How To Edit Videos With Shotcut Video Editing Software

1. Introduction: Welcome to the shortcut training course. My name is James and I will be the one who is doing this training. This is just a suggestion how you can tackle this training. If you are new to shortcut, I suggest that you do the initial basic lessons first. This will give you your bearings, for example, understanding the shortcut layout, how you want to do some easy things like cutting, trimming, exporting. And after a while, you may want to skip ahead if you want to. Now, on the other hand, if you are an experienced user and you just want to zoom in to specific lessons, feel free to jump around as well. Now, I created the training so that it is in bite size, and the titles will give a good idea of what is covered in each section. So it is easy for you to just go back and refer to the material that you have covered. If you have some video you want to use, maybe a travel video or maybe you want to use it for your hobby, have say five or six of those video. It would be great. You can use those material in the training as you follow this course along. I have also provided some sample material if you have no videos at all, so I got you covered. So let's dive into the training. 2. Download Shotcut Official Versions: Video, you will learn where you can download Shotcut from the official sources. Now, Shotcut is a free open source cross platform video editor. However, in the past, I've came across some sites that try to sell Shotcut for a fee. Do note that this is a free software. However, if you want to support the creator of this software, you can do so. The main location to get Shotcut is shotcut.com. You can also go to shotcut.org. Both the website are from the same creator. So you'll be assured that the software that you have downloaded is free from viruses or other stuff. You click on Download. So here is where you can download the version. So you can have a Window installer or a portable Zip version. If you are using a computer with an arm CPU, then you can use this, and older versions are here. The installer will install Shotcut into your computer. So you can also run Windows on a Zip file, which means when you download this, you will unzip it into a folder. You can actually run Shotcut without installing it. So for example, if you are using this one and down the road, Shotcut has a newer version, you just want to try it first. You can download this portable zip to try while still keeping your installer version. Now, another way is to get it from Microsoft if you are using a Windows computer. So there's some payment here. So if you click on this, I'm in Malaysia, so it's 44 ringgit and $0.50, and this is just to support the creator of Shotcut, or you can also just get the free trial as well. Okay? This way, you are downloading it straight from Windows, and I think updates are simpler as well. Updating Shotcut the regular way, if you have downloaded the installer is also not an issue. So we will cover this when we cover the Shotcut user interface. 3. Overview Of Shotcut Layout: Video, I will show you the layout of Shotcut. Now, this video is good if you want to understand where everything is located to have an idea of the Shotcut interface. Now, this is the default setting of Shotcut. So when you open Shotcut for the first time, this would be the screen that you will see. So you can see right at the top, there are menu items. When you click on them, you will open extra panels. So for example, right now, the properties panel is open, as well as the playlist panel as well as the filters as well. Okay? However, the subtitle panel is not open. So if I click on the subtitle menu, a new panel will open up and you can see it right here. And you can also close certain panels that you do not require. Now here is actually your preview window. It shows the source as well as your project. So I'm going to cover the two shortly. Anyway, at the beginning here is you have this project where you can set your project folder where you want to keep all your files as well as the project name. Now, you can do this now or you can do this later. So if you want to say change this, you can click on a project. And let's say I'm just going to change this to my project folder that I use, which is a training Shotcut. Okay, so I select the folder, so it has changed to this folder. Now, I haven't given this project any name yet, but it doesn't matter. I can name it later on. So this is the project. At the moment, it is empty. If you have created any projects before, then you will start to see a list of older projects that you have done. So here is the audio meter, and then here are the recent files and also the history of things that has happened in shortcut. So you don't have to worry too much about this. Right at the bottom is your timeline. So you will see your timeline, and these are the men for the timeline. Okay? Now, you click onto the left, you will see the keyframe timeline as well. Again, we will cover it later. But just know that this is over here. Okay. Now one thing very important to note is the video mode. At the moment it is tied to automatic. This means that when you import or the first file that you open in Shotcut, Shotcut will use that to set the video mode. Now what I mean by video mode is that you will set this, for example, whether it is high definition, 720 P or at 60 frames or say, HD at 50 frames or full HD at 30 frames per second. Now, if you leave it on automatic, once you open a file, then Shotcut will use that for the entire project. However, if you want to fix this, then it will also be a good idea. For example, you want it to be 1080 P, then you want to fix it as HD 1080 P at 30 frames per second, so that even though you may have different video of different resolution and whether it is in the vertical format, you will still stick to this video mode. If you want to use a vertical video, you can create a custom one here and you can just add one. I have created one, which is vertical 1080, so you can create that. Okay, so let's just open the file and see what it looks like on Shotcut. And I suggest that as you are using Shotcut, have in mind some videos of your own, you can use your videos, whether it's a travel one or anything that you shoot so that you can use that for creating your project so that it will be more interesting. Okay, but for this first video, it's okay. I'm just going to grab some sample material that I've done in the past. So just say I just okay. Okay, this is a fountain. And you'll notice when you start the video, the video will start playing. And over at the Properties tab, it opens here, it shows you the meta data of this video, the original speed, the duration, the type of video, H 24, the resolution and the frame rate end, et cetera. So right now we are using this team, which is the fusion Duck team. Now, if you want to switch to the system team or any other different team, so let's just say I want to switch to the system team, and it will ask you to restart. Okay? So the Shotcut will close and open back. Okay. All right, so this is the system team, right? And let's go back and open that file again. Which is the fountain. Okay, and I'm going to pause it. Okay. And the other thing I want to cover is the sauce. So right now, this video is on the sauce, which means it is getting drawn from the sauce. It hasn't been placed on the timeline, so the project type is grade out. So let's say I want to drag this onto the timeline. Alright? So now this is in the project. Okay? The sauce is still there as well. But if I were to trim this video, let's just trim it to say about 10 seconds, okay? Much shorter. But in the source window, you see that the video is still the original length. Okay? So that's the difference between source and project. Let's give another example if I just open this video here. Okay? So this file is in the let's pause this. This file is in the source. This is in the project. Okay? So that's the difference between project and source. So this is just a brief overview of shortcuts layout. We will cover more as we go along, and these windows can be adjusted, okay. Same as this one as well. Okay? It can be adjusted, can be drag and drop. Just hover your mouse to certain position. And you can just adjust this. And you can also close some of these as well. Let's say I do not want to see the recent file, I can just close this tab. Let's say I don't want to see the properties tab, I can just close it. But if I want to bring it back on, I can just click on the properties again. All right. So I hope that this gives you a good overview of the shortcut layout and going forward, I will use this system team because it is so much more colorful and easier to see things as you are watching my video. However, if you're using a Mac computer, it may look a little bit different. One thing I want to say is that all the icons are still the same. It's just that it doesn't have any color for the different teams. 4. Managing Files in Shotcut: In this video, I want to show you the importance of making sure your media files as you edit your videos is in a folder and you don't make changes or change names to your media files or to the folder. Okay. So let me just show you what I mean. Now I have these three video clips here in this folder called document video and sample folder. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to put these files into the playlist in shortcuts and let me just pause it. Okay. And let me just place these other two clips into shortcut as well. All I'm doing is actually dropping, dragging and dropping the cliffs into the list. So right now I have this attractive share. Okay. Just ignore the name. Blue sky evening and Plano hit, Okay? And I'm going to save this. Let's click on Save. And I'm going to save this in a sample folder, and I'm going to call this project and assemble project. Okay? So simple project is just the MLT file that shortcuts saved all your ideas, every thing that you are putting, the arrangement, the trims and etc. Okay, so let me just go back to this folder here. So now I have this attractive and assemble project. I'm going to close our shortcut. Okay? And I'm gonna change the name of this, adopt click to say too. So essentially it's the same file. So I'm going to open my shortcut again. Now you'll notice that there is a fall and a warning that comes up. They say they are missing files in your project. Okay, Now, if I were to just click on Open, then they will be missing files. So what you need to do is actually to click on this, double-click on this, and then locate the file. For example, I know that this is the DoubleClick, so I'm just going to click on OK. And you'll notice that the green checkmark comes up. So you click on, Okay, so which means that shortcut has been able to locate that file. You'll notice now that the file is there. And one other thing is that you take a look at this. You'll notice that Eclipse shortcut has created a new project file, colleagues progenitor sample project dash, repair dot MLT. Okay. If I save it, then a new file will be created. Let's go back and take a look at this folder here. So you now, now know that there is a sample project. This is repelled. Now one other thing as well I want to show you is this. Now this sample project files do not contain your media. Ok? So for example, the video clips are pretty large. This is like 32 megabytes. Describe is 27 megabytes. Whereas the project files the dot m multifaceted, very small, usually only tens or hundreds of kilobytes. And that's because all it contains is the information about the edits that you have done, the filters, the title, okay? So when you're editing your video is very important not to move clips around. That way. If you want to remedy any video, you don't have to go look around where you have placed your clips. Or worse come to worse if you had deleted that clip, then you wouldn't be able to create your project or you wouldn't be able to edit that video anymore. 5. Basic Edits: In this video, I will show you how to bring file into a Shotcut and do some basic edits, and you will be able to learn as we go along. First, go to Open File and go to the directory that you want to. So I'm just going to my sample material and open a file. Let's say this file over here. Let me just pause it. As you can see, when you open the file, the video player will start playing. It acts more like a video player than an editor. So right now, this video is this source tab or the source panel, it is not in the project. The project panel, it is grade out. The reason this project hasn't been brought into the timeline. Now, at the same time, you notice that the properties tab is open as well. So the properties tab will show you this type of video file. The video the type of frame rates, the resolution, the video file, the type of codeck. Now, if you're not interested in all this, it's okay. The important thing probably will be the resolution as well as the frame rate. The expect ratio is the width over the height of the video, which is 16/9, which is the wide screen video. The rest are technical things that maybe we can cover in the future. Okay. So here, you'll notice that there is audio and the audio is in two channels, as well as the sample rate. We have all these things. Plus, of course, meta data as well. So showing you the creation time and all that. So you don't need to worry too much about this. There are a few other ways to bring files into Shotcut which we will cover. But to do some basic edits, what you can do is you can trim a video. So right here are the handles at the beginning. Here is the playhead. So when I press on play, the playhead will move and the video will play. Okay. You can also play the video back in reverse. Okay, notice is a little bit jerky because it takes resources to rewine the video, right? So now, in order to trim the video, you can go to the handles here at the front, and there's also a handle at the back, the triangle sign. So you can drag this and trim the video. So essentially, you have trimmed off or cut off the beginning part of the video. And if you do the same for the back, essentially, you have trimmed off the back of that video. So this is the most basic of edits that you can do in Shotcut. And if you want to bring this clip into the timeline, then you can either drag it onto the timeline. Shotcut will automatically open a track, which is a video track V one onto this timeline. Okay. So now you notice that now the project type is no longer grado, and you can switch between the source and the project window. So let me just open another file. Let's say I open this uh, clip, say this one here. Again, it starts play. Let me just pause it. So now, the project when you switch between the source window and the project window, you will see a different file. This video clip is in the source window and project is referring to what's on the timeline. When it comes to the source, you have this bar over here, okay? So this is a difference between the sauce and the project. And if you want to trim this clip, there's also another way besides moving this one. One is you use keyboard Shotcut. Okay? So I'm going to click on I on my keyboard, which sets the point based on where this playhead is located. So let me click on I, and you see this triangle jump from here to here. And if I move my playhead over to this part here and I press on O on my keyboard, this point will jump to this point, okay? Right? So this is a second way that you can trim your video in the sauce window. You can also trim your video in a different way. As the video is playing, you can just quickly press on your keyboard, okay? I'm going to do that, play it. Okay, it's too short. Let me redo that. Place the playhead here. Press play. Okay, press I, press I again. Press I. Okay. Do the same for the outpoint. Press on Oh. Press O, press on O. Maybe just pause the video. So these are a few ways that you can trim your video in a shortcut, and these are the real basics of trimming your video. And if you are happy with this, you can drag this onto the timeline. So now you have this Duran clip and then next here is the clip of that highway. When you click on the clip, you'll notice that the the properties of the type changes, okay. For example, here, you know that the duration of this is 14 seconds. And when you click on this one, it's only about 8 seconds. All right. So these are the basic edits that you can do in shortcut. 6. Convert Variable Framerate Edit Friendly Video: This video, you will learn about convert Edit friendly. What does that mean when you open up some video file? So let's jump onto Shotcut. When you open a file, things just work. However, sometimes when you open a file, this message will come up. Okay. So you notice that this convert edit friendly option pops up and it asks you whether you want to change it to an edit friendly format. Now, the reason this pops up is because this video file has been recorded using a smartphone or some device that the frame rate isn't fixed. Okay, it uses a variable frame rate. So sometimes these type of files causes problems when you edit it, so there might be some yeah issues. So what Shotcut does, it will convert this into an edit friendly format. You have an option to choose good better or best. The best format will be this type of lossless format, but it will be a huge video file. If you use the medium format, this one is Hdt 264, which means it is a compressed file format. And usually this is good enough. However, if you want better quality, you can just choose better or best and just click on Okay. And another menu will pop up with the name converted at the end of that file and you just save it. And Shotcut is converting that video. Let me pause it, right? Shotcut is converting that video. If this is a long video, while it is converting, you can still use this video, and later on, Shotcut will convert that. If you drag this down onto the timeline, you notice that it is using the converted file, right? So that is what convert Edit friendly means. It just means that Shotcut will convert this file to something that is easier and will prevent issues when you edit your video. 7. Opening Files Playlist: Things as you are watching my video. However, if you're using a Mac computer, it may look a little bit different. One thing I want to say is that all the icons are still the same. It's just that it doesn't have any color for the different teams window. Another way is to go to view, go to Files and click on this option. And here you will go to your specific directory. So right now, the directory that I'm seeing is my sample directory, where my sample or rather my sample material in shortcut, and you can see all the files here. So some of the files are images. Some of the files are video like an MP four. Okay? So this is also another video format shot from my video camera. All right. So you can access files here easily. So for example, let me click on Bentong and see. Okay, so it is this video of the trip to Bentong. To change directories, you can just scroll to any directory that you want. For example, let's say document, so you can see it here, document. If I want to go to say where my videos are located, I can go to video. So within video, I have say miscellaneous videos. And say, let's, I have some videos of some bees. So these are bees in the garden. Okay? So if I click it, it will be in the source window as well. So this is another way that you can bring files into Shotcut using the file menu. The file menu is turned on by going to view and going to files. Okay? So this is the second way you can bring files into Shotcut. Another way is you can make use of the playlist. Once your files is in a source window, you can add it to the playlist. One or two ways, you can just drag it onto your playlist. So it is here. Another way, let me open another file. Let's say, I'm going to open this one. Okay. Another way is I can edit using this plus sign to add the sauce to the playlist. Okay. So now you have this onto the playlist. A third way that you can add files to the playlist is by going to this menu here, which is Add Fils to playlist. So when you click on Add FLS to playlist, you go straight to your folder. You can navigate to any folder that you want. Okay? So say let's go to my video and say my Miscellaneous videos. And let's say this video this folder here, and I can add several videos with this one, this one, and say this one and click on open, and all three files will be brought into Shotcut, right? So these are three ways to bring files into Shotcut. In the playlist, you can view this as tiles. You can view this as a list with the details. And within the playlist menu, you can also see the columns. So for right now, is looking at the options of thumbnail clips in duration is set. The default will have the date and the type set as well. So as you scroll to your right, you can see the date and the type. So Bins is a feature within the playlist that allows you to segregate your video clips or your media clips. Imagine it as a form of folders. If you go to playlist and click on the menu, you have these bins, and you can create a new bin. So for example, one option that you may want to use the bin is, say, using it as audio and image. However, I don't suggest this because there are tabs at the top that allows the playlist to filter your media based on whether it's a video or audio or other things, right? So I would suggest perhaps one way is that you can use Bin as it differentiated between, say, a camera number one, Okay. So for example, if this video is shot from camera number one, you can drag it into the bin. So when you click on this camera bin, then these videos will show up. Another option is you have another bin say you're using a drone, all right? So all your drone footage can be placed here. For example, this is example, okay. Let's say this is shot by a drone, but it is not. So now all your drone videos are separate here. So it makes organizing your files easier, and if you are looking for certain scene as you edit, these bins will help greatly. Now, you can also remove the bin if you do not want to use it anymore. Go back to your menu, go to Bins and remove the Bin. Okay? So when you remove it, the file is still there. It's just that the bin is no longer there. Okay? So another way you can filter your video is by going to the top here. For example, you click on the image. All your static images or photos will be shown here. If you choose, say, audio right now don't have, right? So you can't see it, but all my video is here. So the image is is not shown, right? So that makes your editing so much quicker and faster. So this is how you make use of your playlist and your bins, as well as your files in Shotcut. 