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If you're completely new to video editing and you want to start creating cinematic videos or reels, this video is for you. We're going to show you how to create a full finished cinematic project.
A beginner-friendly walkthrough of editing a cinematic video in Filmora 16, covering import, cutting, B-roll, transitions, motion blur, color grading, and captions.
Key Takeaways
- Filmora is an accessible starting point for beginners, with a low-cost one-time purchase option.
- Trimming only the needed B-roll segments and removing mistakes keeps edits clean and efficient.
- Transitions, motion blur, and color grading are key tools for giving everyday footage a cinematic feel.
- Export settings should match the target platform, as oversized files may not suit social sharing.
What the video covers
- Introduces a full beginner workflow for turning everyday footage into a cinematic video without film school or expensive gear.
- Explains that Filmora is a simpler, cheaper editor compared to Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, with a free version that adds a watermark on export.
- Gives a tour of the Filmora interface: project creation with 16:9 or 9:16 layouts, media bin, video preview, and timeline.
- Demonstrates importing footage and cutting out mistakes, filler words, and repeated takes using the waveform on the timeline.
- Shows how to add B-roll by trimming only the needed portions instead of dropping in long clips.
- Covers transitions such as flares and effects, and how to apply them to make edits feel cinematic.
- Introduces animated charts and keyframe-based motion, such as following a moving object on screen.
- Demonstrates adding motion blur to clips to achieve a filmic look.
- Walks through color grading, including an AI-assisted option that matches the look of a reference image.
- Shows how sound effects and dynamic captions add polish and fit the style of shorts and reels.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and project goals
- 02:49Filmora overview and free version watermark
- 05:42Interface tour and media bin
- 13:42Importing clips and previewing media
- 22:01Cutting footage and removing mistakes
- 27:20Adding B-roll and transitions
- 41:36Animated charts, keyframes, and motion blur
- 55:00AI color grading and captions
- 77:38Export settings and wrap-up
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iPhone videos never look like iPhone videos. And the reason they look different is this right here. Now, everybody wants to take everyday footage, maybe the kind of clips that are sitting on your phone or your camera right now, and turn them
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Everyone always asks me why my iPhone videos never look like iPhone videos. And the reason they look different is this right here.
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But at the same time, most people close their editors before they even start editing. They quit because they open the software, they stare at all these buttons and panels and tabs, and they have no idea where to [music] start
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Now, everybody wants to take everyday footage, maybe the kind of clips that are sitting on your phone or your camera right now, and turn them into some sort of cinematic video without having to go to some sort of film school or buy expensive film gear.
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cinematic video. So, instead of me just like clicking around and pointing at random buttons, we are going to build a real cinematic edit together. Like a [music] real one, like I've been working with a company to create some shorts and
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But at the same time, most people close their editors before they even start editing. They quit because they open the software, they stare at all these buttons and panels and tabs, and they have no idea where to start because it is kind of overwhelming.
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in AI visuals if you need it, [music] and grade for that cinematic color, and then export it and post it. Now, Filora is the software that we'll be using today, and it's a great place to start if you've never edited before. If you've
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And if that is you, I want to fix that using Filmora 16. By the end of this video, you will have taken a set of raw clips and turned them into one finished cinematic video.
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technical or have a bunch of experience. And if you've actually never even opened an editing program before in your life, then this is the perfect place to start.
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So, instead of me just clicking around and pointing at random buttons, we are going to build a real cinematic edit together. Like a real one. I've been working with a company to create some shorts and reels that are very high quality and very cinematic.
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But if you want to absolutely master Fil Mora and every other editor that's out there, then you need to check out Master Editing. It's the first online course that teaches you how to edit in every major editor. Premiere Pro, Da Vinci
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So, in real time, I'm going to be showing you the editor, creating sequences and timelines, importing all your footage, chopping up your footage, adding B-roll, cleaning up your audio, adding titles, effects, dropping in AI visuals if you need it, and grading for that cinematic color, and then exporting it and posting it.
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go way deeper in Fil Mora specifically, including in-depth color grading, VFX work, and a ton more, that's where you need to go. I'll tell you more about that at the end, but let's start editing. So, start the clock. So, the
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Now, Filmora is the software that we'll be using today, and it's a great place to start if you've never edited before. If you've been looking at maybe Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve and thought it's too complicated or expensive, or maybe you just want something more straightforward, Filmora is the cheaper, simpler way to learn how to edit. You don't have to be super technical or have a bunch of experience. And if you've never even opened an editing program before in your life, then this is the perfect place to start.
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is that when you export, the free version puts a watermark on your video. that little like logo across your footage. So, it's great for learning and for testing and following along with this video, but you're not going to want
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Now, everything I'm going to show you today is just the basics of Filmora.
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and you can actually buy it outright for about 80 bucks. Like, no monthly subscriptions at all. And I think Da Vinci Resolve is $300 to buy. So, for a beginner, the value is perfect. And if I was just getting into editing, this is
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But if you want to absolutely master Filmora and every other editor that's out there, then you need to check out Master Editing. It's the first online course that teaches you how to edit in every major editor: Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, CapCut, HitFilm, Mocha, and even an in-depth Filmora training course. It's only 47 bucks, and instead of trapping you inside one program, it teaches you how to edit across all of them.
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And if you click any of these, they'll take you to that specific part. AI, video enhancer, imagetovideo, animated charts, which is really cool. Talk about that later. We're not going to be doing any of that right now. We're just going
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So, if you finish this video and you want to go way deeper in Filmora specifically, including in-depth color grading, VFX work, and a ton more, that's where you need to go. I'll tell you more about that at the end, but let's start editing.
