Filmora-X 10/11: The complete video editing masterclass 2022

1. Class overview: Hello and welcome to femora x, the complete video editing master clocks. My name is Eric and I'm a full-time course creator and marketer with over ten years of experience. What do I like to do in this very brief video is give you a general overview of what this class is all about. So you know what to expect and what skills you'll walk away with as well. So there's two main points I'd like to start with. The first being, this class serves as a good method for stepping into the world of video editing, which is truly a valuable skill to have. So if you've stopped by this class because you want to learn how to edit video, then this is the class for you. My second, you don't have to purchase for more a video editor in order to do this class. As a minimum, you only need the free trial version, which is something I'll show you how to get in the next video. This is a very easy and fast process and there's no sign-up needed. Of course, if you already have for Mora, whether it's the paid or free trial version, then you'll be good to go ahead with this class. So just to confirm what I'm trying to say, enrolling students can complete this class with both the paid and free trial versions of the amora. As mentioned, it's a great place to start if you're new to the world of video editing, what to expect if you do this class. If you do this class, you'll learn about pretty much every feature and function that for more a video editor has to offer. So this would include navigating the Firmware Interface, color correction, sound editing, how to create green-screen videos, how to record your computer screen, transitions, importing and exporting, and a whole load of other things as well. The class includes a folder that you can download. And basically, this folder is full of video content that you can use to follow along with my step-by-step instructions. There's a few other things included in the folder as well. So just to put emphasis on what I just said there, what you will see me doing on my screen. You're more or less be able to do the exact same thing on yours because you'll be using the same content and of course the same editor. So this should really enrich your learning experience throughout this class. Once you complete the class, what will you walk away with? Well, as I mentioned, knowing how to edit video is truly a valuable skill to have. Even a simple video can have a powerful impact. So having this skill on your resume really does stand out. I know this from my own personal experiences. And finally, what do I need from you as an enrolled student? While you might not be able to remember everything I show you in this class. But the main thing is that you give 100%. If you do this, surely you will get 100 per cent out. So anyway, I look forward to having you as the students in my class, and I'll see you in the first tutorial. 2. Get Filmora for free to do this course: If you have feel Mora already, then feel free to skip this tutorial. But if you don't have Fillmore and you want to do this course, well, the good news is they do have a free trial version. And furthermore, you don't actually have to sign up to feel Mora. All you have to do is just navigate to that particular page, download for more itself, install it. And there you go. You have full Maurer on your computer. Regard to the unpaid version, the free trial version, there was just one restriction to the best of my knowledge. And that is if you wanted to export a video using the unpaid version, you will end up with a watermark within the video itself. But I would say this is pretty rare with free trial versions, you do get to use all of the tools and functionality within the video editor itself. So yeah, definitely very rare that that would happen. And it's great that Fillmore actually does this. Anyway. If you have not got femora, you can download the free trial and I'll show you how to do that in a second. You can complete this course and then you can purchase the video editor if you want. So anyway, we'll jump over to Google now and I'll show you how to get the free trial version of Fillmore. First of all, all you have to do is just type in fill Mora free trial, which is pretty obvious. And it's this option here. You'll be presented with this window or window that looks similar to this. And then just look for the trial at Free button and click on it. And straightaway It's asking, okay, do you want to download this file? And I know this is a safe website, but my Windows browser is just telling me that, okay, this could be risky, which is kind of just a normal formality within Windows. So at this point I can just click on Keep and then I can go through the installation process for installing femora itself. Now I'm not going to go through the installation process because I already have the Mora. But basically you could just click on Keep. It will download and it doesn't take too long. Click on this arrow here, then go to show in folder. I can double-click on Setup and it will start to go through the setup process. Then you will end up with the camera on your computer. And here it is, so you can just double-click on this. And now we're good to go with creating videos and also visiting all of these various settings that we will be learning about in this course. So anyway, that's how you get the free trial version of the Maurer. I'll see you in the next video. 3. Filmora 2022 update: Before we jump into the course, I have an update for you. As you would expect with femora every now and again, they do updates their platform, and a few things are added to the editor and also other areas of femora. And also some things are taken away. So there are some subtle changes that take place every time they do make an update. And for someone like me who creates courses for a living, this can be quite disconcerting as you would imagine. Because I can create a whole course only to find out that the program that I teach about in the course has suddenly changed in a major way. I actually learned this the hard way when I created a Facebook marketing course. And the whole thing took me six months to do. By the time we got to the end of it, literally just a few days after I published it. Facebook made one of the biggest changes to its website it had ever made. And honestly, it's one of my worst performing courses I've ever created. And that's just because I threw in the towel. I'd had enough of it. So yeah, I really did learn it the hard way. But just looking at the two versions of femoris. So the version I used in the course and the latest version, which is for Mora 11. As you can see, it is basically the same video editing platform. It's the same interface, except for a few small changes. With Fillmore 11, they've decided to make a lot of the texts and the numbers a little bit smaller. Also, they've added a stock media icon up here and also some preset templates. And we'll take a look at those later on in the course. And then they've changed the graphic here as well. But generally speaking, you can see that everything is pretty much exactly the same. So when it comes to living near rating for the course, Have mercy on me. I will try my best to make sure that the course is kept up-to-date, as up-to-date as possible if you do run into any problems. So maybe there's something that's really different and you need me to just investigate that for you. Then just message me in the Q&A section and I will get back to you as soon as possible with a solution. So I'll see you in the next tutorial. 4. Importing media into the project panel. Best practices: Now with any video editing project, obviously you have to bring files into the video editor. And inthe amora, as I suppose it is in pretty much any video editor. It is actually quite simple to bring the files in or what is commonly referred to importing media files. You may have already figured out that all you need to do is just click on this icon here. This will begin the process of bringing the files in that you want to edit. Now within femoral is actually quite a few ways of doing this, I think is about five or six. So I'll quickly run through them with you. First of all, get rid of this. So that's step number one. You can just click on this icon here. You can also hold down Control and press I on your keyboard. And I think called an Apple computer, control is the command key, but don't hold me to that because I've never really owned macro and Apple products or anything like that. But I think it's the Command key. Another way is just to come up to File hip. And then you can click on Import Media and we have import media files here. Another method is to come to this drop-down here. And it's very similar to what we just looked at just a second ago. We have these four options here. So needless to say, there's quite a few ways of bringing files into full Moran. But anyway, that's the first step I would like you to do this. Just click on this icon here. Within the project files, I would like you to navigate to the wildlife folder. And basically just click hold and drag over all of these files here and then click Open. Now once you have your files in here, there's a few things you can do just to manage them a little bit better. So starting with this icon here, we have three options. We first of all have the View option where we can choose how large the ones all small we want our thumbnails to be. So at the moment it's set to small, but if you've only got a few files there, maybe you'd want to put this on the large setting. Also, you have these two options here. We have group by, so you can group by date created and camera name, etc. But one of the options I find quite useful than I usually have it on the setting anyway, it's just having duration ticked and then having this in ascending order. With this, like this, I know that the top clip is going to be the shortest clip. So if I just hover over this clip here of caterpillar video number five. The clip is six seconds long. I can see that if I come to the last clip here, which is the sunrise slash sunset, it is 14 seconds long. I find that pretty useful. Now if you have a whole lot of clips in your project panel, in this area here is called the Project panel. And you know the name of the video and you're trying to find it somehow. You can quite easily just come to search media, type in your keyword and press Enter. And if the files in here, it will show up. Now to go back to the way it was before, what you have to do is you can just x this here. And as you can see, it doesn't actually go back to its former setting. What you have to do is just click on Social, sorry, shared media, and then come to project media and click on this, and then everything will be restored. When it comes to importing, there's a few other options. When it comes to, while importing. You can come to this drop-down here. You're already familiar with this one here, just importing media files, which is what we've just done. But you also have import a media from a media folder. So if I were to click on this, this window would show up. And obviously you just navigate to the folder that you would like to import into THE amora. Here is the film or a project. And basically I can just click on wildlife. And if I were to click Okay, I've never really done this before. Maybe it would reload all of these clips. But if the project panel is empty, then I suppose all of the clips within this wildlife folder, we just get imported into the project panel. But I don't need to do that, so I'll exit that there. And then there is importing from a camera or a phone. So earlier I just experimented with us by putting my DCS, what's called DSLR camera into my computer just to see how this works, because I never really done this before with Fillmore up and, uh, basically just got this screenshot of what it looks like I had to do this because it was conflicting with my microphone, so I couldn't actually click on this option and recorded the same time funnily enough. Anyway, here's the screenshots. All you'd have to do is just choose your device. All of your files would load up. And you can just choose which files you want to import from your device. And then click Import or slash, okay, or whatever the main button is. Finally, you have import with auto highlight. I'll click on this and what I can do is I can just click on Import and I'll just choose one of these files. This is code for the draft video, and I'll click Open. And here we have this drop-down. Now it says, sorry, there is some defaults here. We have the 15-second tiktok video, 60 seconds for YouTube shorts. These by default, would trim the video to the first 15 seconds while this tick top one does Tik Tok One would do that anyway. And then we have the YouTube shorts with obviously cut the video down to 60 seconds, the first 60 seconds. But obviously, that's not really relevant here because the video is only 12 seconds long. But what I can do is I can click on custom. Let's say if I just wanted the first six seconds of this video, I can get rid of that one there and put seconds, six seconds in here. And I'll click Extract. I'll let it do its business. And straightaway, the file has gone into the video editor here. This is something we'll visit later on in the course. But for now I'm just going to select all of these clips and I'll press Delete. Now one last thing if you wanted to preview any of these clips or you have to do is just double-click on one of them. And it will preview here in the preview window on the right. The next thing we're gonna cover can make or break your video editing experience. And that is just making sure you have the right settings set for your preview window. Now my computer is pretty decent, it's pretty up-to-date, and it can run some quite large files and quite a large number of them at the same time as well. I can set my preview window to fool if I wanted to. But typically I would just leave it on half, on the half resolution so that it really does run quite smoothly. So depending on how powerful your computer is, you may want to set this to a setting that best suits your computer so that you can get the best video editing experience. All I did there to get rid of it was just click at the top of the timeline here and it will go away. That's just a basic overview of how to import your media files into Fillmore right? Now we're going to move on and we're going to start covering this area here, which is known as the timeline. And I suppose this is where all of the magic happens. So I'll see you in the next tutorial. 