Hey everyone
And welcome back to another Tuesday tip where in this video we're gonna be talking about a few different ways that you can level up
your video editing skills
Good video editing is the art of massaging
Distractions out of a video in the editing process and putting things together in a cohesive way
That anyone who watches the video can understand regardless of the context and when it comes to video editing
Anything that distracts the viewer away from what is actually going on and what they're supposed to be paying attention to?
Needs to be edited out and it can make the video
Less enjoyable to watch and completely
Distract people from what they're actually supposed to be focusing on so in this video
I'm going to be covering a few different ways to increase your video editing skills and while not
everyone who watches your videos is going to notice these things that's kind of the point because good video editing is
Something that a viewer is not supposed to notice and there's really no reason
Not to increase your video editing skills. So let's get into the video as you can see
I've got Premiere Pro
Open on my desktop here, and we're going to be editing in Premiere
And that's where we're going to show all of these things
And the first thing that I want to talk about are J and L cuts and for that we're going to move forward in this
Lip Lorde's best of September video from last month and we're going to move all the way up here
To this clip of Ryan cher doing a trick at the Battle of Hastings as you can see here
We've got the video itself. We've got a couple layers because it's square and I made the background bigger
We're gonna ignore all of the video aspects and move down to the audio
we're gonna mute the
Soundtrack with the song and we're going to take a look at the audio from the clip right here
and as you can see here, the audio portion of this video clip extends out before and
after the video portion begins and ends and that
Is a J and L cut the J cut is the first one where it looks like a J if you look at the video
Source and audio source and the L cut is the end
where it looks like an L when you look at the video and audio source and what this does is
introduces the audio of your clip
before it actually happens and
Extends the audio of your clip after it ends and this can help in videos
Because there's certain things that could get cut off if you cut abruptly with the video and I will show you that right now
We're gonna get rid of these fades and we're gonna play this clip
without
the J and L cuts
Okay, so I'll play this end part again
You can hear that the yelling because he landed his trick
Abruptly ended with the video and it's kind of distracting
It's not something everyone would notice but if we extend it out here a little bit and then we play it again
You can see that that makes it so much easier to watch and extends into this next clip and it's just more enjoyable and
less
Distracting because no one's going to watch this the way it is and be taken out of the video by a scream that abruptly ends
we can take it to the next level and add a
Fade out and I'm gonna extend it a little bit and if we play it again, we'll see what it does
It fades perfectly into this next clip we get the scream we're not taken out of it
It almost adds to the next trick because there's cheering going on before he even lands it
So now let's move back to the beginning of the clip which I will play again for you guys real quick
As you could hear that was a little bit abrupt
So what we can do about that is add a J cut by extending the audio
Into the clip before it now, let's play this one. I
Would argue that that was actually a little bit more abrupt
So what I think we can do to edit this
even better and make it that much more refined is add a fade to the beginning of this one as well and
Then push this one back up to the point where the person before him is just landing his trick
So as you can see here, I'm selecting only the beginning of the audio portion of the clip and to do that
I'm pushing the option in alt key and then selecting overtop of the end of the clip we can do this with video
pictures any
Elements within premiere we can do this with with the option and alt and then clicking
So let's play this one back and I think you'll see that it's just that much better
And that's just one example of the J and L cut with in video editing that can take your videos just to the
Next level without actually having to really do that much or put that much effort into it
So the next thing that I want to talk about is editing to the beat of the music and for this one
It's really simple
You're just trying to line up the different aspects of your video and the beats within your video
To the beats within the song and I have a perfect example of this right here to show you
So what we're gonna be watching is how all of the elements of his trick
line up with beats of the song and if you get lucky like within this clip
every single thing he's doing and every beat of the trick lines up with a beat of the song and when you do that it
Just makes things mesh and that much better between the music and the visuals and it just takes things to another level
That you really have no reason not to when it comes to video editing
So it's really a quick tip
you're just trying to line things up with the beats in your song or whatever audio track you have with your video and
Aligning these things because a video isn't just video
It's the audio with it the titles anything that you have in there
You want it to be one cohesive piece?
