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[intro] today we’re going to do something a littlebit different, i’m going to show you the entire process – start to finish – ofhow i edit one of my youtube videos. now since this is the entire process the videois going to be rather long and the audio on this is just going to be live. i’m not going to go back through and cutor edit anything on this video just because of the extreme length. so what you’ve seen so far during this processis me taking the raw clips from my camera, which is the panasonic gh4, that i use tofilm most of my cell phone durability tests

and my teardowns, and i’m going to takethose clips and drop them onto my desktop. now i personally have two ssd’s inside ofmy computer; those are two different hard drives. i have my operating system and my program,which is adobe premier cc on one and then i have all my footage and files on the otherssd so that the ssd’s don’t have to all be recording off of one hard drive. it distributes the load across both of themevenly. and you know, adobe’s supposed to run smootherthat way. anyway, so now that i have the files transferredfrom my sd card to my ssd, or my hard drive,

i’m going to take them and just drag themand drop them into premier. i imagine... i’ve never used final cut pro or any ofthe other professional editing softwares, so everything that i go off of today is justgoing to be strictly from premier. now all the files are dropped into premierand i can take them…and if i right click on any one of these files i can create a newsequence. this means that it’s going to set the formatof adobe premier to the exact same size and frame rate as the files that i shot with mycamera. normally i shoot in 4k at 30 frames per second,so that’s just going to build the sequence

or format around that. one nice thing about adobe premier is thati can adjust any of these windows and rearrange them how i want. so i’m going to take my timeline and thendrop that down into the bottom right hand corner and that’s where i usually keep allof my clips. that’s also, you know, where the story lineis going to be…in that bottom time line. so if i double click on one of these littleboxes in the bottom left-hand corner, these are all the clips that i just dragged in,it’s going to pull one of the clips into a source window which just shows me what’sinside that clip.

this is like the preview window of each individualclip that i can take and choose which portions of the clip i want before it goes into myactual program window which is going to be more of the final copy. so the video that i’m going to be workingon today is from the lg and it’s a pretty easy phone to take apart, mostly held togetherwith screws, so i figured it would be a good video…a good simple video to use as partof this instructional “how i edit my videos” video. kind of like the inception of video editinghere. the mic that i’m recording on is a samsungmeteor mic.

i’m going to talk about that more laterin the video as i explain how i do my voiceovers. so what i’m doing right now is i have myfirst clip in my source monitor and i’m choosing which parts of that clip are important. obviously i have about 25 minutes worth offootage with the lgg5 and most people don’t want to sit down and watch a 25 minute videoon how to fix it. so i take all of the important bits, whichusually ends up being about 5 minutes, and condense it down into one short little videothat more people are interested in watching. the most important hot keys that i use duringthis program are the j, k, l, i and period keys…and the o key.

so they are all over there on your right handside of the keyboard. so the j is like a reverse, the k is a stop,and the l is a forward. and i use those while i’m navigating ininside of the source monitor and program monitor and on the timeline so i can choose whichclip. and then the i sets the in point and the osets the outpoint and i can use the period to drop that down into my timeline. so it’s important to use as many hot keysas possible because that really does speed up your video editing. and i’ll kind of mention a few of the otherhot keys that i use as i do this video editing

so what i’m doing right now is i have afew little templates set up during…when i, you know, set arrows and anything intomy videos cuz people don’t want to watch me take out 20 different screws, they justwant to see where the screws are at and if they really want to pause the video they can. i’m all about, you know, streamlining everythingto make everything as simple as possible on my youtube channel. ain’t nobody got time to watch super longvideos. so i have this template set up for arrows. these arrows i got from a font.

i think it’s called wingdings 3 or webdings3. you can see that on the right-hand side ofthe screen there. if you want you can make this video full screen,it will be a lot easier to tell what’s going on since, you know, there’s a lot of littledetails going on all over the place. i had counted the screws on this phone duringthe teardown and i’m just taking each of these little arrows and lining them up withthe holes where the screws came from. and this is important obviously for the viewersin the future who are going to repair this phone. i’m making this video showing how i editmy videos to kind of give back to the youtube

community. i’m not, you know, super nervous about sharingall of my secrets online because, you know, i really doubt there are many people interestedin making cellphone repair videos on the level that i make them, but when i look back asi started my youtube career, videos like this helped me out a ton. i remember watching a few videos exactly likethis one from ben brown and also from one of the editors over at linus tech tips. they made the full walkthrough of how theyedit their videos and i learned a ton from that.

so if i can help out and give a little backto the community, you know, i’m all about i will link both ben brown’s video and thelinus tech tips video that i mentioned earlier down in the video description and i will tryto keep on top of the comments below this video as well, but you know, i do get a lotof comments on my channel so things are kind of falling behind at this point. i’m a one man band as far as editing andcomments and all of my other stuff goes so it’s hard to keep on top of all the littlestuff. but either way, hopefully this helps. and if you have any tips for me, also leavethose in the comments.

i like how the comments section usually turnsinto like a community forum for people who are attempting the same projects. youtube is a fantastic place for do it yourselfprojects. i will speed up some of the more boring partsof this video, like now that you’ve seen me organize quite a few arrows we’re goingto skip onto the next part. basically i’m just, you know, using my mouseto drag these little arrows around and the font is wingdings or the webdings 3. now that that’s done i can drag that littletitle page over onto my timeline and line it up where, you know, generally where i wantit to be later in the video.

