Shotcut Video Editing Complete Class - Beginner to Advanced

1. Introduction: Hi and welcome to my course. Thank you so much for enrolling to my course. I'm really excited to have you here. Now that we are in the course, I want you to make the most out of the course in order to get the maximum benefit from the course. I have a few advices for you which if you follow, you'll be well on your way to using shortcut and editing videos like a professional. The first thing that I want to talk to you about is practice. Like everything else, shortcut has its learning curve too. What I would suggest is that as and when we go over the lectures in this course, you can pause the video and practice. Along that way, you will have a good understanding of what is going on in the course and it will also help you consolidate your learning. The next thing that I want to be talking to you about is not skipping lectures. This course is arranged in a particular way so that the knowledge that is provided to you in each and every lecture is in a chronological order. Each lecture is connected to the next one and the flow of knowledge makes sense in that way. If you skip lectures and go over to the next one, just because the other topic interests you more or for any other reason, there'll be a gap in your learning and you might find yourself really confused at the end of the course. Please don't not skip lectures. The third thing that I want to be talking to you about is questions. I'm sure that you will have a lot of questions. I have tried to keep my language as simple as possible. I have not used any jargons in places where I have absolutely had to. I have broken down the meaning of what that jargon really means, that there's no confusion after taking the entire course. If you still have questions, you can feel free to reach out to me and I will get back to you as early as I can. Those are all the advices that I have for you and I really hope that you will enjoy the course and learn a lot from it. Let's get into it. 2. Install : In this lecture, I'm going to show you how you can install shortcut on your system. In order to install shortcut, we'll head over to Google. I will just search for shortcut. The first result that we get on Google is the URL that we are supposed to go to. It's Shortcut.org This is what the website looks like. Once you're on this page, all you have to do is click on Download from the menu options. Once you're on the download page, you will need to select from which website you want to download. Shortcut, you can either download it from Fosub or Gethub, and you can get the installer directly or get it as a zip file. And this is totally up to you. Once you have this shortcut file, you just have to double click on it and click on yes on the next dialog box that you get. And once you click on Yes, you will be asked to agree to the license agreement. Just click on I agree. And we'll just click on next. We are just going to leave these check boxes as they are and click on Install. Once you have shortcut installed, this is what the interface would look like. In the next lecture, we will go over these two windows and try to understand what they do. 3. Start Screen: In this lecture, we will go over these two windows and understand what they do inside shortcut. The first window that we have over here is the new projects window, and this window will be used to create a new project inside shortcut. The first option that we have over here is the projects folder option. Like the name suggests, you can use this option to choose where your project is saved. You can just click on at once and choose any path where you want to stow your shortcut project. The next option here is the project name. And you can just click on this empty box and type in a name for your project. I'll just call this project One. The next option here is the video mode option. You can choose the dimensions of the canvas of your project with the help of this option. This option is really important because you need to know what dimensions you want your final exported video to have. Right now, my canvas is set to 720 HD with 50 frames per second. But if you want to change that, you can just click on this option once. You can choose any dimensions based on the end video that you're trying to get. If you're not sure about what kind of dimensions you want and you're okay with any kind of dimensions, you can set the video mode to automatic. That will allow shortcut to set the canvas size based on the dimensions of the first video that you import into it. I will just let this be to 720 HD. And to create the project, I can click on Start. But before that, let us go over the second window. This window will show the most recent projects that you have worked on inside shortcut. Right now, I have a couple of projects over here that I have worked on recently. But if you have just installed shortcut, you won't see any projects over here. However, after you create your first project and you open shortcut, the next time you will be able to see the project right here. And you can double click on that project for easy access. All right, let us now go ahead and click on Start. Now once I click on Start, Shortcut has created my project and it has named it project one. Like you can see, Shortcut saves all of its project as Lt file. Once you're in your project, chances are that your layout might not look like it is visible on my screen right now. In the next lecture, I will show you how you can set up your workspace. 4. Set up Your Workspace: In this lecture, I'm going to be showing you how you can set up your workspace like I have. Like I told you in the previous lecture, your workspace might not be looking like mine. And that's totally fine. You can set it up just like I have now. The reason why I tell you to set up your workspace like I have is because I have tried all other different combinations and I feel like this one works best. Now the first thing that I want you to understand is that all the elements that you see on your screen right now are fully customizable. That means that all of these elements are not fixed and you can change their position in any way that you like. For example, if I want to move this audio peak meter to where my job's window is right now, I can just left click and drag it. Now my audio peak meter is where the job's window was previously. If I want the jobs window where it was previously, I can drag it back. With the help of this blue highlight, I can figure out where it will land to resize it. I can just hover over this