Edit for YouTube: How to Unlock GOD MODE in Vegas Pro

1. INTRO: Hi, I'm here, Jordan. And today I'm gonna show you how to unlock Vegas Pro. In. Of course, I go through and add this clip twice the first time I do it the normal way and it takes about nine minutes. The second way, my version, I do it in less than a minute and I teach you guys exactly how, whether your professional video editor, like I was you're just making YouTube videos as a hobby like I was when I started. I've created the tools you need edit videos quickly and professionally. Don't worry if you're not familiar with Vegas Pro because I only focus on the things that you will be using 90% of the time. Now keep in mind this is for YouTube videos. If you're making films, blockbuster movies, stuff like that, it may not be the best setup for you, but this is for the majority of YouTube fast-paced. Lot of YouTubers use the same Hines of effects, same type of edits. And so we're gonna be optimizing versus just one or two clicks. Instead of having to spend time reading through menus and doing really, really boring stuff shouldn't be boring, it should be fun and it should be fast. I'm gonna share my screen with you and show you exactly how to do it and you're going to follow along where to get started. 2. Downloading Hair Jordan Presets: Before we get started, there is unfortunately a couple of really boring things we got to do. So go to Google and search for Quicktime. You have to have the newest version of QuickTime. If you don't have to search for it should be the top non sponsored one from Apple. Yes, I know we're putting an Apple product on our PC. We have to download QuickTime. I already have it downloaded as you can see and installed, but you're gonna go through and install this just the default settings. You need it to make sure you finish the installation. Next thing, I've provided the link to my website where you can download effects and presets that I've designed everything will need for this course, went to open that up. And then there also is a freeware program that we're going to need that I'm sharing with you guys called preset manager. Click on that. Yes, allowed to make changes. You have to install it for this course so that you can use my presets in the future, I'll be releasing more effects and filter packages as I create them on my website, there's a spot to enter your e-mail if you want. There'll be free for you since you've been a student of mine. Now, just enter your email and if you just want the ones in this course, That's fine. You do not need that. 3. Installing Hair Jordan Presets: So if you navigate to the documents on your computer, you should have a folder called OFF sex presets went to open that up. And you should have a folder from me called o Effects Presets by hair Jordan. You just want to click these folders and drag them over like I just did. And now I already have these. I'm gonna skip. And there you go. Now you should have the same presets as me as far as that goes, then the other thing we want to do is the preset manager. I'm just going to search for it. There it is, open it up and what you do here, you should have this window right here. Click on the folder that says effects change right there, but just drag preset file I gave you, we could drag it wherever, but on the top, click that plus button and you'll see my effects change that I sent you open that folder and these are the presets I gave you and just drag them in there. I already have them. Obviously. That should be it. You just close that. And now you should have the same presets that I have. Let's test it out. Probably have to close Vegas and then reopen it. 4. How to Speed up Vegas: It come up here to Options, click on that and go down to Preferences. And you have these preferences. I uncheck the top one automatically open last project, that's up to you, but I don't like having it click the Video tab. It says dynamic RAM preview. I usually set that to about half of what I have available. My available is 31 thousand, so I'll set that at 15 thousand. So that's the most RAM it will use, is basically half what's available. So it'll make other programs run slow or even crash if you set it too high, but you should be fine setting it to half of what you have available. Gpu acceleration might be set off by default, it depends. People's computer works better with it on some off and then click on this button that says editing. I changed the quick fade length to one. Having it at tennis too much for me. My new images I don't like to be five seconds. Two is about safety from half an inch trim down too much because for me I didn't leave pictures on the screen for five seconds is a long time. And then click up here where it says depreciated features we want to enable the QuickTime plug-in. Remember we install that, then just hit this Apply button. It's saying that there's warning about the RAM thing, which I told you about the dynamic RAM preview. And then for one or more of these changes take effect, the application must be shut down and restarted, okay, though vagus is going to close or we have to close it and then when we open it back up, she run much better. 5. Folder Setup: Another thing I'd like to mention is Folder Organization, but I have 2021, even though it's not 2021 anymore, I'll show you what it looks like. You put the number of the month of February is two and then the name of the month. So that way it shows up in order and I open the month. So in the month of February, these are all the projects I had. So on February 4th, I filmed this video, so I put my footage in there. February 4th, I filmed a lot. It's like I filmed for videos, so on, so forth. And then I have a separate folder. That's why I render to all months. And then if I have random stuff or vlog footage, I've put it all in here that just helps things they organized. They've all 12 months, all this stuff you filmed. I film stuff that never gets posted. Unfortunately, if you have a super-complicated video like this one, you can actually put folders inside of the folder. So I started filming this video on the 8th, December 8th, and then I filmed other days too, but I still put it all in this folder because the title of the video, like a FaceTime someone. So I made a folder just for the FaceTime footage filmed with my GoPro. I have a folder for that. I filmed with my Sony camera. I have a separate folder for that. Just keeps everything organized at some clips of a Jeep commander for part of it, put all those in one folder. I even filmed some with my iPhone, which was stupid and a pain. I shouldn't have done it, but I made a folder for that and yeah, and then some other random stuff. I didn't bother putting it in a folder, which is fine to do too. But if you have a huge project, so there's a huge project that took a week to make. You can organize in folders that way, you got to stay organized. And then what I do is I pin whatever the current month right now it's January January 2022 folder. And if I click up here the pin two quick access, and if I close it now, down here where my File Explorer, if I right-click it, I have all these pin folders and look there it is, one Jn 2020. All I have to do to access everything I filmed this month is right-click, boom. And now here's the January folder, which this is this course I'm working on right now and I haven't separated it yet because I'm in the process of doing, but click on whatever day and every day it is dropped the footage right into Vegas Pro, you get the idea, super easy. 6. Easy TEXT button: Okay, so we're gonna come down here to the bottom toolbar. And if you double-click on it, this window here should open up where you can actually change the buttons that are on this bottom toolbar down here. You can get rid of all these if you want, if you don't want any buttons down there, That's up to you. But what we're looking for right here, insert text, glue on it, and click the Add button. That's what we want right now. You can explore all this other stuff if you want, but it's not necessarily right now. Just hit Close and look now you have this text button now, pretty cool. What this does is obviously you can insert text so much easier than having to go through a media generator and finding the texts of whatever. Screw that. Once your text is on the timeline, you can then select a preset from the drop-down menu. For example, this one I saved as fortnight because it's the Fortnite text with a little outline around it and colored blue, Save As many as you want. There is no reason to recreate your texts designs every time. 7. Keyboard Shortcuts: Another thing we need to do is come up here to Options and go down to where it says Customize keyboard. Click this down arrow. You can save a keyboard shortcut, which you should have my keyboard shortcuts here. And if that's the case, you can skip forward about 60 seconds because you won't need this next step. But if you don't see it, then maybe you have a different version of Vegas or something happened. Hard to say, computers are buggy, especially when you're doing kind of hacky stuff like what we're doing. So you don't see it. I'll show you what to do right now. First thing to do is look at this bar and start to type the word delete just D, E, L is fine. All right, so edit delete. We want to assign a new shortcut and I'm going to click inside this box and then press Escape on the keyboard and add now the track view when we hit escape, It's the same as hitting the delete button. I'll show you why we're doing this in a second, go through and do that to track list and mixing console. Mixing console. Sure. Those are the three we should have done, track view, track list and mixing console. That's gonna save us a lot of time. Next, we're gonna go back to track view and then get rid of the word delete backspace and type the word IP. And you'll see right here edit, ripple effect attracts. And you'll see down here where it says options do auto ripples that to control l, we want to change that. So just click down here shortcuts and hit backspace and hit the letter G. Now we're going to overwrite a Vegas commands. So if you are familiar with Vegas and you use this command a lot, pick something else that works for you that is on the left hand where you don't have to move much. This is something you'll probably be doing a lot for editing YouTube videos, creating new groups is something you may still use. And if your muscle memory knows the shortcut G as creating new groups and you use that often. Then again, like I said, pick the letter F or something. But for most people the letter G is fine. And we're going to hit Add and we could actually get rid of the control L if you want by removing it, it doesn't matter. But now we have g as a short, so we actually have two shortcuts for do auto ripple doesn't matter. We'll go to the track list options, do auto ripple g at it. There we go, explore options, do auto Ripple. There we go, track view and track list. We got it. Now let's go back to search for group because we just removed our Create New Group shortcut. It used to be G. I'm gonna set it as control G. Again, we're overriding edit selection, start keyboard shortcut, which is something I have never used, ever, like six years of Vegas Pro, I've never used this. So that's why I just hit Control G, because Control G is so easy. It's such an easy keyboard shortcut. It should be something that you use often it's so easy. So I'm going to add that they're both track view and also track list. Create new group control G and add. Like I said, if you use the Control G as it's intended, then just pick something else like control, I don't know F or Control wherever it makes sense to you. If you're an experienced Vegas Pro user and you don't want to do all this, that's fine. Now we're going to search for disabled. Right here you see Edit Event disabled resample. We're going to assign that to find the Escape key on your keyboard, the one we just used earlier. And right below that is this weird squiggly line, this key right here. This is what we're programming for disabled resample. It should look like that when you, when you type it and it's currently set to zoom in and out on the track. Again, if you are Vegas veteran and he loved this keyboard shortcut, don't overwrite it for me. I hate this one because I hit it on accident a lot and then it zooms in and it really messes up my workflow. I'm going to add this as disabled resample for two reasons. One, when I accidentally hit, it's not gonna do any harm because we're going to disable the sample and all eclipse anyway to it makes it really easy to do. Side-note, if you search for the word script, you will see all of our scripts here and you can assign keyboard shortcuts to these as well. That's for you to decide probably wait till later once you get the hang of this, I don't prefer it, but if you do more power to you, we're going to save this keyboard map. I'm gonna save it as HJ editing. And this is what I'm going to give to you guys, but you can name it whatever you want. There we go. Congratulations. You have unlocked God Mode in Vegas Pro. Haven't showed you how to use it yet. That's the next module. Congratulations for making it this far. This is where it starts to get fun. 8. Hand Position IMPORTANT: Do not skip this section. It's extremely important. I know it might sound trivial, but here is how you need to put your hands in order to edit the fastest for YouTube editing. Okay, now you've gone through, you've seen in shortcuts I use, Here's the principle. One hand on the mouse at all times, unless you're typing at all times as much as you can. The other hand, on the left-hand side of the keyboard