Hey everyone, Kevin here. Today I want to show
you how you can use the OpenShot video editor. OpenShot is free and open source. Oh, but hold
up, it's free. Is it any good? Well, I've tried lots of paid and also free video editors and
OpenShot sits right near the top of video editors. The thing I like about it so much is that
it has a very simple and also intuitive interface. This means that anyone can come
in, even someone brand new to video editing, and you can figure it out. But what's really
nice is it also has a lot of rich and advanced functionality under the covers. So you can
pull together some truly impressive videos. Regardless of your operating system, it'll work
for you. It works on Windows, Mac, Linux, and now also Chrome OS. If you want to follow along today
in this tutorial, I've included some sample files down below in the description. The best way
to learn is by doing. Also, I've included some timestamps down below so you can jump to the
section of the video that interests you the most. All right, well, why don't we jump on the PC and
let's start with how you can even get OpenShot. To get the OpenShot video editor, open up your
web browser and head to the website openshot.org. Once you land on the homepage, you should see
a download button right here in the center of the page. You also have a download link
right up here. Go ahead and click on that. On the download page, it should automatically
identify what operating system you're on. Here I'm on Windows, and it also recommends a 64-bit
installer. However, if for whatever reason you're looking for a different download, like I mentioned
in the intro, you can install OpenShot on any major platform. Here you see all of them down
below. To kick off your download, just click on download and run through the install process. Once
you finish downloading and installing OpenShot, open up the application. Once you open it, you'll
land in an interface that looks like this. If this is your first time using OpenShot, you'll also
see this welcome message or call out right in the center of the screen. And when you click
through this, it'll point out all of the major areas of the interface. Over here on the left-hand
side, we have project files, and this is where we're going to load up all of our video, audio,
and image files. In a moment, we'll do that. I'll click on next, and down below we have the
timeline. This is where we start to pull together our video and to lay things out in the order
that we want them to appear. And right up here, we also have the preview pane where we'll
be able to see what our video looks like. And finally, once we pull everything together,
we'll be able to export our video. Now don't worry, we're going to run through all of this
step-by-step so you can see exactly how it works. To get started, we want to import some files into
OpenShot. Right up over here, we have our project files, and we want to get some video and audio
files in here. By far, the easiest way to import files is to simply drag and drop them in. Here I
have File Explorer open in Windows, and I have all of the sample files. Once again, if you want to
follow along, you can access all of these sample files in the description of this video. I have
all of these files highlighted, and once again, I can just drag and drop them into project files,
and here you'll see all of them load in this pane. As an alternative to load files, I can also go up
to the top toolbar here, and there's a plus icon. When I click on this, this opens up a file picker,
and I can navigate to my files and then import them this way too. I could also right-click,
and I could click on Import Files, or I could even press the shortcut key Ctrl-F, and that'll
also open up the file picker. So, you have lots of options to get your files into OpenShot. Now
that I've imported all of my files in, let's say that you bring a lot of files in and you're trying
to find, let's say, a video file or an audio file. Up above, I can very quickly filter all of
the different files that are shown below. Here if I click on Video, I'll only see the video
files. I can click on Audio, it only shows me the audio files, and if I click on Image, it'll show
me only the image files. I don't have any image files here, so you won't see anything. To show
everything again, I'll click on Show All. Also, right over here, I have a search field, and
I can very quickly search for specific files in the project file set. So let's say I want to
find Kevin eating a cookie. I could simply type in Kevin, and there, very quickly, I see that
specific file. So I have a bunch of controls to find the files that I'm looking for. With
all of my files now in the project files view, I can right-click on one of these files,
and I can preview what the file looks like. This opens up a preview, and when I click on
Play, I can get a sample of what it looks like. And that's got to hurt. Pulling the baking
tray out of the oven without oven mitts on, I don't know what I was thinking. I'll close this
window. Now I want to start editing, and I just want to pick the pieces that I want to include
in my commercial for the Kevin Cookie Company. Over here, I can right-click on one of the files,
and there's the option to split the clip. Let's click on this. This opens up that same clip again.
However, instead of just being able to preview it, I have some additional controls at the bottom.
