- This is our complete OpenShot Video Editor
Tutorial for Beginners. We're gonna go step by
step through how to use it, including some awesome
OpenShot video editing tips and tricks along the way to help you get better
results much faster. Now, if you are already a fan of OpenShot, drop a comment down below
while you're watching, and let me know your number
one OpenShot video editing tip to help those out that are new. Okay, so here we are in OpenShot. Now I'm gonna show you
this tutorial on a Mac, but the process is gonna be
pretty much exactly the same on Windows or Linux as well. This is the first thing you'll
see when you open up the app. Up here we have our Project Files area and we can switch this here
between Transitions, Effects, and Emojis or stickers in here as well. Let's go back to Project Files. Over here, we have our preview
or our playback window. This is where we can see
everything that we're editing. Down here we have our player controls to play back our video. Down the bottom here, we have
our video editing timeline. This is where we are
actually going to be editing. We have our zoom and
timeline control section here with our timeline and
editing control next to it. And up the top here, we've
got some standard buttons for creating a new project,
opening, undo, redo, importing files and exporting. We'll get to those as we go through. Now, before we get started,
one thing I like to do is just to change up
the view a little bit. So to come up here to View
and come down to Views and switch it to Advanced View. And that just gives us our properties area always visible over here on the left and our effects always visible
over here on the right. Now, we can close these
by hitting little x. We can pick them up, we
can move them around. So I'll probably make the
video preview bigger here. So you can customize this
up for your computer screen. Then once we've got our interface sorted, the next thing we wanna do
is to set up our project. So you can see the default
here on a brand project is for 720p 30 frames per second, unless that's what you're
after, you'll wanna change that. So we can come over
here to Choose Profile, or we can choose File, Choose Profile. And then this drop down here,
we can choose the resolution and the format of the
video that we wanna create. So for this video, the
footage I've got is HD 1080p 25 frames per second,
I'm gonna pick this here. For most people, you could be
choosing 24 frames per second, 29.97 or 25, depending on the footage
you're going to be editing. Now, if you don't know which one to pick, you just wanna match whatever your primary camera
footage was filming at. So if it was filming at
24 frames per second, then you wanna pick that here. So I'm gonna choose 25 and hit Close, and our project now has been updated. Now I'm gonna go ahead and save this. So let's choose File, Save Project. I'm gonna choose where I wanna save it, in this case I'm just gonna
save it here on my desktop and let's just call it JustinEdit. Okay, now we've got our project sorted. The next thing we wanna do is
to import our video footage. So to import footage, we can come up here to the plus button, or we
can right-click down here in this Project Files area
and choose Import Files. Or if you've got an Explorer
or a Finder window open, you can drag and drop
your footage in as well. So we can grab our footage clip here and drag it into our project. I can also grab all of
our B-roll clips here, drag that in as well. And we'll also bring in
our music at this point. Once we've got that in, we wanna bring our primary video footage, which is my clip here, footage
down into the timeline. Now our timeline here is
broken down into tracks. You can see we've got Track 5, 4, 3. If we scroll down here, we
can see Track 2 and 1 as well. It's always a good idea
to start on Track 1 with your primary footage and
then you can build up above it with your B-roll or
overlay footage as we go. So I'm gonna grab our
primary footage here. I'm gonna click and drag
that down onto our timeline. And that's an amazing image of me there, but we now have our primary
footage down in the timeline. Now we can zoom in and out this
using this slider area here. So if we wanna zoom out, we
can stretch this out to the end so that we're seeing our
entire footage there. Or if we wanna zoom in,
we can take this in here and it's gonna zoom in on the
start section of our clip. And one other thing I'd
like to turn on here is the audio waveforms. So if we hit this little
dropdown arrow here and we choose Display, Show Waveform, and that's gonna go ahead and
analyze the audio in our clip, and it's gonna give us a
visual representation of that, which we can now see on screen. So we can see all the
pieces where I am talking and where there is nothing on the graph, that means that there is silence. So this makes it really easy for us to see where we might have stopped talking, or maybe we've had a bad take or we've started the next session. So it makes it easier for us to trim down or to remove these sections. And that's exactly what we're
