Video editing can take a ton of time we're talking hours, days and sometimes
even weeks to get your project done. So in this video
I'm gonna show you some of our top resources so you can edit faster than
ever before. I'm Mark Brown for Editors Keys and on
this channel we do everything, audio video and design and we give you the
best tutorials so you can get the BEST out of your projects. So if you're like
us and you love video editing you know sometimes actually putting the story
together on your timeline isn't the hard bit, sometimes it's looking for titles
transitions and effects and can really take up a lot of time. So I'm gonna show
you the best sites that we use to really speed up your editing process so let's
jump straight in to the first one. So my first set of resources is for motion
graphics and titles. I'm going to show you a few different sites here the first
one is called 'Motion VFX' and we really love these guys so check out this site.
Ok so this is our first website this is Motion VFX and this is one to
visit if you're a Final Cut Pro X user or if you use Apple Motion or Adobe
After Effects they really do have a great selection of products here and
Apple motion you've got slide shows broadcast occasional logo sports and
trailers there's some plugins here for color grading and visual effects there's
some After Effects plugins as well what I really love if you if you're getting
into Final Cut Pro X for the first time and you know you need to create some
motion graphics or call-outs for a client or your first youtube video this
is where you want to check out you know I think a lot of websites have quite a
poor selection of free products you know there's usually one or two Motion VFX
has a ton and it's all really good quality stuff what's great about this is
that you can just hover over one of these thumbnails and it will give you a
full preview of what the effect will look like when you come to use it in
Final Cut Pro next is 'Video Hive' so let's show you that now this is the next
website this is 'VideoHive.net' as we mentioned and there's a couple of
reasons why I love this website it's not strictly just a titles and effects
website so let's just say you need some video footage of some coffee you get
some relatively quite low-cost video footage but
we're here for the effect so if we go under motion graphics let's go under
lower thirds for example and let's just say you need some social media graphics
as I say we're not all graphic designers so this website gives us the ability to
download some really cool video effects that you can put straight into your
Final Cut Pro, Premiere or other video editing projects the next one is called
Leno FX, I've recently discovered this one so let me show you this site
the previous two websites generally sell single effects or you know single shot
single effects things like that they do have packs as well but this website
really specializes in full transition and title packs so let's say you're
working on a TV series or YouTube series and you don't want to use the exact same
title for every single video this website features a lot of title effects
which have the same theme to them but there's lots of different variations of
that same title another really popular one with some really great assets is
called Pixel Film studios let me show you that they have a lot of effects for
Final Cut Pro X and motion there are also some for Adobe Premiere Pro as well
so let me give you a little preview of what they do this is called the Trans Am
warp speed - and you may have seen this effect used by a lot of youtubers gives
you that kind of zoom in and sudden effect which is really quite cool it can
be quite hard to achieve if you don't know how to do it so getting something
like this for just $29 can really improve your video it's very very easy
it just drag and drops like a normal Final Cut Pro transition as well which
makes it really good and let's move on to something else they have they also
have some really great plugins now this is something that I thought I'd pull out
because I know I get asked a lot about this one
it's about motion tracking in Final Cut Pro 10 it doesn't seem to have as good
motion tracking as something like Premiere Pro or After Effects and this
one here will allow you to track objects and then put texts on the side like this
but this is something that I think a lot of people need or want to show off you
know there's lots of good examples like this map one here rotation of job Jack's
graphics with in 3d space I think it's really really cool and it's something we
use here at editors keys a lot as I say it's quite hard to do in Final Cut Pro
10 so just having a plugin like this for $39 you can use it for the rest of your
time in Final Cut Pro 10 it's not limited at all and it just enables you
to do really cool motion text effects like this
so that's your graphics and titles out of the way next is for the main
important bit and that's your music and sound effects and our top resource for
this is our friends over at epidemic sound so let me show you how their site
works it's really good let me tell you why I love this website so much I just
think there's so many websites that do music and the problem is a lot of the
music doesn't sound that good it just sounds like it's been done on a MIDI
keyboard by the same artist and it just doesn't sound like something you would
actually hear on TV or in any professional youtubers video so let me
show you how it works so you've got different sections here you've got a
just a standard browse where you can look through the different categories
they do you've got albums you've got sound effects you've got latest and this
latest chart is updated every week but let's just say we want to look for hip
hop I just think everything sounds good and interesting there's lots of
