- Video editing can be one of the most daunting aspects
in the video creation process,
and it's normally the part of the process
that most people hate but it doesn't have to be.
In this video we're gonna take it from the top
with a full video editing tutorial for beginners using Mac
and even if you're not just starting out,
then there's a heap of video editing tips along the way
to help you level up your editing process fast,
and if you're on Windows, then your video is linked up here.
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Hey, it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video
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So let's jump into it.
One of the biggest challenges
that we keep hearing over and over again
from you guys in the Primal Video community
is all around video editing.
It really seems to be the part
in the entire video production process
that most people either hate or really, really don't enjoy.
So the good news though is that we can definitely help you
reduce that time spent painfully
in your video editing software
with an overall understanding of the fundamentals
of editing a video and some simple tweaks
to help you with your editing process.
And the even better news is we're gonna cover
all of that in this video, but before we jump in,
I wanna hear from you guys in the comments.
What's your number one tip for editing better videos
or doing it faster?
We always learn a ton down there in the comments
with some people sharing some awesome tips
and awesome advice from their own experiences.
So, make sure to have a look down there
while you're leaving your comment.
And once we're finishing run through,
we're not gonna stop there.
We're gonna give you access to a free downloadable guide
that you can follow along with next time
you're editing your video so that you don't forget anything.
Okay so first off, the software.
Now if you're interested, I've linked a video up
in the cards covering off all the options
and our top recommendations
for video editing software on Mac.
I'm personally using Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere,
but that's gonna be a lot more complex
and complicated that most people need,
especially if you're just starting out.
Now if you're new, then I recommend starting out with
something like iMovie or even Screenflow
and run with that for now.
Then you can come back in a few months time
and when you start to outgrow those applications
and you can look at what other options are out there
or our other recommendations.
So for this video focusing on the video editing fundamentals
which you can apply to any video editing software.
We're gonna be doing the walkthrough iMovie,
so those of you that are using iMovie,
you can follow along or you can really follow along
in almost any other video editing application
because these fundamentals are still going to apply.
Okay, so here we are in iMovie.
Now this is the first screen you'll see when you open it up.
Now as we said if you're using
a different editing application, you can still follow along
'cause the fundamentals are going to be exactly the same.
So the first thing you wanna do is create a new project.
So we'll come up here and click create new.
And we'll choose movie.
And this is the iMovie editing interface.
We got all your media that gets imported at the top here,
so you can see all your files.
Over here is your playback monitor
where you can playback your video as you're editing it.
Down the bottom here, you've got your timeline
where you'll actually be doing your editing.
And at the top here you've got your controls
for things like color correction and cropping
and volumes and those sorts of things.
So the first step is to import your footage or your media.
So we'll do that by clicking the down arrow here
and I've got three clips.
I've got the actual video content, me talking.
I've got a music file and I've also got a third clip,
which is some B roll or overlay footage
of things that I'm talking about in the video.
So I select all three and import them into the project.
Okay so now that we've got all of the video files
that we wanna use in this project.
Inside the actual project, the first step is to go through
and add all our content footage down into the timeline.
So it's as simple as clicking on the clip
and dragging it down into the timeline
and now that 24 and a half minute clip
is down the bottom here.
If you've got multiple clips,
you can click and drag them one after another,
but just drag them down in the sequence that you want them.
Now you can always pick up these clips
and move them around if they're in the wrong spot
just by clicking and dragging on them
and them letting them go when you want to drop them.
Now because these three are exactly the same,
I'll delete the last two here.
So I'll just draw a box around them to select them.
See they're going yellow and press delete
on the keyboard to delete them.
Now we can zoom in and out on this timeline
down the bottom here by using command plus on the keyboard
and when we zoom in, you get a lot more detail.
You can see the audio waveforms down here,
which is the visual representation of me talking
or of the audio in that clip,
which makes it really easier to see the parts
where I'm not actually talking
'cause there's next to no audio at that point
against the points where I am actually talking.
