In this video, we're going to look at some more basics to do with light works, but this time we're
going to take a few more advanced features so that we're not just putting clips into a timeline and
adding audio.
We want to do some extra stuff.
So we're going to cover a few things that we didn't cover and basics.
One that you can see.
I've got a movie already made here, and all my clips, as always, are from videos, ENCOM, and I've
got a music track from the Free Music Archive website, which is absolutely brilliant for music.
Now, if you don't know how to get your clips into the timeline, how to get audio into the timeline,
how to do these fades into the audio and anything that you see on the screen, if you're thinking,
I don't know how to do this, go back right now and watch BASIX one, because that will teach you how
to get started, how to get your movies into light works and how to edit all those things with your
clips and put them into the timeline.
So you really want to be watching that video if you don't know how I got any of this on the screen.
Now, if you have a look at this movie, it's just a bunch of random clips with some music in there.
Now, a question I get asked really quite often is how do you move your lips so that there's a space
in between two clips now light Works doesn't really have an easy way to do this, so I wish there was
an easy way.
So what I normally do is a very quick and easy makerspace kind of thing.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to disable the audio because I don't want to mess around with the
audio track.
I'm going to go in between these two clips.
Now, this might be a nice time to learn a new keyboard shortcut.
So a An s on your keyboard are a rewind and forwards.
If I press a you'll see that the play had moves to the end and if I press s, it will just jump to the
in betweens of every one of my clips.
It's a really nice shortcut.
Saves you having to move your mouse over there all the time and click away.
So what I want to do is just add a space over here in the middle here.
So what I'm going to do is just randomly click on a clip.
Doesn't matter if you've used it before or not.
And I'm going to go over here to the insert button.
So what I'm going to do is put this clip in between those two clips there, which I'm going to press
now.
And you can see it's in there.
And immediately all I'm going to do is pick it up and throw it away.
Now, what you can see is I now have a blank space in between the two clips that I wanted a blank space
in.
Now, what you have to remember, in some ways, light works treats a space as if it's a clip.
So this blank space here is actually a clip so I can click on it just like I do any other clip.
And make it longer so I can make the space longer or shorter, but I can do other things as well, but
you have to be careful here because what I'm about to do can really cause you to make a huge mess in
your movie.
So what you can now do is just pick up clips and move them around.
Now you can see what's happening here are moving clips around.
But what I'm doing is leaving these huge black spaces in between my clips.
So, yes, you can make a black space or an empty space in your clips, but be very careful of how you
now move things around, because if you've got a movie that's 10, 20, 30, 40 minutes long and you
start to do this stuff, you're going to end up actually creating more problems.
So let's get rid of this black space.
And that's a really simple method.
You right.
Click inside it and you say close the gap and you notice that all my movie clips jump back and I'm going
to do the same here.
I'm going to close that gap.
And I've just got this small space here now so I can kind of move that around.
Now, why would you want an empty space?
Well, let's say you wanted a title.
You could put it on top of that black space and then you'd end up with your clip again, so that's a
really fast way and really useful way of getting empty gaps or black spaces into your movie.
I'm going to close this one down.
Now, another question asked really quite often is how would I move one, two, three, four clips away?
Now, it could be, for whatever reason, that you have to move your video and its audio away in the
timeline so that you had to fit something in there.
So let's figure out how to move for movie clips at the same time.
Let me just close down this preview.
And so we've got our main window up here.
So, again, you can't just pick up a clip and move it because what you're going to end up doing is
creating problems.
And I've seen my students actually just pick up clips and move them.
And yes, it's really doable with four clips.
There's no real problem there.
But sometimes you make a movie and you could well end up with 100 clips.
So you're not going to go and do that to 75 clips.
You're just wasting your time there.
So what we're going to do, noticing that I still have my audio disabled because and I'll show you actually
the mistake I can make with that.
So what I'm going to do is, again, using my AI and Espeland, I'm going to now go into the main movie
window.
This is the main window where I'm editing and I'm going to press on in and then I'm going to press on
my keyboard.
Move it to the end and mark that as an out.
Now, what will happen is if I pick it up, all four movies will go.
Now you can see that again, if you've got a longer movie and you've got 20 clips, just mark and in
and an hour and they will all move in one go, it's really useful.
And I'm going to undo that all the way back now.
Let's do it in a while.
This might be useful, but for me, this would be a mistake because I've got this backing track, which
sounds really nice.
