although I've read a lot and watched countless videos on crypto and how to do your own research, I was wondering what are the most important aspects of a project, and what are the most important factors and things to look for. If you could give me some advice on the resources you guys use that would be really great.
The important factors that you need to consider before investing is really few but unfortunately these days devs are too smart hence they will easily convince you to go investing with them. So, the better option for you must be, avoiding new projects but investing into bitcoin and major coins like BNB and ETH. This way, you may save your time and more importantly you will easily get good profits. Now decide, how many more videos that you need to watch.
I was also wondering if someone could explain to me what is a vesting schedule and what a good token distribution looks like vs a bad one.
There cannot be any definite answer for this because coins with different approaches have succeeded hence these cannot help you to filter out.