dotted line, left click and drag. That increases the size of the window. Similarly, I can increase the size of the audio peak meter. I can change the size of my timeline and view window from here. Similarly, I can change the size of the filters window just like that if you don't want to be seeing a particular window. You can also close it by clicking on this cross icon that you see on each and every window. Once you click on the cross icon, that window will be closed. If you want to make that feature a part of your workspace, again, you will have to find that feature from the tool bar at the top and click on it once. Now you will have that window back on your workspace. If you don't find that feature over here, you can also find it from under the view menu. From the menu bar here you have all the features listed out. All right, so that is how you set up your workspace inside Shortcut. In the next lecture, we will go over all of these windows that you see. We will briefly go over their functionality and try to get a basic understanding of what these windows do. 5. Windows Overview: In this lecture, we will go over all of the windows that you see inside shortcut and try to briefly understand what they do. Let us first start by going over these 2 bars that you see at the top. The first bar is quite obvious, it is the menu bar. Just like menu bars for all other programs that you use on your computer, this will have several menu options which we will be going over later. The second bar that we have over here is the tool bar. This has several tools that you will need to access frequently when working with shortcut. Besides all of these tools, we also have several modes in which you can watch and edit your video inside shortcut. We will be going over these modes later during the course. Our next window is actually a combination of four features that you can toggle between from this list. The first option here is the playlist, the second is filters. The third is properties, and the fourth is export. All four of these options execute different functions inside Shortcut. The playlist will hold all of your videos that you want to edit. Inside Shortcut, the filters will have all the effects that you can apply to your videos. Properties will show the properties of the video clip that you're dealing with. The last option is quite obvious, it's the export option. With the help of all the settings inside the export tab, you will be able to export your final video. The next window over here is the view window. You can view what you're editing on this window. Also, you can preview all of your videos before you import them in your project on this window. Our next window here is the audio peak meter, and this will show you the loudness of your audio. The jobs window will give you a list of all the export jobs that are going on inside shortcut. And finally, the most important window is here at the bottom. And this is totally empty right now. This window is called the time line. The timeline will hold all of your audio and video clips that you're editing in your project. All right, that was about all of the windows inside Shortcut. In the next lecture, I will show you how you can create tracks your timeline. 6. Creating Tracks: Okay, so in this lecture I will show you how you can create your first audio and video track inside shortcut. Before working with audio or video inside shortcut, it is extremely important that you create a track inside your timeline. Bear in mind that you need to have an audio track for an audio and a video track for a video. Otherwise, you might run into problems trying to edit a different type of a file that is placed on the wrong track. All right. In order to add tracks to your timeline, you will need to click on these three lines, which is called the Actions Menu. Once you click on the Actions menu, you have to hover over Track Operations. From here you can add a video track. The keyboard shortcut is Control, which will do the same thing. If you want to introduce audio on your project, you will need an audio track. In order to add an audio track, the process is just the same. Click on the Actions menu, hover over Track Operations, and click Add Audio Track. Now for almost all cases, you will have to add the audio to the audio track, but you can edit an audio on a video track in the case of one exception. That exception being that the audio is already integrated with your video. If you do not understand that just yet, that is not an issue. We will be covering all of this later down the line in this course. That is it for adding audio and video tracks. In the next lecture, we will be importing a first video clip inside shortcut. 7. Importing Video: In this lecture, I will show you how you can import a video file inside Shortcut. In order to import a video file, you will first need to click on open file. Once you click on open file, this will open up the file from the File Explorer. You can select any video file that you want to work with inside shortcut. Right now I have these two videos that I want to be working with. What I will do is that I will click and drag over these two files, which selects both of these files. Next, I will click on Open. Now once I click on Open, you see that the first video data select will start playing on this window. Right now, this window is acting as a preview window. Now you might be thinking that we added two videos in. Where's the other one? Well, it's right here on a playlist. The moment you import more than one file, shortcut will automatically select the playlist option. On this window, you will be able to see all of your imported videos on your playlist. If I want to preview the second video that I imported, I can just double click on it. Now I can preview that video on the preview window. Now if you want to import these videos from the preview window onto the timeline, you will just need to left click and drag it on the video track. Now the video clip is inserted into your project. I will just zoom out by clicking on this negative button that zooms out the video clip. Now let us see how we can import a video file from the play list into our timeline. In order to import a video from your play list into your timeline, you will have to left click on that video clip and just drop it on your time line. Now we have these two different video clips on our time line. Note that if you drag a video clip onto another video clip, it will delete the existing part of that video clip in order to place this new video clip. This feature is called overwriting. That is how you add a video file into shortcut. In the next lecture, we shall be adding an audio file into our project. 