's listen play transitions is just to get you. It is just that much a bit smoother. When we learn video editing, we learn that basic is 80% of the editing, and then you add those little bits, that's how you become better. That is the extra 20% that never ends. You will always need to become better, always develop yourself. So that's one of the ways to do it is to just add, like, this little small improvements. Once again, practice cutting the video, practice with transitions, practice with synchronizing the audio, just to get you to understand how this works. You can move things around, experiment, take your time with this. So that's it for the basic YouTube editing techniques. If you have any questions, please let me know. But other than that, I will see you in the next video. 5. Exporting Videos for YouTube: Let's talk about exporting settings. Something that's important, but I think people overthink that. So there are a couple of different options. For resolutions, there's full HD, there's four K, and then for frame rates, there's 24, 30, and 60. And honestly, it doesn't make any difference. I mean, it does a little bit, but if we think from the point of the viewer, if the video is in good quality, it doesn't matter what kind of frame rates we have. And the difference between fulgD and four K, there's not much of a difference. So I'll give you an example. Mr. Bes exports his videos in 24, 30 frames a second, and his videos are in folidity. On the other hand, how ridiculous channel they export videos in four K, and they have 60 frames a second or 50 frames a second. So it doesn't make much of a difference. You can see that big channels use different settings, and once again, it doesn't make a difference. Now, I'll give you my preset of settings. You'll be able to save it as a preset. It will save you a lot of time. It's going to make your life easier. So what I want you to do is go into Premiere Pro. If you don't have a file, there will be a file in the resources action, but honestly, it doesn't matter which file you use. This is just training how to export to create a preset. That's it. You'll be able to find this beautiful picture of me that I'll drag it into the timeline. Now, this picture is quite. So I'll go into sequence settings, and then I will change the size. I will change it to ful HD, 1920, and I press tab to go into the next field that I can fill in by 1080, I click Save. Okay. I'll just scale it down. Press on scale to create a keyframe. This is just for the sake of this video. I will increase it to 35. And so you can see that now it's kind of increasing in size. This is just to show for you how it works. Now, one thing we need to do is we need to go to the very beginning here of the timeline where it says zero. You can either drag it like this or you can press arrow key up, so like this up. And then it goes to the very beginning of the file that you have here. So if I cut this, I have a couple of files, arrow down, it goes to the end of one clip. I press arrow down, arrow down, arrow down. So it goes in between the cuts. So I need to go to the very beginning, I press I here, and then I can either go with the arrows down to the very end or I can just slide to the very end and press shift. And then you can see there's this gray tip of the arrow that shows, it means that we are exactly in the very end, so it kind of sticks. If I use this thing here, I will drag it and it will kind of scale to see the frames. As you can see, I'm using the arrow keys to go back and forth. Now, we need to press O on the keyboard. And as you can see, there's this like annoying frame at the very end. One thing you can do is you can just take it and drag it here or press left on the arrow keys, and then press O. There's always this one frame that's added in the end. So to avoid that, we just press here, press O, and that's it. We're going to Export, I have this preset called Vladislav, which is my name. What I would like you to do is I would like you to just come here to Export and copy these settings. Ful HD, 25 progressive square pixels. And then we go into more. We need to render at maximum depth, use maximum render quality. Just don't think about what that means because you'll probably break your head with this. Come here, copy these settings. These are the settings that export videos. These videos get millions of use. So now we have frame sampling, hardware encoding. If your computer is not super fast, you might not have the hardware encoding option. So you might need to use software encoding. This is just kind of how fast it exports the video. So whatever option you have, just select it, then we go into profile high level 4.2 here, 2.3, two oh three, sorry. Bitrate encoding, VBR one, target bitrate 19, copy these settings of the audio, these settings of the multi mixer. You can also put captions here because we don't have any captions. That's not something that we're going to use. Effects, now, once you copied all the settings, just come here, press and save preset, give it a name that you'll remember, and next time you will have it here. In the presets. So these are the exporting presets. Have mine here. If you don't have it at the top, in the reasons, just scroll down. You'll have it somewhere over here. And that's it. Every time you need to export the video, you'll just come here, press on Export, and that's it. It's as easy as that. Just like the location where the video will be exported to, like, a specific folder, press on location, give it a name at the top. Click Save. Now we'll just press on Export at the bottom right. When I'm recording the video, I cannot export it at the same time, so I had to stop. Now I exported the video. Now we just come to the location where we save the video, so we open it and you can see, there we have it. And sliding like it's increasing in size. If you need to export this, let's say in shorts or in four K, you just come here, you select your preset, then you can select whatever resolution you need. You export in those settings, that's it. Or let's say if you edit a video in a vertical format, we'll go into sequence settings 1080 by 1920, we select that. Now we can see that it's a vertical format. We're going to export, press on the preset. It already knows the size of the sequence. So this is our sequence. Knows the size. We just press on export V four. Export here. We come here, V four, as you can see, it's increasing in size again. And in order to export in after effects, you need to go into file. Export at Render Q, and I will show you two options to export. One option to export, just like in Premiere Pro, we select high quality here. Then we select the output, give it a name, and press Save. Then just press on render and it will render. The other exporting option is if you have something transparent. In other words, like P&G video. In this case, if you have something transparent, you need to go here and then select high quality with Alpha. In this case, if you have something transparent, it will be transparent in the saved video as well. Then just press on render and it will do the same thing. So that's how you export. Don't over super easy. Don't waste your time on this. If you want to know specifics, all the different things or how to export, you can dig deeper into this, but this is not an exporting course. This is how to edit videos for YouTube course. Just do this, forget about this. It will save a lot of time for you. It did for me. Other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 6. Explaining Retention Rates on YouTube: This video, we can talk about YouTube algorithm. We can talk about retention rates. We can talk about CTR, and all of that confusing wording, but don't worry. After this video it's not going to be confusing anymore. So how does YouTube work or any other social platform? Any platform wants to keep people on the platform for as long as possible. That's how they make money. The more they keep people on the platform, the more ads they can show them, and therefore, platforms get more money from advertisers. So there are two things. There's CTR, and there's AVD. CTR stands for click thrate and AVD is average view duration. To simplify this for you, CTR is when people click on the video. The more clickable the video is, the more it will be shown to people. But it's not only about CTR because if people click on a video, it might be clickbait. And if people click and they don't watch the video, YouTube is not going to show it because if people leave the video right away, why would they want to show it? It doesn't keep people on the platform longer. So AVD, average duration is also very important. In this video, Veritasium channel breaks down exactly how this works. If you want, you can take a look at this video, and there are dozens of other channels, potentially hundreds or maybe even thousands of channels talking about this. So CTR and AVD are extremely important. So let's come back to this CTR and AVD. CTR is thumbnail and AVD is editing because the thumbnail makes people click on the video, and AVD, the video itself, it's done with editing. So this is what this course is about. It's about editing. It's about increasing that average video duration so that people click on the video, they watch the video, and the longer they watch the video, the better. So we are focusing on keeping people on platform for as long as possible. If this sounds confusing or you have any questions, please leave those in the Q&A section below. But other than that, I'll see you in the next. 7. Advanced Cutting and Storytelling Techniques: This video, we're going to talk about advanced YouTube editing techniques. Advanced cutting, shortcuts, overlays. Get ready because this is exciting. So let's open a project that we worked on. This is going to be our example video. The first thing you need to do is you need to go into shortcuts. We will create shortcuts to save a lot of time for us. We'll go to Premiere Pro, we go to keyboard shortcuts. OPC might be slightly different, but we will add six shortcuts into one, two, and three QW E. So the way you do this is you search for an action, which is in our case, number one, shuttle left. And then you press here, there's going to be a different shortcut for you. So you add another shortcut. I have nothing for L. Let's try L. So you will have it for both. In my case, I need to delete L because I have it for one, but in your case, you will delete the previous option that you had. And you do the same for shuttle left, shuttle stop for two, shuttle right for three, ripple trim for Q, add edit for W, ripple trim for E. So for ripple trim, as you can see, we have ripple trim previous edit to playhead, this is Q. And for E, we have ripple trim next edit to playhead. I will explain what this means. It will save a lot of time for you. Once you do that, click on Okay, and it will save it. What does this mean in terms of editing? I press on one? The playhead goes to the left. If we press on three, from this video here? It starts playing normal speed. If we press three and then press two, two is going to pause. So let's see. Recording is from So instead of pressing space, we can use this. But also, what's good about three and one? Let's say we have it here, we press three once, and then we press three for the second time and press it for the second time. It's going to speed up. So let's see. You will notice that the screen here. See how that works? It saves a lot of time. For me, I always use the shortcut when I have a long project, I've edited it. I want to see how it looks, but I don't want to spend a lot of time reviewing it. So that's what I do. Another thing when I need to understand the general idea of what people are talking about, I use it as well. So that's where we have one, two, and three. One goes to the left. To pauses to synchronize. Three goes to the right. In terms of Q, W and E, if I press on W, it's going to cut. As you can see here, it created a cut. It's the same as pressing C and then cutting on the slider here. But C, you can cut everywhere, and the same you can do with this one. So you just drag it, you press W W W, and it cuts. It saves a lot of time. Now, if we press E, E is going to cut everything to the right of the playhead until the cut. So it's going to cut everything from here to here. Let's see if you press E. See what it's done? It cut everything to the right, and it also moves everything from the right to where you made you cut. The same if we press cue, it's going to cut everything that's to the left until the cut. So let's see. Oh. This just saves me so much time. Instead of doing it bindingly and pressing extra buttons, I just press these buttons and it's mind blowing how much time it saves. Workflow is probably like 30% faster just because of this. Another thing I recommend you do is you go into misterhors.com, you press and try for free, you download it and install it. It's super easy to install. You'll be able to do that. When we come to Premiere Pro, we need to click on Window. Extensions, premiere composer. By the way, premiere composer is free. If you want to use all the features that they have, there's a price or a subscription, but you can use a free version. I use a free version. That's more than enough for me. Here, you have kind of different presets for different things. So, for example, we have text animations here. These are text boxes. These are just texts. We have transitions for social media things as well, kind of different shape elements here and sounds. And let's say for sounds, if you open sounds, you have different folders here if you want approach. You can see how it works. In order to add something to the timeline, just press on Add, and it will add it. You'll see how to do that. This I need to do. It saves an enormous amount of time. It actually has really good transitions. I love the transitions. So what we did here is we created a transition. This is a transition that's linked right between the files. If I delete the transition, and by the way, in order to have this transition, I have to keep files on the same level and I have to nest them. But here, it's actually it's it's super smart. So what I will do is I will put the play head right in the center of the cut, and I will come here. You can choose where you want it to swipe from. I will press on add, and you can also disable or add a sound. So add with sound. See what happens. It doesn't matter where the files are located, it's going to do it anyway. So let's see. So for instance, for this video. Right, and it saves a lot of time. Now, originally, when you receive premiere composer, it's going to come like this in a separate window. And instead of clicking on Window extensions opened every single time, just click on here, then put it right around there, and you're always going to have it here. This is something I really recommend you do. It's going to save you a lot of time as a lot of great things. For transitions, we also have these super cool transitions. So let's say I want to put a transition here, click on it, add that video editing stands on. So again. It's super smooth, really cool, and it also adds it with the sound, so you don't have to search for separate sound, but we're going to work on a sound in the next video. There's no one approach that will work for all the video styles that exist. I'm showing you techniques, approaches, styles that are used most often. But then when you go into specific topic that you want to create videos for, you research that topic. You see what kind of effects they have and I'm going to do a separate video on how to find all kinds of efects in just 5 minutes. But these are the most use effects all the time. Now, one of the very, very interesting techniques is L CATs and JCATs. It will be easier for me to show than to explain. So here's an example. Practice usually for dock head. As you can see, here's my face. There's no cut, but the audio from the next video is already in place. Usually And we can do it the other way. So I'm not talking here, which means I can move it like this. To practice. Usually for Toki head for you to practice, usually for Toki head video. So now you can see that I'm still talking, but there's a cut of me just, you know, making a face, and then I start talking. I like to do it on different layers. Sometimes the way people do this is that they will cut the silence, and then they will press option of one of the clips, the video clips, then the other clips. So is usually for Dock. You can see the same effect has been achieved. But the way I like to do this is I like to have it on different layers. It's just kind of easier for me to work around. It's usually for done. Now, you just use whatever works best for you. This is my approach, but you can use what works best. In order to make the video engaging, we need to visually show. We need to add audio and once again, audio is the next video. So when we have a YouTube video start, we need to hook people in. And what people usually do is they have more action in the beginning of the video, so more editing in the beginning of the video and less editing in the end of the video because the more people watch, the more likely they are to watch till the end. So the way I like to do it, from the very first second, there's something going on. As you can see, here, it's just me speaking. I don't think it's too exciting to watch. So what we can do, and this is the part where we're going to start using Adobe After effect. Select this clip, I will right click and replace with after effects composition. And the way I do this is I create a separate folder just for this video project because in that, I will be saving all after effects compositions. Usually, I give it a name from one to infinity. Well, not to infinity, but sometimes I have up to 20, 30 compositions in after effects. So I will save it, and there you go. This is me. One of the things I learned from Ali Abdal is when he adds text behind a person, I think it looks great, fantastic. So the way we do this is we click on our video we press Command D, and it will duplicate it. I press on the top video and I come to Roto Brush tool, click on it, then I double click on the video. And here, I need to select myself. What Roto Brush tool does is it kind of selects yourself and then adjusts the masking if you move for every single frame. So in the end, you will have yourself cut out from the front. You will have a background. When you have yourself in the background, you'll be able to place things in the middle. And if you place text in the middle, that's how you can make a text behind yourself, but also in front of the background. The way we do this is we just select myself, everything here. In order to increase the size, you need to press on Command or Alt, left click on the mouse, and then just drag up and down left to right. That's how you adjust the scale. If you press space, hold it, and then left click on your mouse, you can move around. I will or, as you can see here, I don't want let's say I don't want this part to be selected. So I press on option or Alt on PC and apologies. To increase the size on PC, you need to press on control. And then to delete, press on option or Alt. So this looks okay. Let's remove a little bit of this. Then I will press on fit. The way I zoom in is I use E mouse. You can use Trackpad as well. I'm doing trackpad with fingers and this is what I'm doing when a mouse. Now let's go back to fit and then press space. Hi, everyone. This is a test video for you. And it will do the work. By the way, I didn't select this part over here, didn't notice it. If something goes wrong, what you can do is you can stop. You can go to the place where the masking went wrong. You can just select it again and then press us on space again. As you can see, now it will select everything that's to the right. So as you can see everything that's to the right from the point where you start editing the mask, it will continue this way. It doesn't have to be perfect. Oops. As you can see, it went a little bit crazy over here. I don't need that. So I will try to find it this. The way I move in timeline, you can move in Premiere Pro with arrows. Here, you cannot do it. You have to press Command or Control and then move with arrow keys. So it went here. Let's see if it goes crazy again. No, it doesn't. And now, when we went through, we saw that everything's okay. We press on freeze, and it will do the job. Now that it finished freezing, let's come back to our composition here because we had two files. The one on the background, we didn't use it. We used to the top file. Now, if we turn off the background, you can see it's just me selected. And now, in between the background and between myself, we can put the text, and it will work great. By the way, if you come back to Premiere Pro and you turn off this one, you can see that it's exactly the same as an after effect, but it only works if your computer is super fast. I mean, like, super, super fast. Even on MacBook Pro M three, I don't use it. So the way I do it is when I create a composition, replaced with after effects composition, I come back to Premiere Pro, a person Command Z, and it goes back to how it was. Then I press Commandez and then I can actually just close it. And I can continue working here. Why? Because when we are working in Premiere Pro, it's taking the file from after effects, and after effects has to work to render it all kinds of effects, and it's too much for your computer. So the way I do is I do work here export the video so that it becomes just a normal video and it's easy for your computer to play back it. That's how I do it, and that's how I recommend you do it. Let's turn it back. Let's add a text. So we come to the top. We add a text. And by the way, if you select one of the layers, you can turn off the sound for one of them. It doesn't matter because we're not going to use the sound from here. You can press on LL. And it's going to open the sound waves, just like you have in Premiere Pro. You can open it here as well, and it's easy to navigate to where I say certain words. So what we can do here is we can add text, hi, everyone. Hi everyone. As you can see, it's already behind me. That's because our text isn't between the two layers. What I will do is I will add Mans at, add thin, but then I can make it medium, or if I move myself, I can add bold. I like to use bold, mans at. Then I can put it in the middle. And here, I can decrease the size. I can add a mark here, once again, select everything, put it in the middle. You can see, it's quite hard to see the text. So I will go to the Effects panel and I will search for Drop Shadow. I can increase the softness a little bit, so the edges are not too sharp. It's more smooth. You can see that it's better. And by the way, when you add premiere composer or like Mr. Horse, it's also here. You can see animation composer. If I open it, I have it here as well. And then after effects, I prefer to have it in the window, but you can also put it, like, somewhere what works great for you, maybe here, but I like to have it floating. Press commands or Controls to save everything, and there we go. Everyone. So one of the great things about after effects just like premiere is you can create presets. So, for example, for this video, I can search for a typewriter effect. This is my presets. I can drag and drop it, and you can see what kind of effect we have. Hi everyone. This then I can adjust it to my liking. And so that's how we work in after effects. That's one of the best ways to do it. You can create all kinds of effects. And by the way, the Roto Brush tool, what we did here, cutting myself out, this is extremely powerful. It's not only used for this effect. This kind of technique is used for all kinds of effects. The main thing for you is to understand how the principles work. Once you have a vision for what you want your videos to be, your client's videos to be, you just think of the tools that you have, and then you try to combine everything in your head and then actually in the software as well. I already have a lot of presets. For the effects, and I'm not going to go through every single effect on how I create my presets. If you really want specific presets, let me know. I'll let you know how to add them. But other than that, there's going to be a video on how to find any effect that you can think of, you just imagine, and then how to make it in real life. So that's something we can do in later video. Now, I will go to File Export, at Render Q. Actually, I need to turn on these layers. File export at render Q, high quality, give it a name. This is going to be the name of the file itself. The one we have here, as you can see at the top, this is the one press on save and then press on render. It's going to render. And at the hug, if your computer is a bit slower, what you can do is you can decrease the resolution here. It's going to make your computer work faster. When you do a Roto Brush tool, you put it back to full because it needs to know exactly kind of the pixels. Because if you make it to quarter, you can see it's not good quality. To full, it's back to good quality. Control has closed this one. So let's come back to premiere Pro. This isn't super organized, but that's just what we have for the test. But what I usually do is I will create a folder. I will call it after effects. I will go to the folder where I save the after effects. I'll just drop the file here, open it, and then drag only the video because we already have the audio here. Hi, everyone. This is a test video for you to practice. Usually for Di you can see a very interesting effect. Not a lot of people use it. That's why I'm showing it here. Great effect. Usually for talking head videos, this is an introduction part. So usually for talking head videos, what we can do is we can add an overlay if we go into pixels, and we search for influencer, and if we can find something here, this looks good. I can press and download. It will download. Once again, I will add add another folder called all kinds of stuff because I have all kinds of stuff there. I'll drop it in there. I'll take a couple of seconds from this video. Just usually for dokey head videos, I will decrease the scale because we can see more here than here because it's four K and our resolution is fulsD. So I will decrease the scale to 50 to make it a bit smaller. Then another great thing I like to do is I like to add movement. I already have presets, and I really like this preset. Drop it here. Just usually for donkey head video. Usually for As you can see, it kind of slides slowly in, but I can show you how to do it yourself. Basically, we're going to animate this video, so we need to have a keyframe for position. We're saying that at this moment, it's going to be this position of this video. But we need to move this further because that's the endpoint that we need. And if we go to the very beginning, we're just going to drag it to the bottom where we don't see it. Usually for Dokey head. You can see that's the same fact, but that one was smoother. How do we do this? We need to right click and then press on in. So it's going to make it smoother. Usually for Dokey head do usually for Dokey headbt? It's still not as smooth. So what we can do is we can drop this thing here, and then we can kind of slide this slider here, and you will see the difference. Usually for dokey head videos. And move it a bit here? Usually for dokey Head videos, So let's see what we have. And by the way, we can see kind of the frame jumping here when we have the text end. So we can move this file a little bit to the left so that it closes it. Yep. Just usually for doke head videos. So let's see what we have. Hi, everyone. This is a test video for you to practice. Usually for dokey head videos. We can move it even more to the left. Practice, usually for dokey head video. Even more? Practice usually for dokey head videos. Another thing I like to do is I like to kind of create Zoom in the beginning of the video, adds a little bit of action, and it's better to see, not crazy, just a little bit of movement. And the way we can do it is once again, we can animate the scale here. But because we have different files here, and I want to change this high everyone animation in the background, instead of me copying it from here into another file that we will add in the future if that happens, what we can do is we can create adjustment layer if we come here, adjustment layer. Press okay. Then just drop it in here. By the way, we don't want this video to be affected by adjusted layer. So everything that's below the adjustment layer will be affected. Everything that's above it will not. We will go into effects. Transform and we don't need to animate this motion at the top. We're just going to animate this transform. So we need key frame for position and scale vice versa. Once again, this is the final position. So we need to animate the first position. We're going to scale it a little bit, move it a little bit. Everyone. And then we just need to once again add we're going to add Is out here and we're going to add Is in here to make it smoother. Hi, everyone. This is a bit too fast. Hi, everyone. This is a test video for you to practice. Usually for docking head videos, this is an introduction part. You will notice that. And so now you can see, even if I disable the video that we did in after effects, it's going to have the same effect on the original video. Hi, everyone. This is because everything that's below the adjustment layer is affected. This video for you to practice. Usually for doke Head videos, this is an introduction part. You will notice that the screen recording is separate from this video here, so you will need to synchron. Now, let's continue editing this video for YouTube because we have almost no movement here, we can just select the video edit. That's it. Part. You will notice that the screen recording is separate from this video here? What we can do, if this was a YouTube video, we would show what kind of screen recording we have. So what we can do here is we can we can decrease the scale. This is our screen recording, so we can animate this as well. Position, move it a little bit to the right, start from the left is in You will notice that this Too fast, we're going to so once again, we're going to drag this latter a little bit, make it smoother. You will notice that pardon. You will notice that the screen recording is separate from That's what we have here. Hi, everyone. We have hi everyone. We have an overlay. We have another overlay with me at the screen. And when you work on your projects, you will have different projects. So once again, it's really hard to show how to do one thing for every single project. A couple of things to keep in mind. Every couple of seconds, something should be happening on the screen. And every single second, think, does it help the video? Is video progressing with this thing? Is it helping the viewer understand what the video is about or helping understand the idea of the video? If not, cut it out. Every couple of seconds, add something to happen. Usually, if it's like in 1 hour long video, once again, a lot of editing in the beginning for the first minute, then it kind of slows down over time. Or let's say, if it's a podcast, there might be no editing aside from switching the cameras. These are some of the best techniques that I use, and what I do is I literally just move them around. I have some sort of after effects. I have an overlay, something sliding on the screen, another overlay, another after effect. And then I just move around. Every single clip should have something, but once again, it doesn't have to be, it should be. And if you want to add something in the editing that's going to break the video, it's going to make the video harder to understand. Don't do that. Just try to help the video. So have a go at this video. Try to do it yourself. Try to add an overlay. Try to make something slide onto the screen. Try this effect and after effects. At this point, we're not making video. This is just for practice. If at some point, you're a little bit confused, once again, message me, let me know, and I will get back to you as soon as I can. Thank you for watching. And let's get into the audio. 