 In this episode we take a graphics channel, break it down on the channel front, and then give him some video editing advice to really make his speed arts stand out above the rest. Let's get into it. How's it going everyone? My name's Adam or EposVox back with another channel review. This is part two of my new series pilot where I'm looking to get your feedback and continue to do some good stuff here but in this one we're going to have a little bit of a twist. We're going to have a brief channel review and then I'm going to switch over to my desktop and show you some editing tips for this channel. A little bit different. So today we're taking a look at Slender Slay who is a graphics designer for freedom here. Although he doesn't necessarily work for freedom but he's in the freedom network and does some really cool stuff and so while we're going to go over some things about his channel that you can learn from they're going to be things that you'll see consistently referenced in these videos so I'm going to speed through them a little bit and then show you some editing tips that I think would really improve his videos and your videos if you do any sort of speed art, speed design, speed edit kind of videos. So this is Slender Slay's channel. He does some couple little goofy montage not goofy but like they look pretty good. He could do some work with some goofy stuff and some funny stuff. Some editing montages for Destiny and then some speed art for graphics design. He does channel banners and things like that for a lot of channels. Now my number one criticism of the channel page itself he does have I would maybe alternate which kind of playlist display style you have here because you could do the horizontal and then the vertical and then the horizontal. I like that quite a bit and I wouldn't necessarily feature your subscriptions but that's just me and then I would also get some featured channel things some featured channels up here. The biggest thing about the channel page itself is your own banner while it's super simplistic and minimal and if that's your thing that's your thing I would like to see more information about your channel on here as far as what you do for a quick first impression. You have some basic info for some info here. You're a 14 year old and a graphic designer and then some prices. Very cheap prices by the way if you're looking for graphics for your channel come check him out. People do you some justice but people don't like to read raw text. They like reading text that's on images and so if you'd like move your logo over and do some info or like some text about graphic designer YouTube graphics or you know something like that might do you some good and your description itself isn't super great like get you some paragraphs in here about what you do what you're doing with your channel where it's going and things like that and it will help you quite a bit. Your playlist game is pretty solid. You've got some playlists. They need some descriptions on them. There's no descriptions on them but you're doing get rid of that private video out of there but you're doing well actually utilizing those given how many videos are actually on your channel at the moment. Got some consistent branding on the whole and one thing that I wanted to mention as well is he does have two different graphics packs that you can download for yourself this one has 1.4 gigabytes or 1.7 I downloaded it myself and then also grabbed their layer style pack which is a bunch of different layer styles you can save to your photoshop and use them later and I've already started using some of them so thank you for that and one thing I did want to mention is this big 1.7 gigabyte giveaway was actually done in celebration of him reaching 400 subscribers congrats on that and what he did that was really really clever was he started teasing this and using it in his speed arts ever since he hit like 350 subscribers so for example I think it was this one if you scroll through here you'll start to see him pull assets from his style pack and his 400 sub pack you'll see them up there in the top and his little photoshop tabs as he actually references those and uses them which teased it all the way up till he actually hit that point very clever very subtle but great job and my lovely neighbors are blasting music in the parking lot my favorite and then real quick there are the usual things that I harp on he doesn't have a channel trailer but instead he has his 400 sub pack release or another short video at the time which I'm personally a fan of it's not necessarily considered best practice you're supposed to have a trailer for your channel but I'm cool with that like that his 400 sub pack release is a pretty decent trailer for his channel at the moment like it's pretty representative his descriptions need a little work there's not a whole lot in there beefing those up fluffing them up could do some good and same thing with his tags they're pretty basic and free and banner and his channel name should never be at the front you need to like you've got some good stuff here for the revamp here but you want those at the front if you want to put like a specific series name at the end put that at the end of your tags but get rid of this free and slender slay and banner and template those are never going to rank I mean slender slay you're ranking for but no people aren't often searching for your channel name ever and it's already displayed elsewhere you don't need it it's already like tied into your videos you don't need that in your tags so go ahead and swap those out and get a little bit more specific for example wolf designs banner wolf design speed art wolf designs channel art and then channel art speed art those kinds of things and then searchable phrases like I recommended before but overall your video links are actually pretty great the video links here two minutes actually let's jump over to the channel page and take a look at the videos on the