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.)

After posting the isaac style, i got my first lead on X In the finance niche.

Ladies & Gents, I am happy to announce the Editor Accelerator course is now officially LIVE 🎊 You can go through the course here: https://www.skool.com/editing-mastery-9277/classroom/8e843f3a?md=489504dcda564cc9962e66dd3e5884fc This is a course designed to help editors improve their skills and land clients ASAP. Inside you'll learn everything from: 1. How to Edit Amazing Videos 2. How to Build a Personal Brand 3. How to Land Clients / Retainers 4. How to Negotiate 5. How to Keep Clients Happy 6. & So Much More... As a video editor myself I've lived all of the experiences & lessons I'm teaching you and can personally verify the information I give is what you ACTUALLY need to know to succeed. There is ZERO fluff in this course, every slide and every second of each lesson is just as valuable as the next, so be sure to pay attention. For the creators inside this community, don't worry... While this course is geared towards editors, there's an entire module around Editing Fundamentals, Editing for YouTube, and Editing Short Form content which all are extremely important to the creators in here as well. I'm super excited to have finally finished and shared this course with you. Thank you to everyone who's been waiting since Day 1 of joining this community and being patient with me, this hasn't been an easy process to figure out but it's definitely been worth it! I hope you all enjoy it and let me know your thoughts as you go through it! I'm happy to accept feedback! Love y'all! - Norman

Ive just finished the Isaac Style and i am really pleased with how it turned out. https://x.com/mdoka42/status/1842968669116105025 (Normal we are still waiting for the course)