How I edit vlogs in Vegas Pro 18

[@peterarnott349]

Thanks for the way you control the advertising, David, that one thing gives you a classy edge over other channels. The comments below are well deserved. And a particular “Thank You”, across all your channels, for not begging us to subscribe all the time, that again shows class.

[@UKAirscape]

Cheers Peter. I get so tired (as a viewer) of always hearing “subscribe, comment, like” or having little prompts come up on screen. I did it a bit when I started but soon got fed up as I realised how annoying it was

[@melankolikfilms]

As someone who edits stuff for a living, I found this immensely enjoyable. You have a solid process, and I'm addicted to your videos across all your channels, so clearly you're doing something right!

[@UKAirscape]

Thank you! 👍😀

[@WalkerShaw]

Having watched all your vlogs for several years, my wife and I are very impressed with the enormous skill and effort demonstrated in this video. My experience only includes Adobe Premier several times but that was enough to understand the complexity and professionalism of your editing. Thank you for the many hours of enjoyment shared with you on KZbin. We live and watch you from San Diego, California. Proud to be two of your many fans.

[@UKAirscape]

Thank you. That said, I now edit with DaVinci Resolve but the process is similar.

[@susanmarker2164]

Found this interesting David and I enjoy your sarcastic humor very much.😊 Thank you for the tiny preview of Carpark Campervaning #2. 😁

[@UKAirscape]

Haha it’s half-edited. Coming soon!

[@WilliamCooper2005]

Very interesting, I rarely edit videos but when I do, I use Davinci resolve and find it okay - but best of all free! You have a very recognisable style of editing, I never think about the fact that the videos are edited; and I believe that’s a good thing. Edit: upon listening further you mention this, teaches me to comment before the video is over!

[@UKAirscape]

😀😀

[@rmk]

Very interesting video. I agree with your stance on mid roll ads, they are extremely intrusive, especially when they appear mid-sentence, or sometimes stupidly within the last minute of the video. I suspect those who leave mid roll ads enabled haven't watched their own videos. It's also nice to see your process to see how it compares to other boat-tubers. Thanks for this, and the amount of effort you put into your videos.

[@BoiledOctopus]

5:50 - and now we know your taste in music, John. Intro to: 'I'm a Barbie Girl" 😂😂👏🏻

[@UKAirscape]

Eh?

[@simonwass6315]

@@UKAirscape it sounded like you whistled the Barbie girl tune

[@BoiledOctopus]

@@UKAirscape kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKrLo4yfqJpjb6M&ab_channel=AquaVEVO Starts at 0:15 Love the whistle!

[@NikadaNK]

I've seen this video multiple times and learned many things that I can implement into my own content now. Thank you so much for this!

[@AZC1949]

Slightly different subject here, David. I owe you a big “Thank You” for your vlogs about the AX53. I finally decided to take a loss on my interchangeable lens cinema camera and move to something point and shoot. Your comments and samples of the AX53 convinced me it’s the one I want. I’m waiting for the vendor to ship. Thank you again.

[@UKAirscape]

Thank you. The AX53 is a very different beast of course, with a different set of skills; but it's certainly the best "point and shoot" camcorder you can buy at present.

[@AZC1949]

@@UKAirscape What an experience it will be to use a cam that doesn't require extensive planning and setup just to shoot a 30 second scene! Thank you again, David.

[@henkdeblouw4169]

Thank you David, it was absolutely interesting. Happy Easter from the Netherlands

[@UKAirscape]

Happy Easter!

[@somebuddyful]

Yay Netherlands. Ik ook haha.

[@VicTilling]

David, thank you for this video. I follow three of your channel. Because of this video I’m upgrading from Vegas Pro 14 to 18.😁

[@UKAirscape]

I hope you enjoy it; it has a lot more features than v14 although I’m not sure I showed any of them in this edit.