8. Editing On The Timeline: This video, you will learn how to do some basic edits on the timeline. We will cover some of the menus on the timeline itself, and I will also show you how I would normally edit my videos to give you a basic ideas how to use your source window as well as the timeline together. So let's dive in. So let's open a file, and I'm just going to open a file from this directory. So this is a file in the source window. Here are tools that allows you to do cut and copy and paste. So these are self explanatory. I will show you what it means and things like a pen and et cetera. As a quick overview, let's say, I'm just going to trim my video a bit and usually I would just select something that I like. Let's say I want to show this part over here. And I'm just going to do the trim. Okay. If you haven't seen how I do some basic trims, watch the other video. But anyway, I'm just going to move this triangle to somewhere here. And I want this video to show all these people somewhere here, to show the long queue of the place that we are stopping for food. And I will press O on my keyboard to mark the outpoint. Okay? So next, you can do one or two things. You can drag this video onto the timeline by selecting it and dragging it onto the timeline. So another way is you can also use a pen. So let me open another video file. Let's say I will use this I will pause this on the video. And usually what I would do is to quickly scroll through the video and see which part of the video that I want. Let's say I want to show this truck, so I will quickly set the point by pressing I on my keyboard and maybe once the truck pass, I will set the outpoint. Okay. And now I would use this button to append it to my timeline. Notice that my playhead could be here. Let's go back to the source window. I could press on the pen key, and this video gets added to the back of this timeline. Okay? So this was the first video. This is the second video clip. A pen will always add video to the back of your timeline. Whereas, if I were to use some of the other keys, like for example, overwrite, then it will overwrite that file. So let's try another one. Let's say I want to open this file here. Press on pause. I trim the front and the back. So now I will use this instead of a pen. So if I were to place this here, it will actually overwrite this clip. So you notice now that this clip with the durance have jumped in between this clip. Let me undo that first. So when I append, it will go to the end of this video. Okay? So that is the difference. So if you want to quickly build up your video clips, you can quickly select your clips and then use this to append this. Now that my clip is on the timeline, and if I want to make some more adjustment, I can. Let's say this clip here, I decided to re trim it because maybe I want to shorten it a bit. What I can do is to hover over my mouse where the line comes up, the arrow, and I can drag it to the left. So essentially, I am re trimming that back of the video because perhaps you want to shorten the video to end it elsewhere. You can do the same for the front of the video as well. You can re trim. So every time when you hover your mouse to the beginning or the end of the clip, your cursor changes and you get this. Okay? So that is talking about re trimming it. Let me just arrange all these clips so that it is together. So it is just by, drag and drop. Now, let's talk about splitting the clip, which is this key over here, split at playhead. Let's say I decided that I wanted to split this. Instead of trimming, I can do a split by clicking on the split key, and now this clip and this clip has been split into two. I can rearrange it to the back or anywhere else. I can delete this by clicking on the delete. Let me undo that by clicking on Control Z. So that is talking about splitting. One of the things that you can do is splitting is you create space in between, and then let's say you want to rearrange or click, you can do so. Okay, so now your clips are arranged differently. Now you can also copy a clip and paste this. So let's say I want to reuse this section at the beginning because perhaps a Duran is a good hook when a person watches a video. So I can copy this, copy, and move it to the front and paste it. Now, what happens when there is an empty space like this? Now, let's play the video. Yeah. So you will get a black screen. So when you export this video, there would be a lengthy gap here, which is black. You should actually close up the gap unless there are certain circumstances where you intentionally want to have a black space over in your video. Now, you can move your clips one by one. Alright. However, you can also move several clips together by clicking here and dragging a window like this to select multiple clips together, and then you can move them all together. So this is in terms of moving things around, splitting them, rearranging your clips. I will cover some of the other tools a little bit later. But this one here is a snap button. So right now this snap button is turned on. What this means is that if I were to, uh Please clip close to the end of another clip. I will have a sort of a magnetic effect and you will close that gap precisely. Now, if I turn this function off, then I can leave a tiny gap. So there could be tiny gaps left if this is turned off. Okay? So do you see that? I play this. So you have a sudden black screen over there. With this turn off, it is difficult to move your clips close to each other without leaving a gap or accidentally creating a transition, which is something that I've just done. We will cover transition in another video. U Let me just undo that. So if you want to just place clips back to back, it's best to turn on this snap button. Here is the the zoom in to the timeline. When you zoom in, which means you are actually zooming into the timeline to have a better view of that timeline. This helps when you want to do precise cut at certain locations or precise splits at certain locations. So that's where zooming into the timeline helps. Zoom This is zooming out. And this one is to zoom the timeline to fit what you have on screen from the left here to the right. Okay? So let's just do that. So it kind of fit over there. Here, when you look at this track, there are a few buttons as well. Here is a button to lock that track. If you lock it, then you will have this grid lines here to show that this track has been locked. The reason why you want to lock it is when you are doing multiple track editing means you have more than one video track. You may want to lock it. Okay? So let's say let's add another video track, right? Okay, let's say and drag this over the top. You want to make changes at the top track, but you do not want to make any changes accidentally, so you lock it so it won't move in position, so you can lock it. Next is this mute button. So some video clips have some audio there and it could be very loud and you may want to mute this so you can actually mute that track and add audio track at the bottom here, there is this button, it's called hiding. So when you hide the track, basically, you are hiding the track at the top. So although you have a clip over here, basically, it has been this entire track at the top is hidden, okay? So if you export your video with this setting like this, when you export it, you will not see this track, everything on this track is actually hidden. So this is some basic edits on the timeline. We will cover a little bit more of the tools in another video, right? 9. Timeline Extra Tools: This video, we will cover some extra tools and features in shortcut timeline, so let's dive in. First, let's cover lift, and then we will cover ripple lead. So let me just split this clip. First, I'm just going to split this here. I'm going to move my play here and do another split. As you know, you can also use the keyboard shortcut S to split the clip, which is what I just did. So now we have this clip which is split in the middle. Let's do a lift. When you do lift, it will result in an empty space or a gap between the clips, right? So this is useful if you want to replace this with something else, for example, another section of the clip, you can do that as well. Okay, let's say I want to replace it with this section here. I'm just trimming this so I can move it here, okay? I've actually replaced this with this clip, right? I'm going to undo that. Okay. Now, when you do ripple delete, like this one, you will remove this section and also close up the gaps behind. Okay. Let's do that, ripple delete, right? You notice the clips from the back close up that gap. Let me undo that and show you again. Let's do this one. Ripple delete again. Okay? So this is what happens when you do a ripple delete. You can use ripple delete with another tool which is called a ripple or tracks. So early on when you do a ripple delete, it just affected this track but not this track. With ripple, all tracks turned on, let's do this again. Ripple delete. This top track will also move. So you notice now that this is in line with this icon. When I do a ripple delete, this top track also moved. Okay? Let me undo that. So this is an instance where locking the track will help. So for example, I want to lock this track and maybe I have another two or three tracks up when I want to ripple delete except for this one, right? So I want to do a ripple delete. Then this track does not move because I have locked this. All right. So let me undo that. And let me just unlock that track as well. All right. Now, let me turn this off, ripple all tracks turn off. But let me use this tool called ripple. This is an interesting tool. Now, usually you let me turn out. Now usually when you hover your mouse between the two clips, you have an arrow, and when you do that, you are actually trimming that clip, okay. If you do this to the back, you are trimming it, right? Now, when you turn on ripple, when you trim the clip, all this will follow will close up the gap, you see? So this is something that you can do. So when you do the back, the clips at the back follow as well, right? So this is talking about ripple. If you use both of these together, then when you do ripple, then the track above will also move, right? So do use this carefully. So sometimes you may not know why your video clips and other tracks have changed, especially if you have multiple video tracks, you got to use this carefully. So ripple all tracks as well as ripple. There are other tools here, which is ripple markers. I will cover in another video lesson. Here is just a Zoom tool, and here is a voiceover. If you want to use a voiceover, then you record this. We will cover this in another video. And let's go to the timeline menu. Here there are several things that you can do as well. For example, adding audio tracks. So one of the things that here I would like to cover is talking about grouping and ungrouping. You usually have many clips and you want to group them. So let me just do a demo. So when you group them, it makes moving clips easier. So you can go to your timeline menu, go to selection and go to hit group and ungroup. So now all these clips are in a group, so it's easy to manipulate this. Should have another your track above. Okay. So if I move it, it goes up as well. Okay. So that is how grouping, and then you can ungroup it, selecting this group, go back to the same menu, go to selection and ungroup it. Basically, these are some extra tools that's on the timeline. The rest with the timeline markers, I will show you in a separate video. Hope that this gives you a good idea of all the tools that's available to use on a timeline. 10. Using Keyboard Shortcuts: Video, we will cover the action and keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts are things that you use that control shortcuts, using keys on your keyboard. Instead of using your mouse, you use your keyboard and it allows for faster editing. For example, instead of say using this to split the key, I can press as to split this clip, so it makes easier editing. It allows you to use both hands when you edit. There are other things as well. For example, if you want to save your file, you can click on Controls. So instead of moving your mouse over your screen, you just use keys or combination of keys on your keyboard and Shotcut does an action. To bring up this action or keyboard Shotcut, you can click on the forward slash button or the question mark on your keyboard. This will be a list of all the things that you can do on Shotcut, and some of these keys are already set in by default. For example, copy is Control C or C for Shotcut. So there are two Shotcut for certain actions. Okay? For example, if you want to look for safe, saving your file is Control S, and you can also assign another keyboard shortcut, which we will cover shortly. Before we go into setting your own, there are a few keys that have been reserved, and these are the J, K and L on your keyboard. These are ones that are reserved and you cannot assign other things for. So because J is for shortcut to play backward K is to stop and L is to play forward. Okay? So pressing J will have this effect. K is to stop, and press L is playing normal speed. If you press L again, it will be double speed and so on and so forth. Let's bring up this list again. So let's say I want to do something for the split. Let me show you the existing keyboard Shotcut is to split the key. Now, let's say I want to set another one. To do that, you click on the keyboard Shotcut. And then you press the key that you want to use. Let's say you are left handed and you want to use your left hand to move your mouse and you want to use your right hand and press to split the clip rather than S. So you can press on to do that. Okay? Now, please do not press Enter, but click on this checkmark to apply it. Okay. Let's click on this and see what happens. Now, here it shows that the Shotcut M is used by Marks, which is under this create Edit marker, so we can't use this. If an existing key is used for other function, then this message will show up. Let's try another one. This time, let's try Shift. So this is Shift M and Enter. So now this is okay. It can be used, and we will close it. And so now we will try Shift M to split this clip, okay? So you can see that this clip has been split. I suggest that before you make any changes to get familiar with the keys that is already built in. And once you're familiar and editing for a bit, then you can change and create your own keyboard Shotcut. All right. So that's all about action and Shotcut in Shotcut. 11. Preview scaling and proxy files for smoother editing: In this video, I will cover the previous scaling as well as the proxy future in shortcut. Now what these two features does is it allows you to edit your videos much smoother because users and create a smaller file sizes as you edit and preview your project. So let me show you what I mean by that. I'm going to open a file and this is just the original clip. So this is the original claim in shortcut. This is 1920 by ten the pixels. This is the full HD video. Now, when you take a look at this video, the resolution of this video is just a fraction on probably 1 third or a quarter of full HD. It doesn't really make sense for shortcut to use a lot of resources to display the entire window. One way that you can actually just display a smaller version is to use a previous scaling. And to do that, go to Settings and go to previous scaling. And you can actually select smaller resolution video, for example 540. Or even say, I went to India. If you have a select either of these, you'll notice that somewhere here, previous scaling is on 720. You know, right now, shortcut is displaying an image that is half the size of EGD. The playback will be smoother, especially if your computer is marginal in terms of hardware. For example, my computer is pretty up-to-date, so I don't have any issues with displaying full resolution video. However, when you add effects like transitions or SE tax, then there could be some lag. And using previous scaling can reduce or eliminate that leg. You can actually select whichever previous scaling that you want. You'll notice that there will be some loss of resolution when you post a video compared to say, are not using previous scaling. Notice these images so much sharper. Now to go to proxy, you can click on Settings again and there is a proxy. And you can turn proxy on and off. Let's use proxy and going to turn it on. Proxy feature is turned on. So you'll notice here is proxy is on at five for d. What Proxy does is he creates smaller versions of that file. If you only works when you place the source window either in the playlist or in the timeline. I'm going to open another clip here, just to show you. Open this one. Pause it. Let's put this clip onto the playlists. You'll notice on the jobs. A job will be created where shortcut is creating a proxy, video clip. Shortcut is making a proxy. If I place this clip onto the timeline, right now, you'll see the word proxy is there. Let me just shorten this. Another way is to open the floor and then paste it onto the timeline. Shortcut will also create that Roxy. Again, you see that proxy being created. Some other settings in proxy. Let's go back to proxy. You can actually set your storage where proxy files are saved. For example, the moment I've actually created this folder and the shortcut and proxy. So all the proxies are stored in this folder or directory. You can actually use any directory that you like and tell our shortcut there too stiff your proxy files. There's also another way you can use proxy clips. I'm just going to go back to settings, go to proxy and proxy off. Now you'll notice that now shortcut isn't using proxy eclipse. This is my original clips. There weren't proxy is gone. Let's open a file and less accurate. This one here. I'm going to drag the clip onto the timeline. Now let's say you are editing. You'll notice that this particular clip or any particular clip is creating some legs. What you want to do is create proxy for that particular clip. All you have to do is select the clip, go to properties, go to proxy, click Create, click on Link proxy. Shortcut welcoming a proxy and you notice that there are proxy is created, which means that this claim Chicago have a proxy for it, whereas the other clips are the original clips. One final thing, if you go to settings, you go to proxy. In terms of hardware encoder, if you're not sure, you can just leave it. If you know that your computer has a strong enough graphics or cat or GPU, you can select, use hardware encoder to configure that. Click on configure hardware encoder, and click on detect shortcut. We're actually detect whichever how they're encoded that you have. Then there is, go back to your proxy and use hardware encoder. The next time. Shortcut script a proxy, you will use your graphics card to create that box. You'd not much faster time. That's all about using previous scaling and proxy files in shortcut. 