Uploading Clash Royale Matches to YouTube

Started off with me wanting to put my Clash Royale matches on YouTube. As always, wanted to go with the simplest, easiest, and cheapest way to do this.

First off, recording the gameplay. Two ways to do this - Google Play Games or as I'm using a Galaxy S9+, the Samsung Game Tools. With Google Play Games, you select the game from the carousel, then click on the floating videocamera icon to start recording. Quality setting is either 720p HD or 480p SD. You can also record yourself (audio and video) via an in-game round selfie window, if that's what you want. With Samsung Game Tools, these are the options:

• record format (mpeg or gif)
• audio source (mic or game)
• video resolution (720px or 1080px)
• choice of different bitrates and aspect ratios

Went with the latter, as I want the recording to be as hi-res as possible.

Now that gameplay recording is sorted out, I needed a way to edit the video - basically trim the start and end portions. I know that the Photos app that came bundled with Windows 10 is able to trim videos. From the app, click on the Edit & Create button, then select Trim. Move the blue marker and align the starting point with it. Do the same for the endpoint. When ready, click on the Save as button. Aaand it spits out an error message. "It looks as though you don't have permission to save changes to this file. Try saving a copy instead." That's what I'm trying to do! Tried saving to a different location/folder. Tried changing the filename. It just won't save the edited video clip!

A search on Google shows that I'm not the only one having this issue. Didn't find any solution that worked for me, so had to look for other software that can do the job.

Found mostly trialware that requires either payment or a subscription. Some of the software/websites looks dodgy I don't even want to try them even if they're free. I did play with the open-source OpenShot a bit, but it keeps stalling and freezing. In the end, I went with Sony Vegas Pro. After a few YouTube tutorials, I was trimming videos like a pro. One thing I noticed - Vegas Pro won't render your vertical video when you use the Sony AVC/MVC format. Made sure the render properties match the project properties, but still kept getting "invalid parameter". Switched to MainConcept AVC/AAC and 1080x1920 resolution works just fine when rendering the final video. The only downside is MainConcept only supports 30fps, while Sony AVC/MVC can do 60fps.