Basic Editing Using Filmora 9

EDITING
VIDEO
 Selecting Clips in the Media
Library
◉ 1. To select a single media file: click on its thumbnail.
◉ 2. To select multiple media files: press and hold [Ctrl], and then click
the thumbnails of the media you want to select.
◉ 3. To select a sequence of media files: click the first thumbnail in the
sequence, press and hold [Shift], and then click the last thumbnail in
the sequence.
◉ Note: You can locate specific media files using the Search bar.

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Selecting Clips in the Media
Library

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 Deleting Media from the Media
Library
◉ In the Media Library, right click on the clip you want to remove and
select DELETE.
◉ Note: When you delete a video clip or other piece of media from the
Media Library you are only removing it from Filmora9 and not deleting
it from your computer or storage device.

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 Adding Videos and
Other Media to the
Timeline
◉ Here are two ways to add media to
the timeline:
◉ Method 1: Click on the thumbnail of
the video clip, or other media, in the
Media Library. Then, drag and drop it
into your timeline.
◉ Method 2: Right click on the
thumbnail of the media you want
and choose one of these options:

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 Adding Videos and Other Media to the
Timeline
◉ Insert: add your media to the ◉ Append (add to the end): add
selected track at the playhead. Any your media as the last piece of
media that is already in the track on media in the selected track.
the right side of the inserted media
◉ Add to new track: add your
will move to the right by the length
media to a newly created track
of the inserted clip.
which has no other media.
◉ Overwrite: add your media to the
◉ Note: You cannot add media to
selected track at the playhead, and
tracks with Track Lock enabled.
replace any media already occupying
the space your added media takes up.

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 Accessing Sample Colors and Sample Intro
Video
◉ Filmora9 includes several
sample colors (still images
of color) and countdown
intro videos. To access these
resources, click Media and
choose Sample Colors or
Sample Video.

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 Deleting Clips from Timeline
◉ To delete a single video clip or other piece of media from your timeline, right
click on the media in your timeline and select Delete, select the clip and hit the
Delete icon in the toolbar, or select the clip and press the Delete key on your
keyboard.
◉ To remove multiple video clips or other pieces of media, press and hold CTRL,
then select the target files. When you are done selecting, let go of CTRL and
delete the items using the delete icon, the delete key on your keyboard, or by
right-clicking and selecting delete.

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 Ripple Delete
◉ Removing media using the methods on
slide 8 will leave a big gap in the timeline.
◉ If you want to both remove media and
close this gap, use the Ripple Delete (Shift
+Del) feature.
◉ Right click on the clip you need to remove
(or hold down CTRL and select multiple
pieces of media, then right click) and then
select Ripple Delete to remove that clip
and have the remaining media in the track
move over to fill the empty space.

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 Trim Video Clips
◉ If you need to trim from the beginning or end of a video clip (or other piece of
media), hover your mouse over the left or right edge of the clip in your
timeline until the trim tool shows.

◉ Then, click and drag the edge of your clip forwards or backwards to trim off
the unwanted portion.

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 Click and drag the edges

Trim Video Clips of your clip to move

If you need to cut out a section in the middle of a video clip, drag the play head to the start point
of the unwanted section and press the scissors icon to split the clip, then drag the play head to
the end of the unwanted section and press the scissors again. Now that the unwanted section is
on its own you can select it and press the delete icon to remove it.

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Trim Video Clips
◉ Filmora9 also has an option for you
to ‘quick trim’ from the start or end
of a clip. In the timeline, place the
playhead on the frame you want to
trim to, right click on the clip, and
select Trim Start to Playhead
( Alt +[ )or Trim End to
Playhead (Alt +] )depending on
whether you want to delete what’s
behind the playhead or in front of it.