5. Introduction to the Filmora interface: So as I mentioned in the previous tutorial, I was now going to cover the timeline area, which is this area here at the bottom. If you haven't already done so, please import all of the media files from the wildlife folder. And you should know how to do that because I just showed you in the previous tutorial, I would, I would like you to do first and foremost, if you really want to follow along, is just take one of these clips. So let's just go for the zebra video to clip here and click, hold and drag and pull it into the timeline. Now when you do this the first time, you may get this little pop-up, show up. I'm asking if you want to keep the settings for your video clips or match the project settings. In this particular instance, I would just recommend that you click on the left-hand option. That should be a green highlighted button. And you will just keep the same settings for all of these clips. Now when you put a clip into the timeline, you may notice that this line above might be red. And if this line is read, basically it's just telling you that the clip needs to be rendered. What happens if you don't render your clip? Well, what I could do is I can just move this red thing over to my clip here and I'll press the space bar. And basically we get a preview of what this clip is. And if this line is in the red, you may find that the video clip doesn't play all that smoothly. Basically, what we have to do is we have to select the clip and press Enter on our keyboard. And actually because this is green, I'm going to bring in, bringing a different video. So I'll bring in this video here. It's red, cool. So I'll select this clip here by clicking on it, and I'll press Enter. You can see a little bit of magic happen there. And now we have this green line. So the clip should run nice and smoothly. Now, typically I don't render the clips unless I have a lot of clips in my timeline because my computer is quite fast anyway. But nonetheless, if it's quite slow, you could just select that clip or multiple clips if you wanted like this and press Enter on your keyboard. Now if enter doesn't work, what you can do is once again just select the clip or however many clips you want to render, come to File and then come to render preview minus grade house at the moment because these two clips are already rendered. But basically this should be available for you to click. What I'm gonna do is I'm just going to select this clip here and I'll press Delete on my keyboard. Now this red thing that I've referred to as the red thing earlier on. This is actually called a timeline indicator. Now there's quite a few names out there for this tool, but I think the more common name is just the timeline indicator. What I can do with this is I can move this over my clip. And let's say I wanted to I didn't have separate this at around maybe the 7 second mark. So what I'll have to do is I'll just have to click hold and drag and pull this to the far left so that the figures are more accurate. I'll move the timeline indicates or onto the clip and I'm looking for around the 7 second mark. That will do that. What I could do is I can just click on the scissors icon here to split the clip. You can also click on the icon here, which does the same thing. There's also a keyboard shortcut, which is Control plus b, which is the shortcut I usually use when I have a lot of cutting to do. But in this case I'll just click on the scissors icon here. As you can see, the clip has now been cut in that position. And what I'm gonna do is I'm just going to select all of these clips by clicking, holding, and dragging over them. And I'll bring them into the center just so you can get a clear view of them. And what I can do now is I can click on this clip and I'll click hold and drag and pull it to the right. If I really wanted to, I can select it and press Delete. Now let us say later on down the line, if I really wanted to have this full clip restored. Well, there's actually a few ways of doing this I could, if I wanted to just go get the original zebra video clip and click, hold and drag and pull that back into the timeline once again. Or I could do this. I can get the original clip and just hover over the right-hand side edge of it and click hold and drag to the right. As you can see, the clip has now been fully restored to its full duration. So that's how that works. Now what I'll do is I'll just go get another clip here. So let's go for the giraffe clip. And as you can see, it needs to be rendered. So I'm going to select it and I'll press Enter. You'll notice when dealing with these clips, this seems to be this magnetic effects happening. So I'm click holding and dragging this clip along. And all of a sudden, it is attracted to the timeline indicator. And then I'll do it once again. I'll move it to the left. As you can see, it quickly snaps to this other clip here. This is a snapping feature. And basically to turn this on or off, you can just right-click and disable it here. I'll do that. But when it comes to doing this, it makes life a little bit more difficult because you have to be really accurate. When it comes to placing the clips on the timeline. So typically I like to keep it enabled. Now you'll notice that there's the space in-between these two clips. And instead of having to click hold and drag and pull my clip over to the left-hand. If I wanted to get rid of that space, all I'd have to do is just select the space in-between. So I'll click on the blank space. I'll hold down shift and press Delete. That will quickly get rid of that space there. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm just going to select these clips and I'll pull them over to the left like this. And I'm going to go get a few more clips. I'll get these three here. And I'll go and get the sunrise as well. I think I've got two up here. In fact, I've got a picture here as well, which is a bit of a logo that I put together. Quite a few, quite a few clips in here. What I'll do is I'll just click hold and drag on the spot here and move to the right. And just to fill up the timeline even more, I'm going to drag in the zebra clip again and also the giraffe clip. Now, as you are working in film Morrow, you may find that it's quite hard to get this sort of bird's eye view of everything that's going on in the timeline. So basically you have to zoom out. Now, believe it or not, there's actually about five or six different methods of doing this first and foremost, and I'd say this is probably one of the easiest things you can do is just to click on the Zoom To Fit icon here. This icon here. As you can see, we've quickly squeezed all of the video clips into the timeline so that we can see all of them in one coat. So that's pretty handy. You also have the slider here. They can move to the right and to the left. And as you can see, I'm adjusting the zooming functionality of the timeline. And of course you can just click on these buttons here as well. Another thing you can do, you can hold down Control and press plus or minus on your keyboard. You can also hold down control and scroll forward and backwards on your mouse, on your mouse. Like this. But one of the easier methods I find is just a hover over the top of the timeline here until you get this double arrow icon and click hold and drag and pull to the right, or you can pull to the left. I find this. The easiest thing that I can do. That's everything I wanted to show you in the timeline for now. Now, don't worry if you feel like actually I'm not going to remember all of this as we go through the course. I'm going to keep revisiting these areas. And you should as well because you'll probably be following along with the things I'm doing. You will become more and more familiar with, I would say almost all of the functionality that the timeline has to offer. So far, you've learned some very critical steps. That is how to import your media into the mora and also general functionality when it comes to the timeline area. So far you've made a lot of progress. And just after the next few tutorials, you should have enough knowledge to create your own videos. Anyway, we'll move on to the next tutorial. 6. How Auto ripple works and track manager: So as you can see within our timeline by default, we have an audio track, which is this area here. And then we also have an audio track. But what we can do in film aura is have multiple video and audio tracks that can all be managed with this icon here. So I can click on this and I can click on Add video track. And I've added a new video track. Obviously. I can also add an audio track and I can just keep clicking these options and adding more video and audio tracks. But if I have too many of them and I'd like to delete some, what I can do is I can come back to this option once again, and I can click on delete empty tracks and went back down to our default number of tracks. Back in this setting, there is this as well adjust track height. So at the moment it's set to small, but there is normal and this bake so you can just choose what height you want your tracks to be. Then there's this option here, open track manager. If I were to click on this, it gives me an opportunity to create multiple new video tracks and audio tracks. And all I have to do is just click hold and drag over the figure here with the mouse cursor. And I can change these figures, or I can just click in here and type in the figures manually. So let's just go for two. Then below we have the placement where it's just asking you, okay. Do you want these new tracks above track one, overload track one. And typically I just leave this on above track one. And the same principles apply as well for the placement for audio tracks as well. And then you can just click Okay, you then end up with these extra trachs. What I'll do is I'll come back to this setting here, and I'm just gonna click on delete empty tracks. Now one thing you can do to add extra trachs is this. You can go get your video clips. Let's just do this. Let's go get the DEA clip and I'll pull it into the default video track. Then I'll go get the caterpillar clip and I'll click hold and drag and put this just above. And as you can see, I've just created a new video track. I can just keep adding these videos in new tracks and new tracks will appear. The same principle applies when it comes to the audio tracks as well. I can go get this song here. And even though this wasn't available in the previous tutorials or you may have not seen it. It will be available when you actually download these files. But I can click hold and drag this audio track into the audio track. And if I wanted to create another audio track, I can just repeat the process. I can click, hold and drag and pull another copy of this audio track, which is a song into another audio track. That's a far easier way of doing this. Then let's say I've got too many. I can just select one of these songs. I can press Delete. And looking at my video clips here. Maybe I didn't want this clip here, and I didn't want this clip here. Now I have all of these spaces, but I'm pretty sure you already know what to do. You can come to the managed tracks option here and then just click on delete empty tracks. That's how that works. Next, I'm going to just delete all of this here by selecting all of it. And I'll press Delete. And what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to just click hold and drag over some of these clips here. So I'll do this, I'll bring them all into the default track here. I think as well, I will bring in the caterpillar, the caterpillar clip and put this in a video track above. And let's just do the same maybe with the ego clip as well. This put this over here, then the DEA clip. Let's put this over here. Now next I'm going to cover something called auto ripple, or what is also known as auto ripple delete. And here is the setting for that. Basically can just turn it on or you can turn it off. I'm going to turn it off by clicking on it and actually goes green. And with this auto ripple turned off, if I were to select one of these clips and press Delete, you end up with a space where the old clip used to be. But if I hold down Control and press set to reverse my actions, and then I turn auto report on. Now when I select this clip here and press Delete, you'll see all of the clips to the right move over to the left. They've all moved over to the left. And more importantly, they've all caps that position. So for instance, these two are a good example. They've kept the exact same position. It's just they've moved over to the left, if you know what I mean. That's some pretty handy functionality within femora. And it's especially handy when you have a lot of clips that you're trying to manage and you find a clip that you want to delete. With this functionality, you can just select it, press Delete, and more than likely you won't have to worry about the placement of the other clips, though. Obviously, if you have an audio track underneath, you've got to make sure that the audio track is still synchronized with the video clips themselves. If that's what you're trying to achieve. 7. How to use transitions and filters: If you've got at this point, just make sure you've got the wildlife media in the project panel and we're going to move on to something called transitions or video transitions. Now I've seen some pretty groovy video transitions in my lifetime. Growing up in Africa on a Saturday morning, there was this sort of like top of the pups for the country music show. And there were these local music videos that were being played. They used to go overboard with video transitions, something like this. They are pretty nifty, I would say, but it can make your video look a little bit naff as they say, the real secret here is just to make sure your transitions are as subtle as possible. I think this is the best thing you can do, but it's totally up to you. What you would like to do. Okay, so what I'm going to do is just things are a little bit more clear for you on the screen. I'm going to come to the track manager and I'm going to set my track heights to bake. What I'm gonna do is I'm just going to hover over the top of the timeline here and click hold and drag and drag up. Now I have quite a lot of space here to show you what I wanted to do. If you're wondering what I'm doing here, I'm just scrolling up and down with the mouse roller just to, well, it can go up and down. Adding transitions are quite simple, but first of all, let's just click hold and drag some of these clips into our timeline. So I'm just going to grab these six clips here, and I'll drag them in. And I'm going to click on the Zoom To Fit icon here, just so I can see all of them. Now to add transitions, it is pretty straightforward. You can just come to the transitions icon here. And we have a whole host of different transitions that are available. In fact, I don't know how many there are, but there are a hundreds upon hundreds that you can choose from. Let's try one of them out here. Now to preview one of these transitions, all you have to do is just click on it. And while this one is already downloaded, but typically what you'd have to do is click on it, let it download, and then you can click on it once again just to see what it looks like. In the preview window. We have this one here which is dispersion blur. I'll click hold and drag and I'll just pull it. Actually, just put it here in the middle because it would just be better. I'll put it here in between my two clips. Now, this comes up as red, which means it does need to be rendered. So I'll just select these clips and if you don't know already, et cetera, I think I showed you before, this is actually another icon you can click on to render your videos. So I can just click on this and it will start to render. And now the rendering line is green. I can now just press play on my space bar. I can see what this looks like. With regard to this transition, what you can do is you can just click on it and click hold and drag to the left. And you can also click hold and drag to the right. You can just choose where you want to place it. But typically I just leave mine in the center. Now to gain access to the settings for this particular transition. And it's the same with any other transition, you can just double-click on it. This window will appear. And while I've just shown you just now how to do this manually, you have the position, so you can have it in the middle, which is called overlap, prefix and postfix. But more importantly, you have this timing stamp here. And basically you can just move your cursor over this time area here. And you can make the transition longer or shorter, and that's up to you. I'm going to leave it at 1 second and I'm just going to click Okay. And I'm gonna select these clips here. And I'll press Enter on my keyboard to render the clips. That's pretty good. Anyway, let's just take a look at this window here, this top area where the rest of these transitions are. Now, like I said, there are quite a few of them, there's hundreds of them actually. And when you click on one of these, so let's go for this one, cold wind. You can see it downloads here. And if I go to downloads, I will find the one cold wind within here. You can also use the transition search bar here if you wanted to. But basically all of the ones you download will end up in this window here. But more importantly, you have favorites here. I have fade and flash, which are already favorites of mine. And there's some others, but I still need to add them. But basically to add one of these transitions to your favorites, all you have to do is just find one of these transitions. Let's just go for colored distance. I'll click on it to download. Actually this one's already been downloaded. I'll just click on the heart here. I'll click on the heart. And you can see here now we have three favorites. Here is colored distance here. So pretty cool. Stuff. Like I said, I wanted to cover effects, which is this icon here. And I'm just going to select, Let's go for something in the center. Let's go for the bird video here. And I'll just move the timeline indicator in this clip. Now how these effects work are exactly how the transitions work, almost exactly. But just to let you know if you take one of these effects. So let's go for globe and click, hold and drag and put it onto your clip. You can see by this blue indicator here with this little star, it shows that there is an effect that is applied to the sexual clip. And you can see the line is red. But without having to render the clip. If I just press the bar to take a look at the clip, you can see we do have this bit of a glow here. I don't know if you can see it with through the recorder, but it is there. Now to get rid of one of these effects, you can just right-click on the clip, go to Effect, and then click on Delete effects. And as you can see, I have pasted effects here which has available. That's only because I've just copied one of the effects, but basically, you can copy and paste these effects. So you can click on Copy effects, go to another clip. So let's just go to the ego one here. Or it could be a whole, I'm not really sure. Go to effects and then click on paste effects. And here we have the effects. And I think there was a shortcut. Let's just take a look at that. There's no delete effect shortcut, which would be pretty handy. But anyway, to get rid of the effects, like I said, you can just click on Delete effects. Once again, click on Delete effect on the eagle clip. I just remember if you have any of these that all your favorite, you can just click on the heart here and it will be added to your favorites. So I've just added that one there called glow. That's pretty straightforward stuff, but it is good to know the ins and outs of these kinds of things. While in this case, transitions and effects. For instance, how to access the effects for the transitions by double-clicking on it. I mean, if somebody doesn't know how to use for Mora, that can take some time for them to figure this out. And in fact, some people never figure it out. Some people think that this is just the transition I'm stuck with. We move on now. Now in the next tutorial, I've got a really interesting one for you. We're gonna move into something called color correction. And this really does make a huge difference to your video clips, or just generally speaking, your videos. Anyway, let's move on and I'll see you in the next tutorial. 