12. Creating And Adjusting Transitions: Video, I will show you how to create transitions and how to adjust them as well. There are a few ways to create transitions. The easiest way is to select the clip and drag it over to another clip, and then you have a transition. So let's play this. So you have a default transition, and the default transition is when you see the properties is the dissolved transition. And in order to lengthen or shorten the transition, hower over at the transition and drag it to the right or to the left. The bigger this square is, the longer this transition will take and it changes slower. And you can shorten it by exactly the same way you will shorten, say, a clip. Okay. So let me just undo that first. Now, another way to do transitions is you can hower over to any clip. And when your mouse changes to the arrow, you can drag it over to the other clip, and a transition happens as well. Okay? So this is a second way to do it. Let me just undo that. But it's important that your snap button is turned off. If your snap button is turned on or the snap setting is turned on, then you can't do this, okay? Because essentially you are telling a Shotcut that you want to move the clip back to back, okay? So that is one thing to take note of. Okay. Another thing to be careful of is also, making sure that your clips have extra handles. For example, this clip of the DurabT particular clip, that is really the end of that clip, okay? I can't drag it further to the right, which means that is essentially the end of the original media clip that I have. And for this as well, I can't drag it to the left further other than this one. So this is essentially the end of that clip, okay? Let me just play this clip back to back. Now, I can't use the second method to create a transition, okay? No matter what you do, you can't drag this over because there's no extra media here to do the transition. The only way to do this transition is to select the clip and drag it over. Then there is you can create that transition. So this is something to be aware of. Now, next, let's go back to this one here. So next, let's look at the transitions. To change the transition from one type to another, you can just click on the different ones here. So the default is dissolved. If you want to say, make a band vertical, you can do this. So you have a band coming from the top, and you can see the preview over this window here. Okay? With this preview turned on, you can see what the transitions looks like. Okay. So you don't have to guess how it works. And for some transitions, you can do that invert wipe, which means it works in the opposite direction. Now, not all will have this. For example, the dissolve will not have any invert, so you can't change the direction because there's not directional. Now, in terms of certain transitions, you can also adjust the softness like the bar horizontal. So if your softness is all the way to the right at 100%, then your transition will be very soft and gentle. If you do it all the way to the other end at zero, then you will have a hardline coming through this transition. Next is the audio. Now, generally speaking, if your track have audio, then it will be a crossfade between the first clip and the second clip. If you want to change it, you can set this where A, the first clip will be louder, and then a second clip will be softer. So you can adjust this to the degree that you want, if it makes sense. You can add custom transitions to Shotcut, and I have some over here already. To get those, you can click on this link that will take you to Shotcut website and show you where you can get these transitions. These are from different websites. I'm just going to go to KDE store and do this. So let's say you want to download this, select this. Okay. What you do is right click Save Image. And save the image anywhere. So this one is in document video. I'm just going to give it a name fractal green. Okay, and save it. So go back over to Shotcut, go to settings, go to app data directory and show. There's a folder with transitions. Okay. So let's go back over to where we downloaded. Let's look for fractal green. So you can either drag this or cut this and paste it into this directory, the app data directory and paste it. So your fractal green is here. So go back to Shotcut and save this. Make sure you save your project. Now, what you need to do is to close Shotcut and restart Shotcut before you can see the transition that you have downloaded. Okay. Let's open back the project, select transitions, and let's scroll down here. So fractal green is here. So this is how these transitions look like. Okay. So that's how you create, adjust and use custom transitions in shortcut. 13. How To Speed Up Slow Down A Clip: This video, you will learn how to speed up and slow down a video clip in shortcut. So this is the video clip on the timeline, and this is at the moment, again, the normal speed or one time speed. So to change the speed, select the clip. Go to your properties tab and head on over to look for this speed setting over here. So right now it is showing one. If you want to change it to two, just change it to two and hit Apply. Okay. You'll notice that this clip will shorten because now it is playing faster, right? So let's play this. You can see the people who are walking much faster. Okay? When this clip shorten it left space behind as well. If you want these clips to close up, you can turn on ripple, and then the clips behind would actually shorten out. Okay? So let's undo this. I'm going to click Control Z to undo this. Okay? So let's do this again, but I'm turning the ripple key on, and just change it to twice the speed again. Hit apply. All the clips here have followed suit. Okay, I'm going to undo that. If you have sped up the clip to say twice the speed, okay? And perhaps as you are editing, you have placed this clip behind here or maybe somewhere here. Okay? And then you change your mind, you think that maybe two X is too fast. Maybe you think that I want to go to say 1.2 times or 1.3 times the speed. Okay. Take a note of what happens. This ripple is turned off. So it will hit back around here, it won't lengthen fully. Okay? So if you want to extend the clip back to the normal, you have to allow space for it to do so. Okay? Let's undo that. Alternatively, you can turn on ripple. I will automatically push the clips back, and the space will still remain. Okay? So one other thing is about pitch compensation. This is my sample recording. Let's take a listen to it. Sample recording for separate recording for speech to text. This is normal speed. Now, if I were to increase the speed of this click to double and leave pitch compensation off, this is what will happen. Apply it. Let's take a listen again. You notice that I probably sound like a chip monk. Let me undo that. Now pitch compensation, turn on and say turn it to two times the speed. And apply. So let's play this again. Recording for se recording for speech text. So ground fox jump the ward, this is a simple text bonus. You'll notice that I speak much faster, but I don't sound like a chipmunk, and you can still make out what I'm trying to say. So that's how speech compensation works. So this is how you speed up and slow down clips in shortcut. 14. Create A Video Using Still Images: In this video, you will learn how to create a video using steel images. I have a few image that I've put into my playlist and these are the images. This for image. One way in order to filter them out is to use this key, and these are the four images that are on my playlist. Let's select the image and drag it onto the timeline. I can select this and just drag it down. I also let's say I want to select this, place it here, select this and place it here. And select the last one and place it here. So essentially, my video will look. This will be my first image, my second one, the third one, and then the last one is that. So if you were to export this right now, you will have a video that is made out of these four images. If you want to have a transition, then all you need to do is similar to the usual transition. You just overlap that image and you have a transition over there, and that will be the default transition. Okay? You can also change the transition by selecting the transition and going over to the properties. Let me just undo that transition. Okay. Now, you notice that for this video, my video aspect ratio is white screen, and it fills the entire screen. However, this photo isn't white screen and there are black bars here on the left and the right, same as this image as well. So if you select this photo and go to properties, you know that this is the resolution of this photo or this one, you have this. So how do we get rid of the black bars? There are two ways to do it. We will add a filter. So make sure you select the clip. Go to filters, go to the plus sign here to add a filter, and you can look for the blur pad filter. Type in blur and you have this blur pad. Okay. This is similar to what you see on many vertical videos, especially if they are edited using a smartphone. This filter is quite normal for a smartphone. For shortcut, you can adjust the blur whether you want it to be more blur or less blur, you can adjust this. Okay? So if you turn it all the way down, you can actually see the image behind, not something that looks too good. So maybe you can just leave it as the default. Okay? Now, there's another way you can get rid of the blur, which is to zoom into the image, essentially cropping into that photo. So this will require a filter as well. So just click on that photo or the image. Go to filters again. Go to add. This time we will go for the size position and rotate filter. Click on that. And here, this filter has a lot of options here. You are just interested for the Zoom for the time being. What you want is to zoom in to that image. Okay? So if it's hard to adjust, you can just type in the figure, let's say 135. So once you have zoom in, essentially, you have crop into the photo and cropped up the bottom and the top, and then there will not be anymore black bars. Now, you can actually have a combination between video and photos as well. It doesn't really need to be still images. Let's say you want to add video, for example, let's add this video to your timeline. And now you have a video that is a combination of steel image and a normal regular video. Okay? Again, you can also do the transition as well, same thing. So you can have this effect as well. Okay? So that's how you create a video from steel Images in shortcut. In another video, I will also show you another method where you can create a slide show using your images, clips in the playlist. Okay, so I'll check that out as well. 15. Align Video And Audio: This video, you will learn how to align your video and your audio using the align to reference feature. Now, the first thing that you need to do is to make sure that your video have audio there, okay? So if your video is recorded out an audio track here, or if you have detached this, then it will be impossible to align this using this feature. I have my video track here, and this is my audio track recorded separately using an external microphone. So in order to get this started, you need to select the both clips, so you can use this method to select both clips. Or if you have more than one clip and you want to select, say, particular clip, you can use Control on your keyboard to select clips that you want to select. Okay? Now the clips has been selected, right click, click on Align to reference Track. Here you get a chance to select your Audio Track. I only have A one, so that's the only one. If you select V one, you won't be able to align anything, okay? Next is a speed adjustment range. It's best to leave it at zero and do this first. If after you have process and apply this align to reference and you still hear that your audio is slowly drifting out, then you may want to try use one of these to get Shotcut to align your audio and your video. And the reason this happens is usually it's for long recordings, then certain devices when you record, it may drift out. Okay? So let's kip at zero. And you can just process first or process and apply. Process will just tell Shotcut to process it first, but it doesn't mean that it has applied, so this hasn't been applied. So you can apply it, and then the clips are now aligned. Okay? So let's listen to this. Now, both clips are turned on. Let's play this. In this video, you will learn how to use. In this video, Okay. If you're happy with the alignment, then you can actually mute this track or mute the clip. Okay? So you can actually turn the volume all the way down. So this is one way you can do that. And so now your audio will actually come just from Track A one. So this is how you align your audio and your video in shortcut using the align to reference Track. 16. How To Add Audio Track And Adjust Volume: This video lesson, we will cover the audio tracks, how to add them, how to adjust the volume and how to use the keyframe features in the audio filter as well. To add an audio track is very simple. Go to the position over here. Right, click and add on track operations and add an audio track. So now you will have an audio track, and the audio track is a one. If you want to add more audio tracks, just go back to the same place, go to the timeline menu, go to track operations and add audio track, and you have add other audio tracks as well. To adjust volume, there are two ways you can do the first way is to select the clip that you want, and you can adjust the volume whether it is in the video track or an audio track. Let's click on the clip here. Go to filters and add a filter and add the gain volume filter. And this is how you adjust the volume or rather the gain of volume. So here now it is at zero decibel, which means the recording is at the recorded levels. If you lower it, the recording will be much softer. If you raise it, it will be louder, and it goes up to a maximum of 24 Dzibel. And you can also adjust the left and right channel. So let me just undo that first. You can adjust one channel at a time. Another way you can adjust your audio is by hovering over your clip end using your mouse and you can see there's a faint line right in the middle. You can drag it up or down. All right, so you can see this level here change as well. Now, to be able to do this at the timeline itself, you have to ensure your settings here has been turned on. So go to settings, go to timeline, and this click gain volume have to be turned on. If it's turned off, you won't be able to do so. Notice that the cursor doesn't change. Let's turn that back on. Go back to the timeline and adjust click volume. And let me just delete this, right. Now, here, even though there is no filters, when you use the feature, straightaway, the filter will be added over there. All right. Now, there's also another thing that you can adjust, which is the key frame over here. Let me just use a sample. I'm going to drag this audio down. Let's pause it. Let's just drag this audio trip clip over here, and let's adjust the volume down. It's a little bit too loud. Okay. Next, what I want to do is use the keyframe feature. If you want your audio to be softer or louder at certain positions, what you need to do is to turn on the keyframe, which is the clock feature over here. So use keyframes for this parameter, click on this and notice that we have jumped onto the keyframes tab. All right. Earlier, we are on the timeline tab. Now we are on the keyframes tab. So here, this is the volume at this point. Let's say somewhere here, you want to adjust the volume and you want it to be softer, click on the clock, then you adjust your volume either up or down. And you see that this changes all right. And you can also use drag this right here to adjust the volume, right? Let's say further down the track. So further down, you want to add another keyframe, you can do that. This is the key frame. And you can jump between keyframes and keyframes by using this key and this one. Okay? You can hop to that point, right? And if you want to remove a keyframe, use this cross to delete the selected keyframe. All right. So that's how you use the audio features in a shortcut. And it works both for video clips and audio clips as well. So if you want to have the keyframe for this particular clip, then you go to click on this keyframe, and this keyframe refers to this particular clip, right? So you see your playhead is here. So when you go to the keyframe, your playhead is out of that video clip. Okay. So if you move your playhead somewhere over the clip and go to keyframe, this is where it refers to, okay? And you can just add your keyframes over here. Alright, so that's about adding audio tracks, adjusting volume, using the filters, as well as just right on the timeline its 17. Detach Audio From Video: In this video, I will show you how to detach audio from your video clips in Shotcut. There are a few reasons why you want to do that. Number one, maybe you want to use your audio from a certain part of your video clip that you have recorded and you want to use it on another track. Second thing is maybe you want to do a Voiceover and the third reason is perhaps your audio somehow has gotten out of sync with your video. This is a sample, and if you can hear it, this is jumped over the lazy. So here, the audio is attached to the video clip. To detach the video clip, right click on the clip that you want to detach, click detach Audio, and the audio will be detached directly under the video Clip. Now, there's also another way you can detach audio clip, and that's where you copy a clip. Okay, make sure your playhead is at the beginning of that clip, and you can select the Audio Track and click on Control V. So now, our video clip has been essentially you are copying that video clip. However, once you bring it down to an audio track, Tricar will automatically know that it is Audio, okay? However, if you do it this way, this clip here that is supposed to be below this is actually pushed back. Okay? Of course, another way is to instead of pasting it you can select the clip and click on over right. So now the clip is there. So the reason why you want to detach your audio could be sometimes you want to do some Voiceover. Let's say, let me just detach delete this and detach the audio. And I do not want the audio here. Okay. And let's say I have a narration clip here that talks about the Durian. I want to detach the audio and I can also move it over here. So now, this is what it looks like. Let's play this. Mi durance at this red stop that we stop by. Some of it were cheap and some of these were a little bit expensive, but Okay, if your audio is slightly out of sync, you can manually sync it or manually change the timing slightly, okay, by adjusting this. So first, you want to zoom into your timeline, and then make sure your snap button is turned off. So you can actually nuch it slightly forward, a fraction of a second in case there's some problem with the sink, alright? That's all about how to detach audio in shortcut. 18. How To Fade Video And Audio: This video, you learn how to fit in and fade out your audio and your video in shortcut. So this is my clip over here, right, and it has audio as well. You can actually see this audio pi meter moving, as well as here the sound. First, let's fit this video, select the clip. Go to filters, go to the add a filter sign and select fade in video. So you can see at the bottom here how it will work. Okay, just click on this and you'll notice now that you have this fade in video, and also a triangle has occurred over here. Okay? Let me just move this clip away and it will look something like this. Okay. Let's select back the clip. And you can adjust how long you want this fade. For example, if you want to fade to happen longer. So this is 1 second, and this is a fraction of a second and you can increase it. And this triangle actually changes. And you can actually revert back by reset to default, which is the 1 second mark. This is in terms of fading the video, and right now, it's fake in this manner, from black to the video. Now, if you turn on a just opacity instead of fade to black, then this only works if this clip is above another one, which I will show you shortly. So let's say, for example, let's remove this. Okay? So let's say we do the same here, and I will show you a different way to create the freight as well. You can hover to the corners of your clip and you'll see a bubble that grows and sorts of throbbing. So you can actually select this and you drag this to your left to the right, then you can create a fade. All right? You see the filters is created straight away. And because this track has audio, a fade in or a fade out video and audio is created at the same time, okay? So now, if I turn off the opacity, I adjust opacity. So it will happen like this, right? So it's like something like a deep to color transition or deep to black transition. Now, if you turn this on, it is like a dissolved transition. All right. And you can also make it look nice by having a different fade this way, the fade this way. All right? Or you can just leave this alone. Okay, we do not want that. Okay? So you can also have just one way of doing it. Okay, so this is a second way to create a fade in, right? By hovering over to the corner and just dragging it to the left and to the right. One thing to pay attention to if your video doesn't have audio, and let's just detach the audio. Okay? So if you detach the audio and you do a fade, then it will only be fade in video. So perhaps you do not want to fit in your audio, but if you want to just fit in your audio, you can do that as well without fading in your video. So there's a few options you can create this. All right. So this is in terms of creating the fit in and fade out. And if you want to make any adjustments, you can go to your filters, so you have this adjustment over there. Okay? In terms of the time. And here for the audio, there is a S curve, fast or slow, so to fast, which means, this one is more like a natural type of fade here, the S curve means that initially it will be slow and then it's fast, and then it slows down and later on, which is more like a smooth curve, whereas the fast one means that the fade will happen very fast, and then later on, it will happen slower. All right? For video, you don't have this option. So this is how you fade in and fade out. Video and audio in shortcut. 