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by9. You immediately jump into it. If you're making more of a short, then you click 9x6 and the layout is set up for shorts. So we're actually going to be creating a cinematic short or reel for this project, but we're just going to
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So, start the clock. The first thing you're going to want to do is download Filmora and then open it up. You can download Filmora for free and use it. I mean, you can actually use it for free. The only catch is that when you export, the free version puts a watermark on your video, that little logo across your footage. So it's great for learning and for testing and following along with this video, but you're not going to want to publish something if there's a watermark on your video. It also gives you a free trial that you can test out to see if you really like it.
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before we actually start editing and cutting up some clips, I want to give you guys just like a tour of what you're looking at so you feel a little bit more confident. So FIMO keeps everything very simple. It's very similar to something
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The paid version is really, really cheap. It could be five bucks a month, and you can actually buy it outright for about 80 bucks. No monthly subscriptions at all. And I think DaVinci Resolve is $300 to buy. So for a beginner, the value is perfect. If I was just getting into editing, this is what I would do for sure.
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next to this at the top is going to be the video player. Once you bring things onto the timeline, you'll be watching the video play at the top here constantly. This is where you're watching your media files and your
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Now, whenever you launch it, you'll notice that they have a big giant "Create a Project" button, which is what we will be pushing. But you'll notice that they also have some premade templates ready. And if you click any of these, they'll take you to that specific part: AI video enhancer, image-to-video, animated charts, which is really cool. We'll talk about that later. We're not going to be doing any of that right now. We're just going to be creating a project.
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Music underneath and you build your video from start to finish. Right above that, you have all your tools that you can use. A lot of them are grayed out cuz we don't have anything on the timeline, but you've got pin tools,
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One cool feature that I like is right before you do this, you can choose if you want a 16:9 or a 9:16. So if you're making a long-form YouTube video, you click 16:9 and you immediately jump into it. If you're making more of a short, then you click 9:16 and the layout is set up for shorts. We're actually going to be creating a cinematic short or reel for this project, but we're just going to click 16:9 so I can show you the layout and what it looks like. Then we click "Create Project," and now we are officially inside Filmora.
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You've got stock media, you've got titles transitions effects filters stickers, templates, and this is where you'll be pulling from effects and transitions constantly. So, in something like Premiere Pro or Da Vinci Resolve, if I was going to be creating some sort
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Now, I remember the first time I opened up an editor, I felt completely buried. So before we actually start editing and cutting up some clips, I want to give you guys a tour of what you're looking at so you feel a little more confident. Filmora keeps everything very simple. It's very similar to something like CapCut if you've ever used CapCut before. But right here, the import button is where all of your footage, your photos, your music, everything is going to live. This is your media area, your media bin.
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where all of your settings are. every single setting that you can possibly think of. All the transforms, scale, position, composition, getting blurry backgrounds, different shadows, relighting, you can do trackmat, autoenhance, and even at the top you've got everything else you need. video,
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Right next to this at the top is going to be the video player. Once you bring things onto the timeline, you'll be watching the video play at the top here constantly. This is where you're watching your media files and your timeline.
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anytime I'm thinking, oh, where is that setting at? It's almost always at the top right somewhere. And that's really it. This is the layout of Fil Mora. It's very straightforward. It's very easy.
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Across the entire bottom is going to be your timeline. This is where the actual editing happens and where you lay your clips down and stack them, music underneath, and you build your video from start to finish.
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view, we can actually change the layout mode for a short form video. So now everything is moved around to just give you more options to be able to see things better. Now the timeline is the entire right side. That way we're not
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Right above that, you have all your tools that you can use. A lot of them are grayed out because we don't have anything on the timeline yet, but you've got pin tools, cutting, text, and different sorts of things. You can select a bunch of AI options. This is basically your giant toolbar right above the timeline.
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do that is very easy because there's a giant import button. So, we're going to do is we're going to click this and we're going to find the clips that we want to import. I actually have them all labeled and all organized. So, I've got
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Along the top toolbar, you have all the different features and effects that you can use. You've got stock media, titles, transitions, effects, filters, stickers, templates, and this is where you'll be pulling from effects and transitions constantly. In something like Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, if I was going to create some sort of cyberpunk scanning, really weird effect, it would take a long time. But in Filmora, I can literally just drag and drop it and it's done.
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I've got all of them organized, but all I would do is select the clip I want or multiple clips like that and click open.
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If you have things on the timeline, the top right is going to be where all of your settings are. Every single setting you can possibly think of: all the transforms, scale, position, composition, blurry backgrounds, different shadows, relighting, track matte, auto enhance, and even at the top you've got everything else you need: video, audio, all your audio effects, speed ramping, animations if you want certain animations for the actual video clip, all the color, which we'll talk about, masking, and every single type of effect or setting that you could possibly need is at the top right. So anytime I'm thinking, "Oh, where is that setting at?" it's almost always at the top right somewhere.
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would highly suggest focusing on organization. It is vital. So, if we have all of our videos already organized in our explorer, we can simply just import the folder itself. I've got everything set up and organized in the explorer already. So now it's super easy
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And that's really it. This is the layout of Filmora. It's very straightforward, very easy, and designed to be very drag and drop and ready to go. So again, this is the layout for 16:9 if you're doing a long-form YouTube video, but we're actually going to be creating a short and a reel. So if you go to View, we can change the layout mode for a short-form video. Now everything is moved around to give you more options to see things better. The timeline is now the entire right side, so we're not just stuck looking at this small video s
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new sequence for us to start editing. And there's a couple ways to do that.
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One is we go to our talking head. We select the video that we want. And again, you can kind of hover over it and see what it is. And you can even click on it. It'll even start playing over
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here. It'll start playing so you can scrub through it. Again, this is not the actual timeline. This is just that video that we have. It's just kind of giving you a preview that you can scrub through and see what it is. So, to create an
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actual timeline that we can start editing with is actually very simple, but at the same time, there's a couple important things that you need to know about or you're going to get some weird settings problems. So, if we have our
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talking head video here, which is this one, we can simply grab it and drag it onto our timeline. But the problem is the timeline is not set up for vertical content. It's set up for horizontal content. And it will warn you. It'll say
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the media right now is a vertical 4K, but our timeline is a horizontal 1080p.