Here, I can set the start point, and I could also set the end point. And here, I can use this to
scrub the video so I could find the specific point where I want it to start. For this specific clip,
I'm going to use this to start my commercial, and I want it to start right as the oven is opening.
So down here, I'll set this as the start point. When I click on start, you see that it takes the
thumbnail of this current clip. So, it works as a visual indicator to let me know what the start
point is. And here, I'll go on a little bit, and you see me reaching the oven, and I burn
my hands. And there, I pull the tray out, and right there is when I want to stop the clip. So,
it's going to be about three seconds or so long. Right here, I'll click on end, and here too, you
see that it takes the thumbnail of this clip, and it inserts it in the end. Now, this is my
start point, this is my end point. Now I'll click on create. This window stays open, and I can
now go through, and I could split the clip again if I want. Here I could set another start point
and another end point. So, I could split this in any number of ways that I want. However, for now,
I just need this one clip. So, I'll close out this window. Back in project files, one thing you
might notice here is at the bottom now, I have an additional clip. So here's my original one where I
pulled the cookies out of the oven, and then here I have my new one. I could have renamed it as I
was splitting it out, but I left the same name in. This is now the new clip, which is shorter,
and it just has the pieces that I want. I now want to take this video clip, and I want
to add it to my video. Down below, we see the timeline, and once again, this is how I start
organizing my video. To get one of these clips down onto the timeline, I can simply click on it
and then drag it down. And right here, you'll see that there are a few different tracks that I can
choose from. Let me scroll down just so you can see all the different tracks. So there are five
different tracks, and I'm going to start placing everything directly onto track one. So I'll scroll
down to the bottom, and with track one visible, let me click on this and then drag it down, and
then I'll release it right here on track one. I now have my first clip down below on the
timeline, and before I go any farther, I want to save my project just so I don't lose anything.
I've already been putting a little bit of work into this, so let me keep my progress. Right up
here, I'll go to the file menu and then click on save project as. I'm going to save this as the
Kevin Cookie Company commercial. Once you're done typing in the file name, click on save. I now have
my first clip on the timeline down below, but you might notice it's pretty small. It's only three
seconds long, so it looks pretty compressed here. If I want to zoom in a little bit, I can use this
bar right here to choose what my zoom level is. So here, if I drag it this way, this is going
to zoom out even more. So, let's say you have a longer video project, you can zoom out
more so you can see all of the details. Now, my video is going to be pretty short, and
it'll probably be a little under 30 seconds. So instead of going that way, I'll zoom in over
here on the left. Here you see the plus icon, which indicates that it zooms in, and here you see
the negative icon, which means that it zooms out. So here I've zoomed in a little bit, and
now you can see this clip better. Along with simply zooming in and out using this bar
right here, I can also use keys on my keyboard. Here, I could press the equals sign, and that'll
zoom in even more. I'm zoomed in all the way right now. I could also press the minus sign to zoom
out. So here I'm zooming out, and then I'll press the equals sign to zoom in. And here I could
scroll back to the beginning clip. So you could use your keyboard to very quickly zoom in and
out. Also, probably the easiest way to do it, I could press the control key on my keyboard, and
then I could roll my mouse wheel back to zoom out, or I could roll it forward to zoom in. So just
another way to zoom in and out on the timeline. I now have my first clip on the timeline, and
one of the things you might have noticed is when I inserted this clip down below on the timeline,
up here in the top right-hand corner I have the video preview, and this shows me what's currently
on the timeline. Now if I want to see how my video is coming together, there are a few different ways
that I can play it. I could press the space bar, and that'll play the video. I could also go up
here to the video preview, and I could click on the play icon, and that'll also start playing
the video. One thing you might notice is when I clicked on the play icon, you'll notice that this
play head starts moving. So here with the space bar, you'll see this play head move along. It's
also referred to as the ruler. So, this shows me my current position in the timeline, and it
corresponds with what we see in the video preview window. Now I can also navigate through my video
simply by coming down here, and I could click on the play head, and then I could scrub through my
video clip. So this way I can get to the precise point in the video that I want to get to. I could
also use my keyboard. I could press the right key on my keyboard, and this way I can move one frame
to the right, or I could press the left key on my keyboard, and I can move one frame to the left.
