What's up Rock Nation, today we welcome the man behind MrBeast and Logan Paul's videos, Hayden HillierSmith. Hayden is a world class editor and story teller. He breaks down his editing tips and tricks in this episode, what he learned from working with Mr. Beast, and how he almost gave a hacker access to Logan Paul's entire iCloud. If you want to become a better editor, this is the episode for you!

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:40 One Handed Crack
2:52 What Hayden’s Been Working on Recently
4:10 Sketch Boy Hours
5:49 Logan Paul vs. Mr. Beast
7:59 Logan Paul video workflow
10:28 Comedy editing trick
12:38 Editing Short Form vs Long Form
13:50 Review process for daily vlogging
15:41 Getting Hired by Mr. Beast
17:16 How long can you survive in a room alone
18:41 Finding the underlying plot within a video
22:18 Editing too far away from Mr. Beast Brand
22:54 Emotional Availability of Viewers
23:40 The Evolution of Mr. Beast Videos
25:11 How the Pandemic Affecting Viewership
26:37 The Science behind Retention Editing
28:46 Too Much of a Good Thing
29:28 Watching a Movie in the Theater VS at Home
31:10 Walking out of Movies
34:38 YouTube Editing Tips
37:07 Breaking Down Airrack’s Video
39:23 How Hayden’s Editing Process has Changed
42:44 Chase on Pulling Unique Selects
43:26 Chernobyl Movie Editing Tip
45:33 Hayden’s Podcast
47:51 What Hayden learned from David Fincher’s Editor
50:44 The Blinking Theory
52:57 How Streamers keep eye contact
53:55 Logan Paul Editing Horror Story
56:04 Hacking Logan Paul’s iCloud
57:56 How Hayden gets Assets for his Podcast Approved
1:00:21 Hayden’s Editing Course
1:03:06 Confirm The Click Editing Tip
1:05:33 Thoughts on Sam Kolder
1:06:21 Chase Edits High
1:08:27 Editing with your Ego
1:11:16 Kostas on Editing Non Narrative Videos
1:12:18 Advice to 18 year old self


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