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So we can change the timeline to match the video clip that we're bringing on or we can just keep it the way it is. And if we keep it the way it is, as you can see, now we have a 16x9 horizontal
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timeline, but now we have this vertical video in the middle of it. And if we have to we'd have to scale it to even be able to fit it. So the problem is we need to be able to have a vertical
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timeline because our timeline settings are wrong. So there's two ways to do it. Very easy. Whenever you drag your video clip onto the timeline, just match the media. Just say match the media. And now the actual timeline itself is a 9x6.
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It's no longer a 16x9. But if you want to have more control of the exact settings of your timeline, you simply go to file, project settings, and now here's the actual resolution and the aspect ratio, the frames per second, all
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that stuff of the current timeline. So if we want to change that, let's say we change it to 4K, we're actually going to change it to a 9x6 4K. So now the timeline is set to a 9x6 4K 2160 by
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3840. We're going to change that to 24 frames per second. and we click okay.
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Now, this current timeline is set up to be vertical. And whenever we drag our talking head in there, it's not going to give us a warning anymore because the talking head is the same dimensions as the timeline. I don't want this to be
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super confusing because it's not confusing. So, the best thing to do is if you're unsure, bring that video onto your timeline and then say match the settings. And that way, your timeline is set up exactly with the video that you
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loaded onto it. All right, here we have the video. And to zoom in and out, we can drag this thing right here or hold down control or command and use our mouse wheel and zoom in and out of the
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video clip. And this is our timeline. I filmed a 4minute video that's supposed to be about 80 seconds long, supposed to be a little bit over a minute. And I've got a bunch of mistakes in here. And I've got a bunch of pauses. And I'm like
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walking around and I'm setting up my camera and I'm changing a bunch of things. And we have to start doing some basic cuts to be able to chop up this talking head to be smooth and clean. But it's very very simple because we can
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actually see the waveform monitor. So we can actually see where I'm talking, where I pause, where I'm talking again.
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And all we have to do is cut up those clips and delete the ones in the middle.
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And there's a few very easy ways to do that. First off, we can see that our timeline marker has a little scissor option. And that allows you to just cut.
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So, let's say we put the playhead right before this audio file. This is the best one. And we want to cut everything and delete it all next to it. We're going to click the little scissor icon. And now,
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what do you know? It has created a cut. Now, these two clips are completely separated. And we can select this one and delete it. And say we want to delete everything in front of this one. We're going to select the scissors again and
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delete everything in front. And now we have a video clip that is by itself because we have cut everything around it. To do this a lot faster, you can actually just click Ctrl +B. So we're going to go Ctrl +B makes a cut. Ctrl +B
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makes a cut. Let's say we want to remove that dead space. And we want to remove this. You can also select the quick split mode, which is C, and that'll pull up the razor icon. And then you can just
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start clicking around on the video, and it will make a bunch of different cuts.
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We delete everything. We bring it together. And we continue to do that until we have a talking head that is seamless. But Fil Mora has one more way to cut up your talking head footage that I find really fascinating and actually
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I've been using it more than I thought I would and that is textbased editing. So if you select the video clip that you want to edit, which is this one, an icon will appear that says textbased editing.
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And if we click that, what it's going to do is it's going to generate a script, like generate a word document of all the words that I say in this video, including the pauses and the mistakes.
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And now we have an actual script of the entire timeline. I say, "All right, then. Here we go again, everyone.
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Everyone always asks why the iPhone never looks like an iPhone." And then I pause. Everyone always asks me. I pause.
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Everyone always asks me. This is literally me messing up and making mistakes. So, what you can do is immediately just delete all silent clips. So, what it'll do is all these areas where I'm not talking, it'll just immediately delete it. So, now we have
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all pauses completely gone. Right here, I say okay. And then I pause. I'm going to remove the okay and the pause.
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Delete. And now we are actually making cuts on our timeline. And you can go through and delete the parts that you know are the double ones or the ones that you messed up or the ones that you say whoops and the ones that you
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answered your phone. You can go through and literally edit just based on the text and we export to timeline. And now all of those cuts that we made in the textbased editing is already made on our timeline. And now the timeline is
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completely chopped up. It's seamless. It's ready to go. And before I start adding B-roll, there are some adjustments that I need to make. So if we click on a certain clip, we can now see all the options that we have. Video
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animations, colors, color masking. If we go to video, we can see transform. We can scale it in and out. If we want to actually change the rotation, we can change the rotation. We can add motion blur. If we want to add like a blurriier
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background, like, you know, maybe the background isn't enough, maybe I'll add an 80%. Maybe a shadow, like if this is a picture or something, I can add a drop shadow to it. I can actually do a trackmat. I can auto-enhance lens
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correction. And the really cool thing is there it's just never ending. you have. There's so many things that you can do in these settings. I could add makeup. I could add some sort of, you know, try to make myself look nicer. Natural life.
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Maybe I could uh do like a party night. Oh my goodness. I'm not going to use that. But it's just automatically doing it and it's going to follow my face because there's so many different effects that you can use. And I want to
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talk about a feature that most people want and that is to cut them out of the background to be able to put like text behind me. And it's very very easy to do that in Filora because once we select
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our clip, all we have to do is go to AI matting and we do AI portrait cutout.
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And literally what it does is it reads the background. It knows where I am and it completely cuts me out. Now we can add a little bit of an edge feather. We can maybe change the thickness of it. We
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can do a bunch of different things to kind of fine-tune it. But now what we're able to do is to put things behind me.