[@NathanElcoate]

Very interesting video, thanks David. Thorough CTC fan but I also thoroughly enjoyed these Van adventure videos aswell. It was interesting watching the editing process after having watched the finished versions.

[@videoscrapheap]

This was fun. We get to apply what you’re showing us about editing to the video we’re watching about editing video.

[@ojilles]

Fantastic. Don’t change what works David! I myself use LumaFusion. On off grid trips/adventures either solo or with the family it means I’m 70% done editing on the trip back home.

[@UKAirscape]

I have LumaFusion on the ipad and phone too - superb program although I don’t really use it

[@jamieg5419]

fascinating, I didn't realise there was so much involved in producing content, extremely interesting, thank you

[@UKAirscape]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@atariastinus]

Excellent video. What a ton of work! Now I know why the first employee youtubers hire is an editor :) Thanks for sharing your methodology.

[@clearprop]

A very interesting watch, David - well worth the effort I'd say. I couldn't help thinking it must have been somewhat confusing when you were editing THIS video! :-)

[@michaelosullivan5875]

Thank you! It was refreshing to come across this video and see someone using Vegas Pro compared to the "Competition", especially since I use both Vegas Pro 18 & 19, of which I started with the old Sony Movie Studio HD 10 Platinum (something like that). A lot of great information concerning the actual use of the program, and like you mention, less of the "Bells & Whistles".

[@UKAirscape]

Glad you enjoyed it although I confess that now I’ve switched to a Mac, I’ve also switched to DaVinci Resolve

[@cms9902]

Very interesting, and dare I say it more interesting than the content on this occasion.

[@BenjaminEmm]

Very interesting video, I learned an awful lot! I've been using Sony Vegas since I was about 13 years old editing silly little KZbin videos and still use it 10 years later. I use Vegas 15 at the moment but even on a fairly high end gaming PC (i7 processor, 24GB of RAM, 1080TI graphics card and SSD's) Vegas will often lag, crash and just generally be sluggish! I've never been able to fix it but then I find it far superior to other editors so I just have to live with it! Thanks for the video!

[@UKAirscape]

It's so very intuitive! The crashes etc do depend a lot on being up to date with graphics drivers etc it seems, and different versions seem to crash different amounts (I recall I skipped versions 14 and 15 and went from 13 to 16, but have since upgraded to 17 and now 18 - the latter is mostly stable but I do have to use those proxies otherwise a crash is inevitable)

[@Capitaine.Albator]

Alot of work!!! Thanks for sharing 👍🏻✌🏻🇨🇦

[@trevorford8332]

I just wondering how much Ram have you got, usually a video editor requires about a minimum 8GB to run, it's stops it's lagging only found out this as i use openshot and krika for illustrations.

[@UKAirscape]

16GB

[@Dornacgove]

An armchair editor moment: Do you use a cooling pad for the laptop (ideally with a USB fan built in)? Might make the laptop's life more comfortable and even speed up the rendering (as it wouldn't overheat as much, keeping the CPU from throttling). Also sometimes makes things more ergonomic by raising the display closer the eye level.

[@UKAirscape]

I don’t have a cooling pad, no

[@somebuddyful]

Yes, this was very interesting to watch. I have never edited an video and thought it was easy. You just showed me. How much time and effort and dedication it takes for even one video. Your way of explaining everything was very good. However, i would've loved to see more about. The things you did with color editing. You just skipped that important part. Also, you said that the version of Vegas you use is pretty old and has some problems. Why aren't you simply upgrading to a more up to date version that doesn't have problems editing the original 4k raw footage? The answers may be simple, but i am not a editer myself haha. Happy Easter! And thanks for the interesting and informative video.

[@UKAirscape]

Hi, I perhaps wasn’t clear. I’m using the very latest version of Vegas Pro.

