EP 334 - YouTube for Coaches: The Easiest Way to Edit Your Videos in 2026 (Part 3 of 5)
Editing your YouTube videos can be easy, and fast! In this episode, you’ll learn the easiest way to edit your YouTube videos.
In Part 3 of this 5-part YouTube for Coaches Series, Debbie Shadid and YouTube Strategist Nicole Janton walk you through how to edit your YouTube videos using Descript, so you can get your video edited and published easily, without the overwhelm.
Editing a YouTube video as a coach does not have to be complicated. With the right tool, editing your coaching video is as simple as editing a Word document, and this video will show you how to do it.
Edit your coaching videos with Descript: https://descript.cello.so/6xw4YgGx34a
In this episode, we'll walk through:
Why editing your YouTube video as a coach is so much easier than you expect
How Descript lets you edit your coaching video by deleting words from a transcript — no tech skills needed
How to use Descript's AI to automatically remove filler words, pauses, and fluff from your video
How to export subtitles from Descript to boost your YouTube video's reach with the algorithm
Why a simple "cleanup and clarity edit" is all you need to publish a great coaching video
How long editing a coaching video actually takes — and how to make it faster
The one editing mistake coaches make that makes their videos sound unnatural
You don't need to be a professional editor to publish great coaching videos on YouTube. You just need to get your message out in a way that feels like you, and Descript makes that possible for coaches.
When you stop letting editing hold you back and start publishing your coaching videos consistently on YouTube, your audience grows, your trust builds, and your coaching business starts to grow in a way that compounds over time.
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Edit your coaching videos with Descript (affiliate link—discount included): https://descript.cello.so/6xw4YgGx34a
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Descript for Video Editing: https://descript.cello.so/6xw4YgGx34a
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Transcript
if you're a coach who has recorded your first video and now you're thinking, oh my gosh, I have to edit this thing, I know you might be worried because a lot of women over 50, They get worried about the tech right? You think it's gonna be too hard. But what I wanna tell you is that editing your video is so much easier than you might imagine. There are so many tools that you can utilize that are actually pretty darn simple and very affordable.. So Nicole, tell us some of the common places that people might edit their video. Yes. So Depending on what type of a computer that you have, if you have a Mac, you already have iMovie built in there. So that's a simple software that you could use. There's also GarageBand, which is audio only. there's Premier Pro by Adobe. There's all sorts of different options, but what I would recommend here is a software like either Descript or Riverside. So what both of these softwares do is they actually turn your, video into a transcript so that you can edit based on the words, you can go through and cut out your ums, cut out your rights, if that's a, you know, filler word that you tend to use. You can cut out any fluff directly just by copying over the words and pressing delete. It's almost as simple as editing a Word document. they've really made editing much more accessible versus some of those other tools that I mentioned where you would be editing based on the actual waveform of the audio. Descript is what we use. It's super impactful. It allows you to get the transcript to edit cleanly. It has an AI tool that will actually do a lot of the cleanup for you, like removing pauses, removing filler words. It can identify fluff that it recommends you to remove. plus it's gonna allow you to then chop up your video into different shorts and things like that, which we'll talk about in more detail in the repurposing episode. But that's one of the really great things about Descript is that not only is it simplifying your editing process, but it's actually allowing you to create more assets from your edit. I wanna backtrack to where we talked about recording the video and about your script and I said just go ahead and say something over. Start over right until you get it the right way you want it to sound. That's why Descript is so fantastic or Riverside. Because you don't have to stop the video. You can start recording. You can restart on the sentence. Then you can go back and listen to it. You can even notice like, did I sound energetic or was I talking too slow or too low? And you can delete or eliminate any portion of that. That really saves. A lot of, I don't know, worry and fear. It really does because it's like you're not putting it out into the world till you get to listen to it. You don't have to keep redoing it. You just record it once and then go through and edit it. Exactly. I think that eliminates so much of the fear. It's not a live video. Ah, how are people gonna respond? I mean, you can mess up, restate your sentence, and nobody is gonna know the difference. give yourself some grace because, when you're recording these for the first time, just know that it's not gonna probably sound so great. But boy oh boy, when you use Descript or one of the other tools we've talked about, it can turn out to be great in the end. It really can, by the time you eliminate the filler words Or anything else that you restarted during the recording, a sentence that you restarted and you also eliminate Any pauses? Boy, oh boy. It sounds so great. By the time you get to the end. exactly. And it really doesn't take much time either, especially with all of the AI that's in there. So it's definitely, if you're a coach, you're already busy coaching, go and check out Descript because it's gonna cut down a lot of this time and headache. Something else that you can do is you can utilize the transcript, so it is making a transcript, but once you're done with all the recording, you can get the finished transcript after you've deleted everything, and you can utilize that for other things as well as using the audio separately like we talked about as well too, for maybe a podcast. exactly. And those subtitles that you can pull. So when you export the transcript, you can do a TXT file it's called, which would get you the transcript or an SRT file, which is the subtitles. And that's gonna be really helpful because then when you upload to YouTube, you can just press add subtitles. Upload your file directly from Descript, and then it actually helps with the reach of your video as well, because now the algorithm's able to see what you're talking about. I wanna encourage you to not get too hung up. If you watch your video and you get to the end of it, you have it all edited and you're like, oh my gosh, that wasn't good. What I want you to know is it's probably good enough to get started, right? People aren't expecting a perfectly scripted video. What they really want from you is a conversation. So don't worry about being, a high quality editor who's trained at this. You can train yourself. Honestly, it's very easy to use, so just do the very best you can. And again, I just wanna encourage you, like don't try to be perfect because that will keep you from doing