- Hey, everyone.
I've got a bit of a different video for you today.
I've been getting a lot of questions recently
about my editing process, specifically for editing vlogs.
And so, I thought that today, I'm going to screen record
as I edit the vlog for this week
and show you how I do it and give you some tips.
If perhaps you vlog yourself or you're looking
to get into it, I definitely think
that YouTube needs more designers who share
their life, so, hopefully this might encourage you.
I've been vlogging for a couple of years now,
and over that time,
I've definitely streamlined my editing process a lot,
because editing takes a while, and I personally
would much rather be doing things and like,
doing the stuff that I'm filming
rather than spending time editing.
So my edits are very simple, but I'm sure
there's a few tips and tricks I can share along the way.
I'm going to edit this week's vlog
and talk through the process.
Let's get into it.
So, here's all the raw footage for this week's vlog,
and what I do is I have this file here,
which is a plain project
that has my title and end card already saved in it.
So whenever I start a new video project,
whether it's a vlog or a video like this,
I just duplicate this guy by going Command + D,
and then I'm going to drag it into the March folder.
Okay, so this is what my plain file looks like,
and to start with, what I do
is just grab the first lot of files that I see
and drop them onto the timeline.
I edit in Premiere Pro, by the way.
I don't think I said that yet.
There you go.
They show up, and I just drop 'em in.
I like to get all of my raw footage just sitting
in the file first so I sort of know what I'm working with.
So let's just get the rest of it.
Basically, you just work from the start to the end,
and like, work my way through it.
I tend to do two passes, which, yeah, I'll get into that.
But anyway, to start with, this guy here is my intro.
My intro was made by a very talented animator
called Austin Saylor, and we made a video together
actually talking about this intro animation, so I'll
link that on a card if you want to go and watch that.
So basically, this is an After Effects project,
and the composition is what is in my Premiere profile.
So whenever I make an update here in After Effects,
it will automatically update in Premiere, which is amazing.
First off, I'm just going to turn on the fill,
which is what makes my logo white,
and then, see here how Austin set the file up for me?
Place the title graphic.
I'm just gonna delete these,
because that's not what this is called,
and I already have saved the one called Weekly Vlog.
I'm going to turn on the fill for that as well.
Now it says that.
Now, in Premiere, the file should be the right one.
The trick that I learned for editing,
I learned from Levi Allen,
who is amazingly talented filmmaker.
You should definitely check out his channel.
He lives in Canada
and is always doing awesome outdoorsy things.
He made a video about how to double
your editing speed in Premiere Pro.
I think that was what it was called.
And he told me about two keys, Q and W,
and they have completely changed the way I edit.
So, if you hit W, it will chop off your footage
from the end up to the point that you have it at,
and if you hit Q,
it'll do the same thing but from the start.
So right here, see, I've got my play point,
playhead, whatever it's called.
I'm just gonna hit W, and it's gonna chop it to that point.
This is basically how I just go through all of my footage.
I'm just gonna put my headphones in now
and get to chopping down all my chatter.
I tend to just go to like...
You can see in the sound waves
here where I'm going to start talking.
So I'm just going to go Q
and chop off to there as my starting point.
Some other handy keys when editing is J, K, and L.
So, L goes forward, J goes backwards,
and K stops in the middle.
So, you know, they're all together.
If you hit the key twice, L or J,
it'll move forward or back at double the speed.
So that is really handy for editing,
'cause it means you can like,
speed through whatever you're saying.
So I'm just gonna hit L twice and go through with this clip.
If you've seen my vlogs before, you'll know
that I do a lot of like, talking and then montage-y bits
showing what I'm up to.
And for that, I need music.
I have this Songs folder full of, you know,
songs that I've collected from various places.
This is an artist I've been liking, using a lot lately.
His songs are available under a Creative Commons license,
which means I just have to credit him in the description,
which is easy enough.
So I'm just gonna pick a track,
and I'm gonna chop the music off here,
'cause I don't need music behind this talking piece.
I like using the exponential fade transition,
I guess it's called.
Yeah, let's drag that out a bit
so that the music can like,
fade down gently as I start talking.
So whenever I have my montage-y stuff,
I don't want the ambient sound from the camera in there.
I just want the music.
