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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!
6
Part 2: Making Videos Engaging, Interesting, and FUN!
11
Part 3: Advanced Step-by-Step Examples

Finalizing and exporting our promotional video

Let’s jump straight into simply adding a countdown by going to our sample videos and choosing from one of the countdown options that Filmora 11 gives us and adding it before the first clip on our timeline. For my promo video, I chose Countdown 8, as I feel that it suits the kind of event my video is based on. Feel free to choose any video you like or even skip this part completely:

Figure 11.4: The countdown

Figure 11.4: The countdown

The next step is the call to action at the end. For my video, I found a black screen with a title at the top telling the viewers where to go to sign up for the event – directing them somewhere specific works extremely well. You obviously don’t have to do this; you can add the call to action at the top of your final video clip or even record your voice and add it as an audio clip. If you choose to go down the voice recording route, please make sure to revisit Chapter 4 where we covered...