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Learn how to use Filmora 13 with this complete video editing tutorial for beginners. This step-by-step guide covers everything you need to know to edit videos like a pro, including importing footage, adding effects and transitions, adjusting audio, and exporting your final project. Whether you're new to video editing or looking to enhance your skills, you'll gain practical insights and tips to create professional-looking videos using Filmora 13.
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Phil Mora is one of the most beginner-friendly video editing apps out there
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and it's really easy to get started editing your first video with Phil Mora
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And in their most recent update, they also add a lot of new AI options to really speed up and make editing much easier
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And I've been editing for over 15 years, and I've used a ton of different editing apps
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And I think this is one of the most beginner-friendly editing apps out there
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And this video is going to be a very step-by-step process on exactly how to get started with your first edit all the way to finishing
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exporting it. The first thing you need to do is you need to download the Fillmorea app. So I'm using a Mac
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This works for Windows PC. They do have mobile apps and it's multi-platform, meaning you could edit
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across different platforms. But I recommend using the computer version for this. That's usually
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where most people do their editing is on a computer. The mobile apps are still not quite there yet
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for what I'm about to show you. So we're going to get started for free. And I'll link this website in
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the description. You could click that and get it. And when it comes to pricing, we're going to get
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started for free, but at the very end, that's going to have a little watermark that's going to be
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probably something we want to remove. So they do have different plans here that you could pay. So this is
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like a quarterly plan. They do change these from time to time or you could just get the annual
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membership. So we'll worry about that later. We're going to just use the free version with the
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watermark just to show you the whole editing process. And if you decide it's a good fit after you learn
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how to use it, then you could get the subscription plan from Fillmore. And when you first install
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Filmora, you're going to land on this page here. And if you get it
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a starter guide just press x here there'll be a little x here to exit the starter guide because it
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walks you through a simple step-by-step process but i'm going to show you a much better more
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detailed way in this video so press x then you're going to have control on this page right here
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new project is where we're going to go ahead and get started but this aspect ratio is something
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you may want to change right now so 16 by 9 is what it's set to by default that's a traditional
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YouTube type video or TV size. The 9 by 16, that's your portrait format
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So if you're going on YouTube shorts, TikTok, that's what you want to choose
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So you have to decide where you want to go with the video first and then choose it from here
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I'm going to start by 16 by 9. We could change this later too. And then we're going to press new project
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And all the different AI modes are also available here. So you could explore these on your own
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Some of them I'm going to show you within our project. But these are available over here
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So let's go ahead and start there. Okay, first let me show you exactly what you're looking at for a second
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And then we'll start the actual step one, which is importing media. Over here, you have a panel right here where you could drag any video clips, any photos, images, any audio
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It's going to appear over here. And these are the things that you're going to use in your video
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I'm going to show you this in a second. The official step one, once you create a project, is importing media
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So we'll go through that. Over on this side is going to be the preview window
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So basically this is a video player. So I don't have anything, so it's black right now
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But I'll show you how that works. And the actual editing takes place down here on what's called a timeline
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So right now, again, this is blank, but I'll show you what ends up happening over here
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And then this right panel here changes depending on what page or what you're doing
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So right now is just showing project info. Let's go to step one, which is importing media
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To import media, you could either click here or drag everything. So let me show you how I
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organize things. So I have a folder on my project right here. I just made a folder called sample
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footage. So everything in your project, depending on which project you're working on, you want to
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organize it into one folder or even organize it more to have video and images and audio as separate
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folders within that folder. Then what I have here is so for example, this is a JPEG. This is a
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photograph. This one is a video. So if I click play on here, this is a little
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video I have and then I have a little audio file and I could have animations. I think this one's a little
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animation I have. So all I have to do is select all these and then bring them into here. So you could
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select just about any type of media file you have. Then it's going to ask if I want to create
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proxy sometimes. This is if you have a really slow computer. It basically creates these little
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offline files. Again, a little too advanced for this beginner tutorial. So just say no here. And there you go
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you have your different files. As you could see, when there's a music file, like this one is a music track I'm going to use
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it has this little icon. All these, these are stock footage here