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 Splitting Video Clips
◉ To split a clip manually on the timeline:
place the playhead at the position where you
want to split the clip, right click, and choose
Split.
◉ To split a clip using the Scene Detection
feature:
◉ Right click on the clip in the Media Library
panel and select the Scene Detection option.
In the popup window, click the DETECT
button. Scene detection may take a few
moments. After the detection process is
finished, select the unwanted scene and press
delete to remove it.
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 Rotating or Flipping a Video Clip
To rotate or flip a clip:
1) Double click the clip in the Timeline.
2) 2. In the popup Video panel, choose the Transform effect
3) To rotate the clip, drag the rotate slider to the right or enter a numerical
value in the rotate section.
4) In the Flip section, click the Flip Horizontal icon to reverse the clip from
left to right, or click the Flip Vertical icon to turn the clip upside down.
Click Reset to undo your changes or OK to apply the effect to your video.
You can also right click on the clip in the timeline and select Rotate 90 CW
or Rotate 90 CCW.

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Rotating or Flipping a Video
Clip

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Cropping Video Clips

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 Cropping Video Clips
Follow the steps below to crop out and zoom into parts of your video clips:
1) Right click on the clip in the timeline
2) Select the Crop and Zoom option from the menu or click the Crop icon to
open the Crop and Zoon panel.
3) In the popup window, move and adjust the rectangle to surround the area
you want to crop. You can also choose the preset from the following preset
dimensions: 16:9, 4:3, 1:1 or 9:16.

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 Joining Videos
◉ The join feature is for when you have several video clips in a sequence
and want to combine them into one clip. To join videos clips, place them
in the Timeline in the order you want them sequential order and export
them as one video.

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 Copying & Pasting Video
Clips
◉ When you copy and paste clips in Filmora’s timeline the spacing of the
clips is kept. You can paste copies of clip at the end of your video or
insert them at the location of the playhead.
◉ Step 1:Select one or more clips in the sequence, right-click, and choose
Copy
◉ Step 2:In the timeline, position the playhead at the point where you want
to paste a copy of the clips.
◉ Step 3:Right click and choose ‘paste’.
◉ Note: If there are clips in the track before you paste, they might be
overwritten by the pasted clips.

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 Enhancing Video Clips
◉ Enhance your video clips by adjusting the white balance, tone, color,
light, and HSL and by adding vignettes.
◉ Double click the target clip in the timeline to enter the Edit panel, and
select Color menu, the window will show as below:

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Enhancing Video Clips
◉ Enhance your video clips by adjusting
the white balance, tone, color, light,
and HSL and by adding vignettes.
◉ Double click the target clip in the
timeline to enter the Edit panel, and
select Color menu, the window will
show as below:

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Enhancing Video Clips
◉ Drag the sliders respectively to adjust your color temperature, tint,
contrast, saturation and brightness. You can also enter a numerical
value if you know the exact adjustment you want to make. There are also
3D LUT effects available if you want to change the entire look of your
video at once. Watch the Preview Window to see how the new settings
affect the look of your video.
◉ Click Advanced to enter the Advance Color Tuning panel where you’ll
find presets as well as options to customize your colors, lighting, hues,
saturation, luminance, vignettes, etc.

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ADVANCED COLOR
TUNING

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ADVANCED COLOR
TUNING

BEFORE AFTER

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 Changing Video Playback Speed
◉ Right click on your clip in the timeline and
select Speed and Duration (Ctrl + R) to
open the Custom Speed window.
◉ Drag the speed slider to adjust the speed of
the video clip.
◉ You can also enter the precise speed you
want in the speed field, or change your
speed by changing the video duration. You
can make your video up to 100x faster or
0.01x slower.

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Changing Video Playback Speed
◉ In the custom speed panel, you can
tick the Play video clip in reverse
option to play your clip backwards.
◉ You can also click the Speed icon in
the toolbar to see options for
adjusting your video’s speed.
◉ Filmora9 offers speed control presets
so you can quickly slow your clip to
0.5x, 0.25x, 0.1x, 0.05x or 0.01x the
speed or make it up to4x, 8x, 20x,
50x or 100x faster.

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Creating Freeze Frames
◉ A freeze frame is a still image representing a single frame of
your video clip. Usually, freeze frames are used to make it
seem like time has stopped at a specific moment in your video.
Here’s how to create a freeze frame in Filmora9
◉ In the timeline, move the play head to the frame you want to
freeze.
◉ Click the speed icon in the toolbar and select Freeze Frame.
◉ Set the duration of the freeze frame by dragging its edge. You
can also change the default duration freeze frames by going to
File -> Preferences-> Editing. By default the freeze duration
set is 5 seconds.

