i get a lot of questions around how i edit my youtube videos so
that's what i'm going to show you guys today
what up friends welcome back to my channel my name is tina for those that don't already know i do a
lot of editing tutorials especially with snapseed today i'm coming at you with something a little
bit different so if you do use adobe premiere i'm going to share tips to make your editing process a
lot quicker also where i find all the copyright free music for my videos also how i film my
tutorials in general so let's get right into it so the very first thing you want to do no matter what
program you use to edit is get organized you're going to want to have all your different assets
and video clips in one folder and with adobe premiere you can actually just drag that folder
into the project library and it's going to import all your files very next thing that you want to
do is you're going to want to label your clips for those that are ocd in terms of color coordinating
their their outfits their closet their binders their school notes etc you are going to love
this feature so you can label all your clips ahead of time while still in the project library under
your folder or you can actually do this after you import your clips onto your timeline i like
to kind of label them as i go it really helps in terms of identifying kind of your blooper clips
if you're filming a lookbook you can group all your looks by labeling them with different colors
it works really well with tutorials as well so if your tutorial consists of seven steps
you can label all your steps with different colors so this is going to completely change the way
you edit and especially if you're dealing with a thousand clips at one time it's going to help you
edit quicker and it's going to save you so much time in the long run i don't use an iphone i know
there's a screen recording feature within iphones unfortunately androids don't have that i use an
app called az screen recorder to record my screen so especially when i'm doing snapseed tutorials
i'll screen record my phone as i'm editing a picture and then i'll film the talking part
separately the same way i'm doing it for this tutorial and then i put the clips together when
i edit if you want to record something on your computer or laptop quicktime is an amazing app it
makes it really easy for you to screen record kind of anything that you're doing on your computer
so whether that be a photoshop or some type of editing tutorial you can do it that way as well
the next tip is using adjustment layers whenever you're making any edits to your clips whether that
be in terms of color grading or adding any type of effect to it it's highly recommend that you use
adjustment layers and here's why if you want to apply that same effect to multiple clips it's
going to make it so much easier because you can just have all the clips that you want the added
effect to apply to under that adjustment layer versus kind of copy and pasting the attributes
over to multiple clips secondly if you decide that you don't like a certain edit that you made you
can simply delete the adjustment layer it's always good to have the original clip on hand in case you
want to duplicate it or use it for another purpose so always use adjustment layers alright so for
music if you want to start monetizing your video and you don't want it to be hit with a copyright
use copyright free music so my favorite channel for royalty free and copyright free music is audio
library they have a variety of different kinds of music putting on whatever mood that you want
your video to portray so whether that be happy inspirational music or more moody ambient music
all the way to more vocal free vlog music whatever you're in the mood for they have it there's a
bunch of other sites and channels that offer it as well even if you do a quick search in youtube
and just do copyright free music you're going to get a bunch of hits so there's a lot of options
out there i also find that music is kind of the hardest part in terms of the editing process
it can make or break any type of video so don't underestimate the power of music so because i do
a lot of tutorials having visual aids definitely helps in terms of laying out that step-by-step
process so i love using green screens if you just search on youtube like subscribe animated green
screen or like button green screen there's a lot of free ones that you can find and use and it's
really easy to use it in your videos all you have to do is within the effects panel type an ultra
key add that effect onto the green screen video that you added in use that eyedrop icon to click
on the green and only raise the green background you're free to use it wherever it also saves a
lot of time because someone's already put the effort into making those animated lower thirds
because i don't know how to use after effects this is a really easy workaround so if you have a lot
of clips that you've edited and you have a bunch of gaps where normally you would kind of ripple
delete manually one by one there's actually a really quick way for you to mask ripple delete
that is going to make you so much more efficient in terms of your editing process so let's say i
have a bunch of clips here and all these gaps i want to ripple delete at once all you have to
do is add a color matte or adjustment layer on top of it drag all your selected clips into that layer
then drag all the clips down now you notice that that layer has been cut with those clips
select all the different sections of that layer right click and click ripple delete and now all
your graphs are fields now you won't have to manually ripple delete each kind of section or
gap you're welcome all right this is going to completely elevate your editing game know your
shortcuts once you know your shortcuts it's going to take you from noob to pro in mere seconds all
right so there's six shortcuts that i want to show y'all that i frequently use if these shortcuts
don't line up with what the functionalities within your adobe premiere you can always adjust those
in settings all these shortcuts are relevant to mac users because i use a mac i'm going to
have the pc versions of their shortcuts here as well to trim your clip or select the razor tool
instead of having to do it manually all you have to do is click c on your keyboard and that will
select the razer tool automatically if you want to unselect the tool then all you do is click v
if you want to quickly copy a clip over instead of right clicking and clicking copy if you just
pull down option on your keyboard and drag the clip over it's going to automatically copy it for
you okay so i recently learned the shortcut and it is a game changer so let's say you're done editing
your video and then you realize that you forgot a clip so instead of going to where you want to
add it and selecting everything to the right of it or to the left of it and moving it manually
all you have to do is click on the section of the timeline that you want to add that extra clip in
hold down a and it's going to select all the clips to the right of where your pointer is
if you want to select everything to the left of where your cursor is just hold down shift click
a again and it's going to do that for you now you are free to add whatever clip that you want
to add or make whatever adjustments you want to do and it's that easy and then lastly sometimes the
exporting process takes a really long time instead of waiting around and twiddling your thumbs if you
go into export but instead of clicking expert you're going to click cue so this way you can
actually edit another video or export a thumbnail and start working on your thumbnail while your
video is exporting so talk about multitasking okay so that is how i edit all of my youtube tutorials
and those are all the tips on how you can elevate your editing game and how i've been able to make
my editing process more efficient so that i can use that extra time to binge an extra show on
netflix or eat so if you guys have other shortcuts or tips that you want to share feel free to let
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