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All right now back to the video okay, and live is an open source video editor that is cross platform and Primarily it was Linux only first, but they have added over here in the download section windows support As well, and they seem to have some Mac OS ports. I don't use Mac at all It's been a while since I tried it on windows I may try it again sometime now that they've got a new version out. Maybe it's gotten a little better I we find a little bit more buggy on windows and yes in the past It was quite buggy even on Linux, but I've worked through it And like I said after using it for a thousand videos and watching all the improvements over the years It's become a very very stable project. I preferred way to run it is through app image So that's the way we will be launching this if you're not familiar with the app image instead of installing the entire program You can download a single app image and run it from there as in all the different supporting libraries are compiled into a single Image and image that you run. So this has been the preferred way. So you don't have to really deal with any conflicts and Modern systems facing a bunch of we have no problem running app image. So that's pretty easy out of the box Version 20 is packed with a lot of features and it just came out here in April of 2020 And there's a lot of things to go through you can go through all their previous news Releases to see like all the little different details and changes over time But there is a lot of features inside the game live and this latest version contains a ton of bug fixes and enhancements So let's get started. I want you had a like how I edit So I certainly wouldn't have time to cover in this video all the features I also don't use or know all of the features of game live I know the ones I know very well for what I need to get done to get the editing done The other thing is I know and I'm aware that other video editors exist and people always will then leave a comment saying What about and I just don't have time to try them all and learn different workflows I've been using Kaden live for like I said a number of years with over a thousand videos I don't plan to change my workflow I especially don't plan to ever change to a proprietary one unless there's some absolutely compelling reason to do so and right now I can't come up with a compelling reason to do so so I'm sticking with the open source Kaden live This screen right here shows what I'm running on my system, which is Papa West 1910 With a AMD Ryzen 9 3900 X 12 cores if 32 gigs of RAM Now the reason I bring that up is because that question is like hey Tom It seems to run smooth for you, but doesn't run smooth for me Well, these are the specs of my system that I've been using for editing I've got a build video I can link to as well for this particular system in more depth of detail But you get the idea that it's a reasonably fast Ryzen 9 system with 32 gigs of RAM and we're gonna run Kaden live via app image from the command line Now normally this is my view Which is laid out in three screens now this would be hard for me to present So I'm going to do it. I'll show you just real quick It looks like when I open something so if we go here I usually stretch the project out across the middle screen and then from there I can do all my editing and the screen to My right is where I'm actually watching the video and the project monitor, but for simplicity sake We're going to and to make this a lot easier to load We're gonna pull load layout and choose one screen and then makes this a whole lot easier present for YouTube So now we'll consolidate everything to one screen We're also gonna start a new project here So we'll start with a clean project to get you the idea of exactly How to get started with Kaden live and some of the editing tools that I use now I'm gonna drag over here, and this is my Dell part 2. I think I got one in there cool Here's a video I have and the first thing it did was asked me if I'd like to switch to project now I started a new project at HD 1080 30 frames a second and this project is at 19 20 1080 60 frames a second you can mix content of different frame rates It doesn't have a problem handling it But if there's no other content and you add content that doesn't match the project with nothing else in it It'll offer to switch we're just gonna head and switch up the project to match First thing it does there's a little pause and it rendered really quick to render the audio So now we can drag this down I get an audio track and a video track And you can see this is like the beginning of that video where I start out But don't really have much to say on this prepping So we'll go ahead and clip that out, but I want to show you all the shortcut keys So you can use the keys here the razor tool or The Selecting tool to cut but it's way easier to use keyboard shortcuts And I'm gonna load a little tool called screen key that will display each key I'm typing on the bottom of the screen so you can kind of follow along without me having to say press this press that All right, so all the windows are draggable and we have the project monitor and a clip monitor So the clip monitor is so I can have and let's just drag in one more clip And we'll drag in I have no idea what's in this clip. Oh Me starting me starting the video accidentally starting over But this is where I can take this click on one of these clips and I can play the preview clip project monitor Which I normally like I said have dragged to a screen over to the right is where you actually see the project that you're Working on and now you can see the keys. I'm pressing so I press s to bring it over to select and I can drag through this and figure out where I want to start So first thing I want to do is get rid of the dead space in the beginning where I hit record But didn't say anything so switch over to x What I did was I clicked right where the mouse was and I go back over to s Press the delete key and I'm just grabbing and dragging and sliding it over now what this did was so now The video starts here pretty simple now holding the control key and scroll on the wheel It won't show that on the screen, but that's what lets you zoom in and out of