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Like say we have this random sticker of this smiley face. If we literally put it underneath the video, now it is technically behind me. And the way that people get text behind a subject is they duplicate the footage and then they only
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have the cutout on the top video. So if I remove the cutout from the bottom video, now I'm actually cut out from my own background. So now everything I put behind the top footage is technically behind me, but it's actually just behind
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a cutout of me on top of another me. And that's how they put text behind people.
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They cut them out of the background and then they have like text pop up behind them. So now that the timeline is completed, everything looks good, it's time to start adding B-roll to our video. It's time to start adding B-roll
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and create our cinematic reel. And this is actually where it kind of gets fun because you get to aid to your story and to bring things in that that communicate better to your audience what you're talking about. So this could be stock
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footage, this could be text, this could be arrows pointing to things. All different kinds of things that you can do. And the good thing is I have so much B-roll for what I am talking about. I've got all these lenses. I've got old
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videos of me. I've got videos that I filmed of me like going through these lenses, going through these phones. I just have so much to pull from and I'm going to show you exactly how to do it.
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So if we start right here, I'm talking about the Moment lenses. These are Moment lenses and know the reason none of my iPhone So these are Moment lenses.
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So I'm wanting to show those lenses. So I have this video clip that is me just going through and holding up a bunch of these lenses. So I've got this uh 2minut video of me going through every single
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lens that I have. So how do we get that on the timeline? Easy. We just drag it and we drop it above the talking head footage. Now, as you can see, the camera accidentally thought I was filming horizontal when I was actually filming
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vertical. So, this is unusable because we can't scale it and it all be sideways. So, we're going to do is we're going to go to the rotation and I could turn it manually until it is correct.
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Or I can just select and say 90 degrees. And now it has turned to 90 degrees.
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Scale it up a little bit. And now we actually have the full B-roll ready to go. So, we can scrub through this.
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Figure out we want to go here. Cut that. Let's go a little bit more. Cut that in front. Delete the front. Delete the back. And now we've got this B-roll clip that can go over what I'm talking about.
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But at the same time, no one wants to drag a giant twominute video clip to get a second and a half. And what if your timeline is completely built up? That's obnoxious. So, there's a really easy way to drag and drop B-roll that you've
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already kind of precut. What we can do is we can hover over the video and if we click it, we can go ahead and just kind of scroll through. Again, we're not scrolling on the timeline. We're scrolling on the actual video. And let's
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say we want this part right here where I open the box. What we're going to do is we're going to go right before that and we're going to click I for in. We're making an inpoint and it automatically
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makes an outpoint. If we go to the part after the box now we can click O and we have made an in andout point of this video and you can kind of see what we have done. It's very small. We have
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essentially chopped out that small section of the video. And now we can drag and drop this precut section. So now we don't have to have a 2minute video clip. We can go through the B-roll on the timeline and figure out exactly
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the parts that I want. And we now have two B-roll clips of the exact portions of the B-roll that we wanted. And we did not have to put these giant 2 to 3 minute B-roll videos and cut them all
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up. But as we're putting the B-roll together, you cannot forget about audio. Audio is key and it's essential. And the amount of audio effects that it just has built into it is crazy. So, if we click on any video that has a waveform and go
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to audio, you're going to see a bunch of different options. We can change the volume of it. Do the channel sound balance. Fading in, fading out. We can change the pitch so I sound Asks me why my iPhone videos
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like a chipmunk or I can sound much cooler. Never look like iPhone videos. Voice beautifification.
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Always asks me why my iPhone videos never look. And mostly what that is doing is just like isolating the voice, making it sound a little bit better. You can change it to be like zero or 100% look like iPhone videos. You can d
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noiseise immediately. So you can just dn noiseise the audio. You can have some hum removal. You can deverb if it's like too echoey. Voice filters I actually think are pretty cool. So I can immediately sound like an old radio.
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Always asks me why my or I sound like I'm on the phone with somebody.
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Always asks me why my iPhone videos. You can do an AI robot or like a traditional robot.
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My iPhone videos never look like iPhone videos. I don't know. I just I find that really cool. I find that really fascinating. So we've been adding some B-roll. We've been finding some clips that aid to what we're talking about,
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but now it is time to add the flare. Add the graphics, the titles, the animation, the transitions, the things that take it from just a pretty standard looking edit to something that actually captures people's attention. And this is why I
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started using Filora kind of in the first place. I need those edits quickly. A lot of the time I don't want to have to sit there and edit a blur in Da Vinci Resolve when I could just drag and drop
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it right onto my timeline. Right here at the top we have stock footage. You can actually go through different forms of stock footage. There's different backgrounds, aerial loops. When it comes to the audio, you've got tons of different sound effects that you can
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just drag and drop right on there. Again, not all of them are great. Some of them are kind of eh. Some of them are better than others. Whoo sounds, click sounds, logo reveals, and they've got really cool AI ones where you can like
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create your own stuff. AI music, AI sound effects. You can actually like prompt a sound effect and it will make it. But the transitions are actually one of my favorite because this is where a lot of edits kind of fall apart. They'll
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just put video clips next to each other, but they won't have those crisp transitions or those flares and things like that. So, some of the transitions again, not the greatest. Kind of dumb.
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Maybe like just like a reverse one or a zoom ghost. I don't really know if I would use that that much. But when it comes to like flares and things, absolutely. I would use transitions all the time. So, I'm going to type in flare
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for lens flare. Here's a light leak transition. This one isn't even in the paid one. The cinema flare. That's the paid one. The cinema transition right here. We're just going to drag it and just hold it between two video clips.
