We are now getting more comfortable

with our keyboard shortcuts.

We know how to trim and edit our footage

and now we need to finish the rough cut of our edit.

With that said, uh, let's continue to edit.

So I'm gonna reset this up so

that we're at a similar point.

Okay, so now we've got our two clips here

and let's continue to play through things.

Well, hello crew.

Let's talk about some editing mistakes

that a lot of beginners make.

Hey, let's talk about some editing mistakes

that a lot of beginners make.

Ah, you might've missed it the first time,

but these two clips are saying the exact same thing.

So we've got two takes of the same line.

This will be a decision that we have

to make later on down the road.

Until then, I'm gonna cut off the edge of this footage here.

We could either hit A and F

or we could just grab the end and pull in.

Let's click this gap here, hit F to ripple, delete.

And now we've got this big gap here

where it doesn't look like anything's being said.

As editors, our duties are to scrub through

and get familiar with as much of the footage as possible.

However, because we know this is a talking head video

and I am supposed to be speaking,

more than likely this is stuff that's not gonna be used.

We should always double check by grabbing our playhead

and scrubbing through here to make sure nothing's happening.

But we can kind of move through this sequence confidently

knowing that we'll probably need to get rid of this.

So I'm gonna hit A to make a cut, F to delete,

let's go ahead and play through here.

So something that a lot of beginning editors will make.

Oh, messed up. Let's keep going.

So a mistake that a lot of beginning editors make.

Oh, messed up again, remember

how I said a skill I'd like you

to start forming is looking at audio waves

and trying to predict what's gonna happen ahead of time.

You see how these two audio wave forms are very similar in

my head because I've been doing this for a little while.

I know that more than likely these are probably the same

things being said and our options are one,

one is a good take and one is a bad take.

Two, they're both good takes that we could possibly use.

Or three, it is the same take

and I messed up on both of them.

And we're ending up with option three here.

So what I can do is

after both of them hit a F to delete, if

for some reason you feel like you need to go back

and regain that take, well lucky

for you we can use that trim mode.

So I could hit shift and W to swap to trim mode,

click our clip here, go to the edge and push it out.

So we regain it. Now as I'm scrubbing through the footage

as well, you know how you can kind

of hear it in the background.

That's 'cause audio scrubbing is turned on.

If you do not like that, uh, there is a way to turn it off.

Go up top to the very upper menus over here, click timeline

and then we're gonna find the audio section

and then audio scrubbing.

So I have it mapped to shift s to turn it on and off.

So if you don't want it, you can just toggle it off.

But sometimes I like it just to kind

of preview uh, what's being said.

All right, so again, we don't need these two sections.

So I'm gonna go to the beginning here, hit A

to make a cut, that's a delete.

And the only thing I'm keeping in mind when I'm cutting

ahead of the clips is to make sure I'm not cutting off the

head of the audio.

The preciseness again, it doesn't matter too,

too much. Go ahead and play. So a

Mistake that a lot of beginning editors make is

that they focus on the spectacle

of the edit over the story of the edit.

Perfect. And now looking ahead,

we got this short little blip, is it likely

that this is a good take?

No, but we'll go ahead and play it just in case

What we're talking about.

See there is always a chance

'cause we don't know this audio,

we don't know what's being said.

We don't know if this like a short exclamation,

so there is a chance that this is usable,

but more than likely editor brains on probably don't eat it.

Let's go ahead and move forward when

We're talking about the thing that really ma,

when we're talking about what really matters.

Okay,

Bloof, again, a SF.

See how often I'm pressing that A and F key?

So I cannot stress enough that you don't have

to use the home row A, S, D, and F,

but you should find some keyboard shortcuts

that you are comfortable with, that you use over and over.

Anyways, let's carry on.

When we're talking about what really matters the most,

at the end of the day, it's the

message being told in the video.

Now what kind of effects you can include?

Perfect. Make a cut, drag my playhead forward.

Cut plus f.

You can include something else.

A lot of beginning editors are uncomfortable doing is

letting a cut.

Something else a lot of beginning editors are

Uncomfortable with is Cutting naturally. Okay,

Perfect. This

is a bad take. We'll go ahead and ripple, delete it.

Now, sometimes what I'll do as well when I'm sorting

through footage is if I hit s to zoom out a little bit,

we've still got a little chunk to work through and,

and sometimes you can kind of lose track of

where you're at in that edit.

So sometimes what you'll catch me doing is if I hit D

to zoom in, I'll just bring whatever

that last little clip is that I edited

and I'll bring it up a track just so I know for myself, Hey,

I've made it at least this far.

Stuff to the left has been sorted through.

Quick note though, um, when I drag footage up

and down, you see how there's this hovering timestamp

that's the amount of seconds plus frames, it's been shifted.

So if I were to drag it up

and go to the right, you see how we're adding frames

and seconds go to the left frames and seconds.

So you wanna make sure it's at zero zero

and if yours isn't snapping to the edges.

