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Templates, Transitions and Masks. My journey with Adobe Premier Pro far.

It takes a lot of time. Its like I’m crafting my dreams, little by little. All the knowledge I gather so far has come in handy for  my next step. The storytelling skills, my photography passion, my eagerness to be self-taught on a new editing software, without any experience on it. When I started a year ago, I didn’t know how to work with SEO. I used to write titles creatively, not knowing how would that impact my videos views all together.

The Youtube Rabbit hole

Some people go into youtube already having the necessary basic knowledge, and some people like me, learn the hard way. There are a lot of factors that involves having your youtube channel, and a lot that successful  people wont tell you. You as a new channel are literally  competing with 51 million other channels, while those channels are there since the beginning of earth, they started on youtube when the platform was all empty land. Now starting on youtube feels like you are buying land in Colorado,  for a small expensive space, a lot of factors involving having a unique area and money. A lot of money.

What I’ve been noticing is that those channels that have millions of views and subscribers are here for a good amount of years or they have an entire production team behind it. Youtube is their business and not a hobby. They have a company, employees, all that shenanigans, someone to write the script, produce content, edit, marketing and so on. Thats my goal too on a long term.

Find your own style and stop being the same as the others

Yes, I edit this video using a stock video and sound.🤗 👇🏻

As we navigate to find out our own channel style and how we present ourselves to the world as beginner, we also have to study a lot and equip ourselves to compete equally. I’m not talking about expensive equipment or software, I’m talking about knowledge. There are plenty of crappy videos, filmed in a dark garage with a horrible audio, that could be fixed, if they get the basic information about sound, light and basic editing skills.

Taking classes is very important to sharpen your skills. I’m taking a few classes on SkillShare, and you can see the improvements on my last videos. My last endeavor was learning about how to mask on Adobe Premier Pro. Masks are basically when you put a scene inside of the other. Like when someone on a movie is being dragged by quicksand in the middle of the desert, for example. It seems easier to make, until you actually have to do it.

Taking classes is not only important, its necessary. 

The masking class was only a 30 minutes class, it took me 5 hours to complete. The teacher is great, learning about Masks is aggravating. I still need to submit a project to get my certificate. I think the combo creativity and lack of time to get it all done, its not a good one.

On the same path, I use skillshare for all the classes I need to learn and improve my editing process. I also use Envato Elements for the templates and transitions. Youtube is not only filming and uploading, Its video editing and managing the platform as a business, that is constantly changing and evolving. In order be be up to date, we have to be constantly in the game of what’s new today and how can I improve my skills.

Studying, doing research, checking whats working this week, that didn’t work the last one. Its exhausting and more often that I would like, is discouraging. Since my Hogwarts letter never came, and I never found out that my grandmother is the queen of Genovia, I have to work a little harder.

Scream at Adobe Premier Pro is also necessary

Adobe Premier Pro is the most used software used by professionals in the industry. You have cheaper and easier options, but I cut the bones and I went for the hardest one. I got into it after using it to make videos for my Creative Writing college, when we used to write, shoot and edit commercials for different classes.

I do everything myself too. I write, I film, I edit, I market and I gained some experience in the past year, in different areas such as being good at the software that I use the most. I’m managing better how to choose the different titles styles, animations, and how to put the youtube pop-up with my information.

Transitions are also being part of the new features I’m learning lately. Like I said, having Envato Elements is also being very helpful to manage my editing.

As soon as I master Masking, Transitions and templates, I will be ready to share my knowledge about adobe premier pro. Thats only the tip of the iceberg, I still have to improve on Thumbnails, SEO, Keywords.

With all that being said, I’m being able to work on the videos faster than before. The latest one is about our 1987 RV we bought to remodel.

Please watch it and let me know on the comments how its improving. Or not 🤣. I take constructive feedback, but be kind. I need to improve my skills, not to get discouraged and end up self-sabotage myself.

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Thank you so much reading and sticking by my journey.

XXX

Jo