VERY RELATABLE! great video with great info, as always. just one note: the opposite of pro isn't lazy. absolutely agree with everything you said, but the comparison is with an amateur editor. might even be a better word for the algorithm (;
@@ryanavelar2711 and especially how can you not see that making a video (having product placement is okay) where you say that all your problem as an editor would be solved with only a 3060 laptop when today the only 2 true upgrades for editing is either m1 products or 3080/90 desktop... I mean how can you not see that your video is turning into a full product placement when you make a topic about pro editor but recommand low/mid tier laptop!? 😂
I have been content creating for friends/small businesses for the last 4 years. To Chris's point at the end of the video, video editors/content creators ARE NEEDED by many businesses currently. I just left 12 years in retail sales to take creating full time for a mortgage company. what a breath of fresh air! id rather adjust cuts for my new bosses than help Betty reset her Apple ID for the 4th time in one week 😂 stepping stones my friends haha
Hi Chris. You say you are creating for a mortgage company now. I also have worked in mortgage compliance and also taking up videography. I really want to talk to you!
One tip for archiving that project: Project Manager Use the Project Manager function in Premiere Pro. This creates a folder with a copy of the project file and allows you to select the sequences you want to save. It then copies all the assets used in those sequences to that folder. This way you keep all the relevant data and can delete the rest... unless you need to keep all the clips you shot instead of the selects.
I can't believe I ignored this to create it manually. Went to Fullsail and instead of showing how awesome this is, was told to build the backups manually. Thank you.
@@Digitallifeconcepts I'm sure that's a good skill to have if you're using software that doesn't have this feature. If you do it manually, then you absolutely know you have averything you need to keep. I get why they focused on that, do develop the skill. I think beginning editors should learn linear first. The mindset that develops of building the edit in your head before you start helps people become faster editors. You get the sequence done, then use the features of non-linear to finesse it.
I guess what I find difficult about the “wearing different hats” tip is that the way I edit is more of a free form approach. I’m not really sure what the video will become from the get go, so I add things as I’m inspired. I definitely have an idea going into it but it usually never ends up being what I initially set out to do, in the best way lol. So for personal projects I don’t know if I find that tip to be helpful. However, when I’m editing for clients, that’s EXACTLY what I do. Videos I make for clients usually have a more formulaic approach to them so there isn’t really a lot of room for super creative ideas. Good video!
Opening skit? DaVinci Resolve. yes I know there's a learning curve. but with the money you save by not needing premiere/after effects and the wealth of high quality tutorials on youtube by people like Casey Faris, it's well worth the switch.
Great video man. I love that you sprinkle in a little bit of humour and entertainment through your content, it makes it so much more enjoyable to watch. Question on the storage - do you keep your raw footage after you make a UA-cam video or do you delete it?
Im with Andres on this one, never delete anything! If you work with a ton of 4k, 8k etc, then a good NAS will be a very worthy investment. If you're storage needs are not as massive then a large external harddrive like WD Easystore or G-Drive should do, and just buy a new one when the old one fills up. Cloud storage is also worth looking into incase your house burns down (knock on wood). These have been my strategies anyways 🙅♀
Should also note, that video editing is a lot like 3D design. I'm an editor and VFX compositor, and many things I do involves Cinema4D and working with 3D rendering... you make pass after pass after pass on what you want, not all at once. First render the model, then the shadow, then the alpha, then the ambient occlusion, then the global illumination, then any particle effects you made. It all is a step-by-step process. Also side side note, never work with footage from the C:\ drive if you can. Premiere and AE are disk hogs, so if you can, put footage on a different disk location.
Wearing different hats actually gets me through creative blocks. For example, if I'm having a block about the story I'll switch to something a bit more mindless like color, sound design, etc. and usually that time away from the story allows me to come back to it with some new ideas. Arguably more efficient than spinning in circles about something. I'd probably call this video inexperienced editor vs. pro editor.
