- Wondershare Filmora X
or Filmora 10 is out now, and it's got some cool new updates. It's a video editor that
continues to sit high on our list when it comes to best
video editing software. So in this video, we're gonna show you exactly how to use Filmora 10 with a complete quick start
video editing tutorial. Hi, it's Justin Brown
here from Primal Video, where we help you grow an audience and scale your revenue with online video. If you're seeing value in this, make sure you're giving
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we cover in this video, you can find linked in
the description box below. Let's jump into it. Now, Filmora 9 was the first
version of Filmora software to hit our best video
editor list last year, and Filmora 10 only doubles down on what was already an awesome tool. Yes, it's still on the
beginner end of things, but it's super simple to use and you can quickly get great results, especially if you're just starting out or you don't want to be overwhelmed with too many features and controls and a more complicated interface like you'll find in other
more professional apps. So this is an updated quick-start
video editing tutorial to help those of you get
started with Filmora 10. So we're gonna be doing a
step-by-step walkthrough of all the major features
and how to use them, following our recommended process for editing fast, the primal video method, with minimal wasted time in rework, no matter which editing software or application you're using. And once we're done here, I'll
also share with you a link to where you can grab
your copy of that process, and you can download it,
print it out if you'd like, and follow along next time you're editing. So this is the first thing you'll see when you open up Filmora 10. Now, I'm showing you this on a Mac, but the process is gonna
be exactly the same on windows as well. So any of the previous projects
that you've been working on will be shown on the right side here, and over on the left side is where you can create a new project. So you wanna first set the type of video that you're gonna be creating, whether it's a widescreen 16 by nine, one by one for Instagram,
or another shape or size by selecting it in the dropdown here, we're gonna stick with
widescreen, 16 by nine, and then we're gonna go New Project. So this is the overall Filmora interface. Up in the top left-hand corner here, we've got our media area, which is all of our project
files and all our video assets and things we're gonna use in our videos. Next to that, we've got
Filmora's stock audio in here, titles and title templates
are in the next one, we've got all of our transitions and effects up here as well. We will be diving into this in
more detail as we go through, but you've also got access
to different elements and stickers and things that
you can use in your videos, and there are some default split-screen templates in here too. We'll leave this one back
on the media tab for now, but this big black area
here is our playback area, this is where we're going
to watch the magic unfold and preview our masterpiece as we edit. Down here, we've got our playback controls to play our video or stop our video, to move forward a frame or back
a frame while we're editing. Then down over here, we
can maximize our playback so we can full screen mode, we can adjust our overall volume here, we can take a snapshot or
a screenshot of our video to save out a JPEG from our video up here. And then down under this one here is where we can adjust some
of our project settings again. So if we click on this one and go Change Project Aspect Ratio, this, again, will let us choose back like we did at the start, the type of video that we wanna create, but in here we actually
get to specify custom, so if there is a specific size that you'd like to create your video, then you can select custom
and just type it in. And likewise, with the
resolution of the video here, you can see they were
currently set to full HD, 1920 by 10 80. We can actually choose our
video resolution in here, if you want something smaller,
like 720 P, or up to 4K, or again, even a custom
resolution as well. We're gonna go ahead and
leave this as full HD for now, but you also get to
specify your frame rate, whether it's 24, 25, 30, 50,
60, you've got options in here. Now, the video files I'm
gonna be working with today are 1080 P at 25 frames per second, so I'm gonna set this here
as my project to match, and I'm gonna go, Okay. And then the next one over
here where it says half, this is our playback quality. So if you're finding that
you're on a lower spec computer, or your computer is doing a
lot of things at the same time and you're not getting
a great performance, then you can lower the
playback quality here from full to a half,
quarter, or one eighth to improve that performance. Now, just down below from that we can toggle on and off our audio bars, so we can easily see
how volume levels here, I like to leave this enabled. We can also zoom in and out on our timeline down the bottom here, just using the minus and the plus, or dragging this slider along. Again, you'll see all of
these inaction very soon. We can quickly zoom out to
