 Hell yeah, what's up guys this is Chris Pike my friends call me Big C. I'm back in action today We're back in HitFilm Express, and I'm gonna show you how to create a gaming montage or a video montage for free With transitions basically any type of gaming montage that you want to make I'm gonna show you how to do it Why are we doing it? We're using HitFilm Express first off because this is free software And this is a series for those of you that are new to YouTube or are thinking about getting started in YouTube Creating montages, especially using free software is a great way to start and get the ball rolling So let's just go with it. All right the first step here. I've got HitFilm Express open All right, we've downloaded installed it if you don't know how to do that Please refer to some of our other videos where we show you how to do it the next step I'm gonna go into my Windows Explorer, and I'm gonna select the gameplay videos or the gameplay footage that I want to use in the Montage so I've got these three League of Legends clips, and they don't nothing really special But again, I just want to show you the techniques I'm gonna select them and I'm gonna drag and drop them into the media window here over here So you'll see that I'm left clicked it dragged and dropped it into the media window The next step is I'm gonna select all three of these videos or all three of this footage And I'm gonna put it into the timelines I'm gonna drag and drop left click them and I'm just hovering it and I'm gonna hover so that the left side of the Video connects to the zero second of the playhead. So there we go I'm gonna drag and drop them in just like that now the next step You're gonna see here is it's gonna say the editor sequence needs to change you almost always want to click yes to this so I'm gonna left click and Select yes, so what's basically happened is is we've grabbed the footage dropped it into the media panel Pulled them out of the timeline and the timeline has now reset itself so that it knows exactly what the Settings are for these videos Okay now you're gonna see here I'm gonna grab this playhead and I can go ahead and scrub through so there's all of these different videos here The first one's very very short So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and now start thinking about what? Pieces or what video footage do I want to use in the actual? Montage and I'm gonna show you the techniques you don't need to do this necessarily because what with the videos that I've selected They're not very there's nothing special, but I'm gonna show you the techniques So what I'm gonna do first off is I'm just gonna zoom in a bit So I'm just gonna grab this little ball down here, and this is basically your zoom option and now I'm gonna show you the technique So let's say that for the first 12 seconds. I want to use this So this is footage that I'm going to keep okay, so I'm not gonna do anything I'm gonna leave it now I'm gonna move this playhead forward and I want to cut out the part where you sort of load up and You start up and you select your items, so this is stuff that I do not want to use So what I'm gonna do is I'm now I'm gonna go to the Toolbar here, and I'm gonna select this tool here. It is the slice tool I'm gonna left-click on the slice tool and now watch I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna hover over the playhead So where do I want to cut it right here, and I'm just gonna cut And what it does is we're just slicing footage. So watch this we've got the piece We want this we do not want this middle piece, and then we're gonna select the rest of it So for this piece that we don't want I'm gonna go back to the regular selection tool And I'm just gonna hover over this piece here, and I'm gonna select it I'm gonna right-click on it, and I'm going to remove it and now there's a gap So we've got some footage. We like there's a gap some footage. We like let's say I like this piece here right up to this point, but then I want to cut it So what comes after I'm not interested in so I'm gonna again go back to the slice tool And I'm gonna cut it right here Left-click so here we go. I'm gonna show you again now. We've got the footage. We like gap Footage we like and then we've got some footage that we don't want so what I'm gonna do next I'm gonna go back to the selection tool And what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna select this piece here that I do want and then I'm just gonna move it And I'm just gonna select it and move it so that they touch so it goes one And then it goes directly into the next piece. So let's see what we got here for more footage So let's say I don't want any of this footage here. This is all bunk But here's the next video and I want to take pieces from the next video. So here we go I'm gonna say from this point. I want this footage So I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna go back to the cut tool And I'm gonna cut it or slice it right here right on the line right where I hover the playhead and Now I'm gonna select the piece where I want it to stop. So I'm gonna go okay I like this Timo's doing his thing Right up to let's say right here where the explosion is I'm gonna cut that as well So I'm gonna select it. I'm gonna make another cut So let's now go back to the selection tool and what do we've got? We've got piece we want piece we want this next is pieces that we don't want So I'm gonna go ahead and select that and I'm gonna remove it Presto gone Now this piece here we want this piece right so you're gonna see here I'm just basically select going from the selection tool to the slice tool back to the selection tool That's really all there is to it I'm now gonna select this piece and I'm going to move it so that they touch So here we go and I'm gonna just go ahead and I mean you can keep doing this forever if you want I'm gonna zoom out. I'm gonna delete this because I don't need it. This is just to show you the technique So here we go. We've got it. I hit play it does a few seconds of Timo stuff or NASA's part of me I'm gonna hit play again All right now watch it's gonna go into the next piece and then that plays for a bit and then we hit spacebar again And then it's gonna go into the next piece of footage right about now Presto That is all you need to know to make a montage now. I'll continue a few more seconds here I'm gonna show you how to add basic transitions between this as well because a lot of people like to add in fancy transitions Simple transitions if you add in no transitions, this is called a jump cut So you're jumping from one scene this scene here To that scene and there's nothing trans there's no transition between it if you want to add in transitions Let me show you how to do it very very quickly. All right, everybody the last thing I'll show you is how to add a transition into your montage again. This is also a free technique Let me show you how to do it. The first thing you want to do is you're gonna go over here to your effects Window and when you do that you're gonna probably see this Let me show you what you'll see originally you'll see this and then if you go ahead and scroll down to the Near to the bottom you're gonna see transitions Video left click on that chevron and when you do that you're gonna see a few different options You're gonna see dissolves motions wiped zooms the one in this video I'm gonna show you is the dissolve or the cross dissolve But do keep in mind that there are a number of different transitions And you can definitely experiment with them and try them out all of these transitions are free other than the ones that say add-on So let's go ahead and do that the first one I'm thing you're gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and zoom in a little bit so I'm gonna zoom in just so you can see what I'm doing here, so I'm zoomed in and This right here is where the two Clips are attached. So this is where they're joined basically So this is where we made the cut so we're gonna left click on cross dissolve and we're gonna drag it And we're gonna drag it right on top of the two clips and when you do that you're gonna see this little cross dissolve blue transition thingy-dingy and It's basically telling you that you've added a transition and if you look really closely you're gonna see that half The transition is on the original clip or the first clip and half the transition is on the second clip So let's see what this looks like. I'm just gonna go ahead and get close to it and then I'm gonna hit spacebar to preview Bingo, there you go. You've got a transition and that is a dissolved transition Now if you wanted to add an additive dissolve for example I'm gonna drag and drop that one and I'm gonna drop that one here And then now we've got a second type of transition and again I'm just zooming in here and this is where the transition starts. Let's see what this guy looks like Yeah, boy, so there you go. You see it's a different type of transition So that is all there is to it to adding in your gaming footage Kind of get up into the sections that you want And then you basically Contract them and you push them together and then after that you have the option if you don't like the jump cut look To go into the free transitions and select a transition and go ahead and add that on top of it That's all you need to know to create video game or gaming montages in hit film express for free Thanks for watching tutorial ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned. Be back soon