 So I wanted to cover my editing workflow and how I get all my videos produced on Linux and still using Kaden Live for my editing. I've been using it for a while. I want to do some more tutorials on it. The problem is I don't do a lot of complicated things with Kaden Live. So I've been a little bit slow to get more tutorials out there. It's a wonderful video editor. It's really easy to use. It's very, very powerful. And I'm going to show you a little bit of like my editing setup and how I do things. Now I'm actually using right now OBS to record. So OBS is part of my workflow. I'm going to drag it in here so you can kind of see it. If you're not familiar with OBS, it's a pretty amazing program. It's free. It's cross-platform. So if you're a Windows user watching my videos and you go, how do you do your screencast and recording? OBS. You can use it in different platforms. Now I have it set up with different views like middle screen, left screen, right screen. And then I have three screens without me in it and three screens with me in it with the webcam here. So I got the webcam at the bottom. And because you're seeing OBS, it's not behind something. You're seeing some recursion of, you know, infinitely looking down into it. I record all my OBS streams and the Yeti microphone that I have up here. Been using it for a while. You can pick up a Yeti for pretty reasonably priced. This is the THX model. I think you can find these under $100 on eBay. I bought this one slightly used. It still came in the box. It said refurbished. Never had a problem with it. And I got it. I won the bid really cheap on eBay for them. So they're a really high quality camera. Great for doing these voice recordings. And you know, if you want to do YouTube videos, having a good microphone really important. The camera is just a standard Logitech. I can't remember the name of it. C720, I think you can, they're not expensive. Nothing real special about it and some lighting setup. So back to the actually editing and workflow. So right now this is being recorded with OBS, but we're going to first go start with a project that wasn't recorded. And it's one that was done with a series of videos that I took at a Chamber of Commerce event. So I'm going to leave it with all three screens pulled up. Now something kind of strange about Kaden Live when you are out of focus on it and versus when it's in focus, it has the third window over here. So I'll play the little thing that I did here and I'll show you what I did to create this. So in my preview clips are still here in the middle, but I drag it so I have a big high-res screen over there to view the output. So I want to be able to look at it in high-res so I can kind of understand what it's doing. So you know, this was a little car bash event they did. So then we got Marvin there. I threw a little title at the bottom and then I cut while he's talking so you have the narration here and all these other clips are muted. So we create the whole effect. And what it's doing here is all the clips are named right in here. So I'll zoom into the middle screen now. And the way they had, the way they got all these names was, and I just dragged them and dropped them in, I download all the clips right out of my camera. I play each clip and figure out which one's which. You know, which one that's it. So I had one that's called Bacon, Beer, Beer IIs. I took pictures of beer cans. The DJI ones, I don't need a name. I know DJI is my drone video. So I had two different drone shots that I included in this. And then I have, I have one I labeled narration and these two, they were kind of useless so they didn't even get named. They didn't even get dragged into the project. And then all you have to do from there, drag over the files, let them go on top of there and then they're here. And then you can preview them and figure out, okay, where do I want to start? So I'm going to drag one way over here. And I just drag them in and I'm going to go back to three screen mode so you can see. And I drag and figure out, okay, where's it going to start? And then I put that at the bottom tracks. That's going to be for the narration part. So that's this bottom track that you see here. And with the bottom track, that's the whole narration. Then each one of these, I drag the mute over to. So like, I have this one, the effect is mute and when you drag effects on there's really easy. You just go over here, mute, and it'll double up effect if you want to apply effect twice because at two different ratios or anything like that. That's easily support and came live. So I mute all these other top ones across here. This is the title clip. And then the title clip is just their logo for the Chamber of Commerce that we put on top. Now this is where when you're doing the interaction to make sure it kind of let me put it to three screen so you can see the preview. We're all just put it there we go. So I wanted it to fade over here so it kind of fades in and out. And fades away. Now there's a little trick to doing that when you're setting up the fades when you want some of the things to come over the top on there. And the way you're I'm doing that is the dissolve is what I'm doing. So you're I did a dissolve, but you have to choose what it interacts with. So it's interacting with video to because video to is over the top of the narration video. But on the last part I have it interacting with video one because I want it to dissolve into that video because they're at different layers on there. So you got to make sure that so this one dissolves there this one's all there pretty easy to do. And then with the title clips. They are I didn't name this one because there's only one but there's multiple title clips where I want to put an overlay things on there. You just take and drag a PNG in here. I'm sorry not drag it because it doesn't support drag and drop but you add image find the PNG which I threw in there their logo is actually a PNG on your website is downloaded it and throw it in there but you can use any other tools to create and manipulate the photos drag the put the PNG near and then to give it some contrast. I just drew a rectangle with the rectangle tool up here so you could just add a rectangle and then you can set the color of the rectangle and the alpha blend on it. So I didn't want a solid rectangle I wanted a semi transparent and I wanted it underneath so you can go up here to the top where it says the index and hit down and it puts it at the very