view our entire timeline with this little button here. We can access our audio mixer to adjust all of our volume levels by pressing this button here. If you wanna record a voiceover, that's what this next button here is for. If you wanna add some markers or notes throughout our video,
then we can do that one here. And this last one here is to
render a preview of our video. Again, this is more useful if your computer isn't so powerful and you wanna see everything
playback smoothly, then you can render a preview
with this button here. And this big area in the bottom here is our editing timeline area. We've got some buttons up here to open up our options
for while we're editing, we can cut out clips using the scissors, we've got a Delete button here
and trashcan to remove clips, and we've got our undo
and redo buttons here too. So that's a quick overview
of where everything is, now we're gonna jump in
and import our video files. So we wanna come up here and make sure that we are
on this Media tab here, and then we can right
click and choose Import. Now you can navigate through
and find where your files are, and go through and either
select your clips one by one, just holding down command or control and selecting the clips, you can see I've selected
these three here, and we go Open, those are then bought in. Or if you've already got a
folder created on your computer with all of your video assets in it, then you'd come up here and choose Import, then Import Media Folder,
and then just go through and select the folder
that you want to import, so we can just pick video of files here, hit open, and that will
bring in that entire folder. So once you've got your files in, next step is to import
your primary video footage down into your editing timelines. We're gonna grab our footage clip here and drop it down at the bottom here. Now, if you've got multiple clips instead of just one
big one like I do here, then you could select the multiple clips and drag them down into the timeline. But the idea is we
wanna get them down here to start editing down our video. So you can see it on the bottom, and now it actually gives us
a preview of our video files. Well, these are little thumbnail images of what's going on in our video. And it also gives us our audio wave forms, which is the visual representation of the audio in the video. So we can see that there's
areas here where it's flat, where there's no audio, so I'm
not speaking at this section. So it's really easy to find
these sections at a glance to be able to easily remove them. So that's the next step then,
to go through our footage here and remove any bad takes, any mistakes, or anything that we don't wanna
have in our finished video. And as with all editing software, there's a couple of
different ways to do this. So I'm gonna start off by zooming
in, pressing the Plus here to zoom in at the start of our video here. And let's say that this is where
we want our video to start, just before I start talking here. We can bring this playback
head, this pink line, we can bring this across to where we want our video to start, and we can just click on the
little pair of scissors here, and that will split
out clip at that point. Now, we can also click on the little pair of scissors up here, it's gonna do exactly the same thing, but that's split out clip in two, so you can see we've
got two clips here now. So we can select this first one here and just press delete on the keyboard, that's now been removed from our timeline, and our video now starts at that point. So I'm gonna undo that now, and I'm gonna show you
another way to do this. So I'm just gonna press
Undo, let's undo that again, back to before I split that clip in two. So let's say, again, that we want our clip to
start around this point here. Another way that we can do that is to come back across to
the left side of that clip, and you can see the
cursor changes to arrows. If we click and hold at that point and drag across to where
we want our clip to start, and then let go, then that now becomes
the start of this clip. So our video is now gonna
start, again, at this point. Okay, so we've trimmed off
the start of our clip now, now we can do exactly the same to the end, so I press this button here to zoom out and show our entire clip. Let's click up the top here, so that that playback head is
towards the end of our video. And now we can zoom
back in on that section, we can grab the end of our clip here and drag it back to the point
where I finish speaking, so around here. And we've now trimmed
off the end of our video. Now, if we come back in from
the end here a little bit, you can see that there's this
section here which is flat, so there's no audio, and if I
click on it, I'm not speaking. So let's say we wanna remove this section, we can move this playback head here to where we wanna add a
cut and press the scissors, and then we can come across here again and press the scissors at this point, just before I start talking again. And now I can select
that clip in the middle, press the Delete key, and we've removed that section
and closed up that gap. So the idea here, in this
step again, is to go through, remove any of the bad takes, mistakes, or anything you don't wanna