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and it immediately puts that transition between the two clips. So, we can actually make it longer if we really wanted to. So, now we've got this clip and it has a lens flare to bring up this clip. And, you know, it kind of fades a
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little bit. That doesn't look as good if the the video clip is really long. But, if we make it really short, just this really quick lens flare. Moment lenses, that looks fantastic. And if we add a sound effect to that, it's going to make
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a huge difference. and we can just start adding these lens flares to our video to to to really make it stand out from all the rest. Now, you might be thinking, how do I make a lens flare between like
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a video of me talking and B-roll? Because transitions only work whenever clips are side by side and next to each other. Well, it's easy to do that. We simply move our video clip to the top.
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But instead of just moving the video clip to the top, what I like to do is to duplicate it. So my entire timeline always stays on one timeline row. I don't like like my talking head videos to be random places. So I would grab
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this video, I'd hold down the alt button, and I would just drag up. And that immediately duplicates the video.
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Now, if you're not careful, you'll also hear the audio. So it might sound like double audio. They look different. So we're going to mute that track. And as you can see, now I've got the video clip next to each other. And now I can add
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some sort of transition between the talking head video and the B-roll video. If I wanted this purple flare. So now it sounds something like this. Is this right here? These are moment lenses. And now you have transitions between talking
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head videos and B-roll. The effects panel is also one of my favorite panels because the effects that you drag and drop onto your timeline, you don't actually put on video clips. it affects everything under it. So if we wanted to
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do this cyber ray tracing thing, we would grab it and drag it. And now everything underneath this video clip would have that cyber ray tracing effect take place. So it just immediately works. And if I actually had, you know,
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two different clips on the timeline here, this would affect everything underneath it. You've got chaos, which I could literally just add to this clip of me holding this thing. And again, for me to do that in Premiere Pro would take me
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an hour to have to key frame the chromatic aberration and the shake that's taking place, it would take me an hour. There's different filters we can do that are mostly like video filters, but again, we will get into the color
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and like the actual color grading later. Stickers, again, stickers really cool. Some of them are actually animated. Any sort of like animated arrow that actually like zooms into your timeline, you can drag and drop that anywhere you want it to. And another thing that Fil
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Mora has which is unique to all the other ones is they have these animated pie charts that you can customize. So all these animated charts like these waveforms that come up like you can completely customize any of this. If I
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wanted the animation to be longer, if I wanted it to, you know, have a different label on it. If I wanted the background to be transparent, or if I wanted it to be purple, I could make it purple and I
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save or add it to a timeline. And I can change it to anything that I want to. I used to use these kind of animation charts in a lot of my tutorial videos, but it actually took a very, very long
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time to edit and so I stopped doing that. But if I could just edit these real quick and just add it to my timeline, I would do this so much more often. So, we're going to be creating a
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graphic of a phone coming up and then pointing to the main lens because in this video I say this because the 24 mm lens on your phone is going to be the highest quality sensor. Now, I could show just a video of a phone and like
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kind of, you know, looking at it, but I wanted to have like a really cool graphic. So, I'm going to do is right here, I'm going to just completely remove me and I'm only going to have an animated graphic. So, first I have this
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background of this like dark paper background. And again, it's not designed for vertical content. So, I'm going to rotate that 90°.
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I'm going to make that bigger. And now I have this paper moving paper background.
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And to be honest, I'm going to click color. And I might just change the exposure a little bit more. It's a little too dark for me. You know, I want people to be able to see what it is. All
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right. So, I've got this textured background and I have this picture of an iPhone. So, what I want is I want the iPhone to kind of fly in and maybe stop right here and then text above it and an
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arrow that points down to the actual iPhone lens. So, we're going to be doing that with key framing. Key framing is where you're basically making a map for the motion or the movement of an object or really doesn't have to be movement.
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It could be any sort of change at all. So, for example, let's say we want the iPhone right here to be out of frame.
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What we're going to do is we're going to click the iPhone. We're going to go to the transform panel and we're going to click a key frame. And what this has done is it has made a dot on the screen.
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I don't know if you can see this right here. And because we have that key frame selected, we're going to take the iPhone and move it away. So now the iPhone is way down there. Then we're going to go
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into where we want the end of the animation to be, which is let's say right here. We're going to make another key frame and move the iPhone back up.
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So, we have a key frame here where the iPhone is all the way up and a key frame here where the iPhone is all the way down. And since those are connected now, it will literally just follow the key
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frame. And this could be used with any video or anything that you want. All right. Now, we have the iPhone comes in.
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Now, we're going to have some text at the top of the screen that says 24 mm main lens. So, we're going to go to the titles panel. And you can just add a simple title if you want. Just on the
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top, you drag it. It's way down here. And you can expand it, make it as big as you want. Um, you can change the text.
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Let's say 24 mm. We're going to make it a pretty big text here. And we're going to have it be this font. And you can even do little pre-made stuff like they've got cool little shadow designs and really
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anything that you want. I think I'm just probably just going to keep it white.
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But the main thing that I want to do is I want to have an animation with this title. I don't want the title to just pop up out of nowhere. So if you select the titles at the top, you will have an
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animations tab. And this is with everything. You have in and you have out and you have loop. So we're going to go for the in. This is the actual in animation. And they've got a typewriting animation. You can click it. See what it
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does. There's typewriting in red. You've got some really crazy purple explosion that takes place. Not sure if I would ever use that or not. I like the typewriter text. So, I'm just going to do that. 24 mm. I'm going to hold down
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alt and duplicate this file because I'm going to have this one say main lens underneath it. Main lens. And I don't want it to be the same animation. So, let's have this one. You know what?
