I don't even know how
to start this video.
I think that I tried filming this
like 20 times and.
There's no good way to put it.
This channel is so important to me.
I've learned so much through this channel
through posting the videos,
learning from you, connecting
with other creatives.
But recently
I just haven't had.
The Joy and fun.
And you know, with everything
going on in the world, I think for me
I just need to refocus
on different things in my life
that are important outside of YouTube.
And so.
That is why today
is the last video on this channel.
So if you're new here, I'm Kelsey
and this is my YouTube
channel Premiere Gal, and
I guess this is awkward
'cause it's my last video,
but I thought that from my last video
I would give you guys tips on
how to edit for your own YouTube videos.
So in this video I'll be covering
five of the top things
that I wish I would have known.
Of course, there's more
that I could share with you,
but I feel like these ones stand out
as the most important.
So before we jump in,
I want to thank production create
for supporting this
last video on my channel.
They've been great
friends over the years.
I've made a ton of videos
using their effects.
If you have not checked out,
production creates YouTube channel.
They're hilarious.
Adrian and Chris are awesome.
You can check out how to use a bunch
of their effects
on their YouTube channel,
and I've actually made a few of my own,
such as how to create
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How to do a witch takeoff landing?
How to use their ink transitions?
Those are a few that stand out
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And if you're interested in
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So without further ado,
let's go ahead and get into my 5
tips for video editors on YouTube.
So my first tip is color
correcting the master clips.
So if you're editing.
On YouTube, typically
it's a couple talking head shots,
so if you need to do
some color correction,
the mistake that I was
making from the beginning is
I would edit the whole rough
cut of the person talking,
whether it's an interview
or it's a direct address like this,
and then I would go in an I would
color correct one of the clips
and then copy that clip
and lasso and select all the other clips
that are all cut
and paste the attributes.
The lumetri color attributes
which still works
and it's fine, and you can do that.
But it takes longer.
Instead.
What you can do is instead
correct the master clip.
So when you have your
clip selected in your timeline
and you go to the metric color, you go
and you select the master clip
to apply the changes to.
So this will be just some subtle exposure
changes, highlights
and shadows, some vibrancy,
and then those changes
appear across all of the clips
in your timeline.
Of course, you might have to still go in
and do some individual tweaks
because sometimes the lighting changes.
Or it's something
particular about that
clip in the timeline
that you need to change
manually on its own.
But doing the master clip correction
will help you so much in
save you so much time.
The second tip, when you're editing for
YouTube is organazation.
Being organized in saving a project file
as a template that has all of the folders
in all of the recurring assets
that you use already imported into
it will save you so much time recently.
With my editor, we've created
a copy of this project
that has all of our template
folders in it, so everything that we need
in their sequence folder, footage
folder, audio folder,
screen recording folder,
anything you can imagine
that we use this already in there
and so that way we don't
have to recreate it
each time in reimport.
Everything I can tell you
when I was first starting out
I would create a new project and recreate
all these folders
and import everything which.
Is just a huge waste of time,
so if you create
your template project
folder, just hit CMD D or control
D on a Mac, duplicate that project first.
And then open up that project
and save it as whatever project
that you're working on.
Another thing you can do
if you're interested in plugins,
there's a plugin called Maze Mapping
that will do the organization for you.
So the way that it works
is you install it.
It's a dot EXE file, it's an extension
that you open up when you first
start your project, and you can create
what they call a maze,
which is a folder structure.
Essentially what
I was just telling you about, but
you create the folder structure
so you can create
a folder called footage.
Press enter,
you can create a folder called
Audio and music.
Whatever you stock them all together.
So after you create the folder structure,
you can assign a particular codec
or a file type to that folder structure.
So if you have a folder called sequence
you can make sure all of the Premiere
pro sequences are in that folder.
If you have a folder called footage,
you can assign all the video codecs
to that folder and so on.
South maize mapping will know
that they need to
put all of the files that end in.
MP4 or MOV into the footage folder,
so then after you are done
creating your maze,
you can then drag
and drop your footage into that drag
and drop area and hit organize
and it will automatically put
all of those files
into that folder structure for you.
So this is just one of the tools
that you can use that as a paid for tool
that's fairly cheap
and you can use it lifetime
and now my third tip,
the audio track mixer when I was first
starting out editing for YouTube.
I was intimidated
by the audio track mixer.
I was like that's for audio engineers.
I'm not going to touch that.
It's not necessary,
but actually it's a super useful tool.
Not only can you record
directly in Premiere Pro with it,
and I made a video on this along time ago
that you can check out on
how to record your USB mic directly
into Premiere Pro to do a voiceover,
but you can also use it to organize
an ally effects at the track level
so you can organize
all of the different types
of audio in your timeline.
This is another
organizational tip, right?
Half of editing is organizing,
so in my audio layers below the half
point line, audio
is half the picture, right?
So it's super important.
So for audio track one and two,
I now put all of my voice clips on that
and then audio track
three and four is reserved
for music tracks only,
so I only put the audio types
that are related to voice
on those two layers and then music
and then sound effects and so on.
Before I would just put.