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Zooming in and out Timeline
◉ To zoom in or out and see more or less (in more detail) of your timeline,
use one of these methods:
◉ Find the Zoom in/out slider in the top right corner of the timeline. Drag it
forwards to zoom in on the timeline and drag it backwards to zoom out.
◉ Click to zoom in the Timeline or to zoom out.
◉ Use the shortcut Ctrl + plus sign [+] to zoom in and Ctrl+ minus sign
[-] to zoom out.

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Timeline

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 Resizing video clips
◉ If you need to resize a video clip, drag and drop it into the timeline to cut
out part of the video. Or, you can change the resolution, frame rate, and
bit rate in the export window to lower the file size. If you need to change
the display size of a video, use the Scale slider.
◉ To access the Scale slider, right click on the video clip you need to resize
in the timeline choose Show Properties (ALT +E) (Edit), and click into
the Video tab in the popup window.
◉ Go to Transform and drag the Scale slider to the right or the left to
resize the video clip. You can also enter an exact value if you know the
exact percentage you want to scale to.

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RESIZING VIDEO CLIPS

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 Adding watermark/logo to the video
◉ After importing a video clip and watermark/logo image to the Media
Library, drag and drop the video clip to a video track (i.e. Track 1) and
the watermark/logo to a track above it.
◉ You can drag the watermark/logo image in the Preview Window to move
it to where you want it. To adjust size of the watermark or logo, drag the
small circles and squares at its edges in the Preview window.
◉ To adjust the opacity or blending mode of your watermark or logo (i.e.
make it transparent), double click the logo image in the timeline to open
the Image panel and go to Composition. From there you can choose a
composition mode (i.e. darken) and use the Opacity slider to adjust your
transparency.

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Watermark Logo

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 Playback Quality
◉ Setting Playback Quality
◉ Full: preview your video without changing the original resolution
◉ 1/2: preview your video at 1/2 the original resolution
◉ 1/4: preview your video at 1/4 the original resolution
◉ 1/8: preview your video at 1/8 the original resolution
◉ 1/16: preview your video at 1/16 the original resolution
◉ Note: the reduced playback resolution only applies to the video preview
and will not affect the export settings.

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 Preview Render
◉ Preview rendering reduces the preview lag which can occur when editing complex or high resolution
projects. This results in smoother playback. Filmora9 offers 2 ways to render your timeline preview:
◉ Manual Render (The Render Button)
■ Click the Render Button to begin rendering your timeline whenever this red line appears (as
when you add media or make other changes to your timeline).

Red line above the timeline

◉ The render preview window will pop up, showing the render progress and the estimated
remaining time. Once the rendering is complete, the red line will turn cyan. Note: you will
need to wait until the rendering process is finished to continue editing. 36
 Auto-Render
◉ Besides manually clicking the Render Button, you can also use a feature
called Background Render.
◉ Background rendering starts automatically when there are new things to
render on your timeline and does not affect your editing process.
◉ To enable this feature, go to ‘File’ and choose the ‘Preferences’ option. In
the window that opens, got to the ‘Performance’ tab.
◉ Under the Preview Render option, check Background render and set a
starting time. By default, the render process will be performed after 5
seconds of inactivity on the timeline.

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AUTO RENDER
To enable this feature, go
to ‘File’ and choose the
‘Preferences’ option. In the
window that opens, got to
the ‘Performance’ tab.

Click OK to save your settings.

Note: The rendered parts of your timeline will be indicated

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 Ripple Edit
◉ Click the Auto Ripple button to turn on ripple editing.
◉ This will allow you to trim, add, and delete clips without leaving a
gap in your timeline.
◉ If you add new media in the middle of your timeline all of your clips
and effects will be shifted to the right to accommodate the new addition.

Auto ripple ON

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 Add clip in Auto Ripple On
mode
◉ When auto-ripple is on you can automatically delete all of the effects
applied to a clip when you delete the clip itself.
◉ Turn on auto ripple, select the video clip, right click, and choose Delete.

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