4 Video Editing Tricks — Step-by-Step Guide & Transcript

[00:01] editor and YouTuber with over 30 million views, and I've edited videos like this, techniques that I use that will instantly level up your videos and help how to do them. Starting with number one, animated stock characters. An

[00:16] just throwing a logo or a face on a body and making it talk and move in your videos. You can use these in your videos in place of you talking, to act out scenarios or flashbacks, or just to be funny. and making them is super easy in

[00:29] any editing software. First, let's set them up. Start by finding stock images your character's body. Personally, I'm a super esteemed gentleman, so I'm only using ones in suits and nice clothes, but you can do whatever you want. Next,

[00:42] other photo editing software like Photoia. And on that note, today I'm do these editing tricks. But if you're not in Adobe Sigma like me, you can always use alternative software and it'll work fine. Things just might look

[00:55] have our stock images in Photoshop, we're going to go ahead and remove the lot of different ways to do this, but the easiest way is to click the quick clean up your selection, rightclick, and

[01:08] except the person is selected, and then delete the background with your delete whatever you want to use for your character's face. If it's a logo, import it into Photoshop, resize it, and throw it on top of each of the cutout stock

[01:22] Otherwise, if it's a face, throw it in Photoshop and remove the background like rid of everything below the face so you just have a head and the neck and throw your characters. If you need to, you can also erase the heads of the stock images

[01:37] cleaner. And now that we have our characters set up, we need to animate throw your characters into your video editor of choice and make sure you're editing in 60 fps so it looks super smooth when we animate. Then move your

[01:50] bottom like so. Create a key frame. Jump 15 frames forward and create a second key frame with your character totally on screen. Then ease the key frames like this so it looks nice and sexy. And now we have our character pop in on screen.

[02:03] in or something like that so we can reuse it later. Next, we're going to make the character wobble around just so they look a little more alive and not the best way to do this is to use a preset that simulates handheld camera

[02:16] character. You can find a bunch of free camera shake presets with just a quick your video editing software. For example, handheld camera shake presets with a bunch of free camera shake presets. And once you figure that out,

[02:30] software on your character to give it some life and it'll wobble around. change poses, just edit in multiple characters side by side in your timeline, both with the character in preset that makes them pop in and camera

[02:43] shake preset, and it'll look super good. You can even make this more advanced sound effects if you want. But now that you have these really cool animated probably also want some way to show really big numbers counting up in your

[02:57] no matter what kind of videos you make, you're going to want some way to show super good. For example, you can show things like money, jobs, deaths, dates, and so much more. Me personally, I use this to show how rich and famous I am in

[03:12] all my You weren't supposed to see that. And unfortunately, for how common this in most video editing softwares. But luckily, I've got you covered. First, in a new sequence and add in what's called a time code. A time code is just this

[03:26] little thing that shows the exact time that you're at in a video. In Premiere, transparent video and then add the time code on that transparent video as an field symbol, change the format to frames, and make the time code source

[03:40] stretch out your clip until the number on your time code is as big as you want. Then, center the time code and make it bigger. And you have a number counter that you can use for anything. For example, let's say I want to show a

[03:53] YouTube channel blowing up. First, I'll take this YouTube Studio screenshot, actual sub count. Then add in my number counter as a sequence with this button crossed out so it imports it as a single clip like this. Cut it so it starts

[04:06] around 40,000, let's say, and then speed it up a bunch so it goes really fast and obviously make this better by adding glows, sound effects, and maybe an impact effect whenever it stops at the number you want. But unfortunately, with

[04:19] counter, you can't change the font. But regardless, it'll look fine for most you want to use a graph instead of a counting effect to show big numbers? Well, graphs are actually pretty easy to make in any video editing software.

[04:32] graph in Premiere. This is made super easy with this little pen tool here, but software or do it however you want. Then remove the fill and change the stroke to be in the center and make it as thick as you want so that it becomes a big line.

[04:46] Next, we need to animate it. So, you're going to drag in a linear wipe effect and change the wipe angle to roughly the opposite direction your graph goes, even goes like this, the wipe angle is going to be this. Because what we're going to

[04:59] this transition. It's going to go from here and it's going to slowly reveal the To do this, just add a starting key frame with the transition at 100% or complete and then add an end key frame with it at 0%. And boom, our graph looks

[05:15] super sexy. It gets revealed. Even if it's a curve, this works super super look even better with a grid behind it, maybe some labels. And speaking of about in your videos using animated subtitles is one of the best editing

[05:29] tricks to level up your videos. And lots of creators know this and use them, but make them the wrong way so that they're super ugly and distracting. And also So, here's the right way to make your subtitles like a top G. Start by finding

[05:42] feature in Premiere Pro. You can find this in window text and create captions caption settings so that only one to two words are shown on screen at a time. Let

[05:54] the captions generate and voila. Now, it's time to make them not look like. A lot of creators overdo their subtitles by making them pop in super dramatically outlines and putting them in awkward positions on the screen, but we're not

[06:07] going to do that. Good subtitles are subtle but supplementary to whatever is relatively small to make them stand out a bit better from the background. Either add a black stroke or some sort of drop shadow or glow so that it looks super

[06:20] good. Just don't do anything super weird or distracting. Also, pick an easily of your screen so they're not too distracting. And if you want, you can add some subtle animations, but again, don't overdo this for most videos.

[06:33] now that you have these four editing techniques in your back locker, you can 100% just level up your content right away and get way more views. However, editing is just one part of what makes a video on YouTube go viral. And I know

[06:46] hundreds of YouTube videos with over 30 million views to my name. So, you'll to learn more about how to go viral on YouTube and blow up your channel.