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Let's actually have it come in like that. And then what I want to do is I want to have a circle around this lens and an arrow. And we're going to find all of that in the stickers panel. I I'm
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fine with just like this very subtle arrow right here. I'm actually going to have it point right here. [snorts] And I'm going to have a circle. So, some sort of circle uh that goes around that lens. Let's type in circle. Here's a
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white circle. We're going to add the circle here. And I actually like that it's kind of a drawn circle. So, what we have is we have the black background. We have the iPhone come up. We have the text 24mm main lens along with the arrow
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and the circle. Just like that. Another new feature is going to be the motion blur settings, which saves me tons and tons of time in the edit because if you have any movement in your frame whatsoever, it's just going to look like
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a picture moving. As you can see, like this phone comes up and it just looks like a picture. And if we wanted to add motion blur in Premiere Pro, I'd have to actually add this blur, kind of change a
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bunch of settings or I'd have to buy third party software. But with this, I simply select the clip I want. I go to motion blur and I turn it on. And now look what it has done. It has added that
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motion blur to the moving object and looks a thousand times better. And all you have to do is have anything move in your frame and select motion blur. Let's literally have it completely flipping for some strange reason. And again,
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right now it's very staccato. If we were to space it out a little bit more, you can kind of see what it looks like. It's just very stupid, very dumb. Now we just select the motion blur and now we
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actually have natural looking motion blur in the frame as you can see without it with it. Simple as that. Another really amazing feature is the templates.
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And I haven't touched on this as much because I think that they help a lot and speed up your editing like crazy. So, you've got some ones that are just like, you know, travel escapes or wedding slideshows and stuff like that. But one
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of my favorites is actually the multiframe layout and split screen. So, multiframe layout just gives you these kind of cool like things that you can do where you basically just upload your videos to those specific parts of the
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frame and it'll do the animation for you. So, for the split screen, we can have just a one and two split screen like this. We could have four split screen. 1 2 3 4. I think for this I'm
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going to do the 1 2 3 1 2 3. I'm just going to drag that and drop it right onto the timeline. So this is the animation that it's going to make. It's going to take 1, two, three. It's going
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to make videos just like that. And then it's going to go out. And all we have to do is put videos in the one, two, and the three. So I'm going to click on the first video. I'm going to click on the
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little uh levels here. And now we have video one, two, and three. And it wants us to import the exact video that we want to use. I know that this video right here, I try on a bunch of
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different lenses. So I'm going to drag that on to the number two. And as you can see, it immediately adds that number two spot. But then I simply click apply and it immediately puts those videos into that split screen. So I have this
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little split screen here. I'm talking and then it shows all three of the lenses. Again, it shows me putting a lens on, shows the lens, shows the lens on the phone, and then exits out like that. That's exactly what I want. And
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again, this would have taken me how long in Premiere Pro to actually do all these templates? I don't know. But the fact that I can just put my videos on there makes it so much easier. All right, we've got some B-roll. I've added a
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bunch of text on the screen. I actually added another split screen for all the videos that I've done with the iPhone.
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The next thing I want to talk about is the new AI features that are in Filora.
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They've been talking about this for a long time. They've really been pushing this because this is what everyone is kind of curious about. And I don't want this to be like a whole video about AI and how you have to have AI to edit
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because that's not true at all because I've been editing this entire thing and I haven't used AI one time. But there are so many amazing effects and transitions, camera movements that you can add as just like a cherry on top.
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Like, hey, I can't open After Effects. I can't do all of this video visual editing. What if I just want to add a very quick visual effect? What do I do?
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So, they've got all of these effects that you can use that I have used before in like Higsfield and third-party software, but all of them are now inside Filora. So, you've got like a focus shift where it kind of focuses on
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somebody different. You know, it kind of focuses in and out. You've got like a bullet time effect. You've got a beard removal, which I don't know if I would ever use. I'll never remove my beard cuz I look like I'm 5 years old. Especially
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if you're doing something like real estate, maybe you only have a picture. You can actually have some movement with your pictures. Maybe you weren't able to get a, you know, a really cool video, you only got pictures. Special effects,
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you can do ambient lighting. You can change the lighting. You can do AI logo.
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You can do beauty. You know that this isn't like the actual effects that you can just add to it. Like we talked about before. These are AI effects. The other AI features they have are pretty impressive, too. They have the text to
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video. You type in what you want. You can even paste a script and Filora will like match stock footage and add voiceovers and stuff. There's image to video. And again, this is really cool cuz I've had to get subscriptions to
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certain sites, but all of this is inside Filora. And those are more like extreme AI cases, like really cool things that you can do. But there's also more subtle AI stuff, just like royaltyfree AI music, AI translation, which like takes
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your video and dubs it into another language. Voice cloning, maybe you misspoke a line. The video extend is great because you can extend your video up to 8 seconds. And Premiere Pro has this feature, but it's only a few
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seconds. It's not 8 seconds long. Am I going to show you every single one of these AI features? No, I can't do that because it is overwhelming the amount of things that you can do. But my advice to
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you is learn to edit first and once you have edited, use AI or some of their free AI features to enhance the edit that you already have. All right, we are almost done with our edit. There are two
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final things that we have to do. We have to color grade and add sound design. If you notice with this timeline, it might look like it's a crazy timeline, but this because there is nothing underneath it right now. It is a dead timeline. A
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bunch of videos and a bunch of graphics that just move and have no sound is useless. You have to pay attention to sound design. But the first thing we're going to do is color grade. And to color grade in Filora, it's very easy. We
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select the clip we want and we go over to color. Now, this is going to be very similar to like Premiere Pro's lummetry color. It's got some sort of like AI things that you can do or maybe like
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auto color. I found that it doesn't really work as well, especially if you're shooting in log. If you're not shooting in log, it might add a few things here and there. But if we're shooting in log, we're going to need to
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bring it back up to rec 709. So, the first thing we're going to see is a L preset. And the cool thing is they already have some installed. Like I did not add these. You got Vlog, SLOG, SLOG
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cinematic, there's DLOG, Clog. And depending on what camera you shot, you can use a certain one. I shot in S- Log, but to be honest, Vlog actually looks better. I actually like VLOG better. You can import your own L, which I've done
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many, many times. Or just choose the one that you want and it will bring it back up to rec 709 again. If you shot in log, you can change the temperature, the tint, the vibrance. So, if it's a little
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too, you know, orange, we could bring it more blue or vice versa. But the main things you want to focus on is just the light. This is going to be your exposure brightness contrast highlights, shadows, all that kind of
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stuff. Again, this is very similar to Premiere Pro or some other editors. This allows you to adjust the contrast and adjust the color. So, if we say the exposure is a little much, let's bring the exposure down. Let's bring up the
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contrast a little bit. The shadows could be bumped up a little bit. Bring down the whites and the highlights a little bit. Maybe add more contrast.