So just a few ways you can navigate through your video. So far, I only have one clip on my
timeline, and it's not much of a commercial if I'm just pulling cookies out of an oven. So I can get
some additional video clips down onto my timeline. Right up here, next I want to show milk pouring
into a glass. So I'll select number two up here, and then I can simply drag and drop this down onto
my timeline. Now as I'm holding it here, I can choose the exact position where I want to place
this clip. One of the things you'll notice is as I drag it closer to the first clip, it automatically
snaps into the end of the previous clip. Now if I release right here, up here there's a control that
says snapping enabled. Here if I turn it off and I take this clip, you'll see that it doesn't snap to
the end. So here maybe I want it to overlap just a little bit. However, I like leaving snapping
enabled, so I'll toggle this box right here, and then I'll pull my clip so it sits right at
the end. Now I'm going to zoom out a little bit, and you'll notice that this clip of the milk
pouring into the glass, it's a fairly long clip. I don't think anyone's going to want to watch milk
pouring into a glass for this long. So, I want to trim the clip a little bit, just like we did with
me pulling the cookies out of the oven at the very beginning. Another way that we could trim a clip,
when I have this clip selected on the timeline, I can navigate towards the beginning, and
you see my icon changes. Here I can pull it in right to the point that I want to keep.
So right here, maybe once the glass is about, let's say halfway full, I'll position it right
there. This is where I want the clip to start. And then I could also select the end. I'll select
the end right here, and then I could choose the end point of this clip. Now I don't want it
to be too long, so maybe right about there is enough time. I've now shortened this clip and
I could click on it and I could reposition it on my timeline. And once again, I'll place
it right after the first clip. Now so far, we've been adding every single video file
directly to track one. And if we look up above, there's a track two, a three, a four, and a
five. So, when would we use these other tracks? The way to think of tracks is they're basically
different layers. So right now, we're using the lowest layer. So if I take another clip and
I place it, let's say on track number two. Here if I go to the very beginning and I start
playing, you'll see it starts out with the oven because there's nothing on track two at
this point. As it keeps playing though, it now hits this video file that's on track two. And
because this is a higher track, it's also a higher layer. And so this overlays whatever's on track
number one. If I were to insert additional video files on track three, that would overlay what's on
two and it would also overlay what's on one. And so I could add any number of tracks here. I could
right click and I could add another track above, or it could even add another track below. Here I
can rename tracks. Maybe that helps me keep things a little bit more organized. If I don't want a
track to change, I can lock it and I could also remove excess tracks. Now I don't need this
many tracks. This is just a pretty simple video project. So I could right click here and I could
go to remove track. This will just clean up my view just a little bit. I only need two tracks for
this project, so I'll remove all the other tracks. I also don't want this on track two. So I could
click on this file and I'll just drag it down to track one and then position it right here. I'll
use track two for my audio. So, I could right click here and let me go to rename track and
I'll call this audio. Next, I'll click on okay. Right down below, just to help me organize things,
I'll right click here and let me rename this to video. Next, I'll click on okay. So far I've
been bringing all of my different clips onto the timeline simply by clicking on it and then
dragging and dropping it onto the timeline. However, I do want to show another way that you
can use to get your clips onto the timeline. First I'm going to position my play head at
the very end here and then I'll go up and let me click on to file number four. Here I'll
right click on it and right down here there's the option to add to timeline. Here too you'll
also see the shortcut key. Let's click on this. This opens up a prompt where I can add this clip
to the timeline. Here I can see the start time and this currently matches where my play head
is. I can choose what track I want to add it to. Do I want to add it to the audio track
or the video track? This is a video file so I'll add it to video. I could also choose the
length. I'll just leave that to the default. Also, I could set the fade, the zoom, and the
transition. Now this is especially helpful. Let's say that you're pulling together maybe
a photo slideshow and maybe you're importing, let's say 50 or maybe 100 images. You could bulk
import all of them into your timeline and then you could choose a fade to use. You could choose
a zoom. You could also choose a transition. And what's really neat is right up here at
the top you can choose a random transition. You could also choose a random zoom. So especially
if you're pulling together a slideshow this adds a little bit more variability to the show. Now with
this video I don't have that many files so this add to timeline prompt won't be as useful for me.