have in your finished video by using those methods
that I've just shown you. And you can definitely
use a combination of them to remove all of that bad stuff. Now, another way that
you can actually move this playback head here,
instead of clicking up the top, is you can grab these
little scissors button down the bottom here, and
drag it along this way. And where this becomes really quick is that you can move
it to where you want it just by clicking and dragging on it, but then when you actually
click on it itself, then you're gonna add a cut. So let's say that we wanna
remove this whole section here, then we'd move over to here, click again, and we can just select and press Delete, and we're closing up that
footage gap really, really quick. So go ahead now and remove anything that you don't wanna have
in your finished video. Now, with any of these little video clips or chunks of footage that you've got, you can easily pick them
up and move them around to change the story. So if you've got some of
them out of order here, or you want to change up the order, then you can pick them
up, move them around, or even select multiples at once if you wanna really change
up the order of things and move them around as if
they're just chunks of footage. So now that that's done, the next step is to bring in any B-roll or overlay footage into our project. So I've got a couple
of extra clips up here of the SwitchPod. So I'm gonna select one of these, I'm gonna click and drag it
down onto our project here. But instead of dropping it
down onto the same video layer, I'm gonna drop it down onto the track above our primary footage, so it's actually gonna sit on top of it. Now, we can see this
video clip here, again, has our audio wave forms. We actually don't want to use
any of the audio in this clip, so I can either grab this little
line across the audio here, and click and pull it down, and you can see that's
pulling our volume down. Let's pull it all the
way down to minus 60, so that clip is gonna be muted, there's gonna be no sound on it. Or if we wanna totally remove
the audio from that clip, we can right click on it, and we can come down to detach audio, it's gonna split it out into its own clip, and we can just select on
that clip and remove it, and our audio is gone. Now, with the video piece of it, it's treated just the same
as any other video clips. So we can select on it, we can pick it up, we can move it around, we can
grab those handles on the side to adjust the start or
the end times of our clip, or we can go through our video file here and find the area that we wanna have and add some cuts and remove the stuff that we don't wanna have on it. So I'm gonna zoom in
a little bit here now, so that we've got some more
control over what we're seeing, I'm gonna find the area of this clip that I wanna actually keep. So I got Caleb Rodrick here, he's putting down the SwitchPod. I'm pretty sure I missed
this shot first time, so I asked him to do it again. Here we go, we're gonna do it again. I guess it's ready, so we'll start this shot
around here somewhere. So again, we can just press the scissors with that top clip selected
and split our clip in two. We can select the first
one here, press Delete, and our clip is now gonna start here. Now, let's find where we
want this clip to end, I think the screen recording is making my computer run a little slow, let's say we wanna finish it about here, we can just grab the end of our clip and move it back to where
we want this to finish. So now with our video,
we've got me talking here, and at this point, we're showing this B-roll
or overlay footage, and then back to me afterwards, but the whole time it's
actually still got me talking underneath that footage. So go ahead and bring
in any of your B-roll or overlay footage,
anything you wanna show above your primary footage in this step. Okay, now that's done. The next step is to add in any text or titles into your video. So you can come up at
the top here to Titles, and there are some great presets and things that are already
built in to Filmora. So to preview these, we can
just double click on them, and it's gonna show you what
they're going to look like on the side here. And yes, you've got the ability to customize all of these up. So this one here looks kinda cool, we're gonna just click on this and drag it down into our timeline, again, above our video layer. And we see if we bring this
playback head back here, we have me talking on screen, we then have our text that
animates in, our title, and then it animates back out. So then to edit the text
and to customize this up, we just need to double click on this clip. So to change the text, and we can change what's written in the
box here to Justin Brown. There are some presets on as
to what the text can look like on the side here, so if there's already something that matches close to
what you're looking for, then this can be a great place to start, and then you can dial them in and configure it up using
the settings on this side. So we can customize up the font size, maybe we'll make it a little
bit bigger, let's go 36. We'll now I need to make