19. How To Reverse A Clip: In this video, you will learn how to reverse a video clip in Shotcut. To do that, select the clip that you want to reverse. So this clip is playing forward and the cars are moving forward. To reverse it, select the clip. Go to Properties, and you can see there is a tab to reverse the clip. Click on Reverse. You have a window pop up, and Shotcut will actually create a video clip that is reverse. And it will ask you whether you want to have a good quality, a better or best quality. So here is the lossy format. Here is intermediate format, and here is the lossless format. You may try this first before you go for others if you want better quality. Next, click on Okay, and Shotcut will ask you to save this file into a new file and we'll have this reverse at the end of that file name. So just click on Save to save it. And here, Shotcut will actually recreate this reverse clip depending on the length of your video, it may take a while for it to create. So once it's created, you'll notice now your clip has been replaced. Now this is my original file name is Highway Converted. Now it is a reverse, not and before. And if you play now the video will play in reverse. So that's how you reverse the clip in Shotcut. 20. Apply Filters To Clip, Track And Project: Video, I will show you how to apply filters to a clip to an entire track or to the entire project. Now, why would you want to do so? Applying a filters to a clip is pretty simple. Perhaps you want to make some adjustment there. So you select a clip and go to filters and click Add a filter. Let's add, say, the contrast filter, and just a contrast for this video clip. The reason why you want to apply filters to an entire track, say you have done all the editing, perhaps, say for your audio track, and now you found that the sound is still a little bit soft, so you want to raise the levels for the entire track. So what you do is you click on the track head, go to filters and add a filter as you would normally do so. And say, select the gain and loudness. So you can increase the gain for the entire track so that it brings up the volume or perhaps it's the other way around it is too log and you want to bring it down. The same with video as well, you can also add a filter here, just add the brightness, and you get that. And to know whether you have applied filters to the track is to look at this icon here. Once you have applied filters to a track, you will see this icon that looks something like this. And if you want to remove it, you can just either uncheck that filter or remove it entirely. Finally, to apply to the entire project, you can do so by clicking on this output area here. And add a filter as normal as well. So you have a pop up to ask you whether you really want to apply to the entire project, right, because it will affect all the tracks, right? So if you click on yes, it will be the same. So say you want to increase or make changes to the contrast. And for the sake of this tutorial, I will bump it up just so that you can see, right? So everything now is only contras, right? And again, you will have this icon here to show you that the filter have been applied to the entire project. So that's how you apply filters to your clip to your track, and to the entire project. 21. Add Text Using Text:Simple: Video, you will learn how to add titles or text to your video. There are two ways to add text or titles to your video. You can either add them to your clip or add them on a separate video track. Adding them on a separate video track will give you more flexibility, which we will go through later. And there are two text filters that you can use. So let's say you want to add a title over here, just click on the clip. Go to filters and click on add a filter and type in text, and you can see the text Rich filter and the text simple filter, click on it and you will have this come up. And this is a timecode. So on this panel over here, you have several options. You can have the options of allowing the text to move from your certain position. Let's say, for example, slide in from the bottom, slide in from the left, so you can have this. So right now, we will just leave it as it is, and we will just cover the basics. So here is a time code, and there are other fields that you can insert. So some of the other fields will include, say, the file name, which is a very long file name over here. There are other things, for example, say the date. All right, so let's delete the time code and the file name, and you have the local file date. Okay. And let's say you want to change this and let's type something in, say the country road. And if you move down, you can change the color of the font, the type of font, and also the font size. Now, if you use font size, it will follow this setting here. So let's say you select a font size of 24, click on Okay. You notice there's no change over here because right now the text or the entire sentence follow the size of the rectangle. And if you adjust it, then the size of the font will change, right? In certain situation, you may want to use a fixed font size. So that is the actual font size over here. Okay, so maybe a bit too small. For the video, let's go with, say around 48. Okay. So this is that phone size. And here you have your color for the outline and the thickness of the outline. If you do not want it, you can just change the thickness into zero. But this outline can create some nice effects as well. Say you choose a red color and increase the thickness, it can look quite nice. Or perhaps the opposite, the phone is red and the outline is white. So you have something like this as well. Okay? So there are various ways you can adjust this. Now, next is the background. Right now the background is transparent. If you want it to give it a color, you can give it a color. Okay, so this is the yellow background. And if you want to adjust the opacity of that background, you can go to the Alpha channel and turn this down to, say, between 75, anything less than 255. And this opacity works for everything, including the font as well, this Alpha channel. The maximum is 255, right? So next, you can position this, right? So usually you may want to you can position it to the bottom to the middle. This is vertical or to the top. Okay. And you can position it to the left or to the right, or even the center. And this is based on font size, okay? If you turn font size off, then this will be at the center by default, okay? And the size follows this. Right? And here, these parameters here, the position and the size, the size will be the width over the height. And the position 301 and 191 is referring to this corner here. So if you go to the center and move your rectangle right to the corner, it will be at this position. Okay. So right now this corner is referring to here. All right. So this is in terms of the size and the position. There are some key frames here, but let's try, say, the preset which is to slide in from the left. Okay? So when you play the video, the text will slide in from the left. Some of the animation is on the text. Now, let's just see if I could set this None, we will use it. And let's set it back to the middle and change this. Okay? Now, there are certain keyframe parameters as well here with the clock icon here, as well as for the colors as well, which means you can make changes to the font and font colors and all these parameters. All right? So let's say you want to change the color from red, change it to white somewhere here, add keyframe for your font. You want to add another keyframe, change it to white. Okay, so the text will change in color from red to white. And you can also make the text move using this position as well. So if you go back to your timeline, click on keyframe as well. Here, your text is right at the center, and you can create another keyframe say somewhere here at the keyframe and you can actually move your title all the way off the screen. This is what will happen. One thing is that if you move your things off the screen, you will need to, uh, zoom smaller to get back this thing. Otherwise, it might be hard to get this back. Okay, get back the text, right? So that's in terms of creating it on the clip itself. Now, the difference between putting your text on the clip and also on the different track is that by doing it on a different track, it gives you greater flexibility. So let's do the same thing for the text simple, use a new generator and click on text. So here it will ask you whether you want to have a simple or a rich one. We will use the simple and just say the orange row and click on open, then pause this. So this is in the source window. Let's drag this down onto this track above. Make sure you have an extra video track. If not, please add the video track first. So here. Now, here I have this text on this clip, right? Now, let's just turn it off for the time being. When you have a text on this clip, it limits your creativity slightly. By having this separate from the track, you can have a text that bridges from one clip to another clip. Okay. So that's number one. Second thing is that if you want your text or title to cover the entire project, you can do that as well. So instead of typing text a title for each individual clip, especially if you want to have a same one, you can have this entire video have the same text over there. Okay? So this is one option. And beside that, let's just remove this. Besides that, you can also have fade. You can have fade in, similar to a fit in video. You can just create a fade very easily. Okay, same as a fade out. So you can do that. Having your text or your title on a separate video, track gives you greater flexibility. So that's all about adding text simple filter in shortcut. In another video, we will cover the text rich filter. 22. Add Text Using Text:Rich: This video, we'll look at the text rich filter and how to use it in your project. Or to use the text Rich filter, go to a new generator, go to text, and you can select the rich one. And then you can just type something here. Let's say you want to type in T M home. Country Road. Something like this. Okay. And you can either open or add it to the timeline. So let's just click on open. So right now it is in the sauce, and let's pause this and let's drag it onto the timeline. So now you will have this the difference between text Rich filter and the text simple is that the text reach, you type it right on the screen itself, whereas text simple, you type it on the box to the left. So here you have this and you can position your text box. Of course, over here, if you how, you got the menu, whether you want to edit it any way, right? For example, say you want to change it to bowl. Okay. Now, the difference between here is that when you want to select bowl or any, say, for example, italic, it only affects a single word where your cursor is. So you need to select the entire thing. To affect this. Okay. And here is the underlying the different type of fonts. If you want to change it, say you want to change the times new Roman, you can do that. So here you can adjust the font size. Next is your color and the alignment, whether left or center, right, and here is the justify if you want it to do that. Okay. So one thing is that here, you do not have key frames for changing the colors. You do have the key frames for changing position and the size of this block, but you don't have it for changing the color and the background. Next, here, of course, you have the extra, which is to decrease and increase the D ten, so you have there and finally to collapse the two bar. Now, one thing is that this menu will not show up when you export your video, it only shows you as you are editing in short cut. So again, you have other things. For example, you can span multiple clips. You can lengthen it. You can also have, say, fade in as well, so you have all that functionality. That's about using a filter, choose whichever text filter that you prefer, so there's no right or wrong. 23. Creating Drop Shadow: In this video, I will show you how to use the drop my shadow filter in shortcut. And this is available in shortcut 24.06 0.26. It is not available in earlier versions. So if you want to use this filter, please upgrade to a list this version of shortcut. Okay. Now, there are a few things that you need to keep in mind when you want to use the drop my shadow filter. Number one, your text filter has to be on a separate track, and you can't incorporate it directly into your video clip. For example, I have a image here. And I've added text onto this directly, okay? The text simple filter. So when I add the drop shadow filter, I've added the drop shadow filter, but when I make any changes, you notice that nothing changes for this, okay? So you have to keep that in mind. So let's go back to this section here where I have my text filter on a different video track, and this is just a background color. So that's what you have. So with that in mind, you want to add the filter to the top track. So click on add and add a drop shadow filter. As you can see, the drop shadow is behind the text. And if I make any changes, you see that the text will move, right? So that's how the However, you can create very interesting effect with this drop shadow because you can key frame it. So let's say for example, or we want the shadow to move somewhat like this, you can asset the key frame x and y. Or you can just do X is okay. So click on the clock icon to get the key frame set and move your play head further down. And you can move the text slightly and move this slightly. One thing about the drop shadow effect is that it's best if you use it subtly. All right. So make sure your key frames, either you can change it from linear or smooth, right, so that the movement will be smooth. Or you can also use or you can use some of the ease in and ease out curve to make it even more attractive. So you can also do the same for the blur as well. So that's how you get this effect in shortcut. 24. Create Pan Zoom Shake Effect: This video, we will cover pen and zoom in shortcuts, and we will use the presets as well as the key frames so that you can create various motion. So I have this image here on my timeline, and this is just a steel image. And I'm just using this steel image for the first example, and later on, I will show you using a video clip. But the concept is just the same. For pen and Zoom, the filter that you want to use is the size position and rotate filter, and this is the keyframe function or the clock icon that turns on the keyframe parameters. However, there's also presets that you can use to create motion for your images or your video. So for example, the presets will be say slide in from the left, slide in from the right. There's also things like shake, as well as zoom in. Okay? So let us just try, say, slow zoom in and hold this to the bottom, right? So what it does is that the video will slowly zoom in. Let me just zoom out. So you can see what's happening. And if you go to the keyframes tab, you can see that the video is slowly zooming in. At the bottom is actually stuck to the bottom. So if we say ZoomFit, this is what it looks like. Okay. So you can change this, say, slow zoom in and hold it to move up to the left. So now this is different. Okay? So this is using the preset. Okay? Now, you can also use your keyframes parameters, and this is doing it manually rather than the preset. Okay. So for the built in process, you can see that there is this triangle that forms on the keyframes tab. Okay? Now, when you do keyframes, you will remove all your existing keyframes for this existing parameter and create this size and position. Okay? Now, if you do not want to use this, you can remove this. Go back to the timeline, move your playhead. Let's do size position. Again, and click on the key frames. Okay. So this is your first keyframe and it denotes the existing or rather the size and the position. Now, somewhere here, let's say you want to zoom in. So one of the good ways to do so is to zoom out slightly or say zoom 25%. Then you can see the corners, and let's say I want to zoom it to this position, what I can do is I can drag this out. Okay? So when I play this, it will look something like this. Right? So this is how you create this zoom effect. Now, these are the key frames on the keyframes panel. So in order to move them between one position and another, you can just use this arrow to hop. Now, if you want to change anything and feel that the zoom is moving too fast, what you can do is you can pull it to the right. So now the zoom will happen much slower. Okay? If you move it to the left, it will happen much faster. All right. So this is in terms of the key frames. Now for the keyframes, there's also the types that you can change. For now, for the built in, it is actually the linear keyframe, and you can see this is how it is. If you want to have some other keyframes, you can change it, say from to say ease in and ease out, right? So it's like a sinus solo. So now these things change. It's more like an S curve. At the beginning is slow, somewhere middle is fast, and then towards the end is slow down again. All right. So these are things that you can change, and you do that by right clicking it and you can go to the next menu, whether you want to have ease in, ease out, whether you want to have smooth or linear. So these are some of the things that you can choose. Next, for videos, it works the same way as well. So let's go to the playlist, and I'm going to drag this into my timeline here. Okay? So this is just clip. So let's say this is a clip of some deers. And let's say somewhere around this point of that video, I want to zoom in to this deer right at the center, somewhere here. So what I can do is select the clip, go to add a size position and rotate, turn on the keyframe function. So right here, this is the first keyframe, and let's say somewhere here, I want to start zooming in. I set another keyframe and I adjust the Zoom level. Alright. Now, if I want to adjust the position, I can do that because I say, this is not really at the center. I want this to be at the center, and I want to make sure that it is slide to that side, alright? So now this is my first keyframe. Okay. And let's say after at this point, I want to zoom out again, I can create a keyframe here, move my playhead and say this is the point I want to zoom out. So now I can I can change back the zoom here. And make sure it goes back to the center. Okay, and just make sure that the original size for this video is 191980 by 1080. So this is how the Zoom out will look like. Okay. So this is in terms of, say, zooming in and zooming out. Now, you can also do other things as well. For example, you want to make your video shake. So let's say I'm just going to cut this clip for this section. Alright. So this is let's say I want to do this and so here, there's some presets that allows you to shake. Okay, so it shakes for 1 second. Okay, so it is actually quite good if you want to use this as well. So this is the key frame that's built in, so we can see that right. So you have If you zoom into the keyframes, you can see all this keyframe right by shaking that video clip. So this is about creating pen and zoom with the size position and rotate filter as well as keyframe 25. Rotate Video And Other Media: Lesson, you learn how to rotate your video clip in Shotcut, and there are two reasons you want to do so. Number one is for creative reasons. And number two, in case your camera when you recorded a video, it has saved the wrong orientation in your camera, and when you bring into, say, a video editor like Shotcut, it is not showing the right orientation. I have this clip on my source window as you can see the orientation isn't correct. And