8. Advanced Audio Editing and Sound Design for YouTube: This video, we can talk about advanced audio editing and sound design. In my opinion, audio is definitely easier than the video part. However, there are some things you need to know as well. So first of all, we will come here and we will drag it to the top because we need the audio. As we learned before, the bottom part is the audio, so that's what we will focus on. Now, first of all, you can get audio for free. You can record sounds yourself. You can use Premiere composer, Came to Sounds have a lot of different sounds, which is great. And you can get audio for free on YouTube. There's royalty free music all over. Just search for royalty free music, YouTube, you'll get it. And that is something I recommend if you have a limited budget. If you have a little bit of budget, I do recommend Epidemic Sound. I've been using Epidemic Sound for over five years. It's a great platform. Have a lot of great music. They have a lot of great sound effects. And if you use a link in the resources section, you can get yourself seven day free trial. If you like it, you can continue using it. If not, you can cancel anytime. This is something I do recommend. It's something that my clients use. I use for my videos. I will give you a quick overview. If you come to music, you can search for different genres. You can search for different moods. You can search for just sad music, and it will give you sad music. As you can see, it gives you the description of each song. Then just press on download. It will download in seconds. The same for sound effect. It has a great library of sound effects, as you can see here, all kinds of swooshes. And it has like dozens, hundreds, thousands of sound effects. Once again, this is something I recommend, if you want great service to use, use Link in the resources section. Now, let's get into the sound design. Because I edit almost five days a week, sometimes six, sometimes seven days a week, I already have a folder with kind of the most used sound effects. So for the typewriter effect, I always use a typewriter sound effect. So I just come here I copy it. I paste it. Hi everyone. Around here should stop. Hi everyone. It's a bit too loud. Right click, I go into audio gain, and I give it -20. Hi everyone. You can barely hear it, but if you use headphones, you can hear it pretty well. Then when we talk about swooshes, I go into premiere composer, or once again, I go into my sound effects, Swoosh. This one is a bit longer. I'll add it. So let's see where it is. So around here. Practice. Then once again, I will lower it down to -20. Practice. Usually for Donkey Head B? Maybe move it a bit to the left. Practice. Usually for Donkey Head videos, this is an introduction part. That's great. So whenever you have any kind of effects on the screen, for example, we have here as well. We can just select our previous woosh Command C, Command V. You will notice. Or you can actually drag it and then press option at the same time, and it will copy it. So that's how you can do it as well. Now, let's work on my audio. I will select the audio that I will work on. So this, then press Shift and select this one as well. But that's how you work on the whole audio. We can select all of the audio. Now, we go into workspaces and then audio dialog, then we press on Automach instead of me speaking very loud or very quiet at some point, it will kind of balance it out. We can also press on enhanced speech. What it does is online, there's Adobe podcast, and if there's any background noise, if your voice is bad quality, you can use this feature. It's a great gray feature. It doesn't take a lot of time to do it. Usually, I don't use it if the audio is good quality. In this case, it's good quality, but I'm showing you as an example. Also, the mix amount, it's at seven. You will get this with experience, but I found that at seven, it's a bit too crazy, so I like to use it at three or four. Let's listen. Here. So you will need to synchronize the video with the audio. Both files have the audio. You'll see how to do that. In this video, you need to trim out. You can see my voice became slightly different, so I like to put it at around three. The points where I stumble, the silent, p will also up maybe four. So you will need to synchronize the video with the audio? Around four is good. Now, once that's done, I will just come back to editing. And one thing to look out for is this part here. What it does is it will show you if your audio is too loud. If it gets to zero, it's too loud, you need to bring it down a little bit. As you can see, it doesn't go close to zero. So that's great. Once again, if we take a look at every single part here, it's around -12. What we can actually do is once again select everything this part as well. We can come here, right click and press on Audio gain to make it a bit louder to potentially six. So let's see. Yeah, you can see that still works. We're not in the red zone because if we make it to 15, you can see it's always just in red. And once again, that was kind of the intro you can see the quality is bad. We are talking about the you that's how we do it. Let's talk about music. Music adds a lot of emotion to the video as well as sound effects. The way you work with music is first, there's a rhythm part. You can create rhythm with music, and then for certain bits, you can create cuts. And then for emotion as well, if it's, like, a sad topic, don't make it super sad because it will just look fake, but a song that's not super upbeat, that's not happy emotion. If it's a neutral motion, I recommend using something upbeat because people don't like when it's either boring or super sad. We try to make it positive. That's one of the reasons why people come to YouTube to watch something that's going to make them feel better. I already have a library of retro music, sci fi music. This is the kind of music I really like. So I will add another folder called music. I will listen to different music and see which works best. I really like this song, so I can just put it in here. Once again, to get your songs, I recommend you coming here. If not, you can just go on YouTube, sad song, royalty free search for music. Usually, the top results, the top playlists are free. There's no credit needed, no action from you needed. So you can just use them. Read the description, you can see, copyright free. Now, let's work with music. So I like the beginning, how it starts not using all the instruments, and then it becomes like we can use the beginning, this part to select, or we can press I and O to select. It doesn't matter because we will kind of adjust it on timeline. So let's see what we have. Practice. Usually head videos. Actually, let's listen here. Okay, now this works. I just need to find the beginning of the kind of sound. This one. We'll start with this. It's too loud. So what I will do is I'll go to effects. Presets lower music for voice. This is my preset. Here are the settings. You can just copy these settings. The result is. Everyone. This is a test video for artist. Usually for videos, this is. As you can see, it kind of deletes the highs of the music where my voice stands, so it's easier to hear me. The way you do this is you search for Q or simple parametric Q, drop it here, copy these settings, and you will have the same effect. Then just click on Save Preset. So right click Save Preset, give it a name, and you will have it. Here. It's still a bit too loud, so we need audio again. I usually put songs minus ten to -20, depending on the loudness of the song or how the person speaks. Hi, everyone. This is a test video for you to practice. And then for around here, we can actually go into music. Then we can start with this bit here. So I just need a little portion of that to see how it looks. We'll see how to do that. This video. Once again, we copy simple parametric cue. We'll put it here, give it minus ten. Let's see. We'll see how to do that. In this video, you need to trim out the point, see how to do that. And then around here, we can cut this part a little bit and extend this one. We'll see how to do that. In this video, you need to trim out the points for a stumble. Cut out the silence. We'll also apply transitions. It's just to get you used to the software and capabilities. It's basic, but this basic Create Eb. Actually, we need to lower it down to minus ten as well. Base foundation that video editing stands on. So you can see it kind of abrupt here. One of the great techniques I learned recently is if you come to AudioTrac Mixer and drop this down, if you don't have it, come to Window Window AudioTrak mixer and select it for our sequence. So this our sequence. This is the nested sequence here. If I close it, it disappears. We have audio track mixer, so we can cut a little bit in the end, put it on a new track, so we have a seven. Here. So we come to we come to the bottom. We search for number seven. It's this one. Come to the top, and we press here reverb, Studio reverb, double click to open the settings. And then let's see what we have without the audio. We need to increase this and increase this. Yeah, I like it. So you can see what it does is kind of adds that echo in the end, which is super cool to and to a song. Or another way you can do this is you can go into music and then find the end part. So in the very end, it's like, quite boring. Let's see what we have here. So I like this part here. Maybe we can use it here as well. So instead of using the end of this clip, we can use this one. Let's see what we have. Okay, once again, we need to add parametric EQ, what you gain to minus ten -20. We can apply T fault transition then like this. Something like this. So once again, it's just a little bit of experimentation, moving things around and see what sounds the best. You can see it's super smooth here. Yeah. So that's how we do it. That's how we do the audio. We add sound effects to support the visual. Then we add all kinds of sound effects here. If we were making montage, I really like when there's a cut on a certain bit, that's what we would do. But once again, if you want to do it yourself, just find a bit, make a cut on that bit. It's as simple as that. Like with visuals, it's quite hard to show how to do audio editing for all kinds of styles, for all kinds of niches. So what I recommend you do is experiment with this video, find things that work for you, even from movies in order to support a hit, for example, the add a hit sound. Even if people don't actually hit each other, if it comes close, there's going to be a hit. So experiment. Try this. Use premiere composer. If you have a little bit of budget, use epidemic sound. If the budget is tight, use royalty free music on YouTube, and that's it for this video. Have any questions, please let me know. And other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 9. Color Grading For YouTube: This video, we're going to talk about color grading. And I believe that people overthink this topic. Think for yourself. If the video has a slightly bluish or brownish or whatever or greenish tint, is that going to make you watch the video longer, or is that going to make you click off? Like, no, none of that matters. On the other hand, let's say your video is too dark, you can barely see anything or it's too bright. It's just white. You cannot see. Yeah, that will influence. But overall, with color grading, you just want to make the video look good. It doesn't have to be crazily or super creatively edited. It just needs to be a video that people can watch. That's it. So that's exactly what we're going to do. Open Premiere Pro, create a new project, give it a name and then press on Create. In the resources section, you'll find two pictures to practice on. These pictures need to be adjusted because the exposure or let's say, the lightness of the video doesn't look great. So I just put the files into a project. I select both of them, I'll put them on the timeline. So on one picture, we have a handsome man, on the other picture we have myself as well, not so handsome. So there are two ways you can do it. You can either come here, new item, adjustment layer, create the adjustment layer, put it onto the timeline, and then we can go into effects, and we will search for lumetri color. Then we just drop this effect onto adjustment layer, and that's one way to do it. The other way to do it is to drop lumetri color right onto our footage. So instead of adjustment layer, we drop it on our footage. Here's how I think about this. If we use an adjustment layer, it's going to affect everything that's below. So let's say we have both of our files below the adjustment layer, and both of these will be affected. And to be honest, this is something I never do, but this is something that can be done. And this is done so that all the files that we have below the adjustment layer, they will all have the same effects. And by the way, this is exactly the same what you would do in Photoshop or in light room. We're using exactly the same tool. So when I'm working projects, I have footage files. And usually the a little bit of adjustment, maybe a little bit of exposure, so it makes the picture brighter or to do some manipulation. And what I do is I put the effect right on the footage itself because I don't want other parts of the video to be adjusted. I want to be just the footage. But if you are not going to have any effects, or let's say, you've already created your video, and you just want to make it a bit brighter like everything in the video. The adjustment layer would work well. So I'll just delete the adjustment layer, and I will put the ometric color also to the second file. Or instead, I can press Command Z, as you can see, we just delete it from here, Command Z. I can come here. I have effects for this file, and I can copy Command C or Control C, Command C or Control or Command V, and I put it here. If I copy it from here and I already have adjusted something, so I have exposure, I can copy it. I will delete lumetric color from here. I paste it here. It's also overexposed here now as well, but I will control Z. So let's take a look and see what we can do. This was a picture for a thumbnail, so I just got this part in Photoshop. I did some adjustments. But what can we do here? Let's look at the image. What are the good parts? What are the bad parts about this video? So I can say that I'm lit pretty well everywhere. Except for this part, it's too dark. So what I can do is I can increase shadows. But now kind of it loses contrast a little bit, right? So now I can increase the contrast a little bit. And in the Effects Control panel, if I click here, toggle the effect on or off, I can see the difference. And now it looks like I'm a bit overexposed here. By overexposed, I mean that I'm too bright in certain parts. I can take the highlights down a little bit. Let's see what it does. Maybe we need to take whites a little bit down. Exposure, minus one, too much, -0.5. Let's see what you had before and after, before and after. So you can see, I'm quite brown orange here. I have too much pink on my face. So what we can do is we can go into HSL secondary, and here we can manipulate the colors of myself. So what I can do is I can set a color. Where is the most pink? Now, we can click on Show Mask, and it will show exactly what's affected. And with these sliders here, we can adjust the mask. We can make it a bit whiter. So that it affects most of my skin. Let's see what we can do now. If I drag this slider up, I will make all the pink colours brighter. It's going to be as saturated. Let's come here, see the difference before and after, before and after. Let's put a little bit more contrast, see before and after. Yeah, my skin is definitely too bright. So let's put this back to where it was. I can click on a reset button. So every time the effects, if you click on a reset button, it will bring everything to how it was. I didn't think we should make it brighter. We should just slide it to another color. Maybe we can change the temperature to something more If you move the temperature slider to the right, it will make it red to left, it will make it blue, same with tint, pink or green. I like it better this way. Now you can see the before and after. This is before, this is after. And one thing about editing about color grading, about all the artistic parts of our world is that I may like it and you may not like it. There's no one thing we can do that will fit everybody. We have different views, we have different experiences. We have different tastes. So what I was going for is I wanted to make the darker parts of myself a bit brighter and just overall make myself a bit brighter. So instead of my face being super bright on this side and dark on this side, I kind of balanced it out a little bit. Secret behind learning all of this is just practice. The more you do this, the better you will become. Let's try to work on this one. You can definitely see it's bright on this side, it's dark on this side. This part is too bright for me. The background is okay. So what I want to do here, bring the shadows up a little bit, a bit more. Let's see before and after. Now you can see the darker side of myself better. We can increase the contrast a little bit. Let's see the before and after. Okay? Now, how can we make this part, specifically this part a bit darker? Put another lumetric color effect on our file basic correction. And now we will create a mask, create ellipse mask. I don't want it to be square. I need to cover this part. I want it to be smoother instead of more abrupt. This what we can do with this one. So we can put our mask here. We can stretch it out. If you want it to scale uniformly, just press and shift, and it will do a circle, but I don't need the circle, so this is what I will. Because we've create the mask, everything that's within the mask will be affected or we can press invert it and everything outside of the mask will be influenced. Now, what I can do is I can just decrease the exposure slightly, but you can see we have a very sharp edge here. So another thing we can do is we can go into mask properties here, and then we can increase the mask feather. A lot. So now, you wouldn't tell that there's a mask here, right? Because it's super smooth. And this is done with a mask feather. Now, you can also increase the mask expansion. It's just easier to see what's happening on the screen. So you are basically increasing the size of the mask. I do prefer it without the expansion. I came back here, I see that I'm a little bit orange. So what I can do, I can come here, scroll down and decrease the temperature to maybe ten. Let's see the difference. Yeah. This definitely looks a bit better. Now, let's see the difference before and after on this image. So this was before, this is after. And also, let's see the before and after of this part here. Let's talk about so called cinematic looks. It's something that people do. Most channels on YouTube, they don't do it. They just do a simple color grading to make the image look good. One of the best ways to do cinematic looks or to actually, once again, learn color grading is to find on the Internet the look you like, and then try to copy this look in Premiere Pro. And by the way, the same works with after effects. You literally have exactly same metric although I wouldn't recommend doing it there because the software is more demanding. And if you do all sorts of animations there, it's just it slows the computer down, and it's way easier to do in Premiere Pro. And then from Premiere Pro you can take your toe after effects and an after effect, by the way, because we're copying from premiere pro to after effects, and after effects, it will have exactly the same effect. So it will look exactly the same. Saves a lot of time. Now, let's take a look once again, these pictures. Well, because I'm not going for any specific looks, I would just leave it as it is here. It's just an overall. Does the picture look good? It does. Can you see everything that's important? Yeah. So do I need any extra manipulation? No. There are times when I do color grading, I send it to your client, and then they review the footage and they say that they would like it to look different. That's definitely okay because we're different people, we like different efects we like different styles. And if that happens to you, there's nothing wrong with that. And if you create videos right now, in two years time, you look back to the editing to the footage you're doing right now, you will be embarrassed with your results, and that's okay. That happens with me. Even if I take a look at the videos that I did a year ago, I wish I did a different editing, different color grading. And things like that. If you have any questions, please let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 10. Premiere Pro Color Magic: Workspace, Scopes, and Automation: Welcome to this video about color editing on steroids. This is an extra lesson after the course has been published, but I thought this would be a great edition. In the last two months, I had to edit over 400 drone videos, and then those videos would be uploaded to websites as stock videos, and then those stock videos would be sold. But anyway, I had to edit a lot of drone videos, and I had to color correct them. And as a result of that, I learned quite a few things about color correcting, and this is this lecture exists. Okay, so here I just have a drone video, and instead of editing here, we'll go to the color workspace, something I wasn't using much before. And we have a couple of options as well. We can go into adding an adjustment layer, then putting that on top of the video and doing adjustments. Here or we can do adjustments on the file itself. I'll show you both ways and explain the differences, and it's not the same as in the previous lecture. So you can see that we have so called metroscopes here. At the bottom, you chose the darkest areas. At the top, you chose the whitest areas. And then here we have the color. I don't really use this one. Actually, I don't use this one at all. I only use this one, and this is really helpful to understand how to work with color. Actually, let me explain this a bit better. What do you see here is reflection of the video in this gray matter. So whenever something moves in the frame here, it also moves here. If we zoom in, let's say, how do we zoom in here? Can you see that? It changes everything. For example, we can see that the whitest, the most brightest point here, this part, it's this part here, the tops of the mountains. At the same time, the darkest points here are probably own here, and here to help you understand this better, let's say I move the position down and we will hide the tops of the mountains, and it will hide from here as well. Can you see that? Once the mountains hide, it also hides it on the left. I hope this is clear. If not, send me a message. I'll try to explain this better. But once again, you'll understand it better only with practice. So let me show you how to practice. What we can see from this graph here, and by the way, it goes to the maximum of 100 and to the minimum of zero. So all the colors will be in 0-100. And we can see that it's mostly in the dark areas, all the colors. There's not much at the highlights. One thing we can do is we can increase the highlights. Here's an interesting thing. Let's say we increase the exposure, and you can see that it all came white, but it's 100, so it cannot go beyond 100. So let me put this back. Okay, so if we increase the highlights, this is before, this is after before, after. We can see that we lose quite a lot of information here. Alright. And it's just the highlights. Let's put it to zero. Let's try to maybe increase the exposure a bit because we don't just want the highlights because we want the dark areas to be more visible, as well. Actually, for this video, there's not much that we needed to be honest if I was to edit this. But I'll show you an interesting way to edit without me editing this and a bit. And here, I would increase the exposure to probably 120, make it full screen, let's see. Maybe make just a bit more contrasty. So we can either increase the contrast like this and you can see what's happening on the left. The graph gets stretched, so the highlights go to the top and the shadows of the dark rays go to the bottom, put this to zero. And by the way, I would actually put blacks a little bit down. But another way we can increase contrast is we can instead of just sliding this slider, we can slide the highlights up and the shadows down. So if you do the highlights up and shadows down, you can see we're achieving the same effect. It looks a lot more contrast. As I told you in the previous video, color grading, it's so subjective. Every person will think differently. However, I never really understood the temperature. I used to do it in a way where I would just look at the video, and if I feel like it needs a little bit of green or pink, then I would just adjust the slider. However, it's not the best way to do this. And by the way, we can see the before and after. Still, like, the highlights took so much information here. But anyway, you do have to sacrifice or you have to do masking at certain points, and this definitely can be done. It's just not something I'm interested in, or my clients are interested in this high level of coal grading. It's done in movies, but we don't have the movies budget, so that's why we don't do it. So anyway, this is the before, and this is after. You can see the difference. I'll probably put the highlights and be down. Yeah. So but I found a better way to caligrate. This is how you caligrate if you want to do it yourself. However, you can see here, we can also press on Auto. If you press on Auto, Premiere will automatically Calibrate the video or color correct. But I found out that it doesn't work on the adjustment layer. You have to color correct the video itself. Boy let me reset everything, and let's say I press on Auto, and I found out that whatever clips I used, it always gave me the same correction. So don't do this. Actually, I'll just turn Dophon out to show you the difference, and I'll click on the clip itself, and then I'll press on Auto. See, that's a lot better. Mm, actually, did a really good job. Interesting. It didn't do anything with the top of the mountain. It's not too bright. So anyway, let's say a press on reset, we go back and then I press this one to see how it does it with an adjustment layer, you can see how bad it is. So that's why you don't use the adjustment layer, you press on auto, and you can see the difference. However, I would definitely add more saturation to 120, something like this. And I would probably add a bit more not necessarily exposure, put the highlights down. Mmm. Oh, yeah, we can do that. We can do we can increase the exposure a bit more. Then we can put the highlights down. Not much change, to be honest. Maybe the dark isterios. So anyway, it does that. It does the color. It does the white balance. So that's great because I hate doing this. And then you can still customize it to whatever you want. You can always reset it. And then, by the way, yeah. So let's say I do the saturation and then I still want it to just go back to auto so I do auto. Here's what it does. I like it with more saturation. Looks a lot more live, and especially for the drone trots for stock videos, they need to be a bit more saturated. So this is how you do it. Remember, come to the color workspace. If you want to do it manually, you can do it on the clip itself, or you can do it with an adjustment layer. If you want to do it with premiere automatically, then you do have to do it only on the clip itself. I hope this was helpful. If you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, go ahead and watch the next video. 11. Motion Graphics and Titles for YouTube: This video, we can talk about motion graphics. Here's the thing about motion graphics. I can create a course that will be 100 hours long, and it's going to be a completely separate course because there's so much to it. Now, instead of doing this, I'll show you some practical things that you can do to learn this, and I'll show you the examples of how I do things, and let's get to it. I really like when motion graphics is done at the same time as the video. So it's me talking to the camera, and then there's some motion graphics appearing on the screen. So it's not just full screen of motion graphics, but a combination of myself talking and something's appearing on the screen and happening in the screen. I always come back to Ali Abdel because he has really good motion graphics in his videos. He has these icons appear on the screen, which is super easy to do. But let's get into after effects. I have one composition of me speaking. This is just a part of one of the videos, and I have another composition where we're going to create some motion graphics. So let's say we want people to subscribe. So we will add a text saying subscribe. Premiere composer will help you a lot with this because he has a lot of these kind of animations that are super smooth. So let me say subscribe, put it in the middle, go to animation composure, text, and this one from the bottom in. There we have this very interesting animation. Now, if we were to add this to this project, I will increase the scale. Actually, let's make it a bit smaller, put it to the left, something like this. And subscribe. At the same time, I think it would be cool to add a background. So I'm just going to the end. Once we have this animation end, I'm going to add a rounded triangle. I'll put it something like this because we can change it later. Rectangle, and actually, let's put it below subscribe like this and make subscribe. No, we'll make the background a red color because that's what YouTube has. We'll also put it right in the middle. Rectangle path, and we're going to just add a bit of roundness to this. So there you go. And now we can also animate the background. So let's see what options we have. Animation composer. I think this one would look interesting. Let's see what we have. And let's see what we have here. Yeah. So that's one of the ways to do text. Animation composer will save a lot of time for you. And coming back to Alice's video, the best way to learn motion graphics is to look at the video, analyze the video, and think, how on earth did he do this? Which software he used? And the more you practice, the easier it will become. But let's say we want to see how that was done. Take a look. So these icons just appear on the screen. They have a little bit of shadow here. Technically, this is something that you can do in Premiere Pro, but I think it would be a bit easier to do after effects. And the way you would do this is you would create a new composition. You would create a rectangle, put it in the middle. We're creating rounded rectangle. Once again, we'll come here. Rectangle path, roundness, we added to something like this, maybe a bit less. We'll make it wide. Then we need to add an icon. We can download icons using Art list, motion ray, and vado elements. So let's say we have some sort of icon here. I'll make it dark for you to see, put it in the middle as well. Come back here, put this composition in. There we have the icon. Now we just need to animate it. So we'll go to the beginning animation composer. Make sure you have selected the icon. And in so something like this, you can customize the number of bounces if you come here. I'm pretty sure this is something you can do. No, this isn't something you can do here, but you can do it for some of the other ones. Then we just need to add a shadow drop shadow effect. Put it in increase the softness, and you can kind of see that we have something very similar. Just instead of the icon, we have this thing. And so these kind of combinations we really great on YouTube. People really like it. Changed the position to here. So, boom. This is the animation that I had to create for one of my clients. And they were talking about a progressive timeline where a person goes from one point to another, and there are kind of like three steps to it. So I just thought, Okay, how can I do this? And this is something that I've created. This probably took me like 20 minutes to do. Another thing that we did is I made the background transparent. And so the animation appeared on the screen that went into this kind of black background mode. So let's try to replicate this. But first, let's think, how did I do this? As you can probably imagine, I've created three rectangles. Then in each rectangle, I added an arrow. I animated that arrow, and I just made them appear on the screen. Said, it's as simple as that. So I'll create a new composition. In this case, I don't need a rounded rectangle, so this is the one I'm going to use. Let's do something like this, put it in the middle. That one was probably a bit thinner, but it doesn't really matter. You can always come to rectangle, rectangle path, and you can change the size. If you change it, it's going to scale everything up. But if you click on this button here, you can now scale each proportion separately. Then I'm going to just add a color. Let's make it red. Control D to copy B to change the position, move it to the right. Let's make it green, Control D position, move it to the right. Let's make it blue. So this is what we have now we would just need to select all of them, position of them a bit to the left. And of course, you can measure everything, but it looks like it's perfectly in the middle for me. Then as you can see, I have arrows. I probably use this arrow, so I'll just put it in the project. I will put it here. This one is brown. So I'll change the color, change to color. This is the effect. I'll put this on the arrow from this one to white one. Make sure you have all lightness centuration selected. It's going to become white, position and scale and rotation as well. We need change rotation to -90, then decrease the scale. Now we just need to animate its position. So the first one is going to start here, then one, two, three, four, five, move it a little bit to the right, one, two, three, four, five. I copy these keyframes. I put it in one, two, three, four, five, copy these, one, two, three, four, five, Control C, Control V, one, two, three, four, five, copy all of this. Oops, copy all of this, Control C, Control V. So there we have it. Now we just need to select all of the keyframes. Right click, keyframe assistant, Easy Ease, and let's see what we have. See, now it's kind of bouncing. Now, what I would do is I would duplicate it. Not sure which one is for the anchor point, the shortcut, so I'll just come here and I will change the position, and I will do it once again, transform, change the anchor point. Over somewhere over here, there you have it. Then I would just select all of them, window animation composer and make sure they appear on the screen. Let's see which one we like this one. So they appeared one by one. So I would just move each one of these to something like this. If it's too fast, then I would make it a bit slower to something like this. Yep, there you go. As you can see, you just kind of need to think what exactly you want, then try to think through. How would you do this? It's not hard. It just takes a bit of time and to rewire your thinking process, because if you do that, it will be super easy. Another thing I recommend is going to programs like Convato and you can download a lot of templates that will save you a lot of time. So let's say I want number counter. I'm not sure if it is here, but let's see what we have. Okay, we have templates, video templates. And we needed for after effects. So instead of you creating this animation, you can just download it and use it, and you can also customize it. So let's take a look at one of the videos I've created. So I've created this kind of animation from this template. Let's see again. Let's search for something else. Let's see what you have in video templates for after effects. If it loads, of course. Did load. Look at this super creative logo animation. I've actually used one of these and maybe this one. You can just put your own logo, and it will animate this. Interesting text animations. Let's search for motion graphics for once again, after effects, 3,000 different effects. That's a lot. Title animations, interesting, something like this. Graphic back, creative. Let's see what they have. So this is kind of logos, animations, flower elements. Oh, these are cool ones. So let's try to download it. Literally took me like 5 seconds to download it. I'll just come to here. I'll click on Import File downloads. I'll find what I've just downloaded, open, have a new folder. What is this design element? Let's see what do we have here? Really cool flower animation. So let's try to put it over here. See what we have. We have this green background. Let's try to remove this. I'm not sure where it is exactly. Okay, let's read the PDF, how to remove the background. As you can see you can also customize the colors. They also have this one, which is final composition. Let's try to put this one in. Lot of flowers here. Interesting. How do we get rid of this green background? Well, I'll be honest. I'm not sure how to do this, and I don't want you to look at this forever. But as you can see, really cool animations. One thing we could also do is we could just come here, search for color key, put it on this flower, select, and there you go. Of course, we can also make the edge thin a little bit, but honestly, we don't really need this. There you have this cool animation. One thing is we can actually I'll command X, this one. I'll come into here. I'll hide the icon, this wide. I'll put this flower in. I'm not sure why it's not in the middle. Let's try to put it in the middle to decrease the scale, and let's see what we have. There you go. Interesting, right? So you can do a lot of different stuff. One thing I do recommend is underscending exactly what you want, getting inspiration from other YouTubers, seeing what they do. And one of the future videos, I'll talk about stealing like an artist. And this is one of the ways to do this. Take a look at other people get inspired. I do recommend Ali Abdel. He has phenomenal videos, like, really, really good. So one of the things I recommend you do is go on YouTube, get some inspiration and try to replicate what people are already doing. Just practice, try to replicate what you like. If you