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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

Personalizing our project!

Now, it’s time to personalize Filmora 11 to increase our productivity using the Preferences menu. Personally, I use the default preferences, but I will show you how to customize them in case you choose to change them.

From the top menu, you can click File and then Preferences to open the preferences window:

Figure 2.4: The File menu

Figure 2.4: The File menu

Figure 2.5: The General tab of the Preferences window

Figure 2.5: The General tab of the Preferences window

We have five categories inside the preferences window: General, Folders, Editing, Save, and Performance. We will go through each category to make sure you know how to change these options if you so wish to:

  • We will start with the General tab. In this category, you can change the language and appearance (dark mode is the default appearance) and check how often to check for updates – those are pretty much the important things you need to know for this category.
  • Next up, we have the Folders tab...