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Hey everybody.
This is Roberto Blake helping you
create something awesome today.
You guys will notice that we're
doing something a little different today.
Today, I'm gonna be talking to you
about my mobile video editing workflow
for my 2017 MacBook Pro and how I
edit my videos whenever I'm traveling
or when I'm using this laptop
instead the custom PC build that I
use with my desktop and my two monitors.
You're gonna see how I handle my
equipment and what gear I'm using
in order to do videos whenever I'm on the road.
As critical as I am of Apple,
the bottom line is that I found that
the MacBook Pro was the best overall
compromise for everything I needed for my business.
But if I was strictly a video editor,
I probably would've considered going another direction
but that's not to say the MacBook Pro
doesn't have some advantages,
specifically the long battery life.
I'm able to pretty much get a full
day's work out of this laptop even
without having it plugged in at any given time.
As someone who does public speaking,
video editing, and also does a podcast,
I can't tell you how important it is
for me to have that battery life.
Now the MacBook Pro by itself isn't gonna get the job done.
There are other things that I really
need when it comes to video editing,
specifically because I use DSLR
cameras like the Panasonic GH5
that I'm using to film right now and
I use other gear like my Sony cameras.
That means SD cards are definitely what I'm using.
In order to do that on the MacBook Pro
of course you have to be on that dongle life.
I have a USB C Type dongle here
that gives me back two USB C ports
and also gives me two regular USB ports
as well as an SD card slot that I can use
and that's something that is very important
when you're doing video editing.
Of course more of my cameras have USB Type-C
connectors now and I could directly
just plug those cameras into the MacBook Pro
and transfer my footage that way.
There's some people that think I'm
nit picking when I talk about that but
it's the workflow that as photographers
and video producers we've always had.
That's just my personal preference.
But what really matters overall
when it comes to your video editing
is how comfortable you are with
the software, knowing your options by heart,
and also what other third party plug-ins and appliances,
or what other applications you're
using in combination with it.
I just find for that,
Final Cut Pro is too limiting for me personally
and I like the power and the options
that I get out of Adobe Premiere and
I can move faster in Adobe Premiere as an editor
than most people can in Premiere Pro
or Final Cut Pro just because of
how used to it I am and because
I've made my own custom shortcuts,
presets, and I have my own style of editing.
I also cannot stress enough that
Adobe After Effects is overall the
best motion graphic software out there.
It's not the easiest to use,
but it is the thing that I'm good at
and the thing that I prefer.
It also let's me take advantage
of a lot of templates that I get
from places like Envato or from Storyblocks.
Storyblocks is something I've been using
since they were audio blocks,
video blocks, and graphic stock.
With all the After Effects templates they have
and that I have downloaded because
I have that yearly subscription,
I've been able to take advantage of that
and jazz up the motion graphics
for some of these videos every now and again.
For me, being able to do that stuff in After Effects,
have it come directly into Adobe Premiere Pro,
edit my audio in Adobe Audition.
And know that if I really want to
I can even animate graphics that I designed myself
in Photoshop across that workflow,
it just makes practical sense in
the same way that someone who has an iPhone
usually prefers to use a Mac or other Apple products.
I'm an Adobe guy.
For my software experience, that's my preference.
It doesn't mean that Final Cut Pro isn't a good option
and sometimes I dabble with it
when I'm not doing something that's
dependent on say the Adobe ecosystem.
If I'm just doing quick for an edited Instagram video,
Final Cut Pro is great because
I can go ahead and take footage off of my iPhone,
just use Air Drop, go into the Mac,
go into Final Cut Pro, it's easy.
This MacBook Pro is fully specked out.
It is the 2017 MacBook Pro with touch bar.
That said, storage was the one thing
that I didn't max out on this so I have half a terabyte.
But my friends over at Samsung hooked me up
once again with their latest SSD.
This thing is incredibly tiny,
it is perfect for everything that I do.
This is the Samsung T5.
Previously, a lot of you know that
I had been editing stuff and using the T3
and this still is an amazing portable drive
and if this is what's in your budget now,
then I would say that it still is viable even in 2018.
However, they do have several improvements
on speed and performance in the T5.
You just have to decide whether you
want to see if you can pick up the T3
cheaper with a higher capacity.
This one's two terabytes.
Or if you wanna get something that
is faster, even if you have to scale back on the size.
The way that I use the Samsung T5 is
I have a few files on here that I always need.
Things like the graphics that appear
at the beginning of my videos in terms of motion graphics,
some of my background music, things like that.
Assets that I'm gonna use all the time.
But when I'm in the field,
I usually transfer my files from my
SD card slot to this and this is
what I'll end up working off of.
This has a couple of specific reasons that I do it.
For one thing,
by having the footage on my SD card and on this SSD,
that means that I have redundancy.
I have the file in two places and
I never format a card until I've
produced the final video that I'm
going to use from that footage.
That means that I have a backup.
The footage is not gonna be lost.
