Movavi Video Editor: Movavi From Beginner to Expert. 2022

1. Introduction: Hello, and welcome to this movie video editing masterclass. My name is Lauren and I'm a full-time course creator and marketer with over ten years of experience. What do I like to do in this very brief video is give you a general overview of what this course is all about. So you know what to expect and what skills you'll walk away with as well. So there's two main points I'd like to start with. This course serves as a good method for stepping into the world of video editing, which is truly a valuable skill to have. So if you've stopped by this course because you want to learn how to edit video, then this is the course for you. My second, you don't have to purchase movie video editor. In order to do this course. As a minimum, you only need the free trial version, which is something I'll show you how to get in the next video. This is a very easy and fast process and there's no sign-up needed. Of course, if you already have Mojave, whether it's the paid or free trial version, then you'll be good to go ahead with this course. What to expect if you enroll? If you do this course, you'll learn pretty much every feature and function that mulberry video editor has to offer. So this will be things like navigating the Mojave interface, color correction, sound editing, how to create green screen videos, how to record your computer screen, transitions, importing and exporting, and a whole load of other things as well. The course includes a folder that you can download. And basically, this folder is full of video content there you can use to follow along with my step-by-step instructions. And this should really enrich your learning experience throughout this course. So just to put a little emphasis on what I just said that, well, you will see me do on my screen. You more or less will be able to do the exact same thing on yours. Because you'll be using the same content and of course, the same video editor. Once you complete the course, what will you walk away with? Well, as I mentioned, knowing how to edit video is truly a valuable skill to have. Even a simple video can have a powerful impact. So having the skill on your resume really does stand out. And I know this from my own personal experiences. And finally, what do I need from you as an enrolled student? You might not be able to remember everything I show you in this course. But the main thing is you give 100%. If you do this, surely you will get 100% out. So anyway, I look forward to having you as a student on my course. So I'll see you in the first tutorial. 2. Get Movavi for free to do this course: As I mentioned in the promotional video, to do this course, all you need is the free trial version has a minimum, or of course, the fully paid version. Now if you have any one of these two and you're pretty happy with it, then you can just skip this video. Because what I'm going to do in this while video tutorial is show you how you can get the free trial version of Mojave. And then I'll also show you how you can purchase the program for about 20 to twenty-five percent off. But with regard to the price, I'll just let you know that I'm not an affiliate marketer for them. I'm just going to show you a few things you can do to get a discount, okay, So the first thing we need to do is just open up our Internet browser, put in my VV, and we'll go to their website, which is going to be this one here. The option you want as quite simply this option here. I think that move Abby has detected that I'm on a Windows computer. But if you're on a Mac, you can come to this drop-down here. And here you have Mac OS, and you can click on this. So just while I'm in this drop-down menu here, I'm going to click on windows because this is the system I have at this point. If I didn't have them over V. And I want to try the free trial version. I can just click on try for free. The installer will download, and then I will just go through the various steps and install Mojave. You might be asking yourself, okay, what is the limits or what are the limits when it comes to the free trial version? Well, quite simply everything is unlocked. But if you decide to record any videos with the screen recording software or export any videos, you will have that watermark in the video itself is a pretty serious watermark that goes right across the whole video. But the idea being everything I show you in this course, you'll still be able to do in the free trial version. And then you can just decide later on whether you want to purchase the program or not. Okay? So buying the program, of course, you would just click on by now. Then you can decide which one you want. But I take it most people are going to click on this one here, Video Suite. So you can just click on by now. Then you'll be presented with this window here. And it's totally up to you whether you wants to do this. But I usually get rid of the download insurance, which will save £10. Okay, So now I'm down to just below £70. And then what you can do is you can just open up another tab. Come to Google once again. Type in move valving coupon. You should be able to find a coupon for roughly 20 per cent off. So I'll click on this. And I've already tried out this top coupon here, so it does actually work. So I'll click on it. And I'm just going to copy the code here. You could click on copy, but I think it's going to open up a new tab. So I'll just select the code here, right-click, go to copy, and I'll come back to my shopping cart. I have a discount coupon, click in here, control plus V to paste it in. Now just click on this interruption here. And now we have even more of a discount. So we got rid of the download insurance and now we have 20 per cent off. So overall it's not too bad of a price, I'd say for the program. But that's how you can get a discount for the program itself. So once you've done putting in your details with regard to the payment, I suppose PayPal will be one of the more popular options. And you click continue. I think you'll be given a download link to download a movie. So you'll download the program and then your key, the key you need to put into programs activate it will be sent to your email and you just have to copy and paste that key into Mojave. And there you go. You'll have mv Abby fully activated on your computer. And that's pretty much how you do all of that. So I'll see you in the next tutorial. 3. Introduction to the Movavi interface: So when you first open Nevada, you will have a screen that looks very similar to this. Now yours might look a little bit different to mine every now and again, Medallia does update its software. So you may find that there are a few new things or some missing things or things that have just been moved left and right. But generally speaking, you should have the same screen as I have. Now, the main area we're gonna be focusing on is under this tab here, the video tab, and of course the video editor itself, which is this option. 80 or 90% of the course is going to be about editing videos. And I think you probably already know that now second to editing videos, It's going to be the screen recording software, which is this option here. Now I've used movies screen recording software for more than five years now, and I'm using it right now to record this tutorial. And I do like it. I find it's just really easy to use and it's also very high-quality. But I'll let you be the judge of that. But I will be covering this over the course of one or two tutorials that we have, these other four options that are quite simple and intuitive to use. So don't really need a long and complex tutorial to cover them. But I will cover them anyway, just to introduce you to them. But there's not that many things to cover. Okay, So the first thing I need you to do is just click on new projects under the Edit Video option. The video editor will open up. Now when you first open up the video editor, you may get a few pop-ups asking if you want to purchase, if I remember correctly, some type of media or something like that. But all you have to do is just close those pop-ups until you get to this screen here. So in the next tutorial, I'm going to show you how to import files into Mojave successfully. And I'm going to be covering this area here called the timeline. And I'm going to introduce you to some very basic editing techniques here within the timeline. So we're gonna be doing this in the next tutorial. So anyway, that's a very basic introduction to move heavy. I'll see you in the next tutorial. 4. Importing and basic editing: So in the previous tutorial, I asked you to click on New Project. So just make sure that a new project is open within the edit video area. And you should have your video editor open like this. Like I said, I wanted to show you how to import files into Mojave successfully. And I'd also be covering some basic editing techniques within the timeline. So that's what we're gonna be doing in this tutorial. So first of all, importing your files into Mojave. Now before this tutorial, you did have an opportunity to download the project files for this course. You should have those files on your computer at this point. So what we're gonna do is you're going to extract a certain folder from those files called I think the wildlife folder. I'm going to put them into Mojave. There's quite a few ways to import files into movie. You can quite easily just click hold and drag files into this area here. You can also just click on Add Files. Or if you want to import a whole folder, you can just come to this drop-down here. And we have this option here. So when I click on Add Folder, and I'm going to navigate to the Mojave project files. And you'll have to do the same, but I think yours would probably be under downloads, but mine is on the desk top. So I'll just go ahead and navigate to the Mojave project files. What you need to do is just click on the wildlife folder and then just click on Select Folder. And everything in that folder will be put into Mojave. Alright, so here we are with these clips. If you want to preview any of them, you can just click on one of them. So let's go for the caterpillar video here. The caterpillar clip, as you can see, it previews in the preview window here on the right. You can just do this with any of the clips here. You can also, if you wanted to do it with the sound clips, or I should rather say the soundtracks. So I do have this song that I've included in the files, so I'll just click on this. You should hear that coming through my microphone, but I'm not actually recording the system sounds, so it's not going to sound very good. But basically you can just click on any of these files here. And it will show in the preview window. Now when you have your files in the import area here, we do have this filter option that you can click on it. And you have different methods of sorting. Salt by file type, name, date, last added, and so on and so forth. Okay, So moving onto the timeline itself to bring in a clip into the timeline, all you have to do is just click on the clip itself and click hold and drag and pull it into the timeline. So by default, we are given this default aspect ratio when we open up the video editor and it's detected that our video clips are not the same as that default setting. So what I want to do now is basically to change the aspect ratio to make sure that it is best suited to the clips that I have. So just click on Change. And that has been changed. Now you'll notice with this clip in the timeline, if I click hold and drag and pull it to the center here, and then let go of my mouse button. You see it quickly just goes over to the left here. Now, it depends on how you want to use my baby. But basically, if you don't want that to happen, you can just click on Enable gaps, which is this option here. And that will disable it. And now you'll be able to move this clip around and put it wherever you like. And that's just a matter of preference. Okay. So with this clip, what I can do is I can come to the right-hand edge of it and I can shorten it like this. So I can bring it down to, I think that would be around two or three seconds. So what I can do is I can just move the timeline indicates to the beginning and I'll click Play. And it's literally just a few seconds. Now if I wanted to, I can restore the clip to its original duration. I come back to the right-hand side and quite, and quite easily just open it back up. I can also do this. I can also put the timeline indicator, let's say somewhere in the middle. And I can just click on the scissors button here. And I can cut this clip in half. What I can do is I can actually split them like this. And I can come to the left-hand edge of this clip, click hold and drag and restore this clip to its former, to its former glory. That's a good way to put it. And I can come to this one here and actually come to the right-hand edge and then open it up like this. So now we have two giraffe clips derived from video one clips in our timeline. So whatever you do to a clip in Mojave, you can quite easily just restore it by coming to the right-hand edge of the clip or the left-hand edge of the clip to restore its original duration. And remember, if you don't want to work like this, you can just come to enable gaps here and disable it. And they'll float to the left like this. I've got two giraffe clips here that I don't actually want. I only want one of them. What I could do now is I can shorten this clip down a little bit. So let's do that. Let's just bring it down to about halfway. And I'm going to bring into different clips. Let's go for the deer video. I'll bring that in. And I'll also bring in the lizard video. And also, let's go for the zebra video, which is quite a long one. It's a long clip. I'm just going to shorten these down now. In reality, if I was going to make a video with this, I probably want to spend a little bit more time and just find out what I'm turning exactly or where I'm cutting these videos. But basically all I'm doing is just putting this video together very quickly by shortening these clips. As you can see by the timeline indicator, where it is, We are at around the 15-second mark. So now we have this quick and easy 15-second video that I've quickly pieced together. And basically this is just a basic video we've put together. But it is a video and you'll be surprised at how many people do not know how to put together just a simple video like this. Now when you are editing in Moldavia and it's the same with any video editor. Sometimes you may want to zoom in to your work, and I can quite easily be done with the scale option down here. So I can just move this to the left and to the right to zoom in and out of the clips. Then we have the scrolling bar that we can move to the left and to the right. And also, you can use the mouse roll-up. If you're on a, on a peripheral mouse, you can use the mouse roller, roll forward and to roll backwards. Now, if you're on a laptop, you can just put your two fingers on the track pad of your laptop and move them up and down. Basically, this should have the same effect, but when it comes to video editing, It's so much more easy just to use a peripheral mouse, or what is also referred to as an external mouse. And when you want to zoom back out, you can come back to the scale option and do that. Okay, So that's just your basic introduction to the timeline and some very basic video editing skills. So I'll see you in the next tutorial. 