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hello everyone I'm Dimitri with Herick NOx and welcome to another video in the past we have done a few filming tutorials giving you a few tips and techniques of how our videos are produced you know using the camera and using gear and stuff like that but in this episode we'll be talking about post-production and what goes into behind the editing process of it it won't be super tactical but I will be giving you guys the concepts and ideas to take away from it so that you can apply to your own workflow regardless if you use the same Adobe CC 2016 suite or not let's get started but first the sponsor for this video video blocks comm they have a ton of good quality footage motion backgrounds and After Effects templates for you to use which is very well categorized you get a 7 day free trial with 143 downloads if you use our link to sign up everything is royalty free to use in your future personal or commercial projects alright so the first thing that I'm going to talk to you about is organization and backup organization is important because it improves efficiency and the satisfaction of your workflow and backup is so that you don't get stuck with lost data and costly recovery and may potentially fully lost information so the way I work now is I have three vector 180 SSDs one of them is dedicated for video projects that are currently working on so all my source information goes there my cache to drive is the backup for the video project so these are kind of kind of linked together so anytime I'm working on projects here they are sort of backed up or cloned onto this drive so that I have two spots in case any of them sort of fails in my cache for vector 180 SSD drive which is your for my scratch disks and just adobe cache so this is the video projects SSD this is where all the current projects are happening I'll be using NZXT monta as the example for this video so we open that up and this is where all the source files are located but basically as soon as those files are imported onto the SS I copy that folder onto a separate SSD which is you can see right here and in case anything happens with this is the number one everything is sort of still backed up now once as soon as the review is finished it's going to go into our western digital my cloud mirror which is an 8 terabyte raid 1 array basically going to here go into this volume harbour connects video backup which is our archives going to my name and I would cut the pool completed and 60 Montevideo into here so that I can access leave access it later on if needed without it occupying space on any of my SSDs so this local area network connected nass is very nice for archiving stuff and I can access it anytime I want all right the next thing and we can talk about is templates and you know once we're happy with folder organization outside of the you know video editing software we have to worry about organization inside of it so first I have sort of a created a template for each single video review in which this type of folder organization doesn't change from video to video it maintains the same so at my video list which is all my b-roll it's kind of self-explanatory you can see it here I have another folder for on camera so if I'm doing something on camera it's going to go there because I record audio on an external voice recorder so that when I drop all those files in there I can easily just align them too and know where those files are because that's the best thing you don't want be looking for files you want to be working with files extra footage is where I place anything that I shoot extra after the review or the initial b-roll thing is finished so for example if I'm working with a you know one video and I see all one shot is missing I would shoot that shot and I would put it in here so that I can sort of navigate to the extra footage folder in case I need to access later music self-explanatory everything is organized by genre very nice and easy in case I want to have some common background or hip-hop stuff it's right over here titles is where place my text easily so it's not like just floating around anywhere here and pre-rolls our pre-roll spots that I would create would go here and can be accessed easily in the future so coming back to the idea of templates it's very important to create this sort of you know flow structure so like folder stuff inside the video editing software so that you follow the same structure for all future videos now I want talk about storyboarding storyboarding it's very very efficient to do it inside premiere and I do it inside my b-roll folder because you can you know drag footage around and you can place it in order that you want to be you know the video to flow the awesome thing is that you can sort of scrub through the video in order to see what's happening within the frame and that's very important because you can basically compile your entire video structure before dropping it into the timeline and something very important for my Adobe friends here let's enter another sequence here let's say I want to select all my footage and drop it into the timeline below me I would do the following I would select all the footage automate the sequence once this pops up I would ignore audio because we don't want any of the audio files coming up here I would leave this in this type of file format click OK and it would insert all these files in the way that I order them so all I have to go do now is basically go in and cut them out you know shorten them and trim everything and work in this type of workflow with footage already aligned in the order that it would be in the final review it's a big time-saver because once you storyboard inside your video list folder it allows you to basically get in here and quickly cut it cut the review without having to worry about the placement and the order of each file alright let's move on to a few workflow tricks and tips that I can give you guys everybody's asking me about the adjustment layer and what the hell is it and why it's there and what type of things you have on it so the adjustment layer applies any that is applied to it for anything that is underneath it so right now a few adjustment layers because I wanted to create different color effects for each of these sequences inside the timeline but right now this adjustment layer spans the entire portion of the filmed review video which is basically allows me to color correct and make sure that everything looks good and one single go i do not touch that this adjustment layer because i film with basically exactly the same settings throughout the you know every single video and therefore i don't need to tweak it i do have color adjustment applied to it so just some toning stuff you know increasing my contrast use some shadows crushing the blacks a little bit I do not touch the white balance because that's saved in the camera inside the creative I do add a bit of faded film sharpening no touching of the shadow or highlight hints don't touch the curves either and I go into color wheels and I bring up the highlights into the oranjee portions a little bit and my mid-tones into the blue and purples so that you know you have a bit of a filmic look where the