Editing Altered Carbon review

I haven't felt that good since last Friday. So tomorrow's video will be like my old videos where I put less effort into. It is hard to put much effort when everything hurts and you can barely eat. So it is talking to one camera video. Couldn't find second tripod for second camera. Two cameras help in situations where you need to make jump cuts. You can crop if you shoot 4K and publish FullHD. I didn't do it this time. I tried other thing.

I made video look like VHS and transitions were VHS transitions which look like bad tape. It hides cuts little bit. I move so much cuts are quite obvious. But if I didn't it could have looked like one take. I don't have high end computer and Davinci Resolve isn't the most optimized editing software. I have done similar videos with Vegas Pro without problems. I had problems with Resolve all the time. GPU memory run out all the time. BlackMagic makes good products if you have high end computers and lot of storage space. If you don't you have problems.

I couldn't render video FullHD. For some reason Resolve couldn't handle GPU memory running low even when it didn't need to attempt anything like real time. I had to render video to 720p. It is not problem since VHS effect makes video look low res anyway. It could be problem with other videos when using intensive effects. I guess I should keep Vegas Pro installed for those cases.

This video will be first in months without new music. I could barely make the video. I didn't even attempt to make new music for it. I used music I have used most as background music. So the video is return to the old videos in that way too.

Editing Fun with Make Noise 0-Coast

Fun with videos are meant to be live performance like. I guess I have to get back to live performances with them. I wanted to add effects later with 0-Coast video. Lot of effects. I shoot video when I freeze the track when there is only the instrument and effects I want to freeze with it. If I add other effects and instruments later sound of the video I shot and the sound of the song coming out of DAW will be quite different.

It is problem when you want to sync them for the final video which is going to be released. Automated sync doesn't work and Davinci Resolve doesn't let you sync audio more than per frame level. I learned that hard way. Luckily I still have Vegas Pro which let you manually sync audio on audio rate level. Bad thing was Vegas Pro didn't have font I use in Fun with videos. Can't understand why it didn't have it.

So I had to first manually sync audio in Vegas Pro and then render the video with synchronized audio and then do the rest in Davinci Resolve. Resolve is free but that audio sync should be fixed in future versions if Resolve wants to be all in one solution. I have started to use Red Giant PluralEyes for audio sync when material has been too hard for Resolve automated sync. This time it was too hard for PluralEyes too. I had PluralEyes as autosync in Vegas Pro because it doesn't have build in auto sync.

Next time I have to shoot the video and play the instrument when I render the audio. At least when I use more effects and instruments. 0-Coast video goes over board with creative effects. It would be hard to do effects automation before playing the instrument but I guess it goes to that if I want to have effect heavy Fun with videos and sync audio automatically.

SoundSpot effects were heavily used in video. I got Oracle and Nebula from end of year sales with pretty good price. Both are good for the price I got them. But I might be bit disappointed if I paid full price for them. Both sound bit too neutral for my taste for normal price.

I moved from Vegas Pro & Hitfilm to DaVinci Resolve & Fusion

I planned to do video about this and I still might. I am not sure if I want to do videos about video editing or keep the magic on Youtube channel and talk about editing here. I mentioned about this in last post. Here I go deeper into why I made the change about two months ago. It was time when both Vegas Pro and DaVinci Resolve got new versions. I decided to give Resolve a try because Vegas Pro didn't seem to have anything new worth the upgrade price and I heard Resolve fixed issues why I hadn't made the change before. 

I have used Vegas Pro since I started to make videos to YouTube. Back then I got it cheaper since I had Sony's laptop with Sony's video editing software and it had VST support. I didn't found VST support from other software. Now other editing software have it. Resolve included. I tested Resolve earlier but stayed with Vegas Pro. Resolve used too much disc space with proxy files and it was unusable without using proxy files. That was deal-breaker. Even without it Vegas Pro more convenient and faster. New version promised to fix that.

Vegas Pro is still more convenient and faster but I moved to DaVinci Resolve. To be exact I moved from Vegas Pro and HitFilm to DaVinci Resolve and BlackMagic Fusion. HitFilm and Fusion were big reason why I made change. At the moment I am using free versions of Resolve and Fusion. I plan to go paid version of Fusion. I am not so sure about Resolve yet. Staying with Vegas Pro would have become cheaper if I buy Fusion. There was learning curve with new software but I still made the change. So what made me change the software.

Reason was quality of videos. Resolve and Fusion give more professional look than Vegas Pro and HitFilm. You can get good looking video and effects with Vegas Pro and HitFilm but Resolve and Fusion beat them in quality. Vegas Pro is easier and faster to use. Titles are also better on Vegas Pro. I miss ease of use of Vegas Pro sometimes. But having video look as it looked during color grading turn scales towards Resolve. That is not the case with Vegas Pro. Colors in video depend on what video format you use. Resolve's videos also look better on YouTube. Resolve has same or similar dials as Lightroom which I used before getting into videos. It has may important build in function which need plugins in Vegas Pro. Video stabilization being one.

Resolve is color grading software which has become video editing software. I don't think this version is quite there yet. It is close enough for me to make the move. I haven't used Fusion enough to really judge it. Based on what I have used it the interface is better than in HitFilm. Node based workflow feels so natural once you learn it. HitFilm might have something I really miss once I get deeper into Fusion and special effect. So far Fusion beats Hitfilm. I am not saying I am not losing anything I don't miss. What I would miss going back to Vegas Pro and HitFilm is the reason I am not going back.

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This was made for kvestionmovies.com. I want to talk little bit about the video. You should check it even when thumb looks bit ugly. I am not completely happy with it. It took so long to edit this video that I was too tired to spend more time on thumb.

This is my first published video with special effects. I did test before but never published them to wider audience. I did tests with Vegas Pro & Hitfilm combo. This was done with DaVinci Resolve. I will talk about why I changed from Vegas to Resolve in future.

I think this turned out to be ok even when it was my first time doing this effect in Resolve and having too little of usable footage. I tried to use manual focus with new lens. It didn't work as well as I expected. More I shot better I got at it but I didn't get enough usable footage.