8. Audio Importing & Integration : In this lecture, I will show you how I work with audio inside shortcut. I'll show you exactly how I import and integrate it along with my videos. The process to import an audio file and shortcut is just the same as a video file. We'll go over to Open File and click on at once. And you'll have to browse to the location where you have saved your file. Once you locate that file, you just have to double click on it. And once you double click on the file, it will start playing the audio on the preview window with a white background. From here, you can either place this audio in your playlist or you can click and drag it into your project. Now you have that audio on the audio track in your timeline. And now if I play this video, you will hear the audio and you can see the visuals on the screen from here. If you want, you can also export this video. Now you will have a cool background track to go along with this video. There are also a bunch of other things that you can do with the help of this feature. For example, you could use a cat sound over here and place it on the audio track and compile it as a single video that has the cat sound already integrated into it. Let me just quickly go ahead and expo this video so that I can show you the end result. I will just delete the second part of the video and the audio that goes along with it. Don't worry about how I'm doing this right now. We will cover everything about editing on a different lecture. Now I have only a short clip of the entire video left. I'll go ahead and export this again. Don't worry about all these export settings. I'll just leave them the way they are and just export the file. I'll just call this final export. I will save this onto my desktop and now if I delete all of these clips that I have on my timeline and import my final exported video, you will be able to see that the audio is now integrated on the video. There you go. So now you see an audio waveform below the video, and if I play this, you will also hear the audio along with the video. Do you remember in one of our previous lectures, we were talking about an exception under which you could edit audio on a video track. This is what I was talking about. If your audio is integrated along with your video, you can place it on your video track and edit it without any issues. All right, so that is how you import audio inside Shortcut. Place it on your project and integrate it along with your video. In the next lecture, I will show you some of the ways in which I make my work easier when working with the preview window. 9. Preview Hacks: In this lecture, I will show you some of the tricks that I use on the preview window to save me a lot of time when editing my projects. First of all, I will go over to open file and I will just open the video that we saw previously. In order to pause the preview, you can use the pause and plea option over here, but what I like to do is that I just push the space power on my keyboard, and that does the same thing. Alternatively, I can also use the L key. If I push L on the keyboard, you can use it to play the preview. Right now, the clip that I've imported inside shortcut is roughly 10 seconds long. But in most cases, when I'm trying to edit my projects, most of the clips that I import inside my project are 10 minutes and longer. If I'm trying to find a certain part of that video and import it in my project, I cannot sit through the 10 minutes of preview just to find that part of the video. What I do is that I use the fast forward button or the Vine button as and when required. Alternatively, what I also do is that I use this time bar. If I click anywhere on this blue strip, it will take me to that part of the video. You don't have to sit through the entire video trying to preview it just to find a certain part of the video. Let us now say that you found the part of the video that you're interested in importing inside shortcut and you want to import just that part of the video and leave out the rest. How can you do that? That's really simple. What I do is that I use these arrow keys. I just left click on them and drag them to where I want my video to start. Let us say at 3 seconds, I do the same thing with this arrow at the end. Let me drag this to 5 seconds. Now if I left click on the preview and drag it onto my video track, I will get just the part of the video from 3 seconds to 5 seconds. Let's play this. This trick is an absolute lifesaver. Be sure to use this one when you edit your projects inside shortcut. Also, if I'm trying to jump over to the end of the preview, I use this arrow over here. It's a small arrow with a line in front of it. Do not confuse this with the fast forward one. If I'm trying to go over to the beginning of the preview, I use this arrow again, just be sure that you do not confuse it with the rewind button. These two arrows are really helpful right now since we imported a video onto the timeline. This is where the cursor would change. There you go. It's at the beginning of the clip. If I want to go over to the end of the clip, I'll use this one now it is at the end of the clip. One more trick that I often use is that if I don't want to be hearing the audio that comes along with the video I'm trying to import, I just use the mute button over here. From here I can just drag it down to whatever volume level I want to drag it down to. Or else I can increase the volume from here as well. This tool is especially handy when you're working with video clips that have really loud volume levels. You can just use this to mute it directly or reduce its volume level, like I showed you. At any point, if you want to un, mute it, just click on the muted speaker and click on the speaker can again, and that brings the volume back. Those are some of the tricks that I used with the view and preview window. In the next lecture, I will show you some of my ways in which I can edit video clips really fast inside shortcut. 