Here now one things when you zoom in and out you right away see well There's gaps and this is one of the things I do in my videos a lot is take those gaps out So we're gonna go through here and I see this gap. It's me pulling something up So I'll zoom in just a little so I can get a little closer so I can see where the audio starts and stops And then we're just gonna press x We'll go here and we'll scroll it over a little more to rate. Well, you can't see it's behind me. They scroll like this There you go There then I press s again select delete Drag these closer together now another option and this is an important thing I just dragged this closer like that, but what if if I had and we'll just back over to s We're gonna cut another piece out like this. We'll go here and Select this one and switch over to x cut Cut s Delete and we left a gap right here, and then let's close that gap So if I drag this it's gonna drag that so the another option is if you've got further tracks down there But you just created a space right here and even if that space and we'll drag this one up like this to another track If we say remove space from all tracks when you cut something out you can do that And it'll just bring it over out of habit. I'm used to dragging them But there is that method that works as well in case you've edited further down Now the other thing I do and a lot of my editing is speed things up There are times when things are loading on the screen and well that's just kind of boring to watch So we're gonna find some loading screen where I'm doing some type of tests like right here Now the way I do that is really simple. We're gonna go here We'll pick the beginning of it and say alright This is where I start testing and this is where I end it and we'll go Scroll in just a little bit more. So I'm getting it to the right spot X for the cut tool We'll cut there and we'll cut here So this is the part where the test runs and I went back to select for us Have it just so I know exactly what it is I drag it up to another track and if you wanted to add more tracks This is insert track we could import another track above if we needed more tracks just like that But I won't that's a control Z done do that And I'm gonna ungroup these because I don't want the audio now It does have them will show you when you change speed here you can do pitch compensation so you can play something faster without screwing the voice up too much and That's an option for me. It's just a test running. I'm not seeing anything anyways So we're going to Ungroup these particular clips. So we'll ungroup clips Then I'll grab the bottom one delete We'll take the top one click on it and then we're gonna say change speed Let's change it to 2000% Which obviously makes it run a lot faster than we'll just drag this over to here now when Doing this and if you've watched this channel for a while, you notice this is a lot of the ways I do the test we go over here and when we click play what it's going to get to is You know, it's how it ran real fast. We're still running real fast But there's no continuity difference in it So it smoothly transition because all that did was speed that up and go back We didn't actually transition to it at all We just sped up those particular frames and we can go even faster So maybe I think that's too long to wait for that test to run and we'll change this to 4,000 there we go Now it's gonna run at 4,000 speed Now you'll see my system skipping a little bit when it does that but it still plays it relatively fast And of course the final one it goes surrender will be perfectly fine. Now. What about dragging in different clips and getting them To fade back in and out of each other, let's let's show what that looks like So if we have two clips and we'll drag another one from somewhere else, let me go find some more data Let's look at the studio What do I have in the studio probably this one's got something in there? Yep, there's me actually sitting at the table And what if we wanted to fade between there? So we want to go from this but instead of a hard cut over to here Let's do it this way. Scroll over here. Actually, I want to get rid of it. So Let's just cut some of those little pieces out like that Drag it over. I'm a zoom in a little more and I left us a little bit of gap of silence So you can see where the silence overlaps from one to another and all they did was drag it up to an upper track and Say, alright, the sound stops here and starts here and let's do a nice fade the easy way to add a fade Right here. There's a lot of composition options. You can go crazy with it and stack them all together I just generally use a fade so I'm not going crazy But they do have a lot of options so you can get all You know video editing style where you do different swirls and patterns and things like that I'm not much into video editing myself. So I don't do all these It does have slide options where you can slide one frame into the other and move them back and forth and like I said You can get crazy with the transitions. I keep it simple and just do a wipe So if we hit play we'll watch how that previews So it'll go here and then I'm talking away and then it just fades into the next scene now I grab that fade Probably a little bit long, but you kind of get the concept. It's easy enough to fade That's kind of your own opinion how to do that. We'll may fade them right here instead And away we go. So now it fades a little bit faster. That looks a little more reasonable. Let's see So talking talking then we fade into the next scene And you can slice up any piece of video and move them between different tracks pretty simple going back and forth Now what if you wanted to add like a title to this? How does that work? Well pretty simple Now you can add all kinds of different assets in here and actually we pull some more up and drag them in So Sophos XG. Yeah, that one didn't have anything new Oh good. I had something in here for vdevs. I think I had a picture of something. Oh just this You can this is just a png that is formatted at the same resolution 1920 1080 And it does understand transparency. So when you drag something like that on here Just like an image which that's a horrible scene to drag it on to let me find something darker