In this episode, I'll show you how to
edit vertical videos for Instagram TV
and Instagram stories on your iPhone. No
computer necessary, so stick with me I'll
show you how to do it next!
Hi everybody, welcome to another
episode of Exploring Photography right
here on AdoramaTV.
I'm Mark Wallace and love it or hate it,
Instagram has changed the direction of
video permanently, literally! So all of
our normal horizontal videos now need to
be vertical to go on to Instagram TV. Now
we've been shooting vertical videos for
Instagram stories for years that's been
no problem but now with Instagram TV and
the maturity of Instagram, we want our
vertical videos to be a little bit more
professional. We want to add transitions
and titles, and music, and animations
and all that kind of stuff. We want to do it
on the go, using nothing but our iPhones.
Now the problem with this is, a lot of
the video editing apps made for the
iPhone haven't caught up to the vertical
video format, and so there are problems
when you export, there, they come out
horizontal, or have issues. The nice thing
is I have found two awesome free apps
that will allow you to do some really
nice vertical editing. Now the first one
is called Rotate and Flip, now this
little app here is for cheating. So if
you have a nice horizontal video you
want to throw that on to Instagram TV,
all you have to do is go into rotate and
flip find your horizontal video. So I'm
going to find one here. There's a little
clip of me riding up onto a ferry, yes
here it is. So this is me riding my
motorcycle, a GoPro video. It's a
horizontal video, I like it. I want to
post it on Instagram TV. So all I need to
do is and click this little button it'll
rotate that, so I can export that as a
vertical video. People on Instagram TV
will have to rotate their phones to look
at it, but it's a nice quick easy hack
that allow's you to do that. Alright so
what about editing, and doing all of the
titles and transitions and stuff. Well
there is a free app called Video Leap,
and I'm sure that you have seen a
million ads for this on Instagram itself,
but the cool thing is this app works and
it works really well.
There are two versions of this app one
is free, that's the one I'm going to be
showing you here today.
If you want to add unlimited layers, and some of the
more of the fancy adjustments and tone,
lab, and all that kind of stuff, well you
can do that by paying for this. It's
about 35/40 bucks. Something like that, I
know you hate paying for software, but if
you want professional editing software.
Well I suggest you pay for it! But today
we're gonna use the free version, because
it works really really well! And full
disclosure, these guys have no idea I'm
making this video about their software.
I'm not getting a penny, this is just for
me, searching high and low. Pulling my
hair out, see that's why I'm bald, trying
to find a solution for vertical video
editing on the iPhone, and this is the
app that works the best in my experience.
So how does this work we're gonna make a
little video. That's very, very simple.
We're gonna add a title a couple
transitions, and then just edit two or
three Clips. So what we're going to do
here is, we need to tell Video Leap that
this needs to be a vertical format. So on
Video Leap, the main menu is the very
bottom. This is where we can dig into all
those main things I want to do. So the
first thing I want to do is tell it
which format to use. I want a 9 x 16
vertical format. That's instagrams format.
The next thing I need to do is add some
video clips. Now I've already shot some
vertical video. I'm gonna hit this little
plus button. I'm going to go into my
favorites. I've already selected these. So
this is an Istanbul, Turkey. I have a few
little clips of the Grand Bazaar. I'm
going to add those to my project. This is
automatically going to create a little
timeline here, with the full length clips
and what I want to do first is shorten
this first clip. So I need to take this
and trim it down considerably. To do this
I just need to grab the end of this, hold
and pull it over, and now you can see
that I have trimmed this up considerably.
I want this to end right about here, when
we see this candy store. So I'm gonna do
that. Done, so now I have trimmed that up.
I could trim these other ones up as well,
lets see if we can trim this one, just a little
bit like that. All right now, we have
three Clips on a timeline ready to go. If
I click play you can see how these just
cut between each other, and we see the
candy store. We see the candy. Okay great
now what we want to do is add some
transitions between those clips. If I
zoom in using pinch to zoom I can see
that I have this little indicator
between these clips. That means it's a
cut. If I click that, I get a new menu at
the bottom of the screen. I can choose
dissolve, or iris, or wipe. Right, left. Up I
can do any of these kinds of transitions.
