- In this video we'll show you
exactly how to edit your videos on iPhone and iPad
step by step using one of the most powerful,
video editing apps for iPhone right now, LumaFusion.
Hey it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video.
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Every year the video editing apps on both Android
and iPhone seem to get more and more powerful.
We recently released a full overview
of the video editing landscape on both iOS and on Android
and for right now, LumaFusion
was one of our top recommended picks
when it came to best iOS video editing app.
So in this video we're gonna dive into
a full LumaFusion tutorial.
I'm gonna show you exactly how to edit videos
on iPhones and iPads step by step using LumaFusion.
Make sure you stick around to the end
because after that I'll also share
three bonus tips that everyone can use
to speed up your editing and reduce rework
no matter which apps you choose.
While you're here, if you haven't used LumaFusion before,
then make sure to drop a comment below
and let us know what your current favorite
video editing app is for your smart phone or tablet.
So now for the tutorial.
We're gonna open up LumaFusion.
The first step, as it says, is to press the plus button
to create your project, so we'll do that.
Plus down in the bottom left corner.
Give the project a name and hit done.
There you can see you've got the settings
for your frame rate, your frame aspect ratio.
So we get to choose from a heap
of different options in there.
We'll stick to 30.
Your aspect ratio, again if you're gonna
do Instagram Stories or you want a one by one video
for Facebook or for Instagram,
you've got all of that functionality in here.
For this we'll just leave it as 16 by nine
and we'll go to create project and hit that plus.
This is the interface and one of the coolest things
about this interface is that you
can actually change how it looks.
Up in the top right-hand corner you've got a layout button.
When we press on that, you get to choose different layouts
for different stages of your editing project
or just to customize so that it works best for you.
We can see a couple of different layouts here,
but the one I like to leave it on is just the default
which is the top left.
This is the overall interface.
You've got your playback or preview window at the top right,
you've got your toolbox on the right hand side, here,
which is where all your editing options are.
You've got your plus button,
which is where you can add in media.
On the left hand side you've got a toggle switch
to toggle your audio bars.
You can see that the audio bars are on there at the moment.
If we press that button we'll hide that.
If we press it again, the audio will totally disappear.
I actually like to leave it on this one,
so I can see where the volume is at.
The first thing we'll do is bring in some video footage.
Now you've got a couple of different
ways that you can do this.
You can actually bring it in from your phone.
You can see that we're currently on photos.
If your video assets aren't in that photos folder,
then you can tap up in the top left corner
and you can change where you're actually
gonna be importing your files from.
I'll close out of that one now
because up in this top right hand corner,
those three dots, if we press on that,
you can also choose import media.
This will let you bring in media from
things like iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive,
so it makes it really easy to import media
from those sources as well.
The footage we're gonna use is under photos for me,
it's under moments, and we'll scroll down
and pick this clip here.
Tap on that to bring it up in our preview monitor.
Up in this window you can play back the clip
or you can actually trim down the clip up here
before you even get it down to your timeline.
You can see those blue handles on either side of our clip.
We can actually pick those up
and drag it in to adjust the start time,
to make our clip start a bit later.
We've got the same on the end if we want
to trim off the end of our clip, up here.
We can slide that in as well.
Once we're happy with that, then we can hit
the import button and that will
drop it down into our timeline.
You don't have to make all of your edits
up in that top window, you've got the same controls
down at the bottom here, when you tap on the clip,
you'll get the sliders or the handles
that you can adjust to adjust those in
and out points here, as well.
With the timeline, you can just pinch to zoom in and out
on your timeline and you can tap to drag
to swipe along the clip.
For the purpose of this video, I'll bring in a second clip.
I'll actually bring in the same one again,
just a second copy of it.
This time I'll bring in the full clip
and I'll hit the button to drop it down into the timeline.
Cool, so you can see we've got
two clips in our timeline there.
Now with these clips you can pick them up,
you can move them around, we can put it before the other one
or we can pick it up and we can actually put it up a layer
so that we've got layered video.
This is where you would put your B roll video footage,
so if we're talking about something
on the bottom video layer and you want to show it
with an example, you can drop it up on the layer above
and that will then show and play over the top
of your video file while you're playing it.
Again, you can adjust the start time, the end time,
on these clips and pick them up and move them
just by tapping and holding and dragging the clip
to where you want to start and finish.
It's really, really powerful.
We'll zoom in on our clip here
and say we want to remove the start of this clip.
Now we can, as we've just shown you,
tap on the clip, and drag that handle
to adjust the start time or if there's a chunk of your video
that you want to remove in the middle.
So if we want to put a cut about here,
you can actually come across and hit the scissors,
on the side, that will split our clip in two.
So now we've got two clips here in our timeline.