10. My Editing Hacks: All right, let me now show you some of the tricks that I use when editing projects inside Shortcut to save myself a lot of time and effort. First things first, I'll go over to my playlist and I will import one video onto the video track. I will import an audio onto the audio track. Okay. Like you see, my audio file is exceeding the window and I'm not able to see what is going on inside my entire project on one screen. If I want to fit everything inside my view, I can just push zero on my keyboard. Now my entire project will be fit on one window or one view, And I no longer have to scroll through the entire timeline to be able to see my project. The second thing that I notice is that the audio file is far exceeding my video clip. If I want to get rid of this extra audio information, I can just come over to the end of the audio clip. Once my cursor has turned into this double headed arrow, I can just left click, drag it all the way in to the end of the video clip. Now that is one way of doing it. I will just hit control Z on my keyboard and undo the change. Now let me show you the second trick that I use. In such scenarios, I just place my cursor at the end of the video clip and make sure that all the required information is on one side of the cursor and all the unwanted stuff is on the other side. Now I will just split this audio clip into two halves. Now you can either do that by hovering over the audio file at the playhead, and once you right click on the audio clip, you will see this option split at Playhead. But what I do instead is that I just press on my keyboard, that's a lot easier, and it does the same thing. Now if I move my playhead, you see that audio clip is split into two halves. Now all I have to do is get rid of the second half of the audio clip. You can do that by right clicking on the audio clip and clicking on remove, or else you can push delete on your keyboard. Now the file is gone. Now, just so you know, the remove option and the delete option do vastly different things inside shortcut, even though you might expect them to do the same thing. Let me quickly show you the difference. Now let us say that I want to split my video clip from here. I will select my video track. Once it is highlighted, I will place my playhead wherever I want to split it at and push on my keyboard. Now my video is split into two different clips. I will just hover over the second video clip. Once my cursor has turned into this hand I can, I will just left click and drag this clip apart. Now there's this gap in visuals even though the audio goes on. Now if I write, click on this empty space and click on Remove. It will remove this gap between the visuals. Now our video clips are placed together, however, the audio information that was there is now gone. That is because we have ripple edit across all tracks active. If you want to remove this piece for just the track that you have selected, you will have to turn off the ripple edits for all tracks. Now if I undo everything and remove the space on the video track, only the space between the video clips has gone and my audio information is intact. Now, whether or not you want ripple editing across all tracks on depends on your editing style. For me, ripple edit across all tracks works better. And that's the reason why I always keep this one active. Now let me show you an easy way to use the remove option to access remove easily without ever using the mouse. You can just click on that you want to remove and press X on your keyboard that will remove that particular clip with. Now as you see, the second clip has taken up the place of the first one, all without you having to put in the effort to manually move the video and the audio file. Let's undo that. Those were some of the editing tricks that I often use when working inside shortcut. In the next lecture, I will show you some more editing tricks that you will often require when editing your projects inside shortcut. 11. More Editing Hacks: In the previous lecture, we went over how you can use the remove feature. In this lecture, we will compare it with the delete feature. In order to do that, I will just select the video track. I will split it from this point. Now let us say I want to delete this video clip. I will just select that particular clip and press Delete on my keyboard. Now that clip is gone. However, the main difference that you can observe is that unlike remove, delete, just deletes that particular clip and the clips following the deleted clip do not take its place and move over to where our playhead is. I use delete over Remove when I'm trying to place some other video clip in this empty space and I do not want the clips following it to take over this space. Let's undo this by pressing control Z. Now let us move on to another trick that I use when editing these clips inside Shortcut. This editing feature is called transition. This feature allows us to have smooth transitions between two video clips. Just to give you an example, I will pull in some other video clip on the video track. Now when I play this, you will see that there's a sudden transition from this video to another. Okay? You can easily figure out that some other video has started over here, because there's no transition between this video and this one. In order to add a transition, all you have to do is drag over one video on top of the other. I will just select this video clip by left clicking on it. And when I drag it onto our first video clip, there is now this area of the clip which has been converted into a transition. Now if I left click on the timeline and change my playhead to this position. Now when I play it, you will see a soft transition between these two videos. You could see how these videos morphed into each other and there was a smooth transition as opposed to a that we saw earlier. Now if you want to change the type of transition, you can just click on the transition and click on Properties next. From this dropdown, you can change the type of the transition. For example, if I change it from dissolved to bar horizontal, you will see a different type of a transition now, okay? You can also change the direction of the transition by checking invert wipe, and now the direction of that transition will be different, okay, so it went from left to right to right to left. Let's just uncheck this. The next option over here is softness. And this basically determines how soft you want the edges of the transition to be. If I take my play head over to the transition, you can see that there is some a separation between these two videos. You can see the soft edge right here. Now, if I change the softness to 100% it's a lot more softer. And if I reduce it all the way to zero, there's a hard divide between these two videos. A setting of 20% works best according to me. But you can feel free to experiment for yourself. The next hack that I want to show you is my personal favorite, and this one is called snapping. Now when you're editing several video clips and let's say