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How to Use Filmora X - Beginner's Guide to Editing
Hey everyone in today's video. I want to show you how to edit with Filmora 10. It's going to be a beginner's guide to feel more often and if you've never edited a video before it's okay, this is the perfect video editing software to start with. So I'll walk you through step-by-step the entire editing workflow using Filmora 10.
Now there are two versions of the software and they are not free. Although you could try a completely for free, to get all the access on the lock to all the features. It does have a paid option. I'll show you that too. Now you could compare, Filmora tend to feel more pro and see what your needs are. If you're just editing for YouTube, feel more, a 10 is perfectly fine, but if you're doing more advanced editing, take a look at Fillmore's approach and this really blew me away. I've been editing professionally for 15 years, and this had a lot of the advanced features of the pro editing software that I use. But at the same time, it was so much easier to get started with and edit your projects than all the other software that I've used over the last 15 years or so.
So let me show you step-by-step on how to get started. I do have an affiliate link in the description below to Filmora 10. So click that, download it for your Mac or for your PC. It's available for both and let's get started editing our first project. So again, the first thing is to get Filmora. If you don't have it installed on your Mac or PC on this website, again, there is a link below and I went ahead and installed it here.
The installation process is pretty straightforward and lets me go ahead and walk you through it. Step-by-step what you need to do for your editing and I'll walk through this layout a little bit more. I'll just point out three different things here. This is where all your media is going to be. So your images, your videos, and your audio will all get imported here.
That will be our first step and I'll show you the import process next to it is your preview and your program monitor. This is where you're going to see all your different clips and your finished product. So this is a video preview window and down here is called a timeline. All your editing is going to take place over here.
So that's all we need to worry about. Just about everything in Filmora takes place in these three different windows. The very first step to editing is we need to import our media. So you just click over here to import, and I've created a folder here on my desktop with multiple different clips that I've shot.
With a drone. I have a clip. That's the introduction to this video that you just watched. So you could see how video and audio work together and I have some music I'm going to bring into. So to bring anything in, if you want to just bring one clip, find it on your computer. This is just on my desktop here and clips one, I could just press open and it's going to import clip one right over here and for faster editing, you could work with small proxy files. We don't have to worry about that right now. I'll just press. When this gets important, you could see it has a little video icon here and photos have a different icon.
Music has a different icon, so you can get an idea of what this is. Anytime you import something, you could go ahead and double click that and then look at it over here. So you could press play over here to see what that shot looks like and you could see it's reducing the quality when I press play. It's just doing that to make this a little bit easier for me to playback on my computer.
So don't worry about that. It's not actually reducing the quality just on the playback now to bring in more clips here, more video clips, I'm going to double click here instead and you could just select more and if you hold down shift on your computer, you could select multiple different clips all at once.
So I'll go ahead and select all of these and all press open and it's going to bring clip one through eight. Plus the introduction that I'm going to show you, Hey, you will bring photos here the same way, and you could use photos in your edit and finally, let me bring in music this time. I'm going to right-click in this window and I'm going to press import.
That's control, click on a Mac and I'll press import here and this time I'll just select my music here. We'll talk more about music too, and where I got that clip later on, and one last way to import you could press import this dropdown here and important entire folder or import from camera or phone or download from Facebook or flicker too.
So a lot of options for bringing different media here. If you don't have any media, and you're just trying to see if this is a good software for you. There are sample videos here on the left side. So you could select this and you could go ahead and work with these in your edit. So if you don't have anything to edit with, you could just use these samples and their sample colors too, for creating different backgrounds and they're all available to use for you. Let me go back to my folder over here and again I'm under project media. Under this folder, everything has been important. I could change the view here, so I could view by the list instead of those icons. I always like this large thumbnail view. So I typically don't change that and you could always press record here and record from your webcam. If your computer has a webcam, you can record voiceover here and you can record your screen. So those are all available to you, right within the import window. Let's go to step two, which is adding media to our timeline. This section down here, where all our editing is going to take place to do that.
You could either select a clip and just drag it and then just bring it to the very beginning. You see the very beginning of it. It should snap to the very beginning and let go and sometimes you'll get this pop-up do you want the settings to match your video clip? Now I'm not going to get too technical with that, but typically you do want to match the media.
