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1. Intro and Overview: Hey there, welcome to Video made Easy. I'm Heather, your teacher. I have five tips that'll help you make the most of this course. Number 1, go in order. This course is taught linearly, and each section builds upon the skills from the last section. Two, rewind as needed. I go through a ton of examples and you may miss something, but that's the joy of a digital course. Come back as needed to review. Three, practice. I worked in the training department at Chipotle for almost five years, and I learned that people have different learning styles. But one thing I know for sure is that people are able to retain new information if they are actually doing that skill that they're learning. Please don't just watch and think you know, go and do. Number 4, keep your expectations in check. I know you all want to be expert video creators right away, but as with any skill it takes time and again it takes practice. The first video you make is not going to win you awards, but don't let that discourage you from making more videos. It'll get easier, and they'll keep looking better with time. Number 5, take a deep breath. Editing can be tedious, and it's definitely very technical. You're not learning just the art of editing, but you're also learning how to use a new app. KineMaster the app I'll be teaching you how to use to edit is pretty user-friendly and I love it, but you still may get frustrated when you're learning to use it. That's when you take a deep breath, maybe take a break, and then come back and keep learning. There you have it in my five big tips to get the most out of this course. All right, ready to start? Let's go.
2. Download KineMaster App: To start editing, you need to download KineMaster from the App Store or Google Play Store if you have an Android. You're going to search K-I-N-E Master, it might auto-populate, and here's the program to download. I already have it downloaded, so mine just says open. If you don't have it, of course, yours will say download and you want to select that. Here's the home screen. If this is your first time to get KineMaster, of course, it'll look a little bit different. I have some projects already here, so they shows those projects. If this is your first time getting it, this will be empty right here. A video soon, I'll give you an overview of this whole home screen and what all these things are.
3. Editing Workflow: We're here. My favorite part of video, the editing. Admittedly though, editing can be frustrating. It's technical, it's time-consuming, so it's important before you start editing your project to get very organized and then you can do your edit systematically. Once you've been doing this a while, you'll start even shooting with your edit in mind and that'll make it even easier. I've found the following workflow to be the best practice when editing on your phone. First, you'll organize and possibly trim your footage in your camera's native photos app. Second, in KineMaster you'll import your media and make a rough cut. Third, you'll refine your edit by trimming your clips, deleting any that you don't want and rearranging them in the order you see fit. Fourth, add visual enhancements like titles, transitions, effects, whatever your video needs. Then add music and enhance your other audio like someone's speaking on camera. Finally, you'll export and share your video. The following lessons we'll teach you each step in this order, plus a few extras you might be interested in. Remember, take some deep breaths, let's learn how to edit.
4. Organize in Photos: Before we even get into KineMaster to start editing, there's some things you can do ahead of time to set your project up, to organize, to make your edit a little bit easier. We're going to spend a little bit of time and our phones and native photo app. What I'm going to edit is a hike I did it with a friend. I've got a handful of clips here from that hike. The first thing I'm going to do is hit "Select" up here. Select all of these clips. You can do one by one, or you can drag your finger. Want to grab all of those. Then you can see if there's a blue check there selected. Missed missed a couple there. Okay, see. These here are not selected and these are. You're going to select this box down here with a little arrow. There's lots of options here. You're going to go to Add to an Album, make a New Album, call it whatever you want. Now, if I go out of My Albums here, you'll see that I have a new album called the Hike. If I select that, all of those clips that I want to use for my edit are in there. Another thing we can do is start deleting clips that we don't want to use. Let's look at these two clips. I'm filming the sign. That's Clip 1. This next clip. I did it again. I'm not going to use both of those clips in the edit. What I'm going to do is just, delete this clip completely select it hit your trash can. You can either remove from album or delete permanently from your phone. I'm going to do that because I don't like having a bunch of extra media. Now you'll see I just have that one clip that I want. Another thing you can do in here is trim your clips and that is basically you're starting your edit early. I'll show you what I mean. Let's select this clip. All of that bumbling around there, I'm not going to use that. I was just getting set up but was rolling the camera. The only part of this clip I want to use is just this very end part, where you see the sign and then you see the mountains. I'm going to come up here and select this "Edit" button, and you'll see the screen changes a bit here. You have this bar down here with a Play button, Pause button. It has a playhead that scrolls as the clip is playing. Then you have two little arrows, they're small, on the front and back-end of the clip. What I want to do is trim that beginning of the clip and just have the end part. I'm going to put my finger on this little arrow at the beginning and see how it turns yellow. That means I'm trimming. So everything to the left of the yellow arrow is going to get cut off of the clip. Everything to the right is going to stay in the clip. You can roll around to figure out the point where you want to cut, let go of it. Now you can watch just this part. Okay, that's better. It's not perfect. It's hard to perfect your cuts. You're trimming in here because it's like you have a big finger, a little bitty arrow. I just get it about where I want it and then we can refine that trend even more in KineMaster. For now, I'm just going to say Done and it will either, save video as new clip or it'll erase the full long video and just save that little bit of the clip. I'm going do that because, again, I don't like having a bunch of extra videos on my phone that I know I'm not going to use. Now, if we go back in my albums, you'll see this clip is trimmed. It is now six seconds, whereas the full clip was 14 seconds. If I click on it, you'll see it's just the part that I trimmed. So go ahead and start going through the videos that you want to use. Watch them, delete the ones you don't want to use, Practice trimming. Don't worry about trimming all of your clips. Again, it's easier and KineMaster to trim. It's just nice to give yourself a head start if you have the time and desire to do that in here.