The most important thing to break out of creative blocks is to write down the idea (what it is about), and the premise (what message you want to give) of your project. Do it on a piece of paper. Write the spine of that project so that you always can come back to that and finish what you started. Especially in the first phase of editing (the story, and the length) if you work on other areas, it can become messy to cut off, some parts you can really end up liking because you put work, but as a professional, you really have to murder your darlings sometimes. Hope that tip helps you as much as it helps me!
I would somewhat rephrase this to Beginner Vs. Pro Video Editor -- the reason being, pros can still be lazy sometimes. Case in point-- I've been an editor for 9 years... for client projects, I keep everything neat in a folder, but for quick edits, especially for myself, it's just not worth my time to go that extra mile for a piece of content I know I'll never need to use again. So, I think the distinction there is that pros (hate to call myself a pro, but I have done this for a long time) know when it's more efficient to be lazy, when it's not worth it to put in the time on certain things, whereas beginners wouldn't... it takes time to know what works and what doesn't.
I guess thats what makes a difference. At some point, as an editor, you learn to adjust your workflow very quickly. You see a project quickly and you can make quick changes to earn HOURS of yours and your clients time. Sometimes the lazy way just gets the job done very quickly. For example, a 15 seconds tiktok. Im not gonna make audio buses, or fiddle with tons of layers. I guess you just learn to adapt, to earn time.
Yo that first part legit made me think - Has this dude been watching me?? 😂 I’m 2 videos deep and so glad I’ve come across your video. Although my first experience with editing (32 years old and haven’t touched a laptop in a few years 😅) it’s been extremely fun learning something new but also painfully slow haha. I’ll get better 💪 Shot for the content bro 🤙
Scenario 1 really spoke to me. I have never gone to schoool for editing, but have been saving up to audit some college classes for editing hopefully this fall or winter. But anyways, I've been the guy that changes his hat every few clips. Thanks for this! I think now I will be able to get better results and finish quicker. I have found that I will always decide what song to use AFTER getting all my A-roll organized so that I can then know how to cut and adjust my B-roll. All my edits are either for YT or shorter social media videos, so I will cut to the beat most of the time.
i just started video editing for about 2 months now and its one heck of a ride.....It can be overwhelming sometimes but its people like you who give us reasons to keep going.Thanks so much
thanks man, just did a test edit and realized my more narrative style is != to dynamic youtube style and that i still have a bit to learn for those techniques
I honestly thought #1 & #2 was part of the workflow, for most people, from the get go. Always made sense to me to finish what you started before moving on, and to stay organised so life was made easier down the track. Those other tips are SUPER helpful tho!
Are those dediceated external SSD's are fast enough to able to edit off of them!? I feel like having M2 drives designated on the laptop for edit would be the best choice right? I am only asking because I was thinking about having giant external SSD drives to able to switch between Desktop/Laptop.
I hopped back into a half edited video after 10 months of nothing and subconsciously learnt about 3 of these tips, my highest recommendation is to go slow and don't burn out, keep it interesting and keep it going.
Scenario 2: Just fasten your external drives to the lid of your laptop with velcro strips to keep them from going anywhere when you're using them (black blends in nicely it seems). I regularly hitchhike with my laptop thousands of KM across Canada every summer and have had zero concerns about my external drives being knocked off any tables or any of that crap in the 3 or 4 years i've been doing that. It also just frees up a bit of room on whatever table/surface your working from :)
Love the hat-switching visual analogy. It's a bad habit I sometimes fall back into. Especially when I want to nail the hook of the video. Except the hook should be made after everything else is made
Easy solution for storage is a 2 bay enclosure with a built in RAID controller. Slap 2 4TB SSD's (or HDD's if you don't need the speed) and set it to RAID 1. Golden. If you do a little looking you can find a 4 bay hdd enclosure with RAID 3 support and USB C which is ideal for a solo editor. Either of these are a very easy and hastle free solution. If you're doing client work you should even have a backup of your RAID array because if the unit fails you don't want to be sitting around doing nothing.
