hello and welcome back to the Bliss Bean today's video is on how I edit my YouTube videos and a
bunch of people have requested this video so today I am finally peeling back the curtain
and revealing how the video magic happens okay so we're going to start with a quick round of
questions before I delve into the more complicated stuff number one did you move your desk to the
middle of your room just so you would have a nice background to film against yes yes I did - what
software do you use I use Adobe Premiere Pro and I've been using that for a couple of years so I've
gotten very comfortable with how it works however I have been thinking about switching to Final Cut
Pro if you don't know Adobe Creative Cloud is a monthly subscription well Final Cut Pro is a
one-time price that you pay it might be a better deal to just do that one-time payment so it will
see for today's tutorial I will be using premiere how long does it take you to edit videos I would
say anywhere from like three to six hours probably an average of four what fonts do you use I try to
stick to the same fonts for everything that I do for the bliss bean so not just YouTube videos but
the graphics that I design and my website so those two phones are ephra usually bold or heavy often
uppercase and I like to play with the tracking or the spacing between letters because I think
it looks nicer when they're spread apart and then the other font is Garamond usually italic
sometimes I use Georgia because Premiere doesn't have Garamond but they look similar so it doesn't
matter and finally what do you film with I've got my trusty Nikon d50 200 and then my Canon GX 7
mark 2 I always forget what it's called usually I use my Nikon for like sitting shots like this
because I have my nice 50 millimeter f-18 lens which gives you nice blurry background and then
I like to use my slower cannon for b-roll because it gives you a really nice stabilization so even
if I'm moving around and filming it will be very shaky for a microphone I use my phone I do have a
microphone that goes onto my camera but it's kind of low quality and I realized my phone actually
records better audio so if you're thinking about starting to make videos and you don't have like a
fancy camera honestly it's not necessary like most phones these days I have the iPhone 8 to record
at 4k quality and 60 frames per second which most cameras can't do neither of my cameras can record
at 4k and then it also has really nice audio so honestly it has everything you need alright
so now let's get into the nitty-gritty not the restaurant so after I'm done filming I take the
SD cards and I plug them into my computer and I transfer the footage onto my little external
hard drive I also keep those files on my computer itself in case anything were to happen to this but
I delete them from my computer once I'm done with the video because I have like no space on it so I
will open up premiere and create a new project in a new folder that I title in a specific way
and then all of the footage and eventually all of the music in the world graphics that
I designed will all go in that folders to stay organized so normally this folder would be much
more empty because it would only have my footage but this is an example of what a folder looks like
at the end of all my editing so then I go ahead and I import all of my footage as well as the
audio that I recorded from my phone so most of my videos follow the format where part of it is just
me sitting somewhere and talking and then I add on b-roll clips to make it more interesting so
in that case the first thing I do is I drop in all of the clips that are of me talking as well as the
audio that I recorded for my phone and now is the fun part of trying to match them up so the next
so first I kind of just listen to them to get a rough idea of how to match them up and you can
also see the I don't know what it's called like this spiky thing that shows you the volume of
the audio so you can see how the shapes of those match up roughly but then to get it right a zoom
all the way in and I just keep listening to it and adjusting by the smallest increments until
it sounds exactly matched up so I'm just gonna play for you what it would sound like if I only
had the audio from my camera hello and welcome to the bliss bean and then this is from my phone
only hello and welcome back to the bliss bean and I actually don't like that a lot either so what I
do is I actually mix them I'll keep both of them but I'll reduce the camera audio a little bit and
boost the phone audio so just a like only one track I use the track select forward tool which
is the keyboard shortcut a and then I hold down shift so that I can select a single row so then I
right-click on that and select audio gain and then adjust gain by that lets you take all those clips
and increase all of their volumes by a certain amount I kind of just play around with numbers
and see what sounds good but in total you should be looking at your audio meter and making sure
that your audio land somewhere between negative 6 and negative 12 i think a common misconception
I don't know honestly maybe it's not common maybe I was the only one who thought this when I was a
video editing noob but I thought that you were supposed to kind of beat around 0 decibels but
0 is where it maxes out so it sounds bad whenever it crosses that little threshold so negative 6 to
negative 12 is the standard so one stuff is lined up then I go through and I just start cutting it
up basically I listen through the whole thing and I remove parts where I'm not talking some ohms
that I do cuz I do a lot of those I also just tend to repeat things a million times when I'm
recording and so I have to listen to all of them and pick which one sounds best which is just super
fun to do like if you only like if you only put it but if you decide but if you decide to do it
but if you decide but if you decide and premiere what I used to cut things up is the razor tool and
that is the keyboard shortcut c and so then I just cut through both tracks and delete them so then
once all that is done the next step is to edit in my v roll footage oh yeah by the way b roll
is basically everything that's not like talking head footage so if you think of watching your
documentary or something like that you would have interviews of people where you're just seeing like
their head and shoulders and they're just talking but it would be a really boring documentary if it
only had that so then there would be clips of what they're talking about edited over there
talking and so it would kind of switch back and forth between their face and the b-roll so that's
what I mean when I say b-roll this is a quick explanation I place that on a different track
than my talking footage because I might placed it on that first track it would basically delete