And you want people to be able to watch it without picking things apart and you want people to feel like it's all one thing
Rather than seeing and hearing different things going together
so for the next tip
We're going to be scrolling to the end of our timeline here and we're gonna be talking about color correction
Color correction is built into almost every single video editor ever and it's something that can
Really take your videos to another level if you're using more than one camera
And it's really necessary to make things not distracting to viewers when you're using more than one camera
So for example here
We have a clip shot with a handheld camera and an iPhone
angle here
and if we play them you'll see that
You really can't see that much of a difference in the color and that is because I color match these videos together
using color correction
So if I click on the first one and I turn off the Lu metric color and Premiere Pro
You'll see that it gets darker a little bit more yellow and if we click back and forth
You can see that there's a pretty big difference on play it
You can just see a huge difference between the two clips that if I turn the color correction back on and play it
We just don't get it
and this is something that you really
Should be doing if you're using more than one camera and they look different enough that it can be
Distracting and it's something that not enough people know about or do so
Hopefully with this video in these tips
this can help you out the next tip that I want to talk about after this one involves these same clips and
It's when you're using more than one angle a video
Don't cut between them in the middle of the trick unless it adds
To the trick and adds to the video in a BMX video like the examples that we're using today or another type of action sports
Video or honestly any type of video where you're cutting between two different angles on the same
action you want to avoid doing so in the middle of the action unless it
accentuates the action itself for example in a BMX video
Let's say that they're doing a turn down over a dirt jump
you're not going to want to cut from the middle of the turn down between two angles because it's going to take the viewer a
second to adjust and realize that it's the exact same thing and this is especially true if you're doing some type of
Combination. So let's say that I was doing a trick within my 360 here before I landed on the top of the
Spine if I cut between these two angles
Mid trick it would take the viewer out of it and not give them a full picture of what is actually going
On and they might completely miss what is going on and that's not what we want within a BMX video or any other video
We want to get the action and the purpose of the video across to the viewer. So I'm gonna play these two angles
back-to-back and then I'm gonna play the next example over here that shows
Cutting between the two of them mid trick and we'll see how that affects things
Okay, so I'm gonna do that one more time
So obviously with both full angles of the entire trick we're getting the entire picture from both angles and seeing it in both ways
Here we're going to get a different picture
And while someone who actually rides BMX
Regularly might be able to understand what's going on. It's still somewhat muddy and hard to see
Obviously it's a continuation of the action but it's just kind of hard to tell what's going on and we can adjust this point a
Little bit and it might make it a little bit better
But it's still tough to see so we'll make the cut a little bit sooner and see how that affects things
I'd say that made it a lot worse now. Let's make it later on
That as well made it a lot worse
I think the only way that cutting between these two angles mid trick would work is if we did it, right?
Right about here, right just before I land
So it does work here
But like I said before if I was doing a trick in the middle of this part and we cut out of it
We're not going to see that trick and that's not what we want
So my advice to you is don't cut mid trick unless it accentuates the trick
So no combination tricks on the trails or anything like that
And if you are going to do this put the time
Necessary into it to do it right and make it look good
And the last thing that I want to talk about in this video about editing is your thumbnail
This is the fifth thing the fifth tip from this video
The thumbnail is arguably the most important piece of the puzzle when it comes to people actually watching your video
Because most of the time this is how people are introduced to the video
So you want to put as much time as necessary into your thumb?
So that you can entice people into clicking it and watching your video and when it comes to thumbnails
We always want to keep in mind that when someone sees this it's going to be about this big on the screen
maybe a tiny bit bigger not quite that big but
we want to choose a thumbnail that when it's tiny like that people can still see and
Still be enticed to click on so just keep these things in mind whenever you're editing videos
I know that a thumbnail isn't part of the video editing process
But it is always something that you want to think about throughout the entire
Process of your video and most of the time I take my thumbnails from screenshots from the video
Which I do in the video editor itself
So I thought I should include it in this video of the five tips that I have for you on
Improving your video editing and taking your videos to the next level. So that's gonna wrap this one up
I hope that you enjoyed the video and learn something useful
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