5. Editing continuation Part 1: If you could at this point, just open up a new projects under the edit video option. The video editor will open up. And of course just close down any pop-ups that show up and we'll make a start. So this is gonna be a little bit of continuation training with regard to basic video editing. So by the end of this tutorial, you should know how to put together a pretty decent video. And the reason why I've done it this way, instead of having some large projects at the end of this course, is so that you can get up and running with Mojave as fast as possible. And I think I mentioned this in the promotional video. So first things first, we have to bring in our project files and that would be from the wildlife folder. So just come to this drop-down here and then click on Add Folder. Navigates to the movies, every project files, and then click on wildlife, and then click on Select Folder. Okay, so they've all imported in. Now in the previous tutorial, I showed you how to quickly piece videos together. And all I did was I just clicked, held and dragged these various clips into the timeline. And remember, you can just click on Change to change to the aspect ratio of this clip. And you can just peace your video together like this. This is pretty straightforward, but we're gonna be using a slightly different technique and I'll get there in a second. Now I didn't show you how to undo your actions. And that can be done with this back arrow here. I can reverse my actions and also I can redo my actions. And you'll notice that there are shortcuts for these actions. That's Control Plus said, which is that sort of generic undo shortcuts. That is in, I don't know, 99% of all programs. And then for redo, it's actually controlled plus y, which is a bit of an odd shortcut. Usually it's Control Shift Z to redo your actions. But here Mojave it is Control plus y. So what I can do is I can hold down Control Plus set to reverse my actions and get rid of all of these clips. And like I said, I'm going to show you how to do this a little bit differently. And this is really just a matter of preference. So what I would like to do is just bring in all of these clips into the timeline, including the song itself and this logo image I've put together for this video. In one go. You can do that by clicking, holding, and dragging with the mouse cursor over the clips. Or you can just select in this era here to activate the import window, hold down Control and press a. And I think on an Apple computer, if that's what you're using, it would be the Command key plus a, and then click hold and drag and pull them into the timeline. When you first do this, you probably will have this text show up at the bottom-right telling you that it's optimizing the clips. And you will just have to give you a computer a little bit of time to carry out that process. But as for me, I think I've gotten away with it this time. But usually it does show there at the bottom right. Now you may agree with me that when it comes to video editing on a computer, it can be quite intense on the computer system. Now this isn't the case with every computer because everyone pretty much has a different type of computer in terms of specifications. But generally speaking, it is as sort of intensive task to edit videos on a computer. But one thing that makes it even more intense is having the preview window set to a high resolution. Because not only does it have to think about what's going on in the timeline. It also has to show a high resolution preview as well. And there's no point in having a high resolution preview, such a change it's to a low resolution so that the whole process of video editing run smoothly. You can do that by coming to this three dots icon here. And then if it's set to high resolution preview or I mean, if it shows high resolution preview, like on my screen here, it means the preview window is set too low. But if it says low-resolution preview, that it means that the preview window is set too high. So basically all you need to do is just make sure that this is set to high resolution preview, so that the preview window is actually set to a low resolution. Okay, so we've got a lot of media in the timeline here. And if you can remember how to zoom out, so you get this sort of better, better bird's eye view of what's in the timeline. You can come to the scale area here and you can just scale out. Now, one thing I didn't show you was in the previous tutorial. You can actually just hover over the scale slider here and just roll back and forward with your mouse, your mouse roller. Or you can use, once again, your two fingers on the track pad of your laptop. Okay, so what are we gonna do with these clips? While with these clips as they are now, all I have to do is just click hold and drag and place them where I want. So for instance, this sun sets or sunrise clip, I want this to be the last clip in our wildlife video. So I'm gonna put it here with the rest of these clips. I want to shorten them down. So they're roughly the same duration. So I'm going to shorten all of them down to well, I'm not sure how long the duration is for each of them. But I'm just doing this with my eyeball really and just estimating their length by shorting, by shortening them. Actually with this clip here, it starts with this little snapshot of the giraffe. And what I wanna do is I want to get rid of that because that's a mistake on my behalf. And I'll just extend it on the right here. Okay. So this is the way I wanted this video, and of course, I hope you are following along as well. So this video is almost ready to go, but there's just a few other things we need to sort out. We need to sort out the sound which is much longer than the visual media itself. And also we have this here, which is this logo I've put together to accompany this video. So let's just cover the logo here. Now, if you watch what happens when I click hold and drag and pull this up, we have this extra video track show up above our video. So I'll click hold and drag. And I don't know if you saw that, but it showed up just above. So now I can just let go of the mouse clicker. And now this is above our video track. Below, you can see it's actually see through it. It is a it is a PNG image. That is PNG. And I just created this logo in Illustrator just to accompany this video, like I just mentioned a moment ago. So when you first do this, you will have these sort of drag handle areas on each of the corners of this image. And what you can do is you can just click, hold and drag and you can resize it like this. Now, these don't show up when you first do this. Not to worry, I'll show you how to get them in a second. But just for now, with them showing on my screen, I can re-size this logo. Once I'm down to the size I want, I can just place it wherever I want in my video clip. Just like that. Now what I can do is I can just click hold and drag and extend the duration of this logo throughout the whole video. Now, as I just move the timeline indicator over the video, you can see we have this logo at the top right. Now, like I said, two gets those resizing handles. What you can do is you just select the clip. Then you have to come to more tools, which is this option here. And then click on overlay. And with regard to more tools, we will get into more tools later on in the course because we will be visiting pretty much everything here. But just for now, we want to be able to resize our logo. So come to more tools with the logo selected, and then come to overlay. And here you can see we have our resizing handles, show back up. So that's how you can do that. Now what I can do is I can just scroll down like this just to see the video track as well. Sorry, the audio track and not the video track. Well, actually I want to see both of them. And what we're gonna do now is we're going to take care of the audio track. So I would say that with my volume sets to 50 per cent on my monitor, I should really say my TV because I work on my TV. The volume for the soundtrack is still way too loud. So what I can do is I can just click play here and you should hear the soundtrack because I have turned on record system sound within my screen recording software. So just press play. It's a little bit too loud. So one of the most simple tools you can use within the audio track to adjust volume is just select the audio track itself. And we have this white bar. And I can just move this up and down to raise or lower the volume. Or more specifically, just lower the volume. Because when you use this tool here, you cannot go over 100 per cent. You can only lower it or go back up to 100%. And when I press play, I can tell that the volume is a little bit lower. But what I wanna do is I just want to leave this at 100 per cent. Before I go into more of the volume tools, what I wanna do is just re-size this audio track because it doesn't need to be that long. And what I could do as well, I can just zoom in with my mouse roller. I can just move to the beginning of the timeline. And I'm going to just get rid of this sort of quiet area here at the beginning of the track. Now click hold and drag and pull it to the beginning of my video. And I'll just zoom out. And as you can see, we have to compensate here now and bring this to the end of the video track. So now our audio tracks the same duration as our video above. 6. Editing continuation Part 2: And like I said, I wanted to show you just a few more tools with regard to the audio track. So what I can do is I can actually double-click on the audio track. And what happens is we have these tools show up with these various sliders. So what I wanna do is make this audio track sort of fade out towards the end of this video. So with this selected the audio track, I can come to fade out. And I can set this to what I'm going to, I'm going to go for seven seconds. And as you can see here at the end of the audio track, it starts to fade out. Okay, So that faded out, that's exactly what I want. And with these clips here, so while this last clip, I'm going to double-click on it. And I'm given access to some very similar tools as the audio track and facts. I think they're pretty much the same. What I wanna do here is also adding a fade out. And I'm going to set this to five seconds. So now this will fade out, this clip, we'll go black towards the last five seconds, or I should say the last 4.5 seconds. And I'm gonna do the same with the logo as well. But with the logo, I'm going to fade it out over the course of four seconds. Okay, So already we have this pretty decent video that we can export and we will be exporting this video in the next tutorial. But there's just one more thing I would like to do just to make the video a little bit more interesting. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to select all of these clips here. And I'm going to come to the transition was it, which is this option here. So I'll click on this. And here we have some settings where we can adjust the photo clip duration, which would be our elephant logo. We're not going to touch this right now. We're going to be dealing with here, the transition styles. So here I can set how long I want each transition duration to be. I'm just gonna leave it on its default duration of two seconds each. And here we have this drop-down where we can choose Apply to select it. But because we've selected every clip in our timeline, there's no point in selecting this. All I have to do is just click on apply to all clips. Here we have these transitions in between our clips. Now you will see that we have these transitions at the end of our video. And I don't want this. So what I'm gonna do is I'm just going to zoom in and I'm going to select these clips just by clicking on them. And I'll press Delete. And I'll do the same with this one here. And now, if I go to the beginning of our video and press the space bar to play, you can see we have this pretty decent video that's been put together. I could probably do this in less than two or three minutes. But because I'm explaining it to you at the same time, it's it's a little bit longer. It takes it takes longer to do. But yeah, it's generally speaking, a very fast process to put something together like this. Now just before we move on is actually one last thing I want to do. I want to just double-click on the audio track to open up these audio settings. I just want to lower the volume here because it's a little bit too loud. So I'll go for 72% and I'll just press play just to see what that sounds like. Alright, so that's pretty much our video all done. So hopefully you followed along and you're able to recreate the same video. In the next tutorial, I want to show you how to export this video so that you can basically just have it ready to play wherever you want it. So anyway, I'll see you in the next tutorial. 7. How to export video. Part 1: Let's move on to exporting your video out of Mojave. The video we're going to be exporting is the wildlife video that we've just pieced together. Now, if you don't have this video in the editor, not to worry within the Mojave project files. There is a video that has sound as well. You can just bring that into the editor and you can export to that video. But if you still have your wildlife video opening the editor, then you may as well just to go ahead and export that video, just let you know. It's actually been quite awhile since I recorded the previous tutorials. So I actually moved country over the last few months. So a lot of things have been going on, a lot of changes in my life, but I finally got around to just carrying on with this course creation. So you may have noticed that maybe just a few things are different with regard to the editor. I've noticed that since the last update, which was just a few days ago, the zoom in and out slider here is now above the timeline instead of below. And I suppose there's a few other things that have changed. But generally speaking, it is still very much the same editor. Now when it comes to exporting videos, it is quite comprehensive topic and honest and quite honestly, if I were to just try and explain everything to you, it would just be a whole new course in itself. So I'm not gonna go that far with regards to exporting at this point. I will revisit it in the future. But yeah, the main thing is I just want to show you the basics so you can get by and you can start to export videos successfully out of movie. There's one thing that move Abby has bought into its editor, which is pretty cool. And that is the ability to select the video content that you want to export. And that can be done by coming to this drop-down here. And then clicking on Add selection. Here we have these purple sliders. And whatever lies between the two sliders will be exported. This is a feature that's available in a lot of other, I would say, more advanced video editing programs, especially the likes of Adobe Premiere Pro, which is another video editor that I'm familiar with. And it's really good that Mojave now has this. So yeah, it's pretty straightforward to use. Whatever lies in-between the two purple points is what will get export it. There is an advantage to this. So if you had quite a few videos and your timeline, and you just want to export one of them. And quite possibly you'd want to use this feature. Or if you wanted to test the video just to see what it looks and sounds like. Then once again, this could be a feature that you may want to use. So all you would do is just move the sliders around and just get a small piece of your video and exports that small piece. Once again, just to see what it sounds and looks like. If you're happy, then you can just export the whole video. And one thing when it comes to exporting a selection, what you need to do is you need to come to the drop-down here. And then click on Export Selection. You'd think that you could just click on export. But what this will do is it will export the whole video rather than the selection. So yeah, you've got to come to this drop down here and then click on Export Selection. And you can go through the various settings that I'll teach you a balanced at the next tutorial and export your selection. 