whole I'm a huge fan of four minutes in less videos which is going to be hilarious to those of you who actually know my channel I know that I rarely post a video that short I'm working on it okay but in terms of being a viewer these these video links are perfect now and when it comes to ad revenue ad revenue gets really funky if your video is under a minute so making a video at least a minute is pretty much always recommended but in general two minutes 40 seconds two minutes 33 seconds two minutes 37 seconds for speed arts is perfect you never want to speed art longer than one song and for me three minutes or less should be what it is unless it's some giant complex masterpiece that I doubt most like very few people will be doing and then his little clip edits are really short as well kudos kudos kudos for that however there's some polishing things that you can do in editing to really make your speed art stand out and look a lot more polished and a lot more professional and we're going to flip over to the desktop and I'm going to show you that here all right so the speed art we're going to be messing with has actually been uploaded to slender slay's channel and I will post a link to it in the description below if you'd like to watch the original speed art and he does pretty good speed arts like I'm not going to criticize him too heavily this is a standard speed art upload but one thing you'll notice that I want to improve upon is when videos are just sped up to a certain time point without making any changes as done here you end up with an issue where the where it feels quite jittery like everything's just bounce bounce bounce frame frame frame frame frame and that's what people come to expect because that's what it typically looks like but it doesn't have to now there's a couple things that they're actually shown via his speed art here that I want to touch on that a lot of people do wrong is a you always want to have your cursor in a speed art always always always always make sure you're recording your cursor he does that here and that way we know where he's clicking a lot of people don't use their cursor they think it's better to not record their cursor but then when we're trying to watch a speed art we have no idea where you're clicking or anything and by time we figure out where you're about to like where you're clicking on or what you're about to do you're already doing something else always include your cursor and don't crop off your taskbar here like if you if you want if you don't want your taskbar shown cover it up with some sort of like banner or bar that says like for example here slenderslay designs youtube.com slash slenderslay or whatever you know that kind of thing you're a designer or an artist you can make something designing or artsy and here I will show you why real quick now I am using Premiere Pro for this if you want to see how to do some of the things that I'm going to show you in a few different video editors head over to my channel I don't have them uploaded as of the time of recording but very shortly I'm going to be doing a full series walking through these steps for multiple video editing platforms to try to get people who do speed arts up to par depending on what platform they're using now one thing that I do want to note that he does not do is that speed art should be 60 frames per second and literally all cases if you're doing a speed art your speed art should be at half more than half the time or like less than half the time of your original art recording therefore you're you'll have double the frame so for most speed arts frankly even if you recorded it at like 15 fps you should still be able to speed it up and get a full 60 fps out of it and 60 fps overall looks a lot smoother so again watch his for the original and I'll show you some things that you can customize so first and foremost we're gonna start out with a 1080p 60 frames per second composition I'm just gonna call it speed art for now and I'm going to drag in his speed art recording here and mute out the audio so this is what he worked with for that video I do believe now here I'm gonna show you real quick what most people do if they want to get rid of their taskbar is they sit here and go like this they like stretch out part of it and stretch the height to crop out the taskbar but then you're stretching things out and it just doesn't look right it doesn't look right at all it doesn't make any sense or either they'll only record like the canvas part they'll only record this part of their screen which doesn't make any sense because we want to be able to see the whole thing we want to be able to see all of what you're doing in Photoshop so don't don't ever do any of that please please never in order to make a speed art that looks super silky smooth have it in 60 fps and we're gonna and we're going to enable something called frame blending here now again I'm gonna show you how to do this in Premiere Pro because that is what I use and what a lot of people should be using and then I will in future videos on my channel show you how to do it in Vegas and things like that in Vegas simply just don't disable resample if you're a Vegas user you should know what that means we're gonna speed this up I have a song somewhere okay never mind I have a two minute 18 second song so I'm gonna drag that out on my timeline you can see here that's much shorter than my video link so I can either hit R and use the rate stretch tool to shrink it down right here basically same thing or I can right click it and go to speed duration and type in the length of the song which is to 18 and it's gonna do the same thing but something I did not do in that box I'm gonna undo this is we want to enable frame blending instead of frame sampling which if you're right clicking and go to time interpolation you can do the same thing here frame blending whereas the default is frame sampling frame sampling is what most people do they just speed it up and it looks a