right now i’m just doing a really reallyrough edit taking the important bits that i want to use in my final video and layingthem all out. i think i have about 30 minutes worth of rawfootage. i’m taking my mouse and just kind of scrubbingthrough the initial timeline right there and my source monitor because that gives me anidea of what’s inside of the clip and i can just use those hot keys again, the j,k,l to play, pause and reverse or rewind. and the in and the out key, the i and theo and the period to drop it down to the timeline again. now normally i have 4 computer monitors setup on my desk, so i have you know, the source

monitor on another screen so i have more roomon my main monitor for the program monitor which is kind of like the preview and thetimeline. you know, things spread out is just a littlemore organized for me. it’s how my mind works. but since i’m doing this screen recording,i’m taking everything and putting it in one window. it’s a little bit, you know, tighter spacebut you can make this video a full screen if you want to see like little details andthe words and everything that i’m using. so once again, still taking my mouse and justgrabbing that little blue icon and scrubbing

through the footage to see what i have towork with. usually i edit my videos right after i dothe teardown so, you know, it’s fresh in my mind and i kind of have a general ideaof what i want to say during the teardown so at this point you can see me trying toremove the back. obviously people don’t want to watch themany failed attempts at me opening a phone and usually i’m one of the first peopleon the planet to ever open up one of these devices so there’s not often that i getto watch someone else do it first. sometimes, you know, on youtube there is peoplewho get to the phone before i do, especially if it’s one like the lgg5 and i have otherphones that i’m working on in the meantime,

so i will use other videos to watch and gettips on how to remove them. and i’ve talked to ifixit and a couple ofthe other guys, you know, we have a pretty tight knit community as far as cellphone repairgoes, and you know, they all do the same thing. if i get a video out before ifixit, they watchmine. if they get a video out before me, i watchtheirs. it’s just, you know, community. we’re all friends and we’re all tryingto accomplish the same thing which is to help people repair their devices and that’s howcommunities work. i chose the lgv20 to make this video on becauseit’s so simple and easy and you can get

a basic idea of how i edit my videos. usually the timeline is much more complexthan this, especially if i’m working on an iphone or a samsung phone which has a lotmore screws and, you know, there’s a whole different process using like a heat gun toseparate that back glass panel from the phone. so luckily the lgv20 came out and i’m ableto use that phone, the simple phone, to make this video with. so for this clip i finally figured out howto remove the back and pop off these two top pieces and bottom pieces, and so i realizedthat that’s the important part of the clip that i need in my source monitor so i’llhit the i key and the o key to do the in and

the outpoints and that marks it on the sourcemonitor timeline that you can see there. and i do the period to drop it down in mytimeline. you can also take your mouse and grab, youknow, see in this center part of the source monitor? you can grab just the video or just the audiofrom that clip and drag those and drop those down into your timeline as well. so still just watching from my source monitor,finding the important bits and we’re just going to do, you know, a rough cut and dropthose all down into my timeline. it’s a pretty monotonous process, you know,i’ve made over 400 videos now on my youtube

channel so i do, you know….phones, onceyou’ve been inside one you’ve been inside pretty much all of them. they’re all relatively similar; just a fewminor variances here and there with each new model. anyway, so i finished all of those clips onmy first little tiny clip down there in the bottom left where i, you know, keep everythingorganized. it’s like my little library. the camera that i used, the panasonic gh4,only lets you record in 4 gigabyte files, so you know, a video like this where it’s16 gigabytes, there are quite a few files.

and plus i’ll stop and start the cameraa couple times during the video, you know, to answer a text or just cuz i’m bored orif i need to, you know, see something up close or research something, i’ll stop and havea few extra clips to work with. so when i finish one clip i’ll double clickon the other one which opens up it up in my source monitor and then i can do the samethings: scrub with my mouse, find the important parts, and use the i, the o, the j, k, andl to navigate. you can use your mouse cuz you can see allof those keys down there at the bottom of the source monitor, you know, the stop, theplay, and you can use those…the only problem is when you’re using your mouse a wholelot, you’re slowing down and wasting time

because, you know, transferring your handfrom your mouse to your keyboard or clicking on things just, you know, takes longer andyou want to streamline the edits as much as possible, especially with youtube and you’retrying to create content daily, you know, like a vlogger or any type of content likethat it’s just the least amount of time you can spend in front of a computer the better. honestly the editing video is the worst partof being a youtuber. it’s so time consuming and, you know, it’sjust not the most fun. publishing content is fun. creating the content is fun.

editing the content is not as fun. so you can see while you’re watching thesource monitor sometimes i’ll reach up and adjust the focus of my camera, cuz my camera’snot auto focused. i want to be able to choose what’s in focusat any time with my lens that i’m using, it’s the sigma 18-35. i’ll link that down in the video description. and the gh4 has something really cool calledfocus peaking and i talk a little bit about that in my studio set up tour of 2016. i will also link that in the video description,and all of that extra, you know, footage where

i’m adjusting needs to be cut out. i am pretty lucky doing these cellphone repairvideos, that all of my lighting remains constant and the same and so there’s not a wholelot of color grading or lighting the screens that i end up doing. all of that is done in camera. i have my white balance set just with thecomputer inside of the camera internally. adobe premier does have an effects panel whereyou can get in and do some color correction. i’ll just…if my white balance seems offi can just jump into the fast color corrector, use the eye dropper and click on the backgroundand it will automatically correct that to

white. but since my camera does a pretty good jobwith the white balance, i don’t need to use that very often. inside of the effects panel as well, if you’redoing color correction you can also brighten it, sharpen it, you know, there’s anythingthat you can do with your instagram you can also do with adobe premier; change thingsto black and white. luckily with my line of work i don’t needto work with that stuff too much which helps streamline the process. so the screen record that i’m doing rightnow is on my desktop pc which is a pretty

