- This video is sponsored by Epidemic Sound.
The first video editing tip that I want you to embrace
is how to edit your mistakes out as fast as possible.
When you're filming
and you're talking directly to camera
and you make a mistake,
what I want you to do
is I want you to snap your fingers audibly three times,
and then pause.
And the reason you're gonna do that
is because when you're editing
in your favorite video editing application,
whether it's Adobe Premiere Pro like me,
DaVinci Resolve, or even Final Cut Pro,
you're going to be able
to look at the audio section of your timeline
and know exactly where you made your mistakes
so you now know where to make your cut.
You can make a clean, fast break.
And when you record,
you just do your take again
right after you've done that three snaps
like we talked about
because it's gonna have three spikes in the audio file.
You're gonna be able to recognize it.
So this lets you know where to make your cut,
and it makes it clean.
Also taking pauses in between your takes
or when you're doing your lines,
whether you're reading a teleprompter
or whether you're free styling like me
just using bullet points,
it's actually going to really help you
when it comes to
just getting through your rough cut and editing faster.
Just go through the timeline,
take out all your mistakes,
take out all the dead air,
and do that
before you start worrying about your creative edits.
You can do all of that
after you have a rough cut that is error free
with no dead air and no mistakes.
Tip number two,
make a library of assets that you can use for everything,
and have these sorted out.
That way, you're not hunting for the perfect B-roll.
You're not hunting for the perfect sound effect.
You're not hunting for the perfect background music
or the perfect motion stock animated file.
You should just go ahead
and have most of these assets in place
so that you can go ahead and reference them.
And you need to have them organized into folders.
I've downloaded over 1000 pieces of footage
from Storyblocks.
It's organized and set into folders.
And I have them labeled with different concepts
for all the different emotions.
I have all of these other concepts like productivity,
creator, money, time,
just anything that I would need
when I'm referencing a video.
That's why I can throw up B-roll footage right now
under the folder video editing.
And I can just pull footage of someone editing B-roll,
and it's perfect.
You should also consider this
in terms of making your own custom B-roll
so that you have that in reserve.
Just have these set and organized in folders.
When it comes to my music,
I get all of my background music and my sound effects
from Epidemic Sound,
who we'll talk about in a little bit.
And what I do is I have this organized as well.
I can set this based on mood and tone.
So whatever the tone of video is,
the music matches to it.
I also have a sound effects folder.
This is perfect,
means I don't have to spend hours,
I've known editors
to spend literally three hours on the sound design.
And most of that three hours
was just looking for the right tracks.
I just already know what the right tracks are
because I set it up in advance.
Same thing goes for things like motion graphics and effects.
Just go ahead and have the ones that you're gonna use.
I use MotionVFX for a lot of this.
It's compatible with Premiere Pro,
DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro.
And so I have these things set aside,
plus Adobe Premiere Pro
comes with a bunch of presets and MOGRT files
that I can just easily use
and have animated motion text on the screen whenever I want.
And I kind of have the style that I do for these videos.
So I kind of have these already established
in terms of what my videos are gonna look like.
I don't have to sit there and hunt through
and pick out and agonize over the decisions.
You want to eliminate decision creep in your video edits.
It's gonna make everything faster.
Tip number three,
you should focus on simplifying your edits.
A lot of you are trying to be way too fancy
when it comes to your video editing,
and you really should just really analyze the fact
that not everyone has to make a Mr. Beast hyper edited video
in order to get watch time and retention
on YouTube and social media.
While this has been proven effective,
and it does keep those wonderful TikTok attention spans
that everyone's developed,
notice my disdain.
Yes, I said it,
quiet part out loud.
Well, you don't have to edit like that.
You can carry people's attention
with your performance on camera.
And there are a lot of people on YouTube
get millions of views
without resorting to that same Mr. Beast editing style.
Marques Brownlee, MKBHD is one of my favorite YouTubers.
He actually keeps his edits really simple.
It's the cinematography
that takes a lot more work on their part,
but the overall edits are simple and clean.
They don't overdo it on transitions or effects.
Most of the work is done in camera,
and that's actually a better way to approach it
from my perspective.
Same thing with Casey Neistat.
Casey Neistat's videos are not hyper edited.
They are storyboarded,
they are performed very well,
but most of the work is done in camera.
The more work you do in camera to get quality in,
the less editing work you're gonna have to do on the backend
to make everything right.
And speaking of doing less work,
that actually brings me to today's sponsor, Epidemic Sound.
I don't wanna hunt all over the internet
to find the perfect audio tracks or sound effects
for my videos,
and that's why Epidemic Sound is great.
I've been using them for years,
even before working with them,
and most of the creators on YouTube are using them,
if you are wondering where we're all getting
that wonderful background music from.
And we all get to use different types of background music
because they have a ridiculously large library
of music and sound effects that you can use,
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And the best part
is that you can get a free trial
with my link in the description down below.
Thanks again to Epidemic Sound for sponsoring today's video.
