A lot of you are properly struggling editing your Youtube videos. Yes Final Cut Pro and other video editing platforms can be a big mouthful and take a long time. That why I also looked elsewhere. So,,, there is alternatives which is a huge time saver.... After doing Final Cut Pro for a couple of years, I have looked at DeScript (https://web.descript.com). Descript is a tekst based editor where you simply remove words and sentences from the transcribe and then it will be removed from your video. Yes its AI base and has a lot of other advantages such a B-roll which it automatically adds if you want it. Below are some screenshots if you are interested. It's taken from my newest video which will be available on my channel later today. It took me one day to get started with this platform, it so simple anyone can do this. No I don't get anything for saying that. It's me honest opinion. 😊 Please reach out to me. I will be happy to help you getting started. Have the best day 🌸 Henriette

Honestly, if someone had told me these things at the beginning I'd be in a very different place right now. I spent months editing the wrong stuff. Obsessing over effects and transitions while the real problems - audio, pacing, workflow - were sitting there the whole time. Here's what I'd go back and tell myself: 1. Sort your audio before anything else. I didn't prioritise this early on and it showed. People will watch a video shot on a phone. They won't sit through one where the music is louder than your voice. Noise reduction, dialogue around -6dB, music sitting well underneath. Start here. I didn't, and I wish I had. 2. Cut the pauses. My early videos were slow because I left everything in thinking it felt more natural. It doesn't. Every bit where your brain wanders as you watch it back - that bit goes. Ruthless trimming was the upgrade I made too late. 3. Rough cut the whole thing first. I used to perfect section one while the rest was still a mess. It's a trap. Get the full structure and pacing right first, then go back and add the layers. 4. Use B-roll where it actually helps. I went through a phase of adding stock footage everywhere because someone told me to. Purposeful B-roll helps. B-roll for the sake of it doesn't do what you think it does. 5. Go easy on the effects. This is the one that cost me the most wasted hours. Too many transitions, constant zooms, heavy grading. Clean editing wins. I figured that out later than I should have. What do you wish someone had told you earlier about editing?

I dug into what creators actually did when they hired their first editor. Not the advice. The real experiences. Most didn't hire when revenue hit a certain level. They hired when editing started limiting how often they could record. Upload frequency dropping was the trigger for most. Many said they wished they had done it sooner. Realistic entry cost was $100 to $350 per long-form video. If editing is genuinely what is stopping you from producing more, waiting probably costs you more than hiring would. My own view is that the revenue would need to be considerable before I go there. At the moment I have time to edit myself and the economics do not stack up enough to change that. When they do, the decision makes itself. No strong right or wrong here. Depends entirely on what is holding you back. Still doing it yourself or have you hired? What pushed you to make the call?

So many of you have come to me and said “I freeze on camera” or “I have so much to say - but then when I sit down to script = nothing” I made this video specifically to addresss that - check it out here and never again wonder what to say in your videos. It’s a game changer! ❤️🌸

Can anyone help me with a link to a cool tutorial on how to make AI thumbnails, especially the realistic face generation options?