8. Color correction : When it comes to color correction, it can be a bit of a gray area if you're not used to this kind of thing. But as an absolute benchmark, what you always want to try and achieve is just trying to get the picture quality to its most natural state. How you would see while in this case, this group of zebras, we do own eyeballs. This is what you want to do. You just want to make it look like reality. This is the reason why it's called color correction. Because when you use a camera, whether you'd be recording video or taking photographs with color correction, you are basically trying to correct what the camera has done because the camera's not quite like the human eyeball. Sometimes it lets us a little bit too much light, a little bit too much contrast, a bit too much hue, and things like that. Yes, so it's a good idea just to put a bit of emphasis on that word correction, you adjust, correcting what the camera has done now is good practice and it's easier said than done when it comes to actually filming videos and also taking photographs. You want to make sure that the conditions are as close to perfect as possible. But like I said, it is easier said than done because that way when you bring in the footage into a video at a time, there's very little work that needs to be done. Anyway. I have this clip here of zebra video number two, and you can just put it in the timeline if you want to as well. What I would like to do with this particular clip is just make it a little bit more cool. Because even though it seems like okay, it's a very dusty environment and there's a lot of red. Personally, I think that that's not the case. And the person who made this video has made the clip a little bit too hot. What I would say he or she has made it too hot, but that's just the way the camera has captured the scene. It's a little bit too hot in that it's a little bit too red. If I would say it was a little bit too cool, then it would be a little bit more blue. But in any case, I want to cool down this clip a little bit and bring out the white and black as well on these zebras. So I'm going to right-click on the clip and this is how you get to the color correction, comes to color and then click on color correction. Now before we get started, there is this option here where you can look at the before and after as you're working on it, you can just click on this here. And there's a few settings that you can choose from. We have side-by-side, then we have left and right, and then top and bottom. But typically I like to just have this disabled. Then just work on the picture this way. Now in this clip there's just this little sort of snapshot of this giraffe, which I'm not really interested in and it's a mistake on my behalf. What I wanna do is I just want to fast-forward the clip and get it like this because I want to see this part here of the zebra because this will be a good point to work off. I want to get rid of all of this red here. What I can do first and foremost is mess around with this thing here. And I suppose that's a good way of putting it messing around because you don't really know what you want to do. All you do is you just start doing stuff until you see that it looks all right. But anyway, with regard to threshold and value and I know this is probably not going to work. You can turn the value up and in turn up the threshold and see what you can achieve this way. I mean, just looking at this now it does look quite nice, but there's a bit of a white haze that's showing up. So realistically, I'm just going to leave this as this, sorry, realistically I'm going to reset it because I don't actually want to use it. What I can do is I can just click on Reset all to buy everything backs the way it was. First and foremost, like I said, I want to cool down this clip and you can quite easily do that with white balance. It comes to this drop-down here and here we have temperature and I'm not going to go near the tint for the US. I'm just gonna deal with the temperature. I'm going to bring the temperature down. I think by quite a lot this go all the way down to 30 and see what this looks like. So already it's looking a lot more natural and it's not so red. So I think that's a good start. Next, I'm going to bring up the contrast on the zebras. So I'm just going to scroll down a little bit. In fact, what I can do is I can just click on this arrow here to close these options. And contrast with full underneath color. Here's contrast. I'll put this up a little bit and to see what it looks like. In fact, it's not much of a difference. I think I'll just leave it as it is. Now. One big one that you probably want to focus on his exposure. And sorry, two big ones is exposure and saturation. These usually needs to be adjusted subsequent turn the exposure up a little bit just to make it a little bit more bright. And we have these bushes in the background that are kind of quite dull in color. I want them to be a little bit more green. And I think I can quite easily do that just by turning up the saturation a little bit. I can see that green is starting to pop out. That's looking quite nice. Now there's a few other things we can look at here. We have the light, let's look at. Take a look at the lights. I think with the lights I could just increase the shadows a bit just to get rid of the shadows because it's quite dark around this area. This is a bit like an art form. There isn't really the correct way of doing this, to be honest with you. I mean, like I said, you want to just make sure it looks as natural as possible. But at the end of the day, it still is an art form. You just mess around with us and just get it to the point where you think it is, correct. I think that does look pretty good so far. And I think one last thing I can do is probably come to HSL, which stands for hue saturation light. And I'm going to apply probably this blue setting here and turn up the huge as to see what difference that makes. I don't think it's gonna make much of a difference. I'll just leave that alone. All right, so I think that's looking pretty decent. Now to get a quick view of what this looked like before, you can come up to this eyeball here and just click and hold on. It will quickly give you a preview of what it looked like. You can see there is quite a difference here. Quite a remarkable difference actually. Now when it goes, now when it comes to applying these settings to all of your clips and not all of them will need color correction. It can be a bit of a pain to open up every clip and go through all of these settings one at a time. It would be far easier if you could just save this as a preset. And the good news is that you can't do that. You can just click on save as custom. Give it a name. So we'll just call this my favorites and I'll click, Okay. Actually this one already exists. Let's go for my favorite number two. And I'll click Okay. Now what I can do is I can come to presets. And before we move on, there are these presets that you can click on, but I've taken a look through them already in there. Just a little bit too funky, so I'm gonna stay away from them. But basically to access my presets, I can come to this drop-down here and come to custom. Here's my favorite two. Now it actually said that my favorite already existed for some reason, even though it's not here. But that's fine. We still have the preset here. At this point I can click OK. Now eclipse looking good. And now what I can do is I can bring in the giraffe video one, so I can bring this in like this. Just to render this quickly, I can select it and come to this Play button here, which is another way of rendering your video. So what I can do is I can just right-click on this clip. I can come to color, color correction. And I can come to preset. I can come to this drop down here to custom. And straightaway I can just click on my favorite too. You can see this video has popped out by quite a lot and we have all of these beautiful colors that have suddenly shown up. So that looks good. I can now click Okay. And I can come to this Play button here to render the video. In one fell swoop. We have rendered this video clip here, and it looks a lot better. That is your introduction to color correction. As you can see it is, it is pretty advanced and like I mentioned in the previous tutorial, is kind of difficult to get proper color correction features within an entry-level video editing software. So it's pretty cool that this is in Fillmore because you can do quite a lot with it. And just by taking a few steps there, especially with the zebra video, we were, we were able to make a huge difference to how this video locked. Now, as far as these other videos go, I mean, the clips are pretty good. I would say I don't think there's any need to do any color correction. This looks correct. Let's add this eagle as well or hawk, whatever it is. Yeah. I mean, those videos are looking pretty good, so I don't think there's any need to deal with those. But basically that is color correction within Fillmore. 9. Editing music and sound tracks Part 1: We wanted to something that is really important and that is sound within your video editing. Within Gomorrah, there's actually three different areas to deal with sound, and each of them have their own purpose. Now first and foremost, I have this clip that is in the project files and I'd like you to put it in the project panel. Come to import, come to import media folder navigates to the film projects. And the file you want is this one here, clip with music, and then click Okay, you should end up with this video here. Now if you are uploading this for the first time, you may have to give it a minute or so for the clip to be optimized or to load fully. And you should see this little wheel in the bottom left-hand side of the corner, just giving you an idea of the progress with regard to that. But once the clip has fully loaded, you can just click hold and drag and pull it into the timeline. Okay, So this is the first clip we, we are dealing with that has sound attached to it. Before we were just dealing with clips that was silent. But now, like I said, we have sound attached to the clip. First and foremost, what I'm going to do just to see things a little bit more clearly. I'm going to come to the top of the video track here and click, hold and drag and pull up. And it exposes more of the video track. Now obviously you can just come to the track manager and click on adjust track height, and then click on big. You can do it that way or you can do it manually just by clicking, holding and dragging and pulling up widths. Like I said, there's three different areas that deal with sound within film, Norah. The first area is this area here. And you can do three things in this area. You can adjust the volume, you can fade in, and you can fade out first and foremost. And I'm not sure how this is going to sound when you listen to this tutorial, but basically, I'm going to press play for this clip and when I raised this bar, so I'll just press Play by pressing the space bar. Or I'll just click there. I'm pretty sure we can hear it, but I'm not like I said, I'm not sure how this is going to sound when I actually come to edit this. But basically, I can raise the volume like that. It's not feel more. It does take a second for it to catch up. But basically you can just adjust the volume here like this, I would say is the most basic tool that you have when it comes to sound editing within THE amora. So I'm just going to leave the sound is, is there. Now in terms of fading in and fading out, what I'll do is I'll just move this clip over to the right so you can see the fade in a little tab here. More clearly. We have this little tab and all I have to do is just click hold and drag like this. Let's just bring it to around here. Normally, I don't want to go too far. And now if I press Play, the sound starts to fade in. So simple as that. So now what I'll do is I'll just drag the clip over to the left. And as you can see, we have fade out as well. Here's the mock-up. I can just have a fade out here. And of course the clip will fade out. You can hear it starting to fade out. We're going to go take a look at the second area now, which is the audio mixer. Now with the video clip selected, just come to this icon here. You'll be presented with this window. Now what I can do is I can just press play on the clip. On the clip itself. We have the volume adjust here. We can adjust the decibel level, but we also have the master here. And believe it or not, these are actually disconnected from each other. So just because you put this up here in the mass step, it doesn't mean that goes up here in this area here. So just so you're aware of that, now we have stereo, which is basically having the sound in the center, which basically means the sound is going to come out of both sides. So for instance, on my TV, I've got two speakers as far as I know on the back. And I'm actually working on my TV. So with this in the center, this is actually made up of two things, which is video and audio one, but there are two of the same thing because they are connected together with stereo and with a stereo setting set to stereo. With these in the middle, it basically means that the sound is going to come out of boats. Because what if I do this? I pull video one to the right and I can pull audio one to the right if I want. But in this particular instance, it's only the video that makes a difference. If I pull it to the right and click Okay, and you don't need to click okay. You may not hear this because again of the, because of the way the video will be edited. But if I press Play. I can hear the sound is now coming out of the right-hand speaker. And of course, if I pull it to the left, the sound will come out. So the left-hand Speaker, you've got another way of doing this with this thing here. So there's more than one way of doing it, but I find this just much easier. Now we have surround, which basically, and to be honest with you, I'm not sure how this works exactly. But there's obviously some type of sound engineering behind this principle. I can take video one and don't forget, it doesn't matter what I do with audio one in this particular instance because