Everything You Need To Know To Become a YouTube Editor

Welcome to my editing course where I go over everything that I've learned, editing videos professionally for YouTube these past 6 years!

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00:00:00 What is this course?
00:03:25 Finding Work
00:17:18 Editing Software and Assets
00:25:49 Workflow for Editing a Video
00:35:23 What Plugins do I Recommend
01:00:20 Thumbnails and Titles
01:06:13 Editing a Video - Pass 1 - Initial cuts
01:22:03 Editing a Video - Pass 2 - Second cut
01:30:13 Editing a Video - Pass 3 - Perfecting cuts
01:45:42 Editing a Video - Pass 4 - Adding Assets
02:06:21 Editing a Video - Pass 5 - Animating and Effects
02:17:20 Editing a Video - Pass 6 - Music and SFX

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[Mudan]

Some questions that I missed/forgot

Can there be a work life balance as a YouTube editor? - Yes and no. You can do this as a normal 9-5 job if you have enough clients who upload regularly but if you're trying to succeed in the industry then you will need to put in tons of hours. For the first 3 years of doing this, I had no life, only work and even right now that I have people helping me out, I still work a minimum of 2-4 hours every single day, even if I'm on "vacation".

Is sharing a revenue split with the creator a good way to earn money? - If the creator is smaller and you're only doing the revenue split then you won't be earning any money, this mostly only works if the creators are getting 100k+ views per video. And even in that case, it's a hard thing to pull off because if you're not the only person who is editing for them or you haven't personally made all the videos, searching for your specific edited videos every single month takes so much work that you might need to hire a separate person just to calculate it all. It works in my case as I'm a channel manager, I don't only deal with editing but literally everything that happens on the channel without the creator having to do anything at all and my position is to calculate how much budget I have for editors.

You can be overqualified for YouTube editing - When I started, I knew After Effects quite well and doing more basic editing was way easier so at some point I felt like I wasn't being paid enough for the hours that I put in but the fact is that I was overqualified. If you're a content creator, you don't need to hire some industry veteran who costs a ton when the same work can be done by a person who is just starting out because the quality isn't on such a high level on YouTube. When I figured that out, I stopped trying to learn cool new effects and started trying to improve my editing speed instead. Within 3 months, I had gotten 50% faster but since the payment was project based, I was still getting the same amount of money.

During the editing section, I throw in constant power transitions between clips, I didn't explain clearly why I was doing that. It's because when you make cuts and the audio waveforms don't line up between clips (so the previous clip is louder than the new clip) then there will be an audible pop and to remedy that, I add a 2 frame long audio transition just to smoothen it out. Premiere has a shortcut (ctrl+shift+D) to add a transition between the clips you have selected. It will use the default transition unless you change it. The same can be done for video, a shortcut (ctrl+D) will add the default transition to video clips (which is just a fade transition unless you've changed it)

[scpWyatt]

describing Max0r as “artistic shitposting” and likening his work to Impressionism is perfectly spot on. 10/10

[karmawanscoke]

Bro made a 2 and a half hour course for free ?? RESPECT 🔥

[mario]

My mans casually dropped a full-on 2 and a half hour editing course, filled with the most genuine advice and tutorials, FOR FREE. Legitimately could have made THOUSANDS off a course like this but he gifted us this for free. Mad respect Mudan, mad respect. Even if you have no interest in becoming a YT editor, there's SO MUCH good information here about freelancing, plugins, etc. that anyone that edits can use.

[creativity_coloring]

He COULD make this into a 200 $ course, but he uploaded it HERE so we can watch it for FREE. HUGE RESPECT MUDAN! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[SonicHaXD]

As an editor, I'm super excited to watch this and learn new things for my videos. I'll come back with another comment to talk about what I learned from this XD

EDIT : Got a lot of new plugins now thanks to this vid XD

[AnimeBrosAMV]

Bro I've been working as a freelance editor for couple of years. I knew most of these things but still this is a god send man!
You legit made the best video on this topic ever.

[DavolafShorts]

Been an editor for over 6 years and 1 week ago just finished 3yrs of uni film school. I've learnt so much from this video on a workflow perspective its actually insane. Thank you so much for making this, and for sharing your insight. Hopefully I can make videos a lot faster now :)

[SaneKoi]

I worked for a Youtuber for 2 years, than swapped to a Youtube Company, now thinking of getting back into just working for Youtube Freelancing again and I really- and I mean from the bottom of my heart appreciate this video dude.

WHAT? This thing is on a full paid course level, thats amazing

[Taplaos]

I completely agree with your take on Thumbnails! In a limited space you want to convey to the audience a mini story, a quick tease of what to come. When Mudan give me a prompt / idea, I would consider the Rule of 3s and having a focal point for each thumbnail. You don't want to make it too busy otherwise our eyes tend to look away from it. Gotta make it clear and straight to the point. Also, if anyone hire an artist, please don't send your editor one thumbnail and call it a day. There's times they want to suggest a different idea etc. Work with your editor, give them more than one sketch of the idea. It helps to iron out the concept and both make a mutual agreement on the thumbnail. ✨✨✨

[suhn]

after hearing your story a while ago, it inspired me to become an editor thank you for being one of the main driving points.

[Lime_poptart]

Thank you so much for this video; it made my first foray into editing much less scary! Really appreciate you presenting this in such an approachable format and breaking down your workflow for a starting point.

[DaichiFx]

For someone who is on the fence about watching this "because it's too long" -> you won't regret it, there's stuff to learn regardless of your level.
Mudan - amazing one man, thank you so much for sharing all of this.
Your workflow itself is, imo, what people should try to learn and adapt for their specific scenario - I could tell how long you've been perfecting it.
I'll implement parts of it right away! :)
Again, thank you for sharing all of this! Much love!

[krispynico]

Ngl, You were one of the reasons I wanted to start editing and I did, I've always find myself watching videos you edited to see what kind of stuff you use and it legitimately help me. Thanks for the making the video mudan 😁

[Hrpy]

Everything seems to cost money nowadays but the fact you made this free actually is really helping me as someone who just can't afford that stuff. I really respect that.

[bluefi]

Noticed you don't have a custom keyboard shortcut for Keyframe Temporal Interpolation, also known as Ease In and Ease Out.

In Keyboard Shortcuts search for:
- Keyframe Temporal interpolation - Ease In
- Keyframe Temporal interpolation - Ease Out
- Keyframe Temporal interpolation - Linear

Making shortcuts for these was one of the best speed and quality of life hack I have done recently. (I do a lot of custom keyframing.)

[JAUNTYJAKE]

Mudan this may seem simplistic and lackluster but thank you. The past few years I felt like giving up on making videos because my editing skills are not up to par. But after seeing you go through the process so full of passion while sharing your wisdom, it’s bringing back the spark I once had. I am now ready to just edit what ever the hell I want and grow from there. Mahalo Mudan ❤

[ShenobiYT]

Thank you for this video, I've never accomplished or tried any video editing course and just self-learned my way to get where I am today. But hearing all these stuff really expands my understanding in this career. You earned my subscription.

[clayHigginson]

3 minutes in and got the best knowledge any video can give you