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1. Why you need this masterclass!: VN video Editor is
my top pick for Best free video editor on
IOS and Android right now. It's also available on Mac, too. Not only is it
crazy what you get access to for free, also, once you get up to Speedwid where everything is in the app, it's one of the most powerful
editing tools out there when it comes to what you
can create easily and fast. It's the perfect mix of
usability and ease of use with a huge range of obviously the core
essential features, but it also adds in a bunch
of more pro level stuff, too, for those that need it. So with this master class, I'm going to take you
through the process of efficiently editing videos
in VN video editor. Everything from getting your
project set up correctly, mastering the different
editing tools that are available to you right through to correctly setting up your volume levels and
color grading, as well. So all the key stuff going
to get your results fast. Now, if we haven't met
before, my name is Justin Brown and along
with my brother Mike, we've built the primal
video YouTube channel to over 1.7 million subscribers. So after years in
professional video production and even training our
own editing team, we've distilled all
the important stuff that you need to know to be editing your videos fast and easy with VN video editor. So in this master
class, you'll get a clear step by step
walk through of VN video editor and a
follow along process for you to start
creating your own videos in here immediately. So if you're ready to stop
looking like a beginner and start creating
professional looking videos, and you're ready
to dive right in, I'll see you in the next video.
2. Starting Your Project: Massive welcome
to this training. I'm going to be taking
you through using an iPad because it's
got a bigger screen. But this process that I'm taking you through is going
to be exactly the same if you're on an iPhone
or an Android device, and it's also going to
be very, very similar to the MAC version of VN
video editor as well. There's going to
be so much overlap and similarities between the two that you'll easily be able to follow along
on that as well. Obviously, if you are using
an Android or an iPhone, then the screen's going to
be a little bit smaller. But as for the layout
and where everything is, it's all going to be pretty
much exactly the same. What you'll see when you
first open up the app, you can see all your
recent projects and things listed
out down the bottom. So while I'm taking you
through the process of editing a video in
VN video editor, it's handy to know there's
some other things that this can do and different
templates and things up the top here that we can
pipe into that workflow as well depending on the
content you are creating. So there are templates in here for things
like Instagram reels, Instagram stories. There's business templates. There's some
templates in here for different style of
YouTube videos as well. Right through to, and this
must be a fairly new edition, you can also use VN video
Editor to help you generate your thumbnail image for
your YouTube content, too. But where I recommend
that most people start and the way that most people use this app will be back over here on the home page. This again is where we
can kick everything off. We can start a new project
here hitting the Plus button, and then we can start out
on a brand new project. Now, I'm showing you this in the free version of
VN Video Editor. Free version is
absolutely insane. There's no watermarks. There's very little
restrictions right now, and I will link you to
their website where you can dive deeper into what's
included and what's not. But if you want to follow along with everything
I'm doing in here, this is all done on
the free version, which is my top
recommended app right now as free video
editing software on IOS, on Android, on iPad,
it's absolutely amazing. So we're going to
start a new project here, and then it's
going to ask us, do we want to create a
video based timeline or a music based timeline or
video as our end product? The main difference between
the two is one of them, the music one, you'll start
out with a music track. With the video one, you'll
start out with a video track. So depending on the type
of video you're making, you can make that
selection here. But in all honesty, I would just recommend that you pick
the video based one no matter what type of video you're making because you can access the same features and more
just from going video. It's a much more
streamlined approach to just start with
the video workflow, even if you want to go
the audio Route two. So we're going to choose Save. I've selected the video one.
And then in terms of getting our project set up and
everything in here, this step is really important. You want to pick the
primary camera footage now. You don't need to go through
and pick all of your clips. Pick the main clip first. So in my case, we've got this
clip here of me talking. So the primary spoken piece, my piece to camera,
we're going to pick. And that's going to
automatically then set up the rest of our
project for us based on the settings and the file information
of that video file. So it's going to look
at, is it ten ADP? Is it four K? What's
the frame rate? It's going to automatically
set up our project for us using the right
settings based on that clip. So I'm going to select that
first clip here and I'm going to hit the little arrow down
the bottom here to continue. So you can see how it's
imported that first clip into our
timeline here for us, and it has already
set up our project and everything is good
to go. Now, don't worry. If you've got more clips,
I'm going to get to how we can import more
clips very, very soon. But as for a bit of an overview
of the interface here, this main window
at the top here, this main preview, this
is our editing preview, our playback of what it
is that we're editing. Down the bottom here, we've
got our main timeline. You can see this is
broken down into music. Subtitles or text. We've got stickers and
B roll as the next one, PIP, picture in picture. So our B roll or overlay clips. And we've obviously got our main video timeline here, too. And we can also
see our waveforms. So that's our visual
representation of our audio or
the spoken piece. So we can see here where I'm talking and
where I'm not just by looking at this clip down the bottom
here, these lines. That can be really
powerful when we get to editing to help you edit fast based on you knowing
when or not you're speaking. Now, this area here, this
timeline area we can tap and swipe across
to navigate around. We can pinch to zoom. So two fingers pinch and zoom. You can see we're zooming
in and out on this now. And likewise, the same
works across a lot of this. We could click up
here, we can pinch to zoom to scale
things up and down. I'm going to undo that for now. But the whole interface
and everything is really fluid and it's really intuitive. Down the bottom here, this
is our main menu items. You can see if we swipe
across here or scroll across, then we have access to more than likely what you'll see
here at face value, especially if you're on
a mobile device as well, you're definitely not
going to see all of these icons here all laid
out across the bottom. They would be tiny.
