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0:00If you have vlog footage sitting on your
0:01hard drive right now because you're
0:03feeling too overwhelmed to edit, this
0:05video is for you. Vlog editing does not
0:07have to be scary or overwhelming when
0:09you use my easy workflow. First things
0:12first, we're going to organize our
0:13files. Of course, it's overwhelming when
0:15you have a million video clips in no
0:18discernible order, so let's fix that.
0:20Step one, get all of your footage onto
0:23your computer. I recommend eventually
0:25investing in an external hard drive like
0:27this SSD from [music] Samsung, but if
0:29you don't have one yet, you can just
0:30start by creating a dedicated folder on
0:32your computer. Step two, either [music]
0:34get the files off of the SD card from
0:37your camera or AirDrop them from your
0:39phone to your computer. Step three,
0:41create a folder for each scene in your
0:43vlog. Starting with your intro and then
0:45going chronologically through what you
0:47did in your day. For example, you might
0:49have a folder like 01 morning routine,
0:5102 working, 03 lunchtime. Obviously,
0:54you're going to create yours based on
0:56what you actually did, but I really
0:57recommend adding the number order to the
0:59front of your folder title, cuz this
1:01means when you organize them by name,
1:02they're actually going to show up in
1:03chronological order. For a vlog to be
1:05interesting and engaging, each scene
1:07should have some A-roll and some B-roll.
1:09If you realize after the fact that you
1:11filmed an entire scene and never talked
1:13to the camera, aka captured any A-roll,
1:15then you might consider recording a
1:17voiceover to go with that scene. Or you
1:18could consider using it as a transition
1:20montage, but if that's the case, you're
1:22going to want to keep it short. I find a
1:24lot of beginners lean too far into long
1:27B-roll montages that just don't tend to
1:29be that interesting. Step four, put all
1:32of those clips into your scene folders.
1:34And when you're finished, make two more
1:36folders. One of them you're going to
1:37title _music and the other one you're
1:40going to title _extras. This is where
1:42you're going to store any background
1:44music, any sound effects, maybe any
1:46graphics or photos or things you want to
1:48overlay in your video. Also, adding the
1:50underscore to the front of these folder
1:52titles will mean that they float to the
1:53top when you sort everything by name as
1:55well, which will make them easy to find.
1:57With all of that done, we're pretty much
1:58ready to start the edit. By the way, I
2:00know you can get like Claude co-work and
2:02stuff to go through all of your files
2:03and rename them and sort them into
2:05folders, and I get that there may be a
2:07time and place for that, but personally,
2:09I see the organization as the footage as
2:12the foundation of the storytelling
2:14process. In order for you to organize
2:17all of your clips [music] into scenes,
2:19you need to know what clips you have in
2:21the first place. Going through all of
2:23your files and organizing them into
2:25scenes [music] by folder helps jog your
2:26memory of what you captured and gets you
2:29started on the creative process of
2:30thinking about how you want to cut it
2:32together in your video. Step two, import
2:34your footage into DaVinci Resolve. Okay,
2:36first up, as soon as you open Resolve,
2:38you're going to want to make sure you're
2:39on the edit tab rather than the cut tab.
2:41Then, you're going to look for the media
2:42pool, which is on the left-hand side of
2:44the screen. Open up your finder window,
2:46and you're going to select all of your
2:47scene folders and drag them into the
2:49master column of the media pool. This is
2:52really important because if you just
2:53drag them into this big box here, you'll
2:56see that it actually just imports all of
2:58the video files and doesn't keep any of
3:00the folder structure that you just
3:01worked so hard to create. So, now you've
3:02got all your clips organized into scenes
3:05and in chronological order over here on
3:07the left-hand side. Quick extra bonus
3:08tip for you, you're going to want to
3:09make that extra assets folder now, even
3:12though you don't think you need it yet.