powerful machine. i’ll show you the specs of that at the endas we do the render section, but my laptop, which is actually what i’m doing this voiceoverin this particular video on of how to edit, isn’t as powerful because it’s a laptopand so if i need to i can jump in on the source panel and the program panel, which is thecenter and top right, and i can drop those resolutions down from full to half. so i can edit 4k footage on my laptop, butsince my laptop screen is 1080p, it doesn’t need to be displaying 4k because that’sjust not possible. so if i drop it down to half, it uses lessof my computer’s resources to display the

image as i’m editing. so keep that in mind if your computer is notthe most powerful. you can still work with powerful footage usingadobe premier, just drop the resolution down while you’re working with it and then whenyou render it you can render it out at full quality…not a problem. the lower you drop your resolution the lesschoppy the playback will be. so now you can see i am reassembling the phone. i did a couple videos way back when i started,you know, my first 30 or 40 videos, some of them i didn’t put back together again andpeople starting complaining about that a little

bit because, you know, reassembling the phoneis half the process. so i make sure to include that part of thevideo in all of my videos, you know, in the future because my whole premise about beinga youtuber is to make life easier for people when they’re attempting repairs of theirown. i’m pretty…i’m an environmentally friendlyguy, i enjoy, you know, i enjoy not wasting things. and so when people throw away a phone thatstill has value or that they could have sold for money, like that kind of stresses me outa little bit inside and so it’s important, you know, the easier i make the repair forpeople, the more likely they are to do it

themselves which makes the world a betterplace in general. less phones end up in landfills, global warmingslows down. basically by repairing your cellphone youstop global warming. it’s as simple as that. so what you saw me do right there is i tookthat same arrow title that i used before and i went to the top left corner of that titlepanel and i did a new title based off of current title which basically just duplicated thosearrows so i didn’t have to redo them all and i just dragged and dropped that back intomy timeline with the new title. so basically i have two identical title screensand i can adjust them independently of each

other without, you know, disrupting the firstone. it just makes life a lot easier and it’sa little trick that you can use when you have titles that are similar to each other andyou don’t want to create the new one from scratch. you can either just use a template or youcan do that button i just showed you which is create a new title based off of the currenttitle. each time i finish scrubbing through a clipand getting the pieces that i need i can just drop down into that bottom project windowwhere all of my little clips are and i can just double click and start a new clip inthe source window and repeat the same process

over and over again until all of my clipsare used up and i’ve got all of the important footage that i need out of each of them. so right now it looks like i have successfullyput the phone back together again and the phone is functioning, that’s always a goodsign. so i’m going to take my screen and i’mgoing to work on the…i don’t normally do this, but in this particular video i linedup the phone and the tools to make a thumb nail cuz it’s always hard to get an interestingthumbnail from a teardown video. sometimes with my durability videos i canget a good thumb…or like in a, you know, explosion video where i was working with airbagsor something there’s always a good thumbnail

you can use with that. but in this thumbnail for this particularvideo i staged it which, you know, is obviously fine. i’ll make another video about how i editmy thumbnails later, you know, making the background white and everything in photoshop. in this particular video, i’m just goingto be talking about video editing. so i did take a screen shot with adobe premierof that tile right there, in my source monitor, and i saved that in the same folder and thesame ssd that all my program files are on to kind of keep that organized.

so the rough edit is now complete. i have all of the little tiny clips that iwant from my footage. i have about 30 minutes worth of footage andi’ve taken all the important bits out of that and stuck them into my timeline. and during this whole time, you know, duringthe teardown itself and this rough edit i’ve had these ideas coming into my mind of whati want to say during the actual video; how i want to explain things, any stupid jokesthat come to my mind. you know i don’t actually wing that forthe most part during my voiceover. so i have this little script that i set up.

in this video, the lgv20, i didn’t havea whole lot of ideas coming to me during the process so i’m pretty much going to writethe script from scratch as you see it right now. so i’m going to re-watch the video fromthe beginning and just explain, you know, word for word what is going on during thevideo. this goes back, once again, to just makingthe videos as short and to the point as possible. when i first started making youtube videos,i would go and, you know, i was preparing cellphones before i was a youtuber and i wouldgo and watch a youtube video on how to repair a certain cellphone, you know, back when therewas 8 screws and it was relatively simple

to take apart, and these videos would be like30 minutes long or 40 minutes long and i would have to like, you know, scroll through themand like find the most important parts and these people would be talking about theirlives forever and ever and ever…and it’s like whoa dude, i don’t want to see yourdog, i just want to see how to repair this cellphone. so i make it a point in my videos to be asto the point and concise as possible. no one wants to hear about my life, they justwant to see, you know, their phone fixed and i feel like that’s pretty important for,you know, any do it yourself video. so by creating this script there’s not awhole lot of, you know, “um’s” and repeating

myself over and over again…kind of likewhat i’m doing right now with this particular voiceover because i don’t really have ascript. i’m just kind of explaining things as igo along. so i hope you have your popcorn or your cerealor whatever you’re doing because, yeah….anyway, back to the important stuff. in some professions there’s always likethe general idea that you don’t want to share your secrets with the rest of the worldbecause, you know, it will hurt your chances of success, but really with youtube it’sthe exact opposite. you actually get more from the system as youshare more with the system.

it would always bug me when i would go tocollege and see, you know, i’d be paying thousands and thousands of dollars to go tomy college classes, i actually graduated in business, but i would go to class and my teacherswould pull up a youtube video to explain the subject that i was paying them to be teachingme. and you know, obviously the youtube videoexplained it better than they could and so it was good for them to use the best resourceavailable, but it was annoying because, you know, i can go find that video myself. i’m pretty good at googling things…it’sjust like why am i paying my professors thousands of dollars to be teaching something that ican learn for free on youtube.