So know that you can swipe around and you can
see different things. And if we select a clip
in here on the timeline, we're going to see
different things too if a clip isn't selected. So you can see
we've got different menu options down here. Again, this is going to make
more sense as we go through, but I would encourage
you to click around. See the types of things
you've got access to. You won't be to break anything. It's all about
getting comfortable with the tools that we
have so that you can then go on and be creative and create your
video masterpieces. Now, this is the default
interface with the timeline at the bottom and our preview
window at the top here. Up in the top left corner here, we've got a little toggle
where we can switch between some different
interface layouts as well. So depending on the device
that you're using or even what stage you're at in
the video editing process, it might make sense for you to customize this
up a little bit. We can see we can
make this bigger or smaller by making
adjustments here. So I like that you do have
that level of customization, depending on the device or what it is you're
actually doing. But for me, I really
just leave it on the default is this
split view here. At any time, if you want to preview or playback your video, we've got our playback
controls here, and we can also playback full screen with a little
button over on the side here. So if I press this
now, it's going to start playing back our
clip for us full screen, and we can get back out of this with this little
button down here. Now, in terms of
setting up our project, before we dive deep
into our edit it's a good idea to make sure that the format of the video is
exactly how you want it. So because we imported a widescreen video
here and these files are available to you if you
want to play along with the same videos that
I have used here, because it's a widescreen video, it's automatically created a
widescreen project for us. But we also have the
ability up here to change. So if we wanted to switch this
to a portrait style video, a nine by 16. So Instagram story
or a TikTok video, we can do that here, too. Likewise, a one by one, there's different sizes, different shapes of video
content we can create in here. So you want to
specify this upfront. And it's automatically going to make that judgment call for you. So in a lot of cases, based on that first clip that you put in, it's going to set that
correctly for you. But if you do need to change it, then this is where
we can do that. Likewise, if there is
a specific frame rate, so frames per second FPS that
we need when we're editing, we can make that
adjustment here, but it should already be set correctly for you at this point. Now, we'll show you later
in this training how we can easily reformat our videos
for the different formats. So if we want to convert our widescreen video to a
TikTok piece of content, we can easily do that as well. But for right now, I'm
going to leave this on original also wouldn't matter if I picked 16 by nine because they're the
same in this case, and I'm going to hit
the tick to apply that. Now, the last thing we
need to do to finish completing this project setup
before we start editing, if we come across to
the very end here and let's zoom in on
our timeline here, we can see that we have
this VN title card here. This isn't a requirement.
This isn't a watermark. This is something
that we can remove. And I would suggest that you do upfront so that you
don't forget it later, so that this doesn't
end up in your video. So we can just select
this title card here, press the little delete
button here, and that's gone. Again, let's get that
out of the way up front so it's not
left in there later. Now, on the pro version or the paid version
of N video editor, there is a setting
you can toggle to automatically remove that. But again, it's not a
deal breaker for us to manually remove it every time on the free
version, either. So at this point, we've
imported our primary clip. We've got our project set up. What if we want to
import more clips? We can just hit the
plus down here. So more primary footage. So we've got a second clip here that was the next clip that we want to use after
this first clip, then we could click on that. I'm just going to, for example, bring in this clip
here and hit next. You can see that
that's now imported down into our timeline as well. You want to go ahead and you
want to hit the plus button here and bring in all of
your primary footage. In a lot of cases,
it might just be one clip or a couple of clips, but we want to have all your
primary stuff laid out first because we're going to build out this base edit, our story first. Then we're going to start
to add in extra clips and graphics and effects and all of that stuff as we go through.
3. Cutting Down Your Video: Start to trim this down.
So we want to go through. We want to remove
all the bad takes, all the mistakes in this
video so that we're just left with the
primary core content, the stuff that we want to use. As with anything, video editing, there's a few different
ways that we can do this. I want to show you the
different ways because sometimes it's going to
make sense to use one way, other times, it'll make
sense to use another way. So what we can do now is we
can either hit play here to play through this and find the piece where we
want this clip to start. We could also look at the audio
waveforms down the bottom here so we can see
this flat section here where I'm not talking. Obviously, I start
talking at this point, so we can swipe across
to this point here. And yes, that's where
I start talking. And I'm checking
everything, test test, one, two, one, two, making sure
we actually are recording. So we don't want any
of this stuff in here. So looking across here, then I actually start the
video about R, right? So this is where we want
to start this clip. So we want to remove everything back to the left side of this. So one way I can do this
is I can tap on the clip. I can then choose split. So we want to find split
down the bottom here, and we've now just
split our clip in two. You can see we have a left
clip and a right clip. So with that left
clip, select it, we can just press the delete
button here and it's gone. So our video is now
starting from that point. That's one way for us to do it. If I hit undo here
a couple of times, so we've brought that back,
let's remove that cut. Another way that we can do
this is select the clip by tapping on and we can
grab this handle, this extended bit here of
yellow at the end of a clip, and we can just drag that in to where we want the
clip to now start. So we're selecting a new
start time for this. So now if we play through this, then it's actually
starting at that point. Now, let's jump across
to the very end. Let's swipe across to get to
the end of our clip here. The exact same will
happen at the end. So we can see if I click off
this, it'll go brighter. We can see that
I'm talking here, and then it fades
out to nothing. So I finished. That's the end of the video here at this point. So again, we could add a split in our clip
here at this point, select the second
one and delete it. Or if I undo this, we could
just select the clip, grab that handle on the
edge of the clip and adjust the end point to where we
want it so that it finishes. So we've achieved the same
thing multiple different ways. So you could apply the same
thing in the middle here. So there's a section here where we can see I'm not talking. And if we actually look at
this, yeah, I'm thinking. And it looks painful. We can actually trim this
section out here. So let's say we wanted to finish it here, we could add a split, and maybe we just
select this next clip, and we just grab that
handle and drag it back to remove that you can see we can use these in
combination as well. So that section has
now been removed. Your goal here is
to now go through, remove any of these bad takes, we can see that there's
a big gap here. So we could add a split
in the timeline here. We could grab this
clip, grab that handle, drag it back through to
where I start talking. So we're removing all the
bad takes, all the mistakes, anything we actually
don't want to have in our finished video project. I'm going to fast forward
now to where all of those clips have already been cut and the bad stuff
has been removed. So now that you've
finished that base edit, we're left with a
bunch of little cuts, little clips here
in our timeline. And these we can actually pick up and move around
if we need to. So let's say that this one
here actually was the ending. We could pick it up and
we could move it around to build out that story.
