How to Make YouTube Videos 10x Faster w/ Ali Abdaal

for the first 3 years of my YouTube channel I was a full-time medical student and then working full-time as a doctor here in the UK you got to like wake up at 6:30 got to drive an hour to work got to be at work from like 8:00 till 5:30 p.m. and hope that you don't have to stay behind late you drive an hour back home from work it takes a bit longer because there rush hour when everyone's trying to get home you get home you cook and then by that time it's time to sleep again

and and then just repeat the process and go to work the next day where the hell do you find the time to make the YouTube videos even now I still struggle to find the time for YouTube videos because now I'm building a business and blah blah blah and have a whole team of like 20 people and all that jazz having said that somehow I've become known as a productivity expert and so I want to share some of the things that have really helped in the world of creating educational content that makes it feel a little

bit more effortless you got to just press record hey what's up Sean canel here with think media in this video we're going to be learning from Ali abdal he recently spoke at our think media YouTube Summit and if you actually want to get on the weight list for the next one we'll put a link to that in the description down below but in this video he shares his five Step video creation process all the way from ideation to publishing the video and this is going to help you not only save time and be more productive

but'll ultimately help you get more views as well so let's cut right into the video essentially what I realized after talking to a business coach what we did was we got out a big piece of paper and we drew out the stages of video production and the first stage is idea generation the next stage you know at the time I was making the video first and then doing the title and thumbnail but what I what I appreciate now is that title thumbnail and even hook tth comes first if there is only one thing you take

away from this talk do not even think about what your video is going to be don't even think about writing the video unless you know what the title thumbnail and hook is going to be you don't have to create the thumbnail in canva or photoshop and stuff but like you should have a very good idea of what's the title what is the thumbnail and what's the hook and by hook I mean the first 30 seconds all of that stuff should be done way in a advance of actually trying to write that video if so you

start with the idea this is the concept of the video you got title thumbnail hook then it comes down to writing the video then it comes down to film then it comes down to edit and then sort of like publish and analytics and stuff that sort of thing and at the time he asked me you know how much time are you spending at each level of the process and I was spending like 10 hours a week on editing which was just really dumb and he encouraged me to Outsource my video editing and so after 2

years of doing all my video editing myself I decided to Outsource my video editing the number one tip unfortunately that I would recommend for anyone who is struggling with consistency or time management is you cannot be editing your own videos unless you really really really love it and if you really really really love it then fine okay is it the highest value thing you could be doing etc etc but we're thinking like a business right editing is for most channels a thing that could be done by other people editing does not is not necessarily the

thing that you have to do yourself so you automatically free up a ridiculously large amount of time by just Outsourcing your video editing um then at this point people like well I'm not making enough money and etc etc and yeah I I I would really be thinking what is the dollar value of your time what is the dollar value of your time maybe your YouTube channel isn't making money but how much do you value your time would you rather edit videos for 8 hours or would you rather spend those 8 hours coming up with new

ideas or coming up with filming new things or spending time with your family or hanging out with your kids all of that stuff what I realized is that even when my YouTube channel wasn't making money I should have really outsourced my editing because yeah I was working as a doctor I was earning like $15 an hour so my time is worth at least $15 an hour right and I can find an editor for $10 an hour great I've now got Arbitrage on my time I have now freed up this enormous bottleneck which is the fact

that it takes me 10 hours a week to do my editing so the first recommendation I would give is please please please Outsource your video editing people always have issues with this I have a whole session in my course where we teach people how to Outsource their video editing people always like oh I don't have the money no one can edit like me but like my style is so unique and every time for the last four years I've been saying to every student in my YouTuber Academy that like guys come on you just need to

Outsource your editing here's how you do it and every single person I've ever met who's actually outsourced the editing has come back and said to me wow I'm so glad you pushed me to Outsource my editing because now I have all this free time and now I'm not stressed anymore etc etc so if there is one thing you take away from this talk please let it be that if you are currently doing a video editing I would implore you do whatever you can to Outsource that get it off your plate because usually for most people

editing is not the fun part of making YouTube videos if it is it's a different story but you're kind of in the minority there so we realized we should Outsource my video editing um the other thing I've realized over time is that you know what's the thing that takes the next amount of time idea generation is kind of quick making a title and a thumbnail like you just take a lot of photos you have a thumbnail photo library you have you have a house style for thumbnails it's not that bad the writing process has the

potential to take a very large amount of time what I realized is that scripting videos is a total waste of time if you are a educational YouTuber and you are struggling to produce videos consistently I would very much recommend not scripting your videos and instead just talking through bullet points scripting videos word for word my goodness that takes a huge amount of time ideally when it comes to this thing around finding your Niche ideally the thing you're making videos about is something you feel sufficiently something that you feel you're enough of an expert in that

you don't need to script things word for word cuz usually talking through bullet points you're more confident on camera you're more comfortable doing it and it takes a lot less time than scripting videos word for word so what I realized for myself is that if I wanted to be consistent with making YouTube videos especially when I had a day job is that I could not script them word for word I tried but it would take me like 12 hours to script a video and then I'd be trying to read it off a teleprompter and then

it would be a total show and I'll be like Oh I'm stumbling over my words and so if I just remove that requirement to script things word for word and I just thought about bullet points then that made all the difference if you got value from that session with all all hit the like button and you can check out Ali's Channel linked up in the description down below also highly recommend his book Feelgood productivity you can grab it on audiobook or physical that'll be in the description as well and if you want to check out

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