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How come I used to spend weeks on one edit

while others seemed like they never even touched an editing software

and still received 100x or even a thousand times the views than I did?

The answer came to me in seven lessons.

Lesson one, get outside of your craft to learn your craft.

When you start to learn on social media youtube

when you start watching all these other content creators you get a little bit of inspiration

but you get a ton of envy and feelings of comparison

so go to art go to photography start a new skill me

if you can't tell i'm out of breath ah i'm horrible at skateboarding horrible at skateboarding

but it teaches me every time you get down you get back up you keep going even

when it just feels like nothing's working out

if you go learn art you're going to learn the very intentional nature of every stroke.

If you're going to go learn how to cook, you're going to learn how every single piece of the puzzle makes a big difference.

Lesson one, start learning something outside of content.

Some of y 'all who actually skate, y 'all are like, that does not count whatsoever.

I made a point of contact.

Even if it was a point, there was a point of contact.

I call it a win.

And next time, 1 % better every day.

When we watch content like Mr. Beast, Speed, or any of the creators that you naturally watch, you usually watch them for the content

and not for the edit naturally as creatives we want people to recognize the art

that we're able to create and then we are looking for positive feedback on yo

that was a sick edit whoa that color grade fire

but from the mass majority of people they're not watching a

video for the edit they're watching it for the story the edit is supposed to be invisible

so lesson two is the invisible edit so

when you edit be intentional with every cut every color every

effect is supposed to bring more attention to the story and to the message

lesson three is the loop now

if we were to have an open loop right we have

not closed this loop yet this is a question an open loop equals a question

but whenever we solve

that we close the loop we have a full loop now

here's the thing we don't want to have a full loop

without opening another one we never want to solve a problem before we present

another one because the distance between your problem

and your solution is what keeps people stick sticking around for

the entirety of the video you don't want to close this loop before you open another one

so what does this mean we need constantly two unanswered questions

at any given time now how do you do this this

is just presenting another hook a new tension point just present a question

that you will answer in just a minute now

when do you close these loops

because you don't want to keep one open for too long

because then people will get bored and they don't care about the answer anymore

so you need to constantly be opening closing small loops as

well as having your main point of the entirety of the video all right

so lesson four is advancing technology right

so there's a lot of different technologies coming about first it

was mirrorless cameras i know then we had premiere we have davinci we have all these different technologies

that are advancing

and now we have what feels like a cuss word we

have ai now ai is fine as long as you're using it in a way

that is enhancing your creativity

and not determining the direction see where i feel like a

lot of people are messing up with ai is they will use ai to determine their direction

and determine their story because they don't have any creative structure from their perspective

so when using ai like being able to change the text where needed expand environments fit shot dynamics that weren't accounted for,

or even take your story to a level you couldn't reach with a small budget.

The tool I'm using for enhancement is C -Dance 2 .5 and Cinema Studio 4 .0 within Higgsfield.

C -Dance is meant for people who utilize the hybrid production model, not simply letting AI run the show.

And with these tools, you are going to be able to enhance the content you are already creating without harming the perspective you have.

If you want to check out Hicksfield, use it properly.

Check the link in the description.

Use Cinema Studio 4 .0.

Let me know what you think.

Now on to lesson five.

lesson five is basically going to hit a sense

that no one ever thinks of for video editing and

that is sound design now hear me out

when you're watching a video there are only two ways

that you can receive that video on youtube right now and that's visibly visibly visually or audibly

So whenever we take audio out of the equation, we're only getting 50 % of the quality we could be getting.

Do me a favor, those headphones right behind you?

Yeah, those?

Put those on real quick.

What do you hear?

Nothing, right?

Now, in some instances, this works beautifully.

But in many instances, this completely takes you out of the scene

that you were just in

when you take the audio away from your video you are completely taking away the only other process at

which people can consume your content now taking back off you

want to be able to hear the world the viewer wants to know what the character is experiencing

and what their perspective is so

when using sound design be very intentional take double the time it takes for you to edit

and put that and put that same amount of time and put

that same amount of time into the audio into these small

cars in the distance the wind the birds even whenever there's

motion happening the whooshes the impacts the little granular kicks

when you're twisting a knob pay attention to the sound and

if you can find a video interesting just by listening to it, then you've hit another side of quality that you weren't hitting before.

Now, through the colors of our content, we are able to tell stories.

Red introduces strong emotion, whether that's anger, love, extreme fear.

Red shows extreme emotion and is the most used color for catching eyes.

Blue stands for loyalty on the positive end, and sadness and loneliness on the negative end.

Orange stands for warmth and friendliness, but on the negative end can stand for dryness or heat.

Green on the positive end stands for nature and organic elements, but on the negative end creates an eerie, sickly feeling.

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And every single color of the color wheel has a psychological story behind it.

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So when using your colors, don't just go with something that looks good, but also fits your story.

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Lesson seven wasn't something I was able to grasp or even determine myself.

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It's actually the sole purpose as to how I was able to become a content creator, work with big names, and be able to truly create content that goes much further than analytics.

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It makes an impact.

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See, artificial intelligence and even our own intelligence can only take us so far.

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But when you put your perspective, when you put your root in the father, in the kingdom, in the ultimate creator,

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you are able to receive supernatural intelligence.

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That sounds insane, but the creativity you see through my videos is not me.

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Half the time, I don't even know what I'm filming.

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I pray to God and ask for his creativity and

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that his will be done and he's able to use me for his will.

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Thank you.

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