- Hey it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video.
Recently, we did a video
explaining the best video editing apps on Android.
Now, video editing apps on Android
have really come a long way
and you can now get some great results
from the devices that you typically might carry with you.
Your phone or your tablet.
From testing a huge range of apps, my recommendations
were Cyberlink Power Director and KineMaster.
In this video, we're gonna dive a little deeper
into KineMaster on Android.
We're gonna run through exactly how to edit your videos
and get great results using the app.
Now this video isn't gonna be
a full featured review of the app.
We're also not gonna cover off every feature
and every tool that's available in the app.
We're gonna be running
through a full editing process end to end,
covering everything you need to know to get you editing fast
and to get great results using your Android device.
We'll have a similar video coming out soon
for Cyberlink Power Director on Android,
which we'll link in the cards.
Now before we jump in,
we're gonna be following through the Primal Video method,
which is the most efficient editing process
to help you eliminate any rework or wasted time
while you're editing.
We did a video on this a while back
but if you haven't seen it, you can download the pdf here
to help you with your videos.
So when you first open up KineMaster,
before you start your editing,
one of the first things you should check is the settings.
So select settings.
Now KineMaster, being probably the most advanced
video editing app across any device
that's not an actual PC or Mac, gives you a ton of options.
But the one that I'd suggest you check first
is your export frame rate, which is down near the bottom.
So for me, the footage that I'm editing
is 25 frames per second PAL footage
so I'm gonna change my project, or KineMaster
to be working exactly the same.
If the video files that you're looking to edit
were actually captured with your Android device,
then it's highly likely that they were actually captured
at 30 frames per second.
So default of 30 frames per second is probably fine
for most people.
Okay, so now that that's out of the way,
it's time to start your project.
So hit the big button in the middle of the screen
and then select empty project.
So when you open it up,
you've got a fairly intuitive interface.
You've got your timeline down the bottom.
You've got all your controls for playback,
importing, and exporting on the right.
And on the left, you got things like undo, redo, share,
settings, you can zoom in on your timeline,
and you can jump straight back to the start of your video.
So now that we've quickly covered the interface,
the first step is to import your video files.
So just select media browser,
navigate through to find your footage,
select the clip that you wanna use,
and hit the tick in the top right corner.
And you'll see straight away that your footage
has been dropped down into your timeline.
The first step from here is to start to refine
all your video footage.
So you wanna remove anything
that you're absolutely not gonna use in your end product.
So we'll start by trimming the extra footage
at the start of our video clip.
So to do that, we just tap on the video clip
and you'll see straight away
that we get this yellow box around it,
and there's a yellow handle on the left.
If we tap on that handle and drag across to the right,
then we can change the end point or the start point
of this video clip.
So we'll slide it across to just before I start talking
and we'll do exactly the same at the end.
When we tap on our video clip, we get our yellow handles.
And we'll just tap and drag the end point of our video
back to where we want our video to finish.
So like I said, in this step,
we're going through and removing
everything that we don't want in our video.
So back in the middle of our clip here,
I'm sure there's some sections that we wanna get rid of.
Maybe some mistakes or multiple takes.
So we just pretend that this is an area
that I wanna get rid of or further refine.
So we'll select our video clip
and then come up and select cut,
which is the picture of the scissors,
and from here, you actually get some really great
and really advanced editing options.
The ability to be able to trim to the left
of the playback head and trim to the right of playback head
can give you some massive time savings
if you're editing larger projects.
We actually did a video on trim top and tails,
one of the first videos that we did on this channel.
I would highly recommend that you check it out
because if you're actually using your trim left
and your trim right or your trim top and tail tools
in any editing software, then they'll save you
an absolute ton of time.
For the purposes of this video, we're just gonna add a cut
in our timeline here.
So we're gonna select split at playhead.
So you can see that's split our video track in two.
So now if we come along to where we wanna add our next cut,
select our clip, and again select split at playhead.
So now you can see that we've got three clips there.
So if we select the middle clip,
we have the ability to delete it
by pressing the delete button.
If that's a section that we don't want in our video,
I'll just undo that.
Or we have the ability to use those handles
and really refine our edit.
So just remove small sections of the video
that we may not want.
It'll really give you some control
on tightening up your edit.
To easily help you navigate around the timeline,
you can do things like pinch to zoom, to zoom in and out.
And you can just swipe left and right
or tap and drag left and right
in order to navigate around your timeline.
You can also easily reorder your clips
and pick them up and move them around
by just tapping on them and holding down
and moving them to the location you want them.
Okay so now that we've refined our video content
down to where we want it, we can add in things like B-roll.
So to do that, you just select layer
and then what type of B-roll you want.
So in this case, we're gonna pick video.
We're then gonna find the video clip
that we want to use as B-roll, select it,
and hit the tick to drop it down in our timeline.
And you can see that it's dropped it
on a separate video layer.
From here, we have the ability to scale, resize,
and reposition that clip.
In most cases, you'll probably just wanna scale it up
so that it fits full screen.
As with any other video clips, you have the ability
to get full control over that video clip.