bottom. So I'm cancels I don't really want to make that change this so it's pretty straightforward and then you just drag a few fades in here so I fade between all the different cuts as it goes through. And Marvin you know is doing the narration at the bottom and when he mentioned some things so I listen to the narration and where he mentions things I add at that point a shot of it so he talks about the beer available at this event so we cut to the beer scene you know other time it's when he's not saying anything that's visually relevant because he's talking with his hands a little bit then I'll reference back to the drone shot and that's what these are here so I can reference the shots I got there he mentions the word bacon so I reference to the bacon shot here. So it's pretty straightforward when I'm doing the editing and you know it's not not real complicated so I haven't done a lot of tutorials it looks a little bit complicated of all she was dragging across timelines and doing there I don't really do much more than some dissolve fades and things like that's just to get the point across because you know there's plenty people are really good at editing and really talented and they're do some amazing stuff I just really haven't taken the time to do that because as long as I get my YouTube videos done I've kind of stopped and okay that's good enough for now maybe I learned some advanced stuff later. Now I'll show you a little bit of how we do the OBS ones so when we do the OBS ones and say nope I can see any changes on here you'll notice that the video is split and the reason why and if you can see this it says offset five there is a five frame delay to get the audio synced up with this and the way you do that's actually pretty easy so I'm going to start a new project and show you what this and the five frame delays because I run at 30 frames a second and when I record with OBS it seems to cut the audio I play with the delay settings inside of OBS didn't work it's not it's easier to split it split the audio so when I first get something done in OBS and my OBS folder here where it records things will drag see which videos this one yes why did so I drag it here and then you right click on the video and you're going to say split audio and then it's quicker if I just use the mouse and control to zoom in all the way however you want to zoom in it doesn't matter and I'm going to ungroup the clips so they're now two separate entities and then I count frames five frames over just drag this and I know it's a five-frame offset now that that's just going to vary based on your system your setup your computer but this is how you split the audio out if you need to for OBS because it's annoying if the voice isn't synced up with what I'm doing that's that's a weird thing like watching someone talk but the audio is off it's it is really annoying I've accidentally done it a couple times I publish videos so I try to be very conscious and do this so once I have this and then you select the clips again hold the control key to select both clips and then I go ahead and group the clip back together now the reason you group it is because I'm going to start slicing and dicing in here so I go to the cut tool and I'm going to slice out the beginning and say nothing I just usually let it you know search roll in get myself composed and I'll start playing a video but other times or maybe another clip you go I don't want this in here so you take that out if I didn't have it grouped I would be having to line up and drag this especially if I did something like this and put another video in between or anything like that you want to make sure that this stays aligned that's why did the grouping of the clips so it's really straightforward for editing like that and most of the time when I'm doing these tutorial videos you know on firewalls or anything like that where I'm using OBS as a screen capture I just go in here and clip out things that are irrelevant I watched the peaks and say okay can I cut this out if I really paused or ummed it's one of those things like okay I just got to take this part out now another thing I do maybe notice maybe you don't I leave long pauses when I screw up and then I cut it out and try to remember where I left off and I think I get it pretty accurate but I part of the quality testing I'm doing is going through here and making sure that okay is that good or not like okay I screw that up I said this wrong so I'll leave a long pause so I don't have to start the video over and that's how I know that's the edit point the other option is going through and writing down the minutes and seconds of when I did something the hardest part about that is we start clipping things out of the inning you've now offset the minutes at the end so kind of my recording tip I do screw up I don't just rip these well sometimes I do if I get lucky rip them in one set without any pauses without any stopping without any breaks but a lot of times there's pauses there's breaks there's me pausing to make sure I pull up a screen off to the other side and look at the specs I sometimes put a couple notes if I have to read detailed specs or like a CV vulnerability or some some really specific detail that I want to make sure I'm accurate on I'll actually pause and I got my phone in front of me and I'll look at the phone read the number again and I just leave a pause in there and that way I know I cut out the pause cut out me looking at the phone and keep the video going also if you sneeze or something like that this is helpful just leave a long pause makes it easy to find in a video and I know there's at least one long pause towards the end here I think in this one maybe not but I just look for those that way you can just quickly find the spot that you paused and cut it out for editing without having to start the whole project over so that's kind of the basics for how I get the video done how do we the video recording nothing real complicated there the next thing we do is I'm gonna grab a screenshot of things to build my thumbnails because in YouTube is important to build good thumbnails because you want them to be contextually important not just randomly generated because YouTube will pick a frame and you know and then let you choose but that's not the best way to do it and I used Photoshop for the longest time and I'm still not a big fan of GIMP but I got good enough at GIMP in order to make this happen so I bust up my trustee screenshot tool let me pull it up put