like this, that's it. We don't really use too many keys over here because then we have to move one of our hands and that's just slower, told you it's not true if you'll remember, these little things add up. If you're clicking on something 1000 times a day and you have to reposition your hands a couple of a 100 times. I mean, that could add 2030 minutes to your editing session each day. So here's what you do. The thumb is for Spacebar, That's how you play and pause. S is how we cut clips and escape is how we delete. That's it. That is 90% of what you will be doing is those three buttons right there. I mean, there's still the other 10% which I'll show you. But most of it is going to be playing cut, cut, Play, click, Delete, That's it. You can hit the enter button to stop it in an exact point. That's something you could reach over and do it their thumb if you get good. Because when you hit the Play button, the cursor goes back to where you started playing from. If you want to pause on the timeline at exact spot, you actually have to come over and hit the Enter key. That's extremely inconvenient. Now I've experimented with reprogramming a hotkey on this side, so we could do it with one finger, for example, the tab or the cue or something like that. It doesn't work for me because it's too complicated. What I do is I click on the timeline if I want to pause there and then hit the Spacebar and then it stops wherever I clicked to me just going, there's no lag time. It's almost clicking at the same time. It's so much faster than reaching over. And when I programmed a new hotkey on here, I would get confused. Three is enough three buttons to remember. Space S escape. That's it. The other stuff you have to think about for me at least because I'm dumb. If there's a fourth option, I I slow down, I have to think I get a headache. I I can't do it. So maybe you have a higher IQ than me, you probably do. You can handle having a shortcut for the Enter key over here to stop exactly where the cursor is on the time like, that's fine. If you want to do that, you do that. But for me and the people as dumb or dumber than me, Don't try it. It's too complicated. Three is perfect, three buttons, three operators. Remember, we're keeping it simple here. We complicate things, it slows down the whole process. We don't want that. So you need to stop on an exact spot click and then pause and you'll get quicker. That too. It's so fast your muscle memory will kick in after about a week and you'll be like, Oh yeah, I see this and that's the thing holding your hand like this might feel unnatural to you. I'm sorry. All right. But you're gonna have to learn how to use your ring finger, thumb. That's easy. I mean, if you're typing, that's where the S key is anyway, you know how to type, but that's not a problem. Your hand already associates that with the S key, but escape that's going to take some getting used to. It actually might be easier to use your middle finger, the ring finger. What do I do? Actually have to think about it now, I think I used the same thing I used for the S key. So boom, boom, that's it. Just boom, boom, just jumping back and forth. So easy. Like I said, you can change things if you want to program one of these other keys for delete. So you can just go, boom, boom, If that helps you, then go for it. The reason I do it is because as you can see, the escape key is the top-left key on my keyboard. If I didn't number pad over here, one of those keyboards with a number pad, I probably wouldn't do it this way because it would be confusing. I know I use somebody else's laptop before at the office who had a number pad and with my keyboard layout, it was horrendous because I could never find the escape key because I just know where the corner of the board is. I don't have to think like if it was one of these keys, I would have to think and I don't like to think because I'm bad at it. I just have to feel right. I like to rest my thumb between the space and the Alt key, and that's actually how I find the S key. Remember I said this is our disabled resampled. So as you can see, I just kinda guesstimate where the edge of the keyboard is. That's why sometimes as I mentioned, I hit this key on accident when I'm gay, but sometimes they hit both the same time. And that would make the timeline zoom in and it would really throw off my pull me out of flow. You need, I like to be in a flow state because I can work really fast and get a lot done. So now if I accidentally hit this key when I'm deleting something or hidden both the same time, it doesn't matter. All it does is disabled resample, which we do anyway, we have actually sat as a setting so it doesn't hurt anything, it doesn't really even do anything. Now the other keys we program, we did set the G key. Remember, I said you could use f. I tried F. It was just confusing to me for some reason, maybe because it's so close to the d and the f moving my hand just a little to execute the command for some reason it helps me. Okay. I can't explain why. I'm trying to think as little as possible. And if I have my hands that up here, it's gonna make me think. But if I have to do a little movement, then the muscle memory was required in my muscle memory is a lot faster than my brain, unfortunately. So I use G as the auto ripple on and off. And then for grouping and ungrouping, that's something I rarely do. I don't need, like just simple G, like a one, one-click hotkey is something that should be used often, like the S key or the delete changing the auto ripple isn't super common, but it happens often enough that I need to have access to it quickly. Whereas grouping and ungrouping Control G, I rarely use that unless I'm sinking up audio that's out of sync or something weird like that, which I rarely have to do because of my workflow. Some people ungroup tracks and do weird stuff for like L cuts and J cuts. I'll show you my workaround to that, which is actually far superior. Don't don't follow other LGA cuts where you have to ungroup it. It's stupid. Don't ever do that. Well, I shouldn't say don't ever do it. You shouldn't need to for what we're doing. Unless there's a problem with the audio red lining or being too loud, You shouldn't need to on a regular basis. So but it's still finding the Control button. Look, it's the bottom button on the keyboard, and I can still reach the G key pretty easily. So that's why I like having the other commands I use as a control G rather than like a control alt one. You can't do that with one hand or shift control, whatever It's like, No, I'd have to pull my hand off the mouse and that's breaking the first rule. Right hand on the mouse, left hand on the left side of the keyboard. If you're left-handed, well crap, you're going to have to mirror it. Then you can just use the default Delete key O. If you're left handed, you're actually really lucky. If you're left-handed, just do it the opposite, right? Yeah. So that's basically it. These are your two fingers that you want to use the most. They're the easiest to use because you're using it for the S key. So you're gonna get used to using your ring finger. That's why I use it, I think to hit the escape key. And so I've found hitting the W key is also very easy for me know, I can reach all these keys with my ring finger. It gets strong after, if you do a lot of cuts in YouTube editing, probably gonna wear the SQL on your keyboard after a while. The w would be a great additional keyboard, which I don't use in Vegas Pro, but I do use it when I'm making music. It's a common every project I use the W key when I'm making music. But with Vegas Pro, I have enough keyboard shortcuts that I don't need it, keeping it simple, but if you want to, I recommend using because if you hit it with the default setting, I think it just goes back to the beginning of your project. I guess that's useful, but I don't see the point. Put that as something you use a lot. Instead, there's no reason to waste it on going back to the beginning. Another go don't be T or R because it's again, it's your pointer finger. These three keys, like, like I said, this is if you have a higher IQ than me and you can handle more than three buttons, then you can utilize sedative, how you like it. I'm just giving you what I use and what works for me and the buttons I use the most because that's what we're concerned about here. What takes up 80% of your time as an editor, and how do we make that faster and easier on you? Another thing to note is this keyboard is it's not metal. It's a really solid, heavy, heavy plastic though. No, at the top might be metal. I'm not sure I've used $10 keyboards from Amazon. They're all plastic and lightweight and that's fine for awhile. But when they start getting shaky because I go fast when I edit, it's just muscle memory and then go fast. And sometimes the cheaper keyboard, the keys will stick and then they'll not do a command. So if I'm like, if I just hit like five buttons and one of them didn't go well, it's like I just did something I didn't mean to do. So every time I hit a key, I need it to go and I needed to go when I hit it every time there can't be any laggards. This I don't know. There's keyboard, maybe 20 bucks or 25 bucks. It wasn't even that much. I like having the smaller, thinner buttons because you can press them quicker. And I'm all about speed. And I don't like having a number pad because it just gets in the way easy to find what's on the four corners. So, yeah, if you have a number pad or a bunch of extra buttons, you're going to have to look down. I don't have to look down. I can find all four corners just by sliding my finger across really quickly or just guesstimating because I know about the size of the keyboard. Get a keyboard that works for you if you'd like having a number, That's fine. Just make sure you can access the buttons and reposition your hand quickly. So I'd know if you have a mouse like this that has extra buttons, you can use a free program called X mouse control to program these two buttons to do whatever you want. These could actually be shortcuts as well, keyboard shortcuts, or they could be auto hotkey processes, or he could run scripts with them, whatever you want super quick, I actually use it in another program when I use this kind of a mouse. That's why I don't use it in Vegas Pro because it would conflict with my job. I use it for OBS when I'm streaming to trigger effects. For example, now I have Vegas Pro and OBS open at the same time. So if I was using this, it would it would conflict. So that's why I don't. But if you want, if you have a mouse like this and you want to program those buttons, that's how you would do it. Effects mouse control. Is the program alright, boring enough about this. Let's move on. 9. Scripts Setup: Now it's time to import our scripts, which is awesome. You're gonna love this. On the right is the folder with all the scripts that I made for you guys. And on the left, I'll show you where to put them, right? So go to your operating system, your C drive, you should have a folder called program files. Program files, just open that up and find Vegas should just be called Vegas or something like that and have Vegas Pro and then whatever version you're using. Obviously I've been using Vegas Pro for awhile for me, version 18. And come down here, this folder right here that says script menu, that's the one we want. Open that up. These are all the scripts that Vegas gives you, which is pretty cool. You can explore those. I don't really use any of them, but maybe you would then just highlight everything in this folder, every single thing, even the PNG image is drag them over. Yes, definitely need to provide administrative permission. By the way, make sure Vegas is closed when you do this and do it for all current items, I don't know if it actually matters is if vagus is open or not. I think it does. There we go. That's it. Now you have all my scripts and also you can find other scripts online. There's tons of them, mostly are for older versions of Vegas for some reason. But if you decide to go down that rabbit hole and figure out more scripts you want, that's where you put them right here in the script menu for Vegas Pro, and that's it. Now let's open up Vegas Pro and show you what to do with it. So what does a script do? Let me just show you if you go up here to tools and then scripting, you will see all the scripts now that I have, that's why you needed those PNG images because there's pictures of them and you can run the scripts. Let me give you an example. Here's this clip just standing there. We're gonna run a script just, just for an example of black and white. Real simple. Press that. Boom, now this video is in black and white. If you open up the effects panel, you can see all it did was add a black and white effect to it and we can adjust it and make changes or deleted or whatever. We could also go back to scripting and add this, the number one jump. All it's gonna do is cut in a little bit. There we go. So now it's a close-up. He uses the picture and picture filter for those when we turn it off and get back to normal. And also if we have this open, we can actually move it around and maybe you want to zoom in on something else, that's fine. You can also resize it. You can resize it over here as well whenever you want to do, but the idea is to make this quick and painless. So that was a lot of clicking. Remember how we added this button and make our life easier? Yeah, Well now we're gonna do that with the effects. These should be one-click operations. So come up here to this bar up here and just double-click it. And then here is same thing. All your toolbar buttons, you won't have Vegas or unless you paid for it like I did, but I'm not even using that in this. This is all free stuff and stuff that I've made that well, I guess this stuff I've made isn't free, but you're getting it for taking the course. You can even add the titles and text button up here, like we did at the bottom, but I refer to the bottom because my top bar gets cluttered pretty quick. And here's all of our scripts. So you do have to add them one at a time. