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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

What is the timeline and what tools does Filmora offer?

And so, we arrive at arguably the most important part of any video editing software, the timeline. Filmora 11’s timeline is super intuitive and easy to use as they were focused on making it as user-friendly as possible during development. Four important things to note about the structure of the timeline are as follows:

  • The timeline will have different types of tools depending on which type of media you have selected (image, video clip, or audio clip), as we’ll soon see.
  • There is an orange line with the icon of a pair of scissors on it that works as an indicator of where you are on the timeline, and can also split (explained in the next subsection) the media under the orange line.
  • We have two types of tracks:
    • Video tracks: Here is where we add our images, effects, videos, titles, and elements.
    • Audio tracks: This is where we put our music, sound effects, and voice recordings.
  • Lastly, we have two...