Hi, I'm Dean from travel vids and today we're going to do a basic editing tutorial
I'm going to take you through the process of taking separate clips that are stored on your mobile device and
Turning them into one clip that you can export for YouTube Facebook or Instagram
This will be the ultimate basic process, and we are going to be using a Samsung s8 with PowerDirector.
On your phone the first thing you're gonna want to do is go to your gallery and
Open the camera folder where all your images are stored.
Then select all the clips that belong in one video that you want to put together
into one clip and
we are going to move them to a new album. Create a new album and
We'll call that
coffee
Just for arguments sake and we'll create that folder.
I've got a nice contained folder with all those clips in it. I'm going to do this tutorial in two separate processes
the first is how to import clips and then just export them straight so that you can see how it works and
Then on the second run. We'll do a little bit of tweaking to it
So that way you get to see the program in action a little bit
So we're going to open up our director, if this is the first time you're working with power director
You'll notice that tutorials will pop up you can just close these because they can actually get a little bit confusing
On the topic of confusing you'll notice that there's buttons on the top and the side at the bottom here everywhere
Just ignore everything for the moment the only thing you want to focus on is a new project
So always rename your projects to match your folders, so we'll call this coffee
Done leave it at sixteen by nine and off we go now
The second screen is your library. It's what you need to find the clips because we've put it in a folder already
You'll see it right there. It's the coffee folder and
There you have the clips that we wanted. To get them into the timeline which is the line at the bottom here.
All you need to do is find the one you want to put in first which will be that one tap it once to highlight
It tap it again to put it in the time line
Then in order that we want to put them in we'll have that one next and then we'll have that one next and that
one and that one and that
one
And that one
And
There we go there we go there
We go
so I've brought all the clips into the timeline which is basically connected then back to back over here.
If that is the way you want it
Then all you need to do is go back again back to the library page and back again
This will be your home page
it's where you can play the video from so your controls are on this side and
To continue editing the video would be on this side, but as I've said first edit we're going to just keep it very simple
we'll put them in back-to-back like this and
I'm going to use this top corner one which is your export button and
We want to produce this video
It's always best to save the video to your phone, so save gallery or to an SD card
Rather do it like this then going straight to the platform. I find that it gives you more control
To to do what you want in in Facebook or YouTube wherever you're going to use it
So save it to your gallery you can choose the size that you want to save it in. HD is usually fine
But if you're making a small video that you want to email to somebody you can use SD
Which shrinks the file size a little bit. So we produce the video...
Then there'll be a screen like this which will be a advert because I'm using the free version
You can just close that it'll go out of your way
This is a really inexpensive app and it's definitely worth purchasing and when you purchase it it will take the watermark off the video
So once again, that's just an advert you can ignore the picture
Okay, and we don't need to rate you we go back again
Your two important buttons are at the top here is your back button if you ever push something wrong like this happens
And you go, I don't know where I am
I've gotten lost then all you got to do is push this back button you see there's a tutorial window that I was talking about
When you see these tutorial
windows
That pop up you untick the "show this tip next time" so that it won't get in your way tap and it'll go away
so if you ever get stuck
This back button on top here is your sort of saving grace in case you make a mistake and you get lost in the program
Then you just go back
Always go back if you go back again
It takes you back to the home screen if you want to carry on editing the project in here
You must just find your project we were working on coffee
So I can go back to
Editing the project over here, and it takes me back to that home screen
back button and
export button. If you want to get a little bit more fancy now, and you want to edit it so
We preview the video over there
You can see some of the clips are a bit long like we could shorten them
So let's just pause that all you got to do is select the clip
Then we're gonna zoom in a little bit to make it a bit bigger
once again select it and then you can just
Trim the clip at the back in the front so once again there. We go. We'll just
Select that one trim it down
Trim it down
that one
Trim
Trim it down
See these are all way too long and
That way we now watch the video now it goes quick. Chop chop chop
And you can carry on going throughout the video you'll see the full length of the video at the top here
I'm a twenty nine seconds
So you know keeping them short is really good
If you want to get a little bit more in depth
But tapping on the clip you'll have just under the back button you'll have an edit button
Which will give you a little menu with more things that you can do
Like for example reversing the club flipping it duplicating it
changing the color or like in this case where
he was talking and you don't want to use the voice you just take the volume and
You drop the volume all the way down to mute the clip.
Then if you
Decide that you want to change the order around all you have to do is simply the hold
it till it turns orange, and you can move it to there and let go says you can reorder the clips like that and
if you would like to add in more
So we go to the back here you go
To that button, and it takes you back to the library so you can add in clips maybe even from another video
like
Me talking over there and bring that into the video
The same thing can go for music you'll see on the timeline underneath is some more tracks
Yeah with the little music notes over there. You can add music in there
You'll go to the music tab at the top
Find some music. That's on your phone and
Then again the little plus will take it into the song and you see I haven't lined it up at the front
So we'll just hold it and drag it
To the front
Want to shorten the front of the music so that it gets going straight away, and then if I preview it
Perfect and ready to go to Instagram we produce the project and
Save it to the phone for the produce HD produce
This little pop-up here again is just to remind me that I want to maybe get the full version
That's about five or six dollars. It's really well priced for a very comprehensive video editing app
Hope you found the quick look that we had at Powerdirector on a samsung S8 helpful to putting videos together
I think a lot of people get frightened off by the idea of editing because: we're do even begin?
And although these programs can look a little bit complicated all you really gotta focus on is keeping your Clips short
So filming is very important, making sure that you know what you want to film, so that when you get to the editing program
it's a matter of opening up the folder dropping them in in the right order and then just adding a music track and
pushing that export button
If you're looking for a little bit more information and a little bit of a deeper look into this whole process
We do the seven step editing process, which takes you through the same thing
we've just done with all the long odds and ends along the way as well as how to film and
Planning exactly what to form so that your editing does become as easy as painting by numbers