We're going to take a look at now is Windows 11 video editor.
Now it's not the most complex of video editing software, but for quick videos it is perfect.
So let's just go ahead and open up the video editor, succumb to the search magnifying glass here and
just type in video editor.
And here it is, and we'll open this.
Now there's a few projects here I've already worked on, but I'm not going to open any of these.
What I need you to do is open up a new video project.
And at this point, you can name your project.
So think of any name you want.
But I'm going to call it the ocean, and I'm going to have to call it the ocean number three, because
I think I already have another two projects called the ocean or something like that.
But you can call it whatever you like and then click, OK.
I don't actually like this dark theme, so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to minimize this and
I'm going to go to right click personalize.
I just have the brighter theme, so let's just go for this one hit.
I think that's much better.
OK, so back in the video, Ed, now before this tutorial, there was an article that allowed you to
download a video.
And what I want to do with that video is really shorten it down to a video less than 30 seconds long,
and I've got a quick preview of what we're going to create.
Now, it's quite a simple video in its nature.
There's nothing complex about it.
But by the end of this tutorial, you should have a good understanding of how to use this editor.
So let's just quickly take a look at this video.
OK, so the first thing to do is to put the video in this area here.
The project library, so I'll go to add.
And we'll go to from this PC, and we'll you'll have to do what you have to go locate that video that
you downloaded, it might be in your downloads folder, which will be here.
But as for me, the video itself is.
Right here.
So I'll select it and I'll click open.
And now we get to go.
So with regard to this area here, there's only a few tools.
You have the general layout of what you want your files to look at, and there's only two options to
choose from.
There's the smaller icons and then the larger ones.
In fact, I don't think they're called icons, maybe thumbnails or something like that.
I prefer the smaller ones.
And then there's delete, and then there is placed in storyboard.
But what I can do is just click, hold and drag down onto the first square here, which is exactly the
same as placing it in the storyboard.
All right, so we have the video fully loaded now.
Now one tool I'm going to show you, but we're not actually going to use it to build the video itself
is going to be the split tool.
So I'll quickly introduce you to this tool and how it works.
It is pretty straightforward.
So with our video in our timeline here.
Also known as the storyboard, I can select it and I'll go to split.
And what are we going to be doing here is splitting the video into, so I'm going to split the video
at about the 22nd mark, so roughly around here.
And it tells me, OK.
Clip one will be over 20 seconds or around 20 seconds, and Clip two will be three minutes long.
So I'll click done.
Now we've ended up with two clips in our storyboard.
We have the 20 second clip and the the clip that is just over three minutes.
So Dan, if you could see what happened there, we actually subtracted 20 seconds from the original
clip because as you can see with the original clip, it's actually three minutes and 21 seconds long.
So let's just do that one more time.
So you understand it.
I'll select it.
I'll come to split.
And this time I'm going to split the video at the one minute mark, and that should leave us with one
clip of which is one minute long.
And then the second clip is two minutes.
So now I'll clip our main video, which is this video here has been split in three places.
Now, if I really wants to, I could click hold and drag this onto our storyboard and carry on cutting
it as I wish.
I should rather say splitting it.
But I'm not going to do that because I don't have push by my computer too far.
I think it's already struggling a little bit.
OK, so that's how the split tool works.
But like I said, we're going to focus mostly on the trim tool to make this video.
So let's get rid of these video clips.
You can select them.
And then just go to delete.
And once again, I'm going to click, hold and drag the video into the storyboard.
And before we go any further with regard to editing this video clip here.
I'm going to add a title card now.
I could see it's actually struggling a little bit here to load the video like at the beginning.
So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to delete it and drag it back in.
And this sometimes works.
There you go.
So it worked.
So I forget my train of thoughts now.
OK, so what are we going to do?
Is we going to add a title card before we actually move on to trimming this video itself and making
the video?
So I'm going to click on Add Title Card.
And we end up with this sort of pink slide.
Now you notice when I click on the video itself, we have all of these options show up.
But when I click on the pink slide itself, we only have a few options now with regards to the title
card.
It's more about text than anything else.
And you can choose the duration of your title card.
So if I click on this, I can have these time settings here, or I can choose my own time setting.
I can add another title card.
You can also add a background so you have these different color themes.
And you have a color picker here as well.
So let's go for maybe this color here.
I'll click OK, and I'll click done.
Now, when it comes to text, and I've just got to make sure that this is actually selected, I'll come
to text and know what I'm going to do is I'm just going to type in.
The word today, and I'm going to choose the animated style itself and the one I used in the original
video is this one here?
And once you've done that, you can choose the layout, so how it's actually going to be laid out in
the clip itself.
So there's a few options, but the one I chose in the video is this one here now with this slider down
at the bottom?
You can choose when you want this animated text to actually come in.
So we have a three second clip, as you can see here.
If I move the slider to about half way, it means that this animation will show at about the 1.5 second
mark.
But what I want to do is have the animation show straight away.
The text animation.
So I'll click done a sorry.
I want the text animation to show right the way through the whole clip, so click done at this point.
I just remember again, you can come to duration, and if you really want to, you can change this to
maybe five seconds or something like that.
And if I come back to text now, you can see we have this extra two seconds, so I'd have to edit this
and drag it out so that the whole thing covers five seconds.
But what I want to do is just keep it at around this, the three second mark, and it was going to keep
this at three seconds.
I don't want any more than that.
I'll just double check to make sure that this is all the way.
OK, that's fine.
Actually, what did I do there?
OK, that's better.
Now, if I were to click play.
So I'll click on the first clip here.
You see, we have the animation for three seconds and then we move into the larger video.
OK, so let's take care of the larger video.
So like I said before, we're not going to be using Split.
We're going to be using mostly trim.
So with this clip selected, I'll come to trim.
And what I'm going to do is I'm just going to have this first clip here where it's the boat, whatever
it is, is moving along the water along the ocean's edge there.
And all I want is to have the the sorry, the first five seconds of this clip.
So roughly around five seconds.
And you can see as I move around, we do have a timer here telling us how long the duration is.
So click done.
And now we have a five second clip of this boat moving along the water and filming the cliff side here.
So there you go.
This clips about five seconds.
OK, that's perfect now what I'm going to do is because I need more material to trim.
I'm going to go get the clip once again.
The larger clip and drag it into my storyboard, I'll select it and come to trim.
And with these drag handles here, I'm looking for my second view, which I know is the sort of sort
of bird's eye view right here.
And all I want is just to have this for about seven seconds.
So looking at that timer in between my drag handles here.
I think that's perfect.
So now I can click done, and I have this clip here and once again, without even looking at it and
where to click and sorry, click hold and drag the clip back into my storyboard.
I'll select it and I'll come to trim.
And I think it was this rock on the ocean side right here that I want, and I only want this for about
five seconds.
So again, looking at those figures?
I won it for about five seconds.
They go, I'll click done that, Clippers done.
And then finally, the last one is going to be.
I think it was this sort of this camera moving up, looking down on this big rock or something like
that.
So anyway, I'll select the clip.
I'll come to trim and I'm going to just look for that clip.
But here it is right here.