3:14Resolve has this really great feature
3:15where once you have dragged a folder
3:17into your media pool, all you have to do
3:19is right click and select resync media
3:22files to pull in any additional files
3:24that you added to that folder after you
3:26brought it into Resolve. This is so nice
3:28because it means you don't have to keep
3:29clicking and dragging files into your
3:31program. Once you got the folder in
3:33there, you can just resync it when you
3:34download new stuff. Speaking of those
3:36additional assets, if you find yourself
3:38needing more visuals or sound effects or
3:41background music when you're in the
3:42editing [music] process, my favorite
3:44place to grab those is from Storyblocks.
3:46I've been using Storyblocks for years to
3:48help tell more interesting stories in my
3:51videos. It's a massive online stock
3:53library of media assets that you have
3:55permission to use in your content across
3:58social media. It's royalty-free,
4:00pre-licensed, and you never have to
4:01worry about copyright strikes, or
4:03getting demonetized, or anything like
4:04that. The other day, I needed some
4:06b-roll of the sun glistening on the
4:09water for an idea I had in my video.
4:11However, the day that I went to the
4:12[music] beach to shoot my content, it
4:14was really cloudy and overcast, so there
4:16was just no chance of me being able to
4:19capture that. However, I was able to
4:21find it on Storyblocks, and it patched
4:23in together nicely with the rest of my
4:24clips. If you need a time lapse, or
4:27drone footage, or an establishing shot
4:29of a location, Storyblocks is a great
4:31place to check. And the cool thing is,
4:33Storyblocks is offering you guys 15% off
4:35any annual plan, but just for a limited
4:37time. So, if you want to check that out,
4:38make sure you go to
4:39storyblocks.com/katie,
4:41or check out the link in the
4:42description. And of course, thanks to
4:43Storyblocks for sponsoring today's
4:45video. Step three, build the structure.
4:47Okay, now that your footage is all
4:48organized and loaded into Resolve, it's
4:50time to start building out the structure
4:52of your vlog. First, let's just make
4:53sure our sorting is correct. So, you're
4:55going to go into your first bin. Let's
4:56just go into the intro folder here, and
4:58you're going to go up to this little
5:00down arrow next to the horizontal lines.
5:03That's our sort button. We'll click on
5:05that, and we'll make sure that it's set
5:06to date created. That means that all of
5:09our files are going to be in order of
5:11when you actually filmed them, which is
5:12going to be a lot easier. Now, this is
5:14kind of a bonus step, but I like to go
5:15ahead and color code each folder. This
5:18means that our scenes in the timeline
5:19are going to be color coded as well. So,
5:21you can do this by just clicking on one
5:24of your files here, and then hitting
5:25command A on your keyboard to select
5:28them all. Then, right click, go down to
5:31clip color, and then just pick whatever
5:33one you like. So, I'm going to go
5:34through each folder and do that. I find
5:36this helpful because later on, it's
5:37going to be really easy to distinguish
5:39where one scene starts and the next
5:41begins in your timeline. Okay, so next
5:43up, we're going to open our first scene,
5:44and start bringing our a-roll into the
5:47timeline. Actually, I'm just going to
5:48use my morning folder as an example here
5:50because all of my intro is A-roll, but
5:52when you're looking for A-roll,
5:54typically what I like to do is just look
5:56for my selfie clip. So, anytime that my
5:58face is in it, I'm like, "Oh, yep. This,
6:00I'm pretty sure is A-roll. You know,
6:02this is definitely A-roll." And so, I
6:05will just go ahead and click [music] and
6:07drag those into the timeline. If you're
6:09having trouble finding what you're
6:11looking for up at the top here, if you
6:13click on the little drop-down next to
6:15the thumbnail icon, you can actually
6:17change the size of your thumbnails. So,
6:19you can make them bigger and that is
6:21going to be much easier to go through
6:23and pick [music] out your A-roll clips.
