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Producing video is challenging. Everyone works at a different pace, production time takes varying amounts of time and establishing an efficient way of working is an uphill battle.
We've compiled the best productivity hacks for videographers we know about. Soon your team will be completing projects in a fraction of the time they did before.
Once your team has been handed a video project, don't spend much time setting up a storyboard from scratch. Pen and paper is inefficient, but flexible templates are speeding up the storyboarding process.
Canva may have originally been meant for web graphics, but it's turned into quite the successful storyboard application. Hundreds of professional templates and thousands of premade elements make storyboarding in Canva a breeze.
For storyboarding on-the-go, Stellar's mobile app allows you to quickly compile images, text, and video into brief storyboards for projects where a more intense storyboard isn't necessary.
Need a more custom storyboard solution, but still don't want to draw it all out by hand? WonderUnit's Storyboarder allows you to type out scenes, which the AI then draws out for you in seconds. It's fast, customizable, and great for collaboration.
A quicker storyboard stage doesn't end once video creation begins. It impacts all the following stages, sometimes dramatically. So you don't just save 30 minutes on a storyboard, you potentially save hours once you consider how much faster your whole team can get to work.
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When your project requires that you caption the videos, don't waste hours manually typing out every word. Transcribing this way isn't just slow and inefficient, it robs one of your employees of time that could better be spent on the next step.
No more play, pause, type, repeat!
Employ a team of AI bots that transcribe your video or audio files in less time than the original recording with Trint. The software is among the most accurate of its kind, but it also includes a powerful, high-speed online text and video Editor. This editor gives you the power to search and replace mistranslated words, highlight key quotes, search through your videos with time-coded captions, and export captioned videos.
Trint's plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro CC makes captioning simple, fast and smooth. Just drag your video file to the Trint panel to be transcribed, then apply the transcribed SRT or EDL file to the project for captions in moments.
Click here to download Trint's Premiere Pro CC plugin on Adobe Exchange
No matter how great a communicator you are, there's always room to grow ' and that growth can mean big boosts for productivity.
According to a 2015 study by Brandon Hall's Group, 70% of employees say their managers do not provide clear goals and directions. This inevitably leads to low job satisfaction, more wasted time trying to figure out what the boss wants you to do, higher team turnover, and a slowdown of the entire team.
While email works in many cases, it also tends to be a productivity bottleneck when directions and delegations get complicated. These tools can help you give meaningful, clear direction to your team in a way that's efficient and organized.
Slack helps your team stay connected without crazy email threads.
Considering that the average 100-employee business wastes 17 hours a week clarifying communication (costing over $500,000 annually), you can't afford not to take these steps to make sure your team knows exactly what's on the agenda.
In this digital age, it's easy to stick to emails and Slack messages, but no virtual message beats a face-to-face conversation when it comes to improving your employee's productivity.
Elizabeth Grace Saunders, the author of How to Invest Your Time Like Money and the founder of Real Life E Time Coaching & Training, says, 'One-on-ones are one of the most important productivity tools you have as a manager' they are how you show employees that you value them and care about them.'
And this display of care goes a long way. Employees feel empowered, connected, and like their job is meaningful to you and your organization. Practically, here are a few things that are accomplished with regular one-on-one meetings:
Even quick and informal meetings improve worker productivity.
You may get the sense your employees would rather just be left to complete their work, but don't buy into it. Teams work better when the members are well connected to the leader.
Believe it or not, keyboard shortcuts can save hours or days over weeks, months, or even years. According to a detailed 2011 study, 'practiced users can select a command faster using a simple key sequence than by using the mouse to select the menu from a toolbar or menu.'
The study revealed that simple keyboard shortcuts can be 600'800 milliseconds faster than toolbar selections. That's 0.6 to 0.8 seconds per task. It may seem small, but check out how BrainScape adds it all up:
[2 wasted seconds / min] * [480 min / workday] * [240 workdays / year] = 64 wasted hours / year!
By teaching your entire team the same shortcuts, you can potentially discover weeks worth of manhours, which, is a pretty dramatic increase in productivity long-term.
These productivity tips will help you and your team complete projects faster, save money, and enjoy working together more. Take the first step by inserting the power of AI into your video captioning routine. Shoot us an email at support@trint.com and we'll get you started.
Michael worked for 8+ years as a manual transcriber in the US and UK before building an in-house transcription department for a mobile-to-web software company. He then moved to content marketing, followed by digital marketing. Michael loves to write about emerging technology, digital trends and the ways technology makes our lives easier.