so i’m pretty stoked to be part of thissuper awesome free system, which is youtube, that benefits the world on so many levels. the more i can contribute, the more i getback from it so it’s a win-win for everybody. plus i’ve literally talked to about a thousandpeople about starting their own youtube channels and maybe like one or two have actually startedone and been serious about it. most people don’t realize how much workand effort goes into making youtube videos and how much time it takes out of their dayand so they’ll quit, you know, after the first couple videos. but in reality being a youtuber is actuallya pretty awesome job and you really do make

time for what you want most in life. so if you want to become a youtuber you can,you just have to spend the time and, you know, the hours to do it. and there is an incredible amount of timeand hours required. most of them are sitting here editing videoslike this. so a couple more things i can mention as i’mfinishing up writing this script. the camera mount that i use, the tripod, imentioned it in my 2016 setup tour video which i will link in the video description, is actuallya tripod that the legs extend and there’s no bracket holding the legs together, so ican make them as wide as possible.

and the camera, the panasonic gh4 that i’musing, is actually attached underneath the tripod. so the legs are spread and the tripod’sfacing straight down onto my desk. the camera is facing straight down onto mydesk. the white background that you see is justa white piece of paper and it’s a wooden desk that i’m working on so that i won’tbend or flex as i’m using my screwdriver or prying on the screen at all. which, you know, was a problem i had wheni was using a plastic desk in the past…you know, one of those wal mart desks that youget.

those flexed and it made the video qualitynot as good. i also used a camera with auto focus previously,and that would get annoying for people watching the video as well where it would be constantlygoing in and out of focus. basically i don’t improve my video qualityuntil i start getting complaints about different things and i’ll mention that as i go along. i didn’t go to school for video editingor anything. all of this stuff i learned on my own or bywatching youtube videos, you know, like ben brown’s or the linus tech tips or any ofadobe’s free videos that they have online as well.

basically if you have any question about anythingand you know how to word it, you can find the answer to it. a lot of learning how to do video editingis learning the vernacular, you know, which words like what “scrubbing” means…whatediting…all of the terminology used for editing. so i’ll try to use those same words as ido this video. so now that i’ve completely watched thevideo and i’ve written the script for the entire video, i’m going to go through andjust read it one more time. obviously speed is an issue when trying toget these videos up.

i don’t want to spend too much time, youknow, reworking something over and over and over again. it’s better to get content out that’sslightly imperfect than spend an extraordinary amount of hours trying to make it perfect. time is money and you don’t want to fretover the little tiny things. plus my voice over isn’t going to be perfectat the end anyway. the script is more of just a general ideaof what i’m going to say. it’s also important for the closed captionsbecause part of google’s system, you know, how it scans your videos, obviously the googlealgorithm has no idea what is inside a video

so it’s really really important that youtry to do closed captions whenever possible. not only does it help the people who can’thear, they can read your video, but it also helps google’s algorithm so it knows what’sinside of the video and it can rank it accordingly. so if you want your videos to rank higher,do the cc-ing or the closed captions for your some of my videos are shot live so i don’thave a script written up for it, not my teardowns or my durability tests, but like other videoslike when i worked with briansmobile1, the guy who got me started with youtube four yearsago and we exploded some airbags, that video was shot live. so in that case, when i don’t have a script,i’ll have my older sister transcribe the

video for me after it’s done. and so she’s actually transcribing thisvideo because i don’t have a script for this one either and i apologize profuselyfor it being so long and boring, but huge shout out to her, even though she doesn’trepair cellphones, she is fantastic at transcribing and i appreciate it because it helps peoplewho can’t hear, like i mentioned before, and it helps the video rank higher becausegoogle actually knows what’s inside of it due to those subtitles. so now that i have proofread my script andmade any slight adjustments that i want, i’m going to jump into the actual voiceover itself.

now the mic that i use is called a samsungmeteor mic and i will link that down in the video description. this is the same mic that i use to recordthe voiceover on the lgg5 video as well as the sound that you’re hearing right nowon this “how to edit” video. i usually have four monitors spread out infront of me. so i have the script on one monitor, i’llhave the source monitor on a different screen and i’ll have, you know, my main video editingon a third screen, and then i’ll have like a research screen on my fourth monitor. so i have everything, you know, spread outin front of me does help considerably, but

as you can see, it all still works just fineon one screen, it’s just more consolidated. so you don’t need a huge studio to get started. when i started my youtube channel i was recordingeverything with a cellphone which is like the old evo 4g way back in the day that onlyrecorded at 720. and then i was editing on a laptop. so my first 50 videos or so are shot witha cell phone and edited with a lap top. and even now, you know, i have a nicer laptopbut still some of my videos are shot with a cell phone. i see so many youtubers who are like, ‘ohi need this nice camera before i can get started’,

or ‘i need a really nice computer beforei get started,’ and like those are the dreams. you know, obviously everyone who wants tostart a business wants these nice things in order to run their business. but these nice things are not a prerequisiteto running your business. you need content before you need things torun a youtube channel. you should start your youtube channel withwhat you have and then let your youtube channel pay for the nicer equipment once you’veproved that you have content worth watching. then you can spend it on the extra toys. okay, so jumping into the voiceover itself.