different variations as well so let's play you a couple of tracks here
and here's one of the best things let's say you love that acoustic track but
really you only wanted the drum stem or the bass stem you can do that or you can
download the full mix and then remove the vocals so you've got a lot of
freedom here which you don't get a lot with a lot of other websites you know
you download a song and you're stuck with that song we've got a special offer
if you use the code which you'll see on your screen now you can actually sign up
for a full 30-day free trial and then it's just ten pounds a month after that
it's so cheap it's so good honestly you need to check this out so that was epic
sounds and that's our favorite one that's the one that we use here at edits
Keys almost every day it's really great the next option and number two in our
place is called sync track so let me show you them so this is the sync tracks
website I would say this company is aimed more at your higher end production
companies companies that maybe make proper television or film work they may
disagree with me on that but I know a lot of BBC and ITV production companies
that use sync tracks so it seems to be used more in that market and the reason
for that is because sync tracks actually probably has the best pre-cleared music
for all of the different platforms out there and it's actually a worldwide
license as well which you don't get with some of the other music production
companies online and that just basically means if you do a documentary and you
put a bit of music on and it goes out into a different country you're not
going to get into any copyright issues using that music which is really really
good they are much more expensive than something like epidemic sounds but as I
say they're aimed more for your television based documentary makers and
people like that and you can just go through
just have a little listen and find the kind of music new one you can do those
searches up here and finds a vlog hip-hop or if you wanted to that's some
kind of acoustic music you can do that here and they'll find the best music
based on section of humor words so there we go that's link tracks definitely
check them out as sync tracks calm next up is a very popular one
it's called audio jungle and it's great because it has a lot of original music
but also a lot of sound effects as well so let me show you that site now what I
love about this one is that you can get royalty-free music and audio tracks are
from $1.00 so if you're just looking for that odd track you know you're very new
to video editing and you can't quite maybe afford a subscription to something
like epidemic or sync tracks and you just need a quick sound effect or a
quick audio track check out audio jungle because you might have something on here
that which is pretty cool so let's do a little search or should we search for
let's maybe search for rock let's play this track here this is $20 now it
already sounds like something you'll probably hear on an ad or a YouTube ad
let's go to the next one see what that sounds like
you know quite quite rocky and powerful as well I like that that sounds great
now the only problem is with audio jungler my opinion as you can see here
that even though it advertised tracks from a dollar won't find very many for a
dollar you may find sound effects and I think that's where it comes into its own
is for these cheaper sound or effects that cheaper sound effects but you can
see here some of these tracks are $29 $30 $18 and for that price you could
have three or four months membership if something like epidemic a sound and get
as many tracks as room as many tracks as you want instead of just one track on
here so you can see here that it says it's found 76,000 156 rock royalty free
music and sound effects from $1.00 just from that single search so I think it's
a great option if you just want lots and lots of options and you want potentially
some quite cheap effects so check it out that's audiojungle.net and finally if
you don't have a big budget the next one has a limited amount of sound effects
but it's completely free it's called freesound.org and let me show you that
site okay so this is freesound.org I was debating whether to put this on the list
at all but the reason I did is because it's completely free and I think it's
always worth mentioning a complete free resource so what I would say about this
I'm gonna click on the sounds page here is that there is a lot of rubbish music
on it so you're gonna spend a lot of time a lot of wasted time trying to find
your right song you'll type in hip-hop and you'll find some rubbish MIDI beats
but every now and again you do find a gem I'm just gonna hit some random ones
here I haven't played these before but let's have a listen
there we go quite eurodance you know but you may be looking for something like
this this is free remember so I can't complain next up let's pause that this
is a car passing in a village
now to be honest there's been videos where we could have used a sound effect
like that and I think that's why it's worth for mention because you can find
some really good sound effects on here they don't cost you a penny I believe
they're all moil T free and that's what makes it really really good so you know
if you don't have the budget to spend on a subscription check this out first you
may find some good music you know there's not a great selection on here
but I wanted to mention it check it out it's freesound.org let me know what you
think so there you go there's our top resources that we use here editor's Keys
everyday I truly do think that they are some of the best but do you use
different ones are there some that we've missed off our list that you'd like us
to include in a future list please leave your comments below and let me know if
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