- I'm gonna tell you 10 YouTube video production hacks
that are gonna help you make better videos faster
and we're starting right now.
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When I first started out on YouTube
it took me forever to go from the idea of making the video
all the way to actually finishing the video
and having it ready for upload.
And by forever I mean like a day, two days.
And that's just because I didn't know
the things that I'm getting ready
to share with you, right now.
And now that I know these things
I can go from having the idea for the video,
all the way to having a video finished
and ready to upload to YouTube in just a few hours.
The very first thing that has helped me personally a lot,
is going from using scripts to now using bullet points.
Scripting is great, it keeps you on point
and it makes sure that you say all the things
that you need to say and all of that.
But it adds so much time to the video making process
because you're basically writing out an entire video
and then you're going through and revising it
and all that stuff, and it just takes time.
With bullet points, on the other hand,
you can write down a handful of notes,
get in front of the camera and freestyle.
And look, I know in some cases, with some types of content,
that a script is required.
In that situation nothing you can do,
but if you can work yourself out of the scripts
it can really speed up your workflow.
Number two.
Using plugins and presets.
Now this is something that can really speed things up,
especially if you are doing any types of color treatments
to your videos and things like that.
We use Magic Bullet Looks because, basically, how that works
is we just dial in our color presets
and we take a video that looks like this
and we turn it into this.
We have a preset for each of the scenes that I shoot in
because the lights and everything stays pretty much the same
so that once the video is complete,
the actual editing process,
then all we have to do is go in and make a few minor tweaks
and then the color looks great.
Number three, use templates.
Having a starting video file
that contains your lower thirds,
your intro, your end screens.
Anything that you use on a regular basis in your videos
can really speed things up
because you have everything that you need
within that file or within the folder
that actually contains that file.
And that keeps you from having to go and find everything
for every single video that you put out, which is awesome.
And it keeps things super organized for you
because everything is self-contained
which also makes it easy to archive,
just in case you need the footage at a later date.
Number four, using a color or a gray card.
Now this might look simple but here's the deal.
Using one of these makes it extremely easy
to make sure that your colors are on point
because all you have to do is you go in
and you pick the neutral color
or you pick the white or you can measure all of them
inside of your editing software and when you do that
it's going to automatically snap everything
into place for you so that you don't have to spend the time
eyeballing it and checking and looking.
Like, oh hey is this right?
Is this, let me look at it on another monitor
and see if I've got the color right.
It kinda guarantees that your colors come out okay.
Another thing that can be extremely helpful
for speeding things up,
and I know not everybody can do this, but if you can,
having a dedicated recording area is awesome
and it makes things super fast.
Like, in this situation here,
making this particular video,
all I have to do is put in a memory card,
turn on the camera. turn on the lights, go.
I'm not dragging stuff out of a closet,
I'm not setting anything up, I'm not moving anything around,
I just turn it all on and go.
So if you can find a place, if it's a corner or a room
or whatever it happens to be,
if you can find a place to set everything up
and just leave it up,
it can really speed up your workflow too.
Number six.
Now this one isn't on the workflow side,
but this one's on the YouTube side
because you're uploading videos to YouTube.
YouTube has a feature called Upload defaults.
And with the Upload defaults
all you have to do is go into your settings,
then Upload defaults,
add anything to your description
that you normally would have to copy and paste into it
and then bam.
It's gonna be there for all of the videos that you upload
from that point forward,
which is going to save you a ton of time
of having to actually go and copy and paste
all the stuff that you wanna to put in your description.
Add that up by adding a bunch of playlists
that matter to your audience and then deleting the ones
that you don't want to actually link to
for that specific video.
So much faster.
You can also apply this to your ad placements,
your video language, your licensing, all of that stuff.
Really, it seems kinda minor, but it's a huge time-saver.
This next one is for anybody
that's recording any type of voiceover,
so check this out.
When you're recording your voice over
if you get a lot of background noise
or you hear a lot of reverb in the room
when you're recording, this is gonna sound silly,
but just hear me out.
If you take a blanket and you put it over you
and the area that you are recording
and you make your voice over inside of that blanket tent
or whatever you want to call it,
it's gonna help reduce the amount of noise
that's coming into the microphone,
it's also going to help reduce the amount that your voice
is bouncing all over the room
because it's going to hit that blanket,
which is going to absorb it or reduce it
and that's going to make your voice sound better.
This next one is a two part hack.
So with this one we're gonna have
two different things going on.
One is batch creating your content and two,
is having extra batteries and extra memory cards
so that you can batch produce your content,
without having to go to the computer
in between every video that you're making
and transfer the files over and then clear the memory card
and then put it back in your camera.
If you have the extra batteries
you can swap 'em out as you need 'em,
if you have the extra memory cards
you can swap 'em out as you need 'em.
You can even take this up a notch
by actually getting a plugin for your camera.
Most cameras these days, you can get aftermarket
or you can get official plug-ins
to where you can actually plug the camera in
and you don't even need batteries.
The idea with this is forward motion.
So if you're in video mode and you're like, hey,
I'm talking and I'm presenting or whatever,
then the last thing you wanna do is break that up
by going and having to spend time doing other things, right?
You wanna stay in that groove, stay in that mood
of presenting your content.
So you just swap things out as needed
and then you keep going.
Next on the list, depending on the type of camera
that you have and if it allows it or not,
is to make presets for the particular situation
that you shoot in the most.
For example, my Sony has these presets
so that when I'm recording in my main environment
that I'm always recording my videos in,
one of these is set to record in there,
the other one is set to record in vlog format.
So if I wanna grab this and I wanna go out into the world
and shoot a vlog, no problem it's got me covered,
I just have to switch this and then I'm good to go.
When I come back from having it out of the studio,
all I have to do is switch it back into that studio setting
and then I'm good to go in the studio.
This is another one that sounds simple,
but it saves me a ton of time of coming back in
and saying, oh man, now I got to spend the time
setting this up, getting the lighting right,
making sure that I have all the settings
inside of the camera the way they were before.
Which speeds up my workflow all the way around
and it also makes sure that I have a consistent look
every time I shoot in this environment.
Now this next one can actually be enjoyable.
So another hack for you,
in terms of just speeding things up, is this.
Make a folder on your computer or inside of your phone
and download the songs that you think that you might use
in the future, in your videos,
if you're using music in your videos.
Personally, what I do in this situation,
is while I'm sitting there doing other things, right.
I'm sitting, I'm in front of my computer
and I'm working on other stuff.
I'll have Epidemic Sound open
and I'll be listening to their different songs
while I'm actually doing other things.
As soon as I hear something where I'm like,
yeah this is pretty cool, I might use this in a video.
Then what I do is I just open that browser
and then I download that to my computer so that I have it.
Here's where that speeds you up.
When you are making a video
and you have that folder on your computer,
you can just go into that folder
and those are songs that you are already proven to like
and you just have to see which one's
apply to the video that you're making.
Instead of having to start from scratch,
log into a website, go through and sort through
all of the music that they have on the website
in order to find those specific tracks
that you're looking for.
Hours of time can be saved just on that one hack alone.
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Thank you so much for watching, I'll see you next time.