What’s the secret to the best YouTube editing? It’s a question every aspiring YouTuber has asked as they search for that one thing that will elevate their videos to the next level.

For us over here at Storezar, we believe in the power of smoothness. Almost everything in an edit can be smooth, from assets appearing on screen to transitions to zooms.

In fact, that’s why we’ve made our presets: to help you achieve that smooth look in your videos without having to pre-programme all those keyframes yourself.

To learn more, watch our video above detailing the ins and outs of smoothness and what that looks like in your videos.

What is smoothness?

We really believe smoothness is the key to good YouTube editing. Too often, we see videos with PNGs rigidly coming on to the screen, transitions that abruptly start, and harsh zooms that take you out of the video. It just looks unprofessional.

When creating effects from scratch, we always play with velocity graphs. It’s a difficult art to master, as there are so many different ways to have your velocity spike – you need to play around and discover what looks good for you, but above all, make sure it’s smooth.

How we made our video

Now, for the filmmakers out there, a little on the making of the above video. Those beginning, sweeping aerial shots were filmed with a DJI drone, which was fun to do, even if the battery life was not great. It’s always slightly nerve-wracking going out in public wearing a costume, but we got the shots we needed, and the intro feels pretty epic as a result.

Later on in the video, Finzar does some presenting to camera that was filmed using a gimbal. Funnily enough, we’ve owned both the drone and our gimbal for ages, but never really used them for our YouTube content. However, we wanted this video to feel big, and we needed to use all the tools at our disposal to achieve that feeling. Plus, the gimbal is super-smooth, which was the entire point of the video. We’re really happy with how it all came out, so expect to see more cool gimbal shots in the future.

And now you know about smoothness, go and implement the philosophy of smoothness into your edits!