So I'm going to just agree to match the media. Now I should mention if you know where you're going with this video and you don't want a typical size video, you could come up here to file new and start a different size project. So one-on-one, that's a square shape for Instagram or vertical video for an Instagram story or tic doc.
You could choose those here. You will close and save this project if you do that. So if I select Instagram, it's going to ask me to close that project and then start with a new project and then I will have to go through the entire process again. But typically I just start with the 16 by nine projects and another way to add a clip is up here. When you have a clip selected. This one, got a checkmark because it's now down here on my timeline, but if I select another clip here, I could write. Click or control, click on that and I could insert the clip. So if I press insert. It's going to insert it in the beginning over here.
So this is clip number three now, and he pushed clip number one over. So now this red line is your play indicator. So depending on where it's at, that's the preview you're going to see up here. So if you bring it all the way to the beginning here, and then press space bar that will start playing the clip that you have your play head-on and the third way and my favorite way to add a clip is you could double click on a clip, salt, select clip, six double clicks it, and it should play right here on the right side. Let me pause it. What if I don't want this entire clip down here in my timeline? What if I want to decide where it starts and where it ends?
Well, you could do that over here with your keyboard. So you could go ahead and press play, and let's say you want the clip start here. You would press aye on your keyboard. I, that it's an endpoint and then keep going. I'm just going to keep going to where I want this to end. Let's say I want it to end here and not at the end of the clip I could press.
So the point and the outpoint or one of the models, useful ways to select the clip from here, decide where he begins and where it ends, and then drag it from here to your timeline. So that's probably my favorite way to bring in clips to edit down here is by double-clicking the clip, let it load over here, preview it by pressing play on it, and then putting in an outpoints using I N O you could also use these, this is your mark in and your mark out. So you don't have to use the keyboard shortcut. You could use these two options and then simply drag and drop the clip down here. Step number three is all about editing. Now. Now step two was, you know, deciding where media begins and ends and adding it all down here to our timeline.
Now we want to edit and trim down here, here. So the very first thing I want to show you are. In your timeline, you could decide the order of the clips. So when you started editing, that's not the way it needs to stay. Let's say clip one needs to go all the way to the end. I just grab it, bring it all the way over to the end and let it go.
Now, this area where there's nothing, let me bring my play head over here. If you finish your project right now, and there's this area that's blank is going to play as a black video. You don't want that. Typically this is what I need to do. I need to select, so I'm just dragging us, selecting all the clips here and I could just drag them and let them snap to this other clip. So now it filled up the black area. Let me grab this played here. I'll bring it back and press the space bar. And I could see, go from one clip to another clip, and then when it gets to this cut right here is going to go to the next clip. So that's how you would change the order of clips.
The next thing is sometimes you want to trim a clip that you brought down here. Maybe you didn't select the endpoint and the out point, and you brought the whole clip down here, but now you want the clip to start a little bit later or a little bit earlier. How do you do that? It's simple. Just bring your mouse over here and when the arrow turns to dis bracket, you could grab and drag your clip and let go and now the clip starts a little bit later. It's the same thing in the end. I could come over here and when I get this bracket here, I could just drag in to make a shorter, and I could do the same thing. If, let me bring another clip down here.
Let's say this clip I made shorter. So I'm just going to drag it and make it shorter here. Well, what if I decided now this clip needs to be longer. Same thing. As long as the bracket is at the end, I could grab it and extend it out. Now it's going to hit a wall at some point. It's not going to let me extend it indefinitely because the clip is only this long.
There's not any more information on that video clip after this and now I could go here to the end, press play, and see how that ends. We looked at changing the order of clips. You could easily just drag it and drop it. It's just very simple to change the order of different clips. I could drag my entire clip sequence here and just move them over anywhere I want.
I can move two clips over so I could make room for another clip to go over here from my media panel and let me show you another editing tip. That's going to come in very, very handy. Sometimes you want to split a clip into two. You just don't want to drag it and make it shorter. Do you want to split it into two to do that?
You just bring this play head right here. Where you want to make the cut and there's a tool for it right here. The scissor tool, it's the split tool selected and he turns that clip into two separate clips, Nika, select this part and press delete. And just like that is snap. The next clip onto it, where I made the cut.
You could always undo what you did too. There's this arrow right here, too undo and then the one next to it lets you redo. So sometimes when I make a split is because I want the second part of that clip to be somewhere else. So I could go ahead and drag it here to the end and then drag these two and bring them back.
