The Process of Video Editing: A Step-by-Step Guide

This is way more footage than I actually need so I'm gonna speed it up I'll drag it out to around there yeah okay so that's where I want it to end roughly I'll give it a little bit of extra room at the end because we'll cut it there and then it'll fade back to normal so right now we'll just take a Gaussian blur just do one of those easy-peasy and now we'll start putting in text effects so basically all I do is you got your basic title and then I have my preset over here that I've saved here I have a font called the bold font that's what I use for all of my titles it's in my introduction if I go back here that's the same font you know you got to just have a little bit of fun continuity um but basically I have the font with the channel color that blue a white outline and a drop shadow so this does have some decent sort of rendering especially once you start stacking we're gonna put some transitions on them and we're stacking it over a Gaussian blur so this this is where you start to push a system a little bit I'm just gonna put the slide transition on the front end and we'll do a cross-dissolve on the back end we're actually now rendering a lot of stuff and this is where having a fork or a thread processor comes into play here because we are rendering the speed increase it's about 300% so that's got a render and it's got a blur filter on it and I've got this text effect with the drop shadow and different parameters we've got transitions and it's all layered up on top so this is pretty demanding and as you can see it's still playing back it's plenty back in the background as you can probably see there it's not ok a little bit of a stutter there you can see right around here where I've got absolutely everything stacked up on top it has a little bit of a little bit of a judder you can see in there but it's really not that bad I'm impressed all right so I'm probably gonna have to boost the audio for this but this is the sound coming out of the computer right now while it's doing all this rendering I don't know if you can even hear that but there's just a hint of fan and my external hard drive under the table so really rather good as far as the noise levels this one MacBook Pro it would be screaming right now I'm still I'm still chugging along here normally what you would want to do in this case is kind of wait for everything to render through but I have a pretty fast-paced workflow so I'm just gonna keep on chugging all right need to add that to my shot list 2016 MVP actually wait a minute let's see if I can just find here's an older video maybe I have some footage in here there you have it I like that one we're gonna use it it's the benefit of having archived footage I don't really have that much as you probably see over here in my event library because I I've always been running out of storage space for cave footage takes up a lot of room you I had a two terabyte hard drive plugged into my iMac and it was filling up after like four or five videos it was absolutely insane so now I'm better I've got myself an 8 terabyte but I just don't have as much backed up onto it so hopefully I'll continue to build a library of footage and that'll do well actually I don't even think this event yeah I haven't even made this isn't a video that you guys have seen yet I should get out of there that's not even a video I'm necessarily gonna publish we'll have to see what happens with that so this isn't even footage that I'm recycling because you've never seen it before that's pretty funny all right so I think that's fine but you'll notice it's you know all of these edits it's handling it really nicely it's gone through this whole timeline so far without any issues there's a couple of little once I once I start layering stuff but to be honest 350 bucks that's what this machine cost so to conclude this video yeah this iMac is fantastic at video editing for three hundred and fifty dollars for a Mac mind you this is really really good value I highly recommend this thing these things are reliable they're not that expensive you can upgrade them if you need to I'm impressed so that'll do it for today's video as usual thank you guys so much for watching make sure you're subscribed don't forget to Like comment follow me on Twitter at luciani and don't forget to join my subreddit all of that stuff is linked down below so go ahead and check that out and I will see you guys in the next video

The Benefits of Video Editing Software

When it comes to video editing, having the right software can make a huge difference. In this case, we're using a MacBook Pro with iMovie, which has proven to be an excellent choice for video editing.

One of the key benefits of using video editing software is its ability to speed up footage. This is especially useful when working with large files or projects that require a lot of editing. By speeding up footage, editors can quickly review and refine their work without having to wait for each clip to play out in full.

Another benefit of video editing software is its ability to add text effects and transitions. These elements can help to enhance the visual appeal of a project and make it more engaging for the viewer. In this example, we're using a preset that includes a bold font with blue channel color and white outline, which provides a clear and professional look.

Having a good video editing software also requires a powerful processor. This is because editing involves processing large amounts of data quickly, without slowing down or crashing. The MacBook Pro's processor has proven to be more than up to the task, even when working with demanding projects that require rendering multiple files at once.

