so I was thinking about getting ready
and actually looking cute for this video
but then I remembered that I exclusively
edit while looking like a potato so here
we are the real editing experience acne
out and about eyebrows nowhere to be
found
looking like a [ __ ] gnome let's learn
how to edit first step of editing get
yourself some tea if you like me you
tend to edit at 2:00 a.m. because you
hate yourself
so get caffeinated [ __ ] cuz we're
gonna be here for a while second type of
endings take off the sweatshirt because
it is like 90 degrees out and I just did
it for the bids not to worry no because
I have a matching t-shirt underneath so
the aesthetic is preserved third step of
editing secure a sponsor for this video
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first up Before we jump into a more
thorough rundown of my workflow I
thought I would answer some of your
guys's most asked questions right off
the bat so first up what editing
software do you use I use Final Cut Pro
a lot of people use from your pro which
is actually a much more professional
editing software but my broke ass cannot
be bothered to pay $50 per month to use
Adobe software so I just bought Final
Cut Pro once for $300 and she is
treating me well so far
second up what titles do you use for
your videos in Final Cut I just insert a
basic title I go to 2d Styles faux 3d
and then I change the font to future up
I also really like playing around with
the tracking which is how far away the
letters are from each other it can help
you get that kind of like aesthetic
spaced out text look that the kids are
into these days sometimes though I also
hand draw my titles and I'll show you I
use my iPad for this but if you have
more nimble fingers than I do you could
probably use your phone as well I use
paper by 53 which is a free app recently
for my thumbnails and some of the titles
in my last video I've been using this I
don't know what it is it's like a sponge
roller tool and it creates this really
cool texture that I like that's a little
bit less plain than just a solid title
sometimes in here I also do animations
for those that you don't know I was like
a total nerd for animation as a kid my
first youtube channel ever when I was in
like third grade was actually called
Pike senior studios and it was just
these like 30-second stop-motion videos
of pipe cleaner animals moving
around and I also used to make those
little flip books and sticky notes and
do a bunch of hand-drawn animations so
that still has a little place in my
heart
basically my super like unprofessional
and fado strategy for doing animations
is to just hand draw all the pictures
out on my iPad and then I import them
into Final Cut so basically I have all
these images on my timeline and I just
drag them so the duration of the clip is
really short and then when you play it
back it kind of looks like it's moving
really I'm like spreading my legs a lot
in this video
okay um you guys also ask me a lot where
I get my music this is a youtuber
struggle recently YouTube has gotten a
lot more strict with their music
copyright policy and if your video gets
copyright flag they either get taken
down or more likely they get demonetized
so like the hipster hoe that i am i go
to soundcloud that's pretty much where i
get all of my music and basically i just
search for hours for music that a that a
isn't too popular so it's not gonna get
copyright fly beef doesn't sound like
trash can see actually fits with the
vibe of the video there is really like
no rhyme or reason to this whole process
sometimes i'll start by watching some
other youtube videos and see if i like
the vibe of their music I'll go to
SoundCloud trying to find that artist
and then find other songs and that
artist makes and then from there I kind
of just go down like the SoundCloud
rabbit hole and look at the related
tracks usually they're from like equally
in the artists and they have a similar
vibe one thing that I found that I
really like to search for is remixes and
covers of songs that I like and in
particular I really like remixes of
songs from like the 50s and 60s I think
it just goes really well with the vibe
of my video I am admittedly not the best
at changing up the music in my videos I
always will try to do a new song for a
lookbook but for my talking videos I put
the same [ __ ] song in every
background I'll link it below the main
ones I use are Amsterdam in the spring
which is this one June gloom is what I
used to use for my intros which is this
one recently I found this one which is
called pillow talk which is a little bit
more distracting but I also really like
it
how do I know that my music isn't gonna
get copyright flags I test out every new
song that I download just by creating an
empty new project in Final Cut dragging
the song in there exporting it to
YouTube as a private or unlisted video
and then once it's uploaded to YouTube I
turn on monetization and see whether
it's been flagged if the monetization
button still stays green then we're all
good to go and I always like doing that
before I actually start editing a video
because I edit to the music and then if
I upload the final video and I find out
that it's been copyright flag then I'm
just [ __ ] next up let's jump into some
actual details of my workflow so a lot
depends on whether the video is a
talking video like this or whether it's
a lookbook that's more music based with
a voiceover if it's a talking video my
first step is to sync the audio and the
visual on an external mic which this is
gonna sound awful when I pick it up but
