Editing videos is probably one of the most time-consuming things when it comes to being a creator, but I actually learned that it doesn't have to be that hard. In this video, I'm going to show my step-by-step process on how I've been

editing my videos in a really simple and straightforward way. Now, this is part four of my six-part YouTube series where I show the entire behind-the-scenes of how I bring my videos to life. So if you haven't caught up yet, make sure you watch this playlist afterwards. Now, 

without further ado, let's go to my desk and edit some videos together. Now, the video editing tool that I use is called Descript, and Descript is by far my favorite tool that I've ever discovered because it's actually empowered me to want to edit my own videos because

of how easy and simple they make video editing to be. Now, the first step is after you've uploaded your clips onto your computer via your SD card, you're going to want to go to Descript web or use their desktop app and create a new project. After you've named your project,

for me, I typically name it the title of my YouTube video, you can then drop all the clips that you want to edit into Descript. Now, you're going to want to wait a few minutes because what Descript will do is actually transcribe all of

the clips that you've imported. Now, just to give an idea as to why having the transcription is so amazing for video editing is because you can easily delete sections just by highlighting the words and then hitting the backspace on your keyboard. So, just one click delete. Now if

You're unsure if you want to remove something from your video and you still want to keep the transcript, then what you can do too is you could highlight it and then click this strikethrough button right here. And it's going to remove it from the video, so let's play so you can

see what that would look like. Like, series on, so AC, this, so as you can see, it just kind of skipped through that part that I strike through. You can also easily remove filler words such as ums and ahs, and especially if you stammer and maybe you

repeated a word a couple of times, you're going to want to highlight the entire script and then click these three buttons and then click on remove filler words. What the script will do is identify and highlight all of the filler words that you had, so for example here

it's highlighting a lot of the um and ah that I've done, and also words like kind of, which I say a lot, or even here you can see that I said and this and this twice because I was stuttering. And so it'll easily remove that if you want to

by clicking remove all, or you can kind of filter it one by one, or even just having the script highlighted for you to see is really helpful as well if you want to manually delete the filler words yourself. Another thing that I also really like about the script is you can

see the really long pauses that are in your video, so you can easily highlight them and then click delete. And you can see there were three long pauses right here, especially this guy over there. Now beyond that, sometimes I like to cut out pauses in general, even if they're super

short so that my video can come across more concise and faster paced because I talk kind of slow. And so down here in the timeline section, you can also easily see the tiny pauses by looking at the audio track and seeing where it flatlines. So what you would do is you

would click this blade button right here and then click on the parts that you want to split. So I'm going to remove this short pause, click on this button and then hit delete on my keyboard. Now if you're someone that doesn't want to click this button every single time, 

there are shortcuts. So as you can see, the shortcut for blade is B on your keyboard. So let's try it together. If I hit B on my keyboard, the blade automatically comes up and then I'm able to click on where I want to cut and then 

the shortcut for select is A on my keyboard. So if I click A on my keyboard, I'm now able to click on this clip and then delete it. So a lot of the editing is really just on your keyboard, splicing and dicing your script and then being 

able to turn your video into the most concise and engaging version as [Music] possible. Now, of course, that's just an overview as to why I love to script so much, but there is so much more that I do. And so the first step before I start 

slicing and dicing my video, I actually make color adjustments first. So to do that, I'm going to highlight the entire script, so basically that means selecting all the clips that I have and then I'm going to click on layer and then in layer, I'm going to hit the plus sign.

over on effects and then I'm going to click on color adjustments, then I'm going to click on effect settings. And now I'm able to play with the colors a little bit more. Now, for me, I like doing this as the first step before I edit any

video because I want to color grade all of my clips so I don't have to do it again. Now typically what I do is I like to increase the saturation by 15%. You can already see the color come back to my lips, and then sometimes I'll play

with the exposure. Now, it really depends on my clip and the day that I filmed, and so I never really follow settings for color adjustments. I just kind of play it by ear, and then I'm going to increase the contrast by 5%. Now, just so you guys

can see the difference, this is with the color adjustments. Now, if I turn it off, this is what it looks like without. So without the color adjustment when I use my regular footage, it's a little bit more dulled down, but through the script and adjusting the colors, I'm able to

kind of liven it up a little bit. Now, once I've done the color adjustments, the next step is to actually edit the video. Now, this is what I like to call a rough cut. What a rough cut means is basically, a lot of things that I showed you, it's me

going through this entire video, cutting out all of my mistakes, all of the filler words and all of the pauses. Now, a little hack that I like doing is by clicking this button right here, I'm able to play the video in 2x or 3x speed. This is how