So that's the next step. Let's reorder whatever
else needs to be moved to build out our
best case edit here. Okay, I just wanted to jump
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4. Adding B-Roll & Stock Footage: The next step then is to add in any B roll or overlay footage, stock footage to help us tell this story even better and to make our
videos more engaging. So if we come back
to the start here, we can see again, we've got our primary
footage layer here. The one above it is to add a sticker or a
picture in picture. So I'm going to press on this
and it's going to ask us, do we want to import a sticker, like a gift or an emoji or do
we want to add in a photo? No, it says photos, but
it's photos and videos. So I'm going to press photos. Now we can change the
sorting of our files here. Right now, are we
seeing recent files? Or we can also change
the filtering. So right now set to all. If we just want to
see videos, photos, live photos, memories, we can just filter
by those as well. And over here under stocks, there are some clips that you
can use in your videos that are provided by VN Video Editor. I'm going to come back
over here to recents, and let's pick this clip here, which was a screen
recording from my computer. And you can see that's
now been added into our timeline here on top
of our previous footage. It's on its own new layer here. So what this means
is our video playing behind here is still happening. If we were just
playing this now, we would still hear me talking while we're seeing
something else on screen. So if we come up to
the top section here, we can actually click on this. We can move it. We can scale
it up or scale it down. We can reposition this stuff, too, and make it
look how we'd like. But I'm going to
undo this because what we're actually going
to do here is we're going to specify how much of this clip do we actually want? We've bought
in, if you have a look. This is a really long clip, this blue line across the top. Whereas we might only want
a small portion of it. So I just scrub through here to find the bit that we want. So there's nothing happening
in this clip here. Static, static, static, and
then we start to scroll. So maybe we'll start
this clip there. So let's select on this and
let's split it at that point, and let's delete the start. Okay? So our clip now starts
when we start scrolling. So we're scrolling through maybe that could
be enough there. So let's add a
split in that clip. So we've still got that
one selected, had a split, and it's now it's own clip that we can then pick up
and move around. Now, let's just keep going
through this clip here. Let's see if there's
anything else that we might want in this clip. Okay, maybe here
where we're typing something into the
YouTube search box, and then our search comes up, and hey, look,
ranking number one. Number two, well done. Okay, so we want this section. So let's select our clip again. We'll split the end of it, so we'll have it finished there, and let's remove the rest of it. And let's go back to where we want this to
start about here. Let's add another split, and let's remove
the start of this. Okay. So if we deselect this, I'm just going to tap off. So now we can see that
we've got these two clips. I'm going to zoom out on my timeline here so
you can see them. We've got our entire video
down the bottom here, and then we've bought in
these two little clips which were cut from
a longer form video. The same would apply if
we wanted to bring in another clip that was a
regular piece of footage, too. So let's again tap on this
here to add in another clip or we can just tap in an
empty spot on the timeline as long as we're on that track and it's going to bring
up the same thing. Let's choose a photo,
Let's go ahead and grab another clip
from our timeline here. Let's pick this one here.
And what we can see now is that we can actually
stack these things up. So we can actually build out more intricate sequences and timelines and things
by stacking our clips. And it could be that we're showing multiple
things on screen. It could be this way
too close up shot of me maybe scaled down a bit, and we're still seeing me
in the background here. But if we come across a bit more to where all
three of them line up, then we could actually have that on screen at the
same time as well. So we have the ability
to stack these things, which I think is
really powerful. But I don't want to
get ahead of myself in terms of these stacking clips, but I want to show you
how that hierarchy works. So I'm going to just back
up here a little bit, this undo this scaling. Let's get everything
back to full screen. Because even though you can
scale those things down, you'll probably find
that for most videos, you're just leaving
stuff full screen. As with any other clip here, that new clip that we bought in, we can adjust the start time, we can adjust the end time, and we can pick it up and
we can move it around. And we can stack
it if we need to. So you want to go
ahead now and bring in any extra Broll clips,
any overlay clips, things that are sitting on
top of your primary footage, grab any of those
clips, bring them in, and now build out that
next level of your story. This is where you can
add real excitement and engagement in your videos by giving your viewers
different things to look at instead
of in this case, my boring face talking. Now, for our YouTube videos, this is where we're
going to places like story blocks to grab our
Broll and overlay footage. It's a massive library where you can just type in
what you need and download and import those clips directly into your project. And as you're bringing in your
B roll and overlay clips, you might find that you're
making some minor adjustments to your timeline here and you're
tightening up some of these edits, making
minor adjustments. So this whole editing
thing is really an iterative process where with each new step that
we're going through, you're also still making
minor adjustments to the overall flow of the video too and
tightening everything. So over time, each pass that you do with
each one of these steps, you end up with a really
polished video at the end of it.