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I've downloaded from a website. And then everything else here are things that I shot on this submarine
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So I'm telling a story here, this World War II story here of the submarine
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So these are the ones I shot on my iPhone and I dropped them with airdropped onto my computer
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Now, if you don't have your own media, by the way, there's also this stock. media library. So if I want footage of a ship, for example, I could go ahead and do a little bit of
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search. And then with these, if you do want to use these, you could go ahead and import these to your
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project as well. And let's go ahead and start our editing, which is our step two, basic editing
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So what we need to do is drag things down here from up here. So I'm going to take this clip
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Let's say I want this clip to start my story. I'm going to grab it and put it over here
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And it's going to give you this pop up to basically make sure that what's down here
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matches however the media was created. So again, this is a little more advanced
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but you could just press. Usually match to media is what you want to press
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to match the settings of your edits to the media. And now you could see everything
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So let me just go to the beginning. So here's your preview window now
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If I press space bar is showing that clip here that I took on my iPhone
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And as you could see, a bunch of different things changed. Now I have a brand new panel here on the right side
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That's going to let me do more. customization. Again, I'll cover some of this in this video. And over here is this red line is
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exactly where I'm at within the clip. So that's the preview. So if I go to the end, it should
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cut to black because there's nothing when this clip ends. This is a six second clip. Okay
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So typically for your basic editing you want to just bring clips in back to back Okay So this is the next clip that I want to cut to and you could see it snaps onto the previous clip and leaves no gap in between So it goes from one clip to the next
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clip. If they had a little separation like this, it will show black in your final video
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So every time there is no actual footage, it just shows a little black area. That's not what we
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want. So I'm going to bring this back and it's going to go from here to here. And what's the
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next one is this one. We'll take this one down and you start to get the idea here. You just
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basically want to tell your story with the different clips. Then I'm going to show you how to make the
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edits. Okay, now before we start editing these down, because some of these are going to be too long
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they're not going to start at the right place. If it's you talking, you might not had said the right
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thing or made a mistake. I'm going to show you basic editing in this step two. But assembly is really
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the first step into start telling your story. So the click. clips go one after another. In the future, if you decide to change the order of clips
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just select them. You see how it's highlighted and just grab it over here and put it at the end
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And it created this black space here so you could select multiple clips like this together
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and close that black space. You basically don't want any black space between your different clips, right
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You just want them to go from one shot to another shot and then grab this red thing here to preview
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on top what you're looking at. A few other useful options here
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You'll have a whole new menu here where you could shrink this down
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So as this gets more crowded, you may want to shrink this down to see your whole project down here
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Or if it's small like this, just make sure I increase the size here. And then on top of that
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let me decrease it a little bit more. You could see the time. So over here is showing that if I take this all the way to the end
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You could see this is about 27 seconds, right? So this is 25 seconds, this is 10 seconds
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So this is going to come in handy to see how long your project is. Just having the time up here
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It starts at zero. Now let's do some basic editing. So I showed you assembly rearranging by just selecting and moving things around
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And like selecting things like this and moving things around. I'm going to just bring this one back
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So this is basic reordering of clips. But a lot of times you want to make a clip a little bit shorter
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So if it's a clip like this one, let me increase the size
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you could just grab the end of it and bring it down. So this cuts out that end part
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And if you want to cut out the beginning, again, bring it in like this
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So now our clip is a little shorter. When you do that, it automatically moves it back so you don't have to manually move it back to close that little gap
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Same thing. I could go ahead and shrink this one down or change the beginning of it, right
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And it's going to snap to the previous. So now my video, if I take this red, this in this
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is your indicator is called. It goes from here and it goes to there. Okay, so it's good. Actually
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I want to start it this way. Okay. Then sometimes you want to edit something from the middle of a clip, right
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A lot of times, especially if I'm doing this kind of video where I'm talking, I may make a mistake
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So what you do is I'm going to bring this one down. I could cut something from the very middle of this
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So to do that, I'll come over here. Let's say I want to cut from this point on, but I want to keep the beginning, right
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You have all these tools, but the one I need over here is this scissors icon
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If I click it, it creates a little cut right here. I'll go a little bit further and I'll click the scissors icon one more time
