is there an Android editing app that is as good as iMovie is on iPhone? Turns out
there is.
I'm a bit of an iPhone person so I set myself a challenge to find an
Android editing app for video that was as good as iMovie, that I could recommend
to you, so I borrowed an Android phone and I found
CyberLink PowerDirector, and you know what, it's not as good as iMovie... It's way
better. It's almost as good as some of the desktop apps that I use. You can use
this tool for vertical video as well which means it's perfect for IGTV and
today I'm gonna show you how it works. If you want to find out more about mobile
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Click on new project and
give it a name, something creative like 'test project' and now you're going to
choose your aspect ratio. 16 x 9 is your horizontal frame for PCs and your
regular videos. 9 by 16 is a vertical video format that you might want to use
for IGTV, that's what we're going to play with today. Now you can import your
videos, you can even capture your videos directly using a camera icon, or you can
choose from any of your albums on your phone. So here's two I picked from
earlier on, they are me drinking coffee, creatively, as you may have noticed this
is a theme in my editing videos. If I click on it you get these little green
handles and using these little green handles you can trim the clips. So for
example in this one I just want the coffee leaving the frame I don't want
anything else. So here we go, that's the moment. Now I'm going to click on my
second clip and in my second clip I want that coffee coming into the frame just
as I drink it. If I click the play button I can watch that through.
That's not exactly right and I'll have to spend a little bit of time editing now
but you get the hang of it. If I click onto that little icon on the bottom left
hand side, that gives me some options for transitions. At the moment it's a
straight cut but there's all these different transitions you can add. I
would advise against using too many of these because it makes it look a little
bit amateur, it can also distract from the main message of your video. I do like
this shove effect, let's have a look at that in action.
Something a lot of people ask me about is adding a logo as an overlay on a
video. So you see on the left-hand side of the screen there's a layers tab, the
two squares, and if I click on image as long as I've got a copy of my logo as a
transparent PNG I can add that as a layer. I'm just going to tap that click
the plus and it brings it in to the timeline, you can see it's overlay at the
top. I've just tapped on that, I can move it around, I can make it smaller and I
can place it where I want it to go in the video and if I click that up arrow
at the bottom I can reveal the timeline and I can stretch it out so that it
fills the entire video as an overlay. So let's have a look at that by clicking
the play button. Another use for overlay too would be
for a tutorial. For example, where you need your hands doing something while
you're talking you could shoot the piece with you talking to camera and overlay
your hands doing the action. The next thing I want to show you is how to add a
title to your video. Click the layers tab again and click title and you can
see there's loads of options for titles there that you can play around with. I'm
gonna go for something simple. If I click CyberLink and the plus button
you can see it's been added to my timeline and I can move it around on the
screen to where I want it to appear, tap on it to change the text because
obviously I don't want it to say CyberLink, I want it to say coffee. Click
on the down arrow to go full screen, now that's where I want it to go. If I click
the pencil I can click title designer and this gives me loads of other options.
I can change the style, I can change the font I can change the color scheme, I
can change where it's positioned on-screen. I have a lot of control
over what this title will actually look like and now I can choose the position
that I want it to appear on the screen, not just where it appears on the
screen but when and you can see it's got handles I can't just pick that up and I
want it to come in at the end as I'm drinking the coffee so
we're getting that 'ahh coffee' moment so there you go
it's coming in. I've added another clip because I want to show you how you can
cut out the bits where you make a mistake, so scroll across to the point
where you made a mistake and click on the clip to make those green handles
appear and you can see on the left hand side we've got a knife, that's it click
the knife, move across the end of your mistake,
click the knife again and now select that clip and delete it and that's it,
it's gone. That mistake has gone for good now I want to show you how to add
effects to that clip and there's some pretty cool ones that you can add. So if
I click on to the pencil you can see there's speed, there's cropped, there's duplicate but
I like this one 'skin smoother' I mean who doesn't want to look younger
really? and you see it's automatically added that but I can add my skin
brightness and my skin smoothing. Do I look better? I don't know, I want to add
some more effect so I'm gonna click on that pencil again and I going to go to
that color effect at the top right hand side and here it's a bit like Instagram
you go in and there's different filters that you can add to your clip. I want
to look more gorgeous, which one will make me look most gorgeous do you think?
I can also click on the slider on the left hand side and when I do that I can
adjust the brightness, the contrast, the saturation if I click on the white
balance at the bottom, color temperature and tint. Do I look better? I think I
look better. If I click FX, and this is weird because it's not while I've got
the clip selected, I can add any of these interesting effects to the video so
let's just put this dreamy one in. Ah lovely and obviously this is something
you can play around with a lot. Just to note that it is only going to add the
effect to the active clip that you're working on so if you do choose one of
these, make a note of what they are so that when you add a new clip you can add
the effect to that as well. The final thing to do is to save your project so
you can save it and come back to it later or you can
export it to your phone so that you can upload it into a IGTV YouTube or wherever
else you're posting your video.