[@wmc7870]

Great to see an experienced hand at the tiller! I haven't had a new camera in a long while and was wondering about buying the DJI action camera. If you don't mind, Would you say it is good for an all rounder? (as I probably wouldn't buy two cameras)

[@UKAirscape]

It has superb stabilisation and a decent image outdoors but it’s hopeless for filming indoors, even if you think it’s a nice day and nice and light, the image is just grainy and horrible. It needs to be outdoors with lots and lots of light. And you’ll need to add an external mic (something like the Rode VideoMicro or Joby Wavo Mobile is cheap and fine, but you then also need DJI’s USB audio adapter in order to plug the mic in. And a little “cage” to go round the camera to give you a cold shoe to mount the mic on.

[@wmc7870]

@UKAirscape That's very helpful, thank you for the information. Also just want to thank you for your videos I have enjoyed catching up on them! Narrow boat life seems calm and enjoyable.

[@FiddlingwithmyWhistle]

very useful... would have liked to have seen how you colour grade, but that's ok

[@UKAirscape]

I’m very much not an expert on grading and definitely didn’t want this to be a “how to”; it was more about the process than the specifics really.

[@SirTeabag]

Very good video to watch. And kudos for your stand on mid roll ads. They are the most intrusive thing. I cannot understand BoatTubers with, say, 2000 subs that think mid roll ads are a good idea. It just alienates their potential fledgling audience. A channel has to be really top notch before one feels mid rolls are a tolerable price to pay to watch.

[@blutey]

Thanks David. A lot of useful info there. I'm also a casual user of Sony Vegas. What happens to the proxy files at the end, after rendering? Are they automatically deleted by Vegas? Or does the user have to delete them. Where are they stored?

[@UKAirscape]

They are stored in the same directory as the project (at least, they are on mine, I can’t remember if that’s down to a specific setting or just the default). You need to delete afterwards (but as I always delete the project directory after archiving, that’s never been an issue)

[@davidscreen2646]

Good as always David - so; sorry if I missed, it but I really would like to know, which editor you actually prefer... Vegas or Resolve??? No fibbing now.

[@UKAirscape]

It depends! They each have aspects that are nicer or better than the other. Vegas is the one I’m most proficient in, having used it for so long.

[@WaltThomas]

Excellent, David. I've always admired your audio, video, editing and storytelling skills. I edit on an ancient desktop that's near the end of its life cycle. A laptop is probably the best replacement for the desktop in terms of power and cost. But I'm afraid I won't like the laptop editing experience. (Yes, I'm old.) Obviously you're fine with it but I feel like a laptop means being hunched over with the keyboard just below the small(er) screen... any thoughts?

[@UKAirscape]

The ergonomics of a laptop are not too hard to fix - raise it up, use a separate mouse etc. However, a laptop will certainly be more expensive than an equivalently powerful desktop. My main issue with the laptop is cooling, in that it gets very hot and the fans run very loudly which makes it annoying to edit with when you’re trying to balance the sound, and impossible to record into. If I had space for a bigger screen, the laptop has outputs than could feed it (but by that point you might as well have a desktop)

[@WaltThomas]

@@UKAirscape I haven't done enough research on comparative prices, obviously. Thanks for setting me straight, David.

[@BASHER601]

Basher601 Hi I use Movie Studio 17 Platinum and as with you I have used this editor since the Sony day`s. I have been temped to change to Vegas Pro 18. Still I found your video very interesting. Keep up the good work.

[@ledzepcleo]

I'm thinking I could use that screen capture software right now with something I'm editing. What do you use? Thanks David love the video.

[@UKAirscape]

It’s OBS. I find it a bit clunky to set up but once configured it works fine,

[@user-uy8xl4ey4m]

If you have Windows 10 it has in built screen record function. Press Windows key, alt & R to start it!

[@filip.zivkovic]

Great video! Learned some nice tips with Vegas here. I just wanted to ask what rendering presets and settings you use? Both for 4k and 1080p.

[@UKAirscape]

I made my own; h.265 codec, frame size HD or UHD as appropriate, 25fps as I'm in a PAL country so shoot 25 and I don't recall the bitrates as I've since switched to Resolve on a Mac but probably around 18Mbps for HD and 35Mbps for UHD.