8. How to export video. Part 2: For this particular video though, I would say that there is no need to use the selection feature. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to come back to this drop-down here. And I'm going to click on Delete Selection. And if I were to export anything, now, everything in the timeline will be exported up until when it ends. So that would be just at the end of this music track right here. Okay, so let's go ahead and export the video. Now it's quite obvious that you can just click on exports to start this process. But you can also come to export up here and then click on Export Video. There's also a few other options you can choose from export audio. And you have these other types of options where you can upload to YouTube, et cetera. I will take a look at these later on in the course. But just for now, I'm going to click on Export Video. Once again, remember you can just click on this button here as well. This window will show up. And I would say that it is quite self-explanatory at this point, you can just give you a video, a name. So I'm gonna give my video the name, or wildlife and video too, because I believe I've already exported this video. And it is called wildlife video. So I'll just leave it like that. And of course you can just choose where you want the video to be exported to. Go to browse, choose where you want it to go. So I'll just create a new folder there. And I'll just click on Select Folder. So that's where my video we'll go. Next. We're on to quality. Now, if you were to just leave this on good, the current quality of the video will be exported. But if you want things to be a little bit more crisp, so this would be both the picture and sound quality. Then you would want to select the high option. Now just let you know with regard to selecting high, just keep an eye on the file size. With this particular example though, there isn't much of a difference in terms of file size between good and high. But you will find that sometimes it really depends on the video itself. The difference between good and high can be huge in terms of file size. But I do find that most of the time, just leaving this on good is a good option to choose. You do have the draft option, which is actually a newer feature. In fact, I believe it used to be called smaller or less or something like that. I can't quite remember. But now they've just called its draft. And it just says here, you can fast, fast saves, and medium quality used to check the video before finalizing. Now in the previous tutorial, I did explain that you can just use the Selection option just to export, just a slice of your video, just to see what it sounds like and what it looks like. So you could do it that way or if you wanted to, you can choose the draft option. But I'm going to export this whole video. So I'm going to click on good. Now we're gonna move on to the resolution. As you can see, we have quite a high resolution. We have a 496 times 2160, which I believe, if my memory serves me correctly, is a fork a video. But this content itself is not a four. K is not four kay, content. So it is a little bit confusing when you think of it that way. It's going to be exporting as for K, but it's not actually for K content. The reason that happened was because I captured this wildlife content. I think it was all future tube and it is copyright-free, it's royalty-free so I can use it. And I think I set the screen recorded two for k. So it recorded some HD content in for K or, or something like that. But just to simplify things because I know it's a bit like a way off track. Now, when you click on export, more than likely, Mojave will just know what you want. So the only thing you really need to do is just choose the name of the video where it's going to go. The quality which more than likely will just be set to good. And then the resolution will be set automatically. We will take a look at resolution later on in the course so you have a better understanding of it. But like I said, this will just be selected automatically and same with the frame rate as well. So if I were to click on advanced, you will have the frame rate. So at this point you can just click Start. And the process for exporting your video, we'll start. Of course, how fast this process is really depends on the system you have. I have a pretty good system. It's pretty up-to-date. It's quite powerful. I have a very good GPU graphics processing units in my laptop. So when it comes to exporting, it's not too bad for me. Alright, so here is the video. And at this point Hi, can double-click on it and see what it looks like and sounds like. Now just keep in mind that I'm recording this on my screen. So the quality you will see will be different to the quality I am going to see. It's just a little bit too much for my screen recorder to capture videos in their full equality. Okay, so that's not too bad. Now, there is one thing I've noticed and I don't know if you saw that yourself. Let's just rewind here. Right there. You see when this transitions, I'll just press play. It goes off into the background. And you can see we have these black lines on each side. That really depends on what you want preferably, I wouldn't want to have that. I would want it just to be well, completely full. I don't want those black lines on each side. So later on in the course, I will cover how to get around this and just make sure that the video covers the whole of the screen because it's just a bit of a better look. But overall, I think the video itself is not too bad. Okay, so that's it for exporting for now. Like I said, we will cover it in more detail later on in the course. 9. Aspect ratio, resolution, and FPS. Intro : We're now going to take a look at three very important aspects when it comes to video editing. And that would be the aspect ratio, the resolution, and the frame rates as well. Now I take it most people have quite a good understanding of what resolution is, of what the aspect ratio is, and of course the frame rates. But of course I do have to include this in my course because it's really important to know how these things work within video editing. If you get confused at any point during this tutorial, and I'm not sure if it's going to be split over two tutorials or just one. What I'd recommend you do is you just watch the whole thing through. And then hopefully by the end of this particular topic, you will have a better understanding. Or actually your questions would have been answered because you would have watched the whole topic, which once again will be either one or two tutorials. Okay, so let's start off with Aspect Ratio. I'd say the best way to explain aspect ratio would be just to call it a shape. And I've got a few examples of these different shapes that are available. And here we are. So when it comes to aspect ratio, I suppose they're not really set in stone. You can just choose whatever aspect ratio you want. But these are some of the more common ones that you'll probably use. So definitely 16 by nine is just that basic TV screen aspect ratio. And then if you flip that around, you have the nine by 16, which has obviously for mobile devices in portrait orientation. And then you have the likes of the three by two, or the three to two aspect ratio, which is basically photographs, then you have these other ones, which I suppose you may use them at some points and it's just good to know that they exist. But generally speaking, I mean, I've never really used these particular aspect ratios, but definitely I'd say that 16 by 93 by 29 by 16 are three very common ones that I've used probably thousands of times at this point. And then there's also the one-by-one aspect ratio, which is basically just a square. We'll take a look at that in a moment, back in the video editor. Then moving on to the resolution. And you may already know this. This is the number of pixels usually in the shape. Now, this is a bit of a funny thing to kind of get your head around. So calculating how many, what the resolution is of a particular clip once you've edited it and all this kind of thing. And I'll try and explain that later on in this tutorial. But just to summarize, resolution is the number of pixels in the video or just in the shape, which is the aspect ratio. So what is the default settings within Mojave when it comes to those three aspects that we're covering, which is the aspect ratio of the resolution and the frame rates. Well, I do know that it is set by default to 1920 times 1080, which is standard high-definition. The aspect ratio is 16 by nine, and the frame rate is set to 29.97. You'll find that in most cases you probably will stick to a resolution of 1920 times 1080. And the frame rate will be 29 points, 97, the default setting for frame rates. And then the aspect ratio will either be 16 by nine or nine by 16. 10. Aspect ration, resolution, and FPS.: So let's take a look at these three different aspects, especially the aspect ratio and the resolution within the editor itself. So if you can at this point, just open up a new project and bringing the eagle video six clip from the movie project files, wildlife folder. Now you may recall when we put together our wildlife video a few tutorials ago, when I clicked held and drags the first clip into the timeline, we were presented with this message here. And it just says, the aspect ratio of your file doesn't match the project. And it's asking if you want to change it or don't change. I'm going to click on don't change. And actually I was just messing around with this earlier. This should actually be by default set to 16 by nine. So you can see how clip in the preview window here has this black line that goes around the clip. And maybe that's a look you'll be happy with. But for this particular project, I don't want that black line that goes around the clip. What I would like to do is just get this clip to fill in the whole of my shape or the whole of the aspect ratio. So how can I do this? Well, all I have to do is just double-click on the clip. Then come to more tools here. And then just make sure that this is selected. So click the down arrow or just click on video editing. I click on the down arrow and then click on position. And you end up with these sort of drag handles around the clip. And what you can do is you can just click hold and drag and make your clips smaller or bigger. And you can place it wherever you want. You've also got this feature here where you can rotate the clip itself by. Don't want to do that. So I'm just going to click on Undo. Okay? So what I would like to do is fill in the whole of the shape, which is the whole of the aspect ratio. So I'm going to click hold and drag and just make this a little bit bigger, like this. Maybe a little bit more. So I can fill the whole space now I don't want to go way too big unless that's something you really wanted to do. I really want to just make sure it just fills in the whole shape. And that way you still end up with quite a clear and crisp picture. Because if you make it too small or too large, you're going to lose some of the quality of the video. I suppose that will do. Now I'll just press play. Okay, so that's looking good. The whole of the clip now covers the whole of the shapes. I haven't got those black lines anymore. But let's change the aspect ratio. Let's say we wanted to put this clip on a mobile device. Well, what I can do is I can come to the settings here for aspect ratio, and I can choose which one I want. So let's go nine by 16. Okay, so now we have the portrait orientation for a mobile device, the likes of a phone. And I can double-click on the clip, come to more tools, come back to video editing, click on position. And I can move the clip around and just make it a lot more larger. Now this is one thing I don't quite like with Nevada. So the way this has done is it's not something I enjoy doing. I wish I could see the aspect ratio in the background, but you can't, you can only see it once you press play. So I'd say that's looking okay. So double-click, double-click on the clip again. Come back to position. And I think what I wanna do is just make this just a little bit smaller. Once again, it's not really the best system I must admit. Now let's see what that looks like. So I'll just press play. Okay, so you can see that looks pretty good. So as you can already tell, I've just taken that clip and I filled in the whole of the shape by using the Position settings up here. Just to simplify things, first and foremost, you can choose your aspect ratio from here. And then you can get your clips and just get them to fill in that particular shape. Let's try out the Instagram aspect ratio, which I suppose can be used anywhere. But this is the square aspect ratio. So I'll come to the drop-down here and I'll select one on one-to-one. I suppose the clip is already looking okay because we've already done some work with it. But I think what I'll do is I'll just make it just a little bit smaller. So I'll double-click on the clip, come to more tools. Then I'll come to video editing, click composition. And once again, the system that you have to use is not really the best. But I'll just make do with what I have for now. So I'll press Play and see what that looks like. Let's come back to position and I'll just move it over to the left a little bit. I'll press Play. So that's not too bad. Now of course, when you do this kind of thing where you expand the clip in the background to fit your aspect ratio. You do lose some of that quality of the clip. So because the clip is so zoomed in, things are not as crisp as they looked before. So you have to consider that when you're actually playing around with these kinds of settings. Okay, so let's say I wanted to export this clip. As you already know, we can come to the drop-down here and we can choose Add Selection, and we can select the clip if you wanted to. But because I only have one clip, all I'm going to do is just click on export. The resolution by default now is set to 1080. By 1080. And that's just because we've played around with some of those settings. So we're no longer using the default settings that we were presented with at the beginning of this tutorial or when we start to work in the editor. So I'm just going to call this square ego. And I can see it's in the wild video, which is fine. And I'm going to put the, let's go for because there isn't much of a difference in terms of file size, I'm going to click on high so that he can get his higher resolution or, or I can make it as clear as possible or as sharp as possible. And then I can click on Advanced. Even though it's not really necessary. If I really want to, I can quite possibly put up the frame rates. But 29 points, 97 is going to do just fine. I'll just click Cancel to that. Okay, So at this point I can just click start. And then we can see what our video looks like. Once this has gone through the process. So double-click on the video. And there we have a square aspect ratio and video. Now that I've played the video, you can just see that it's not really that crisp. So once again, I'll just put emphasis on this. When you expand your clips, you are going to lose a bit of that quality. And things are just not going to look as sharp, but that's just the look you want, then that's fine. Okay, So that's all I really want to cover when it comes to aspect ratio and resolution. And also I touched on a bit of the frame rates there, or maybe not that much, But it's not that important. Just make sure that it's set to 29.97 and you won't go far wrong with that setting. But yeah, this is basically it. I just wanted to cover this because I think it is really important. 