Just dragging and dropping works fine. However, I did want to show how this is yet another way
you can get content onto your timeline. For now, I'll click on okay and there you see that I just
inserted my new file. Now there is a little bit of a gap between these files, so I'll drag that and
then place it right at the end of the previous clip. With these new clips on the timeline you'll
probably notice that they're fairly long compared to the first two and that's because I haven't
yet cut them down. So here you see that I'm filling up the milk glass and right here it's
about halfway full. And then as I transition to the next clip well here it's filling up from
the very bottom again and I want it to pick up from where this other clip left off. So here I'll
go along and maybe I want this the clip to start right about here. So we looked at one way where
I could simply drag and drop the end of this to basically trim my clip but I want to show you a
few other ways that we can also trim the clip. Right up here we have all of these different
tools and when I hover over this one this is called the razor tool. I could click on that
and when I hover over this clip on the timeline you see this straight line appear basically the
razor. So let's say I want to click right here. When I click there, it splits the clips right
at that point. So I'm going to turn off the tool for now and now you see that I have two separate
clips. It just runs right into the next one but now I could work with these files separately.
Let's say I just wanted to remove this file I could hit the delete key and that's now removed
that file. So here my clip just picks up right from here. As an alternative to going over to the
razor tool to split my different files, I can also right click on the file. Within this menu, I have
an option for slicing and when I hover over this, I have a few different options. I could keep both
sides, keep left, or keep right. Now if I click on keep both sides you'll notice this does the same
exact thing as the razor tool. It's basically the same thing but I can access that through a
menu. I'm going to undo it by pressing control Z, so my clip is just one clip again. This is one
other way to access that same slicing tool right here through the menu. Now instead of clicking
onto this menu and clicking on keep both sides, and instead of navigating over to the razor tool,
I could also press control K on my keyboard. When I press control K, that does the exact same thing.
So there are quite a few shortcut keys that I can use to make my editing even simpler. Once again,
I'm going to undo that by pressing control Z. When we right clicked on the clip, you
probably noticed that there were those two other options and let me go back and go to slice.
So we have keep left side or keep right side. So, let's see what these do. If I click on keep right
side when I click on this you'll notice that everything to the left of the play head gets wiped
out. So here now my clip starts right here and let me go on just a little bit farther to maybe this
point. Let's say that I want to remove everything to the right side and I want to keep everything to
the left. Here I can right click and let me go to slice and for this one I want to keep everything
on the left side. So, I'll select this option so that removes everything over there and here now my
clip is cut exactly how I want it to be cut. So, this is yet one more way that I can edit clips.
Now just like there was the shortcut key control K to do a cut in the middle, the other two options
of keeping to the left or keeping to the right also have shortcut keys, and for that let's go
a little bit farther down to this next clip and this is where you see my hand appear and I start
grabbing these cookies. Now let's say I want it to start maybe right there right before the hand
comes into the frame. So here I want to keep everything to the right and I want to remove
everything to the left. Now once again I could right click, I could go to this menu, and I could
say keep right side but we could also use the keyboard and for this I'm going to press control
J. When I press control J, it keeps everything to the right and it removes everything to the left
and let's go down just a little bit here and you see my hand come in and a whole bunch of these
cookies disappear and yes, I did eat these cookies but maybe we just need about that many. Right here
now I want to keep everything to the left and I want to remove everything to the right, so for
this I'm going to press control L and that gets rid of everything to the right. Now you might be
wondering well wow we have control K, control J, control L, it's all these random keys how am I
going to ever remember this? Well just to make things really simple actually look at your
keyboard and look at where those keys are physically located. Control K, K is right in the
middle that splices it or cuts it in the middle so I'm going to undo that just to return the
clip back. Now J is right to the left of K and when you press J, it keeps everything to the
right. I'll undo that. And if I press control L, which is right next to K that keeps everything
to the left, so those three keys are all together and if you look at just the physical location it
really helps to understand what those keys will do. K's in the middle so does the middle
one and then J and L are on the sides. When you're editing videos, shortcut keys can make
things work a lot faster especially if you have a lot of clips you need to edit but you might be
wondering well what are the shortcut keys or maybe I don't like pressing control K, I'd rather press
S on my keyboard for split or maybe R for razor. Can I configure those? And you absolutely can. If
we go up to the top menu and click on edit, right down here there's the option for preferences.
