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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

Recording our screen

In this section of the chapter, we will start a new project as usual and go back to our recording menu, but this time, we will select Record Screen. Once we do that, the Wondershare Screen Recorder window will pop up, which looks as follows:

Figure 5.1: Wondershare Filmora 11 – the Screen Recorder window

Figure 5.1: Wondershare Filmora 11 – the Screen Recorder window

On the left of this window, we can find the dropdown for what area of the screen we want to record. The options are as follows:

  • Full Screen: Just as the name suggests, this option will record the entire screen
  • Custom: With this option, we can choose a specific area of the screen to record
  • Target Window: With this option, we can choose a specific window or program to record

Next to the drop-down list, we can find our speaker properties, and next to that our microphone properties. This is where we can choose which speaker and microphone to record the sounds from. We are also able to mute either one by clicking...