Guide for Video Editing

If you've edited a few videos but have always wanted to step up your game and learn to edit with professional software, now's your chance. We'll be taking a dive into the basics of professional video editing software all week. First up: a look at editing environments, the purpose of everything on your screen, and how to do a few basic operations. HEY YOU! This is going to be a little intimidating at first if you have zero to little experience with professional editing software. Don't worry. This first lesson is here to get you acquainted with all the stuff you see on your screen, explain how a few things work, and get you more comfortable before actually doing much of anything. In subsequent lessons, we'll look at creating a project from scratch, color correction, effects, and more. Video editing with professional software is actually very easy but it's just intimidating because of all the buttons and options. Once you know what things are and have the basics down, you'll be able to do all sorts of great things. While these lessons will deal primarily with Final Cut Pro, we'll also be exploring Adobe Premiere as a means of demonstrating how the lessons are really applicable to pretty much and professional video editing software. Even if you're not using Final Cut Pro, stick with it as we'll be addressing concepts and techniques that are useful in pretty much any editing program.