All these random clips everywhere
and there was no organization, so
by focusing on the audio track level,
what you can do Now if all of your voice
tracks are an audio track
one you can then go to audio track Mixer
in Alley affects to that audio track
and it affects
all of the clips on that track.
Of course, you still might
need to add some effects
at the clip level as well,
and you can still do that,
but before I discovered
the audio track mixing
I was using the essential sound panel
where I would select.
A bunch of clips at once
and then assign it.
Let's say's voice in do some corrections
in the essential
sound panel, which is fine,
but I find that it's more efficient
and I guess there's a theme here
going throughout saving time, right?
It's more efficient to use
the audio track mixer
to give you an example
of some of the effects that I use
on my voice track.
I use a plugin called Acuson a switch.
It's it's just an amazing audio plug-in.
It's the era of five bundle
and for example,
let me just play a clip
right now of my voice
before we apply OCI Sona.
So just straight out of the microphone,
which is what I was doing before.
I didn't apply any effects to my voice.
I just recorded it
and slapped it up on YouTube,
which is fine, but if you
really want to take it to the next level
and really focus on your sound,
you can try out this tool.
So let me play the clean audio first.
In this video I'm going to show you
how you can take a static page
and now I'm going to open up the effects
and I'm going to apply
the Acheson's voice leveler 1st
and it has to listen back first
and I usually do breath control
and you can change the percentage
of how much of the effect
you want to put on, and then after that
I put on an auto EQ
which just helps bring more vibrancy
and depth to my voice
and after that I put
a slight noise remover.
And you can also add some reverb
reverb arandi esers if you need too.
And here's the clip.
The exact same clip
what it sounds like with
the acuson is on.
In this video I'm going to show you
how you can take a static page
so you can really hear a difference
here the before.
In this video I'm going to show you
how you can take a static page
and now the after.
In this video I'm going to show you
how you can take a static page.
In this video I'm going to show you
how you can take a static page.
In this video I'm going to show you
how you can take a static page
and so acuson is
just save me a ton of time
and working with the audio track
mixer effects instead about the clip
level is a huge time saver.
An #4 is how to export
motion graphics with sound effects
that need an Alpha transparency layer.
So this is a really
easy thing that you can do
and is something
that I have to do all the time
when I'm sharing assets with my team.
A consistent asset
that they're going to have to use
in multiple videos, right?
So rather than having them
edit a mogart each time and change
the colors, an added sound effects
it saves time for me
when I first design the motion
graphic in after effects to pull it in
Premiere Pro, add some sound design
and then export it
with an Alpha transparency
so they can use that asset
over and over again.
And it's the same color
in the same sound, and it renders faster
because mogart tend
to take up a lot of render time.
If it's a movie file
where the transparency
it saves time as well.
So to do that
you can see here in my timeline
I have just a simple transition
that I want my editors to be able to use
between two clips
with a sound effect file.
So you go to file, you go to export media
and then it will bring U
the export window 0 from format.
You can choose QuickTime.
And from the different types
of QuickTime file presets
you can either choose to Apple
Prores with the Alpha
or the GoPro Cineform with Alpha.
Now would recommend changing the bitrate
at maximum bit depth
for just better quality,
and then you just hit export
an once it's done.
You can see that
there is transparency here,
so videos can be put beneath it
for a nice smooth transition,
so that's my 4th tip.
An my 5th tip is.
What is it?
What's the top?
Oh color themes.
My 5th tip is using color themes
and taking advantage of the libraries,
so if you're in Premiere Pro, there's
a libraries panel where you can see
saved assets that are saved in
the cloud under libraries
so you can go to colored Adobe com
and make sure you're
logged into your Adobe
Creative Cloud account
an when you're on the Create page,
you can actually click on custom
and make any custom theme
with the different hex code colors
for those particular set of colors.
So I've saved a color
theme for Premiere Gal.
The colors that I
typically use in these videos
and I also save it
for some of my clients
that I've worked on.
Every time I go to make a motion graphic
from a motion graphics template.
Let's say I don't need to go
look up the color
hex code to make sure it's accurate,
I just click the dropper tool
and select it from the library panel
and so that is a huge huge time saver.
So if you're not using color themes yet,
you should definitely start
using it, so yeah.
That is my 5 tips
for you guys to save time
and be more effective
as YouTube video editors
or just any video editor in general.
And yeah, I guess I was going to say
if you have any more suggestions
for future videos, but
since this is my last video.
Can't really make any suggestions,
but April fools it is not my last video.
I'm sure.
Probably some of you guys
figured that out by now.
But seriously, I love this channel.
I really, really think that it's awesome
and I love all of you guys
who are constantly commenting
leaving suggestions.
It's such a great platform
and I'm honored to have this platform.
So thank you guys so much, April.
I was sorry if I got some of you, but
yeah I would not.
I would make a bigger ordeal about it.
I don't I I can't really imagine
closing this channel anytime soon
and I'm definitely still having fun.
If you haven't seen my latest video
with Envato Elements Song,
there's a little surprise in there.
It was in the video
on the highlighter effect
that I just posted.
I did a little song, but yeah.
Thank you production create
first supporting this video
and being awesome creator, friends
and thank you to all of you
for connecting with me and
and collaborating with me
and giving me tips too.
I'm learning from you guys all the time,
so that's all for this video.
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