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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 more media to make the clip more entertaining

Filmora 11 has a new feature that allows us to place stock media from the Stock Media library in our videos. This is one of my favorite things about Filmora 11 as usually, you’d have to download them separately and import them before you add them to your timeline:

Figure 10.10: Stock Media library

Figure 10.10: Stock Media library

The best use I found for these is to add comedy to your video by adding them at precise moments. For example, when someone has a bad plan or is in a dangerous situation (even if it’s yourself), you can add the “It’s not safe right now” GIF to add an extra comedic effect:

Figure 10.11: “It’s not safe right now” GIF

Figure 10.11: “It’s not safe right now” GIF

GIFs can be used for every single clip, and you can sometimes use multiple GIFs at a time if the situation requires it. I’d recommend looking at some gaming montages on YouTube to get some ideas before adding...