How to edit video and use effects in Openshot

1. Intro: So open shot is a solid, free, relatively easy to use editing software. However, if you're new to video editing, a lot of the effects in here won't be so obvious. So in this lesson, I will teach you quite a lot of the effects in open shot, what they're used for and how to use them. If you're completely new to video editing or only know the absolute most straightforward basics. You should learn a lot in this class. Now, it should be noted that downloading open shot is pretty simple and straightforward. Just go to the website that it's on and click Download. Pretty straightforward. So if you're ready to learn, Let's get into it now. 2. Pros and Cons: Now we will discuss the pros and cons of using open shot as your video editor. The main pros are that it's free. The second one is it's very user-friendly compared to a lot of other video editing software that would overwhelm someone who's new. And the third is that it comes with the commonly needed affects. These pros together make it a very good editing software for someone who's relatively new to video editing, or someone who just does it as a hobby. Now, there are some cons. First off, there's a five track limit. That means you can only have five things that are either onscreen or audible. Going at the same time. You can have one start and stop again. It's not five within the whole production. It's five at once, which seems like it'd be fine, but with bigger product that can start to play with you. And it might not be as much as it seems, because if you have what's currently happening on screen, a title card and music in the background. That's already three tracks. The second is it's not exactly the most powerful video editor ever. And also it misses a lot of the more obscure or more unusual effects. Which means that if you have to do something that's a little weird or a little bit unusual, you might not be able to. And that's basically it for the pros and cons. It's really good for beginners, but if you are pretty advanced, switching to open shot, probably not the best idea. 3. Basics: Alright, so let's go to the absolute basics of editing. In open shot. You can drag down the stock video right here. As you can see, it's just a video of a bridge. Now let's shorten it to eight seconds. And then let's use this to zoom in a little bit. Now a lot of these effects are very basic. Again, there's the Alpha-1 which just messes with the colors. Going to have to play around with that. And again, you can adjust the start and the end times. Let's instead of 7.96, just make it a perfect eight seconds. Again location, let's have it start at 0.5 on the x-axis. And then drag this out so that five seconds and it said negative 0.5, meaning it'll go from right to left as we go. Alright, so again, you just put this part onto the timeline of where you want to have the effect take place. And and so since I was at 0 when I put in the 0.5 on the x-axis and starts halfway to the right. And since it was at 0.5, negative 0.53 seconds in three seconds and it's gonna be at negative. And it'll just go across the screen before that. If you ever have too much going on there, can just go to Layout, reset layout. And your good. Same with the y axis. If I wanted to start at 0.2 on the y-axis, which is a little bit down. There we go. And let's say I wanted to go to negative 0.9. So almost off the screen and four seconds. Let's go. As you can see, was able to move it like that. Now for rotation, this is done on a degrees matter. So if I wanted to rotate it 90 degrees, there we go. It looks a little funny because it's no longer completely landscape, but this is just an example. And also go to rotate, no rotation to just fix it. And also you can rotate the number of degrees you want. And again, scale x and y. You can make things bigger or smaller. And again, you can go along here, 0.75. And let's also do the same thing with the y scale, which is up and down. As you can see, since I started at 1.5, it's going to slowly look like it's growing. Or in this case, It's scenery. It looks like it'll zoom it. And sometimes it doesn't always show everything perfectly. But we said layout, we're good. Again, volume can be used to increase the volume again, two is basically just twice as loud. And let's say I want to move to another shot. Let's put this ending five seconds in and put the shot of the island. Six seconds. Now, at the end of six seconds, it'll switch to the island. But let's say I want to have it fade, fade, end of clip, fade out slow. And we got that. Now that fate is a little slow, so let's just go back to No Fade and then fade. End of clips fast. So now it's a second and that should work perfectly right there, right there. Beautiful. Now let's say I want to do a different transition. 4. Transitions: Okay, so now on to the more transitioning transitions. So let's drag this second stock video here. And in this one, the default is just a basic fade. So we have that right there. Let's get rid of that CO2 transitions. And let's say that I like this ray like here, for example. Start right before the transition. Boom. Again, you can control. Again the position there that's when it starts, that's when it ends. And you can do that with any transition. Let's say you want the star. Put that in there. And right there. So now that we're done, that we can go on to the actual effects. 5. Visual Effects: Okay, So in this video, we'll learn how to use most of the video effects in open shot. There's gonna be a couple that we will learn about, but here we will learn about the majority of them. So first you want your files. Let's get stock video two, which is just a video of a bridge that we'll use as an underlay. There's going to be a picture of a guy waving and then stock footage of an island. So let's put the stock footage of the bridge onto track three. And now stock footage of the island onto track for. So. Now let's look at our effects. And again, you can choose between everything video and audio. Check out video for now. So we'll skip alpha mask. Because that one's pretty complicated. We'll go right two bars. Now, as you can see, that little b there, that means the borrowers affect every single one of these effects has a different one. So as you can see bottom sides here, 0.10, the bottom 10% of the screen has that black bar. Put it to 0.5. The entire, the entire bottom half has one. Go to 0 and everything is good. You can see we can do the same with the top bar a little bit bigger. And we can also do the same with the left. And let's also just make a tiny little 1.050 on the right. That's pretty straightforward. Now to get rid of an effect, you right-click. Remove effect. Now bar is sorry, blur. Once again, it's a simple drag-and-drop effect. And again, you can increase these numbers to make it more blurry. You can see now if you play the video, it's extremely blurry. Oh my God, how can you even make out what that really is? But if you put it down to small numbers, you will see less blurry point where it almost looks like the regular video. We go. Now brightness and contrast is pretty straightforward as well. Brightness of 0 means it stays at default brightness. Brightness of one. Totally white. Brightness of 0.5. Still very bright. Brightness of one right there. Brightness of minus one will make it completely black. 