if you go to the properties tab, you can see that the orientation has been set vertically. Now, the first way to rotate this is to just go into the properties tab, scroll right down, and there is this rotation tab and you can select 90 degrees, 180 or 270. Let's try 90. So this video has been rotated in the correct orientation. So this is the simplest way if you want to just rotate your video clips. Okay? Now, let me just undo that and just change it back to zero. Now, a second method to change the orientation is to do it in the timeline by using a filter. Let's just cut it first and drag this onto the timeline. So this is my video clip here in the project temp. Go to filters now, add a filter and add the size position and then rotate filter. Okay. So here, there are a bunch of options that you can use. Scroll down, and there is this rotation option that you can use, and you can change it to 90. Okay. And you'll notice that the video is still smaller. So for this particular case, you need to zoom in to make sure that the video will fit the screen, okay, so that there are no black bars on the sides. So play probably around 178% or 179% thereabouts, and this video has been set correctly. The other ways you can use this rotation is perhaps you want to use it creatively and say you want to have a video, perhaps slanting this way or slanting that way. Maybe it's a collage or maybe you want it to rotate all the way in, you can do so, and you can just set it over here. For this size position rotate, there is also a keyframe feature, which means you can add keyframes to this rotation function, okay? So for example, you may leave it as the original or orientation and set a keyframe here at the beginning of the video. And once you click on the keyframe tab, a keyframe will open, and as you go along to the video, perhaps you want to add another keyframe and rotate it, say to 90. So you're doing it to create an in string effect, and you end up with something like this. Okay? So these are two ways you can rotate your video clips in short 26. Add image overlay or watermark: In this video, I will show you how to put an image overlay onto your video in our shortcuts. And the reason you wanted to do that is perhaps you want to have a logo on your video and maybe kind of a watermark or some things that you wanted to show on screen to let your audience know that this video belongs to you. The first thing that you need to do is to have an image there is a PNG with a transparent background. I'm going to click on this, and this is what you are seeing in the source window. This is just a static image of a PNG. This layer here, the black background is actually transparent. And you have this triangle and circle and a few words. And I created this in a few minutes in Google Drawings. Alright, so I will show you at the end of this video, I briefly how you can do something similar to create the image overlay. You drag this image onto attract above, and I'm using tray V2. This image here is this position. Depending on the size of this image, you may need to adjust this. To adjust this hit on the word to your filters, you're going to add size, position, and rotate filter. This graph here shows the size of this transparent layer, which is 14401080. Alright, so there's a method too much for purposes we can adjust this. I'm going to resize it smaller. Next I'm going to select them subquery in the center and position it to wherever I want. Maybe we will put this over here. As you can see, only this part here is blocking the video. Everything else is transparent. And this is what it will look like. Of course, for this image, you can add other filters to it. Like for example, you want to add a film and video. You can do that. I need to make sure this is adjust opacity instead of fit the black. This is what you will look like. Very nice. It appears. Of course you can lengthen it. And we can also add a fade out video as well. So that's how you add an image overlay in shortcut. Now in terms of creating this image, there are certain graphics software that you can use to create this. But the simplest one is in Google drawings. This is an online tool. Go to your Google Drive and create new drawings. This is the Google Drawings. And you can actually see the checkerboard background. These are checkerboard background means that this layer is transparent. Of course, you can resize the app. I probably should have re-size this earlier on. When I download this layer will be smaller. So download this and make sure you download this as a PNG image. And then you can actually use a shortcut. Of course, you can also get somebody else to create this image as well. By the way, as a side note, please don't go looking for this emission. This is just a demo which I created in a few minutes. For the purpose of this tutorial. 27. Adjust White Balance: In this video, I will show you how to use the white balance filter in shortcut to adjust the white balance of your video with a clip here on my timeline, what I would do is to add a filter. We will add the white balance filter. Search for it. It is here. There are two ways to adjust your white balance. Once is to use the color slider over here. And in a sense, this is the easiest way to go about it. You can slightly to the left hand warmer colors that you're seeing right now. Let me just mute click. You can even turn it until this scene. It looks at Ziff, there is a sunset. If you slide it to the right, you have more bluish, cooler colors. I'm going to revert this back to the norm. Now another way is to use the color picker tool here. Select the color picker, and then you move your mouse to somewhere where there is a neutral color like white. And you can highlight in a certain area. Don't be surprised if you get results like this, because it depends on what we see. For example, what we see here might be whiter, but in actual fact, you could have some tint there that is affecting that color. So the clocks looks the most neutral. So if you select something that we think is wide, but it's not really white, then you may affect their result. This is how you adjust your white balance in shortcut. 28. Adjust Brightness And Feel With Colour Grading: in this video, I will show you how to use the color grading, filter toe adjust your scenes that you have captured. And this is for scenes where you have certain places which are in the shadows, which seems a little bit dark. And you have some scenes, some sections which are blown. Now, I just want to let you know that sometimes this doesn't really work well, because it really depends on how well blown your video is on the sexual of the off your senior. So you may just want to give this a try and kind of experiment with this. Okay, So first, with a clip selected, you want to go to futures and and the color grading fielder. Now, the color greeting future have some effects that you can choose beside just color grading. Which means you kind of put a tin to it or, ah, credit effect, where they something looks like there's been cross process. Okay, let's try. Let's show you what I mean. Okay, so I hear the scene become more bluish. Okay, Maybe you want Teoh create a scene. There is perhaps showing a change of scene to say. I think Arctic issue right? Means yes, Cole. OK, so you can do that. So So that's what their purpose off the color grading feel the dust. But besides that, the color greeting future under here also allows you to adjust the brightness. Okay. And you are gonna adjust the brightness in three different sections. You can adjust it through the highlights, the meat tones as well as their shadows. OK, so for this scene, I'm gonna show you how to read you some of the brightness, and it depends on the clip that you have captured. I know that, right? So let's pull the brightness area down a little bit, and you can see that is kind off. Not as bright, but this one also affect some of the shadows. And so let's check and see whether it I just affected the shadows. Okay. So affected entire us frame on the clip. OK, so let's try to adjust the meat tones and raise back the meat tones of it. Okay. Is any effect. Okay, so there's a slight effect. So you noticed that this actually affects this quite a bit. And, uh, really, What you want is that when you capture video clip your camera. You want to not to have a situation where there is overblown because arrests that were blown Exactly. There's no details there for you to recover, Okay? And, um, he can make the clip look worse in some sense. So let's see. Let's check somewhere else. Okay, So, like, for example, the section of the clip here now we don't color grading. It looks more contrast C and looks good with this color included kinds off. In some ways it looks better, and in some ways it doesn't look as good. So really, you need to experiment with this and justice slightly, depending on the effect that you are trying to get. The best advice I can give you is actually to just eyeball it and see what works best. Use this to see whether the effect is a platform, not and see how it goes. Okay, so basically, you haven't thesis to that you can use and to try to salvage some of this shots that really doesn't look that good. So that's all about using this color grading filter to adjust the brightness and the shadows in your video clip 29. Create And USe Filter Sets: Video, you'll learn how to use and create filter sets. Filter sets are merely a set of filters that you use regularly to perhaps create a certain look, whether you want to use it on a particular project or sets of filters that you use regularly. It will save you time rather than adding filters individually one by one, especially if there are four or five filters that you want to use at the same time. So this is a sample of filter sets. So I have my clip here. And to use a filter set, go to filters, go to add a filter and go over to the sets and you see there are some built in sets that's already been created. So for example, this is soft focus, right? So now you have the soft focus filters. It is a combination of four filters. Let me just undo all those. Okay. Let's add a different one. So this one is a cartoon one filter that I created, and it makes all the colors super intense, okay, like a cartoon. So let me just undo that and show you how to create your own filter set. Click on the clip that you want and add a filter as you would normally do. Add a filter and add all the filters that you want. So for example, this cartoon five filter is a set of filters that consists of colors. So let's just add saturation filter. So this is highly saturated. Add the brightness filter, make it extremely bright. Add another one, increase the contrast. Then add, say, HSL primaries, hue saturation, increase the rate, for example, the yellow and something here. So now, to create a set, so just go to the icon, save a filter set, click on it and give you a name. So I'm going to call it Fine number two, save it and I have my filter set. Now, if I want to create the same effect over on this particular clip, all I need to do is to select the clip. Go to add a filter, go to my filter set and add Cartoon 52. So instead of adding four filters here, I have my filters in a set by one click. Of course, you can still adjust the levels of these filters. So but practically, that's how you use filter set. And if you want to delete any filter set, just click on the clip. Go to add a filter again. And right click and you can delete the set. Let's delete this. So now it's deleted. Now, these ones are the ones that are built in and you can't delete this. So if you right click, nothing will happen. So that's about creating and using filter sets in Shotcut. 30. Create Picture In Picture (PiP) Videos: This video, you will learn how to use or create a picture in picture videos in Shotcut. To create this effect is pretty simple. All you need is have another video on top of either an image or a video clip in a Shotcut. To create a picture in picture effect, make sure you have your video or an image at your lower track. In this case, Track one, right? So first, I'm just going to show you a basic one, right? So let's say I want to place a video somewhere here on my screen. I'm just going to my playlist. Let's select this video. And pause it. Say I want my video length from here to here, and drag the video onto the upper track V two, in this case. Then next what you want to do is to go to your filters, add a filter and look for your size position and rotate filter. And you can just make the size smaller and put it right where you want it. Let's say something like this. And so now, what you have is a picture in picture video. All right. So essentially, this is the most simplest form of picture in picture. However, you can do the same by putting it, say, into a TV, right? So this is just a steel image of a TV. However, it can be a video of a TV, and maybe there's some people moving around as well. So the concept is still the same. Let's say I place a highway again over this clip here, right, and just do the same. Now, I can use the same size position to rotate filter and adjust this. However, there could be cases where the screen is slightly skewed. Or maybe when the photo was taken, it is not square, which you will see here. So if you are not too particular, you can just use the size position and filter and maybe rotate the screen slightly to make it fit. All right. So you are practically done. However, if you are in certain cases where skew is too much, then you can try using another filter. Let me just remove this size position and rotate. If the skew is too much, you can use a corner pin filter. So just add the corner pin filter. And let me just zoom out slightly. All right. So now you see the corner pins here, one, two, three, four. What you do is you hover over the number one corner pin and move it. You can adjust it to fit the location you want. All right. So next you move your second corner. Then the third one And finally, the fourth one. So this works well if your screen that you want to use is slightly out of position or the angle isn't correct, isn't really square on. So let me I need to adjust this further. So essentially, that's how you do it. And if you want to zoom in to look closely, you can zoom in to check and make sure that all the pins are at the right position, right? So that's how you create picture in picture in Shotcut. 31. Split Screen Videos: Video, I'll show you how to create a split screen video like what you are seeing on screen right now. To create this effect, you will need three video tracks. At the bottom track, we will need the color. So what we need to do is go to new generator, generate the color. Select the color that you want. In this case, I'm going to select white, and also remember to turn the alpha channel to 255, which is a solid color. Otherwise, it will be a transparent color. Click on open and just pause it and drag it onto the timeline and put it at the bottomostt rack. Next, go to the playlist. Now, I have a few video clips on my playlist, and this is the video clip that I want to use. Alright, so I'm just going to set the point here and set the outpoint somewhere here. Okay, and drag it onto track V two. Okay? So something like this. Now, for this video, you kind of have to plan to see which part of the screen that you want to use. For example, for this video, the left side is pretty boring. So the action is on the right side. So what I'm going to do is move this clip by adding a size position and rotate filter. And I will move it to the left, okay, because I want the right side. And in order to help make sure that the clip is centered, I'm going to use the grid lines over here, toggle the grid lines and move it somewhere this way. Okay? Because this clip is a little bit over the front and I want to have the white space in front, I will need to add a mask. Now, for certain situation, you may not need a mask. For example, let's say you are okay with putting the clip somewhere here, and then let's say you use this other clip. Let me pause it and drag it onto track number three and just do the same by adding a size position and rotate filter again. So I will have something like this, okay? Because I want to have that center line to separate the two video clips, right? So that is one way of doing it. Okay, by moving this closer. All right, so I will still have the white line, in this situation. Now, however, there may be situations where maybe perhaps the image that you want is somewhere like this and you can't create the white line over here. Okay? So if that's the situation you are facing, what we can do is go back to this clip, the one on the left, and we will add the filter, which is going to call a mask simple shape, and we will mask this. And first, we want to extend the mask to the top and to the bottom. Okay. And we want to change this to subtract, okay? And then we want to turn the softness down all the way so that it becomes something like a solid line, right? And then what you need to do now is to adjust the size of that mask, okay? You can also adjust the mask here or here. Okay. And you can adjust the position. Let's zoom in. Okay? In order to see this properly, I'm going to shorten my track heights. Make it shorter, and then you can adjust this. All right. So these are ways that you can adjust that clip to get the position that you want. Maybe you need to adjust the mask a bit because the mask is not showing up properly, you need to adjust the size to be bigger so that it fits. Okay, let's turn off the grid line, and this is what you will end up with a effect like this, right? That's how you use these two effects to create the split screen effect in shortcut. 32. Mirror Effect: In this video, I'll show you how to use the mirror effect in a shortcut. So I have a clip here on my timeline, and this is just a clip of me speaking. So when you want to do a mirror effect, one of the things he had to pay attention to is the position then sitting. So in this case, I more or less did it by a half, right? Half the screen. So this is one of the things that you may want to pay attention to, right? So you can create interesting effect even though the position or sitting perfectly. But that's a different kind of mirror effect. So anyway, I have this section here on my track, any stray in order to create the mirror effect. And you actually need another video track. So I'm just going to add another video track. And I'm going to duplicate this track here. So I'm just going to use Control C on my keyboard. I'm going to click on the Home key to make sure my play heads right at the beginning and just enter this. All right, So this is the track exactly at the bottom and at the top. If I were to hide the top tray, I think changes because it's exactly the same thing. All right, So select the clip that you want. So click on your filters. For the mirror effect. Select that. Straight away. You have the mirror effect. Okay, now how do you make sure to how do you ensure that you see what's at the bottom? This is where you need to add a mask. Okay, so I'm going to add a mask and less simple shape. Okay? So the mass is over here, right? First, you need to increase the height, reduced the softness, whether you use a softness in this case, but it depends on what you want to do. Source subtypes, you may need to have a softer mass, okay? And I am going to increase the width. Okay? So in this case, I want to have a perfect mirror array, the Shouldice matching. So it looks exactly as if it is a mirror. So you may need to adjust this from the percentage by five, tree 4. Okay. During the fall, looks about right. And if you really want to ensure that your mirror it right in the middle, you can actually Paul go greet line. Okay. Let's toggle the two-by-two. Okay, so exactly the same, right. So desk how you create the mirror effect with that. Now let me show you a different one and less Kobe, go to the site and open another file that you can actually create a different kind of mirror effect. This looks like interesting. Okay, so I'm going to place this on to my track here. Okay? Places same straight-line basis here as well. The same exact trick. Less just ensure that it is matching exactly. Again, we will add mirror filter. So this is exactly the same. And then what you want to do is we can to mask it. There's another way you can do as well, which is likely to use the crop filter by both ways work just as well. And this insert, let me show you how to use the crop filter to do the same effect as well. Can do the crop rectangle and less crop the top. Again, click on that transparent, and then you have the mirror effect. This is more interesting array in this case there's movement. So that's how you create the mirror effect in the shortcut. And I hope you had fun with this. 33. Selective Blur: In this video, I will show you how to blur or mask off something, say, for example, a sign or a t shirt in short cut. I have my clip here on my track we want, okay? And you notice that I moved slightly. So first, what you want to do is to select the clip that you want, go to filters, and the best option is to go to your filter set and add this either obscure with a blur or obscure with a mosaic, right? So these are built in filter sets with shortcut. Let's just go with mosaic. And this is a combination of three filters. So what you can do is just to drag this square to the place that you want to blur. And take note that you may want to position your playhead right at the beginning of your video clip that you want to blur so that you don't miss anything, right? Otherwise, you may have some sections at the front of the clip that you overlooked. Okay? So now, that's all about applying the filter clip. However, you note that in this case, person moved, right? So how do you count for that? So we will do this using keyframes. Okay, so what you need to do is to scroll down on this keyframe, you may want to select the rotation as well, but in this situation, you need not to have rotation. So the size and the position should be good enough. And of course, you can also change the shape to something else if you prefer, for example, ellipse. But in this situation, the rectangle one works the best. Okay? So let's just go and set a keyframe over here and turn on the keyframe, right? So what you want to do is to slowly move and point where either the camera moves, then you want to set another keyframe. So here, I'm starting to move Okay. So it might be good idea to set another keyframe here and let's continue. All right, so set another keyframe and adjust this frame over here, right? Send another keyframe and so on and so forth, right? So what you want to do is to make sure that it is smooth. Now, there is also another feature that you can use, which is using the motion tracker, which I will cover in another video. So this does it automatically. And the reason why you want to learn this manual method is because sometimes the motion tracker doesn't track properly and you have the only option that you have is to do this manually by hand. So what you get is a video like this where the blur will move with that person, right? So something like this. Of course, I can create another one over here. Say somewhere here, and I just the key frame up or rather the frame up. So that's how you blur off certain details in your video using shortcut. 