5. Kinemaster Overview: Let's open Kinda master. I've got it right here. It defaults on this MIX tab. If you look down here, there's
four different menu tabs. Mixed just shows you like
a project of the day that you could use as a
template if you want to. Search, has a lot of templates
that you can choose from. They're categorized to
education, corporate law, law. We'll talk more about
templates in another lesson. This Create tab, you're going to use quite often
because this is where your projects will live
once you start making them. Let me just go through what
you see up here real quick. This crown, if you touch that, I have a premium membership. That means I've an
annual subscriber. I paid 3999 for a
year subscription. If you aren't a subscriber, you're going to have a
watermark on your footage. But whatever is here, it might be a crown
for you or something. It might look a
little different, but click on that
and it'll give you those options to either pay for 99 a month or 3999 a year, or use it for free and have a kitten master logo watermark on your exported
videos up to you. Here is their YouTube
channel, kid a masters. If you want to check
out more tutorials, stuff like that,
it's quite helpful. They have frequently
asked questions here too, if you like reading. Reading the answers
to questions, this notification tab
tells you what's new. They actually release
a lot of updates. I'd like to go in here
sometimes in read. They just did a
really big update, made a new version called 6. So lots of stuff going on there. So that's kinda nice to
check every so often. And then here you just have
some general settings. The main thing that
is important here, you need to hit Configure
upsetting on iOS. This is going to take
you to your Settings menu in on your phone. And here you want
to make sure that this photos button
is on all photos, not none, not selected. All photos because
that is going to give kinda master access to all of your photos and videos
which are going to need to bring into
the app to edit. So we can click out of
that back in Kinda master. But you'll mostly
come to this menu, the Create menu when you
get into kinda master. And that's where we'll
start in our next video.
6. Rough Cut: To start a new project, you're going to
make sure you're on the Create tab down here. Hit New Project, and then
you can name your project. You have to hit the
enter button to get off of this keyboard screen. The main ones you're going
to use our 16 by nine. That is just your standard
horizontal framing. Nine by 16 is your standard vertical
framing stuff for Instagram, TikTok, stuff like that. One by one is not
commonly used anymore. Four by three also
not commonly used, Same with three by
44 by five is used somewhat commonly on
Instagram and Facebook now. But for the most part, you're going to stick with whatever you shot
your footage in. That's the format you're going
to pick for your project. If you click this Advanced
button down here, you'll see some options for the wave photos are going to be displayed if you're bringing photos into the app for editing. We'll go over all of this in a later lesson when we talk
specifically about photos. So don't worry about
that right now. We've got a project name and aspect ratio and then
I'm going to hit Create. Once you do that, you've got to turn your phone. This is your editor. The first thing you need to
do right now she's blank. So we've gotta go get
our video that we shot and put it in here
so we can start editing. You're going to use
this media tool up here on this wheel. And that's going to take
you to a different screen. If you look on the left, there's a video button
and a photos button. Since I'm editing video, I'm going to select the video. And remember I made that
album in in my photos app. And if I scroll down,
it's right there. So you've got albums here. Below that, you see
all your albums hike. So what I wanna do
is get them from this Media section
into the timeline. That's where the
editing happens. So what I'm gonna do
is just start getting them down here by touching the video clip and it
puts it on the timeline. I'm going to just
drop them in in the order that I shot them. Then once I'm editing, I might, I'm going to
rearrange some stuff. There you go. I've got all my media and if
you see this little number, it's showing me I
have two minutes and 42 seconds of video. Once you have all of
your media in there, go ahead and click this
check mark to get out of this screen back to your editor. Now, right now, my
timeline is at the end. I want to put it
at the beginning. I can either do this and slowly scroll through
the whole thing. Or I can use two
fingers and pinch the timeline to zoom
in or zoom out of it. So I use these, my fingers to pinch
all the time. So right now I'm looking at very zoomed out version
of my timeline. I see all of these
clips separately. There's a little black
space between them. So I can easily move my
play head to the beginning. And then I can use my fingers
to zoom out or I'm sorry to zoom in a little bit so I
can see my clips better. So if I hit play, it will just play all
my clips back to back. And you'll see between
each clip there's a little plus plus sign
when you're zoomed in. That's our transitions. We'll get to that later. So once you have all of
your clips on a timeline, that is it for your rough cuts. The next video we will
start refining our edit. And by that I mean
trimming, deleting, rearranging, getting
this edit, Looking good.