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. No big deal. Then what I like to do is when there's different sections like that, add a separator, which is just a little bar up there. And you see that you can add a couple if you want though that kind of know that the different sections do different things. Like obviously these jump cuts are all the same category. We'll add our meme effects here and the horror neon color. Oh, the separator. We need to move that up on the wrong side, a TV simulator. When you can arrange these however you want, I'm just showing you how I do it or how I would do it, I guess because I'm doing this from scratch. Okay. Whatever yet and then close it out. And now we have all these shortcuts, not sure how many there are. I may add more Like I said, some of these are supposed to have images. I must have messed up in the coding. I will try to fix the code before I make this course public so that you have images for more. Alright, now you have this amazing God mode unlocked version of Vegas Pro. Good job. You set it up. In the next module, I'll show you how to demonstrate your powers and all your friends are gonna be impressed and say, Wow, how did you learn to edit like that? You must, you must have like a hacked program or something. You must know God or something He must be giving you powers. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of. But we'll get to that good job. Keep it up. 10. Best Window Layout: But we do need to change the layout of our vagus the way it comes default is really not optimized for YouTube. So we're going to make some changes right now. You want to come up here to View and then window layouts. And you should have one saved here that says Herr Jordan or HJ editing. But if not, here's how you create it. You want to go to View Window. And then down here where it says Plugin Manager, we're gonna go to video and then click effects, filter packages, double-click on filter packages. You shouldn't have this many. I have way too many. Then you drag it up here and then hit Control on your keyboard and it will let you dock this anywhere you want. Leave it on video filter packages. And then you can just make this, the window just small because you don't need it. And then all you have is your filter packages and one row should be enough, super-easy. That's all we need. We don't need that. This box that take up that much space as long as you can see what your presets are. Now instead of one big thing, now we have two windows. And personally I get rid of this master thing to save room, but I'll leave it there in case some of you wanted or needed for reference. So the next thing we need to do is we have all these, these tabs and it's just too many. There's so many options. Nobody got six. No, we don't need six tabs. So take the transitions one and undock it just by pulling on it. You just click on it and pull it away. And it'll do that same thing. Hit control click and you can dock it. And now the transitions are going to be something you want quick access to as well as the explorer. Those are the two main things. You could also pick a couple of your favorite transitions in favourite them, and then you'll have them here. So you'll have a much smaller list again, just keeping it simple is really important. So yeah, that's that part project notes I don't use. And getting rid of that, sometimes I will use media generator, make text, or put colors on the screen or whatever, that's fine. You could actually Favorite that favorite that those are really the one to I use. So then if you click on favorites, It's you just have those two options there. So then it makes it a little simpler and that's it. So now we only have four towns, but really we're just going to use the Explorer one. And wherever you save your effects, sound effects, background music. I have many folders. I mean, I'd do a lot of complicated projects as well. So don't try to get this complicated. It was setup, but you should have one for sounds. And you'll notice that I have letters at the beginning of each one. And that is because they're the most common ones I use. Up here there's a button that says turn on or off Auto preview play. I always have that on. Alright. What that does is whenever you click on something, it plays it right away so you know, you know what it is. So you just click on any sound it plays and then you're in this window. While you're in this window, only while you're in this window, you can click on your keyboard and it will go to that letter. For example, I click, now I'm in the window, and if I press B on my keyboard, it will go to the B section. So I put a BA so that it shows up first and then I can just hit the down arrow. And that's the second most common. And that's the third most common sound effect I used when I was editing for Robbie. Then I can go back to a, if I need an arm or for that heavenly sound, I'm going to type in H. And it's not the first or second because it's not a sound I use a lot. It's not very common for me. So you can just start to type the word heaven. Then. There it went right to it, just like you can see over here, the F section, we've got the Flintstones skid, which actually I think I renamed it something else. I don't know why doubled in there, but this is perfect example. If I just type F, it's gonna go to the beginning of the F section, which is fine, but if I start typing the word Flintstones, it'll go right to that sound. It was and I only typed in like three or four letters. And then from there I just click it and drag it down to the timeline. Super easy. You're not opening up another folder, searching through tons and tons of sound effects, name things properly when you put them in your folder. And then you can just navigate by pressing one button, you go to the whole F section. And I only have about, I don't know, maybe ten f's, but typically the G asexual game a 123, and we have seven sounds and start with the letter G. If I could just get to them, I can see them with my eyes and just click on the one I need. It's pretty simple. That's going to save you so much time adding sound effects. Now I do have a separate folder for music. However, if I go to the M section, if I start typing music, there it is. I just have a couple music tracks that I use as background music quite often as well as some visual effects. So I have a separate folder for visual effects because I have a lot of them, but the handful of ones I use most commonly I keep in the sound effects folder under the letter v for visual. So if I just click on the window, I hit the letter V, It's gonna go right to my visual effects. I have a bigger folder with random sound effects. I call it the pit because that's just where every random sound that I get from the Internet goes into that folder. So if I really need to dig in, search for something specific, it's in there. I almost never need to go into that folder because this is plenty of sounds and visual effects, like I said, for normal YouTube videos. Do that. Use discretion if you find a sound like a water drop sound that you need for video, but you only use it once you never use again, don't keep it in your main folders, just going to clutter things up. I am going to make this a little smaller by clicking the minus button because I usually end up with a bunch of layers of stuff. And I don't need to be zoomed in that much, but it's up to you if you liked it or not. That's it. This way you can actually see half of my sounds without even having to click and do the letter search thing. You just click on one and there it is, you know, and also if you double-click and it goes right to where the cursor was. Now if you'll notice this actually starts, there's a delay. 11 frames. It takes 11 frames before the sound even starts playing. What I would normally do, this is a new sound, but I'll usually do is I'll trim it, render this out. We want to render this only where there's sound about maybe one frame or half a frame before the sound actually starts, usually about right. We'll just make this a region, go up to File render as an MP3, MP3 export. There we go. Your settings should look something like this. If not, just change them and save that as a favorite and then just render it to whatever folder you keep your sounds in, but make sure you name it something appropriate and then just render it and it only takes a couple of seconds. Don't name it the exact same thing that it currently is. Like name it like this has hit W2, namely like hit W to a or something. And then once it's in here, the original hidden IL-2, and you'll just have the one that's an appropriate length the next time you put it on a clip, there we go, right? But a half a frame. Or basically right away. You may act wherever we put it out. So that'll save you a lot of time to, from having to put in sound effect and then zoom in and then drag it over so it actually starts closer. Yeah, that's way too much time if it's a sound to use a lot, just do that, take thirty-seconds and do it properly. And now every time you use that sound, It's gonna save you time for years to come. Obviously, if it's a sound you just using once like a one-off thing that then don't do that. Don't worry about it. But for your go-to sounds, yeah, you should definitely make it right and make your system right. It's so much faster and you don't have to do it all at once. You can just do it as you use stuff as you do this. And you realize, I probably should fix this. And there's actually a script right here on the toolbar for rendering. You can just do that and just hit Render adds no way you don't have to open the file menu. This is the basic layout I use. We're going to go ahead and come up here to View again Window layouts and saved layout as I'm just going to type HJ editing and Okay, now when I go to my window layouts, it should be the first one there. There it is. And of course you can make a bunch more adjusted it to your liking. You can have multiple ones that you switch back and forth to. So for example, if I want to go back to the default layout, okay, that's cool. I could do this, whatever or maybe you want to have a color correcting thing up here, that's fine. And then just hit for the first one is Alt D 0. And we go back to the template we just made perfect. It's gonna save you so much time. 11. Audio FX: All right, We have our scripts loaded up, our filter packages here. Now we're going to prepare our audio filter packages. I'm just going to make a little cut here and hit the effects button. Here are my audio effects. I don't think I can share these with you. Unfortunately. We're gonna, I'm just gonna show you how to recreate them for the effects I use. These are all in your vagus folder. So all the ones I mentioned in the volume vibrato, pitch shift reverb, it's all here and distortion, you might not have express effects. Don't, I don't recommend using these because sometimes they include them as a demo and then you won't be able to render it in full quality if you have the demo version of these. So unless you are sure that you have the full version of the express effects, just stay away from them. Just use the ones that just have the name like distortion or it might say Vegas distortion on yours. So that's how, that's how you add it. And you can see now it's, now it's added. Here's what this one sounds like. The triggered Yael. Hi, I'm here, George. It's just a reverb. This is a rich hall minus about 28, could even do less if you wanted 30, whatever the default is. And then the distortion, just add Vegas is distortion, put the wet out to about 0. And then here just move that, just click a point and drag it down and then do the same thing up here. It looks about like that. And that's it. Go here to the plugin chain. Now this one is I call triggered yell. You would hit Okay, and save it and then hit Okay. Another one is L, That's a really common one. That's just a simple reverb set to about negative 25. Rich Hall. Just this setting right here. I think this is mostly just the default setting. Same thing. You can save this here as yell, and that's fine. And just click the Save button. It's probably a good thing to do, but definitely save it as a plugin chain. So you have it here, I'll show you why in a second. Save As just like we just did, the God Mode voice, which I showed you how load that up here. And that's just two things. The pitch shift, you have to check this box that says preserved duration and I set it to negative six. That should be, these are the settings. Again, you can mess with this. If you want to go minus 12 or even go up, you can pitch the voice up and save it as a different setting. You could do. Instead of God mode, you could save one is chipmunk voice or robot voice. If you play around with some of this stuff, then again, the reverb, what's this about? Minus 29, and that's it. That's the God Mode voice. This one, the vibrato meme is adjust the filter called vibrato. And I just dragged up the center to about 6.306 semitones about, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter about like that. The modulation frequency around 8.38, and then the semitones is just negative 12. Looks like an output gain is 0. That's the tick tock effect. There's a