This post is for my boy @Mateusz Kwiatkowski. He asked me to make a post about organizing your assets since he just got a new SSD so here it is. If you guys also have questions or anything you want specific help on, feel free to comment them below or DM me! Here’s how I organize my editing assets to stay fast and efficient when working on projects. First, I organize all my folders in my SSD by client. For me, I have one folder on my SSD for the Ireland Boys, since I edit for them full-time. Inside their folder, I keep two things: A folder of the current projects I’m working on and an assets folder. I move all their past project folders to a hard drive to free up storage on my SSD (but more on that later...) The assets folder is where all the important stuff lives. Inside the assets folder, I recommend you break things down into four main categories: Videos, Music, Pictures/PNGs, and Sound Effects, and that's how mine are set up. 99% of the time you will need these 4 folders for every client, but some of the time too you will also need a few more that are specific to the client's videos. For example, I also have a "Faces" folder where it's just PNG cutouts of the Ireland Boys' faces since they commonly have their faces in the corner of the screen when doing challenges, but not every client needs a "Faces" folder lmao. But let’s start with the Videos folder. I organize the Ireland Boy's "Videos" folder with two subfolders for their two brands, "1Life" and "IBPMerch." Inside those two folders are different video assets they use to promote their brands. Everything else, like memes, green-screen effects, overlays, and other YouTube videos I use often, just lives all bunched up in the videos folder. Next is the Music folder, and I spend a lot of time organizing this one. When I download music from Artlist.io or Epidemic Sound, I make sure to sort it by either genre or emotion.

So I've been thinking, and I feel like doing monthly group coaching calls with everyone in here could be a really valuable way for everyone to fast-track the results they're seeing even quicker. But I wanted to know your thoughts, and how to best serve y'all. So here's what I want to know from you... Comment your answers to these questions below: 1. Would you show up? 2. What days/times work for a 1-2 hour live Zoom workshop (the more time availability, the better. Also comment your timezone) 3. The Top 3 things you want the most help with (examples: Storytelling, Animating, Sound Design Getting Clients, Workflow Tips, Increasing Rates, Time Management, etc.) 🚨 Please answer each question and let me know below!

Hey y’all, Whether you're new here or have been around since Day 1, I wanted to take a second to reflect. This community started just 7 months ago, back in May. At the time, it was just an idea. I wanted to create something that could help the old version of me—the editor who was passionate but stuck. I didn’t know how to turn what I loved into a full-time career. I went through years of eating shit, and picking up scraps to learn on my own but eventually I figured it out. Now I’m in a position working with one of the biggest creators in the world earning a full time income doing what I love… editing. And I started this community to help you all do the same. Fast forward to today, and we’ve grown from 0 members to 255. From no resources or trainings to a full, free course designed to help editors land high paying clients fast. And the results? They’ve been amazing. - @Oscar Zechner went from struggling to make $1,500/month to just about $4,000/month. - @Asa Howard landed his dream client and is earning upwards of $4,000/month. - @Joshua Cardoso landed his very FIRST client—starting from scratch with ZERO experience. - And there’s been many more… But I know this is just the beginning. I want this community to deliver even bigger results for everyone. And to do that, I need your feedback. This group is a work in progress, and I want it to solve the problems you’re actually facing. So, here’s what I want to know: 1. What do you love about this community? 2. What could be better? 3. What’s missing that you want or need? 4. What problems are you dealing with that we haven’t addressed? 5. What features, tools, or information would you like to see added? Drop your thoughts in the comments—I’m all ears. Let’s make this the best editing community out there.

I've been experimenting with After Effects to make some pretty complex animations recently, and I wanted to share this one valuable tip that's helped me make my animations much quicker. That tip is to Pre-comp your layers before you add the animation 🔑 Pre-comping in After Effects is essentially the same thing as nesting your clips in Premiere Pro. The reason you do this is best explained by showing you this example. Below is a link to an example animation I created for an upcoming video I'm editing for my YouTube channel, and in this animation I want you to pay attention to the layers animating like the thumbnails & the text. 🚨 Watch The Animation Here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jdqe9oKudAsg7UyYc9vPHnC6B03fi4QE/view?usp=drive_link For these thumbnail & text layers, what I did to make it much easier was I scaled them and positioned them exactly where I wanted them to end up, and once I had the layout set, I pre-comped (nested) each layer individually. Then for the thumbnails, I created a smooth slide-in animation one time, and because we pre-comped, I can now copy those keyframes and just paste them onto the bottom thumbnail layer without having to adjust the position because I pre-comped them. Then I just move over the keyframes a bit so it comes in a bit after. Simple. Now for the text, I pre-comped each text layer... Created one fade-in / slide-down animation... And then copied & pasted onto the other two text layers. Then I moved the keyframes a bit for each layer of text, and boom I was done. Instead of having to animate the slide in for each layer manually because all the positions and scales would have been different... I could do it once and then copy & paste since we pre-comped. 🚨 BONUS TIP: When creating smooth animations like in the example shown, to get it to be that smooth you need to adjust the keyframe speed graph to look like a steep halfpipe ramp (Check the image attached to this post below)

What's up y'all, if you're an editor looking for work right now, read this post... I've been hit up by two potential clients recently looking for editors and I also have my own opportunity to potentially have one of y'all work with ME directly. Here are the opportunities... //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 1. Edit for Devin Jatho (HUGE) 🚨 I received a DM from the Head Recruiter hiring for Devin Jatho looking for editors to be a part of his editing team. If you don't know Devin Jatho... Here is his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/devinjatho/ Here is his YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@devinjatho/videos Job Info: Salary - $1,500 - $5,000/month 👀 Hours - 42 per week (Full-time) Looking for Short Form & Long Form Editors If this opportunity sounds interesting to you... You can apply for the position here: https://www.onlinejobs.ph/jobseekers/job/Looking-for-Video-Editors-Salary-1500-5000-Read-till-the-end-1237237 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 2. Edit for Versus Gravity (GOOD POTENTIAL) 🚨 I got a message from a coach who coaches business owners, and one of their clients and is looking for editors. This client is a smaller channel called Versus Gravity. They make calisthenics content, and they have a skool community where they teach calisthenics (this is GREAT because they have a business outside of YouTube so they have much more incentive to pay you well). Here's their Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/versus.gravity/ Here's their YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@versus.gravity/videos Job Info: Salary - Unknown (BUT, like I mentioned they have a skool community they promote, SO, you can tie your edits to the growth of their channel and their paid community members, and earn way more money.)