Click on this. Within preferences, we have all of these different tabs and all the way over
on the right-hand side, there's the option for keyboard. When we click on this, here you can
review and see what all of the different shortcut keys are for OpenShot and here are the shortcut
keys that I called out. You have the control K, the control L, and control J, and you could
change these to whatever you want them to be. It also has some of the other shortcut keys that
we looked at like the equals and the minus sign for zooming in and out. So, you could take a look
at these and once again these will really help speed up your editing time. All of these defaults
look good to me so I'll close this out for now. I've now trimmed both of these clips to the exact
length that I want them. Here I'll scroll to the left and I could simply drag and drop the file
and there once again you notice the snapping and here I'll drag the next file and I'll pull
this down as well. Now so far I've been placing every clip so it just sits on the end. What if I
pull the clip over? Here I'll take the fourth clip and I'll drop it so it sits over the third clip
and when I do that you see this weird rectangle appear. What is that? If I go back here, I'll
place the play head right so it appears here on the timeline and then I'll play it. You'll notice
that it fades so when I drag one clip and I place it over another clip it'll automatically apply a
fade transition. Any type of overlap between clips automatically creates a fade transition but let's
say maybe I want a different transition. I could click on the fade right here and I could press
the backspace key and that'll remove the fade. Now if I play it, right from here, you'll notice
that it's just a hard cut between the clips. Right up here I can click on transitions and here I have
a wide variety of different transitions that I can choose from. Let's say for instance that I want to
apply a circle into out transition. I can simply click on this one and then I'll drag it down
to my timeline. I'll place it right in between these clips. Here you'll see that the transition
by default is pretty long. Just like we could do with one of the clips, I can click on the end
and then I could drag it in just so it covers the overlapping portion of these clips. I'll place it
right about there. Now if I play my video, let's see what this looks like. Here you'll notice that
I now have a new transition between these clips, so it's pretty easy to choose whatever
transition you want and then you could switch between your clips in a seamless way. If I
go back through my video now let's click on this clip where you see the milk pouring in the glass.
That looks like a pretty nice vibrant shot. If I go to the previous one, this isn't quite as
bright and as vibrant as the next one, so they don't really seem like it's from the same shot.
If I go over here we have a third tab for effects. We started with project files, then we clicked
into transitions, and now we have effects. Here too we see a quick description of what we could
find here. I'll click on next and here we see all of the different effects that we can choose
from, and I think if I increase the brightness a little bit on this clip, it'll better match the
next one. Right up here there's an effect for brightness and contrast. Let me pull that down and
I'll place it over this clip of the milk pouring. I now dropped the effect, but it doesn't
look like the brightness has changed yet. Here though I see that it inserted this B icon for
brightness. Here I can right click on that and we can go into properties. This opens up a prompt.
I'll click on next and here I see all of the different brightness properties that I can adjust.
Here I can adjust the brightness and the contrast. Right now, the brightness is set to zero; however,
I can drag and drop it over and maybe I'll do a brightness of 0.09. That looks a lot more vibrant.