They move to a darker section of the video Because it happens to be in white. Oh, let's see here There we go If I drag it over this scene You can see that it's just some white text Now the reason I have white text and a png like that is sometimes it's easier Well, at least I think it's a little easier if I need to do something in a png and drop it over I will I'll create it externally and uh gimp and bring it in But the other thing you can do is add a title clip the title link on this is not great, but this This is a text Text title. All right, and we'll Go ahead and just uh move it there Uh make it Red there we go hit okay And we can just go drag this over And you can see it's on top of this particular one So the tracks composite from top on down and we can even uh just by dragging it They're now this lasts longer and if we wanted it to fade in we can do the wipe in So it fades in like that. So pretty simple to do the tiling now If you need to edit that particular title and something it's just kind of a pain because of the way this works If we go here to add a clip You notice it's not showing me the video behind it. You actually have to do this you have to drag it Now it's down lower. So not particularly great when it comes to titling. This is a very weak spot I'm aware of it. But then again, I don't really need a lot of my titles for my tutorials It's just usually some text if I have to throw it in there Mostly I'm sharing step by step what I'm doing on the screen and screen recording So this part doesn't bother me much that it's missing. It'd be cool if they had some animated titles in here they have ways to very basic to slide back and forth with animation, but There's not a whole lot in there for that But let's go ahead and show one more thing. So if we have Picture and a picture type thing. So now we've dragged two videos, but we don't want them to Overwrite each other. We want one to be in the corner of the other now. I'm normally doing this OBS So it's not like I have to have it done that way and actually let me Delete that because we can probably just take the talking head of me here well trim There's me talking head at that part of the video. What if I wanted me instead of talking head there We're gonna go in go to the effects So right now it's like there's two videos me in the corner Let me talking on top, but if we can go here to zoom Position and zoom and you just drag the effect you want down to here So now we've dragged position and zoom over here You notice now we have this little part here and we have a zoom. So that's actually instead of zooming We're going to zoom out by calling it 20% Then I can drag me wherever I want now. Well, there's no video below me I'm there, but when there is video you can see that I'm here. So you can now drag these around And reset it up. So if you needed to composite a couple different videos at different scales different sizes You could do it like that. That's another that's another option to do it now It does support and this is consistent across most of the effects is key framing And that's what this is when a key frame is it says let's start it Zoomed right here, but what if we didn't what if we wanted to Go here And then go here and each of these are key frames, which means we want to do something different at this frame. So frame zero 100 But then frame here We wanted at 20. So let me show you what happens. Now we hit play and I come in And slowly work my way and you can see them the numbers moving here down to the other key frame to a different size So we'll go back over here and we'll drag this key frame over here. So let's zoom in really fast So we'll go here And that zooms in a lot faster. So all depends on where you want to put those key frames and of course you can Make it even faster by doing this make them really close together And you get a different effect now if you wanted this video and we'll actually choose it here and we Put it so we got to get right on that key frame. There we go We can drag it in the preview as well. So we'll drag it right to this corner like that actually, we'll just Zero zero you can type in the numbers as well. Now when we play it we Start there Lands all the way over in a corner here. So pretty Pretty straightforward on how to do that now The other things you can do inside of here is of course some color grading and color adjustments. Those are also Different effects you can apply. They're all kind of In here. So like they're grouped together like alpha transform if you want to do gradients chroma key Data analysis rose coping. There is some motion tracking that can be done Game controls so you can correct the audio and fix if you're Like me sometimes if I pull in different sources to composite a bigger video together Then some was recorded on one device and some on another. Yeah, there's going to be some audio You have to match you have the ability to adjust the gain on any individual And any of these effects can be dragged over And what they refer to as a master effect where you drag it to that track Therefore everything on that particular track will go on that video So you don't have to like apply it to everyone individually Another nice thing though is applying things individually if you and let's go ahead and go back over to the effects And you can stack effects on a single video So we'll go ahead and get rid of positions and I don't want to do that Let's say we wanted to recolor grade this video Now the reason I'll do a lot of color grading is I don't think it helps my tutorials any also I think the video looks pretty good coming out of my main studio camera I have it kind of dialed in to get the right contrasts that I want But if we needed to make some adjustments And we'll look for color Let's say we want to A gamma adjustment that's something simple So go back over here. There's our gamma adjustment. There's our same key frames and Maybe I want to fade up. Maybe the beginning of the video Was better than the end so we start there Start there and then we'll say Here's the gamma for this part of that. We've got to get it right on the key frame So there's the gamma normal We could say the gamma is at Really low here, but then from here to here Gamma is really high and what will happen as it plays through