5. Adding Text & Titles: So the next step from
here is to add in any text or titles
into your video. So again, we've got
a dedicated area here for titles and subtitles, so we can just select where
we want that text to be. So I'm going to come across to the start of the video and let's bring in a name tag
that has my name on it, that it'll show at the
start of the video. I can then tap on
this empty layer or on this button
here to add a title. So then we've got two options. We can create a
title from scratch, which is what I'm
going to show you how to do or we can also bring in subtitles or captions for our videos if you've generated
them somewhere else. So you've used an AI
tool to transcribe your video and it's
made you an SRT file, we can create
captions using that. Now, there is also built in an automatic AI
caption generator or a subtitle generator
directly in Venn. It is something that
you will need to be on the pro plan for that. But if we come across
down the bottom here, you'll see here auto captions. So we can press auto captions, and we can not only create
English subtitles or captions, we can also translate this into other languages
and things as well. If you hit Convert here, you will need to
be on the P plan. It's a credit based system in
terms of the AI generation, but it'll go ahead and add those subtitles and captions
automatically for you. I'm going to back out of this
because we're going to go ahead and add in a
regular title here, and I'm going to show you a couple of different
ways that we can do this as a basic title, but also some animated
titles and things, too. So we're going to choose title, and then you can see
at the top here, we've got our basic text. So we can add a
heading, a subheading. We can also add in a body text. So think of these
like text boxes, like you would add in a Google
document or there's also, as you can see on
the screen here, more fancy titles,
too, as we go down. Some of these here are animated. So we can see that
there's things moving, things are appearing on screen. We can easily customize
these up, too. So yes, these are free
to use in your videos, and we can make them owls, changing colors, changing
fonts, all of that stuff. A basic text, though, if we just come up here, I'm just going to
pick a heading. It really doesn't matter
which one of these you pick. So I'm going to pick a heading. And then here we're
broken down into these little tabs
across the bottom here. So the first one here
is to edit the text. Then we've got fonts and
further customization up as we go across here. So let's edit the text. I'm just going to
type in my name. Very original. And then
we can come down here. We can pick another font. So I've got my
recently used fonts and those kinds of
things in here. There are so many
to choose from. Maybe we'll run with this, jump across to the next one, and it's going to give
us the ability to adjust the font size
and to scale this. But because we're on a
touch device, most likely, we can also just pinch to Zoom on the screen,
and we can tap on it. We can pick it up. We
can move it around. We can also rotate
it as we you know, with any of our design apps and things on our mobile devices. So I love that this is just, again, so fluid, so easy to use. Coming across, we can
dial in our colors, and it's not just
the text color, which we've got
here, there's also border, shadow, background. So if you want to add
a background to it, we can easily do that
in here as well, and customize this up,
things like padding, too. Or there's also some
presets that you have across the top
here as you see, we click on these,
we're going to give you a preview of what that looks.
Keep going through here. We've got some more
formatting things. Again, centered text,
write line, whatever. We've also got our spacing. So all the stuff that you
would find in most, I guess, word processing tools,
you'll find in here as well. Under this last one,
this is where we can start to bring in some of those templates and
things as well. So if you're building
this out and you change your mind, you're
like, you know what? I can't get this looking
the way that I want it. Maybe now I'll switch
to a template, then this is where we
could jump across to that. But let's keep this. I don't
mind what we've built here. Let's hit the tick
to apply that. Again, we can see down
in our timeline here, we as if it's another clip. So we could lengthen this
out if we wanted it to be on screen for
longer or shorten it. We could pick it up,
we could move it. But because we've added
a basic title here, there's no effects
or anything on it. This literally just
appears when this clip starts and then it will disappear when this
clip finishes. But something really
powerful in VN video editor, and this works for a
lot of different clips is that we've got this
motion ability here. So let's come back over to
the start of this clip. Again, we want to make
sure that it's selected, and I'm going to
click on motion. Now, in here, we can create three different types of animation or motion
for our clips. So we can have an in animation, and this is what happens
when this clip starts. So bringing this text into the
screen or onto the screen. So if we just tap on fade you can see it's
going to fade in, scale in, spin in. So there's a few of these
that we can play with here to create some
more dynamic titles. And again, we're still
on the basic titles or reveal or gradient. So these are our in titles, and we can adjust the
duration of this animation. So if we're going
to slow it down, let's lengthen the duration. So we can see that's
much slower now. Maybe we'll speed
that back up a bit. So just like in animation
happens at the start, we can also do an out animation. What happens at the
end of that clip? Well, we could spin it out
or we could slide it out. And again, we could
adjust the duration. Now, the loop animation is what happens really
between those two. So it's going to make an
animation on if we want one. It's going to animate
out at the end, but in the middle
is where we can apply some other movement, like a heartbeat is an
example here, or breath. So extra movement. Now, this middle section here, this loop animation really isn't something I use too often, but it's good to know that
it's there in case it matches the type of videos
that you're creating. So for loop animation,
I'm going to choose none, but we're going to leave our
in and out animation on, and I'm going to hit
the tick to apply that. And now if we play our video, we see that it had
that in animation. Let's go across to where
it's about to go off screen. And it animates out. So that
was adding a basic title. Let's say we wanted
to have a look at some of these more
advanced titles. Pick an empty spot in
our timeline here. Let's hit the text button, add a title, and let's scroll down and take
a look at some of these. Now, these things
here like title, subtitle, while
we're seeing a lot, there's actually a lot more. If you choose view
all for a category, then there's many,
many more in there to choose from. Lots
of different types. Some of these even look
like text messages and things, which
look pretty cool. I like this one, a text message. Maybe we'll play
with this one. So I just select that shows
up on our screen. And again, we can
customize this up. So let's edit the text. The default here
was, I miss you. Let's change this text. I mean, it's getting
hungry, right? So what's for dinner? Okay, but we can
customize this up, again, we can tap on it. We can rotate it, scale it, position
it over on the side. Like there was a little chat
window happening over here. And as we play through this, you'll see that that's
going to animate on. And we can easily add
multiples of these and build out a little chat
thread here if we wanted to. So I love how easy
this stuff is. So you want to go through
now, add in any titles or text into your
videos at this point.
