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- What's up?
I just finished editing that opening travel montage
on the brand new ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo.
This thing is quite a beast.
So today in this video, I wanted to run through
how we can essentially create faster travel video edits.
As travel creators we are always on the go.
So we need a powerful laptop
to essentially process our content as fast as possible.
Now, I know a bunch of you guys asked me on Instagram,
like, what computer am I using?
And also like, how I'm able to edit 4k YouTube content,
like this video that you're watching.
I'm always shooting in 4k, solely because,
one, I wanna digitally archive my content better.
Like, if I'm traveling and I'm capturing
some incredible content,
I don't wanna just be shooting that in 1080,
because, let's say in a year's time a client comes to me
and says, "Hey Jake, can you create an edit or a mend?
"Or can we buy that or license that content off you?"
Sure.
And if I'm able to give it to them in 4k,
it's so much smarter and also more valuable for the client
than if I'm giving it to them in, say, 1080.
So, I need a computer that's able to process 4k content.
So working on the ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo,
I'm not gonna lie, was a struggle to begin with.
Because I'm a MacBook user, I think anyone that's come
from Mac and solely been using Mac shifting to Windows,
it's gonna take some time shifting to a PC,
because your workflow and the way that you operate
the computer, like, those motor neurons
are trained for the other operating system.
So you gotta give yourself a bit of time, like,
in all honesty, you can't just transition your workflow
and expect it to be quick when you've only been using
the computer for a day or two.
So give yourself time as a first thing.
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Let's get started into the juicy stuff,
which is the computer, your operating system.
What are you running?
What is your width?
The 15-inch ZenBook Pro Duo is ideal
for professional content creators
in search of high productivity
and a love for new tech and innovation.
The main display is a full 15-inch touchscreen display
with the ASUS screen pad
to give you effortless app multitasking.
And I've actually found this kind of interesting.
You'll see here that I'm able to like watch YouTube content
or drag any kind of content from the main screen
down onto this secondary screen.
So it gives you more screen and way less distraction.
Ah, maybe a little distracted
if you're watching YouTube videos.
The 9th-Gen Intel Core i9
is there to ensure professional quality tasks,
such as multi-layer photo or video editing,
3D graphic rendering,
or even game live streaming possibilities are super quick.
And it just gives you the performance of a desktop
in notebook form.
Because I'm shooting on a range
of different type of cameras,
like 360 cameras, GoPro cameras, drones,
the thing that I need is to be able
to process my content as fast as possible.
Now, the coolest feature of something like this,
the ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo is that it actually lifts
the motherboard off the table
to allow the computer to cool down.
If you're editing 4k content,
you want about 32 gigabytes of RAM.
On my old computer, I was working at 16 and my,
just my workflow to process 4k clips,
even sort of playback in premiere at a quarter res,
which is, or eighth resolution,
which is just dropping it down,
that would still be super slow.
Now, this is able to process 4k content far quicker.
I guess the downside for me is that I'm not a,
you know I'm not quite accustomed to using the PC yet.
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One thing that I struggle with as a travel creator
is finding an environment without distractions.
You know, I've been shooting all day,
I get back to a hotel room, my phone's buzzing,
Instagram's buzzing.
It's super important for me to speed up my workflow
to get rid of those things.
You notice right now for me to get through
this travel montage this morning super quickly
I disconnected my wifi.
So, there's no wifi out here, which is really, really good.
No distractions.
I do not have a phone, like, anywhere near me.
And I'm in an environment
where I can quickly get into flow state.
Now, as much as we can brush over that point,
it is, I think the biggest time,
the biggest time crucial element,
is when you have your mind darting around different places.
Now specifically when we jump into the edit,
one of the things which slows down editing so much
is when you consistently go back to the start
of your video edit.
If you're, you know, away, grinding away,
creating your content, creating your vlog,
then you pull the, you know, the play head back to the start
and press play, and watch it from the start,
that is slowing down your workflow so much.
I'm guilty of this.
Like, one, because I wanna look at my content
and I wanna look at the flow of the video.
So I'll press play and I'll watch the video.
Then I'll stop, I'll edit a little bit more.
It's really important, if you wanna speed up your workflow
to just get through the edit as fast as possible,
then go back and start to work on the amendments.
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Another tip for within that
is to make sure that you have all of your sound design,
your sweepers, your music, everything ready to go
before you even start your edit
because it's, you know, it's gonna slow down your process
if you start editing and then you go,
"Oh, I wanna, you know, change out the track."
So then you jump on Epidemic Sound, Red Bull Sound Supply,
Music Pad, whatever, links on the description.
