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Filmora Efficient Editing

By : Alexander Zacharias
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Filmora Efficient Editing

By: Alexander Zacharias

Overview of this book

Whether you want to create short films, YouTube videos, music videos, or videos for any social event, Filmora is a powerful, innovative, and user-friendly video editing software that you can use for all this and much more! Filmora Efficient Editing is a comprehensive introduction for those who are new to video editing as well as those looking to transition to Filmora. The book starts by helping you develop an understanding of video editing and Filmora’s interface and gradually takes you through adding sources and exporting your first project. Next, you’ll learn how to make your videos engaging and fun using audio, personalization, the split-screen function, and Chroma keys. You’ll understand how to plan as well as create your videos using Filmora from scratch. With simplified concepts, steps, and real-world editing examples, this book covers applications such as YouTube, animated intros, professional marketing videos, and industry-standard tips. By the end of this video editing book, you’ll have learned how to use Filmora's powerful tools and functionality to create high-quality and professional videos from scratch.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1: Your First Steps in Video Editing!
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Part 2: Making Videos Engaging, Interesting, and FUN!
11
Part 3: Advanced Step-by-Step Examples

Adding the logo and preparing our video

For a small part of this chapter, you will need a logo or image to use. If you don’t have one, please feel free to download and use the logo that I’ll be using (see Appendix 1) and import it inside Filmora, as you learned earlier in this book. In the following steps, we will see how to add our backgrounds, logo, and text to give us a good starting point that is ready for editing.

Firstly, we need a background for our video, and for this, I am using a free Filmstock asset called Gaming Greenscreen Background. From the variety of different assets, I chose Gaming Greenscreen Background Overlay 10, which can be found in the Effects library. You can choose to use the same one, or if you have another idea for the background, please feel free to use that one:

  1. Once the background is added, it is time to add our logo and some text on new separate video tracks, as shown here.
Figure 9.1: Wondershare Filmora 11 – the logo project initial timeline

Figure 9.1: Wondershare...