But then I remembered that I exclusively at it while looking like a potato.

So here we are.

The real editing experience.

Acne out and about Aye, rows nowhere to be found Looking like a fucking gnome.

Let's learn howto first step of anything.

Get yourself some tea.

If you like me, you tend at 2 a.m. Because you hate yourself.

So get caffeinated bitches.

We're gonna be here for a while.

Second set of ending.

Take off the sweatshirt because it is like 90 degrees out.

And I just did it for the kids.

Not to worry, though, because I have a matching T shirt underneath.

So the aesthetic is preserved.

Third step of editing.

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Okay, First up, before we jump into a more thorough rundown of my workflow, I thought I would answer some of your guys as most asked questions right off the bat.

So first up what editing software to use.

I used Final Cut Pro A lot of people use from your pro, which I've actually look more professional editing software.

But my broke ass cannot be bothered to pay $50 per month to use Adobe software.

So I just bought Final Cut Pro once for $300 she has treated me well so far.

Second up.

What titles do you use for your videos?

In Final Cut, I just insert a basic title.

I go to Tootie Styles, Foe three D, and then I changed the font to future.

I also really like playing around the tracking, which is how far away the letters are from each other.

It could help you get that kind of like aesthetic spaced out text Look at the kids are into these days.

Sometimes, though, I also handle my titles, and I'll show you.

Um, I use my iPad for this, but if you have more nimble fingers than I do, you could probably use your phone as well.

I used paper by 53 which is a free app recently for my film Nails and some of the titles in my last video.

I've been using this.

I know what it is.

It's like a sponge ruler tool.

And it creates this really cool texture that I like that a little bit less plane that just a solid title.

Sometimes in here.

I also do animations for those that you don't know.

I was like a total nerd for animation as a kid.

My first YouTube channel ever when I was in like third grade, was actually called Pipe Cleaner Studios, and it was just the's like 30 seconds stop motion videos of pipe cleaner animals moving around, And I also used to make those little flip books and sticky notes into a bunch of hand drawn animation, so that still has a little place in my heart.

Basically, my super like unprofessional and beta strategy for doing animations is to just hand draw all the pictures out on my iPad, and then I import them into final Cut.

So basically, I have all these images on my timeline, and I just drive them so the duration of the cliff is really short.

And then when you play it back, it kind of looks like it's moving, really.

I'm like spreading my legs a lot in this video.

Okay, um, you has also asked me a lot where I get my music.

This is a YouTube or struggle.

Recently, YouTube has gotten a lot more strict with their music copyright policy.

And if your video gets copyright flag, they either get taken down or, more likely, they get de monetized.

So, like the hipster ho that I am, I go to Soundcloud.

That's pretty much where I get all of my music.

And basically, I just searched for hours for music that a the isn't too popular, so it's not gonna get copyright Flyby doesn't sound like trash can see you actually fits with the vibe of the video.

There is really, like, no rhyme or reason to this whole process.

Sometimes I'll start by watching some other YouTube videos and see if I like the vibe of their music.

I'll go to Soundcloud, try to find that artist and then find other songs that artist makes.

And then, from there, I kind of just go down like the Soundcloud Rabbit hole and look at the related tracks, usually there from like equally in the artists.

And they have a similar vibe.

One thing that I found that I really like to search for his remixes and covers of songs that I like.

And in particular I really like remixes of songs from the fifties and sixties.

I think he just goes really well with the vibe of my video.

I am admittedly not the best at changing all the music in my videos.

I always will try to do a new song for a look book, but for my talking videos, I put the same fucking song in every background.

I'll link it below the main ones.

I use our Amsterdam in the spring, which is this 1 June gloom is what I used to use for my intros, which is this one thing I found this one which is called Pillow Talk, which is a little bit more distracting, but I also really like it.

How do I know that my music isn't gonna get calling right?

Flags?

I test out every new song that I download just by creating an empty new project in Final Cut dragging the song, and they're exporting it to YouTube as a private or unlisted video.

And then, once it's uploaded to you, do I turn monetization and see whether it's been flagged as the monetization button still stays green.

Then we're all good to go, and I always like doing that before I actually start editing a video because I ended to the music.

And then, if I upload the final video and I find out that it's been copyright flag, then I'm just fucked.

Next up, let's jump into some actual details of my work flow.

So a lot depends on whether the video is a talking video like this or whether it's a look book that's more music based with a voiceover.

If it's a talking video, my first step is to sink the audio and visual.

I record on an external mic, which this is gonna sound awful when I pick it up.

But bear with me.

So this is what it looks like.

It has a separate SD card, so I have to import those files separately and then manually sink thumb.

I should put this down because my voice polly sounds really ridiculous from that angle.

In order to sink them, I create a compound clip, which is a super useful technique that a lot of people don't talk about I just discovered it.

Maybe, like six months ago.

You just highlight the clips that you want to combine.

Go to file new compound clip where I sent my keyboard shortcut to G.

So I just pressed the G button, and then it will combine all those clips into their own separate clip.

So, for example, I can chop up this clip of me talking, and I won't have to cut through audio and the video and resync them every single time.

It just works like it's one clip.

After that, I do a rough cut of the video.

It's talking like this, obviously, just chopping up the talking and putting them all together in the timeline.

Is it the lookbook?

I'll just go through all the footage and cut up these little nuggets off modeling where I don't look super awkward.

So I left with just a timeline full of potential modeling clips that I'd want to use.