Noise Levels and Audio Boosting

One of the most important aspects of video editing software is its ability to handle noise levels and audio boosting. This is especially critical for editors who are working on loud or high-energy projects that require clear and crisp sound.

In this case, we're using a MacBook Pro with an external hard drive, which provides a stable and reliable source of power for the computer. The result is minimal fan noise and excellent performance, even when working on demanding projects.

Tips for Working with Video Editing Software

Here are some tips for getting the most out of video editing software:

* Start with simple projects and gradually move to more complex ones as you become more comfortable with the software.

* Invest in high-quality hardware that meets the minimum system requirements recommended by the software manufacturer.

* Practice using different transitions, effects, and color correction techniques to enhance your work.

* Don't be afraid to experiment and try new things – it's all part of the learning process!

* Take breaks and come back to your project with fresh eyes to ensure you're getting the best possible results.

Conclusion

Video editing software can seem daunting at first, but with practice and patience, anyone can become proficient in using it. By understanding how to speed up footage, add text effects and transitions, manage noise levels and audio boosting, and follow a few simple tips for working with video editing software, editors can create stunning and engaging projects that capture their audience's attention. In this case, we've seen firsthand the power of iMovie on our MacBook Pro, and we're excited to continue exploring its capabilities in future videos.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enin today's video I'm gonna edit last week's video on a three hundred and fifty dollar iMac so if you caught last week's video this is my late 2012 iMac with the upgraded core i7 3770 S eight gigs of ram Nvidia GT 650 M graphics and a one terabyte hard drive and it's a really fantastic value computer for three hundred and fifty bucks as an all-in-one iMac that is perfectly capable but today I want to test it for a little bit more than that I'm gonna edit the video that that you already saw which is a little weird on this iMac and we're gonna see how it does now for those of you who are looking into getting into video editing and you want to save some money used IMAX are absolutely fantastic value when it comes to Mac OS video editing so obviously MacBook Pros are very popular for amateur video editing but if you look at this price point of three hundred and fifty dollars the really the most you could get is a mid 2012 15-inch MacBook Pro and you would be stretching that three hundred and fifty dollars if you went for that option you would probably only get four gigabytes of RAM this has eight a 500 gigabyte hard drive this has a terabyte and a slower mobile processor versus this with a core i7 3770 s if you want to do video editing on a budget an iMac is your best bet alright so without any further ado let's hop into this and start editing this video so you've already seen the video that I'm gonna edit today because it was last week's video so I'm gonna edit that all on this iMac and I'm gonna show you guys how this iMac does and I'm also gonna give you a little bit of sort of a behind-the-scenes look into how I make my videos and how my channel operates and kind of how my workflow works okay so I'm just gonna start by dragging in my a roll clip I pretty much just record all in one take and I have my script that I go off of but to give you guys some background for this video I'm editing in 1080p 30 I shot in 1080p 60 so I can slow the footage down in my b roll but the video that will be rendered and export is 1080p 30fps now I'm doing that because well for two reasons the first reason is that for whatever reason YouTube like just won't process my 4k videos I upload almost everything in 4k pretty much since August and probably more than half the time it just doesn't even four cages never gets processed it's really frustrating I don't know why it's happening but whatever and also 1080p is a very common resolution to be editing in so if you're looking to video edit on a budget like this one three hundred and fifty bucks then 1080p is a good target for video editing so let's get right into it and I guess the first thing that I'll do is test how the playback is on here so we're just gonna go ahead and try that out so in my experience 1080p video editing is not that demanding especially for just playing back a single clip once we start to add more to this we might start to push the limits of this system but I really don't think we're gonna run into any issues because keep in mind this is a core i7 3770 s 4 cores 8 threads 3.1 gigahertz this thing's got some pretty decent power so let's go ahead and continue editing all right so to give you an idea of the process I'm gonna do I'm basically gonna do a rough cut so I'm gonna get all of my dialogue in order and then I'm gonna go through I have some b-roll recorded here you can probably see here's here's all the b-roll that I have so far I basically just set out and I film sort of general b-roll and then once I sort of cut all of this into my timeline I will determine if I need to get any other footage that that I don't have already so we're gonna go ahead