gonna do in this next step. So we can play through our footage by hitting the Play button here, until we work out where we
want our footage to start, which I imagine will be around here, but let's press Play and see. One, two, one, two. We obviously wanna cut off
the one, two, one, two. So there's a few
different ways to do this. And this is where knowing what
tools you've got access to is gonna make you a fast video editor. So what we wanna do is to start our video, around here somewhere, so
just before I start talking. So one way to do this would
be to come back over here to the start of our clip and you can see that our
cursor changes to two arrows. I can click and drag on that at clip and release it here at that point. And our clip now is going
to start at that point. Now what we're left with here, in doing it this way is some
blank space at the start. So we will wanna grab our
clip, just click on it and drag and move it back so that our
clip starts now at that point. And let's go over to the end of our video and let's zoom in at this point. So we can see at the end
of the video, I'm talking, you can see the audio here
and then it flat line. So that's where I finished. So again, we could move our marker here to where we want the video to finish. We could come and grab that end and drag it back to that point there. Then our video is now
gonna finish at that point, or if I undo that, pressing
Control + Z or Command + Z or coming up here and clicking undo, another way we could do it is to actually make a cut
in our clip at this point. So if we click on our clip
to make sure it's selected, we press S on the keyboard,
that's going to splice or to split our clip at that point, you can see now we've got two clips here. We can select the second one here and press Delete on the keyboard. Now, if you are using a Mac, you will need to press Function + Delete to remove that clip. So we can add splits in our
timeline by using the S key. So let's just say, we wanna remove this
little quiet bit here. I can bring this cursor back
over here, select the clip, press S, maybe back over here as well, select the clip, press S and we now can remove
this chunk of footage here by selecting it and pressing
Delete or Function + Delete, and then picking up the
clip and closing up the gap. Another really powerful
tool you've got in here is the Blade Tool, the Razor Tool. So we can come over here
to this pair of scissors. And with that selected, now when we move our
mouse over the clip here, you can see we've got a razor blade. So now we don't need to select the clip and press S to split it, we can just click on the timeline here, and that's going to cut
our clip at that point. And we can just keep adding
these cuts in our timeline. So if we want to make lots of cuts, where we can see that we're not talking, we can go through and do this in bulk really, really quickly. And then we can come back
disable the Razor Tool and we can select our
clips, we can remove them, we can pick up our clips
and move them around. Again, all to reduce the
amount of footage here on the timeline, to remove
any bad takes or any mistakes, anything that we don't wanna
have in our finished video. So there's a couple of different ways you can start to cut your
footage down, but my favorite, what I think is the fastest
way to edit your footage down is to use another method
called ripple edit. So let's just say that we
wanted all of this footage here until this last point here, and then we didn't need
anything else on this clip right up until the next clip here. So we wanna delete all
of this section here. Now we could just add a
cut in our timeline here, select a clip and remove it
as I've showed you before. Or what we can do is we
can right-click on our clip and we can choose Slice,
and we can choose here, Keep the Left Side. So we wanna keep everything
here on the left side and remove everything on the right of where our marker here is. So we can go Slice, Keep the Left Side, and that's going to
essentially do the same thing. It's now cut our clip at that point and it's removed the remaining clip and that'll actually work the exact same back the other way as well. Let's say we've got our clip here and we only wanted this piece
here on the right-hand side. And we wanted to remove
everything on the left. We can right-click and
we can choose Slice, and we can say, keep the right side. And this is going to add
a cut in our timeline and remove everything to the
left of our playback head or this marker here. So this is a really
quick way to go through and edit down a lot of footage to just the usable stuff
really, really quickly. And from there we can
zoom out on our timeline, either using the slider bar up here, or we can use plus and
minus keys on the keyboard. We can even click and