i’m going to mute that first track justby hitting the little m button and then i’m going to hit the microphone button which willstart the recording. now i usually have this script on a differentscreen but for the purposes of this video so you can see everything, i’m going todrop it down in front of the program monitor and the adobe program so you can see what’sgoing on. so i’m reading through the script rightnow just word for word and then adding anything, you know, that i come up with off the topof my head as i’m reading it. it’s not super important to line this upwith the video just yet. i’ll be doing that all with the editingprocess after the recording is done.

while recording all of this there is goingto be quite a few mistakes but i can always edit those out later on when i streamlinethe video and drop it down. you can see that the video currently is aboutfive and a half minutes and i’m going to shorten it down quite a bit after i get myvoice over finished. one thing that i like to do is i don’t wantto destroy any of the original footage so you see that the original footage has, youknow, its video timeline and it has its audio timeline. i’m leaving that audio timeline there justin case i want to use any of the screw driver sounds or the unclipping sounds, or any ofthe sounds of the phone breaking during my

durability test. so i leave that intact and i make sure todo the voiceover, you know, the recording in that second audio stream so that the originalaudio doesn’t get damaged. it’s always nice to keep the original. never destroy something that you might needlater, especially since it’s so easy to keep in intact the first time around. okay so you can see that the voiceover isnow done. you can see all the little audio peaks andthe spaces between the audios where i’ve taken a breath or i’ve paused for a secondduring the voiceover, and i’m going to edit

all of these out to streamline things. so i’m just going to do…i’m going topress the c button which pulls out my razor tool and i can just clip the audio whereveri want to and then drag and drop it to delete segments. as i jump in…so for this video i am goingto use my original audio. so i’m going to jump into the audio trackmixer and go to my first track and drop that down a few decibels, usually about 4 to 6depending on the video. that way the video from my camera, the panasonicgh4 is going to be less prominent than the audio from my samsung, the voiceover mic.

so people can still hear the sound of thescrewdriver and the phone moving around, but my voiceover will be way more prominent. so i’m still using the c button, which isthe cut or the razor tool and i’m using that to cut out all of these extra spaces. remember youtube has a very very short attentionspan, usually about 3 to 5 minutes for my type of video. so i’m going to cut out all of the extrajunk so they don’t have to sit through that. watch time is also very important for youtube’salgorithm lately, so if a person is watching my video and they only watch 20 percent ofit, youtube is going to think that my video

is not very important. so if i make my videos short and consolidatedand important to watch the whole thing, people end up watching 60 or 70 percent. and a good watch time is obviously greaterthan 50. so the more i can get people watching my videothe better. that’s why i only leave in the importantthings. during the rough edit i took out all the partsthat i thought i might need for the final edit and now that we’re doing the finaledit since the voice over’s done, i can shorten the video down quite a bit.

so this is the into section of my video. i’m going to shorten it to the clips thati want, just right clicking and clearing. you can also use the delete key to deleteanything you want. now this is the intro. i’m going to do video specifically on introshere in the next week or so on how i make a video intro like this and you can too foryour youtube videos in the future. this one’s at 1080p so i’m going to rightclick and scale to frame so it fills up the entire 4k sequence that i set at the beginningof this video. now if i hit alt i can drag the video sideof the clip down and leave the audio intact

because the audio actually goes longer thanwhat i want the video to be…the little bit of black screen that i got rid of there. i’m also going to drop down the audio ofthat intro because some people were complaining that it was too loud. drop it down 4 decibels or so. and you can do that on the actual audio clipitself just by dragging down, or on the left side in the effects panel as well, you candrag that. and i’ll show you how to do that in a minute. so now this part of it is going to be a lotof re-watching the clips that i’m editing

just to make sure that things flow smoothlyand i have the clips in place that i want. i’m going to be scrolling in and out ofthe timeline with my scroll wheel, but you can also use the + and – buttons up on thetop of your keyboard above the letters. this is different than the numb pad; thosekeys, the plus and minus, don’t work. you have to use the plus and minus above thekeyboard itself. also during this voiceover you can hear thesound my lips make when i talk. i had someone complain about that as welland so i usually clip those out, you know, during sentences. you know, it happens to every youtuber during…youknow, when you’re recording on a mic.

even on the super nice mics. i’m using a relatively nice mic. i believe it cost like 60, 50? i don’t know. it cost like 60 bucks maybe. so you know, it’s not a thousand dollarmic, but you know it sounds pretty good. even the thousand dollar mics don’t cutout all of the unwanted sounds. you can see the little peak right there soi’m just going to drag the clip over and hide that peak and hide the breath that itook right there as well.

people lose interest when you take breathsso i’m going to get rid of all of the unnecessary ones. and these parts are ones where i stutter orsaid something wrong, or didn’t like the tone of my voice when i said it. so i just re-said it and then i can clickand drag and just erase the clip that i messed up on. if you’ve ever wondered why youtubers alwayssay, you know, leave a comment or “like” and subscribe, all of that stuff, it’s becauseviewers don’t remember to do those things. so right now i’m explaining that they canfind the tool kits in the video description.

cuz in the video description, you know, there’sa lot of ways youtubers make money, you know, whether it’s through affiliate marketingor selling their own products. i send people to the description so they canfind the products that i’m using in my videos. and at the end of the video i’ll alwaystell them to “like” and subscribe, or i’ll mention it throughout the video sothey don’t forget. you know, even me, i’m a professional youtuberand i don’t “like” the videos that i enjoy on youtube unless i get reminded sometimes. so it’s always good practice to slip itin there. not excessively, but when it makes sense.