7. Refine Your Edit: Let's talk first about trimming. We did some trimming in our photos app. The way you do it in KineMaster, there's actually a couple of ways that we'll go over. You can select the clip and you'll see this familiar yellow handlebar on each side. You can just use your finger and drag that and it cuts off the beginning of the clip there. You can also trim from the back and it'll cut off the end of your clip. Once you trim you just select anywhere and it'll take away the yellow part. Let's say I'm like, "Oh, I know, that was too much. Actually didn't want to trim that." You can either select the clip and just move your fingers all the way back or you can hit "Undo". This is a really cool feature. A lot of editing apps don't have an undo button, and it's very helpful. If I hit "Undo", I've got my whole clip back. Nothing you do is permanent and destructive. That's what I want. I just want to be on the sign. Let's play that. Then pan up to the mountains. Then I want my video clip to stop. I'm going to cut off the end of it too. Now I could either select the clip and pull my handlebar to my playhead like this, and that will trim the clip or undo that. I could also leave my playhead where it is. You'll see when you have a clip selected, you get a bunch of options up here. I could hit this "Trim/Split" the scissors. It gives me some options. Trim it to the left of playhead that would cut off all of this. Trim to the right of playhead would cut off just this little bit that I want cutoff. I'm actually going to hit that. Then boom, that clip is trimmed just the way I want it. Great. Why would you use this versus this? Generally, you can get a little bit more refined edit with the trim split tool. If you're like, "Oh, this has to be right on this exact frame." Sometimes it's hard to drag and hit that exact frame because our fingers is not a perfect system. But by getting your playhead right to where you want it to be and then hitting trim, that gets you that exact trim that you're looking for. Another option for trimming. When you select a clip, you've see split at playhead, split and insert freeze frame. That's not something you're going to use a lot probably, but split at playhead can be handy. I'll show you what I'm talking about here. I have a pretty long clip of some people on horses walking by. I don't want to use the whole clip, it's 30 seconds. That's half as long as I want the whole video to be. But I want to use the beginning of the clip and the end of the clip. What I'm going to do is, first of all, I'm going to trim off part of the beginning there. We're starting with the horse in the middle of the frame. The horse walks by. I want to cut the video there, but then I want to pick up over here at the end of the clip to see the hooves. I'm going to put my playhead where I want it to cut, hit "Trim/Split". Then I'm going to split at playhead. That makes two clips. I split it. Now I have this clip and I've got the rest of the clip as a separate clip. Now I can cut out the whole middle here by either dragging or put my playhead where I want it to be like right on those hooves there, trim split, split at playhead or trim it to the left of playhead. I'm going to split at playhead and then I've made another clip. I have taken that one clip and made three separate clips. I'm going to select the middle, which is what I want to cut out, and hit "Delete". Now I have the beginning of the clip where we see the horse walk by. Then we cut to the last horse walking by there. Then I'll also trim the end off. The other thing you can do here to start refining your edit is to rearrange your clips. Let's say I don't want to start with this one, I want to start with this one. You can hold your finger down on a clip and move it anywhere you want. I'm going to hold my finger down, move that to the beginning. Now, these two clips are in opposite positions. You can do that with any clip. I could come all the way down here. Let's say I want this clip to be at the beginning. There it is at the beginning now. The other thing to start refining your edit is to delete clips. Maybe you deleted some clips in your photo app, but maybe there's some as you're editing that you decided, you know what, I actually don't want this clip. This is making my video too long, etc. Let's see. Let's just watch. I filmed Jill just gazing out into the mountains. I did it a few times. I'm just going to see which clip I like best. This middle clip, I'm going to delete, so I'm going to select it and hit this trash can over here and poof, it is gone. Let's say I want it back. I hit "Undo". I don't want it back though, so I'm going to hit "Delete". Let's say I want it back and I've done a bunch of other stuff and I'm like, "Oh man, that one clip, I really want it." I'm going to bring it back in. Can hit "Media" and you're back here. You could find that clip, let's say it's this one, and drop it back into your timeline. But I don't actually want to do that, so I'll delete. Now what I've done with these two clips. We see her gazing there and then the camera cuts to this angle. Then we do a pan to the view. That's fun sequence. I'm going to trim it up a little bit, cut off some of that. Some of the beginning, not too much as the camera settles because you see it's a little bit of a pan. As it settles, I'm going to trim my playhead to that point. It's a short clip to set it up and then we see her. I'm going to cut as the motion starts, so I'm trimming off the beginning of that. Then it pans as she's looking out into the field. I'll just cut off a little bit of that too. Let's watch this together. I think that's actually not quite long enough on this clip. It's not enough of a setup. I'm going to keep that a little bit longer on both ends. We'll see how that looks. I'm fine with that. Go ahead and start trimming, rearranging, and deleting your clips on your timeline.
8. Transitions: Let's talk about adding transitions. I've got my edit refined. There is one place I think your transition would work well, I'll show you. This is near the end of the sequence. Jill is looking out on to the pasture. Then I want to end with this babbling brook. I think that would be a cool shot, but it's a little bit jarring to go from this to this. I'm going to add a transition there. How you do that is hit the plus sign. Then you see a list of transitions over here on the right. There is a lot of transitions, also in the Asset Store, you can get even more transitions. That's an option. But just the ones in here, there's a lot. You can play with these. Let's look at this Neon Halo. It shows you a preview going from one clip to another. This is not the transition I want to use here. But let's look at a couple others. A petal peel, liquid petal, white glow, that could be useful for some things. The other thing you can do is adjust the length of your transition so it can be really long, or it can be really quick. But that's a nice feature that they have for you. Wow, that's crazy. You can come in here and play with these. If you say you don't want one, you can hit "None". What I am going to use here is just a good old fade. Classic transitions down here in the list, a crossfade. This is just a nice soft fading from one video to the other. Make it long and make it short. I'm going to do about one second. One and a half, that works. Once you like it, you can hit your check mark there and you're off. Now you'll see instead of a plus mark, there's a little thing indicating that you have a transition on there. Cool, I like that. With transitions, you don't want to overuse them. This video, it's action just cutting to other action. It's all in the same theme. I don't need a bunch of transitions. I don't need a transition between every clip, that's too much. A lot of people overuse transitions. They get excited about all of their options and they're like, "Oh yeah, I'm going to use a fold-out. That's so cool." I mean, sure, that is cool, but it's not exactly necessary for your story at that point. The other thing I'll show you here, it's nice to start with a fade up from black, and then fade to black at the end of your video. That's something you do over here in this section. There's this little cogwheel that means settings. You've got some options. We'll talk about audio later. Video, we're going to select this. Video Fade-in Start of Project, Video Fade-out End of Project. I'm going to select this. Two seconds is a little long, in my opinion, I'm going to go one second. At the end, I'll stay with two seconds because I've got that nice babbling brook. That can be a nice long fade. I'm going to click off here. Now if I hit "Play", you'll see that the video fades up from black. When I go to the end of the video, nice slow fade to black. Now it's your turn, hop in your project, play with transitions. Throw a few on just to practice. Set your project to fade-in, fade-out. Then we'll go from there.