filter on tiktok that makes your voice do the war ugly thing. Hi, I'm here. Do you want to? That's what that is. The only thing about that is that it makes the audio go faster so it won't always line up. So if you can't really do it for a huge long clip, unless you're going to time stretch it, which is fine. But what you'll have to do is hit the button that ungrouped them. You hit Control at the end of the audio and you'll have to stretch it out a little to make it lion. Hi, I'm here. Do you agree? Or you could make the clip go faster if you want, but make sure you disabled resample. Remember that button right below the escape key, or he could right-click switches, disabled resample, just use the shortcut key. It's much faster. But just be aware it does change the speed slightly mix a little bit out of sync. If it's just a little bit, it won't be that noticeable, but in case it is noticeable, that's how you deal with that. And then just volume wanted to Volume One, we load up the volume plug-in and I max it out plus six. And then I save that as an effects plugin just called volume one, because sometimes there's a clip that's much more quiet and you need to raise the volume. And so I'll do that. And if it's extremely quiet, my effects packages, you can see I have volume to which all this is, is it's two instances. The volume actually raises the volume by 12 decibels, which is a lot. Unfortunately, I've had to use it a few times just on footage that wasn't filmed very well. And if it's too much, you can come down here and actually click on this blue slider and lower the volume. You can see down 3.5 decibels, down, six down, whatever, whatever you need to do to make it, to make it sound appropriate, you can lower it, but you can't raise it that way. That's why I just add six or 12 decibels of volume. And if that's not the right amount, if it's too much, then I'll just pull it down a little bit. So that's how, that's how I do that. So now we have our audio effects. Unfortunately, we can't have them here. We have to choose between video and audio. For me, I use the video filter packages much, much more often, it's not even close. So what I do if I need to add an effect, hit the Effect button, and then this should pop up and you just pick which one you want. Yellow is the one I probably use the most. I just double-click it. Okay. That's not too painful. I wish it could be a one-click solution instead of three, but that's just the way it is. The only problem is that this box comes up and you have to close it every time. Don't do that. That takes too much time. Here's what I do with it. I hide it. So drag it somewhere over here and hit the Control button edges to make it tiny. Don't hide it all the way like that because you may need to actually access it later, but just make it thin. I guess it depends on how big your screen is, but about as thin as the window. And then if you need to access it, you can just pull it out. So that's where that guy is going to live. And we're gonna save this window Saved Layout. I'm about to save over an existing window layout, HJ editing. Yes. I didn't tell you about earlier because it wouldn't make sense. But now this is the updated complete layout. Then what you do is you need to pull it out, make your changes, and when you're done, just go back to the window layout. You can go through the menu if you want. That's pretty tedious, or you can just hit the shortcut and it'll go back by default is Alt D. No way. That's way too much. So we're going to customize the keyboard again, Options, Customize keyboard. And if you go down here to shortcut keys, you can just search for it. Alt D, global view window, that's the one we clicked on this and click Locate and there it is, user layout 0, That's us. And I'm just going to program that to be, I'm going to use Control W. They're good enough now to access this, pull it out Control W and it's back there. There you go. I guess it does depend on how big your monitor is. You may need to resize things over if you need to do whatever works best for your machine. I have a pretty big monitor. Well, it's 32 inches, which is about right for me, anything smaller and I have to start making the compromises I found. And there you go. Super easy to use. Only thing you'll notice is if you try to open up the audio effects now it's gonna be over here if it already has one on it, but we can just click on this to add a new one. If we try to add something to a new clip where there is no audio effect, you can see the difference. If there is an effect icon turns blue, there's no effect that stays white. So if we click on one that doesn't have an effect yet, then it pulls up the main window, and then we can just select whatever we want to select. And now this is corresponding to this clip I'm about to show you. And that's how you add cool audio effects quickly to your clips. Of course, you can always make more as nutrients come out on tiktok and stuff, re-creating them in Vegas with the stock tools is actually very easy, quite simple, and then just save it as a preset. A lot of people don't go through the trouble of learning how to do that. So if you're still hanging with me, you have more knowledge of the great majority of people on YouTube. So good job for you. 12. How to Use Scripts: All right. So we've got things set up the way we want. You, my friend, have a tool that very few people in this universe have. It's mind-blowing. Now let me show you how it works from here on out, things just get better and better. We pretty much did all the boring stuff is where it starts to get fun. Let's go over the scripts up here. You get the idea, you click on it, something happens, see that one just zoomed in, cool. That's what the scripts of orange, just one button and it doesn't affect the 12345. Those are jumps. They get progressively more zoomed in. One, do a lot of cutting in and out. So that's what these numbers are in X and in out. And we also have this beautiful, wonderful script called apply transition. We click on it and this dialogue box should pop up and you can just hit Okay, and it will apply a random transition everywhere that there's a cross-fade or you can pick one and it'll just do the same one each time. So for example, we want Vegas dissolve, we'll just click on that and okay, and now there's no cross fades anywhere because remember how earlier we turned this automatic cross fades off. So there should be no cross fades in your project unless you're setting them manually. Even if we drag the footage over top of each other, there is no crossfade. But if we turn this on and then drag now becomes a crossfade where that was. And as you can see, me zoom in a little so you can actually read it. The dissolved transition is there wherever the clips overlap, that's how long the transition is going to be. You can just drag it for a short or as long as you want. Super-easy. That's if you just use pretty much the same one each time and that way you don't have to mess with coming up here. I know we set up this window so that we have our favorite transitions here. But most of the time you're gonna be using the same few effects over and over again. And if you want to change it like this out, I could still drag the flash and it replaces it so the dissolving one is gone and now it's just the flash there are here that is really useful. And it gives you total control over where the transitions appear. And it's so much faster than clicking the one you want and dragging it down. And then because watch what happens. Let me, let me drag one over here and that's cool, but there's a default length Would you can reset manually within the Vega settings and that's fine to do. It's just a lot, just a lot going on in this way just gives you a lot more control. And it's so fast, so fast, That's an amazing script. But just keep in mind that it will do it for the entire project from the moment you press that button, the Okay button, until the rest of the editing session. So be mindful and make sure you have this automatic cross fades off unless you want it on and you're intending to use another helpful one is this, the change alpha channel. Here's an example of a simple thumbs up button will drag it over top, even though it's a dot MOV. And I know that this is transparent. It's not showing up as transparent because of the alpha channel. So all you gotta do is click this button in there. Now it's transparent. The reason that works is if you right-click it and go down to properties like media, use the Alpha channel says none, and we need it to be very unmanaged or pre-multiplied. Pre-multiplied works for most of them. Who doesn't? You'll have to change it to straight unmetered. This script unfortunately only puts it at a pre-multiplied, which should work for most transparent die MOV. Remember we had installed QuickTime earlier, this is y, so we can add dot MOV files that are transparent. And then all we got to do is hit change alpha channel button. And now it's transparent, super easy. There's all kinds of free resources online to get that dot MOV files like overlays and stuff like that. Real simple. There's another script called big head. As you can see, it just makes your head big. Again, this one only goes to the center of the screen. So if you typically stand off to the side, you're gonna do is open it up. And as long as this box is open, you can actually just click on this thing here and move it around wherever you want. And you can also change the scaling changes the amount that it makes it bigger, Oregon smaller changes the scaling wider or taller wherever you want, but then just save it as big head and just save it. And then every time he thought script, that's what will come off. One thing I do have to mention about the scripts. Some of them are not going to have the proper settings. For example, here, if we click on the wide script, it probably won't do anything for your computer or at least won't do what you wanted to do. But if you open up the effects dialog, you'll see it still has the preset wide. It's just all set to nothing. Probably. What you need to do is to just drag this filter package called meme wide onto a clip and save those settings and make sure you go to a part of the clip where the meme is in full effect because at least with the meme wide tilt or package, it zooms in some changes but go to where you'd like the amount that it's stretched out and save it as the preset wide. And then that's what will happen from now on every time you click on the wide script or just copy my settings right here and then save it as wide. If any of the scripts are not working. That's what you need to do. I think the big head one as well. Same thing with the meme wave in the meme squirrel. I'm pretty sure that's it, but if they're not working for you, That's the reason why, and that's how you fix it. And then we have this script here called remove all effects. So if we have a clip highlighted and then we click this script, you can see it just deletes all the effects that we're on it. There's nothing there that's helpful if you want to experiment, it'll save you a few clicks. If you put some effects on, you don't like just boop one button and now it's gone. And it only applies to that clip or the selected clip. Or you can even select two clips, are a bunch of clips and hit it. And now the effects are going off to. And if you want to select a bunch of clips at once, just hit the letter D on your keyboard twice, 12. And now look at the mouse, click and drag and select a bunch of stuff. And then to get it back to the normal mouse, hit D two more times. So be careful with that one. Just make sure it goes to the mouse setting that you want will mess things up for you if you're not careful, then this right here is called Batch Render. This is useful if you're exporting clips. So if you take it a bunch of funny moments is like highlights. Gonna post them to TikTok or Instagram or something like that. Super-easy. So you come down here to the timeline and appear, click and drag like at the beginning and the end of the section. So let's say this is a section, it just hit the R button on your keyboard. Now that created a region, just name it whatever you want, and then we can make another region. Let's say we just want to render out this part. I don't unlock God mode, just that little section that we have another region. Hit tab. There we go. So now we have a couple of regions. And when we hit Batch Render, we want to make sure we hit this bubble at the bottom says render regions. Otherwise it's going to render the whole project and then pick the format you want, which I'll show you a good format later in the video. You can save it as a preset like what I have. It's under Sony, ABC best 60 frames per second. That's what I call mine. And then just hit Okay, and it will start rendering. It just renders one after the other. So these are the two regions that I just highlighted, and then you can just rename them wherever you want. Unfortunately, it does not name them the name of the region, that is all the scripts. Now, something to note about the 12345, the jump in is I do have some filter packages that Zoom In and Out, which you can see right here. Zoom fast, zooming out and zoom slow. So let's click on a clip and drag one of these on and will do Zoom fast and you can see what happens. You may actually still is zooms in. You may actually stand up to the center and it does open up this dialog box which you can see the track motioning. So if you want to make it a little faster to drag this and it'll go faster. You may actually want it a little slower and drag it over there and it'll take longer. You may actually stand on. But just keep in mind if you use the filter packages do these first because they're going to overwrite any effects that you have on. So if you already use like a meme effect or something and then do the Zoom fast thing. It's going to remove the meme effect. You're going to have to add it again or just use your filter packages first, Zoom slow. You may actually stand off to the side like we did in slope. And then zooming out, zooms in, holds it for a few seconds and then zooms back out. You may actually stand off to the side like over here or maybe over. And that's timed about to the pace that I speak. If you use this on, let's say a shorter clip, notice how long this clip is. If I'd use it on a short clip, the Zoom In out, it's going to run out of room before the all the key frames come in. You can see it zooms in, but it doesn't have enough time to pause and zoom back out. So when you're filming, you may actually stay. It just that's it. It's just that when you're filming, it doesn't actually zoom out because this clip was too short, which is fine when you're filming, you may not going to hurt anything, but just to understand that how long each of these effects last if you want the zoom back, zoom back out thing to happen. And of course, if you've already put some effects on and you don't want to use a filter package because you know, to override it, you can always click the event pan crop and just zoom in and out this way. And then your effects remain untouched. 