So I highlight the clips and then go Command + L,
and that will unlink the audio.
Then I can just highlight the audio part
and delete it without deleting the whole clip.
Another tip is you can copy and paste transitions,
so I would just copy this fade and paste it here
so it does the same thing on the way out.
If you're using Q and W as well,
I always lock my sound wave, because I don't
wanna chop up my song as I'm chopping the footage.
This clip I've sped up just by right-clicking
and going into Speed / Duration,
and I set it to 300%.
So I'm just going to keep doing this
throughout the rest of my footage,
chopping up the talking bits and timing the montage stuff
to music, and then I will come back to you
and show you the titles part.
Okay, well, that took longer than expected.
And also then I had an hour break 'cause I had a meeting,
but we're back.
This is my rough cut of my vlog,
and it's not that rough, actually.
I tend to like, try and keep things pretty tight
as I edit through so that I don't have to watch
the whole thing through again.
But as you can see, I've got my talking bits,
and then the little bits of music.
This one's turned out to be about 18 minutes long,
which is probably my longest vlog ever.
So I don't know why I chose this one to edit for the video.
Anyway, last touches.
So, I've copied in my end card,
which I just keep like saved in another sequence
in Premiere, so I just copy and paste those files.
'Cause I have my animation, my logo animation,
just on top of a screen that I made in Photoshop.
Next, I have to go through and add little transitions
like some fade to blacks between different days
and also the days of the week,
and then we're pretty much done.
Also at the start here, I just wanna put a bit of footage
behind this first clip.
So I'm just gonna move it up the timeline,
and what should we put in a clip of?
Okay, so my title's pretty easy.
I don't actually have a template set up for these,
because I don't know why.
I tend to like, use a different font each time,
one of my various script fonts from Ian,
who, if you've seen this vlog,
then you will know who he is.
Let's open up FontBook here and decide on a font.
For days of the week titles that I sometimes will do this,
you wanna make sure that Wednesday fits,
because that is the longest day of the week.
And so if that fits in there, you're good.
Usually, I would use the, if you hit the M key
it'll make a little marker up here,
and normally as I go through,
I'll make a marker showing me
where the days of the week are,
or I might make the days of the week as I go.
But I did not this time.
So now I'm just gonna simply duplicate.
Where's my duplicate? There it is.
That title and drag it in,
and then double-click on that to edit it,
and we'll change this to say Tuesday.
There you go.
So, all of my days of the week are now in
and my transitions.
To be honest, sometimes if the vlog isn't quite so long,
I will go in and bother to do some color correcting
or add some like, I don't know, sometimes I add
like little sound effects or funny titles, whatever,
throughout, if I feel like it needs it,
but I've spent long enough on this vlog to be honest,
and it's 18 minutes long.
So that's pretty much my approach to vlog editing,
is that I've got a certain amount of time to do it,
and whatever gets done in that time,
it's just what gets done.
So now, I'm simply going to export this,
and once it's exported, I'll watch it back.
I don't generally play it back here on the timeline.
I just sort of trust myself
that I did the editing process correctly.
But, yeah, I can go in and re-export if I need to.
I hope you found it interesting to see my process.
I'm not sure how interesting is actually is,
but a lot of people were asking about it.
So I figured that I would shoot this video.
One last thing to mention, I suppose,
is that I film my vlogs on this wee thing here.
This is the Canon G7 X, and it's the Mark II.
That is the end of this video, I suppose.
Give it a thumbs up if you did enjoy it,
and if you've got any questions,
if there's anything I didn't properly cover,
then please feel free to let me know down below
in the comments and I'll answer them there,
'cause I do always try to reply to my comments.
So say hi.
Tell me about you're editing process.
Maybe there's some tips, like, maybe that you watched me
do and thought, wow, why's she doing that?
This is so much faster.
So if that's the case, let me know about it,
'cause I'm always down to speed up my editing process.
That video I talked about from Levi
will be linked down below, so check that out.
Thanks for watching.
Have a good day.
Hit subscribe if you're new to my channel.
I don't often make videos about editing videos,
to be honest, so don't expect more of that,
but I do make videos about design every single Saturday,
and then vlogs like the one I just edited
of my life every Tuesday.
So, stay tuned, and I will see you in the next one.
Bye!