- In this video I'm gonna shown you the five steps
that you need to make videos faster
that will save you time, optimize your productivity
and maximum results.
Hey, it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video
where we help you amplify your business
and brand with video.
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So let's jump into it.
Now the idea of making and editing videos
can be a big procrastination point for a lot of people.
And once upon a time it was for me too.
With the thousands of raining videos out there
it can definitely get overwhelming to try
and figure out how to start.
And it's often a case of try and try again
which can be frustrating.
And it can waste a lot of time.
Well the good news is you don't have to go through
the hundreds of filming projects like we did
to figure it all out.
I'm about to walk you through the five simple steps
that you need to follow to make quality videos
fast and easy.
And as we're going through if you've discovered any tips
or tricks of your own to make videos faster
then share them in the comments down below.
Okay, so step number one is to plan and prepare upfront.
And I know it sounds pretty simple when you hear it,
but the more you know what you want to say
or what you want to cover in your videos
the less time your gonna have in front of the camera.
Which means the less footage you're going to have to edit.
Which means editing is going to be faster
and getting your video completed is going to be faster.
Now the planning and prep isn't just
for what you're going to say
or what you're going to cover off in your videos,
but it also comes down to the entire filming piece.
So what are the different locations you might need to go to?
What additional footage might you need to collect
to be able to best tell your story or to create your videos?
Do you need to go and capture your computer screen
to best show something?
How is your gear?
Is it all prepared and set up ready to go?
Is everything charged?
Is everything working?
Have you got everything that you need
to be able to create your videos?
Ideally with this if you're going to be filming
in one location over and over again
I would strongly recommend that wherever possible
you leave as much of your gear set up as possible.
So that you can just walk into that area,
turn on a couple of lights, turn on the camera,
maybe tweak some minor settings,
but for the most part everything is set up
and left ready to go.
So that you can just walk in, turn a few things on
and start focusing on creating the content.
This is going to make it much, much easier and faster
for you to create content and it's gonna save a lot
of procrastination around the setup and pack up of gear.
Step number two is you want to think of the editing
while you're filming.
You wanna be mindful here that you are first off
capturing everything that you need
to be able to pull your edit together
in the way that you'd like to.
You also want to be mindful
that if you're overshooting something
that you stop shooting.
If you've got enough, stop.
More footage means more footage you have to edit.
So make sure that you're capturing enough,
but then move on to the next thing.
While you're filming and while you're presenting to camera
you can leave yourself notes or markers
to help you speed up your editing.
So if there was something I wanted to say to future Justin
editing my videos or one of our editors editing our videos
I could just clap (clapping)
so that there is an audio cue.
You can see it on the audio wave forms.
Those spikes from clapping.
Or I might put my hand up towards the screen
so that if we're scrubbing through the footage
you can clearly see where it is that my hand is up there.
So it stands out in the editing.
But I can leave notes and it could be notes around,
maybe use the take before
or maybe we scrap this section altogether
or actually I forgot to add this piece in earlier,
so I'll just say it now and add this piece in earlier.
And another think you can do when you're filming
to help you speed up your editing,
this has been an absolute game changer for us
and how fast we can now create content,
is to try and make your last take the best one.
So don't move on to the next take, the next sentence,
the next dot point, the next paragraph
until you are happy with the last one that you have said.
This is going to save you so much time in your editing
because instead of playing through from left to right
or start to finish your video content.
Trying to work through, is this the good take?
No, that's not the one.
Is this the good take?
No, it's not that one.
You're able to instead go right to the end
of your timeline and edit backwards.
Knowing that editing from right to left
you're going to be hitting that best take
that last take first.
So it's gonna be much, much faster for you to hit
those best takes much faster instead of trying
to go through and listening to them one by one.
Step number three is another simple one when you hear it,
but a lot of people aren't doing it.
And that is to monitor your recording.
So what I mean by that is while you are presenting,
while you are recording your videos,
you want to have to some way that you can monitor
what it is your recording.
This way you can see that nothing has gone wrong
that you actually are recording.
That's there's nothing distracting going on
in the background.
You can see what you're recording
and make sure that it's all good.
So the best case scenario for this
is if you've got someone who's able to stand in
and help you with the recording to monitor the audio
and to monitor that everything is in focus
and all the stuff I just said before as well.
That's the best case,
but for the rest of us who don't just have
a random friend lying around.
You'll wanna try and set up some may
that you can monitor what it is you're recording
from standing in front of camera.
Now there's a few different ways you can do this
depending on your setup.
The first one, it's an obvious one,
if your camera has a flip out screen,
flip the screen around.
If you're shooting your videos
on your phone you could mirror your phone screen
onto a computer or onto a T.V.
We have a video talking through all the different ways
that you can do that which I'll link up in the cards.
But, essentially, you're able to monitor it
on some other device like a computer or a T.V.
Another option you've got depending on your camera setup.
Lots of cameras these days support WiFi control.
Meaning that you can control and monitor your camera
just from an iPad or a phone.
This is my personal preference.
It's actually what I'm using right now to shoot this video.
I'm choosing my Android phone to control
and to monitor my Panasonic GH5 camera.
So lots of other cameras have WiFi control as well.
If it does I strongly recommend that you give it a go.
It's a game changer.
Step number four to help you make videos faster
is to use templates or to save out presets
of things that you are going to be reusing
over and over in multiple videos.
You can create presets and templates for so many things
in the editing process
that is going to make a big difference
to how fast and how efficient you are while you're editing.
So these could be for things like color grades.
If there's a certain look or a certain feel
that you want to have applied to all of your videos
you can save that as a preset.
It could be your titles and graphics and transitions.
You can save them out once you've customized them up once,
made them match your brand, you can save them
and reuse them in multiple videos.
And even if you do want to tweak them and change them
in individual videos at least starting with these templates
or starting with these presets will get you pretty close
to the end outcome and then just add
your minor tweaks on top of it.
I can't stress how powerful this is
to not have to start from scratch every time
you wanna add things like a title or a graphic.
And step number five, this one's a big one,
you wanna build out a catalog of music for your videos.
If you've ever sat there trying
to find the perfect music track
and you're just sitting through clicking, playing,
listening, doesn't fit, next one, doesn't fit, next one,
it's close, but doesn't fit.
You can spend hours sitting there searching
through music libraries trying to find
the perfect tracks for your videos.
So what I would strongly suggest is
you are not doing this for each video
and that you are doing it once.
Allocate some time just to finding music that you like.
Download a heap of it to your computer
or save playlists on the websites
that you're using to find music.
Save them so that they're quickly accessible
when you want to edit.
You don't want to be sitting there trying to find
the music when you're trying to get your video finished.
Do it in batch so that you have a library ready to go.
Now if you wanna know the best sites that we recommend
for finding music for your videos
I will put a link to our video on that topic
up in the cards and linked below in the description,
but right now we're using Artlist
and we're using Epidemic Sound.
And both of those will allow you to login
and save tracks into certain playlists.
So you could have a playlist for YouTube videos.
You could have a playlist for any client work
or a different type of videos,
or even based on feel, upbeat music, background music.
It's so easy just to save playlists
so that you don't have to do it
when you need to get the video out.
So those are my five steps to help you create
your videos faster.
Now if you've enjoyed this
and you wanna focus more
on how you can edit faster, specifically,
then check out the video linked on screen.
Which will take you through
the ultimate video editing process
allowing you to create your videos faster
with minimal wasted time and effort.
It's the exact process that we follow
for editing every one of our videos.
And I'll see you in the next one.