drag on our timeline here to select multiple clips
and we can pick them all up and move them to wherever
we want them in our edit. So the idea here is you wanna go through remove any of the bad
takes, any of the mistakes, anything you don't wanna have in your finished video project, just using the tools I've just shown you. Okay, once that's done, the
next step is to bring in any B-roll or overlay
footage into your project. So anything you wanna have shown above your primary footage on top of it. So we've got a couple of other clips here from the switch pod video
we made a while back. I'm gonna grab one of these, drop it down here into our timeline, and I'm dropping it onto the layer above. So you can see we've still
got our primary footage and audio playing along the bottom here. So that's still going
on in the background, but on top of that, we've
now got another video clip. They're just the same as
with our primary footage. We can use all the same
methods to trim this down. So we're just having
the section of this clip that we wanna have in our finished video. So we can play through or scrub
through to find the section that we want to have. So let's say we want to start around here. We can grab that start,
slide it across to here. Likewise, at the end, I
think the screen recording is slowing down my performance here, we'll have this play through
until it gets to about here where he's just picked it back up. So let's say we wanna have it finish here. We'll then grab that end
and shorten that clip up. Now, just like any other
clip, we can pick it up. We can move it around, position
it where wanna have it. And we can obviously bring
down more clips as well. Just grab this clip, drop
it down in our timeline. Again, let's find the area of
this clip that we want to use. Maybe just the start of
this one here from here, and maybe we'll position
it over this small clip. So you wanna go through
now and bring in any B-roll or overlay footage into your project. Now, one thing I like to do
with my B-roll clips here, if I don't want the
audio that's with them. So this first clip here it had a ton of water fountain
noise in the background. I can select a clip here. I can scroll down on this
properties area to volume, and I can just turn it off. So I grab that and drag it
all the way down to zero. Now, obviously, if you wanna
have that volume level up a little bit, this is something
we can come back later when we're adjusting
all of our volume levels and we can really tweak
and adjust these things. But for right now as I'm going through, I'd normally go through and I would mute all of the overlay footage,
just so it wasn't interfering in our primary content shaping. Next up, we're gonna add in any titles or text into your video. So we're gonna come
back to the start here, I'm gonna zoom in. So we have more control over that area, and I'm gonna come up
the top here to title, and I'm gonna choose Title. Now you do have direct
integration here with blender, which is a free or an open source, 3D modeling and animation tool. That's way to advance for this tutorial. So I'm gonna create a
basic title in Title, and you can see there's lots
of different ones in here to choose from, I'm just
gonna pick something basic like this one here, and
then let's go over here and let's change the text. Let's go, Justin Brown. We can change the font, let's go Oswald, which is our primal
video font, Oswald, Bold, and let's make this pretty
big, let's go, maybe 96. We can change the text color. So this one's pretty close
to our primal video blue. So you can customize this
up to match your brand or the look that you're after. You can also add a
background color in here too. Now, if you do go here to
Use the Advanced Editor, this is directly linking
to another program, which again is free as
well, called Inkscape which is a great graphic design app. So if you do want more
control over these titles and how everything looks, then Inkscape is another great, easy way that you can create these titles. But I personally think
the best place to go for really amazing looking
titles and graphics and things is Placeit. You can make them all up and animate them and everything on their website. And you can just download
it as a video clip to use here in your video. So I'm gonna go, okay, on this one, I'm gonna go save here. And we'll see now up here
in our Project Files, we now have a new graphic that's been created with our title. So I can click on that, drag
it down to our timeline. And we now have a new clip that shows up and says, "Justin Brown." Now we can pick this clip up. We can move it around if we need to. I don't really mind the position
of it down the bottom here. So I'm gonna leave that down there. But again, we can adjust the start time of where we want this to appear and how long we wanna
have it on screen for. So I might shorten this right down, so it's not on screen for too long. So as we play through this