0.05, still very dark, etc. Let's take it back to 0 so that we can see contrast. So now contrast up to ten. As you can see, there's a little bit more contrast. Let's push it all the way up to 50. There we go. Fully contrast it. Again, that's something you're going to just want to play around with. Caption. You can control the time it starts and ends. I don't want the tap into end. Ten minutes in. Let's instead go with have it N7 seconds in and start 1 second. And just have it say This video is about 1 second, then you get our text and 567 seconds and it's gone. So now you can see you can edit a bunch of stuff here or you can add it, how long it takes to fade in and fade out. You can edit the font. You can edit the color of the font and see now it's red. Then get rid of it. Now for chroma key, which is also known as green screen. Let's go back to our guy waving here. Add that in, and go back to our Effects. Add in the chroma key. Click. And then for a key color, you will almost always wanted to go to pick screen color for this. Click the color you want to get rid of. And there we go. We have a guy waving, which can be used for much more. Powerful effects. If you actually have a person in front of a green screen moving, you can have them appear over whatever footage you want. Now let's remove that effect. Let's skip color shift. Go to color saturation. Get rid of this guy, sorry, that color saturation onto our stock footage of the island. We can saturate everything or even bring it to 0 to make it black and white, or gray more so grayscale saturate everything to be blue, saturate, stuff to be green. And then same with red. This is something that you do have to play with a little bit, but you should get it pretty easily. Now remember how we have the footage of the bridge on track three. Let's make it so that you can see a little bit here. So let's bring crop onto the island. X offset. So let's offset 20%. And as you can see on the right, the rightmost 20% has been replaced with stuff for the bridge. Now if you want it to be on the left, you just switch the X offset to minus 20 instead of 20. And then the Y offset, ten for the bottom. And then negative numbers. To get rid of stuff on the top. Go to negative. You can see all that really does is switch everything to its opposite color can be used for some creative stuff. Object detector is still in beta pixelated. We can switch out pixelated. Something is 0.1 for hardly anything. And let's just make it to here. Super pixelated. 0.7, still super pixelated five, and start to make it out 0.3. You can mostly. Now let's go to shift, shift of 0.2. As you can see the stuff on the 20% most on the right move to the left, can reverse it by making it negative numbers. And then again, same with y shift for top and bottom. Stabilizer is only if you have some really shaky footage and you want to straighten it out if the cameras all like the stabilizer will somewhat getting rid of that and then there's wave stopped, will not use Tracker in this tutorial. Can see bigger numbers when you play. It makes things wavy or basically, right, That's it for our video effects. Let's go into the Audio Effects. 6. Audio Effects: Okay, So here we go, time for Audio Effects, go to effects and then go to audio. This is the sound we have. Okay, This is a test. This is a test, test, test, test. Alright, let's go through these one-by-one compressor. Makes louder parts quiet and quieter parts lab. Okay. This is a test. This is a test, test, test, test. And as you can see here, makeup gain, I put it to two. Okay? This is a test twice as loud. Let's delay. Very simple. It's set to 11 seconds, so now everything will happen 1 second later. Okay, This is a test. This is a test, test. Test, test. Right now if I go to three seconds, everything will be delayed three seconds and the entrance actually come to the beginning. This is a test. Okay? This is a test. You could see there the end was at the very beginning and it didn't start in the actual start didn't happen until three seconds. We'll skip distortion, go to echo. This one can be done for some very cool effects. Okay? Alright, so now let's go to time from 0.1 seconds to two seconds. And okay, This is a test. Okay? This is attached. Okay. This is a test that you can see that one, you can play with it to do some very cool stuff. Expander is just the opposite of compressor. It makes louder stuff, louder, quieter, quieter noise will just add one to static to the background. Okay, This is a test. This is a test that you should've been able to hear a little bit there, but let's jump from 30 to 60. Double it. Okay, This is a test. This is a test. Should be a lot more. Notice noticeable there. Sorry. Alright. Well skip parametric, go to robot his eyes. They shouldn't makes me sound like a robot. Okay. This is a test. And whisper causation that should just make everything sound like I'm whispering. Okay. This is a test. Right? There we go. 7. Class Project: For your class project, you will make a minute-long, open short video and upload it to a video site of your choosing, which let's face it, it's probably gonna be YouTube. This video has to be approximately a minute long, and it has to have at least five total affects. At least three of which have to be video, and at least one of which has to be audio. Your fifth effect plus any extras that you choose can be whichever type you wish, right? Thanks for listening to my course, and I hope you enjoyed it.