the box a little bit bigger so we can adjust the
scale here, there we go. We're gonna adjust things like
the position, the opacity. We can come down here to Advanced as well to get more advanced
control over our titles. So I'm gonna back out of that one now just by hitting the X, we're gonna leave this
as default in this case so that we have our text
here that says Justin Brown that is animated on screen. Now, while there's some
great titles and graphics and things in here already
built into Filmora, our number one place to create
amazing looking graphics and titles and things for
your videos is on Placeit. So if you're looking
for something specific, you're not finding it here, or you really wanna customize something up to match your branding and the style of videos
that you're creating, then Placeit is an amazing resource. So go ahead now and add
in all of your titles and texts into your video. And once that's done, we're now gonna add in any
transitions or effects. So if I come up here to
Transitions, once again, in Filmora, there are lots of different
ones to choose from. Now, we'll say use these sparingly because a lot of people overdo it when it comes to transitions, and it can really cheapen your video. So I'm more of a fan of
the basic ones up here, things like a basic Dissolve,
or Fade, or a Flash, more so than something crazy
like a Star Wipe or Swirl. But if we double click on these, you can start to see what they look like, and you've got lots of
different ones in here. So where I would
typically use a transition would be where I am
transitioning, or switching, between say me talking and
some B-roll or overlay footage. So let's grab this
transition here, this Flash, we'll click on this and drag it down onto the start of our clip here. So if we play through that now, you can see that we now have
a quick little transition between those two clips. Now, we can shorten that
down or lengthen it out. So if we select that transition there, we want it to go for a
longer period of time, we can grab the end of it
and drag it out longer, or we can shorten it right down. Now, I think this is
probably a really quick one, so we're gonna shorten this one down, and let's give that a play now. So it's a really quick thing
just to break up that hard cut between the two different shots. Now what we do with our
primary footage here, when we've got hard cuts
between different takes, or removing one of my many mistakes, I wouldn't recommend using transitions where the shot is going to look the same. So if I quickly play this area here, I've lowered the quality,
you'll see it's just a hard cut. And again, now almost like a little jump, that's fine in some cases, but it does make it really obvious that there was a cut at that point. What we normally do instead is to zoom in on one of those shots. So it actually breaks up
the image a little bit and almost makes it look like
a different camera angle. So you wanna make sure that
you've got your clip selected, come up to the edit button here to bring up our editing settings, and then we have to transform, click the little arrow next to that to drop down our transform settings. And here, we're gonna scale
this up with this slider. Now, depending on how you've shot this, you don't want to go too far with this because you could lose some equality. It's gonna be minor, but you don't wanna be
zooming in too much. And then if we take a look at this now, you can see we've got our
main primary shot, me talking, and then we get to this point here and we've zoomed in a little
bit just for that section. Now, in order to really sell this effect and not make it so jarring, you wanna try and keep your
eyes in a very similar position, that's a little bit of a pro tip. So in the case of this clip, I'm gonna move it down just a little bit, so I wanna come over here to the Y and we want to move this
down just a little bit. And maybe we'll move it over
to the left a little as well. It doesn't need to be perfect, but close, makes a big difference. So if we play through this now, it's just a subtle little transition that's less jarring than
just a basic hard cut. So you wanna go through now
and add in any transitions or zoom in effects onto any of your clips. So the next step then
is adding in any music into your video. Now, there is audio
tracks up here in Filmora. Depending on the license or the subscription that you've got, these might be okay to use, but the top two places I recommend you go to get music for your videos is Artlist and Epidemic
Sound, both of those make the whole licensing
thing, really, really simple so that you know you're not
ever gonna get caught out with some sort of copyright
claim or copyright strike for having the wrong license
for the music in your videos. So all the music we use
on our YouTube channel is either from Artlist or Epidemic Sound. So I'm gonna go back over
to the Media tab here, where I have a couple
of music tracks in here already imported, and let's
just grab this one here and drag it down to the
bottom of our timeline here. And once again, just like all
of our regular video clips, we can pick it up, we can move it around, we can adjust the start