the video and sound are joined together, it's video one that counts. This is the one that really makes a difference. Or I should really say completely makes a difference. If I put this here, video one at the back and press play again, you may not hear this funnily enough. It sounds like the sound is behind me, even though I don't actually have any speakers behind me. Or maybe it's just a placebo effects. But if I had a surround sound system, the sound would be behind me. I think that generally speaking, when it comes to video editing and Maurer, most of the time you'll probably use stereo and just have the sound in the middle. Now just make a mental note of when I press Play. You see we have the sound levels on the left and of course on the right. Like I said a moment ago, it's in this case, it's the video that makes a difference. So that's why you have sound levels here and not in audio. But what if I do this? If I just click OK and I right-click on my clip and I come to audio, and I detach the audio. Now that detached and what I'll do is I'll just click on this here to see the whole timeline. And I'm going to make my height adjustment small. Now, I can take my audio and I can actually move it separately and I can do whatever I want with it. But I'm just gonna hold down control and zed and put it back to the way it was. But with it like this, now I select the soundtrack and I come back to the audio mixer. And now when I press Play, you see it's actually audio one that counts now because that's where the music gets. Whereas before it was video, but now the video has no music. So the audio mix, it doesn't recognize it as something that has sound. Now one thing to be aware of when dealing with sound are what are called the levels. If you press Play and you'll find that things are in the red here in the audio mixer. So if I press Play, you can see it starting to turn red there. And that's something to be aware of because you can, I suppose cause damage to someone speakers. And the sound quality starts to become quite distorted because it's just too high. That's one thing you want to be aware of. You don't want to have any red showing to be honest with you, and you just want to have it just below so that the clip is loud enough or the video is just loud enough, but it's not hitting those levels. That's the audio mixer. And I think it's pretty straightforward how to use this. Mostly oriented around, I'd say the master and choosing stereo or surround. 10. Editing music and sound tracks Part 2: There's a third area. And to access this area, you can just right-click on the oh, actually, just before I move on. When you detach audio from your video clip, you can't reattach it. So at this point I can, if I want to just hold down Control and press zed, I can reattach the audio. But that's one important point to take on board. You can't reattach the audio to the video only by reversing your actions. C can't attach it later on. It's just going to stay separate. Actually, what I'll do is I will just right-click on the clip and I will keep it detached for now. I will detach the audio and there's a shortcut here as well. What I can do is I can right-click on the audio and I can come to audio and we have audio adjust. And another way to get to audio justice, just to double-click on the audio track. Now if the audio is attached to the video, all you'd have to do is double-click on the video. And you'd have, I think, about three or four options up here and you'd have to just click on Audio. And then all of these tools will open up. Now before I move on to these here, which are quite straightforward, I'm just going to cover these three here and we have this new one here, auto normalization. And in fact, let me just start with this. So normalization automatically sets the level of volume as far as I know, to a specific level that far as I know, Europe users. I mean, that's the only wording. I know. Basically if you're unsure about the level of volume that you want to use, you can just click on Auto normalization and Fillmore. It will just take care of the volume levels for you. But at the end of the tutorial, I'm gonna show you what I do with regards to choosing the right audio levels, the right volume levels. But basically this is what it does. Then we have ducking. Now, I've for myself when I was creating this tutorial Hami, How am I going to explain this as best as possible? While I've created some illustrations just to show you on the screen. Now basically with this first illustration, you just have your video with an audio track. And let's say this audio track has just maybe somebody speaking like myself. Then you have the music track below. But sometimes with videos when the person's not speaking, the audio track, which could be music, starts to go up and volume just to fill in that empty space. Well, when you use ducking, you just check this box here. Then you end up with a scenario like this where in-between where there's no sound here, the music rises and it fills in that empty space. That is pretty useful. Now how to use this? Well, basically you have to select the video with the audio, check this box, and then adjust the level here. That's how you take care of that. Then there's the noise. This is pretty useful, but to be honest with you, it can affect the quality of the sound. If you have an air conditioning unit getting on in the background and you hear this when you're editing a video, then you may want to apply the noise just to get rid of that noise. But to be honest with you, it's always a good idea of when it comes to recording just to make sure that the environment is nice and clean with regard to certain noises that are around you. But sometimes that's easier said than done and you end up with intrusive noises in your recordings. You may want to try and experiment, experiment with the noise just to see if you can clean up the sound a little bit. To select your clip. Check, remove background noise, and adjust the slider here to the strength that you want. Finally, we just have fade in and fade out here. And if you just look at the timeline, we have the fade in there and the fade-out, and we already know how to do that. Then we have pitch. Basically this just increases the pitch so it makes it more high-pitched or low-pitched. The sound that is finally, and this is the last thing, the equalizer. When it comes to music tracks, usually what I would do is apply this setting here. So let's see if this makes a difference within the recording, but I'm not sure for this. I'll press play. At this point. You can see there isn't much bass there, but if I come to this drop-down here and choose dance and then press Play. You can see it's applied quite a bit more bass there. I would say, well, that's at least what I can here. Now there's some other settings here you can go through and you can just find one you like. But if you don't quite find what you're looking for and you're quite familiar with sound editing, you can come to customize. You can adjust these different frequencies here. Let's say I wanted to put up the base quite high. I can put up the low frequencies like this and bring down the high frequencies. Now we're going to do too much here because I don't want to break this because on my computer, sorry, on my TV. So I'll just click Okay, and I'll press Play and it should, it should sound awful. Actually, it sounds pretty good. So it sounds like a live show up. But anyway, I don't like that setting too much, so I'll just leave it on dance. And like I said, you can just go through these settings here and just find one that you like. And then once you're happy, you can just click Okay, and that's it. So just three things to note there. And that would be the three areas that you can adjust your sound. First and foremost, you can adjust your sound in here. You can adjust your sound here. You can adjust your sound by right-clicking or double-clicking on the soundtrack or the video. If the sound is attached to it. Comes to audio, click on Audio, adjust or adjust audio. And here are your settings. Those are the three main areas when it comes to editing sound within film ora. One last point, if you are going to edit sound and you're relatively new to this whole thing. I would recommend that you use headphones. Not so much earphones, but headphones because you're able to pick up on the final noises and you are able to just adjust certain levels and etc, just to clean up the sound. I'll actually, before I go into I mentioned that I was going to tell you what type of volume I usually go for. What To be honest with you, I actually freestyle with us a little bit. Now you may have noticed in this course that all of the sound levels within the tutorials are pretty level to each other. So there isn't another tutorial that's too loud and another one that's too soft, etc. It's pretty linear throughout the course. What I usually do is I set my TV 250% volume. I set my computer volume to 50% here. And I'll just press Escape that's given to this. I set the volume here at 50 per cent. Then from this point forward, I adjust things like the mass to volume. If I decide to use mass dm, or I might set the volume here to a certain settings. So let's say I want to keep it at 9.8 decibels throughout the whole project. I just keep the same settings 50% with all of the rest of the volume settings. And then making sure that all of my clips stay at 9.8 decibels. And all I'm doing is I'm just listening to my TV and listening to see how loud it sounds. I'm looking for a decent amount of volume with everything set to 50%. And if it sounds good, then it is good. I've heard of famous musicians say that once when it comes to creating music and sound, if it sounds good, it is good. That's how I basically deal with volume when video editing. Anyway, that's everything to do with sound. And I hope you enjoyed that tutorial. I enjoy dealing with sound things, so I enjoyed it as well. Anyway, I'll see you in the next tutorial. 11. All you need to know about titles: In this tutorial, we are going to cover the subjects of text or what is also known as titles. When it comes to using this inclusive software within Gomorrah, it is like a lot of the other inclusive software. It is pretty simple to use, but it can be quite tricky to the untrained person. And while obviously this is why you've signed up to this course so that you can learn all about this. So we'll move forward now and learn all about titles within THE amora. Okay, So there's no project files to download for this tutorial. We're just going to go up to the titles icon up here, and I'll click on this. And this is very similar to the likes of transitions and effects, where you would click on the title of interest. It would download. By clicking on it once again, you can preview it here on the right. I think the title I'm going to use for this tutorial will be, let's go for, Let's just go for this one here. New open up. Okay, So that's downloaded. I'll just click hold and drag and pull this into the timeline. And I'll put it here in the center so you can see it nice and clearly. And what I'll do is I'll just click on the plus icon here to zoom in a little bit. In fact, I've completely lost it. Even though it's not really necessary because we're not going to be doing much work with this actual space here. All of the work will be done above. So to start editing your title, because as you can see at the moment, it's just got some default text in here. You need to do is double-click on it. Then all of this will open up, up here. And first of all, we have this little prompt here, this little window here, you can choose things like just positioning the whole animation itself. I'll just put that back to 0. So I'll just click in here and press 0. Then present. Then you have y to go up and down. Of course you have scale and rotation. How do you edit the text within these titles? While what you need to do is you need to click on the text itself. And as you can see in this window here, it says your title. Now if I were to click on, put your text here, you can see put your text here has changed. What I can do is I can just click on your title and I can change the text here. So I'll just select the text. I'll delete it. Type something really nifty like the word hello. And then I'll select this text here, put your text here. Then write something genius like this. That's how you can animate the text if you do have these textiles here, and these are available in the advanced button here. Or I should rather say the advanced area, which is something we will be looking at in a second. So I won't go into these right now. As you can see, we've actually, we're actually missing a few tools here. So what I need to do is just click hold and drag and drag the soap and a little bit. So we have our text alignment tools and you can make use of these if you want. Make sure you've selected your text and I can choose how you want to replace these. Now nothing's happening because basically this text is already in the center. But if this textbox was a lot wider than you would see or texts moving around. When you click on these options here. Then we have some basic text tools, italics, bold, and we also have this, which is the vertical text tool, and we can make Alt Text vertical. We have our font as well, and also we have our sides. Now if I scroll down a little bit, we've got some more tools. We have text color and then we have tech space. We can adjust the space in between alt-text. And then there's line space, which is the space in-between the text above and the text below. But within this textbox is only one line of text. So this doesn't actually make a difference. If I move this around. Actually before we go any way we have this alignment here, you can use that if you really wanted to. I'll just hit Control Plus said that reverse my actions. Then we've got a few more tools here to adjust our text. Just remember if you want to play around with the settings for the other text box here, you can just select it. And now these settings will be applied. Here is blending mode. Now when it comes to blending mode, I mean, I don't really use this very often, but basically, I can come to this and I can maybe use Linear Burn. And as you can see, it is still just about visible there. But to be honest with you like a sediment, really use this very often. But you might want to go through some of these settings and choose them if you'd like. I'll just leave this on Normal. And then of course we have opacity. But let's say we want to go a little bit further with this. We can come to the advanced settings. Now when you first see this, you might think to yourself, okay, well it kind of makes sense, but what are these little white lines here? Well, basically these signify the end of your animation. If I just scrub over this animation here and let's just pay attention to the text below. As I'm moving forward. As I arrive at this white point here, you can see this animation comes to an end. If I wanted this animation to be a little bit longer, I can move this white points a little bit further. Now as I scrub through the text, you can see that it takes longer for that to animate. Now if I wanted this to be a lot faster, I can move it right to the beginning here. And it would be almost instant. Like that. You also have these endpoints here. So let's just see what these look like. Even I don't think there's much of an animation at the end of this, at the end of this particular animation. Actually there is no problem. Okay, so obviously you can just adjust the duration or how fast or slow your animations work. Now if you don't like these actual animation, so how they animate on the screen, what you can do is you can just select, but let us go for this one here first. So the, how will you text if you select this track here, come to animation. And here you have a whole array of different animations that you can choose from. So let's go for cinema style. So all I'll do now is double-click on this. I've just double-clicked on it. And now this new animation will be applied to how you. That's a new animation. Let's say with the Hello text, I want to use this animation here. Let's go for random. Double-click on this, just making sure that this is selected. It does give you just a quick preview there of what it looks like. That looks pretty neat. And as you can see, we do have quite a lot of animations here to choose from. I mean, I'm not going to cover them all in this tutorial or otherwise, I think you'd leave the course. But you could just go through all of these animations or the ones that catch your eye and just apply them and see if you'd like any. There's a few basic tools here at the top, we can add shape. I can add this one here, and this appears at the top here. And I can just move this and adjust the length of it like this. Anti-military, just not something I used that often, but just to let you know, you can also click inside of the text here and change the text if you wanted to, but I'm just going to select it and press Delete. You can also do this with photographs, so you can just click on that. Go find a photograph. So I don't think I've got any interesting photographs except for this here. I'll just click on this. This shows up and it's a little bit too big. