A coach walks a video editor through building a soccer highlight package: lead the email with a 4.9 GPA, cut the main video to 2:30, then split it into four 1-minute clips plus a separate best-moments reel for coaches. Every asset gets USL Academy branding.
You have great grades. Okay. So it needs to say 4.9 weighted GPA in your subject line, which I think I forgot to tell you. Subject line, subject line, 4.9 GPA. Very important that you say that first. Okay. So then you've got this video. Boom. I don't know who you are. I don't know who you are. I don't know who you are. I don't know who you are. The game still hasn't started. Now I finally know who you are. So we're gonna cut that, make it faster. This clip is a really good clip. You can keep this as the first, but I wanna zoom in. It's too far zoomed out. I, I don't need to see all this. I need it to look like this. Like this. Yes. That's much better. Look how much better that is. Oh my God. It's so much better. Now let's watch it. Oh yeah, look how much better I can tell who you are in your technique. Oh, that's so much better. Okay, so we're gonna zoom out, and if you wanna do that from now on with your videos, be my guest. Instead of an arrow, I wanna turn that into a circle and get rid of this. See how I can see all these dots? Get rid of all that. Okay, the order of the video is pretty good. Now he's got a bunch of more video here that is awesome, that there's some really good clips here. Again, we've got touches versus highlights versus San Antonio, and he basically combined two games together, which I don't like. I don't wanna do this anymore. It's not professional and it's not the way to do it. Highlights from games I played up, that also doesn't mean anything. So we need to change this and the level you're playing against here, they look like they're not good. He looks like he's really bad. So this footage we're not gonna use. So for now, this is gonna be the highlight video we're gonna use, like this footage. But I wanna actually combine these two videos to make one good video that's 2 minutes and 30 seconds long. So the best moment from this, the best moments from this, 'cause these are relatively recent. From now on, no highlight videos, no more. Rory, you got it? Stop making highlight videos. They don't work. I don't want this footage for now. Combine these into one video. Okay? Split this video into 1-minute bites. So 1 minute, 1 minute, 1 minute. 1 minute. So the order, of course, I wanna do the best video, have the best moments in the first 1-minute video, but this will turn into 4 different videos cuz the coaches are never gonna watch 4 minutes of what looks like terrible. These 2 are gonna be combined into 1 video. So now I will have 1 main highlight video. I will then have 4 1-minute videos, which is great. And these 2 will have been combined. And then from now on, I want every touch videos. So to make it clear for the editors, combine this, make it into 1 highlight video. Take this video and cut it into 1-minute bites. Not for social media, just 1-minute bites. Take the highlight video that we make and make a 1-minute highlight video out of it. That's 1 minute long of the best moments. Roy, I will also show you how to do that yourself so you know how to do it too. And that is what we need to do with his video. So 1 main video, other 4-minute video split into 4 1-minute clips. Now I have something to follow up with for a while until you give me your Every Touch videos and then your YouTube page. I need you to fix this. This is not a great picture of you. It's not terrible actually, but it looks like it's not USL Academy. So get rid of that. I need USL Academy everywhere. This, I need your GPA. Good. Perfect. Okay. That one I like. Rory 176, that's actually fine. So that's what I wanna fix ASAP.