I just want to use a simple dissolve.
I'll do this with this other transition
here. And so now you can see that those
when I hit play... transition, there's
another transition. Great alright let's
add music to this, and make it a little
bit more special. To do that the first
thing I'm going to do is kill the audio
on the clips. So if I click on one of the
clips, I can go back to the main menu. I
can click on audio. Whoops, that's not what
I want to do yet. Sorry, I'm going to go
to this. I need to go to audio. Here's my
submenu, and I'm going to mute that for
that clip. So there's no sound, ambient
sound. The same thing with this guy right
here. I'll go over to audio, mute that,
first clip, audio and mute. So now we have
three silence clips. Now let's add some
music to this. I'll go to the very front.
I'm going to go back to my main menu,
click audio, and then I'm going to zip
down to some licensed music. I have paid
for this, and so in post, I've got this
little album here Endless Horizons.
Sounds good, so I will add that. So this
is music that I have purchased and
licensed for this. So it is, I have a
music license. So now I can play this, you
can hear that there's some music added
to that. We need to edit this music
because it's too long. it's okay I just
grabbed the end, just like we did with
our video clip. Grab that, and move it
over come on..
My fingers are not working today, there
we go now. We've got it.
Now the thing that's really cool is this,
you can't see this. But this gives you
feedback, there's a little bump that
happens on the screen, when things snap.
So it's very, very, nice. Alright so I have
that. The nice thing about this is I can
add keyframes to almost anything in
Video Leap, a keyframe if you're unaware or
if you're new to video editing, is an
indicator on your timeline that says you
want some kind of action to start, or
stop, and so for this I want to tell the
volume of this music to fade out. So I
will go down to the lower right hand
corner. I've got this little triangle
thing, click, that it puts a keyframe. That
little triangle is saying start here. My
volume is at 100%, that's where I want it
to start, but at the end of this clip,
I'll click a keyframe here, and I'll
change my volume to zero. Now what's
going to happen is, that music is going
to fade out. Listen to this, nice fade, so
using keyframes, we can animate almost
any of the parameters in Video Leap. I'm
going to show you this one more time,
when we add our title, so I'm gonna go
right back to the beginning of our
little video here. I'm going to go to add
text. Double click to edit, and add this
to Grand Bazaar... there we go!
Move that down here, it automatically
snaps to Center. I'm going to change the
font to something a little bit larger.
I'm gonna click to zoom that in. Alright
cool, so now we have a title that goes on
there. I'm gonna make the title a little
bit less lengthy, and if I hit fullscreen
you can see it pops up Grand Bazaar
there you go. There's all kinds of things
we can do to this title, we can add a
drop shadow and a background, and all
kinds of things, we don't have time to go into
all of that. Play with this app, but let
me just show you one more thing with the
keyframes. If at the bottom here I wanted
to change this title where it was. I
could hit the keyframe, move to the end
of that clip, and then just drag this
title up, and because I've added a
keyframe. When that plays through, you'll
see that the title. It moves so you can
animate things. You can do that with
photos and video, you can do with almost
any kind of parameter in here. Rotation,
opacity, all of that kind of stuff. You
can animate inside of Video Leap and
this is all with the free software. It's
really, really refreshing. So if you want
to do vertical videos on an iPhone. I
highly recommend you get this app. If you
want to stick with your horizontal
videos and just rotate them, then just
get rotate and flip. These are both free
apps, that you can get at the App Store.
If you want to know more about them,
check out the description and the links
in the description of this video, and you
can get going right away.
Well thank you so much for joining me
for this episode of Exploring Photography.
I hope this helps you out
and ends your vertical video editing
frustration. I know it has helped me
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