13. 2 Pass FAST Method: Let's talk about the editing method that I use. I call it the fast method or the two-pass method. There's not really a name for it. I just this is just my way of doing things. Two passes. You go over the footage twice. The first time is as fast as you possibly can. You just try to get through the footage. This is especially helpful if you have a lot to deal with for me when I edit for other people, I need to know what I'm working with. And so I just go through and do things quickly. It's easier if you are on site when you were filming, which we'll talk about that later in one of the bonus lessons. Or if you filmed yourself and you know what to expect. But if you have footage and you have no idea what's going on, you want to get through it as quickly as possible. These scripts are gonna help a lot because you're going to want to do stuff. You're gonna say, oh, that would be funny if this edit happened right here, then you distract yourself for ten minutes, making the edit look cool when really you can do it in a couple of clicks and then move on because we're going to do a second pass on the footage. So the first pass should be as quick as possible so we get through the footage, right. Hi, I'm here, Jordan today. I'm right there. High that pause where I looked up, put that out as key click Escape. Now down here, you may have this automatic crossfade enabled. I disabled that. I don't like that as the default, you need to cross fade something that's fine. The cross-fade there, you don't have it enabled, then you can overlap things and it will just play the latest clip. If you need to cut something off sooner, you don't actually have to go through and click, hit the Escape button. You don't have to do that. You can actually just drag it over a little bit. That's it. And now I'm here, it cuts the next clip there. So that's my preference. This is the auto ripple which we programmed to be the G shortcut. And what that does is if I have it enabled and I move this clip, moves everything to the right on the timeline, even five sound effects. So here if I do this everything, oh no, I forgot this is a fresh install, a Vegas by default, I believe it's set to only the effect attracts screw that that's going to mess you up all tracks at the bottom. Probably really is good that I did a fresh install a Vegas because I forget sometimes how dumb the default settings are. So yeah, drop arrow makes sure all tracks, markers and regions selected, That's what we want. Now if I drag this clip, everything behind it, including the sound effect, gets moved. If I do this, only the things behind it, sound effect, it looks like it starts a little early. So click that and move all this stuff in. Anything on this side of the timeline is unaffected, but everything on this side of the beginning of this clip is affected. So I'm zooming in and out with my scroll wheel on my mouse. You can use the up and down keys on your keyboard, but you're going to have to move your left hand for that. And that's a big no-no. If you're on a laptop with a trackpad, that might be the easiest way, but if you're using a trackpad to edit, you're not gonna be able to edit as quickly as this, simply because you don't have scroll wheel and right-clicking and double-clicking takes slightly more effort than with a mouse. But if that's all you got and that's all you got, usually the first pass I have auto ripple on. We want this on when we're editing because if we didn't cut out a silent part, like here, you can see there's no talking here this whole time, which for me usually means nothing is happening in my footage. You may be working with a YouTuber or you may be someone that does a lot of demonstrating things. And so there might be no talking that'd be different. But if you're editing for someone like me, for example, there's probably nothing happening. So I can just go to where I start talking again, clicking on it, and then just delete that. And with auto ripple, it closes the gap. Whereas let me undo that. If I did not have auto ripple on, there's a gap and then I have to manually drag it over it. Nope, that's a pain. We're not doing that. Got to have auto ripple on. But just so you could see, I was just thinking about what I was going to say next, which I know because that's what I do. I usually think about what I'm gonna say so I don't repeat myself a bunch of times in my footage. It makes it so much faster because they don't have to decide which take was better know there was only one take and that's good enough. It's gonna be good enough. This is YouTube. We're not making a blockbuster movie here, so cut out the silence and move on you're filming. You may actually stand off to the side like over here, or maybe over here. Okay, so I just hit that S button as it was playing. I noticed that got silent and it was the end of a sentence and then I moved or maybe over here, I could have left it in there. I'm gonna cut it out and see what it looks like to the side, like over here or maybe over here. That's fine. It's quick, it's jumpy. That's what I like my personal style of editing. Editing. Something. You can. Yeah. Again, I was clearly just thinking here and I don't want to have to watch that clip because I know myself. Same thing with when I edit for other YouTubers. If I've edited for them for a long time, I get to know their patterns and I know which clips I can cut out. Because again, if you have an hours worth of footage or even 30 minutes worth of footage and you end up cutting out 20 minutes of it. You don't, you don't want to sit through hearts that, you know, like little bits like this. I know I knew that was nothing. I just cut it out acting to something. And so you can change these priests and actually I'm gonna make that a little quicker. C-a-t, there we go, and then just cut it. I could see that I started to look down, which means I'm done. When I look down like that, I'm just done. So get rid of that. And so as soon as I see it, I hit the S key. So I actually hit the S key, unlocking the God Mode. I tried to time it so that it's at the end of the sentence. Now right here, I let God Mode play out on purpose because I did this effect. Remember that I actually can just hit Control Z and undo that. There we go. So I go through, usually you have a lot more photos in this. I'll just go through and do that. You can add effects. I might say, You know what, I'm going to add this deform effects, like meme effect up here on the toolbar, one of the scripts. And this is an effect to that. A lot of YouTubers and Twitch streamers use that makes it white. It actually doesn't look very good because I'm not standing in the center of the screen, but whatever, if you're reacting to something. And so you can change these, but just to change the little, like if you're reacting to something. And so you can change these, maybe I'll make it black and white all so it's really staying here, like if you're reacting to something. And so you can change these presets based on where you tip it. You can change these presets based. Maybe I'll make the word presets have the yellow effect. It sounds like this, these presets based on where you there. And I'll add texts, but be careful adding texts because if we have auto ripple on watch, what happens? If you want to make sure you're on the track, not where your footages above it. And it pushes everything on the timeline over. We don't want to do that. I'm going to undo that. We need to hit the G button, turn off auto ripple preset, and then we can hit the key and just type the word preset and just make it as long as the clip is, maybe I'll add a drama affect black and white, whatever these presets based on where you typically, that's it. I do it so quickly as I'm going through and chopping up the footage that the first time, my first pass is very quick. I'll do little stuff like that because it only takes a couple of clicks. It's not a big deal to do that. And you can even change the color of the text if you want there. That a lot of times if I make the background black and white, I'll make the color, the text colorful, which if that's too distracting, just do it on your second pass. Another good one is up here. The rainbow texts filter package is drag it on your texts presets fade. It actually only works on white. I messed that up, but see, that's why you don't do too much spending too much time on one thing because I'm just demonstrating it. But normally, I would have forgotten all about this clip because I'd be like thirty-seconds ahead on the timeline by now. But yeah, just add the rainbow texts in other common one that a lot of YouTubers, you, he says is having this rainbow text effect, that's fine. Whatever. Do a couple of quick. I'm gonna show you how cutting in and out is also really common. I do a lot of that. Hi, I'm here, Jordan. And today I'm gonna show you how to. Usually this is for emphasis. You can make slight cuttings. I'm gonna show you, you know, you, you kind of go based on what the person is saying. I'm gonna show you how to unlock God mode. I know this isn't a God Mode edit. It's the same clip, but I'm just doing this example, so I'll just do sequential order. One to next clip three next clip 44 is probably too close. Yeah. And then God mode. Another thing, if you're on the time I hit the S button, it won't always make the cut. I just hit it and nothing happened because this other clip was selected. If you have nothing selected, odd mode it will, but it will also cut up if you have background music or sound effects already added, it'll cut all of that. So I just tried to make sure I have the clip highlighted just by clicking on it and then it will only cut the clip and whatever group to it. So if you have background music, I won't have a bunch of chops in your music just helps things stay clean, especially when you're using auto ripple if you already have sound effects on, well, I mean, just do it for awhile and you'll see because you'll have some instances really like, Oh no, what did I do? I should've been more careful, kept my workspace clean because now it's jumbled together. So that's four and then five is extreme. Yeah, that's too zoomed in, but whatever, we'll just leave it so you can see what I just did with 123D. I'm gonna show you how to unlock God mode. Did you notice how it jumped in with, in my words were being emphasized, say I'm gonna show you how to unlock God Mode in Vegas Pro, and that's it. That was pretty simple five, I don't use too much because it's so extreme for is usually enough 1234, and then you're good. I just added five there just in case you wanted to zoom way and I'm also standing a little close to the camera for That's about right. I'm filling up the frame. But as far as the four and the five, that's zoomed way in and that's too far. Like if I was standing farther back, if someone is in the background, you want to zoom in on, That's what you would use the five script for. And then also I have these other a3x in and out, which IN and OUT in is the same thing as one. It's just a simple simple code in but how is different is that 12345? You notice, let me open up this one in the picture and picture, it's actually not centered. The location is, well, this is flipped lower in the box, which means it's higher on the screen because typically when someone is on camera, their head is not in the direct center. Their head is between the center and the top of the frame. And so these 12345 presets zoom into approximately where the person's head would be if they were standing in the center of the camera, like I am here, whereas the cut in script cuts into the direct center, but it's slight, so it's okay. As you can see, this is the script and it's not like cutting my head off too much. It's zoomed directly and this is where I'm standing and that's cutting in and that's fine. That's no big deal though. I just use that for emphasis. We can actually take this off and I'll show you the feel in Vegas Pro when you're filming. Yeah, that was really bad. Example can actually slide the clips too. You need the effect to stay on a little longer. I want this effect to stay on a little. I'm just going to do that. Vegas Pro. When you're