- Hey guys, welcome to Travel Feels.
Today we're gonna talk all about editing workflow.
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So when we're talking about workflow,
really what we mean is the different steps
you take in order to accomplish that thing.
So in this case, we're talking about editing workflow.
So what are the steps that we need to take
in order to get get our edit done?
Everybody has a bit of a different workflow.
It's really more of an art than a science, makes sense.
There's no one workflow that's just the perfect workflow
that works for everybody.
You really need to figure out
what's the best workflow for you, and to figure that out,
it really helps to see what other people are doing.
What's their workflow, what are the steps that they're doing
in order to get their edit done?
Then you can take bits and pieces from there,
oh, that's really cool, I'll take that into my workflow,
and that really doesn't work,
I have a better solution for that,
I'll keep that part of my workflow.
And they're just piecing together
and figuring out the best workflow that works for you
and the types of films that you're creating.
This workflow is really what I'm using for YouTube videos
pretty much 95% of the time.
There's only a few instances where I'm doing
a little bit of extra, but this is the workflow
that I do almost all of the time.
And so the first step is to organize your media.
It sounds really lame, but it's super important,
especially as your projects get bigger and bigger and bigger
you really need to be organized.
And it helps to get in the habit
even on your smaller projects, even just YouTube videos
when you might think that it's not really worth it
to be this organized, it's just taking more time.
It really helps to be organized.
And that starts with right away
your folders in your project.
So here we have this little edit, Norway 2016.
We have our Footage, we have Graphics,
we have Project Files, Renders, and Sound.
And then some of these folders
are divided into other folders still,
so for example, in Footage we have our A Camera,
which is the C300, and then we have some drone footage.
Or in Sound, we have the Music
and then we have Sound Effects.
It really helps to stay organized so when you're looking
for a file, it's really easy to find it,
or when you're inputting other footage,
it's easy to just place it in the right places
and it doesn't end up this huge mess of a folder.
So stay organized,
that's the first step to my workflow, always.
Then we open up our project file and we import our footage.
In this case it's the footage,
the video clips, the graphics and the sound.
Then we take our footage, and we drag it
onto this little icon at the bottom of Premier,
and this makes a sequence
with the exact settings of that video clip.
I find this to be the best way to start a sequence.
Then you don't have to fiddle around
with all the other settings when you're starting a sequence,
it just makes the perfect sequence for that footage.
And then if you do need to change something
like the resolution, which happens pretty often,
you can really easily go and change it.
For example, in this case, we're gonna make it
an anamorphic crop, or a 2:35 aspect, which basically means
having the black bars on top and bottom.
So we're just gonna change the height to 1,678.
So there we go, our sequence
is the right size now for our edit.
Also, make another bin for your sequences.
It's super important to stay organized
within your project file also.
So we're gonna rename the sequence to Norway 2016,
and we're gonna move that into the Sequences bin.
For me, I like to take all the footage
and just dump it into the sequence,
and then I start editing from there.
Some people like to use the source monitor
and find the exact portion of the clip,
and then bring that in.
I just find this to be a little bit slower for me.
I just like dumping it all in there,
and then just really quickly going through it,
and finding the best clips that I need for my edit.
Again, this is just one of those things
that works faster for me, but by no means is it the best
or the only way to do this.
Then we can bring in the song,
and we're gonna edit the song a little bit
so it fits our edit the best.
I like to cut out some portions,
especially for something like this,
which is a really short edit.
I want some of the best portions of that song,
so I'm gonna cut out some sections
so that we get to the best parts a little bit faster.
This way, it's not as repetitive,
and also we get some nice buildups
and all of that good stuff.
I usually end up editing to the music,
so if there's a snare or a drum,
that's where the cuts are gonna be.
And this is for the whole edit, I try to stick to that.
And then if there's some buildups in the song,
for example, I try to create my edits
and work with the visuals so that they really fit
that buildup, and that there's a payoff
at the end of that buildup when the beat drops.
Then we add in some sound effects.
I like to use a lot of ambient sounds,
but in this case we're just using some swooshes
and some different sounds to kind of accentuate the cuts
and just help with some of those transitions.
But ambient sounds really just bring to life your edit.
For example, if you're seeing water in your edit,
it really helps to hear some sort of water sounds.
It just tricks the mind into thinking that
the sound is actually coming from the water.
For example, with drone footage,
you're obviously not gonna have any sound,
but it really helps to add in some sort of sound effects.
And try to make these really natural,
and don't make them too overbearing.
Don't make them too loud,
because then they'll become really distracting.
Really, they shouldn't be distracting at all.
That's the thing with sound
is that if it's really good sound design,
you're not even gonna really notice it.
It's just gonna be so organic to the edit,
and it just adds a lot, but you're not gonna notice it.
It's not gonna distract you.
