myeyes
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Writing this guide because this is how I started making money online and I believe it the most straightforward way to make geomaxx money atm. This is by learning video editing with Adobe Premier Pro and ultimately After Effects. I can’t talk about other online business models because this is all I know. I am still a brokey though and make around $3-4k a month.
Preliminary information
I came back from a year long geomaxxing trip at the beginning of 2024. In February in my mum’s basement, I started video editing with no prior experience aside from 2-3 Windows Movie Maker projects in high school. I knew absolutely nothing.
How much money can you make?
With Premier Pro, probably $3k a month is reasonable. For example, my first client I got in October 2024, 8 months after starting, payed me $1600 USD a month. It was 4 long form + thumbnails and 12 shorts a month. I was slow then so a long form took me 16 hours and a short took me 5 hours, so 30 hours a week basically for $400. Absolute poverty wages. I could do it in half the time now which is where the $3k / month comes from, though I should note I'm still in this industry but do mainly other stuff with pure editing on the side.
With After Effects, $4k-5k a month is entirely reasonable. The best ones with the best skills (4-5 years experience) and best marketing, probably up to 7k. This is the style you want to get to:
How long will it take?
1-2 years if full time or mostly full time (definitely less than a degree). Maybe 2-5 years if part time.
Why this is a good choice?
1. It's extremely realistic and achievable unlike other ways to make money online.
2. Because compared to dropshipping and other ways to make money online it is relatively less saturated, maybe because it’s less flashy.
3. Because it probably won’t get taken by AI until everything else does. You can look at the AI editors we have now (they're extremely shit), and also see this channel. This guy is real but in his videos he's 100% AI. His voice is cloned with Elevenlabs, his avatar is cloned with a software that I forget the name of, the scripting is PoppyAI. The only thing that is 100% manual is the editing which is After Effects. If even the AI guys are hiring editors I would say it's likely safer than other options.
Why is it a bad choice?
1. Maybe it will get taken by AI (like everything else)
2. Maybe you will hate it, in that case I would stop.
3. It’s not the most profitable thing to be doing.
4. Repetitive and boring, like most jobs.
5. Need a good laptop / PC (which is also a good thing. After Effects is quite resource intense so it somewhat gate keeps thirdworlders from saturating it too much)
Guide:
Step 1: Learn the basics
Type in ‘How to Learn Premier Pro’ into Youtube and watch 1-2 videos.
Step 2:
Choose a niche so you can be consistent and focused. I recommend to choose a niche that has a lot of talking head videos. This will let you improve your skills the most and get closer to the styles I mention above. Talking head videos are also the primary format for selling stuff, so if you get good you can market yourself from a "video marketing" angle and get more money.
Some good niches.
- dropshipping
- AI agencies
- Crypto
You get the idea: the best niches are the ones where people are constantly shilling and making money. The more boring the niche the less competition there is too. You could pick gaming if you want but competition will be a lot higher. "The riches are in the niches" as they say, positioning yourself as an expert in a niche is easier to make money than being a generic editor.
Step 3:
Start finding long form videos in this niche that are talking head videos. Use ChatGPT to give you keywords to type into Youtube search. Find ones without editing, and import them into Premier Pro and try editing a 30 second – one minute short out of it. Choose the part you think could go the most viral.
Step 4
After making 10 of these, join a low ticket $50 a month video editing community that can review your videos and give you feedback. Ideally you want one that has group coaching calls. It costs money but you will improve way faster so it is worth it. A shitty example is Andrew Tate’s one, The Real World in the Content Creation part. They review your stuff with text but the quality is as you would expect for a bunch of jeets “working” (for free :^) (not good). Don't join that one! I don’t wanna spoonfeed but do research and find a better one with group coaching calls. Watch the videos there and learn more skills too.
Step 5 (Optional for now)
You can send these shorts to the Youtubers you got them from and try to get them to hire you. I wouldn’t do this until you’ve edited around 50-100 because the first ones you make will be shit and it will be a waste because you can keep them in a list and outreach them when you're good. I reccomend doing channels with less than 20k subs.
Step 6
Ideally you want to start learning long form. Shorts are great for learning the tools and techniques but long form is very different, is more difficult because it requires more understanding of consistency and having a bigger picture in style etc. But more importantly there’s a lot less competition and you can make more money.
The downside is long form is a lot more boring then making ADHD shorts.
So ask the leader in the community you joined for some sample footage, and learn long form. Or test yourself with unedited Youtube videos by editing the whole thing. You can also send these to Youtubers and try to get hired.
Step 7
Learn basic marketing and outreach. Not going to go into this because the best strategies have to be gatekept or else they’ll stop working, but you can ask the leader of the community you joined, they will often teach the basics of that stuff too. But sorry I really cannot go into this.
Step 8
Learn After Effects. Learn the popular styles, and make $4k-5k a month doing long form After Effects edits (and shorts too but longs is more important).