34. How to create Chromakey or greenscreen videos: In this video, we will look at how to create chroma key or green screen or even blue screen effect. So the correct term is, of course, chroma key. So what I have here on my clip is actually, yes, I've missed any in front of a blue screen. Okay, you can use the same form green screen. So what you want to do is to select the clip and then go to your filters tab. At a filter, go and look for the chroma, simple order chroma advance. Now I suggest that you try the chroma simple first because that's the filter is much easier to use with less adjustment. And in many cases the simple filter works just as well. All right, so select a simple filter. And here the data here, very few options of what you want is to actually select the color key. Okay? Now, since this is a blue screen and discrete isn't really a fixed or a professional color. What we want to use is to use the color picker. If you're using a green screen, this purposely built for the green screen or chroma key. You can actually select this. So I'm going to select the color picker, and I'm going to select a section of the screen somewhere here. Okay? So nothing happens yet, basically because you are supposed to have something at a track below, okay, now you can actually do that later, and we'll do that later. But first, what we want to do is to add another filter which is called the alpha channel view. Okay? So alpha channel will allows you to see how well is your chroma key going on. And I'm going to select a white background because mocks as if you're placing a white Greg Brown on the track V1 below, okay? So you can see that the chroma key is doing quite well. All right? And you can do some adjustment, okay? With a distance. So deci kilo, new one adjustment here. All right. And if you lower the adjustment, you see this blue screens are to come back up. If you make it too high, then the person starts to disappear. Okay. So you went to kinda adjust the Somewhere around here are where you are to see the color spill is if isn't that strong yet, all the blue has been removed. Okay, now my screen here isn't really a very professional screen. You can see there are ducks, dark spots n. This is a screen that has been hacked together, okay, but yet it still works quite well. So some may something like this is actually quite good. What you want is to kinda see and see whether there's any color spill. And notice the sum or here the edges, which if you zoom in, you can see clearer. Okay, There's only to a 100 percent. You can see the edges over here. Okay? It's not too bad really. But if you really want to adjust this, we can adjust it. Okay, let's go back to zoom to fit. And to adjust it, you can add another filter called the alpha channel and just click on that and make sure the alpha channel I just filter is above comes for us from the alpha channel. We'll, all right, otherwise you can't see very well. Okay? So there are some modes that you can adjust under this Alpha chain. Adjust one of it is to shrink, to shave. Basically what you want is to shave off some of these colors, bill, okay, Let's zoom in to a 100 percent. Okay? So let me turn off the Alpha chain, adjust. Okay, you see that the line is more distinct once it's turned on, is shifted a bit lucky. And you also have to check a few places, not just any one particular part of your body or any object that you're trying to, uh, Drew chroma key. So let's remove this. So you notice that the hand has also shrunk a bit. So you have to adjust this so that you don't shrink too much. All right? And our paradigm shift too much and they're icky, other modes as well, where the string ha, okay, so here it become very jaggedy k. Let's move on to another place or SQL docs quietly or cry. Okay, so here it looks too much jaggedy. So shrink hat definitely is not. So you want to kind of adjust to see which one suits your particular video demos. So I find for me, shape actually works quite well. And you can actually adjust this shift among, Okay? Now, basically there's a body for the chroma key. Simple. Let's assume that out the Zoom Fit. Now what you want to do next is to play something under this tray, okay? Okay, I'm going to open a file. Let's open this one here. Let's use this one. Okay, That's the highway. And I drag this down on the tray V1. Now I can actually use a photo or even a still image. Okay, to do that, I'm just going to turn off the sound here and then turn off your Alpha channel view. Alright, so there you have it. All right, It's actually quite simple to use. And what you can do is also to make this smaller. Okay, so let's go back to the filter. You can also add a size position and rotate. It gets smaller as well. Okay. So to then I would have you have something like a spokesman kind of video. All right. So you can do that. And now you can also have a different clip here. Okay, let me go and open another file. And let's do this. I'm going to bring this down here. Okay, so if I have a transition, so the video actually a transition. Okay? So you can do all those kinds of things. But the key thing is to ensure that your your chroma key is done as well as possible. Okay, so that's all about creating a chroma key using the simple filter. 35. Adding Text Behind Moving Objects: In this video, I will show you how to place at texts behind and moving object. In this case, I'm going to place texts behind me. Notice there my head mostly ignore the rest of the filters here. First, I have this same clip plays on to video tracks, track V1 and V3. I'm going to hide that top layer so you can see that the same video. The next type is called the master hit. I'm going to use the blacks. They may mask. Click on New to create a new mask file I'm going to call it lacks limitation opened up. We will need to mask this. You can use and draw freehand or the draw bezier. I'm also going to feel down so that I can see better way I mask. I'm going to select somewhere here. Now because I've been opacity down, you can see that I can see true this mass as I go over here. And we have done the first part, Let's go back to select less safeties. Next, we will turn on the recorder to record function, which is actually keyframes in flux limit. So next we're going to move this further down and keeping an eye on this mass as well as the face as it moves. Okay, so there is some slight movement. So I'm going to adjust this. Here. The ear moves a little bit. So I'm going to turn on edit to edit the points. Okay, let's go further down. Move the mass slightly. Move further down. Adjust the mass. We're back to Edit and so on and so forth. The idea is to make sure that as my hand moves, the mass moves with it. Once you are done, you're going to hit the record button again and it will stop recording keyframes. Save this habit or word to shortcut. You may want to save this as well. I'm just going to slightly, but the most important thing is to hit reload. This layer two is where we will add text. When other select Text. Click on Okay. Post this, select the center. Move this up. Smaller. Attendance, fun to black color. And drag this down onto a track, V2. You can see the mass taken effect. Now. I'm just going to move in. And the reason why it is semi-transparent is because we need to go back to black stomach, turn this back onto 100% safe. Go back to shortcut, go back to this mass here. Reload. And you have debt. I'm just going to keyframe the text. Select keyframe. Then it moved my texts on my here. Move this over. So let's play this. Hope you enjoyed this tutorial until that next time, Bye-bye. 36. Create Glitch Effects for video and titles: In this video, I will show you how to create a glitch effect shortcut. I will click here on the timeline. What we will do is to add a filter to it. It's very simple code. Your filters stamp could add a filter and search for glitch. There are four things you can adjust in this glitch filter. Let's just play it to see how it looks like. You'll notice that the blocks are pretty big, then the frequency is quite dramatic. What I'm gonna do is our lower the frequency and smell is lower that block height, however, it depends on you, what you would like in your video. Okay, so let's take a look. Actually, a lot more pleasing to the eye. The frequency refers to how often this is shifting. Of course, the block height shows how large are the blocks. Shift in density talks about whether you're, how intense is the Schiff going to be like? Then the last one is the color intensity. The more intense you have more dramatic color changes over there. I'm going to dial this back a bit. And this is what it looks like. One of the great things about this filter here is that he also has key frames. You can actually adjust this English or the frequencies that block height, etc, as a function of time. Let's turn on the frequency. I'm just going to use frequency as well as shift in density. However, you may turn on more if you prefer. This is the key frame stamp. When you turn on key frames where your play head is located, the key frames will be set. So let's play this or you can actually just move the play head to another position. Make changes to the frequency. Let us say you went to increase the frequency. Checkout automatically creates a keyframe over here. You can see as I play this, this figure will change and it goes along. The frequency becomes stronger and stronger. You can also change the shift in density to be stronger as well. You can reduce it, but again, this is a glitch or video. You can also do a glitch over your text. Now I've created a simple text over here. It is just texts. The simple filter. We will apply the glitch filter as well. So again, Clear Filter, the glitch. And this is what it looks like for the default. Pretty strong. You can reduce this to get the effect that you like. Similarly, you can also do the keyframes for this effect and get something pretty interesting. All right, on top of that, you can add things like fade in and fade out for your texts. So that becomes even more dramatic. That's how you create a glitch in our shortcut. 37. Animated Line: Video, you will learn how to create an animated line like what you're seeing on screen. This is quite popular for travel videos, so let's dive in. The first step is to get a map, and this is the map using Google. So what you want is to create an image or a snapshot, and I'm just going to use the Snipping tool in built in in Windows and just capture this map. So let's do it this way, right? So this is the map that I want. Let's save this I'm going to save it as saying that map no line, and save it as a PAC, and we can close this and we can close the snipping tool as well. Next, we will go back into the map with no line, open it with a simple editor. Let's say, we're going to use paint Microsoft Paint. Now, you can use any other software. It doesn't matter. What we want is just to draw a line from KL to manila. And let's just pick a red line. And we want to do a curve, actually. So let's see from KL to manilla right now, you can have a straight line if you want, or you can just curve it a bit by dragging it into the middle, something like this to make it nicer. And let's save it. And we will save it as JPEC as well, save as map with a line. Right? Let's go back to a di So this is map with line, save it, and we can close this. And let's go into Shotcut. So what we want is to place these two maps in a playlist. So this is my other map where I've done earlier for Europe, but let's use this map. Drag it in. Okay. And what we want is to grab the map with the line and place it on the track above. And grab the map with no line and place it on track one on the lower track. So this is my playhead and if I were to hide the top layer, this is what it would look like, and this is the map with the line on top. What we want to do next is select the clip or the image on top, go to filters. We will use a mask and we can just use a mask symbol shape. And if you move the mask, you can see the line appearing here. This give a good idea what you need to do. Now, I want to turn the softness all the way to zero to have a sharp line. So next what you want is just adjust this rectangle into something like this and move the mask to behind the starting point. All right. So let's stretch this mask all the way to the top because the line is going to go all the way to the top. Let me just hint you in on what's going to happen, see? As we move the mask, you can see the line. All right. So this is one way, right. If you want to move, say, just a line, if you want to use the full line, then what we need to do is move this way. Okay. So we will key frame this. So let's just key frame this and let's say somewhere here, we will start this size and position, click the keyframe, somewhere here, set another keyframe. And all you need to do is to drag and increase the size of this mask, okay? So this is what it looks like. All right. Now, if you want to create a moving line, then it will be slightly different. Let's go back to this keyframe and delete this, delete the keyframe, come to this point here. The keyframe is this way. If you want to create the moving line, what you can do is have a little bit here, move down, another key frame. Instead of just dragging this one, we will move this entire mask all the way over here. Okay. So now, this is what it looks like, right? So it moves too fast, maybe we can spread it out a bit. Alright, so that's how you create animated lines in Shotcut by just using a mask. 38. 3 Dimension "Star Wars" Style Text Scroll: In this video, I will show you how to do a Star Wars style scrolling text credit then looks something like a 3D effect you see in Star Wars. Are we this version of shortcuts? You can now create this effect and we will go straight into the screen her, I know. Okay, so the first thing that you want to do is to do open ardor and open apolar. And what we're gonna do is actually to create a text phis. And we are going to use this method to create that text. Okay? So we the colour, open color transparent, drag it down onto your timeline here. And I'm going to drag this to adjust a timeline to say somewhere around, let's say about ten seconds, but you can use it however long you want. Okay? Now the next is to go to your field test tab here and click on texts. Or you can either use enrich text filter or a simple textual data. Both of these works, I'm going to use the rich TextField, okay, and this is the filter. And I'm just going to type in something onto the screen. I'm just going to wilted aside here and change the size of the text is a little bit too big and it's a little hard to see, but you can actually equal to the text size here. And I will set it to say something around 48 K. Let me just our justice window down so that the menu goes up on the top. Now you moved the box here in the menu work legal up so it's easier to look at things and adjust them. Alright, so let's get back to this. Again. I'm going to just centered at text by clicking on this one here, centered at Text menu. And I will change the color. I don't know one to have a latch font. Now to adjust the color, to click on this text color and we'll choose something yellow just to show that ease that have debt, Star Wars effect. And let me just type in a little bit long, some of these things longer so they can see this more, greater detail later on. Ok. Now once that's done, what you want to do is to click on the grid k by opening the grid. And we will use this greet here. Toggled greet display. And I will use the four by four grid. Now the reason why I want to use the greedy so that these texts can be centered. Once you have done clickbait onto that track here. Okay, I'll go back to filters and a track. And in a text filter are why we want to do is to turn on the keyframes. All right? And I first I will use the move my play head somewhere here, then turn on the keyframes parameters. And then what you want to do is go over to the text over here. How will your mouse right to the center and drag this text down. Okay, so this will be the starting position of that text, okay? And somewhere here we will move the playhead to twist the n. And then we need to move the text up. Now because now that the text is move kinda move off screen. While you need to do is to click on the zoom and zoom on 10%. Then what you want is to move this up, okay? And with a great, you can actually maintain the center point. Okay? So if you don't have to agree, it would be hard to maintain the center point. That text or exile somewhere here would be good. Okay, you can zoom in, say 50, 50% percent is to be ok. So what you want is to maintain so that this is at the center, right? And you can see this dilemma. Just go back to zoom fit. You can move your playhead to the beginning of this Tressie to check whether this is moving. And once you play, you want to look at the position of this. You do know once this parameter to change, okay? This perimeters changing slowly, so it is not exactly, are moving straight up. So does not want me want, so not to rectify that. You want to do is to select this fussier. So you remember this is position one to seven. Or you can do is we are going to remove this, remove this key frame, and then we can click on the keyframe, add a keyframe again. But we're going to change this to one to seven directly in the, in this box here. Okay? Now their way when you play will move up politically and not kind of have a wavy line. Alright? So this is the first part is done. Now. The next part that you want to do now is to go back to the timeline first. Next, go back to the filters tab and look for corner pin. Okay, and apply the corner pin effect. Okay? And then what you want is to move your text somewhere here of a vector beginning. You can actually move it to the center. You will notice, okay, let me just zoom out a bit. And the 25, you'll notice now that this fall buttons here. Now this allows you to adjust the corner pins, right? So what you want to do is to hover over this pin here, and then you enter move this. Okay? And you can see that the text is skewed, right? And you move this here and attacks and skewed. Okay, I am going to adjust this user more, smaller grep and move this further. Now you can actually add justice to the effect that you want to create a change in perspective so that it looks as if it is a 3D or three-dimension. So let's go back and test this out. Removed agreed, by clicking on this button here. And then click on zoom fit. And we can see how this moves less playlists. Okay, so towards the top here it doesn't look so well. So what you want to do is to adjust it a little bit more. Now let's go back and turn on the green toggle degree. Move somewhere here. And then what happens is you'll notice that this point here isn't low enough. Okay, so we're going to adjust the Klonopin lower. And you connect you to adjust these to the effect that you like. Okay? So basically that's how you create a schooling texts effect or the scrolling star was tax effect in shortcut. And you, all you need to do is use the text field and the condor pin filter. 