You jump on those music licensing sites to find music,
you spend two hours finding a track,
you know, that's just wasted you two hours.
So make sure you have all of that stuff
ready to go before you're even editing.
I will spend four hours before I even start
one of my travel films just doing that.
That is part of the process.
What I suggest you do is,
for any kind of traveling hard drive
that you're taking on trips, is to create a folder
which has your vlog assets in it.
I like to have all my sound effects,
my sweepers and anything that is identifiable
that I use consistently across my content in a folder
that comes with me everywhere I go.
So now let's jump into premiere
and talk about a keyboard shortcut and a super fire tip,
which can turn over an Instagram edit
within a couple of hours.
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So the first thing that we're gonna do
when we're in premiere
is we're just gonna simply make sure that we set our M key
on the keyboard here to marker.
To do that, all you have to do is go to edit
and keyboard shortcuts.
Now, notice how the M key on this keyboard says, marker.
If yours doesn't say that go add marker.
You can see that.
And just drag that over to the M key.
Or just click here and make sure that M key is selected.
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna ingest
a couple of my clips.
So to do that, I'm simply gonna go into my folder,
find some of my content.
So this one I'm gonna drag in.
Drag and drop.
First thing I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna go through each of these clips
and set my in and out markers.
Okay, I like this bit here.
So I'm gonna hit I, and then I'm gonna hit space bar.
I'm kind of flying the drone back from the waterfall
and maybe we'd like to get to there
and then I'm gonna hit, O.
So I've set the in and the out marker on that clip.
So double-click on the clip to bring it up in here
and again, go through and find
the section of the clip that you like.
So we'll have a go into my sound library assets,
which I suggested you guys do and create
and keep that on your hard drive and find a track,
I'm gonna go through and find
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Nice.
This Is really nice and visceral.
I really love this.
It's like perfect waterfall music.
So maybe I wanna start it here.
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Okay, so we've got our marker key set,
we've got our track already in there.
Now all we have to do is make sure
that this top section is highlighted, not down the bottom,
because if the bottom section is highlighted, notice that,
then my track's gonna get the markers,
but I want my timeline to get the markers.
And then when we hit play, the space bar,
we're then gonna use the M key to set markers on the beat.
So let's have a go at that.
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Then all I have to do is
make sure all my clips are highlighted over here in my bin.
So I'm gonna go hold shift,
make sure all of these clips are highlighted,
and then I go into clip and we go into automate to sequence.
Notice that, automate to sequence,
and the placement we want at numbered markers.
So, not sequentially, we want that at numbered markers.
So now what's gonna happen when I hit okay,
is all of those clips that I've captured...
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Super quick, super easy.
All you have to do now is go through
and just tighten that up a little bit,
and you've pretty much got yourself an edit.
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The story element of any travel creator's work
or any travel film is probably the most important.
It's that thing, it's the glue,
which ties the film together.
One of the things I've started doing
specifically with my work is writing out a shot list.
So, for me, it might be having five different
forward moving hyper lapses,
five different side moving, or panning hyper lapses,
X amount of tight shots, X amount of drone shots,
X amount of 360 content.
So that when I am on my shoot, when I am traveling,
I know that I've got this right of content
to come back and work with as an editor.
Now, that's shots, right?
But that's not actually story.
There's two ways you can go about it
after you've got the shots, right?
You ingest the content as fast as you can
and you start to pick out the gold.
We've spoken about that
in a lot of different travel video edits,
and it's, you know, specifically going,
okay, these are the clips, these are the nuggets of gold
that are gonna make my travel film epic.
Or what I find, which is way faster
is to actually write a narrative.
Now, storytelling is personal.
It's something which should come from inside.
It's something which you could, you should sit down
and physically write out.
I have done that.
Like, with my Island travel film I did that.
With the Hooga film, I did that.
It's a way to then reduce excess content and to be like,
okay, I specifically need to find some content
which matches this part of the story.
Quite simply, this is just giving you goalposts
to work towards.
So if this is your song, it's three minutes long,
and then you have a story talking about the experience
or sharing that raw moment or feeling,
then you're able to fill in the gaps
and find the pieces from your travels
to match that narrative.
It's gonna speed up your process, writing out a story.
I'm gonna put a link in the description
of all the tech, specs and info of the ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo,
so you guys can check out this computer further.
But if you are looking for something
and you're a travel editor
looking to speed up your workflow
and your productivity whilst you're on the road,
I highly recommend checking out this computer.
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Ciao.
Peace!
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