11. Introduction to color correction: It's now time to move on to color correction. And I really like doing these things in video editing. I would say personally, I am quite color orientated. I love dealing with colors and sounds as I suppose most people do. Yeah, but for me it's something I really enjoy. So what is color correction? Well, I think the name says it all. You are just correcting color. And by color, within video editing, we're talking about many different aspects. We're talking about brightness, saturation, hue, shadows, highlights, temperature, and well, quite a few more aspects. So yeah, we are just correcting color. But why do we have to correct color? Or this is simply because the devices that we capture our videos with, and this applies to photographs as well, don't quite capture the imagery properly. So what we have to do as humans is step in and basically correct what these devices are doing by using our own minds and our own eyeballs. Because our eyes are far more complex than any device, any photographic or video device ever created. And what we need to do is just make sure that whatever these devices are capturing actually looks normal. And yes, we can go one step further and make, and maybe even make it look a little bit better. But as a minimum, we just want to make it look normal as the human eye would see it. 12. Color correction: Open up a new video editing project and then come to Add Files and then navigate to the Mojave project wildlife folder. And to be honest with you, these clips are well, I would say in pretty good condition in terms of color and just color. So I think if there's one clip here, I would want to edit with color correction, I think would be the zebra clip. So let's just go for the zebra video. So go ahead and open that. I'll just click hold and drag and pull it into the timeline. And you've already been presented with this message before, and I'm sure you know what it means by now. So for this particular example, I'm not going to change the aspect ratio. So the reason I chose this clip was because I think that this clip here just with these zebras is a little bit too hot. So it's a little bit to red. I don't think it's natural because you think, Okay, it's got that dusty background, the zebras themselves or dusty, so it just makes everything look red. But no, I think that there's quite possibly a little bit too much heat in this photograph. Alright, in this video clip. So what I would like to do is just cool it down. And I'd like to just add a bit of color to these bushes in the background just to make them a little bit more green. So first of all, I'll just zoom in here just to make it go across the timeline, the clip, because it just looks a little bit better. Okay, so to access the color correction settings, you can double-click on the clip. Then come to more tools. Then under video editing, come down to color adjustments. Here we have three options to choose from. We have presets, manual mode, and lookup tables, or just LUTs. So we're not gonna do much with the presets because these are quite easy to use. So for instance, you can just click hold and drag and pull one of these onto your clip. And as you can see, it's changed things within the clip. Let's just go back a little bit to this, to this particular part of the clip. With this effect here, I would say that it's made it just a little bit too bright now and I'm not particularly happy with it. Now this point, to get rid of this effect, you could just hold down Control and press set to undo your actions. But if you've moved too far forward in the future, you could just come to the fx icon here, click on it. And then here you'll be able to delete any effects that you've applied to the clip. So I'm gonna get rid of the auto, Auto Contrast. And we'll get to come back to more tools and back to color adjustments. So you could, if you wanted to just click hold and drag and pull the rest of these effects onto the clip just to see what they look like. But I've already tried that and I don't really look that good. Then there's lookup tables, which is very similar to the presets. We can just click hold and drag the whatever LUT you want onto the clip. So let's just go for thriller. And you can see it makes it really quite different. So yeah, this is pretty straightforward to use. And once again, just to get rid of them, the effects you can come to the effects icon here, click on it, and then just get rid of the effects. The main area I want to focus on is the manual mode. I think that you'll be using these settings most of the time. So just click on manual mode. And here we have our basic color correction settings. So like I said, I think the clip is just a little bit too hot. It's a little bit to red because hot makes the clip red. And if it's two, cool, that it would look a little bit blue, as I mentioned earlier on in the tutorial. So I'm going to call this clip down just a little bit by using temperature. Now I will say that when I initially thought, I can't wait to use this zebra clip to demonstrate this. I thought to myself, you know, the zebra clips not too bad and doesn't need that much work in all honesty, not gonna go too far with this. I'm going to put a just at minus two. I think that's just enough if you go any further, it just becomes a little bit too blue. Obviously, you can see that even if it's, if it's just sort of minus seven or something like that. Actually, let's go. I think that looks okay. Yeah. Yeah, let's, let's us go four minus seven. Now, when it comes to these settings, at the end of the day, it is an art form. There isn't a perfectly correct way of doing this, nor is there a perfectly wrong way of doing this. So I think for now, minus seven for temperature looks pretty good. And like I said, I wanted to just make the bushes stand out a little bit in the background to just bring out the color a little bit. So of course, if you're going to do anything like that, you would be dealing with the saturation. So you can just click, hold and drag and pull the saturation up. Just to bring the color up a little bit. Okay, so already we're looking quite good. But I'm going to play around with the settings just a little bit more, especially with the shadows. I want to see what I can do with the shadows. So let me just move this around and see what happens. I think by just bringing down the shadows a little bit. It gives the Zebra just a little bit more pop. It adds a little bit more contrast. And I think that just looking at this clip now, it does look at, so like I said, it is a bit of an art form. You just got to move things around. But I would say the main thing is just to make sure That's the temperature looks good for the video clip. And then everything else is sort of just touch and feel in a way. You're just testing it just to see what it looks like. At any point, if you're not happy with any of these settings, you can just come to the reset button here and it will reset everything for you. And also, if you wanted to apply these settings to another clip and you didn't want to have to memorize all of these numbers, et cetera. And where the sliders, or you can actually save this as a preset. And to do this, all you need to do is just click on the save disk here. Then give this a name. I'll just name this zebra color. And I'll click Okay, now you'll notice that under presets we have zebra color here. So what I can do now is I can come back to the import area here. Click hold and drag my original clip n. And as you can see, it's a little bit different, if not completely, in terms of the color presets. So let's say I wanted to quickly apply the settings that I applied to the other clip. I can just come to more tools. Color adjustments, zebra color, click, hold and drag and put that on my clip. And those settings have been applied straightaway. So that's a quick and easy way of doing that. Okay, So in terms of color adjustments, That's all I really wanted to show you. You'll be surprised at how if a clip is in really bad condition, so the colors all over the place or it's just really bad that maybe there's a lack of saturation or something like that. Just adjusting these settings under manual mode can make a huge difference TO videos and absolute huge difference. Same with sound editing as well, which is something we'll get into later on in the course. But yeah, just a little bit of color correction can go a long way and really turn your videos around and make them really good. 13. Editing music and sound tracks. Timeline functionality: For this tutorial, come to Add Files. Then within the Mojave projects, come to clip with music. Select this and click on open. And then straightaway, just click hold and drag and put it into the timeline. You'll notice that we're not presented with that message telling us that our clip has a different aspect ratio, which is fine. So we'll just leave it as that. Now when you do this for the first time, your video editor might have this little message at the bottom just telling you that it's optimizing the clip, because this clip is quite a large clip. If that happens, you may have to just wait for that process to finish before you can do any editing or otherwise, it's going to be really slow. But once this is all done, we can make a start. So when it comes to sound editing in Mojave, we have already covered a little bit of it within the wildlife video. I do remember that. I think I showed you how to fade in and out the soundtrack and also how to do a bit of volume editing. But I can tell you that there are a lot more tools when it comes to sound editing in Mojave that are available? Yes, some of them aren't really the best I would say, but I would still say that quite a lot of them are. Alright, so now that the clip is in the timeline, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to click, hold and drag and just make the clip go across the whole of the timeline. So before we look at some of the settings that are available, I'm just going to show you some of the functionality within the timeline itself. Now this is the first time we've dealt with a video that has the sound attached within the wildlife video. It was a separate soundtrack. So just belonged down here within the soundtrack itself. So yeah, I just want to show you some of the functionality available in the timeline when it comes to dealing with a soundtrack, whether it'd be attached to the video or detached. Okay, so what we can do with a soundtrack here is if we wanted to detach it, we can just click hold and drag and pull it down. And you can see we've separated it. Now what I can do is I can click hold and drag and pull to the right and to the left. And I can just move this around as I like. Then if I wanted to reattach it to my video, I can click hold and drag and pull it up onto the video. Let go of the mouse clicker. And you can see it's reattached to where it was before. Now, if I wanted to cut this video, all I'd have to do is just select it, then just click on the scissors icon here, or hold down Control plus b. And you can see the video is cut there. Everything's fine. I'm just going to undo my actions. But what happens if I click hold and drag and separate this track and then try cut the video. While I'll select the video itself, I'll click on the scissors icon here. And as you can see, just the visual side of the video is cut and not the soundtrack itself. So what I could do is if I really wanted to, I can zoom in quite far. I'm just trying to get my mouse cursor in the exact position. Something like that. But as you can see, it's a little it's a little bit off. It's not completely in line. So this can be quite a difficult thing to do when it comes to cutting the video and the soundtrack at the same time. Yeah, if I were just to click on Split there, you can see how splitters just a little bit to the right. And that's not what I want. So hold down Control and press said twice. What you can do to get around this is just make sure you select the video and the soundtrack itself and then come to the scissors icon. And as you can see, both of them are cuts in the exact same place. So just undo my actions then. I'll just slide out like that to put it back to the way it was before. So with the track separated from the video, as you already know, you can just click hold and drag and move it around. But if you wanted to get it to stay where it is, what you could do is you could just come to the link icon here and click on it. And I don't know if you saw that, but this green line here has appeared. So now if I click hold and drag and pull the video around, you can see that the soundtrack stays where it is. Now to get rid of this link, you can just click on it and then unlink. And that green line will go away. And once again, you can just move the soundtrack around as you like. Now, if I were to cut this soundtrack or shrink it down, so let's just Control plus b there, and I'll come here, Control plus b there. I could do something like that. What happens if I click hold and drag and pull one of these back on the clip, you can see everything is restored. Yes, we do have this soundtrack here, but I can just select that and delete it. But basically, if you drag the original soundtrack back onto the video, it completely reattaches it and puts the video back to the way it was originally. So that can be quite handy. So that's some of the functionality when it comes to dealing with soundtracks in the video editor. Next, we're going to move into, just take a look at the various settings that are available. So we'll do that in the next tutorial, and that's where I'll see you next. 14. Editing music and sound tracks. Part 1: Continuing with our sound editing lesson, just make sure that you have got the video with sound within the Nevada editor. And we're going to take a look at some of the other settings that are available when it comes to sound editing. So you may remember that if you were to just click within the soundtrack itself, we have the clip property show up. Here. We can adjust things like the volume, the speed of the soundtrack, fade in and fade out. And then we also have normalize original tone and reverse. With reverse, this is quite straightforward. You can just click on this and it will basically reverse everything in the clip. She could put that on and just see what it looks like and sounds like you have original tone here. So as you know, when you speed up a soundtrack, it makes the sound more sort of high-pitched. Or when you slow the speed down, it makes it low-pitched. But if you wanted to just keep the original, I should really be saying the tone, then you can just check on original tone and move. Abby will try and do its best at preserving the original tone. It's not gonna be perfect, but at least we do have something there. Then we have normalize. So when it comes to watching videos with sound, and you've probably experienced this before. Sometimes you can come across a video where the sound goes a little bit too loud and then a little bit too quiet, and then it goes back up too loud again. So basically the soundtrack is up and down and all over the place. And this can be quite uncomfortable for the person watching the video. So when it comes to editing sound, I suppose in any editing platform, it would be good if you had some type of feature to just level out all of the sound within your video editing project. So that's where normalized comes into play. So you can just check this on. And once again, most of you will do its best at trying to normalize all of the sound, all of the volume within your video so that all sounds pretty much the same. Okay, so those are some basic tools there. Next we're going to take a look at more tools and then audio editing. 