So now it's going to go from the sunset right here. If I press my play head. To this shot and then back to the sunset, it doesn't really make sense for the storytelling because he went from sunset today, like back to the sunset, but you get the idea here or how you can move clips around and finally, in your timeline, you could change how you view things.
So sometimes your timeline gets really large. So you have this minus and plus over here in the slider where you could go ahead and shrink or extend your timeline to see a little bit better on what you're working with. So I use this one quite often. It's this minus and this plus sign or the slider to get a better look at my whole edit.
Now, let me bring in another clip down here to has sound. Now, this blue section is actually sound, but these clips were shot on a drone. So they're actually silent, even though it has an audio track. There is no actual audio there. Let me bring a clip. This one I know has sound and video. I'll drop it down here.
You could see now when it has actual sound, you get these audio waveforms. So right here, those are called audio waveforms. So now I have my video and my audio together. Now let's say sometimes you want to add a video on top of another video clip. So here, let's say I'm talking about Filmore 10 and I want to add another clip talking about it over on top of this clip.
Well, the way to do that is you could just drag another clip you have and bring it right on top and he creates a second video track. This is my video track. Number one, this is my video track number two. So if I go back, it's going to go, let me mute this. It's going to go from me talking to that shot and then when I'm done here if I come over here, It's going to go back to video track number one.
So this is a great way to layer different contents on top of each other on different video tracks. This typically is called a B roll track. One is me talking and then I will usually add B roll to track, too, of what exactly I'm talking about, or it's called a cutaway sometimes. But I use this technique often are working with two different video tracks, one dedicated to a talking track with a face.
Second track dedicated to B roll or footage that needs to be used to make a better story and more visually stylized story. I'll go ahead and select this now and press delete and I'll press delete since this is not part of this edit. Now, typically after I do my basic editing over here, I may want to add music.
Now this will be my next step in this process. So let me show you how to add music. And if you look down here, You see this little music icon, there is a track just for audio like music dedicated. So you don't put it on the video track and I imported a music file right here. You could see it has the same icon I could drag and drop it down here and I'll go to the very beginning. So it starts there and you can see, this is now my music track. Again. I have this on mute right now, but if I take my play head over here and if I press play, you could see right over here. There's an audio mixer right here. That's showing me my audio. I just clicked it to make it bigger.
That's my audio playing right now. As long as this doesn't hit red means the audio is not too overpowering or too loud and I'm good to go now again. This music goes far beyond my edited videos. So what I need to do is come over here. I could bring the play head right to the end here, select this music track, and then I could use the scissor icon and it cut the music in half so I could select it and delete the rest.
The other thing you typically do with music is you fade in and you fade out music to do that. Just double-click on the music track. It's going to bring in this section and here you can fade in the music typically, maybe one second over here, or you could type in a number of fade-outs, usually, a couple of seconds of fate and out looks good and there are some more advanced options like removing background noise that we won't get into right now and we could press, okay. So now we have music that faded in a faded out. You could see that little slash right here and I could always grab these two arrows here and change the duration of the fading and the fade-out down here.
But now let's talk about where I got this music file. You have a couple of ways to get music here on Filmora. One is you go to the audio tab. You haven't talked about these because we're about to go through all these different tabs right now, the audio tab. Have some music tracks included depending on which version of Filmora you have?
So you could actually grab the music from here and then use it in your project. That way I found this a little bit limited. So I typically buy royalty-free music, especially when I'm going on YouTube because I don't want to get any type of copyright strike using music. I don't have the right to use and this is the website where I get my music.
I'll put an affiliate link in the description to this website. And the reason why I like this website is that look at the 62,000 tracks, I have access to, I could press play on any of them. See if I like it and just press download and it's unlimited downloads for one monthly price. I don't have to pay for each song.
This is incredible especially for more advanced editing projects, or if you really want to mix it up for your YouTube content, you could go ahead and use this platform and they also have other things like the stock video as part of the same price. So sometimes I find other video clips here, data, I didn't shoot myself.
To make my videos a lot more entertaining. So music is over here on their stab. You could also use stock, video graphics descends a ton of stuff. So I recommend you check this out, even if you decide not to go with it. So that's adding music here to feel more. Okay, so now we have our edit. We have our music.