And that’s it. I’m quite certain this is one of the most straightforward and reliable ways to make money online so maybe this will help someone to fulfil their dream of living in the gramercy :^)
Preliminary information
I came back from a year long geomaxxing trip at the beginning of 2024. In February in my mum’s basement, I started video editing with no prior experience aside from 2-3 Windows Movie Maker projects in high school. I knew absolutely nothing.
How much money can you make?
With Premier Pro, probably $3k a month is reasonable. For example, my first client I got in October 2024, 8 months after starting, payed me $1600 USD a month. It was 4 long form + thumbnails and 12 shorts a month. I was slow then so a long form took me 16 hours and a short took me 5 hours, so 30 hours a week basically for $400. Absolute poverty wages. I could do it in half the time now which is where the $3k / month comes from, though I should note I'm still in this industry but do mainly other stuff with pure editing on the side.
With After Effects, $4k-5k a month is entirely reasonable. The best ones with the best skills (4-5 years experience) and best marketing, probably up to 7k. This is the style you want to get to:
How long will it take?
1-2 years if full time or mostly full time (definitely less than a degree). Maybe 2-5 years if part time.
Why this is a good choice?
1. It's extremely realistic and achievable unlike other ways to make money online.
2. Because compared to dropshipping and other ways to make money online it is relatively less saturated, maybe because it’s less flashy.
3. Because it probably won’t get taken by AI until everything else does. You can look at the AI editors we have now (they're extremely shit), and also see this channel. This guy is real but in his videos he's 100% AI. His voice is cloned with Elevenlabs, his avatar is cloned with a software that I forget the name of, the scripting is PoppyAI. The only thing that is 100% manual is the editing which is After Effects. If even the AI guys are hiring editors I would say it's likely safer than other options.
Why is it a bad choice?
1. Maybe it will get taken by AI (like everything else)
2. Maybe you will hate it, in that case I would stop.
3. It’s not the most profitable thing to be doing.
4. Repetitive and boring, like most jobs.
5. Need a good laptop / PC (which is also a good thing. After Effects is quite resource intense so it somewhat gate keeps thirdworlders from saturating it too much)
Guide:
Step 1: Learn the basics
Type in ‘How to Learn Premier Pro’ into Youtube and watch 1-2 videos.
Step 2:
Choose a niche so you can be consistent and focused. I recommend to choose a niche that has a lot of talking head videos. This will let you improve your skills the most and get closer to the styles I mention above. Talking head videos are also the primary format for selling stuff, so if you get good you can market yourself from a "video marketing" angle and get more money.
Some good niches.
- dropshipping
- AI agencies
- Crypto
You get the idea: the best niches are the ones where people are constantly shilling and making money. The more boring the niche the less competition there is too. You could pick gaming if you want but competition will be a lot higher. "The riches are in the niches" as they say, positioning yourself as an expert in a niche is easier to make money than being a generic editor.
Step 3:
Start finding long form videos in this niche that are talking head videos. Use ChatGPT to give you keywords to type into Youtube search. Find ones without editing, and import them into Premier Pro and try editing a 30 second – one minute short out of it. Choose the part you think could go the most viral.
Step 4
After making 10 of these, join a low ticket $50 a month video editing community that can review your videos and give you feedback. Ideally you want one that has group coaching calls. It costs money but you will improve way faster so it is worth it. A shitty example is Andrew Tate’s one, The Real World in the Content Creation part. They review your stuff with text but the quality is as you would expect for a bunch of jeets “working” (for free :^) (not good). Don't join that one! I don’t wanna spoonfeed but do research and find a better one with group coaching calls. Watch the videos there and learn more skills too.
Step 5 (Optional for now)
You can send these shorts to the Youtubers you got them from and try to get them to hire you. I wouldn’t do this until you’ve edited around 50-100 because the first ones you make will be shit and it will be a waste because you can keep them in a list and outreach them when you're good. I reccomend doing channels with less than 20k subs.
Step 6
Ideally you want to start learning long form. Shorts are great for learning the tools and techniques but long form is very different, is more difficult because it requires more understanding of consistency and having a bigger picture in style etc. But more importantly there’s a lot less competition and you can make more money.
The downside is long form is a lot more boring then making ADHD shorts.
So ask the leader in the community you joined for some sample footage, and learn long form. Or test yourself with unedited Youtube videos by editing the whole thing. You can also send these to Youtubers and try to get hired.
Step 7
Learn basic marketing and outreach. Not going to go into this because the best strategies have to be gatekept or else they’ll stop working, but you can ask the leader of the community you joined, they will often teach the basics of that stuff too. But sorry I really cannot go into this.
Step 8
Learn After Effects. Learn the popular styles, and make $4k-5k a month doing long form After Effects edits (and shorts too but longs is more important).
And that’s it. I’m quite certain this is one of the most straightforward and reliable ways to make money online so maybe this will help someone to fulfil their dream of living in the gramercy :^)
