- In this video I'm gonna teach you the very basics to editing a video inside of Final Cut Pro X, so if you've never used
the software before and you're just unfamiliar with it, this is the perfect video for you. I'm gonna walk you step-by-step on how to start editing your videos. You got to just press record. Hey, guys, my name is Nolan. Now, if you haven't seen
the first video to this, this is actually a part two video. Click the link in the description and actually go watch that one first, because I show you how
to import your footage, how to organize everything,
how to back up your footage, as well as just get familiar
with these different windows and different things that are going on inside of the software. Now, in this video I'm gonna
focus on the editing aspect, so let's just get right into it and start editing a YouTube video. So, I have nine clips in my
events folder right here, and I'm gonna drag all of
these on to my timeline. I'm gonna hold down shift
and select this last one, and I'm just gonna simply drag those, and now I have all my
videos inside of my project. I'm gonna zoom in a little bit here so I can see what's going on. To do that you can hit Command + button, or if you hit Command - button,
this is going to zoom out. Now, editing is as
simple as removing clips and keeping the good stuff. So, that's what we're gonna do first. We're gonna go through and start removing some of the pieces that we
don't want in our final video. So, to hit play so far on my
video, I'll hit the space bar. I'm just looking at the camera, kind of getting ready to talk, and if I zoom in on this clip right here, you see these audio waveforms down here? This is when I start talking, and this is when I want
the video to start, when I actually start saying stuff. Also, you might notice
there's this black vignetting on these corners on this camera. I'm gonna show you how to fix that, how to kind of crop in a little bit. We'll do that next, but first, this is what you're going
to use most of the time, which is your blade tool. To pull up your blade
tool you can go over here and you can select the
blade, or you could hit B, but this is kind of your tool. So, you have select,
you can trim, position, range selection, but I just
like to learn these shortcuts, and so I will hit B, and
you can see right here, now my cursor is a blade. All you have to do is select where you want to make your cut, and when you click on that, you can see that there's now a splice right in between these videos. So, now we have one cut in the video, kind of making it two videos, so we can select this first
part, and if we hit delete, now the beginning of this video
starts when I start talking. Let's go to the end of this clip and do the same thing over here, so I'm talking, and this
is where I'm gonna end it. Now, if you hit Command + B, this is gonna make a cut for you right where your play head is, and so this right here is the play head, so where your play head is is where it's going to start playing your video. So, with it over there, hit Command + B, and this is what happened. I'll select the second half of the clip and I will delete that. Now, that right there is
a big piece of editing, just kind of getting rid of
the parts that you don't want and keeping all the good stuff. Another thing you can
do here if you want to extend this clip or maybe shorten it is hover over the end of the clip, and you're gonna see this trim tool. Now, if you hold down, if
you click and hold down, you can drag this to the
left to start cutting off more of this clip on the left. If you want to extend it,
you can drag it to the right. Now, if I want to do the
same thing on the right clip, I'm gonna slightly move it to the right, and now you see that bracket has flipped. Now, this means I am
trimming this right clip, so I can extend it to the left, but this red marker lets me know this is the beginning of the clip, so I'm gonna start cutting everything out that I don't want, and I want it to start right there. Let's bring this clip back, and that is allowing you to trim those so that you can extend them, shorten them, lengthen then, do what you want with that. I use that tool a whole lot as well. Now, let's say I want this
clip actually to go first before this very first clip. All you have to do is select
the clip you want to move. You can drag it, and we're
gonna drag that right in front, and now everything kind
of snaps into place. Now, this clip is gonna play first, and this clip is now gonna play second. Now, let's say we want to add an effect. Over here we have our effects window, and let's say we want
to add the camcorder, so I'm gonna drag that
on to this clip here, and now you're gonna see that
we have this camcorder effect just by dragging that. Now, if I select this clip, over here in the inspector tool we can mess with the amount
of this effect being added. We'll leave that at 100. You can change the text to
whatever you want to say. Let's say think. The size, all this stuff is adjustable, so if you ever want to adjust something, go over here into the effects tab, make sure you have your effect selected, and then you can mess with
some of these effects. Now let's add a transition, so I'm gonna go over to my
transitions by clicking this, and we are going to... Let's say this circle one. We are gonna drag this right
in between these two clips. Now let's play it through
and see how it looks. So, it's pretty cool, but
let's say I want to speed it up and make it a faster transition. All you need to do is trim and
shorten up that transition, so with a trim tool just like
we were making a clip shorter, we are gonna use this to
make our transition shorter. So, with the bracket facing
the right way to the left, we know that we are
selecting this transition, so we are going to bring that in, and that brings in both sides for us. Now it's a quicker transition, and if you want to make it extra long, you can drag that out, and this now has your
transition being extra long. Now, let's say you want