[@filip.zivkovic]

@@UKAirscape Thanks, appreciate it.

[@goal7779]

I would like to see how you do the voiceovers in your boat videos. I love your style of storytelling in your videos. I suppose you add the voice over story after you are done editing?or please explain the method you follow. Many thanks

[@UKAirscape]

No, the voiceover has to be recorded before editing so that it can be fitted to the pictures. I look at the images, write and record a script and then edit around that.

[@goal7779]

@@UKAirscape Ok, thanks very much. I would love to see you demonstrate that method. Its really hard to find such a demo on YT. Take care and happy boating👍🏻👍🏻

[@UKAirscape]

I just put the clips on the timeline in sequence ; look at the footage and write a script to fit the pictures, record it and then place that recording in sync with the clips. There's not much extra to say or show about it really.

[@goal7779]

@@UKAirscape Thanks very much!

[@stevegee7593]

Very interesting video. I know what you mean about mid roll adverts. There is one KZbinr who does have long videos up to an 90 minutes and with mid rolls, but the subject is very interesting and the mid roll seem to time when they are changing between subjects. But I have just watch another KZbin 15 minutes video and I have stopped a third of the way. Due to watching 8 adverts in 7 minutes. I will now watch him from the start on my computer which has adblocker so he will get nothing. As Bigclive said adverts at the start a finish may not pay a lot but it does keep KZbin going.

[@mcddetectrespect.7467]

Love your tutorials, helped me a lot a few years ago when I had a hf g 40. will you ever do one on the canon hf g50 or 60. Thanks.

[@UKAirscape]

Thank you. I've never had those other camcorders but I believe they were very, very similar to the G40 so the same notes should still apply.

[@mattwruff]

I had (past tense) a curriculum company and I shot and edited a lot of video in Vegas 6-7-8-9-10-11-12 and then that when away I got rid of all almost all of my PC and other than a MS Surface all I have is Apple Mac's so trying to learn Final Cut when all you ever used is Vegas has been NO FUN! We have some of the same cameras I have ZV-1, DJI Pocket (Osmo) 2 - I heard a rumor of a new ZV with removable lens and that will be much nicer than using my iPhone12Max for "B" roll. I don't ever EVER appear on camera I have a face for RADIO! I use (Option Command 8) which is the command in Final Cut for Voice-overs. A youtube I follow does all his edits in Luma Fusion on the iPad...

[@UKAirscape]

I do like Luma Fusion, it's very good software but I find phone shooting too awkward. It'll definitely be interesting to see a ZV-1 Mk2!

[@jonathanscandrett6633]

Really useful, thank you.

[@GaryB007]

What sort of spec is your editing computer?

[@UKAirscape]

8th-gen Core i7 CPU, 16GB RAM, GTX1060 graphics

[@staples970221]

Hello, have you abandoned your KZbin channel... it's been 11 months since you lasted posted a video? I always enjoyed your videos. Cheers!

[@UKAirscape]

Hello! Not as such, I'm still here and replying to comments but I haven't bought or received any video gear to look at for many months, plus I've been fully busy on my other channels (narrowboats and campervans). I really do hope to get back to doing some (occasional) videos here soon, not least as I'm now buying a house and will be setting up an editing office which might make for a set-up video at least.

[@SamSitar]

in contrast I use Wondershare Filmora 9.

[@JohnHowlett]

no render settings :(

[@UKAirscape]

No, I have presets for that. I’ve never really understood people’s enthusiasm for prescribed render settings, you should choose whatever you need for your circumstances

[@Exorbity]

You really need an Apple laptop with M2 or M3 chips. Everything would be lightning fast.

[@UKAirscape]

Vegas Pro is not available for Mac so that's not really a great plan 🤣🤣🤣

[@davidbagley1783]

Aloha

[@hughcarson6837]

Interesting

[@UKAirscape]

:-)