and start cutting up the main timeline okie dokie so at this point I have cut together all of the dialogue so I have nothing just straight dialogue we are at 11 and a half minutes or so that's fine I really don't plan out how long my videos are gonna be I used to try to keep them as short as possible a lot of people in the tech John rrah keep their videos really short but I've just kind of you know been putting whatever I think fits in a video and so my videos are definitely longer than then other people's videos tend to be but whatever that's not really important so the first thing that I'm gonna do now is start to go through and add in all of the branding all of my sort of like in my intro and all that that sort of stuff and my b-roll so we'll just start with the intro and then you can see here's my branding folder I'll grab my my Twitter badge I usually put right there at the beginning now I'm not sure I'm gonna do too much of like audio mixing in this putting in my background music and changing all the levels and stuff like that because I'll probably do that off-camera we're really testing how this thing handles with rendering and putting in video effects so that stuff will all come later let's just keep going with where we are now well I'm at it I might as well just put in the endcard here all right so usually around this part is where I want to have a long clip that's pretty much static of the iMac and then I do a Gaussian blur and overlay all of my text um I think I forgot to get a shot for that so I'm either going to oh here's what we'll do okay so I have this sort of background b-roll shot of just me doing various things on the iMac so I think I'm just gonna use that you know what I mean like we're just gonna go for it all right so right around there is where I want to start fading so I'm gonna take all of this stuff and actually let me see if I want to speed this up at all okay yeah this is way more footage than I actually need so I'm gonna speed it up I'll drag it out to around there yeah okay so that's where I want it to end roughly I'll give it a little bit of extra room at the end because we'll cut it there and then it'll fade back to normal so right now we'll just take a Gaussian blur just do one of those easy-peasy and now we'll start putting in text effects so basically all I do is you got your basic title and then I have my preset over here that I've saved here I have a font called the bold font that's what I use for all of my titles it's in my introduction if I go back here that's the same font you know you got to just have a little bit of fun continuity um but basically I have the font with the channel color that blue a white outline and a drop shadow so this does have some decent sort of rendering especially once you start stacking we're gonna put some transitions on them and we're stacking it over a Gaussian blur so this this is where you start to push a system a little bit I'm just gonna put the slide transition on the front end and we'll do a cross-dissolve on the back end we're actually now rendering a lot of stuff and this is where having a fork or a thread processor comes into play here because we are rendering the speed increase it's about 300% so that's got a render and it's got a blur filter on it and I've got this text effect with the drop shadow and different parameters we've got transitions and it's all layered up on top so this is pretty demanding and as you can see it's still playing back it's plenty back in the background as you can probably see there it's not ok a little bit of a stutter there you can see right around here where I've got absolutely everything stacked up on top it has a little bit of a little bit of a judder you can see in there but it's really not that bad I'm impressed all right so I'm probably gonna have to boost the audio for this but this is the sound coming out of the computer right now while it's doing all this rendering I don't know if you can even hear that but there's just a hint of fan and my external hard drive under the table so really rather good as far as the noise levels this one MacBook Pro it would be screaming right now I'm still I'm still chugging along here normally what you would want to do in this case is kind of wait for everything to render through but I have a pretty fast-paced workflow so I'm just gonna keep on chugging all right need to add that to my shot list 2016 MVP actually wait a minute let's see if I can just find here's an older video maybe I have some footage in here there you have it I like that one we're gonna use it it's the benefit of having archived footage I don't really have that much as you probably see over here in my event library because I I've always been running out of storage space for cave footage takes up a lot of room you I had a two terabyte hard drive plugged into my iMac and it was filling up after like four or five videos it was absolutely insane so now I'm better I've got myself an 8 terabyte but I just don't have as much backed up onto it so hopefully I'll continue to build a library of footage and that'll do well actually I don't even think this event yeah I haven't even made this isn't a video that you guys have seen yet I should get out of there that's not even a video I'm necessarily gonna publish we'll have to see what happens with that so this isn't even footage that I'm recycling because you've never seen it before that's pretty funny all right