feeling really bad example in Vegas Pro. When you're filming the idea of what the script is for now out is this right here. So if you just want to change things on owed in Vegas Pro, that's what that's for. And then the X button is cut in extreme. It's actually not as extreme as the five script, but it is the direct center of the screen because the location is directly in the center. You can even make it more extreme if you want and then save it. And that's fine too. That's what those scripts do. Now, I do have to mention with the 12345 scripts, if you find that you don't stand in the direct center of the camera, then it's not going to work too well, but not to worry because they are customizable as I addressed in this clip here, when you're filming, you may actually stand off to the side like, alright, I just hit the Enter key to stop right there and make a point. The S key stand off to the side like over here, they're just see how I clicked and hit the Spacebar to stop here. I'm going to cut this over here. And if I try, let's say, let's press to zoom in. It's not actually zoomed into my face. And if this is where you stand, if you always are standing to this side or you can change, or maybe over here, like if you're reacting to something. When I make reaction videos, I'm usually off to one side because then there's something on the screen. And again, try to zoom in and it's not even zoomed in to me. The easiest way to adjust this is just click the effects and you can just click anywhere on the screen and drag it. So now there's the face. If you find that's where you always stand. There you go. Now you can just hit the save button right here, and it will save it. So now, every time you hit the three button, three jump, it will assume crop whatever you want to call it to this position right here, you can go through 12345 and do all five of them to zoom in on your face perfectly no matter where you stand, if it's relatively consistent, same thing with this. What did over there? It zoomed in and maybe you don't want it zoomed in, in the center. Maybe you want to be off to the side a little, so that's fine, but just not off the screen all the way. Then just adjust it to what you think is good. Same thing with the extreme zoom in. Maybe you want to zoom into your mouth because you know, whenever you do the extreme zoom in, you're making a point on your, on your show, your lips moving, maybe your eyes, maybe you have a funny-looking forehead and you just want to zoom into your forehead every time. And so you put that about where your forehead is gonna be. And if it doesn't line up exactly, That's right. It's just 12 clicks and you can adjust it and that's it. And then you can move on and you can keep editing and it's super, super quick to do that normally you would have to open up the pan crop editor. Do this bull crap, screw that man. Way too much clicking, way too much focus taken out. You shouldn't have to think. Set this up, save your presets, Zoom in your forehead or your eyeballs, or wherever you stand and just go one-click. That's it. Boom, you should not lose focus. That's the thing you need to stay in the zone. Beginning distracted all the time versus people like me who have ADHD and I get distracted, oh man, it's a rabbit hole and then 20 minutes go by and I haven't accomplished very much, so don't get distracted. And another thing is if you have a cool idea for a clip here, presets based, I might say, Oh, I know what I could do there, but I don't have a script for it. I don't have a preset for it. It's gonna take me a minute to make this effect. So what I'll do is it was clear at the beginning of the clip and hit the M key on your keyboard M, and that's a marker. And so let's say I want to add fire here. So I'll just type fire, fire ball thrown out of fireball. And then on my second pass, please stand. Now I have that marker and that's going to stay there even as auto ripple and move stuff around, the marker actually stays at the beginning of the clip that I had clicked on when I, when I put it there. So my second pass I could come through and do the things that actually take a little bit more focused, more complicated edit and that's fine. That's what I do. Typically, you can see how I move my hand here. You typically, another cool thing, a lot of editing where you typically stay as they'll follow the motion try hands. I have not figured out a one-click way to do motion tracking. Yeah. Unfortunately, I've spent hours trying to figure it out. Maybe in the future someone will crack this mystery, but for now it's all gonna be done manually and I don't spend too much time on it on the first pass unless I could do it quickly. Just come up here and these two buttons, this button right here is your friend. And if it's enabled, you can zoom in, put it goes to the center, disable it, then you can click the top and zoom down to the bottom, the corner. But where the hand is cool, there's the hand. And then as you move across the timeline, just move with the hand. Motion track. And again, super knowing you have to do this by hand, then we could even go to the end and right-click and hit Restore. So it'll zoom out after it motion tracks the hands, then it looks on the display something likes based on where you typically stand. Do that. Where you typically stand, followed my hands so that didn't take too long. It took about ten or 15 seconds, so that wasn't too bad, but I'm pretty quick at it. If that's going to distract you and get you out of your own, then just put a marker there. Follow hand. So now I know when I come back, I want to open up this and motion track the hand. Then when you're done with the marker, you can just right-click and delete it, get it off your timeline. Another thing to note about these effects is you can add multiple ones. When you add a filter package, you can only add one at a time, but that's the God mode filter package. If I add, let's say rainbow texts to the same clip, it Overwrote God mode. So the God mode filter is no longer there. It's just the rainbow effect. As you can see what the rainbow, rainbow text, I'm motion track the heck out of this to get the colors to change. It took quite a while. That's why I saved it, because I never want to have to do that again. But with the scripts, it does not save motion tracking, but you can add multiple ones so I can jump and then add black and white and then also add the meme wide thing and cool, It's whatever you can add as many as we want and you open up. The effects are all here, they're all there, but there's no motion tracking on any of them. So that's kind of a trade-off. Those are the two functions of those two mean wave. Oh yeah, that's that one. That's great. If you want to add the vibrato voice effect. I, well, I wasn't talking there. Let me just stretch it out and find it. Or you can change these presets based on where you typically stand. Go, so that's fine. That means swirl. Now this one, that's not supposed to be that way. This is the default setting when I clicked swirl and some of them are gonna do that. I have a meme swirl preset. For some reason it did not go to that. You can change these presets and that's what that one does. It actually is meant to be used when you're standing in the center of the screen. But again, if you don't usually stand in the sentence green, just come over here where it says center and you can look on it and drag it wherever you want that as I'm dragging this look at the screen, you'll see it's dragging where the center point is and just set it somewhere on your face. And if that's too much, you can turn the amount down. So it's more of a subtle thing. You can change these presets based on. That's fine too. Then just save it. Save it as memes swirl, you can change so that it comes up with just one click. I may have to change the code on this one not working right by the time I delivered to you, it should work, right? Let's put it about like this. I have a slightly above the center so it's targeting my face amount is about 0.20.207 horizontal, 0.69 in vertical is one. There we go. You can of course, mess around with some of the settings, figure out what you like, but just save it as this all caps memes swirl two words so that the script will work properly for you. Next one, this is a horror filter. The when something scary happens, you can check like that. Next one, the black and red one is called Drama drama filter. We have a TV simulator. You can change these. I use this a lot when I make a screenshot and hit the pause button if I'm doing a narration or like a documentary style video, so you can change the pixel eight. This is good for censoring things. So what I do is I'll hit the new button for unlink and then click away. So it clicks away from the group and then control click and drag it up to the track above. I mean, usually I do that before I hit the play button. So I'm going to go ahead and take off pixelate just so I can show you and then I have a duplicate copy and then I'll put pixelate on the top one and then I'll open up to the pan crop section and click this mask button is checked and click the first module and then you can draw on a mask of whatever you're trying to pixel out if you want to blur out your face or something like that. Well, it's hard to see with all these crazy effects. Let me turn somebody's off there. You can see what that does. You can change these blurs out the face. And so you can change these presets based on where you typically stand. Now as I move, you see it did not follow me. So what I'll have to do is find out the presets based on where you typically, they're hit the Enter key to stop there. Or you can click pause and then just go back a couple of frames with the back button. One of the rare times you're gonna move your left hand and then over here hit this lock button. But if it's not already blue, so that this cursor follows the main cursor and we're going to add a point there so it stays. And then I'm gonna focus on this window. Just drag it to about where I stopped moving and then come up here and click the arrow and just have it follow my face again. It's one of those things that I probably would not do this on the first pass unless it's really quick like this where I'm barely moving at all, then it's okay or even add it, but then just do a rough version and then on the second pass you can tidy it up a little and make it more tight if you want. You can change these presets based on where you typically stand there. It's, it's pixelated, blurry my face out. You can change the pixel settings if you want on the pixel script, but this is what I typically use. It looks about right on most footage, the size of the pixels for censoring and blurring stuff and not too big, not too small, It's just about right. And then here are the color grading presets that I use. Saturation adjustment color curves. Typically, I add this just blanket across the entire video. For most of my videos that works may not be the case for you. Maybe you only more on certain clips. So it's saturation adjusts and color curves just on this one clip, you'll see what it does saturation adjust. These are the settings in the preset name is subtle SUB TLA, if it's not pulling up like this, then these are the settings. I will just copy these settings amount 0.106 and then low 0.170 and high 0.034. The rest is just the default, that's it. And then the color curves is this slightly contrast, a slight boost just below the middle. And then the lows are pulled down a little bit. And I have this saved as Polish because as you'll see if I turn it off, this is what it looks like without it. This is what it looks like with it. I don't normally film in his bedroom, visiting family right now and needed to get this done. This actually isn't my normal filming setup, so it's a perfect trial because this Polish preset works in most situations, just makes it look a little more clean. And if it's too much, it's too just the wheel, but it doesn't make it so bright, a little more subtle, it just makes the darkest dark and the light is not to like a little just the right amount of contrast in saturation adjust. You can see this is without it and this is with it, but just makes a subtle, subtle pop. It makes the footage not look so flat. This is without either one of those, and then this is with both. The saturation might be a little much for you and turn it down a little if you wanted. It actually does look a little high in this room. In my normal studio setup, it's perfect, but in this room, a little much so I'll turn down the amount a little bit there. It's even more subtle and it looks good. But when you adjust these the way that looks best in your setup, make sure you save them with the name that came with the script or it won't work so subtle. And polish, all one word, all caps. Then what you can do is click the plugin chain if you don't have it already and save it as the plugin, the one I gave you is called Basic Correction HJ all caps. So you can either overwrite that with your settings or just make a new one and call it basic correction and then put your name. And usually I will add that on the entire video and you do that by coming up here. Here's the basic correction HJ, and this effective button video of output effects, this affects the entire project. So I'll just drag it right onto there. Now the entire video has that effect on it. Every track, every clip, find out what works good for you, even when I'm reacting to stuff, even the reaction clips get this subtle color curve and saturation adjustment usually looks okay and if it doesn't, then I'll just adjust it. I'll turn it down a little. That's fine, But most of the