15. Editing music and sound tracks. Part 2: Okay, so those are some basic tools there. Next we're going to take a look at more tools and then audio editing. So if I were to just open this here, you can see we have quite a few different options to choose from. So quite a few of these are quite straightforward in nature, so they are quite straightforward to use and simple to understand. So for instance, starting with sound autocorrect, if I were to select one of these here and click hold and drag and pull it onto my video clip. Now usually you have this kind of animation where you can see me click holding and dragging and put it on a clip. But for some reason with the sound autocorrect. So you don't get that animation. Animation I'm talking about is when you do this and you can actually see what you're putting on the video track. For some reason within my version of Mojave, you don't get that animation here, which is fine. But I do know that I have applied this effect here because I can see that I have an effect applied down here. So we have three options here. Enhanced voice recording, noisy place, and recording studio. Obviously this is going to manipulate the sound of your video track, your soundtrack. Now you will find that sometimes these effects are maybe a little bit too powerful. And if you find that this is the case, what you can do is you can just click on the fx icon here. And here. You'll be able to do certain things. So you'll be able to maybe get rid. So let's just get rid of normalize here, which we, which we checked on earlier. You'll be able to do things like obviously get rid of it or enable or disable it. Or you can come to this drop down here. And then you have usually some type of slider where you can adjust the strength of that effect. And then with some of these effects, you have these other options you can check on and off. So with enhanced voice recording, you have noise removal turned on and you have equalizer. So we're looking at the equalizer in a second. But basically, if you have the equalizer turned on, you can turn off here and then just rely upon the enhanced voice recording. But yeah, generally speaking, once you apply to the facts, usually the only thing you'll need to do is just adjust the strength. And that's pretty much it. So coming down to Audio Effects here, now, you have quite a few to choose from. And once again, if you decide to apply any of these to your soundtrack. So let's go for the robot effect. You can listen to it, so I'll just go ahead and press play. And you may not hear it clearly because the sound is going to come up my laptop and into the microphone. In fact, syllabi just maybe this would be a better option. I'm going to turn on record system sound on my screen recording software. So turn that on. And I know you can't see me doing this, but I'll, I'll explain the screen recording software later on in the course. I'll just press play now. So you can see we have a bit of a funky effect there. So if I really wanted to, I can come to the fx icon here, comes to the robot affect. And I can just bring down the effect if I want. And same with the other effects as well. From audio effects. So, yeah, these are quite straightforward. I don't need to go into too much detail with these. If you wants to have some fun, you can just click hold and drag and put them onto your soundtrack, whether it be your own soundtrack or this soundtrack that's provided for you. I just see what they sound like. Next, moving on to the equalizer. What I'm trying to do is I'm really trying to just move forward with this as fast as possible while going into as much detail as possible. But if I spend too much time explaining all of these, I think this tutorial could end up being 20 minutes along easily. So yeah, I'm just trying to explain these things as best as possible and as fast as possible as well. So equalizers. If you've watched any type of video where you've see maybe some type of sound recording studio. You will see the music producer and they're moving these sliders up and down and things like that. He or she isn't always adjusting the equalizer. They are adjusting other things. But generally speaking, an equalizer makes up an important part when it comes to sound editing. So as you probably already know, a sound comes in in certain frequencies. So a high pitch sound with a high frequency, whereas a low-pitched sound would have a low frequency. So to give you a quick example of this, I can manipulate my soundtrack that I have here with the equalizer. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to bring down the low frequencies like this. And I'm going to start bringing up the high frequencies. And what we'll end up with now is a less Basie soundtrack. So what I can do is I can just press play and see what this sounds like. So yeah, you can definitely hear that the base has disappeared. Now let's do the opposite. Let's bring the base up as much as possible and start to bring down the higher frequencies. I'll press play. Okay, So I can definitely hear that there is base within my song, within my soundtrack once again. So if you adjust any of these and you're thinking to yourself, okay, I want to save this, this particular setting. You can just click on Save, give it a name. Click Okay. And then here in this drop-down, you have your different presets. So you click on any of these, and you also have these other presets that have been created for you. So you can just choose any of these you want and just give it a listen and see if you like it. So if you really wanted to, you can go for something like electronic. Give it a listen. And if you don't really like it and you want to adjust what you'll want to adjust these settings, go ahead and adjust them. However you like, then you can save it as a preset. Okay, so moving on to noise removal. So as I said earlier, when it comes to sound editing, if you can get your sound recording, if you're recording your own videos, if you can get your sound recording right in the first place, that would be ideal. Because once again, you don't really want to apply a rely upon these settings too much because it can make your sound, sound a little bit irregular or unnatural. But basically you do have noise removal here. So let's say you have an air conditioning units on in the background as you're recording, maybe a tutorial, like what I'm doing now. So you can just apply noise removal. So just make sure that the clip is selected. Move the slider around to what you want and then click Apply, and then noise removal will obviously be applied. Then there's noise gate and compressor. It's covered those two because to be honest with you, in all of my video editing career, which I'm not our high level video editing. I primarily do this for the sake of recording tutorials. But I've never used noise gate and compressor. But if you wanted to, you can go through these two settings here, adjust a few things. So for instance, you can put some gain into the soundtrack. So I can just put that up there and click Apply. Let's put more gain into the soundtrack. So I'm just going to take off the compressor there. I don't want that. So I'm just going to remove the equalizer. And I'm also going to get rid of the robot affect and why not get rid of this one as well? So way back to the way we were before. So the last three I want to cover is reverberation. Now, when it comes to reverberation, this is, this is very similar to echo. But when it comes to an echo, which way about a sound that goes away and then comes back and it just keeps bouncing back and forth. And that basically is an echo. But a reverberation is more of an extension of a, of a sound. So I'll just give you an example here. An echo would be echo. Echo, echo, reverberation would be a echo. You know, it's, it's kind of that affects where, where whatever the sound is has been extended. So once you understand what it is, then you kind of understand what these settings can do. So you can set the duration of that sound. So let's just go for just over 16 thousand milliseconds there. Then you can maybe apply a bit of a delay between the reverberation and the original sound. Then we have the wet, dry balance. And basically this is just the strength of the reverberation. So I'm just going to put this down to I shall put it up to 50 per cent. Then, as you already know, sound is basically a frequency. So we can choose what frequency we want our sound, our reverberation to be. So I'll just click apply to this. I'll go ahead and press play. So I'm sure you can hear that reverberation in the background. But I don't want that effect. So I'll just come to fx here and I'll get rid of reverberation. I'll come back to more tools, audio editing. We're going to take a look at synchronization, which is going to be the second to last one. So when it comes to recording a video, sometimes you may use multiple microphones. So for instance, with some of the promotional videos are recorded in the past for my various, various courses I've created. I've usually used to microphones at the same time. I would have the lavalier microphone that goes on my t-shirt or shirt. And then I would have some type of backup microphone, like an audio or a rode microphone or something like that attached to my camera. And then basically, when I get into the editor and I don't always use my AVL or use other editors like Premiere Pro. I've got to synchronize those two microphones together, those two recordings perfectly so that I can work with that sound. And it basically gives my sound a sort of a fuller sound. What synchronized session can do for you is it can take to basically identical tracks and put them together perfectly. So for instance, I'm going to do this. I'm going to just separate my track here. I'll Control plus C and Control plus v it. So copy and paste it. What I'm gonna do is with this copied track, I'm going to shorten it down like this. And as you know, it actually belongs just here. As you can see, it's identical above. But what happens if I were to do this? Use the synchronization while I'll select both tracks and I'll click on Synchronize. Move alveolar, kind of figure out, okay, I see where you're going with this. This track here at the bottom belongs right here. So it's kind of work that out. It's also moved it over to the left here. Basically, it might be a good idea just to leave the audio track attached to the video to do that and then apply that effect. So basically that's what synchronization can do for you. And finally, the beats detection. This is something that I've never used in the past. And to be honest with you, I don't think it's really necessary for it to exist. Maybe someone will find it quite useful. But basically with beat detection, you can just select your clip and then click on the text audio beats. What happens is you end up with these markers, that mark where I couldn't hear beats, certain beats, and you can choose the interval of these beats. Let's just go for the full amount here of every four seconds. So the reason why you'd want to maybe use this is, let's say you had another audio track where you want to, What's a bit like synchronization, where you just want to synchronize the beats together. Well, quite possibly you'd want to use this feature so you can see where the beats are. So if you can find a use for that, go ahead and use it. I'm sure it's useful in some way. There's one thing about this and this is the reason why I left it to last. I've never used this before. And when I came across it the first time, I turned it on, I had a pretty good idea of what it was right from the beginning. I also realized that I didn't know how to turn it off. So this is once again, this is the reason why I left it to last. I don't know how to get rid of these green dots. So I've really had a good look around. I've looked online to try and find out how to turn them off. I'm sure there is a way, but unfortunately, I can't show you how to turn them off. So yeah, if you're going to turn them on, you've got to basically just live with them within the timeline. Okay, so one last thing I want to cover is this area here. So this is called, will actually call this the levels. I suppose it could be called the level meter as well. And of course, when you have sound editing, you've got to make sure that your sound is loud enough and also that it's not too loud. Because if a soundtrack is too loud, it can break someone's speaker. So move. Abby does a pretty good job at making sure it tells you if a soundtrack has just a little bit too loud. So how does it do this? Well, if I were to just double-click on my soundtrack here and then put up the volume to, let's say 300 per cent and then press play. Okay, It's not letting me do it this time. But basically with some soundtracks, if you put the volume up too much, you will see the sound meter, hear the sound level, go up too high and it will go into the rat. So basically you want to avoid red, definitely which has shown just at the top here. And I suppose a little bit of oranges. Well, you just want to keep things roughly around the middle of the meter and definitely in the green. And that is a good tell, telltale sign that your soundtrack is going to sound good. It's not too low. And it's definitely not too high. It's right in the middle. And that's where you want to keep it. 16. Zooming in and out and more. Part 1: When I was planning this course, I knew I would get to the point where I would have to show you multiple things within one tutorial. So multiple aspects about the Mojave video editor in one tutorial. But why is this? Well, this is because some of the aspects, so the different features and functionality that is within the editor don't actually need a whole tutorial dedicated to it or them. So in this tutorial, I'm going to be introducing you to several different things within the video editor. Okay, So to get started with this tutorial, what I need you to do is bring in the video with sound, then bring in three of the wildlife clips. So anyone you want, but just make sure you include the sunset and we'll make a start. So I know we've used to this video, this video clip here quite a lot. But to show you what I want to show you now, I thought that this was going to be the best video. So anyway, just bring in the video with sound into the timeline. So you've noticed in this course, and you've probably seen it in a whole load of other videos as well. I have been zooming in and out like this. And this is just a handy thing to know how to do because it can really enrich the person's learning experience. So you're going to take a look at how to do this in Mojave, and it is quite straightforward. So within this clip here, what I would like to do is just, first of all, zoom in a little bit. And I'm going to come to, I've already got a plan for this. I'm going to come to this point here. And you can follow along if you wanted to come to this point, just as this flower is starting to show itself. Then come to more tools, and then come to the video editing option here, and then come down to pan and zoom. Here we have a few options to choose from. As you can see, they are grayed out and that's just because I'll clip is not selected. So I'll select the clip. And first of all, what I want to do is bring in the Zoom In option. So I'll click hold and drag. And I'll put it just here as the flower is becoming visible. So I'll do that. Now I'm going to zoom in to the timeline just a little bit. And as you can see, we have this thing that has appeared here, or I should say these things. And these are basically called keyframes. And what you can do with these key frames as you can adjust them so you can maybe drag them out to make the zoom a little bit longer. So it takes longer for it to zoom in. Or you can shorten it down. But to adjust the zoom itself, what you can do is you can just click on the keyframe itself. So I'll click on the first keyframe here. And basically we have this red box showing that shows up around our preview window. And this is just indicating where the Zoom starts at or from. Then if I were to double-click or just click once on the second keyframe, we can see where it ends. So as it is at the moment, if I were to press Play, you can