it over to the right window here and I grab a screenshot of whatever we're doing so I'll pull these up so this is just a screen grab from it so when I'm editing and we put it back to three screen for you real quick so to I say okay maybe I want that screen you'll see it over here in the right and then I just use the screenshot tool and I haven't set on a timer on purpose I'll show you why and now that has grabbed a screenshot of that and then I can quickly edit the screenshot if I need to do something in here like you know put an arrow or something things like that this is now the first piece of it so I grab screenshot now the other time the screenshot tool is really handy and the reason it's not a countdown is if I have to show you a menu for something so if I wanted to show you the control menu here we are going to go ahead and grab a screenshot and I want to grab it of this enter and a delay reaction of the reason I have it set to a two second timer is so then I can grab a screen grab of something like a menu or a context menu just have to help some websites where I want to show something in motion so to speak and you hold it open to give you the idea of that it's there so that's kind of the reason for the delay other other things is so the mouse over when you do drag it over doesn't get kicked off and that can be a pain in a butt to like a mouse over on a YouTube video where you get the tile I only want a screenshot of the YouTube video in instead of the little the play button and things like that so by doing it and letting it fade for two seconds it'll fade out the tools on there now the other way I do this is and grab a window and drag it over here is you know needing logos for things and stuff like that so Google logo and we just do a quick image search so from talking about a company I can just grab their logo from them this one's animated I want an animated one and I can either use a screen grab or we're gonna show you how I do this in GIMP so let's open up GIMP real quick so I pretty much don't use GIMP for anything but this so here's the clip I made for that Citron research video and everything's just a series of layers so I don't touch these top layers that I have in here there make sure webcams out of the way these top layers up here I don't really mess with so we're gonna go ahead with this one I see it says Citron exposes that's the text layer this is my logo this is a bottom template and then here's the clipboard one clipboard to so we're gonna purge that clipboard purge that clipboard and if we want to edit the text I just go down here my video editing workflow will actually do this video why not well I can't really do the screen grab for it why could do some things I'll do a couple things here giving an idea so I'm using Linux and Caden live well I guess about things right see Linux we need some commas in here Linux and comma Caden live comma GIMP comma what's the screen tool shutter so well I'll finish this I'm just gonna make sure you guys have an idea now along the way in case it crashes and seems to be pretty stable but it doesn't crash often so I'd save that now case I want to put more things in here so we're actually gonna downsize the text a little a bit like this and put the word using here then I'll go down the bottom using it and shutter I pretty much the tools I use for almost all my videos and you know we gotta add OBS in here OBS put a comma all right now eventually now I gotta go pull the logos for those things I kind of like I said I like having the logos on there and this is where it gets pretty easy for doing this again and normally I do this on my split screen I'll just keep it on one screen for you but let's say we want the Caden live logo getting live view image and it's a PNG file you can see here so we're just gonna go copy image go over here to get at it paste as new layer simple really easy to do now this is where it gets a little confusing normally I'm used to Photoshop or I can just grab bars around it and resize it you have to use the scaling tool in GIMP and then by default the scaling tool isn't synced so I want it synced so if I do scale it I don't want to screw up the logo like that so do this do this and then I can adjust and scale it so it doesn't skew the logo into some unusual sides and I click scale and away we go then I go back over to this tool then I can manipulate it move it around wherever I want so you know I'm just pasting each one as a new layer so I don't have to download it off the internet or anything that which is actually pretty handy so I can just go here now we're gonna grab the OBS logo like this one it says open broadcast software copy image edit paste as new layer of someone knows a shortcut key to paste as new layer let me know because I see how it there control should be pasted but it doesn't do it as a new layer doesn't do what I wanted to do so yeah that so one of those little details of you know some shortcuts if I'm doing something you know hey Tom there's a better way like I said I'm still learning GIMP and still getting better at it I want to keep everything in Linux especially can because Photoshop really easy to do this and I would probably I could do things so much faster in Photoshop and put some effort in here to learn GIMP so then we get the OBS logo shutter logo but you get the idea that you go through here and then that's how I create the thumbnails now the other step that's going in there basis new layer move this down here the other step is exporting it now it saves it in a format that's a GIMP format so you're not able to do that and I don't save my thumbnails like you see if you see the name at the top here it's YouTube 2017 template GIMP dot XCF that's the GIMP format file for that it's 1280 by 720 which was the recommended as I understand for 2017 size for a thumbnail for YouTube and so when I'm done I export it and I title it workflow for editing in Linux and I just drop that to my data drive I have a bunch of different folders and things like that but I drop it right to the data drive and hit export yep and standard PNG format when it's done and then when I do my YouTube upload I go through and you know rendered a video export the video to the video folder and then this I don't really keep a lot of my I don't keep any of the templates like once I edit this and I edit and save over again I keep the output results because they're not that important I rarely go back to a thumbnail and go oh man I you know want to redo this