I'm able to edit really fast. I do not watch my videos in normal speed unless I'm reviewing the final version of it. So I'm going to show you an example of how I take out the long pauses. I do find that if you are editing

in 2x or 3x speed, it's kind of hard to catch the pauses, and so it's good to keep an eye on the timeline. And by the way, this is just personal preference; you don't always have to do this. But what I

noticed is right here. I'm going to play so you can hear it. I noticed that I kind of like breathe in, breathe in in between words, and it actually makes the video feel a lot more slow-paced than I would like. And so I'm going to delete those pauses, but just so

that you guys can see what it looks like, uh, I'm going to show you right now for the sake of getting views. But it wasn't necessarily genuine, and so it's very subtle, but it's something that I actually spend a lot of time cutting out

so that my videos can feel a little bit more fast-paced, despite me already talking a little bit more naturally and slow. And so what I will do is I will just remove that little pause here. And again, the script makes it so easy to look for them because you can see where

it flatlines in the audio. For the sake of getting views, but it, I'm going to go here and delete that as well. And I typically do that throughout the video. And it's something that I brought up in this video right here where I was talking about my filming process and

that is just knowing that the final video that you guys typically see on YouTube is different than how it's actually being filmed most times the videos that you see on YouTube are a lot more engaging a lot more faster paced but it doesn't necessarily mean that's a

representation of how that person talks in real life and thanks to the script for making things so easy to edit out it's actually allowed me to feel a lot more chill when filming because I know that I can edit out the mistakes let me show you some raw footage so you can see

the difference so you there's no prompt there's really nothing that uh so there's really so there's no prompt there's no so there's no prompt there's no specific topic so as you can see I've had to repeat myself many times but back

then I would have just panic deleted the clip and then I would have started over but because of this script and ever since editing my own videos I have so much more trust in the process and all I have to do again is just read the transcript and delete what isn't

necessary anymore now let's continue to edit this video and let me show you some other features that I [Music] use now over here on this section I'm talking about my six-part YouTube series and what I've been doing is showing people a preview of my YouTube series so

let me show you how I would edit this so right now in this video I'm saying now as a reminder this is part two of my six-part YouTube series where I show the behind the scenes of how I bring my YouTube videos to life and so what I

what I want to do is I want to show a list of all the videos that are upcoming in the series so what I'm going to do is I'm going to hit the slash button so that I can isolate this clip and as you can see right here it then creates its own

section that means that whatever I edit on that clip it stays applied to that clip and then where I want it to end is right here so let me just do another back slash now this is the section that I really want to edit and so what I'm

going to personally do is I'm actually going to take this clip and then drag it so that it's more of a split screen and then I can adjust my body so it's more centered and so because I did those back slashes it's not going to affect the

other clips it's only going to do it for that one specific section that I picked then what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on layer now what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on scene and then

I'm going to add a background color for that so I'm going to choose white but you can also change the color here then what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on Underlord and type in text because I want to add some text I'm

going to make this text black put it up here and then you can also pick the fonts let's say I wanted to do I don't know like this font right here and I also want it to be light that's also something you can do and you can also

add a background so over here I'm going to click on background and then right here I'm going to change the text to White so that the header stands out and then I'm going to write six-part YouTube series or something like that now for the sake of just showing you I'm not

going to make this perfect this exact video is already uploaded on my channel by the way so you can check out the final result and then it's going to look something like this now obviously the final result ended up looking a lot nicer but for the sake of just

demonstrating what I do this is kind of the idea of it and so let me play and show you what that looks like newly updated notion system now as a reminder this is part two of my six-part Series where I show the entire behind the

scenes of how I bring my YouTube videos to life so after this video so as you can see it was only for that section where my body went to the side and I added some text so that is also one thing that I like doing for my YouTube

videos let's put put the video back on 2x speed so I can get through this and show you some more tricks so let me show you a section of the video where I list down the five different ways that I get content ideas I source my ideas from five places the

first one is my own experiences and I know that that now when I say my own experiences I want the word experiences to pop up in that moment so what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to highlight the area where I want the text

to show up so like I said I want the text to show up when I say my own experiences so I highlight that then I'm going to click Underlord and then select text now the text is only going to show up when I say my own experiences from

