- In this video you're gonna learn
three things that are gonna massively speed up
your editing process and we're starting right now.
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Okay I put up a video just a little bit ago
with my friend, Justin Brown,
and you guys absolutely loved it.
So I asked him to come on again
and share three things with you that will help you
speed up your editing process.
Justin, take it away.
- Thanks very much for having me on the channel, Nick.
I'm gonna share my top three tips
for speeding up video editing.
Because video editing is the one part of
the video creation process that most people hate and it's
also a place where a lot of people waste a heap of time.
So, the first tip that I've got is to think about
your editing when you're filming.
So, if you can streamline your filming so that
it is more concise and that you're not gonna have a heap
of additional footage or that at least it's structured
in a way that's gonna make you easier to edit then
obviously your editing is gonna be much faster and easier.
So one key way that you can do this is to chunk down
your videos into either sentences,
dot points, paragraphs, or sections.
So, you're sectioning down your video into small chunks
and only move on to the next chunk, paragraph, dot point,
whatever it is, when you're happy with the last take.
So make sure that your last take or your last attempt
is the one that you want to use.
So this is gonna make your editing much faster
because you won't be cobbling together the start of one,
the end of another or you might have seen something
you liked in the middle somewhere.
If you remove that altogether from your editing
and you know that you've just got one clear, concise take
or section for each section in your video
then that alone is gonna speed up your editing process.
My tip number two takes this one step further.
If you are actually doing that and you're
only moving on to the next take--
Once you're happy with the last take then all of
your best takes are going to be the
last ones that you've done, right?
So in your editing then, all you need to do is instead
of editing from start to finish, you'll edit
from finish to start or edit backwards.
So this way when you're looking at your timeline,
don't edit left to right, edit right to left.
When you're scrubbing backwards through your footage,
you'll hit the best take first every time.
So, you'll know that that's the best take.
You'll then keep scrubbing through your footage
until you find the previous take or the next one
and then you'll know that that is the best one as well.
So it's the fastest way to cut down your footage is
to edit backwards if the last take is always the best one.
So, using those first two tips is gonna save you a huge
amount of time in your video editing.
But tip number three is also gonna help you speed up
that video editing process and that's
by focusing on the content first.
So, my tip here is to not get bogged down
with all the tempting elements of video editing.
So what most people like to do is they'll bring in
all their footage and start color correcting
and start adding effects and all these things
to make the videos look nice.
I'm saying don't do any of that stuff first.
Focus on your content.
The first thing that you do should be going through
and editing backwards, removing all the bad takes,
and refining that huge amount of footage potentially,
down to something small and manageable.
And then, once you're happy with how it works
and the overall flow of the video
and that all the content is there,
then you can start polishing that and adding effects
and adding your B-roll or your overlay footage
and titles and polishing your video that way.
If you just jump straight in and start applying effects
and color corrections and making your videos look good,
you may find that you waste a heap of time
and that there's actually something wrong with your video.
Maybe a take didn't come out how you like
or there was a car or a plane coming over and ruined
that take then you may be wasting your time
by doing all these colors and effects up front
where the video may not be usable.
So the first priority should be cutting down your content.
But the other thing you need to be aware of too
is if you are applying all your color corrections
and your effects up front before you've cut down
your content is that your gonna be putting your computer
under a lot of load to be processing those effects
or those color corrections throughout your editing process
which is gonna slow down your computer massively.
So, every little cut or every time you swipe or move through
your timeline, your computer then has to process all
of those effects and graphics and things that you've put
onto your video layers, slowing down the overall process.
So, my streamline way, cut your content down first,
get that how you like it and then worry about all your
effects and everything towards the end.
So those are my top three tips to help
you speed up your video editing.
So they were to start your editing in your filming
by only moving on to the next section when you're happy
with the last take.
So make the last take the best take.
Number two was to edit your footage backwards
so that you're hitting that best take first
and that you're able to cut down a heap of footage
really, really quick by editing backwards.
And number three was to save all your effects
and your color correction until towards the end
of your video after you've cut down your footage
to close to what the end video is going to be.
So focus on trimming down your content first
and applying all your effects and color corrections
and things afterwards.
Thanks very much, Nick.
Back to you.
- Just, thank you so much for coming on again
and sharing your knowledge with us.
I really appreciate it.
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