When planning a workflow for a short video destined for YouTube, the following is typically employed:
- Create a project: you must create a project and then save it before importing footage.
- Import Footage: a standard import technique is usually used.
- Organize Footage: folders called "bins" can assist in keeping a small project organized.
- Edit Footage: edit with adjusted UI for compressed footage. Use standard editing techniques.
- Export the finished program: use standard presets to export.
A Typical Short Video
The following is typically the case with these types of videos:
- The footage is highly compressed (often from mobile devices, GoPro cameras, etc.), difficult to edit with, and often must be optimized before editing. The desire is to avoid proxies or transcodes for your session, but it is necessary if your system struggles with this footage.
- Programs are graphics intensive, with many titles, graphics, effects, and color grading.
- Fast turnarounds: For example, if you are a YouTube content creator, you've got to get the content to an awaiting audience as soon as possible. Hardware encoding to H.264 is desirable.
Create a project
First, create a project: create a project, and then save it before importing footage.
Importing and Organizing Footage
In upcoming steps, you'll learn more about importing footage and organizing it before editing. While merely planning the workflow, not much more is needed to be known ahead of time other than, yes, it will be necessary to import the footage properly. For details, see Import Footage.
Organizing Footage
Organizing the footage into relevant bins before starting the edit is ideal. That way, you can stay focused on the task at hand while editing. See Organize Footage.
Editing Footage
After you organize the footage, you can begin assembling the edit. As you add clips to the Timeline, you can adjust the edit points by trimming them, adding more clips, photos, and audio, and then continuing along until your story is complete with these clips.
As part of the editing session, you will be adding titles, effects, graphics, and color grading so prepare to add these to your workflow plan. It might be a wise idea to consider the kinds of effects, titles, and color grades you might use. Brush up on any techniques you are not keen on to help prep you for these steps. See Edit Footage.
Compressing and Uploading the Finished Program
In planning to upload the finished program, it is important to evaluate the kind of file you will need for the end result before even beginning. Are your vlogs going to be viewed in 4K or HD? Making this decision up front is pretty crucial. You should probably consider how your videos will be viewed before you even shoot one video frame. If you intend for your audience to view your videos in 4K, it would be advantageous to shoot in 4K, edit in 4K (or use HD-sized proxies), and upload 4K. See Export Footage.
This concludes the steps to take for planning an editing workflow for short videos.
Tip: Is your footage not playing back well? That's common. See Dealing with Highly Compressed Source Footage Before Editing. If you are still having trouble, you can create proxies or transcode footage if need be.
See this video for creating proxies by Who Is Matt?:
See also: Ingest and Proxy Workflow
See this video for creating transcodes by Chinfat:
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