see we zoom in like that, but I want to go in a little bit closer to the flower. So I'll click on the keyframe. And I'm going to just move the zoom, zoom in area box here. I'm also going to just make it a little bit smaller. I'll make it nice and centralized. So now I can do is I can press Play and you can see we zoom in quite far. So let's quickly take a look at zoom out. Oh, and by the way, if you want to get rid of any of these, you can just click on them and press Delete, or you can right-click and you have a few options here to choose from. So edit keyframe, which is what it's set to now, reset keyframe. So I'll go back to the default settings, remove keyframe. So this particular keyframe, and then remove all keyframes. Let's just zoom out here at, I would say this point here. So just as we get to the signs. So I'll bring in the zoom out option. And I'll just drop it in there. And straight away I can see there's a problem where if we just click on the first keyframe here, actually it would be the second keyframe. You can see it does zoom out to where this red line is. But the thing is it's not covering the whole screen. So what I want this to do is to preferably zoom all the way back out to where it was originally. So I'll just adjust it like this. So now we can just come to the beginning of this and I'll press Play. You can see it's zooming out. Now you may be asking yourself, where is the music within this clip because you can't hear it as just because I've muted at here. Okay. So we have the zoom out here. That's looking pretty good. And what I wanna do is I just want to zoom out a little bit on the timeline. And like I said, I've already got a basic idea of what I want to do in this tutorial. So what I wanna do now, I want to cut here, so I'm going to, first of all, let me just separate the music track because I don't want to start cutting this. Solves separate the music track. I'll come back to this point here. Just before it blurs and changes to the woman on the bridge. Control plus Beta cut it. And then I'm going to scroll forward just a bit here to get until it gets to the end of the bridge seen. Control plus b once again. And I'm going to click hold and drag and pull this up above onto another video track. And what I wanna do with this clip here is make it actually what I need to do is just shorten it down a little bit. So changes straightaway to the woman on the bridge. What I want us to do is sort of fall down from the top. So I want it to slide down. You can do that with this here, with the pan and zoom options. We have top-to-bottom, right to left, left to right and bottom to top. So I'm going to use top to bottom. I'll put that on my clip here. And I'm going to zoom in a little bit here. And I'm going to just place this around here. What I'm going to do now is just double-click on the keyframes itself. So this keyframe here, this is where I want the slide to finish, weight to move the red box just to make sure it's centralized. So this is where it's going to end. So technically now, if I were to press Play, let me just see where this beginning one is. In fact, I don't think anything's going to happen this to see what happens. The music's come back on, so I just need to mute that. So it's basically doing nothing. So what I need to do is double-click on the first keyframe here and move it down here like this. So what happens is you can see it starting slide down. I'm going to make it a little bit faster. Just move it over to the right. Okay, so that's looking pretty good. Now, what I can do is I can just get to the end of this clip here. And I'm going to Control plus b to split it there. And then I'm going to get to the bridge. I just want to get past all of this blurry, transitionary stuff here and get just to the bridge control plus B. And I'm going to select this part of the clip here and press Delete. And I'm going to put this together. And now what I'm going to do is I'm going to insert a transition. And that can be done with this icon here. So just click on this. And within Mojave, there are absolutely loads of different transitions you can choose from. So there, they are all labeled appropriately, I suppose. Now the thing is once you have your favorite, what you can do is let's just go for the geometric transition. Once you find a favorite. So let's go for maybe slide down. You can just give it a heart and then it will be found within the favorites library. And at this point you can just click hold and drag and pull it to where you want it. So I'll put that there and straightaway I'll just press played, see what this looks like. Okay, So I suppose that's a nice transition. Now with transitions, you can click on it. 17. Zooming in and out and more. Part 2: Okay, So I suppose that's a nice transition. Now with transitions, you can click on it and then press delete to get rid of it. Now what I wanna do with this clip here, this bridge club with a woman, is make it go a little bit slower. So you can actually slow your clips down with a feature within Mojave. And all you have to do to do this as just select your clip, come to more tools. Then under video editing, come down too slow motion. And here you can slow down the clip. So I'll do that just to slow things down a little bit. And it's still a gap here. So I'll just close this. And I'm going to put a transition in here of I've already got one here, cross-fade. So I'll put that there and see what it looks like now. It's almost the same transition that originally existed within this video. But the main thing is that you know how to do this, okay, so you know how to delete these. You can just click on it and press Delete. But to get to the settings for this transition, it's the same with the rest of the transitions as well. You can double-click on it. And here you can set the duration of the transition. You can apply to all clips if you want. Then you have this here which is filled transition with and basically, I would say that 99% of the time, You probably just want to leave this on trimmed content. So what this does is it's basically just asking you, what do you want the video to do while this transition is taking place? So if you were to freeze frame, you will seize that. You will see things stop as the transition happens. And that's, I suppose a nice little effect there. And then you can make things go slow motion. But then it kinda makes it a little bit jumpy. So like I said, most of the time you're going to be using trimmed content. And then you have this here volume, which is actually great Dallas. And this is just because there's no soundtrack attached to the video. But basically what this does is it just asks you, how much volume do you want while the transition is taking effect? So maybe you can have the volume go down and then back up or you can make the volume louder is totally up to you. But yeah, it's not relevant at this time because our soundtrack is not attached to our video. So that's how you can put a transition into your videos and adjust the settings as well. So what you need to do for this next thing is just come to the import area here. Bring in your three wildlife videos and just place them wherever you want. So what I'm going to do with this is just get rid of the soundtrack that, well, I mean, it's there, but there's actually nothing there if you know what I mean. And I'll just zoom in a bit here, bringing the others here. So I'll bring in the sunset. Once again, I'll just click on the soundtrack and press Delete. And then finally I'll bring in my caterpillar video. Get the soundtrack and get rid of that. What I wanna do is just bring everything down to the length of the caterpillar video. And now what we're gonna do is we're going to put all of these videos side-by-side. And that'll make more sense in a second once you see what I mean. So first of all, I'll select one of these clips. I'll come to more tools. And then here we have position. And what we have here are different options to choose from. So quiet, simply, I can just click on any of these. And Mojave will quickly and conveniently placed my clip around within the video itself. So what I wanna do with this sunset is put this in the middle. Then I'll get the caterpillar video and put this on the left. And then I'll get the bird video and put it on the right. Now you'll see that things are not quite in frame, so the birds a little bit to the right here, the sun needs to be adjusted. The sunset and also the caterpillar is not quite right. So we're going to sort all of these out. And this can all be done within crop and rotate with the bird selected. I'll come to crop and rotate. And I'm going to move this around, sorry, this box around it, just centralize it within the middle. And then I'll, then I'll click apply and see what that looks like. Straightaway, things are looking much better. So do the same with the sun. And I'll click Apply. And then with the caterpillar crop and rotate, I'll just put the caterpillar in the middle like this, and then click Apply. And now we have this pretty nifty video that looks like this. So you can just take advantage of these crop and rotate the position feature here if you really want to. I mean, it is quite handy. Then of course, if you need to edit any of the videos to make them fit the frame properly, just go to crop and rotate. And then finally there's one last thing I want to show you, and that is going to be the logo option. Now, to be honest with you, I think this was just thrown in for the fun of it by Mojave. And it's not really necessary, I would say to have it, it's quite easy just to do this yourself. But what you can do with logo is you can get your logo. So let's go get the logo clip or sorry, the logo from the wildlife video. I'll come to add media files. Then I'll come to wildlife and just get the elephant logo here. And I'll click open. And I'll come to more tools. And then I'm going to click on Add logo. Are in fact I didn't need to import it and I just do it here. So just bring it, bring in the logo here. Click on Open. And you can see the logo is placed in the video for the full length. And what we can do now is just quickly adjust this to put it in the right spot. Like I said, you can probably just do this manually, but that feature is there if you really wanted to use it. Okay, So what I'll do now is I'll just delete this because I don't really want it. Now we have this pretty cool video where we have a nice bit of zooming in action, a nice bit of zooming out. And then we have this video that slides down a bit of a transition here. And then it just goes to something that's completely irrelevant to the original video that we are working on. Now, I suppose it's not something that Steven Spielberg's going to pass much money for. But I suppose it is something. So anyway, that's just a general overview of some of these are some of the more simple tools that are available within Mojave. 19. Creating a green screen. Best practices: I hope you enjoyed that preview of what can be done with a green screen. Now strictly speaking, you probably already had a kind of a good idea of how a green-screen works. But what I would like to do now before we jump into the next tutorial, where we will actually apply the chroma key settings to our green screen footage. I want to cover a few aspects that you should definitely consider when it comes to working with green screens. And there'll be done in this very brief PowerPoint presentation that I've put together for you. So there's really only four main steps that have to be taken in order to end up with a successful green-screen video. First of all, you just shoot the video with the green screen. Then you import that media into the video editor. You apply the chroma key and a few settings as well. And then you just export the video. So it's only four main steps. But I suppose before you do any of these steps here, there's one crucial step that you have to get right, and that is creating a green screen background. Now there's a few different ways of doing this. You can go out and you can buy a green screen as you probably already know. Or you could quite possibly do a painting option. You would just paint a wall or maybe some cardboard or something like that or whatever you choose to paint. But if you're wondering what the color is, the exact color as a color-coded green chroma key, which is also known as candy apple green. Now, if you were to go to a hardware store owner really depends. I suppose where you live in what store you go to. This color can be quite difficult to get a hold of, and you may have to resort to buying online. So the likes of Amazon or eBay. But the good news is you can just mix blue and yellow together until you get as close to green chroma key as you can. So that being said, I just want to say that the color of green does not need to be exact. And the truth being told, you can actually use any color that you want. It's just when it comes to green chroma key. It's quite a rare color and I think it was chosen right at the beginning when they came up with this technology. Because it's quite a rare color. You don't really see green chroma key very often. I suppose they wanted a very rare color because there would be less chance that the subject, whether it'd be a person or an item, would actually have that color on them or it So there would be no clashing Between the background. Or I should rather say there'll be a distinction between the background and the subject in the foreground. And other popular color is blue. But generally speaking, most green screens are green. And if you are going to go down the painting roots, then I suggest you use latex types of paint because they work best. And apparently they don't reflect that much. Because when it comes to the green-screen reflecting and they can reflect, they can mess around with the quality of the video. So just be aware of that. Like I mentioned, you can go out and buy a certain green-screen products. So this is a good example here, and I'm probably one of the more expensive options. Though. I think something like this would cost around a $100. So it depends on what you view as being expensive. In terms of lighting. The best lighting that I've heard of is probably LED lighting. Now I don't do much green-screen work myself and facts, I haven't really done any in a number of years. But I do remember that the best lighting was LED lighting. And generally speaking, LED lights are just great fulfilling anyway, because the light is just really soft. And it just disperses that light around the film scene nice and evenly at it, and it just looks nice. So here's a good example of some LED lights. Now these ones do look quite expensive, but there are some sort of cheaper ones out there that can do pretty much the same thing. You also get these types of lights that are predominantly used with the likes of photography. And I would say these types of lights work well as well. And if you're wondering what the keyword is for this, if you wants to go and maybe take a look at these types of lights on the likes of eBay or Amazon. I suppose you could just put in photography lighting or something like that and you will find something like this eventually. In fact, I have no doubt this is gonna be thousands of different options that you can choose from. Now I've put this really good illustration together of what quite possibly is the ideal setup when it comes to your subjects in the foreground, the lighting behind the subject, and then the green screen in the background. So in this particular example, I've just got this wall that I have quote-unquote painted. So this is the green-screen setup for this particular scenario. So we have this two light sources here and we can just view these light sources as being LED lights. And as you can see, there are light bars. Now the reason why I'd place them like this is just to make sure that we have that even distribution of light on the green screen. And as you go through these slides, I will get to a certain slide where I will show you what happens if you don't get the lighting correct. So we'll get there in a second. So this is another setup. Now you don't have to have the lighting exactly like this, so maybe lights in every single corner. But generally speaking, what I'm, what I'm trying to do here is just, once again, suggest that you need to get the lighting as even as possible on the green screen. So I think that's pretty straightforward. So here we have an example where we have one light source that is missing. And we have this dark patch here because obviously we're missing the light. So when you actually come to processing this video and applying the chroma key, you might, you may find that this darker patch will again just mess around with quality. And with these types of shadows, they often come up as a green kind of shadow that shows up your video. And the more you deal with green screens and, and in particular bad green screen footage, you'll know exactly what I mean. So it's definitely worth just trying to get your lighting correct? Right from the start. So you have as few problems as possible when it comes to actually applying the chroma key. And then when all is said and done, you should end up with a very high-quality video that looks something like this. Okay, so that's everything I wanted to explain with my PowerPoint. Now we're going to move over into the next tutorial where I said we were actually going to apply a chroma key to some green screen footage. So I'll see you in the next tutorial. 