First video, so there is a lot to break down The structure that I want to follow for my own breakdowns is the following: 1) 3 Lessons Learned With every piece of content I create, there are going to be lessons along the way, I want to share these here 2) 3 Areas of Improvement Especially at the beginning, there are going to be so many of these, I want to track them and get better 3) Overall Thoughts The conclusion, the most valuable lesson, or other thoughts, these all will go here Let’s begin! 1) 3 Lessons Learned • DaVinci Resolve. out of all the software that I’ve used so far, I am absolutely in love with this one. It feels like everything that’s been missing for me is finally for the most part here And it’s free as well, so this is definitely number one for me, the ease of editing & color grading is great • Planning. As I mentioned in the video, planning is huge. I wish I prepared a lot more for this video. The areas planned, are the areas I executed the best on. I made a list of shots I wanted and I got them I did not make a very detailed script for the video and as a result, it felt a lot more scattered • Colorgrading Simplicity. While I was working on this project, I was color grading for the first time. And that got overwhelming, I kept watching all these videos, asked ChatGPT, and stacked complexity Then after literally color grading one clip for 90 minutes I figured something had to change I tweaked the basics, which in turn helped me understand what everything does and I left it at that 2) 3 Areas of Improvement • Scripting. This video’s script was created right as I sat down, you can see me holding a notepad in the vid I want to do better and prepare these things in advance • Understanding the settings. I could not understand how to export the file in 4K, this is a big one to fix I could not figure out the manual settings for the camera so I shot on auto On a lot of these clips, I could not figure out how to make them look natural