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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

Looking into motion tracking and color matching

Now that we’ve looked at the most common features of Filmora, we will now look at the two properties that all media share, the Motion Tracking and Color Match properties. Both properties can be used to add extra effects and entertainment value to our videos with ease.

Motion Tracking

The first property we will look at is Motion Tracking. This property allows us to break down our videos into different parts and add an object or animation that follows our selected part (which you’ll learn how to do very shortly) throughout the clip. This might sound a little bit complicated, but I promise you this is simpler than some of the other features we’ve seen throughout this book.

So, let’s get started:

  1. First, select any video clip you have on your timeline and either double-click it or click on the Edit button, which will open the Edit window where you can change all the properties, as seen before.
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