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Editing your videos is taking too long. But it's probably not an editing problem. I use Filmora. It's fine. But for a long time I was sitting in front of it for hours per video wondering why it felt so slow. Turns out most of the time I was spending in the editor was cleaning up problems I'd created in front of the camera. Rambling takes. Hesitations. Sections I'd have to cut around because I'd gone off-script mid-thought. The editor wasn't slow. The footage was a mess. Two things changed that. First, I stopped winging it. I film from a short spine now. Three bullet points per section, one sentence each. I film one section at a time. Short takes, reset between each one. The timeline builds itself. Second, I let AI handle the drudgery. A tool like Descript does silence removal, filler cuts, and captions in minutes. What used to take me an hour of scrubbing takes less than ten. I still do the creative pass in Filmora. But the grunt work is gone. The honest version: I was treating editing as the problem when filming was the bottleneck. What's eating most of your editing time right now?

Hi, just wondering what you guys are using for your video editors. I am trying to download and use DaVinci Resolve 18 because my graphics card is older...just finished installing new driver for it and trying to install the video editor. Why not use capcut? They legally own your videos...so I prefer not to use it. Any other free editors beside imovie, and above mentioned?

I've been quiet on the online forums lately because I've been consumed with researching themes like mine. I've been looking very closely at successful videos of people teaching history. My research showed there were successful channels across the board. Some people were doing great with 8-to-12-minute videos, there were a lot in the 20 to 30 minutes range, and one very successful channel where the videos ranged anywhere from 20 minutes to two hours. (Sorry dude I zone out at around an hour.) I've written the scripts and was just about to start pumping out videos when I had this ah-huh moment, how long to make videos. Breaking themes into smaller shorter "two packs" that are a one - two punch. Here's my outline: ===== Episode "the history of strange science" teases to follow up episode: Voltaire, the Patron Saint of Cynics ===== Episode “Power, Responsibility, and Why the Internet Broke It” teases to follow up episode: Mark Twain, The Great American Cynic ===== Episode "Edison Lies: Debunking the myths" teases to follow up episode: The Real Bio of Thomas Edison ===== Episode "Tesla Lies: Debunking the myths" teases to follow up episode: The Real Bio of Nikola Tesla

my third English lesson. What do you say to that?