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we all know that editing softwares are
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not cheap I spend £84 a year on just
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Premier Pro which half the time wants me
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to fail I swear to God surely there is a
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free alternative out there that has the
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same
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functionality
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right well there are literally dozens of
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options out there ranging from the good
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to the bad to the downright ugly but
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which of these are worth using well who
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better to save you and me some precious
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Cod points money than the inventor of
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editing me finza yes I invented editing
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and yes I am in a deep and never- ending
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pit of crippling de so how am I going to
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do this today we'll be testing eight
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different free alternatives to premere
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Pro I'm going to be creating the exact
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same video with all of them a video
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that's designed to test each software's
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ability to do animations transitions key
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frames text and audio design so here's
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that video made with premere Pro exactly
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the way I like it
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now let's remake that in our first free
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software Da Vinci
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resolve so we're going to start with da
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Vinci resolve which does kind of feel
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like cheating because it's already such
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a polished program with great
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functionality and yes I have made
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presets for this but we're not going to
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be using those today because that really
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is cheating we're going to do everything
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from scratch let's begin the first thing
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I did was download Da Vinci from the
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Blackmagic website now you really got to
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be careful here because there are so
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many other websites advertising the
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Vinci resolve and I imagine that they're
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probably trying to scam you or just make
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you download their own software which I
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totally don't fall victim to later in
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this video but it but on the Filmore
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website it says hit film Express so make
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sure that you download it from
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blackmagicdesign tocom and then when
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you're in there you sign a form and then
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it's downloading in every single
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software I'm going to be recreating an
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animation which I made in Premiere Pro
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in about 2 to 5 minutes what do you
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think Jack can I recreate
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that let's begin animation I'm happy to
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report that key frames in Da Vinci are
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really easy to use using those little
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key frame buttons up top I managed to
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get a very simple movement done in
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seconds now obviously I want to change
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these key frames so that they match the
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smoothness of the ones that I made in
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premere Pro in D Vinci is as simple as
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clicking on this little key frame icon
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and then going into the correct key
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frame variable and changing it from
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there not a fan of how dark these lines
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are I just can't see can you see
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I can't see anyway I changed
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the individual key frames by pressing
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these buttons here they create either a
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smooth key frame or an adjustable one
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and with a little bit of tweaking I
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managed to make key frames that look
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just as good as the ones from here when
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you don't got transformed to do all the
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blurring for you you do the blur
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yourself these are the hands of a
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working man that's right instead of
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automatically having blur like in
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Premier if you use the transform effect
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in the free version of Da Vinci I'm
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going to have to apply it myself using a
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separate Effect called directional blur
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I simply key frame it so that it
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intensifies with the movement and so
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that it also follows the direction of
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where my character is going I apply some
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smoothness to those key frames and this
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is what it looks
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like oh hey hell yeah making that
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transition in the background was really
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easy and da Vinci applying it was super
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simple and it has the motion blur
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included a massive thumbs up from me now
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it's time for an adjustment layer in
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which we're going to add a zoom now this
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is important because as an editor I want
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to be able to add zooms on top of
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everything rather than adding individual
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zooms on each layer unsurprisingly IND
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viny this is possible but and this is a
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huge butt you have to go into nodes to
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use them if any of you have seen my
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video on Flame you'll know that I hate
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nodes hate using nodes so anyways nodes
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aside this Zoom worked pretty well and
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the next thing to do was the
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text to copy that text animation that I
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made on Premier Pro all I had to do was
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key frame the scale in the text now as
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you'd expect this was really easy to do
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in Da Vinci and I had it looking pretty
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great within literally my first try so
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I've just finished the da Vinci resolve
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export I think it was pretty easy I mean
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it's not not quite Premier but it was
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easy enough let's see how this
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looks now on to the next software hit
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film
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Express I seemingly find this online
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very easily download it and start
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editing straight away all right we're
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downloading HIIT film Express when all
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of a sudden something doesn't quite feel
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right and then I realized just hilm
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Express I fell for the oldest trick in
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the
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book I'm in fil MOA HH w share had used
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Google ADW words to have Phil Mor show
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up when you search for hit film Express
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AKA false advertising which I just fell
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for I'm on Phil Mor 13 you you
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downloaded fil MO is that okay fil Mo
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got you I'm using fil Mo now it's free
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pting I guess it's free generally
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speaking fil Mora is a very smooth
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software to use I don't mind the UI UI
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is fine which as a free software is
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incredibly High Praise filora had some
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pretty basic animation presets like a
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slide up which I Dred on for the first
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slide and then I used custom key framing
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for the rest of it the key frames are
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done in a similar layout to Premier Pro
