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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)
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Part 1: Your First Steps in Video Editing!
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Part 2: Making Videos Engaging, Interesting, and FUN!
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Part 3: Advanced Step-by-Step Examples

Finding, splitting, and trimming

This is the part that perhaps requires most of your time in these kinds of projects. After we add our video clip (which is now in the Media library) to the timeline, we now must watch our recording and find the good parts of our gameplay. These could be anything from really cool moments to really funny ones as the main point of this task is to find out which parts will be most enjoyed by the people viewing your video.

So, add your video to your timeline and find those parts. When you find a good clip from the recording, make sure to snip it on both ends and color code it, so you don’t accidentally delete it.

To color code a clip, all you need to do is right-click on the clip you want to color code and at the bottom of the context menu, you can select a color, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 10.2: Video clip context menu

Figure 10.2: Video clip context menu

As you can see next, I color-coded my video clip as green:

Figure 10.3: Video clip color-coded as green ...