 family and took some video and I thought it'd be a good opportunity just to do an example video. So I've imported all the clips from that I took and I've already picked out music I think that will go well with it. So the first thing I'll do is drag the music down here. I'm going to have this track be my mute tracks, I'm not sure if I'm going to use any of the audio. There will probably be maybe some few clips in here that I might use. Other than that I'm just going to grab my clips and drag them down here. You see it's not very long. Again especially with home of videos you really don't want them. They don't need to be long. People don't want to sit there and watch long home movies. This one's going to be about 40 seconds. People watch a 40 second video, enjoy it, it gives you memories and just kind of goes over everything that happened. So most of my clips, again I usually try to keep them around 3 or 4 seconds if not shorter unless it's a long panning view or my first clip like this one's still only 3 seconds. It looks like about 4 seconds. I make that the first clip and the last clip if possible longer so that I can have them fade in and fade out. Sometimes though like this example here, I was out with the family, we have two kids, we're walking on a hard trail, I had to push the stroller back so I never actually got a final shot. So I might use one of my, I took a few panning shots here in the middle and I might move one of those to the end. But let's go ahead, I'm going to just go ahead and I can actually grab the corner here and pull this out and now that will fade in. So let's see. Now you'll notice I film stuff thinking about how it's going to be edited. I purposely filmed these 3 shots in a row, actually 4 shots in a row that go together. So my daughter running towards me, I told her to come running towards me. I stopped the camera there, quickly turned around and started recording again and then I told her to stop and I came up next to her and told her to go look at the water and that's how I got these 2 shots. So you don't always have a little chance to direct but if you can, your kids will listen to you. Don't give them too many instructions but run towards me was the first 2 shots and I said stop, wait, I walked up, I said now come running over to this little railing and she did that and I got the next 2 shots. I think that's the only parts that I actually gave any direction to but it made for good shots. Okay next I have this shot over the water which is kind of a longer shot and I don't always do this but I might make that a fade so I can press M on my keyboard here and that will drag all these clips over as to go back to select and fade. We'll see how that looks but I'm also going to want to mute this so I'm going to just search mute up here with this clip selected and mute it because I have no audio on this track but I might use these tracks for audio so let's see how that looks. I think that looked good and I put the shot of the family stand there, I got the whole family looking around and again this shot's a little longer because it's a panning shot and I pan down from the sky there and so that might be another good place to have another fade effect. Most time I don't use too many fade effects but sometimes with shots like this they come in handy so let's see how that looks. Oh, I've got to mute that clip because there's really no need for any of the audio here except for in this shot here I think my daughter says something which now that I think about it I might move one of these shots to the end again. Sometimes you can also duplicate shots and people won't realize it so let's have a look. So I think that looked good I don't need to pan that part fade that part though so let's move these back over okay so from there fade to the trees coming down again my daughter running some come by the hardest part about filming stuff like this is getting in front of the family then getting behind the family then getting in front of them again I do quite a bit of running okay so that's this last shot my daughter's talking that actually might be a good shot with some audio so let's go ahead and type in here fade I'm gonna fade in that will fade the audio in here so let's see how this goes so there she says something but the audio is kind of out so let's add some video or some volume effects to this so volume key frame will to the audio down here and I'm just gonna add a key frame which we can see right here I'm gonna move it here add in a another key frame I'm gonna go here and this will lower the volume from here to here so let's see how that works out I lowered it way too much way too fast so let's go back up a little bit so it's nice to have a little audio clips like that occasionally even though it might take be a little out of place with the rest of video but you want to have those memories when it comes to home videos so let's go ahead and it still might be too low but let's hear it again so what I can do here is I can go with using this arrow key go to that frame you can see it sets a negative 20 decibels let's make it only go down 10 and see how that sounds so that was a pretty good volume there and I might want to come back up for an end title shot real quick I'm gonna save this project I'm just gonna call it Rook because we're at a place called Rookery Bay and I'm not gonna do anything fancy with the title shots here I'm just going to go add title clip I want to have a black background and I'm going to go and let's make text 75 sounds good and we can pick a different font if we really want but try to keep it somewhat simple it's just gonna be a simple we'll just do that that and we'll say Rookery Bay and it was August sometimes I put date sometimes I just put the month I forget what day this was it was a couple days ago so I'm just gonna say August 2016 just so I remember that anytime I'm going to center that text center center boom now again I can be a little fancy with this since the text is so plain I can do animation and I can say edit start and stop and what I'll do here is I'll just grab one of them and I'll drag it in a little bit just a little bit probably right like that and then I will center that center center and so I start it's clicked at the start so the camera's gonna zoom out so it's gonna look like the words are going away from the camera if I'm thinking of that correctly what I'll do is I'll bring that over here and let me go back into the clip here show background background 255 that will make sure we have the black background rather than the transparent background will be whatever color you put here which I'm going to go with black so now I can fade in we want that audio to fade out so we'll say fade make sure we have that clip selected fade out you can see the text slowly moves back a little bit here I'm gonna drag our audio out a little bit more and I'm gonna add a second title clip because this is Creative Commons music with attribution so I have to say music my Josh Woodward we will center that text center it on the screen and it's kind of large so let's go ahead and put it down to 50 and center it again center center okay now I will say sometimes you got to check sometimes again I think the glitchiest thing in Caden live is the title clip editor and sometimes you center stuff and then you go out and it's not centered this time it did center just always double-check that and so I'm gonna have I'm gonna have this clip fade to black and this one will fade from and to black I'll make the this clip let's shorten the fade from two seconds down to one second on all of these the default is about two seconds they'll make it about one second and I'm also going to come here and I'm going to set a new keyframe for the volume here usually I don't do this much with the volume and actually I'm gonna move this over just a bit like that add another keyframe and I'm going to move it back up to zero decibels so it has no it's its default volume there so it should fade a little low while my daughter's talking and then fade back up and then we can use the keyframes again or we can just drag this here and that will be a fade out so let's see how that sounds and I'm hit control s to save good to save regularly shark swimming to get you sometimes I like to have the audio not end right on the video either a second or two before or have it go a second or two after I just did it like I'm probably about a second before there but that's it and that's probably more complicated than most my home videos because normally I don't do all these you know like these two transition fades up here but most the other stuff is basically what I do and so I'm going to render this out and I'll put a link in the description or an annotation on the screen to where you can watch the rendered out video I thank you for watching I hope you're enjoying this bit these videos I hope you're you're learning the king lives actually a very useful very well rounded tool for at least basic video editing and yes you can do some basic special effects with them that's when it might get a little itchy but we'll get into that in the coming weeks we've already done a little bit on compositing but again thank you for watching if you enjoy these videos please films by Chris calm that's Chris of the K there should be a link in a description there you can search through all my videos from both my channels also check out my patreon page patreon.com forward slash metal x1000 there's a link to that in the description as well they come and support my videos with as little as a dollar a month if you can't afford a dollar a 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