Speaker 1: This first tip is so easy, it's literally gonna blow your mind. It's gonna blow your mind because of how much time it's gonna save you. And if you haven't been doing this yet, I don't know what you've been doing. That is watching your first draft back at 1.5 times speed or even 2 times speed. If you're watching at normal speed, you don't need to be doing that. Watch it in 1.5 times speed. You're gonna save a lot of time and get your first cut done so much quicker. Now, all you need to do in your editing software is hit play, and then on the keyboard, hit the letter L. And that's gonna play back now in 1.5 times speed. Hit it again, and that's gonna play in 2 times speed. You gotta just press record. Hey, guys, my name is Nolan Molt with Think Media, and we had a question come in from MyEClassinBytes. And the question was, easy and simple editing hacks that can make a video better. I can do that. Tip number two is to cover your edits. If your video feels choppy, maybe you had to stop a lot when talking to the camera and edit in all these little pieces, piece by piece. One thing you can do is cover your edit to make it look like you are just talking to the camera forever and never really stopping. Let me show you what I'm talking about and what not to do. Now, when a video is choppy, just like this, you can tell when I stop talking and when I start talking again. So let me show you how to fix this and how to hide these cuts. And the first one is to crop in. By cropping in, it resets the viewer's attention, and it looks like you just kept talking. But in reality, all you did was crop the image in. And then you crop the image back out, and it looks like you just kept talking, even though there was a few cuts within this tape. Another thing you can do to hide your cuts is to insert B-roll footage. Adding some video to overlay on your footage is a great way to hide those cuts, so no one really knows when you stop talking and start talking again. It just sounds like a fluent conversation. Tip number three, this one is really, really important, and it's to cut it out. Trim the fat, keep the meat, keep the good stuff, get rid of everything else. You want your video to be as long as it needs to be, but as short as possible. Now, if you're a new editor, you're probably asking, well, how do I know what to cut out? I feel like I need all of this stuff in there, when in reality, I promise you, you can cut things out. The first mindset shift is to watch it as a viewer. Watch it as if you're watching someone else's video. Now, a really cool hack you can do here is actually bring someone else into the room to watch your edit. Now, you're gonna watch it with them, and what you'll notice is when they're watching it, you're gonna be a lot more critical of your own work. And you're gonna know when they're getting tired and bored of watching your video, and you're gonna be like, yeah, that's not the best, I can cut that out. Tip number four is to use sound effects. Adding some sound effects to your videos for transitions, or when stuff pops up on the screen, or when text comes on the screen just like this is a great way to level up your production value. This also helps keep the viewers engaged, helping them watch longer, and in return, helping the YouTube algorithm pick up your video so you get more views. This fifth tip is really the most important tip, and it's the one thing that I would tell anyone. If they said, give me one tip on editing to level up, I would tell them this. But before we get to that, like this video, and then comment down below, what other questions do you have about YouTube content creation that I can help you with? Let me know down below. Okay, now the fifth tip is pacing is everything. Once someone clicks on your video, the most important thing that you can do is keep them there. You wanna keep the audience retention, and one of the main things to do this is by your pacing. If your video starts off very slow, odds are people are gonna click out and bounce onto the next video. Starting off with the right pacing is great, but you wanna keep that going throughout the video so people keep watching to the very end. So let me give you one practical way on how you can do this. Change up the music. Changing the music in the middle of a video is a great way for the viewer to know whatever just happened is over and we're onto something new. There's a sad moment in your video where things aren't going right and just everything's sad. You know, using that sad music can really bring the viewer in to what you're feeling, and this is great for pacing. And then change the music, because I'm not sad anymore. The video is moving on and people are now engaged in what's next. Changing your music needs to happen at the right moment. So if there's something new happening, this is a great time to change the music. If there is drama or something exciting, these are all great chances to change the music and start new. Now, I actually have another half tip because it totally goes with pacing. So here is tip five and a half. It's to stop the music. This can be really powerful in your videos. If you're saying something important, stopping the music can let the viewer know what I'm saying is important and you need to be listening to me. This is definitely great for certain moments. You can pick that music back up again, but when you stop it, it's like an exclamation mark on what you're saying. I was watching Last Chance U Basketball in episode one and they used this technique brilliantly. During the game, number 42 kept getting these calls against him that weren't really right, and he gets angry and storms off the court. The music is building and building and he heads for the locker room. So check this out. Yeah, that was intense, but what they did here with the editing was totally amazing. The music is building and building and then he goes into the locker room. He smacks the locker and the music stops. He lets out this big yell and you can just tell that this is an intense moment. As soon as he hit that locker, the music stops because you know something shifted. You know that he snapped. And I think if they would have added music to this moment where he yells and he throws the chair, I think it could have been a little bit cheesy. So stopping the music really was powerful and it brought me into the screen wondering what was gonna happen next. And this editing technique that they use on Last Chance U, you can also do on your YouTube videos. If you wanna learn how to choose the right music for your YouTube videos, then click on the screen and I'll see you guys in the next video. All right.