Are you stuck in learning Editing?

A few days ago, one of my friends, Vinay, reached out to me asking:

As I have been a thumbnail designer myself in the past, I did what any other guy would suggest.

I gave him a playlist of YouTube videos to watch and learn Photoshop from.

Yesterday, he reached out to me with a problem he is constantly facing. This problem is making him bored while learning.

After watching a few videos, he feels like he isn't making any progress. Those videos were just information on:

• This is the pen tool - you draw shapes.

• This is the brush tool - you can paint with it.

• This is the selection tool - you can make selections with it.

And tens of other nuances.

He said he wasn't able to learn from the videos. He started to watch the lessons but didn't find them useful. He feels like he isn't making any progress at all.

I said, "It will all make sense at the end."

And that's when my mind clicked.

Just watching lessons isn't enough.

He needs to take action. That's where he will face actual problems that he will be solving so that he can feel like he is making progress.

So I came up with an idea to teach him a lesson a day.

Yesterday, I told him to just learn how to remove a background from an image. I gave him a video to watch - he watched it and went straight to try it.

He found new problems like the tool isn't working, how to duplicate this layer, how to feather the edge, and many other new problems.

After practicing for a few hours with 5-6 different images, he now feels like he learned something.

And now he is much more excited to learn today's lesson - which will be adding text and customizing it.

So how can this benefit you?

You may be trying to learn video editing from YouTube.

After watching a few videos on an editing tool, you may be finding it hard to apply it in actual editing.

So here's the lesson.

Pick an editing style that you want to learn. Reverse engineer it.

Think about how the video has been edited.

For a quick example, I will give you mine:

This is the process I used when I was starting out. You can use this for a rough idea.

Now pick the first thing and consume one video on how to cut clips.

Download a video (maybe ask someone) and practice what you have learned.

As you try it, you will face many different problems - which you then need to figure out and implement.

Then pick the next thing, which is adding B-rolls/images, and do the same.

Using this mindset to learn will help you learn way faster than anyone else. You will also see progress, which will motivate you to learn more.

It will help you kill the boredom you are facing while learning something because this time you are not learning something randomly.

You are learning with intention because you have a problem to solve.

Hope this helps,

Mantu

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