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Maybe something like this. And you know the saturation. I think that it needs to be a little warmer. I think there needs to be a little bit more saturation. And you know what? I think it's a little too
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green. I need it to be a little bit pinker. So, it's something like that.
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The AI color palette is also really cool because what allows you to do is grab different frames from either different parts on the timeline or just other frames that you have found and it will try to match the color of the frame. For
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example, this right here that's on the timeline, it's a little more desaturated. It's not super vibrant. And if I choose this reference for it to match, and I click generate, it will then match this color onto my video. And
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if I click save and apply, you can see that it has dessaturated it to match that color as well. And if I want to go to local files and maybe have some sort of video that I'm trying to replicate, I
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can drag and drop a file like this one from Caleb Pike with DSLR video shooter.
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And once it's in there, it will generate it and try its best to match that color the best way that it can. As you can see, this one doesn't have any highlights on the face. And mine does.
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So, if I click generate, it will then bring down the highlights on my face as well, just like the referenced image.
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So, if you don't know anything about color grading, you can always upload pictures or references of color grades that you like or previous color grades that you've done, and it will try to replicate it on the screen. And as
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you're doing your color grading, you can actually select a color mask. And what this does is it allows you to color grade certain parts of the frame instead of the entire frame. So for example, maybe this was a little too bright. We
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could select the mask, add the layer, make it a square, or we could actually draw the mask. And now that we have selected this, if we go to our exposure and we turn it down, it's actually only going to affect the layer mask that we
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did. So literally if that was just too bright and again we just wanted to bring the highlights down a little bit, bring the brightness down, bring the brightness up a little bit, you could do that. So you can mask anything that you
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want in the frame, but this just adds another depth to your color grading. There's so many things that you can do, but this is going to be the the basic color grading. It's everything that you need to know in order to color grade
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your footage. So add a L. You can import your own L. Use the LUTs that they've provided. You know, mess with the skin tones, the exposure, contrast, highlight, shadows. Again, as you can see, I haven't adjusted this a ton. I
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don't have anything that's like way off in one direction. I've just adjusted these a little bit to make it look better and to make it look more appealing. All right, we have our talking head. We have our B-roll. We
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have our text on the screen. We have our graphics, our stickers, all the stuff that keeps coming up and these animations and this text. We've got all of that. Now, it is time to add sound design to actually bring this thing to
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life. Sound design is so overlooked and you do not need to overlook it. Like I said before, inside Filora, they have a bunch of sound effects that you can use.
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Page turn, you've got whoo sounds, memes, things like that. But what I like to do is I like to have a folder that has all of my favorite sound effects in it. And then I just dump the folder into
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the project panel. That way I've got all of my whooes and the swishes and the hits and the page turns all right there in my favorite sound effects folder. But the best rule of thumb to have is if you
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have movement in your video somewhere, any sort of movement, it needs to have a sound. I don't care if it's a text. I don't care if it's a graphic. I don't care if there's a picture that goes across the screen. If something moves,
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it needs to have sound or it feels dead. You've got a couple transitions here, just two here that are the lens flares.
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Even those kind of transitions, they need to have something. I've used this shutter click sound effect, no copyright, forever. It's just like a camera shutter. And I love to use those on sound effects for like film burns and
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transitions. Lenses are the reason none of my Just like that. Just some sort of sound effect. Something to aid to our story.
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For right here, we're actually going to put a pencil drawing sound effect. Is this right here? Maybe bring that up a little bit higher. Is this right here?
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See, it's so subtle, but it just adds so much. Is this right here? So, the iPhone flies in. Then you've got a text sound effect. So, we're going to need some like typing on a keyboard.
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Perfect. Just like that. But again, very, very subtle sound effects, but once we have me talking over it and some music behind it, it'll be a thousand times better. And after we've done a bunch of sound design and
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our timeline looks good on the top and the bottom, we need to add our music.
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Now, a lot of people just take a music track and just put it on the bottom. But I like the music to also aid to the story. I want the music to hit at a certain point. I want the music to build
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and then hit immediately when I say a certain line. So, I really like this track here because it has a slight buildup of just drums and then immediately hits. And so, I think what I'm going to do is whenever I
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say is this right here, boom. And then it is actually going to hit on what I'm talking about. So, instead of just having music underneath like this, and the reason [music] they look different is this right here. These are moment
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like that sounds okay, but I actually want that to build up because that's kind of the hook. These right here. And then boom, it hits into the the actual music and the actual video where I'm telling them more about it. So let's see
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what this sounds like. Reason they look different is this right here. These are moment thousand times better. Thousand times better to again have the music aid to the story as well. But even though we have some text on the screen like
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specific things we're talking about like ultra wide standard telephoto, we need to create some captions as well. And in today's culture, especially on social media, you cannot survive anymore without captions, especially on your shorts and reels. Now, there's two ways
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that it'll actually add captions. You can do speech to text, and what you're going to be doing is you're actually going to be selecting the title, so it's going to put text on the screen. is going to be very basic or it has dynamic
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captions which is going to make it a little bit more like words come on the screen in different colors and some words are larger than others and it's going to try to figure out kind of what you want your captions to be. Now, it
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isn't 100% free. It's almost free, but it's not. It usually costs one to two credits, which is like absolutely nothing. I don't think I would actually use all the credits that I would need to get to be able to do this. So, it's only
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one or two credits for dynamic or speech to text, but it does cost some credits.