so I think that's fine but you'll notice it's you know all of these edits it's handling it really nicely it's gone through this whole timeline so far without any issues there's a couple of little once I once I start layering stuff but to be honest 350 bucks that's what this machine cost so to conclude this video yeah this iMac is fantastic at video editing for three hundred and fifty dollars for a Mac mind you this is really really good value I highly recommend this thing these things are reliable they're not that expensive you can upgrade them if you need to I'm impressed so that'll do it for today's video as usual thank you guys so much for watching make sure you're subscribed don't forget to Like comment follow me on Twitter at luciani and don't forget to join my subreddit all of that stuff is linked down below so go ahead and check that out and I will see you guys in the next videoin today's video I'm gonna edit last week's video on a three hundred and fifty dollar iMac so if you caught last week's video this is my late 2012 iMac with the upgraded core i7 3770 S eight gigs of ram Nvidia GT 650 M graphics and a one terabyte hard drive and it's a really fantastic value computer for three hundred and fifty bucks as an all-in-one iMac that is perfectly capable but today I want to test it for a little bit more than that I'm gonna edit the video that that you already saw which is a little weird on this iMac and we're gonna see how it does now for those of you who are looking into getting into video editing and you want to save some money used IMAX are absolutely fantastic value when it comes to Mac OS video editing so obviously MacBook Pros are very popular for amateur video editing but if you look at this price point of three hundred and fifty dollars the really the most you could get is a mid 2012 15-inch MacBook Pro and you would be stretching that three hundred and fifty dollars if you went for that option you would probably only get four gigabytes of RAM this has eight a 500 gigabyte hard drive this has a terabyte and a slower mobile processor versus this with a core i7 3770 s if you want to do video editing on a budget an iMac is your best bet alright so without any further ado let's hop into this and start editing this video so you've already seen the video that I'm gonna edit today because it was last week's video so I'm gonna edit that all on this iMac and I'm gonna show you guys how this iMac does and I'm also gonna give you a little bit of sort of a behind-the-scenes look into how I make my videos and how my channel operates and kind of how my workflow works okay so I'm just gonna start by dragging in my a roll clip I pretty much just record all in one take and I have my script that I go off of but to give you guys some background for this video I'm editing in 1080p 30 I shot in 1080p 60 so I can slow the footage down in my b roll but the video that will be rendered and export is 1080p 30fps now I'm doing that because well for two reasons the first reason is that for whatever reason YouTube like just won't process my 4k videos I upload almost everything in 4k pretty much since August and probably more than half the time it just doesn't even four cages never gets processed it's really frustrating I don't know why it's happening but whatever and also 1080p is a very common resolution to be editing in so if you're looking to video edit on a budget like this one three hundred and fifty bucks then 1080p is a good target for video editing so let's get right into it and I guess the first thing that I'll do is test how the playback is on here so we're just gonna go ahead and try that out so in my experience 1080p video editing is not that demanding especially for just playing back a single clip once we start to add more to this we might start to push the limits of this system but I really don't think we're gonna run into any issues because keep in mind this is a core i7 3770 s 4 cores 8 threads 3.1 gigahertz this thing's got some pretty decent power so let's go ahead and continue editing all right so to give you an idea of the process I'm gonna do I'm basically gonna do a rough cut so I'm gonna get all of my dialogue in order and then I'm gonna go through I have some b-roll recorded here you can probably see here's here's all the b-roll that I have so far I basically just set out and I film sort of general b-roll and then once I sort of cut all of this into my timeline I will determine if I need to get any other footage that that I don't have already so we're gonna go ahead and start cutting up the main timeline okie dokie so at this point I have cut together all of the dialogue so I have nothing just straight dialogue we are at 11 and a half minutes or so that's fine I really don't plan out how long my videos are gonna be I used to try to keep them as short as possible a lot of people in the tech John rrah keep their videos really short but I've just kind of you know been putting whatever I think fits in a video and so my videos are definitely longer than then other people's videos tend to be but whatever that's not really important so the first thing that I'm gonna do now is start to go through and add in all of the branding all of my sort of like in my intro and all that that sort of stuff and my b-roll so we'll just start with the intro and then you can see here's my branding folder I'll grab my my Twitter badge I usually put right there at the beginning