here I'm going to type experiences and then I'm going to change the font to maybe like bold I'm going to make it much bigger I'm going to center it and then that would be the text that shows up now if I wanted to I can also add

background to it so that it pops out even more but for me as a personal preference I don't want to do that so let me just remove it you could also click on effects and add a shadow effect so that the text stands out even more if

you'd like but let me show you what that looks like now I source my ideas from five places the first one is my own experiences and I know that this as you can see it was super easy to do this and most of the time when I'm editing I'm

mainly reading um and so that's why I love love to script but again let's continue editing this video together okay so a lot of times when I'm filming videos I might just have some things that I say that I don't feel like

really adds to the video maybe it doesn't make the video concise and so I will actually delete that so let me give you an example of what that might look [Music] like and ever since this one shift of just changing the header it's allowed me

to think outside of the box, not necessarily outside of the box, but like it's allowed me to look inwards for content and it's allowed me to be more in a reflective mode. Thinking about, so because I think that's a little bit redundant, I'm going to cut out certain

parts of what I said. And so I'm going to delete this and then let's see what that looks like. It's allowed me to think outside of the box and it's allowed me to be more in a reflective mode, so not bad. I did feel like the cut was a little

bit too obvious, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to look at the timeline and as you can see there's a little pause here. And so all I have to do is just trim it in so that the cut is less obvious and then let's see what that

looks like. Now ever since this one shift of just changing the header, it's allowed me to think outside of the box and it's allowed me to be more in a reflective mode. So as you can see, just by really going into the details and trimming out

the pauses, it's made that a way more seamless and the cut look less obvious. Now let's keep going, cuz there's definitely more things that I want to show you. All right, so in this video as I'm listing out the five different content

ideas, I personally found that my last tip was actually one of the more stronger ones. It's basically where I talked about how I find content ideas using the YouTube inspiration tab. And I know from looking at my data, not a lot of people get to the 10-minute mark of my

videos people have a really short attention span and so I kind of feel like it doesn't do the video justice if I leave one of the better tips at the end so what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to take this tip and move

it up so that people see it earlier in the video so what I'm going to do is I'm going to highlight the entire tip that I want to move and then over on my keyboard I'm going to hit control X which is basically cutting

it then I'm going to find the area of the script where I want to put that tip in so for me I'm going to put my fifth tip as my second tip and so what I've done is I found that section of my script I'm going to make some

space and then I'm going to click and hit paste now it's pasted that section into that area now of course when I was filming the video I was using words like "finally my last tip is" going into the YouTube inspiration section for some content ideas so I'm going to obviously

have to delete those words and so in this case I'm going to remove the word "finally" so that it's a lot more seamless stimulate some authentic ideas for your YouTube channel another area that I pull from is the inspiration tab within my YouTube analytics this has been a very

helpful tool because so now it doesn't even look like it was the last tip and that's some advice that I have when you're filming videos and let's say you're doing more tip based stuff try to not say "my first tip, my second tip, my"

third tip CU it makes it a little bit more challenging to move things around but it is [Music] doable now just to give you an idea of what the video is looking like now is you can see that I've done some major edits I've deleted a lot of like

redundant things that I've said maybe some long pauses and all those things I've also added some pictures I also added some screenshots of previous videos I've done and then when I am going to be uploading the YouTube video I will add an end screen here so people

can click if they want to watch this video and as you can see I've also added those titles as well now the next thing that I want to show you how to do is adding your own B-roll and so there is one part in this video where I talked

about journaling and I want to add you know just a clip of me journaling to make the video more visually interesting so this is what I say in the video every morning you want to fill up three full pages in your journal of just conscious

stream of writing so when I say every morning you want to fill up three full pages of your journal of stream of consciousness writing I'm going to highlight that and then I'm going to click on ADD layer hit files and then add files this is going to allow me to

add my B-roll but an easier way to do this actually is if you already have the file in mind you can just take it and then drag it into the timeline and now that video is right here so let's hit play every morning you want to fill up three full pages in your