6. Applying Effects: Now we're at the point
in the process where we get to have a bit more fun, and we get to play
around with some of the effects and things in here. This is the piece where a lot of people jump straight into this and start applying effects and color
grades and stuff, and they end up slowing down their editing
process because their device is having to process all of those
effects and things. This is why we focus on cutting everything
down in this order. We focus on the story first and everything we've done
to this point now is the time but we start
to dive a little deeper into the more effects
and fun stuff. So the first thing I want
to show you is how we can add transitions between clips. So if you'll see in the
timeline down the bottom here, we can see all these little
plus marks between each of the clips here on
our primary footage. So this is only showing
on that bottom timeline. I'll zoom in so we can
see this more clearly. Let's go to where there's
a split between a clip, and we can see that
there is a plus here. If we want to add an effect or a transition between
these two clips, then we hit on the
little plus button here, and there's a bunch that
we can choose from. So it could be that we have a dip to black or
a fade to black, fade to white, Zooms. I'm not going to
click on them all. There's a bunch in here. Some of them are
really cool looking. Others will probably
make your project look very cheap and very basic. So I'd say use these sparingly. Use these where they add
value to your story, add value to your video
and add to the story that you're trying to
tell but you overdo this. If you're having one
of these on every one of your clip cuts, it'll be very hard
for people to watch. So you could apply this. We hit the tick here to apply that,
and that's now on there. And between these two clips, you'll see that that
effect happens. So there's nothing
wrong with this, right? You could
definitely do this. But where this works
better is where the two shots are
actually different. In this case, it's
the same shot, and I just made a
mistake or something, and that piece has been removed. So I'm going to remove
this transition here. I'm going to select
where that plus was, and I'm going to hit none. So we're going to
apply no transition. Going to hit the tick
to make that change. Because if we just look at this and we play this
little section here, scrubbing through here,
I'm finished talking, and then I start talking. So there's a little glitch
here. It's not bad. And for most of our
YouTube videos, we would just leave that.
That would be fine. But what you can do if you've got a bunch of those and
they're back to back and it's pretty annoying or
hard for people to watch is we can instead of adding
a transition or an effect, we could just zoom
in on one of these. Make it look like it was a zoomed in camera angle or
a second camera angle, and it's so easy to
do here in Venn. Let's just select
this next clip here. It doesn't matter
which one, first one, or second one, we're going to make one of them look
a little different. Come up to the top here,
and then we can pinch to zoom on this top area
here to scale it up. I'm going to scale this up now. Now, you don't want
to go too far, depending on how this is shot and the quality and
all of that stuff, if you zoom in too much, you could be losing a
lot of quality. So I want to zoom
in a little bit so that it looks
different enough. But in the case of this shot here, where we've got a person, in order to really sell
this and not make it feel really disjointed or
jarring for people to watch, we want to make
sure that the eyes are in a very similar position. So I'm going to try and line those up just by going back and forth between this shot and
the one before it here. Okay, so it's not bad, maybe we'll bring them
up a little bit. So if we play this now, it just looks like
a different shot. It's enough that it's not going to be jarring
for your viewers, but it's enough to be a pattern interrupt to make it look
like something has changed. So it's not just a
boring static shot. We've now added some
movement or something different for people's brains
to look at and to take in. So this is what we do
a mix of those two, just a hard cut or zooming in. So you want to go
through in this process and make sure that your primary footage is
all looking the way that you want it
to look in terms of any transitions or any zoom ins that you
might want to add. So I'm just going to come
further down into our timeline here because some of
the other cool stuff we can add in easily. Is, let's select this clip here and let's come
down here to Zoom. And these are some presets on
basically what we just did, but it's going to add some
animation in here for us. So instead of it just
being a hard cut and bang, we're zoomed in, we could have a zoom in effect applied here throughout
the length of that clip. You can see as this
plays through now, it's slowly zooming in for us. So if you want to
build some tension or add some drama in here, or even just some extra, camera movements for motion for really helping you create
a more polished piece of content, then we
can easily do that. I mean, this looks great.
