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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

What’s all this? – Navigating Filmora’s Interface

After clicking on the New Project button, you will be faced with the following screen:

Figure 2.2: The Wondershare Filmora 11 user interface

Figure 2.2: The Wondershare Filmora 11 user interface

Now, I know you may be looking at this and thinking to yourself, “this looks extremely complicated and confusing," please trust me when I say it’s the opposite! It’s very easy to understand and even easier to use, but I know that you might need a little persuading, so what we’ll do is go through every single thing we can see here one by one in detail in this chapter and the next chapter.

First, we have our generic software menus: File, Edit, Tools, Export, and Help. These work exactly as you’d expect them to across all other software except for very few exceptions, which we will get to once we need them!

Figure 2.3: The menus in Wondershare Filmora 11

Figure 2.3: The menus in Wondershare Filmora 11

At the top left, we have...