6:25Another quick tip for making this
6:26faster, I can actually go ahead and
6:28select these all at once by just holding
6:30command as I scroll through. And when I
6:34find a clip where I know [music] I'm
6:36talking to the camera,
6:38I will select it and you can see
6:40>> [music]
6:40>> I'm like slowly getting more of my
6:44A-roll clips added to my list. And once
6:47I have them all selected, all
6:48highlighted in red, I'm going to click
6:50[music] and drag them into the timeline
6:51where they will be in the order that I
6:53selected them. I'm going to repeat this
6:55for all of my scenes leaving short
6:57breaks on the timeline between each
6:59scene chunk because it's just going to
7:01give me a little bit more breathing room
7:02to shuffle things around later. With
7:04this complete, you've got the basic
7:06chronological structure of your vlog
7:08already in place. And by the way, I just
7:10wanted to say I love sharing my video
7:11editing tips for free here on my
7:13channel, you ever feel overwhelmed or
7:15you want to get some extra help with
7:17your content, I actually have a team of
7:19video editors that would love to work
7:20with you. We're a small agency, it's
7:22called Creatorly Media. It's an
7:23all-women video editor team and we edit
7:26videos for YouTubers, content creators.
7:28We just recently started editing
7:30short-form videos as well. So, if that
7:31sounds like it would be helpful for you,
7:33you can check out all the details in the
7:34description. Step four, automatically
7:36remove your awkward pauses. Okay, this
7:38is the stage where things really speed
7:40up cuz we're going to do a few things
7:41automatically. With everything added to
7:43the timeline, we're now able to
7:44automatically remove any pauses that you
7:47had while you were talking to the
7:48camera. DaVinci Resolve only lets us do
7:50this to one clip at a time, so you do
7:52have the option of going through and
7:53doing it to each clip individually, but
7:56obviously that kind of takes a while.
7:58So, the hack that I'm going to suggest
8:00instead is what you can do is go ahead
8:02and select all the clips. We'll just do
8:04this one scene at a time to keep it
8:05simple, and you're going to right click
8:07and go up to the top and select new
8:09compound clip. You can just leave the
8:11name as a default. This is kind of a
8:12temporary thing, so don't stress about
8:14it. Now you see it's turned into one
8:16continuous clip with one long audio
8:19file. Now with our clip still selected,
8:21we're going to go up to the top here and
8:22click on clip, scroll down and look for
8:24audio operations, and then go across and
8:27click [music] ripple delete silence. As
8:29you can see, it's automatically
8:31highlighted all of the pauses where you
8:34weren't talking to the camera. It's just
8:36kind of like background noise or
8:37silence. So, you can adjust this if your
8:40clip is generally quiet, then you might
8:42want to like change your threshold so
8:44that it's not deleting so much. I think
8:46this looks about right for this
8:48particular clip. And then I'm going to
8:50click remove. I will say as a caveat to
8:52this, if you're dealing with a lot of
8:53clips that have varying audio levels,
8:55you might want to change your audio
8:57levels to make them more similar before
8:59you do this or just simply do the ripple
9:01delete silences on a smaller group of
9:03clips or individually. Finally, you're
9:05going to reselect all of those clips,
9:07right click again, and then select
9:09decompose in place using clips only. You
9:12can see everything is reverted back to
9:14being its own individual clip rather
9:17than from our big compound clip. And
9:19with all your awkward pauses cut out.
9:20This will automatically remove all of
9:22your pauses, which cuts down on editing
9:24time a ton, especially if you have a
9:26script or notes that you reference while
9:28you're filming like I do, and so
9:30therefore you have a ton of awkward
9:32pauses while you're looking down to
9:33remember what you wanted to say next.