It looks like it was really professionally shot
with this slow zoom in. Likewise, we could
have a zoom out. So it's going to start tight, pull out, move left, move right, move down. Might match the shot that
you're doing, move up. So I really love that we
can do this stuff manually, or it's also built in with templates and things here, too. I'm going to cancel
out of that one. Now, in terms of other
effects and things, as well, if we want to speed up
or slow down a clip, we do have speed control. Let me come over
here to this clip here. We're select on it. As always, we've got to pick the clip that we want
to apply stuff to. So we've got that selected. Down the bottom here,
we've got speed. So if we want to
speed up this clip, we can come over to regular and we've got a simple slider. So one is regular speed. If we go up two speed that's
playing back twice as fast. Four speed, much faster, right? Right up to, wow, 100
speed. That's crazy. But what I like about this, too, is if we go to one speed, like it says here,
what our duration is. So that clip that we
cut was 9.65 seconds. If we speed it up, we'll see what the new
duration will be. So 5.08 seconds, in this case. We go below one, and that's where we start
to slow stuff down. So you can see the length of the clip is actually
being stretched out here. So now, with 0.2 speed
applied, 48 seconds. Now we can get more
advanced with this because this is just setting the
whole clip to that new speed. If we come over here to curve, then there are some
presets on how we could, I guess, animate
that speed motion. So if we look at
these graphs here, that's giving you
a representation of where it's starting
and how it's speeding up, then going down to
a slower point, then back up to regular speed. So we can actually use
these presets here. These line drawings here are an indication of what that
speed graph will look like, or we can come to custom
and we can make our own. So let's say that we want
our clip here to start fast. I can grab this
first little circle here and let's lift it up. So let's go. Alright, it's
going to start at 4.72 speed, and then it's going to slow down here to let's go slow motion. So under one, 0.5, somewhere around
there, and then it can speed up and just be back to
regular speed after that. This is how easy we can do this. Now, you don't need to
use all of these circles. You have the option here to
remove them or add new ones, or we can actually bring in those presets that we saw
before in here as well. And we can customize those up. So if we don't want
it to go so fast, we could slow that down
a little bit, too. I'm going to back
out of that one now. Across the bottom here, again, there's more effects
and things we can do. We could crop the clip. We can rotate it. We could
mirror it or flip it. We can add borders and
things in here as well. There's also a green
screen effect here. So if you're filmed with
a green or blue color behind you and you
want to remove it, then we can do that here, too. But then in terms
of actual effects that we can add in here, let's again pick this clip here, and that's come down here to FX. This right back over
on the left side, and there are so many
little effects that we can add here onto our
clip from spins. Think of these transitions
that we could add in. But we're not just
limited to adding them at the start of our clip or at
the end or as an in and out, we can add these
wherever we'd like. We're specifying that
with this area here. We get to choose how long on
our clip and what section of our clip are we actually
applying this spin to? And you can see there's
so many different effects and things that we can add in. This is what I love about VN
is it's got so many effects, and this is on the free version. All of these here
available for free. The only couple here that you can see with
this little crown, those are the ones
that you need to be on the paid or the pro version for. So the vast majority, I think, everything but two or
three right now at the time of shooting this is
available on the free one, even adding things like
rain into the shot. I mean, that looks
pretty realistic. So, again, we can
add them in here, and then we hit the
tick to apply it, and that's then added
into our project. Okay, I just wanted to jump
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7. Adding Music & SFX: Now the next step is to add
any music and sound effects. So again, if we come
back to the start, we have our dedicated
area here to add music and sound
effects, its own timeline. So I'm going to hit
on this one here, and we can choose
music sound effects, or we can actually record our own voiceover into here as well. If you want to
record a narration directly into your device, into your edit, we can do
that all from within here. I'm going to come across
to music, and in here, we've got some music that is
built into VN video editor. Now I'm normally not a fan of recommending anyone actually use the stuff that comes built in. I've heard of people
having licensing issues and copyright claims
and things on YouTube. I'm not saying you will. These
could be perfectly fine, but for me, it's not a
game I want to play. I'm always very, very strict on the music we're using
in our content, and I don't want to risk it for the chance of having
a copyright claim or a dispute immediately or years after that video
has been released. For that, we use rt
list or Epidemic Sound. Both of them are amazing
resources to find music, and I'll have links in with
the resources for this video, too, to those if you
want to check them out. But in terms of music, we can grab a music
track from here. You can see they're broken down into different categories. We can also have some that
we've marked as our favorites, or we can import our
own music track, too. Now, there is a
little trick when you're bringing in
your own music files. If they're not showing
up in here already, then the trick to import your own is that we need to
create an album first. So you want to come
here and go new album. Let's go Justin's music Import. And create the album. And now that we're in that
album and have that selected, there's now an option down the bottom here to
import our music. And this is where we can
bring it in from a link. We can actually
strip the music out of a video file as
well, the files app, our photo gallery, ad drop, however we want to
get these files in if they're already
on our device, so we want to transfer them in. Now, for the purpose
of this, I've already imported a
music track here, which is from Epidemic Sound, and you can see that
when I select this, I've got the option to hit U. To bring that into our project. Now, I absolutely love here. This is something that most
video editing tools don't do is we have the ability
to make edits to this, not just in terms of how much of our music
track is imported, because you can see we've got these handles here
that we can make adjustments to how much of our track we're
actually going to use, but also to things
like the volume. And adding a fade in or out on our music at the
time of import. Now, for those of you that
are creating videos where you're trying to match edits and cuts to the
beat of the music, then we can also dive
in here to beats and we can map out the
beats in our music, which is going to make
it easy for us to find those places to add edits and cuts and bring in
