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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

Split screens – too many screens

In this first section of this chapter, we will take a look at Split Screens, a feature in all versions of Filmora that allows us to play multiple videos simultaneously by letting us split the screen into two or more parts. Each part allows us to place a different video inside it in order to be able to view all the added videos at the same time.

We will learn how to add a split screen, add media to it, and even animate it. So, without delay anymore, let’s get started!

Adding our split screen

Let’s get started with adding a split screen:

  1. The first thing we need to do is go to our Split Screen library at the top of the media window, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 6.1: Wondershare Filmora 11 – the Split Screen library

Figure 6.1: Wondershare Filmora 11 – the Split Screen library

Once we click on it, we will see a large number of different Split Screen templates that we can choose from. Did you notice that the selections have...