Last month you guys spent over 3.7 million minutes watching my YouTube
videos! That's a lot of time what am I most frequently asked questions is how
do i edit my YouTube videos and what music do you use whether you're an
aspiring content creator on YouTube or Instagram or you just have a video that
you have to edit for a class project today I'm going to share with you my top
10 video editing hacks my top tips on how to cut color and add music to your
videos special thank you to my friends at Squarespace and academic sounds for
sponsoring today's video for full written guide be sure to check out my
blog fashion by alikom which will be linked down below if we can get this
video to 12,000 thumbs up I will definitely make a part 2 to this video
which is how I edit my videos on my phone I have so much love for my youtube
channel and all of my supporters so I want to be able to give back to you guys
and to share all of my knowledge that I've learned over the years in a
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totally free just click the button here or down below alrighty so without
further ado let's get started welcome to my bedroom so I've been on YouTube for
over eight years now and I am so excited to share with you all of my tips and
tricks I've learned over the years this is the area where I like to edit all of
my videos where I create all of my YouTube magic so let's dive right in
today I'm going to demonstrate how I edit my videos on Final Cut Pro 10
for a big-picture overview libraries hold events and events hold projects and
I like to start a new project with every videos I edit
step number two is to site your video dimensions choose the optimal video
dimensions for YouTube or Instagram so for YouTube I like to go with a 1280 by
1920 Instagram I like to create portrait style videos or square videos lastly if
you're editing vertical videos for stories like Instagram stories or
YouTube stories the dimension is 1080 by 1920 what issues I constantly battled
with in the beginning when editing my videos was running out of space so with
Final Cut Pro they create optimized files and record file the third video
hack is to leave your files in place when you're transferring or importing
the files into Final Cut Final Cut likes to make duplicates of every single file
including video music and pictures so just leave those files in place
step four create a rough cut to keep everything organized and me feeling sane
I like to use a solid background as a placeholder in between each section of
my video with every video I like to organize it in a similar way I have an
intro section with just music and intro with me talking a middle section and
then an outro and sometimes I like to include bloopers with Bella or just
funny things that happen throughout the game 1s belly I use solid backgrounds as
a placeholder for each of these sections to keep everything organized step number
5 5 music music is so crucial to any video can add another level of dimension
tone and feel my favourite resource for licensing music is epidemic sound as a
creator it's a huge struggle to find quality music libraries with fresh and
modern songs I love listening to staff pick songs on epidemics sound for
inspiration
what tip if you find a song that you really really like you can also search
based on similarity
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tsk I like to edit to the sound and beat of the music you can also search based
on mood happy tropical electronic you can also search based on beats per
minute for a faster or slower paced music and lastly you could download
songs in different ways so a song can have a full mix or get download a stamp
like and instrumentals as a youtuber I like to talk live and I like to talk to
you guys so I can now choose and select just the instrumental I like
instrumentals because I want music to add to the mood of my videos
whereas vocals can sometimes compete with live talking check out the link in
the description box for a 30-day free trial - epidemic sound there's no
commitment to trying it out now fella and I are going to share with you my
favorite shortcuts on the final cut keyboard when I edit I like to use the
keyboard to create shortcuts so my favorite is command B - cut spacebar
just to play my videos B to hide a clip in case I want to see what the video
looks like without a specific clip and there are so many more shortcuts I'm
going to overlay it here so you can see it you can definitely pause the video
here just to take a screenshot but these are some of my favorites that I use all
the time
one mistake I used to make was color correcting each clip individually I did
this for years and trust me this was tough when I color correct videos now I
create color presets I select all the clips that I want to color with command
a and I double click on the color preset this method isn't perfect because
lighting can vary but it's a great shortcut to save time step 7
now let's add some graphics I love adding cute little cartoon effects or
little sparkles here and there just to jazz up my videos I always try to use
the same effects font and colors on my videos
graphics can definitely help you define your personal brand one of the biggest
headaches I get while I'm editing is running out of storage space it is such
a huge struggle when editing if you run into this dwarf space issue be sure to
delete your generated files delete the rendered unused files and it will save
you so much space
step 9 is to save your masterpiece you've spent all of this time editing
and now it's time to finally save and share it with the world
so I final cut I like to share directly to YouTube so it makes it super super
simple seamless and easy step 10 now that you've saved your video now it's
time to store it I personally like to store my videos on my hard drive and an
online storage solution like Dropbox on my phone I can also access Dropbox so I
could grab those videos whenever I need them to upload onto social media huh and
that is a wrap that is how I edit my youtube videos and it'll usually take
anywhere between 20 to 30 hours for me to edit a video I am so proud to say
that I'm so youtuber who edits her own videos I am still involved with most of
the entire production process be sure to check out my blog fashion by alikom to
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Fun Fact: Bella actually like sit on my lap while I edit my videos I
know this isn't probably not the most comfortable position to sit in but this
is her favorite spot