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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

Premium ingredients – an in-depth look at the media library

Our media library, as mentioned previously, is where we can store and select clips, audio, titles (text), transitions, effects, elements, and split-screen functionalities. The best thing about these menus is that they are very organized and it’s very easy to find what you’re looking for with ease:

Figure 2.10: The Filmora 11 resource libraries

Figure 2.10: The Filmora 11 resource libraries

The Media library

We will now look further into these resource libraries, starting with Media.

Upon clicking on Media, we will see a few folders called Project Media, Shared Media, Sample Colors, Sample Video, and Sample Green Screen. On the left- and the right-hand side, we will see a place where we can add and view resources:

Figure 2.11: Media library folders in the Media panel

Figure 2.11: Media library folders in the Media panel

We will now find out what all these folders are.

Project Media

Here is where we can find all our imported media,...