20. How to apply chroma key (Green screen) Part 1: On a scale of one to ten, with ten being really difficult. How difficult do you think it is to create a green screen video within Mojave or in other words, to apply a chroma key. I can positively say it's not a ten, but rather it's going to be maybe around a two or three. So it's actually quite simple. So anyway, let's make a start with this. So just come to add files. And what we want are these two items here within the Mojave project green-screen folder. So just bring these both in. Now I don't know why this is and maybe it's just a little bit of a bug. But there is a correct sequence that you need to take when dealing with a green screen footage in Mojave. So firstly, you need to bring in the background and then you need to bring in the green screen footage into the timeline. So bringing your background, which could be a photograph or maybe even a video. So in this case it's a photograph. Bring that onto your video track. And you can just extend this out if you wanted to turn around thirty-seconds. And then you need to add another track, another video track. So just click on that there. And then bringing the green screen footage. And that's the correct sequence you want to take. So you can see we do have a bit of a soundtrack here attached to this video that we don't need that. So I'll just click on it and press Delete. And I'll just shorten down the photograph to the correct length. Now before we get started, I'm going to just hide this video here, the green screen footage. I'll click on the eye. And first and foremost, I just want to adjust the photo so that we don't have these black lines on each side. So with the photo selected in the timeline, I'll come to more tools than under video editing. Come to position. And now we can just adjust this photograph so it fits the whole of the frame. So that's looking pretty good. So now we are ready to apply the chroma key. So just make the green-screen video visible, and I'll select it. Now what you need to do is just select a point where you want to apply the green screen, sorry, the chroma key. Now the reason why I've chosen this point is because preferably you wants to have the objects in, in front of the green screen. And this is just because, and it really depends on how well you create a new green screen in the first place. But when you have the objects in front of the green-screen, it changes the lighting in the background so that if you can see this, but when I just rewind the video here, you can see our green screen is quite kind of, it's a little bit dim. But when I fast forward a little bit, you can see it just becomes a little bit more brighter. So you can see there's a difference there in shading. So that's why I prefer to have the objects in front of the green screen before I apply the chroma key. Okay, so at this point I can come to more tools, video editing, then come to chroma key and just make sure your video, your green-screen video is selected at this point. And then straight away you are given the eyedropper tool and you can just click on your green-screen. Preferably when there is a nice shade of green. And straight away you can see we're in business. I'll video is up and running. We have a green-screen chroma key applied. And if I really wanted to, I could export this video. But before I do that, I just want to go through some of these settings here just to make sure that it is pretty good. So first of all, we have tolerance. Now sometimes it really depends on what you're working on. Tolerance doesn't do much. You do have to move this up and down considerably or quite a lot before he's actually see something happening. So you can see I've turned the tolerance down there and we're starting to get the green in the background. So I don't know most of the time, this is usually quite high when I do this kind of thing. So I'll just leave it on 80. Noise is just, it's just one of those things you can adjust just to see what it looks like. As you can see, it doesn't do much with this particular footage, but you can just adjust this if you want. But I'm just gonna leave it at 0 because I can't see any reason and using it, then we have edges. Now, if I put this up high, you can see we do have this edge around my hand. So this is just an art at the end of the day, you just have to move these sliders around and get it to the point that you'd like, and that'll be it. So if it looks good, then it is good. It's not gonna be perfect in all honesty. But that's just the way it is when it comes to creating green screen videos. But you just want to get it as close to perfect as possible. With the edges. I'm just going to bring this down a bit because I can see a bit of a gray line around my head. And then we have this here, which is the opacity. And I would say this, this is one of the bigger players when it comes to applying a chroma key. I'll leave that at four. And I think that's looking pretty good. So at this point I can just press play. Okay, so not too bad. Let's just fast forward a bit here and see what the box looks like. Excel, just pause there. So when it comes to opacity, if I were to turn this up, you can see we have this one of those little hook things on top of the box. I'm sure you're quite familiar with them. And when I just turn the opacity down, you can see it disappears. So the rest of the box looks good, my hand looks good, my jacket looks good. But because that's plastic and I suppose because it's see-through, it kind of disappears. So once again, things aren't going to be perfect, but you just want to get it as close as possible. And overall, I think that this is pretty good. Okay, So this video is ready to export. When you export a green screen video, there's no special setting or format that you have to export it in. You can just go ahead and export it like this. And there you will have your green screen video. All complete. 21. How to apply chroma key (Green screen) Part 2: Now attached to this tutorial, or quite possibly in the tutorial beforehand, there is a tiger video that you can download. Let's just bring that into the editor and work on that a little bit. So come to import and then come to the plus icon here, add media files, then go locate that Tiger video. For me, it's not actually an MOV projects. It is in this folder here. So here it is. So I'll just click on this and I'll click open. And what I'm going to do is I'm just going to extend the background photo here. And I'll bring in my target video and apply that just above like that. And I'll select the soundtrack and just get that out the way. What I wanna do now is apply the chroma key to this tiger video. You'll see that this is actually a pretty much a perfect green-screen video. Because when you actually look at the one that I've created, there are a few imperfections. So for instance, right there you can see I created a shadow on the green screen behind. And we have that effect taking effect. But this video here of the tiger, it's perfect. So what does this mean? Well, when it comes to apply your chroma key to a perfect green screen video, It's really easy and you don't really need to apply many of the settings. Let's go ahead and just apply a chroma key to this video and see what it looks like. So I'll select the Tiger video. Come to more tools. Chroma key. I'll select anywhere in the green. And what I'm going to do now is with the Tiger video still selected, come to more tools, video editing position. I'll just position this video to make it a little bit smaller. So we'll put our tiger right here. What I can do now is just press play. And we've got this pretty cool tiger walking on the beach. Okay, so notepad. So like I said, when the video is almost perfect, like what this green-screen video is, you don't really have to deal with the settings that much. But we'll take a look at the settings anyway. So we'll come to chroma key. And as you can see, even when I turn up the opacity, opacity by quite a lot, not much changes. Once again, because we're dealing with an almost, if not a perfect green-screen video. Same with edges, not much happens. Same with noise. And then we have tolerance. I suppose something will happen here. If I turn it down really low. I can see a little bit of green starting to show up. So yeah, we don't have to do much with the settings when the video is perfect. So anyway, that's everything for green-screen. For now. It's been quite a comprehensive topic to cover. Not only in this tutorial, but the previous tutorials. I would say that the hardest part is probably just getting a green screen set up in real life and getting all of the lighting correct. And those kinds of things. I've been there on many occasions trying to get it correct and it can be quite a pain. But yeah, that's probably the most difficult part. But once you have that footage and you haven't remove Abby, it's quite easy just to apply the chroma key. 22. How to record your screen. Part 1 : We're now going to take a look at movies, screen recording software. This is the software I've pretty much only used ever since I started to create courses, which is over six years ago. Now, there's a few reasons why I've stuck to move Abby screen recording software. A few of them being it is very cost-effective and the quality is very good. So both the visual and the audio quality. Of course, when it comes to the audio quality though, this really comes down to the quality of the microphone you're using. But if you have a very good microphone, then you're going to have obviously very good sound and then also a very good picture quality. So just one thing to note before we get started, I'm actually in PowerPoint, so I'll just press Escape here. So I knew I'd run into this problem when I wants to record this tutorial because I had to use the movie screen recorder to record this tutorial and I need to show you how it worked. And the only way to do this effectively was basically just to compile a whole load of screenshots and put them into PowerPoint and then present it that way. So yeah, we are in PowerPoint, but needless to say, it's still going to show you how the whole thing works. So I'm going to try go through this as fast as possible because there is quite a lot to cover. I'm just not gonna go into too much detail with some of the areas because it's just not necessary, because it's just really simple. Some of these areas, I'll just really simple to understand. But in any case, we'll make a start now. So of course, to launch your screen recorder, you would just click on Launch here under record computer screen. This tab will open up on the right. And here we have a few options. We'll take a look at these as we go through this tutorial. But to get up and running with a screen recording straight away, you will click on the camera option here. It'd be presented with a set of crosshairs. And what you wanna do now is just select where you want to record. So most of the time you're probably going to record your whole screen. So with the crosshairs, go up to the top left, click hold and drag and pull down to the bottom right to select the whole screen. Let go of the mouse clicker. And then we end up with this down here. Of course, if we click on the red button here, we would start our recording. But let's just quickly take a look at a few of the other settings that are available. We have the keyboard option here. If you were to turn this on when you export your video, it will show on the screen somewhere down in the center at the bottom, what buttons you pressed on your keyboard while you're making that recording. So that can be quite handy. This setting here puts a highlight around your cursor. Then this setting here amplifies the sound of your mouse clicking. And you may have heard this type of setting before. Next we have the system sound. If you wanted to record, let's say a game with your screen recorder, then you may want to turn on this option here. And this can actually be turned on and off while you are recording your screen. But you turn this on. If you want to directly record any sounds that come from your computer, then we have the web camera. If you were to turn this on, of course, you'd want to see what you look like within the web camera and maybe adjust a few of the settings as well. To do this, you can come to the Settings icon here, then within the settings here. And we'll take a look at this in more detail later on in this tutorial are quite possibly the next. But you'd want to come down to web camera. Choose the web camera that you want to use, sets the resolution to the highest resolution and then set the frame rate between 2430. All of this is grayed out for me at the moment because I didn't actually have my web camera turned on when I took these screenshots. But if I did turn it on, then all of these would have sort of figures and words and numbers inside of them. And I'd be able to adjust them. And of course we have a little preview window here that shows what you would look like within your web camera. Next is going to be the microphone setting. To choose which microphone you want to use. Click on this little arrow here. And of course you do have to click on the microphone itself just to turn it on. But click on the small arrow. And then you'd get a list of the microphones that are recognized by Mojave. As you can see, only have one available, which at the time was just my microphone on my laptop. But typically I would have to which is the laptop microphone and the microphone I'm using now. But at the time of taking the screenshot, my main microphone was not plugged in, but in any case, you would choose your microphone here and then you'd be ready to start your recording. A little piece of advice that I hope you will take on board with any type of recording. You always want to do a little bit of a test run. So all you have to do is just set everything up. So if you wants to use your web camera, which microphone you wants to use, you can turn on system sound, et cetera, record a little session only five to ten seconds long. And if it looks good, then carry on with the actual recording you want to do. Once you've adjusted all of your settings, you can now press the Record button. You get this