so to streamline this video, a lot of thetimes i’ll just cut the clips like i used with that c button. i can also right click and adjust the speedof the clip. so right click: speed duration. sometimes i’ll do 150 percent, sometimes200 percent. rarely will i go up above that because itstarts to get choppy with the footage, and so, you know, 150 to 200 percent is aboutas fast as, you know, looks good on my computer screen and in my opinion. you can also right click in-between clipsand do a ripple delete which just gets rid

of the blank space between clips. and also on the timeline i have that littlesnap icon clicked which means that as i’m drag and dropping these clips it will automaticallysnap to the clip that’s closest to it so it won’t, you know, overwrite it or leavea little bit of black space or blank space in-between them. it’s always annoying when you render yourfinal clip and you find like 2 seconds of blank space in-between two clips and you haveto go redo the whole thing because the snap wasn’t enabled and the clips weren’t buttedright up next to each other. so there are two ways of listening.

i can just hit that play button and play itand listen to it naturally or i can speed it up with the l button, the more i pressthe l button the faster it will play forward. the more i press the j button, the fasterit will play backward. or i can also just click that little blueicon and drag it. it’s called scrubbing through the timelineand i can listen to it. there’s a ton of preferences and stuff youcan set up and stuff like if you go to edit it in preferences. you can get rid of the sound that it makeswhile you’re scrubbing, but i actually really enjoy that.

i can hear it very quickly and get all theinformation that i need. it’s also very important to brand your videos. at the end of this video i will show thati drop a watermark into the bottom left corner of jerryrigeverything. it’s weird but i have a lot of people stealingmy teardown videos. now i’m not sure why someone would wantto steal a very boring teardown technical video like this but it happens a lot. and so with that watermark it’s very easyfor people to notice that it’s my video and come and tell me because i don’t alwayssee them first.

i usually have, you know, someone shout outto me on twitter or send me an email saying ‘hey, you know someone stole your video’. and youtube is incredibly good about givingcredit to the person who posted the video first. so i’ll get in there and file a copyrightclaim and it’s usually taken down within one or two hours. not a big deal at all. the filing the copyright claim only takesa couple minutes, you know, probably 3 minutes. you just have to link the offending videoand your own video and you can even file multiple

complaints in the same complaint form. so huge shout out to youtube for making thatan easy process for creators like myself. i really appreciate that. so there’s probably a hot key for changingthe speed duration…i don’t use it, i just find right clicking and then going up to thespeed duration is, you know, fast enough for me. in the speed duration box there’s also aclip that if you’re changing the speed of multiple clips it will automatically shrinkthem altogether, not leaving that black space in-between them all.

so you just have to find what works best foryou and your work flow whether you use a ton of hot keys or if a mouse works… just kindof like how i’m doing it on my computer. like i mentioned before, i didn’t go toschool for any of this stuff. this is all stuff i’ve learned, you know,from trial and error or from youtube, or adobe’s free videos on how to, you know, create content. you can really learn anything you want onyoutube. it’s pretty incredible. so for this clip i did throw in a politicaldonald trump joke which, you know, happens every now and then.

donald trump is an easy guy to make fun ofand so i just grabbed a little png file off of a google image search, and then i can dropthat down into my playlist just like you would with a title. take that title image and drag and drop itdown into my timeline. there’s a whole huge controversy over likethe fair use and stuff like that. i haven’t had any problems with using stillimages like that. i just make sure that if there is a watermarkor branding on the picture i leave that intact when i post it into my video. or if, you know, the website has specificallystated that they want credit for their picture

or if they don’t want you to use their pictureat all – obviously respect that. but as long as you’re not claiming someone’screation as your own, fair use usually is pretty fair. so i’m still using my mouse wheel a tonwhile i’m editing this timeline. i’ll hold down the alt key and scroll inwith my mouse and scroll out with my mouse to focus on these little tiny intricate detailsthat i’m adjusting. when i drag and drop that timeline to eliminatea breath, i’m usually just eliminating like a split second or two. now these don’t seem important if i’mjust talking about them, but in a video where

a youtuber’s attention span is so short,these are very very important. and that’s why you’ll see some of themost popular youtubers doing these jump cuts to where they cut out all of their breathsto keep people’s attention longer. one of the best ways to learn how to youtubeis to just, you know, copy the guys who are on top. not copy them as in their channel and theirvideos word for word, but their style…like their editing. you know, figure out how they do their cutsand their zooms and, you know, all of these different little tiny things that most peoplewouldn’t notice unless you’re in the actual

business. and i’ll explain some of that as we go along. so you can see that i’m using my mouse tostart and stop the timeline a lot and i’m dragging it all along the screen. and this is actually probably pretty bad practice. you know, it’s slowing me down the morei use my mouse. if i was able to use more keyboard shortcutsit would speed things up considerably. now if you jump it up into the edit, you canscroll all the way down and see the list of shortcuts that adobe has and i would recommendlearning those as you’re beginning and using

them because it will speed you up later on. i wish i used more keyboard shortcuts andi’ll probably try to focus on using them more in the future, but this video right hereis just showing how i, you know, edit now. i could technically be using the spacebarbutton to start and stop the video as it’s playing. i think it’s because i’m, you know, justusing my mouse to drag and drop so many clips, my mouse is already, you know, in motion. so i use that to start and stop them as wellas i’m dragging and cutting things all over the place.

the way i got my timeline to look the wayit is…you see the audio graphs and you can see the peaks and the low points…i justhovered my mouse over that left side and used my scroll wheel to expand that particularsection of the timeline, whether it’s the audio or the video. if you expand it you can see more detail andthis helps a lot when i’m using that audio timeline to splice different mistakes thati’ve made together. like let’s say i start saying a sentenceand i stop halfway through and repeat that same sentence over again…i can take thecorrect part of that and splice in the corrected part of that into the correct part.