different clips and things. So you've got that tool
here to help you do that. You hit Play, it'll
play back your music, and you pretty much just click
the flag whenever there is a drum beat that you want to potentially use
in your edit later. I'm going to hit
the tick to import this music track you can
see that it's there now. It's at the top of our project, same as all of our other
clips. We can pick them up. We can move them around. We can adjust or trim off
the start, the end. We could cut section
out if we wanted to. All of these clips
behave exactly the same. So let's stretch this
back out to the start. And what I like about Vienne is it's automatically
shortened this clip, this music track so that it finishes at the
end of our video. So I love that that's
already taken care. So again, if you want
to add in a fade or anything with
that track selected, we do have fade down the bottom here or we can hit options. Either one of those
is going to bring up the option for us to add a fade in or a fade out so that our music is going to
start quiet and come in, not just start loud and obviously fade out
at the end, as well. So we can do that. We can
hit the tick to apply it. And that process is
exactly the same for any sound effects
that we want to add into our video as well. We can literally just
hit the plus here to add in another music
track or sound effect. We can pick sound
effects in this case. And again, there's
some templates and things that we can use or we can import our in terms of
adjusting our volume levels, again, this is something
that VN does really, really well, and it
makes this really easy. It actually does a really
good job of automatically setting the volume level for
you on your primary footage. So I've never really needed
to adjust my primary piece, like the M speaking piece very much because it does
a very good job of that. But if we do want to
adjust our volume levels, we can either do it on a clip by clip basis or we can do it on
the entire project at once, which is actually really cool. And the same obviously
applies to our music. We could just tap on
that and we could apply the volume levels just for that or we can actually
do it all in one place. This is what I think
is really powerful. I'm going to select
this first clip, our primary clip here. We want to make sure
it's our primary clip, and I'm going to hit volume. Not only do we get here to adjust the volume of
our spoken piece, the video volume, we also
get BGM background music. I knows that we've bought in
a music track and it's going to let us adjust them
both at the same time, same win without needing to dive back into other
settings and things. So we're all in the one place. It makes it much easier to get the mix that
you're looking for. Now, I want to stress here
that this is a creative thing. There is no right or wrong. But my priority will be, how do we get someone to hear the most important piece,
which in this case, it would be me speaking without
the music being too loud, overpowering, or distorted
and sounding bad. This is where it's
a good idea to do this piece with
headphones on, so you're really hearing
what things are sounding like and it's making
adjustments as you need to. If we found that me
speaking was too quiet, then we could obviously boost
that up here a little bit. Then in terms of
the music track, this is where we
want to start low and then build up because, again, we want to
make sure that we're still able to hear
the primary piece. So what we find is a
good starting point is down around 30, 25 to 30. Again, each music track is going to be a little
bit different in terms of volume and how loud things are at the
start or whatever. But you can see when
I've made an adjustment, it starts to play through
the clip here so that we can hear those adjustments in real time and
make adjustments. Now, we can either make
adjustments just to that one clip that we
selected, or in here, I can go apply to all
this is going to apply to both our music and all of our
spoken pieces clips, too. So I'm going to
choose apply to A, and that volume level adjustment has now been made
across both of them. But again, then after
we've done that, if we wanted to adjust a clip, maybe make it quieter or louder, we could select that
individual clip and just make changes to that one
clip here under volume, and just don't hit Apply to A. Let's just apply it
to that one clip. There is one more advanced
way that we can adjust things like our volume levels if we want something
more dynamic. So maybe we want to quiet at
the start and then boost it for a bit where someone's not speaking and then
bring it back down. We can do that with keyframes and keyframes you can actually use for animations
and graphics and moving things around
on screen, as well. So I'm going to select
our music track here to show you
how keyframes work, but again, know that this will apply to other things as well. And you can see we have the
option here for keyframe. Actually, I'm going
to come back to the start to show you this first. So I'm going to go ahead
and select a keyframe here. We're at the start
of our project, and we've added
this marker here. I'm going to come across
a little bit further, so just wipe across a bit more, and let's add in
another key frame. So we've got two keyframes
added or two markers. Really, these are
setting points. We can add settings
and apply settings to this clip that change at that time or that
get set at that time. So let's come back to
this first one here, so we can see that when
we hover over that, it's got a border around it, which means that
that's selected. And let's come down to volume. Let's lower this volume to five, right, in this case, and we want to hit the
tick to apply that. And let's just leave
this one because this one without making
any changes at that point, will be whatever we
had it set to before. Let's come across now, and
this is the third one. I think this is really
going to help explain this. And let's drop this one. So we'll go volume, let's
bring this back down to ten. Now, I'm just going to
pause this playback. And let's just scrub back
through and let's see what's happening because we can see
it here with this slider. So we set this first
keyframe here to five. The next keyframe
here we didn't touch. So it went to the
default, which was 30. That's where we set our entire volume level for that clip. And then we made a change
to the last one here, which was to take it to ten. So we can see that
volume adjustment is now happening in the times that
we've created these four. And so if we have a look
at this entire clip now, looking at the music track here, if we look through
this and we're looking at the volume levels,
we're now staying on five. All the way up until
we hit this keyframe. At five, we then increase
back to our default, which was previously set at 30. Then we can drop
back down to ten. And because there's
no other keyframes that we've manually adjusted, that's going to
mean that this clip now stays at ten for the rest. So if we did want
to add one more, we could hit Apply,
add one more keyframe. Let's jump into our volume, and let's bring this
one here back up to 30. And now we're at 30 for
the rest of that clip. So we can easily raise
and lower our volume as a more advanced way to really dial things
in using keyframes. Again, don't forget
to hit the tick to apply this, and that's now on.