bear with me so this is what it looks
like it has a separate SD card so I have
to import those files separately and
then manually sync them I should put
this down because my voice probably
sounds really ridiculous from that angle
in order to sync them I create a
compound clip which is a super useful
technique that a lot of people don't
talk about I just discovered it maybe
like six months ago you just highlight
the clips that you want to combine go to
file new compound clip or I've set my
keyboard shortcut to G so I just press
the G button and then it will combine
all those clips into their own separate
clip so for example I can chop up this
clip of me talking and I won't have to
cut through the audio and the video and
resync them every single time it just
works like it's one clip after that I do
a rough cut of the video if it's talking
like this obviously just chopping up the
talking and putting them all together in
the timeline if it's a lookbook I'll
just go through all the footage and cut
up these little nuggets of modeling
where I don't look super awkward so I
left with just a timeline full of
potential modeling clips that I'd want
to use this part of the process takes
[ __ ] forever but it's also pretty
chilled because normally I'll turn on
some music
since the clips don't have sound also in
that time to multitask sometimes I'll go
through SoundCloud and start listening
to music that I want to be in the
background of my lookbook while I'm
doing this initial cut of the modeling
clips after I have a rough cut of all of
my potential clips what I like to do is
make a backup copy of the entire project
that way I can feel a lot more confident
in deleting any of the clips that I
don't want because if I do change my
mind and I feel like I wanted this
vlogging clip or a segment where I said
something and I want it back in the
video but I don't wanna have to search
through hours of footage to find it
again I can just go to that backup
and drag the pre-selected clip into my
video at this point we'll do the music
so as I do a finer cut I have a better
feeling of final vibe and the beats of
the video awesome when I'm doing a
talking video it is so dry without the
music so normally I get really
discouraged watching my rough cut and I
really hate it and then I add the music
and like it's a little more entertaining
and I hate myself a little bit less if
it's a lookbook obviously the music is
really important and I'll just drag my
clips from that rough cut on top of the
music and time everything to the beat if
I have a voiceover though I'll also keep
down the music and add the voiceover at
this point and then I'll try to sync the
modeling clips to match what I'm talking
about in my voiceover here are a couple
of the effects that I use in my look
books and my videos in general the first
one is this box or like frame within a
frame effect this is one of my favorite
things to do and I think it really
spices off the video a little bit it's
honestly really simple you just want to
layer two clips on top of each other so
they're on top of each other here in the
timeline and then take the top clip and
scale it down a little bit to whatever
size that you want
normally the front clip is gonna be me
and an outfit and then the background is
gonna be some b-roll that I took of my
surrounding location like a close-up of
flowers or the sky or something like
that I try to match the vibe and the
colors of the background clip with the
foreground clip another effect that I
use is this TV effect and that's
something that I used to use in all of
my intro segments and it something I
like to use in my look books especially
in close-up shots or things that are
less detailed to give it a little bit of
a retro vibe or something like that so I
just go into effects search bad TV and
then you drag that over the clip you can
play with the amount the type of static
I techniques that I'll use for intro
clips or transitions sometimes is the
roll and that basically creates this
like double exposure look it does make
the image a little bit harder to see but
I like that for like close-up shots or
if it's just kind of a boring shot you
can use that to change things up and
low-key these effects also help hide any
like failed cinematography moments I
also use this effect sometimes to make
this little like TV glitch transition
effect I do this manually by cutting out
the clip that I want into multiple
little pieces near the beginning or end
wherever I want the transition to be and
for each clip I give it a different
amount of the bad TV effect and I give
it a different roll
so once we're done it looks like this
image has a little jumping around glitch
effect also because I am fiendin for
that vintage aesthetic apparently
something else I do is I have these
green effects you can search on YouTube
for just like a green overlay and then
you can download that you drag it over
your video and normally they'll have a
black background so to make it
transparent
you're gonna go to compositing blend
mode and then we're gonna do add and
that'll get rid of all of the black and
just leave you with that white and green
effect next up is color correction for
my outdoor shots and lookbooks the color
tends to turn out pretty well so I'll
just do something super basic normally
I'll turn out the saturation a little
bit bring the highlights up sometimes if
I want a little bit more of that vintage
aesthetic I'll also add a little bit of
pink in the color correction and then
for indoors because my camera is a
little [ __ ] sometimes indoors I'm gonna
show you guys on my last video these