So this makes it much easier to find the parts
that you want to cut out of your video
while you're editing it down.
And you've also got a slider down the bottom here
that you can use to slide across to the start of your clip
and across to the end as well.
So now that we've got our footage down in the timeline,
the first step is to go through
and start trimming it all down.
Remove all the parts that you don't want
from each of the individual clips.
So an easy way to do this is to click on your actual clip.
You see this goes yellow box around the outside.
When you come across to the left hand side of a clip,
you'll get a different cursor with two arrows on it.
If we click and drag with that,
then we can change the start point of that clip.
So we'll bring it along to just before I start talking
and let go and our clip is now starting at that point.
Likewise we can do exactly the same thing at the end.
Come across to the end you can see
that I've finished the video here
and then I'll be doing some silly poses for thumbnails.
So we can cut off all the extra content at the end.
Now I can click on the clip here where I wanna make the cut.
I can right click and choose split clip.
So now we've got two clips here.
Now I can just select this second one
and press delete on the keyboard and that has been removed.
So with video editing, there's normally more
than one way to do something.
It's just finding what works best for you
and the types of videos you're creating.
So once you've gone through and trimmed off the start
and the finish of each of the clips in your timeline,
the next step is to go through
and really start editing down your footage.
So you can go through and see this quite bit here.
We can take that out.
So we'll come to here.
We can add a cut.
Command B or right click and choose split clip.
Exactly the same for here.
Right click, split clip and select the middle clip here
and press delete and that gap is now closed.
So we'll go through and remove all the parts
that you definitely don't want in the video
until you've just got your content left
that you want in your finished product,
and if any of your clips are out of sequence,
so you wanna move anything around,
just a matter of clicking on it, picking it up,
and moving it into the spot where you'd like it.
Okay now that we've got our video cut down
to how we want it here, then the next step
is to bring in our B roll footage or our overlay footage.
So this was our extra clip up here.
You can see as we scrub through,
there's a heap of different footage
of me playing with some different cameras
that we can use to show what I'm talking about in the video.
Now we could just click on our clip and pick it up
and drop our whole lot down onto our timeline
and then shortened the clips down
using the methods I just showed you,
or we can come back up here and just find the part
of the clip that we actually wanna use.
So I'm just moving my mouse along until I see the bit I want
probably around here where that camera comes in
and I can press the I key on the keyboard
to mark an end point.
You can see that that yellow box
around the outside has now changed
and it now starts at that point.
We're gonna do exactly the same for the out point
where we want that clip to end.
Probably around here.
I can press O on the keyboard,
or I can actually grab this yellow handle on this side
and drag it into where I want the clip to finish.
So probably around here.
So you can see we've got a yellow box
that just marks out that section of the video.
Now all we need to do is click and drag that down
into our time wherever we'd like it
and that piece of footage will now play over me talking
and the audio of me talking is still
be playing through underneath it.
And just like all the other clips,
you can click on it, you can pick it up,
you can move it around, you can adjust the length
or the start and the end time on it,
and you can apply effects and everything to it,
which we're about to jump into.
Alright, so now that we've got all our footage in,
we've got it cut down the way that we want it
and we've got our B roll footage in over the top
where our overlay footage in.
The next step is to add in any titles and effects.
So we'll start off with a title.
Just click on this first clip here
and we'll put a name title on.
So we've clicked on the clip, we'll come up here to titles.
You'll see that there is a heap of different titles
that you can use just dragging into your project.
Some of them are animated.
You see this one here fades up
and gets bigger over time and then it'll fade back out.
So there's a heap in here to choose from,
but for this video we'll just start
with the standard lower third.
Now click on that and drag it down into the timeline
about where I want it to start.
So you can see right away
that we've got our text box over here
that we can click, select and adjust the text in.
So I can type in Justin Brown,
and in the second line type in Primal Video.
