Dear all, welcome to this video! Let's see in a very short time the main
features inside Flash-Integro's VSDC, a great video editor completely free
to use!
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VSDC is a great product with a complete set of tools and features to create
amazing videos and slideshows, in a non-linear workflow very similar to
Adobe After Effects. In this video we are going to use the Free version but
you can upgrade to VSDC Pro for hardware acceleration, advanced effect
masks, chroma key and motion maps to make objects move.
The startup page of VSDC is divided into two, showing several tips and
articles from the official VSDC website at the bottom and different ways
to start on top. For example you can use Video and Screen capture to record
videos from your webcam or your desktop and Create slideshow to build
slideshows quickly and easily, setting the video properties first and then
dragging and dropping media and ready transitions directly inside the
wizard window. This slideshow will be imported on the main workspace to be
edited and rendered as we will see in this video.
To start from a new empty project go to Blank project. Set its name,
metadata and basic properties, choosing any ready template from Device and
Resolution and then adjusting the video Width and Height, its Framerate and
its audio Frequency and Channels.
When clicking on Finish, the new project gets open on the main workspace,
showing the Ribbon on top and several windows on both sides. If you miss
any of these, you can reopen it by going to the View tab.
At the bottom you have the Timeline, which is the place where you can edit and
create your own project through time. This gets measured in seconds or in
frames when clicking on the watch icon above.
Each VSDC project is made by independent pieces of videos called Scenes
and each Scene is composed by several elements called clips which can be
images, videos, sound files but also text and geometrical shapes. On the
Timeline all of these clips are shown as colored blocks collected inside rows
called layers.
To add media files on the Timeline just drag and drop these files on it directly.
These show their file name or useful video thumbnails through time that
you can check better by either enlarging the layer rows or increasing the
zoom level with the zoom slider on the left. You can also hover over these
clips to get more information and retrieve these on the Resources window.
The Preview on the center shows the content of the Timeline where the red
playhead is. You can move it and check different frames by clicking or
dragging on the Timeline. Whereas use the Space bar key for a quick
playback with sound or the green eye button for a full and complete preview.
Next to such button you can also adjust the preview quality.
In case multiple clips overlap in time, their order of visibility is set by
the order of the layers they are into. All clips inside the top layers
are shown in front of all the clips placed on layers lower in position.
This order can be changed by going to the Edit tab and using the Up and the
Down arrows.
On the left side you can also hide the eye icon to disable the layer
content from the Preview and the final video until you click on it again.
Now let's see how to modify clips. Click on any clip to select it. Then
drag it to move it in time, within the same layer or in another one. One
single layer can welcome multiple clips which can not overlap.
Click and drag the clip edges to adjust its length. If you shorten it, you
cut part of its video and audio content; if you extend it, only the last
video frame is used with no audio content.
To cut, copy and paste any selected clip, just right-click on it. Remember
to use CTRL+Z to undo any action if you make mistakes.
You can also edit the basic appearance of any visual clip from the Preview
itself. When selecting the interested clip from the Timeline or directly on
the Preview, a dashed contour shows up around it. You can move and place
the clip by clicking and dragging within it; scale it by using the black
nodes, holding down the Shift key to save its aspect ratio and drag outside
the contour to rotate. Inside the Edit tab you also find auto-alignment and
auto-scaling options if you need.
If multiple clips overlap you can use the lock button from the left to
block any clip and make it unselelectable. This way you can select and
edit the interested clips much easier.
On the right side you also have the Properties window to adjust specific
options for the selected clip, such as Speed rate on videos and Volume
level on audio files. Next to it the Basic effects window applies advanced
color correction and grading, adjusting brightness, contrast, RGB colors,
saturation level and Tone curve.
Other great editing tools are collected inside the Editor tab on top. With
the clip selected use Cutting and splitting to trim videos and audio or the
simpler Split into parts to split the clip where the red playhead is placed
in time. You can also enable the Crop tool to crop images and video frames.
In addition you can go to Add object to add geometrical shapes and text on
your project. You will be asked to set where to add the object on the
Timeline and how. By default these are added as new independent clips
inside the current Timeline tab that is open. For example, if the Timeline
is open on a Scene, the object is added inside it as an independent clip;
whereas if the Timeline is open on a clip by double-clicking on it, the
'child' object is added inside such 'parent' clip and follows it in case
the parent clip moves or gets resized.
Use Line, Rectangle and Ellipse to drop lines and geometrical shapes inside
the current scene or clip where the red playhead is. You can use the
Properties window to adjust properties or the Editor tab above it to set
contour and filling colors with Pen and Brush color.
Use Text or Tooltip to add pieces of text without or with any contour. Just
click and drag on the Preview to drop the text contour and type in by
double-clicking on it or using the Properties window. On the Editor tab
you can adjust the Text color, the background color as Brush color, the
Contour color and everything regarding the font family, style, size and
paragraph.
In the same way you can go to Video and Audio effects to add outstanding
effects, which are applied as effect clips inside the selected 'parent'
clip, starting from where the red playhead is. So the placement in time
and the length of the effect clip state when and for how long the special
effect should be applied on the parent media clip.
Among the effects you also have visual and audio transitions used to
introduce and end any clip content with special effects. When inserting,
you can choose either 'To scene end' or 'From scene begin' to add the
transition in the end or at the beginning of the current clip and then
edit these as standard clips.
Once your project is finished, go to Export project above to render it.
On the center you can take a look at the project video and audio properties
used and, at the bottom, get a comparison between the actual properties
(under Input) and the ones chosen for the rendering (under Output).
Above select the template to start from, for either PCs, iPhones, Android
devices or consoles. At the bottom use Change name... to set video name and
destination folder and Edit profile... to customize video codecs, width,
height, quality, frame rate and audio properties.
To start rendering, use Export project on top. VSDC will render the whole
content of all your project scenes, until the end of the last clip in time.
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