Editing Your YouTube Videos and Creating Thumbnails

Now, first and foremost, I do want to say this.

If you have the opportunity to outsource your editing, I actually do, I don't want to say recommend it, but I do encourage it if you have the means to do so, right? If you have the funds, the finances to be able to pay somebody else to do your edits.

And that can range, you know, based off of when you're listening to this.

But I would say if you're typically going to be paying probably anywhere from like $75 to $125 for like kind of the more basic editing, and then it can go up from there if you want to A little bit more advanced.

And when I say by advanced, I mean like the style of editing and what's showing up on the screen and how long your videos are.

You can find people on different websites.

We actually have resources as well for you if you're curious on people who will do the edits for you.

But the funny part is, even if you pay somebody else to do the edits for you, there are still things you want to understand about editing and how that all plays into it, even if you're going to pay somebody else to do it.

but especially if you're gonna do it yourself, which we're gonna talk about first and then kind of wrap it all together here, because editing is probably the largest part of the process when it comes to YouTube.

I would actually even say it's maybe like 40 to

50% of the overall time of getting one video up and running.

Recording the video can be some, I would say some time when it comes, especially early on, you got to practice, you got to, you're going to make a lot more mistakes.

I mean, don't get me wrong, even six and a half years in, I'm still stumbling on my words and having to, you know, cut things out or repeat myself multiple times.

It gets really fun.

I have little songs that go in between my edits.

Absolutely love them.

And what's really interesting is that we get better, but we also have to understand like we're starting from scratch most of the time, right? We don't have as many ideas of like, how it's going to play out.

So when we understand the editing, again, even if you're paying for somebody else to do it, because they might be charging you by the hour of how long it is.

So you want to not have a,

you know,

too many things to worry about when it comes to the edit, we want to look at it from a standpoint of what do we want to provide first and foremost in the content? And then how does that play into the editing? So the the content that we have, I always let people know because a big question that comes up a lot of times is how long should my videos be? So how much should I edit out, so to speak? And I always tell people, keep only what is of value for the audience member.

If you're in the editing portion of it and you're sitting in the back end after having created the video, chop anything out that just does not seem relevant to the information that you need to provide for the audience.

I, on one of my channels have it where I'm a tutorial channel and now I know better.

But when I first started focusing on tutorials, cause that wasn't the main focus originally, I was making tutorials that were 10 minutes long.

That honestly could have been two minutes at the best.