now, at the start of the video, the title appears, and then it disappears. Maybe we'll extend that
out a little bit longer. So you wanna go through
now, add in any text or titles into your video. Once that's done, we're
gonna add in any transitions or effects. So with this title that we
just added, it just appears, and then it disappears, but we could actually add
a transition to the start and to the end of this clip
so that it maybe fades in and fades out or move
moves in from one side and moves out from another side, just add a bit more polish to the video. So we can come up here to Transitions, and you can see there's lots of different ones in here to choose from. Now I stress don't go overboard with these transitions are
one of the easiest ways to make your videos look
cheap and unprofessional. So the basic ones are the
ones that I normally stick to it's something like a fade or a wipe to left, the wipe
to right, something simple. So for this one, I'm
just gonna grab a fade and I'm gonna click and drag and drop it down here onto our clip. And you can see it's absolutely huge. We wanna grab the end of it
here and shorten it right down and we'll do the same for
the end of our clip as well, drop this down to the end and let's shorten the end of it off. So now if we play through
this, we've now gotta fade in, can see it appears and
it's fading in again. So we actually wanna
have the reverse happen for the back end of this clip. So we wanna right-click on it
and choose reverse transition. So now we've gotta fade in for the start and we've reversed it
so it fades back out, for the other end. So you can go through and
you can add transitions or effects to any of your
clips here in the timeline, including your B-roll footage as well. Now we're creating a video like this where the shots are all very similar for our primary footage. I wouldn't normally add a
transition between the two. Instead, what I would do is just crop in or zoom in on one of the clips, so it look like we'd move
to a closer end shot, or we'd zoomed in on the footage. This will help you cover
up any of those harsh cuts and make it look like it was intentional. So what I would do here is
just select one of the clips. I would come over to this
properties area here, and then over here under scale, we can actually adjust
the size of our clip. So with 1.00 being standard size or 100%, we could maybe type in here, 1.1. Now we do have to do it
for both the X and the Y. So we've now zoomed in 10%. So if we go back to our
shot before and after, we've now zoomed in just a little bit. Now, in order to really sell this effect, you wanna make sure that
your eyes in both clips are as close to being
lined up as possible. So we could come back over here and change the location sliders, but we can actually just
come up here as well and just click and drag our clip to the position that we wanted. So much closer and much more seamless now. Now, in terms of other effects that you could add onto your clips, over here under the Effects tab, which if you're not seeing
this, you can come up to View, then Docs, then turn it on here Effects, and we can slide this
out a little bit as well. Then you do have the
ability in here to add your green screen effect,
to add blur effect, some color grading tools
which we'll get to soon. There's an image stabilizer in here. So if you've got shaky footage
and you wanna stabilize it, you've got that here. And you've also got object
tracking in here too. So you wanna go through
now adding any transitions or effects onto your footage. Then next up we're gonna
add in any music tracks into our video. So we wanna come back over
here to Project Files. We wanna grab the music tracks
that we imported earlier. Now, if you're looking for music, I'll have a video linked
down in the description, showing you our top recommended places for where you can find
music free and paid, but our top two recommendations
and what we get music from for our YouTube videos
is Artlist, primarily and Epidemic Sound. Now normally where you
wanna add your music on your timeline is right down the bottom. So we can come down the
bottom here to this Track 1, and we can go Add a Track Below. And this is essentially has
moved everything up one. But if we scroll down now, we
now have a new bottom track. We can grab our MP3 or our music file, and we can drag that
down onto our timeline if we zoom out. Now you can see just like any other clip, we can pick it up, we can move it around, we can adjust the start
time, we can adjust the end so it finishes when our video are finishes and you've got access to
the same editing tools if you wanna remove a section
or anything like that as well. So with your music track in here, it's now a good idea to go
and play through your edit. And maybe you'll find that you
are making some adjustment. You might be tweaking some of