Now when we come back here and play this clip,
Justin Brown Primal Video fades in,
it'll stay on the screen and then it will fade out.
Now just the same as all the other clips,
we can pick them up and move it around.
We can also adjust the length of the clip as well,
or how long we wanna have that title displayed on screen.
So that's how you can go through
and add titles wherever you need them in your video.
Now if you wanna add any transitions or effects
between your different clips in your timeline here,
then come over here to transitions
and again there's quite a few to choose from.
The ones I recommend that you start with
or the ones that look the most professional in most cases
are the cross dissolve, the cross blur,
the fade to black, and the fade to white.
Some of these other transitions can look pretty cheesy.
So it'll really come down to the type
of video you're creating as to
if you're gonna use any transitions
and which ones you'll be using.
So for this case here, we'll use a cross blur
just to show you what that looks like
and I'll drop that down between the two clips.
Let it go.
And now when we play this back,
you can see that there was an effect between the two.
So undo that now with command Z.
After you've got all your transitions in,
you can also apply any effects to your clips.
So if we click on the clip that you wanna adjust,
we can then come at the top here
and you've got a heap of additional tools as well.
So the cropping tool here will let you
zoom in on your footage.
So if you want to zoom in on something,
you can press crop to fill,
and you'll get this white border around the outside.
So currently your video fills that frame.
If we scale that inwards, this frame will actually become
what is shown in your end video product.
So we can choose what we wanna show.
Maybe move it around to there and hit the tick.
And our video shot is now zoomed into that shot.
Now if at any point you're applying effects
and you don't like them, you can hit reset all,
and that will set everything back to default.
If you've got shaky video footage,
you can come over to stabilize and tick the box
and that will do its best to analyze your footage
and try to remove as much of the shake as possible.
I've seen it work well but I've seen it struggle
in a lot of cases as well.
So it'll definitely come down to your actual video footage
as to how shaky it is just to
how good of a job it's gotta do for you.
You've also got speed control up here as well.
So you can speed up and slow down your clips
or play them backwards in this panel.
So you've got your speed over here.
Normal, slow, fast, freeze frame which is where it's paused,
or you've got custom which is where you can enter
whatever value you like or percentage
of speed that you like.
Okay so once you've got all your effects in,
it's then time to bring in your audio
and to work on the audio in your project.
So we'll come back over here to my media
and we've got our audio track
that we imported there at the start.
So we'll click on that and drag that down to our timeline
and we'll move it so it starts at the start of our video.
Now just the same as all the other clips,
we can pick it up and we can move it around.
We can shorten it so that it finishes at the same time
along with the rest of our video,
and once you've got your music tracks
or all your sound effects and everything in,
then you can go through and start adjusting the volumes
so that everything sounds the way that you want it.
So you can see we've got this line here across the middle.
When we put our mouse over it we get an up and a down arrow.
You can adjust your volumes simply by clicking on that line
and pulling it up or down to make things louder or quieter.
Now typically with music and a video like this,
your music is going to be much quieter
than the actual spoken parts,
so that you can hear what's being said.
So the same applies with all of these clips up here.
We've got that line, we can adjust the volume up and down
depending on the video itself and how loud the audio is.
So I'll just undo that now.
And the other thing you can do with your audio clips
is you can add a fade in or a fade out.
So by moving your cursor over the clip,
you get these little circles on either side of your clip.
If we click and drag to the right,
then we can add a fade.
So you can see that little line there.
Starting at the start our audio is 0%
right up to wherever our volume level is set at this point.
So we can apply a fade out at the end, too.
So our audio is gonna play through at maximum volume
until it hits this time and then it's gonna start fading out
and you've got that same control
on your regular video clips as well.
Alright, so now once you've got all your music files
and everything in and you're happy with the overall edit,
now it's time to look at the color correction
or to tweak the colors in your video.
So once again click on your clip,
come at the top here and we've got some settings
around the color balance, around the color correction,
and we've also got some filters and things
that we can apply as well.