9:37All of that is automatically gone. Okay,
9:39so my next time-saving tip is to
9:41transcribe your timeline. You can do
9:42this by finding your timeline in the
9:44media pool, right clicking, go down to
9:46AI tools, audio transcription, and then
9:49click on transcribe. This is just going
9:51to take a couple minutes and it's going
9:52to end up saving us a ton of time,
9:54especially if you're the kind of person
9:55that likes to do multiple takes or start
9:58over and say your line again until you
10:00get it right, because scanning through
10:02text is always going to be faster than
10:04having to watch back through all of your
10:06mistakes to find the right one. Also,
10:08for a lot of us, it tends to be like our
10:10final take is the one we want to go with
10:11anyway, so you can look through your
10:13text and very quickly jump to the final
10:15time that you delivered your line and
10:17just keep that part. So, once this is
10:19complete, we've got a transcription like
10:21this. The other benefit of this is if
10:23you're trying to remember where you
10:24talked about something in your vlog, so
10:26you can call back to it or grab a clip
10:28from that scene later on, so you can
10:30just click on the search button here and
10:31then search for a particular word. And
10:34you can see it's automatically
10:35highlighted and it jumped me to that
10:36part of the video. The other great thing
10:37is you can delete sections of the video
10:39right from inside the transcript, so I
10:41can see here Dan attempted this line
10:43twice. So, I'm just going to go ahead
10:45and select this and delete it, and you
10:48can see it's been automatically deleted
10:49from the timeline as well. So,
10:51especially if you're new to
10:52timeline-based video editors, using the
10:54transcript can be a bit of a shortcut to
10:56quickly cut out segments of A-roll
10:58without having to watch them back.
11:00Whether you cut out your mistakes or
11:01your retakes from the transcript or by
11:03watching back through the timeline, once
11:05you've completed this, the rough cut of
11:07your vlog is basically done. Now, we're
11:09going to move into creating the polished
11:10version of the video, which is going to
11:11include actually watching back what we
11:13have. Step number six, add B-roll. At
11:16this point, we're moving from doing
11:17batch tasks for the entire video to
11:19working more scene by scene, including
11:21cleaning up the cuts between clips,
11:23adding the relevant B-roll over top of
11:25our A-roll, adding transitions between
11:28scenes, and adding our background music.
11:30So, start with your first scene and
11:33watch through your A-roll. At this
11:35point, we should just be watching
11:36through your final best takes without
11:37any pauses in between, so that's saving
11:39us some time, but at this point, as we
11:40go, we're going to be cleaning up the
11:42cuts. Since the ripple delete silence
11:44tool won't always be perfect, oftentimes
11:46I find that it actually leaves more
11:47blank space at the end of a talking clip
11:49than I would comfortably want to have.
11:51Or sometimes it might cut a little too
11:52soon and you actually need to extend the
11:54clip out to adjust for that. Also, I
11:56personally like to layer my dialogue cuz
11:58I find it just makes it flow better,
12:00gets rid of any dead air. So, I do that
12:02by selecting my second clip in this
12:05case, and I'm going to drag the audio
12:07track down to audio track number two.
12:11>> [music]
12:11>> This means that now I can click and drag
12:14this over just slightly to the left, and
12:17if we really zoom in there, you can see
12:19that the final word of this scene is
12:24overlapping just slightly with the first
12:26word of this scene, and it just makes it
12:29really pacey and fast. If there's one
12:31thing I hate when watching a video, it's
12:33when there's like an awkward amount of
12:34silence between one word
12:38and the next. As I'm listening to what
12:40the A-roll clip is talking about, I'm
12:42going to start looking in the media pool
12:43for the relevant B-roll clips that go
12:46with that talking segment. To do this,
12:48you're going to click on the B-roll clip
12:49that you want and drag it into the
12:51preview panel. Then, you can start
12:53playing it back or scrub through it just
12:55by clicking and dragging along the
12:57timeline. And when it gets to the point
13:00where you want to actually use the clip,
13:02like the start of what you want, you can
13:04hit I on the keyboard to set your in
13:07point, and then you can continue to
13:09scrub along, and [music]
13:11when you get to where you want the clip
13:12to end, you can hit O to set your out
13:15point. Then, you can hover over the
13:17clip, and you'll see that you've got
13:19like a little video icon and a little
13:21audio icon here. For most of the B-roll
13:23that I use, I tend to just use the video
13:26clip cuz the audio isn't relevant or it
13:28might be distracting. So, I'm going to
13:29click on the video icon and then drag
13:31this into the timeline and I will put it
13:34on video two. So, it's layered over top
13:37of my A-roll. Technically, yes, you
13:39could just drag it here. However, it's
13:42going to be a little bit messy later if
13:44I choose that I want this clip to be at
13:45a different point and then now I've lost
13:47that original A-roll that I might have
13:50wanted to show at some point. So, that's
13:51why I always add it to track two so I
13:54can continue to independently move it
13:56anywhere in the video without disrupting
13:58my A-roll track. So, I'm just going to
13:59continue to do this going through my
14:01B-roll clips taking them into the
14:03preview panel setting my in and out
14:05points and then clicking on the video
14:07icon and dragging it down onto the
14:09track. Now, in this particular case, I
14:11just wanted to highlight you don't
14:12always have to have your B-roll just
14:14over top of A-roll. There's going to be
14:16some moments where you want a
14:17transitional scene where there's no
14:19dialogue happening. That's kind of what
14:20I intended for these clips just to be
14:22establishing shots to say, "Hey, it's
14:25the morning. I'm leaving the van." So,
14:27I'm going to actually select these and
14:29move them over to the left a little bit.
