All language subtitles for 8. Importing media into the project panel. Best practices

Now, with any video editing project, obviously, you have to bring files into the video editor and

info Maurer, as I suppose it is in pretty much any video editor.

It is actually quite simple to bring the files in or what is commonly referred to importing media files.

So you may have already figured out that all you need to do is just click on this icon here, and this

will begin the process of bringing the files in that you want to edit.

Now, within for more of it's actually quite a few ways of doing this, I think is about five or six.

So I'll quickly run through them with you.

So, first of all, get rid of this.

So that's step number one.

You can just click on this icon here.

You can also hold them control and press eye on your keyboard.

And I think on an Apple computer control is the command key.

But don't hold me to that because I've never really owned a Mac or an Apple product or anything like

that, but I think it's the command key.

Another way is just to come up to file here, and then you can click on import media and we have import

media files here.

Another method is to come to this dropdown here, and it's very similar to what we just looked at just

a second ago.

We have these four options here.

So needless to say, there's quite a few ways of bringing files into the.

But anyway, as a first step, I would like you to do this.

Just click on this icon here and within the project files.

I would like you to navigate to the wildlife folder and basically just click hold and drag of all of

these files here and then click Open.

Now, once you have your files in here, there's a few things you can do just to manage them a little

bit better.

So starting with this icon here we have three options.

So we, first of all, have the view option where we can choose how large he wants or small.

We want our thumbnails to be.

So at the moment it's set to small.

But if you've only got a few files that maybe you'd want to put this on the large setting.

And then also, you have these two options here, so we have grouped by so you can group by dates created

and camera name, et cetera.

But one of the options I find quite useful and I usually have it on the setting anyway is just having

duration ticked and then having this in ascending order.

And with this like this, I know that the top clip is going to be the shortest clip.

So if I just hover over this clip here of Caterpillar video in number five, the Clippers six seconds

long, I can see that.

And if I come to the last clip here, which is the sunrise slash sunset, it has 14 seconds long, so

I find that pretty useful.

Now, if you have a whole load of clips in your project panel in this area here is called the project

panel and you know the name of the video and you're trying to find it somehow.

You can quite easily just come to search media.

Type in your key word and press enter.

And if the files in here, it will show up now to go back to the way it was before.

What you have to do is you can just access here and as you can see, it doesn't actually go back to

its former setting.

What you have to do is just click on social, sorry, shared media and then come to project media and

click on this and then everything will be restored.

So when it comes to importing, there's a few other options when it comes to while importing.

You can come to this dropdown here.

You're already familiar with this one here, just importing media files, which is what we've just done.

But you also have import a media from a media folder.

So if I were to click on this, this window would show up and obviously you would just navigate to the

folder that you would like to import into for Mora.

So here is the film or a project.

And basically, I can just click on wildlife.

And if I were to click OK, I've never really done this before, maybe it would reload all of these

clips.

But if the project panel was empty, then I suppose all of the clips within this wildlife folder would

just get imported into the project panel.

But I don't need to do that, so I sat there.

And then there is importing from a camera or a phone.

So earlier, I just experimented with this by putting my DCS what's called DSLR camera into my computer

just to see how this works.

I never really done this before with Phil Morrow, and I basically just got this screenshot of what

it looks like.

I had to do this because it was conflicting with my microphone, so I couldn't actually click on this

option and record at the same time, funnily enough.

So anyway, here's the screenshots.

All you'd have to do is just choose your device.

All of your files would load up and you can just choose which follows you want to import from your device

and then click Import or slash, OK, or whatever the main button is.

Then finally, you have import with auto highlight.

I'll click on this, and what I can do is I can just click on import and I'll just choose one of these

files.

This the Cisco for the Giraffe VIDEO And I'll click open.

And here we have this dropdown now.

It says, sorry, there is some defaults.

Here we have the 15 second Tik Tok video 60 seconds for YouTube shorts.

So these, by default, would trim the video to the first 15 seconds, while the stick top one, the

tick tock one would do that anyway.

And then we have the YouTube shorts with obviously cut the video down to 60 seconds, the first 60 seconds.

But obviously that's not really relevant here because the video is only 12 seconds long.

But what I can do is I can click on custom and let's say if I just wanted the first six seconds of this

video.

I can get rid of that one there and put second six seconds in here and I'll click Extract.

I'll let it do its business, and straightaway the file has gone into the video editor here.

So this is something we'll visit later on in the course, but for now, I'm just going to.

Select all of these clips and I'll press delete.

Now, one last thing, if he wants to preview any of these clips, all you have to do is just double

click on one of them and it will preview here in the preview window on the right.

So the next day I want to cover can make or break your video editing experience, and that is just making

sure you have the right settings set for your preview window.

Now, my computer's pretty decent.

It's pretty up to date and it can run some quite large files and quite a large number of them at the

same time as well.

So I can set my preview window to full if I wanted to, but typically I would just leave it on half

on the half resolution so that it really does run quite smoothly.

So depending on how powerful your computer is, you may want to set this to a setting that best suits

your computer so that you can get the best video editing experience.

And all I did there to get rid of it was just click at the top of the timeline here and it will go away.

OK, so that's just a basic overview of how to import your media files into Filmore.

So now we're going to move on and we're going to start covering this area here, which is known as the

timeline.

And I suppose this is where all of the magic happens.

So I'll see you in the next tutorial.