Hey, my name is Dylan. And these are some tips and tricks to help you blow
through your youtube videos even faster. This first one you may already do, and if
that’s the case, let me know in the comments. If you find you’re using the same titles,
the same templates, the same elements and sound effects in pretty much all of your videos,
and you get annoyed at how you have to find them, bring them onto your timeline,
and adjust them the way you like, every single new video. Instead just do this. Create a new library.
Maybe label it ‘YouTube video template’. Create a new project.
Hit the keyboard shortcut, Option W, to make a really long gap clip. And when you’re editing your
next YouTube video and you just customized your title the way you want and added sound effects at
a specific volume at the right time, hold command and select everything, press Command C to copy,
switch to that Final Cut template project that you just created, and press Command V to paste.
What you’ll be doing is creating a library that you can access every time you make youtube videos
so you can quickly copy those customized elements and paste them into the new video
without having to adjust them every single time. This may seem obvious, but trust me when I say,
this has saved me arguably the most time when it comes to creating my YouTube videos. As an
example, I have all my pop ups set up with modified drop zones, text the way I like it,
and adjusted sound effects positioned at the right time underneath. I even have sound effects that I
use often for transitions and stuff, all adjusted to be the right volume. I have my backgrounds
in here. And my call to actions. Then like I mentioned, you just have to copy every element
by pressing command C. You could even just hold command and just drag a selection of entire areas
of media , press Command C, and then paste that by pressing Command V onto your new youtube video.
Let’s move onto tip number 2 to talk about what I’ll call minute adjustments. So for example,
after you paste these clips into your new video, maybe you feel they’re not playing at the right
time in the video. Maybe they need to be a couple frames over you think. With them selected,
just hit comma a few times to nudge to the left a few frames. And hit period to nudge to the right a
few frames. If you really missed the spot that you needed to paste the elements, you can hold shift
and hit comma or period and it’ll nudge it 10 frames. You can also do this with clips. If this
clip is a little long and you’d like it to cut a few frames earlier, just select the end of the
clip, and press comma a few times. And pressing period will extend the end of that clip a frame.
I also find this extremely useful when it comes to adding sound effects. I’ll isolate my sound effect
by pressing Option S. And as a bonus tip, you can save a lot of time by making this feature just
the C key. I’ll leave a link to a video in the description that’ll show you how to do that. You
can also just go and press the solo select button over here. And then I’ll press period or comma to
make sure the sound effect is in the exact spot that it needs to be to match the visuals of the
transition. Last minute adjustment that you can use to really speed up your workflow. Instead of
having to drag down volume of music, sound effects, or dialogue, just select the clip
and press control - or control + a few times. This raises or lowers your volume by a single
decibel. Once again, you can speed up your editing time even more by mapping this shortcut from
Control - and Control + shortcuts to just - and +. Tip number 3, if you’re someone who adds the same
LUTs, effects, color grades, even audio effects to your clips every time you make a new youtube
video, stop making these adjustments every single time you edit. Instead, make them once. Hit this
button down here. Save Effects Preset. Type in what name you’d like to give it. For this,
we’ll say YouTube Studio Grade and Effects. Maybe put it in the custom category. And
hit ‘save’. Now when you start a new youtube video, don’t go through that tedious process
of adding everything and adjusting them again, just go to your effects browser,
head to custom and select that preset you made earlier. Easy work! It’s the same with audio. Once
you have all of your adjustments made, hit save effects preset. And go through the same process.
Then when you’re editing your new youtube video and you need your audio to instantly sound better,
head down to the custom section in your audio and select that preset. And check this out though. You
can speed up your editing even more by doing this. Control right click that audio effect and
select make default audio effect. And do the same thing with the video one.
Then the next time you start a youtube video and you want to add all of that sauce to your video,
you don’t even have to go into this browser. Just select your clip, hit Option E,
think option effect, and that effects preset with all of your adjustments will be added. And
for the audio preset, just hit Option Command E. So once again, that was Option E for the effects
and Option Command E for the audio effects. Tip number 4 to creating Youtube videos faster
is to utilize one of the best things about Final Cut Pro. And that’s the way you’re
able to organize your footage. I’m not going to dive too heavily in on the subject, but you may
or may not already know that you can select your clip or sections of your clip and press the F key
to favorite which parts of your clips you like. Think F for favorite. Then you can head to this
drop down menu, go to favorites, and see all the best bits of your footage to help make editing an
easier time for you. And by the way, to see what parts of your clips you’ve used in your project,
go to view, browser, and click used media ranges. These orange bars will show up to show you what
you’ve used. Another thing that is immensely helpful, especially when you have a boatload
of footage, is to use keywords. Keywords are like sticky notes for your footage. So you’ll select
the clip or section of the clip and hit Command K. This brings up your Keyword shortcut editor.
Think of this as your sticky note pad. And type in some words to help you identify this clip later.
Then when you get to similar clips, use the same words.
That way, when you’re in the middle of editing your video and you think,
hmm I wonder what parts of clips I have with an animal looking at the camera,
you can just expand your event, click that keyword and you have everything you need right there.
The last tip I have for you to create youtube videos faster is to use plugins. Don’t click
off just yet because I’ll go over two paid ones and one free plugin that’ll help you a ton. You
probably already know what a plugin is, but if you don’t, they’re basically special tools that you
can add to Final Cut that can help you make your videos look even better, in a shorter amount of
time. Two that I use constantly are mTuber 2 and mTuber 3 from MotionVFX. They’re specifically made
for Youtubers and there’s quite a lot of presets in them. Each pack has different types of call
to actions, intros, pop up tools, text, and even transitions that you can use. Using these presets
makes it so you don’t have to create your own in Apple Motion or create some janky looking one in
Final Cut. I highly recommend them and I’ll put a link to them in the description. There’s also
a free plugin that I use in every single video and I’ve made a video about before. It’s called Tap5a
and it’s a drag and drop, in and out animation plugin. So if you want a picture to animate into
your shot a certain way, you can quickly make those adjustments with pretty much the click of
a button. And there’s tons of options in and out. And then you can just do the same thing if you
want it to animate out a certain way. It’s easy to use and the best part, it’s free. I’ll leave
a link to this one in the description as well. Also, how much do you know much about the Range
tool in Final Cut? If you’re wanting to learn some cool and helpful tricks in
a short 3 minute video, click this right here. And have a great rest of your day!