shit video eyes beware
Sony vegas is a pretty good tool, If you got a Mac, try to use "Final Cut" which is better and more simple to use than Sony vegas.
And if you're wondering, i'm a student with a speciality cinema (Which mean I have to study 6hours a week cinema, editing, etc)
Yeah, don't get final cut pro. It doesn't support many of the plugins that are used for editing in sony vegas and after effects and it's missing so many of the features that are there by default.
That doesn't make it any less useless, editing a movie and editing game clips are two extremely different things, unless you're really pretentious.
Anyway, I can see that you're trying to have some sort of sync to the video, but the way you do it can be improved. From what I can see, you drag the clip until the shot is synced (which is how I used to sync when i started) rather than increasing the velocity to sync it, which will give it more impact. This is a useful tutorial if you want to learn how to use velocity to sync first person shooters in sony vegas (1:22 is when it starts).
I noticed that there is really obnoxious hud in the bottom of the video. I personally don't get that in csgo so I don't know how to get rid of it, but definitely try to do that.
Your clips have black bars on the sides, so make sure you're recording in the right aspect ratio and that your game is in a resolution that will take up the whole screen. Common ones for recording are 1920 x 1080 and 1280 x 720, but feel free to go up to 4k if you have a beast of a computer.
Well it's a start.
You should consider studying how movie are made and learn a things or two about it.
Per exemple, If I record something, I use an external hardware/server where i'll put all the "Rush", the "Rush" is EVERYTHING, in the video, in brut format, then you'll cut things from the rush to add them to your timeline and start your editing.
Sony vegas is a pretty good tool, If you got a Mac, try to use "Final Cut" which is better and more simple to use than Sony vegas.
I've looked into how videos are made, not particularly movies, but videos.
I don't have any external hardware to capture my screen, I just use Xsplit Broadcaster to capture/record which lets me still cut things and add them to the timeline in Vegas.
Yea, I have Windows 10 as my operating system so not going to work lol
Final cut is obviously missing some little things, but using it is way more easy for people that just want to get started with editing, the design is more clean and obvious than in Final Cut.
Editing a Movie and Editing a game clips is obviously not the same, but they are major things that are in common between those.
There's a little bit of inconsistency with when you do and don't use transitions. Sometimes you give a black screen, other times there's a transition. While some variety with transitioning between clips can be good, I think that looks a little bad.
Showing the scope zoomed in for a little over seven seconds in the beginning is a little unnecessary. My guess is that you did this to add time so you could sync easier. Rather than doing that, you should try to have a little more time in a variety of clips and spread it out more. Not only does it make that section a little boring (7 seconds is a lot in a 38 second video), it takes away from how skillful the shot looks and makes it a little underwhelming, especially since the shot didn't sync with the music either.
Overall though, it's pretty good for your first edit. Much better than my first was, not that I'm very good. Try getting a few more clips next time, so you'll be able to fill in some black spaces and make good-looking transitions a lot easier.
I mean an external hardware where you could put all the video files in brut format, (I don't know if we understood each other on that). Like everything you record from A to Z , the "Rush" basically.
About Xsplit, you should move to something more reliable , OBS is pretty good in my opinion
Anyway, 1280x720 is widescreen.. since your video is rendered in 720p, it seems that you need to right click the video > properties > maintain aspect ratio.