little countdown timer of three seconds happen, and it gives you three shortcuts here you can use while you are making your According to have F9 to pause, F tend to finish and F8 for a snapshot, I do tend to use F ten quite a lot to finish my recordings. I suppose occasionally I might use F9 as well, just to pause the recording. And this usually happens when there's a dog barking next door and I have to pause the recording once that quiet hands down or press F9 again and just carry on with the recording. So once your recording, you do have this show at the bottom right-hand side of the screen. One thing to note about this, this does not show up in the actual recording itself. But as you can see, we do have a few tools here we can take advantage of. So we can turn the microphone on and off. We can turn the system sound on and off. And then we have some settings here. Now I can't quite remember which settings were available with this, but it wasn't the main settings, the settings we saw just now, when I showed you how to set up the web camera, I believe there was only one setting you could adjust. So if you're planning on just giving this a test, just click on that little gear icon to see what happens. But yeah, I'm pretty sure there was only one setting that was available within that area. Then you have a little pencil here. And what you can do with this as you can just write on the screen while you're recording it. And then you can take a screenshot as well. And if you were to click on this, it would just get copied to the clipboard and then you could just paste it into paint or something like that. Then of course you can also pause and remember the shortcut for that as F9. And then F to stop the recording. Or you can just click on stop here. Once you click on stop, you'll be presented with this window. At this point, if you didn't want the video, you can just hit the red X here and it will go to the recycle bin. But if you wanted to keep the video, you can click on Export, give you a recording. A name by default will be saved to the movie screen recorder folder. But you can change the destination if you wanted to hear. The format will be set to this by default, which in most cases, it's best just to leave it on this and leave the quality on better quality as well. So now you can click save. The video will start to export. The next, you can click on Show in folder. And here you have access to the video you've recorded. So it's pretty straightforward stuff. Next we have this camera option here, which is actually a screenshot feature. So if you were to click on this, you can just click hold and drag over an area that you want to capture. I remember this is just capturing an image and not a video. So you can just select the area, let go of the mouse clicker. You'll end up with something that looks like this. So you can copy it to clipboard. You can share it on various channels like YouTube and I think a few other channels as well. And you can use the various tools here to write within the screenshot itself. But if he wants to keep this, you can just click on the Save icon here. And I'll get saved to the movies TV screen recorder folder. And here it is. We're pretty much done with this for now. Next, we're going to take a look at the main settings for the screen recording software. So we'll start with that in the next tutorial. 23. How to record your screen. Part 2: Alright, so let's take a look at some of the settings for the screen recording software. So some of them are obviously quite straightforward. So what I'll do is I will just quickly whip through them as fast as possible. Feel free to speed up this tutorial if you wanted to with the playback speed settings, or you can just leave it as it is. Or in some cases, you may even want to slow me down wherever the cases you can choose what you want to do. Alright, so first of all, we have general here. And if you read through these different settings that we have, I think they are quite straightforward. So by default, they are set to what they are now. So you have all of these checks on down here, and then these two are usually checked off. In most cases you're probably going to leave them as it is, but you can read through them and just adjust them. If you really wanted to hear, you can choose where the video exports to. And you can also save room on your computer. You can check this here. So if you export the video, it will delete the original recording. And then you have the screenshot format, which is usually best set to PNG. But if you wanted to, you could set it to JPEG. If you really wanted. It just has a list here of the different keyboard shortcuts that you can use while you're making your recording. And you can actually adjust these as well if you really want it to. So with this next one, I suppose this is quite important. Now I don't know if you know this, but when it comes to big Hollywood blockbusters, I believe the frame rate that they use for their films is 2424 frames per second. So I would say that leaving this on Thursday is probably going to be adequate enough. But if he really wants to, you can put it up or maybe you can put it down. But it is set to 30 by default. And that's probably for a good reason. But one thing to note with this, if you put this up higher, the videos you capture will take up more memory. Moving on to audio quality. So the settings you see now are the default settings. But if you wanted to quite possibly put this up, you could go ahead and do that to get better audio quality. And this might actually be a good idea if you're using a very low quality microphone, and then you have this setting here to reduce the microphone background noise. I've never really used this before, but you can check this on and give it a test just to see what it sounds like. We've already taken a look at the web camera tab here. Then we have these settings. Now I don't know if you can recall in the previous tutorial, just before we were able to press Record, we did have a few options to get an animation of the various keys you press on your keyboard while you're making your recording. And then also to put a highlight around the cursor. And also to sort of amplify the mouse clicking of your mouse. And all of these settings can be adjusted here within the Effects tab. So you can just take a look at this. And then finally we have sharing. So by default you have these two different share options. Obviously one is YouTube and the other one, I think as Google Drive. In some cases, you may want to upload the videos you create with Mojave to YouTube. But I'd recommend that you go directly to the website and do it there. But in any case, you can sign in to YouTube here into your YouTube account and quite possibly upload straight from Mojave onto YouTube. And then of course we have the Google Drive option. So if you wanted to upload your video straight to Google Drive, you can sign in here and go through the various steps to upload directly to Google Drive. So overall, the settings are quite straightforward and they don't really need an in-depth explanation. Of course, it would pay dividends for you to just look through these various settings and find the ones you want to maybe change, go ahead and change them, give them a test which is always recommended. And if you like it, then you can keep them. If you don't think you can go back and you can just adjust those settings accordingly. 24. Introduction to Key frames (Animation): It's now time to take a look at keyframes or what is also known as animation. So straight off the bat, I'll just let you know that the animation feature in Mojave is not too bad, but it could be better. I will just give you a quick example here. So first of all, I have this graphic that I've put together. And the idea is to use the animation feature just to get this little red car to drive down the road and then make an exit at the top right-hand side of the screen. So first of all, I'll show you what this looks like using another video editing program, Adobe Premiere Pro. So we'll take a look at that. As you can see, the animation is nice and smooth and I'm able to change the direction of the vehicle. And of course I could spend just a little bit more time making it even more perfect. But it still serves its purpose. Okay, so let's take a look at the same animation using the animation within Mojave. So as you can see, as the vehicle is making its way down the road, things don't look quite right. It keeps going off the road. So the thing is with the animation feature, it's just not quite as intricate as you'd want it to be within Mojave. But then again, that doesn't mean it's completely useless. I've got this other video of this red arrow. And the idea is just to use the animation feature to point at the green dots. So I did this with the Mojave video editor. So let's just take a look at that quickly. So as you can see, the arrow just moves around the screen pointing at the green dots. And then towards the end, it leaves the frame and it comes up from the bottom. So you can see it's still pretty useful. Okay, so let's take a look at how to animate within Mojave. 25. Key frames (Animation): The files you need for this tutorial are of course, in the Mojave project files. So come to Add Files. And I'll just go back here a little bit. It's the keyframes folder. Just select all of these and then click on open. What we're gonna do is you're going to bring in this into the timeline, this picture. Why should really say illustration that I put together and then come to the track manager here. And then just add a new video track. And then bringing the arrow and put this above. So as I showed you in the previous, Well, I wouldn't say it was a tutorial, but rather just a video. I showed you how when it came to the car animation, it didn't look that good. So what I'll do is I'll show you how the animation works using these two items, the arrow and the four green dots. And then I'll give you a quick overview of why the car animation doesn't actually work within Mojave. So we'll get there when we get that. First of all, we want to resize our arrow here. So I'll just select it. And I don't know if you can remember how to re-size something in Mojave. You can select the item in the timeline. Come to more tools than under video editing, come to position. This box will appear around your item. You can just shrink it down. Like so. And for some reason that my computer's a little bit jumpy at the moment. I wonder if I've got too many programs open, but I think it will do. So I don't know if I've shown you this before, but there are these guides that show up like this to show you where the exact center is within your video. And to turn those on, you can come to the three dots here. And then just make sure that enabled guides is clicks on. Obviously mine says disabled guides because it's already turned on. Okay. So that's ready to go now. So I can start to place in my animations. So I'll select the arrow. Come to more tools than under video editing. Come down to animation. And we'll jump straight into advanced. Once you understand how advanced works, then you'll have a good understanding how, of how the easy animations work. So you can just come to advanced. Straightaway, just click on Add animation. Lets you can see we've ended up with these two keyframes here. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to drag the first one to the beginning here, not right at the beginning, but around the 10 second mark. And then I'll just bring the other one close to it as well. Now what I can do is I can just click on the keyframe. And within the preview window, I can move this box around. So I'm going to just spin it round like this and place it here. Now what happens is if I press Play, you can see that it moves into position. I want, I'll do is I'll just shorten the length of this. So let me just zoom in a little bit here so we get a better view of this. So all I did there was just shorten this down to make it a little bit faster. Okay, so we're ready to put it in our next keyframe. So I'll click on Add keyframe. And what I'll do with this keyframe is I will move it close to the previous key frame and then move forward and then click on Add keyframe. And a way to adjust this one now, points to the top right. So why have I put this extra key-frame in here? Well, that's just to provide a pause. So the arrows stays in position for as long as I want. So if I were to just put a larger gap in-between these two key frames and press Play. You can see it stays in position. And then it moves. If I didn't put that extra key-frame in there, the arrow would come down to the bottom right. And then as soon as it arrives here, straightaway would start moving up to the top one. Alright, so now I'm going to make it points to the bottom left. So click on Add keyframe. And once again, just leaving that gap between the previous keyframe and the present one. I'll move forward. Add another keyframe. Then I'll adjust this here. Once again, I'll move forward at key frame. Move forward once again, add another keyframe. And now I can adjust the arrow. We can take a quick look at that. Okay, so that's looking pretty good. So I'll add one last keyframe, fast-forward a little bit. I'll add another one. And what I'm going to do now is a way to straighten out the arrow. Whoops, see Daisy, I just resize it there and I don't want to do that. I'll straighten out the arrow and put it in the center once again. And now the arrow will move into the center. Now what I'll do is with this last keyframe, is I'll just bring it up like this, so it exits the preview window. And then I'm going to just cut this at around here. Come back to my files and I'll click hold and drag and pull another arrow n. And of course, because I've just put it into the timeline, I am offered this opportunity to resize it as I wish. I'll go ahead and do that and our re-center it. I'll come back to more tools, animation, advanced, add key frame. As you can see, we have two keyframes. And what I want this last keyframe to do is to stay where it is. But with this first keyframe, I'll select it and then just click hold and drag and pull the arrow down. Arrow leaves. And then it comes back. And that's the end of our animation. I'm not going to bother pressing Play to show you all of that again, but you can see how that works. So with regard to these keyframes, as a few other things you can do, I did just a moment ago, show you that you can resize the item itself. So you can add a keyframe. And I'll add another one here. And this time I'll make it small. And I'll make it just go somewhere here. Then you'll notice that we also have straighten and opacity. So once again, I'll add a keyframe and another one. And with this key frame, I could do something like this. I can adjust the rotation and the opacity as well to make it disappear. So let's go ahead and see what that looks like. Okay. So pretty handy stuff. So like I said at the beginning, once you understand how, uh, how the advanced animation works, which is not all that advanced. You will understand how the easy ones work. Okay, so just moving on to the car and the road graphic slash animation. What I'll do is I'll just shrink the car down here with position because a little bit too big at the moment. So as I showed you in the previous video, this animation doesn't work that well. But if you really want to, you can try and animate this car and just get it to go along this road. And I think that will serve as a good exercise. Of course, you can do the same thing with the full green dots and the arrow. But once you know how to get this car to move down the road and tickets parking space and go well along this road here and make an exit. Once you know how to do that, then I would say that you are already overly qualified with how to use animation or keyframes within Mojave.