- Hey guys, it's Justine and I've been making YouTube videos
since about 2006 and until about a year ago,
I edited and shot almost all of those myself,
yes, very time consuming.
Most recently I started working with Tyler,
he helps shoot and edit videos.
So now I wanna walk you guys through a workflow
that we've been using to work remotely.
The three main tools we use are Final Cut for editing,
Frame.io for file storage, and transfer
and Postlab for sharing Final Cut libraries in the cloud.
Frame.io plays a huge part in how we transfer
all of our footage.
Each of our projects has a unique folder
that we upload everything to that we're gonna need
for the video and using their desktop transfer app,
we can easily and really quickly download multiple folders
full of all of the files at once.
The sub folder structure will all stay intact
and you even have the option of downloading the original
or two different proxy size versions of the files.
It's such a great platform when you're collaborating
with multiple people and it's been so key for us
to stay organized when we're all working
in different places.
Until a few weeks ago when we discovered Postlab,
we thought we had this really great workflow
editing system set up.
We would send each other the XMLs, I would import
then Postlab was brought into our lives,
and it has absolutely changed everything.
Postlab is an app that makes collaborating
with multiple editors remotely super simple and efficient.
It will save and sync your libraries so anyone
can work on it from anywhere.
I love the Time Machine history showing who was working on
what so there's no guessing what changes were made
by someone else.
Everything is tracked and synced.
This works on Mac OS with Final Cut and even Premiere.
So I've also been working with my sister Jenna.
We just recently started a podcast
and she also has her own YouTube channel.
I taught Jenna to edit maybe like eight or nine years ago
so sometimes from time to time,
she'll have an editing question.
But now in Postlab I can even open up her library.
I can even make the change for her, tell her what I did,
and then she can use that as an excuse to ask me
basically edit her video for her.
I see what she's doing, sneaky.
Frame.io is also incredible
if you have somebody else editing a video,
it allows you to make time code comments,
you can do time ranges
and you can even make visual comments.
You can tell the person editing exactly
where you want the change.
Frame.io is also amazing because
it has a Final Cut workflow extension.
So when I make my notes in Frame.io,
either on my iPhone, my iPad or on a computer,
those will show up to Tyler and then he can import those
into Final Cut and he'll overlay exactly
where the changes are.
This gives you a really nice visual representation
in the timeline of where the changes have to be made.
I also love this Link Playhead feature.
This will let you click the comments
in the Frame.io workflow extension
and it will automatically snap that time code
on the Final Cut timeline.
You can then easily export it out and upload it
directly to the Frame.io shared folder for review.
Let's head over to Tyler's house,
where he can show you guys how we get the project started.
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- So what I'm doing right now is starting
this project inside Postlab.
So here is the Ijustine Postlab team.
Inside here we have some productions and some folders.
So what I'm gonna do is create a new production,
so you come down here to this plus button
and click Production, and then it'll give you an option
to name the production, I'm gonna call this iPhone SE Test.
So I'm gonna hit Create, but there's nothing in here yet.
So we're gonna make a Final Cut Pro library
by clicking here and selecting New Library.
And from here, we can open the project and start editing,
so I'm gonna click Start Editing right here.
And it just automatically opens up Final Cut
and from here you can just import footage
and music and everything else like you normally would
from your media storage location.
And now I'm just gonna get started editing this project.
(upbeat music)
- Oh, I just, uh, oh my goodness,
it looks like Jenna is actually working right now.
Let me screen share this just to prove it.
So you'll see right here this library is locked
by Jenna Ezarik, which means she's working on the podcast.
(soothing music)
- Hi, my name is Jenna.
I have been making YouTube videos for 10 years,
but as of recently, I am now going to be a co-host
of a podcast.
First episode I am on editing duty
and I am taking it very, very, very seriously
because, well it's our first episode.
So Postlab has been incredible for many reasons.
Now years ago, probably 10 years ago,
my sister Justine taught me how to edit.
I'm pretty good, but I'm not as good as her,
so I always am asking her questions
and I'm like sending her files and like can you just edit
this and send it back?
This has been great because I've actually secretly
been like having her edit for me.
I don't like color grading
and her being the nice person that she is,
she'll go ahead, help me and then I can just copy
and paste her color attributes to the rest of my timeline
and I didn't have to do anything.
(soothing house music)
- This is really exciting 'cause you can go in
and you can kind of see all of the changes
that happened inside of this folder.
So right here I started the library,
I started working on it, I synced the audio, added color,
I started a new podcast project,
I started some of the edits.
And now today as we speak, and I film this,
Jenna is starting to work on the final edit
for the full length podcast episode.