What's next. Typically after I add audio and music, I go-to title. Let's go to the title and see our titles here and there's a ton of advanced prebuilt titles here that you could use now with titles. Let me go ahead and drag one of these down here. Again, I'm going to put it on another video track. So I would even make another video track.
You could go ahead and bring this up, for example, to add a third video track. If your second one was taken up and let me go here with my play head, just to show you what that title looks like. I'll go to the beginning. I'll press play and there's a cool title animation here. So you could get a little bit of a preview on these and let's say, I actually liked this one. So I'm going to select this one, press delete and I'll bring this one down here in the beginning and actually, let me, let me bring it over here on this top of this clip is a little bit easier to see. There we go. So how do you edit a title that you found over here and brought down and look at this there's a ton, a ton of different titles to use here on Filmora.
So check them out. Double click it and he loads this title editor here. And here is your text. So you could type in your text here. You have a ton of different fonts to choose from. You have font sizes that you could change over here. You could change the color over here. So if this is too hard to read, maybe this should be black or gray.
I could go ahead and change it to pretty much any color I want to use in this color wheel over here. You have text spacing and you have positioned. So I could bring this up here or I could put it in the center, put it on the left side again, depending on which one you use, you may want to change it and you could change the scale of it over here.
So you could shrink it up and down and you could change the position of it over here too. So I'm going to bring it a little bit left or right and you even could change the opacity of it or the blend mode of it. Now, this is getting a little more too advanced, but. I just wanted to show you all the things that are possible under the title tab.
Let me go ahead and delete that for now, but that's working with titles, and again, look how many different titles you have to work with. You also have credits over here. You could use, you have these lower third titles. So if someone was talking on screen, you could go ahead and direct it by and change their name here, all these texts here that you see or completely editable. You can put your own, you could change the presets. You could even change the animation over here on, how they come into your shot. But again, that gets a little bit more advanced. This is a beginner's guide, but those are what's available to you under the title tab next to titles, you have transitioned, and this is very, very useful, but it could also get really out of control because look at how many transitions you have to work with and some of them really make your work edit cheesy. So let me show you what I typically do as a professional editor. I use to dissolve and I use fate. So to add a dissolve, all you have to do is grab it. You could get a little preview of what that looks like. So it's kind of, I go from one clip to another RN, could drag it and drop it between two clips here.
So let me go ahead and press play on that and it goes from one clip to another clip just like that. So it's very, very simple to add dissolves. Fade is the same thing, bringing between two clips. Let me go ahead and press play over here with the space bar and just F faded to black and then faded out and they're all editable.
You can select them. You should get you this window here, so you could decide how that's going to change. You could change the duration. You could decide if it's going to be at the beginning of the clip or the middle of the two clips or at the end of the clip, that's going to change a little bit on how it's going to look and you have a ton of other ones. Like this is what I mean by cheesy. If I use a cube, for example, let me just show you what that looks like, and that typically ages your video and makes it look like it's made in the nineties. So I stay away from just about every transition except these two. And there are some other useful ones.
So you kind of try them and see if they work out for you. But this has a lot, a lot of different transitions that you could just drag and drop, and typically after transitions, I get to effects on color correction. Now let me go over to the effects window next to transition now to add an effect. Let me just use is this black and white one I'll drag and drop it on top of the clip.
I want to affect it. You could see it completely changed how that clip looks. So you could add any of these effects and it will help with the color, or just kind of stylize that exactly how you want and there's a ton of them to choose from, but that's not really color correction. That's adding up effects and there's a ton of different ones to choose from. How do you color? Correct. Let me select this clip and when I have a clip selected, you could see all the options we've used here so far. There's another one that's for color. Let me select this one and I'll choose color correction and he opens this new window here and let me go ahead and press play.
So it starts to clip here and I have a bunch of different styles I could use. So this gives me a lot of preset color corrections. I could just apply easily to my clip and I could also adjust, again, this gets much more advanced and this is showing you some histogram and things that more advanced editors use, but you could go ahead and use some of these to really tweak your color temperature.
For example, by making it cooler or warmer, you could change the tint of your shots and a lot of different options. Like vignetting are all available over here that you could try out. But typically presets gets you very close to what you need by just dropping one of these presets and then pressing and it will change your clip here in your timeline to that preset and sometimes you do want to, before you finish up your project, zoom into a shot or crop into a shot, so you could select the shot and there's an option here for cropping. Let me select this and he opens up a cropping window where you could go ahead and just drag it.