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to reduce it down a little bit. If you really wanted to, you can bring it in a photograph if you want. But it's not really necessary for this cell. Press Delete. This one here is basically another textbox. So we can add another text box here. And you can basically apply all of the animations, the same animations that you can apply to these other textbox here, the one with hello and how will you do have a few other settings here. So we have, we have the customized section here, which is very similar to the section that we've just come from. We have texts color, we also have effect for tech, so you can select this if you wanted to. In fact, what I need to do is I just need to select one of these here. You can change the text in here alignment. And like I said, it's very similar to the, if not exactly the same to the window that we just visited just a moment ago. Then we have presets in here. You can choose some pretty cool, Let's designs. So with hello selected, I'm going to select on textile 16. That looks pretty neat. And I'm going to now just select how, uh, you, and let's go for maybe this one here. So double-click on it. That's a little bit too bright. Let's go for maybe a darker color like this one here. That looks pretty good. Okay, so once you've done with this, I think it would be a bit of a pain in the backside to have to keep recreating this if you wanted to use this animation. So what you can do is you can actually save this as a custom animation. So just click on save as custom, name it, give it a name, and then click Okay. Now you may think that would come into the under presets. You're saved animation. But it doesn't actually come into here. It actually comes while I'll show you where it says in a second. But basically we just have to click OK at the second. And we have our animation. Now to get to your presets, which is also another name for custom. Titles, comes to the titles icon here come to custom. And here is the one we've just created. Also have these other ones here that I've thrown together just to practice the tutorial. And I've given them names as well. That's how that works. But basically that's everything you need to know about titles within Fillmore up. So anyway, we'll move on to the next tutorial. 12. Introduction to exporting video: It's now time to move on to how to export your videos. Now, to be honest with you, I've tried to record this the number of times. In fact, I think this is about my fifth time trying to record this. Every time I recorded it, it ended up being way too long. In fact, I think the first attempt ended up being about half an hour long. And by the end of it, I'd almost lost my voice and I had to stop for about 24 hours just to let my voice rest, then I could reattempt this tutorial. So I decided to change my strategy a little bit and not show you absolutely everything when it comes to exporting in femora. But rather than wait to try and keep to the basics and then venture outside of the basics just a little bit. But what I really want to do is just show you the areas of exporting that you most certainly need to know. Because more than likely you will be using these areas when it comes to exporting video. The clip you want is the video clip with sound. Now, Nestle as quickly delete this so it's more clear. Just come to import, come to import a media folder and come down to the Fillmore projects. This is the one you want here, clip with music. So once that's in here, you can just put it into the timeline and you don't have to cut it down, but I'm just gonna put us at about the 22nd mark and cut it. And I'll select this clip here and press Delete, and we're all done. Now one thing that does help us knowing what the project settings are for your, for your current video, or I suppose just the project because that might help us a little bit later on when we come to exporting the video. We've already covered this in the previous tutorial. To find the Project Settings you can come to File. Click on Project Settings. So as you can see, the aspect ratio is custom and also the resolution. But I suppose the two settings I most certainly want to remember we're just be the aspect ratio and the frame rates. But when we come to exporting the video, these figures should be in there automatically. But it's a good idea just to note what the project settings are. Just in case a real-world scenario, you would actually write down these numbers or just to remember them. Now there's a few ways of getting to the export area. Of course, we just have this big green button here, which is what you'll use. But you can also come to export here. And there's a few options to choose from an entropy honest with you, they're all available in this button here. So what we will do is we will just click on export. Now if you have the free trial version, you will have this window show up. And at this point you can click on by now, which is something you'll probably not going to do right now. Or you can click on Export with a watermark. Now, I actually have Fillmore all my other computer, which is a bit of an older version of the moral, to be honest with you. But there, it's very similar to this newer version except with a few things. So what I had to do was just get this free trial version onto my recording computer because while I didn't really want to have to pay for femora again. So that's the reason why I'm using the free trial version. But needless to say, everything was unlocked anyway within the editor. If it wasn't unlocked, and I probably would have purchased the program again. But in any case, you will have to click on Export with watermark if you haven't paid for the program. Now next let's window will appear. But if you have not signed up to feel moral, you will at this point, if you want to get to this window, have to create an account with Gomorrah. So it will be a basic account. You've just got to hand in some type of e-mail address, create a password, and then you will be brought to this window here. If you already have femora, then you will end up on this window by default told you on DVD. And what I wanna do is I want to cover this last. So basically, like I said, I just want to show you the basics how you're probably going to export a video most of the time. And by default we have mp4 here on the first option selected. This is probably like this because this is the most basic format that you will export videos, all the most common format that is used. You can give your video and name at this point. Then you can choose here where you want to save the video. At the moment, mine's going to go to my desk top. Then we have the resolution which is 496 times one to 1060. Now this is the project settings, if you remember from just a few minutes ago. And then we also have the frame rates. So these figures have gone in here by default because the system has detected what the project settings are for this particular project. That's quite handy. Now there is a bit of an anomaly with regards to the settings. I'll come to settings. And here we have quality. Now typically when you put the quality up to, let's say Good, I'll put up two good and I'll click. Okay. You would see the file size increase, but I don't know if you noticed that this was actually a 100 megabytes before, but now it's just under 26. So that is a bit strange that that's happening and I don't know why. But basically, you could come to settings and you can put this on good if you want to. And then you have these other drop-downs. Now, you have this encoded here and you also have another one which is m peg, which is less used type of encode up, but In most cases you are just going to stick to 8.264. Then you have your resolution and frame rates which the system has already detected. But you could change it here if you wanted to. But I'd recommend keeping it as it is so that everything matches. Then you have bit rates now, the higher the kilobytes per second, the higher the quality. But I'm quite happy with the default setting. Then we have audio in and is only one type of encoded with this switches AAC, then we have channel now it's, it's already detected that this video is set to stereo. But if you want to tune, you should not have to do this because we have a cut, we have covered sound and femora. You can change it to mono or surround sound. But in most cases you will just export with the stereo setting. Then we have sample rates of which this two, and this really comes down to how clear you want your sound to be. So if you really wanted to be quite high and you could put it at 48 thousand. And it's the same with the bit rate as well. So this point you can click Okay, and then you're good to go and just click export your video. We'll start to export. Now that's something you'll be doing in a second, but let's quickly take a look at few of these other options. So another thing you might do is export by device. And we do have a device tab here, and we have these different options. Now if we click through these different options, you can see the resolution is changing. The iPhone and iPad are the same. This take a look at Apple TV. You can see the resolution has changed here. You see the frame rate changing as well. If you wanted to export for a particular device, then maybe you can find the device in here. So let's say you wanted to export for a Samsung Galaxy because maybe you have a portrait oriented video while you can choose Samsung Galaxy. And we have all of these settings here. Of course, you can choose where you want the file to be saved to and give it a name. And then if you wanted to, you can click on Settings and you can change some of these here if you wanted to, especially the quality, this will make a big difference. Then we have YouTube and Vimeo. Now I don't have a Vimeo accounts, so I'm not signed into this, but with YouTube, I am. I do have an account with them, so I signed into my YouTube account. Basically, you can give your video a title. You can mess around with the settings if you want, type out your description here, choose your category, and then you can also choose privacy. So do you want this video to be public, unlisted, or private? And once you've gone through all of these settings here, you can just click on Export, and it will export straight to YouTube. And while just be aware that if this is set to public, then the video will be made public straightaway. So you got to make sure that you get everything correct in here. I don't do much YouTube, but when I do, I usually just export to my desktop and then I just worked through YouTube itself. But how you want to do this is totally up to you. Then we have DVD. Now what you could do with these settings here, as basically, as far as I know, burns straight to a DVD or maybe a CD. This is something I'm not really familiar with. And to be honest with you, I haven't really done it since. While maybe in about 20 years. I remember at 1 in the nineties and the early 2000s, burning films and songs to DVDs and CDs was the thing. But maybe not so much these days, but who knows? You could go through the settings here and you can choose your device. The output type, which I'm assuming is going to be the CD or DVD burner. And then you can click Export and then your video would just export onto your CD or DVD. We're already at about 11 minutes now. It might be a little bit shorter when I export the video. I don't want to take this too far. Like I said, it's already been too long in the past. In most instances, you are just going to use local set and this will be set to mp4. And then you can go through these basic settings here. And then finally you can click on Export, and it will start to export. And as you can see, we do have a watermark here, which is quite large. But then again, they probably do want you to buy the program. And it's coming to there now. And it should be a bit of a feel more sort of animation at the end. And there it is. Okay, great. So here's my video. Now I'm not going to click play on this because the last time I did this, the whole tutorial and the screen recorded just shut down. So I'm not going to bother doing that. But what I might do is I might put it into the final edit just so you can take a look at it. That's pretty much it. I don't want to go too far with this edge. You can see there are many different options to choose from. But really, realistically all I wanted to do was just show you the basics. But anyway, we'll move on to the next tutorial. Now. I'll see you there. 13. Let's get recording (Screen, voice, and web camera): So as I'm sure you are probably aware, I have been recording my screen and my voice to do this course. What we're going to cover now is how to do this yourself using film Mora because there is some inclusive recording software included with this software. So there's three types of recording within Gomorrah. There is recording your PC screen, recording with a web camera, and then also recording a voice-over as well. These three options can be found in this drop-down here. Now just to let you know, I have put some slides together to show you how this works because, well basically it was difficult for me to record my screen and to show you in the fullest extent how recording your screen works within film camera. So I won't go into too much detail there, but basically I've got these slides together. But they will be an accurate representation of how to do this. And they should look exactly like how it would look on your own screen. First and foremost, we will start with how to record your computer screen. Okay, so here we are. Just goes to this drop-down here and click on Record PC screen. And it will be presented with this box here. Now you may find that the Fillmore of video editor might minimize at this point when this box shows, and that's fine. You can bring up the Fillmore, a video editor up behind this box if you want. But needless to say, everything is still going to be exactly the same. All right, So firstly, you want to choose what you're going to be recording on your screen. Now the default setting I always go for is just the full screen option here. Basically you just have the set to full screen and we'll get into these other two settings on the right here. And then you just click Record. And then you will record your fullscreen. And it's as simple as that. There's another setting here for custom. As you can see, we have these white mockers. Now on the edges of our screen. We can just move these white markers around onto the area of interest, and then we can press record, and that will be the only part of the screen that the screen recorder records. So pretty straightforward stuff. Then we have this button here, and basically this is just to record the system sound. So if I had my screen recorder on and I jumped onto YouTube and play the video, it would record the sound coming from the video, or I should rather say from this system. And so let's say if you wanted to record a Zoom meeting or something like that, and you wanted to record what people were saying, including yourself, then you'd want to have this turned on. Then you have this drop-down as well. Just asking from what device should we record the sound? I've just set this to my TV because this is what I actually use as a computer monitor. Then we have our microphone settings. I think this is pretty straightforward. You turn this on and you can choose the microphone that you want to use. Now you're ready to click record and your screen recorder will start to record. But before we do that, we're gonna take a look