How To Edit Videos Faster | Digital Lifestyle Report

What happened yesterday? What worked? What did not work?

Welcome to today’s not so private Journal.

YouTube video planner worked. Yesterday I mentioned using Google Keep to list out all my YouTube video ideas that I want to create. It worked. One video is produced and posted this morning.
My first long edited video. 9 Minutes Plus. My YouTube videos had always been less than 5 minutes. With the YouTube video planner, I was able to plan all the key points I want to present.
The 9-minute video took 15 hours to create and post. One hour of planning and research. 4 hours of shoot. 7 hours of editing. 2 hours of posting and sharing. This is too long.

How to reduce the video creation process to 8 hours?

Research. Google keep in checkbox mode is great for listing and rearranging key points. 1 hour is good timing. Nothing to improve here at the moment.
Shoot. 1 hour can be saved. Time was wasted in … setting up lights, setting up microphone, clearing the presentation table space, dressing up and Grooming. Other than preparation, the shooting equipment and procedure were smooth.
Edit. This is something to drastically improve on. 7 hours is way too long. Time was wasted in finding the right animated title, choosing that one music, using laggy Adobe Premiere Pro even if it’s on the high-end MacBook Pro, speeding up multiple tiny chunks of required motion, getting the right voice audio level…
What’s already working in the edit process? What saved time? Automatic music audio docking. Avoid color correction by doing it in camera. Magnetic timeline in Final Cut Pro Cuts down a lot of Gap deleting & clip rearranging time.

What can I do better in the next round?

Get another set of studio lights. External long-duration battery for Panasonic fz2500. Rode videomic Pro Plus.
Go back to edit on Final Cut Pro even though there is no automatic audio ducking.
Bookmark and use the same animated title for all videos.

Here’s the video posted this morning…