4 Editing Secrets Small Channels Learn Too Late

let's talk about editing editing let's talk about editing hi for coming on my channel where I teach people guitar things that want to learn about guitar if this video helps please make sure to hit no this guy is a brand new Creator let's call him John Scott now John here started a channel he had a video idea and most importantly he hit record but John has one problem he's boring hey more importantly his videos are boring but he's about to change all that I am in the next few minutes John's audience will go from watching

three percent of his videos to 60 of his videos which is it's a pretty big number for him because he's so boring [Music] the first thing John needs to do is focus on something that we've talked a lot about here at fit IQ but it's my version of it can you guess what it is don't you dare make this a fishing hook all right then now a hook is super important but a hook gets made in the writing process but this video is about editing guys let's talk about something I call Visual hooks you know

how when you hover over videos on Youtube it'll start playing the video without audio consider that moment the opportunity for a visual hook for example the beginning of this video the visual Hook was a barbershop quartet all harmonizing with each other while the written Hook was about how John Scott got viewers to what oh my God John there are all kinds of ways to do visual Hooks and all the best creators use them sometimes creators can even get big enough to wear their face becomes a visual hook in itself now let's take a look and

see how John applied what he learned about visual hooks [Music] foreign [Music] groovy let's learn how to play it groovy indeed John used his backyard a scene change some creative camera angles and even a little lens flare to give his intro some Pizzazz he even did it without going over the top visual hooks don't always need to be flashy they just need to catch the eye and keep attention besides John's video is about guitar education so it's not like a Mr B style intro would work here I'm gonna teach you how to play this chord

progression and if you can figure it out before this timer gets to zero then you will have learned something new visual hooks alright next okay so you put your index finger on all the four Frets on the on all the strings on the fourth fret stop John I would hate to be a beginner guitar player why because this this is the moment that I would quit no offense none taken the next thing John needs to know about is simple cuts specifically two types of cuts I am saying something and now I'm saying something else what

the camera did right there that was a cut in and this is a cut back or a cut out I like to say cut back because it's like you you cut you cut back to where you just were you know okay these two little Cuts can help emphasize a point create momentum and most importantly keep the viewers attention there are a bunch of other different types of cuts which I'll go into in another video but for now just to keep things fresh cut in cut back simple cuts out of the way now we're on to

simple moves when you involve motion that's when things get real not boring this is a push in this is a pull out this is a pan this is a zoo these grandfather's camera movements technology is wonderful and even if we didn't move the camera when we were recording we can animate it when we're editing you see this little handheld movement I got going on here ain't nobody holding that camera so now that we've learned about some simple Cuts in motion let's take a look and see how John has made it work for him so it

starts with a bar on the fourth fret while muting the top string with your index finger like so then use your ring finger to hammer on the sixth fret of the D string and your middle finger to hammer on the fifth fret of the B string this shot right here brings me to my next point it's really important for John to intermingle different types of footage so the viewer doesn't have to struggle with seeing his face so much since John's video is more of a Hands-On tutorial most of his footage would be considered a-roll or

primary footage it's the content that carries the message of the video but what about b-roll you ask or is there a c-roll or e-roll or t-roll well it kind of depends on the video type see the video you're watching right now is more of a educational entertainment type so b-roll works really well in these types of videos I could be explaining how when it comes to content creation there are so many ways to express yourself and make your mark on YouTube the world is your oyster all that footage right there that was b-roll b-roll is

footage used to add depth and keep the audience engaged by breaking up the monotony of the a-roll but keep in mind there's no need to over complicate it if it doesn't fit don't use it but if it does fit take the opportunity to mix up your footage so it keeps your viewers interested so now that we've learned all these things let's check in on John and see how he's doing John okay well maybe he's out celebrating all that new watch time speaking of which uh the last video that I did for vid IQ I implemented

all these tips and it killed and I would love it if you would go check it out and comment when you see something that I've mentioned here be like hey John I see what you did there I saw what you did I know the things that you know I know these things that you know I do these things that you do I learned these things from you and now I do them in my video beef