have any questions, please let me know, but other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 12. The GOAT of YouTube - Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast): Want to introduce you to a very special person, as the title says, the Goat of YouTube. So, who is this person? It's Jimmy Donaldson, but that's not Jimmy. Who is that? That's Hayden Hillar Smith. We're gonna talk about him, as well. But Jimmy Donaldson, AKA missed a Beast. At this point, has over 300 million followers just on YouTube or 50 on Instagram. I don't know how many UTiko, but insane. So Jimmy Donaldson, he has been on full time podcast. He has been on Colin and Zamir. He has been on Joe Rogan, has been on Lex Friedman and so much More. And being sort of an obsessive mandrem although obsessive in a good way, I really like to dig deep into some topics. So I watched every single podcast that he had by what was it? 2023. So I watched every single podcast that he had absolutely amazing, fantastic. And one of the things that Mr. Bees does is he goes on podcast and he just shares everything he knows, literally everything. And one of the biggest takeaways that anyone can take from him is retention rate. Something we've already talked about AVD, also known as retential rate. Something that people should focus on is 70% retention rate. If you get to 70% and your video is clickable, you will blow up. You will get not just millions. You will get tens of millions of use on your loan from videos. That also means tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars for just one video from just ad revenue alone, and imagine you do like sponsor products or like your client does. They do affiliate marketing so amazing. And by the way, another hug is you can go into X. I want to say Twitter, but right now it's X. You can go into X, and you can search for old Mystery Beast posts. A Mr. Beast shares a lot of very valuable information. As you will see here, so August 2022, and you can see that Mr. Bees shares impressions, how many impressions he got, he will share click through it. So as you can see, his videos, the average click rate is about, let's say, like, here it's at like just a bit lower than 6%. Here of course, it's high. And one of the interesting things about YouTube is that when the video goes live, the click rate is higher in the beginning because people that are subscribed to that are waiting for you videos, they will watch the video right away. And then new people that will see the video, new audience, they are not as likely to click. That goes into building relationship with your audience, credibility. But that's another topic. So clickthrough rate. That's where the video the views are coming from. YouTube recommendations, 33 million views and something else. You know, and the age. And also, Marquez showed that the audience of miss Bess isn't significantly younger than his, which is interesting. But anyway, 70% retention rate another YouTube genius is Patty Galway. He's also on Twitter. He shares some valuable information. Anyway, let's go further. So 70% retention rate. Let's go back to this. How did you achieve this? Well, you become better every day, every single day. How do you do this? Well, you make new effects, you learn new effects. You move the footage around. You learn new techniques, like, from everything from audio to video to color grading to every single thing. You learn and you make your video 1% better. And you check analytics. What do we have here for drop offs? This is something that we will cover as well. So how do you access analytics? You go into YouTube. You click on your video, you go to Analytics, and here you can access the average refrigeration. And by the way, 70% is ideal. You will probably not hit 70%, even if Mr. B doesn't hit 70% all the time. This is something that you should strive for, but hit that every single time, almost impossible. Analytics, then you scroll down and you see the average view duration. So this is screenshot for one of my videos. One of the things I learned when I read Atomic Habits by James Clear, absolutely fantastic book on self development and just progressing in life is the power of tiny gains. As Mr. Be said, you need to make your videos 1% better every single time. The same applies here. Here's crazy thing about mathematics. If you become better, 1% every single day, and you can see this here. So we do mathematical equation 1.01, which is 1% better, and we multiply that by 365, which is how many years how many days are in the year. In one year, you will be 37 times better than you were when you started. The same thing with 1% worse. If you become worse, 1% every day, which is 0.99 times to the power of 369 365, sorry. That's almost zero. So if you become better every single day, you will just fly off. And if you become worse, you'll almost get to zero. And this is something that Tony Robbins talks about, as well. You never stay the same. You either become better or you become worse. So if you do not become better, you automatically become worse. Even if you stay the same, let's say, the world moves, and in comparison to the world, you will stay the same, and it's just you will waste your life. So there are no shortcuts. This is something that is just takes a lot of practice and takes a lot of time. But the better you become, the faster you become better, the more views your videos will get, the better your video editing will be, and the more people will want to watch your videos or videos of your client. This is something that we will focus on. I'll tell you how to become better. I'll tell you where to start. We'll build the foundation, and we'll build a strong foundation, and we'll build a skyscraper on top of that. So thank you for watching. If you have any questions, leave those below, and I will see you in the next video. 13. The GOAT of YouTube Editing - Hayden Hillier-smith: This video, I'd like to introduce you to the Goat of YouTube Editing, not just YouTube, because that is Misty Best, but to the goat of YouTube Editing. It's this gentleman here, Haden Hiller Smith. Hayden worked with Misty Best with Logan Pol, and with Logan Pol alone, he received over 6 billion views. Now, what is Hating Hillary Smith's secret ingredient? Well, it's this triangle here. Story, rhythm, emotion. So what is story? Story answers the question. Where is this going? What is emotion? Emotion answers the question, how should I feel? And rhythm. Well, rhythm is what is the flow? When I edit, I always come back to this triangle, and that's something that you should do as well. When you editing, you should focus on one thing at a time. So it's either a story, emotion or a rhythm. However, these things interconnect. So sometimes you have a story, but it's also presented with a rhythm. The same with motion is presented with the rhythm, but you should focus at one thing at a time. Honestly, even for me, it's hard to always come back to store rhythm and emotion. So I thought about it for a couple of years. Here's something to think about. Can a not edited video go viral? Yes or no? Yes. Can editing go viral without a video? No. And so I realize that editing helps the video go viral or just in general, editing helps the video. And I'm just trying to simplify things. I know it sounds a bit confusing. In other words, think of editing as supporting the video. So when you edit, you come back to this triangle, and everything you do should be supporting the video with these things. And last, Murder your darlings. So once again, this is something Hayden taught me. The best way to explain this is if you record the video of yourself and you like a specific part of the video and you really want to keep it. But then you ask yourself, will it help the video? Will it help the viewer and descend the video better? Will it make it more enjoyable? And if not, you should just cut it. And that's the part that you really like, but needs to go. That is called Murdering You darlings or another example. Let's say you find a music that would work really well that you really like. But turns out that it's something that you like, but it's not going to help the audience feel a certain way. So once again, you should just cut it. Or you think footage looks fantastic, and you really want to keep it, but it's not going to help the video. So in that case, you should just cut it. So that is hating Hiller Smith. These are the principles that he lives by and that I started living by. If you have any questions, leave those in the Q&A section below, and let's get to the next video. 14. “Edit Videos with Me” (Hands-On Practice): These are edit with me lectures. There are two lectures like dis in course. The purpose of these lectures is for you to understand my thinking process and the editing decisions I make. Theory is never enough, and most progress comes from practice. So I want you to see a real live example of how I do things. And after that, I want you to edit two videos, one short form and one long form. If you want, you can record your own video or you can download a video that I've already prepared for you. Either way, you need to practice. Practice is what will make advise you to take my footage because you will literally be able to just copy and paste. Secondly, if you want to become a video editor, it's going to be useful because that's how you will receive footage of other people. And thirdly, because you don't use a video of your own, you don't care about how you look, how you sound. But if you do use yourself, then you do care about those things. You will get the hang with it. Once again, if you have any questions, please let me know. But if not, let's get into the editing. 15. “Edit Videos with Me” - YouTube Shorts: We are finally getting to some real meat here. In this video, we will edit a short. In the downloadable resources, you will find this file here. I record this video. It's just under 2 minutes. Once again, you can use your own video, but just for the sake of practice, download this video. I'll show you how I edit this video. And once you get some practice, we can create your own videos for your clients, but this is just my recommendation. You can do what best suits you. So let's open Premiere Pro. I'm not sure if we need after effects for this video. Usually, after effects is needed for long form videos. I only use it for short form if there's some sort of animation needed, but in this case, I don't think we'll need any animations. We'll create a new project. This video is about Mr. Best ats progress bars. So this is what I will call it. Now I have to move myself. And then create. So once you download the file, put it in the folder. You will notice that the video is sideways, and that's because it was recorded on a DSLR. What I will do is I will drop the video to a timeline. As you can see, another file will appear. That's our sequence. So I will call this V one. That's what I do with my clients. I'll create a new folder, and I'll call it Vs because V one, V two different Vs. That's just how I call it. You can call it whatever works best for you. I will drop it in the folder. I will create another folder, a new bean called footage, and I will drop the file over there. We're doing this just to keep things organized because if you have a video that's 1 hour long, you want to make sure everything is organized. Let's rotate the video. So we'll go into sequence settings. First of all, we need to change the resolution of this and we need to make it vertical because right now it's horizontal. So we will do it here in a frame size. We just basically need to change these numbers, like replace them 1080, by 1920. Press Okay. I can click on the video. Then I will go into effect here. If Effect is not visible for some reason for you, just click here on the window, click on Effect. Now I will search for Transform. I will drag it from here onto my video. This is our transform effect. This is what originally comes to alter the video, and this is the effect that we've added below this transform. Now I will just change the rotation to 90 degrees and that's it. Next thing we can do is to move the playback of the video to the right. I will click here, I will hold it, and I will drag it to the right here because I want to see myself better. Now we can go into effects and search for ometric color to do color grading. What's really important is for the viewer to just see a good quality video, emetric color, basic erection. I think we need to bump up the shadows because my face is a little bit too dark. And then the same for highlights, I want to reduce the highlights because this part of my face is a bit too. You can see the video is a bit not contrasty, so we'll just bump the contrast a little bit. Now let's see what you have before and after, before, after, before, after. Actually, I just put the shadows to 80 and let's increase the contrast to 60 and highlights to -60 and contrast to 80. So let's see before and after. So whatever happened, I just lit the darker side of myself. So now let's watch through the video. This is the first line that we will need. As you've already seen in the shortcuts video, I'm using a lot of shortcuts. So instead of pressing play joins out. Stop. Instead of pressing on C, cutting, then deleting, I'm just using my shortcuts and it saves me a lot of time. It might be a bit unnatural in the beginning. Just give it a couple of days. You'll get used to this. Because I already know how I speak, I know which parts need to be cut and which ones need to stay. That's why I do it a little bit faster. But when you edit this video, take your time. So as you can see, the video is just 20 seconds long, and that works for the short because that's less than 60 seconds. Let's watch through the video, see what ideas we come up with. Have you ever noticed that Mr. Beast at progress bars start very fast, but end very slow. Turns out it's on purpose. Mystabst is very good at holding people's attention. He does this in order for viewers to keep watching and avoid keeping the ad. It both helps the viewer because we psychologically think it's not going to last long, and it benefits the advertisers because they get more sales this way. One thing I notice is the audio peaks. And it benefits. So around here, it's a bit too loud. What I will do is I will select the clips. I will press in the workspaces, and I will go to Audio. I'll press on dialog. I'll press on Automatch so it will level the audio. Let's listen to How it sounds. And it benefits the advertisers. The second thing I'll do is I'll press on Enhance. You can really hear the difference here. And it benefits the advertisers because they get more sales this way. Or let's turn it off. And it benefits the advertisers because they get more sales this way. So you can see it kind of makes it a bit quieter but a lot better quality. Let's put it to three. That's all I need for the audio. You might have thought that it needs some sort of crazy optimization or something like that. No, it doesn't. We just need to make it easy to consume, better quality, and that's it. Now, I will go into the editing workspace. I will add a little bit of audio game because it's a bit too quiet. So I will right click and I will search for audio again. If you cannot find it, just search because sometimes even I cannot find it. So going to the audio again, let's add it two. Let's add four. Have you ever noticed that Mr. Best ads progress bars start very fast, but end very slow. Turns out it's on purpose. Mr. People's attion. Slider, it doesn't get to the red part. So it's good. It doesn't reach the peak. But it's not too quiet. The loudness is good. Once again, I press Controls to save as many times as possible because the program might crash. I will cut a little bit in the beginning so that when people see the video, I start talking right away. There's no pause in the beginning. And trust me, this pause can influence the video, the results of the video. Have you ever noticed that? Okay, it's good. Let's cut it a bit here. So let's think what we can do with the video. In the very beginning, when I talk about progress bars, I want to overlay progress bars themselves. So I need to download Mr. Beast video. Have you ever noticed that Mr. Best at progress bars start very fast, but end very slow. Turns out it's on purpose. Then for this part, I think we can just keep myself. Mr. Beast is very good at holding people's attention. Here, I think we can overlay Ms Best himself because I'm talking about him and him being an entertainer. Enter entertainer entertainer, anyway. Let's keep going. People's attention. He does this in order for viewers to keep watching and avoid keeping the ad. In this part, I think we can overlay people looking the screen or looking the phone. It both helps the viewer because we psychologically think it's not going to last long. We can put a person with a relief, so they're satisfied. And it benefits the advertisers because they get more sales this way. And here, we can put something with money. Once again, these are just my first thoughts, what we do with the video? Let's go into YouTube and find a video where Mr. Beast has progress bars. Mr. De Beast, actually, what we can do is we can come here and we can search if he has any ads like this. I'm not sure if we can find it this way. And I'm not sure if he had any ads. He did have ads here. I don't see any progress bar. Let's check the video. Where's the ad? Line up Mr. Bestlab swarm. It's okay. He doesn't have it here, maybe here. Hmm. Here's the ad that I was talking about, where is this here as you can see at the bottom, like this progress bar. So what we need to do is we need to download this video. In Safari, it doesn't work for some reason. So I need to go into Chrome. I copied the URL of this video. I go into Chrome. I paste it here, I press on the URL, a press key on key left, and I write as Enter more P four. As you can see here, this doesn't have any sound. And we don't need any sound. If you ever need a sound, you just and a good quality, you just download the good quality and then the sound with the bad quality, and then you just put the clips together, and that's it. So MP four, download, and it will start downloading, super super downloading. Well, it's downloading, let's go into project. Let's create another bin. I call this bin all kinds of stuff because I have all kinds of stuff there. Usually, I put Broll here, nested sequences simply to keep it organized. So the video just downloaded, we put it into all kinds of stuff. Okay. Now we can access the video. So we just need to find the ad. It starts right around here. Marking, then we go to the very end, Marko. I will drag it onto the timeline. As you can see, it's still quite long. And in order to see, let's scale it down. So we can see the progress bar, I will mute everything. So the progress bar starts super fast, as you can see here. But then in the end, look at how slow it goes. Miss Beast. So that's why this video exists. Let's listen to the video. Evanats the miss Best at progress bars start very fast, but end very slow. Turns out it's on purpose. I will cut it in the very beginning because I want to show how the progress bar starts. And then I also need the end. I just cut it. I put everything over here. I will just move it on the play back here to see the difference. Yeah, you can kind of Tell the difference? You can clearly see the difference is massive. Now we need to show it to the viewer. I think what we can do is, first of all, we can increase the size. So maybe 57 57 covers it to the sides. Yeah, 56 is too small. 57 is good. I'll put both videos to the size 57 because I don't want any empty parts here. Now we can put the top video to the very top as well and the bottom video like this. So now, you can really see the difference. Another thing we can do, select the clips that we can press on Nest. By nesting, we basically create another sequence, and we put these clips, the two clips here in another sequence. But then we have this other sequence in our sequence. You know what I mean. Once again, if you have any questions, please let me know, but I think that should be straightforward. The next thing I think we can do is we can highlight the progress bar. So if we can go into effect and we search for lumetric color, click on the nested sequence. We have our lumetric color here, basic correction. If I decrease the exposure, which is basically the brightness, you can see it affects everything. What I want to do, first of all, I think minus two would work well like this so that people can see Mr. Best as well. And then I need to create a mask. So create a mask, you can see it's only dark in certain regions. If I invert the mask, can you see what happened? So that's exactly what I need. In order to move the mask, I can either move it like this. But if I try to scale it, as you can see, it loses its shape, and I want to keep this 90 degree shape. So what I will do is I will put it like this, and then I will select the top right and bottom right angle. This. Now if I move, I move two of them. You can see it still kind of loses its shape. So if you press shift, now you can see it's going perfectly straight. Now I select the bottom two, and I just move it up. Let's see what it looks like. We need to see it closer. So if we select the zoom level, let's press on 400 and let's see the progress bar. Looks okay. Now, let's put it back into fit. I do want to adjust it a little bit. So I press on the mask again in the metric color mask, and I need to lower it down a little bit. So if I lower it down just a little bit, then I need to put it just a little bit higher because it's too low. Yeah, this looks good. I found a bit of a problem. We have two masks and basically one mask masks the other mask. So we created the first mask, which was the highlight of the bar, but when I create another mask only masks the top mask. It's a technical issue. Let's try to solve it. The way I'm thinking about solving it is if we actually cut this effect, and then we put it on each clip individually. The way we can do it is we can press Command X or Control X. We go into our nested sequence. The bottom one is the top one, as you can see, if I turn it off, and turn it on with this I, that's how we can identify it. And if I press the effect, as you can see, there's a line, and it's not perfect. So what we can do is we can nest these files each individually, and then we can control V, perfect. And then we can control V, this one, I need to move the mask to the bottom. Perfect. Now it works. I gave it a thought, and it looks like the progress bars are too small. What I think we should do is we need to scale it up for people to see it, but at the same time, keep Mr. Best in the frame. So let's see what we can do with this. What if we how should we do it? That's a great question. And also, I think, potentially move this bar, we should move it to something like this, maybe a bit more so that it's not in the very end of the frame, so that it's like this. Why? Because social media will crop the video a little bit. Let's see. This progress bar is now better. Oh, actually, I have another idea. We can keep the top video fully visible, but then we don't need to show the bottom video. We can just show the progress bar. So how do we do it? Let's search for crop in our effects, Crop. Then we put it here, and then what if we increase this. So that's 62 63, too much. 62. So, what if we do it like this, something like this? We can increase this video as well in size. So let's put it this one to 160. Then we put the bottom 160 in size, as well to increase the size and make it the same size so that the progress bars are the same size. Then we can move it this, then like this. Another thing is I want there to not be, you know, the stop. Here. So what I can do is I can move the video, which is this one. Take a look at the timeline here. It's on the top, but it's on the bottom here. So I'll move it on the timeline to the bottom as well. And now if I change the position of it, I can kind of eat it in a way. And then the top video, I want to move a little bit to left. Mm hmm. And then I want the start of this so that there's already a little bit of this line here. So let's see. Took. Yeah, that's that works. But I can see some movement from the bottom video, so let's move it up just a little bit. Yeah, I should looks great. Have you evanuts, Misa Best adds progress bars, start very fast, but end very slow. Turns out it's on purpose. Super Misty Beast, it's hard to see him here. We can keyframe the lumetric color. So let me move myself. Let's see. Heavy Evanuts? We can probably make it for less than a second here. Create a keyframe, and then I will go to the beginning. I'll press to zero. As you can see, it's now on zero. But when it gets to less than a second, it goes to minus two. Heavy evanats, the Mistabst adds progress bars, start very fast, but end very slow. It's great. Now we need to add arrows. Let's search for red arrow PNG. If it's not PNG, don't worry. I'll show you how to change it. Okay, this is PNG. Looks great. I downloaded it. I'll put it into all kinds of stuff, folder, and then to organize what we've added here, create a new bin, nest it. Then we'll put these into here. The way I select all of them is I person one of them. And I press on the right and I hold shift at the same time. And it selects three of them. I'll put into nest. Put our arrow to the timeline, decrease the size, then we need to rotate it. Then we need to move like this. Have you ever noticed adds prop? It starts fast. We can animate this arrow to show how it starts, and then we can move it in the end to show how it ends. So we put rotation position, that should be it. Toggle animation creates a keyframe. There's no key frame for some reason, just press on add slash remove keyframes. It will add a keyframe. Now we'll move into the timeline. Start very very fast. Here, I want my keyframe to end. I will put keyframes here. This is what I will do. This is what I will do. Have you ever noticed the mist Best at progress bars start very fast? Now, while I'm saying, but. But I put another keyframe and I move it to here, and I do it like this. Very fast, but very slow. I don't like when it's a linear animation, as you can see, it kind of just jumps. But I like when it's smooth. I'll select the key frames, and I will press right click. Temporal Interpolation. Is out. It's like the other ones, is in. Now you can see that it's smooth. So how it was like this. And now it's like this. Very slow. It's smoother, and this is what I prefer. People prefer it as well. Way you create smooth zoom ins and zooms out, is you use the same thing is in, is out. See what we have. Have you ever noticed that Mr. Best ads progress bars start very fast, but end very slow. Now, we need to add a transition here. Have you ever noticed that Mr. Beast ads progress bars start very fast, but end very slow. Turns out it's on purpose. Mr. Beast is very good at holding people's attention. It does this in order for viewers to keep watching and avoid keeping the ad. To keep people watching. Let's find Bureau person with a phone. We need something like this where we cannot see the screen. By the way, I went to this website. I always have shortcuts somewhere, so I have quick links here or bookmarks, whatever it's called. Let's see this video. Can we use anything from here? So we need about 4 seconds. As this in order for viewers to keep watching and avoid keeping the ad. Actually, if he presses, I think this will work perfect. You will understand what I mean. All kinds of stuff. Our downloaded video goes in here. And then when he press like this, this will be to keep watching and avoid keeping the ad. Avoid skipping the ad. This is where it will start. So once again, I owe or use these buttons here. The video is in four K, so I will just scale it down to 50%. To keep watching and avoid keeping the ad. What I did here is I extended the overlay just a little bit for a couple of milliseconds. And instead of it being abrupt, it's smoother. So listen to this. And avoids keeping the ad. It both helps the viewer. It both helps the viewer because we psychologically think it's not going to last long. So, here we have a person with relief, let's search for relief and see what we have. I mean, that's relief, but that's the other kind of relief. Maybe we need a That's not a relief. So let's see happy face. Why is it searching for photos? We need videos. Let's search for videos. Happy face, happy person with a phone. Maybe this one, let's see how it works. All kinds of stuff. The person smiling here. I assume it's four K as well. It is. So we can just move it like this. It both helps the viewer, because we psychologically think it's not going to last long, and it benefits the advertisers because they get more sales this way. Okay, and we need some sort of money overly Hmm. I like this one. It looks simple. And it's also like a hand of Mr. Best and then the hand of advertisers. Let's go into all kinds of stuff. Put this one here. Let's put everything because the video is quite short, and we need to scale it down again because it's four K. Let's see what do we have? Long. And it benefits the advertisers because they get more sales this way. Too quickly, I did it. Last long it benefits the Long, we need to cut this one. Last long. And it benefits the You can see there's a big pause, so I'll just cut it. The last long, and it benefits the As long, and it benefits the advertisers because they get more sales this way. Yeah, this looks great in the end. So let's see what we have. Have you ever noticed that Mr. Beast ads progress bars start very fast, but add very slow. Turns out it's on purpose. Mr. Beast is very good at holding people's attention. He does this in order for viewers to keep watching and avoid keeping the ad. It both helps the viewer because we psychologically think it's not going to last long, and it benefits the advertisers because they get more sales this way. Great. I think we can do the same effect here like we did here. So we can move everything from the right a little bit to the left. The way you do it is you press on A, and as you can see, everything to the right of where you click, you will select everything. So let me show you like this. So you select everything that's to the right where you click. So if you click here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here. So I want to put it somewhere over here. Purpose. Mr. Beast is very good. See? Slow. Turns out it's on purpose. Mr. Beast is very good at home. Let's think what we can do here. We can either zoom in on me 'cause it's what, almost like four 4 seconds almost 4 seconds of me just looking at the screen, which is a bit boring nowadays for people, unfortunately. So maybe we can scale Purpose. Mr. Beast is very good at holding people's attention. He does this in order for viewers to keep. I think it's great. Once again, this is just a super easy practice example. But when we work with companies or with influencers, they do ask for more. They already have a vision. They have a lot of A role, a lot of role. The difference between A roll and role, A roll, this is A role. This is B role, just for you to understand. I don't really care about myself being at the bottom because people usually look in the upper part, upper part of the video. Why don't we add captions? If we go into text here, once again, if you don't have text, just press on window, click on text. So let's go into text, and we press on create captions. And here we have a couple of settings. So you can choose to either create a single line or a double line here at the very bottom, and then maximum length in characters, if you put 42, it's going to be a long sentence on the screen. That's what I don't like. I'd like to put it to let's say 12, and let's see what it does. So let's put it to 12. Let's see what it does. See, I create captions here at the bottom. Have you ever noticed that Mr. Beast adds progress bars, start very fast, but end very slow. And it's also, so bad. Let's change the captions themselves. So I did a little bit of manipulation here to correct all the captions. Now we just create captions, once again, single, and I think 12 was a bit too short. Maybe let's go to 15. Let's see what it does. Have you ever noticed the Mr. Beast adds progress bars, start very fast, but end very slow. Notice that Mr. Beast adds progress bars, start very fast, but end very slow. Okay, you can customize it to your liking, but it works for me. I select all the captions. I go into captions and graphics in the workspaces here at the top. Now I want to change the font to Montserrat, and I like bold. Let's see if we need shadows. I don't think we need shadows. In terms of the size, maybe just a little bit, maybe a bit bigger. 