this video It'll slowly increase the gamma as this goes across until it gets to the Darker one and then we swap it back over to light. You kind of get the idea you can go through here Now the other thing you're able to do is Drag the little lines inside of here for the adjustments for some of the effects too So you can kind of go through and there's ones for the volume too If you're having a volume up and down You can slowly do key frameable volume the same way and adjust them To kind of find your detail on there. There's also ways you can View this and expand these tracks out bigger how these are small like this or bigger Depending on how many videos and how much stuff you have that you've got pulled up So let me close that close that Let's say we're ready. We've got this video done We've got the fades in there and we'll do a fade out as well The nice thing is when you want to fade it out you can just go here And it fades out just clicking in the corners like one of those shortcuts to be able to click it in there And if you go to the effects, it just added the fade out and you can Adjust the duration Pretty easily So we have a fade out effect right here Pretty straightforward. All right, and we want to render it. So how do we finally get this project rendered after we're done? Well, pretty simple. We're going to go ahead here and choose mp4 the dominating format works great for youtube Uploads very well renders very fast And this video is uh, like see how many minutes do we have a video? So we got about 10 minutes of video a couple cuts couple fades really not much in here But let's go back over to render There's a couple different options in rendering if the first time you're on kaden live Click on more options. Make sure you have however many threads your system has make sure you have that many threads in here If that's what you want, uh, generally you want your rendering to go faster. So As many threads as possible. That's important quality 23 192 seems fine for what i'm doing No problems And there's two different buttons here render to file or generate script Generate script is not something i've explored much, but it actually has the ability to generate an mlt script for Taking all the assets and creating a script to render them with and then you could push them over to another server And actually render them on a separate server. So it's definitely an option in there But this being a reasonably fast rise in nine system. It takes no problem to render. So we have 10 minutes of video We're going to hit render to file I just left it untitled. I could have called it whatever In 10 minutes of video it says it's going to take three minutes to render It usually takes a little less it overestimates almost all the time We're just going to show though It is properly multithreaded and grabs up all the processors to get this video rendering done It says three minutes and uh Let's just wait and i'll actually fast forward this part of the video to show you just how fast it renders Okay, this one actually took a little bit longer than estimated about four minutes and 31 seconds to render this particular video There's Reasonably, I would say for every, you know, 10 minutes of video It does take under half the time basis the number of minutes when i'm editing my video But that's without color correction and all of my videos are pretty much exclusively at only 1080 not 4k once you go up to 4k the rendering does go up a little bit and i'll show that real quick So we're going to start a new project Okay, I'll drag in a couple drone videos for my test so that we're at 4k You can ask me to switch the project to match the 4k so hit switch it's going to check these these are drone videos. They don't have audio Drag one of these in real quick And uh, let's see we'll just cut a section of it and see how fast it renders from here to here drag this over And we have About three minutes of 4k video and by the way, it does play relatively fast on this this system That's also why I showed the specs at the beginning. It has no problem playing the 4k It also does have a down sampling option for if it's slower plus you can do preview rendering There's a few other features that are available in this. Let's go ahead and just make sure to leave that back at one to one So I don't forget render We'll call this one Tesla 4k test render Let's see how fast I can edit 4k. So we've got three minutes of video See it ripping through all the processors. Once again, there's nothing but a couple cuts in here. There's not any Real intense work going on in terms of color grading or anything like that And we'll see how long this takes all right and rendering Uh, three minutes and 21 seconds of 4k video took about three minutes and seven seconds And I really wanted to bring that part up because I've had a couple of people and under my last Kaden live videos and people messaged me on this saying they couldn't get 4k to work at all inside of here It's not something I really had a problem with. Uh, I mean obviously 4k takes more time to render But it still gets the job done and if you do any type of color grading Well, that's going to be a whole that will take a lot more processing power You know speed of your processor and all that will vary but it is capable of doing it So hopefully this will get you started youth kaden live and maybe later I'll try it in windows to see if it works But you can too it's the same program if you download the App image I just remember in the past it crashed a lot more in windows But in linux it's been very very solid and running it as an app image And I've been using it as an app image for quite a while now and like I said most all the videos I think Almost 100% of the videos on my channel like only a handful aren't done with kaden live I did some work with a tool called open shot a long time ago It just doesn't compare to kaden live and features and everything else I'm still only covering a very little bit of what this program can do There's so many more features that I just don't use and they're not part of my work folks are not really necessary But it is a pretty full featured program and you can't beat the price of it So being fully open source and free. 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