your cuts so that it all fits and flows for your viewers. From there, the next step is to adjust all of your volume levels. And the volume that's most important if you're creating a video
like this is the spoken piece. So whoever is speaking on camera, you need to make sure that
everyone can hear them and understand them first and foremost, and then music and sound effects and all that stuff come as a secondary. So to get the volume level set right, I'm gonna mute our music track here. So I'm gonna select on that, again on this properties
window, come to down to volume, and I'm going to turn
this right down to zero. Now, one thing I will
point out at this point is see that we've got
these green little markers down the bottom that have just appeared, now that I've made an
adjustment over here, these are actually Keyframe marks, which means that if we
go back through here now, we can see that we've got
our track here started at one or 100% the volume. And then as we've gone through
to where I just adjusted it, it's now at zero. So we've almost added like a fade here. So it's something to be mindful of, first off that you can
actually create transitions and effects and move things around really by using these keyframes,
but also in the case, as we've got here where
we don't really want that, we wanna be able to turn that off as well. So if we right-click on this, we can choose Remove Keyframe, and that's actually going
to remove that transition or that effect. So to mute this track,
let's go back to the start of the clip and let's take
the volume down to zero. And this way there is no
transitions or effects added. The whole track is now set to zero volume. So we're gonna adjust the volume levels on our first clip here and
get that where we want it. And then we can apply that to the rest of the clips in our timeline too. Now, because OpenShot doesn't
show you the audio bars or the visual representation of the audio, you really wanna have
headphones on at this point, so able to hear what this sounds like. So again, we wanna be back
at the start of our timeline with the first clip selected. We then want to come over here to volume, and we've got the same slider here with one being 100% or the
volume that came off your camera, which in a lot of cases is probably gonna be pretty accurate. But if you wanna increase this, then you can type in a
number here above one. So 1.5 would be 150% or 50% increase in volume. Likewise, if we wanna lower
this, we can click and drag down and that's gonna lower it for us. Or we can just type in a number there. So let's say that this
audio was a little bit loud and that we wanted to drop it by 10%. We could just type in 0.9. And so our volume here is
gonna be played back at 90%. Now, for those of you that
want more advanced control over this, you do have things in here like the Compressor filter,
where you can just drag and drop that onto your clip
and click on the little c here. And you then have access to use that, to gauge your volume levels for you. I'm not gonna run into that
on this beginner tutorial, but know that you've got access to some of these more advanced filters
and things in here too. So I'm gonna undo adding that effect. And I'm gonna click back on our clip here. So 90%, 0.9, that's where
we wanna set our volume for all of these remaining clips. Now we could just copy that. We could just tip this
arrow here and choose, Copy, Keyframes, and choose Volume. We could then select
our remaining clips here and then choose the little dropdown arrow and choose Paste. And that's gonna then make
all of our remaining clips, the exact same volume. You can see as we clip through
these, these are all 90 or the other way that we can do it is we could select all of these clips, we can select this dropdown arrow as well and come over here to Volume and we can choose the
volume of our entire clips to be level 90, level 100 or whatever level
you wanna choose here. So there's always a
couple of different ways that you can do things. So now that we've got our volume level set for our primary audio, now
we're going to unmute our music and we're going to increase that volume to the point where we want. Again, music and video creation, it's art, it's personal preference,
and each music track and each video is gonna
be a little bit different. So let's select our music track here. Let's come down to volume. And typically what we find again, depending on the music track
for us and for our videos is that we're normally setting the volume to around 20 to 30% for
it to be loud enough for people to hear, but without
it being too overpowering. So let's just set this
one here to 0.2 for 20%. Well then with our headphones
on hit Play to play that back and then make any further
adjustments as we needed to. The next thing we're gonna
do is make any adjustments to the overall look of our video. We're gonna color grade or
color correct our video. Now this is one area where OpenShot really