58 instead of 48 works great. Back into editing. Now, we're going to graphics and titles, upgrade captions to graphics. So let me see where I appear turns out. You're here. Uh huh. We do need a little bit of shadow. We will copy the vector motion, Control C. Then I select everything to the left here, and then I will select everything to the right and Control V as well works, but I don't think we need shadow. So captions and graphics, shadow let's see what we have. I don't like it it's when it's this strong, the shadow. So let's use this part here, make it something like this. As you can see, it's visible. It's definitely better with the shadow, but it's not as strict as a prop tongue cannot find the exact word, but you can see what I mean. There's no strong edge here. Have you prop. And I also don't like that that I don't like that that this that is too fast. Watch the notes. So I will just move it a little bit. Note the mistabst And here as well. In the mistabst ads progress bars, start very fast, but end very slow. Turns out it's Also, what we can do is we can move the captions. Once again, let's move it to here. And we move it just for the part where I show the bars. So I will copy the motion, and I will select the clips that I haven't selected yet, Control V, and everything moved up. So as you can see it was here, now it's here. Super. Now, we need to add music and sound effects. Once again, I will use premiere composer for going to sound effects. I think we can use approach. Let's try both and see which works best. Add progress bars, stat very fast. Turns out it's on purpose. Don't really like this one. Buzz turns out it's on purpose. And it's even worse. So this is a part of retention editing. We're basically creating attention out of nowhere from using this, but I don't think this will work well. I think we will not use any sound for this part. Do we need anything here? Because we're not using any graphics. We actually don't need any sound effects here other than in the beginning, which I thought would be useful, but it's not. So let's just search for music. I really, really like Sci Fi music. So, for example, sounds like this. And actually, this whole playlist is from YouTube. It's just royalty free music, and this is what I would like to use. So I will create another folder. I will call it music, and then I will search for a song that I think will work best with this video. I don't know exactly which kind of song I like to use. So just listen to all the songs and I will see which works best. So, I like this song for now. Let's see if it works because it might not work. I put it to our folder, I press on audio. I like how the beginning actually listens into the middle. Okay I don't like it in the middle. I like it in the beginning. So this is what I'll do. Once again, press here or I. Let's just see how it feels. Let's double check that we didn't have anything Control Z, control or command Shift Z. So it is okay. And then I will add this in the middle. Also, it's too loud. I'll go to audio again. I'll put two -15. Have you adds P? Have you ever noticed? The Mise Beast adds progress bars? Too quiet. We need louder. Have you ever noticed? The Mise Beast adds progress bars? Yeah, I like the beginning. I don't like how it sounds here. He. Turns out it's Burg. Turns out it's a Burges. I would like to change something with the music. So I will go into the song, and I will see what else we have here. It's like it changes the rhythm slightly. I Looks interesting. Let's listen to the whole thing. Have you ever noticed that Mr. Beast at progress bars start very fast, but end very slow. Turns out it's on purpose. Mr. Beast is very good at holding people. Oh, I really really don't like how this sounds. So I definitely want to delete this part. Let's see what it sounds if we just turns out it's on purpose. Mr. Best is very good at holding people's attention. He does this in order for viewers to keep watching and avoid keeping the ad. It both helps the viewer because we psychologically think it's not going to last long, and it benefits the advertisers because they get more sales this way. Honestly, I think it sounds a lot better without any effect. And once again, the way I do work is I just go back and forth, experiment with different things, see which works best. What I think we can do is we can end. If we go into music, we can find the end part here. Then we can put it there in the end so that it's not as abrupt. Copy effect, put it here. Audio gain minus ten. Okay, now we just need to combine these two something like this. Advertisers because they get more sales this way. Now, let's listen to just the music. I think it needs to be something like this. Yep. So that the transition is super seamless. I like it. So let's listen with me. Have you ever noticed that Myster Beast ads progress bars, start very fast, but end very slow. Turns out it's on purpose. Mr. Beast is very good at holding people's attention. He does this in order for viewers to keep watching and avoid keeping the ad. It both helps the viewer because we psychologically think it's not going to last long, and it benefits the advertisers because they get more sales this way. Yeah. For this video, I think we're done. Now, once again, we come here to the very beginning, come here to the very end, press left. Oh, this is how we export. We're going to Export, select our preset that you should already have at this point, give this video a name, press on Export. I cannot Export because I'm talking to you. I hope this video is helpful. Once again, if you have any questions, please let me know. It's a bit hard topic, and at the same time, it's hard to show kind of the process behind it. And I hope you found my thinking process and my editing decisions helpful. So this is something we did for a short form. This is a one piece content. The next video will be a long form. In long form video, we will start using after effects. This was just Premiere Pro. Please do practice because practice will bring you the best results. Thank you for watching, and I will see you in the next video. 16. “Edit Videos with Me” - YouTube Long Form 1: Welcome to this video. This is going to be the longest, most intensive, with the most lessons video. And today, we're going to edit a long term video from the very begin to the very end. We'll go in a lot more details. Then the short video. We're going to use after effects. There's going to be a lot of great stuff. So let's get into it. In the resources section, you will find five files, and you will just download them and drop them into here. Then I'll create a folder. I'll select all the files. I'll put them in the folder. I'll call the folder footage. And then I will drag and drop all of the files. So drag and drop, this, track and drop this. I did have a few technical issues with this video, but we will try to get through all of that. Don't remember where things went exactly. We will synchronize everything. This is our sequence. So we will call the sequence one, and then I will drop it into kind of the main project here, and I will create another folder, and I will call it sequences and I will drop it in. Okay. So that should be it. Have to blur a lot of things because there was a lot of work with my clients. So you will find that you cannot see the screen, and I'm not going to use the screen that I blurred. We're going to on the Gal show you will just download everything from the Internet, research that. So that's how it is. So what I did is on the V one here, I have footage of me, and then on V two, I have the screen recording. And then at the bottom, I have the audio. So let's listen to this part because I'm not sure what exactly we have here. So I will just mute the bottom part and let's listen. Use them. So that was the technical issue we had. Okay, so we're not going to use this part because in this part, I'm talking about frame dot IO. So we're going to delete this part because we're not going to use it. And then what we need to do is we need to synchronize the audio here. I will select it, right click on the mouse, and then click on synchronize. Now it's synchronized. Now we do the same here, synchronize. It's okay. So let's listen to that everything's okay. If we go to Chrome Yep. Exactly that frame did a bad job with audio. That's just what I did. That's something we'll have to deal with. Okay. So now what I want to do is I want to zoom in on timeline, maybe a bit less. So now what I will do is I'll go through the whole video. I will cut all the pauses. So let's see. Actually, before I do that, we can delete the bottom part. Once again, I'm holding Option or Alt on PC, option on EMAC, and that's how I can select just one of the files. But if I don't hold Option, it will select both. So I will delete the bottom part. I'll select it and press delete. Same here because the other file that we had in the bottom, it's just a file to align the audio of both files so that they're in sync. Now what we can do is we can select both audio files, top right corner, go into audio, dialog, we'll definitely enhance it and auto match it. So now we need to wait a little bit so that it's enhanced. So you just finished enhancing with the amount to probably four because we need a little bit more. Let's listen to how it sounds. Sound effects. Maybe five. Graphic templates? Why do we have something with this one? Okay, so we'll just leave it like this for now. We'll come back after this potentially a little bit later just to kind of see if it sounds too bad because if it doesn't sound too bad, we'll just leave it as it is. So I'll go back into editing. So now I'll do the cutting part. Actually, before I go any further. So I have this very short intro. As you can see, it's like 8 seconds long. For the intro part, I definitely don't need the screen overlay, so I will just delete it. And then for the second part, before I move any further because it will be a bit hard to create a template. So what I will do make the screen as I want it to be. So probably to something like this, like this. So you can see the website at the top. I need to move myself higher than the website. Then I will move everything down, and I will do the same thing for this one. So because we've already created a position that we like, I will just copy the position of this screen recording, and I'll put it into another one. So I come to motion. I press Command C or Control C, and then I come here. I need to see this one. And I control V, and that's it. Now I move myself to the top, screen recording to the bottom, and that should be it. Okay. So now I need to create a mask around myself, and I will do it by pressing here. Actually, no, I need to control Z because I have this part selected here. I don't I will need a mask here, but I decided to start here. So I need to click on the footage of me, press on opacity, create lips mask. By pressing shift, I will make it round. Let's see when I'm in the middle. Let's see that it's more or less okay. I'm in the middle. That looks great. And then we will move myself up. And scale it down. You'll see why I move myself up. I will put myself in the bottom right corner like this. Do I look too big, maybe just a little bit. So we can make myself a bit smaller, maybe to 33, move down, move to the right. In terms of the size, it's okay. We can always adjust it later. It's going to be more work to do it later. So now I will create a lip stool. I will create a circle by pressing Shift once again. I will make circle. What color should we make it? I like it when it's orange. So something like this. Then move it below the footage of me. Like this, make it the length of the footage of myself. Now I will move it behind myself. I definitely need to make it smaller, something like this. Let's see what it looks like. Maybe a bit smaller. So like, let's try 85. 85 is too small. So let's try 88, something like this, see what it looks like. Like what it looks like. We come to the second part and move the footage of myself up. I can press on graphic and I can press Option or Alt on PC, and then move it, and it will make a copy of it so that you don't have to press Control C, Control V, then I can just cut it and delete it. Okay, so, actually, we need to copy opacity and motion of this clip here. So I'm copying from here, pasting it here, and now this is what we have. That looks great. So this is what we have through the whole video. Now I'll do the cutting part. So I edited the first part of the video, and I think this is the end, I'm presenting frame dot IO. I believe we have to come here. The next website we have is called frame dot IO. Yeah. So we can just delete this move it Okay, so I did the kind of the rough cut of this video. Obviously, there are places where I want to speed up, so those places are not cut, for example, here, well, I'm just logging in, then when I'm opening a project in premiere, there's something I want to speed up, but I didn't cut it. So now let's get into action. I've been wanting to record this video and edit this video for a very long time. So I have something in mind for the intro, and I want to do this as soon as possible so that I don't forget it. I'll do the intro first. So the first 8 seconds. And after that, I'll do the rest of the video. So I do need after effects for this, and I will double click and I will click and replace with After effect composition. I will create a folder where I will be saving this, and I will call it one. The first thing I will do is I will duplicate myself Command D or Control D, I'll open Roto Brush tool. I'll make sure I have a full resolution, double click on the video. And then just select myself, something like this. And then I'll go in closer and do this. Once again, if you forgot, in order to kind of delete a certain part, you need to press Option or Alt on PC. By pressing space, you can move around to increase and decrease the size. You need to hold command or control and press with your mouse and slide up and down. Now I press space and let it play. So once again, I'm watching the hallway through to see that the selection is doing a great job because if it wasn't, I just go to a specific part, you know, do an adjustment, and then it would be perfect. Now I will press on freeze, once again, I come back to Premiere Pro, I press Command Z or Control Z and press Command or Control to save the project. Now, I will close Premiere Pro because I'll be just working in after effects. And now I need to wait until it freezes it. And while it's freezing, I'll tell you what I want to do. So I want to have seven boxes appear on the screen. In each box, we'll have a logo or maybe just a number. And then we will blur the logo or the number so that actually, if we have a logo, we will blur it, and if we have a number, we're not going to blur the box. I think having logos is better because it will intrigue people because people are literally about to see it, but they cannot see it. So that's what I want to do. I want them to come from below, and I want to have some of them appear behind myself, some of them appear in front of myself, and then potentially add some camera shake so that it moves a little bit. So this is just the first 3 seconds. And after that, do something else. I don't have an idea yet, but we'll come up with something. So as you can see, if we disable the clip below us, we'll just have a black background. So I will call this the one on the bottom background and the one on top. I will rename it to foreground, just so that everything is organized and it's easier for me to move in the project. Come back to the project. I'll create another sequence. Actually, let's see what we have. We need to go into file composition. I need to select here to see the composition settings. So we have 59 94 full HD. Okay, so we'll create another sequence with the same settings. Let's just make this 59 94 custom. Okay. So here, I will create a rectangle with rounded corners, so not the top one, but the bottom one. And then my mouse just ran out of battery, so I'll work on the track pad. Okay, so by holding shift, I will create a square. I'll put it in the middle by doing the lining here. If you don't have lining, go into window, and then you can have a line, and it will appear on the right side here. Now we have it in the middle. I want to make sure it's white, so I will go into shape properties. Once again, you can come here. And shape properties should be somewhere over here. Properties. You can see here. Okay, so I will make the field color. I will make it white, and let's make the background transparent. Actually, for now, in order to see what we have, we can make it like this. Now we can open the shape here at the bottom, rectangle, rectangle path, and then we increase the roundness, make it to something like this. Okay, so now we need to put a logo inside and actually Well, yeah. So let's see what we have. Number one is free B roll. I will go into Google. I will search for pxls.com logo. Here, we have a logo. Let's download it and see what we have. Maybe we can put it into right inside here so that it's going to be green, but it's okay. So let's create a folder. We'll call it logos, and we'll put the Pexels logo inside. But let's search for other logos at the same time. So now we have our logos here, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. I think we have seven. We already have flexls here, so we'll just drag and drop the other ones. Mm hmm. So there's something wrong with epidemic sound? Oh, I see, because it's the file format is not supported YT jobs. So now we need to find epidemic sound. So this is something to just search like this and then find options that work great. The first website, from the video, we had free Broll. So this is let's do it this way. We'll do it each one by one. The composition name, we'll say one Pexels. And then we will add this thing here, put it to the top, press S to increase the scale. So in this case, what we can do is we can track mat. Other words, we have logo, the same shape as we have this shape on the background, this white one. So if I press it here, you can see what happened. But now we also need to add a blur. So we'll search for Gagan blur. We'll put it onto in this case, we'll put it onto the picture because if we blur the shape, nothing's going to happen. So we'll blur it. Let's try it to something like this. And then I'll go into project. I'll put one pexels here. I'll press. Shift P so that I have both of them at the same time because I just press on S, and then I press on P, you can see, we only have one at a time, but not to have two variations at a time we need to press S and shift P. I can also press Shift T, and then I'll have opacity I don't need. Decrease the scale move it to the side. We'll think about the color. Maybe we'll make P, this green color and then we'll have E white background. We'll see. So we have one pixels. I'll press Command D or Control D, and this time, I will call it safe from Net. Once again, these names are just for you to easily identify which one is which. So safe from Nt. By the way, how long is this? 30 seconds. More than enough. In this case, I need to delete the Paxls logo, and I need to find safe from net. I will drop it in and make this one visible, increase the scale. This looks great. Gas and blur increase the Cashion blur. This is a technical thing that we need to solve. As you can see, there's, like, the sharp line here, which I don't really like. So we need to creatively try to think, how can we solve this? Because I don't know how to solve this, although I have an idea. So instead of having Gazan blur here, I will just delete it. I'll go into project or no, this is how you do it. New adjustment layer, and we'll put Gagen blur on the adjustment layer, we'll increase it, or it's great. But now, it also blurs the edges of the square. So I need to create a mask. And what I can do is I can potentially copy the shape that we have, and then we will track matte this. Perfect. So I'll give you an explanation. We have our shape layer, which is this square. Then we have our logo, which is the screen logo. We have our adjustment layer. So it's just a layer that affects everything on the screen. What I did is I copied the box, the white box. I moved it to the top. And so I made an adjustment layer just affect everything that's inside the box. So as you can see, this box, the adjustment layer is just everywhere in between here. However, I think we can also make this a little bit smaller so that we don't have kind of black edges, as you can see, these black edges here. Then we'll go into a project we'll copy this once again with Control D or Command D, Art list and Wato motion array. Now we need to call it three artless. Then I need to search for a logo. Art list. Perfect. Actually, I need to open this one, and I need to delete all of this. Artless logo here, as increase the scale. I think we can just copy the Gaussian blur effect. What if we put it here? Mnh mnh. Doesn't work. You know what? I really like how we did this one, the gam blur. So what we can do is we can copy these two guys come and see and put it here, and we can do it for every single one Pexels, instead of having gasmblur like this because once again, we have, like, black edges here. We can delete this one and put this one here. Mm. Now, it has ankles here. You can see it's like super. It's not soft. I will go back. It's not as bad here. So we'll figure this out later. Well, let's see how it looks if you put everything together. So we have all of these guys put them here. I thought you can do something like this. Okay, so we'll choose them. We'll put them one by one. So we have this one here. Now, I'll make all of them. I will select all of them. I'll press on S, and I'll make all of them size 45. So the same pexels. And actually, I think we might make it 40, maybe a bit smaller. This is now we need to think about this. As I told you before, I want some of them to appear behind me and some of them to appear in front of me. However, if some of them, I'm just thinking, how should we? Because the ones at the back behind me should be smaller in size because, you know, because my arm is smaller like this, it's bigger like this. So the closer it is to the camera, the bigger it should be. Doesn't have to be, like, the exact kind of ratio and proportions. It's just something we need to do roughly. This is just my imagination. This something you don't have to do. It's just something that I do. One, two, one, two, one. Okay, I have an idea. It's easier for me to show you how to do this than to explain everything. I'll put pixels here, press on P on everyone so that I open the position properties. Then this one goes here. Control S to save everything just in case. Now, you can see that it's kind of hard to tell which one is which on this side. So what we will do is I will drop shadow. Okay, let's try Whitt jobs. Why do I have six Frame and it jobs. I think I named it incorrectly. Anyway, it doesn't matter that much. So dropshadow frame will go to, you know, this is confusing now. This one. So this is seven white Jobs. Seven white jobs. And then this one is six frame Mao. So this is where I have it. Softness, something like this will work great. So I will copy this effect, drop shadow, and I'll put it into all of the other ones. So now every single one of them has it. And if we go into Whitey jobs, we have Whitey jobs has to be in front like this. In this case, frame Mao needs to be behind. Actually, in terms of, like, the size, if you make the ones at the front bigger, I think it will be too much. So I think we can leave it like this. Now we need to animate them. Now I need to select these guys, and I need to select these guys. And we'll go into Window Animation composer. So this is premiere composer now After Effects composer. Let's see what we like. I like this one. It will come from the bottom. And so this is in, and then if we were to do out, it would be in the end. So sometimes it does lag a little bit. I noticed there's no motion blur all the time, although we have it here. So I can just disable and enable it. And now you can see it has motion blur. If you're a video editor, you need to know. If you're a video editor, you need to know about it. So when my hand goes like this, I want things to start appearing on the screen. So we have number one, which is pexels. I'll move it here. Then we'll have artless here, and we'll have And the last one frame Do. So let's see what it looks like. I know about the seven websites. You need to know about the seven websites. First of all, I want each of them have camera shake. The second thing, I think we need to select all of them and move them a little bit to the front, so something like this. Seven websites. Maybe we need to move them around a little bit because they're like, too perfect. I mean, you can see the kind of the difference here. We have big space here, we have small space here. But overall, they're like, too lined up. In a way, I want it to be maybe a bit more chaotic, but if we add camera movement to them, they might look better. So let's see what we can do. I don't remember how to add a camera shake. So I'll go here and have camera shake somewhere over here. Let's search for it. Real camera shake. This is what I need after effects. Help, how do you do this? Import, file, search for it. Import, file, templates, real camera shake. We have it. So one pixels. Let's see if I put it in, and I do parison testing here. If you're a video editor, you need to know about the seven websites. It's okay. We can see what happens if we add the other ones. So it should look different to movement. Yeah, it looks different. So, number three, let's put number three here. So let's see what it looks like. I'll probably lower down so that my computer works faster. You need to know about the seven websites. Control us to save in case. I need to know about the seven websites. It's gonna save you a lot of time, money, stress. I pretty much like everything. I'm not sure what's wrong exactly. I'll take some time off to think about this. Definitely, when I come back, what I will do is I need to blur the logos a lot more. Like, you cannot see it with Adobe podcast really here, but it D jobs, epidemic sound, or at least, you can read everything. So the one with text, I need to blur it a lot more. Other than that, I like how it looks because when we add sound effects to this as well for each movements going to look a lot better. Okay, so it's been a couple of hours. I worked on other projects, got a bit distracted from this project, and this is a good thing. I like to view it in a positive way because when you get distracted, actually, when you work on a project, I like this phrase that your eye gets blurry, not in a literal sense, but in a what's it called metaphorical. So when you work on a part for a long time, you just stop seeing the edges of it, at least that happens for me. So when that happens, I do get distracted, and as you can see, it's been for hours. So now I'm back, and let's open it. One more thing. If you work with clients or you work with yourself, you know, your video doesn't have to be ready as soon as possible. It's better to take some time to create a good quality video that will produce better results than to rush the video. The quality gets worse. And it's just it's not a good idea. And if you work with somebody, and these people you know, they say that you have to give them a video in 24 hours, and it has to be like a full 1 hour video edited or even, like, 10 minutes video edited fully. So it's like, it's a bit unrealistic. If you meet people like this, it's probably not a good idea to work with these people. Anyway, let's get into this. If you're a video editor, you need to know about the seven websites. So right away, I can see that these icons are too big. And as I discussed, I need to make the blur a little bit more. So I'll select these because I know these are on the background, and I'll decrease the size, the scale probably to 30. Let's see what we have. It looks great. Let's see. You editor, you need to know about the seven websites. Looks great. Now we just need to blur it even more. So instead of going into each one of them, what we can try, I'm not sure how it will look like, what it will look like, but we can try with white jobs number seven, and we can wear Gagan blur here. Mm hmm. So it blurs the whole thing. That's not something I'm looking for. So, potentially, we do have to go into each one of them. Gasanblur, pexels one looks okay. Number two, where did we have it, Adjustment layer. Actually, this one looks okay as well, because there's no text. I need the ones with text. So or list, okay, Adjustment layer, increase the blur. You can barely tell what it is. Let's make it even more. Now you cannot see what it is. Epidemic Sound. You need to know about the seven websites. Yeah, it looks great. Now we just need to figure out this black part. So let's think what we can do here. So we only have it here. This one, because the the text is small, you can just leave it as it is. This one, you can all see it here a little bit. Okay, let's see what we have. Maybe when people see it, these animations are very fast. So actually, I'm just kind of trying to make it perfect because people will not even notice this. Like, if you see this for the first time, Okay, with epidemic sound, no need to do here. So basically, I'm changing the size of the tract object. We're using track MAT for an adjustment layer, and this is the shape that we're changing. Now you cannot see it. Put video editor, you need to know about the seven websites. What is the scale of this one? 40. Maybe we can decrease the scale of these ones to 35 the front ones. Maybe even to 30. Let's see. No, 35 is good. I want to hide everything. You need to know about the seven websites. It's gonna save you a lot of time, money? What I'm thinking because also at the same time, I'm imagining how this will be in Premiere Pro. So the picture will be zoomed in in the very beginning. Then we're going to zoom out. We'll have these animations, then these animations drop down and we're zooming slightly. And then we can try to think about something appearing on the screen, but we'll see. Let's try to hide these animations. So I need to select all of these animations and I need to diselect the foreground. So I'm selecting all of them fast with shift, and then with command or with control on PC, I diselect them, and then I do a shortcut Shift command D. What we just did is we cut all of the selected compositions. On PC, it's Shift Control D. Then I press Delete, and you can see to save you a lot of time. And now I'm going to select them again and deselect this one. I go into Window Animation composer. Actually, on the way out, we can animate a little bit slower. This animation is a bit slower. So bottom and then out. I'm on websites. It's going to save you a lot of time. Okay. And now I need to extend the duration. Okay, that's not going to work. So we need to first extend the duration to where we think it should be. Let's try it because we can always just go back this one, bottom out. Websites. It's gonna save you a lot of time. You need to know about the seven websites. It's gonna save you a lot of time, money, stress. We still need to make it a bit longer, a little bit. And then animation animation composer is gonna save you a lot of time. M it's gonna save you a lot of time. Money, stress. Okay. That's great. A lot of time, money, stress, and make you work a lot easier. Let's get started. Time, money, stress. Now, I'm thinking that we should have text on the screen. So we have time on left, money on the left, and then stress either behind me or in front of me. So for that, we will create text. We'll put time. Let's make sure it's manserat. That's great. And now I need to create shadow. Drop shadow. This is what we need. Put it here. Softness this S shift P. It's gonna save you a lot of Time? Give you a lot of time. Okay, let's try to animate it. And let's see what we have Starter, presets, two D. This one is the one I'm looking for. In. Time money. Of time? Money. Okay, I'm not sure if I like this animation, 'cause it's like, it's too bouncy in the end, you can see here. Number of bounces. Yeah. That's what I'm looking for. Of time. Money a lot of time. Might be one bounce. Let's see what it does. A lot of time? If you press on the keyboard two times, we're going to have audio wave come up, and this is something to do with timing. You can make your timing a lot easier. So now you can see where I have time when I say time. It's gonna save you a lot of time. So it should start here, and then I can move this animation here. Time? Lot of time. I like it. So now what I can do is I can just duplicate this one, change the position. And instead of doing these animations, I can just, you know, copy it and save me a lot of time. So Command D or Control D, I'm money stress. We have stress start here. Once again, control D, move it. And then in order for it to kind of stick, as you can see, it's not moving super smooth for me. So I'm holding Shift, and I'm holding it so that it's exactly where the playhead is. Stress. Okay, great. Now, I just need to change the positions of everything. Also, I premiere pro, the shortcut for text is T. But as you can see, if I press T, I have opacity, so I need to press Command T or Control T. And that's how I select the text tool. Okay. Money. Move this one to the middle. Maybe something like this. Stress. But of time, money, stress, and make you work a lot easier. So actually, I like what it looks like. Potentially, we need to change the size of the money or kind of move the letters, be closer to each other because you can see the space between the letters and the way you can do that. I'm not sure if I'll do it, but if I don't do it, this is how you do it. You come here, and then this is how you do it in the text properties. Okay, so now I need to move all of these behind myself, which is the foreground, because I want them to not appear in front of my screen in front of my face. So let's see what it looks like. Give you a lot of time, money, stress, and make you work. Blood of time, money, stress. I think for all of these, we should decrease the size between letters 124, now it's 49. Time, money, stress, and make it work a lot easier. Let's get started. Mm. You know what? Because we have each logo appear one after another, it would be a great idea to do the same in the end so that, you know, it starts with P, and then it ends with frame that IO. So the first one we have is this one, Pexels. This looks so good. I really like this animation. Like, it looks so three D. But anyway. Okay, so we need one, two, three. By the way, the way I'm moving on a timeline is with keys, but I have to press command. Or on PC, you have to press control because if I use the keys, it's just going to move the position of whatever I have selected. So in order to move, I need to move with keys, one, two. So I move it here. Then I come to the end, one, two, and I move it here. We just need to do the same thing for actually, I think you might need more than two frames because they're still moving at the same time. So let's say let's call it three. So we'll move this one here. Yeah, you can see it. So this one is artlest. It definitely starts moving slower than the pixels or the other ones. So this is what I'm looking for. Now I just need to create the same animation for every single one of them, because I'm not sure how to do it faster. So I'll just do it like this. Okay, let's see. It's going to save you a lot of time, money, on websites. It's going to save you a lot of time? Let's see the whole thing together. If you're a video editor, you need to know about the seven websites. It's gonna save you a lot of time, money, stress, and make it work a lot easier. Let's get started. Okay, what do we have here in the end? This is what we have here. This is something I'd like to change. I have to move myself. For this. Let's get started. If you're a video editor, you need to know about the seven websites. It's gonna save you a lot of time, money, stress, and make it work a lot easier. Let's get started. I do wonder if there's motion blur on these ones. Yeah, there is you can see motion blur. Hey, this looks great. I like everything about this. Now we just need to save everything. So we will go into File Export at to Render Q. And because we're not using anything transparent, we'll use high quality here. And I will come to the file folder where I saved everything. So this is the project name. It's this one. This is number one. And I just click on it to give it the same name, save, render. And apster this we'll put it into Premiere Pro, see what it looks like. Maybe ing a couple of things. Okay. Control S to save now open Premiere Pro and close after effects. So this is our project right away, creates another bean called after effects. I'll open it and I will find the file, and I will just put it in. And then I will select just the video part and put it in. Let's see what we have. If you're a video editor, you need to know about the seven websites. It's going to save you a lot of time, money, stress, and make you work a lot easier. Let's get started. And I will cut it here because I start looking down. So now, because I might want to change this clip, which is the after effect clip this one. Instead of doing effects and zooming on exactly this clip, I'll create an adjustment layer because I might want to change this clip, and I will have to kind of copy. But if I have an adjustment layer, I'll just exchange this clip to the new one with the new one, and that's it. So adjustment layer, okay, creates it for 5 seconds automatically. I will go into effect and search for transform. Because if you change anything here, it's going to affect the adjustment layer itself, but not everything that's underneath it. So that's why we do the transform effect, and then we animate the scale. So I want to start a Zoomed