 Hell yeah, what's up guys, this is Chris Pike. My friends, come a big see back in action today. I'm gonna show you how to place images, pop them up inside HitFilm Express. HitFilm Express, if you've been following along, is in my opinion, the best free video editor on the market. And why are we doing this? Very simple. For those of you that are just getting started to YouTube or you're even thinking about becoming a YouTuber and you wanna learn how to video edit and you don't have a lot of money to spend, you wanna learn how to do it free and you wanna get good at it, guys, freedom's gonna help you from step A to step Z, all right, or Z, depending on however the heck you say it. So we're gonna take you front to back everything. In this video, again, we're gonna show you how to place images. I'm gonna show you how to resize them, reposition them, and just the basics of that and how to determine, I mean, how to change how long they're viewable for. So pop up like, yeah, 90s pop up video. Here's an example, I've got some footage here, as you'll see, I've got a background video here of me just getting ready to play League of Legends. And then at the eight second mark, this puppy dog who has been talking to, has been talking to your customers and he doesn't really understand anything, she's pretty cute, she pops in. How did I do that? Very simple, let's go step by step. I'm gonna go ahead and delete that image. So I'm just gonna right click on it and I'm gonna go from the beginning. So I'm gonna go left click, remove, after I've right clicked and then I'm just gonna go over here, right click and I am going to remove it. Okay, good. So we've got some footage loaded into our timeline. The next step is I'm gonna left click on my explorer here and I've got an image that I wanna use. Let's say we're gonna use the same image. Left click on the image, drag and drop it in here to the media, basically into the media window or the media bin, depending on what you wanna call it. All right, good stuff. And you'll see here in the trimmer that we've got a picture of her. All right, good stuff. All right, the next step here is an important one is you wanna take the play head and you wanna place the play head basically where you want that image to go. So let's say if I'm at the eight second mark is where I want this image to pop in. So I placed a play head there, left clicking on the puppy dog or space and I'm going to drag and drop but I'm going to drag and drop this into video track two and I missed. So I'm gonna make sure that it's lined up, left aligned to the play head. So at the eight second mark, this picture comes in. You'll also again see video track two. That's important because if you drop it on to video track one and I'll do that just to show you, watch, it actually overwrites the footage and we do not want that. So I'm gonna hit Control Z to undo that but this is a very important thing if you're looking to work with images. Okay, I'm also gonna increase the size here so the track's a little bigger so we can see what's going on. And all right, good enough. Okay, so we've got this picture and we've got the dogger in and the dogger comes in at eight seconds and exits at basically at 11, not 1030. So it's basically in there for like two and a half seconds. Let's go over a few other things. First one, let's say you only want this image in for like two seconds. It's a bit too long and you'd only wanna see it for a short period of time. What you do is you take the play head to where you don't wanna see the image anymore. So let's say I want it from the eight second mark to right about here. I'm now gonna hover over on the right side or on the right edge there and I'm just gonna trim it. So there we go. So now the image, when I hit space bar, watch it comes in and it goes out and it's on video track too, like I said. Let's go ahead and look at a few other options. I'm gonna go ahead and hover over it. Gonna left click on it and then you're gonna see here it's got some arrows and it's got a blue square. Before I show you what those do, I will let you know that we can go ahead and just move it. So just left click on it like I did there and then let's say I wanna move it to the bottom left of the screen. Something like that. Okay, good enough. You can move it using these red and green arrows but there's no real point. I'm just gonna go ahead and move it the old fashioned way. Now I'm also gonna go ahead and show you how to resize it to resize this image because let's say it's a little bit too big and you just want it to be small. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna hover over top of it making sure you're selected the image, hover over top of it and you'll see the square or the blue rectangle up at the top right there. It will get filled in with blue. That basically means that it's now selected and it's live. So I'm gonna left click on it. I'm gonna hold down the shift key and I'm just gonna decrease the size. So I'm gonna say, okay, maybe that's the size that I want the image for this one. So again, just left click on it and just pull it in so that it decreases in size. I'm gonna now move that to the bottom left and it's starting to look like something that I wanna see. So let's go ahead and see what we got now. Outside, puppy dog pops in, puppy dog pops out. This is very, very good for those of you that wanna increase your production value and for those of you that wanna add humor to your videos. By having funny videos and images pop up, it can keep people interested in your video and increase the amount of time they watch it and that is a metric that YouTube greatly values. So adding in funny stuff like this is very good technique. All right, so we've got them. We've put the puppy dog, we've added them in. We're pretty much cooking. There are a few exceptions. I wanna show you one other thing here. While I got you, you're gonna see over here it says 42.5%. What this basically means is that right now it's fit screen. So this is the entire screen. If I wanna go ahead and make this, let's say 25%, you'll see here that there's a bunch of outside the box area, so to speak. What you can do is you can increase the size of this. So if I wanna adjust the puppy dog in the shot like this, I change this to 25%. I increase the size, I reposition it, but in order to see this correctly, you need to basically zoom out. So I zoomed out to 25%, but what you need to do, well, it's different for everybody. But in this case, now we've got the puppy dog and that would be the only thing on the shot. So let's go ahead and go back to scale to fit. No, didn't wanna do that. Yeah, actually I did. That looks just fine. Let's go ahead now and watch. Left click, puppy dog pops up, back in. I'm gonna show you how to animate this and do a few other tricks, add some strokes, add text and stuff like that in a future video, but this is a great way to increase your production value, add some comedy, add some humor to your videos, and again, do it for free. That's all I got for this tutorial. Ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned, be back soon.