time or the end time. So if we come across to the end here, you can see that our music
track goes much longer than our actual video. So we can trim off the end of it here just by, again, pressing on the scissors and removing that second
part of the track. And once you've added in your music track, it's a good idea to play
back through your video, and you might find that
you might wanna make some minor adjustments
or tweaks to your edits so that it matches the
music that you've imported, so maybe you're cutting
to the beat in some areas, or might even take you trying
a few different music tracks to find one that's gonna fit perfectly with the feeling that you
want your viewers to have when they're watching your video. The next step then is to
adjust your audio levels. And where I suggest you
start with your volume levels is by getting your spoken
piece or your primary audio at the correct level first, and then adjusting your music or any additional audio pieces second. So for this, we're gonna come
up here to the audio mixer, and let's grab the
little volume slider here for our music track, and let's pull that all the way down to the little infinity symbol
here, which means it's muted. And then you can see we've
got two volume areas here corresponding with our two video tracks, so one of these is for our primary track, one of these is for our B-roll tracks, and obviously, the third one
here, as you've just seen, is for our music track. So I'm gonna move this one up here, I'm gonna go ahead and press Play on this, and you can see for our video track here, this is our volume levels
playing in real time. I've got our volume
slider here on the side, if I push this right up
to 12, maximum volume, you can see that we're
in the green, yellow, right through into the orange, and into the red a little bit as well. Now, the red means it's too loud, you don't wanna have
your audio in the red, you wanna have it, in this
case, in the green and yellow, maybe just touching into the orange, but definitely not in the red. So we're gonna bring this
down to around here somewhere, where we're in the green and the yellow, and even the loudest pieces aren't going anywhere near the red. So what we've done here is
we've adjusted this volume across this entire tracks, that every little clip that's
on this video track here has now had their volume
set to that point. Now, if we wanna make
any minor adjustments to any of the individual
clips, we can just go, Okay, we can either come to
the clip in the timeline, and we can grab that volume
bar and move it up and down. So you can see we're
only making adjustments to that individual clip, or lower just that chunk of footage there. Or if I under that now, we can double click on a clip as well, come at the top here to Audio, and you've got your volume slider here for that clip on the slide as well, where you can increase
or decrease the volume just for that clip. Now, while we're in here, there's also the ability
to remove background noise. So if you've got an air
conditioner or a fan on, then you can select this, and that will do a pretty good job of removing that background
noise from your audio for you. Okay, let's go back to
our audio mixer here, and let's adjust the volume
levels now on our music track. So for this part here, I would suggest that you're
doing this with headphones on, but the idea here is that
you're gonna be hitting Play, and you're going to be making
adjustments to your music here until it sounds right for your video so that it's not too loud, it's not too distracting for your viewers, or that it's not too quiet so that they can't hear it at all. As a general rule, we normally
look at around the minus 30 to 35 as a starting point,
but each individual track can be totally different from the next. Now, if you want to wanna
make more specific adjustments to your audio, then you can
come back to your music track and make sure it's selected,
come up to the edit area. And again, you've got your
volume area on the side here, but you can actually use key frames to lower or adjust your
volume throughout your video. So let's say that you wanna
have a music track increase at around this point for
a short period of time and then come back down to
the regular volume level. What we could do is come
across to this point at a key frame with
this little button here, come across a little bit
further at a another key frame, and at this point on
this second key frame, let's increase the volume. So you can see what we've done there, we've got our volume levels
tracking along at this point, then it increases from that
first key frame to the second, and then it's staying at that level until we add some more key frames. So let's say at this point here, we wanna bring it back down, we can add another key frame there to start that, fade back down, and come across a bit further,
and another key frame, we lower our volume at this point, maybe we want it even lower than where we originally started, and our volume now follows that pattern. So another really powerful feature that was a new addition
in this latest version. So you wanna go ahead now
and adjust your volume levels to match your video. From there, the next step