in. One more thing I want to show you. I transform effects, if you click on this button and increase the shutter speed and then scale it in, you will see that it creates this kind of, like, blur, directional blur, and this is something that people use. This isn't something that will be very noticeable in this video, but why not try it? So I move the original key frames a bit to the right, and in the very beginning, I will increase scale to 120, and I want to get these guys here. I will select them. Right click out in this one. So then it starts fast, but it becomes very slow. One thing also, what I can do is I can click here and make it smooth. If you're a video editor, you need to know about the seven websites. That's how you do it. Actually, let's see full screen. If you're a video editor, you need to know about the seven website. It's going to save you a lot of time, money, stress, and make it work a lot easier. Let's get started. I like everything about this. So we'll just leave it like this for now. And what we can do is we can do sound effects. So I'll go into project. I'll go into my editing folder, and I'll add sound effects. Actually, I think we can use premiere composer, so we can use sounds, then we can have Swoosh. No, we need the faster one. Okay, so now we just find where we have our things. We need to put it a bit later. No, I'm being too slow now. I need to put it in between. So now I'll just go through every single one of these. I can press Option to copy it, something like this. And as you can see, I'm putting them on different levels here because I don't want them to cut one another. I did cut the first one a little bit, but it's not really bad. So I can cut this one here as well and move a bit further. Great. Audio gain? I'll give them -20. So that it's not too loud. Or let's try using a pop sound. So this one. So I can just disable all of these ones. And the shortcut I use for that is Command Shift E or Control Shift E. Let's see if we do it like this. No, this definitely sounds better. Website. It's going to save you a lot of time. We can use Pop here. So pop. My time. Great. Now we just need to decrease the loudness to -25. Money, stress. Still too loud to -30. So because we already set -25, in this case, we just need to add minus five, and it will be -30, as you can see here. Money, stress, and make it work a lot easier. That's great. Now we need to add a few more Zooms. So I'll put key frames here, and now I want to add Zoom in 120. And then I'll do the first one. Zoom out, and the second one, I'll do Zoom in He's gonna save you a lot of time. Mm. Let me make this one bigger so that I can see better. We need to move this one a bit to the front, this one a bit to the back. Save you a lot of time? So you can see we have a little bit of kind of the scale moves, although we have 120 scale and 120 scale here. So in order to get rid of this, you need to make it linear and then just add the effect again, as you can see, we don't have the scale doesn't kind of move. Again, it's gonna save you a lot of time, money, stress, and make you work a lot easier. Let's get started. Number one is I like how it turned out. Let's see full screen. If you're a video editor, you need to know about the seven websites. It's gonna save you a lot of time, money, stress, and make your work a lot easier. Let's get started. Number one is called pexels.com. I start speaking too slow 17. “Edit Videos with Me” - YouTube Long Form 2: Welcome. This is another day for me. It's been about 24 hours after I started my last editing session. In order to work for long hours, you do need to take care of your health, and I'll talk about this in future videos and how to kind of maximize everything. Another thing that I want to share is I have candles. Next to me. Actually, just one candle, but it's scented, and candles help me kind of relax a little bit, get my creativity going because I cannot work under pressure, editing and videos, it's all about creativity, and I don't want to lose my creativity, so that's why I have candles. Anyway, let's get started. So we've done most of the intro yesterday, and now I want to focus on this part, which is editing the whole video, making myself appear full screen, kind of adding Zoom ins we'll see. Okay, so here's what I'm thinking because I am here on top, and below me, we have the orange background. I want to raise everything up this. Let's zoom in to make sure, everything is selected. And now I will press Option or Alt and then ARO key up to move everything. Why I'm doing this because I want to add an adjustment layer, which will have transform effect, and then I'll be able to zoom in on everything because kind of on the lowest level on V one, we have the screen recording. Actually, I already have an adjustment layer, so I can just add it in here and then go to Effects, search for transform. So now whenever I zoom in, it only affects the screen recording. Why I'm not doing the zoom in exactly on the clips is because let's say I zoomed in on this one and I want to zoom out on this one. But because they're separate, I have to animate each one separately. The adjustment layer just kind of makes it a lot easier. Number one is called bxors.com. It's a webs. So here, I want to start with their logo being in front of the screen. So let's try. I will put the keyframes for position and scale, move it a little bit to the right because I want to start at the logo. See. Will the quality be very bad if I zoom in a lot need to see. I need to move these, and then I want to copy these keyframes because I wanted to stay for a little bit of time on Baxels. So I select the keyframes, I move them. Okay, what happened here. So anyway, I select the keyframes, I press Option, and then I drag them out. So that's how I can copy them. Number one is called bxols.com. Actually, I think we can zoom in even further to just show it like this. Number one is called bxols.com. And option move it. Number one is called bxels.com. I'll put keyframes here. Then kind of scale it down. Number one is called pexels.com. It's a website with free Bro. It's a website with free Bro. M. So what I did here is I created a lot of different keyframes. You can see a lot of zoom ins, zoom out, and now I want to make it smooth. So right now you can see it's kind of sharp on movement. Hm, it's a website. And I don't really like that. So whenever I have movement, where the movement is coming from the specific keyframes, I will choose them, and I will say Is out. And then the ones that stop it, I press Is in. So when I'm pointing to the top right corner, the licensing part, I want to have a red square with a red stroke around it to show the licensing. So I will come to the shapes, rectangle tool. I'll create it roughly because I can always adjust it later. Then fill. We're not going to use any fill. We're going to use a stroke and then make it red. Let's see how big it looks. I think we can make it to maybe like six. And then we will zoom in by coming here, 200. Okay, shape. Actually, I need selection tool. I need to zoom in even more. 400. What's wrong with that? Yeah. So I want to make rounded corners, as you can see, I need to have these little dots here to make it round. But because when it's small, you cannot see it. You need to increase it little bit, then you can decrease it back in size. So something like this, let's see what it looks like. Come to the top right cordon. We can come to the come to the top right corner to see the licensing. Is you can take here? So I'm playing basic transitions so that it just appears smoothly disappears smoothly. The top right corner to see the licensing. Is you can see here. All photos and videos are free to you. So I want to copy this jama layer, but because we have a lot of keyframes on this one, we need to make sure we select this one. I'll just delete all the keyframes. We have it kind of from the original Licensing. Is you can see here. And I want to start Zoominate here, so I'll put the keyframes. Is you can see here? So as you can see, I start zooming in here, but when I zoom in, this rectangle stays there. So I want to move it before I have any animation. Seeing as you can see here, all photos. This looks great. When I mentioned a link in description, I like to put neon arrows. So I'll come to the project. I already have neon arrows downloaded. But if you don't, and you decided to go for a let's say in vau subscription, you can search for Neon arrows, then you can search for stock video, a big variety of all kinds of arrows. There are sometimes packs of arrows that you can download, which makes work a lot easier. But I already have it, so I'll just go to my folder, Neon arrow pack, and let's see which one I like this one. I'll just put it in to all kinds of stuff. I Neon arrows, I'll put them in into the project. So now, when we come to our effect controls for the Non arrows, first of all, I will rotate it to 90 degrees, and then I will press on blend mode and I will put it to screen or Lighten. Okay. And now I can make it a bit smaller, move it to the right. And this is what we have? It will be in the description below. Actually, you can barely see it here and maybe screen. You can see it's really good in the dark side. So now I want to copy it by pressing option or Alt, and let's see what we have. The link will be in the description below. When I'm showing the URL, I want to really zoom in on this. So once again, I'm going to use an adjustment here. Okay, this should look great. Let's ease out, es in this thing, and we'll see what it looks like. The second website is also free, and it allows you to download unlimited YouTube videos. So let's say like video of Mr. Beast. I come to the URL after the dot and before YouTube, I put SS and a presenter. So here, I can select the format that I need. And the same with bato. You have your vile, although what? I think this is an interesting thing. This is something about comedy. I'm kind of losing myself on this point here. So I can copy and adjust my layer from previous portion to Dickey frames. Same with in voto. You have your vile, although, why do we have something like this website? Interesting. So I'll just zoom in, once again, to it for every single one of these. Although, I don't like myself doing like I do it automatically, and I'm sorry that when you have to edit, you have to listen to me do this stuff, but sometimes we as editors have to do something like this and just listen to other people make weird noises. Let's see what it sounds like. I think we need to cut here. Interesting. We have music, sound effects, graphic templates, and a lot more. Okay, we need to cut this because I'm speaking too slow. So as you can see, I just made it a little bit faster because it was quite boring to just, you know, there were long pauses, so I just cut them and it sounds a lot better. This one? Hating Hillar Smith uses our list to edit his videos and videos for his clients. So all of these webs? I think we need a picture of Hating Hilar Smith because some people will not know who that is. Although, when I put a picture of him with Logan Paul, it look great. Hayden Hillier Smith. Like I've used it before. I found a picture of him and Logan and Logan Paul. Okay, this picture. So I want to use this one. I'll download it. I'll put it into project where is this all kinds of stuff. Put this one in. Oops, put it again. Hating Hiller Smith uses our list to edit his videos him. By the way, I also have water in front of me all the time. I have a, like, what's it called glass, and then I have a big bottle of water. Hey, it's me from the future. This course is taking unexpectedly so much time, and it's about a month later after I recorded this video, and I'm still editing this video. I still have a couple of hours left of uncut footage of just me editing the video, but at the same time, realizing that I'm just repeating myself a lot of times, and I don't think there's any value in me continuing to edit this video to show you just kind of the same thing that you already know. So I'll leave a link in the resources section for you to check out the full video if you want to check it out. Basically, I just edit a couple of more images there. A lot more zoom ins, Zoom outs. The core value of this video is to have a good intro, which we animate in after effects and just supporting the video. In terms of the music, it's very similar to the shorts that I created. I just used more songs. So for every new website that I talk about, there's a new song, and that's it. I mean, if you want more details, let me know. I'll definitely kind of finish this video and upload it for you guys to see. But you've already seen the most value. Thank you for watching this far. I really appreciate your time. And here's another lesson that anything worthwhile or something that's great takes a lot of time. I'm not sure if the course is great for you or not, which is why having your feedback, your honest feedback about the scores would be great. It's been over a month and a half since I started creating the scores, and it's in saying how much time it takes. So I hope it's valuable. Once again, let me know. Let me know about it and your feedback, and I will see you in the next video. 18. Breaking Down a Real Client Video Edit: Welcome to this video. I am extremely excited about this video because just like walking through the editing, live editing, showing a video that's already edited is just as useful. And I wish somebody showed this to me like ten years ago, and I would be able to understand so much stuff. But so this is the video for one of my clients. And this is let's see. This is a 13 minute video, and you can see the timeline. We'll walk through the entire video. We'll talk about everything. You can see there's a lot to talk about. Every single thing here is something it's something. Okay. So this video is about it's called the Best E learning platform for instructors. They're talking about teaching online, teaching on platforms like UTM Skillshare. There are some like Corsera, YouTube, LinkedIn learning, things like that. So let's start walking through this. First of all, you'll see that in one of the previous or the future lectures, you'll see that I talk about doing actually, marking specific portions of the video with specific colors. And you can see that we have like green, purple, blue, and each color represents a specific section of the video. In this case, this purple is EU Domi. This is Skillshare. This is probably YouTube. Okay, then what we have here. There are some other platforms here as well. So each color represents a specific portion of the video, and it just makes easier to navigate when you have a big project. That's the first thing. The second thing, let's start watching and let's break everything down. Let's make sure you hear it. So you found out that creating online courses is the best. By the way, if you want, there will be a link somewhere where you can just search for this video, the best e learning platform for instructors on YouTube and you'll find this video. So you found out that creating online courses is the best way to monetize your knowledge today. But with so many platforms out there, how do you choose the right one? Each platform offers different benefits, challenges and earning potential. So in this video, I will break down the top e learning platforms using specific criteria like revenue, audience reach, control over your content, and more. At the end, I will review which one we believe is the best one overall, why and how much my husband and I have earned by hosting our courses on it. So let's dive in. Let Okay, so this was an intro for 40 seconds. If I was to record my own videos, it would be and edit my own videos. It would be slightly different. So it's not just the decisions that I make. It's also the decisions that clients make. And I don't remember if we had, like, one or two, three revisions for this video, but I did this video about two months ago. So let's break down the intro. First of all, like, right in the very beginning, we have Zoom out. I usually like to add something just to get the video engaging from the very beginning. Then we go into some role when she's talking about starting let's here. The creating online. Creating online courses. Courses. Is the best and here we have the visual supporting that, so a lady with the camera, another lady with the camera. And here, she's talking about money. The way to monetize your knowledge. So we're just visually showing what she's talking about. And actually, I remember when editing this video, I was searching for B roll, and there were options of different positions of camera and a person in the screen. As you can see, I chose the two options where the camera and the person is located more or less in the same position. Why? Because if it was the opposite way, so let's say the camera was on the right and the lady was looking to the right and the lady was on the left, it would be like to contrast in comparison to this one. So I'm trying to keep it together so that it's easier for people. Okay. Today. But with so many Okay. This was done in after effect. As you can see, it's a it's this one here. The way we do it is we do it with animation composer, literally just add all the What are these called? Add all the logos, put them on the screen, animate them. And then, as you can see, I added the pop sound in the premiere pro. With so many platforms out there, how did out. And then when they disappear, there's a sound, and then we have some text on the screen. So these like from six, 17, as you can see on the screen to 11 seconds, that was all done in after effect. Okay. Then each platform. Then we come to this sort of stuff. And actually, this was the first time of me trying to do this kind of three D screen effect because it's just a screen recording, and then there's this three D thing. The way you do this is I downloaded, if I go into effects, I have not something that I did. So ISAC screened presets. On YouTube, there's this guy called ISAC, or I'm not sure how to pronounce his name, but it's just a person who doesn't show his face, and he created some he created like four long videos by this point or maybe more. I don't remember. And he had some incredible videos. And then as a test, he created these presets and he just distributed for free. So I downloaded them. And you can see there are three dip movements whenever you add something to adjustment layer that's above the screen recording, you get these kind of effect. And if we break it down, so the adjustment layer, actually, let's see the effects panel. If it is okay. So we have basic three D, and then we have transform. So you can create the same effect for yourselves. Basic three D and transform and you can see this kind of animation. There you go. Okay. And then for this kind of highlight, it's actually pretty easy to do, but it looks really, really cool. And the way you do this is you create a graphic. By graphic, you literally like you create a shape, and then you kind of select it like this. And then you do a yellow color. So let's do yellow, like more or less. And then let me bring myself down for blending mode, you set to multiply. Yep. And then you animate the Well, this thing with a crop effect. Okay, so actually, where the Okay, there it is. Then you animate it with the crop effect. Where's the crop effect? There it is. So if I crop it on the right. Okay, so we set a key frame here, go here and then and then we put it before below the adjustment layer, for example, like this. And there you go. But you just need to put it in the right place, okay? Okay, so we'll delete that. That's how you do this part. And then also there are sounds to support the visuals. So as if we're highlighting it, there's a sound of a pen. I believe this is a pen pencil. Pencil, yeah, on the paper. Different benefits, challenges and earning potential. So once again, showing visually what exactly she's talking about. So then we just have a little bit of room to breathe because we had a lot of action. And now we come to, like, revenue, audience reach, control over your content. Okay, so how this was done? This is what was it? This is basically like an icon animation that you can download online. These are from In vato elements. This one should be as well. I had some problems with this one, but, like, these so as you can see, this sort of animation, it comes like that, like, the original file is this computer, but what was this? Is it this one? Yeah. This one, as you can see, I had color replace how many effects. So let's see how the original look This is what the original looked like. And in order to make it the same as the computer, I had to add some effects. So there you go. The text moving onto the screen is animated with premiere composer should be here somewhere, but it's not in any way, with premiere composer, and there's just a sound. Then we change the background color. As you can see, I had a black video here, and I just learned recently that the way you can make yourself make your life easier is by creating a color mat. It's basically the same as a black video, but whenever you create it, you choose a color, and so the background color becomes whatever color you choose. Because here I have a black video and I would use a calor replace effect, which is which is a bit stupid, but, you know, we always learn always learn something. Okay. Then visually, she's talking about the secret. I will reveal which one we believe is the best one overall. They will reveal something, it's kind of trying the idea behind this is to make people anticipate and hopefully we achieve that. And how much my husband and I have earned? Once again, visually showing what she's talking about. By hosting our courses on it. So let's dive in. And by the way, we recently we started working on shorts. Shorts, reels, basically the same thing. If you want to break down, 'cause we have some really, really powerful shorts. Let me know in the Q&A section below this video, and I will definitely share the way we edit short form content. Okay. Even, let's start with uremi. What are the most popular e learning platforms in the world. So in terms of music, as you can see, here, it was just song. Then I edit the end of the song. Now, there was a bit of a pause here, and now we have a new song here. On it. So let's dive in. Let's start with uremi. What of the most popular e learning plat? Okay, so here we have the song. For this animation, this is just something that the clients asked to do. So we have logo at the top. We have specific text animation on the screen. Once again, it was done with premiere composer. If I press here, maybe I have premiere. Oh, yeah, there it is. And so it's position characters overshoot, and then I just there's no where is it? I sped something up. So probably the decay. I'm not sure if I pronounce correctly, but this one. I just bet it up and it comes to the screen pretty fast. And we're just using an animated background with little bit of glow. The way you do glow in Premiere Pro is is with a shadow. So there you go. There is a shadow. And by the way, in premiere composer, as you can see the text has motion blur. I just click on the motion blur. Where is it? Oh, it's here at the bottom. Oops, you cannot see. But you can see it says MOT, so that's Motion blur. Okay. Puller E learning platforms in the world. It functions as a marketplace where instructors can create and sell courses on virtually any topic with over 75 million students. UNI offers an unparalleled audience reach, but there are some tradeoffs to keep in mind, so let's break it down on you. Okay. So here, pretty straightforward, we're just animating the screen there must, something must have changed because I updated the premiere pro 202024-2025. Not sure if we left it like this the top of the screen looks kind of weird. But probably cut it slightly differently. And or maybe we'll have to this. I'm not sure. You can take a look at the actual video that was posted to YouTube and let me know. Okay, so let's break it down. On uremi, instructors earn 37% of the course purchase when Uremi drives the sale. But if you use your own referral link, you keep 97% of that photo purchase amounts payments are made monthly and Wow. Okay. And now for each of the sections of the video, there'll be the animation that we did in the beginning. Right? So we'll have revenue, control over content, and then audience reach. So this is pretty straightforward as well. Just a lot of animation. Pretty simple. Takes a lot of time to animate this. Here as well, they're talking about, actual why am I saying this let's watch? Purchase amounts payments are made monthly, and while the revenue split can seem steep, UM is massive audience often makes up for it with volume. When it comes to control over your horse, don't be allows you to retain ownership of your horse content, but pricing is largely controlled by the platform. You don't frequently discount forces. So even if you price your horse at, let's say, $100, it might actually sell for $10 during their sales. Now, there is speculation that this is a strategy used by UMI to attract a larger audience and increase brand awareness. And then later on, they in the sections where her name is Ali, by the way, when Ali is talking longer with nothing happening on the screen, we just have slow zoom in. It's usually zoom in, not zoom out. I just feel like zoom in focuses more on the person, and zoom out is usually done kind of in the end when we finish the video because if we zoom out in the middle of the video, it's kind of weird. But yeah, that's what I offer way less discounts and give more control over pricing to instructors. Similar to what Uber used to do when they were first launching, where prices were so low, and now that everybody knows about Uber, sometimes the price is even above average. But again, this is just speculation. For audience reach, this is where you're going to be true. Here, for Uber, we had a logo because they have a pretty dark background. You cannot see the logo very well, the circle. And the what's the word? The characteristic of their channel, something that people are used to seeing is having logos in a circle format. So that's why we're using the circle and then just showing visually the Uber. For Audit reach, this is where Um truly sends out. It's robot engine. Set up similar to Amazon, allows potential students to find you even if you've never heard of it before. W features like porcelain page, promo videos and a clear interface, Um really helps you send out, which is why they end up keeping the majority of the sale price when they bring the Um also ranks him credit? Oh, here so one of the ways that Ali and her husband start their journey on YouTube. As they started selling on Amazon, they started sharing that information online. I'm not sure about the story. Exactly. So Anyway, so here I'm just showing the Amazon. This is something that they're famous on YouTube. Be well on Google. So if I search, this is actually something I did. All of this is screen recording, as you can see, if I take a look at the effects. Okay. What do we have here? I probably have a mask. Yes, I have a mask here. If I turn off the mask, it's just screen recording. See? And by the way, you can see a little bit of line here at the top, at the bottom. So the mask is not perfect. That's why you can see the line here and here, but not here and not here. Anyway, let's get back to watching. Oh, yeah. So what I want to tell you is something I did I just did screen recording. Bell on Google. Thanks to Strong. Lisfully clicked on the pres link, and was there You do me course. SCO. So your course can be found on Google search results for key topics. Both instructors and students benefit from UMs intuitive interface. It's easy to upload your course, track sales, and engage with your student. U provides tools like hizess certificates and the Keywining feature that helps you engage with students as well as enhance their learning series. Skillshare is another one. Okay. So I lost a Skillshare logo somewhere. Don't know how it happened, but I did. So that's why we have this media offline logo. Why do we recognize platform, but it operates on a completely different love. It is a switch basis. So students have access to all of the courses within the platform for a monthly fee. Interesting. This looks very expensive. How did they do this? Okay, this probably just Skillshare website, and it's dark, and that's why it looks expensive. And by the way, these sort of, like, Zoom Is Zoom out with Motion blur, that's also premiere composer. So if I click, actually, not sure if that works, we transitions, so either zoom in or Zoom out. So we have Zoom in in the beginning, Zoom out in the end. It is subscription based. So students have access to all the courses within the platform for a monthly fee. Skip share is particularly popular among creatives and entrepreneurs looking for bite size project based learning. Instructors are paid based on the total premium minutes of the courses that are watched. There is no control over individual course prices, and payments are made monthly. The exact earnings per minute can vary monthly, but instructors have recorded an average of five to $0.10 per minute watched. While you retain fullownership of your content, Skillshare has more strict rule. As you can see what they're talking about, I'm just kind of showing it visually on the screen. Five to $0.10 of literally just go on Google and search for that kind of statistic or what they're talking about and try to show it visually. An average of five to $0.10 per mitewatch. While you maintain full ownership of your content, Skillshare has more strict rules when it comes to what you're able to teach. For example, if your course is about making money, Skillshare is going to have a lot more guidelines and possibly even not allow your course to be published. Skillshare has engaged community creators and entrepreneurs, providing decent internal traffic. However, there aren't as many building marking tools compared to other platforms. Skillshare is simple to use especially if you focus on short project based courses. It is designed for quick and easy course preaching. Instructors can encourage engagement based on their project based assignments as well as their community discussions, which are central to Skillshare platform. YouTube is not a traditional e learning platform, but I had to add it to this video. Go to platform or you used to share their knowledge with a massive audience. Additionally, many instructors use YouTube to build a brand, monetize it through ads, as well as funnel traffic to their courses. When it comes to revenue, you earn through ads, general memberships and sponsorships. On average, YouTubers make an average of three to $5 for 1,000 views, but this can vary wildly based on your age, as well as where the viewer is located. Payments are made monthly. You have to reach a certain threshold to be able to get that deposit. So when there's something happening in the screen, there's some sort of movement. Either I move in the screen recording, so I scroll through the page or there's a Zoom in or there's this three D effect. A certain threshold to be able to get that full control over to be able to get that deposit. You have full control over your content on YouTube? I'm not sure what that sound. Sometimes the computer probably likes. Pricing, however, definitely depends on how you choose to modify, whether through patroon or through a paid course on another platform. Now, YouTube offers unbeable reach with billions. So, for example, for Patron, if I opened the Nast setting sequence, it's actually. Okay. So it's a bit hard to show Patron because their logo is black. So in order to show the logo, I edit the graphic then nested the sequence, and that's it. By the way, a shortcut to NST sequence is Option C on Mac and probably Alt C on a PC. I saves a lot of time. So let's say I want to nest this instead of clicking, searching for Nest, I can just press on Option C and it just press Enter, and you can sequence very fast F. Now, YouTub offers unbeatable reach with billions of global users. Its algorithms and NCO capability can help you reach in massive aience, but you have to work very hard to stand out. YouTub is very easy to use for upholding and managing your content. Sweet. Here, I wasn't able to kind of think of something to visually show to add this algorithm thing. Is audience, but you have to work very hard to set out. YouTube is very easy to use for uploading and managing your content, but it is limited when it comes to tools that you can use to engage with your audience. But YouTube does offer comments, live streams, as well as community posts, which allows you to better engage in interactive with your audience. Let's talk about teachable and two platforms designed for content. I think creators who want full control over their content and brand. These platforms are perfect. Oh, yeah. So here we have two platforms. So just instead of having a big logo in the middle, we're just priding that. That's it. Two platforms designed for content readers who want full control over their content and writing. These platforms are perfect if you already have an audience or have the ability and know how to market yourself and use those market tools. Both platforms allow you to keep 100% of your purchases, minus small transaction fees, and ins are made weekly or monthly, whatever it is your preference that you can set inside the platform. You also retain complete ownership of your content on both platforms. You also have full control over pricing, allowing you to offer discounts, bugle courses, and even offer subscription. Audience reach is where post instructor struggle when it comes to these platforms. Yes, you get to keep the majority of your earnings, but you have to drive your own traffic to your horse. This often means investigating paid ads, hiring market managers, and spending time and money to create content to funnel students to your pay pod. Okay, so here's something interesting. Not something that I've created and created and animated. This is something I found on Invato elements and just edit it here. That's it. And by the way, in the two months, so many things have changed working on these videos. So right now, instead of using Invato, we mostly use art grid, and Aar grid is by Artlist. So we talked about Art list with you guys, or you'll see it in the future videos. And Invato turns out that Invado has sort it's sort of like comedy or amateur style of viral, and argrid they have just next level quality virals. Something we use instead of using whatever we use for the algorithm, where was it? Sure. So, for example, we wouldn't use something like this? We would use something more cinematic and yeah. To offer discounts, bundle courses, and even offer subscriptions. Audience reach is where most instructors struggle when it comes to these platforms. Yeah, you get to keep the majority of your earning, but you have to drive your own traffic to your course. His often meaning by seeing Bad ads, hiring market managers and spend time and money to create content to funnel students to your pay course. Both platforms are user friendly with Drag and Drop Course Builders and make it super easy for you to design and manage your courses. Sikfik and teachable offer different tools like quiz, certificates, and