that you split them into parts, Let's say you want to manually move it so that it is at the border of this particular clip. Turning on snapping makes things a lot easier with snapping on, when I move this clip over to the other one, it will directly snap to the border of that particular clip. However, if I have snapping off, it becomes really difficult for me, and I might end up making mistakes and placing it on top of the other clip, creating a transition. There's a micro transition going on over here like you can see. I would highly recommend that you always keep snapping on and we will just undo everything. Okay, A few more tricks that I often use are these options that you see on the track. This icon will help you hide the video visuals so that you can see the rest of the tracks below it. Sometimes you might have multiple video tracks. On a project, you might have more than one video clip on the same time frame. In that case, the video that is on the topmost video track will be shown. If I click here, you will only be able to see the video which is on the topmost video track. In case I do not want to be seeing that video, I can just use this option to hide it. Now, I will be able to see the video below it. If I want to see it again, I can click on this option again, that will show the video clip on this video track. Again, also, if I'm trying to mute a particular video track, I can just use the speaker option. Once I click on it, it will mute that particular video track. Right now, we do not have any audio integrated onto this video clip. However, if we had any audio on this particular video clip, it would be muted and we would only be able to hear the audio on our audio track. The last option over here that I often find myself using is the lock option. You would use the lock track when you want to lock that particular track, and you do not want any changes to be made to the data present in that particular track. Now, if I tried to move this particular video clip, you see that shortcut is indicating that a track is locked and I cannot make any changes to it. For the most part, I use this feature to prevent myself from making any accidental changes to that particular track. If I want to unlock it, I just press the lock button again and that unlocks the track and I can make any changes that I finally, the last thing that I want to talk to you about is that any editing that you do inside shortcut is non destructive in nature. Let's say that I split this particular clip into two halves and delete this part of the clip. I can always bring it back by going over to the edge of the clip left clicking and dragging it out. Now I have the entire clip again. The same goes for audio. If I select the audio track and split this audio clip and delete this part, I can bring back the audio clip by going over to the edge of the clip left clicking and dragging if I want. I can also delete this transition and bring back the clips that were once a part of that transition. There you go. All right, those are all the editing tricks that save me a lot of time and work when editing projects inside shortcut. In the next lecture, I will show you how you can add special effects to your videos. 12. Effects & How To Use Them: In this lecture, we are going to go over a few effects that you can add to your audio and video inside shortcut. Now there are hundreds of effects for video and audio inside shortcut. Going over all of these filters in this course will not be feasible. We will go over the most used effects, or the most helpful effects that are present inside shortcut, and these effects are the most widely used ones. In order to access filters, AKA effects, you will have to first select the clip on which you want to apply that effect and then click on filters that pulls up a list of all the available effects that you can apply to that clip. There is also a further segregation of video effects and audio effects that you can access by clicking on them. Just to be sure that you're using the correct effect, I would suggest that you choose the effect from here. Right now, since we have selected a video clip, I will click on video. These are all the effects that you can apply to your video. Now, scrolling through all of these effects can be really time consuming. What I do instead is that I just go over to the search bar. I just type in the name of the filter that I'm looking for that will pull up that particular filter. The first filter that I'm going to show you is the size position and rotate. I will just type in size. I now have the size position and rotate filter. To be sure that you're using a video filter, you can refer to this icon beside the filter which indicates video that opens up the filter options. You can tweak the filter settings with the help of these options. If at any point you want to disable the filter, you can just click on this checkbox that will disable the effect. If you want to enable it again, just click on the checkbox again, and that will enable the filter. If you want to delete the filter altogether, just click on this negative button with the filter that you want to delete selected, and that will delete that particular filter. I will add the filter again. Now let me show you how to use this particular filter. This filter comes in with three effects. The first will allow you to change the size of the video. The second will allow you to position the video the way you want it inside your canvas. And the third will allow you to rotate. Now under the size setting, you can also zoom in to a particular part of the video. Let's say that I want to zoom in on this cat. I can just change the zoom, 100-190 Now my video has zoomed in quite a bit. However, the cat is not at the center of the canvas. In order to bring the cat over to the center of the canvas, I can use the position setting. I can either change the position from here or else I can just hover over this option at the center of the frame. Left click and drag. That allows me to position my video the way I want it. Apart from changing the size and changing the position, this filter also allows me to rotate the video. Let's say that I want this video to be a tilted. I can do that with the help of the rotation option over here. However, what I like to do, I use this little dot at the top of the filter on my view screen. I just click and drag it the way I want to rotate my video. Now if I play this video, you will be able to see it with this effect applied. Bear in mind though, that this effect will only be applicable until the clip ends. Once