And then I love, in here, there's tasks,
so I can give out different tasks to people.
- Oh, she has assigned me some tasks.
All right, so I'm going to respond back to here
and let her know that I'm working on it.
Justine has already managed to set up all the multi-cams
and sync all the audio because she sorts also
not my favorite thing.
So now I'm gonna go ahead and make sure
that the rest of the podcast looks good.
I wonder if she's gonna like, write out of the sound effect.
Oh, oh, did you guys hear that?
- So now that Jenna's working on the podcast,
I'm gonna check in with Tyler and see where he's at.
- So it's the next day and I've got a pretty good edit
on this video done.
And now I'm going to upload that progress to Postlab.
And because Justine and I have all the same footage
and content on matching hard drive,
she'll be able to open up that project
and look at it, no problem.
Here it says upload your work
and I'm going to describe what I've changed
and it's really funny if you just try to say, like, edited,
and hit Upload.
It gives you an error, you can do better than that,
good job Postlab.
Okay, edit complete, that's good.
And then we just click Upload.
And what it does here is it closes the library
in Final Cut Pro and logs it in Postlab.
And here it is, it has a timeline of all the changes
that have happened and logs it all in this nice little list
and then when Justine opens this on her computer,
she can click Start Editing or she can open a copy
to take a look at what I've done.
But I have a feeling Justine might have some notes.
So what I'm actually gonna do is open this back up
and I'm going to upload this to Frame.io
so that she can make notes if she has any.
I'm sure the edit is perfect 'cause I'm amazing
but just in case she has any notes,
I'm going to upload this to Frame.io.
(upbeat music)
And that's it.
Now it's gonna export the video
and automatically upload it to Frame.io
and I can go eat some Raisin Bran and go along with my day.
(soothing upbeat music)
- So it's exciting 'cause Tyler just said that
he is sending me a Frame.io link of a proof of the video,
so the first round is done.
(soothing music)
So I made all my changes and notes in Frame.io
and now I'm gonna open up Postlab for the first time
to actually see what the library is that Tyler's working on.
So I can go into our project here
and I can download the whole project library
to my computer.
So once this downloads, I can see everything that Tyler
has been working on since he first started the library.
I'm gonna mark this project as in progress
and since Tyler is not working on it now,
I can go directly into the library and start editing.
When I first open the project up,
I need to relink all of the files.
This only has to be done the first time
you open the library.
Postlab will maintain the linked footage for each user
even if they have the files in different places
on their drives.
This couldn't be done before,
when working remotely without Postlab.
We're basically working on the same Final Cut library
just in different places.
- So I've got some notes back from Justine
and I'm gonna go in and make some changes.
And what I can do is use the Frame.io workflow extension.
It's very cool.
So it's this button right up here in the top,
and you click that, and it opens up this window
inside Final Cut, where you can review videos
and notes right inside Final Cut Pro.
So I've rearranged my windows here a little bit,
and I've got the Frame.io extension on the left
and Final Cut Pro on the right,
and here's why the Frame.io extension is really cool.
I can come here to this little button that says
Link Playheads and when I click that, it's going to
link all of these comments to my project timeline.
So when I click on one of these comments,
you'll see that my project playheads skipped exactly
to that point in the video
and when I click on another comment,
make title read @ijustine,
boom, the playhead skips back to that point in the timeline.
Another option here is instead of using
the Link Playheads feature, I can actually import
all of these comments as sort of like an adjustment layer
on top of my project in Final Cut.
All I have to do is click Import.
This window pops up that says Import comments
and then I'm just gonna click and drag this,
over to Final Cut.
It is overlaid into my timeline, all the notes,
I can stay within my timeline, and scroll through here
and make all the changes.
So if I scroll to the first note here,
you can see it here in the window, make title read,
@ijustine, I already did that, I know I messed that up.
And so let's go to the next note.
And the note reads audio accidentally muted here.
Yes, it was.
That is my bad.
So that's it, I can just go through this whole timeline,
make all these changes and then upload back to Postlab.
- It's so incredibly convenient
because I can take exactly what he was working on
and just pick up right where he left off.
Between Final Cut, Frame.io and Postlab,
we have developed a really incredible workflow
for editing remotely.
If you guys have any questions at all,
feel free to leave them in the comments
and I will put a link in the description
so you guys can check out Frame.io and Postlab
and I hope that this video has helped you guys
get a sense of what is possible
when you are working remotely.
This has completely changed the way that we work
and I cannot wait to get back to editing.
I love to edit and this has made it so much more fun.
(soothing music)