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And now I have this middle part and if I select it and delete it, it's going to delete that part
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Let's say that's a part where I said something that I shouldn't have or I made a mistake
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I just cut it out like that, right? So now it's going to go from here to here
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And if I want to fit something in between these two, I'll just drag this one out
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I'll bring in, let's say this one I haven't used. I'll bring that in and then I'll close the gap, right
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There we go. So now I'm telling my edit this way and it goes back to this one
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That's basic editing, right? T the beginning ending, telling your story with each clip and then taking out any mistake from the middle part
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So that brings us to the next step, which is actually adding what's called B-roll or thinks to a second video track
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Let me explain how that works. So right here, if you look on the left side, we just have one video track, and this has this green section, which is the audio from those clips
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And then we're going to have another track, the audio track underneath, which I'll explain in the audio section
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But if you want to add a secondary video clip, usually when someone is talking like I am and I'm using additional footage on top of that, that's called B-roll
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It's a very important part of editing and storytelling. In this case, I want to use this map, for example
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So if I grab this, I could put it, you see, now it's not on the first track
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That will override what's there. I want to put it on the second track
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So this is what's going to happen. It's going to go from this to this and then when this is done
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it's going to come back to my first track. And I could, again, just like every other editing basics, make any adjustment
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So I could, again, make this a little bit shorter. So it ends over here maybe, right
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So then I'll go from this to that and then to my regular track
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So imagine if the first track was someone talking, whatever they're talking about could go on the second track
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and then you could come back to them and you could keep doing this, right
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You could add another thing to the second track and tell your story that way. So your second track becomes your B-roll track
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And sometimes you'll see your footage doesn't quite match. So if you select your footage
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you have a bunch of options over here on this panel called Transferral. So you could actually go ahead and make things a little bit bigger, right
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So if you want to picture by picture a fact like this, you could go ahead and do this, this
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kind of thing, and this lets you kind of move things left and right and up and down
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Or if you just want to make a full screen, just go ahead and stretch it out here and even zoom into a footage
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Okay, so that makes it a little bit better for what I'm using it for
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So this transform panel is very useful for being able to resize footage and make them
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fit your screen over here. And I do want to show you this other website here This is Invato Elements I link this below as well But that footage and all the animations I showed you I got them under the stock video tab So Filmore has some
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Invato Elements is one of the biggest libraries in the world. This is another paid subscription though
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but to take my B-roll to the next level, I've been using this for many, many years under the stock video tab
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And they also have music, so royalty-free music, because you have to have permission
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copyright protection here. When you get music from online, you can just use any music and post it on YouTube, for example
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And this gives you royalty free music. So anywhere you look, you basically want royalty free music
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Again, Phil Mora has some. This has a whole lot more. So when you decide to take your editing to the next level
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I do recommend invader elements because this gives you all in one to all creative assets
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So you'll get your stock videos here to have graphics, sound effects, music, everything
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Basically everything I want, the photos that I'm using in that image all came from here
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Okay, that brings us to step four, which is actually working with the audio and adding music
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Okay, that could be a couple of different steps, but I'll kind of combine them here to make this a little bit shorter
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So working with audio. If you come over here, let me come to the beginning of this track
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You see how there is a green track underneath one. It has these little lines
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This is your audio track down here. So if you right click on any clip like this, you're going to get this huge menu of different things
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but a lot of times you want to detach the audio. So if I detach the audio
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you see how it's put the audio from this clip onto its own track? So I could just now delete it
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and the video clip doesn't get deleted, only the audio. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and undo that
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So you do have this little arrow right here that undoes your steps, and this one does a redo
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If you select this one and you want to get rid of audio and press delete, you get rid of the video too
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That's not what we want. That's why I like to detach it. Once it's detached, you see how when I click on it, like if this was someone talking
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you see how I have all these new audio settings on the right side. So this is how you could decrease the volume if you don't want anything at all
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In this case, maybe I don't want any sound. I want the music actually to be what's going to dominate this track, which I'll add in a second
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So I'll take it all the way to zero and I could do the same with these other ones. And there's a bunch of AI stuff like AI Speech Enhancer
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If you turn this on and someone is talking, it's going to. basically denoise it. It's going to remove any kind of background noise or wind noise here if you turn that
