In this video, we're going to look at how to edit a movie in Lightworkers, if you've watched my previous
videos online.
That's how much I know you'll notice that I was using a version, I think 11 or 12 now Lightworkers
14, which is the version I'm using, is quite a bit different from the previous version.
So if you were using the old version of Lightworkers, I would highly recommend that you update to the
new one, because I think the improvements are amazing.
Let's start off with a new project.
I'm going to just call it first movie.
In the frame rate, I'm going to choose auto and press create now I need to get my movies from my computer
into Lightworkers.
Now, before we go any further, you filmed on a camera or you filmed on your phone, get those movies
off the phone and off the camera and put them onto your computer in a folder all by themselves.
Do not dump those movies onto your desktop because the mess you're going to create is going to be really
hard to tidy up.
So that's advice No.
One.
Let's go and get the movies.
I've already gone to the folder and I've got a few movies.
Now, I have to admit, I didn't actually film these movies.
I, I got these movies from a great website, which I'll put at the end of this movie just so that you
know where I got them from.
Let's grab all the files simply by clicking on this top button here and clicking on the import button
a few seconds later.
All the movies are in.
Now I'm on my laptop, so my screen is a lot smaller.
So I'm going to click on this little button over here and that gives me a much smaller view, but it
makes my life a lot easier.
Now, before we go any further, I've got quite a few clips here.
Now, it could be that your movie only consists of one clip or three clips.
That's OK.
But if, like me, you end up with a whole bunch of movie clips and you're trying to organize yourself,
what I would do, what I would recommend is you go into this column that's called the Real ID and just
start renaming things.
Now, what I like to do is just put a numbers next to the movie clips so that I can see which clip is
number one and so on and so on.
So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to rename a few of them.
So that's number one.
Number two, I'm going to go to number three here.
I'm going to go to number four.
Let's go to the traffic scene as number five.
Number six now, of course, if you take just a little bit of time, I'm now just randomly assigning
numbers over here.
But if you do this, it makes your life incredibly easy.
Later, if I now click on the real ID, you can see that all my movie clips are now in order.
And this really helps me because I now I don't have to go searching for where my clips are.
If you're using emoji movie or Windows movie maker, you're going to be quite used to just picking up
clips, dropping them into your movie and kind of cutting and deleting stuff as you go along.
The light works.
You can do that, but it's quite painful.
So what Light Works will ask you to do is double click on a clip like.
So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to press play.
It's not a great, interesting one and I'm going to stop it there.
This is where I would like to start my movie, so.
Oh, my keyboard.
I'm going to press the button.
I am going to press play.
Just let it play for about five seconds.
Stop the movie and press.
Oh, that is my in and that is my out.
Now, if you make a mistake, you can of course move your ins and outs wherever you want to.
But what I'm telling Lightworkers is, although my clip is 30 seconds long, I just only need that little
bit of a movie clip there.
I'm going to go to number two.
I'm going to mark the ins and outs.
They're like, so.
And that should be enough there.
I'm going to go to clip number three like so now you don't have to stop the movie to marketing it out.
You can actually press this spacebar, just press eye on your keyboard.
And when you think you're ready, press on your keyboard.
Mark it out.
Let's go to clip number four, double click that.
I'm going to just press an eye over here.
I'm going to press on, oh, roughly there.
And let's go to that last one.
And I.
And Presson, Dega, so I've got only five clips, I'm not going to do all 13 of them and I've marked
the ins and outs and the ins and outs, although it seems kind of boring when you're doing it, it saves
you hours of time later.
So let's go to our edit button.
And what you can see is I've got a huge timeline.
I don't need it that big.
So I'm just going to make it smaller like so I've got all my clips.
But again, I can't see them because I'm on a laptop.
So I'm going to press on that button there just to get a list for you to any time I lose the order of
my movie, I can just click on the real ID button and my movies are back in order.
A couple of things I want to do.
Let's resize that window so I can actually see my movie.
So I like to see it nice and big.
And I noticed that my movie is called Sequence One.
I'm going to rename that by clicking on the button everything.
And you can see that there's an empty movie called Sequence One.
I would like to call this film one, so it just sounds better.
I'm going to go and click back on clips and let's start with the city scene.
What you'll notice, I've got a red marker in an empty time line.
This is a movie which I haven't made yet.
