Filmora Efficient Editing E-Book

Alexander Zacharias

• Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 143

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

Whether you want to create short films, YouTube videos, music videos, or videos for any social event, Filmora is a powerful, innovative, and user-friendly video editing software that you can use for all this and much more!
Filmora Efficient Editing is a comprehensive introduction for those who are new to video editing as well as those looking to transition to Filmora. The book starts by helping you develop an understanding of video editing and Filmora’s interface and gradually takes you through adding sources and exporting your first project. Next, you’ll learn how to make your videos engaging and fun using audio, personalization, the split-screen function, and Chroma keys. You’ll understand how to plan as well as create your videos using Filmora from scratch. With simplified concepts, steps, and real-world editing examples, this book covers applications such as YouTube, animated intros, professional marketing videos, and industry-standard tips.
By the end of this video editing book, you’ll have learned how to use Filmora's powerful tools and functionality to create high-quality and professional videos from scratch.

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Filmora Efficient Editing

Create high-quality videos for any discipline from scratch using chroma keys, split screens, and audio

Alexander Zacharias

BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI

Filmora Efficient Editing

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Contributors

About the author

Alexander Zacharias is a university lecturer and game developer who has a great passion for both reading and writing books. Alexander has taught students of all ages, ranging from 7 to 46 years old, and has dedicated his life to making sure that knowledge is accessible to anyone that searches for it. Throughout his life he has met and conversed with people from many walks of life and has adapted all his content to be understandable to anyone, no matter their education level.

A great deal of thanks goes to God first and foremost, and the people that have surrounded and supported me, including my family and one of the most influential and impactful people in my life, Angela Nicole Warwick. I’d also like to acknowledge all the support and patience that the Packt team has given me, including (but not limited to) Kaustubh Manglurkar, Manthan Patel, Feza Shaikh, Rohit Rajkumar, Teny Thomas, Simran Ali, Adrija Mitra, and everyone else who gave me their support and patience throughout the development of this book.

About the reviewer

Manish Mehta is the founder and CEO of FlexAds Media Private Limited.

He’s also a public speaker, internet marketer, and entrepreneur. He’s been doing internet marketing since 2015, and he teaches and trains individuals on how to use their knowledge and skills to build a successful online course business. Manish Mehta is the founder of the Course Creation Academy, a high-end online coaching program where he teaches people how to market their existing knowledge and convert it into a steady income stream. Manish Mehta is one of the most highly-rated instructors on udemy.com.

He has been in the course creation business for the past three years and has released over 15 courses, with over 50,000 students from all over the world.

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Your First Steps in Video Editing!

1

Introduction to Video Editing and Filmora

Technical requirements

Video editing in the modern world!

Why use Filmora?

Installing Filmora

Summary

2

Navigating Filmora’s Interface

Humble beginnings – creating a new project!

What’s all this? – Navigating Filmora’s Interface

Personalizing our project!

Premium ingredients – an in-depth look at the media library

The Media library

The Audio library

The Titles library

The Transitions library

The Effects library

The Elements library

The Split Screen library

Summary

3

Adding Our Source Material, Using the Timeline, and Creating Our First Project

Technical requirements

What is the timeline and what tools does Filmora offer?

No media selected

Image selected

Video selected

Audio selected

Adding our resources to the timeline and discovering the preview panel/viewport

Splitting and trimming – giving our video a haircut

Our dedicated preview panel

Adding some cool effects using the Crop and Speed tools

Exporting our video – look what we made!

Summary

4

Audio – Changing Your Video’s Feel!

Audio tracks and how to work with them in Filmora

Best practices when working with audio tracks

Making your voice heard – voiceovers

Audio properties – creating high-quality audio the correct way and discovering equalizers

What’s all that ruckus? Using the Denoise and Ducking effects to increase your audio’s quality

Summary

Part 2: Making Videos Engaging, Interesting, and FUN!

5

Making Videos FUN – Effects, Elements, Transitions, and Titles

Recording our screen

Effects – adding makeup to our video

Transitions – changing clips seamlessly

Titles – words are powerful

Elements – visual effects to make our videos “pop”

Summary

6

Cinematic Videos and Movie Magic – Split Screens, Chroma Keys, and More

Technical requirements

Split screens – too many screens

Adding our split screen

Customizing our split screen

Chroma Key – where did my color go?

Looking into motion tracking and color matching

Motion Tracking

Color Match

Summary

7

Making Filmora Work for Us – Using AI

Using Auto Normalization

Using AI Portrait

AR Stickers

Auto Reframe

Summary

8

Filmora Filmstock – A Treasure Chest of Assets

Treasure – what is Filmstock?

Using and navigating Filmstock

Downloading and installing new Filmstock assets

Summary

Part 3: Advanced Step-by-Step Examples

9

Creating an Animated Intro from Scratch

Technical requirements

Planning ahead

Adding the logo and preparing our video

Adding our effects, animations, and filters

Adding our audio and exporting

Summary

10

Making a Gaming Video

Planning our video

Finding, splitting, and trimming

Adding our animations, transitions, and effects

Adding more media to make the clip more entertaining

Summary

11

Creating a Promotional Video for an Event

Technical requirements

Preparing the plan

Creating an eye-catching video

Finalizing and exporting our promotional video

Summary

12

Career Roles – What You Can Do with This Newfound Knowledge

Content creator

Entertainment content

Educational content

Film maker

The gameplan

Freelancer

A few helpful tips

Summary

Appendix

Final words

Resources

Motivation

Further reading

Index

Other Books You May Enjoy

Preface

Video editing is an art form that can be applied to many disciplines, whether you want to create short films, YouTube videos, and music videos, or videos for weddings, birthdays, and other events. Filmora is an extremely powerful, innovative, and user-friendly video editing software that you can use for all this and more!