9. Adding Text: In this lesson I'll show you how to add text to your video. That is something a lot of people want to do, I'm just going to watch the first couple of clips here. During the video, I'm talking behind the camera. When we get to talking about audio, I'll show you how to turn that off. Because we obviously don't want to hear me giving Jill directions behind the camera, that's weird. But for text, here on this clip, I'm going to add just a little text with the date. To get to your text options, you're going to hit Layer, Here you have a lot of options that we're going to get to all of these in later videos. But for right now we're going to use text. You see that T push that, I'm going to type in, I actually don't know what the date was exactly. It's July it was like the 12th, something like that. Hit the check mark. Now I've got this text on my screen. I don't love the way it looks right now, so I'm going to change it. But you'll see on the timeline and added a new layer. That's where that layer word comes in. On your screen, you can move this around, you can make it bigger with your finger, you could rotate it, I'm going to undo that. But if your layer is selected here, you've got a bunch of options. Let's change the font. I want something bold so that it really stands out. This app has a ton of font options, really great options too. They are not ugly, boring fonts. There's a lot of great bold, good-looking fonts. I'll use this Ubuntu bold, click off of that, there we go. You can change your font color, there's tons here. Let's try a light yellow, sometimes that looks good sometimes on video. You can also change the opacity of your text. It does give you a little preview. Hard to see if it's not a dark color text. If you check off of that, it'll show you, I don't think the yellow looks great. I'm going to go back in there. I'm going to up my opacity, I want it fully viewable. I don't want a light opacity. I'm going to go back to white. White is just a standard color, it's good on video. It still gets drowned out a little bit with the background, One thing you can do is add a drop shadow. If you scroll down a little bit here you'll see shadow option. You have to hit "Enable". Then it puts a shadow around your text. You can change the angle, the distance, the spread, the size of it. Let's see. I'm going to bring the distance a little closer so that I can see the text a little bit better. You can pay around that. Now it just brings the text off the screen away from the background so you can see it better. There are some other options that you might have seen here. With the text, you could do an outline, a glow, a background, you just have to hit "Enable" on these so that I could put it in the box. It could do a box all the way across the screen. You can also animate your text in and out. Currently, if I just play this, my textures pops in and pops out, which just looks amateur. It's nice to give your texts a little animation bringing it in and out. I actually don't want it to come in and tell about here, so I'm going to select the text layer, and move it with my finger to that play head. Then I also want it to be gone and before I get to the next clip, so I'm going to select it. Similar to trimming, I'm just going to move it to the end so that it lines up with the video clip that it's behind or that it's on top of. I want to come in around there. I'm going to select it again. In animation there's also out animation I'm going to hit "In" then you can fade your text up, you can have it pop in. There's a lot of options similar to transitions. You can just play with these. You'll slide it, spin it, I don't really recommend spinning it, it looks silly. I'm just going to do a slide in, you can change the length. I'll keep it up. I'll do about a half-second, I think that's fine. It's fading and sliding, and I like that. I'm also going to do an out animation. Select that out animation, slide right. You know what, I'll just do a fade, that works just fine, let's look at that. Actually I don't like that. One thing. It's a little too short, so I'm going to select it, make it longer. I may just make it quite a bit longer. Then instead of that slide, I'm just going to stay with the classic fade and make it a little longer. Now we'll watch that. Since the text ends when the clip ends, that fade out is unnecessary. I'm going to select it, go back to my Out Animation and I'm just going to select None. Now it just disappears when the clip disappears or when it cuts. I think it's a little too big, I like my text to be subtle. We could also try putting it in the sky, see what that looks like. You know what would be cool, this is turning into a long video. But sometimes this is what editing is, it's just trying things, seeing how they look until you like something. I'm going do a drop. No, not a drop, I'm going to slide up. That could be fun because it might look like the text is coming in behind the mountains. Yeah, that works. Got something, I might make it a little shorter even now, cool. The other thing I going to do is extend this clip. I actually want it a little bit longer to really establish that graphic. Because it's happening a little too quick for me. I think that looks great. Go ahead and add a text layer. Again, Layers, Text, type something and then you play with the large amount of options that it gives you.