and it makes it easier when i can see theactual timeline and what the features look like in the audio visually. so earlier in the video i created that secondtitle by using the same title as the first one and just kind of duplicated it and itallowed me to create a second image of it. so i can edit the second one and it won’tchange anything on the first title and that will allow me to get the screw locations matchedup to where it was as i reassemble the phone since it’s not going to be the exact sameposition as it was when i took the phone apart. so i need the arrows to be in a differentspot. anyway, so i’m dragging that second titleinto place during this second rough edit of

the footage. i usually do the first edit which you saw,where i get all the important bits out. the second edit which i go…i match it tothe voice over. then the third edit is when i do like my zoom-insand crops and, you know, make sure everything is streamlined and i didn’t miss anything. and then i’ll usually watch it through acouple more times just to make sure that there are no mistakes and then render it. and i’ll walk you through all of that stuffright now. and as you can see, you know, i make a lotof mistakes when i do my first voiceover for

my video, whether i don’t like my intonationas i’m recording or if there’s just different mistakes, different mispronunciations. there’s a lot of editing that goes intothe voice over itself. and you know, that adds a lot of time to theactual video editing process. if i was able to just record it live and postthe video, it would take a lot less time than it does. but, one of the reasons that i am the mostwatched and viewed cell phone repair channel on the internet is because i can take a lotof information and consolidate it into a couple minutes.

so these extra couple hours that i spend editingmy videos, you know, they pay off in the long run. so for this final clip of the voiceover, inoticed this myself as i was watching it on my phone one time, is that if i just stopthe audio it will make kind of like a popping noise and if it doesn’t fade off it’sabrupt and people notice it. so i can set a key frame right after the audiostops and then i can drop the audio down gradually with a second key frame at the end of theclip. and you can set the key frames as you sawin my video just by clicking the little icon and then moving the timeline a little bitfarther on and then setting the second key

frame and that’s how you do it there. what i’m doing right now is i’m settingthe end card screen. so the end card is something that youtubehas recently started and it only goes for the last 20 seconds of the video. so i’m going to make my end card screenjust those last 20 seconds. i added the “it’s free” part becausea lot of people on youtube don’t know that subscribing to a channel is free, especiallysomeone who is only coming to youtube to learn how to fix their phone. they are obviously not on youtube a wholelot…you know not usually, sometimes they

are, but they’ll think that ‘oh if i hitthat subscribe button it’s going to charge me like a monthly fee or whatever’. i’ve found that i did get a large increasein subscribers once i started mentioning in the video that it doesn’t cost anythingto subscribe. so that’s why i do that. and then i also do the shout out, you know,with the instagram, snapchat, twitter. if i didn’t mention, you know, ‘hey followme’ i wouldn’t have any followers over there on instagram, snapchat and twitter cuzpeople just, you know, don’t do anything or realize that you want it unless you tellthem specifically that you want it.

communication is really important. i find that my subscribers and my followersare directly related to how many times i tell them to follow me and subscribe so it is important. now i did have a screen preset – a templatepreset- for that title. this is my watermark in the corner. you can set the capacity of this watermarkto whatever you want. since my screen is white and my watermarkis white and there is no border around the text, i leave my capacity at 100 percent becauseit just blends right into the white background anyway, it’s not that obstructive and it’snot too large, but it is definitely there

so people can find my video if it’s everstolen and come and tell me about it which i super super appreciate. so i locked that top bar…you can see thevideo timeline up there…so i locked that so i can click and adjust anything below thatbecause if i click on the program monitor it’s going to only select the one screenthat’s on the top – the top layer of it – which is the watermark. so you know i’m mostly going to be adjustingthe video and i don’t want to touch the watermark, so since it’s locked i can accomplishthat. so in this particular run-through the videoi’m going to adjust the volume.

so right there there was something in my mainaudio footage from my panasonic gh4 that i didn’t want, so i just clipped it and thendropped the audio down all the way so it’s out and people can’t hear it anymore. i’m also going to be going through thisfootage and zooming in on things that i want to focus on or draw attention to or show. one thing i learned from the behind the sceneschannel of devin supertramp is that you want to show something in a way that people haven’tseen before that makes it interesting to them. that’s what keeps people around. and so i will zoom in on things because normallypeople don’t see things that close up as

they would with a 4k camera. also you see right here that i’m doing justa super super quick zoom-in on something. and you’ll notice that a lot of huge youtubersdo this as well when they want to emphasize something that they’re saying, they’llcrop in on themselves just ever so slightly. so i’ll click on the frame and then go overto my left side on the master panel there where it’s adjusting the clip, and i canadjust the scale. so if i’m doing just the general zoom-ini’ll usually jump in, you know, like to 125 or so. but if i’m going to do a massive zoom-inon something i need to show, specifically

for a repair, i can go all the way to 300or 400 percent since i’m working with 4k footage here. zooming in super far with 4k footage you don’tlose very much image quality which is awesome and one of the main reasons why i have a 4kcamera in the first place is purely for that zoom feature. most people don’t have 4k monitors to watchthings on, but anyone can appreciate a good zoom. so after i zoom in i can double click on themonitor and since i have that top watermark locked it’s not going to move and i canmove just the screen underneath it, or the

layer underneath it is better said. still using my alt button and my mouse toscroll in to the timeline so i can see those little intricate details and the timelinesound that i’m zooming in on. looks like my joke is placed correctly. scrub through it just a couple more timesto make sure. a lot of planning goes into these jokes. so i zoomed in about 300 percent on that oneand the image quality is still pretty darn good. a lot of these second, third and fourth run-throughsis just a lot of watching to make sure that

