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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

Adding our resources to the timeline and discovering the preview panel/viewport

So, as mentioned, we are now going to start working on our first practical, which will be a simple feel-good video about some friends cycling and having a good time. Let’s get started:

  1. The first thing we have to do is add our first video clip to the timeline by going to our media library, inside the Sample Video category, and dragging the Travel 01, Travel 02, Travel 03, Travel 04, Travel 05, and Travel 06 video clips side by side to the timeline. Once you zoom in a little bit, it should look like this:
Figure 3.5: Timeline with video clips

Figure 3.5: Timeline with video clips

Now that we’ve added our video clips, we can preview our video in our viewport by pressing the Play button.

  1. Since you’ve taken a look at the preview of the video, you might be thinking that it’s pretty bare-bones and you’d be right, so let’s spice it up with some audio.
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