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hey what's up guys Jays $0.02 here and this might look a little bit different it's been a while since we've done any sort of a tutorial type video and I thought I'd take this opportunity to kind of answer some of the questions people ask me about my workflow and what programs I use so we're gonna kind of do a bunch of things all in one right here now this video is being brought to you by video blocks which is a service that I've actually been using for a while since I'm a one-man crew and I don't have an editor I don't have you know an Etzel like Linus tech tips who can do amazing work it's just me and I'm not the greatest motion graphics designer so I thought this would be a really good integration on a project you know video like this for a service that I actually use so anyway let's go ahead and roll that intro and get started now I've actually been using some stuff from video blocks here for a while just you know one main piece that I kind of use over and over and you guys have seen it before if you look over here this was the video I just put up the other day which was the r9 390 review from MSI and you see that motion background right here if I push play you're gonna hear the audio so and yeah I can scrub pretty quick so you see that motion graphic Specter movement I didn't make that I'm not good enough to make that so I actually downloaded that from a website called video blocks quite a while ago it's something I personally had access to when you know you become a full-screen partner and they give you kind of like a free trial with it and I downloaded a couple of things I've been using it ever since so today's video is kind of a two-parter it's just kind of a quick showing you you know how I sort of used premier and some of my workflow and how I can make the workflow look more professional by using stuff like this because I have been using this now for quite a while now video blocks basically is just what it sounds like their blocks of video stock footage aerial flybys and templates that you can use to kind of spice up you know your your projects if you will I most of us are not graphics designers but video box is actually a place where graphics designers can also upload their footage that they make on their own and get a hundred percent of the commission other sites will actually take quite a bit chunk of any of the sales kind of like indie developers who upload their games to steam you know steam takes a cut while video blocks actually allows the developers who upload their own motion graphics here to take a hundred percent of the proceeds of their work so you got three different categories here you've got footage now these are this is like stock footage and stock footage just things like aerial flyby is city views just kind of random people and landmarks and boats just things you might be able to inject into your project to kind of give it more of a dynamic feel this kind of stuff is in movies all the time you probably just don't even realize it because it's you're just so accustomed to it but think Seinfeld you know how it kind of does that don't don't don't yeah don't make fun of my imitation is there but it kind of does like the little jazz you know base like bumper-to-bumper home and it shows a like a city scene and transitions there's a perfect example of stock footage backgrounds this is exactly what I use over here on the right if I can get the as I see using the wrong cursor there over here this is an example of a background the this you know blue part here would be a motion background so you can kind of pick from different types of background fire love technologies always of is a good one obviously now you've got After Effects now After Effects kind of has its own category here because you can do so much with After Effects After Effects is kind of the industry standard for movies television especially online content creators when you learn how to use After Effects you've got basically a magic wand to do anything you want now I'm not good enough really to use After Effects much but these are templates that are broken down into very editable composite compositions that you can edit the text you can kind of edit colors and things like that to make it your own so let's say you're a new youtuber and you need an intro and you know you make an intro or something with say you know Windows Movie Maker it kind of looked pretty bad but if you go over here to something like intro or logo reveal these are pretty good examples of things that you could you know use to make your logos or your intros look really professional and really pop and they're you know completely editable and all rights are yours to use them so I actually like this one down here it actually has a sound that goes along with it and if you hover over the little thumbnail you actually get a preview so there's an example of that one there let's say you're into more of a spacey thing here's a solar system logo reveal this one doesn't have she actually have any sound with it but obviously you can add your own sound but there are tons and tons of these I mean you can see up here there's four four hundred and ninety five of those now backgrounds let's say you want a background for something similar to like I did with my you know benchmarks let's see look at technology category there's all these different things like you've you've got your white noise white noise is always a good one especially be doing like scary music and stuff you know TV channel static yeah you've got this kind of a matrix looking things so whatever just have a binary you've got this thing here which kind of looks like a lot of different test patterns you've just got so many different things that you could use so many things at your disposal so here's what I thought we would do I thought we would do two things one you guys know I have my little you know transition thing that I use quite a bit look effect it will let play right here just in case you've you've never seen it so without further ado and enough chatting let's go ahead and take a look at those charts okay so there is a transition now let's go ahead and modify this transition here let's go ahead and get the let's get the minion out of there