1. That 1st skit was comedy gold for any editor. ( Even da vinci editors) (I'm 50/50) Dude, I totally never realized I do the method of add add add and press play.. Thank you for helping me realize this.
@ 3:56 you triggered me. Thanks for that. I always have 3 sources on location shoots now. Primary project drive, backup project drive & the OG camera cards (unless I run out and need to format them) I typically hand off the backup to another member of the crew if possible. Also, use Post Haste from digital rebellion to organize your project folder structure. Life. Saver.
Excellent video all around Chris. Excellent advice here. Even on the items I knew your perspective helped reinforce some of those points. Great lighting.
Thanks for this amazing video, Have been editing videos for almost 4 years! But doing it as you mentioned here in this video, It's a lot easier and faster. seen some of my friends doing it differently, they change their hats a lot!
How relatable is the opening skit?
Don’t use premier or after effects but still very very relatable 😂
Don't even get me started...
Resolve has something similar. But it usually just self-destructs. ☠️
VERY RELATABLE! great video with great info, as always. just one note: the opposite of pro isn't lazy. absolutely agree with everything you said, but the comparison is with an amateur editor. might even be a better word for the algorithm (;
@@shairamos3778 true I related with both lazy and pro lmao
I was stuck on that Tip #1 for years, just adding whatever in as I go along. Wearing the hats separately has made a huge difference!
Makes a huge difference
Totally agree!
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I used to be stuck on it too until about (clears throat) 10 min ago. How and why did I not know this! great tips!
This whole video is basically a product placement ad. Well done!
I was just looking for this comment 😂
I wonder how many lap tops this man sold for them
@@ryanavelar2711 and especially how can you not see that making a video (having product placement is okay) where you say that all your problem as an editor would be solved with only a 3060 laptop when today the only 2 true upgrades for editing is either m1 products or 3080/90 desktop... I mean how can you not see that your video is turning into a full product placement when you make a topic about pro editor but recommand low/mid tier laptop!? 😂
Skipping at beginning ads
comment is on fire
I have been content creating for friends/small businesses for the last 4 years. To Chris's point at the end of the video, video editors/content creators ARE NEEDED by many businesses currently. I just left 12 years in retail sales to take creating full time for a mortgage company. what a breath of fresh air! id rather adjust cuts for my new bosses than help Betty reset her Apple ID for the 4th time in one week 😂 stepping stones my friends haha
This comment alone gives me hope as someone who has been in the retail space for over 2 decades
@@BrandonColeman best of luck to you. You got this 🤘🏼
More success to us all 😎👊🏿
Hi Chris. You say you are creating for a mortgage company now. I also have worked in mortgage compliance and also taking up videography. I really want to talk to you!
The hope I just gained 🥰
One tip for archiving that project: Project Manager
Use the Project Manager function in Premiere Pro. This creates a folder with a copy of the project file and allows you to select the sequences you want to save. It then copies all the assets used in those sequences to that folder. This way you keep all the relevant data and can delete the rest... unless you need to keep all the clips you shot instead of the selects.
Omg…. This is so damn valuable to me. THANK YOU!!!
Nice tip man !! I just consolidate libraries in FCP.
How much is premier pro?
I can't believe I ignored this to create it manually. Went to Fullsail and instead of showing how awesome this is, was told to build the backups manually. Thank you.
@@Digitallifeconcepts I'm sure that's a good skill to have if you're using software that doesn't have this feature. If you do it manually, then you absolutely know you have averything you need to keep.
I get why they focused on that, do develop the skill. I think beginning editors should learn linear first. The mindset that develops of building the edit in your head before you start helps people become faster editors. You get the sequence done, then use the features of non-linear to finesse it.
👍😎👍 Solid advice painfully earned !
❤️
2:02 YOU TAKE THAT THE F BACK I DID NOT COME HERE TO GET ATTACKED.
I guess what I find difficult about the “wearing different hats” tip is that the way I edit is more of a free form approach. I’m not really sure what the video will become from the get go, so I add things as I’m inspired. I definitely have an idea going into it but it usually never ends up being what I initially set out to do, in the best way lol.