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on. You could also, let me show you if you detach the audio, there's this line as well. So this line
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over here could decrease the volume. So if you go to infinity, that means you can't hear at all
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And then around 50 or so you start hearing it. And usually audio is somewhere between like zero and
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negative six, something like that if someone is talking. And you have track control too. So if you want to
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mute the entire track. You could see that's how you mute the entire track and you won't hear
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anything on that track if you don't want to individually make any adjustments to anything
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Okay, now adding music. So this one is from Involta elements. I added this track
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Okay, let me go ahead and pause it. So you could hear a little preview. But all I have to do is
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grab it and put it on a new track. So the second track, this works like the video track, right? One, two
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that's the video you see has a video icon now audio my first track is anything from the clips
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that I could mute and then my second track here is going to be the music track and maybe I could
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have a third track for voiceover or someone talking I'm going to decrease the volume here
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so for music you don't want it to be at zero if there is someone talking since I'm going to add
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someone talking here I'm going to decrease it to like negative 25 negative 25 db negative 30 dB
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that's typically where you want your music to be. If it's background music, if it's not background music
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if it's a full music video, basically, you just keep it at zero
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So your volume again, see, this is where it says that if you don't want to use the line
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Okay, so let me just go ahead and show you a little preview. Okay, so you get the idea
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Now, this needs a little bit of voiceover narration here to tell a more complete story
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So I'll show you that right now as well. this little icon right here, if you click it, it says record voiceover
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Then here, make sure you have a good quality microphone like the one I'm using for this video
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It's actually not connected to this computer so I can't choose it here. So it's not going to sound good at all if I press record
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I want to record with a professional quality microphone with a USB
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I'll link one in the description if you want to pick one up from Amazon. And then I'll connect to your computer and it'll show up over here as one of the sources
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And that will become your third track, for example, if you do a little bit. voiceover. If you're talking on camera, again, that probably becomes your first track or is part of
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your video track here that you can mute and play around with the volume. But that should cover the
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basics of audio and music mixing and editing. Now let's go to step number five, which up here
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remember, we're kind of going in order. So we imported media and stock. We added audio. Now let's go
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ahead and look at this title screen here because with titles, you have a bunch of different options
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like adding different text, and this has a bunch of different templates. So that has a trending tap here, but we have just plain text
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You just want to use plain text or we have 3D titles. All these could be just added by grabbing them and just adding them like this as another video
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track and it's going to download it from the internet here, and there you go. So now if I just press play, look what happens
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Right. So this overlays on top of your existing video, right? and then to edit it, basically this is editable right here on the right side
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Remember every time you do anything different, this whole right panel changes
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So this would be World War II story. You could type that in. You have a bunch of presets
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You could go ahead and change the size of it if you want to make a smaller or bigger. All kinds of different options available with these
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And if you didn't want this 3D one or it doesn't look good, there's some YouTube selected options here
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You could select one of these. Let's see what this looks like. Okay, this looks a little bit different
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And he has a bunch of different boxes right so you could see this has three different boxes I could edit like down here up here and in the middle And same thing with these titles you could actually make them shorter here by making the same edit adjustments that we looked at in the past
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So next is our transitions. That's our next step. And with transitions, basically every time a clip
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ends and a new clip starts, the thing that happens in between that is the transition. When there's
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no transition at all, this is just called a cut. So it cuts from this scene to this scene
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very usual in movies, but sometimes in online videos you do want more of a transition
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So this transition tab gives you a whole bunch. But typically I just use the basic transitions here
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So dissolve is the most common transition ever probably. So you grab it and you put it between these two clips
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You see how it lays between these two clips. And let me show you what it looks like
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If I go here and press play, that's what it dissolve is. Now that's far too long so you could shrink that dissolve down
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You see how it's making it shorter now. So dissolve from this to that
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Let me delete this, dissolve. And then you also have fade. So fade is another common transition
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I'll apply it between these two again. Let me make a shorter. Let's go ahead and press play
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Okay, so that faded to black. You could have a flash, fade to white
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Again, I recommend usually you stick with the basics or the zooms or the popular
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and not really over the top things. The speed blur is kind of cool too
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So do play around. They have a ton of different categories here, but some of them could get a little bit carried away