the clip is over, so will be my effect there. You see it also, once you apply filters to your clips, your video will start lagging a little bit, but that is only inside shortcut. Once you export the final video, it will be smooth. If you want to change some setting of the filter to default, you can just use this option and that will restore that particular setting to default. If I click reset on zoom, it goes back to 100. Also, if you do not want your effect to be going on forever, just make sure that you separate the part of the video on which you want to apply that effect by splitting it from the rest of the video. Let's say I want to apply my effect just on the part of the video from 20 seconds up until this point. I can just split it and select this clip and apply some other effect to it. Now this effect will be applied to just this particular clip, and if I go over to my previous clip, this effect will not be present because it is not applied to the first clip. There you go. So there was a little about how you can use filters inside shortcut and how to use the size, position and rotate filter. In the next lecture, we will go over a few more important filters that are widely used inside shortcut. 13. Video Filters: In this lecture, we will go over a few important video filters that are widely used in shortcut. In order to demonstrate the video filters, I have selected the first video clip. I will just go ahead and mute my audio because we don't need it. I'll just bring over my playhead to the beginning of the video. We will take a look at this filter called glitch. This filter will just add a glitch to your video. Let's just play this so that you can see what I'm talking about. Okay, now there are these important settings that are related to this filter. The first one is frequency, and this will decide how frequent these blocks appear. If I change this value to about 18% the frequency of these blocks appearing will be much lower. The next setting is block height. Right now the blocks are really tall. If I want to reduce the height, I can reduce it from here. Now the block height is much smaller. The next one is shift intensity, and this will decide how intensely these blocks change position. So if I reduce this, the blocks will change position much lesser than before. Okay? And the last one is color intensity. Right now, our blocks are changing colors quite frequently. If I turn this down, it will mostly be single color. Let's play this. If I turn this up, the color changes will be much more intense. Okay, so that was the glitch filter. Let's now move on to our next filter. This one is called video feed in. If I just search for feed in, yes, a filter. Once I have the filter applied, you will observe a black strip that appears on the video clip. This effect will basically slowly bring in the video when you play it from the beginning, I'll bring my play head over to the beginning. Now a video is totally dark. When I play it, it will slowly bring the video in. Like you can change the duration of the fed in with the help of this plus icon. Or else you can simply hover over to the edge of the feed, you will see this little bouncing black dot. You can just left click on it and drag it. That will change the duration of the feed. Now if I play it, the video will come in much more slower. Okay, let us delete this filter now. Just like the feed in, we also have a feed out which will feed the video out slowly. With my clip selected, I will click on the plus I can and search for feed out. I will select Feed Out Video. Just like a feed in, we see a black strip over here. If I bring my playhead over to the end. If we play this, you see that a video goes out gradually. You can change the duration of the feed out by hovering over the edge of this black strip, left clicking and dragging it. Now the feed out will be even more gradual. Let's just delete this filter and we'll move on to our next filter. This filter is called Dust. This filter will just add a vintage video effect. You can change the size of all that distortion with the help of the size setting, Just to exaggerate it, I will change it up to 25. Now when I plead this, you see all these marks on top of a video. A size of one to 2% works best for this particular effect. You can also change the amount, and this will decide how much of that effect is applied to a video clip. Again, I will just exaggerate over here. Suggest keep the amount at a minimum, choose any value below 10% and that will make it look more authentic. The next filter that I want to show you is hue, saturation and lightness. We'll just search for u and I will select this filter. With the help of this filter, I can change the lightness and saturation of our video play head on top of the clip that I've applied the filter to let us change the U, you can see how it is affecting our video. I'll bring it back to default. By clicking this option, I can change the lightness of the video. Like the last one is saturation, which will determine how saturated our video looks. It will just saturate all of our colors. You can set it to a value that works for your video. I'll just bring it back to default. The last filter that I want to talk to you about is color grading. With the help of the color grading effect, you can change how the overall colors of your video look like. You can adjust the midtones by just clicking and dragging over these colors. You can change the highlights like this. You can change the shadows as well. You can just experiment with these three values and choose a setting that works best for your video. You can also change the RGV setting from these options below, and that will do the same thing. All three of these settings are associated with the color palette available above. All right, those are some of the important video filters that are widely used inside Shortcut. In the next lecture, we will go over a few important audio filters. 