thumbnail so I'm not big on say I used to save all of them then I realized I just had piles and piles of everything and I'm like this is useless the same with the videos right now I'm only keeping about six months of source so the source material that went into it unless it was a special project and I think is worth saving most of my videos I do not keep the source for for lack of knowing what to do with that I was archiving it and you know you're you're creating terabytes and terabytes of data almost like I could you know I'm very big on redundancy so if I'm going to save it I save it everywhere I make double copies and then when you have like nine terabytes double copies you're like I now have a hard drive collection and what am I do with all the source footage I save only the output footage of editing and one of the reasons why is for example when I do my larger projects with clients that go on for you know maybe a few months like a big wiring job we end up with and it's it's all those funny things we're producing a huge volume of data with all the time lapse cameras but it's not all useful we just shoot it all and then I organize it all and say what's worth keeping and the rest of it you can scrap sometimes the camera looked at nothing for a long time or it just was not interesting it wasn't worth adding to the video so I come back to it and I go yeah this isn't a this isn't really worth keeping so that was a lot of what my source footage would be so yeah hardly became worth duplicating all of that now a little piece of my workflow though that is going on actively because of the fact that some of these projects take weeks to complete all of my video folder on my local computer is synced up with sync thing to our rate just for all my videos so even as I save this it's re-syncing as I rendered out any of these videos it's re-syncing it on there as I download cards it gives me confidence because a lot of people have done this where they download a card to the computer and they go all right and I'm going to use this card again somewhere in between before you get around the editing before you before you get to go back up the hard drive down to your computer now you don't have either you're like crap I lost it all so in fear of that as I was in you know because my computers could be a single point of failure it's just constantly as my computers running syncing everything to the server so I don't have to think about it so I don't mind dumping a card and reusing it and I have several cards I try to hold on to them until they're edited but sometimes I got more stuff to shoot and it's going on for weeks so it's kind of the general editing workflow for this and then when I'm done I just you know upload it to YouTube which I don't think I need to show you how to do that that parts the easiest part of all this but you can see quickly you can build these little templates and this is all open source this is all you know Caden live Gimp and shutter running I'm running this on Katie Neon but you can run this on Ubuntu or most any other Linux distribution of your choice and it'll run pretty smooth on there I've really been happy with how it works in Caden live or Katie Neon and Caden live the theme seemed to work really good together and it's been just smooth as so the latest iterations of Caden live have become very very stable like the software all the editing work I used to be like a religious saver saver clicking save all the time and I don't have to seem to do that as often because it just doesn't crash like it used to but that's it for kind of my workflow and how I get things done I guess I could show I got another one of how to clean up audio and audacity I'm not going to get deep into audacity in this video I have another video already covered doing some of the audio cleanup but if you have a good microphone not much of a need for it the only time I've ever had to do audio clamp is when I when something gets messed up and there's like some background noise that has to be edited out then I will break out audacity for that and but I did a separate video already and so I'm not going to cover the topic again but the pro tip on audacity is you can actually it supports drag and drop so you can actually take the video you edit it and drag it right on top of audacity and it'll import just the audio then you can process it export it and in that video I believe I left the script and I'll leave a link below to it that you can re-merge from the command line and put them back together or you can if you want split out audio and then import it back as a second track so I had some audio that was really tricky to edit so I actually pre-processed the audio and audacity and then merged it back together and Kaden live and you can drag audio files and Kaden live and they work just fine so hopefully that gives you an idea of the editing I do if you have questions comments or you think you'd like me to expand more on one thing I other than the little tutorial I gave you that's my basic usage of Gimp I have not gotten much better than that edit yeah it's a lot for me to learn still because after using Photoshop for at least 15 years maybe longer probably longer I think I started Photoshop yeah it's 2017 so I started learning Photoshop like 99 98 so after spending that many years in Photoshop it's not that it's Gimp just it's a very different environment so I've done everything I can to make it a little bit more photo like find all the equivalencies and that's usually what I do is I start with how to do this and Gimp like Photoshop and some of the YouTube searchers there's a few YouTubers out there that have some great Gimp tutorials that are really well done and they know Gimp very very well so look for those if you're finding you can usually find a good tutorial on Gimp of how to get something done and but this is the basics of I figured out how to do the layers I figured out how to right-click and drag in there so I can quickly create the thumbnails and get processing done this also allows me to get videos done really fast because I don't have to spend a ton of time jumping between virtual machines like I did before with okay I've got to spin up my virtual machine just so I can run Photoshop so I can get a thumbnail made you know anything that adds to my workflow time cuts down time that's just not as productive so but happy to get it all in here all right well thanks for watching if you like the content here like and subscribe and have a great day