14:30This is why I leave the blank space
14:33between the scenes. You can see my
14:34intro's over here. Here's the morning
14:36scene. Because I have space to do this.
14:38We'll get rid of all the space later on,
14:41but for now, I can move these over. I
14:43can move them down onto my main track
14:45and I can have this just be visual.
14:47Sometimes when I'm editing to make
14:48things quicker, I'll kind of start
14:50watching it back and then I'll use the Q
14:52and W keyboard shortcuts to
14:54automatically trim to the right or left
14:56of the playhead. So, in this case, I'm
14:58going to hit W and that's removed the
15:00end of that clip. Now, I'm going to keep
15:02watching this. Sometimes when I have a
15:04longer clip like this, I like to do jump
15:05cuts. So, I'm just going to hit C.
15:07That's what I have set for cut. And then
15:09I'm going to move over here. Okay, now
15:11I'm going to hit Q to delete that. I'll
15:13play a little bit more.
15:15>> [music]
15:15>> Cut again. Jump over here and hit Q
15:18again. And now I've got this kind of a
15:20jump cut effect that just helps to make
15:22this clip go by quicker. Now, in the
15:24case of this final clip, I would like it
15:26to overlap my vlog section, so I'm just
15:28going to move this up to my track two
15:31{slash} B-roll track, and then I can
15:33move this over, and you will continue to
15:35see B-roll. The B-roll will be seamless,
15:37but then you will also start to hear me
15:39talk. Once the A-roll and B-roll of the
15:41scene are starting to come together, I'm
15:43going to start thinking about what I
15:44think the mood of the scene is, and then
15:47seek out music to match the emotion that
15:49I'm trying to portray here. Once I've
15:50collected some tracks that I like, I'll
15:52put them into my music folder, and in
15:54Resolve, if I right click and select
15:57resync media files, it'll automatically
15:59populate what I have in the folder that
16:01I imported into Resolve. Since we're
16:03talking about audio, I wanted to take a
16:05brief moment to talk about how I
16:06approach sound design in general. So,
16:08just to recap what we've done so far.
16:10Like you saw already, I put my A-roll
16:12talking tracks on audio track one and
16:16audio track two, so I'll just rename
16:18those really quick. Next, I'm going to
16:20put my music on tracks three, and I'm
16:23also going to use track four for this.
16:25The reason I have two is so that I can
16:27overlap the end of one music track with
16:29the start of the next. Speaking of the
16:31end of audio tracks, really quick simple
16:33tip for you, I find that a scene sounds
16:35so much more complete when the music
16:38track actually ends at the end of the
16:39scene rather than it just fading out.
16:41There would be more sophisticated ways
16:43to do this, but what I typically do is I
16:46just make a cut somewhere [music]
16:48arbitrarily, and then I trim to the end
16:51of the clip, and then click and drag the
16:53end of the music track so that it lines
16:56up with the end of the scene. Then, I
16:58will just line these up somewhere
16:59underneath the talking, so it's not
17:01going to be obvious. I click on the cut,
17:04right click, and I'll add like
17:06nine-frame crossfade. This is a very
17:08quick and dirty way of doing it, I'll
17:09admit, but I find that when it's
17:11underneath talking anyway, it's not
17:13super obvious, and it just feels very
17:15complete when the song ends when the
17:17scene ends. So then, just to show you
17:19what I mean about the music, we'll click
17:21and drag our first scene over here. So
17:23I'll take my next music track and I'm
17:25going to drag it down to music number
17:27two. And now you can see it kind of
17:30overlapping the end of that one and so
17:32there's just like no silent pause. It
17:34blends seamlessly from one to the next.