time it works. And then a couple of other scripts we have just quickly is the neon color, bright neon colors. We have the blur, Gaussian blur. So for example, t but text on the screen and have it blurred out in the background, blah, blah, blah. Or maybe over here. Like if you're reacting, doesn't, that's what that will look or maybe over here or maybe over here, like, Yeah, whatever, something like that, whatever you wanna do, do we have this script here called aspect ratio. What that does, let's say we drag this picture onto our timeline, we open up to crop it. It's not gonna be the same aspect ratio, which means if we move it around and look what's happening, it's getting cut off where the edge of the images we don't want that. So what we do is click on the clip, click the aspect ratio button. So now the width of the, the image is the same width as the video. So we can move it around, zoom out, zoom in, and it's not going to cut it off, it's going to actually fill up the entire screen. That's what we want. If you want to put a little thing in the corner, you can do that. Whereas if it was by default, even if you make it smaller, it's still going to cut off at that same spot. So it's just a little stupid thing that you have to do and you could open up this thing and then right-click and match output aspect, and that's fine, but it's just so much faster to hit the script button and that's it. And then you can find that you're doing this a lot with the same images. Like let's say you use this read excellent, and you want it in, in the upper corner every time, or maybe Subscribe button or something like that, we do is just solo the track that it's on and then hit this save button, save snapshots. It'll save a screenshot, but you want this to be PNG. It could do JPEG. That's fine if confusing if you're making a thumbnail for YouTube, but if you're saving something transparent needs to be PNG, so it's transparent and then save it wherever you saved your pictures for me, I have a PNG folder. We'll do red X in corner and then save. And then you can see it shows up in the project media, but it also will show off my PNG folder. And if I just drag that in there, now it's there and it's transparent as you see, if I'm using this one a lot, that's gonna save me a couple of clicks every time. Super easy. 14. Second Pass: Okay, So we've gone through and done our first passive editing, got our footage chopped up some sound effects and music. So we need to go through and do our second pass, which is our final pass. Hopefully for most videos, it should only take two passes. And this is where we add things like our music, extra sound effects in any details. For example, the fireball that we wanted to add, we made that mentioned there. So make sure to take care of that. I'll show you how to do a cool overlay effect as well. It's pretty quick for me. I have my folder and here's my music section. Easy way to preview all my sounds. I'm going to turn off auto ripple now so we can drop in our audio track. A great place to get music is YouTube's audio library. I pay for Epidemic Sounds so I can license music through them. It's cool. It's a good place to get music that's good that you can't find on the YouTube free music database, but you do got to be careful. I've ran into problems. For example, I have a second channel where I just upload clips of my stuff and I can't use it on there. So if I've rendered something with Epidemic Sound background or subscription services like that, I can only use it on my main channel. I can't use it on other platforms, otherwise it gets copyright flagged or D monetized or yeah, that's up to you if you want to, that route or not. But just because subtracts you like, you just need a handful of them. This one is fine. Just drag that in and there we go. When you're filming, you may actually, and of course you can click here to turn it down if you want. Wherever sounds about right? A lot of songs. This is obviously way too we're here about. I don't know if there's a lot of talking for here. I think if you're reacting to something like minus ten and minus 18 anywhere in that range. It just depends on how loud the audio is on the footage you're working with something. You can change these presets. Some of the tracks like this one I turned down to where I usually have them turned down and then re-rendered it out. So that's why this one isn't isn't so loud because I've already turned it down. You're filming. You may actually stand off to the side. Here. I usually like to have it a little bit louder at the intro and then maybe turn it down. So that's one thing you want to have a really strong intro. Every video you edit should be really captivating in the beginning and the end should end strong. You need to have a good strong ending to the video as well. If you're editing someone else's footage, just not really in your control that much how the video ends or starts, but as much as you can help it make the intro really engaging, because that's when most people on YouTube click away from the video. They get bored the first two seconds. And then obviously watching till the end is super-important for the algorithm you're editing for you to wear that has a long outro. Well, you can't do anything about that. But if you have some control and no matter, try to make the ending engaging right to the last second, almost to where it ends and people go, Oh, that was it. It'll help people stick around just a little bit longer, which the YouTube algorithm likes. Higher watch time retention time means YouTube is more likely to recommend your video. So that's something to note as an editor. The very beginning and the very end are super-important to be engaging, which is why usually have the music a little louder the first couple of seconds and then turn it down, not so loud. You can't hear the person talking, but should be upbeat. Quick, fast pace, engaging, pulling people in like, oh, this is exciting unless it's like a serious type of video. But talking about most YouTube videos here, if you want, you can even add a sound effect or something. What is added a width there, if you notice how I did that, I just double-clicked it and it went to where the cursor was. You're filming. You may actually, you can even do like go four frames and do a short little zoom here. Maybe just something really subtle, like barely moves at all. But watch your filming. You may actually stand off to see how captivating that you're filming. You may actually stand off to the side like the whip is actually a little loud. You're filming your filming. You may actually stand off to the side. It engages people visually because it zooms in just a little bit so subtle, you probably don't even notice it except now because I just explained it to. And then the music is slightly louder and there's a sound effect which should also be subtle. It shouldn't be overpowering to where people are like, oh, my ears are bleeding. It just subtle enough again, it's up to your preference and who you're editing for. Not everybody is going to want that, but you can tailor it to match their style. You want the intro to be good. It should be one of the best parts of the video. Then I just go through and watch your filming. You may actually stand off to the side here and see what see what else needs. Yeah. This was definitely too long of boring. Nothing happening for the filming. You May, I would probably zoom back out right here actually, if I were doing that, just four frames and restore and that's it you're filming. You may actually stand off to the side. Here. Maybe. And then here I would probably also a cut in and something like that here. Or maybe over here. I don't know, just changing it up because this is all what how, how far is this if you do this, by the way, you drag these brackets things the bottom right of the screen and show you how long is inside the brackets. So this is three seconds. It's three seconds. Here we go. You're filming on. You may actually stand off to the side like over here, 33 quick changes within the first three seconds. It's like one per second, and then the music kind of gets quieter. And whatever this is, just a stupid example of me showing you guys how to use the scripts. This is not actual YouTube footage, but, you know, it works and then go through. Another really important thing you want to do is use music and sound effects and silence to build tension and emotion and to really deliver punchlines. And you stack this with the video effects that you're using, the cuts IN and OUT, zooming in and out, black and white effect, whatever you're using as well as the yellow effect. I call it the yellow effect, but it's just reverb. I think I saved it as yell because I started adding it whenever I was editing and somebody would yell and it just made, it made the Yale sound better. That's why I named it yell, but it's actually just the reverb. I use that a lot, like cut the music out into the yellow and maybe cut in or a black and white or something I'll show you right now, especially if there's a punchline or the end of the sentence, or even if it's not. It's supposed to be a joke or anything funny, but just the footage is getting boring. I'll do that just to change it up. You want things to be changed up every few seconds if you can. It shouldn't be like a 15-second long cut of boring video. If you're making a fast-paced video, if that's your style, other YouTubers and your genre are doing it that way, then that's fine, That's different, but these are just general rules of thumb that most editors can apply in most situations obviously, use your own discretion for this right here, or maybe over here, you're reacting to something. This thumbs up is actually just getting in the way. I'm just gonna get rid of it for the purpose of this tutorial, let me just hit Remove effects will just reset our Eclipse. So I'll show you, or maybe over here, if your reactants reacting to something, I'll probably go a couple of frames. You zoom in, you can see right here where I start talking, you're reacting to something. I'll probably cut a little bit before I start talking and then just add a simple Zoom fast. If you're reacting to something. And then when I do start talking is about where the zoom up. Yeah, something like that. And then that looks like good place to cut the music too, because it's right before this drum hit or whatever. Remember if you click on the clip and hit S, it only cuts that clip instead of cutting everything because I don't want to cut everything. I just want to cut the music and then all either move it like that or I can scroll it back. Either way is fine so that the music does come back in. There's gonna be a moment of silence there. If you're reacting to something. Do you see that? It kind of just made a little pause. There's a little bit attention grabbing over here. If you're reacting to something, we can even add or yell, or yell preset. You're reacting to something. Maybe even do the drama filter Hunan. You're reacting to something. Like if it was a joke that would be a good place to do. The punchline is not, the footage is boring and this is just a kind of a cheap trick to keep it interesting. And it didn't really take very much time at all. But we're just polishing the footage, making sure that we're not losing people in the first ten seconds in the video here, you really want to get fancy, add some text. Just do all caps and you can go on every word if we make this bigger, you can see where the next word is. I'm going to hit S and just delete that. And now if I click on the text, the word if and control click and drag it over. It will duplicate it and say Create a new copy of source minute just hit Okay or hit the Enter button on your keyboard, whatever. And so now I have a duplicate of the word if, and I just got to click this blue button. And now that opens up, I can type in another word and do it again. If you're just sucks, no matter what program you use typing in Word succeeding to something, That's where the word Two comes in. So I'm just going to drag this out. This then open up this dialog. Something. There we go. So it should look like this. You're reacting to something. There we go. We really want to get fancy. Just hit the D button twice and highlight all the texts we just made. Hit D twice again to go back to normal mouse and then just drag the rainbow texts on. Why not? And this is final punchline or result or whatever. Maybe over here, you're reacting to something that looks really bad. Let's just make it black and white. Or maybe over here, you're reacting to something. Another thing to notice about the drama filter, even if you make it black and white after, it still makes it more dramatic looking of a black and white because of the higher contrast does not like that red filter on anymore, but it's still looks more dramatic if you do the drama and the black and white. So anyways, if you're reacting to something, that's alright, whatever you get the idea, we're just gonna do that. We're gonna go through and do the entire video like that. You can change these priests, keeping it interesting, having onto something. I am not a fan of the rainbow text on these cliffs. You're reacting to something. Maybe, maybe we'll just make it neon. So I just clicked on the neon preset and it actually doesn't affect the text, but it's just easier way of getting the color corrector on. If I change the highs, I can change it to whatever color. That's essentially how the rainbow texts works anyway. So if I weren't pink text or whatever, There we go, but it only applies to that clip. The rest of them are still white. So we can just hit Control C or right-click