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With dynamic captions, we are now able to create all of those fancy titles that you see in a lot of shorts and reels.
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So, it automatically starts putting different colors on it. It's just kind of like says, "Hey, I think that this is the word that you want to emphasize and you know, this is the one that you want to say looks different than the others."
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But, we're going to select all those. And now we can actually go to templates.
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And the cool thing is you can select all the captions and then choose a template and then all the captions will be in that one template. But if you wanted like one specific section to be a different template, you just select that
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section and then choose a different template. So now all of the captions have this template on it. But then if we go to this one, it has that template.
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And that's how we add captions to our videos. All right, we've got our music.
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We've got our opening sequence. We've added effects. I've added some negative effects. I've added some kind of sound designs and sequences here. We've got more text on the screen. We've got audio that goes along with it. We've got more
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split screens. We are ready to export this completed video. And I'm going to show you exactly how to do it. It is very, very, very simple. You just go up to the top for export and you click it.
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And then it gives us the options for exporting. We can export it locally, which means that it's going to do a file on our computer, which I would suggest you do. You can immediately go to YouTube or Tik Tok, even Vimeo, which is
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kind of strange, and log into those. Uh maybe a certain device like your iPhone or a DVD. I haven't seen that in a long time. So, that's pretty cool. We're just going to go locally. We're going to title it whatever you want to title it.
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It's automatically going to be set to match project settings, which is really, really good. meaning that it doesn't want to export in a 16 by9 if you're editing in a 9 by6. So whatever settings are on the timeline, it's going to match
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those settings on the export. That's very good. So you could leave it to that and it would be perfectly fine. But if you wanted to do some custom resolutions or maybe it's not set up exactly how you want to, you could just change the
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format and the resolution. So change the format to MP4. I use MP4 instead of cuz I'm on a PC and not a Mac. The resolution, you can change it to one of their templates like 4K 3840 x 2160.
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That's perfect except that this is for 16x9 and not 9 x6. So, we're actually going to go to custom, put it back 2160x 3840. Now, it's actually a 9x6 uh H.264. And the quality is set to medium. So, they have a low, medium, and
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high option. And, you know, a lot of people aren't sure exactly which one they should choose, but you just need to keep an eye on the estimated file size.
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Like right now, 700 megabytes on high, maybe that's too much to just share to Instagram. So medium would be better.
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Cuts that in half. Low even cuts that in half. So if it's just going to Instagram, you know, set it to medium.
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If it's going to YouTube, set it to high. You can always go into the advanced option and actually like change the bit rate. If you wanted to have make it like, you know, 15,000 bits per second, a constant bit rate, and click
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apply, it's going to even double that even more. So you can go in there and actually change the bit rate. If you don't know anything about that, I would not touch it. Literally leave it alone and just select low, medium, or high
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depending on what you're exporting. And then click export. And now it is exported and we built an entire project together. We started with raw footage.
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We organized it. We chopped up the talking head video. We put the B-roll on the timeline. We added transitions, audio adjustments, key frames, effects, all that kind of stuff. stuff. We did sound design. We did text and graphics
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and templates. And we basically put this thing together from scratch. So using Filora 16, which anyone can pick up and use right now, we just created this.
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Everyone always asks me why my iPhone videos never look like iPhone videos. And the reason they look different is this right here. These are Moment lenses and are the reason none of my iPhone videos look like amateur iPhone videos.
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[music] These lenses screw right onto your phone and swap focal lengths on your main camera because the 24 mm lens on your phone is going to be the highest quality [music] sensor. The ultrawide looks okay and the telephoto looks okay,
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but the highest quality sensor is your main 24mm lens. [music] Now you can get different focal lengths using your highest quality sensor. And Moment has a wide range of lenses, wide, [music] anamorphic, telephoto. But the one that I use 95% of the [music] time is the 58
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mm lens. I've shot multiple weddings, commercials, and YouTube content [music] using this lens, and nobody knew I was shooting with an iPhone. I personally have used Moment lenses since the [music] very first one on my iPhone 12.
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And the newest version they have is 10 times better than anything I [music] had before. These lenses have literally changed the way that I shoot on my phone. And anyone that asks me why my [music] phone videos look different, I
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always send them to these lenses. So, if you're ready to take your mobile film making to the next level, comment the word moment and I'll send you the link.
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That's the entire process from folder of raw clips to an actual finished video. And you did it in an editor that costs you a fraction of the price of the big editors out there and doesn't require you to be a technical genius to edit.
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[music] So here's your next step. Go download Filora and try it for yourself. Open it up, follow along with what I showed you, and actually finish one video, even a short one. And if you're ready to really get good as an editor,
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not just in Filora, but as an editor overall, go check out Master Editing. It's 47 bucks and it walks you through editing across Premiere Pro, [music] Da Vinci Resolve, Final Cut, Cap Cut, MoAve, and even has a full in-depth
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Filora course inside it as well. So, no matter which editor you land on, you are covered. It's a clear step-by-step path that I wish I had when I was starting out instead of piecing together random tutorials and still feeling completely
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lost. So the [music] link for Fil Mora and Master Editing are both in the description below. Now go open it up, start cutting, and make something that you are proud of.
Topics:video editingFilmoracinematic videobeginner tutorialcolor gradingB-rollmotion blurdynamic captionsreels editingvideo workflow
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