So here now if I play it, it more closely matches the next clip in the timeline, so that looks
pretty good. So, this is one way you could quickly apply different effects to your different
video files. I now want to go through and I want to add the remaining clips. I've added four clips
here so far and I have a bunch more. I have all the way through 12 clips. I'm going to add all of
these to my timeline and feel free to do the same. You could practice some of the different trimming
techniques. You could try right clicking and you could go to split clip to try cutting it here
and then bring it to the timeline. You could also practice dragging and dropping the edges to reduce
the size. Or you could also go through and you could practice some of the shortcut keys like the
control J, control K, and control L. Or you could just right click, go to slice and you could test
these different methods out. Give it a shot just so it starts feeling more like a habit. I've now
added a whole bunch of video files to my timeline down below and I went through and I trimmed them
to just the right length and hopefully you were able to do the same. Now so far you'll notice
that we have a whole bunch of visuals but there's no music to go along with it, so I want to add an
audio track. Here I'll pull this up so we can now see both tracks side by side. I'll go up to the
top and let's click on the filter for audio so we just see the audio files and here I see some
music. I'll click on this and drag it down onto my timeline. Now that I've added the audio to the
timeline, let's press play to hear how it sounds. One thing you might have noticed is the music
doesn't immediately start playing. It takes a moment before it plays but it's hard to tell when
the music starts playing because right now we just see a thumbnail of this clip on the timeline. I
can right click on this and right here there's the option for display and currently it's set to
show the thumbnail. Instead I could click on show waveform and this changes it from the thumbnail
view to the waveform so now I could see how the music plays in relation to the video clips down
below. At the beginning, you'll notice that it doesn't actually start until a little bit in, so
there's a little bit of a gap. I want the music to start right at the beginning. So here I'll click
up on this razor tool and maybe right here on the clip I'll cut it right about there. I'll turn
off this tool and now I can delete that portion and I'll pull it to the beginning here. Now when
I press play, it'll start playing the audio right at the beginning. With my music, it's a little bit
loud and so I want to adjust the volume so it's a little bit lower. Here I can right click on this
clip and within this menu there's the option for volume. Here I can reset the volume but I want it
to be a little bit quieter. So here I'll go down and for the entire clip let me go at maybe 80% of
the volume. I'll select that and I think that'll sound a little bit better. One thing you'll see
is as I'm zoomed out here the music goes on a lot longer than my video goes on for. So I'm going to
go right to the end of the video here and I want to cut off the music at this point. Now just like
we've been editing all of our video files, we can also edit the audio file the exact same way. I'll
press the control and L key and that'll remove everything to the right and it'll keep everything
to the left. So here I have the sound and the video end at the same time. When I play the clip
right here at the end, you'll notice that the music just cuts off. It's a very harsh end and I'd
rather have it fade out. Here I can right click on the audio and let me go back up to volume. Here
I have two additional options. One for the start of the clip and another one for the end of the
clip. Here I could select end of clip and I could set it to fade out. So maybe I want to do a fast
fade out or I could also do a slow fade out. I'll select this option and it added some keyframes
in here where it'll gradually reduce the volume of the music. So let's hear what that sounds
like. I'll go up here and then let's press play. That sounds a lot better now, it's this gradual
exit of the music. The music now sounds good but I also want to do something to make the
end video a little bit more interesting. Here you see Cookie Monster appear and then the
company logo appears, but it just sits there. I think maybe I can make that a little bit
more interesting by maybe zooming in on it a little bit and to do this I want to use something
called keyframes. Keyframes might sound a little bit daunting but they're actually easier to use
than you would think. So, let's test this out. First I want to go back to right when the logo
appears. So maybe right about here. I want to start zooming in at this point. So this is where
I want to add my first keyframe and then I'll add another keyframe at the end which
will be the end point of the zoom. So right down here I'll go down to my clip.