at the settings down here. With these settings open, we have a few things that you may want to take a look at. You can choose where you want your files save to automatically with this box here. Then there's the frame rate and I forget what this goes up to it and it may go up to 60 frames per second. But just to let you know, when it comes to Hollywood Blockbusters, they usually hang around, I think it's 24 frames per second. So 25 frames per second is fast enough. Now just remember the more frames you use, the larger the recording will be in terms of memory size. And it's very difficult to edit very large file sizes. So I would recommend keeping this as low as possible, or typically around 25, which is the default setting, then there's quality. You can choose the quality, so I just keep mine on good. But just keep in mind that there, again, is going to be a big difference between a low quality recording and a high-quality recording in terms of how much memory it actually uses. Now record timer. Now, doing courses full-time, I can tell you that I have forgotten to turn off my recorder at times and I've recorded well, I don't know. I think my record was probably about 20 hours. I did all of that without even realizing it. You may want to set just the minimum time here, or a maximum time, I should say, before the recorded turns off automatically. I haven't set this up myself because I've kind of gotten better at turning off the recorder at the end of my recording sessions. But you can set this up if you want. Then this show mouse clicks within the recording. Not something I really like to use, but you may want to consider this and also you can choose to have a clicking sound as well. Then two things to note. You have a pause key here, and the hotkey for this as f ten. So if there's any noise interferences and you're recording something on your screen, just quickly press F11, wait for that noise to go away or sought out that noise, and then press F11 once again to continue your recording. And then we have here the F9 key to start and stop. At this point you can press the red button. And you'll have this countdown, and it will begin to record your screen. Now you can bring up your task bar and you should have this icon here while the Screen Recorder is recording. And you can see the time stamp here. And you have a stop and a pause option. Now just let you know, just because this is recording in this screenshot, it didn't mean that I was just limited to recording the Fillmore, a video editor. I can minimize the video editor at this point. I can go look at some files, maybe within File Explorer, I can go online, I can go to YouTube, I can go to Facebook and the screen recorded would just record all of this. But once you're done, you can just click on stop or press F9 on your keyboard. The file will be put into the project manager, and then you can just click hold and drag and put it into the timeline and edit it as you wish. Or you can just go ahead and export the video straightaway. Now one thing to note with recording, and I highly recommend you do this every single time you start recording session. Just makes sure that you do a test to make sure that your microphone is the correct microphone and everything Sounds okay. So I'd highly recommend you do that. Next is recording a voice-over. Now there's two ways of doing this. You can record audio from this drop-down here, or you can click on this icon here. And this window will show up in the center. Quite easy to use. You just choose your device and just have this set to input audio. Click record. And then you'll be presented with something that looks like this. Within the timeline, you will see your timeline indicator moving from left to right, recording your audio. And here it is further on down the line. And then once you're done, you can just click Stop. And I think okay as well. And just like before with screen recording, the recording will go into the project panel. And then you can just click hold and drag and pull it into the timeline to edit it and or export it. Once again, you do want to do a bit of a check before moving on to the real thing. I think this is just good practice. Then finally we have recording with a web camera. And again, that can be found in this drop-down here. Now what I had to do was I had to go out on the streets and find someone who was extremely handsome and a good fit for recording on my web camera. And well, the good news is I was able to find someone in any. He is here on the screen, as you can see, very handsome guy. The settings here are again, quite straightforward. You've got your video device, your resolution, audio and frame rate. With regard to resolution, you have to be aware of what your camera is capable of. I do have this camera that can record standard HD, which is 1920 times 1080. That is the maximum setting for my web camera. Now at this point I can click Record. You'll be presented with something like this. You can record whatever you want to record. And then when you're done with this, you can click stop. Just like before it ends up in the project panel. And you can just put it in the timeline, edited and or export it if you want. One thing to note, my camera, my HD camera does have an in-built microphone into it, which is nowhere near as good as the quality of the microphone I'm using right now. If you're gonna do this and you've got a separate microphone and a separate webcam. It just makes sure that you're setting up the correct audio recording device so that we'd be in this drop-down here. Now that's all there is to that. And if this is brand new to you, recording your PC screen in particular, then you may be relieved to find out just how simple it really is. Because when I first started recording courses, I taught myself, my goodness, recording PC screens, looks like magic to me, but I got a hold of my software, my video editing software, which is a different software at the time because this was over about five years ago. And I just realized how simple it really is. And this is a great skill to have as well. 14. How to use key frames: Next we're gonna take a look at something called key frames. You can use key frames to do basic kind of animations within your videos. And I've put together these two examples to show you what you can do with keyframes. Then after this tutorial, There's going to be a solution video. Because in-between these tutorials, there will be an exercise that you can do to practice your new skills when it comes to using key frames. But let's just quickly take a look at the example I've put together. I should rather say the two examples. Just go fullscreen here. And I'm gonna press play on my spacebar. We have Darrow here just moving around and pointing at these green spots. Then it comes into the center. Then it grows large, and then the opacity goes down, disappears and then reappears from the bottom. And that's the end of the animation. Then I have this other one I've put together of this little car driving to McDonald's, drives towards the parking space, then it reverses out. The moves further on down the road. And then eventually it leaves the frame and then it goes back to the starting points. Just press Escape to exit out to the full screen mode here. What I'm gonna do now is just start a new project within femora. I can show you how this is all done. All right, so the files you need are the files from the keyframes folded. What we can do is we can come to this drop-down here, then come to import a media folder. Then find the film, Fillmore a project file. Open this up and then just click on key frames, and then click Okay. And here are our files. To show you how to use key frames. I'm going to use this whiteboard here with the green markers. And I'm gonna drag this out to around the 30-second mark. And then I'm gonna bring in my arrow. And I'll put this above. I'll drag this out as well. About the 25 second mark. Okay, so how does this all work? Well, first of all, what I'm going to do is a way to come to this icon here. And when it come to zoom level. And I'm gonna put this at twenty-five percent. This is new to you. I don't think I've shown this to you yet, but basically you can make your preview window, I really should say the frame within the preview window a little bit smaller, or in this case twenty-five percent smaller. And come to think of it, it might be a little bit too small. I think what I'll do is I'll just enlarge it a little bit. Let's go 450%. Yeah, I think that's a little bit better. So first of all, I'm going to select the arrow in the timeline. I'm going to click on the arrow here in the preview window. In fact, I don't think it was necessary to click on it here in the timeline. Now we have these little dots here. What I'm going to do is I'm just going to scale it down like this. In fact, we'd better to leave it like this larger. What I'll do is I'll just come to the top here where we have this little thing at the top that we can use to rotate the image. Just hover over the center of this and click, hold and drag and I'll rotate it. I do this with it being quite large because it's easier to get it nice and straight when it, rather than when it's quite small. I'll come to the top right here and I'll just click hold and drag. And I'll make this arrow a little bit smaller. I'll put it in the center here we have these guidelines that show up to show that this is the middle. So that's pretty handy. All right, so now I'm going to add my keyframes. And to do this, I'll just right-click on the arrow in the timeline, I'll come to animation. And here we have add animation. Just making sure your timeline indicator is at the beginning of the timeline. Click on Add. Basically that just segments, it's positioned here so it knows to start in the middle of the frame. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to move this along and just keeping an eye on the timestamp here on the far right. I'm gonna move it to 1 second. Roughly speaking, it doesn't have to be 1 second exactly, but a roughly around 1 second. I'm going to click Add once again from 0 to 1 second, this arrow should stay where it is. Now for I'm going to move on to the animation phase where I'm going to move it, let's say to two seconds. Wait to click. Actually let me try and get a little bit, a little bit more accurate. That'll do. I'll click on the arrow itself and I'm going to move it around. You can see as I moved it, this new keyframe showed at this point. And I'm going to just rotate it like this and leave it like that. Now I'm going to come to the 3 second mark. Then I'll click Add. Basically now this arrow should stay here for about a second. Now let's move forward another second and I think you can see how this is working now. Around the full second mark, I'll click on the arrow. I'll bring it down and I will rotate it. It doesn't matter what you do with the arrow. You can put it here by accident or whatever, so long as the key frame stays where it is. That's fine. Okay, So at this point I wanted to stay here for a second. So I'll fast-forward to five seconds. I'll click Add. And now what I'll do is I will move forward another second to six seconds. I'll click on the arrow and I'll move it over here to the left. Now just let you know why she could probably see these figures moving around here. We have the x position and y position. We also have rotation here and is also opacity and scale, which is something we'll be covering at the end in a few minutes. But I just find it way easier just to use my mouse. And then just use this little dot here just to rotates the arrow or whatever you're trying to animate within femora. Fast-forward to seven seconds. Now. Add another keyframe that will stay there for a second. Now I'll go to eight seconds. I'll move the arrow once again up here and I will rotate it. You can see it's actually pretty simple. It's quite easy to do that. I mean, well, if you're doing it for the very first time, it can be a little bit hard to get right trying to move these points around and stuff like that. But after a few attempts, I think it is quite simple to do. So it's at the last green spot here. Now, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to leave it here for two seconds. And this signifies that this is the end of the animation. Add a keyframe, and then it will very slowly over the course of another two seconds. Roughly speaking, come into the center. I'll just make this as straight as possible like that. And I'm going to fast-forward by another. In fact, what I'll do is I'll come forward to anytime now because it doesn't really matter. So I'll come to about here. And I'm going to add a keyframe, and this time I'm going to scale it up. I'm also going to lower the opacity. So as soon as it arrives, as soon as they arise in the center, it should start to grow and its opacity should start to fade. And I can just see how that works by just scrubbing over the timeline yet. So it's called scrubbing when you do this, when you just move, the timeline indicates over the work that you've done below. You see it's disappeared there. Now, want to wait to do is I'm way to end this arrow here. I'll go back to, actually, I need to click OK here. I'll go get my arrow once again and bring it into the timeline. And I'm going to just click on it and I'm going to rotate it to make it upright as possible. What I'll do is I'll just shrink it down to roughly the same size it was when it first started. Basically what I want to do is bring it down here like this. And I'm going to right-click and go to Animation. Add animation. I'll add a key frame. I want this to move forward into the position quite slowly, so we'll put forward by quite a bit. The timeline indicator I want to wait to do is I'm just going to click here because I know it's here. And I'm going to click hold and drag and pull it up like this. I can just end this as well, so I'll drag the sin. Now we should have a full animation. So I'll drag this to the, to the starting points. I'll go full screen and press the spacebar to start the animation and we'll take a look at it. That's looking pretty good. Go to the center now. It'll annual grow and go more faint and disappear. Then re-emerge from out of the frame. I'll just press Escape. Now this fuel the tools here. To take a note off, we have these arrows here, and basically you can skip to some of these key frames, so in a more accurate way. In fact, let me just try do it this way, see if it, if it actually activates. Now, you do have to use these arrows and some other video editing softwares. You can just move this cursor around and they highlight, but with Fillmore, it doesn't do that. You do have to use these arrows here. You can jump between these and let's say you want to make a change. Well, maybe if I want, if I wanted to, I can maybe scale it down at this point. And it's going to mess up our animation. But I'm just trying to show you something here. So I'll come back to this point now and press play. You can see it's shrunk down there and then it grew back up. Then it comes to the end of the animation. If you need to repeat the tutorial, then please go ahead and do so until it's clear in your mind. But at this point you can now move on to, well, I'll just click Okay here. Bringing the road animation. I should say the illustration I put together. And basically bringing the car. And try to do this animation yourself. So try do what I did before. Where you take the car and it travels down the road, takes a park and then goes along the road out of the frame, and then comes back into the frame, back to the starting point. This is your exercise. Now, have a go at this and see how you get on. And I'll see you in the solution video. 