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except it isn't quite as easy to
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navigate but what is easy to navigate to
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is the transitions tab yes there is a
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tab dedicated to Transitions
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well d da so I go in there and I slap on
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a fast slide right I'd say it looks
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pretty good but it doesn't have the
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customization options to make it any
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smoother than it already is so moving
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swiftly on to that all important Zoom
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annoyingly filmar just doesn't have any
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adjustment layer capabilities okay
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adjustment layers don't Zoom that's fine
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so I'm going to have to group those two
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clips together and then apply the zoom
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on that grouping which once again with
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the key framing is easy enough to do
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this is what that looks like
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now moving on to the text and there is
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absolutely no way that I'm not using the
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hilarious text presets there is quite a
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bit of choice here and they all look
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pretty cool but I ended up going with
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this one right
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here I added sound effects very quickly
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really nothing to write home about and
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then I was done in order to export the
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project I have to sign up to their
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services and all that stuff which I
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guess at this point I should do but I've
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made this whole thing without signing up
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to it and I've still managed to make it
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so I'm going to go Against the Machine a
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little bit here I'm just going to record
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the screen of the whole thing and then
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crop into it and show you as the final
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piece and that's it if you want to use
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this software then you could to probably
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have to sign up for that you understand
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what I'm saying
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now I'm going to use hit film Express
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for real this time and the whole thing
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starts off like a PowerPoint
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presentation welcome to hit film where
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you can imagine create and share your
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videos in the next few minutes you'll
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learn everything you need to create your
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first video
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you I'm a pro I don't need no no
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tutorials from Hit film I don't need
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your hand out I'm I invented editing wo
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there's a lot of stuff going on first
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thing we should know about hit film
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Express is that you cannot drop a folder
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in there and have it be organized
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already a huge thumbs down arrow keys
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move the whole clip redo is control and
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Y this is confusing as hit film was
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a very different experience to all of
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the other editing softwares it felt very
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much like its own thing that really
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requires you to learn it from
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scratch maybe I should have listened to
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that tutorial but there were some cool
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effects and features that definitely
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aren't included on any of the other free
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softwares oh particles and simulations
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blood
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spray oh my God look at that onto the
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key frames and they were pretty
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difficult to use mainly because I just
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couldn't find where to do things we can
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make it manual bu yet but how how do we
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change that though how does one make a
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good key frame on this once I'd figured
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out how to open key frames the rest was
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pretty easy and actually quite good to
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use W motion BL yes please thank you
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this was the kind of Animation I got to
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make with it and it had motion blur a
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solid singular thumb up for that
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transitions were easy with a drag and
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drop slide then I rendered the whole
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thing brought it back into the project
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and added the zoom on top of that
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because adjustment layers don't exist
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and then finally I did the text which
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looked awful is definitely the weak
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point of this software this is what the
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final thing looked
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like now on to shortcut shortcut short
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shortcut short shortcut now on to
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shortcut whoa look at that right there
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the first thing that pops up Phil Mora
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now this is the first open source
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software that I'm testing and as soon as
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I open it the layout is pretty simple
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all right all right what the hell I
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actually quite liked how the key frames
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worked once I got used to them the only
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thing that kind of sucked was the lack
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of adjustment layers or even nesting so
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I had to do that zoom on each clip
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individually but luckily being the
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inventor of editing I managed to make it
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look quite good the transitions however
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sucked but the animation generally
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worked out well so I'm happy enough
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anyone who uses this to make full videos
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like I respect my shot uses shot cut
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shotgun my
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shotgun I respect you shot cut uses cut
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gun shotgun just switched to something
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El maybe Da Vinci the free one so here's
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the final render from
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shotcut onto light works and Jesus
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Christ let me tell you straight away me
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and light works did not get on very well
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this software immediately felt like a
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slap in the face compared to the last
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four softwares light works is more of a
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traditional software in the sense that
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it's similar to how people would edit
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with physical film and that's why it's
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thma shoemaker's editor of choice good
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for you Thelma you can keep this one
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this software would definitely work
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better with a physical console to use
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which is not helpful for this kind of
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editing and especially not when you want
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it to be free so anyways I managed to
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get a pretty good- looking animation
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even without adjustment layers or motion
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blur but the fact that it all took me
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over an hour to do is making me question
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my whole existence so here is the final
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render from light works
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now I always preach to you that it's
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really important to take breaks when
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you're editing and I stand by that still
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reflect on your day and let your honest
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thoughts come out I love editing so
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much and now we're going to move
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ceremoniously downstairs to use my
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laptop on which we're going to be
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editing on iMovie cap cut and Adobe