Filmora Efficient Editing is a comprehensive introduction for those who are new to video editing or looking for new video editing software.

The book starts with an introduction to video editing, Filmora’s interface, adding sources, editing, and exporting your project. Next, you’ll learn how to make your videos engaging, interesting, and fun through the use of audio, personalization, filters, tiles, the split-screen function, and Chroma keys. You’ll understand how to plan as well as create your videos by using Filmora or your own resources. Filled with easy-to-understand concepts and real-world examples, this book covers applications such as YouTube, intros, professional marketing videos, and industry-standard tips and tricks.

By the end of this video editing book, you’ll have learned how to use Filmora’s powerful tools and functionality to create high-quality and professional videos from scratch.

Who this book is for

This book is for a novice or an intermediate-level user looking to create YouTube videos and/or promotional videos for products or events, or someone looking to use Filmora in their work, such as professional YouTube video editors and movie or music video editors. This book mainly focuses on the Windows OS, however, key bindings for Mac are also provided as Filmora works the same for both operating systems. To get started with this book, all you need is a computer and the Filmora software.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to Video Editing and Filmora, This chapter covers the very basics of video editing and explains how Filmora will help us create videos throughout the book.

Chapter 2, Navigating Filmora’s Interface, Once we have learned about video editing and why Filmora is a great tool to start with, we will dive straight in to learning the interface and getting to know a lot of the basic tools we will be using throughout this book.

Chapter 3, Adding Our Source Material, Using the Timeline, and Creating Our First Project, This is the chapter where we will start getting hands-on with the software and start our very first project using media files offered by Filmora.

Chapter 4, Audio- Changing Your Video’s Feel!, Audio is one of the most important features of any video. In this chapter, we will go through all the properties that we can adjust for our audio in Filmora to make our videos sound as good as they look!

Chapter 5, Making Videos FUN – Effects, Elements, Transitions, and Titles, Chapter 5 is one of the most important chapters as we will go through the Effects, Elements and Transitions that Filmora offers, and will look at how to manipulate text with Filmora’s Titles.

Chapter 6, Cinematic Videos and Movie Magic – Split Screens, Chroma Keys, and More, A chapter that is sure to excite many aspiring video editors, we will take a look at features such as Split Screens and Chroma keys that will make out videos look both professional and astonishing.

Chapter 7, Making Filmora Work for Us – Using AI, AI capabilities have skyrocketed in the last decade, so much so that we now use AI to help us with our work and hobbies. Filmora’s AI is extremely powerful, and we’ll see how to use it to make our work easier and less tedious.

Chapter 8, Filmora Filmstock – A Treasure Chest of Assets, Learning where to find high-quality assets to use in our videos is an extremely important skill. For us, that’ll be Filmora Filmstock, a place where you can download premium and free assets directly into Filmora with just a click of a button.

Chapter 9, Creating an Animated Intro From Scratch, This is where we will create an animated intro to use in all our videos and any other projects we create throughout this book.

Chapter 10,Making a Gaming Video, You can’t learn video editing without at least trying to create a gaming video. That’s why this book dedicates an entire chapter to this art form.

Chapter 11, Creating a Promotional Video for an Event, Chapter 11 is where we will create a video to promote a fake event of our own choosing, using a lot of the tools we have already learned throughout this book.

Chapter 12, Career Roles- What You Can Do With This Newfound Knowledge, An important part of learning any skill is knowing how to expand your opportunities, and that is why in the last chapter of our book, we will learn about some opportunities that you may be interested in pursuing.

The Appendix will provide you with a small recap at the end of the book, pointing out the most important things to keep in mind going forward, along with some motivation.

To get the most out of this book

To get the most out of this book I recommend following along, which means you will need to have Filmora 11 installed on your laptop or PC, as well as access to the internet so that you can download the resources provided by the author.

Download the example code files

You can download the supporting files for this book from GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Filmora-Efficient-Editing. If there are any updates to the files, they will be updated in the GitHub repository.

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots and diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://packt.link/UeR0y

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

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Part 1: Your First Steps in Video Editing!

In Part 1 of our book, we’ll be introduced to Filmora 11, learn how to navigate the interface, and learn how to create our first video by adding media and audio clips.

This part includes the following chapters:

Chapter 1, Introduction to Video Editing and FilmoraChapter 2, Navigating Filmora’s InterfaceChapter 3, Adding Our Source Material, Using the Timeline, and Creating Our First ProjectChapter 4, Audio – Changing Your Video’s Feel!

1

Introduction to Video Editing and Filmora

Welcome to Filmora Efficient Editing. Without wasting any time, let’s get started on your journey to learn Filmora 11 and video editing.

When Filmora 11 was first released in 2015, it was called the “Wondershare Video Editor,” but even then, it was easily accessible and user-friendly software that allowed many creators to get into the world of video editing with relative ease. When it was released, the main aim of the software was to be the go-to tool for creating social media videos, vlogs, YouTube content, and home movies, and since then, it has grown to accommodate many more fields and genres.

In this short first chapter, we will learn absolutely everything we need to know about video editing in the modern world, then we will understand why you should pick Filmora 11 as your main video editing software, and we will finish off with signing up to Filmora and some real-world examples where Filmora was used to create trendy videos and short films!

It’s important to understand and learn these things in order to better brainstorm and plan ahead when we get to the projects we will be making in the final chapters of this book, and to also learn from professionals!

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

Technical requirements of Filmora 11