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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

Humble beginnings – creating a new project!

Upon opening our Filmora 11 software, we will be shown the introduction screen:

Figure 2.1: Wondershare Filmora 11 introductory screen

Figure 2.1: Wondershare Filmora 11 introductory screen

On this screen, you have a few options that will determine your workspace and this is also where you can find your pre-existing Filmora projects – but let’s start at the beginning and explain everything:

  • Select Project Aspect Ratio: On the top left-hand side of our newly opened window, we can find a dropdown in which we can change the aspect ratio of our projects depending on what type of video we want to create or our target social media platform
  • The New Project button: Below our aspect ratio dropdown, we will find a self-explanatory button that we can click to create a new project
  • The Open Project button: Another self-explanatory button where we can open projects located on our system, USB, or external hard drive
  • The Support Center button...