clips actually came out really really
dark because I was filming for like four
hours so by the end of it like the Sun
was setting I started out by adding a
basic color board just turning out the
highlights and the saturation a little
bit I wanted the white background to
appear really white but I couldn't turn
the exposure up too much without blowing
out the details in my skin so then I
created another color board and I did
something called a color mask I just
dragged the eyedropper over the white
tones in the background so my color
correction will only affect those white
tones and then I turned up the exposure
a lot more and that held me brighten up
the background without affecting my skin
and then because I still wasn't
satisfied with that I went back with a
fourth color correction this time I did
a shake mask and then outside the shape
mask I also turned out the brightness so
that I got rid of this kind of dark
vignette around the sides and brightened
up just the outsides of the frame lastly
after I'm done with all of that I'll cut
my intro and doing the intro is honestly
my least favorite part of any video it
sucks because at that point I'm just
like really over it and I want to get
out but the intro is really important
and giving your viewers kind of a
preview of what's gonna happen in the
video so they know they aren't wasting
their time so normally I'll just go
through the video and pick out my
favorite clips and the most aesthetic
looking stuff and copy and paste lots at
the beginning of the video where I time
it to music and then add a title and
then normally I'll add some type of
effect over that whether that's the bad
TV effect or green or something just to
distinguish it from the look of the rest
of the video
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and then there we go that is the intro
which only takes me like an hour to do
it's really obnoxious if it's like a
thrift haul for example and I'm trying
not to give away too much of the video i
time into that song called June gloom
and it has this bit where it goes like
I'll like play it here it's like really
fast so I try to sync it to that bloom
the sound effects and I basically do a
super cut of all of my clips but make
them really really short so I kind of
just flashed by your eyes and you're
like wow there is so much content in
this thrift haul but I can't quite see
what it is I better keep watching and
that is pretty much it after that will
normally watch through it a couple more
times because I always make like dumb
errors I have like typos or I have a cut
that could be a little bit neater and
then I exported to YouTube and she's
ready to go one big tip that I have
before I leave if you're thinking about
getting into editing at all I would
highly highly recommend customizing your
keyboard shortcuts basically there are a
ton of different functions at Final Cut
it's a really complex program all of
them you can access through the menu
options at the top or they have keyboard
shortcuts but most of them either
involve pressing command ctrl or option
and another key and I just find the
combinations really hard to memorize so
what I did I went to the commands
section and then you can click customize
in this menu you can pretty much set any
function that you want to do in Final
Cut and just assign it to a single key
so it's so much easier to access instead
of going through all the menus you just
smack one key and you're ready to go
this honestly saves me so much time like
hours and hours while editing so I
definitely recommend to taking a couple
minutes to set that up that is all I
have for you guys today sorry this is a
little bit fast-paced and a little bit
more advanced I'm kind of assuming that
you guys have a basic knowledge of
editing but if you guys are new to this
and you want much more professional and
much more cohesive tutorials on how to
edit I would definitely recommend
checking out Skillshare it's an online
learning service where they have
tutorials like this but like wave header
about anything that you want to learn
from like languages to photography to
editing they have a really great two
hour long walk through of all the basics
of Final Cut the tutorials are also
broken down into chapters which is so
awesome so you can just skip to whatever
skill that you want to learn or you can
watch the whole thing through if you
want a really cohesive introduction to
editing and they also have some great
tutorials on premiere pros which I
should probably watch because Premiere
Pro still confuses the heck outta me if
you guys are interested I do have a link
in the description
the first 500 of you to click it get a
two month free trial of skill share
after that skill share is ten
a month but that's still so much more
affordable than um film school for
example I'm paying like 40 K a gear to
learn probably the same thing but yeah
seriously give skills here a try if you
are interested in learning more about
editing they give you unlimited access
to all these classes from actual
professionals in the field which is
really awesome and can be a great way to
learn something new
other than that thank you so much for
watching this video as always let me
know if you guys want me to do more
specific tutorials I know like this is a
fashion channel and not an editing
channel so I'm not sure if that would be
super relevant to you guys but let me
know in the comments below and I'll see
you guys next week looking like less of
a natural lump see you guys next week
bye
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