let me give me a little bigger workspace I've really got this like compressed down into a 1080p panel I normally edit on a 4k panel so this is really small so let's go ahead and grab all of these smooth these out of the way and I thought we do kind of a country twang I figured I'm feeling kind of in a country mood here so I have got over here a bunch of files that I have already kind of put into the workflow here that I want to use so let's go and grab this River landscape here and let's drag it over to our project so if you look over here I just dragged it in I don't want to move over any of my footage there so I just drag that in place and this is how it looks now chatting let's go ahead and take a look at those charts obviously there's no sound or anything it's just kind of playing but it's a really nice kind of a majestic River it's really coms very backcountry feel but obviously that's not going to work for us so we need some music now I downloaded a from audio micro which is actually what I use for all my music here kind of a micro or a Beck's country twang we'll go ahead and add a little transition here I like to use dips of white as you guys have seen this is all basic stuff for premier we'll do a dip to white on there and we'll go ahead and take the rest of our footage here plop that back against it it doesn't look like I should have snapping on I'm gonna zoomed out too far all right so we'll do that now let's see how that looks so without further ado and enough chatting let's go ahead and take a look at those charts and that's way too long obviously so if this were the actual workflow I was working on I think it would actually be good to have you know kind of a little bit of an underscore here what I mean by that is where the music's still kind of humming out right here you can see where it's fading out but we would have the other footage coming in on top of it so let's do this let's go and grab all of this again and then we can just kind of bring it over like that bring up our exponential fade and because it was way too long so let's see how this does look at those charts there you go there's this low example of how you could use you know some of the aerial footage there now let's go into a new little project here let's go ahead and spice something up I downloaded from audio or of audio blocks video blocks here this times square and this is what it looks like here it's going to start this over so you can see it's just kind of a static shot here of Times Square in New York there's no sound obviously you've got a you've got a guy towing some Asians there this is I don't know if I've ever seen that in New York but hey so yeah we'll go ahead and drag that into our project over here and here is our project now obviously this is very flat it doesn't do us any good it's got no sound so how do you fix that well I downloaded a couple of you know downtown traffic day type of sound effects we'll just drag this in crop it so that it actually matches the length let's see how this sounds oh wow look at that do you think yep so if you ask me it kind of sounds like a real footage down right but this wouldn't be in New York if you didn't have some some road rage says we're gonna do I downloaded a couple of downtown car horn sound effects so we got a short one here do you hear that let's make it a little bit louder little louder yet this is New York after all all right but now nobody gets honked at in New York where you don't have the you know bligg Ettore you know guy getting mad and honking back so let's go ahead and pretend these two guys got into a little bit of a honking match what do you say and we'll stack this audio here stagger it so let's go and see how this sounds there you go how dare you honk abhi you don't hock it to me I humped back at you yes so that's what we'll do turn it up a little bit and let's go ahead and give it a little bit of a fade-out that way it sounds more like they're driving away from us I could kind of happen behind us and it's going to move it a little bit sooner in the clip here there you go now it seems like New York doesn't it all right well there you go guys I know this was just kind of a kind of a short little thing here but if you guys are looking for ways to kind of spice up your videos whether you're doing you know reviews or you're kind of doing cinematic stuff stock footage is definitely the way to go because this stuff is already up there for you to use you know when you sign up for videoblocks it's basically an annual feed you can use unlimited amounts of stock footage all you want if your content created yourself or emotions graphics artist you can upload your stuff there and make money on the marketplace which is always a plus you don't have to try and peddle or advertise your stuff you can just put it up there there there is just so many things up here to use it's almost overwhelming I mean you can it's the only thing limiting what you can do here quite honestly is your own imagination so anyway guys thanks for watching today's video if you guys want to see more of this workflow like the basic workflow that I use my editing skills are nothing special let me know down in the comments if you guys want to see more stuff like this maybe short how-tos for new people getting into YouTube people who are using premier I use the Creative Cloud so it's fairly inexpensive it's a monthly fee and you know you can you can do stuff like this in fact let's let's watch that little that New York scene once again so remember we went from let's do the before we went from this just a real quiet clip no audio at all which obviously has no immersion and then we took three different sound Clips here that I found on the internet and I like I said I use audio micro for the sounds and we just stack those on top of each other and there you go oh it would help if I'm you did it huh Jay is a dork all right guys there you go JC since bringing a how-to video I haven't done in quite a while tell me what you guys think down in the comments follow on social media YouTube definitely follow at YouTube that'd be nice Twitter and all of that junk so guys let me get on out here as always I couldn't do these videos without you and thanks a ton for watching I'll see you in the next one