the information from my talking footage and if I wanted to change something then it would just be
gone so usually I only have one or two tracks but if I'm doing a lot of different elements like for
this video for each of the different habits that I was talking about I did like this graphic thing as
you can see here I had five tracks at a certain point premiere just can't handle all the tracks
that you're making but five is usually okay it can deal with that then it's time to spruce up
the video and one technique that I like to use a lot is making little doodle animations so the way
that I do that is I get my graphics oh my god I get my graphics tablet this is a Cheon 580
which I definitely recommend if you're looking for like a nice affordable graphics tablet to
the program that I use for this is Photoshop but you could probably do this with any like
basic drawing program so I will create a file and I set the document type to film and video so that
I'll make it 1920 by 1080 which is the size of the video and then I like to unlock the background and
change it to a different color just so that I can see what I'm doing so for this we'll just do some
simple animated text so let's say I was making a video where I wanted to have the words hello
so first I think a brush that has pen pressure sensitivity because it just looks more natural
like you see how it tapers off at the end here so it just responds to how hard you're pressing
the pen so I make a new layer and I just write hello one time easy peasy then set the opacity
of that layer to like fiftyish percent I make a new layer and then I draw on top of it where's
my mouse there it is kind of trying to stay where I drew the previous hello and it doesn't have to
be perfect the whole reason that this works is because there are slight differences between the
first time and the subsequent times that you do it which gives you the wiggling effect so then
I hide this new second layer and I'll create a third layer and copy that first one again so
then I export all these layers separately so you just hide all of them except the one that
you're exporting and I export them as a PNG so that I have this nice transparent background so
I could put it on top of their video if I want to for that you go to file export quick export
as PNG and command X is not a shortcut that comes with Photoshop it's one nice set up there was no
keyboard shortcut which I thought was weird but I exported so many pngs that I just thought it would
be faster so I do command X and usually I'll make a new folder for all these little animations that
I do it'll just be like hello one which means that's the first frame on the whole animation
and then I do that for the rest of the layers alright so then once I go back into premiere I
can import these files that I just created I'll drop in the first one and then use the arrow key
to go like three frames forward we're doing an experiment with what the speed of the animation
is I'll drop it in the second one drop in the third one then cut that off and I have these
three so this would play for like half a second so I just do ctrl C now if I just do control V like
this it'll automatically place it on the first track which is not what I want so I'm going to
undo and you have to turn off the beam one track and turn off the one that you want it to paste
on then if I do control V a bunch of just that so let's see what this looks like cute so yeah
that's how I do animations in my videos I also use a lot of titles because a lot of my videos follow
the format where it's like a list of tips or a list of ideas a list of steps so for each idea
or step I like to label what it is and for that I'm not a big fan of the title tool in Premiere
so I use Photoshop once again and it's basically the same process that I use for animations I'll
create by 1920 by 1080 file and then I've used the type tool to put in whatever text I want and
then I can edit it to look however I want if I wanted to have that color background then I'll
export both of them together otherwise I'll just turn off the background layer and export it like
that so then I'll have the transparent background to be efficient instead of like going through my
video and making one title at a time I look at my video outline where I had the whole video planned
out I'll make all the titles real quick and then I import all of them into Premiere and drop them
in where they're supposed to go my next trick that I like to use is adding like a film effect for an
aesthetic look so there are a lot of different effects that you can use to achieve this one
technique that I've used in the past is using the wave work tool you know how old videos they'll
have kind of like a rectangular glitch and this bar will just go across the screen top to bottom
but that kind of takes awhile so I usually don't bother with that but I will link to the tutorial
where I learn how to do that so much easier method is to go on YouTube and just find an overlay that
I can place on top of the video so this is the one that I use and to download videos off youtube
there are some sneaky websites that you can use I used to use online video converter .com a lot but
it's been acting weird lately and it won't convert my videos another one that I like to use is YT mp3
CC which despite the name can also convert to mp4 so don't worry I'm not officially recommending
any sites because these can be a little sketchy and I've heard about people getting viruses from
sites like these but those are the ones that I use so if you want to copy me go right ahead but I am
not liable once you've downloaded your overlay footage you import it just like any other clip
and drag it onto your timeline this one I have to resize so I just make it bigger and then the
key step is right now the blend mode will be set to normal which is why it's just a black screen
and it's covering up your other video you have to set the blend mode to screen which will make it
kind of like blend with what's behind it and then it looks like you have old VCR footage okay whew
we're almost done next we're going to talk about music I usually get my music from this channel
called audio library I think it's one of the most popular ones basically they post copyright
free music that you can use for your YouTube videos when you use this music you won't get
D monetized by YouTube you just have to make sure to properly credit the artists in your description
but audio library makes it really easy because in the descriptions of each of their songs they give
you something that you can just copy and paste into your description they have some great music
on their channel and usually when I'm looking for a song I'll just look at what new stuff they put
out in the past week so once you have your song you import it into your project and just drop it
into your timeline so since my videos are usually about 10 minutes long and songs are often about 3