8. Adjusting Color: Now from here, we're going
to apply any color effects, any color grades, fix
any color issues. That's what we're going
to do now. So you want to select, again,
your first clip. We always start at
the first clip, and we come down here to filter. And then in here, you
can see we've got a bunch of these
different filters. Think of these like
Instagram filters where we can apply these preset looks. So this could allow
you to create something or get creative
with something from these preset to line without
needing to dive in any deeper in the settings
and make this yourself. So if you see something
you like in here, by all means, you could use it. I mean, this one doesn't
look too. Can also dial back the intensity, so you can see right
now we're at 100. So if it was too much, we can lower that a little. Again, this is another
one of those areas where it's personal preference. It's an art thing. There's
no right or wrong with this. We create the look that we like that we want
to put out there. But also with one
of these selected, we could also come in
and customize it up. So this could be a good
starting point for you. Picking one of these and
you can see there is a lot in here to choose but
once you've picked one, like I've got one
selected here now, we can choose adjust and make
further adjustments to it. Or, instead, I'm
going to undo this. What I would suggest is
we come back to filter. Let's turn off our filter. So we want to go all the
way back to the left. We want to pick original,
so no filter applied. And instead, what I'd recommend to people is the jump in to adjust and just play with a
couple of settings in here. You can see all the different
things that we can adjust. There's only a few
that you actually need to get something
looking pretty good. Now obviously, you can dive
deeper, go back and forth, and spend as much time
as you'd like in here, but you don't need to
is what I'm saying. So where I recommend you
start is with exposure. Think of this, like, the
brightness of your shot, right? So we can darken it
down if it needs it, or we can brighten it up. So maybe something like this. Then from here, I'm jumping
across to color temperature. So this is where we can fix any mistakes that might have happened while we were filming. If the camera was set wrong, or the lights were causing some weird colorization
in your clips, we can either add more blue
or more yellow or orange. We can make our shot
cooler or warmer using this temperature
gauge slider. So something like this
doesn't look too bad. From there, I like
to then adjust the contrast slider so we can either add more contrast
or take some out. Obviously, we can again, create the look
that we're after. I'm going to make this
a bit more contra, so maybe something like this. And then I like to pick
the vibrance slider here to bring out some more colors to
amplify the amount of colors that are happening
here in our scene. Again, we don't want to
go too crazy with this, but probably bump
this up a little bit, something like that
doesn't look too bad. Now, if we want to
preview before and after, we can just tap and
hold on this top area, so this was before
and this is after. Looking at the before and after, I mean, I definitely
prefer the after, but maybe it's a
little too intense, so we can dial down the
vibrance a little bit. And then once we're happy,
we could either just apply it again to this one clip
or we apply it to all. Now, the fact that we chose the first clip likely means that all the rest you're
going to want the same. That's why we chose
the first clip. So we're going to choose
here apply to all that look or effect has been
applied to all of them. Now obviously, if
we do want to make minor adjustments to
an individual clip, we can do that, too. Select the clip, come
over here to filters, make the adjustment
that we need to, and just apply it to that one clip. And
you'll be good to go. Now, this same process works on your B roll or overlay
clips, as well. So if we have this shot here that we want
to make adjustments to select it down to filter, and we've got all
the same settings and things that we
can apply in here.
9. Exporting Your Video: Time for us to save and
to export our video out. So let's just deselect
everything here, and it's going to
give us our extra menu options at the top. You can see now we have
our Export button. So if we press on
this, then we take into this screen
here, which again, has already got our
settings correct, ten ADP, 30 frames per second, based on our project
being set up correctly way back
in the beginning. We can customize this
up, but for most people, you'll probably find that just these auto settings are
going to be all you need. In which case, you just hit
Export and you're good to go. But if we do want
to dial things in, we can jump across to manual. You can see that we can
control that resolution. So we could go a
lower resolution or higher up to four
k if we needed to, we can also make adjustments
to the frame rate. But the one I think most people might want
to play with if they're looking to customize things
up would be the bit rate. So this is really
the quality and the data size of our
videos as we're exporting. So this is megabits per second. Lower the number,
lower the quality, also lower the file size, higher the number, higher the
quality, larger file size. So right now it says the
default here is nine, and you see that our estimated
file size is 97 megabytes. So if we wanted a higher
quality video out of here, we could bump this up,
but that also means that our video file size
is going to be bigger. So again, I recommend
for most people, you can just leave
this as default. But if you do need a
specific requirement, things like a file size, you
got to upload something, and maybe your Internet's
not that great, you could dial this back to get still a decent
looking video, but maybe a smaller file size. And then all we need
to do here is hit Export and that
file is saved out. Just wanted to jump in
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10. Reformatting for different platforms: Now right back
towards the start of this master class where we
were setting up our project, I showed you how
we could reformat our video here for
different formats. So if we now want to reformat, now we've got a finished video. If we also want to create a different version for
a different platform, we can easily do
that in here, too. What I would suggest
is that we are saving our project here so we can see our project here I've actually got two
with the same name. Let's come across to
the three little dots here and let's choose duplicate. So we've got a backup of it. Now let's open this one so this is our copy
of our project, and let's make
changes to this one. So if we ever needed to revert back to our original,
we still have that. But up here, let's now
reformat this for portrait, nine by 16. All right? So now let's hit the
tick to apply that. Now, obviously, this could be
the look that you're after, but if we want to
customize this up, this is actually really easy. So first off, if
we want to scale this clip up, our
main clip here, we can easily do that just by selecting coming
up the top here, and we can pinch to Zoom
to make that bigger. So you can see you don't
need to make it full screen, depending on the look
that you're after. You could put it at
the top. You could add some text or
something at the bottom. We can really create something quite cool in
here, really, really easy. Or, obviously, we want
to go full screen. We can just scale that all
the way up that we need to and position it so that
it's centered, right? So you could do
that on a clip by clip basis as you go
through your project. If I'm going to come
across here a bit further, because there are some
things that we could do. If this is how you
wanted it to look, then how could we
change this up a bit? So this background here, if we come down here
to BG background, then we can adjust the blow so we can blur less.
We could blow more. We could also add a color. So instead of the blur,
we get plain black. We can use, whatever
color we like, or there is different
gradients and things that we could
apply in here, too. But we can also customize
this up and do both. So let's hit the tick to
apply that background. Let's select this clip here. Let's scale it up, and maybe
we move up the top here, and this is where we add
our text or our captions. It's really easy
to do this stuff. And so even coming back to the start where
we've got our text, we then just need
to go through and resize that as well
so that it would fit. So we can tap on that. We can pinch to Zoom. So we're just going
through, we're rescaling all of our shots so that they match and look
good in this new format. So I love how easy VN
makes for repurposing your video content into different formats once
you're done editing.
11. Wrapping Up: So wrapping up
this master class, a couple of quick things. If you found this
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if you would like to, where you can share any of
the projects that you've made off the back of this
training for others to see. And if you want to see other
training and master classes that we have here
on skill share, you can find those all listed
under our profile area. Thank you very
much, and I hope to see you in the next one. Cheers.
Justin Brown, Primal Video