14. Audio Filters: In the previous lecture, we went over video filters. In this one, we will talk about audio filters. We'll start by muting the audio track, just like the video filters. In order to apply filters to an audio clip, you first need to select it. Once the audio clip is selected, you'll need to click on filters. From here, we'll just go over to the audio section. We have all our audio filters visible over here. The first and the most important filter that I want to show you is the gain filter. The gain filter, we'll adjust how loud your audio is, So let us check the levels of our audio first. With the neutral setting, our levels were barely crossing negative 30 DB. Now let us increase the levels with the help of our gain filter now our gain should be about 7.5 DB higher than before there, so it was a lot louder. Let's delete this filter and move on to the next one. The next filter that I want to show you is really important. If you have uneven audio, what do I mean by uneven? Let's suppose that one part of your audio is too and the other is too silent. You will have to make sure that the audio is uniform throughout. And you can do so with the help of this filter called normalize. I will just go ahead and select Normalize, one pass, and here you can just set the target loudness. And once you're done with that, you can set the maximum gain that shortcut can apply to your audio to achieve this target loudness. Just like the maximum gain, you can also set the minimum gain, and we will leave the maximum rate at what it is at if you scroll down below. You can also set the input loudness and the output gain from here, which is nothing but the audio loudness before it enters this filter. And the audio loudness when it leaves the filter. Now when I play this audio, it should be much more uniform. Now, our normalization wasn't that, so we can adjust it with the help of the maximum rate. And what that will do is that it will allow shortcut to cut or boost the volume faster. So let us just turn this up to seven DB per second. Now when I play this again, it should be way more accurate. It was definitely reacting much more faster. If you want more precision, you can turn this up to nine DB per second, and it will be able to normalize the video even more faster. Let's delete this filter. The next filter that I want to show you is called fade in audio. Just like fade in video, this filter will slowly bring the audio in. Just like that. If you want to increase the duration of the audio fade, you can do it just like the video fade. Let's give this a listen just like fade in audio, we also have fade out audio. I'll just search for out. And we have a fade out audio filter over here and a black strip is added to the audio. I'll just pull this in now, let us play this audio. Now, sometimes you might want your audio to sound like it was recorded in a big room when in fact it was not. In that case, you can use this filter called reverb. Once you apply the reverb, you will have a few settings. You can choose the room size from here. The bigger the room size, the more echo this entire audio will sound like. You can also choose the reverb time, the damping, which is how quickly the echo fades out. And you can set the dry signal level, which is how much of the original audio you want to be hearing. And there are all these other settings as well, which will help you set the reflection level and how long you want your reverb to go on for. You can just tweak these settings and experiment for yourself to get the kind of sound that you're trying to get. So let's play this from the beginning, all right? So that is what reverb can do to your audio. Those were some of the important audio filters that you will use on a daily when working with shortcut. Now we studied a variety of effects that you can apply to your audio and your video. In the next lecture, I'm going to show you an interesting way in which you can control these filters automatically over a period of time. 15. Automation in Shotcut: In our previous lectures, we studied everything about filters, right from how to apply them and how to tweak the settings to get the desired effect. In this lecture, I will show you how you can automatically control some of the settings of these filters. Now I have selected my first clip over. I will add size, position, and rotate filter to it. Once a filter is added, I will now automate some of the settings of this effect. Like let's say that I slowly want to zoom in into this particular video. I can achieve this automation inside shortcut with the help of a feature called a key frame. Now let me show you what a key frame is. Now on any effect that you apply inside shortcut, you will be able to see a watch like icon beside the settings that you can add a keyframe for If I click on this icon. I'm now taken over to the key frames window from the timelines window. Now while I'm on the keyframe window, I can change the position of my playhead on this video clip. Now since I'm on the second position, whatever changes I make to my key frame setting will be recorded on this key frame track. Now let's say that I want to zoom in at this point of the video. If I turn up the zoom setting, you see a small diamond like shape added to the key frame track. What this shape indicates is that there is a change that is recorded for automation. Now if I take my playhead back, my zoom setting should change. Right now it's at 100 less plats and the zoom setting will change gradually up until this point. Okay. Now, just like this particular key frame, I can add many more key frames on this particular video clip. Now, if I change the position to, let us say here, if I change the zoom settings, 207, another key frame is recorded. Now when I play, you will see a gradual increase in zoom size from this key frame up until this key frame. Once it crosses the key frame point, the zoom value ceases to change. If you write, click on any keyframepoint, you will be able to change the key frame type from here. Right now it is set to linear, but if you change it to smooth, the entire transition will be way more smooth. Okay? You can also delete a particular keyframe by right clicking on it and clicking on Remove. Now your values will change just based on these two key frames. If you want to delete all the key frames that you have written, you can just click on the delete button over here, and that will delete your entire keyframe. That was all about key frames. In the next lecture, we will go over the different modes in which you can play and edit your videos in shortcut. 