and copy. And now if we go to one of the other clips, which is right-click and hit Paste event attributes. And so now that has the same one, so we can just do it. You can actually just highlight all of these and now we won't have to do it once and never again. You're reacting to something. There we go. Now we have a pink text. Obviously, you can change the color of just one word if you want. If you're reacting to something, if you had done this in the beginning, you could've made a bold, change your font, change your color, all that added an outline wherever you want to do. And then when you do a control click and drag to duplicate the texts, the duplicated version will have whatever you just said. It doesn't have to be the standard texts that comes with it. All you gotta do is make the change once and then you can, even if you have a different theme for each video, just do it once and then you can just control click and drag. And you can make as many words as you want and they're all gonna be that same way you set it up to be another note about copying and pasting settings. What is this? Let's say we got the horror effect on this for some reason, few copies, this the video control C or whatever, and then go to a different clips somewhere else. Right-click V on your keyboard and it will paste the event attributes. So now it has the exact same settings. The only problem is it overwrites. Do you notice that it over it overwrote everything else that we had because we had a different effect on it. When we did that, it got rid of all of that and just added the horror thing. Another thing is if you have pan and crop, like if we had manually didn't get this boring stuff and then we paste from the other clip, it's gonna be cropped to whatever the clip we copied from. It's gonna be cropped exactly the same. So I use that a lot. Just be careful with it. Don't mess yourself up. You're reacting to something. There we go. It's on-screen. Text on screen is always really good. Here's the firewall preset, so I'm just going to go into my visuals folder here where I have a bunch of visuals I've downloaded. There's so many online, just google, just do a quick Google search. I'm not going to include any in this course because they're free and online and they're huge. They take up a lot of space on the computer. I just get them from everywhere, even on YouTube, people upload packs to YouTube and then there's a link to download whatever I have fire, but also have explosions. And again, I have the Auto preview place that I can just click on one and then navigate using the arrows up, down, left, right, whatever same naming scheme as before, I just hit the a button and then I have a section of action lines which is like these things here. B is just background things if I want to add text on screen or something. So here's fire. I know I said fireball in the marker note, but I think I want an explosion. This one looks good. If you're on the top track, you just double-click and it will go wherever the cursor is. That's cool. Sure. Auto ripples not on presets based on where you are. There's the explosion changed the alpha channel and there were three sets based on where he was actually right on my hand, that's perfect. We could change aspect ratio if we need to, but it looks like it's actually in 1080, which is great, but you can always open the pan crop, go to the very beginning keyframe. You can actually drag it out. You can't see because it hasn't appeared yet. So go somewhere where you know, the explosion is going to be, but the key frame there, it doesn't matter. You don't have to put it back. You can just go off of this, Zoom at whatever you want to do. And then it'll be like that. It'll be in that position the entire clip, unless you move it around at a different position than it creates a new key frame, as you can see, which it doesn't look bad actually on the clip and presets based on where you are. Typically the state? Yeah, that actually does the bed, but whatever There we go, There's the firewall. A really cool effect you could do is you can add another video track to the very top. Yours might be here, but mine is not. So I have to click this little hamburger menu. It says more and go to composting mode. And if you set it to light screen or overlay, you can mess around with all the different ones. Careful some of them mess the video up so you want to make sure that it looks the same if it's muted or not muted. For example, I know if you go too dark and it just makes, makes it dark if there's nothing on there. So watch, watch out for that. It looks like overlay makes, makes it look weird, but screen is fine. It doesn't actually change anything. And then if we add, let's add this explosion. You can see the explosion is kind of like see-through in a weird way. Notice that whereas if we put it on a normal track, even with the alpha channel, It's still see the difference. That's how you add certain cool effects. And let's say we want to go to the overlay. Just for that section. We changed it to darken. It. Screens black except for where to fire appears. It's a cool little trick, but then the rest of your video is dark, so you have to automate that on and off. I actually don't do that. What I do is I just render this out, just render it render as a normal video clip. And then after I've rented it out, I'll drag it back on the timeline and then I'll just delete this. Be careful though, don't delete the wrong thing. Don't mess yourself up. That's just cool little trick. That's actually how I did this effect here in one of my recent YouTube videos. This was the footage just raw and then I used I think it was the might've been the overlay setting. It was one of those ones that messes your whole thing out, but I just added some clouds. It was just a stock footage of purple clouds and it just looked really cool. And so I rendered it out. And so that part of the video, it looks like that it was super, super simple. I didn't have to mask or are keyframe anything. So that's how you do that and then just go through and edit your video. It might make sense to change the background music. It just depends on your style of editing. Typically, I do not use the same background music the entire video. It just gets too boring. If we're talking a 10-minute video, I get bored of hearing it. You don't want people getting bored. Sometimes I'll use six or 77 background songs. I actually use this as a sound effect based on where you just as a little meme or something. This is just like two seconds of it and then you can go back to your original background. You can change or pick another background track, whatever. You can change these pre, especially if it's a different section of the video. You don't want to just be boring. In this clip, if I had gone outside or something or was filming in a different location, then I would probably want to change the background music. Alright, let me show you the proper Render Settings. 15. Render Settings: All right, so you've made a huge mess of your timeline, but hopefully you have an amazing video to post the YouTube where you're going to want to do is just drag to the beginning of the video. So that's what we're going to render and see how long it is. This is only in 19 seconds, but ideally, YouTube videos need to be eight minutes long As of right now in order to have mineral ads in them, which means you make more money or the YouTuber makes more money that you're editing for eight minutes minimum, some YouTubers preferred ten or 12. You depends on your genre. We're going to hit the D button twice. We zoom out with the scroll, mouse scroll so we can see the entire project and we highlight all of our video. By the way, if you hit control and scroll, you scroll up and down. So if you had a bunch of video tracks with texts and crazy effects and stuff, scroll all the way up and highlight everything, all the video, not the audio, just the video. Then remember that shortcut button right below the escape key that one disabled resample. That mine is still set to zoom. Why did they not disabled resample? Oh, oh, I see. Because it's still set in track view to minimize track height, I don't want that. Okay, this is good that I'm doing this in front of you guys because you'll have to do this to that shortcut. We want to remove it. Track view zoom, we have to click Locate minimum truck. Yeah. Remove that. I don't want that. For some reason on global. Global was the one we missed. There we go. Now let's see if it works because if we right-click and go to switches right now it's use project, we're sample mode and hit the button. It should. There we go. Now it's disabled or sampled. Make sure you check that the first time you do it to make sure that it works, you want to do that before rendering. Now we're ready to render. You've gone through you and I made sure the music is appropriate volume, you've changed things up, done some editing, and it looks good. You've gone up here to the video output and you've added the whatever you want, you actually don't have to. This is not necessary at all. I just do this out of preference. I always add the basic correction, but you don't have to do that. We're ready to render file, render as. And then if you go here, scroll down in the formats to Sony, abc slash MVC. This is a preset I use and I'll show you how to get that if I hit Customize, you can see all the settings, this is what you want. I believe you just click on whatever Internet, make sure it's 1920 by 1080, if that's the size of the photo to your working with, obviously if you're working in 720, then click that instead. I know it says 30 frames per second, but my footage is actually 60 frames per second. If you're not sure what your footages, just select a one-year eclipse and right-click it and then go to Properties and right there understandable rate is 60 FPS. So that's how I know at least this clip and all the clips in this project because it was all on the same camera, same settings, 60 frames a second. That's what I want to render it. So File render as it shows you what it currently is, I could actually do this template, the magics, AVC, AAC, MP4. The equal sign means that this render template is equal to my project. I've actually not use the magics templates. I use a Sony Walkman, sony ABC, MVC, Let's pick Internet and June 20 and customize, make sure to include videos checked AVC, high definition, whatever yours is, mine is 1920 by 1080. Yours probably is to profile high entropy coding and frame rate right here. It's set to 30.9729. My footage is 60, as we know, 59.94 and the bit rate is set to 16 thousand. I'm gonna change that to a higher bit rate to have higher-quality. I believe that makes it take up a little more space, but that's fine. That weird number, that's just what I have it set as. And if you click on audio, make sure include audio is checked unless you just want a video track which depending on what you're working on, maybe you're making overlay effects or something, then you would uncheck that these settings are all fine. And under the Project tab, video rendering quality, I just hit Best. Definitely want the best render quality. I have progressive download unchecked, and then you can just save this as whatever you want to call it. I have mine saved as best 60 frames per second. I have a separate one saved for when I'm working on 30 frames per second footage. I also have a different one for them working on Tiktok. That's a different dimensions, but for this one I will just call it best 60 frames per second and then hit the Save button, saved a template, and then you will have a template just like this. And as you can see, there's an equal sign because it is set to 60 frames a second, just like my footage. Now when you go to render, you can actually turn these filters on, show ones the only match your project settings can just show your favorites. So here in this folder is this favorite, and there we go. Then I'll just render it, name the project wherever you want to name it, pick the folder and you should be good to go. This is the format I've been using for a long time and it does render out good-quality. But if it's not working for your machine or for what you want, feel free to mess around and make changes. It's up to you at the end of the day. 16. Assignment and Final Thoughts: Congratulations, you have almost completed this entire course. There's one last thing you have to do, and that is the assignment. You need to edit a video clip. And number one, you need to use a script. And number two, you need to use a filter packages. Those are the two things you need to do as your assignment. It doesn't matter if it's audio or video filter package and it can be a short clip like the God Mode clip example. It could be ten seconds or less. You don't have to edit a whole YouTube video, edit a short clip, and use a script and a filter package to make sure you understand the entire process. And so that I know that you understand the process. Once you're done, you need to tell me which script you use and which filter package you used. If you use a bunch, then just tell me the first one you use the first time. And if you edit any really cool YouTube videos that you're proud of, link to those as well. Thank you so much for taking my course. Hopefully you learned a lot. And if it helps you, I would really appreciate a five-star review because that would help me out a lot if you have questions or if I did a bad job at explaining something, please don't hesitate to send me a message. I'd love to hear honest feedback that could help me make these better. Thank you so much for spending this time with me and I'll talk to you soon. Bye.