If we want to delete one of them,
we can select the one we want to delete
and then press the trash can, here on the left
and that clip has been removed.
You can see that it's actually kept our B roll clip
on the top, here, in sync.
It slid that across for us in time
while we deleted that clip, so that is awesome.
This is the functionality that you'll get
in professional editing software
or proper editing software that you're used to
on your desktop computers.
So you go through here and you would cut down
your video files, get out all the cuts.
You'd remove anything that you don't want in your project.
You'd add your B roll footage
and get everything edited down first.
While you're editing your clips,
there's also a few other tools
and things you can use to help refine your edit
and get the look that you're after.
Select a clip, we'll come over here to this toolbox,
and in here you can edit the clip.
Just go to edit.
This is where we can pinch to zoom,
on the top preview window here.
We can zoom in on the clip
and position it to how we want it.
We can rotate the clip if we want to,
if we want to correct the horizon.
You can also add key frames in here, which is really
powerful to create your own custom animations
or movement in your videos.
We'll hit the plus here, on size and position,
and that will create a key frame at that point.
That will lock our settings and everything at that point.
Then we just need to come across to where
we want that effect or movement.
To finish, we add another key frame.
At that point, we make adjustments to what we want.
So let's just make it a bit bigger,
maybe reposition the shot.
So it's going to transition between
or move between these two pointers.
I'll rewind here now, so we can play that back.
This was the start.
Then at that point, it's going to start
transitioning between those two settings that we had set.
So in our case, to making it bigger.
That's really cool.
Up in the top right hand corner,
you've also got some default or presets that you can apply.
Now we definitely aren't gonna cover off
on all the features in here
because there are a heap of them,
but you've got simple things like your size adjustments,
you've got ability to flip or mirror
your video files as well.
If you're needing to rotate your footage,
then you can rotate your footage easily in here as well.
Down at the bottom, you've also got speed adjustments.
You can also adjust the volume of your clip in here as well.
If we hit that volume button down at the bottom,
you can see you can adjust the volume up and down.
You've also got some cool audio filters
that you can have, a high pass filter,
a low pass filter, if you want to change
how your audio sounds or maybe remove
some sounds in your audio.
The third one, on the bottom here,
is your color and effects.
If we have a look in here then there is
some presets that you can use to apply.
That's a great frame grab there.
Just drag that across a bit.
Not that I'm probably gonna find a better one.
But you've got some presets here that you can use
to start to dial in the colors
or you can pick any of these presets
and you can come down to the bottom here
and you can customize them up.
So you've got the ability to adjust the levels
of the colors, so we can increase the blacks
by dragging this along, change the grays as well.
I'll undo this because I'm making it look really bad.
But you have so much control over the image, here.
One of the coolest things is that you've also got
your saturation, your brightness as well.
But you've also got the ability
to dial in the individual colors.
There's a heap of color correction tools.
I'm gonna say it is the most comprehensive set
of color correction tools across any app on iOS or Android.
I'm really impressed with this.
We'll back out of this now.
Now let's take a look at the audio.
So if we want to bring in some audio clips,
come back up here in the left corner.
Let's go to royalty free music.
So there's music that comes with this app as well.
Let's just pick Sentimental Romantic,
why not, and Touching Moment.
So when we select it, it brings it up in the preview monitor
and again we can adjust how much of it we want to bring in
by adjusting these sliders or handles here.
If you just want to drop that audio track
down into your timeline, then press the import button.
You can see, it's now a green track
that's dropped down into our timeline.
We can again touch on it, slide it,
bring it back to the start of our clip, here.
If you really want to dial in your audio
and adjust the individual volumes
for each of those tracks, we'll head back up here
and select audio, might need to press it a couple of times.
When we hit play now, you can actually see
the different audio levels
and you can adjust them while you're playing.
You can slide this down to make the music quieter
or you can make the talking louder.
We'll zoom in now and we'll add a title in here as well.
There's two ways you can do it.
You can hit plus down at the bottom, here
and choose Overlay Title
or you can come up to the top, here
and choose a preset title.
We'll pick Titles, there's a heap of presets in here
that you can use that have already been created
that you can just edit up.
Let's just pick the most basic one, Classic Main.
We can press on that and drag it down into our timeline.
We'll drop it down there somewhere.
Again, we can pick it up, we can move it around.
We can make it longer or shorter using those handles.
We want to edit it, we tap on it,
we hit the little toolbox on the side and we'll choose edit.
There's some more presets that you've got over here
for this title or again you can customize it up
to the way that you want it to look.
You can also move the text around the screen.
You can also adjust the text box size as well.
If you want to have text wrapping around in here,
then you can make a bigger box
or you've got all your size adjustments
and everything down here as well.
