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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

Using AI Portrait

The second feature we will look at is AI Portrait. This feature allows us to remove video backgrounds easily without the use of green screens or the Chroma Key feature and allows users to add different effects and filters such as borders, noise, and glitches.

Something very important to keep in mind is that the AI Portrait feature works best for single objects facing the camera straight on, as multiple people, fast-moving objects, or different lighting can affect the quality of this feature.

So, let’s dig in:

  1. To get started with this, we need to add a video to the timeline first before going to the Effects library.
  2. Inside AI Portrait, we can choose one of the options and add it to a new video track on top of our previously added video:
Figure 7.4: An example timeline in AI Portrait

Figure 7.4: An example timeline in AI Portrait

Now, I wish I could show you a video of the effect taking place but unfortunately, we are limited by the fact we can only attach...