39. Time Remap And Speed Ramping: Video, I'll show you how to create some interesting effects like what you're seeing on screen right now by using the time remap filter. This effect can also be known as the speed ramping effect. One thing for the time remap filter is that you need to have a lot of movement to make this effect looks good. So for example, I have this video clip, and this one will work just nicely. So in order to use this filter, go to your filters, go to add a filter and look for the time filter. And these are what you can see over here, right? So basically, there's nothing much for you to adjust. What you need to do is to go to your key frames tab. You see this line that's going up on the slope. And if you look at the filter, it says that the speed is one X, right, and the direction is forward, and this is just the time. All right. So as you see, this is what normally happens. Now, to make use of this, what you need to do is to decide where you want something to change. Let's say, for example, somewhere around here, I want this car or this part of the video to start reversing. So you can adjust it on your uh, playhead, add the keyframe, move your playhead further down, and create another keyframe. So what you need to do next is if you want to make changes, is to drag the keyframe down. Okay? So what happens is that now, when you see your playhead here, now for this section between the first keyframe and the second, it shows that your direction is reverse and this is the speed that it is playing. So if you play, this is what it will look like. Okay? So if you want it to be steeper if you bring it down more, so okay. So you can create another key frame here. And if you want it to have more reverse, you need to do something like this. Okay? So as you can see when you drag your keyframe up and down, you can see the speed as well as whether it is forward or reverse, right? So that's what you can do. If you want to freeze that effect, what you need to do is to drag this down so that it is almost level, right? And you can see it over here. It is still forward. What you want to do is to achieve as close as zero as possible. Okay, it is still moving very slowly, right. So that's how it is. The other thing with the keyframe, of course, is that you can change these keyframes. Now, if you have seen my other videos on keyframes, you know that to jump from one keyframe to another, you just hop using these buttons to seek the next keyframe. And if you want to make some changes whether so right now it is linear. If you want to change it to say a smooth or is in is out, you can do this as well. So to the next one, it should be is in. Right, so the arrow, the keyframe changes. So now you have something that is smoother. Okay? So you can do that as well. All right, so that's about using the time remember filter in shortcut. 40. Single color effect: In this video, I'll show you how to create a video where you have a single color on the screen that what you are seeing right now. To create this effect is pretty simple. All you have to do is to select the clip that you want, go to your filters, temp, got to add a filter and chromo whole filter. Select this. And some of the colors are removed. To select the color that you want to keep. Click on the color picker here and go to your screen where you want the color to remain. You can actually make a box like this. If it doesn't work so well, you can actually select again. Now one of the reasons why this happens is that when you select a certain area of your screen may look blue, but there could be some other colors there, right, for example, may have some yellow, yellow or some green that affects this. You do not get the color that you want while you have to do is just to re-select that. This is the effect that you'll get in. All the colors are removed except blue. There you can see over here. Distance here allows you to adjust the amount of color that you want to keep. For example, if you reduce it and you'll see that this blue will remain smaller and smaller on a patch. Smaller pattern remains. If you increase the distance, more of the other color would return. So if for example, you see here the Haar has some blue tones there, and that is why the color starts to show up. Okay, let me undo that. So this cassia actually reflecting the sky. So when you have that blue comes up again for a certain signs as well. For example, the sidebar that we're here has some form of green and green hair, some combination of blue. So that comes up as well. So do take note on there. I'm going to zoom out. If you want to select different color, for example, you went to that brown color, read me and he said The blue, that changes the scene altogether for this filter, there is also keyframes for this parameter. So you can actually make something quite interesting with this. Let's select the keyframe parameter that we are in the key frames window, you can make some changes. Let's say we want the color to slowly turn into this. You will use the keyframe at this level. I'm going to hit back to this point here. I'm gonna change this to a higher level. There most of the colors are back and you will have an effect like this as you play the video. You can also do this in reverse, where you add another key frame and then the color would return as well. Your colors will be blue and then the colors were slowly written. Alright, that's all about this chromo WHO filter in shortcut. 41. Create thumbnails from video: In this video, I will show you how to export a frame from shortcut. There are two ways you can export a frame. You can export a frame from your source, as well as from your project. I'm gonna show you how to do from the source window first. Let's say this is the frame that you want to export from this video clip, or you have to do is go to File, go to Export and Export frame. I'm going to save it here and the video test. I'm just going to call it the evening sky. You can choose whether you want to save it as a PNG or JPEG. Usually I just save it as a PNG. Alright, so just click on save, and you would have actually saved that file. Let's look for it. Test. This is the one evening sky. So you click on it. This is the evening sky. This image will actually follow the resolution of your original video clip. This is 1 ninth to 0 by 10 is 0. Let's get back into a shortcut here. You can also do the same with the project. If you have done your project and you went to export a frame, you can do the same. Just ensure that your play head move to the position that you want that frame. Let's say this is the one that you want. Go to File, go to Export and Export frame. This time we're going to call it an ester camo. Let's go back to the folder here, and this is the frame. This is the Campbell. Once you have exported the frame, you can actually bring it back into a shortcut if you want. The reason you may want to do that, include using it as a static image for the beginning of your video. Or you can also use it as a thumbnail for your videos, bread for YouTube or four elsewhere. That's all above. Exploiting a frame in a shortcut. 42. Create Gradient Effect: this video will show you how to use the Grady in filter in a short cut. So for soft like to keep that you want to add a filter and we're going to look for the Grady in filter. And you can also just type of here. Yeah, ingredient filter. And it opens up like this. And the first thing that you want to check out exactly the blood mood and you change the blend mode. You can see that they are some changes. Hey, Celeste. Changes to the scream. Then you will have see the effect off this filter. And there are other adjustments that you can make us well. But best first, take a look at a leader. And what is this? A lying over here now? This life or here allows you to adjust the string somewhat the strength off this filter. Okay, so this is one way you adjusting it so as you draw it down, this is the white pat and this white part. Harry, first of the color here and it's dark section recover. Our refers to the stock partner with the bottle. Okay, so at the beginning, it is Look, something like this all right with other Ben Morts. Then you get to see a different kind of effect. So you can actually experiment with this to see what the fact that you really want. Okay, lets stay soft light, okay. And sometimes the effect looks pretty nice or pretty A G depending on what you are after life, right? Them. But this difference here really looks strange. Okay? And let's go and try, Say, Hugh. All right, so all these have in effect, the blame has an effect on this filter. So that's the first thing. And the second thing is actually, let me switch it back to the screen. Look, Okay. The other options, you can use me. The filter number one is this. No, at the moment is linear. You can also change it to radio. So when you change the radio, basically what you see something like a circle and that you face occurring at this circle. Okay? And I read it is radio or linear. You can also expand this box here to see what's happening and the changes that affect again . Thank you. So let me just show you if I change this back to none, okay? So here you will see very clearly that one section on the screen here is white. And this white refers to the color on the left side here. And dot refers to a site under on the right bottom. Right. Okay. So if I were to close this box, you see that the lying that that party said the bottom and the light bodies at the top. Okay. And as you open it up, it starts to behave more like angle. And you can also change this perimeter to say horizontal. Okay, so then you figure someone changed again. Well, you're one side that is bright in the Adisa. Is Doc okay? We'll change it back to the default first, and let's go back to over. Let's go back to the screen so you can see things that really be better. So now you have a good idea what's happening here. Okay? And you can make adjustments like this if you want the effect to be lesser. You can kind of move this over, and so you can see that this flight is brighter. So that's how you see that. Grady in. Okay, let me turn it off. Okay, so This is a dark pot and a greedy allows you toe like incident pot. Now, besides that, you can change the color and to change the color. You just click on the color bar here and let's change, unless true something that would be really show orangey and click on OK. And see you see the orange and you can actually create some nice effects. Aziz, if you're having a sunset kind of effect, All right. And it's pretty nice once you test it and adjusted to your liking. Now, besides adjusting this, you can also use a radio like this. So maybe you can put it at the corner here as well. So don't like making it like like flare sort of effect can do that. Oh, if you want to do something straight away like this, you can also position in that way. Okay. And again, you can know. So I just gave me this affect here at the blend modes. Okay, so here, now you have a blend more that's like that. Okay, so now it's very small. Okay, maybe you want to make the but go radioactive for laser or something like that. You can do that. Okay, so are you Need to do is to try it out. And of course, the colors. Okay. Earlier on the show you one side, you can choose the other color as well. So, in contrast, let me choose colors a green. Okay. And then you see this color affects this week. Okay? Of course. You can choose the color to be have a lesser effect. More transparent than the color Wouldn't be so strong. Say, Mr Oranges. Well, you go to the Alfa off. Our refers to the transparency off the color to 55 is almost solid. So if you go for, like, the colors, 800 0 is fully transparent. Okay, by the way, hundreds of lesser so you can actually have a lesson effect. Okay, so that's how you actually use this. Grady Infielder in shot cut 43. Adjusting Vibrance For Effects: In this video, I will show you how to use the vibrant filter in a shortcut. This filter is available in a shortcut version 24.06 0.26. It is not available in prior versions. So if you are planning to use this filter, please upgrade to this latest version in order to be able to use this. I have a clip here, and this is a clip of a scenery. You can see it is just a normal scene. And let's add a filter, select the filter, add the filter and select the vibrant filter. I already marked it in my favorites, but you can just search for it here as well by typing in VIV, vibrance and add it onto your timeline. Okay. So for this clip, I am going to make the skies blue, so I'm just going to increase the blue of this filter. And there are four settings that you can change. One is the intensity, red, green, and blue. Now, you notice that when I change the blue or increase the intensity for the blue, nothing changes. And the change will only really take effect if you increase the intensity. Okay. So let's change it slightly. All right. So now we just a few percentage of blue and the intensity at six, you can see the blue is quite significant. If I turn off this filter, this is the sky now, they turn it on, it is like this. So you can use it subtly or you can also use it distinctively by increasing the intensity or the amount of a certain color that you want. So you can really look blue. Now, if you make some other changes, for example, say increase the green as well. So the blue can really get out of hand. So but be careful when you are using this filter. Right? With the vibrant filter as well, you can key frame it, so you can actually create very nice effects from this. So let's say at the beginning of this clip, add a key frame for the intensity, as well as say the green and the blue. And when we go to key frames, you can see that the key frames has been added over here. And let's just move the clip further around here and add key frames for this as well. I'm going to do it somewhat in reverse because here the intensity has already been set at seven. So let's go back to the beginning and reduce the intensity. In essence, we are sort of desaturated this clip, and when we play it, the image will become more saturated and more color. So you can use this as well. And the difference between this filter and the saturation filter is that the saturation filter allows you to just control the saturation of all the colors, whereas the vibrant filter allows you to control individual red green blue. So that's how you use this vibrance filter in shortcut. 44. Stabilize shaky video: In this video, I will show you how to stabilize shaky clip in shortcut, this is a clip that I've recorded and this is a Caribbean Studies handheld turn on the grid so that you can see the ball or the things that are moving. You'll notice that it is ever moving just a little bit so we can actually stabilize these. Do take note that this life you would not work if you have jarring movements are things that are moved to suddenly or their large movements on the screen. So with that said, let's get started. Select the clip, go to your filters, go to add a filter law for stabilize. And there's a few options for you to choose from. The default is the shakiness is four and accuracy is for you can actually adjust this as well as the Among Us Zoom. Do take note that when you are trying to stabilize, you'll be nucleic. What you're trying to do is to make a smaller frame here or others have a zoom in or crop in. Debt will cut off some parts of your videos. All right, otherwise it's impossible to stabilize that video. Let's go with the default and click on Analyze for a shortcut to analyze that clip. Now a window will pop up and ask you to save a file. So this is where shot covered, at least stiff, they're stabilized results. This is a dot or dot step file, so let's call it the sample stabilize. Number one. You can see the shortcut is doing the analysis depending on the length of your clip, as well as your computer's CPU power. This may be quite fast or it may take a while. We analyze. Let's try and see. And we need to adjust the zoom in. Let us say we are gonna zoom in five per cent. Play this and see where there is smooth down a bit. You'll notice the relationship between the center point and this has stabilized a bit. Now, if you have ten, this off, the video is moving up a lot more. Really stand on. The clip is stabilize quite a fair bit. Now if you went to adjust the smoothing more, you can increase this. Alright, zooming on cropping more so that you will notice that this even less. Now if you really want to eliminate the movement at all, may need to increase this. Let's do this. S6 and accuracy S6 increase this. You can choose to see different figure. It doesn't have to be the exact amount. You have to analyze this in a second time. I'm going to create a second file here. You can see quite a lot of the movement has been eliminated. If you have a very long clip and the accidents sections where the movement isn't too bad. You may want to split the clip and analyze one section. Alright, so this would actually speed up the analysis of your video clip. Rather than have Ashoka analyze that long video clip that may take a lot of time. Alright, that's all about stabilizing shaky clips with shortcut. 45. Animated Cinematic Crop: In this video, I'll show you how to create a cinematic crop, like what is happening on the screen right now. You can create some nice effects. Let's get started. Now we go clips selected. You need to do is to add a filter and crop filter. We used a crop rectangle, a filter here, and a square comes up. In order for this effect to work, you need to use the keyframes function. So what I'm gonna do is to turn on the keyframes function over here. Click on this parameters, and we are taken to the keyframes panel. And this is the original video with the original size and position. Okay, so let's say somewhere around here, we want the loss to come in. Or why we need to do now is to adjust this frame. And you can do it by going to the top or to the bottom and resizing it. Why do you need to do is to make sure that this comes down. I'm going to turn on the grep function here to make sure that the center point remains at the center. With the grid function turned on. It is quite simple. And the mixture you're stepping is turned on. They sent those snip to the intersection of these two lines. Let's see how it looks like. Let's play this less than the grid line off. This is what it looks like. Pretty simple effect. Now if you wanted to do the reverse, you can do the same as well. The key frame. So this is the key frame. And showing the disposition. Toward the end of the video, you can just put another keyframe and revert all these back to the default. That's how you create a cinematic crop in shortcut. 46. Circle Crop for intro, outtro or even transitions: In this video, I will show you how to create an opening crop like what you're seeing on the screen right now. These users, this crop circle filter, these require effective if you went to highlight something or your viewers right at the beginning of your video. And there is something interesting right at the middle of your frame. Select the clip that you want to apply this so-called crop. Go to your filters called the other filter and search for your crop filter. Select the circle. The default radius is 50%, and this radius refers to the radius of this circle on the screen right now. You can increase and decrease it. You can also select the color of this circle. Now if you change the color, you will need to have a different video tray. And this tray have to be on the track above. And I will show you what I mean later on. First off, you want to create this opening effect in a position your playhead, where you want your circle to start. Next, click on the keyframes parameter. Right at the beginning. I'm gonna change this all the way to 0. This is the key frame at 0%. And then you want to move this forward. Let's say we were moving forward to about 1 second and we change the radius to a 100%. Let's try. This. May be better if we salivate faster as well. And let's move it forward so that you will be faster. I still wanted to be at a 100%. Now I changed this with a different location. That's why our shortcut created this keyframe. This is not what I wanted to do. So since my playhead was in the wrong position when I'm changing this parameter, I will delete this. What I will do is to use this to move back to the previous keyframe. So there are two things I can do. I can select this and push it all the way up to a 100%. Or I can change the figure here. Okay, Let's start it again. This is one way to use this crop circle filter. Of course I can do the reverse here. You add the keyframe here, and then move your play head forward. And let's say you went to revert this back to 0, sort of closing a seed. This effect is quite useful if you want to open a scene and then towards the end of your clip or your video, you use it to close the clip. You can also do this as a transition as well. So let's bring in another clip. I would do the reverse. Open a file. Let's see, I will just use this here. Go back to my timeline. Drag this now to my timeline here. Crop filter. Exactly what I've done. Let's position here. Go to crop. The crop circle started a keyframe. At the beginning of this clip. Again, it's 0 and approximately say 1 second later. Change the oddest 100%. Now, look something like this. I should split this clip. This is one way to use this circle crop filter, more or less an opening. Then as I transition somewhere here, next I want to show you about changing the color of this and how it affects your so-called Chrome. I'm going to add a video track. Next, I will move this clip up. I will make a copy of this entire video clip and place it onto the track below. Since I copied this, this one will also have the filter. Now for the trip below, I do not want the crop filter effect. I'm going to remove it. So what you're seeing now is a crop, the top. Now let me change the color. Let's use orange color or red color. I'm going to change the Alpha channel to something that is semi transparency around a 120. Now, see, now you can see that this crop person color over here. What you're seeing right now is from the top clip is the circle. If I hide the bottom clip, then you won't see this. Although this is supposed to be transparent, because there is no video clip. You will see, if there is a video clip at the bottom, then you will see this effect over here. These are a few ways you can use the crop circle filter in shortcut. 