10. Music / Audio: Let's talk about audio. Yeah, so remember how I said I don't want to hear my voice in the background. The way to get rid of that is to select the clip, hit Mixer over here and there's a Volume tab. You can just turn that all the way down. I'm just getting rid of all my clips because I think I was talking through most of them. But you know what, I don't want to do it to this clip and I'll show you why, because Jill is talking. This is a clip I want to hear audio, so I'm going to leave the audio as is there, and then we'll come back and do some enhancements on it. But all the rest of my clips, no, thank you to the natural audio. I do want it though on this last clip because I want to hear the brook. Some good natural sound. Now if I watch my video, it's just very quiet, it is just silent. I'm going to add music. I'm going to do that by hitting this music note, audio over here, and I've got some songs. If you want to get more songs, you hit your Assets Store up here. They have a lot of royalty-free music that you can use. Let's see, once you've found a song you like, you're going to hit download and it says installed, you're going to X out of this Asset Store. Now in your music list, that song that you just downloaded will be there alphabetically, Family Day. To add it to my timeline, I'm going to hit the plus button and there it is, I'm going to get out of the store there. Let's watch this. It's a little slow-paced. Let's say I want to use a different one. I'm just going to select it, delete, go back to my audio. I'll use this camping I think. Hit the plus button, there it is. Okay, I like that. It's got a little bit more upbeat energy going on. Now at the end of the project, right now the music just cuts hard, you definitely want to fade out of music, so you would hit this settings wheel. Go to Audio. You're going to fade-out at the end of the project. You don't really need to fade-in if you're starting at the beginning of a song because that sounds like the beginning of a song. But I'll do a fade-out two seconds now if we watch it or listen to it. Now it's got a nice soft fade-out. Now we have a song that's exciting. The thing that's not going to work though for us is that when Jill is talking, the song is going to be louder than her. I mean, you can't hear at all. First things first, you're going to select your music clip down here. You're going to hit this little icon that says Ducking, see how turn red when it's on. It also makes the track turn gray. That by itself, it does nothing. But what does you something if I now click on her clip and go to mixer, the same little icon, that means ducking. If I lower this, what that means is that when this clip is playing, the music is going to fade down to 49 percent. That's what I have of that. Let's listen to it and see what happens. The music does go down. Jill is not loud enough still. I'm going to go back to the clip, hit Mixer. I'm going to turn it down even more also for her, I'm going to select auto volume, what that should do is turn her volume up a little bit. That's better. I'm still going to turn the music down even more because she is pretty soft. I can also turn her volume up by using this slider. Let's try 132, see how that sounds. That is one option. There is another option though, and it's a little bit more advanced, but I like it better. I'm going to select my music track and use this Volume Envelope is what it's called. Basically, it just means making keyframes. You'll see you get a white line down here. I'm going to hit this circle plus button that makes a keyframe, a little circle, and then I'm going to come down a little bit, make another keyframe, and on that keyframe, I'm going to have my play head over it and I'm going to turn the volume down pretty low because as we know, she's quiet. This is making a musical fade. Let's watch it and listen to it. Great, that's exactly what we want. It's a audio fade that I controlled right where I wanted it. Then I'm going to do the exact same thing but opposite at the end of her clip. I'm back on my volume envelope, I'm going to add a keyframe, come to the horses add another keyframe, bring my volume back up to where it was. It was at 100. Now let's listen to this. That is so much better. That's the thing with the ducking. There's no transition in that music, it just goes loud music, soft music, and then back to loud music. If you want it to sound better and you want really precise control, you're going to have to come in and use keyframes. I'm going to show you one other place that I want to use that volume enveloping. I want the music volume to slowly fade out so that we can hear that babbling brook. I'm going to select this again, the music track, Volume Envelope, then I'm going to set a keyframe to start at the beginning of that brook clip, and then near the end, I'll set another keyframe, turn it all the way down. The music fades out earlier, the brook fades out at the very end. That's audio, I know it's a lot going on there, there's a lot of options. Play with it, add music, turn your volume down, and see if you want to add any keyframes volume enveloping.
11. Finding Good Stock Music: That last video was all
about audio and music. And I showed you how
to find music and Kinda master and add
it to your video. You may have noticed if
you've searched through the Music Library
and Kinda master that it is not the best. A lot of it is really to
corporate E sounding are just really cheesy or just
not modern or cool. So if you're looking for
music that is better to use, I want to show you a
really cool resource that I use a lot
and have for years. It's audio.com,
audio with two eyes. So once you're in audio, this is the home screen. You can browse or
select playlist. Let's go to browse and I'll show you what this is all about. You can search songs,
which by the way, this library of songs is massive and they are
adding to it all the time. And it's really, really
great Greek music. So you can search the
entire library by keyword. So let's say, I want
a song that's happy. When I do that, you'll
see that it comes up as mood happy or
the songs that are, have the word happy in the name. So I'm gonna do the mood happy. And then I get a very
giant selection here. And it keeps going
and going and going. So I have tons to
choose from to sample. If I want to listen to one, I can just select it. Just to note, if it says
instrumental next to it, then it's just an
instrumental track. If it doesn't say instrumental
is going to have lyrics. But you can just
scroll through here, sample some of them. Once you find one that you like, you can either save it as a
favorite and that'll go to a little library of your favorites if you
want to use it later. Like yeah, let's
say you're bored. One day on the train. You can just scroll
through audio and hit some favorite
songs so that you have those ready for when
you're up for making a video. But if you want to
use them on right away in Kinda master, after you've chosen that, you're going to hit the
little download arrow next to the song, and you have to hit
Create license. And just while we're talking
about licenses here, if you're worried
about copyright infringement or
anything like that, you don't have to
worry about it because everything here has
commercial rights. So you are good to go if you have a subscription
and even if you have a subscription for a year
and then you don't have a subscription the next
year or two, it's fine. You have the license
for that song forever. But I'm going to
hit download now. And I'm going to
hit download again. And you'll see the
little arrow at the bottom that is downloading. Once it's blue, I'm going to hit that and then go to downloads. And you'll see that
song is right there. And I'm going to select that. Hit the little box
arrow at the bottom. And then I'm going to scroll, roll over here two more. And I've got Kinda master
down here, select that. And you'll see I already
have Kinda master open. It tells you that the song was saved to your
internal folder. So I'm going to hit done. So go to Audio. You'll see a C. I've got a few here from
audio, the audio collection, but the one I just
downloaded is right here, so I can select that, add it to the video. Right now I have two
tracks. Let me delete that. And there you go. There it is. If you select it from
there, of course, you can change the volume
and all of that stuff. But let me go back to audio
for a minute and show you the other method of
looking for songs that I use. Go to the homepage here. And if you go to playlist, these are curated playlist
based on moods or genres. Right now I'm on all but you can also go mood or genre there. But if you scroll
through here, you'll see there's just a lot of different options
for different types of music that they
have curated for you. This is really great
because let's say you have a video to
make and you know, basically the theme at
the music you want. This is a really good
place to scroll through. And again, there's tons of
options once you're in here. So let me tell you a little bit about how the
subscription works. They have a new program
called audio Pro. It's a year-long subscription. You get access to
all of their songs. Unlimited access,
unlimited downloads. And there's over
6,000 songs right now and they are
constantly adding to that. And you also get unlimited access to all
of their sound effects. And they have over
30,000 sound effects. So all of that for a year, it's normally 199, which
that alone is a great price. I mean, I've paid
that in the past, but right now they're
doing a promo that 70% off your first year. So instead of it being
199, it's only $59. For the whole first year. That's less than $5 a month. If you use even a couple of tracks from it are a
few sound effects, is totally worth
getting that audio. Again, if you want
cool music selection, definitely go for it.