So what's going to happen is let me just clear my markers.
I'm going to again Mark and in and out do it in a different place now there.
And I'm going to just skip forward to and mark my out there.
Now, again, note that my audio is selected, so I've switched it on.
Now look what happens when I move it and I've actually cut the audio out.
Of the timeline now this might be useful for you, but in most cases, if you've got a backing track,
you want to disable it so that you're not cutting it apart when you're moving the actual movie clips
around.
So that's a really useful way of moving whole movie clips around without having to mess around and move
them one by one.
Another question that I'm asked more often than not is how do you cut a movie clip?
Now, I've mentioned this before in other videos, but I thought it'd be nice to actually single this
one out because it's a really useful thing to do because we're going to then do a freeze frame using
the same technique.
Again, I'm going to disable the audio and you should know by now when I disable the audio, what that
means is whatever action I'm doing on the film, I don't want to do that same action on the audio.
So let's just go forward.
I'm going to extend this horse maybe because I know it's a little bit longer term out there.
And let's say I want to go up to my horse movie and just cut it there again.
It's really easy because on my keyboard I'm just going to press see, and that's CIFOR cut.
And you can see I just cut my clip into two and then whatever I want to do here, I can move this around
or I can delete it or whatever I need to do.
So C is a really quick way of cutting a clip that you've got that you didn't do in and out properly.
Now we can use the see the cut shortcut to do some really cool thing.
Siletz, for example.
Go over here to.
The river, so if I play that.
You can see that the boats moving now, let's if I wanted to do a freeze frame now, what's a freeze
frame?
That means the video's playing, it pauses, the music will carry on playing, but the video will pause
as if somebody is pressed, pause and then after a time, it will unpause itself.
Now, this is really useful.
You see in some classic films where they'll pause the film and some voiceover will come and tell you
about the character or some situation.
So we're going to do a freeze frame.
That's really quite easy to do.
So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to play up to about here.
I'm going to see on my keyboard to create that cut.
Now, you can see I've created a cut here.
And what I'm going to do, you have to zoom in a little bit for for this to work is I'm going to on
my keyboard, just press with the left and right arrow keys.
You can see that the play had the red line moves.
Now, this is moving one frame and one frame is a very short amount of time.
So what we're going to do is just move it forward one frame and I'm going to press see again.
So I've done a one frame cut over here.
I'm going to right click inside.
I'm going to go to the speed and I'm going to set that to zero.
What that means is.
When it plays, it's absolutely still.
Now, what I can do is just move that a little bit forward till it's a few frames big, then I'm going
to zoom out so you can see what I've done.
I'll make that a little bit bigger so you can actually see it.
And there you go, so.
What's going to happen here is the boat's going to go.
It's going to freeze frame over here.
And then carry on going and of course, depending on what you're using the freeze frame for, you can
have it quite exaggerated where the boat will go and then at a certain moment, it will just freeze.
The voiceover will come talking about the boat, talking about the river, whatever the voice is going
to say, and by the end of the voiceover, the boat will continue to go.
This is a really useful thing to do, especially if you're doing presentations or things like that and
you really need the film to pause.
Let's just listen to that with the music on because it sound quite cool.
And you can see the music continues, but the picture doesn't, so it's a really useful technique for
you to make your films a little bit more special.
So that's using the sea and the speed of the clip to create these freeze frames.
No one really good use of the FREEZE-FRAME would be to put a title on top of it so that you get this
very stylish movie playing, posing with a title on top of it, and then imposing as if I were to show
you that really quickly.
If you don't know how to do titles or if what I'm doing is confusing, go and watch my titles video
Lefteris.
But a very simple title.
If I check my movie, it's of course that portion there, which is still.
So I'm going to take my.
Title and just throw it on top of their.
Put in some cool text like so, and as you know from my last video, you can really do anything you
want to do that takes there.
Now, if we go back to our edit, you'll see.
It's actually a really cool effect, so what we're going to do is we're going to have the boat coming
in.
And it's going to have the title as long as that steel frame is there.
So, of course, if I was to shorten it like so the title will only last as long as that steel frame.
And it's a really, really cool thing to do in your videos makes you kind of look more professional,
really sets your movie apart.
So there we have the basics to video.
We talked about the sea to cut, talked about an S on your keyboard to move backward and forward, talked
about black space, putting in and moving things around and getting rid of the black space and finally
freeze frames with turtles, a lot of them, just to make sure your videos look a lot more professional.