The coroner's here to just zoom into a shot. So I'll just make this smaller and I'll move this window to zoom into my subject over here and then I'll press okay it changes my shot completely. Now it's not that wide shot that I had and it cropped into it. So that one does come in quite handy and that's cropping into your shot inside of Filmora
now for this step, I'm just going to show you an overview of some more advanced features that are available here, and then we'll get into exporting and delivering our project or posting it online. So some of the more advanced ones are under elements. You have a lot of different layovers that you could choose from.
So for example, this layover I could drag and drop it to another video track and it's pretty advanced here. It puts some animation just like that on top, top of my video clip. So that's pretty cool and you have a ton of different ones to choose from. You could just drag and drop them over here and then go on, press play to see what it looks like.
So you get the idea here. These are very, very simple to use drag and drop on top of your clip and then you could go ahead and press the space bar. You could see none of these worked with my project, but it may work for your project. So I definitely recommend you browse through these effects. Then you have a split-screen.
This is really interesting. Let me grab the split-screen. Let's choose this one right here and I'll drag it down here and it just tells me here's the drop area for one clip, two clips, and three clips. I could just drag clips and then bring them over here. Here's clip one, here's clip two here's clip three, and just like that, I've created the easiest split screen of ever created on any editing software. You could also change the speed of a clip. Let me show you how to do that. You could select the clip and then click the speed option and then you could slow it down. You can make it fast or you could type in custom speed.
I'll do custom speed. Now you want this to go twice as fast. So I'm going to type in a two-over here and I'll press okay enter and it's going to change the duration of my whole edit here. So I may have to tweak my music here. So I typically do this before I add music. But now with speed, I could go ahead and press play and it doubled the speed of that clip. So that's the speed option. You could also work with a green screen over here. I don't have any green screen footage to work with, but that's over here. You could add voice over. So this microphone icon lets you record voiceover by getting access to your built-in microphone.
I usually use an external microphone called a Yeti microphone, and then I could press record over here and it's going to record. Everything that I'm saying. So you could see on a new audio track is recording what I'm saying. If I press okay, you could see that the voiceover, I just recorded on a separate audio track than my music and those are some of the advanced features and it has a lot more even than what I'm showing you here, but I want to get you to export your project. So how do you export a project? Well, when your editing is complete, let me go ahead and delete these. Let's say this is my edit and it's complete. I could go on, press export up here, and again, this requires you to buy a full version or you could export with a watermark. Let me go ahead and export with a watermark and this export window has some options for you, including you, could go directly to YouTube. You could sign in and directly export to YouTube. I never do this on any editing platform, you could go to Vimeo, the same concept you could sign in and directly export there.
For some reason they still have DVDs. What I haven't made a DVD in about five years, then you have a format. This is typically where you want to be an MP4. If you're going to the web. Any website on the web MP4 is typically the best bet that you could choose. So I'm going to choose that if you're making a commercial or something that you want to put on TV, Apple ProRes will be better, but right now I'm going to choose MP4.
You could name your video over here, save it to output or decide where it's going to save on your computer. I typically choose the desktop or make a folder that I know exactly where it's at. Resolution. This is in 4k, but yours may be different, but let me press settings because I want to show you these. You could decide just simply by selecting one of these options.
I usually select the best. In quarter is H two six, four. That's perfect. That's what YouTube likes to resolution really depends on the footage that you use. This is 4k. This is HD. Typically this is okay, frame rate. It's already going to know that from your project. Typically I shoot in 24. That's okay. This bet rate is important.
So if I go higher, you could see it's changing the quality over here so better. Good. That's basically what the bet rate is. The higher, the bit rate, the better quality you have, but the bigger the file size you are going to have. So typically just select best over here. Let this decision for you, press. Okay, and then you could press export and you could see it's exporting my footage and if I'm going to get rid of the watermark, I just have to press by up here after this export is done and get the full version of Filmora.
Thanks again for watching this video again, in the description below, I'll put more resources as I come across more resources or create more videos. So make sure you check that out and I hope you benefited from this editing tutorial. Thanks again for watching and I'll see you next time.