12. Layers: Let's talk more about layers. So far we've learned about text as a layer and audio as a layer. But there's a lot of other options here. One thing you might find very handy is picture-in-picture, which is this called media. This clipper Jill's talking. It's long. It gets a little boring just to keep the camera on her. I would like to put a piece of video on top of her video. I'm going to go to my layers, select "media", this is going to take me back to this familiar screen where we've been before, where we got all of our videos to start with. I'm going to go back to my hike album. That shot, let's see of the sign. I think it's this one. Yeah. I select it and it puts that video on a separate layer, so you see that there. I want it to be full screen so the first thing I have to do is take this little arrow in the corner, drag it so that it's full screen. Now, first of all, I'm going to trim the clip. I know that I don't want all of it. I want to just right it back where the sign is going to be revealed. I'm going to trim it and then with my finger, I'll hold it down, drag it where I want it. let's see how this looks. I'm actually going to put it where she says hidden mesa, which is more at the beginning of her clip. Zoom in here a little. Now we're going to go from the flowers to the sign. I'm going to cut it a little shorter, just establish it, and then we'll get to her so now we have? You can also do that with pictures. I could easily come in here, at media, go to my photos, select "all" I could find a picture I want to throw in there. Let's say I want a picture of my son brushing his teeth on the trail. Also doesn't have to be full screen. You can make it any size. But yeah, let's say that's what I wanted. There you go. You've got a picture on top of a video. I'm just going to delete that for now. Hit Layers Fx. This will put a layer on top of your video, and it'll give that video an effect. Let's look at grunge blur. It's similar to the media layer. It makes it small. I don't know why it's annoying, but you need to drag it to make it bigger. Now we've got these video effects where the horses are blurred. You can also animate that out. It fades out so that it's not just heard out on that effect. I don't want to use that. It's not really working for me. I'm going to select it and delete it. If you just have some spare time, come in here, play around to see what all is here for you. That's effects. You can also add stickers. This is something silly but could be useful in the right circumstance. At the sticker, I'm going to delete it here. If we go to the text at the beginning, that might be a cool place to use it. Let's see. Layer sticker. Let's just use that, one of these. I'm going to put it right about where the text is and move it down a little bit right behind the text. Let's watch that. Then lastly, there's a handwriting option. I don't think this is incredibly useful. You can choose a color, a tool, I'm on a pencil right now. You could also do a paintbrush, but you can write on the screen there. You could also make an arrow that could be useful if you need to point something out, you can make a box outline or filled-in box or circle. You could add that animate it in, put the graphic, the text in it, something like that. That is layers. Have fun with it. See what you can make.
13. Export: You've got a video made that you'd like, you've watched through it. You're good with the edit. Now you want to export it, you want to get it out of KineMaster. You're going to hit this button up here, and you'll come to the Save and Share screen. You've got some resolution and frame rate settings. Generally you're just going to leave it where it is, at 1080P and 30 frames per seconds. You're going to hit "Save Video". It does this. It takes up to a minute. For the sake of this video, I'm going to speed it up right now. When it's done, it'll put the file right here for you. You can watch it without play button. You can hit this "Share" button and share it directly to Facebook, Instagram, you've got more options here. It'll suggest for you to send it to your aunt or somebody. You can AirDrop it to your computer. Just lots of options. It will always send the video to your photo app on your phone in your recents. There it is.
14. Adding Voiceover: I'm going to show you how to record a voice-over directly into KineMaster. I'll use this project called Shopping. There's a recorder right here and a microphone, and you see there are audio levels. Now I currently don't have a microphone going into the phone. If I was going to do this for real, I would use a microphone to make sure the sound, sounds really good. But just as an example, I'm going to hit "Start". When I do, the video is going to start playing and I'm going to talk over it and it's going to lay in a voice-over. "Let's go to the grocery store. I've got my Norwex mini cloth with me, my tiny EnviroCloth. I never leave home without it. I can use it to wipe down the basket, get rid of all the germs. I'm definitely coming back here with my Norwex EnviroCloth." That was a thing, let's watch it. "Let's go to the grocery store. I've got my Norwex." You can see the voice-over is on a separate layer there. Now currently it's competing with the natural sound. I would come in here, select these clips, turn the volume way down, not all the way to zero, because I do want some natural sound. It's often weird if there's just no natural sound at all. "Let's go to the grocery store." You get the idea. The same things apply to this voice-over track as would any audio clip. You've got a mixer where you could come in and turn the volume up or down. Auto volume is just going to level it out for you. You can do voice enveloping. Use those keyframes, if you need to go up or down at any point. You could add different effects to make yourself sound different. So AM Radio, "Let's go to the grocery store." Bass booster, "Let's go to the grocery store." All kinds of effects that you may or may not need. Likely you won't need them, but you could play with them. Reverb, "Let's go to the grocery store." Let's see the voice changer, Chipmunk, "Let's go to the grocery store." This is a lot of stuff to play with. Things you're likely not going to use very often, but maybe there'll be an instance where you do need to sound like a Chipmunk. Again, I would highly recommend using a microphone if you're going to do this or getting in a really quiet environment that's not echoey, so that you've got good sound.