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Express video editor all of these are
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free and all of these are vastly
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different first we're going to use
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iMovie if you own an Apple product then
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you have iMovie technically it's free I
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don't even feel like I need to introduce
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this I think everyone here who's
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watching this has probably used iMovie
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at some point in their life I haven't
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used iMovie ever other than on iPhone
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when you get those like trailers that
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you can make editing on iMovie properly
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is exactly what you'd expect you can't
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really get much customization out of it
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and you have to rely heavily on their
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preset but something that is absolutely
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shocking to me and genuinely so
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surprising is that this has been the
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best UI and user experience out of all
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of the apps so far including Premier Pro
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everything's smooth everything works
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very easy to find everything and there's
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little like cool little animations all
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over the place it's so simple that it
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can afford to do this but it's like it's
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actually pretty cool and I wish that
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there was like a professional software
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that had that kind of level of Polish
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anyways I had a lot of fun making what I
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could out of it and this is the final
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render
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[Music]
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Moving Straight on into Adobe Express
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video editor now what is this it's not
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Premiere but it is Adobe which should
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mean it's serviceable right let's
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download it ad I mean we're not going to
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download it that's right we're not
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downloading this that's because this
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software runs through a URL here's
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something I've never really tried before
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editing a video on a purely web based
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software this felt about exactly how
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you'd imagine like editing a video in
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Google Slides or some sort of strange
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PowerPoint editor surprisingly I managed
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to make a few interesting things happen
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this would be great in a setting where
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you're working for a team of people and
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you need to slap something together real
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quick it's basically iMovie but online
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with all of the mess that comes with
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Adobe there's a lot going for it but
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it's also really like just not that
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great so but overall this just came out
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like a corporate presentation that I do
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actually think would blow the socks off
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of any 50-year-old office bro in hate
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jar and here's the final
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render so finally we have have cap
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cut now let's address the baby elephant
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that is indeed lurking in the corner of
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this room I have been sponsored by cap
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cut before to use their mobile editor on
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this video here where me and Jack went
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to Octoberfest and made a whole video
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using only Iphone and editing it on cap
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cut it's a pretty cool video and you
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should go and check that out anyway
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let's edit this video but having said
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this I want to say now that I am under
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no obligation to be nice about the
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software and this is definitely not
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sponsored so keep that in mind so cap
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cut is free you can do this for free you
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don't need to even make an account but
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obviously the pro version's got a lot
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more stuff with it everything is just
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labeled with pro pro pro pro literally
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everything is locked key framing was
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sweet in cap cut I managed to make some
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really smooth animations that even
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though they didn't have motion blur
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looked more than good enough key framing
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looking pretty good on this and with the
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transitions the only real struggle I had
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was finding one amongst all of the pro
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transitions that you'd have to pay for
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it's like searching for a needle in a
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hay stack and I wish that was easier to
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navigate text is the exact same story
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but it does have some pretty cool
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presets available I mean cap card's got
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some pretty good on it you can tell
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that it's made for Content creators one
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bad point though is that you can't key
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frame effects so I can't key frame
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something like the blur in the
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background to increase or decrease all
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of these effects are just pre-done I'm
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just supposed to drag and drop and
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that's it no customization I could
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definitely make a YouTube video using
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this Des here we go
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well that was a big Journey lots of
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softwares that I am never going to use
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ever again and now I'm going home going
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home but I've learned a lot today mainly
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that I should be grateful for what Adobe
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premere Pro has to offer me which is
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insane
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customization easy user interface and
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user experience and smooth overall
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workflow I'd say the surprise hit in
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this was cap cut the desktop app lots of
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surprising features even for the free
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version so quite like that but Da Vinci
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is obviously the PowerHouse here there's
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no denying it it's the greatest free
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editing software available for any
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editors looking to just dip their toe in
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or anything just use Da Vinci that's my
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my recommendation you don't need the
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paid version to use my presets so go to
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my website right here and go and find
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the so go to my website right here the
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Vinci resolve presets are very available
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they're all brand new and we're really
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proud of them so go check them out it's
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going to help your editing Journey a lot
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better than paying for Da Vinci you know
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you know what i' I've done enough
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editing for a little while now I'm going
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to have to take a big break a real big
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break I need to get out of here I need
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to get out of here right now I got to I
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got to go Jack Jack Jack I got to go
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this isn't funny like I'm
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going oh you're going to be okay you can
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like run the channel for the week right
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next
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week right sure okay
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okay see
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you 1 2 3 1
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[Music]
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get out of here