doesn't have a lot of tools or a lot of control over it. But there is enough in there to be able to make adjustments and to be able to fix up most shots. So again, we're gonna start
off with our first clip, right back at the start. Let's get that one looking
the way that we want so we can apply it to
the rest of our clips. So with that selected, we wanna
come over here to Effects. I'm just gonna pick Video effects. So we're only gonna see the
ones that related to the video. And you can see in here we've
got things like the brightness and contrast adjustments,
we've got color saturation, and we've also got hue adjustments
as our primary ones here for color corrections. So I'm gonna start off first
with brightness and contrast. I'm gonna grab that effect, drag it down onto our first clip. And you can see that
that has shown up here. Again you might find you want to zoom in on the timelines using
plus on the keyboard, we're using this slider. So if we press on B here, you can see that we now get brightness and contrast that show up on the side. Again, as we increase this number, we're gonna increase the brightness. And as we decrease it, we're
gonna make our shot darker. So probably around there. And let's have a look at the contrast. This is something you don't
wanna go too far with. Let's bring it back a bit. Okay, so maybe somewhere around there. And so for a quick before and after, just with this brightness
and contrast adjustment, this is what it looks like now and an unadjusted clip was this one. So you can see we've
already just made it pop a little bit more. From there if you need
to adjust the colors, you wanna do that with hue, this is a really touchy
effect or a very fitly effect. So we're gonna drag
that into our timeline. We've got the H there for hue, and we can click and drag
to make some adjustments, but this is one like you
can see straight away, we've changed the colors quite a bit. So this one here would be
a very minor adjustment if you need to tweak the colors. And normally what you'll find with this is that you'll normally be
either right at the bottom end with a very small adjustment
or right at the top end here with a small adjustment. And the third one I'll add on
here is your color saturation, click on the S there. Then we can either make adjustments to the individual colors,
blue, green, and red, and really set the amount or
the intensity of those colors. Or we can do the overall saturation of the entire image here. So we drop this down. It's gonna remove color, essentially make it black and white. And likewise, on the other
end, if we increase it, we can really yeah, increase
the intensity of those colors, but it could be somewhere
around here, 1.23. So again, with all of these effects and things applied now,
if we look at the before, that's this clip and the after, before, after, GI pull some great faces, but you can see just how easy it is to add these effects to tweak the colors. And then again, for us to apply these to the remaining of our clips, let's just zoom out on our
timeline minus on the keyboard, we can then hit the down arrow
here and let's choose Copy and let's choose Effects, we can then select our
remaining clips here, choose the arrow and choose Paste, and all of those are now applied to our remaining clips as well. Now that you're done with
your color adjustments, the last step is to export
or to save out your videos. You wanna hit on this red icon here. You're gonna to give your file a name and choose where you wanna save that to. And then you can come down here and choose your export settings. By default, these are set to
match your project settings that we set up at the start. 1080p 25 frames per second for this video. So it's all matched here. So the only setting you
really wanna adjust here in most cases is the quality
level, low, medium, or high. But if you do wanna tweak
and adjust these things, if you've got a specific file format or a specific video resolution
or size that you need, then this is where you
can dial all of that in, now for even more control in here, you've got an Advanced tab as well, where you can come down
to say, Video Settings and you can dial in the specific bit rate or the quality that you
want your file exported at. Again, for most people,
Simple is going to do the job, but know that you do have access to the more advanced
stuff too if you need it. Once, you're good to go
just hit Export Video and your file will save out. So that's a complete
walkthrough on OpenShot. Don't forget we've got links down in the description box
below to help you out with things like stock
footage, stock music, where you can find video your intros. And if you wanna download your free copy of the Primal Video Method,
the step-by-step process that I took you through in this video, you can print out and you can follow along in all of your future editing, then don't forget to grab your copy, which is linked on screen now. And I'll see you in the next one.