So see how mine, it kind of like snaps in when I get close

to an edge, make sure this magnet icon is toggled on.

Sometimes it can get turned off if you accidentally pressed

the, I think is it mapped to, yeah, it's mapped

to the end key if you accidentally press N

or click it for whatever reason.

So just make sure that's turned on.

I'm gonna bring this, oh no wait, I want it up.

I want it up. All right, editor brain turned on.

I bet that this uh, is this like an um,

Um, Sure is.

So as you continue to get better

and better, a lot of times what you'll see me do is just

kind of scrub past it a f

Something else, a something else. A lot

Of beginning editors feel Like the something else.

Okay, a f bad take.

Something else. A lot

of beginning editors do often is the overuse

of prebuilt in transitions. Until you're

More comfortable With how you should edit a video,

I avoid Using some of those presets.

Perfect. Nicely said Brandon. We'll make a cut here.

And the last thing that I wanna

Talk about is, and

One of the last things I wanna talk about, okay,

bad take a f can I see the rhythm

that we're getting into? And

One of the last things I wanna talk about is focusing on

the audio of the video.

Your audio makes up 50% of any video edit,

so you should spend as much time as possible,

Huh? Okay,

so looks like we got a good sentence. Now, one

Of the last things I wanna talk about is focusing on

the audio of the video.

Your audio makes up 50% of any video edit,

so you should spend as much time as possible.

Hmm, don't finish the second half.

So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make a cut here

and I'm gonna drag it up one track.

I'm looking over to the right and I'm seeing

that the audio wave forms don't quite

match what's being said here.

So just in case I need to use this first half, I don't want

to delete this yet.

There's the chance that we need to get rid of it,

but as of right now, not sure I wanna get rid of it.

Now I have a little horizontal mouse wheel,

which just lets me do this.

He, which is pretty fun. A lot of mouses don't have that.

So if you ever want to scroll left

and right, the hot key is ctrl plus middle mouse button

and that'll let you move left and right,

or you can always click ahead S to zoom out, D to zoom in,

and that'll reer your playhead.

Alright, editor brains turn back on again. Right?

So if I'm looking at this little section of audio waves,

we've got a couple of little short blips here

that are more than likely not gonna be useful.

So if I was editing this video for real,

what I would do is this Scrub forward, I go, yep,

not good quick decision.

Boom, boom. If you're not comfortable doing

that, continue to play it. Your

Audio, the audio, the, the,

The more times you do this, the more confident you'll get

with making quick decisions on what to keep and remove.

When in doubt, you know, take your time.

But either way, we do need to select this f ripple, delete

The audio of the video accounts for over 50.

The audio, the audio of the

Don't need any of this.

A f

The audio of the video accounts for 50% of the final edit.

So you should spend just as much time working

with your audio as you do working with the video.

Perfect. Nicely done, Brandon.

Okay, so where does this end start the

Audio of the video accounts for 50% of the final edit

The audio of the video accounts for 50% of the final edit.

Where does this video start? Excuse me, where does this clip

Start? And one of the last things

I wanna talk about is focusing on

the audio of the video. Your audio

Makes up 50 per ah.

See, this is why we made this step

to bring this up a track in case we needed to use it.

See at the beginning of this clip leads into

what I'm saying here because when I was recording, I forgot

to say this first sentence.

So what I'm gonna do is scrub forward, zoom in,

I'm gonna make a cut right

before the, uh, the second part of the clip,

select it, f ripple, delete.

And now if I were to play this,

it should sound somewhat cohesive.

The last things I wanna talk about is focusing on the audio

of the video, the audio of the video accounts for perfect.

How did I know to do that?

Well, I have the benefit of having recorded this video so

I know how I tend to speak and talk.

So if you're not sure that's gonna work,

just keep it, keep it.

We can come back and refine things later.

What I'm trying to save us as many iterations as possible.

So again, if you're not sure, leave it in there.

You can always remove things later on.

But we're just trying to train our editor's brains

to start making some of these, uh,

confident decisions earlier on.

Right? Drag my play head over.

I'm going to use my horizontal mouse wheel again.

You can use control or command.

And the scroll wheel editor brains turned on.

These two waveforms are looking very similar.

So I would wager that this is a boof.

Hope this helps you guys and excited

to talk more about some.

Yep. And we flubbed it. So scrub forward a f video.

Hope this helps, and excited to talk more about editing.

Perfect. A f If I were to hit S to zoom out,

I'm gonna hold shift

and the scroll wheel to bring in our

video tracks a little bit.

Clean it up, bring our playhead back to the beginning,

zoom in with DA couple times

and now we have a rough cut of our edit.

Is this a good cut of our edit?

No, but could you, if you had

to send this to somebody to take a look at.

Yeah, for sure. We've gotten rid of all the gaps.

We've gotten rid of all the mess ups,

and now we have a somewhat cohesive take

of our talking head example.

So the next step is to continue to refine this

and make it a good edit.