is to adjust any colors, or to tweak the color grade of your video. So we're gonna come back
to the start of our video, we wanna make sure that
the first clip is selected, and then we wanna come up
here to this button here, Advanced Color Tuning, and then we're gonna
choose Color Correction. So in here, we've got a heap of presets, think of these like Instagram filters. Obviously, if there's something here that matches the look and
feel that you're after, then you can just apply this to your clip before you can come up
here to the Adjust Area, and you can tweak and adjust to dial everything in the
way that you would like it. Now, I'm going to come
back here to preset, I'm gonna hit reset all, so we're back at default
with nothing applied, and then I'm gonna come in here to adjust. Now, there is an auto adjustment here, where it'll go through
and analyze your shot and do its best guess. In my experience, doesn't
really do a fantastic job, so I'll undo that one. But the first place I'd
normally start in here is down on that color, and this is where I would
be adjusting the exposure or the brightness of the shot. So if it's too dark,
I will brighten it up; if it's too bright, I'll
darken it down a little bit, just using these sliders here. From there, I'd be coming
back up to White Balance to make sure that we've got
the right color temperature for our shot. So you can see here, it
probably looks a little warm, maybe it needs a little more blue, so we grab this slider
across, drag it to the left, you see if we get too far,
the shot's gone full blue, and back the other way,
it'll to look super sunburnt. So you can dial in the
look here that you're after just by using the white balance or the temperature slider here too, so let's go around there somewhere. And likewise, with the Tint one below it, we can add more green to our shot or more pink if it's needed. From there, I normally come back down, and I'd probably add some vibrance in to boost some of the colors, and maybe tweak the brightness
again if we needed to. So this is a really quick way that you can make adjustments
to the colors in your videos. And if we press this here, we
can see a before and after, so this is before, and this is after. Now, what I would suggest you doing here is once you've got this
look that you're after, again, we're only applying this
right now to the first clip, is to hit Save as Preset. So you can give this a name,
let's call it JB, and go, Okay. So we now have all of these
settings saved as a preset. So now if we go, Okay, on this one, I'm gonna choose Edit, I'm
gonna choose Copy Effects, then we're gonna select
to the rest of the clips that don't have those effects applied, and we're going to choose
Edit, Paste Effects. So now that color grade has been applied to the rest of our clips here as well. So you wanna go through
and tweak the colors on any of your clips where it's required, including your B-roll or
your overlay footage too. And then once that's done, it's time to export your video file. So you can just come up to
this Export button here. Now, in here, you've got a
lot of different options, but the two most popular ones
are going to be MOV or MP4. And then Filmora does a
really good job in here of having the rest of the settings usually good enough for most
videos that people are creating without you needing to
dive into the settings and customize things up. But if you are someone who
does need a specific file type or a specific quality settings, then you do have access to
those here under Settings. But for most people, you'll probably find that the
settings they've got in here are going to be good enough. So we're gonna go Okay on this one, but I do wanna point out as well that there is a YouTube tab
at the top here as well. This is where you can sign
into your YouTube channel and you can save out and directly upload your video to YouTube directly from within Filmora. Now, this isn't something I use, and it's not something I would recommend, I'd personally much rather
just do a regular file export. So you've got a file at the end of it that you can then check,
make sure it's all good, and then upload it to YouTube
if there's no issues with it. So go ahead and select MOV or MP4, you can give you a video a name here, we can choose where you
want it to save out to, let's just go onto the desktop, and then we just hit export and
our video will be saved out. Once that's done, playback your video, ideally on a couple of different devices to make sure you're
happy with how it sounds and how it looks across a
couple of different devices. Obviously then, at that
point, if there's any changes, come back in here, make those adjustments, re-export your video, and then when you're happy with it, that's when you can go ahead
and upload it to YouTube or wherever you want your video to go. So that's a complete editing
tutorial using Filmora 10. Now, earlier in the video,
I said I'd share with you where you can download our free PDF guide, the Primal Video Method, to help you edit in the
most efficient way possible. You can grab your copy using
the link on screen now, or below in the description,
and I'll see you in the next.
