Start Your Video Editing Journey With Kdenlive

Beginner's Guide to Video Editing with Open Source Software

What you'll learn

Crop and Trim Video Clips To Remove Errors and Produce Quality Video

Combine Images and Multiple Video Clips to Create a Spectacular Video

Synchronize Audio and Add Voiceovers Within Kdenlive

Add Saturation, Contrast, and Sharpness to Your Video

Requirements

There is no experience required for this course, but students should have a basic level of computer literacy including installing programs.

Students should also have access to a computer with the ability to download and install Kdenlive.

Description

Welcome to the course on video editing with Kdenlive. If you have always wanted to learn video editing but didn't know where to start or didn't want to invest in expensive video editing software, this is the course for you! This course is designed for beginners and will help you start your video editing journey. I teach this course in a slow but steady approach where I give multiple examples to help you understand the concepts. Some of the things you will learn in this course include:What Will I Learn?How to crop, trim, and rearrange video clipsEnhancing your videos with special effectsCorrecting audio and video quality issues with Kdenlive's powerful effects featuresAdding voice-overs and narrations to your video projectsTracking objects on screen and animating your clipsAdding transitions, blurring portions of the screen, and extracting audio from clipsWhat Video Editor Will I Use?This course is different than many other video editing courses because you will learn to edit videos with Kdenlive. Kdenlive is a full-featured video editor that is free and open source. Unlike other video editing software, Kdenlive does not have an upfront cost or monthly subscription of any kind. This makes it perfect for people who are trying out video editing and aren't yet ready to make a large investment in software. Kdenlive is also not a trial version which means that there are no length limitations on the video clips you can export, and there are no watermarks. Who Is This Course For?This course is primarily designed for beginners who want to start editing video with free and open source software. It is also designed for more experienced video editors who are transitioning from other video editors and want to learn the basics of Kdenlive. Who Should NOT Take This Course?This course is designed for people who are relatively new to video editing, and more advanced users will be better served by other courses.

Overview

Section 1: Getting Started

Lecture 1 Welcome To The Course and What To Expect

Lecture 2 Installing and Customizing Kdenlive Workspace

Section 2: Basics of Video Editing

Lecture 3 Welome To Section 1

Lecture 4 Basic Editing in Kdenlive

Lecture 5 Reordering Clips in Kdenlive

Lecture 6 Two Ways of Cropping Video

Lecture 7 Saturation, Exposure, Contrast, and Shapness - Making Your Video Pop!

Lecture 8 Adding Images to Video

Lecture 9 Blurring Out Portions of a Video

Lecture 10 Adding Video Transitions

Lecture 11 Adding Video Transparency

Section 3: Intermediate Video Editing

Lecture 12 Welcome to Section 2

Lecture 13 Animiating and Moving Objects on Screen

Lecture 14 Rotating Video

Lecture 15 Motion Tracking Objects In Video

Lecture 16 Green Screen Effects

Lecture 17 Editing Audio in Kdenlive

Lecture 18 Adding Voice over in Kdenlive

Lecture 19 Synchronize Audio

Lecture 20 Combining Multiple Clips to A Single Video

Lecture 21 Extract Audio from Video and Rendering Each Frame as Image

Lecture 22 Course Summary

Lecture 23 Why Use Kdenlive?

Lecture 24 General Tips

This course is for people who are new to video editing and want to try out video editing while also using open source software. This course teaches the basics of Kdenlive and some intermediate features and is designed to be beginner friendly. More advanced video editing users may find the cours useful if they are transfering to Kdenlive from another video editor.