So today I just want to walk you through the basics of Filmora
There's a thousand features in Fillmora
There's so many different things that you can do
with this editing software
but I'm going to show you the basics of how
just to open up the program
get some footage brought into it
cut your footage up
and be able to export your footage to a file and save it.
So, the first thing you'll see is options on the opening screen.
Now, there's a drop down menu for the aspect ratio
If you don't know what these mean
it's basically different aspects for different platforms
For example: YouTube uses a 16:9 Widescreen
Think of that as holding your phone sideways
the same way you would view something on a big-screen TV
and something like Portrait 9:16
would be holding your phone upright
and platforms like IGTV (Instagram Television)
use 9:16
We're going to go today with your standard 16:9
widescreen format as if we're going to make a YouTube video
and we're gonna open up the full-feature mode.
So, the first thing you're going to see
is there's three main sections to Filmora.
and in the upper left, this is your import window
This is where you click to bring files in that you're going to work with.
That can be video files, image files, audio files...
Over to the right
is going to be your preview screen.
So anything that you bring in
you're gonna be able to preview over to the right and control
If it's a video clip, you can play it and watch it
And down below is your timeline.
This is where all the action happens.
And that's broken up into several sections
It's got an upper section that's going to have
where your video lays
There's a second section below it that they call "picture-in-picture"
Which is your overlays
If you're gonna lay a second picture over the original video picture
They have a text area so if you do any text
over your images
that will all show up in this bar.
Now, below that are two audio tracks
you can add more tracks.
Below this, you'll see this, "add new track"
If you needed more, you can adjust that and add text tracks and add music tracks
but today we're gonna go really simple and just work with one track of video footage
and cut that down and edit it
So, the first thing we want to do
is let's find ourselves a piece of video footage
When you have no other footage already imported
you'll see this green, "Import media files here"
and you can click on that to find some video footage.
I click on it and it imports it right into this window.
Now, notice that original green import screen is now gone.
That's just there only when you first open up and there's no footage imported
but if you look right above where I just imported that piece of video
is the word "Import"
with a drop-down menu. If you click on that
and put "Import media files"
it'll open up a window to import more video files just like the original icon did.
But for right now, let's work with this one file
So, you can see once I brought that in
it opened it up in the preview window
and if I actually wanted to watch that video clip
I could hit the "play" button
and this allows me to preview that particular piece of footage.
The first thing we want to do if we want to edit this footage
is we have to bring it into our timeline
So what you want to do is reach up
left click and hold
and drag that down into the top bar.
That is your video track.
Release... and it'll drop it right here.
You can see the footage is now in the Timeline.
It's actually longer than fits in this particular window
There's a few ways we can move through this
and adjust our viewing aspects.
If you look below
This green line... you can scroll and scrub through this whole track
track to get different points in this video.
You can also do the same thing
on this line up in the preview window, up here.
If you hold that dot...
That will scroll your cursor through
and you'll be able to reach different points in the video
You can change the zoom of the view over here on the right
With this bar.
I tend to grab it and slide it.
That will condense it and shrink it
Or you can expand it to zoom way in when you have to do very fine-tuning edits.
There's a plus and a minus sign to the left and right that do small adjustments
that you can use as well
I tend to use this slider bar.
For me, the easiest way to do it.
I just grab it and slide it.
There's a neat little button right here that if you hover over it...
You'll see that it says, "Zoom to fit Timeline"
and if you click that button
it'll take all the information in your project
and make it fit in the one window.
That's kind of a cool feature
if you just need to find some things and your project is really long
You can click that.
It puts everything right in front of you
and then you can grab the Timeline bar
and slide it to that portion where you need to be
and then you can zoom in.
Because the zoom bar
it'll always zoom based on that tracking bar.
Think of that as the "playhead".
The first thing that we want to do when we bring a new piece of footage in
is over here... see this little arrow?
It is green. That is the "Render" feature
and if you don't know what rendering is
"Rendering" is basically the software calculating
what it needs to do
to be able to produce a final product.
And when you bring a lot of raw footage in and you add effects
you're asking the software to do a lot of different things.
If you hit the "Render" button
it'll allow for a smooth playback
as you're working on your project.
What I'll show you next is how to cut these files up.
We can preview up in the window the spots that we need to use.
Now, if this is the spot I want to edit
There's a couple of ways to do this.
Now, the most simple way is
Do you see this pair of scissors right on the playhead?
If I click that
It will slice this footage into two pieces... split right there.
Another way to do this
is if you come over just above the Timeline
right here there's a set of scissors
You can also click there
and you'll also create a split.
If you click on these sections, you'll see that they highlight and turn blue.
That means that they're active sections that we can work on.
Say I wanted to get rid of this section
I can right-click and I'll get a drop-down menu
and it'll say "Delete" at the bottom.
and I can say, "Perfect!"
Click.... GONE!
If I ever make a mistake
and accidentally delete something
all I need to do is come up here
to the upper left-hand corner where it says "Edit"
Cick on the edit and click "Undo"
and it'll bring that back
and it'll go back several steps so if you ever make a mistake
Don't panic. You can undo what you just did
and you can recover that footage.
So now you know how to import, you know how to delete
and you know how to trim pieces.
So if you have several pieces
that you have cut out
I'll just cut out some random sections in here.
Let's say that's the portion that I need to lose
If I want to remove this
it's now highlighted. I right-click on it
I hit "Delete"
And it has removed that section
And it has brought the other two sections after it
right up tight
So that there's no gap left inside of the video
I can do that
anywhere in the timeline.
Once you have those clips together
You want to export this and Save it as a complete project.
If you go to the upper left and click on "File"
from the drop-down menu
you want to click on "Save project as"
All you do is put that in
and hit "Save" and it has now saved everything we've done here.
So, if you're not going to export it at the moment
You're going to come back and work some more
Now it's all saved. You could close Filmora
and come back to it whenever you want.
But if you're done and you want to export it
You want to come over here. There's an "Export" button
and it's going to open up a window and ask you a few questions
There's a lot of different options we'll get into later on.
But for right now
We're going to just export and save our video file onto our computer.
Now there's different formats you can use.
MP4, AVI... there's a bunch
It depends on the application.
YouTube recommends that you upload in an MP4 format
You don't have to
but it's the most widely used upload format.
So, we'll go with MP4
And then we want to come over here to the settings
and you click on the settings. It's going to give you these two sections.
The upper section is just basically going to talk about
how you want the video portion of it saved
and the lower section is going to talk about how you want the audio portion saved.
So, we like all of this
So we're at the best quality right now, anyway
Perfect. Let's hit "Okay"
Up here, we can label our project
So let's label it "Test Project"
and then we can determine where we want it saved
on our computer.
For right now, I'm going to say "Desktop".
Nice and easy.
and we just hit "Export"
And there it is. Mission complete.
Let's go over to the desktop
and there we have it, right there.
"Test Project". All exported and edited
Kind of cool!
So that's the most simple walkthrough of Filmora
Just how to bring your footage in
How to quickly edit it
and how to save your project and export your project.
Those are the basic things you'll need to do
To start combining and editing video.