Just by tapping on it, you have the handles appear
so you can adjust the start and the end time of that clip.
You can split the clips into multiple clips
and you can pick them up and move them around the timeline
to where you want them to display.
One of the biggest features in KineMaster
is that it gives you the ability
to have multiple video layers.
So for example, you can pick up a clip
and you can move it down another layer
and you get another level of control
or another layer of footage that you can actually
have in your video project.
And this is pretty awesome
because it's the closest thing you'll get
to replicating full professional editing software
on an Android device.
You can also zoom in on your timeline
or make your timeline bigger
by clicking the timeline button in the bottom left corner.
So for this video, we're actually not gonna use
any B-roll footage, I'll just remove those now.
And the next step is to add in our music track
or any audio to your project.
So we'll just click on audio.
And in this case, the song that we want
is on the phone itself so we'll go down to folders,
we'll hit download, and we're gonna import "Golden Skies".
So you just select the track, hit the plus button,
and it's dropped down into your timeline.
Then hit the tick in the top corner
to get back to your editing screen.
So once again, exactly the same
as with any other clip in this app,
you have the ability to have full control
over editing your audio clips as well.
You can tap on the clip, you can split it,
you can pick it up, you can move it,
you can adjust the time with the handles,
so you really get some great control
over your editing in this app.
Okay so the next step is to add in any titles.
So we'll come back to the start of our clip,
select layer, and then text.
Enter the text that you want for your title and hit okay.
Now that your title's there on the screen,
you can resize it or rotate it
by using the two buttons on the text box
or you can just pick up the title
and move it to where you want it.
While we've still got our title selected,
you can also add an animation to animate that title in
or onto the screen.
As you click on the different ones, it gives you a preview
of what that animation's gonna look like.
So we'll just select fade.
And we'll also add on an out animation
so that our title's gonna fade in
and it'll stay on-screen for a period of time
and then it'll fade back out.
They also have a heap of options around adding things
like shadow, glow, outline, background color,
and even the ability to add a full width background as well.
Okay so we'll come back out of here now
and we'll add another title.
So we'll hit layer and then text.
Type in Primal Video.
And then we just drag our title down
underneath Justin Brown.
Now we just need to apply the same in and out animations.
So we come over to in animation and select fade
and back and out animation and hit fade as well.
So now when we hit play, you'll see that both titles
fade in, stay on the screen, and then fade out.
So if you wanna add in any transitions between your clips,
then select the little box between your clips
and the transitions panel will open.
And you can see here
that there's quite a few a to choose from.
Normally, on a video like this,
I wouldn't be adding too many transitions or effects in
so I'll just undo it using the undo button.
Next up, we now adjust the volumes on our clips.
So if you wanna adjust the volume on an an individual clip,
then select the clip, select the volume button,
and you can see you've got two options in there.
The one on the left is the actual volume for that track.
And because we've selected our primary video track,
it also gives you the option
to decrease your background music,
while this clip is playing,
by whatever percentage that you set there.
So if you drop it to, say, 27% or minus 27%,
whenever there's any noise coming, or any talking coming,
out of that primary video layer,
any music tracks will be dropped by 27%
but only while there's talking or noise
from that primary video clip.
So we'll leave these as default and we'll go back
and we'll adjust the volume on our music clips.
So select your clip, go to volume, and the slider there
will adjust the volume for that music clip.
So in this case, we'll drop it down to about 48%.
If we wanna fade our audio in at the start of our video
and out at the end of our video, go to settings
and then, under audio, enable fade in.
Then just drag this slider to the period of time
that you want the audio to fade in over.
And you can also do the same for fade out here as well.
Now if we come across to video, then you can turn on and off
and adjust the period of time for the fade in and out
from black, for your video as well.
The next step is to color correct your video.
Now as KineMaster only let's you apply color effects
to individual clips, if you think you're gonna do
lots of cuts or edits in your video,
then it might be worth color correcting your videos first up
instead of at this point in the process.
This is something that I'd normally advise against
because color correcting up front
makes your whole editing process slower.
You'll notice a decent performance hit in your editing
because your software's gonna try and re-render
all your color effects every time you change something
in your timeline.
So to color correct your videos,
you actually have two options in KineMaster.
The first is to add a video filter.
So select your video clip and choose color filter.
So you can see you get quite a few options in here
for preset filters or preset looks.
They're pretty much the same sort of thing
that you'd find in Instagram.
So for me, and as far as I'm concerned,
I think they're pretty consumer-grade.
Whereas to get a professional result,
you'd actually wanna use the color adjustment tools.
So we'll go back out of here without applying anything
and we'll select color adjustment.
So in here, you've got three simple sliders.
One for brightness, one for contrast,
and one for saturation.
Between these three settings, you should be able to get
some really good results with your videos.
So you can see the difference in our timeline now.
Okay, so now that your video is edited, it's time to export.
So hit the back button to go back to the main menu,
select your video project, and hit share.
And from here,
you can save your video direct to your gallery.
You can also send it to YouTube, Facebook, Google+,
or Dropbox.
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