little bit of jittery and stuttery because it's just like flicking through frames as fast as possible if when we go to speed duration here and tell it to 18 then I can choose right here for time interpolation frame blending now with just a bean 60 frames per second and be choosing frame blending the overall movement will look a lot smoother and I'll play a bit of that for you here now again this isn't the greatest song choice in the world your song choice can definitely impact how people see your speed art as you know how exciting it is and also for something like this I would honestly recommend making it a little shorter especially since the song ends a little bit right here I'm actually going to drag it towards the end of the song because something he does that I am I'm absolutely in love with I'll go ahead and play for you here is once the speed art finishes he actually does this really cool transition and then shows you the avatar twitter banner and youtube banner that he makes from it and it just it looks really nice it's a really professional way of displaying it and it just works it really really works I can't really emulate that here because I don't have those images but essentially that's what you would do with the like tail end of the song here instead of throwing on an in-card or an outro or an intro or whatever speed arts do not need that at all that just waste a lot of time and that's the thing is speed arts are a lot more consumable if when they're a lot shorter you again want it to be over a minute long but in general speed arts are a lot more consumable when they're shorter and if you're tacking on an intro and an in-card or an outro or whatever that link then's the your video and viewer impressions matter and so if a viewer is seeing that and they're like oh this is three minutes and 30 seconds even if only like a minute and a half of your video is the actual content the viewer's not gonna know that and if you're you have some 15 second long intro on your speed art I'm gonna click off I don't know about I mean most people will too but I'm certainly gonna click off and I generally love speed arts this makes it a lot smoother and again don't try to stretch out to cover up the taskbar design yourself something to do so now I have here I'm not a designer I'm not a designer at all I will say this right now before I show you this but I made some super basic function over form bars that cover up my desktop or when I'm doing tutorials if I need to cover up my taskbar and things like that and so this is just a basic example of what could be done again an actual designer should do a much better job and maybe I can get Slender Slay to do me a bar that is a lot better but see covers up the entire taskbar it's meant for 4k he's got quite the tall taskbar this one was I made mine to customize to my desktop but covers up his clock and taskbar so nobody has to see it just something basic like that instead of stretching it out I see so many speed arts where people crop it in or stretch it out and it just looks horrible we need to see all of your Photoshop window so just a brief review always record your cursor record your full desktop don't crop or stretch out to get rid of a taskbar covered up with some sort of design element that fits the branding of your channel 60fps always for speed art just looks infinitely better for everyone and if you're doing a speed art that's actually sped up you have all the frames you need make make them short make them super short again unless you're doing some sort of super long lengthy masterpiece which most people aren't make them short definitely no more than one song find a high energy song that fits the feeling of what you're doing art of and an able frame blending for it so so the movement looks a lot smoother you can also re completely speed that up and animate it in After Effects to enable frame blending as well again I'll have a few different tutorials up on my channel ASAP regarding that waiting to work things out with an artist specifically for that I can't play the full speed art here for you but I will have an unlisted link of just the rendered out version of this in the description below in the youtube card if you're interested in seeing how this compares to his original upload hope you enjoyed this episode of my channel review series pilot here where we're taking a look at a graphic channel and how it can be improved both on the channel side of things and in editing and if you are bold enough if you are brave enough to have your channel criticized as bluntly as possible in front of all of freedom and you want to have a channel review and you think that you're putting in the work to get a boost in subscribers that you'll want to know what else you can do next that you're doing all the work that you can and you really want to know what your next step is I will have a google form link in the description below where you can submit your channel and I will check it out and we can figure out what you need to do with your channel right here on the show if you did enjoy this alternate perspective of things smash the like button get subscribed to freedom central for more awesome youtube videos leave me a comment down below with what you thought again the big thing was the editing tips filling in that description and tags and not using an intro or in card on really short videos because that kind of hurts your watch time and it's all about the viewer impression of what your video is going to be and even if like even if your video half of it is an in card the viewer is not going to know that so even if the viewer would want to click off they may not click on it if it looks too long I hope you enjoyed this video smash like button all that jazz my name's been Adam repels box here on freedom central for you if you want to see more from me come check me out youtube.com slash equals box link in the description as well with slender slays link here and I catch you in a future episode