now I'm not sure I'm gonna do too much of like audio mixing in this putting in my background music and changing all the levels and stuff like that because I'll probably do that off-camera we're really testing how this thing handles with rendering and putting in video effects so that stuff will all come later let's just keep going with where we are now well I'm at it I might as well just put in the endcard here all right so usually around this part is where I want to have a long clip that's pretty much static of the iMac and then I do a Gaussian blur and overlay all of my text um I think I forgot to get a shot for that so I'm either going to oh here's what we'll do okay so I have this sort of background b-roll shot of just me doing various things on the iMac so I think I'm just gonna use that you know what I mean like we're just gonna go for it all right so right around there is where I want to start fading so I'm gonna take all of this stuff and actually let me see if I want to speed this up at all okay yeah this is way more footage than I actually need so I'm gonna speed it up I'll drag it out to around there yeah okay so that's where I want it to end roughly I'll give it a little bit of extra room at the end because we'll cut it there and then it'll fade back to normal so right now we'll just take a Gaussian blur just do one of those easy-peasy and now we'll start putting in text effects so basically all I do is you got your basic title and then I have my preset over here that I've saved here I have a font called the bold font that's what I use for all of my titles it's in my introduction if I go back here that's the same font you know you got to just have a little bit of fun continuity um but basically I have the font with the channel color that blue a white outline and a drop shadow so this does have some decent sort of rendering especially once you start stacking we're gonna put some transitions on them and we're stacking it over a Gaussian blur so this this is where you start to push a system a little bit I'm just gonna put the slide transition on the front end and we'll do a cross-dissolve on the back end we're actually now rendering a lot of stuff and this is where having a fork or a thread processor comes into play here because we are rendering the speed increase it's about 300% so that's got a render and it's got a blur filter on it and I've got this text effect with the drop shadow and different parameters we've got transitions and it's all layered up on top so this is pretty demanding and as you can see it's still playing back it's plenty back in the background as you can probably see there it's not ok a little bit of a stutter there you can see right around here where I've got absolutely everything stacked up on top it has a little bit of a little bit of a judder you can see in there but it's really not that bad I'm impressed all right so I'm probably gonna have to boost the audio for this but this is the sound coming out of the computer right now while it's doing all this rendering I don't know if you can even hear that but there's just a hint of fan and my external hard drive under the table so really rather good as far as the noise levels this one MacBook Pro it would be screaming right now I'm still I'm still chugging along here normally what you would want to do in this case is kind of wait for everything to render through but I have a pretty fast-paced workflow so I'm just gonna keep on chugging all right need to add that to my shot list 2016 MVP actually wait a minute let's see if I can just find here's an older video maybe I have some footage in here there you have it I like that one we're gonna use it it's the benefit of having archived footage I don't really have that much as you probably see over here in my event library because I I've always been running out of storage space for cave footage takes up a lot of room you I had a two terabyte hard drive plugged into my iMac and it was filling up after like four or five videos it was absolutely insane so now I'm better I've got myself an 8 terabyte but I just don't have as much backed up onto it so hopefully I'll continue to build a library of footage and that'll do well actually I don't even think this event yeah I haven't even made this isn't a video that you guys have seen yet I should get out of there that's not even a video I'm necessarily gonna publish we'll have to see what happens with that so this isn't even footage that I'm recycling because you've never seen it before that's pretty funny all right so I think that's fine but you'll notice it's you know all of these edits it's handling it really nicely it's gone through this whole timeline so far without any issues there's a couple of little once I once I start layering stuff but to be honest 350 bucks that's what this machine cost so to conclude this video yeah this iMac is fantastic at video editing for three hundred and fifty dollars for a Mac mind you this is really really good value I highly recommend this thing these things are reliable they're not that expensive you can upgrade them if you need to I'm impressed so that'll do it for today's video as usual thank you guys so much for watching make sure you're subscribed don't forget to Like comment follow me on Twitter at luciani and don't forget to join my subreddit all of that stuff is linked down below so go ahead and check that out and I will see you guys in the next video\n"