17:36Okay, and then finally, audio track five
17:38is open for any sound effects that I
17:41want to add later. The reason why it's
17:42so important that you have dedicated
17:44tracks for different types of audio is
17:46because we can make changes to the
17:48entire track at once. The simplest, most
17:50beginner approach to this is if you
17:52click on the mixer button in the top
17:54right-hand corner here, it'll bring up a
17:55panel that shows all of your different
17:57audio tracks now nicely labeled. So, for
18:00example, with music, I pretty much
18:02always want my music to be a lower level
18:04because it's usually background music.
18:06So, I can just go ahead and drag this
18:09down to be at minus, let's say 25 or so.
18:12It's typically where I keep it. We'll do
18:14the same thing for music two. This way,
18:16I don't have to go through each
18:17individual audio track and change the
18:20volume over here. I can just do it based
18:22on the entire track. If you want to make
18:24your audio sound even more professional,
18:26a couple of few tips for you. You're
18:27going to go ahead and click on the music
18:29note icon down here. This is going to
18:31take us into Fairlight. [music]
18:32There's a lot going on here and
18:33honestly, I'm no audio engineer, but I
18:36do have a couple things that I like to
18:37do. Over here, if we expand our mixer,
18:40we're going to see even more options
18:42than we did on the other page. Let's
18:43start by just working on our dialogue
18:45tracks. thing we're going to do is click
18:47on this green line here. This opens up
18:49the dynamics and I like to add just a
18:51default dialogue compression. What this
18:54means is if you ever were like too close
18:56to the microphone or got too loud at a
18:58certain point, it's going to reduce
18:59anything that's above this range, which
19:02is just going to make your talking sound
19:03more cohesive and more around the same
19:06volume. Anything we do to A1, we need to
19:08do to A2 so that all of our dialogue
19:11sounds the same. So I'm just going to
19:12add that same compressor. Second quick
19:14step you can take is adding a little bit
19:16of voice isolation, so I'm going to go
19:17back over to A1, enable voice isolation.
19:21I like to set this to like, honestly,
19:2310, 15 at the most. I find anything over
19:2610 or 15 starts to sound a little bit
19:29robotic, but at this level it just cuts
19:31out some of the background noise. Again,
19:33anything we do to A1, we've got to do to
19:35A2. Make sure that you've got the track
19:37icon selected here rather than click so
19:40that all of our changes are going to the
19:42actual track. Final thing we're going to
19:43add to our dialogue track is changing
19:45the EQ. At this point, I have a preset
19:48for this that I start with and then
19:50adjust [music] based on how it sounds.
19:52But to give you a basic rundown, in this
19:55zone, around band four, from like 1K up
19:58to 4K, this is a frequency range where
20:01if you boost it, it tends to make your
20:03dialogue sound a little bit more clear.
20:05And over here in the band one range,
20:08anything kind of like lower than 100, if
20:11we reduce that a little bit, it'll get
20:14rid of any rumble or like muddiness in
20:16the audio. Those are a couple tips to
20:18get you started, but it's best practice
20:20to listen back to your audio and make
20:22adjustments as you're hearing it until
20:24it sounds good. That being said,
20:25whatever changes we make to A1, we need
20:27to make to A2. So, once I've got the
20:30curve that I like here, I click on these
20:32three dots, click copy, go over to A2's
20:35EQ, and then click on those three dots
20:37again, and click paste. That way, even
20:39when our dialogue bounces between the
20:41two tracks, it should sound exactly the
20:42same. Okay, now for music, it's a little
20:44bit quicker. Like you saw before, I
20:45already reduced the gain, so we're at
20:47minus 25 for both of them. Then I'm
20:49going to go into the EQ, and I have a
20:51preset for this as well. The basic idea
20:53though is we're doing the inverse of
20:55what we just did on the voice. You might
20:57notice that four here is really low,
20:59before we boosted it up. That's because
21:00in the one to 2K range, that's where
21:02background music really starts to crowd
21:05out a human talking voice. And so if we
21:07reduce that a little bit, it means it's
21:09going to compete less with our dialogue.