47. Motion Tracking: In this video, I'll show you how to use the motion tracking field, the shortcut, the motion tracking filter is available in shortcut version 23.05, 0.07. You won't be available in prior versions right? Now, motion tracking takes quite a lot of resource. If you have a long trip, like what I'm having here, about 30 s, I just want a certain section to track. Then even be a good idea to split the clip now so that you're only asking the motion tracker to track certain section. So I'm just going to track this section between the front and the back end somewhere around here. I select the clip that you want to track. Go to Filters, go to Edit Filters. Go to motion. Motion tracker. Next, you will see something like this. So what you want to do is to position this rectangle to the part that you want to try to attract. Skiers, hit. Okay, so I'm positioning. You can change the size of this rectangle by going to the corner or to the top and the bottom to extend it as necessary places or main center. Alright, now once it's done, you can click on Analyze. There are several algorithms you can use to track this. I found that I just used the default, which is channel and spatial reliability, and I usually just do that. However, if your track of fail for instance, then you can try some of these. Okay, so next, click on Analyze and shortcut. We will analyze this clip. You will take a few seconds, depending on the length of your clip as well as on your computer as well. So that took about 20 s and let's play this and see whether the tracker is working well. So you can see that the green rectangle is following the lady's head. So you know that this tracker is working well. And this is where the Show Preview is. This is a key that green rectangle. The motion tracker doesn't do anything. You need to attach another filter onto this motion tracker. And the name of this tracker is tracker one. Okay, so next I'm going to add some texts and you will know what I mean. So let's look at Text Symbol, tax simple filter. Okay. Resize the text somewhere around here. Okay. Scroll down to your texts, filter and click on Load keyframes from motion tracker. This is motion tracker one because there's only one here. You can just select this. Next. You want to tell the motion tracker, or rather you want to tell the text to follow a which position where there is a relative position on offset position. So I'm going to use the relative position and click on apply, which means the texts relative to this motion tracker. Let's see how it goes. You can see that the text is following the person very well. Now you want to change the position. You need to load the motion tracker again. Click on relative position, change this, and click on Apply again. So you can try and see which one is the best one that works for you. So absolute movies right onto that lesson. Now you can also attach other filters as well. I'm just going to hide the text simple filter. Let's add another filter. And I'm going to use this set of filters which is obscuring mosaic as well. So let's say, for instance, now, I want to change this and hide the person's face. Positioning somewhere like this. So I can use change this to say, okay, we can just leave you change a shift to her lips. Okay? So this is using the set of mass just now, which consists of a mass membership, the mosaic and also the mass apply. So again, take a load keyframes from motion tracker. Just use Tracker one. And in this case you can just use the absolute position and apply. And motion tracker works very well. Okay? So there are several other filters they can use with this motion tracker. And sometimes for some reason, when you click on Load key frames for motion tracker, it doesn't work. So somehow even though you keep the motion tracker, but you notice either the texts or any of these filter doesn't so-called stick to this track. What you can do is to save your file, exit from shortcut and restart, and it will work. Alright, so that's how you use the motion tracking feature in shortcut. 48. Recording Voiceover with Shotcut: In this video, I will show you how to record a voice over using shortcut. So over here, I have a clip on my track V1. And let's say I want to record a voice over for this clip over here, which is a scene in KL CC, right? So the first thing that you need to do is to go to open other and click on audio video device. So let's select that. And then here you have the option of video input and audio input. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to turn off my video input. Because if I leave it on, it's just gonna switch on my webcam. And for the audio inputs, I am going to leave this as my microphone. So depending on what microphone that you have, no, maybe it's your billion into your laptop or maybe even a microphone from your HD webcam. Okay, so I'm gonna select the microphone for my webcam key and click on OK. All right, so as you can see, the audio peak meter starts to jump, which means it's actually picking up my voice and ready. Okay, now, next, why you need to do is go to your exports tab and click on export. And then what you want to do is to look for the audio and the Audio tab, select mp3, okay? And you can actually start capture though. However, if you want to take a look at the one step, there are some things that you may want to look at. So you can check that it is a hero's recording from the sauce form. You can actually ignore video because the video codec is disable. Alright, audio is using two channels. The codec is lip mp3 dot lame. Economically I just assembled or if you prefer, as well as the bit rate, okay? Now for example, you may want to recall constant b ray if you want to have better quality. Okay, so I'm just going to leave it as a rich be red. And you'll notice that this button now is wall capture. Okay, so I'm going to click on capture. And shortcut does requires you to save this. Okay, so I'm just going to put this as a voiceover sample. And as if okay. So now what you need to do is click on Projects tab and you can actually play this clip and then an a rate. So this is the section where I am going to narrated. So here I am at Cal CC and this is the Twin Towers, that's the Petronas Twin Tower. There is an iconic, there is a bridge for this two towers, right? It is all metal and glass. And at the bottom part there are some pine trees. So that's the end of my narration. So what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to click on stop capture. Right. Now, the phylogeny starts playing. So let me see if I could hear it. So now what you need to do is click on Projects tab. Now when you listen to the clip, you realized that it actually our aquatic way earlier. So Lord, clever, probably be starting somewhere here, so that's lay dead. And above minister bottom part there are some pine trees. Alright. So what you need to do is to listen to this clip and trim it here to here. And then once you're alright, you can actually just drag this down, okay, before we drag this down. But you want to do is to add audio track. You can actually drag the audio track down and have your voiceover below. So let's listen to this. And it's an iconic, and there is a breach followed this. Two colors. Alright, in this all metal and glass and other domestic bottom part, there are some pine trees. All right, so that's the end of my probably I need to adjust this further. Alright, and then that would be it. Now of course you need to adjust this further. Probably her retrieved this. Let me do that. So here I am at Cal CC and this is the Twin Towers, that's the Petronas Twin Tower. There is an iconic and there is a bridge for this. Okay, so this is how you record a voiceover with shortcut. 49. Audio Spectrum Visualization Effect: In this video, I will show you how to use the audio spectrum visualization filter to create some nice, interesting effect. And this effect can be used in various ways. Maybe you just want to jazz up your videos a bit, or maybe you have a Malian audio attract that you want to pause the video onto social media or to YouTube so your video won't be so boring and it has something that is sort of moving on the screen right. Now we, they said I had this music on my track, any sun track V2, and this is HLA A7 video track, okay, although this is mp3, right? So I'll just let you take a few moments to listen to each for short segment. So this is the music. To use the audio spectrum visualizations like the clip go to Filters, go to add a filter and search for audio. You can type in audio and you will find this audio spectrum visualization. Now this filter is actually under the video tab because it's actually a visual effect and that is the reason why I have to use it on video track. I'm just going to add again and volume and turn down the volume so you can actually hear me talking. Now because I need to play the music for it to see the bus jumping up and down. Okay, so let's see this in action. Okay? So the default is actually just a line that is jumping up and it is one color. So let me just pause this for us. Now, there are actually two types of spectrum visualization. You can choose lying or you can choose a bar, right? And you can choose the color. Now the line allows you to have certain options like for example, mirror or fill. All right, so let's go with a line for us. And I'm going to increase the thickness to say, six pixels so that you can see things a bit better. All right, and let's go down one by one to change the spectrum color. Click on this bar here, and you can actually select any color that you want. You can also pick a screen color. I'm going to pick something rate so data is easier to see. Okay? So this is what it looks like. Okay? Then if you want to choose Fill, then you have something like this. If fills up the space below, be underneath the line, alright? You want it to be mirror. This is what it looks like. Pretty interesting, okay. And reversing and Mirrlees flips this from the front to the back. And k, which means the low-end frequencies will be on the right side and the higher frequencies is on the left side. Okay, So this is talking about reversing the spectrum. Okay? Now when it comes to tensions and bends, I think the boss would be easier to see this in action. So I'm just going to go back to eBay and to the default. Okay, so now I'm going to change this to the bar. And bar looks something like this. Okay? Again, if the candidate has changed, I've changed the color. If you want more than one color, you can change this, increase it to 234 as many as you want. Okay? And here will be the higher frequencies, lifts M, here would be the lower frequencies. All right, so let's say I want to have a cool color for my lower frequencies. Blue. Second one, click on OK. For the green one, click on this and swell. Put a green. Maybe this green looks better. Click on this. I'm going to change it to yellow. And then finally read, okay, So now they have four colors. Let's play this. So you can actually see that. Okay, So the editing is that you can also choose the background color. I'm not gonna do that. I think this is pretty easy to do. And of course you can actually move this to the position that you want to. You can actually put it in water or the corners or resize this as well. So you have a small one at a corner and you can do that. Alright, so next, let's go with so fill and fill this. They really make any difference for bars. Mirror make some changes as well. So you can actually use this for say, a podcast, right? You can actually place it over something. Okay, for example. That's good to hear. I see you and to put it under podcasts, okay, and turn this into a video. So that way, when you export this video, people can see, okay, you will have this as your background. And you can play this, something like this. All right? And this is just an image that I created in Canva. You can actually create this image from any kind of graphical software. And I do not have any podcasts, so please don't go searching for a podcast by James. All right. So this is the background. I'm going to turn it off for us. Okay? And K back over to this filter of the spectrum filter. Now let me explain the tension. No tension. Now, if you kill. And do that. Now, tension is how fast the Basque stay up, okay? Now, if I increased attention to a higher value and notice that the boss goes down quickly, okay, Seems like it as if it is like gravity at the elisa are working on them. Whereas if you have a low tension is instead the bath isn't as kinda stay up much longer. All right, so this is when it comes to attention, the convected a default. Now the bins shows how many beds they are. So right now the default is 31, so you can actually count the upper D1 over here. If you increase it. You can see there's a lot more Ben's, a lot more bars, right? And finally, low-frequency talks about, and what frequency that these bars are stat and high frequencies has the maximum high-frequency. So you can actually change this. Now you raised a low-frequency. For instance, this music, no more bass exists, okay? So you have to have a low enough frequency for them to show up. Otherwise there's nothing there. So most of the time we should just leave it there. Unless you have some audio which is extremely low-frequency or extremely high frequency, then you may want to adjust all sort of filter. Okay? So you can do that. Finally, the threshold is and how law before the music's, before the boss has to jump. You. You said that threshold too high, you'll be filtering or almost everything. Okay? So eventually levy around there. And that's basically it. Now, you can actually mix some interesting effects, like for example, putting another filter like the size, position and rotate filter. Let's say you want to rotate this to another, we can rotate this 90 degrees. And then you would have something like this. And you can, let me just remove this for us. Now, there's also another filter that you can use, which is the 360 degrees. Our transform filter. That is actually a very interesting field, but you put it on to an effect like this. It gets very, very differently. So we are at the 360 transform filter. Okay? If you change the pitch by changing the your is just moving left and right. Let me go back to the default. Changing the pitch or do something quite nice actually. Okay, you to hear him. Nice effect. In fact, you can actually create a light show just from the music loan. Okay, and let me just do it yet. It comes like this, okay, Lesser refer back to that default deposit. Now you go with a row. It will look like something like this. And the great thing about this is that this tree under 60 transformed degree has some keyframes, right? So you really can go crazy with this, okay? So I'm going to revert all this fuss, okay, so you can have something that starts out like this. Let's put a keyframe for these two parameters. Okay? So we are now at a keyframe tail. So this is how the music is playing, how the spectrum looks like. So let's say we change the pitch to something like this, right? And then you can change it even more. Okay, let me just say, let's not do all this. I'm just going to remove the peach fuzz. Let me redo this. Okay, So this is the row k. Let's add a pitch. Go back to normal for us. Change the pitch to something like this. So you can actually create a light show in this case. And they're less, A12 are changing more and so on and so forth even changed the role. So you can have all that. All right, so this all about the audio spectrum visualization filter in a shortcut. 50. Basic Export: Video, we will go through exporting your video project after you have completed editing. Now in this section, I will just cover the basic export. In another video, we will cover the advanced export where I will go through things in more details, right? So this is the timeline here, and if your export panel isn't open, you click on your Export panel right at the top to open it and you will see a screen like this. So let me just close it and just open it again. Now, right here on the left, you have all these presets. If you're not sure what to do, you can just use YouTube, select YouTube and just export from the timeline. And basically you are exporting all the edits you have done on your timeline over here. Click on this Export file and just give it a name. So let's say I'm just going to say this is my test export. Let's call it number four. And this will be the name of your new video file, okay? Just click on Save and you'll see that Shotcut is exporting the video over here on the right panel. And it shows the percentage and the time taken. So if you want to see the file that you have exported, you can just right click open this, or you can also show in folder. Let's just show in folder. And this is the test export number four. Okay. So let me just close it. Now, if you were to double click this, this exported video will be brought into your source, and this will be your new source file. Okay, let me just pause that. Now there are also other things that you can do. From here, you can see how long it took. You can use a hardware encoder, which means a Shotcut will use your GPU or your graphics processing unit to export your file, and you can click on Configure. Shotcut will detect the suitable type that's available on your computer. You can just type on detect and Shotcut will do the detection. And if you want to encode this again, so let's just select use hardware Encoder and export the file. So let's say this is our text export number five, right? So remember number five is with the hardware encoder. All right. So here, the hardware encoder is faster. I took 4 seconds versus 10 seconds. Let's just take a look at the show folder. Let's take a look at the file itself. This is number five, right? So this is 29 megabytes, and this is 54. In some situations, depending on the edits that you have done, sometimes hardware encoder will be faster. Sometimes hardware encoder will result in different file size compared to say we don't use hardware encoder. There are other configurations that you can choose as well. However, the simplest one is just say choose YouTube, that will allow you to create videos that you can generally play on any computer or upload into most social media platforms these days. That's how you export your video in Shotcut. 51. Final Message And Review : I hope you have enjoyed the class so far. I certainly enjoyed creating it for you. I look forward to seeing your projects, meet with this software as well as encourages me as the instructor here on Skillshare. I have a small request to make, which is for you to leave a review for this class. It does two things. Number one, it helps other students decide whether this class is suitable for them. And number two, excuse you have requirements in order for the class to remain on their platform, which has said a number of watch hours, as well as people are interacting with their instructors in terms of reviews as well as questions, this ensures that the class remains on their platform and you can review it anytime that you like me. That's it. Happy grading and happy video editing.