I want to edit this one, so I'll select that, and then I'll right click and let's click on
properties. This opens up properties over on the left-hand side and it might look a little
scary. There are all these different controls related to the file. Now all of these different
properties define what this video looks like. Here for example, I have the alpha and here if I
adjust that down well that basically fades it out and here, I could fade it in. Now I want to have
it zoom in on this clip. So here I'll go down and scale X and scale Y that will allow me to zoom in
some. So right at this point in time I want it to just be one. This is going to be the start
of the zoom. So right now I'll select this, I'll right click and let me go to insert keyframe
and I'll do it for both scale X and for scale Y. And now they're both highlighted in green,
indicating that I now have a keyframe. If I move my play head, you'll see that there's
a green icon right down here letting me know that I've inserted a keyframe. What a
keyframe is is at this point in time I could define what the properties are. So at
this point in time my scale will be at this level. Now at the very end of my clip, once again, I want
to zoom in. So I'll go to the very end here, let me go right about there, and here too I'm going
to zoom in now. I want to adjust this property and let me go to maybe 1.25. So there you see that it
expanded the width and I want to make sure I keep these with a proper ratio. So here too I'll enter
1.25 for the Y. So here you'll see it's a little bit zoomed in. Now if you look down below, I now
have two green lines. Basically what I'm saying is at this point in time we're going to kick off
the zoom. And then between these two green points, this is where I want it to zoom in. So there it
zooms right up until the end. OpenShot looks at these two points and I define the value at this
point, and I define the value at this point. And then OpenShot says okay, well, between these two
points I need to transition from this value of 1 up to 1.25 at this keyframe. And so here as I
pull the play head through, you'll see how the number is adjusting over here. So, take a look at
that how it goes up. So, by default it just moves in a linear fashion. I could also come over here
and I could right click and I could change it to from linear to maybe ease in or ease out. So what
is easing in or what is easing out? Well with ease in maybe it starts a little bit slower and then
the zoom speeds up towards the end. Or with easing out maybe it starts a little faster and then it
slows down at the end. So, depending on the effect you want. Here you could even do a combination of
both. So, it starts a little slower, speeds up, and then slows down again at the end. So, these
are a few different ways that you can zoom. With keyframes you can apply them to any of the
properties of this clip. So keyframes are very powerful in getting different desired effects on
your clips. As we've been going through OpenShot, hopefully you're starting to realize how much
power this application has. One of the neat things too is as I've been working through this
let's say maybe I want to take a pane and I want to move it somewhere else. I can come up here and
if I click on this icon this will pop it out. And let's say you have maybe multiple monitors. You
can move properties wherever you want. Here I can place it somewhere. Here I can close it again
if maybe I don't need it anymore. Here maybe I want to close my project files because maybe
I'm not working with them anymore and I just want the video preview and the timeline. You could
expand and adjust everything in whatever way you want. Let's say you want to go back to maybe the
original state though. Here I could go up to view and I could click on views and I could switch back
to the simple view. This is the one we started on. There's also something called the advanced
view which pulls in the properties and then I also see the effects. Here I'll go back to the
simple view because I think that's a good use of real estate. Once you configure your view in
a state that you want you could go up to view click on views and here you could freeze your
view, or here I could go down and show all. So, you have a few different options. Also, let's
say I want to use up my full screen. Here I could switch into full screen mode by clicking on F11.
So just a few more ways to help you just focus on your editing. Okay so we have pulled together a
video. We've added some music. We've applied a few different effects. We're now ready to ship this
commercial. We need the world to see it. Right up on the top bar there's this red icon and this
is for exporting the video. Let's click on this. This opens up the export video prompt and right
up above I can name my file. I can also choose where I want to save it, and down below, I can
choose how I want to encode my file. By default, I see all formats but if you want to simplify, you
can click on this profile and you can choose one of the profiles. Let's say maybe you're getting
a video ready for let's say YouTube. You could click on web and right down here you can choose
your target. So I'll choose let's say YouTube HD and here I see some video profiles that I can
choose from. I'll select this one with 1080p, 1920 by 1080, and 29.97 frames per second, but
once again there are many different profiles you can choose from. Just choose the one that's most
appropriate for the work that you're doing. Right down here for quality, I'll choose high and once
I'm ready to go, I'll click on export video. While the video's encoding, you might be wondering well
how do I really choose a video profile, and a lot of it comes down to what was the original source
quality because typically when you pull together a video you want it in the best possible quality.
Right here I have all of the video clips that I use in this project. Here you could click on one
of the files, right click go down to properties. Within properties you can click on details and
here you'll see the original quality of your video clip. Here my clip was 1920 by 1080 pixels,
and right down below, I can see the frame rate of these clips. So that's the reason I chose these
settings for my project because it matches my source clips and I wanted to maintain the best
possible quality. And look at that. Right now, I'm at 100% and my video is now complete. Let's
click on done and let's watch how it turned out. All right, well, that was a quick
look at how you can get started using OpenShot. If you enjoyed this video, please give
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well, that's all I have for you today. I hope you enjoyed, and as always,
I hope to see you next time, bye.