the timing is correct between the voiceoverthat i did and the original footage…cuz you know, that’s what video editing is. if you want to move the effects from one clipto another, like let’s say i’ve cut a clip and i’ve zoomed in on half of the clipbut i want to zoom in and arrange the other half of the clip the same way, but i leftthe cut there in the center…you can just copy the attributes and then paste the attributesto the other one or any of the other clips on the timeline that you need to. so right click…copy…then right click pasteattributes. and that will, you know, change the speedof the clip as well as, you know, the crop

of the clip, the zoom of the clip. any of the attributes that you have changedon the first one will then copy over to the rest of the clips. that’s a good way to not have to changeeach clip individually. now i’m going into that second title screenwhere i, you know, just duplicated the first arrow screen and i’m making sure all thesearrows are lined up. back to the keeping people interested in yourvideo, you know, using those subtle props you’ll find that a lot of big youtubersuse it too when they’re making a joke or when they want to emphasize something.

i noticed mkbhd usually does it a couple timesduring his videos. it’s super super subtle so you won’t noticeit unless you are actually paying attention to it, but as you watch his videos watch forthat. it will be showing him just talking and thenit will zoom in for just a couple seconds and then zoom back out just, you know, a quarterof an inch or so, but it will happen and that keeps you interested subconsciously. so we are reaching the end of my video. you can see the end card up there with theinstagram, snapchat, twitter icons. those are all png files which means they havea clear background which is nice.

also side note, if you use that snapchat iconon your snapchat it will actually direct you straight to my snapchat so it’s specificallydesigned for my snapchat. so now that i’ve done the third walkthrough,which is just kind of, you know, taking all of the little different clips and settingthose, you know, doing the zooms and making sure that it all flows smoothly. i’ll usually watch it, you know, a couplemore times just to make sure that there’s no other mistakes or errors and everythingis the way that i want it to be. and then i can move into the actual exportingof the file and uploading it to youtube…which is a whole new ball game all by itself.

it is always a good idea to save your projecta ton of times as you’re, you know, working on it. also set your auto saves to, you know, every15 or 20 minutes just in case something bad happens to you during your project. okay so what i’m going to do is i’m goingto export this right now. i’m going to click on the little file nameright there, the little part in blue, and then i can save it as whatever i want to. this is how you get your video, you know,stitched together into a viewable format for youtube.

so i’m just going to name it the lggv 20teardown. oh, i think i called this the lgg5 a coupleof times during this video…oh well. lgv20 is what i meant to say. and so i’m going to save it as that andthen as far as the export settings go i’m going to do the h264 which is what youtubeprefers. and this match source high bit rate crap isa big mistake on adobe’s part because this high bit rate is only rendering it at 10 megabitsper second which is completely way too low for what youtube uses. so i’m going to take this and adjust itup because my camera’s shooting at 4k 100

megabits per second, and this is just somethingi pulled off of google’s website talking about what bit rate your footage should beas you upload it. so if you’re doing 1080p you should get8 megabits a second, or 12 if you’re using those higher frame rates. and if you’re doing 4k there’s no wayyou should ever upload something at 10 megabits per second. you need it to be…you know, i....the minimumi would ever do is 50, but since my camera’s doing 100, you know, i might as well renderit at that. the way that the h264 is like encoded though,it will end up being about 80 megabits per

second and that’s just how h264 convertsthe image into h264. and i’ll probably make a video about thatin the future, but it is very important. so rendering at maximum depth is talking aboutthe color, whether it’s 8 bit or 10 bit. most monitors can only do 8 bit so you don’tneed to worry about doing the 10 bit or rendering at maximum depth. and then the maximum quality or maximum renderquality is talking about blending frames together. and that’s important if you’re doing alot of special effects, but since i don’t do a lot of special effects i’m going toleave that unchecked. so yeah, i think that hits all of the exportingsettings.

when i…i learned about bit rate and stuffwhen i was doing my nexus 6p video and a lot of people were complaining that they couldn’tsee the nexus 6p logo on the back of the phone when they were watching at 720p or lower andthat’s because of youtube’s compression. since i uploaded that at 10 megabits per second,that particular camera was using what’s 50 megabits a second, i was losing out ona bunch of that quality and youtube was just crushing the video at 10 megabits per secondand people weren’t able to see the detail anymore unless they were watching at 1080p,which is extremely frustrating. so from then on i made sure to use the higherbit rate on every single one of my videos. and so if you want your videos to look crispor clear, use the higher bit rate when exporting

at h264. so my computer at home is a beast; this desktop. because i’m rendering at the higher bitrate it’s using less of my cpu during the render. if i was using a low bit rate, my computercpu would be thinking a lot more about the transcoding process. i’m not sure why it does this. this is something that adobe, you know, hadtheir own issues with, but you know, it’s still pretty fast.

and i usually use the adobe media encoderinstead of using adobe premier to encode it and that just frees up the adobe premier soi can use that when i’m setting up my thumbnail. i can do my screen shots and everything. devin supertramp has some good behind thescenes stuff, and the linus tech tips video that i mentioned earlier also is fantastic,as well as ben brown has a ‘how i edit my videos’’. i’m going to link all of those at the endof this video and, you know, if you have any tips for me, also leave those in the comments,you know, that will help out other people as well, not only myself.

and youtube is an awesome platform for sharingtips and tricks and that’s the way, you know, education is going. you can learn everything you could possiblywant to for free online. and that’s the way it should be. so hopefully you enjoyed this. thanks a ton for watching and i will see youaround.