How I Actually Make Viral Shorts | Highlights and Annotations by Gistr.

This segment delves into the often-overlooked aspect of video length in YouTube Shorts. It challenges the common assumption that shorter videos are always better, presenting data and personal experience to demonstrate that longer, more in-depth shorts often receive better promotion and higher viewership. The discussion on crafting strong hooks to capture viewer attention and maintain engagement is also valuable, offering practical examples and strategies to increase retention rates. This segment emphasizes the importance of selecting trending topics within one's niche for creating viral shorts. It highlights the contrast between capitalizing on current trends (like a new Marvel movie trailer) versus using outdated content (an old interview), illustrating how aligning with current audience interest significantly increases the chances of virality. The speaker's personal experience and insights into audience preferences are valuable for viewers seeking to improve their content strategy. This concluding segment showcases the long-term impact of the strategies discussed earlier. The speaker reveals the ultimate success of their video, achieving 2 million views and even greater success with an unexpected video, demonstrating that persistence and iterative improvement are key to viral success. The segment reinforces the importance of consistent content creation and adapting strategies based on results. check it out. now all you need to do, is choose a voice, or generate a custom one, and paste your script to generate the voiceover. in Loki season 2, we saw this guy as a TVA worker. it’s fine, but we can take it to the next level. use commas, exclamation marks, and capital letters to get different tones. and generating it a few times also helps to get the best result. I will show this part in Premiere Pro, but you can do the same in every editing software. first, to make sure we’re on the same page, drag the windows around, to get a similar setup. it should look like this at the end. or use whatever setup works for you. take the voiceover you generated and import it to your project, then drag it to the timeline. take the razor tool and cut all the pauses. now, overlap the clips to get a faster pacing. listen to see if it’s natural or not. and repeat this for the whole voiceover. nice job! now, we need footage to add on top. for videos, go to Youtube, search for things related to your topic, and download them with a random website. if you need more stock videos and images, use pexels. then, take all that footage and import to premiere. cover all your voiceover with related clips. don’t forget to add 1 or 2 interaction clips to keep the viewers engaged. look at that! you just made a rough cut for your video. now the fun part begins. first, resize all your clips to fit the screen. use keyframes to add zoom-ins, zoom-outs, and make different variations, sizes, colors, and once you’re happy with the look, choose all the effects, and make a preset for each style to use it next time. now, hold alt, drag it for each new text, and change the words. done! but something is still missing… sound effects is a different video topic by itself, but if you have never used them before, and don’t know where to start, a free pack from Youtube would do the job. if you need more, search on Youtube, like tension sound effect. whoosh sound effect. cinematic sound effect. laugh sound effect. you got the point. once you added enough of those, and adjusted the volume, the final touch is, adding some music. using a trending song would be a nice choice, but i like to go through the songs I personally listen to, and choose the one that fits in the video. just be careful and don’t make it too loud. otherwise, you may get comments like it looks too dark and pale. the solution is creating an adjustment layer. it basically affects everything underneath. to play with the colors of the whole video, cover the entire timeline, go to the effects panel, and search for lumetri color. drag it to the adjustment layer. now, make it bright