this. Just imagine that the world needs to hear what you have to say. Edit the video and get it up on YouTube and press publish. Yes, don't overthink it. Allow yourself to be authentic. You can cut out anything that was maybe embarrassing in the edit, but overall, just put it out there. Your next video is always gonna be better than the last one, but don't wait until you have it perfect to start publishing. Descript offers ways to bring words across the screen. it gives you an opportunity to put a blank slide in that you could have words on if you did, a hard clip or a jump in the video somehow. What would you say about utilizing those tools from Descript? I would say those tools in Descript are super helpful. You can also add clips on the beginning and the end. So let's say you have some sort of a introduction for your podcast. Asked or like an outro screen. You can add those in there easily. Like Debbie said, you can add cards or popups that'll overlay on the screen with words. You can add titles just on the screen. All I would say about that is with every single piece of editing, there's gonna be more of a time commitment, a little bit more of a skill to get under your belt. So while those things are really amazing to have, I'd encourage you to just do a simple, what I would call like a cleanup and clarity edit, where you're making sure that the audio sounds clean. There's no filler, no fluff, but there's no, you know, graphics popping out here and there. That's always gonna make things a little bit more complicated. And then if you want to then take it to the next level, I would say just doing something simple where let's say you're doing a listicle style. Video where it's like, these are the six steps to do this, or you know, the five steps to lose weight. You could just have step one pop up with the name of it on the screen when you announce it, and then step two, and that would allow for just, you know, like five or six quick graphic edits. So overall, there's plenty that you can do there, but I would just keep it super simple for your first ones. Honestly. I don't think it changes the impact of the video. I don't think it probably gives you more, views or longer retention by doing that. And it really does add to your work. I was just listening to another YouTuber talking about their workflow and the amount of time that they needed for editing because they added those clips and those pieces into their video, and I would just say skip all that. If you can think about a video that might be 20 minutes, how long would you say that it might take to edit a 20 minute video? Yeah, so for a simple cleanup and clarity edit, I would say it's gonna take you two to three times the length of the video to edit it. You're likely gonna have to listen to parts of it two or three times, so it's definitely takes longer than the initial. That being said, if you're really good at just recording on a cuff and you didn't make that many mistakes and you go to edit right after you've recorded, you could probably edit in like five minutes because you'll sort of know, oh, you know, about two minutes in, I made this pause, I had to go to the bathroom. So I'll cut that out and here I repeated myself. And you can just sort of target in on those places and just do a quick listen through. But overall, I would budget about two to three times the length of the video is time. And then as you're thinking about adding graphics, video graphic designers, they charge oftentimes by the minute of the video. So it's just super important to consider. Like there's a lot that could happen in one minute. There's a lot of graphics that could pop up a lot of different effects that can happen. So I would just ease your way into, like we said, maybe a little bit of those titles that pop up, but overall, if you're a coach, people just wanna see you. They wanna know you and trust you, and they're going to get to do that by seeing you on the screen instead of all these like overlays and distracting emojis. Anyways. I really would encourage you to do what Nicole just mentioned, which is record it and edit it nearly at the same setting because it really is. Easy to do that. If you've just recorded it, it's fresh on your mind exactly what you've done and you can go through and edit very quickly. the other piece is I would go back and listen when you make an edit, if you utilize all the AI options, either on Riverside or Descript or whatever you're gonna use, you often can cut out too many Places where you're breathing and there should be a natural pause. And actually it doesn't sound very good that way. So Sometimes you can rely too heavily on the AI editing and it will remove, what would feel like a natural conversation. It will chop it up so short that it'll feel like you're rushing. So make sure you do go back through and listen because you can undo anything. Anything you cut out can be reversed, right? You just do the back arrow and you can eliminate that cut so that you can get back to where it sounds like there's a little bit more natural flow. Yeah, I think that's super key. You don't wanna overed it. You don't want to, let's say you're talking to the guests, the space in between is non-existent, so it's like you cut off their sentence before it even starts. And something to keep an eye out for if you are gonna use Descript in the AI is just that sometimes when you're, having it remove filler words, it gets a little bit confused between ums and then like an ah, so like, ah, car. It could just cut me off before car and just start the sentence with car. just keep that in mind. Definitely listen through to it all at the end. For sure. Yeah. So I wanna encourage you guys, don't let editing hold you up from doing your video. I wanna encourage you to just do your video, give it your best shot. You'll get better as you go. And the same way with the editing, there are incredible of tools that are not very much. I'm gonna leave for you a link for Descript. We have an affiliate link. There is a discount for you guys as well. That's the tool that I utilize and I know how to use it. It's very easy. It's the same thing we teach our clients. I just wanna encourage you don't let that be the roadblock. It is so much easier. Yes, the first time that you learn how to. Descript is gonna be a little bit hard, but it gets easier after that. Go ahead and do the videos, get yourself on YouTube. Go ahead and use the editing tools that are available to you. don't let any of that be the roadblock to you putting out in the world what it is that you know that you are meant to do, because video is a great way to build your coaching business. So in the next video we're gonna talk about shorts. How do you edit shorts? We're gonna be talking about using Descript. Again, I wanna encourage you to make sure that you subscribe, that you hit the bell so you get notified. In our first episodes, we talked about recording, we talked about Canva, we talked about channel description, and set up. If you have not listened to those videos, I wanna encourage you to go back, because by the end of this series, if you are a coach who is ready to do YouTube, you're gonna know everything you need to know to not only get started, but to be taking action on it. So we'll see you guys very soon. Talk to you in the next video. Make sure you subscribe and hit the bell for notifications.