21:11Also, it's generally good to take out
21:13the bass and the percussion and some of
21:15the higher frequencies, too, that can be
21:17distracting. So, this is the shape that
21:18I apply to every background music track.
21:21If you really wanted to get particular
21:23with it, you could adjust it based on
21:25the song, but I find for the purposes of
21:28a vlog, this is pretty good. Like I
21:30said, I'm not an audio expert and I
21:32learned all of this stuff from YouTube
21:34tutorials as well. I'm going to link a
21:36few videos in the description that
21:38helped me understand EQ a little bit
21:40better, so you can check those out for
21:42more details as well. With all of these
21:43settings in place, you're going to just
21:45continue the chronological workflow
21:47through your vlog. Watch back your
21:49A-roll rough cut, add in the B-roll that
21:52is relevant to what you're talking about
21:54in the scene, add in your background
21:56music and any sound effects,
21:58you'll find yourself with a complete
21:59[music]
22:00vlog. As you're going here, you're going
22:02to want to keep pacing in mind. You
22:03don't want the entire video feeling like
22:05it's at a breakneck pace with tons of
22:06cuts and high-energy music. Sometimes,
22:08you need to break it up with slower
22:10moments and pauses and longer clips.
22:13Even just to give your viewer the chance
22:15to process what they've just seen in the
22:17previous scene. Learning pacing takes
22:19time and practice, but it's all a part
22:22of good storytelling. Once your edit is
22:23complete, you're going to head over to
22:25the deliver tab. That's little rocket
22:27ship here. And what I typically do is
22:29change my format to MP4, the codec to
22:33H.265. All of this, I'm going to leave
22:36default cuz I set my timeline resolution
22:38to match my video at the beginning. I
22:40want it to be the timeline frame rate. I
22:42am going to change quality from
22:44automatic to restrict to 60,000. [music]
22:47This just makes it more compatible with
22:49YouTube's upload standards, and I'm
22:50going to leave everything [music]
22:52else the same. I'm not even going to
22:53open advanced settings, and I'm just
22:54going to click add to render [music]
22:56queue. Hopefully, this was a helpful
22:57guide to making the vlog editing process
22:59easier, but if you want the ultimate
23:01hack to making editing easier, that
23:04[music]
23:04is outsourcing. Like potentially to my
23:06team of video editors at Creatorly
23:08Media. I'll be honest, I personally love
23:10editing and I still do edit some of my
23:12videos just for fun cuz I enjoy it, but
23:15a lot of the time I personally outsource
23:18my editing to the Creatorly Media team
23:20because it just opens up my time to come
23:21up with more video ideas and spend time
23:23focusing on other parts of my business
23:25or honestly, just have a bit better
23:27work-life balance. To me, an unexpected
23:29benefit of outsourcing editing is just
23:31having a second opinion on my content,
23:33someone who is just as familiar with
23:35what I'm making as I am because she's
23:37editing it all the time, so I can get
23:39opinions and feedback when I'm not sure
23:40about an idea. And you could have the
23:42same with our editors because part of
23:43the editing package we offer at
23:44Creatorly Media is that you get like a
23:46monthly check-in call with your editor
23:47to talk about ideas, give feedback.
23:49Yeah, I just really think creative
23:50collaboration is really underrated,
23:53especially in the content creator space
23:55cuz so many of us tend to work on our
23:57own. Anyway, if that sounds interesting
23:58to you, like I said, all the details are
24:00in the description, but if you want to
24:01check out more DaVinci Resolve editing
24:03tutorials from me, I've got a ton of
24:05free info here on my YouTube channel. As
24:07always, thanks so much for watching. I
24:08hope you're having adventures and
24:09following your dreams, and I'll catch
24:11you in the next video. Bye.

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