So in under filters, essentially this is like
what you would find in apps like Instagram
where you've got some preset templates
that you can use to create different look and feel
in your video files.
Personally, I stay away from these so I hit cancel,
and I'd come back over here to the first one
which was the color balance and in here you can do
a basic auto correction just by hitting auto.
That's gonna do an automatic adjustment.
You can see its tweaked things a little bit.
Or we can reset that.
We can come over here to the next one
and this is where we get some more controls
to be able to further refine our look here.
So down here we've got the dark areas of the shots.
Up here is the light areas of the shots.
So if we grab this black one,
we can adjust how bright or how dark our shot is
where the blacks in our shots are,
and likewise with the brighter sections,
we can make them brighter
or we can darken them off a little bit
depending on what we want our shot to look like,
and all of these other circles
in the middle are adjustable as well.
You've also then got your saturation.
So as we boost this one up, we're adding more color in,
and as we drop it down, we're removing the color
from our shot to make it black and white.
So you might wanna add a little bit of extra color in there
depending on how good or bad your original video footage is
and then you've got your color temperature on the end here,
so you can add more blue to your shot
or add more yellow to make it warmer
if you need to make those adjustments
just by moving this slider left and right.
Now it's really important to remember
that all of these effects that we've applied up here
are applied to an individual clip.
If you wanna apply them to the rest
of your timeline once you're happy,
then you can copy that clip by pressing command C
or coming at the top and choosing edit copy.
Selecting the rest of the clips
that you wanna paste those adjustments onto
or apply the same settings to
and choose edit paste adjustments.
You can either choose which ones you want
or just press all and those same settings will be applied
through all of the clips that you've selected
and that applies to your volume levels as well.
Now you might be wondering why we saved
the color adjustments until last.
Now a lot of people would jump straight in
and adjust the colors and tweak all the effects
and things straight out and all that does
is put your computer under more load
because on every little frame
that it's showing you a preview image of
to make you edit faster, it's also then gonna be loading
and applying all of those color adjustments
and effects to your timeline as well.
So that is why we edit in this sequence
to make editing the most seamless experience for you.
So now that you've finished adjusting
all the colors in your video,
it's time to export or to save your video out.
All you need to do is come up to the top right hand corner.
The share button here.
Press on that.
And you can share direct to places like YouTube or Facebook,
but what I would suggest is that you save it out as a file,
and that way you can save the file on your computer
and reuse it as many times as you'd like.
You can give your video a name by typing the title in there.
A description if you'd like to.
You get to choose if you wanna export
video and audio or just the audio.
It's pretty likely you'll want video and audio.
You can also adjust the resolution of the video,
so you've got choices of 4K, 1080P, 720 and 540.
Our footage here was 1080 so we'll leave it as 1080
and you also get to adjust the quality.
Now the quality's gonna be directly related
to the file sizes about.
So you can see it high selected.
Now file here is gonna be 182.9 megabytes.
If we press best, 1.12 gig.
That's a much, much larger file.
So depending on what you're doing,
you'll either wanna stick with best,
but you'll end up with a really large file,
or you'll wanna use high and still get great quality
but have that smaller file size.
And the last setting is the compression.
You have the choice of faster or better quality.
Now this really comes down to the speed
that is gonna be saving your video file out at.
I think if you're not worried about time,
then definitely choose better quality.
And once your happy with all the settings just press next.
Give your file a name.
Choose where you want it to save and press save
and then you'll see in the top right hand corner here
your file is saving out.
Right, so those are the fundamental steps for video editing
that are gonna work no matter
which video editing software you're using.
Now I've put together a free guide
stepping through the entire process
and it's linked on screen now,
so you can download and print it out
or have it on screen to follow along
next time you're editing.
So click the link on screen to download it now
and while you're editing, if you wanna get an awesome,
new animated intro for your content,
then check out the tutorial linked on screen now
for a step by step run through
on exactly how to do it and I'll see you soon.