to move the transition a little bit to the left or the right so it starts earlier, or
maybe it starts later. If you hover over the middle, you can actually move this transition. Let's say we want it to start sooner. This is going to cut off
what we were just having, but let's say we want it
to cut off that anyways. That's how you can move the
transition within the clip to play it earlier or later. Let's say we like it right here, but we don't want all this dead space. All you need to do is hit B
to bring up your blade tool. We are going to cut right there, then we're gonna delete this clip, and now it's going to
start when I start talking. All right, let's get rid of this vignette that I was telling you guys
about, the dark corners. All you got to do is crop in, so with your clip selected,
if you go right here, we are gonna change
this from trim to crop. Now I can actually crop in on my clip, so I'm gonna make sure that this vignette is not showing by zooming in a bit, and then we are gonna
reposition where we want it. When we're done, we're gonna hit done. Now we've actually cropped in on the image so that we're not seeing the vignetting, and you can crop in on any clip. I use this a lot to kind
of crop in on my face, crop back out, so this is a great tool to
use and to know how to use. Now, if we want to mess with the audio and make the audio louder
on this specific clip, we can hover over this line right here, and if we hover over this
line, we are gonna see 0.0 dB. This is the standard, the neutral place for your audio to be at, so as you import any sort of audio, as you import any sort of video, it's gonna start at zero dB. You can then add plus two,
plus 12 dB, minus 12 dB. You can mess around and add
or take away from the volume, so we are going to increase the volume. I am simply just gonna drag
up this line right here, and this is going to actually
boost up those waveforms. You can see now it says five dB, and if you don't have your
audio waveforms right here, all you got to do is select this, and this is going to
bring them up for you. So, now when I play my clip, it's going to be louder
than it was before, and if I want to completely silence it, I can bring that to zero. You can see there is no
audio happening right here. Then I can bring the audio back up. I'm like, okay, I want
it right around nine dB. Perfect, this is exactly where I want it, and that's how you can adjust the volume. Now, if we want to add text, up here we have our test and generator, so I'm gonna select this. We have titles and we have generators. Generators are kind of like backgrounds is how I would explain them. So, one I use a lot is just
a custom, which is a color, and then, from here, we can change the color
to whatever we want. So, let's say we want
the color to be white. I'll drag this like that. Now I have a white background, and I can add text to this, and so we'll go over to titles. Now, these different titles
have different effects. We can see this one is dramatic, and if I hover over from left to right, we're gonna see kind of
the effect that it does, and if you like one, you can
simply drag it on to your clip. Clearly, it's a white text
over a white background, so we can't see it, so
what we'll do is first, let's change the face, which
is going to be the color, and so we're gonna hit show, and we are going to change the color to... Let's change it to a blue. Now, if you want to change your text, you can just double-click on title, and this is going to
highlight everything for you. Now we have this text bubble popped up, so we'll change this to think media, and now let's play this
through to see how it looks. Now, the one I typically
use is just a custom, and this is just your basic text, so let's change this text to black, and now up here we have this text, so we can change this to think media. We can change the font if we want. You can move it around
by dragging this here. You can also change the font size, mess with any of the
properties all under here under this properties tab. Back on the timeline, if we
just want to delete a clip, I'm like, okay, I don't
really want this in there, you can select the whole thing. You can delete this, and then, up here, if you want to use it again,
you can bring it back. You can see that there's
an orange underline. This means that I'm using the
clip right now on my timeline. This makes it really easy to see the clips that you haven't used yet, and so I can hover over it and see if I want to bring that back in. So, if you delete
something in your project, it's still gonna be there in your event, and then, from there, you can just bring it back into
your project if you'd like. Now, if you aren't seeing
these orange lines, all you need to do is go
to view, go to browser, and make sure that used
media ranges is selected. Now, in order to use some music, let's import it into Final Cut Pro first. So, we're gonna right-click right here, and we're gonna hit import media. I have a song on my desktop, so I'm gonna select that song,
and then hit import selected. From here I'm gonna drag this entire song down here on to my timeline. We can do the same thing with
audio that we can with video, so if we want to trim
this, then we can do that. If we want to lower the audio, then we can definitely do
that by bringing that down. I'll then drag this to the
beginning of the project, and then, if I want to fade in the audio so it doesn't start abruptly, there is a little ball right here, and if you drag that to the right, this is going to be a
fade-in for your music. You can also do this on videos by just dragging these to the right. This is gonna fade in your audio so that it doesn't start
abruptly, but it just fades in. You can also fade out your audio by doing the same thing on the other end. Now, that right there is
just the tip of the iceberg. It's the very basics of editing. If you want to learn
more about audio editing or best export settings for your video, then click on the screen
and check out our playlist with our Final Cut Pro X tutorials, and I'll see you guys in the next video.