15. Key frames solution video: Okay, So how did you get on? Well, it's time for the solution video now. But like I said in the previous tutorial, if you're pretty confident with key frames at this point, you can just go ahead and skip this tutorial. But if not, then this will be very similar to the last tutorial, where I will cover the principles once again and show you how to animate the scar going along on this road. Now with a solution video, there's not gonna be too much talking because I've already done a lot of talking. So you can kinda just watch what I'm doing. And basically I'll just start by selecting the car here. What I want to do is just rotate it. Like I said, I likes rotate these when they're quite large because you can get the more accurate in terms of being sort of parallel or vertical. It comes to the corner here and I'm going to shrink this down to roughly about the size. I think what would help here is if I come to this icon here and I'll come to zoom level, and I'm gonna set this to fit. Yeah, I think that's a much better idea. I think what I need to do is just rotate this just a little bit more because it's a little bit off-center. Even though it's not completely necessary. I'll just leave it like that. That's fine. Okay. So I'll go to the beginning of my timeline. Right-click, go to Animation. Add animation. And I'm going to add my first key frame. For this first road. I'm going to set this to around two seconds. I'll select the car and I'll move it along. Then I needed to turn. So what I'm going to do is some way to put this at about the 3 second mark. I will use this tool now to rotate, Something like that. Now to drive down the next part of the road, I'll move this forward in facts. Not really going to look at the timing too much with this particular one. I don't really need to. I think I'll select the car, move it down the road a little bit. Now I'll move forward a little bit to rotate the car. That's looking good. Now down this stretch of road. Want to make it I get it as accurately lined up with the POC as possible. Time to rotate it little bit further forward now, to pop the vehicle, I'll bring it into the car park. And what I'm going to do is I'm just going to scroll forward just quite a bit. And then we're gonna add another keyframe because the car needs to be popped here for a little bit longer. Instead of just popping in and out of the park. Now it's going to reverse out of the car park. One I'm going to do now is wait to bring afford to about this point. And I'm going to bring the car down here and I'm going to rotate it. I got to animation is going on at the same time. Now I'm gonna make this CagA down the long straight road. I'll select the vehicle down to the end here. Move forward a little bit to rotate the vehicle. And once again, we fold with a timeline indicator. Move the vehicle forward. Another little jump. I'll rotate the vehicle. I mean, it's not perfect, but I think it's going to do for the exercise. Sorry, I should really say the solution video. Then finally, I'll just move it here. And what I could do here, because I've just moved this on a little bit too far. I'm going to move this keyframe just little bit, a little bit to the left because this road is very small. Then finally, the last rotation here. I'd say this bad, this is a very bad driver because he keeps going off the road. I'll blame the driver and not myself obviously. Want to wait to do now is I'm going to, instead of having to drag out outside the frame with the mouse, I'm actually going to use the x, the x axis. That's the wrong one. So I'll just hold down Control and press said the y-axis. I'll just let that just go just out to the frame. And that's all I need to do. And I will bring the clip back to here. And we'll, I'll just leave this as it is, as it is at the moment. What I can do is I can just press play and take a look to see how it looks. That's looking pretty good. Okay, So what I'll do now is I will just click OK here. And by the way, if you want to get back to the key frames, you can just double-click on the clip. I really should have shown you that in the previous tutorial. And then this window open up and then you can do more keyframes if you want. All right, so what I'll do is I'll just bring in the car once again. What I will have to do is shrink it down and also rotate it. I'll go ahead and do that. I'll just move it over here to the left. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to put the key frame here for where it is parked. So I'll leave the timeline indicator here. I'll right-click, go to Animation, add animation and wait to add the keyframe here. Now I'm actually kind of working backwards. Now, I will add another keyframe here. And to do this, I will use the x. Going a little bit too far there. I'll use the position x. Account click. Okay, and now let's take a look at the animation very quickly. Okay, so yeah, pretty good stuff. I mean, if you know how to do this at this point, you are well-qualified when it comes to using keyframes. And you can give yourself a big pat on the back. That's it for key frames. Now, as we go through the rest of this course, you'll find that you can actually do other things with key frames. You don't always have to use sort of animations of cars or pictures of cars like this that have been put together in Illustrator. You can do it with video clips as well. So you can move video clips left and right, or an alter the frame. And you can also do it with the likes of text animations and things like that. So you're not limited, like I said, just to poxy little animations like this. Anyway, I'll see you in the next tutorial. 16. How to zoom in and out with key frames: So we're going to continue with key frames at the moment. What I want to do is just show you how you can use keyframes to do certain things with your videos. For instance, zooming in, zooming out. And it quite possibly making some type of video transition like this and things of that nature. So if you are quite familiar with key frames already, then I think you may already know how this is done. But in any case, I will show you how to do this in terms of the files you want to use. Basically, you can use any files, but I'd recommend going with the wildlife videos once again. So I'll just go get those videos. And I would say you need about Let's go for four. I think that's just bringing four. Would be better if we use the short ones, I guess. Actually it doesn't matter about length. Just pick four videos, then bring them into Fillmore. The first thing I'm going to do, and by the way, my computer vaccine a little bit funny today. It may look a little bit jumpy within the preview window, but, but needless to say, it should be okay with you. Anyway, I'll just bring in the sunrise video here. I'm just going to match the media. By the way, when you're doing this, it would help to just make sure that this is set to full so that it looks good. The zooming in and outs and the transitions and stuff like that. If your computer can handle it, just set this to fool. Next, I'm going to come to the track manager here, and I'm just gonna click on Add video track. What I'm going to do is I'm going to bring in the bird video. I'll just put that in this video track here. And what I'll do is I'll just shrink this down to the same length as the bird video. Now I can actually see that the bird video is actually just a little bit smaller in terms of size compared to the sunrise video. So what I will do is I will click on the bird video and I will just make it bigger. I'll make it bigger like this, just by clicking out on these points. Something like that. Alright, so now it's time to do deal with the key frames. What I wanted to do is just shrink this video down and then put it up in the top right-hand corner. So if you remember how to do this, you can right-click. Go to animation, go to Add Animation. And then I'm just going to straightaway add a keyframe. And I'm going to bring this to, well, what I'll do is I'll just press play. So at this point I wanted to start moving, so I'll add another keyframe. Then I'll move forward and over the course of around 1 second, Let's actually go for about 1.5 seconds. I want it to go down in scale. I'll do that. I'll bring it down and scale. Then I will just click on the video itself and then just click hold and drag and put it up to the top right-hand side here. Now we have these green marker lines that have shown us, that have shown up these acts as a guide. So that's really quite useful. Now if we watch the video, it's actually running smoothly today. You could see the video shrinks and goes up to the top right-hand side. It's not perfect. So it could go over to the right just a little bit more, but I'll leave it as it is. Then in this last segment here, the last few seconds, what I want to do is just add another keyframe. And I'm going to scroll forward a bit. And I'm going to just use the positions here. So I think it was the y position for up and down. Yes, There we go. I'm just going to push it out of the frame like this. That goes out of frame. Now what I wanted to do and what actually what I could do is I could just extend this just a little bit. Let's do this. I'll add a key frame for this here, so I will click on it, right-click animation, Add keyframe. I'll add a keyframe here. And what I want to do is just scroll over to the right, almost completely to the end of the clip. And I'm going to actually that's going up and down or control plus set that. I want to push this to the left. Now what I'll do is I'll just click. Okay, I'll go get maybe my caterpillar video and I'll bring this in. And what I will do is put the timeline indicates here. And I need to add a keyframe to this. Right-click. Go to Add, Add animation. And I'll add a keyframe. And basically the distance between this keyframe here in this keyframe, I want them to be kind of the same length so that there's a smooth transition from, from right to left. Actually before we go anywhere, I might just need to delete this keyframe. Because I can see my caterpillar video is actually not fitting the frame. Now the reason why this is I think it's because of this sunrise video. Compared to the other wildlife clips, the sunrise video is actually just a little bit bigger. It's a little bit bigger. So, so what I need to do is just click on this caterpillar video and I'm going to click hold and drag and just bring it out to the end of the preview window here. That'll do right. So actually, I've still got this keyframe here. I'll just delete it. What I need to do is just click. Okay, I'll get rid of that and do that once again. Now I'm ready to add a keyframe. So now right-click, I'll go to animation. And animation. I'll add a key frame because this is where I want the video to end. And it basically needs to start on the left, somewhere around there. So let's just take a quick preview of this. See what it looks like. You know what I need to do? I need to do I need to drag this out. This needs to go on top like this. The time he's not perfect. I think there's a bit of a delay that's let us drag this over to the left just a little bit and try once again. That's looking much better. I'm pretty sure you can see how this works out. Then finally, for this last few seconds, I'm going to add one more key frame. And I'm going to scroll forward to about here. Then I'm going to start to scale in. And I basically just want to scale into the head of the caterpillar. I'll just click Okay there. And then what I'll do is I'll go get a transition. And I'll go to my favorite transition and I'll go to fade. I'll click hold and drag and pull this onto the last one here. I'll double-click on it and I'll just bring down the timing to about about here, I would say, perfect. Let's play that from the beginning and I think we'll wrap up now. It goes up to the top right, looking good. That's looking pretty good. Okay, so that basically is just a little bit of messing around. But now you know how to create your own sliding transitions which are necessary to do with keyframes because they are available within the transitions window here you can probably find them because there's different variations of the sliding transition. But basically one of the most important things is just knowing how to use key frames to zoom in and out. I think that that's really quite useful. 18. Green screen. Best practices: I hope you enjoyed that preview of what can be done with a green screen. Now strictly speaking, you probably already had a kind of a good idea of how a green-screen works. But what I would like to do now before we jump into the next tutorial where we will actually apply the chroma key settings to our green screen footage. I want to cover a few aspects that you should definitely consider when it comes to working with green screens. And that'll be done in this very brief PowerPoint presentation that I've put together for you. So there's really only four main steps that have to be taken in order to end up with a successful Green Screen video. First of all, you just shoot the video with the green screen. Then you import that media into the video editor. You apply the chroma key and a few settings as well, and then you just export the video. It's only four main steps. But I suppose before you do any of these steps here, there's one crucial step that you have to get right, and that is creating a green screen background. Now there's a few different ways of doing this. You can go out and you can buy a green screen as you probably already know. Or you could quite possibly do a painting option where you would just paint a wall or maybe some cardboard or something like that or what have you choose to paint. But if you're wondering what the color is, the exact color is a color code green chroma key, which is also known as can be apple green. Now if you were to go to a hardware store owner really depends, I suppose where you live and what store you go to. This color can be quite difficult to get a hold of. You may have to resort to buying online. So the likes of Amazon or eBay. But the good news is you can just mix blue and yellow together until you get as close to green chroma key as you can. That being said, I just want to say that the color of green, it does not need to be exact. The truth being told, you can actually use any color that you want. It's just when it comes to green chroma key. It's quite a rare color and I think it was chosen right at the beginning when they came up with this technology. Because it's quite a red color. You don't really see green chroma key very often. I suppose they wanted a very rare color because there would be less chance that the subject, whether it be a person or an item, would actually have that color on them or it So there would be no clashing Between the background. Or I should rather say there would be a distinction between the background and the subject in the foreground. Another popular color is blue, but generally speaking, most green screens are green. And if you are going to go down the painting roots, then I suggest you use latex types of paint because they work best. And apparently they don't reflect that much. Because when it comes to the green screen reflecting and they can reflect, they can mess around with the quality of the video. So just be aware of that. Now, like I mentioned, you can go out and buy a certain green-screen products. So this is a good example here, and I'm probably one of the more expensive options. Though. I think something like this would cost around a $100. It depends on what you view as being expensive. In terms of lighting. The best lighting that I've heard of is probably LED lighting. Now, I don't do much green-screen work by self and facts. I haven't really done any in a number of years, but I do remember that the best lighting was LED lighting. And generally speaking, LED lights are just great for filming anyway, because the light is just really soft. And it just disperses that light around the film scene nice and evenly at it, and it just looks nice. So here's a good example of some LED lights. Now these ones do look quite expensive, but there are some sort of cheaper ones out there that can do pretty much the same thing. You also get these types of lights that are predominantly used with the likes of photography. And I would say these types of lights work well as well. And if you're wondering what the keyword is for this, if you wanted to go, maybe take a look at these types of lights on the likes of eBay or Amazon. I suppose you could just put in photography lighting or something like that and you will find something like this eventually. In fact, I have no doubt there's gonna be thousands of different options that you can choose from. I've put this really good illustration together of what quite possibly is the ideal setup when it comes to your subjects in the foreground, the lighting behind the subjects, and then the green screen in the background. In this particular example, I've just got this wall that I have quote unquote painted. So this is the green screen setup for this particular scenario. We have these two light sources here, and we can view these light sources as being LED lights. And as you can see, they are light bars. Now the reason why I placed them like this is just to make sure that we have that even distribution of light on the green screen. And as you get through these slides, I will get to a certain slide where I will show you what happens if you don't get the lighting correct. So we'll get there in a second. This is another setup now you don't have to have the lighting exactly like this, so maybe lights in every single corner. But generally speaking, what I'm trying to do here is just once again, suggest that you need to get the lighting as even as possible on the green screen. So I think that's pretty straightforward. Here we have an example where we have one light source that is missing. And we have this dark patch here because obviously we're missing the light. When you actually come to processing this video and applying the chroma key, you might, you may find that this darker patch will again just mess around with the quality. And with these types of shadows, they often come up as a green kind of shadow that shows up In your video. And the more you deal with green screens and in particular bad green screen footage, you'll know exactly what I mean. So it's definitely worth just trying to get your lighting correct? Right from the start. So you have as few problems as possible when it comes to actually applying the chroma key. And then when all is said and done, you should end up with a very high-quality video that looks something like this. That's everything I wanted to explain what my PowerPoint. Now we're going to move over into the next tutorial where I said we were actually going to apply a chroma key to some green screen footage. So I'll see you in the next tutorial. 