15. Advanced Clip Options: I'm going to show you some other options you can use on individual video clips. If you select a clip, let's use this babbling brook as an example. All of these things show up here. What are these things? I'll show you a few of them. Speed. I could speed this up. Then it's basically in fast motion which I don't actually want to do that. I'm going to undo. You can also go slow-mo. One time is normal and then you've got to drag this to make it slower. Let's watch that. I'm going to undo that for now. You can reverse a clip. It does this so you have to wait for it. Maybe I want to start at the tree's and then end up on the river. That's actually really cool. I might just leave it like that. Reversing a clip. Pan and zoom is something we will talk about when I do the video about how to use photos in the app. For now, let's not worry about that. You can rotate or mirror an image, flip it, rotate it. Filters are going to add a different look to your video, so you can just touch these and of course, it gives you a preview. You can also adjust the amount of filter. If I just want like, oh, let's say I want that coloring, but I just wanted a little bit of that. You can change the opacity of it. Adjustments. This is going to be color adjustments. You can make your footage brighter, darker. This is like changing the exposure if you know about what exposure is. Contrast. Darker, darks, brighter, whites. I like a nice high-contrast shot myself. Saturation is going to give me more color. If it's not saturated at all, it's just black and white. Well, we will just go a little heavier on the saturation there. You can do a vignette, which means there's black around it. That's cool for like a memory type of collage. Clip graphics are something that I will not use on the shot. But let's say you've got a different type of video going on and you want to give it a little flair. Come in here, check these out. That's something to play with. Definitely I going to go through all of them right now. Then you also have some audio options. Let's talk about extract audio. If I hit that, what it does is take the audio from this clip and put it on its own layer. Now that babbling brook sound, I'm going to just turn it way up so we can really hear it. I can move it around. Let's say I wanted to start hearing the brook before we see it, I can move it back. Let's see what that sounds like. Extracting audio is a nice feature when you want to extract somebody's voice and just have a voice-over and want to put a lot of other video over it. You can extract the audio and then just treat that like a piece of audio and not worry about the video being attached to it. It is handy for certain instances, for sure. Play with all of these. Just do a dummy project where you're simply not even trying to make anything. You're just trying out everything in the app and have fun with it.
16. Using Photos: Let's make a photo
specific project. New project. I'm gonna do 16 by nine again. We'll call this Boston. That's my sons name. Return. And then let's look at
these advanced options. There is Fit, Fill in auto and what this is doing is
telling whatever you select. It's telling Kinda master. If the photo is a different
size than 16 by nine, then I want you to just fill the whole frame
with the photo, even if it cause people's
heads off or whatever fit, we'll just leave black
bars on the side or the top to fit the entire
picture in the frame. Otto we'll kinda master
will guess what works. So it's going to
try to auto detect people and fit the end, make sure that
they're the focus of the photo and then they
fit the frame nicely. You can also change
the duration of your photos by moving
this up or down. So let's say I'm gonna
make a photo project and I think I'm going to use photos
that are about two seconds. Default transition. This is for photos or video. So you can always just leave that wherever
and change it later. So let's start. I'm going to, I'm going
to do the auto option. I like to do this to start and then you can always
custom adjust from there. Got all my settings, hit Create. Then we're back to this
familiar timeline. I'm going to hit media photo, not video photo because that's what I'm
going to be using. I have an album
made called Boston. Let's say I want to
use all of them. I'm just going to tap, tap, tap. Then once I have them
all on the timeline, hit that check mark. And let's see how can a
master did with the auto. It also gives it some motion, which is a nice little
feature that you have there. You can also hit that
plus sign and add transitions in-between
if you want, Let's say I want to do that. Just photo projects
specifically are kind of a fun place to
play with transitions. I think. So did a pretty good
job with the auto detect. You can also, let's
say, okay, this one. Let me get rid of this
transition real quick. Gotta hit None. So
this one is cutting his head off a little.
