How to Keyframe in Shotcut the Easy Way for Beginners - Tutorial By Popular Request

I'm just a normal person with no video editing background who wanted to start making YouTube videos and maybe add semi fancy effects I don't really plan on making major motion pictures or commercials so I was looking for a free easy to learn video editing software luckily I stumbled on shotcut a free open-source video editing program that has the potential to replicate similar effects that an Adobe Premiere or DaVinci Resolve can but with a simpler leaner interface it just takes imagination so let's learn together okay let's start with my favorite filters first let's grab this video here let me fishing on a dock stay a little bit just so you can see when I turn off the sound I'm gonna mute it because you don't really need it let's play it what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna cut it down to about 15 seconds because that's probably the only clip we're gonna need for this example more right there split it cut the extra extend it just to make it look bigger it's easier to see so I'm gonna select this clip and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna apply a filter called rotate and scale you just start typing rotate and it should show up so this is when the free the keyframes come in so whenever you load a filter every time this icon shows up which is a stopwatch icon that means that filter is keyframe so whenever this these icons are present that means that you can keyframe it so what I'm gonna do here is I'm going to keyframe this video first and foremost what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna position it so if it's positioned away from the very beginning what I'm gonna do is I'm going to position it to the very beginning and that's where my I want to position where my first keyframe is once it's in that position you click the keyframe icon it's then gonna load up the the keyframe interface and it's already positioned in the first position and it if you can look at here under scale it's at 100% what I want to do is I want to zoom this from 100% all the way till the very end here and I want it to be by the time he gets to the end 300 percent and so once I did that what it did is he created an initial keyframe at 100 and then it gradually moves from 102 all the way to this last keyframe at 300 percent so let's see what that looks like as you can see it slowly zooms it in from 100 to 300 and that's basically what a keyframe is is it moves to the sedative from the first setting to the next setting and so let's say I go here to this position and I add another keyframe and instead of it being 1 96.9 I want it to zoom in - let's see what this thing says zoom to 500% so I went from 100% here to 5 times the zoom at 500% and then from here it's going to go for a 500 percent down to 300% so let's see what that looks like so the zoom is a lot faster because it has to zoom all the way into 500% and then once it hits a 500% it then slopes back down to 300% and you can add as many keyframes as you want so we'll say here I'm gonna click the keyframe icon again right there I can either raise it or drop it and that's pretty much how a keyframe works I'm going to add another one here I'm gonna say raise it again so here it's going to look a lot more dramatic from 100% all the way to looks like it's going to be over 600 percent and then it's going to drop down again but I mean your keyframe has to make sense so let me get rid of all these different keyframes remove click that remove click that right click remove remove that so all we have here is the key so we are now at just a hundred percent I'm going to go to the very end and again I want to just slowly increase the size from 100 to 300 so it's a little bit more gradual a little bit more realistic and that's how you key frame the rotate and scale filter so now using the same video clip instead of using the rotate and scale we're gonna go to filter and now we're going to use a filter called Gaussian blur so I'm just gonna type in blur there this one is called blur : Gaussian and once again if you notice here this icon over here there is a keyframe icon which means that this is a keyframe Abal filter so once again what I'd like to do is position my cursor all the way to the very beginning where I want the keyframe to begin I then click the keyframe icon instead of it being at 20 I want it to be at 0 because I want it to start with zero blur what I want to happen is by the time I get to let's say 10 seconds over here a little bit one more by the time we get to 10 seconds it has the gone from no blur all the way to a Gaussian blur setting of 60 which looks like this and so once again it looks like this in the beginning with no blur and then by the time we get to this part here it would be at 60 60 points blurred so let's play it and see what it looks like so right now it's slowly blurring all the way until the 10-second mark and now it's lured at 60 so if I were gonna move this keyframe all the way over here to the five-second mark and at the five-second mark let's see it looks like it's at sixty seven point six Gaussian blur let's just drop that down to sixty once again from the beginning of the keyframe at zero blur it's gonna gradually work its way to my second keyframe at sixty percent and from sixty percent what I can do move it all the way to that point what I can do is I can add another keyframe let's say here and I then want to click the keyframe button to add a keyframe and then from let's say from sixty we want it to drop to 20 so I'm gonna set that setting to 20 so let's play that now starting from zero going to ten thirty forty to sixty and then it's gradually unblurred again up to twenty twenty first I don't know if it's 20 percent blur but yeah it's just the setting is 20 if I want it to gradually go back to no blur I can go to the very end click the keyframe icon to add another keyframe right there instead of it being 20 up here I'm gonna set it to zero so once again if we come from this closest keyframe it's gonna go from 20 all the way down to back to zero percent blur and so that's how you use keyframes with the Gaussian blur filter so in this last keyframe example I'm gonna do something a little different instead of using a video filter I'm gonna use an audio filter so I still have that same video clip loaded up on its own track and what I'm gonna do is I'm going to right click this track and I'm going to do add I'm going to choose add audio tract so that there's an audio track at the bottom I have a music file an mp3 I'm going to drag it over to that audio audio track let's play it so you can hear what it sounds like so obviously it's an audio track I'm gonna go all the way to the end of this video track to match the the length and I'm going to splice it and then I'm gonna cut this part out so that we can just play around with this with this specific track right here I'm gonna right-click one of the tracks and I'm gonna choose make tracks taller just to make just to make a little taller so a lot a little easier to see and so at this point I don't have any keyframes and so the sound should be equal all the Proms so that's what it sounds like what I want to do is I want to use keyframes to make the volume of this audio track trail off from 100% to 0% or whatever whatever decibel we want it to be so first and foremost I want to choose the audio clip mp3 I'm gonna go back to filter and this time around I'm just going to choose the filter called volume so right now we are at 100% volume and what I want to do is at the 10-second mark let's do a second mark right there close enough what I want to do is I want to add a keyframe to this and once again when you look at the the game volume filter once again we have that icon there meaning that this filter is also keyframe a ball so right off the bat I'm going to choose I'm gonna click the keyframe it's going to load up the keyframe interface again it's already added the keyframe right there that's where I want it to begin i then want it i want to go to the very end add another keyframe and then i'm gonna drop it all the way down to zero and so what happens is it's gonna play the song all the way up to this point here at 100% volume and then it'll slowly start dropping it down to 0% volume so let's play right now - there you go and once again what I can do is to make the drop-off a little steeper what I can do is I can position it here a little bit halfway choose the keyframe icon add another keyframe raise that a little bit higher and then this is what it sounds like and so not only can you keyframe video filters you can also key frame audio filters and that's how you key frame the game volume and any other any other audio filters out there so if you have any other questions just go ahead and post it on the comments section if I went a little bit too fast and I click something and you missed something and you want to know exactly what I did what I click did I right click just go ahead and post it on the comments please remember to subscribe subscribe to this 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Channel: Ben Espanto

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Length: 15min 2sec (902 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 03 2020