Speaking of videos,
that does bring us to tip number four
for your video editing.
There are really three main techniques
that most of you should be focusing on
when it comes to video editing,
and this is gonna help you refine your videos,
get them to higher quality,
but also save you time and make this faster.
And the three techniques you really should be focusing on
is what to keep and what to cut.
You should be focusing on color correction.
It doesn't have to be fancy color grading.
Focus on accurate skin tones, for example.
And you also should focus on correcting your audio.
You can then expand from there to color grading
once you decide on a style that you like,
and you can then go into further sound design
and add background music
and sound effects where appropriate,
and then your videos are gonna be much more polished
and it's gonna be on par with most of the big YouTubers.
Having good looking footage
largely is something that can be accomplished
with good cameras, good lenses, good lighting.
That's going to help you considerably.
It's also gonna be a matter
of your on camera performance and talent.
However, once you know what to cut and what to keep,
you can tighten up your videos
and do a better job of storytelling.
And this is gonna help your videos perform.
If you focus on getting cuts right and mastering them,
that's gonna be one of the foundations
of you building good habits as a video editor.
And you need to just be much more swift and decisive
on the decision making aspect of it.
Judgment is the key to good video editing.
It's more about judgment than it is about creativity,
believe it or not.
And then when it comes to color,
I really prioritize accurate skin tones.
I want what is on camera
to represent what somebody looks like
as close to in real life as possible.
There are flourishes and things that you can adjust
in terms of the look.
For me, I bump up the contrast,
sharpness and saturation just a little bit.
You may have noticed that.
But it ends up looking really good
and it doesn't make my skin look unnatural.
That is also going to make your videos
look more polished and professional
if people have natural skin tones.
You might wanna consider shooting in a more neutral
or even a log format with your videos
to make them easier to edit
and to color correct and color grade in the future.
I tend to shoot in the standard profile most of the time.
When I'm not shooting in the standard profile,
I might shoot in the vivid profile
just because with the color science of my Sony cameras,
it's more flattering for my skin tones
and I don't have to work merely as hard in the edit.
Getting a lot of stuff right in camera
can really help,
or setting yourself up
to have as many options as possible in camera
helps with giving you better and faster edits.
As for correcting your audio,
the better your microphones are,
the less work you will have to do.
In this case,
right now I'm not using my wireless lapel mic,
which is usually a (indistinct) wireless mic.
You may have noticed that.
I'm using the Sony Shotgun Digital Microphone,
and I find that works just as good,
even in the space with the hardwood floors,
and I don't have to work aggressively hard
in the audio correction.
It may not be perfect,
but it's actually pretty good for YouTube standards.
With your corrections for your audio
and even for your color,
presets go a long way.
Once you get something down
if you're gonna shoot in the same location,
you can use presets to make this easier
so that you can just push a button
and you get the exact result that you're looking for.
So keep that in mind.
As long as you keep consistent conditions,
which for some of you,
you feel like it'll make your videos boring,
but there are videos
with millions if not tens of millions of views in YouTube
that are actually shot and edited pretty simply.
I mean, one of the best examples of this
is probably Aba & Preach.
They're a funny comedy and commentary duo,
and their stuff is all shot in one scene.
And it's pretty much always the same,
and it hasn't stopped them
from getting millions upon millions of views
on their videos.
Simple videos can still work.
I'm just telling you
that you can also tighten them up just a little bit.
Tip number five.
This is one of the secrets
to consistency and faster editing.
Give yourself an actual time constraint
for editing your videos.
I tend to edit videos in 90 minute blocks.
For one thing,
it's probably the maximum stretch
of effective focus and productivity
is working on something 90 minutes at a time,
it's one of my secret productivity hacks,
before I get diminishing returns
for just working on something all the way through.
It's also fine by the way,
every 25 minutes in this 30 minute session to go ahead,
take a break, stretch,
walk around, get some water,
do whatever you need to do.
So those five minute breaks actually help.
This is called the Pomodoro Technique.
It is one of those guru productivity hacks
that people love so much on YouTube and TikTok.
Ugh, TikTok.
Moving along,
just make sure
that you're doing this productively and practically
because what I find
is by doing one or two editing sessions like this in a day,
I end up getting
anywhere from one to two videos cranked out pretty easily.
So when I combine that with batch recording,
it works out really well.
And that's how I've been able to get out
daily content once again
and be consistent here on YouTube.
And it's obviously been working really well for the channel
and it sets me up for future success
since most of my content is evergreen.
See, I throw in a YouTube tip for you here or there
to grow the channel.
And there you go,
five video editing tips
that will help you become a faster video editor,
and these actually work.
If you enjoyed this video,
you wanna make sure
you're checking out my series on video editing.
It's gonna be linked in the description down below.
Also, you might wanna check out this video on consistency
if it's something that you're struggling with
in your content.
As always, thank you so very much for watching
and don't forget,
go out there and create something awesome today.
Take care.