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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

Chroma Key – where did my color go?

I’m sure everyone reading this book has seen a movie or a YouTube video containing special effects, whether that’s in the form of an explosion, a meteorite, a spaceship, and so on. I’m sure you know that the people in charge of filming didn’t actually film a meteorite hitting the earth; that was done with special FX and some green screens. By using the Chroma Key feature, we too will be able to add some green screen effects to our videos in order to implement such special effects. Let’s dig in:

  1. First, go to the Media library, and instead of Sample Video, we will now choose the Sample Green Screen category.
Figure 6.7: The Sample Green Screen category

Figure 6.7: The Sample Green Screen category

  1. Here, we can choose the green screen effect that we want and add it to a video track above the video we want to place it on, like this:
Figure 6.8: A green screen placement example

Figure 6.8: A green screen placement example

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