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Filmora Efficient Editing

By : Alexander Zacharias
Book Image

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 our effects, animations, and filters

Now that we have the basics set up, we can continue making this a great intro. We will work on each element that we added one at a time, starting with our background:

  1. The first thing we’ll do to spice up our background is add an effect to make it look slightly better than it does. To achieve this, I added two more video tracks and moved the text and logo on top of them, while also adding two new effects on the now-empty video tracks. The two effects are Chromatic Aberration and Cool Film, which again can be found in the Effects library.
Figure 9.3: The logo project additional effects

Figure 9.3: The logo project additional effects

Now, it’s worth mentioning that I changed my video length to around 6 seconds rather than 4 seconds as it was beforehand (refer to Figure 9.1) to show you that as you go along, you will need to sacrifice a few of your initial guidelines (unless explicitly considered vital by a client) in order to make the...