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hello good people so I've been editing for like 4 years straight and it's weird because with each single video edit you kind of discover something new you learn something along the way so today let's talk about some of the techniques that you can do for your edits to make them stand out to make them unique and to just really encourage yourself to do something different on every single video but before we get into that this has to go you know this is too much hair let's get a haircut oh yeah new hair new edit let's go wow it is snowing outside it's so beautiful I'm bit chilly told ya this is better alright guys so we had a lot of things to talk about that I hope you find useful but first a message from our sponsor check out the outstanding k7 xx open style headphones by mass drop and a key G with beautiful design lightweight and perfectly comfortable with incredible sound signature and a well-rounded price to join the drop link below alright let's begin the number one thing to do is to clean your space before you head it this is something that obviously is kind of a given and you can check out our video on top 5 tips on how to clean your space for cheap some tips in there that hopefully will carry over but a clean space means a clean edit and if you're working in the messy environment then you edit might come out messy as well for number 2 a very important point the feedback was to review your footage before you start to edit this way you kind of get pumped about like seeing really cool visuals and get your creative juices flowing so for me that means dropping the footage into the timeline and just review things that I've captured for particularly video that I'm working on but more importantly working with really good visuals generally contributes to a really good edit - as I said in the intro I've been editing for so long that if you want to see my techniques on how to become a more efficient editor in actual software let me know using proxies trimming storyboarding in out points shortcuts all that if you want to see that let me know in the comments below now one of the easiest things I realize to eliminate that daunting feeling of like editing a 15 minute video is to edit things in chunks so for me I used to perhaps maybe edit a little body time-lapse sequence but most recently I try to go in and just finish my introduction so that the introduction is very important to draw the viewer in so I choose my music I sort of pieced together this little cool sequence and it really gets me pumped up for the rest of the video but more importantly once my introduction is ready I can really kind of focus on finishing up the rest of the video and this way if you're editing in chunks that means you actually have more time to spend to refine it so if you have the intro ready some body portions ready too and then when you piece together everything you have a bit more time to process on how things work especially because you have those other chunks completed and all fine to go instead if you are sitting down for an eight-hour edit and you do the whole thing from 0 to 100 you're gonna make mistakes you get tired of looking at that timeline of course unless unless it's finished but you need that time to separate yourself from your final edit so that you can review it back a little bit later and fix those little mistakes that you perhaps then see when completing that whole thing in 8 hours or so next is experiment with transitions so in the introduction video you saw already two of them with me covering up the hand and it's a really good transition in terms of moving from one place to another and having you know a slight changes in the scene that there's not noticeable but for example with my haircut transition you saw that the hair changed and I had to adjust a little bit of the exposure and color differences between the two scenes but that made that a lot more smoother when I had my hand in front the lens and completely black out scene because that way when I removed the hands any of those changes are really noticeable to the viewer and the second transition of course is the clap a bit chilly tone yeah this is better we're having some audio cues in the scene that introduce a little new a stuttering element into the shot that way you can ink something else into it so for example me putting on the sweater and that whole ties in with the the winter scene that I included the shot prior so that you feel like yeah there's no there's winter but why is this guy in the t-shirt so I decide to include that and though it ties to the story and it gives you a really nice sort of transition effect you can also do motion transitions using camera movements so for example in this scene with the forest and the tree on the right side because I'm moving into it I created the same scene where I'm moving into my studio and so having this smooth transition from forest into studio is less you know jarring then if you were to just cut in the middle and having those two points of edge blackouts it's really important because I can simply piece them together and have this nice and smooth transition from one scene to the next or you can do really fast pans up and down or left and right and because of that natural motion blur it creates that really perfect transition point into which you can blend the next shot and it just looks seamless and really good next thing is don't be afraid to play around with aspect ratios everything is delivered in sixteen by nine which is a beautiful aspect ratio but for certain segments of your video or if you are having a different color grade or if you have like slow motion in there why not go ultra white or even four by three to give that video just a different genre of what you're trying to deliver now important thing to remember the aspect ratios is to not overdo it and simply go and ultra white does not make it cinematic but use it your advantage to guide the viewer into certain portions of your footage because obviously you're cropping things and because you you know most likely you're shooting in sixteen by nine it allows you to do cool motion stuff so you can do pans within that crop and then really guide the viewer into certain segments of that frame to you know basically tell your story better so next one is important because it took me a while to realize but learn to let go I normally shoot a lot of b-roll and delete everything that I don't think is worthy for the Edit in camera so that anything that I import into my premiere I'm line is is like good to go footage but sometimes things don't fit sometimes the footage that you know some particular shot is awesome but I've used something similar to it in the Edit somewhere else and therefore it just really doesn't fit within certain sequence within the Edit in itself so just be fine with that and learn to let go of not using some of the footage and the last very important one revolves around feedback so feedback is critical to any video editor even though you may think you're perfectionist it's really good to get and you know to feedback gurus that will not just say your work is fantastic but will actually give you constructive feedback on perhaps the music choice in the intros certain transitions certain elements of that sequence that may not be in place or feel kind of out of you know out of order and stuff and that's important because once you get out of that Nirvana of like completing your edit and you feel so proud of it and it's so awesome you you know that excitement really clouds your mistakes and having that external feedback is crucial and you have to realize that so I think that covers up my thoughts on how to become a more efficient and productive and creative editor from the creative side of things to the production side of things as well so let me know if you want to see the whole techniques video regarding the software in the comments because I really want to share my thinking about like what I do that makes my process so efficient and fast and enjoyable but I hope you enjoyed the tips that were included in this video and share your own with the the community I'm sure we have a lot of people who would love to hear that so I'm Dimitri thanks so much for watching we'll see you in the next video