communication features, but they do not have I remember it was so hard to find for these two platforms, any sort of role. The other platforms, I'm familiar with, but these two platforms find any information, visual information to show what they're talking about. Like it was really hard to spend a lot of time. And then I found the video on the website, so I just took a screen recording of the video because I couldn't download the video and then put it here. They make it super easy for you to design and manage your courses. BigFig and teachable offer different tools like quizes, certificates, and communication features, but they do not have built in communities like other platforms do. Let's talk about school, which is getting super popular lately. School is a community driven course platform that combines course hosting with discussion forums and gamification. It's design for instructors who want to engage students beyond traditional video lessons. School allows you to keep 100% of your sales minus some small processing fees, and you can choose one time payments, subscriptions, tiered memberships, everything being paid out immediately. However, you must pay a monthly fee, currently priced at $99 to be able to I think this is a great lesson here also is that the original Okay, what is this? Oh, no, no, no. So that was the whole screen recording. And then you can see here it says that it's actually my school account. And my referral link because they were talking about referrals. And in order to hide myself from here, I did a graphic and then made the graphic this color. But what I want to say is if the screen recording was sort of, like, cut like this, and we needed to fill the rest of the screen. We would use the color color mat, and we would choose the color, which is around, like, here, here, anywhere and put in the background. Plate fee currently rised at $99 to be able to host your courses and create immunity. And school also offers full control over your course content and pricing. Although you still need to bring your own students, school is making massive efforts to increase its internal audience. Is search engine is also improving, helping visitors find courses organically as well. Finally, let's compare Lindy Mary and Coursera. Two platforms focus on professional and academic learners. Instructors are compensated through fixed fees and royalties on Linky Maring. And when it comes to Coursera, the payment is usually linked with instructors affiliated institution. So yes, if you want to teach on Coursera, you need to already be affiliated with university college or non educational institution. Platforms require you to have a degree or dimension deep affiliated with an educational institution, and you have a very limited control over your own content and pricing. Both platforms provide access to massive professional and academic audiences. Coursera attracts learners seeking degrees and certifications, while linking learning appeals to professionals looking to boost their career skills. Both of these platforms also have professional high level standards, but they're less flexible for independent creators Plus Corsa'sPnership model adds another level of complexity when it comes to Cursivation. Linking learning offers quizzes and certificates. While Corsera offers more academic tools like assignments and structured certifications. Now that we compare the top learning platforms, here's the break. So now we just put all the logos on the screen. What's happening with my tongue today? Dow, if you're looking for maximum control, Go for teachable thing. Okay, the computer is lagging. You can say it cannot render in real time, but that's what it looks like. Big or school, remember that you're going to need to drive traffic to your horse yourself, including big guys, having an existing audience, and creating content so you can funnel them into your horse. For professional and academic audiences, Linking learning or Corsera are excellent choices. If you're in the creative niche, Skillshare and YouTube could be the best way you go. But if you're looking for the highest income potential with the least amount of efforts, expertise, and capital, UB is the way to go. Thanks to its huge audience and marketing age. That's why we not only use bd recommended UBE to all beginners, but also established instructors. My husband and I have been selling UV since 2019, and we've been able to generate over $400,000 in earnings. We also lost our voices on Skillshare and if you're curious to know the exact breakdown of our earnings on both of these platforms. Stay tuned for a future video that's coming. Wenn I'll also make sure to add to the description below. And in this video, we're also going to add a secret to completely invest. Oh, here's something I could have added is arrows pointing down to the description below where the video will be. And in this video, we're also going to add a secret to completely maximize your earnings without any additional efforts. And if you want a step by step blueprint on how to create courses on UI, as well as tons of done for your resources, came reofidence mini course, Scio share expansion bag, course validation service and much more, check out Freedom Foundin Academy, where we teach you how you can start earning $4,000 per month, within the next 11 months and spending less than $900. You want to learn more, I'm going to be building in the description below, and I hope that you found this video helpful. Less if any questions. Which platforms do you consider using the password, want to sha anything with this community? And don't forget to subscribe to learn more about how you can make money online, quit your 95, and live the life that you deserve. So get thanks for watching, and I look forward to you in the next video. Bye. Okay. Here, pretty simple. Here, this sort of icon, we actually changed this icon after this video. So there's a different icon that was edited and actually we couldn't do exactly what they wanted. So I just went to After Effects and created it, saved it, and now we use it as a new thing. Okay. Here, they basically have a course that's helping people leave their 95 job. Amazing course. I completed it. It's next level. Okay, so here they're talking about their course. Confidence mini course. And basically, it's just her on the right. Let's see what I did. Okay. So this is probably the original video. This is the shape. So this is just a gray shape. Then I applied a track mat key and made it to Video three, which is this video. And if we do the track mat, basically the video becomes visible only in the shape that's above it. So that's how I was able to get these kind of rounded corners. So this is the video, 13 minute video. This is what it looks like. We have a lot of different things. This video took me probably something like 15 hours to do. I don't remember exactly, because it was two months ago. I really hope this video was helpful. If you have any questions, please let me know. I'm trying to think if there's anything more valuable to show here, but I don't think there is. So this is this kind of video, it's not there's nothing hard about this video. It's just time consuming to do all of the effects. You can see there was a lot, a lot here. But we did it. Yeah. I anyway, thank you for watching, and I will see you in next video. 19. The Editor’s Blueprint: Streamlining Video Edits with Premade Decisions: In this video, I'd like to show you a so called video editing default library, which helps save a lot of time with my clients. It would be almost impossible to just go every single time for me to come up with something new and for them to then review it and say what they like, what they don't like. We just don't have enough time to do all of that. And actually, it's something that we did in the beginning when we started working together. But now they proposed a video editing default library. So it's just a collection of agreed upon decisions about video editing. So, for example, vertical for the vertical style, basically, shorts or reels, there's a specific format that we have. And then for primary title screen, we have the black video with glowing bold text, and then we have a link that goes oops, it disappeared. And then we have a link that goes directly to that specific to the screenshot that shows specifically what that means. So at the bottom, there are some frequent overlays at the top. It's just it's just everything, everything about the video that we know works 100%. So if I do it, I will not need to change it and they will not have to request changes, and just saves a ton of time. So this is something that you can do. You can go to dogs.google.com. Creates a new dog, share it with your client if you work with clients, and you're going to have it. And that's basically something we discussed in the previous videos where we talked about or something, we'll talk in the future videos. Create your style and then improve your style, but it's not like you create a different video every single time. So it's a similar story here where we set kind of a baseline, and then we just build on top of that. So this is that baseline. This is the minimum that we are so sure about. This is the concrete basement. If you have any questions, let me know, but other than that, I will see you in the next video. 20. Lessons From Alex Hormozi: This video, I'd like to introduce you to Homose. Homose has almost nothing to do with video editing. Actually, I think he never edited his videos, but he's a businessman. Let's begin. This is Hormoze. When Homose was 22 or 23, he left his job and his salary was like $100,000. Long story short, he went through a lot of hell. He went bankrupt two times, and now he's just over 30. He's like, 32, 33, and his net worth is over $100 million or $200 million, somewhere in that range. These are some of the socials of the Hamzi. So you can see OX, 700,000, YouTube, over 2.5 million and Instagram almost 3 million followers. And it took him just over two years to build an audience of over 5 million people. Here's the Harmze theory. A short form content equals one content unit. Long form content equals ten content units or 15 25 doesn't matter. So one content unit is hook, retention, reward. So that is a content unit, and a long form content consists of a lot of content units, small pieces, but there are a lot of them. That's how you create the long form content. The reason why I think this is valuable is because when we edit long form videos, the editing is a lot less saturated there, in a way, because when you edit a short form, you want this video to be super saturated with editing, like, a lot of stuff happening because you can get a lot of views this way. But in long form, you have the same amount of editing, but it's spread over ten content units, for instance. And so each content unit gets only a tenth of the editing. I like to think of this as make long form as saturated with editing as possible. Don't go over the top. Don't make crazy. Just make it as good as you can, as good as possible. And it's also an interesting way to just think about content in general. It makes it easier to understand because let's say you have a long form video, which is 1 hour, and that might be overwhelming for you, for other people, for me, as well. Sometimes it is. So instead of thinking of this huge thing. We can just think of this as 60 content units, and that's it. Let's make it easier to understand, to edit and to break down. I know you might be confused, and that's okay. There are as many approaches as there are people in this world. We talked about Mr. Beast with 70% redemption rate. We talked about hating Hillier Smith. We talked about Hormuzi. All of this stuff might be confusing to you. It's okay. So here's my approach. I use a little bit of everything. Think of yourself becoming a professional video editor as a puzzle. So you have a big puzzle, let's say 100 pieces. And each piece of information you receive is one puzzle. So you put it in the puzzle. And the more you understand, the more information you gather, the closer you are to finishing the puzzle. And once you finish the puzzle, you will be unstoppable. You will be in the top 1% of editors, maybe 0.1%. So I'm giving you this information to understand and to adjust your way of thinking about editing because editing, it is a creative job. There's no one answer that will cover all of the editing. So these are very important tips you should focus on. Now, once again, if you have any questions, please leave those in the Q&A section below, and I will see you in the next video. 21. Organize, Search, and Simplify: Premiere Pro Workflow Essentials for YouTube: In this video, I'd like to share some of the tips about organizing your files and your overall project. In the previous videos in the folders, I recommended you to create a folder called all kinds of stuff. And I realized that might not be the best thing to do. So I tried some other stuff, and it turns out that that was the best way to do it. If you have a project and you have to download a lot of things from the Internet, then all kinds of stuff folder works the best. However, recently, I had to edit a travel video, and there's not much stuff that was needed from the Internet. And the main thing was just the organization of the file. So just to make sure that the file that's supposed to be in the folder is in the folder, and there's nothing else. So when it's talking head videos or you have to download a lot of things from the Internet, then all kinds of stuff folder works great. However, for the travel video, I also had all kinds of stuff. As you can see here, and I had to blur a lot of the stuff out. I tried a lot of different folders. And it didn't necessarily work great because, let's say, download something from the Internet. I have to search for that folder, put it in the folder. And then whenever I switch between the folders here, it takes a lot of time to find that and my brain power, and I don't like that. So I'd like to just put it in all kinds of stuff folder and forget about it. But one thing you will see this is something new that I'm using, which is a great thing, and I recommend you do it as well is that at the bottom on our timeline, I used to have audio in this sort of darker green, but now I have audio in this I would call it neon green. And you will see that the footage, the videos is in different colors. And this is something I recommend you do as well. So for example, I decided that for the Itrous the footage will be in pink, but there is a problem that whenever you click on something and you replace it with after effects composition, turns pink. So if I want to use after effects to do an effect, I have to remember which clip it is. So maybe it would be a better idea to choose another color. But choosing a color for your intro is a great thing. And then whenever you have any sort of chapters or you can divide your video in certain chapters, not necessarily for viewers, but just for yourself. Then you can also add color. And by the way, the way you do this is you right click label, and you choose a color. Let's say I want this to be brown, and it's brown, as you can see. When you add this kind of color, it's just a lot easier to navigate through this kind of mess. This isn't a finished product, but this is almost a finished product, and there's just so much stuff. And imagine if the footage was all the same color, it would be so much harder to navigate through. And you can think about this even further. You can mark all of the specific footage, all of the specific files, one color so that instead of searching for it, you can always know where it is because you can see it. One way of navigating, if you have, like, a very, very long project, like, for example, a podcast, you can come into text. And once again, I had to blur a lot of the stuff. But you can search in terms of text, you can search for specific words. And it will just take you to the specific words. So for instance, let's search for YouTube, let's search for channel. Yep, channel. And then, as you can see, it just took me there. That's one way to find all kinds of stuff. And then you can also search if you press on Command F or Control F, and then you can search for all kinds of other stuff, whatever you want. Like, search for certain effects or other stuff. By the way, there's also another Zip I want to give you. It's not necessarily for this video, but I think you will you will like it. So let's say we have a couple of videos selected, and for all of these videos, we want to remove a certain effect because these videos have a certain effect. Let's say, transform effect or lumetri color. So what we just right click remove attributes and then motion, opacity, time remapping. I want to keep all of that stuff, but let's say I want to remove certain effects, and I will just leave these clicked and press Okay. And when you press Okay, for specifically these videos, these adjustment layers, the effects will be deleted. For example, let's say for a podcast, instead of clicking on every single video that you want to delete a mask from, you can just select all the clips, delete all the masks with one click, and that's it. It's as simple as that. Anyway, I hope you found this video helpful. If you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I will see you in the next video. 22. Congratulations!: Congratulations. If you're watching this, it means you've made it halfway through the course content. So congratulations to you and I hope you've been finding content valuable up until this point. Remember, if you need anything, just let me know in the Q&A section below. Now that I have a feel for the material, I would like to ask you to leave you honest feedback about this course by taking 60 seconds to leave a review. This will be extremely beneficial for me to know what I'm doing well, as well as help hundreds of students in deciding the best course for them. So they would really appreciate it. So go ahead and do that now. Thank you for your support, and I will see you in the next video. 23. Editing for YouTube Algorithms and Audience Engagement: Welcome to this video. Today we're talking about retention and retention editing. What is retention editing? We already know what retention is. Retention is keeping people on the platform for as long as possible. Retention is AVD average duration. That's something you can learn in analytics. What is retention editing? Retention editing has the ability to keep a user glued to their screen. The cell features loud sound effects, fast cuts, flashing lights, and zero pauses. Here's a good example of retention editing, but a bad example of a video. In this video, I'll share how many this is something I did years ago and something. Well, let's watch it. Mr. Beast goes viral every time in Ken, too. Funny enough, he shared all of that information. Joe Rogan, Colin, Sam, Lex Friedman, Poulson Podcast, and many more. Today, we'll talk about what results you can expect with Mr. Beast knowledge after six months in terms of using and revenue. YouTube algorithm from the head of YouTube Discovery and Jimmy, how to make a viral video? What thumbnails and titles to use editing, exact analytics to hit millions of views. The difference between long form content and shorts and many more. If you're watching this, it means this works. We started the most important and we'll get to the most exciting by the end of the six sound arrogant, but, if you knew what I know about how to make a good video and go viral, even if you had zero subscribers, you could be making 100 grand a month in half a year. Okay, that got me very curious. Let's do some math. If Mr. BCPM is $20, and that's what Google says. $100,000 would be equal to 5 million views. So Mr. Biseswa can get 5 million views per month in six months if we knew what he knows. And listen to this. You can so you get the idea. No pauses, a lot of sound effects, a lot of, like, stuff happening all the time. Two cameras set up, one in front of me, one a little bit to the left, and I switch between the cameras so it's like crazy, crazy, crazy crazy. It's a good example of retention editing, bad example of a video. I did it, and I sort of regret it. The reason I regret it is because it's not a good video. It's a good example of redention editing, but it's not a good video. So here are a couple of my thoughts. Movies, don't try to keep people watching, but retention editing. Think about that. And the question for you is, do you really want to keep people watching for the sake of making views slash Money? And the third thing is that people are tired of the cele. They want normal videos. Here's something to think about. Okay, let's say you keep a person glued to the screen with retention editing. But retention editing doesn't result in user satisfaction. One of the metrics that YouTube looks at to promote your videos further is user satisfaction. Let's say that your video is super clickable. People watch it long, but they are not satisfied. Will they click on you next video? And if not, then is that worth it? Is that worth having one viral video? Or is it worth having a lot of viral videos? Of course, not every single video goes viral unless you're a miss beast. But if a person watches your video and they don't watch another video, I have no words. Right? It's just it's not good. This is something I do not like, this is something I do not recommend. Editing should support the video, but editing shouldn't keep a person glued to the screen. However, retention is a part of YouTube. And the way I think about this is you should find a balance. Of course, you will manipulate people into watching longer in some way. That's what editing is a part. Think of editing as supporting the video instead of keeping users glued to the screen. I feel like this is the best thing that you can do. And I learned a statistic recently that over 100 million people watch YouTube on TV every day, which means that YouTube is a new TV. So something you can do is to edit your videos like movies. And that's why watching movies for inspiration is a great thing to do. At the end of the day, this is completely your choice. You do with your life what do you want to do. I'll give you another example, ARC ARC used to have absolutely great videos. But in 2023, in the end of 2023, he created a series where he traveled around the world in 30 days. And if he didn't complete the trip around the world in 30 days, Mr. Best would delete his channel. By the way, Mr. Best was also part of that. I'm not kind of necessarily sure why he did that because Mr. Beast probably knew that Iraq was faking the videos. So there were a lot of breakdowns of why that was fake. He traveled around the world, like, months before, so he knew he wouldn't delete his channel, and there was kind of notake. Once I learned that, I was kind of like, uh, I don't really like watching his videos anymore. And then because I watched a couple of breakdowns, I was recommended new breakdowns of his previous videos where he also lied to people. I just stopped watching his videos. So the same thing with retention, if you try to keep people glued to the screen, it's not going to help a long term game. You might have some short term gains, but once again, do you really want that? If your channel blows up this year, but then the year after nobody wants to watch your videos, I wouldn't want that. Something to keep in mind. This is retention editing. If you have any questions, leave those below, but other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 24. Monetization Strategies and Editing for Ad Revenue: This video, we can talk about YouTube monetization. And there are two ways to advertise. And advertisement is the same as monetization because the way you earn money on YouTube is through advertisement. You show ads, and that's how you make money. Two ways to advertise. There's YouTube Partner program, and then there's outside of YouTube. Think of sponsorships, affiliates, selling your own products, and so on. Is the first link, which is monetization for creators, and this link shows how you can monetize through YouTube Partner program. You can show ads on you videos, channel membership, superchats, YouTube shopping, YouTube brand content. Whatever recommend you do is come to this link and read through this. In this course, we have different people in different niches. So come to this page, which will be linked in the resources section and find options that work best for you. There's going to be another link, which is Partner Program eligibility. Long story short, you have to have at least 1,000 subscribers, and 4,000 watchti hours or 10 million shorts views. In my opinion, it's easier to get the 4,000 victime hours than 10 million shorts views, because what is 4,000 tetimeHurs? Let's say you have a video that's 20 minutes long and people watch on an average of 5 minutes. So first of all, 4,000 times 6,240,000 minutes. And let's say on average, people watch 5 minutes. So now we have 240000/5 minutes, which is 48,000 views. So if you have a video that's 20 minutes long and people watch an average of 5 minutes, you need to have 48,000 views. And I believe that 48,000 views is easier than 10 million views. Although you can get a lot of views with shorts, but it's never guaranteed. So that's why it's easier. And in the resource section you'll have in Netink which is mintization policies, I do recommend you reading through this in simple words. You just need to have family friendly content. What does that mean? If I point to Mr. Beast, that's family friendly content. But if I point to Whistling diesel, that's not family friendly content. So no swearing, nothing sexual. Think of your videos as if they were cartoons, and that way, you will be able to monetize. So this is YouTube partner program site. Then there's another site which is affiliates, sponsorships, selling your own products, whatever you sell or whatever your clients sell, it doesn't really matter in terms of editing. So I'll show you an example of how to integrate ads into your videos. Two main ways to do this. One of which is when you talk about the ad during your video. So you're in the middle of the content, you're doing a video, and then at the same time, you're talking about the advertisement. Then the second option is if during the video, you just stop, and then there's an ad for 1 minute to 30 seconds, you do the ad and then you come back to this video. Let's watch a couple of examples. This is an example of where you talk about an ad during your content. Great. Alertser explode. How am I gonna do this? There's so many lasers. While he's doing this laser room, I'm gonna tell you guys about T Mobile, my new wireless partner. Throw here. Back. What? You probably know T Mobile from this coverage map. Yes, I do. I do. But here's the thing. Okay, you know, great coverage is to be expected. Okay. But when T Mobile has that other carriers, you. Look, He's halfwythh the lasers. Oh, he's on our side. Uh, what makes T Mobil special is they have something called Magenta status. Okay. What is Magenta status? It's they treat you like a VIP? Okay. Just by using T Mobile, you can get reduced costs of hotel rooms. You can get free and play Wi Fi access to VC. Go, go, go. Alright. Timo, Timo, I'm stressing out. Sorry about Bikini Log and a bunch of other stuff. And the best part is B right there, Jim. Hey, let me finish the T Bubble. Okay. And the best part is jumping in the water. It's all available day one when you switch T Muble. So if you're not currently using TBoble, start using it now. You can get all these parts literally today. Catch my breath here. Check it out for yourself. Go to timoble.com slash, you's in the water. Ooh, ooh, my jaw. Alright, this is last level. This way, it helps the advertisers. It helps the YouTube algorithm because this ad happens at the same time as the video. So you want to see what happens to this guy, how he goes through the challenges, and you're not going to skip, and therefore, you listen to the advertisement. So that benefits the YouTube algorithm because people watch longer, and then it benefits the advertisers because people get to see the whole ad and therefore buy more. This is one example. And here's an example, doctor Mike. In this example, the video is just going to stop. There's going to be an ad, and then the video is going to continue. Let's see how it works. Probably not. You're probably better off doing sets of five to 30 reps two to four times a week in the gym. And if you're really interested in getting your science on, you can use the RP Hypertrophy app comes with dozens of premade programs from two days of training per week, all the way up to six days of training with specialized programs included for shoulders, arms, chest, back, legs, abs, and glutes, each one with male and female options. You get them all and can use them as often as you like, even building Ofaphone to make your own customized versions for only about $1 a day. Click on the Lincoln description this video to get started. But if you are doing this kind of type of advertisement is a bit easier to do, quite a bit easier to do because you don't have to remember, you don't have to do it at the same time as the content. It still works. Unfortunately, I don't have the analytics, but I can guarantee that there was a dip in the average view duration because of this. I'm sure with Mr. Beast, it's the same thing. However, from what Mr. Best shared, his average refrigeration stays the same. So even if there is an ad, there's no drop. Here's another example similar to Mr. Beast, which is Matt Armstrong, a self taught technician. So he's fixing the car in the background, at the same time, has a screen on the foreground that shows the website that shows if a car is damaged or not. That's also a great example. And one very important note, if you do this for yourself or for your client is a ratio four to one. So when we talk about ads on TV, for every 47 minutes of content, there's 13 minutes of ads. Why? Because that's how you can maximize the number of ads and make the most amount of money without people leaving. That's why when you go on social media, take a look at Instagram Facebook, there's going to be one ad for every four posts. And once you pay attention, you'll see how it differs. So, for example, something I noticed recently on a laptop, on a tablet, on a phone, the ads on YouTube are shorter. But the ads on ATV, I'm looking TV because I have TV here. But the ads on the TV are way longer, and it's interesting because it's super short in the beginning, so it's like 5 seconds. But by the end of the video, it's up to, like, 60 seconds. So anyway, something you can pay attention to, you learn interesting different techniques. But let's go back to four to one. So it means that if you have a ten minute video, you can have an ad of 2 minutes during a video. But also something to keep in mind, if YouTube shows ads as well, you need to balance that. And the shorter the ad, the better it is for the algorithm. However, the worse it is for advertisers. The way you can maximize it is four to one, although that's on the line because if you want your videos to get as many views as possible, then you need to minimize that or to shorten that to make it concise. So take a look at the links, monetization for creators, eligibility, monetization policies. If you need a legal advice, in this case, you need to go to a professional. I'm not a legal professional, so this is something that lawyers need to take care of. And so take a look at the links, and I'll see you in the next video. 25. Branding and Consistency in YouTube Content: This video, we're going to talk about branding and consistency in YouTube content. What does this mean? It means that if you create a video for the first time, you edit the video in a way that creates your own style. That's you. Or you start working with somebody, and those people already have some sort of style. And you don't want to make each video drastically different from one another. You want to keep this consistency. So it means using similar music, using similar effects, similar pacing, ploading videos at the same time, using the same tubnils for your videos. The reason for this is people click on your video. They watch your video, they enjoy it. And the next time they click on your video, they want to have a similar feeling. They want to digest content that's done in a similar way. So I'll give you a couple of examples. Mr. Debes uses the same font. He's been using this font since he started recording videos. The name of this font is Coca X, I believe, and he uses the same font. That's one of the ways to do branding consistency. Another great example is S theory. As you can see, on the thubnail every time they have their logo in the bottom left corner, that is branding, and that is consistency. You can also see that in their thumbnails, it's either AMR or Thomas on the thumbnail. The same with Mr. Beast. If you go to his thumbnails, it's Mr. Best on every single thumbnail because people recognize him. So the same applies to editing. You should create a video and then use that structure every single time. But it does mean that videos have to stay the same for years. It means that you create the structure and you improve the structure over time. So every time you improve it by 1%. If you take a look at the latest video that you posted in the previous video, they should be similar. But if you take a video that you post it now, another one from two years ago, they'll be drastically different. So you improve your videos bit by bit. You use similar effects, similar music, similar pacing, similar structure, and improve it over time. A hacker recommend you do is to create templates and presets. You already know how to create presets, but I'll show you an example of a template. When we were talking about Al Ab Doll, we broke his video down and you saw this kind of neon frame that's going around the frame. So this is the template that I've created, and every single time I want to use it. I already have it in a folder. I just copy it and I rename the copy to new project or whatever the project is, and then I open it, I edit it, and that's it. So when you edit the videos, make sure you use these techniques. The more you practice, the more you will understand, and the easier it will become. If you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see in the next video. 