If I move the red line, I'm actually moving.
In and out of my movie, but I haven't got a movie to start with, so let's rewind back to the beginning,
pick it up and throw it into the timeline there.
But because I marked an in and out, it only picked up that part of the movie that I marked over here.
That's really useful.
Let's go to the busy intersection and we'll throw that down there.
And number three.
I was there number four over here and number five over here, like so now you can see if we watch our
movie, it will work quite well.
We go from the first to the second movie.
And so on and so on, so it's kind of doing its job right now like that.
Now you'll notice as you're making a movie that you marked in an in and out.
But when you look at it in the movie, you kind of think, well, that is really lasting too long.
I didn't want to be staring at that movie for five or six seconds.
So how do we shorten a clip?
Let's just zoom in a little bit.
What I'm going to do is you have to look very carefully here as I move my mouse.
You'll notice that the movie clip that I'm on starts to tell you where your mouth is.
So if I go over here and I simply click my mouse and I drag my mouse back, I really only wanted about
three seconds.
Let's move it to about three seconds.
Let's just watch that movie again to what happened.
Indeed, that's way better.
There's my intersection and there's my thing there, and there's the cross and red.
OK, so we're doing well over there, so we've got our small sections there.
Let's just have a quick look as we go along.
Yep, that's good.
Let's make that a little bit shorter, simply because it would look better to have a look like so.
Let's make that a little bit longer.
So how do we make something longer?
We go again to its end.
And instead of moving it backwards, we move it forwards and we can actually drag it out like so and
we go like this.
Yeah, that's a little bit better.
That's what I wanted to do, so that is a really fast way of getting your ins and outs sorted out,
dropping them into your movie, and then, of course, adjusting.
And really, you're fine tuning.
You're really editing the movie when you Makhanya International, it's let's deal with a clip we haven't
done.
Let's go to Times Square.
I'm going to double click that and you'll notice that it opens up a little window here.
That's simply so that I can mark my N.
And my out now, I've marked my in and out, and I would really like to put that there, which is a
little bit harder now.
So what I want to do is I really want to be able to move my red line to those beginning and end of all
my MovieClips.
Now, you can do that simply by doing the forward and rewind over here.
If you click, it will go backwards and forwards.
I find the keyboard shortcuts of a to go backwards and s to go forwards really useful.
It stops me having to use the mouse all the time.
I'm going to press one more time, go to the end and I'm going to now click on this button which drops
that movie into their perfect.
I'm going to close this little clip down because I would like a much bigger window.
Let's have a look what that looks like.
That's quite what I want to make this a little bit longer.
Yeah, like that.
Now, what I've noticed is I don't want this to just cut from the traffic.
To that scene there, so really what I want to do is I want to put a fade or a dissolve in there, and
the way we can do that is by clicking on our VFX button.
You'll notice it looks quite complicated.
Don't get scared by that because we don't really need to worry about those colors there.
I'm just going to make the timeline a bit bigger.
Yeah.
And what I want to do is add a new effect, the effect I want to add.
And you'll notice that when you click on it, it should just say favorite.
So what we want to do is we want to put it on a mix and it's a dissolve we want.
So I'm going to pick it up.
And I don't want to go over there and I don't want to over there, I actually want it half and half.
So I want half of the old movie and half of the new movie to dissolve into one another.
And you'll see that when I press play.
It's the effect we see in so many movies and so many programs, and it looks amazing.
Let's go back to our edit button and you can see what the effect of that was.
And there you go, you can see let me just zoom out a little bit, and there's my whole movie so far.
So we jump from one movie to another movie, and then when we get to this last car over here, we actually
use a dissolve just to make it look really nice.
So what we've done in this video so far is we've grabbed our movies from our phone.
We've put them on our computer, and then we've put them into Lightworkers.
We have ordered our movies if we've got a lot of them just to help us out.
And most importantly, we mark some ins and some outs.
We then put that movie clips into our timeline.
And we've also used a dissolve to kind of give us a nice special effect.
And for the fine tuning, we've just taken our mouse and move the ends of clips around just to make
sure that everything on that screen is exactly how we want it to look.
So in the following videos, we're going to be dealing with titles because they're really important.
And of course, audio, which we have not touched in this video, because that's quite an important
thing that we need a separate video for, to open up like works and have a go at editing your own movies.