If you want to actually edit the text,
which I'm sure you'll really want to do,
then come over here to the edit button.
This will let you type in your text.
We'll back out of that now.
Another thing you can do in here
is add transitions onto your video clips as well.
Fade ins or you can get pretty crazy with transitions.
So we'll add a cut in our timeline here
and we can come up to the top here and choose Transitions.
So for this one, I'll just grab a Dip.
Press and hold on it, drag it down into the timeline,
right at that joint.
When we let it go, we've now got a transition
that happens between our two clips.
Once you're happy with your video
and you want to save it out,
you just come up to the top here to the export button.
You can choose Movie, Audio Only,
you can archive your project, or you can save a screenshot.
Let's just choose Movie.
You've got the options to save it to your photos app,
your iCloud, Dropbox, heap of other options in here.
Direct to YouTube, direct to Facebook or Vimeo
or you can just save it out
so you can use it on other apps
and it's gonna save it direct to your phone.
What I would imagine most people would be using
would be the photos app or maybe the bottom one, other app.
So we'll just choose Photos App, here
and you can see you've got a heap of settings once again
to get the maximum quality of your video,
to really dial everything in.
This video was shot at 1080p, so it's already defaulting
at 1080p, but you have the ability
to export in higher or lower quality,
depending on the videos that you're creating.
Again, you can adjust the frame rate,
you can adjust your video quality and bit rate.
So if you want the best quality out of this,
then choose Extreme 50 megabits per second.
You can also change your video codec as well.
At this point I'd recommend still sticking with H264,
but you have the option there to change that up.
As you can see, a heap of options in here.
You've even got the ability to edit
and export 360 VR video as well.
Once you're happy with those, come up to the top
and hit share with these settings.
That will save the video out to your device,
so that you can then share it on your social media
or wherever you want the video to go.
That's it, you've now got all the basics
for some really powerful editing,
right from your iOS device.
To get your editing done even faster,
I've got three tips that will help you
speed up your work flow, no matter what
editing app or device you're using.
These are only gonna save you more time
the bigger your projects get.
Tip number one is to focus on your content first.
What a lot of people will do when it gets to editing
is they'll import their video files
and they'll start color correcting them
and adding effects and all the things
to make your videos look good first,
instead of cutting down your content.
If you do that, you're actually gonna slow down your device
or your system for editing because it's going to have
to apply all of those color effects
and everything that you've applied
to your timeline while you're editing.
So it's gonna slow down your system or your phone,
but also you might find that there's something
actually wrong with your content.
That you've missed something or that the audio has gone bad
or that the lighting is terrible and it's not fixable,
so you actually want to find that out as soon as you can
in the editing process in case you've got
to go and reshoot something.
Instead of much further down the track
when you've got everything color corrected
and all your effects in there.
So focus on cutting your content down first,
then afterwards get to all of your
color correction and effects from there.
Tip number two flows on from that
and it's actually a quick way to cut your content down fast.
That is by editing backwards.
So with a video like this where you're presenting to camera,
typically what will happen is that you will only move on
when you're filming to the next take,
the next paragraph, the next sentence,
once you're happy with the best take.
Which means that the best take that you're presenting,
is actually the last one.
So when you get to your editing,
if you actually edit backwards,
so right to left instead of left to right,
you'll actually be hitting those best takes first
which saves you the hassle of playing through your footage,
starting the editing, marking your in and out,
and adding your cuts, and then finding,
oh this actually isn't, I did another take,
this isn't the one.
Then you're gonna do that again
and you might find that three or four times,
depending on how good you are presenting to camera.
So by editing backwards and starting at the end
of your video files and working backwards through it,
you'll actually remove that hassle
because you'll always hit the best take first.
So, edit backwards.
Tip number three, for best quality,
you want to make sure that all of your settings match.
So whatever frame rate and resolution
that you're recording your videos in,
wherever possible, you actually edit
in that same frame rate and resolution
and then you're exporting at exactly the same.
That way you're maintaining the same quality throughout.
If you're filming your videos at 1080p, 30 frames per second
then make sure you set up your editing project
to be also 1080p, 30 frames per second
and then again for the export.
If the three of these don't line up perfectly,
then it can reduce the quality of your videos,
but it can also introduce things like motion issues.
If you've got lots of motion and movement in your shots,
then it could be really jagged or jittery
as you're exporting your video files.
It's a good idea to check what your settings are
in your camera and match them wherever you can
in your editing project and your export
should match that as well.
Now with your editing sorted,
it's time to make sure that you're getting
the best quality video.
So we've put together a free PDF guide
that's packed full of tips that you can implement right now
to maximize the quality of the videos
that you're shooting with your smartphone.
Click the link on screen to grab it
for either iPhone or Android.
I'll see you soon.