This part of the process takes fucking for effort, but it's also pretty chill because normally I'll turn on some music since the clips don't have sound.

Also in that time to multitask.

Sometimes I'll go through Soundcloud and start listening to music that I want to be in the background of my look book while I'm doing this initial cut of the modeling clips after I have a rough cut of all of my potential clips, What I like to do is make a backup copy of the entire project.

That way I can feel a lot more confident in deleting any of the clips that I don't want, because if I do change my mind and I feel like I wanted this longing clip or a segment where I said something and I want it back in the video.

But I don't wanna have to search through hours of footage to find it again, I could just go to the back of Project and drag the pre selected clip into my video at this point under the music.

So as I do a finer cut, I have a better feeling of final vibe and the beats of the video.

Also, when I'm doing a talking video, it is so dry without the music.

Normally I get really discouraged watching my rough cut and I really hate it and I add the music and, like, it's a little more entertaining and I hate myself a little bit less if it's a look, look, obviously the music is really important, and I'll just drag my clips from that rough cut on top of the music and time, everything to the beat.

If I have a voice over, though, also key down the music and add the voice over at this point.

And then I'll try to sink the modeling clips to match what I'm talking about in my voice over there are a couple of the effects that I use in my look books and videos.

In general, the 1st 1 is this box or like frame within a frame of fact.

This is one of my favorite things to do, and I think it really spices off the video a little bit.

It's honestly, really simple.

You just want to lay your two clips on top of each other so they're on top of each other here in the timeline and then take the top lip and scale it down a little bit, too.

Whatever size that you want.

Normally, the front clip is gonna be me and an outfit, and then the background is gonna be some B roll that I took of my surrounding locations, like a close up of flowers or the sky or something like that.

I try to match the vibe and the colors of the background clip with the foreground clip.

Another effect that I used is this TV effect, and that's something that I used to use all of my intro segments, and it's something I like to use them.

I look books, especially in close up shots or things that are less detailed, to give it a little bit of a retro vibe or something like that.

So I just go into effects, search bad TV, and then you drag that over the clip.

You can play with the amount.

The type of static, a technique that I use for intro clips or transition sometimes is the role, and that basically creates this like double exposure.

Look, doesn't the image a little bit harder to see?

But I like that for, like, close up shots or if it just kind of a boring shot.

You can use that to change things up and Loki.

These effects also helped hide any like failed cinematography moments.

I also use this effect sometimes to make this little like TV glitch transition effect.

I do this manually by cutting up the clip that I want into multiple little pieces near the beginning or end wherever I want the transition to be.

And for each clip, I give it a different amount of the bad TV effect, and I give it a different role.

So once we're done, it looks like this image has a little jumping around.

Also, because I am fiend infer that vintage aesthetic.

Apparently something else I do is I have these green effects you can search on YouTube for just like a grain overlay, and then you can download that.

You drag it over your video and normally will have a black background.

So to make it transparent, you're gonna go to compositing blend mode, and then we're gonna do add and that'll get rid of all of the black and just leave you with that light green effect.

Next up is color correction for my outdoor shots and look books.

The color tends to turn out pretty well, so I'll just do something super basic.

Normally, I'll turn up the saturation a little bit.

Bring the highlights up sometimes if I want a little bit more of that vintage aesthetic.

I'll also add a little bit of pink in the color correction on four indoors because my cameras a little bitch.

Sometimes indoors, I'm gonna show you guys On my last video.

These clips actually came out really, really dark because I was filming for, like, four hours.

So by the end of it, like the sun was setting, I started out by adding a basic color board, just turning up the highlights and the saturation a little bit.

I wanted the white background to appear really white, but I couldn't turn the exposure up too much without blowing out the details in my skin.

So then I created another color board and they did something called a color mask.

I just dragged the eyedropper over the white tones in the background so my color fresher will only affect those white tones.

And then I turned up.

The exposure all got more, and that helped me bring up the background without affecting my skin.

And then because I still wasn't satisfied with that, I went back with 1/4 color direction.

This time I did a shake mask and then outside the shape mask.

I also turned up the brightness so that I got rid of this kind of dark in yet around the sides and brightened up just the outside of the frame.

Lastly, after I'm done with all of that, I'll cut my intro.

And doing the intro is, honestly, my least favorite part of any video.

It sucks because at that point I'm just, like, really over it, and I want to get out.

But the intro is really important and giving your viewers kind of a preview of what's gonna happen in the video.

They know they are wasting their time.

So normally I'll just go through the video and pick out my favorite clips on the most aesthetic looking stuff and copy and paste it to the beginning of the video, where I timed it to music and then add a title.

And that normally will add some type of effect over that, whether that's the bad TV effect or grain or something, just to distinguish it from the look of the rest of the video way go.

That is the intro, which normally takes me like an hour to do.

It's really obnoxious.

It's like a thrift hall, for example.

And I'm trying not to give away too much of the video time into that song called June Gloom and has this big work.

It was like like play it here like really fast.

So I tried to sink it to that blue sound effects, and I basically do a supercut of all of my clips, but make them really, really short.

So I kind of just flashed by your eyes and you're like, Wow, there is so much content in this drift hole, but I can't quite see what it is.

I better keep watching, and that is pretty much it after that will normally watch through it a couple more times because I always make like, dumb errors.

I have, like, typos, or I have a cot that could be a little bit neater, and I exported to you, too, and she's ready to go One big tip that I have before I leave.

If you're thinking about getting into editing at all, I would highly highly recommend customizing your keyboard shortcut.