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with how over the top they are. So it depends on the type of story that you want to tell
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This is where the creativity of the editing comes into play with transitions
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After transitions, we have the effects tab. That's our next step. So effects is what happens to the clip itself
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not what happens in between clips. So there's a bunch of them here again under the effects tab
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Let me go to video effects. and let's see, we have basics, right
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So this is just auto enhances. So let me go ahead and drag this one and drop it right on top of the clip
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Actually, this one doesn't show, it was very subtle. Let me show you glow because this was going to be a lot more easy to see
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So you see the difference there. So now my clip has this little glow effect to it
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And there's a bunch of different ones here. So shattered glass. You just drag it, dump it on top of that, and there you go
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And with each one, it stays. So if you add another one, it's going to keep the one previous to that one
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So make sure you want to do that if you don't want to add that. A ton of them available
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So some of these shakes or glitches could be really interesting. So usually think of effects as kind of filters
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And alongside that, there's also stickers too. You could add those to a different track like this
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And they'll show up on top of your video. And remember, we have the scaling section where you probably want to shrink this down
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or we want to grab it and bring it over here or use this position
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filter here to move it right maybe you want to add that down here in this case i'm going to delete that
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now when i select the clip over here we also have ton of different tabs so it's worth kind of exploring
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this gets a little bit more advanced but you could change the color of something this is a whole
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color correction panel i'll just hover over here just to show you this basically could make
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things cooler or warmer or you could just totally make things more vibrant and make the colors
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pop with vibrance and you have all these different presets to just choose that and I'll choose the color for you
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So this whole color correction is useful. So let's say we're done with this project
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So this is all I got right now. It's 37 seconds long
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Let's go ahead and save this here to be shared out of this project
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So before I export it, I want to go to file and I want to go ahead and save project
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Okay, so you can save project as for the first time and give it a title
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So this is the World War II story and make sure we save the project in this folder
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This is one of the steps in the process. You could do this early on
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You could do this before you export the project. Saving it doesn't give you the video file
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but it lets you come back to this project's folder. So I'm going to save it over here to this project's folder
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Then it's always going to be on the homepage of my Fillmore account
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Now I'm going to go to export. This is the last step. Okay. Go to export up here
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And now you finally have to actually create yourself a Fillmorea account
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So let me go ahead and do that and then log in and come back. And once you log in, it's going to bring you to the exports panel
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So this is where we're going to decide all these different settings
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So let me show you. So local, it means it's going to download it to my computer or export it to my computer
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That's usually what I do. And then I open up YouTube or TikTok or wherever I want to post
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You can choose those options here and log in directly and post to those platforms directly too
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So you can see TikTok and YouTube are the most common here or Vimeo
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In this case, I'm going to do local name. it has a little AI option to to write the name for you based on using a text prompt
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Again, they are really heavy on using these AI tools, which is really cool
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Where it saves two, this is where you decide what folder, my movies folder in this case
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preset, match to project settings, that's usually right, formats, MP4 is almost always right
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That's the most common video format online. Then it's going to say recommended, yes, this is 1080P, so 1920 by 1080, that's HD footage
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And then the frame rate, this is going to, again, choose that from your project. Mine was shot on 50 frames
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Most of the times it's shot on 2997 or 24. Those are common
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But again, you could just not worry about this. This is going to do a good job selecting from what your footage was
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Go ahead and just export from here. And then here, if you don't want the watermark, which you most likely don't want to
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you need to go ahead and purchase here. And if you don't mind it, you could export with the watermark
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And then you could always come back and purchase and remove that watermark. But you can see that's probably not good if you're going on YouTube or TikTok
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You probably want to pay. But this is one of the most affordable editing platforms
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Their subscription price is cheaper than most of them out there. So I think it's worth the price for everything I showed you
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And there you go. It's exported. So if you open that folder, there it is. This is your video file here
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And then you could take it from here and post that online. Again, all the resources, including this whole 10-step process of editing is included in text format underneath the video description
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So make sure you check that out. Hope you found it useful. I'll see you next time
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#Multimedia Software
#Clip Art & Animated GIFs
#Photo & Video Sharing
#Animated Films
#Video Sharing