26. Finding and Using B-Roll/ Music / Templates (Free and Paid): In this video, we're going to talk about sourcing music, B roll, templates, and as you can see on the screen, we have two different options. We have free options and we have paid options. I'll walk you through each of the options that we have. Long story short. Of course, paid options are definitely better. You have more variety, you have better quality. It's just something I recommend. Not super expensive, but it does cost a little bit of money. So if you're in the budget, you can use the free options. And usually you're in the budget if you create videos for yourself. If you work with the creator, they'll definitely have some sort of subscriptions, and if they do have subscriptions, it will be one of these ones year. So let's get into it. First, let's talk about free options. So music, you can actually search on YouTube for free music. You come to YouTube and you search for music royalty free. And here you have different playlists. You can open one, watch the ads. And then whatever command you do is to go into description and read the description. As you can see here in the lessons, it says, The song is free to use on YouTube and social media, but you must include the following credits in your video description. Probably you have to include all of this. In some other options, you actually don't need to put anything in your description. Here, you also have to put it in the description. It might have been the same channel. It's the same channel. So this one is safe to use. No copyright claim, as this one says. And one thing you will notice, as well, when you upload videos to YouTube, YouTube will check if you have any copyrighted material. Of course, it takes a little bit of time to upload it to YouTube to see if anything is wrong with that. But if you use free option, this is something you have to do. And then in terms of what music to search for, you just search for the music that would work best for your videos. So if you want the video to be energetic, you search for energetic music. You can literally search energetic music royalty free. As you can see, energetic, energetic, energetic. This is an ad energetic. Search for different options. If you want to emphasize sadness, then you kind of search for more relaxed music or you search for sad music. So it depends. The more you search, the more you will find out. The more practice you have, the more you'll get used to this. So whatever emotion you want to show in your video, you just search for that music, download it and use it in your video. This is the music part. By the way, all the links will be in the resources section, so you can just go ahead and click there. Both free paid versions will be there. So now let's talk about the RL. URL is this website. You have both photos and videos, and if we look into the licensing, all photos and videos are free to use. Attribution is not required. You can modify, be creative. So it means that you can just download it and use it. No attribution is needed, you can just use it. So let's say we're looking for a computer and we're looking for videos. Here's a preview if you hover over the video, and a lot of different options you have here. The same, we can search for photos. A lot of different photos. If you want to use one, just click on Download, and it will download. There you go, as simple as that. When do you use rol, you use rol when you need to show something visually and make your video a bit more exciting because if it's you just talking the screen and a thing appears on the screen, let's say, a computer comes from the right here to show the computer, sometimes it's better to show a professional rol. So that's in terms of the rolcel.com, and then we have free templates from creators. So one of the options I showed you is Mr. Horse or premiere composer. There's something that I recommend you install on your computer. But I'll give you another example. So here's a YouTube channel called Sound Doc. If we open them, we have here free 100 templates. We come to the website and you can download free 100 templates. And you can see we can have templates. You have here. Once again, with the free version, you do need to take a little bit of time to do all of this. But once you do that, you'll have 100 templates from here, 100 templates or 20 or 50 from another creator, then you search for that, combine that all together, and that's it. The way I discovered the sound Doc is just the kind appeared in shorts for me. So I just took a look at their channel. I saw that they have free templates, and that's something I wanted to share with you. So you can come on YouTube, search for creators in your niche by literally just searching Premiere Pro. Let's say, maybe this guy has something. His website get free training. No, we don't need free training, editing community. He doesn't have anything. Premiere Gall, a great lady. Very happy. That knows a lot about premiere. So maybe she has something and just literally search for different creators. Adobe made simple. Let's see what they have. Preset packs. Let's see what they have. Hmm. Interesting. Free version, free version, free. So this is how you can search on YouTube for different creators and then see their free templates. Now let's talk about the paid versions. First, we'll start with music, and we'll start with Epidemic Sound. So Epidemic Sound is something I use for myself and for my clients. The way it works is you come into music. You have the discovery page, but usually it come into music, and then you would search for what you need. You have different moods. So if it's a mysterious video, I'll click here. Let's see what they have. H the mysterious mood. But sound effect, there's also a great library here. You can search for all kinds of effects, like a car, for instance. Like a noise inside the car, opening the door, speed. So whatever sound effects you have, you just search for here. If you need music, you come here as well. They have a great library of music. I use it both for myself and for my clients, so this is just something I recommend. You can always search on YouTube. I do sometimes just to get some inspiration as well. But if you want something stable and reliable, I recommend epidemic sound. In terms of paid Bro and templates, there are options with two and one, which is artless invato elements and motion array. I'll give you my experience with these kind of different brand, but in my opinion, these websites are very similar. So let's open them up. This is motion array. This is Infato elements, and this is art List. These websites are very similar to one another, and there's not much difference between them. They just have different effects, different templates, different role. They even have, like, music and sound effects as well. A question you might have, is it worth buying Epidemic Sound, if you want to buy one of these options? It's better because Epidemic Sound is niche down. So the only produced music and sound effects for creators coming from life experience. If something is not super niche, then it's broad, and if it's broad, it's not as good of a quality. I'm talking about music in terms of, like, motion graphics, in terms of footage, they are just killing the F. Everything is great. Motion ray and vat and Artlist. I use Motion Array for my own videos. I really like the website. I stopped working with them because I don't produce as much videos for me anymore. And right now with my clients, I work with In vato elements. It's just as good as Motion array. And then we have Artlist dot IO. I've never used Artlist, but I've heard that it's absolutely great. I'll definitely use it in the future. In one of the previous lectures, we talked about hitting Hillary Smith. He uses Artlist. And from what I know, Artlist has really good music, and they have really good orchestral music. So like, violins, piano, things like that, you know, when you watch an ad, and it's like, echo ch, ch, with a violin. So this is something that you can find here, I believe. But once again, you can come to the website, click into music, search for different options. Here's an example of a violin. And you can come into footage as well, see what kind of footage they have. They have a great variety of footage here as well. Come into templates, see what they have. The same but Vato you can come to Invato video templates. Actually, you can just search here at the top computer, for instance, so they'll give you photos. They'll give you stock videos. They'll give you sound effects, graphics, graphic templates, three D, add ons, video templates, presentation templates. So you can see they're giving you a lot of different stuff. Honestly, if we're talking about YouTube videos, you don't need these many things. You just need like stock video. That's mostly what you use. Sometimes you might need photos and sometimes you might need graphics. Sometimes you might need them. Graphic templates, this is for presentations. Three D, like, I very rarely use it if I cannot find something in the video or in the photos. And with motion array, the same thing. You come to motion graphics, see what you have here. You come into footage, see what you have here. If I were to recommend you one, any of these is good. Whichever looks the best for you, you can choose the one and just use it. Honestly, they are very similar to each other. You can see, you know, artists might be slightly different with buttons being on the left, but Invato and motion array. When I used Invato after using Motion array, I was like, I knew exactly where things were after using Motion array. So it's very similar. So once again, what's my verdict? You can use the free versions. Of course. You just need to either put the names of the songs and, you know, the details of the material that you use. And if we're talking about Brol on Pexels, there's not much roll. You can use it. They add new stuff sometimes, I believe. I'm not sure. But if we're talking about, like, really great quality content, then we're talking about the paid versions, which is Epidemic Sound, artless and Wato and motion array. For Epidemic Sound, I was able to get you guys a free trial. So if you use Link in description for Epidemic Sound, you'll be able to get a free trial. For the other links, unfortunately, I don't have anything special for you because these companies take like months to reply. But I want to make sure you get value right now. So if you want to try Epidemic Sound, use link in the resources section. I hope this video is helpful. If you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 27. Managing Client Revisions: This video, we're going to talk about working with clients and clients revisions. If you took this course, just to improve your editing skills, you can skip this video, but if you plan to work with clients with influencers, this is going to be useful. So how does it work? I get a Google Docs document explaining what the video is about, kind of division that the clients have and a link to the files. The link goes to Google Drive. I download all the files. I upload all the files to Premiere Pro. As we discussed earlier, I create different folders. One folder is for footage, one folder is for sequences, and whatever else I will add later, I'll create different folders just to keep everything organized. There are as many approaches as there are people. The way I like to work is like to edit a full video, the way I see it using clients notes, and then I take this video and upload it to frame dot IO. But sometimes people can just cut the video, send it to client, double check that everything's okay and only after that they can edit the video. Both versions are okay, but when I have creativity flowing, for me, it's better to edit the full video, even if it's 1 hour video, and it will take me a couple of days to edit. Doesn't matter. I still edit the full video and upload it to frame dot IO. Frame Mo is great software by Adobe. On left side, there is a video playback and on the right side, there's place for comments. You can leave a comment at a specific part of the video so that when the client leaves this comment, I know exactly where the change needs to be made, and then they explain in the comments what needs to be changed. So once they do that, I just go back to Premiere Pro. I have premiere and I have my browser open. So in the browser, I take a look at the comments, and then Premiere Pro, I do the changes, and that's it. And we do the same for the version number three, four, and however versions there are. Sometimes clients will request a lot of revisions, and that's okay. The big thing is that it shouldn't be happening on a consistent basis. When you start working with somebody, you will definitely have more revisions, simply because you're not used to each other. You don't fully understand their style, they don't fully understand yours, and it's kind of some time to get used to each other. Once you get used, the number of revision goes down. But I'll give you an example. Like a couple of weeks ago, we were working on a project and we had, like, 11 revisions, 11, 12 or 13 revisions. And I'll be honest, by the end, like at number ten, I was kind of, like, losing my patience. And that's okay. What you should be focused if you have a lot of revisions is just providing the best service you can, make sure they're satisfied, make sure you are creating the best video possible. Sometimes they might know more than you, and so they'll just tell you what exactly you need to do. But if that happens on a consistent basis, you should have a conversation with your client. You shouldn't have like 12 revisions, 15 revisions unless the video is like 2 hours and you need, like, a lot of stuff to be changed. But if the video is under 30 minutes, you know, maybe that's not the case. And once again, it depends on your situation. How much you get paid per project. If you get paid per project, like $5,000, then of course, you can take a lot of revisions. But if you get paid a couple of hundred dollars per project, that's a different story. You shouldn't have as many revisions because that's your time. And that's their time, as well. A great way that I heard to work around this is to charge per revisions. So let's say you have three to four to maybe even three revisions, and after that, each revision needs to be paid extra, like 25, 50, $100, whatever you feel comfortable with, and your client feels comfortable. Work great because it saves a lot of time for you and for your client. It saves a lot of headache, and you don't have this unlimited option because sometimes when people have unlimited options, they'll just go on forever and they'll try to perfect the video, although there's no such thing as perfect video. You can improve each video and learn from the previous video, and that's the best way to do this. And I guarantee that they will appreciate if you charge for revisions because it will force them to be more concise, to be more on point and explain everything that they want to happen in the video, and it won't take them 12 revisions to do it. It will take them just a couple of revisions. Once again, all of this is dependent on your situation. Sharing my experience, and I hope that it's going to help you. Sometimes when clients leave comments, and, for example, they wanted to leave a link, they just forgot to include the link or they say something, and I just don't understand what they mean. I'll just go ahead and ask them. I'll send them a screenshot of their comment and say, Hey, could you explain this in different terms or what exactly do you mean by that? They'll just explain, and that's it. And another important thing is that if it's really hard to communicate with the client, he's not being a sort of like a normal person. Has a lot of revisions, he just doesn't care about you, then maybe you shouldn't work with that client. You should try and find other people. I also understand about the financial situation. If you leave a client, then how are you going to make money. So when you are working with this client, try to spend your free time finding other people to work with. Another tip is that you can actually recommend a lot of things for clients, and you can either recommend it by showing them in the edits. So let's say you edit a video and you tell them, Hey, I think this is going to work best. Take a look at you know how it works, or you can just send them a message saying, I think, instead of this, we should do this, and they will appreciate most of the time. Once again, if the client is normal, the client is a hard person, might be hard to work with them, but if the client is good, it's going to be good. They will appreciate it, and it might be that you say something that they don't see and you need to explain to them. Once again, if you're an editor, you're part of the channel, you want their videos to be as good as possible. You want their audience to enjoy the videos, you want their channel to grow. So you can recommend different things if you it's gonna work well. So, this is my experience. This is how I see it. If you have any questions, please let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 28. Breaking Down Editing Frame By Frame. MrBeast and Ali Abdaal: Welcome to this video, and I'm really excited about this video because this is a practice that I did years ago and it really helped me improve my editing understanding of editing. I'm glad to share it with you today. So in this video, we'll break down two videos frame by frame. One of Mr. Best and one of Ali Ab Dal. So I think these are really good examples. Mr. Beast is a so called IRL videos. ARL means in real life, and Ali Abdaal is a talking head video. So depending on which type of videos you're going for, you'll have great examples. So let's get into watching. I don't normally do intro like this, but I'm currently descending. Right away, the video starts at a very exciting point where they're hanging on the ropes hundreds of feet above the ground. It's just miss Best first, and then we have a transition into potentially a drone. I think they created a mask around them. So they used the proto Brush tool in after effects. They cut them out, and then they transitioned into a drone trot, and potentially, they had a lot of drone trots going into the cave, as we can see here. And another thing is that in order to create this kind of seamless transition, they make a little bit of shake. So m, it's like that transitions into a drone. Now they're adding kind of this glitch effect, and it's either a drone again or that's CGI, because that looks too smooth. I would say this is CGI. In the first seconds, already intense, so much stuff happening, and that's why Mr. Best gets millions of views. So to show the scale, they're showing them. Then once again, a drone goes wide to see how big the cave is to show how small they are. And you can see, at the bottom here, they have this, sort of like a portal. They do this in after effects. And after effects, there's a thing called tracking, and you can track your environment. You can track both the position, you can track the scale, and that's what they are doing here. It wasn't there when they were landing. We're just 13 seconds in. And how many shots do we have change? Like. So many things change. So as soon as they touch the ground, they are visually showing what Mr. Beast is commenting. At the same time, you can also hear a lot of sound effects like swooshes. The seven days is something that's been done in after effects because they did tracking on them. As you can see, the camera moves, but de tech stays in the same position. Potentially, they added a camera shake later, and they had a steel footage because that's easier to do. A lot of zooming, and you can see something that Mr. Bes does. First of all, his videos are in ten ATP, as I explained earlier, but when they zoom in, the quality is just it's bad. And that's something that Mr. Bees does, and he still gets millions, hundreds of millions of views. I personally prefer when the quality is better. I watch videos and forca my devices, something I like, but for most people, they don't really care. That might have been the scariest thing I've ever touched. Hers At the same time, when we were talking about rhythm. So remember story emotion rhythm, the strangle, you can see that first of all, Mr. Beast talks about the story so that they're hanging. And then we have a lot of action. So this is a rhythm part. At the same time with the story. So misty Beast is talking in the background, and there's a lot of stuff happening. That might have been the scariest thing I've ever touched. First thing. Something that's done in after effect. Really far away were heel down. What? So these are just custom graphics. Once again, this kind of transition is done in after effects. The way to do it is you create a triangle shape. And then you create a person shape, and you have two layers in after effects. And then you copy the position scale and the shape of the triangle, and then you paste it onto this layer. And therefore, you can have this kind of transition. This entire area. So I cannot tell if these are real people. I think they are, and this is just a part of CGI. After the squid game, Mr. Bis created a lot of CGI, potentially they're working with somebody or they have somebody in the house. But anyway, and then this part is fully CGI. Is a different world. And this part, there's a little bit of story when Mr. Biz explains. When somebody says, Broad, this is wicked, this is emotion part. This is a different world. Story, emotion, rhythm. Mr. Bz is just going around the triangle. If you noted in the last couple of years, movie trailers started having super small trailers before the trailer. So it's like a trailer for the trailer. Mystery Best is doing the same thing, showing people what will happen so that people are more likely to watch. This is a story part. This is potentially CGI, as well. However, I think that's a drone shot, something like Lou metricolor. They selected a portion of green on the leaves, and then they brightened them up. Because later, that's just all you see. Mouth of the cave. We stumbled upon an area with high enough elevation to protect us from any flash flood, meaning that it was perfect for Cam. Perfect is a crazy word. Good enough used enough for cam. That was a part of the story, and as you can see here, this is a really great thing like this text. It appears on this footage, and then on this footage as well, it helps people to not get lost because when you have a lot of stuff happening at the same time, you might even feel dizzy. And so this helps you stay on the ground. It's like driving a car and you cannot see the horizon, you start feeling bad. That's why this is done. You can see Mr. Beast has a lot of zoom in, zoom out and glitch effects. Once again, after effects. Notice something as well. In the very beginning, it was like super, super intense, a lot of things happening, and now it's kind of slowing down a little bit. That's pacing. But just as it gets slow, then you get like pum, pum, pum, pum, pum, and it kind of gives people some room to breathe when it's super crazy, a lot of action. Once it gets a bit boring, you get up to speed again. So big. This is obviously CGI. Something we did earlier, remember, default transitions in Premiere Pro, so this is what they are doing here. How did you guys sleep horribly. Look at what they're doing on the sides. They're almost always showing what's happening in the screen. That's a great thing for people because when you show people the progression of time, it's easier for them to keep watching. That's why in Mr. Dee's ads, when he's showing the ads, there's, like, a progress bar at the bottom. And at the same time, you're kind of giving people chapters and it's just psychologically a lot easier for people to watch longer. So it can be days, it can be a timer. Tir works absolutely great. Either Zoom Zoom out. Actually, here's Zoom out. Here's zoom in. This is CGI. I'm not sure about this part. It's something that Mr. Best hasn't done before. And when I was watching the video for the first time, I didn't really pay attention because there was so much stuff happening in the screen. It was kind of hard to follow this part, kind of the objectives. 40 feet. This was CGI, potentially, how they did it. Even on iPhones, you have different applications that can scan everything around you. And so they literally what they did is they went through the cave, recorded, scanned the cave, and then put it into a software and then created this kind of animation because you can see people disappearing here. When they disappear, that's when they turn into CGI. But it's really good. You cannot see a transition. You can see. Look at the tarp here. Because it's losing quality, I assume that was recorded with the phone, and then they're just going there. Almost. Again, listening to the audio and looking at the visuals, misty Bs is going like this in terms of emotion. It's like every second something's happening. Every second something's changing, a lot of new things, his videos are super, super saturated with action with a lot of things happening. I away from it. Once again, something like the daytime is showing the progression, and it's showing people what the cave looks like. It works on different levels. It's actually have to work on the cam. Why is there a sleeping bag over here? Because, look at the quality. The quality is super bad. Number one, your sleeping bags. Why did we rent sleeping bags? Why did we not just buy sleeping bag or dip tying the tarps together to create one mega tarp. Trusting this rope of my life. We're still in a hole. Oh, my God. Ten second conversation and after that, you'll probably go super fast. Through oh, there they are. You guys code we code. That's right. A new home. Am I right? Let's go. We now have a roof. Who? I assume this was done in Premiere Pro. This kind of lighting, add a lumetric color, then you need to bump the exposure up. You need to key frame the exposure. At 0 seconds at zero, 1 second, increase the exposure by decrease the exposure a second later to base level. And then you just need to create a mask around an object. Why I think it was done in Premiere Pro because if you look at the mask, there's nothing to select here. So this looks like a mask. It was done in after effects, it would probably select just the blue colors, but potentially, this is premiere pro because that's a hand mask. To give a little bit of variety, there's captions as well. Look at the quality. But because it's not showing for very long, Mr. Bisk can get away with that and because his videos are crazy. Little bit of comedy for variety as well. A little bit of weirdness and comedy. When we're talking about comedy, timing is a very, very big thing. S Carl starts screaming with all of his lungs, they cut. So comedy is oftentimes about timing. So helps the progression of the video, people to understand what they are. How long it will take. It all the way through it. Oh, my gosh, step. Ain't seeing yet. We're going deep in the cave. A bosuckin you go. Things get tight. I don't think of it a bit. The interesting exploration is 1 second, you're barely through the next, you're in a massive chamber so that in order to see it all, we had to do this. Who Oh, my gosh. Awesome. Oh, look at how cool this is. Yeah. So bright. I can't even look at it. I felt like getting blinded. Oh, no. Oh, no. In hindsight. We probably didn't use that the most effectively. Either way. And so we continued on. Je Brain is a really good handle on the time? And you can sort of swing a foot around's the best one. Like this. Yeah, yeah, perfect. Go, the best caving guide ever. No one's died yet. Alright, guys, this is where things get interesting. One is this. So from this point on wtsart. We're for a swim. Yesterday, Map and Carl, were joking about doing this. But the rest of this cave adventure takes place they kind of slowly walked and I was kind of relaxing. And as they start talking about getting into the water, and then first shows what's about to come. And second, the rhythm changes, it becomes super fast. Now it kind of relaxes back again. CGI. We have to hop in this river and fight the rapids through this tiny hole in the rock. And carefully a lot of different camar angles also helps. W kilometers. After a lot of action, a little bit of relaxation, room to breathe, so it doesn't get too crazy. One of the things Mr. Beast used to do is he used to have his videos be intense all the time. There wasn't as much story. And I believe after Mr. Dest started working with Hayden who talks once again about story rhythm, emotion, Mr. Beast started adding story to his videos and became a lot better to watch. 247. Hang out and wet. One of the ways to show stories is to show individual characters show their development. Because if you think about Marvel movies, Marvel movies are all about kind of character development. And if we watch individual character like doctor Stange or Iron Man, they always start at one point, either something happens to them or they decide to change. And so they're going through this process of where they suck. Then they become better. They're going through this, like, super hard time, they become better. And then there's a loop. And then when they get back to, like, 12:00, they are a changed person. That's kind of what's happening here, as well it shows the characters. Look like if I was here to build on this, pretty sure they'd be sleeping in a pile on a wet rock. Another thing they're doing is they're doing my what's called exactly, but when they're editing two clips at the same time, it really shows the contrast because what we had here is we had the guide just relaxing here. And then the next frame is them in the insane waterfall. When we talk about psychology, when you compare it to things that are different, they seem more different when they're compared to each other than if you looked at them separately. That shows the really big contrast here. It's hard to tell so they have captions. It's hard to tell what they're saying. Another great thing you can do is you can relate to your other videos so that people know you have other videos, a great tip, by the way, misses 999 million followers. Through the cave today. After intense part, a bit of relaxation. The distance rest on day four and then on day five, try go all the way to the end of the cave and see what's there. Day three is a lot of fun. I'll see you guys tomorrow. And after a third miserable night in the cave, the next morning, we have one. Progression. I think we can stop for Miss Bs here. You can continue watching this video. If you haven't watched it yet. It's called I spent seven days in a cave or something like this. And let's break down Ali Abdul. Alright, so in this video, we're gonna be talking about three bad habits that could potentially be holding you back from getting to financial freedom. If you knew him. Let's break down first seconds. So it's Ali and you are showing the full room, then you are zooming in, and this is something that we've done in after effects with you. You cut yourself out with the rotor Brush tool, then you create a text, you animate a text, and then you create these kind of icons in a separate composition. Then you add these icon compositions into your main composition. You add a little bit of camera shake to these compositions because they're moving. Take a look. Right, they are moving a little bit. You can either hand animate it or you can download a template, whichever works best for you. Templates are usually better because they are usually tracked from a real camera. So instead of you making a little bit of movement which doesn't seem too natural, you can download a camera shake template and do this. Actual freedom. Now, if you new here, hi. My name is Ali. I'm a doctor entrepreneur. And for the last seven years, I've been document this can be done in Premiere Pro, this kind of countdown, but it's a lot easier to do it in after effects. Even Ale videos are not perfect. For instance, the background of the numbers isn't in the middle, or the 2020 is in the middle. But something is not lined up because you can see there's a lot of space here, and there's just a little bit of space here. Been documenting the journey. Although here, it is perfectly in the middle, something I know just earning on the YouTube channel, starting off as a medical student, making videos, helping students study for exams, and eventually building a business to the point where I am financially free. Now, for me, that journey has been beginning of the video and a lot of things happening, a lot of new footage on the screen and eventually building a business to the point where I am financially free. Now, for me, that journey this is something that's done in after effects. Definitely. As you can see, the background doesn't move. So they have a composition with the background, and then they create a separate composition with all of this, and then they just zoom in so that you see only a part of the composition. Trying to get to financial freedom for the last 15 years, and it took me maybe 12 years to get to the point of financial freedom. So I'm hoping that by watching this video and the other videos on my channel where we talk about this stuff, you're able to shortcut that process. Ali has talking head videos and his videos are super relaxing. There's a bit of piano in the background. Sometimes he uses a music called Marin Bar. I really like as well. And you can see, it's really different from Mr. Beast, although Ali is super successful as well. His business generates millions and millions of dollars per year. So we're gonna talk about three bad habits that are potentially holding you back. But before we do that, let's talk about how should we even think philosophically about what financial freedom is and how do we get there? The subtle sound effects. Three bad habits that are potential. For the things that appear on the screen. Actually holding you back, about what financial freedom is and how do we get there? Alright. Now the video starts. This was just the introduction part. So introduction for about 40 seconds, just a little bit over 40 seconds. Alright, so what is financial freedom? Well, I and as we discussed early, I remember ALCATs JCATs. So this is something that Ali does. We still have text on screen, but there's Ali talking in the background. Alright, so what is financial freedom? Well, I really like Professor Scott Galloway's definition, which is financial freedom is when your passive income exceeds your burn rate. Something that's done in after effects for this text here. Passive income exceeds your bone rate. Although what I like to do, if there's a quote or a text on the screen, I like to make it exactly as the person says it. When Ali is talking, the text doesn't align with his speech exactly. Financial freedom is when your passive income exceeds your burn rate. And if I was to do it, I would extend the text a little bit longer so that it's exactly the same as when Al is talking. I E, there is more money coming in without you having to do stuff, then there is money that you are spending. This means that if you want to be financially free, you've kind of got two levers to play with. After effect. You can increase the amount of passive income you have coming into your life, or you can decrease the amount of money that you're spending, and ideally you would do some sort of combination of the two. Let me comment on this a little bit as well. I'm 90% sure that this is a template. They just downloaded the template. They played around with the timing of it. So it's not something that they created. This kind of frame here, if this is something that you guys want to learn as well, I will record a separate video if you want to do this. The amount of money they were spending, and ideally you would do some sort of combination of the two things. And you probably won't want to retire and just not do anything because that gets boring after and people who retire get depressed and have heart attacks and stuff. But you'll have the freedom and the ability to do what you want, when you want, with whom you want. After a lot of animations, you can see they're not cutting at all. There's no animations on the screen. Once