And then we can mix the audio a little bit.
I've made a little preset that just has some plugins in it
and I just drag and drop it onto the audio files.
And this is a big tip.
If you're constantly adding the same combination of effects
to different clips, make a preset.
It's really easy to make a preset,
and if you guys wanna know more about that,
I can do a whole different video
on making your own presets in Premier.
But basically, this audio preset
just has a few different plugins
that I can just drag and drop.
And then I can just tweak the levels a little bit,
and I'm good to go.
That way I don't always have to select those same effects
and keep adding them on, or even adjust them,
because I've already done that in the preset.
And then I do the same for color grading.
I have a little color grading preset in premier.
And all this preset really does
is add a LUT through Lumetri,
and then also a color restyle, which adds the contrast,
and then some different color changes.
And this just gives me a really good
starting point to start working from.
The light here is the Cine Desaturated LUT,
which is probably my favorite LUT
out of the Cine LUTs pack LUTS.
I just really like it.
It just works really well for so many different cameras
and so many different videos.
I make a new adjustment layer,
and then I put it over top all of my footage,
and then I add that preset onto there.
And then I'm just going through each of my clips,
tweaking them around so that they all look good,
changing the contrast and the color saturation a little bit
so they fit well from one clip to the next,
especially when you're trying to match cameras.
Remember the matching cameras,
color grade video that I put out?
You really need to make sure that there's a nice consistency
even between cameras so the colors look the same.
And remember, do not go overboard with your color grade.
Make it nice and subtle.
This is the most important thing for color grade,
it should really enhance your footage,
but again, it shouldn't be distracting.
You shouldn't be thinking, why are these colors so weird?
Why is there purple and weird colors everywhere?
Make it nice and subtle
so it's not distracting to the viewer.
All right, then we're ready to export.
Set your in- and out-point for what you wanna be exporting.
Then we go to export, and what I like to do
is make a pro res master file first.
This is kind of a really high-quality file
that you can have just in case something happens,
or maybe you wanna use that same video in a different video,
then you have a really high quality copy of that video.
This isn't a file that I'm gonna be putting online
or anything like that, it's really just a master file
to kind of make sure that I have
this video in a really high quality.
So for that, we're gonna choose the format QuickTime,
and then we're just gonna change
the output name to Norway 2016 Master.
And we're putting this into the Renders folder
of our project, remember, stay organized!
The video codec is gonna be Apple ProRes 422, or 422 HQ,
depending on how crazy you wanna go.
HQ is gonna be better quality,
but it's also a really big file size.
But that's the best option if you want the best quality.
Hit Match Source, Render at Maximum Bit Depth,
and then check Use Maximum Render Quality.
And then hit the Q, and this will
bring it into Adobe Encoder.
Then we're going back to Premier to export
the H.264 version, and this is gonna be the version
that you're actually posting online.
So this time, we're choosing the format H.264.
Let's call this Norway 2016.
Render at Maximum Bit Depth,
bitrate settings we're gonna choose VBR 2 Pass,
and Target 25 for HD and 35 for 4K.
In this case it's 4K, so we're gonna go with 35.
For maximum, for HD, I would say around 35,
and for 4K we're gonna go with 45.
Use maximum render quality, and then hit the Q button.
Then once we're in Adobe Encoder,
we're just gonna hit this Play button, and we're good to go.
It's gonna export both of those videos,
and you can even start editing in Premier again if you want,
some other video or whatever.
You can just let this export in Adobe Encoder.
I really like Encoder, it just kind of frees up things,
so I can just get a lot done really quickly.
So there we go, that is my editing workflow,
and this is how I do it almost all the time.
There's only some projects that I wanna do a lot of grading,
or motion graphics, or anything else like that
that I'm taking into After Effects,
so I'm just gonna take that whole sequence,
bring it into After Effects,
do all the color grading, and motion graphics
and text, and whatever, and then bring it back into Premier
and then export from there.
But really, this is my workflow for 90, 95% of my films.
Especially for YouTube, this is a really good workflow,
I find, for YouTube videos.
So if you guys have any questions,
make sure to leave them down below
and I'll try to answer as many as possible.
I know there's a lot of questions with workflow
because there's just so many options.
There's no one right way, and you really
just need to figure out what the best way is for you.
And a lot of times, this just comes by experience.
You're gonna make video after video
and you're gonna start realizing like,
oh, there's a better way of doing this,
and I can be more efficient here,
and I'm just gonna make this a little bit better
in my workflow, faster, whatever it is.
It's really worth it to take the time
and think about your workflow, because it's gonna save
you a lot of time, headaches, and all of that.
It's just gonna make your process a lot more enjoyable.
All right, guys, I hope you enjoyed this little video!
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and guys, enjoy the film-making process,
and go get some of those Travel Feels.
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