Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “How to shoot and edit vertical video for IGTV on DSLR with Vegas Pro”.
Hello, I’m Robin Vincent and welcome to multi music technology today, we’re talking about Instagram television, we’re talking about. There are two cool videos. How do you do that? How do you make a vertical video but of the high quality for the new Instagram telly? Because it’s all very well making it on your phone, that’s fine, but is that the level of quality that we’re after you know, if you’re trying to put out a decent video of the music that you are making or something of that nature? You don’t really want. Ten minutes of shaky cam and poor quality phone audio, that’s alright for a one-minute clip on Instagram, but for Instagram telly, you kind of want to do something, a bit more special, and so for that I want to be using my SLR camera. So in this quick video, I’m going to show you how to shoot a vertical video on your SLR and edit it in Sony, Vegas or any other piece of editing software and send it up to Instagram telly. It’S not hard, but it’s taken me all morning to do my first one, so I thought I would share my experience with you to make it easier for other video content creators to get it done.
Is it a good thing? Is it a good format or I have absolutely no idea, but let’s give it a go? So your next question, then, is: how do you set up your vertical shot? Well, if you’ve got a posh tripod like I have here, it actually has no facility to flip over, because what I want to do is mount my camera this way around, rather than usual, this way around. So how do I achieve that now? You may well have a system either something which plugs on the bottom or a tripod which does flip up and makes that easy. But what I’ve done here is simply loosened it and push the whole thing up onto its side like so and then attach the camera.
Here I had to put the tripod plate at 90 degrees to how I normally do it in order to get this to work like so only problem now is that I don’t have any tilt. I can pan from side to side, but I have no tilt so in order to cope with that. I have to put this at a slightly different angle so, though, I’m pointing down slightly, it goes back into there, so it’s now panning and viewing my modular system, which is what I’m attempting to film at a much better angle. So there’s just a quick tip there.
I’M sure there’s plenty of other camera experts out there who can give you more advice, but this is what we’re going to use to shoot our vertical video. Now you could shoot in landscape and then you know crop it, but then you’re wasting all of the resolution of your camera. You want to use the whole lot and so a vertical filming approach like this is definitely the answer. So you’ve taken your film.
Let’S stuff it into the editing software, so my video editing software of choice is Sony Vegas or it’s not so anymore. It’S magics Vegas Pro, but what we’re going to do in here will be very similar for whatever video editing software you’re using so I’m gon na drag in the video that I shot and stick it on the timeline, and here we have it. It’S the wrong way up, obviously, because, as far as a video editing software is concerned, we shot it in landscape, like you always do with in Vegas, I can’t find any settings for a portrait mode of any kinds we’re just gon na have to to dive. In a little bit and change some settings, so the first thing we need to do is change the project settings so that it’s in a vertical orientation with in Vegas.
You go to file properties and we adjust a video template because I’m editing in HD the video settings are usually a width of 1920 pixels by a height of 1080 pixels. We need to change that around so that it becomes the other way up. So the width is now 1080 and the height is 1920. So now we have our orientation right as far as the video editing go, but our video content itself is still the wrong way around.
Now we need to go into the event pan and crop settings for our video clip to bring those up. Are we going to need to change the position and the rotation, because the position is wrong and the rotation is wrong, so both of those things need to be changed. The width and the height is currently set to 1920 and 1080, so we need to reverse those make sure before you do this, that the lock aspect ratio is off so at the top but 1080 next one 1920.
So now the size of the video is correct. It’S just nice to be turned around if we go down to angle sticking 90 degrees and try that yeah, that’s not quite right. That’S now completely upside-down, but that’s because of the orientation of the camera.
You have it one way up, then that will work it. The other way up, it’s got to go the other way. So if we stick in minus 90 degrees, then we’ll rotate it to the right way, and now you can see in the preview window we have our lovely vertical video yeah.
It looks weird for that Instagram for you now. The next thing you need to do is render. It is all very well having it set here, but when you go to your render options, you’re also not going to find a portrait mode, particularly or unlikely.
So we go to render, as with in Vegas, that brings us to loads and loads and loads and loads of different options, none of which are in the right frame, so pick the one which you normally use and go to customize template. So this one is HD. 1080, which gives me a frame size of 1920 by 1080. Again, we need to change that so select custom frame size and then we need to put in the right corresponding width and height again.
Are you seeing a bit of a pattern here? Think it’s a bit of a pattern: 1080 in 1920. Now all your other settings can remain the same because you still want the same sort of rendering is to want the same aspect, ratio and field order and variable bit rates and so on and so forth. So it’s only the frame size that you need to change and once you’ve rendered that out, your venn got your beautiful vertical video and, of course, the great thing about doing this on a proper camera and improper software, like you wouldn’t normally, do it in Instagram. Is that you can apply credits or overlays and effects and mix stuff together and do whole enormous, properly produce projects and stick them in Instagram, which is great array. So, in order to upload your new video to ig TV, you need to have created a channel which you do in the app you just go to RG TV and hit create channel.
It is kind of that simple and then hopefully, you’ll get an upload button within the Instagram web browser and that’s enormous ly helpful because you don’t have to put the video on your phone in order to upload it to the app. However, at the time of filming this not everyone seems to have that option. So in my Instagram account where you should find it, there should be here an IG TV button. You know I might be a little telly, something like that. It should be there. You can click on it and then you’ve gone upload button and you can upload a video from your browser on your PC or your Mac and it’s a done deal. It’S good.
It’S a goer. It’S done awesome. I don’t seem to have that button. As far as I understand it, it’s just taking them time to roll this thing out, so hopefully that button at some point will appear so in the meantime, the best way I found was to stick it up to something like onedrive or your iCloud account and then Download it using files on your iPhone and then saving it as a video. So it appears in your camera roll, because, if you’re trying to add a video in the app on your iPhone, it will only give you access to your camera roll. Then you can upload it directly from your phone rather than having to worry about doing it through a browser, but ultimately, as Instagram sorts.
This out, you should get an upload button on the browser version of Instagram calm that make the whole thing far far easier. So, in a nutshell, Yuja posh camera use it on its side, change the width and height settings in your video editing software and also when you render it and it’s a good’n Instagram telly. So there you go, I told you, it was easy. Just requires a little bit of thought and of course, we now need to think very differently about how we shoot things and setup things. Are we going to now? Do it twice and we have to do it dinner, landscape and then in a vertical, but then at the moment there’s no sort of monetization in the Instagram model and so for us creators. Is it actually worth our time? I don’t know I like Instagram generally speaking, and would I use it to look at longer videos I don’t know, maybe, but certainly for performances for jams for improvisation, for little videos of stuff that I’m just doing as I go along.
Then it could be good, but then that the faff and they’re having to set up the camera and then having to tweak it in the editing software and all that sort of jazz. Is that really worth the time I don’t know, I’m just gon na see how it goes. I hope you see how it goes and in the meantime go and make some vertical tunes. .