minutes long I need to repeat it a couple of times to fill up the whole video so basically what I do
is I hold down the option key and I click and drag it to create a new copy of it but I try to
kind of time it in a way where it won't be super obvious that the song restarted so like I might
cut off the intro of the song if it sounds very distinct from the rest of it I'll also try to
place those transitions at points in the video where I'm talking so that you don't hear it as
much then once I have music for the entire video I go through and I kind of make micro adjustments
in the volume so for the intro I usually have the music pretty loud and then it quiets down as I get
into like the main talking portion of the video so the way that you adjust your volume throughout the
course of your audio clip is by using keyframes so you select the audio clip and you go to effect
controls and then to level so for example let's say I want it pretty loud while I'm saying hello
welcome back to the bliss bean and then I want it to get quieter after that so I would go to the end
of that sentence and click on create keyframe and then I'll go a few frames forward and I'll
make another keyframe but I'll set this one to a lower volume so like negative ten and then if you
listen back to that you'll see how it changes from zero to negative ten between those two
keyframes perfect so then I go through the whole video and if I have parts of the video where I'm
not talking like if there's a little interlude where it's just video playing and no talking
then I'll bump the music up there so that it like fills up the quiet space okay so now let's talk
about color grading um color grading is something that I've struggled with I think I've only gotten
better at it very recently because I learn how to do something new so I'm gonna tell you how
to do that now so basically straight out of the camera your footage is gonna look pretty boring
and bland and premiere has these tools that you can use to play around with the colors I actually
downloaded a Lightroom script that can convert your Lightroom presets to Premiere LUTS so LUT
stands for a lookup table and it's basically like a filter that you apply to your video
that will change the way that it looks there's probably a very very bad explanation of it and
I don't understand it very much so if you want to actually learn what a lut does I would look
at another video but I'm just gonna tell you how I use them so I have this preset that I created in
Lightroom that I use from us from my blog photos and I made a premier lut from that and the way I
would upload that is by going to browse and then going to the folder where they're hiding but the
problem is this is a very intense effect and so I could kind of play around with the settings
to make it less intense but what I really wanted was to be able to adjust the intensity of it so
actually instead of applying the LUT to the clip itself what I do is I create an adjustment layer
I make it really long so that it just extends basically over all my footage and then I apply
the LUT to the adjustment layer so then if I go to the effect controls for the adjustment
layer I can change the opacity and just change like how intense this effect is and I usually
use slightly different settings for each video because the conditions under which I film are
slightly different and of course it can't be that easy have to go through the whole video
and make sure that it still looks good throughout the whole video because usually as I'm sitting in
filming the Sun will change so if it hides behind the cloud then I have to bump up the exposure for
that part of the video also the footage that I get from each of my two cameras usually needs
pretty different settings so I have to adjust for that basically it takes a while okay then finally
we're almost done so if you watch YouTube videos which I'm guessing you do you might have noticed
that a lot of youtubers will put some sort of an ending screen where they can put the links
to different videos on their channel so for that I just have this image that I created and I drop
it in and leave it going for about 15 seconds oh wait that's 15 minutes please do not make your
ending screen 15 minutes and then I just make my music extend to the end of that screen and I make
it louder so that you have some music to enjoy while you can watch my beautiful ending screen
as for intro sometimes I have an intro sometimes I don't when I do I'll usually just cut some of the
more aesthetic Clips out of my video and I'll cycle through them in the beginning once your
video is all done you can export that baby I'm not actually going to export this because this is a 42
minute long video so it'd be like 3 gigabytes I think before I go I just want to talk about some
current productivity stuff about editing videos because I guess we talked about for activity 24/7
so my trusted pomodoro technique of working for 25 minute chunks still applies here editing is
not an activity that requires a ton of brainpower but it can get very fatiguing just like sitting
there staring at your computer screen listening to the same video clips over and over again and
a lot of times you don't realize how tired you get until you step away from your computer so
breaks are still really important and they give you time for your brain to kind of process what
you're doing and think about what you might want to change in the video and i thinks it's important
to remember that with creative activities the time that you spend not doing them can be just
as important as the time you spent doing them because your brain needs some time to kind of
sort through information and come up new ideas so while you're taking your break hydrate walk
around get some fresh air and trust me you'll be able to get the video done more efficiently
that way and most importantly what you should make sure to do all video editing is remember to have
fun because making videos as with any creative activity well it can be frustrating at times it
should be fun and YouTube should just be fun I also have a video on how I create my thumbnails
although I did make it a while ago so the style of my thumbnails has changed since then but I still
use a lot of the same techniques so now that you've exported your video and you're ready to
upload it you should check that out to see how you should wait yeah you should check that out to see
how you can make a nice little thumbnail let me know if you have any other questions about editing
because I love nerding out about this stuff so I literally will not mind one bit if you ask
me other questions unless you're asking me stuff that I covered in the video then I'll be a little
annoyed but it's okay before you go don't forget to like this video and subscribe to my channel
I'll see you next week with a little week in the life video and thank you so much for watching bye