black cannot exactly black but there they have a bit of a bluish purplish highlight tone to it so this is with and without with and without so that is it for my adjustment layer next is I follow the audio cues so this is my voiceover layer right below it I wrote it and I recorded it and I pretty I have a pretty good idea of what are we talking about in the beginning and in the end so this is a good representation of when using a break let's see there's that tiny break in the audio to transition to another to another shot BAM and there's another one where I talk about something else and BAM hello transition another little break here and BAM obviously I don't use these breaks as the only cue and when to cut the video but it does help when I edit you also want to be careful not to apply too many transitions too many crossfade transitions too many hard cuts so this example of a hard cut BAM see how there's no transition it just goes to another shot and this is a transition of a crossfade so both shots have a bit of motion in them bit of rotation and motion and I thought it was appropriate for this crossfade to appear here and and you there's no rule of thumb you know you just have to follow what looks natural and what looks the most balanced here's a little tip when I type in wipe it brings up my wipe transitions and this is the one I use the most you notice that the transition follows the same lines of the composition of the video this is important because you don't want to be creating sort of a vertical transition on something that maybe has a lot of lines or circles obviously and not this not in all situations but you have to be aware of the composition of the background track before applying a wipe transition but the cool thing is you can change the location of where the wipe is coming from in the bottom from the angle from which angle and it's cool to have that transition then it works because we have nice straight lines and you have to look into what makes sense and what looks natural next thing everybody's asking about audio and what are the levels like volume is not the same as love okay volume is based on the amplification of your source through your headphones or your speakers levels are these things so the actual levels it's like a meter of what the audio is actually like will be across the board the rule of thumb for the vocals is to be anywhere between minus 6 and minus 12 peaking you don't want it to be like too harsh closer to 0 so minus 6 and minus 12 for vocals while the background track let me mute the mute mute my vocals this is my audio right now which is right here this will mean the music in the background and it's peaking around minus 24 between minus 30 minus 24 so that gives you the best balance between hearing your stuff in the foreground so your vocals versus having a nice soothing background music in the background so that it's not overpowering the vocals so though - 6db for vocals and - 30 - 24 for the background track and the last one is work I use this all the time - just stabilize the footage just a tiny bit and giving it that extra level of smoothness especially for shots where I'm sliding and when I'm rotating so this one is a little bit trickier to achieve - to 100% perfection in camera so that you apply a little bit of stabilization in Premiere and it looks beautiful very buttery smooth I have actually created a preset so that when I type in warp it's right there I drag it and drop it onto the the footage and I analyze it and I have a 30 and 30% for smoothness and cropping less and the last one is export settings ctrl M bring up your export window so here I first rename my stuff so I going to here I use the first one as 4k as resolution NZXT monta revision and revision is important in case you have to do any changes you know which video export is the latest one if I'm doing anything with 1080p I would type in 1080p and I would also put in my framerate at 4k I don't do it because it's an only 30p framerate for me my 1080p 60 is a good representation of the frame rate and resolution typing the name of the project and then revision number so afterwards I use the exact same settings for every single video in terms of resolution and it matches my sequence settings in terms of framerate I do a VBR one pass variable bitrate one pass I don't do two passes because that just takes extra time double time actually 30 40 and maximum render quality and maximum depth that's the settings ma'am that's don't have anything else in terms of what I change these are the settings that I'm happy with and I always make sure that my work area is actually the one that I've want to complete I don't change it in here actually that is changed by setting my in and out points for the review like this and like this so if we go back to export and choose sequence in and out BAM so the entire review will be rendered based on those in and out points i would do q and I use Adobe Media encoder simply because while that's rendering out the video I can still use Premiere you know maybe compiling footage for the other projects and stuff or something like that but we use CUDA acceleration because of our NVIDIA GPUs and if you have an AMD GPU you can also enable GPU acceleration with OpenCL and if you don't well CPU only and just as a reminder on how you could potentially utilize video blocks comm footage assets backgrounds and After Effects compositions in your own creative work I've compiled this little composition on how I would personally utilize those assets in a video introduction to say my camera gear here this all right so I hope you guys enjoyed this behind the scenes in the post-production process I hope it was helpful to you and for any video editors watching maybe you can take away some of the concepts to improve your own workflow or if you have any ideas and suggestions on how I can improve mine leave them in the comments down below and also a few things to take away from this video to recap organization important inside the software and outside for data management backup very important we recently had our rain zero loss and you know data wasn't backed up and unfortunately we lost a lot of video files and number three it's very important that you create your own templates templates are important to streamline that video editing process so you don't have to redo multiple things that are already created that work best for you so storyboarding inside the software before you drop your video footage onto the timeline for me ah the Montevideo took me 45 minutes to edit once the footage was dropped into the timeline of course there's a lot of work that goes into the preparation stage before you actually start to cut think of things inside the timeline like storyboarding you know making sure that the order is correct what files goal goes after what the voiceovers and the scripting stuff obviously that goes into the preparation stage as well but as long as you have that streamline and you know what process goes after what it will drastically improve your productivity when it comes to video editing so that is it for the post-production editing process I hope you guys enjoyed it I'm Dimitri with harbor Canucks thanks so much for watching we'll see you next video