16. Modes in Shotcut: Now let us go over all these different modes in which you can operate shortcut. Right now we are on the editing mode like we have seen in our previous lectures, we are able to edit audio and video on this mode. Let's talk about the logging mode. This will just hold a history of all your actions inside shortcut. Once you double click on a log, you will be taken back to that action. Let's now talk about the effect mode. This mode is specially designed for effects. Like you can see, our entire work space has been transformed. Now, on the side window, we only have the filters option. Along with an option to export your project. In this way, you can put all of your emphasis on the effects that you're working with. The next mode that we have over here is the color mode. With the help of the color mode, you can see what kind of colors are present on your video. If I play this video, you will be able to see an entire color profiling of the video as it please. Now, when I play this video, you will be able to see an entire color profiling of the video as it is playing. You can see how the RGB setting is changing throughout the video. Our next mode is the audio mode. All the emphasis will now shift to the audio that is going along with your video. There's an entire breakdown of mid and side frequencies and all these other options that you can look at. Besides all of these meters, there's also an audio spectrum layout. If I mute my audio and play, you will be able to see an entire spectrum with the loudness laid out over here and the frequencies laid out over here. Below the spectrum, you can also see the audio wave form. These options are not something that you would use daily unless you work on cinematic videos. In that case, this window will be really important. Finally, our last mode is the player mode. On the player mode, the emphasis is given to the view preview window. So that you can just sit back, watch, and observe all the edits that you have made. In other words, you would use the player mode once you're done with certain edits and you want to watch how the video looks with all those edits, those were all the modes inside shortcut. In the next lecture, I will show you how you can export your project once you're done with all the editing. 17. Export: In this lecture, I will show you some of the export settings that I often use when exporting videos from shortcut. In order to export, I will just click on Export. Once you click on export, there are a bunch of presets towards the site that you can choose from based on the video file that you're trying to export. For example, if you're trying to export a Youtube video, you can just double click on Youtube. And this will apply all the settings to your video that will be best for Youtube videos. Likewise, there are also all these audio presets you can choose if you want an AC MP three or some other audio format as your final export. If you have certain settings in mind and you do not want to use these presets, you can set up all the video properties manually. In order to set up video properties manually, you will need to click on Advanced. Once you click on Advanced, there are a bunch of tabs at the top. There are several settings that you can tweak as per your needs. Let us briefly go over all these settings. When you're on the video tab, you will have all of these settings related the final video that you're trying to export from. Here you can set up your resolution, aspect ratio, frames per second, and a few more advanced settings. One thing that you need to know is that if you put in a number that is not compatible with video formats, your final exported video might be broken. It is extremely important that you put in the right numbers over here because shortcut doesn't have the ability to auto correct these numbers. You can feel free to Google all different types of video resolutions. Like right now I have it set to 12 80 by 720. And the aspect ratio that I've set is 16 by nine. You can always Google the compatible resolution and aspect ratios. Let's now move on to the next setting over which is the codec settings. And the codec settings will have an impact on the final file size of your exported video. You can control the size of your video with the help of these two settings. The first setting is quality. You can choose any value based on the type of video quality that you're looking to achieve. The second option is GOP, which is short for group of pictures. The higher you set this number, the lower will be the size of your final exported video. Right now, our GOP is set to 15, which will lead to a really huge video file size. Let's move on to the next setting, which is audio. With the help of audio settings, you can choose how the audio on your video sounds. You can either set it to stereo or mono. From the channel setting below. The channel setting is the sample rate. I would highly recommend that you set it at 48,000 because the audio sounds the best when it is placed at 48,000 Any number above 48,000 will lead to a bigger file size without actually contributing to the audio quality. The next setting is codec, and I would recommend that you just leave it at AAC. The next important setting that I want to show you is bitrate. And with the help of bitrate, you can choose how much KB of information is being transferred on your audio per second. The higher the bit rate, the better the quality of your audio. You can choose from a variety of options over here, I feel like 384 KBPS works best. Apart from all of that, you can also disable your audio by checking this box, and that will mute all the audio in your video, and you will only get visuals as your final exported video. If at any point you want to reset all of your settings that you have changed, you can just click on Reset and that will reset all of your settings. Let's now go ahead and export the file. In order to export, I will just click on Export file that will ask me to change my file name. I will leave it at Project 14 and click on Save. Now I have an export job on the Job tab. If you want to stop the job, you can just left click and click on Stop This Job, and that will stop your export. Okay, now we see that the job is complete. If I want to view this file on my File Explorer, I will right click on it and click on Show in folder that opens up the folder where the export is saved. You can also click and click on Open, and that will open the final exported video all over again. In shortcut, you can also remove the log by clicking on Remove, that removes the log. All right, so that was everything about exporting a video from shortcut. 18. Conclusion: That concludes the shortcut complete course. I hope you had the opportunity to download shortcut and practice everything that I taught you in the course. If not, it's not too late to download shortcut and practice whatever you've learned. Like I've said before, this will help you consolidate your learning and that way you will actually gain a new skill. If you have any questions for me, feel free to reach out and I will get back to you at the earliest. Thank you so much for taking this course and I wish you success.