And because I'm shooting with the Panasonic Lumix GH5,
that means that I'm also mirroring
on two SD card slots so I have
more than one backup of this footage because
I've had too many incidents where
the footage has just disappeared, evaporated,
and put me behind on getting out content.
These are my portable working drives
and I just love how small and fast
and portable they actually are.
You could just put this in your pocket.
It's great.
For backing up and cloning my entire system,
which is something I recommend any laptop user do,
you should really have one of these
for every single one of your computers.
I use a LaCie Rugged drive.
This one is USB Type-C so it's
easy to just plug this into the MacBook Pro.
It has all the speed that you could possibly need from it
and again, it is durable, it is protected.
I am very happy that I've made
the investment in just backing up everything
because it would be a tragedy to
lose all of that hard work.
If you're a video editor,
you cannot spare any expense when
it comes to these backups and they're
just making sure that everything is secure.
This is what I need in terms of that storage.
When doing video editing,
audio is something that's become a lot
more important to me especially lately.
When I am doing a recording and when I'm doing editing,
I use the Sennheiser 380 HD Pros
and these are amazing headphones for one thing,
they're ridiculously comfortable.
The quality is amazing and unlike
music headphones like Bose or Beats,
these give me a clean signal in terms of the audio.
I have an actual great set of true monitoring headphones.
These are professional headphones
and they're really affordable.
But in my case, Sennheiser sent these over.
Sennheiser, thanks for hooking me up.
The other thing I like about these is for travel.
They're great because I can just fold them up
and I do have a carry case for these.
I really dig that.
Whenever I need to do some re-dubbing,
if I mess something up and I really
just need to record it over,
I'm using my Blue Yeti microphone.
This thing is great.
It's USB so I have the convenience of that
versus an XLR cable and having to have a mixer with me.
This just works and I can control
the gain and everything right here.
I don't need an extra accessory for that.
That's really great.
The build quality on this is tremendous.
On a scale or one to 10,
you do not wanna get hit in the head with this,
you do not wanna drop this on your foot.
That's how solid the build quality is.
This is also great for my podcast,
especially when I'm on the go and
it's also great for things like
webinars and training style videos,
screen recordings and tutorials.
This is actually helping me step up my audio game.
I'm really satisfied with this.
I'm gonna do its own review and a test for you guys,
especially those of you who are
trying to get into podcasting.
This is definitely in my top recommended podcasting gear,
especially for beginners.
Whenever I need to do the thumbnails for my Youtube channel,
I'm obviously using Photoshop but
when I need to cut myself out of backgrounds,
I'm actually using a portable Wacom Tablet.
This one is one of the cheaper ones
and I got it because of the portability.
I did recently have to order a wireless accessory for it.
The wireless accessory kit is $40.
This is the Intuos Pen and Touch.
This was I think less than $100
but it's just really annoying to me
that I have to buy an extra accessory kit
to make it truly wireless.
It's convenient enough to where
I feel like that's something I just had to do.
I do have more expensive drawing tablets
but in terms of portability when you're
carrying around so much other stuff,
especially when your primary focus is
video and you have camera gear,
this thing is super lightweight and it's convenient.
I think that it's really practical.
Obviously I'm using that with the digital pen stylus
and this just makes it easier to
do some quick Photoshop work on the go.
What would be great is if Apple
actually let's you use the Apple pencil
and draw on the screen or something like that.
That would make my life easier but
Apple is not in the habit of listening to anybody
so I can't expect that anytime soon.
I have a portable Bluetooth Logitech mouse.
I almost never use this.
Part of the reason is that the
track pad on the MacBook Pro when it comes to video editing,
when it comes to scrolling through stuff in Photoshop,
actually is good enough.
In my workflow,
I just feel like the MacBook Pro for
all of the belly aching that I do about it
really does get the job done and it's
efficient enough to work with even
with all of the added accessories that I use.
It really is a practical work machine and
I feel very satisfied with it.
I won't necessarily say it's the
best laptop experience I've ever had
and I don't think it's the most powerful.
But it is one of my favorite devices
because it does allow me to get my work done
when it comes to video editing.
It can handle all the software that I need,
whether that's using Adobe Premiere Pro
or Final Cut Pro or other apps like Camtasia
and Wirecast that I use for tutorials,
for screen recording, for doing live streams.
This literally does just work and
I haven't had any major issues with it so far.
This has been my work horse probably
since the fall of 2017 and I will
be doing a full review on it.
I just wanted to walk you through
some of the things that I do as a video editor
with this laptop and the other
accessories that I use in that video work editing workflow
because a lot of you have had questions about it.
That is my video editing setup for the MacBook Pro.
Question of the day,
what is your favorite video editing tool and why?
I would love to know more about what you guys are doing
with your video editing workflow and,
what are you favorite tools, gadgets, accessories?
Are there any third party plug-ins that you use?
And also, do you have any questions
for me about video editing or any
tutorials that you'd like to see?
Are there other pieces of software
that you want me to cover?
Do you want me to cover screen flow in Camtasia?
Do you want me to talk more about
Wirecast and live streaming?
Let me know in the comment section
and I will make those videos for you.
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