Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Welcome to part 3 of my series on how to make a video essay. In this episode I discuss the process of collecting, creating, and organizing all of your assets, from images, diagrams, video, music, and more. I break down how vital templates are to the creation process, saving you insane amounts of time. Templates can be used for your video structure like intros, titles, and outros, and can also be used for visual assets like YouTube thumbnails and end screens. I touch on the importance of gathering references along the way, which will be very helpful later in the process, and discuss how vital doing a quality control pass before final video rendering is.
You can think about this video series as a bunch of how-to beginner guides, tutorials, and tips & tricks about all sorts of things from keeping track of ideas and how to write a script in Google docs, recording and processing voiceover and other audio in Adobe Audition or Premier Pro, and gathering video footage from different sources and editing it all together to help support the story or message you're trying to communicate. I also touch on different challenges and struggles you might face along the way, like getting into a creative rut, getting inspired, and collecting constructive feedback, and learning from all sorts of other mediums, like cinematography, filmmaking, traditional or digital art, architecture, literature, and more. Finally, I touch on everything I know about queueing and exporting your video using tools like Adobe Media Encoder, uploading to YouTube, and what I've learned about the YouTube metadata that can hopefully help you along the way, including creating a title, writing a description, designing a thumbnail and other visual assets in Photoshop, creating playlists, end screens templates, cards, and more. I'm hoping to share what I've learned from some of my favorite storytellers, like Every Frame A Painting, Nerdwriter, A Closer Look, Lessons from a Screenplay, DJ Peach Cobbler, The Internet Historian, and Jacob Geller. I really hope you find this series entertaining, educational, and inspirational!
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✦ Chapters ✦
0:00 Collecting and Creating Video Assets
4:20 Organizing Assets
6:50 Supporting the Story with Visuals
8:00 Voiceover Bloopers
8:43 Gather References As You Go
9:05 Templates Are Key
9:42 Quality Control
10:00 Noticing My Mistake
✦ References & Mentions ✦
Redoing the Game of Thrones Final Episode - youtube.com/watch?v=ay1WXKVK7vs
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Twitch: twitch.tv/veritas
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#howto #videoessay #storytelling
Welcome to part 3 of my series on how to make a video essay. In this episode I discuss the process of collecting, creating, and organizing all of your assets, from images, diagrams, video, music, and more. I break down how vital templates are to the creation process, saving you insane amounts of time. Templates can be used for your video structure like intros, titles, and outros, and can also be used for visual assets like YouTube thumbnails and end screens. I touch on the importance of gathering references along the way, which will be very helpful later in the process, and discuss how vital doing a quality control pass before final video rendering is.
You can think about this video series as a bunch of how-to beginner guides, tutorials, and tips & tricks about all sorts of things from keeping track of ideas and how to write a script in Google docs, recording and processing voiceover and other audio in Adobe Audition or Premier Pro, and gathering video footage from different sources and editing it all together to help support the story or message you're trying to communicate. I also touch on different challenges and struggles you might face along the way, like getting into a creative rut, getting inspired, and collecting constructive feedback, and learning from all sorts of other mediums, like cinematography, filmmaking, traditional or digital art, architecture, literature, and more. Finally, I touch on everything I know about queueing and exporting your video using tools like Adobe Media Encoder, uploading to YouTube, and what I've learned about the YouTube metadata that can hopefully help you along the way, including creating a title, writing a description, designing a thumbnail and other visual assets in Photoshop, creating playlists, end screens templates, cards, and more. I'm hoping to share what I've learned from some of my favorite storytellers, like Every Frame A Painting, Nerdwriter, A Closer Look, Lessons from a Screenplay, DJ Peach Cobbler, The Internet Historian, and Jacob Geller. I really hope you find this series entertaining, educational, and inspirational!
✦ Support the creation of more content like this w/ Patreon ✦
patreon.com/veritaswtf
✦ Chapters ✦
0:00 Collecting and Creating Video Assets
4:20 Organizing Assets
6:50 Supporting the Story with Visuals
8:00 Voiceover Bloopers
8:43 Gather References As You Go
9:05 Templates Are Key
9:42 Quality Control
10:00 Noticing My Mistake
✦ References & Mentions ✦
Redoing the Game of Thrones Final Episode - youtube.com/watch?v=ay1WXKVK7vs
✦ My Socials & Other Links ✦
Twitch: twitch.tv/veritas
Discord: discord.gg/veritaswtf
Twitter: twitter.com/veriitasgames
Instagram: instagram.com/veritaswtf
Tarkov Battle Buddy: apps.apple.com/us/app/tarkov-battle-buddy/id1476820880
GitHub: github.com/veritasdev
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/2S6iwClVoSNnpOcCzyMeUj
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/ie/artist/veritas/960043033
Amazon Music: amazon.com/dp/B07MXSCBJP
SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/veritaswtf
Amazon Affiliate Link: amzn.to/2Ck3vuZ
#howto #videoessay #storytelling