So for personal projects I don’t know if I find that tip to be helpful.
However, when I’m editing for clients, that’s EXACTLY what I do. Videos I make for clients usually have a more formulaic approach to them so there isn’t really a lot of room for super creative ideas.
Good video!
Documentarians use your approach. They find themes in the interviews, make a select reel, and find themes.
I think you’re confusing amateur editors with lazy editors.
Opening skit?
DaVinci Resolve.
yes I know there's a learning curve.
but with the money you save by not needing premiere/after effects and the wealth of high quality tutorials on youtube by people like Casey Faris, it's well worth the switch.
Great video man. I love that you sprinkle in a little bit of humour and entertainment through your content, it makes it so much more enjoyable to watch. Question on the storage - do you keep your raw footage after you make a UA-cam video or do you delete it?
never delete anything
@@AndresSenande this was my motto until google photos free tier vanished lol. Not so practical these days 😂
Im with Andres on this one, never delete anything! If you work with a ton of 4k, 8k etc, then a good NAS will be a very worthy investment. If you're storage needs are not as massive then a large external harddrive like WD Easystore or G-Drive should do, and just buy a new one when the old one fills up. Cloud storage is also worth looking into incase your house burns down (knock on wood). These have been my strategies anyways 🙅♀
@@joelgodrimedia I raise you frequent 4K videos with pointless footage ;) but I agree with your storage methods, used all at once 👍🏻
I’ve made every single one of those mistakes. I would have loved to watch this 10 years ago! Thanks for the great content!
Should also note, that video editing is a lot like 3D design. I'm an editor and VFX compositor, and many things I do involves Cinema4D and working with 3D rendering... you make pass after pass after pass on what you want, not all at once. First render the model, then the shadow, then the alpha, then the ambient occlusion, then the global illumination, then any particle effects you made. It all is a step-by-step process.
Also side side note, never work with footage from the C:\ drive if you can. Premiere and AE are disk hogs, so if you can, put footage on a different disk location.
Great intro Skit!!
Yoooooo your intro was soooo on point! haha. Great work on all your vides Chris!
Wearing different hats actually gets me through creative blocks. For example, if I'm having a block about the story I'll switch to something a bit more mindless like color, sound design, etc. and usually that time away from the story allows me to come back to it with some new ideas. Arguably more efficient than spinning in circles about something. I'd probably call this video inexperienced editor vs. pro editor.
The most important thing to break out of creative blocks is to write down the idea (what it is about), and the premise (what message you want to give) of your project. Do it on a piece of paper. Write the spine of that project so that you always can come back to that and finish what you started. Especially in the first phase of editing (the story, and the length) if you work on other areas, it can become messy to cut off, some parts you can really end up liking because you put work, but as a professional, you really have to murder your darlings sometimes.
Hope that tip helps you as much as it helps me!
Such great advice!
DUDE! thank you, i never even knew about the studio drivers!!! :O
What a relatable opening skit 🤣 Great video, these tips took me years to learn and lots of mistakes.
I would somewhat rephrase this to Beginner Vs. Pro Video Editor -- the reason being, pros can still be lazy sometimes. Case in point-- I've been an editor for 9 years... for client projects, I keep everything neat in a folder, but for quick edits, especially for myself, it's just not worth my time to go that extra mile for a piece of content I know I'll never need to use again. So, I think the distinction there is that pros (hate to call myself a pro, but I have done this for a long time) know when it's more efficient to be lazy, when it's not worth it to put in the time on certain things, whereas beginners wouldn't... it takes time to know what works and what doesn't.
I guess thats what makes a difference. At some point, as an editor, you learn to adjust your workflow very quickly. You see a project quickly and you can make quick changes to earn HOURS of yours and your clients time.
Sometimes the lazy way just gets the job done very quickly. For example, a 15 seconds tiktok. Im not gonna make audio buses, or fiddle with tons of layers. I guess you just learn to adapt, to earn time.
