I recently (as in yesterday) just downloaded this plug-in for After Effects called Animation Composer by Mister Horse and it actually saved me a ton of time animating my text while still giving me quality animations so I wanted to share this with y'all. You can download the plug-in here: https://misterhorse.com/animation-composer It comes with a bunch of 2D animation presets, 3D animation presets, Text Transition animations, and even some text and 2D effects like wiggling. I wouldn't recommend using all of their presets thought tbh, some of the more crazy animations can come off corny, but the more simple slide-in + fade-in animations that would take me a bunch of clicks to create can now be done in 2 clicks now and they're still clean. Just be sure when you use it to extend the length of the in & out starting points so that the animation has more time to complete, thus looking smoother and more clean.

Ladies & Gents, I am happy to announce the Editor Accelerator course is now officially LIVE 🎊 You can go through the course here: https://www.skool.com/editing-mastery-9277/classroom/8e843f3a?md=489504dcda564cc9962e66dd3e5884fc This is a course designed to help editors improve their skills and land clients ASAP. Inside you'll learn everything from: 1. How to Edit Amazing Videos 2. How to Build a Personal Brand 3. How to Land Clients / Retainers 4. How to Negotiate 5. How to Keep Clients Happy 6. & So Much More... As a video editor myself I've lived all of the experiences & lessons I'm teaching you and can personally verify the information I give is what you ACTUALLY need to know to succeed. There is ZERO fluff in this course, every slide and every second of each lesson is just as valuable as the next, so be sure to pay attention. For the creators inside this community, don't worry... While this course is geared towards editors, there's an entire module around Editing Fundamentals, Editing for YouTube, and Editing Short Form content which all are extremely important to the creators in here as well. I'm super excited to have finally finished and shared this course with you. Thank you to everyone who's been waiting since Day 1 of joining this community and being patient with me, this hasn't been an easy process to figure out but it's definitely been worth it! I hope you all enjoy it and let me know your thoughts as you go through it! I'm happy to accept feedback! Love y'all! - Norman

Gents, I know many of you want to level up your editing income and start landing higher-paying YouTuber clients... So here is a straightforward, actionable approach to make that happen: Select this text below, copy it, paste it into a notes app as a checklist, and go down the list. Repeat Steps: 2, 3, & 4 for each client you put on your list in Step 1. 1. Target the Right Channels 🎯 (MOST IMPORTANT STEP) - Do not be afraid of larger YouTubers. Focus on YouTubers with 100K-1M+ subscribers. They often have the budget, but may not have a full-time editor yet, or if they have an editor, oftentimes you can come in and edit better. - Look for creators who are consistently posting but whose editing you could improve on. You can spot this by looking at their video quality and making a list of mistakes they're making in their content, that could be affecting retention and leading to fewer views. - Create a list of 10-20 of these YouTubers with 2-3 mistakes/things that could be better for each. Make sure you'd be able to fix the mistakes if given the opportunity. 2. Create a Value-Driven Cold Email Outreach 🌟 - Follow the formula: Compliment, Case Study, Call To Action. - Compliment: Start by genuinely complimenting something specific about their channel. Make it personal to the YouTuber & genuine. - Mini Case Study: Re-edit one of their recent videos to show how you can improve it. Identify 2-3 key mistakes or areas of improvement and explain how your approach enhances their content. You can also reference existing clients you've helped reach X result (increased views/subscribers) in Y days/months. - Include a link to your portfolio (Only show relevant videos to the client.) - Call to Action: End with a question, like, "I have some more ideas for how I can help improve your videos, mind if I send some times over to chat?" 3. Showcase Your Work Strategically 🎥 - Build a portfolio that highlights before-and-after transformations. Show how your editing improved retention, engagement, views, subscribers, or just the overall vibe of the video. - Include a mix of different content styles to show versatility but make sure it’s relevant to the niche of the YouTuber you’re targeting. (Example: If you're targeting an educational YouTuber who does long-form, you don't want to be showing short-from entertainment content.)

As a beginner editor starting to learn the game of editing, many people want to make their first dollar and cash out WAY quicker than they should 🫵 When you’re just starting out… you don’t have enough experience under your belt to be able to charge the high prices that the top 1% percent of editors can charge. It’s harder to definitively say “you can edit somebody’s video better and get them better results” if you don’t have the experience of editing videos better. So when starting out, it’s more important to get EXPERIENCE editing for actual clients rather than only focusing on the MONEY 💰 So while you may be doing a lot of work for very little amount of money or no money at all 🤏 … The experience you are gaining is much more worth it than the money you are earning. ⏰ When I started shooting music videos back in 2020, my first 3 music videos I shot were all for free… Shot, directed, and edited by me for FREE. But after that… someone who was a friend of the artist I was shooting for saw me working and asked: “Yo bro how much you charge?” I didn’t know what to say at the time because I had never been paid for what I was doing before… And so my first thought was “Does $100 work?” Not even a split second went by before he reached out his hand, shook my hand firmly and said “let’s do it” From that moment on my self-confidence and self belief SKYROCKETED 🚀 because it was tangible proof that my skill set was something that people are willing to pay for… And even though it’s just $100… I knew that if I can make $100, I can make $1000. And if I can make $1000, I can make $5000, and so on. So in the beginning, those first three free videos that I shot were all for experience 📈 and even the one I got paid $100 for was mainly for experience but I got a lil buck for it too 💰 With these free videos, you figure out all the little hurdles that you didn’t expect going into it… And since they’re free videos, or for very cheap, the expectations of producing an amazing video are a lot lower than if you were getting paid a higher amount immediately.

Found this really cool 4 videos with good advice on designing your yt videos https://www.youtube.com/@LearnByLeo