- When it comes to editing your YouTube videos,
you are spending so much time doing things
that are massively slowing down your edit.
So we are gonna talk about optimizing the process
of editing your YouTube videos
in terms of what should you do first?
What should you do second, and so on?
And in addition to that,
I've also got three additional things
that are gonna really shave off some time for you
when it comes to editing your videos.
And we're starting right now.
Okay, so the first thing we're gonna talk about
is the structure of your editing process.
And for the information I'm gonna be sharing with you,
you can do this in any video editing software or app,
but for this video,
I'm going to be giving you a demonstration
in terms of the concepts inside of Camtasia,
which is a super easy to use
video editing and screen recording software.
So high five and fist bump to Camtasia
for sponsoring this video.
I'll put a link to them down in the description
with a discount attached to it
so you can check 'em out for yourself.
Okay, so the very first thing we're gonna talk about
is what's called the first pass.
The first pass is where you grab your main footage,
you pull that into your editing software
and then you start putting the core of the video together.
The core or main content of the video
is typically called your A-roll.
And I'm telling you that now
because we're gonna be talking about B-roll later,
so make sure as we progress through this video
that you remember what A-roll is.
But in the case of this video
that you're watching right now,
the A-roll is when I'm on screen
and I'm sitting here talking to you.
If you're a gaming channel,
depending on how you're structuring the content
your A-roll could be the gameplay footage itself.
Or if you are prominent in the frame
to where you're not just in that little window,
down in the corner then in that particular case,
if you're fully taking up the frame,
then you could also be the A-roll.
For whatever type of content you make,
the idea is to think the main footage
or your primary footage, the core of it,
like I mentioned before that is your A-roll.
So what you wanna do,
is you wanna bring that into your editing software
and you wanna start pulling in all of those clips
or the one main clip into your timeline
of your video editing software
keep in mind, this is the first pass,
so once you have those clips
or once you have the main clip in your timeline,
you wanna go through
and you wanna start cutting out
all the spaces in between words,
any of the mistakes
that you made during the video, and so on.
And look, keep in mind, the purpose of this first pass
is so that you can identify,
these are the parts of the video I'm going to be using,
these are the parts of the video that I need to cut out
or that I'm not going to be using.
Next, we go to the second pass.
Now, with the second pass
this is where you go in and you start polishing things up.
So as an example, this is where you go through
and you start cutting out your ums and your uhs.
You start tightening up the space between clips,
if you do L-cuts or J-cuts.
Then in that case
this is where you start implementing some of those things.
So what you're doing right now in the second pass is,
you're getting everything tighter
and you're making it more of a piece of content
than just a bunch of clips
that are thrown together from the first pass.
So now what we've done so far is
we've went through the first pass,
which is pulling all of the clips in,
and getting them organized on the timeline,
figuring out what you're gonna use and what you're not.
And the second pass
where you're starting to tighten everything up.
Next, you wanna add your B-roll videos.
Now, your B-roll videos are any supplemental footage
that you add on top of your A-roll footage.
Remember before where I said that
it's important to remember A roll?
This is why, when it comes to adding the B-roll footage,
the reason that you wanna have
that first and second pass done before you do this is
because you're gonna start layering up your tracks,
you're gonna start really layering up your timelines,
and you do that things can start getting really complicated
if you need to cut out a really small sliver of a clip,
and then move everything around.
So because of that,
when you have those types of things done first
then it makes this B-roll part of the video really easy
because then you can just drop in the videos that you need,
and then adjust them as necessary.
As a really quick pro tip for you,
If you're somebody
that adds title graphics to your videos,
or somebody that uses graphics in your videos
in any capacity, it can be really helpful
to speed up the process here in just a little bit.
If you have a full screen red image
that you can drop into your editing software.
And the reason for that
is because as you're going through your editing process,
when you identify an area in your video
that you're going to be adding graphics to later,
you can just put that red image in that spot,
So then you can zoom out on your timeline
and you know exactly where those things go to,
so you can jump to them
when you start adding graphics in your videos.
Which brings me to the next part of the process,
which is adding your graphics to your videos.
If you're using lower thirds, in-screens,
any type of title slides or graphics
anywhere in your videos,
if you did what I talked about just a second ago
and you have those red spots.
Now, what you do is you go through
and you look for those red placeholders,
and you go and you add graphics to those particular areas.
So for this since you identified those
during the B-roll process,
what you can do is you can jump right into those.
You don't have to scrub through the video
and try to find those areas
because you did that in the previous steps.