"lazy" is more negative, so it brings in more engagement.
bro really likes the MSI Creator Z16 with the G-Force RTX 3060
File management is good and I love it, my first experience was filling in the editor slash lead after a student transfered and covered both
Where can I buy a story hat?
Thanks Chris! I love watching your videos. I was Just wondering when you were going to do another skit video like this!
Did you really just make me laugh my ass off to an intro for video editing? Never thought I'd see the day
Relinking the therapist had me in stitches! 😂😂😂
We’ve all been there!
Yo that first part legit made me think - Has this dude been watching me?? 😂 I’m 2 videos deep and so glad I’ve come across your video. Although my first experience with editing (32 years old and haven’t touched a laptop in a few years 😅) it’s been extremely fun learning something new but also painfully slow haha. I’ll get better 💪 Shot for the content bro 🤙
Scenario 1 really spoke to me. I have never gone to schoool for editing, but have been saving up to audit some college classes for editing hopefully this fall or winter. But anyways, I've been the guy that changes his hat every few clips. Thanks for this! I think now I will be able to get better results and finish quicker.
I have found that I will always decide what song to use AFTER getting all my A-roll organized so that I can then know how to cut and adjust my B-roll. All my edits are either for YT or shorter social media videos, so I will cut to the beat most of the time.
REALLY NEEDED THIS I SWEAR
This was actually hilarious 😂 Gonna grab some inspiration here for a future vid haha 😁
Thanks Peter!!
The opening skit is the single most relatable thing I've ever seen
By 2:53 I learned I've been editing videos wrong my entire life. Thank you for this video!
i just started video editing for about 2 months now and its one heck of a ride.....It can be overwhelming sometimes but its people like you who give us reasons to keep going.Thanks so much
And... here is another subscriber!
Thank you. I needed this. This kind of tip worth more than any software tutorial. Cause this is rare.
thanks man, just did a test edit and realized my more narrative style is != to dynamic youtube style and that i still have a bit to learn for those techniques
i really hope best buy and nvidia are paying you the most for this 😅. this video felt more like ad than video
That intro is so hilarious but very relatable
Super valuable. Thanks, Chris!!
I honestly thought #1 & #2 was part of the workflow, for most people, from the get go. Always made sense to me to finish what you started before moving on, and to stay organised so life was made easier down the track.
Those other tips are SUPER helpful tho!
Yea for me being a “lazy editor” on the 1st tip actually helps me get my videos done faster. It depends on the type of content you make though
Yo… the intro… I identify with this on a cellular level 😂
I’m actually wearing all of the hats as I render this video RIGHT NOW 😅😅 Thanks for this, we’re more efficient in 2022 🙌🏾
Appreciate you, cheers.
Are those dediceated external SSD's are fast enough to able to edit off of them!? I feel like having M2 drives designated on the laptop for edit would be the best choice right? I am only asking because I was thinking about having giant external SSD drives to able to switch between Desktop/Laptop.
Add 10 second then Play from the Beginning, that was exactly what i'm doing Right Now, Thanks A Lot Man, You Help me Out.
That opening skit is very relatable!
That first part had me rolling yo! Great video
Damn Chris this is one of the best videos I’ve ever watched. Thanks.
This is the best video man thanks for all the guidance I'm just starting with video editing.
I needed this! Thank you
Nailed it with the hook 🙏
I hopped back into a half edited video after 10 months of nothing and subconsciously learnt about 3 of these tips, my highest recommendation is to go slow and don't burn out, keep it interesting and keep it going.
I am doing the same on my Core i5 2nd generation PC with no graphics card for the 6 months.
I am glad to your video.
Thumbnail was epic, thats why I'm here.
yep and then the intro, hooked me. wow lol I'm still here at 1:11 because that was funny and relatable 😂
a lazy editor edits on a laptop; a pro editor edits on a multi-monitor desktop setup ;)
You are right, but don't forget the battery backup! Here in Panamá, we have relentless power outages and need the time to back up our desktop system!
