0:00 I'm a 21 year old full time video editor and since I get paid per video I make, I literally earn more the faster I can make videos. So let me show you how I figured out how to edit 10 times faster and make the videos look better at the same time. So the first way to edit way faster is to be trash. Trash collecting. That's because it's called the WALL-E method and if you invest an hour into this, you will save yourself days of time. So please pay attention because it will also make your videos look way better. No way, yes way. Here we go. So Wally takes some raw materials, crunches them together in his machine, and out comes a beautiful product. And it does it incredibly fast, and that's why we want to create our own Wally. But how do we do that? Well, we have our raw materials, we put it into our Wally machine, and out comes a beautiful product. So, how do we make this amazing Wally machine? Here's our
0:50 three steps, simple steps, that you need to do. The first one is you open a new project and call it factory, and then whatever style you're editing in. It can also be for a client, if you have multiple clients that you edit in different styles. That's what I have. So for the second step, you simply have to do this. You put in all the materials you have in that video style. So that could be animation, transition, tile cards, sound effects, backgrounds, icon text, effects, music, lower thirds, anything. And as you can see, I've actually categorized it here. So I have an own section of animation and tile cards and lower thirds and so on. And you don't have to be that much, this is for another client I have, another factory, and it's way simply, you can see. And just put in everything you have. And if you don't know where you can find it, you can either go through previous edited videos and just copy paste it in. You can find elements online, like on Envato Elements, which I use. You can also make your own, which I also
1:39 do a lot, actually. And the cool thing about this is you only need to do these once, because here's the thing. Once you have this factory, you can just copy paste these elements into the video you're making. super super super convenient and saves you a lot of time and it's actually also convenient for the client because as you can see here this was like a really nice animation I made for like with a pyramid and then instead of using hours upon making this animation I just copied in and changed the text and voila, now it makes sense for that video you know and if you do this you're going to deliver the videos way faster to the client you want to keep the same style and brand for your videos which makes them way more consistent and people will love that including yourself it makes them look way cleaner your videos So it's a win-win for everybody. Now this next trick is short and simple. Here it is. Every editor has tried to edit on
2:26 a trash computer at one point. Like when it's really laggy and you barely can keep the project together and keeps crashing. But what if there was a trick that made laggy projects being able to edit 4k footage without upgrading your PC? Because I know it can be a bit expensive. Here's what you do. You simply create proxies. When I edit on my laptop, which is powerful but not super powerful, and I want to edit 4K footage, this is what I do. And you might already know what it is, but I wish I knew this from the start because it made it so much easier to edit. So essentially what a proxy is, is you have the original footage, and then you set it to make it a proxy, which is lower quality of it, but then when you render it, it uses the original footage, so it's actually high quality once it's finished. It's just while you're editing, it's a
3:11 lower quality version. And the way you do it, you can do it in most editing programs, in Premiere you just right click the footage and press create proxy, super simple. And when you do that you just press ok over here, you can set frame size to quarter. And then it just takes some time and after it's done rendering there you have a own proxy and you can toggle it with that button right there under the playback. So that's how you go from having a trash computer to a super computer without changing the specs. Now the third method, which I really love, I used it a lot in the beginning, the purple filter. So here's the thing, let's say you've edited something super awesome, you've spent a lot of time on editing it and super cool animations and sound effects and everything. So then you watch it again because like it kind of feels good seeing what you've done you know
3:57 and fair enough I mean I do that as well. But then you watch it again and watch it again and you maybe change some small things but you barely change anything and it's kind of satisfying to watch something you edited well right? But Be careful it doesn't turn into a hidden form of procrastination, which you can easily do and it's gonna slow down your editing projects so so much It's incredible. So it's basically steals your time if you do this too much But how can I avoid this? Well, that's where the purple filter came in because I asked myself this question and I came up with this solution So basically I have this this color matte here and I literally just put it in over parts I've edited and think I'm pretty done with this and then I Whenever I go back to see this part again, I just see a purple filter, like purple on the playback, and I'm like, oh, nevermind, better get back to editing, you know? And then at the end,
4:45 I can rewatch it and say, okay, can I improve something? So I don't rewatch it a thousand times, but instead I rewatch it when I actually need to. Super, super powerful. It can really help you with creating the right habit of keep going and edit fast. Now this last one, this is the one shortcut that literally doubled my editing speed. And you can see here, so there are so many shortcuts in editing programs, so many, but I barely use any of them and you probably do the same. So I discovered this button, it was the L button. And in Premiere Pro it doubled the playback speed, but there is a problem with this because here's the thing, for a shortcut to be actually used, it has to become a habit. And the thing is, When you have the L key You
5:33 can't make it a habit because who edits and then suddenly moves their hand over to the L key like that's way too far away So when you find a shortcut in Premiere Pro like this one and really double the playback which is really good at cutting you know original footage down Take advantage of them and the way you could do it is just put it on your mouse put it or like an easy convenient place where you can just press it and So, I can't recommend it, I use it all the time now. So, there's actually one last thing I want to show you, and this thing will super power your editing speed. And if you don't do it, this video won't really matter, and you can see why if you check out this video here, it will make you even faster at video editing. So go check it out, and thank you for watching, hope it makes you video editing faster.
