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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

Adding some cool effects using the Crop and Speed tools

I know you must be excited to add some cool effects so let’s just jump straight into it! The first thing we’re going to do is select the video clip called Travel 06 on our timeline and then click on the Crop tool. Clicking on it will bring up the Crop and Zoom window, which looks like this:

Figure 3.11: Crop and Zoom window

Figure 3.11: Crop and Zoom window

For this chapter, we will only use the Pan & Zoom feature but will come back at a later chapter to also make use of the Crop feature. At the top left, you can click on where it says Pan & Zoom, which will change the window to look like this:

Figure 3.12: Crop and Zoom – Pan & Zoom

Figure 3.12: Crop and Zoom – Pan & Zoom

As you can see on the viewport, it gives us a Start (green) and an End (red) box in the preview viewport and also some additional tools on the bottom right:

Figure 3.13: Crop and Zoom options

Figure 3.13: Crop and Zoom options

The tools in order...