@@ifound14u always have a UPS on any workstation just in case
Guess I’m lazy then 😂
Thank you for this video 👏👏👏👏👏
haha loved the intro. Same here
That skit made me watch the entire video, good job!
Great advice Chris.
This video was more of a continuous and non ending rolling ad rather than a valuable use of time. I learned like one thing
Took me five years to realize and implement this.
Thank you for this insight
Scenario 2: Just fasten your external drives to the lid of your laptop with velcro strips to keep them from going anywhere when you're using them (black blends in nicely it seems). I regularly hitchhike with my laptop thousands of KM across Canada every summer and have had zero concerns about my external drives being knocked off any tables or any of that crap in the 3 or 4 years i've been doing that. It also just frees up a bit of room on whatever table/surface your working from :)
Love the hat-switching visual analogy. It's a bad habit I sometimes fall back into. Especially when I want to nail the hook of the video. Except the hook should be made after everything else is made
Loved this video
I never clicked on this video, but the new thumbnail finally made me click, after months of ignoring it!
SUPER GREAT VID! Had a few laugh along the way, since that was me dropping my Drive and loosing all my work!
Thanks for letting me realise that I do not have to change my hat every couple second. ❤️🔥
Excellent video! Thanks for sharing.
The Thumbnail is 🔥
SUCH great tips, thanks so much! Plus the comedy in this is fabulous xD
That skit would have been funny if I didn't feel like you was trying to hide some info😂😂
Dang. Gotta wear the story hat until it's all there. That's what gets me every time with wedding films.
Added to the Christmas list. Loved this video
Easy solution for storage is a 2 bay enclosure with a built in RAID controller. Slap 2 4TB SSD's (or HDD's if you don't need the speed) and set it to RAID 1. Golden. If you do a little looking you can find a 4 bay hdd enclosure with RAID 3 support and USB C which is ideal for a solo editor. Either of these are a very easy and hastle free solution. If you're doing client work you should even have a backup of your RAID array because if the unit fails you don't want to be sitting around doing nothing.
1. That 1st skit was comedy gold for any editor. ( Even da vinci editors) (I'm 50/50)
Dude, I totally never realized I do the method of add add add and press play..
Thank you for helping me realize this.
Great video, but man are you aggressive with those externals, clanking em together! 😳
Thanks For Tips 👍🏻
Thank you so much Chris!
Yeah that Bestbuy sponsored vid is pretty cool!
wholesome outro and funny intro
This is a great channel! I only caught sight of you folks in recent times, but it’s now among my favourite channels...........
Thank you so much. Helped a lot
that skit actually made me laugh 😂😂😂
@ 3:56 you triggered me. Thanks for that. I always have 3 sources on location shoots now. Primary project drive, backup project drive & the OG camera cards (unless I run out and need to format them) I typically hand off the backup to another member of the crew if possible. Also, use Post Haste from digital rebellion to organize your project folder structure. Life. Saver.
Laugh Out Loud OMG! That's the best laugh Ive ever had for such an annoying problem. TY
Okay, that Media Offline joke got me good. LOL.
Super relatable... great tips... how do like the new Macbooks compared that PC you kept showing?
That premier media offline was too funny
Bro thats a dope skit
solid video, great and relatable advice! keep up the good work :)
Excellent video all around Chris. Excellent advice here. Even on the items I knew your perspective helped reinforce some of those points. Great lighting.
this was not only informative but genuinely funny - irl lols. thank you!
This is the most relatable video I've ever seen
this video is very valuable, thank u bro
Thank you for the great advice!
Thanks for this amazing video,
Have been editing videos for almost 4 years!
But doing it as you mentioned here in this video, It's a lot easier and faster. seen some of my friends doing it differently, they change their hats a lot!
dude this video was actually amazing! super helpful 🙏🏽!
That ending! 😂👏
"It wouldn't be funny, if it wasn't true" damn what kind of therapist do you have my guy
That was amazing bro
It's very hard to click away from your videos Chris!