again, this is pacing. So after we had intense pacing, it kind of relaxes a little bit. And the intro is definitely always full of action. But here, it's kind of relaxing. And you will probably realize that you want to do work of some sort, but you'll have the freedom to choose what sort of work you're actually doing. And that's really the true value of financial freedom. So that then sort of begs the question. How do you arrive at this point of financial freedom? Way you're increasing your passive income, and that passive income is greater than your costs? When he's talking, that's not actually him writing at the same time. So these are videos recorded in different times. So he wrote it on a piece of paper, then it's him explaining what that is. As of income is greater than your cost. And then there's a camera on top recording the paper then another camera recording himself. Well, based on this equation, we can basically see that there are two levers you can pull. Now, when he took the green marker, that's probably exactly the same because you can see him doing the same time. Basically see that there are two leaves you can pull. You can decrease your cost or you can increase your passive income. Now, broadly, there are actually two paths to this. Or not because you can see that therest line. Two paths to this. MJ Marco in his book, Millionaire Fosing which is a good book. Says is fairly easy to do this thing appearing on the screen. You can do it in both after effects or in Premiere Pro, you just basically keyframe the scale, and that's it. As you can see, the book doesn't appear behind him. It appears in front of him. So that's probably Premiere Pro, just to save time because after effects takes a little bit more time to do things to import footage there, do stuff, export it, or if your computer is extremely super fast, then you can do it interconnected between the apps. But this is probably something that's been done in Premiere Pro, just by timing the scale and key framing the scale. Fast lane, which is a good book, says there's the slow lane half. And then there is the fast lane path. And even fast lane for the equity defines as being about ten years long, so that's considered fast in this world. So the slow lane path is where you have a job and your job generates income. And then you put that income into savings or into investments or into slowly buying out a property every now and then, or maybe putting it in the stock market index fund, like the S&P 500. And eventually, you use what's called the 4% rule, which is that let's say you end up having 1 million pounds in the S&P 500, which is the stock market index fund, you can withdraw 4% of that safely every year without touching the principal. So your passive income, in that case, would be 40 k per year. Now, if you can live on less than 40 K per year, inflation adjusted, et cetera, et cetera, now you are financially free because your passive income has exceeded your lifestyle costs. This is the slow lane path. This takes a very long time to get there, and there is an alternative approach. The alternative approach is the fast lane path. And the fast lane path is where you really figure out, can I build some sort of asset or can I build some sort of business? The slow way of getting to financial freedom is by having a job and by saving the slow way of getting to financial freedom is by having a job and by saving and investing well and doing that over a very long period of time. The faster way, which still probably takes about ten years is to build some sort of asset or to build some sort of business. And so in this video, I really want to focus on this fast lane approach. There are other videos, and we might be one in the future that is aimed at people where the goal is, You know what? I just want to have a job, and I want to put aside 20% of my income into investments, and 20 years from now, I will then be financially free. To me, that that doesn't hold much appeal because I don't really want to be financially free when I'm 50. I'd like to be financially free when I'm 30 or 35 or 28 or 25 or 23, or whatever thing might be. Really, I'd like to be financially free as soon as possible because then I'm able to use my time, which is my most valuable nonrenewable resource. See when he's talking for a long time, there's a little bit of slow Zoom things that I actually want to use my time on rather than necessarily on my day job, which if I was able to design my life, however I want it, chances are I wouldn't do the day job that I'm currently doing. So the goal really is the fast lane approach to financial freedom. How do we build an asset or business that boosts our passive income while keeping our laptop costs reasonably low so that we can get to this equation for financial freedom. So in this video, I want to talk about three bad habits that are holding you back from this fast lane approach. Hold a lot of people back. So something you can see, his videos are not super exciting. They're just value providing. And if you think about the editing of Ali Abdal, his editing just supports the video. There's nothing crazy. It's just supporting the video. The first one is what's the other one. Alright, so let's talk about bad habit number. Now, if we understand this equation, we know that the goal is to build some sort of asset that gives us enough passive income such that we can feel financially free. And the way we do this is So he's just explaining when he has new chapters, there's animation on the screen appearing. This is something that's done in after effects. You know, see this kind of, like, motion blur. This is something that can be done in Premiere Pro, but it's way easier to do in after effects. You just need to click a button when there is something moving, and it will have this motion blur. Stuff that will give you a sense of what this map is. But one good financial habit? That's a different time of the day because you can see here. Take a look at the windows. Like, you can see a big difference. It just means that it takes him a long time to record the video. Maybe he doesn't have time to record the full video. At one time, maybe he got a little bit tired, and that's okay. You can see a big jump here, and still this video got hundreds of thousands of views. No putting him the time to absorb the stuff that will give you a sense of what this map is. But one good financial habit that you can start right now one of the things he does well is he has a camera set up in the same position, his microphone set up in the same position so that when he sits and talks, it sounds exactly the same. Sometimes when I work, I receive footage, I edit the video, and then client requests to put audio inside of the already created video and then create an overlay so that it's not just a black screen. And then they record audio in a different room or in a different environment, and then the audio sounds different. But you can see for Ali it sounds exactly the same. It's a lot easier to record everything exactly the same or record everything at once. So record maybe a little bit more and then cut it out and post than it is to edit audio in post because if you record audio in different rooms in different environments, it's hard to match it exactly. It's investing, and you might want to manage it with a service like Trading 212, who are very kindly sponsoring this video. Well, here's a sponsor. Trading 212 is a fantastic ad that I personally use that lets you invest in stocks and shares in a commission. So, here's the ad. Similarly, there are a bunch of books. He talks about stuff, Kamar Shake, added to the books. Now he's talking about his book. What else do we have here? Anything interesting? Hm, here's a cool animation. The map looks like. It's like, imagine you're navigating a forest, and the destination you're trying to get to is this destination of financial freedom. But it's like this dark forest and there's a lot of fog and you don't know what's going on. You don't know what the map to that destination looks. Usually for these kind of animations, the editor doesn't do the animation because you have to be a good animator to do these kind of animations. Sometimes the editor, if he's very skilled, can do it. There's something that I cannot do. I don't even know what application that uses. There are freelancers that do this stuff, and for best philanthropy, they do this kind of animations, slightly different but sort of similar. And they just explain everything to the freelancer, he does it, and then they import it. So that's probably what Ali did here as well. But when you listen to podcasts where entrepreneurs who made millions of dollars are breaking down exactly the path that they followed, it's like, Oh, okay, that's one route to financial freedom. You will listen to another podcast where someone breaks down how they built a ghost writing agency to get to $1 million a year. I'm like, Oh, okay, there's another path. You would watch a YouTube video or someone like me talks about how I got to financial freedom through the vehicle of a YouTube channel, and that's another path. And the more you I really like Ali's style because it's very simple. It's minimalistic. And it's just visually showing what Ali is trying to explain. It's supporting the video. I often reference him when I edit my videos or videos from my clients. We have here, then a bit later, we have it here as well. Something people don't think about is you can use the same animation a couple of times during the video, or you can use the same animation in different videos. Or you can create one animation and then adjust it for a new video that will save you a lot of time. So new chapter, What else? What? Just stock footage stuff to do during the day I'm like. So even Ali uses it. Guys, there's something for you to think about. The longer we are in the video, the less editing there is. Because you can see it's just Ali talking for most of the video. Well, we have a little bit of animation here. But it's mostly Ali just talking to himself for a long time. Well, there are a couple of animations here and there, but you can see he's just talking for a long time. So let's compare it to beginning like how much stuff we have here. A lot of stuff happening. And then in the end, it's a lot more relaxing. This is the breakdown of the videos. I hope you found new things for yourself. If you have any questions, please let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 29. How to Find Any Effect/Technique in 5 Minutes?: This video, I'm going to show you how to find any effect or anything related to premier pro and after effects in just 5 minutes. As you might know, Google is the biggest search engine on the planet, and the second biggest search engine on the planet is YouTube. By the way, YouTube is a part of Google, and its algorithm is so good that if you are not sure what you're looking for, you'll probably find the answer. Anyway. What I do even to this day is I search things on Google. I don't know everything. I'm so far from knowing every single effect, every single button in the software that even after nine years of using the software, I still use Google and I still use YouTube. So I'll show you an example. In one of the previous videos, I talked about a typewriter effect. Whatever you search for, whatever effect you search for, you will find dozens of examples. YouTube started in 2006, so soon it's going to be 20 years of YouTube. And for almost 20 years, people were recording videos on how to do different things. And if it's not on YouTube, you can find it on Google. So when I search for effect, actually, I usually go to YouTube, and you can see, it's just two minute video, 32nd video, and there are dozens and dozens of examples how to do typewriter effect. So you just search for the effect and you will find it. If you don't know exactly what the effect is called, try to describe it in different ways. If you didn't know what the typewriter was called, how would you describe well, it's an effect where a letter appears one by one. Letter appears one by one effect. Let's try to search for it. Letter appears one by one after effects, how to animate, how can I make so that the text appears in characters, easy way effects and presets text animating typewriter. That's how you can learn what kind of effect you are looking for, and you might find a two and one, the effect that you're looking for, and then how to do it. Let's search for something else. Non glow after effects, by the way, I misspelled it. Neon glow. Let's search for it. Remember when we took at Ali Abdel's video and he had his screen to the right with, like, a neon thing going around it, I did the same effect using this video. So it's a free plugin that you download. It's like it takes a couple of minutes to do it. This guy explains how it works, and then you just create it yourself. Premiere Pro is more about putting video and audio, while after effects is more about just creating all sorts of animations, creative stuff, and things like that. So let's search for something else. Let's say something disappeared in the screen. You cannot find it. Once again, come to Google and search for it. Let's search for how to auto save and premier pro. Boom, it will give you the answer. Well, remember, when we keyframed different things, we smooth the keyframe so that it's not just like, It's like smooth. So let's try to find it. Let's say you don't know what it's called smooth animation. Premiere Pro. How to make smooth animations? Boom, by the way, that's called I in IO effect. But motion smoothing, let's see what we have here. Yep, exactly. I effects control, spatial interpolation, and with busier options, you can do that. That's exactly how you do it. So this is how you find any effect after effects in Premiere Pro. Personally, I use it every week, sometimes every day. Always try to better myself by learning new effects, learning new kind of shortcuts, learning a more productive way to do things. And so I search for all kinds of stuff all the time. I'm sure there isn't the person that knows every single feature of each software in the world. Because even if you created the software and have thousands or tens of thousands of different options in the software, you're not going to remember every single one of them. Another thing you can do if you're on Mac, you can go to help at the top. And then you can search for whatever you need, and then Mac will help you with that. On Windows, I think you can also search for different things within the software and just try to use keywords by keywords. I mean, so we have smooth animation or we have neon glow effect in after effects. A letter appears one by one. Keywords is how you search for things in Google and in YouTube. So I really recommend it. If you have any questions, please let me know. But other than that, I will see you in the next video. 30. Steal Like an Artist: This video, I'm going to talk about a concept movement practice called Steel Like An Artist. It's actually a book that was written in 2012, and I've never read the book, but I learned a lot of the insights of this book by watching a lot of videos, YouTube videos. It's the idea of taking inspiration from a person, and then you develop that idea, kind of make it your own. And then you take idea from another person. You also kind of chew on it, make it your own, you combine it with the other person, and eventually you will have your own style. If you think about this, there's rarely something new in this world. We've already discovered most of the things that happen in our everyday life. Whenever we have something new, it's either a combination of things or just making the same thing, but just make it better. Let's think about movies. Take a look at the latest movies. It's remakes of old movies like Superman, Batman, Jumanji, Road House. So lot of these movies are movies from 80s, 90s, 70s, they're just remakes. Or if you look at horror movies, it's a combination of other movies because they use the same techniques. They might use a similar story. They just twist it a little bit, have different actors in different location, and there you go. I'll give you an example of how I develop my style so that you get some ideas as well. So I really like Abdel. I really like his simplicity, his style, his color choices, and it's something I want to replicate. So I took parts of his style, made it my own in some ways, and started using it. But Ali is not the only person that I'm inspired by. Casey Nystat is a great example. Mr. Best is a great example. Matt Armstrong, Throttle House, Kar Wow. So a lot of different channels, and I watch all of these channels, almost every single video that they post. So when I combine all of these ten, 20, 50 channels, whatever, together, this is how I create my own style because I take little pieces from every single one. I make it my own and combine it together. That's how I create my own style. Something discovered yesterday, and I think it was a feature of YouTube for a long time. It's just something I clicked on for the first time. I'm not sure if you have it on desktop, but if you go on your phone to YouTube, at the top, you'll have a homepage and then right to the homepage, you will have new to you. You can go there to get inspired, as well. I went there yesterday, and I just watched for like an hour a guy who survived in wilderness and freezing temperatures and his editing choices, the position of his camera. Like, I loved it so much that, you know, I'll probably use a little bit of his techniques as well. Stealing from other people is okay. I just don't copy it one to one, get inspired. Make it your own. And with time, you will continue developing, discovering new people, discovering new techniques. You'll combine that into the main style that you have, and then you will make your style better. So it's just a process that happens over time. Once again, we'll always come back to James Clear. 1% better every single day results in massive growth. If you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 31. Planning Your Capstone YouTube Project: This video, we're going to talk about planning your capstone YouTube project. So in this section, you will plan, record, and edit a full YouTube video because if you want to work with somebody or you just want to edit videos for yourself, you need to know all the ins and outs. After that, you'll publish a video on YouTube so that you get feedback and improve. I know it might be scary for some of you, but trust me, this is exactly what you. I joined all kinds of online courses, the way I improved is by receiving feedback because if you don't, you cannot improve yourself. So please trust me on this one. So first, you need to come up with a video idea. I recommend going to the homepage of YouTube to get inspired. Think of what you can do or teach about. And I know this might be a bit challenging. If you cannot come up with a video idea, try to replicate your favorite creators. Take a look at their videos to get some ideas. Our goal is to practice, not to make a perfectly unique video. Don't think about the stolon. Take action. To YouTube search, try to replicate. That's it. Second, you need to write a script for your video. It doesn't have to be perfect, and you can always adjust it a little bit in the editing part. Once again, take a look at the video or a channel you are trying to replicate. Learn how they introduce the video. They're pacing. With that in mind, create your video script. Here's a hug that I was taught by one of the best salespeople in the USA. If you cannot do it without a script, you have to do it without a script. And if you don't look at the script at all, have to use a script. So that's about scripts. And I believe that the same applies here. However, do what you feel works best for you. This is just my recommendation. If you want to write out every single word of the script, then do it. And if you don't want to do it, then don't do it. And here's a guarantee. Your first video will suck. And that's why that's exactly why we're doing it, because that's how you learn and that's how you improve the most. Third, you need to set a deadline and put it in a new calendar. If you don't have a calendar, create one. Use Google calendar. It's free. It's great. I use it all the time. Because if you do not plan it, you will not do it. Take more time than you think you need. Plan how much time it will take to write a script. Record the video and then edit the video, and then time yourself doing it. This way, you will see what the actual time and effort looks like, and then you'll be able to plan your projects better in the future. Fourth, once you record the video, put it on your computer, put it in the folders, make sure everything is organized. Now that you've listened to this, start doing the work. If you don't have time right now, put it on your calendar. Just make sure you plan to do it and you actually do it. If you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 32. Executing and Editing Your Capstone Project: Here are a couple of tips when you record the video. First, if you will use an iPhone to record the video, go to settings, camera formats, and set it to most compatible. It will limit a few capabilities of your camera, but by doing this, you'll be able to edit smoothly. If you don't do it, premiere will be slow. That's just how it works. If you record on Android, DSLR, any other camera, you shouldn't have any problems. Second, try to use all the editing techniques we discussed in this course. If you forget something, you can always come back to one of the lectures or use Google to find what you're looking for. Don't let the technical things stop you. Have no limit on your creativity, and then if you get a little bit stuck, just use Google to find it. Make sure it's like when you brainstorm, you want to come up with as many ideas as possible and you don't want to limit yourself at all. And then once you have all the ideas, you can see which ones are technically possible or not, but trust me, with premiere and after effects, most of the things are possible. So now that you know the tips, go ahead and start doing the work. And if you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see in the next video. 33. Presenting and Publishing Your Capstone Video: Let's talk about presenting and publishing your project. First, before you publish your video, give it at least 24 hours after you edit it. Don't think about it. Don't look at it. Just give it 24 hours. This way, after 24 hours, you will see a video from a new angle. You might see some things that you want to change or you might say, this video is perfect. That's exactly how I wanted it to be. But don't be lazy. If you feel like you can prove it, then do it. I know that in the end of the project, you might feel a little bit tired, but do the extra step to make your video even better. And in order to publish the video, you need to go into Video. So just search for video on Google, and it's going to be the first one. Then you will need to log into your account, or you need to create account. The account is free. The limitations of 500 megabytes per week and a total of 5 gigabytes of uploads. Come to new upload, drag the video here, is going to upload, and then you're going to press on Share, click at the bottom, make sure it's enlisted. So people with the link can view it so that once you send the link, we'll be able to view it or you can make it public. Then you copy link. Come to Skill Share in the project and resources section on the right, here's my project. Click and submit the project. Now, you need to paste the link here. If you have anything to say about the project, please share it here. If not, you can just give it a brief title, just something as simple as my project. Or if you're a bit more creative, then you can add something else. It doesn't have to be anything crazy, just to make sure that we know that it is your project. And then just press and publish. And that's it and help each other. I will be there to help you, too. I might not be able to see every single video because of the number of students, but I will try to see every single video and review it. Once you do that, you need to reflect on everything you learned. Put the paper down and write everything you learned by editing, recording, and planning this video. And after that, you need to do something to spike your adrenaline. Take a cold shower, look out of the window if you're afraid of heights, do something to spike your adrenaline. If you spike your adrenaline, you will remember this for a long time. Want to make sure you remember as much as possible from your practices. It's actually an ancient technique. After studying, children would be thrown into a cold river and then they'll remember stuff better. So I really recommend you doing something despite your adrenaline. You'll just remember it better. If you have any questions, let me know. And after you do all of this, what's the next video. 34. Staying Productive and Overcoming Creative Blocks: This video, I'm going to talk about staying productive and overcoming creative blocks. Just like for any human being in any industry, it's important to stay productive. And just like in any other industry, you will have some creative blocks. You'll be distracted, you'll burn out. And I'm going to talk about how to overcome these things, especially when we're talking about editing because we sit down a lot, we spend a lot of time in front of the screen, so I'll tell you how to optimize that. First of all, you need to set up a productive environment for you. You will notice that for any tips, if you go online, or if you ask your friends and family, each person will have different tips for you. And that's because we are different people. There are as many opinions as there are people, there are as many approaches as there are people. And the most important thing is to find what works the best for you. So what does a productive environment mean for you? In the beginning of this course, I've already explained to you, it's minimizing distractions, optimizing your workspace, your physical workspace, and then the workspace and the editing software. It also means turning off your phone so that you don't get a lot of messages, have a good lighting so that your eyes don't get too tired too fast. Have a good sitting position. Make sure you are comfortable. Make sure that your desk is not shaking. Optimizing these little things, once again, will always come back to Dames clear. Small improvements lead to huge results. Remember that by becoming 1% better every day, you'll be 37 times better by the end of the year. So it works exactly the same here. Just small improvements that lead to big experiment with different things. Some people say that having a messy desk makes it better. I don't agree with that because if you have a messy desk, you will focus on the mess. I like to keep everything as minimalistic as possible. But that works for me. Maybe what works for you is having a lot of stuff on your desk. Spend one week or a couple of days with one setup, a a couple of days with a new setup. And I'll be honest, I keep on optimizing my workspace forever. You can achieve 80% optimization pretty fast, and that works with everything left. That's 2080. But then those 20%, they never end. You will have to always optimize. You'll find better ways all the time. And let's say your season changes, your client changes, and then you might want to optimize in different ways. That's how it works. It's constantly optimizing bit by bit. And after some time, you will have experiment with so many things that you'll know exactly what works for you. Let's talk about time management. I always use Google calendar. You can download an app for your phone. It will send you notifications. You can set up specific times for specific tasks you have. You can organize everything. You have birthdays there, by the way, which is another great tip that you can just put a birthday there. Don't have it in your head. And then when a birthday comes up, you just send that person a text, and they would appreciate it. Let's go back to editing. So set up a certain time for yourself when you will work and work in that time. Don't give you an excuse. Oh, I'll start 5 minutes later. No, when the time hits, actually start working that. Or let's say you don't like when it's so constrained. So maybe you need a little bit of flexibility. Once again, that's something for you to experiment with. But coming back to James Clear, set your time, know exactly what you will do in that time. So say, I'll work on this project, do exactly that. Follow your calendar. That's the best thing you can do. Let's talk about mental and physical health. One of the most important things for us as editors is eye drops. We spend a lot of time in front of the computer. My eyes get very dry. So I always have a pair of eye drops with me. I usually do it in the end of the day, but sometimes I'll do it in the middle of the day. I might use it a couple of times a day. Depends on how intensify work depends on the lighting because I sit right next to the window. It's usually pretty bright here. But sometimes, like it is today, it's very cloudy, it's pretty dark, so I probably need to use more of these. It also depends on the air in your room. If the air is very dry, it also affects your eyes. There's something that I've discovered. I'm not sure if it's scientifically proven. It's just something I recommend you do. More in the physical health Make sure you do some physical activity. Doesn't matter if you're a video editor or you work in some other industry. You need to take care of your physical health. You need to move into exercise with weights, need to spend a lot of time outside. So my routine is that I work out on the streets three times a week. I run at least once a week, and I also do stretching. I don't have specific number of stretches per week. It's just when my back hurts because I have scoliosis and my back isn't straight. And so when I sit down, it kind of pushes everything down and it pushes on certain nerves. And because of that, my eyesight gets worse. Usually, I wear glasses because my vision is not that good. So try to optimize that. Andrew Huberman, you can follow him on social media. He will tell you a lot of the things that you need to do about your health. It's working out around 2 hours per week with your weights. When you wake up, try to spend as much time as you can when it's light outside. So try to get as much sun in your eyes as possible. Don't try to look at the sun and then it hurts your eyes. Try to spend as much time outside in the mornings in the first hour, drink coffee at least one half hours later after you wake up. It's these little things that you do these little optimizations that create a big improvement over time. In terms of mentality and mental health, it's also extremely important. The way I deal with mental health is I learn to understand myself, because I understand myself so well, I know exactly when I will burn out, when I will get tired and what to do. So one thing I really recommend you do is to observe yourself. See how you react to different things to different stresses, different times of the day, how much you sleep, how that affects you, how different foods affect you. Because if you eat a lot of pasta and burgers, you will feel bad. But if you eat protein and brines, you'll feel better. So observe yourself, learn yourself. And the more you learn yourself, the more you'll be able to optimize. Let's talk about burnout. Burnout is a big thing on YouTube and with editing as well. Because with editing, you spend most of your time just sitting in front of the screen, doing the same thing every single day. For me, burnout is when I look at burnout as losing productivity or just having a resistance to work. For instance, in last month, I had only one full rest day. Other than that, I did something every single day in terms of work. Right now, I feel like I'm getting to a burnout point. So yesterday, I decided today, I'm going to take a light day. I'm going to record a couple of videos. I'll do a little bit of work, but I'm not going to work for 10 hours. If you feel like you're getting tired, you're getting resistance, take some time off. Even if you take one day off, half of the day off, you will feel so much better. You'll get your productivity back and then you'll be able to work. Think about this for yourself. Is it better to work 8 hours and do 2 hours of work? Or is it better to work 2 hours and get 2 hours of work? Of course, the second one is better. If you have 6 hours of rest, you'll probably get the productivity backs and you'll be able to do a two hour work in 2 hours. Learn yourself, see what works best for you, experiment with different things. It took me like five years to understand myself, and I'm still I'm just scratching the surface. It will take a lot more time to learn myself and to see what works best. I'm sure one year from now, I have different approaches to learn yourself. By the way in the physical health as well, do stretching with your eyes. So do side to side, up down sideways, one side, sideways, another side, and then circles. Circles the opposite way. I do this every single day in order to not lose your eyesight, sideways is super important because that's what keeps our muscles working. And another thing about creative block, if you have it, make sure to get some inspiration. Once again, inspiration is different for different people. Some people might get inspired by listening to music. That's what I do. I also get inspired by watching YouTube videos or by watching movies or just looking at the nature. For different people, it's always different. Once again, experiment with yourself. See what works best for you. I'm telling you the things that work best for me, but I am a very specific person. I get inspired when I listen to music, and at the same time, I never work out with music because I know it's cheating because music gives you that extra boost. So I am a weird, creative person. If you want, you can try some of the things that I talked about today. Most importantly, learn yourself, observe yourself, see how you react to different things, and experiment. The more you experiment, the more you will find out. If you have any questions, let me know. But other than that, I'll see you in the next video. 35. Last Step: You're watching this, it means that you've made it through the entire course, so congratulations to you. I hope by now you've seen the life changing ability of this material, but there's one last thing to do, and it's to take action. As Confucius said, a journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step. So if you haven't already, take your first step by editing your first video. All the best information in the world means nothing if you don't act on it, and even small steps lead to massive outcomes. That you've gone through the course, I want to ask you to take 60 seconds to leave you honest feedback about the course. I would appreciate this so much, and it will help hundreds of future students in deciding the best course for them. So please do that now if you haven't already. Remember, I'm here for your success. So if there's anything you need, make sure to reach out in the Q&A section. Wishing you all the best, and I'm looking forward to your success.