So jump to those parts of the video
and add whatever graphics you need.
The next part of the process is
audio detailing or sound design,
depending on the level that you wanna take it.
This is where you add those whoosh sound effects
and things like that
for anything that might be moving in your videos.
This is also where you adjust
for any audio inconsistencies as well,
and one of the really cool things
about this software that I'm using right now,
which is Camtasia,
is they actually have an audio leveling feature
built into the software, which is pretty awesome.
This is also where
if you process your audio in any capacity
this is where you do that part of the process.
This is also where you add music.
But here's another tip for you,
before you add any sound effects or music to your video,
if you're somebody that talks on video
or you're doing voiceovers or whatever,
process your vocal audio first,
and the reason you wanna do that
is because if you add all these different sound effects
and music tracks that are changing throughout the video
and things like that,
and then you process your audio,
your audio's most likely gonna come out a lot more full,
maybe even louder because of that,
you'll have to go through and then make readjustments
to all the things that you added to it.
So because of that, process your audio first
then add sound effects, then add music.
The next step is polishing up your video.
So when it comes to polishing up your video
what you wanna do is,
you want to do any type of color correction
that you do to your video,
you wanna make any final adjustments to your audio.
Depending on the type of content you make,
this might also be where you add
any type of special effects or anything like that,
that you need to the content.
And one thing I do wanna say really quick,
because I do know that a lot of new content creators
watch my videos.
So you may or may not know that's why I'm sharing this,
that content creators actually color grade
or they color correct their videos.
So when you look at a video and it just kind of pops
the reason for that
is because they went through the process
of color correcting the content.
It's usually not what you see right out of the camera,
that's usually not what you end up seeing
by the time it gets uploaded to YouTube.
For example, this right here
is what my videos look like directly outta the camera.
And this is what it looks like
after we've added a little bit of color grading to it,
to make it pop.
If you're already aware of those things, no big deal.
But I just wanted to show you that
just in case you weren't aware,
so that you could start to apply those sorts of things
to your videos as well
if it's something you're interested in.
Now, let's get into some things you can do
to speed up this process even more.
The very first thing is to create an editing template.
What an editing template is,
is it's one file that you make
you start with the blank file,
and you drop in any lower thirds that you commonly use,
any in-screen graphics you commonly use.
If you have any subscribe call to actions
or anything like that that you commonly use,
you drop them in there.
Even if you have sound effects you use on a regular basis,
you wanna drop those in there as well,
so that when it comes time to add those to your project
you don't have to go and hunt them down on your computer
because they're already in the project,
you just have to grab them
and slide them into the right place.
Camtasia actually has library assets for this,
so where everything's like built into Camtasia,
which is pretty awesome.
But if you're not using Camtasia,
you can build this into your template file.
Another thing about setting up templates and presets,
is you can also do the same thing for color.
So if you are somebody that records
in a similar environment all the time,
you can go ahead and make a color preset,
export it as something that's called a LUT,
or a lookup table, and then you can just apply it
to your video without having to go in
and fine tune everything all the time.
Next, have a folder on your computer
with common video assets inside of it.
There's going to be the things that you use a lot,
and then there's gonna be the things
that you use from time to time.
So when you have that folder,
and you have common assets in there,
certain songs that you like,
maybe certain graphics that you use from time to time,
but not all the time and so on.
If you have those in a very specific place,
then it makes it really easy to find them
'cause everything's there.
So when you open up your editing software,
you can open up that folder and then you're good to go,
if you do need anything within that folder.
The next thing when it comes to editing videos
that can really speed things up for me is focus.
It is so easy to spend hours looking for that perfect song,
or it's so easy to spend hours
looking for those perfect stock videos.
It's also easy to check your messages,
and to have your Facebook open,
or whatever other messaging services that you use,
having them open while you're editing.
Yeah, friends constantly hitting you up
just having small talk and whatnot.
And you don't wanna be a jerk,
but at the same time you gotta get your stuff done.
So because of that when you go to edit your videos,
shut all that stuff down, silence your phone,
close down any browsers, or any software in your computer
where somebody can contact you,
and just focus on your video editing.
Doing these things will help you make the best videos
as fast as you possibly can.
And look, if you wanna learn more
about video editing for YouTube,
click into this playlist right here.
And if you wanna learn more
about growing your YouTube channel,
head over to my videos page on my channel,
and check out all the videos that I have there for you
that will help you grow your YouTube channel.
Thank you so much for watching, I'll see you next.