19. Apply chroma key to your footage: Let's move on to applying the chroma key to our green screen footage. Now I have provided a clip for you to use along with a background to access those and bring them into full Mora. Just come to the drop-down here, come to import a media folder. Come down to the Fillmore, a project which is just here, comes to the drop-down and then just click on green screen. And then click Okay, you should end up with these two pieces of media. Now first and foremost, what I need to do is just bringing the green screen footage. I'll bring that into track one. And I'm just going to click on match to media. Okay, so that's looking pretty good. Regard to the screen screen footage. I put this together with a board that I found and I had to basically mix some blue and yellow paint to make this green background. Now it's not the exact shade of green, but like I mentioned in the PowerPoint tutorial, it doesn't have to be perfect. But if you can make the green and even shade as possible, that really does help a lot. The reason why I've made it so small as well, it's just because I don't actually have a green screen and I don't use green screens. Usually. I basically had to put one together just for this tutorial. But whatever we do with this green screen footage, the same principle applies whether you're using a green screen that's 20 feet by 20 feet tall and wide, and you've got a car in front of it. The same principles still apply. Now just before we move on, just to let you know, if you wanted to further your training with the green screen, what you could do is you could come to the sample green screen videos here, of which this ten of them. And you can just click on them to download them, and then just click, hold and drag and pull them into the timeline here. You can experiment with these videos as well. And as you can see, there are some pretty cool animations. I'll just delete that because I don't want that right now. First and foremost, I'm just going to lower the volume on this clip because we don't need the volume. It's just me moving around with my hand. So what we want to do now is just bring this to somewhere around the beginning. Something like that. And right-click, come to video, then click on green screen. Now, what you need to do is, and the reason why this has gone black straightaway. It's just because I've already done this and it's already, it's already registered the color, but basically, you need to click on the color picker here and then pick on a certain shade of green within the green screen. Then you should end up with this black color behind. Now what we can do is we can, I'll just for now click Okay. Come to media. Project five. Projects media. Click, hold and drag and pull the background. Actually, what we need to do is we need to add another video tracks that it comes to the track manager. Click on Add video track. And I'm going to click hold and drag and pull this up onto the top track here. Because our footage, I'll video or a video footage and you can use whatever you want, needs to go behind the green screen footage. Bring in my photograph. And of course I'll just click hold and drag and pull this to the end. And as you can see, the actual aspect ratio of this photograph is a little bit too narrow. So what I will do is I'll just lock track number two. And I'm going to double-click on the photograph itself. Go to these points here. I'll just drag these points out to make it full frame. And let's position it down a little bit as well. Just clicking the timeline here. Now just let you know if you find that the background footage is a little bit to del, remember, you can just right-click on it, go to Color, Color Correction. Then come to color. Then you want to just bump up the exposure to make it brighter and quite possibly deal with some of the other settings if you want. And of course you can add some saturation if you find that the green screen isn't bringing out enough colors, so you can just adjust the background if you want. Okay, so now you can click Okay. I'll unlock the green screen footage and to get to the settings because the green screen has already applied, you can just double-click on the clip. Now we're ready to go. When you first do this, you may find that you may be presented with something that looks like this. What you need to do is you basically need to adjust the offset to a certain level about halfway and then starts to adjust the tolerance. And at some point, you should get the picture in the background show up like that. So the picture is looking nice and bright. And now I can just press play. And actually, if your computers fast enough you could at this point to set this to fool. You can see there's a bit of interference here. Maybe the tolerance is a little bit too high. So maybe I need set at higher. Again, you just need to do whatever you want in order just to make it look nice. That's looking pretty good. Now, with regard to these two settings here, we have edge thickness. If you play around with this, you can see we have this sort of gray border show up around the subject in the foreground, which in this case is my right hand. And you just want to have this just at the right points because if you bring it down too low, it eats into the subject. And if you bring it to high, we have that gray border. So you just want to adjust, right? Just so it can't be seen, the gray border can't be seen and nothing is being eaten into. Then we have feather edge. That's looking pretty good. Let's just bring this to the beginning. That's not bad. Let's go to the box and see what this looks like. Okay, yeah, I think that looks pretty good. Like I said, the settings themselves are actually pretty simple. The main ones I suppose you want to focus on first and foremost as the offset and the tolerance. And of course, just brightening up the background picture or the video depending on what you want to use, just so that it's nice and bright in the background. That's pretty much it for green screen. And as you can see, it's not all that difficult. I would say it's, it's not, it's not difficult. It's not black magic, which is exactly what I thought it was when I first sought some many years ago. It's pretty simple. So anyway, we'll move on now. I'll see you in the next tutorial. 20. Finding music and sound affects for your videos: When it comes to video editing, it would be great if there was an abundance of free content that you could use, which would also include music and sound effects. Well, the good news is there is actually quite a lot of free content that you can use within your videos. Now some of this content does need a bit of an attribution. So you may have to link to a certain website or maybe attributes, assertion photographer or something like that. But generally speaking, there's just a lot of completely free content out there that you can use. What I'm gonna do in this tutorial is just run through a few of the sources that I used when I come to creating videos. Now just let you know. You may already know some of these things that I'm about to show you. In which case obviously you can't just fast-forward the video to a part that you may not know, or you can just skip the tutorial altogether. First and foremost, I'm on this website called Unsplash. Now on Unsplash you will find a lot of very high-quality photographs. And I think the people at Unsplash, people who work there, all of these photographs have to go through a system so nobody can just come along here and upload any photograph. It has to be one that they agree with. You will find that photographs are very high-quality. For instance, we have this one here of the moon, which is a really nice picture. And in fact, what I'm going to do is I'm going to download it. So I'll click on here to download for free. Now, it asks for an attribution here, or really more like a open quotes, shout-outs, close quotes to this photography here. You can just copy this to a clipboard. And if you're going to use this image in, let's say one of your videos. You may want to, or you should attributes this photographer somehow some way. So all I have to do now is just open my photograph here. I'll show it in folder. I'll double-click on it. Here we have this lovely picture of the moon. That's one thing you can do. Now unsplash has changed over the years. There's more and more photographs that are being put on Unsplash that you actually have to pay for. But needless to say, they've still got thousands upon thousands of free photographs that you can use. And they have these different categories here that you can go through. And of course, you can just search within the search bar here. Now in terms of getting video footage, if you go to YouTube and let me just get rid of this here. You find a video that you want. So at the moment I'm on this video here and this is not really a video, so to speak. It's more like a soundtrack with this nifty animation in the center here. But the same principle still applies. If you find a video that you like, you can attain it or get it by converting it with the YouTube converter, which is something I'll show you in a second. Or if you really wanted to, you can use your screen recorder to record the video itself. So you would set up the Screen Recorder press record and you should not have to do this by now. You can go full screen and then you can just press play. You can record the video that way. The other method, like I said, is converting it with the YouTube converter. And I've already got one open, I think night I don't I think I have to go and open a new one, so I'll just go to Google. Type in YouTube converter. Why don't need to, it's already here. The one I typically use is this one here, YT mp3. I'll just click on this. Actually, is this the one? No, I don't think this is it. This is the one here. Yt mp3, the other one was a little bit different. It may ask if you want any notifications, but you can just X out if you want. What you need to do is you need to go get the URL for the video. Control plus C to copy that comes to the YouTube converter, control plus V. At this point, you can choose MP3, which means you would only download the sound. But if you want the sound and video, you need to click on MP4. Click on MP4, I click on Download MP4 here, then that would start to download and it would be in your downloads folder. Now, typically with very long videos, YouTube converters are a little bit hesitant when it comes to this. So if you are trying to download it and you can see it's struggling to download. You may want to go just visit another YouTube converter to see if that works. All like I said, just use that first method I showed you where you use your screen recorder to record the video itself. Moving on to sound and music and things of that nature. Now again, you may already know this, but YouTube has this quite comprehensive Music Library. And what you can do is you can just, I'll just go back here. You can type in YouTube audio library, and it should be the first one on the list. Of course, you will need a Gmail account to access this and you will have to sign into YouTube. And I think also you may have to create a channel. As far as I know. You'll have to create a channel. But basically you'd be bought to this window here and there are loads of different songs you can choose from. You can also narrow it down with this icon here you can choose maybe the mood. We have these different moods here. You've got other things like duration, genre, etc. When you find a song you like and you can just click on the play button here. Just click on Download, download pretty quickly. And that will be in your downloads folder. You can put that in your video if you like. Now some of these songs do need an attribution. So just be aware of that. But typically what would happen is if you click on Download and it doesn't ask when attribution then obviously it doesn't need an attribution. If a particular song needs and attribution, then you will have a little pop-up window show up. I'm telling you that you need to attribute the song itself and you'll need, you'll probably need to copy the link. Another place to get some free and quite high-quality music is Ben sound.com, and I've used this in the past with my promotional videos. Now when it comes to bend sound, they, I think with every single track, require that you do give an attribution. Of course, there are songs that you have to pay for if you want to download them. But you will find that there are quite a lot of songs here. And if you're trying to create maybe some type of promotional video or something like that. You may want to look underneath one of the genres. So let's go for maybe culprits or something like this. Or you can type in here, Let's go for just typed in inspirational. They're typically when it comes to the inspirational category, usually I always find that you have to purchase these types of songs. I think it's just because inspirational songs go well with business promotional videos, so they are in demand. But as you can see, there are a few here that you can just download and attributes the artist. And of course you can just click Play to get a preview of the song. Very high-quality tracks. Then finally, the last thing I'm going to show you is free sound effects. What you need to do is just type in free sound effects into Google. And the website you want is this one here called freesound.org signals click on this. Now, typically you can just download these straight from this website, but typically what I do is I will go find a sound effect. So let's go for this. Go for Qatar. I'll press Enter and I'll just press play on one of these. They've got all kinds of sounds, by the way. Absolutely thousands of them. So you can just find one. That's an airplane beep. What you can do, like I said, instead of having to download it straight from the website, you can just run your screen recorder and make sure that the system sound is turned on so that you can record the system sound. And then what I usually do is I find the sounds that I want with the screen recorder running. I just press Play. And it will record that sound. And then you have to go through the editing process and then just extracts that sound from your recording. Now typically you don't need the actual screen recording itself. You only need the sound so you can just separate the sound from the screen recording. And that will make life a little bit easier for you. Pretty much that's everything I wanted to show you with regard to this. So as you can see, there is quite a lot at hand. And he had just loads of things you can use when it comes to putting videos together.