Elements – visual effects to make our videos “pop”
I hope you’re enjoying this book as much as I did creating it because we’re about to exceed that level of enjoyment by adding elements to our project. Elements are basically visual effects or animated graphics that we can place over videos. They are similar to overlays, which we learned about earlier in this chapter, in the sense that we place them on top of our media on the timeline.
So, as always, to access any form of media, we need to go to the correct library; in this case, it is the Elements library, as shown here:
Figure 5.15: Wondershare Filmora 11 – the Elements library
There’s not much else to say about these, as they have the same properties as effects, so let’s jump straight into adding them to our project!
For my project, I’ve added an element called Yellow Energy above my title to give it an extra effect. This is what the...