And I don't want that. So what I can do, I'm
going to select the photo, come to pan and zoom. And what's happened is that kinda master
did a pan and zoom, but it just auto detected it and I want
to change it a little. So I'm going to select my start
position with my fingers. Move it to where his
head's not cut off. The end position. I think I'm just
gonna make it bigger and still keep his
head not cut off. So go back. Let's watch that. It's a little fast,
but that's alright. Okay, same here. I'm going to select
it, pan and zoom and you know what
else I could do if I don't care about
filling the frame. Like if I'm if I'm okay with some black bars on
the side because this photo was shot vertically and I'm putting
it in a horizontal frame. So this is what the whole
photo looks like and Kinda master filled the frame and how to make it really big. But let's say I don't
care about the black bars and I'd rather see
more of his body. I can go in there
and do it like that. I can change the
imposition and if I want but if I just want that picture to stay still and I want him to look
like this the whole time. I can just hit that
equal sign in it. It matches the start
and end position. So now He's just still. And maybe that's what I want because you don't have
to have motion on every single photo. I mean, you can, but
it's not necessary here. Same thing. This was a vertical photo. So if I come down, we see more of what's
going on with him. So maybe I want to do that. Maybe I do want motion. But if I just hit
the imposition now, it's going to move it so far. So if I go back
here, hit Equals, but then unselect
equals hit your end. Now you're, it's in the
same position as a start. So you aren't very, you can just make a
small adjustment there. So that equals sign
is pretty handy. If I want to make these
longer, of course, I can just come in
here and do that. And also that photo duration that was on our settings menu. It's also in here. So if you don't want to
go back to your menu, you can come in here
and hit Editing. And then you've got
those display options. And you can also change the default length of
your photo in here. So let's say, let's do this. I'm going to fit. This time. I'm gonna go to
the end of my timeline, bring that media back in and
we can see the difference. Edit, Select, select, Select. I'll just do a few. Now you can see it has simply fit the photo as it
was into the timeline. So this picture was horizontal, so it's filling the frame. This picture was a weird format. This picture was vertical, so it's got the black bars. But from here, of course
I can come in here, select it, hit that
pan and zoom in, make whatever adjustments
that I want to from there. And then the last
thing I'll show you, Let's go back to that
settings menu edit. Let's do fill the frame and I'll bring in
those photos again. Bam, bam. Bam. Okay. So now it has an auto detected a
face or anything like that. It is simply taking
the photo and made it as big as it needs to
be to fill the frame. There you go. That's
all your photo options. Right there. Boom, boom, boom. You can also make it very
short duration all the way up to very long 15 seconds. That would be a very
long photo duration.
17. Templates and Assets: Let's talk about templates. If you go to the Search tab, you'll be bombarded with many, many templates that
you could use. There's some sections here. If you're looking for
something specific, like a social media video, you can look at them, you can play them
by selecting it. I feel like I have some
playback issues right now. Let's check this out. Okay, so let's say
you want to use this, you're going to hit use. It's going to download
everything it needs to go to your app. So now that project is
here on your timeline. It's got a whole bunch of
elements involved there. If you look, it's
got a lot going on. So if you want to come in
here and change something, you can start with the
background, select it. Let's get out of
this view color. I'm going to change it to, let's say I want pink. Now it's a pink background. If I want to change the texts, you just find the texts layer. It's got this weird word here. I'm going to edit
and make it say. That's not what I was going for. Video. Then follow me. You could change
that or leave that. You're basically just going
through and figuring out what elements you want
to change and then changing them according to how you want to
customize your template. And that logo there, right here. So I'm going to
select this layer. This is the little cat logo. I'm going to hit Replace. And then I've got
all my assets here. So I don't have anything picked out for this
particular template, but let's say I want
to use this PDF. It does not make a
great looking logo. But let's say I had
something that was a little bit more logo wish. And then there you go. You've got a customized
little video. The other thing I want
to talk about that similar to templates as assets. I know we've talked about
the store little bit, we've already seen
it at this point, but let's go through it a
little bit more closely. Once you get in it, there's just a lot of
different things going on. On this Home tab. It's just suggesting stuff
to you that has new stuff. But if you start your
scrolling down here, if you look on this left
menu, it's categorized. Effects are gonna be
layers that go on top of your video footage
and light templates. You can come in here and
look at them closer. That's cool. That's cool. Let's say you want
it, you're gonna hit download and it will
go into your app. This is transitions. You can see from the little, the little icon here. So you can sample these two. That's a cool song. This is clip graphics, which are go on as a
layer as you know, if you want to
re-watch the layers video that might help you. But click graphics are
really cool because there is a lot of like
little accent marks. I guess you could
say that you can just throw one of
these on your video, rounded graphic or
something like that. It just gives it a little. And of course these
have categories. There's a lot to go through
and hear your music. We've gone through that. Your sound effects. This is clip graphics. What was that? Oh, that's stickers. Okay.
So this is stickers. My bad tons of stickers. Stickers are super
cool and fun to use. Look at this one. I'm downloading that. You'd have like a yellow circle. And arrows. Yes. And then clip graphics are are things that will change
the look of your footage. So let's look in cinematic here. This is going to give it
a whole, whole thing. Download that
vintage film frame. So just briefly, lots
and lots of stuff here. Here are some stock videos
that you can use in your own video editing if you need
a giant door to open. So you can use those
if you would like. And then there's also text in
here, two different fonts. A lot of fonts, which I
think is just really, really a great feature. So let's say I want this font,
I would just hit download. It would go to my font library. And then here's
some stock images that you could also use, maybe his backgrounds
or something like that. So once you've found, let's say I found an
asset that I wanted. Where where do they
go? Where are they? Well, they're in
whatever asset it is. I downloaded a
sticker, the arrow. So those are in the it's on the sticker
tab on the layers. So throw it on. There it is. Let's watch it. Then I, of course,
I can customize it. If I select it on the timeline, I can come in here and go to Settings and then
change the font, font color if I want it to
be different color, do that. So the other, if I also
downloaded that was a sticker, I downloaded an effect
to that focus overlay. So I could click on
that, click on that, and then it brings it in as
a layer like it likes to do. And I'd have to expand
if I want it to be on the entire footage. That would look better on video, not on a graphic, but I hope that's helpful again, your assets are organized by menu on this side,
anything you'd like, let's say I download a
transition 3D multi-view when I come out of the Asset Store and I want to find
that transition. Well, first I have to put, I have to make a cut so that I can get to
the Transition menu, hit that plus sign,
and that transition I just downloaded
is right there. So can you use that? That's pretty cool. Nice. That's templates and assets. It's a lot to go through if you just have
some spare time, I'd suggest just
checking it all out. Taking note of some
of your favorite ones and try using them
in some videos.
Heather Hukari, Video Coach, Social Video 101