Journal of just conscious stream of writing, so there's now I want it to end at conscious stream of writing, so I'm just going to, you know, take the blade, cut that, and then just delete the rest of the clip. So now this video of me journaling

is on the side, and and if I wanted to make color adjustments to this, I would just click on my image and then click on effects, color adjustments, and then just increase the exposure because I do find that it's a little bit too dark. And then what I can also do is I can also, you

know, stretch this out further if I would like, as well. This was an Instagram story, so it's in portrait mode, but ideally it would have been in horizontal mode and take up the whole screen. But what you can do is let's say I resize this, I play

with the adjustments, and then that's where I want the b-roll to show up, but I do want my body to be on the side. So what I showed you before was I would backlash it, the section that I want to edit, and then I'm going to basically move me to

the [Music] side. So as you can see now that video was added and I was able to shift my body to the side. The same thing applies to how I made this edit right here. And look at what topics they'd be doing, and then I would filter it by how many views

they got on their topics, and then I would pretty much do the exact same thing. This works, so this video right here is basically just a screen recording that I did, and then I just added it as a layer. So again, as a reminder, I basically did add layer and

then I added the exact screen recording that I wanted to put in or I just dragged the clip directly into the timeline from my computer I forgot to mention that when you do add a layer here and you add files and you add like a photo let's say

a screenshot you still have to drag it into the timeline like this in order for it to show up but it [Music] really now for this specific video I actually forgot to mention a lot of the tips that were in my original script so as I was editing I actually filmed extra

clips to put into the video let me show you what I'm talking about people to click and so I ask myself how I can apply the same title structure to my videos as well or even a better example in this video is about to start running

and actually enjoy it from someone who used to hate running and you can tell that this video is popping off of this Creator because it's got 45,000 views so if you are someone who is like me and you forgot to say something and you have

to film an extra clip to put it in it's really simple to do all you have to do is again go to the part in the transcript that you want to add that clip hit the enter button and then you can easily add an extra file so just for

the sake of this example let's say this is the clip that I want I then click this and then it's going to analyze my file and embed it into the script and also transcribe it now as you can see the script has also transcribed that extra clip that I added

and all I have to do is edit it the same way as I've been doing for the rest of this video so now when I hit play it's going to show that clip as well and the reason why this is important because it's true for 15 to 30 seconds are

important especially if someone's never been to your channel before now the next thing that I want to show you is how to make screen recordings within Descript Yes you heard that right Descript can literally do anything and everything okay so in this video I actually did a screen recording

of how to use the YouTube inspiration tab to get content ideas and it kind of looked like this well I actually filmed this within Descript as I was editing my video so let me show you what that looks like now the first step is to pick the

section where you want to do your screen recording now I've picked this section I'm going to hit the enter button on my keyboard to create some space and also be able to get these options then I'm going to click on record once I click that button I'm able

to select which camera I want to use which microphone I want to use and also what screen I want to share in this case I'll just do my canvas screen for now and then you're going to want to click on record into Descript this is going to

make sure that whatever screen recording you do Descript will transcribe it and you're going to be able to edit it very similar to how we've been editing this video so far so I select that and then I'm going to hit record it's going to

count us down and now it's going to be recording on that actual screen now in this case it's recording my Canva tab so I'm going to go on my Canva tab and then I'm going to start saying whatever I need these are all the different options

for my thumbnail as you can see and then also a few that I haven't done yet and by the way the next video of this YouTube series is about thumbnails so make sure you turn on your notification bell and subscribe if you haven't already but anyways what we're going to

do is once we're done recording I'm going to stop the recording and then the script is going to process the recording so we're just going to wait a few minutes now as you can see Descript has transcribed this entire recording for me and also my camera is on the bottom left

hand side as but the cool thing about Descript though is if I actually click on this I'm able to change the size of the camera I'm also able to change the shape so in my case I'm going to turn it into a circle and I'm also able to realign it

so that I am more centered so you can see that I am actually in this bottom left hand side and I also can change where I am in the recording as well and since I have the transcript all I have to do is edit it the same way that we've

been doing throughout this entire tutorial and I can also select what I don't want and delete that as well now just so you can see what it looks like let me hit play for my uh thumbnail as you can see and then also a few that I

haven't done yet. And by the way, the next video in this YouTube series is about thumbnails, so make sure you turn on your notification bell and subscribe if you haven't already, so as you can see, the recording turned out really good. And another thing I also really like, I can

also do color adjustments on this video as well, so all I have to do is click on effects, and then I click the plus button, color adjustments, and I will just increase the saturation, and it'll make the video a lot more [Music] colorful. Now once you're happy with all

the edits that you've made, the next step is to actually export your video, and it's really simple, you just click the publish button up top, hit export, and then you're going to be able to choose the resolution. In my case, because I pay for Descript, I believe I'm on the

Creator plan, I'm able to export in 4K, and so I'm going to click on 4K, I'm going to make sure my quality is really high, and then I'm going to click export. It's going to ask me which folder I want

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