All language subtitles for 9. Introduction to the Filmora interface

So as I mentioned in the previous tutorial, I was now going to cover the timeline area, which is this

area here at the bottom.

So if you haven't already done so, please import all of the media files from the wildlife folder and

you should know how to do that because I just showed you in the previous tutorial.

And what I would like you to do first and foremost, if you really want to follow along is just take

one of these clips.

So let's just go for the zebra video to clip here and click and drag and pull it into the timeline.

Now, when you do this the first time, you may get this little pop up show up asking if you want to

keep the settings for your video clips or match the project settings.

In this particular instance, I would just recommend that you click on the left hand option.

It should be be a green highlighted button, and you will just keep the same settings for all of these

clips.

Now, when you put a clip into the timeline, you may notice that this line above might be red.

And if this line is red, basically it's just telling you that the clip needs to be rendered.

So what happens if you don't render your clip?

Well, what I could do is I can just move this red thing over to my clip here and I'll press the spacebar.

And basically, we get a preview of what this clip is, and if this line is in the red.

You may find that the video clip doesn't play all that smoothly.

So basically what we have to do is we have to select the clip and press enter on our keyboard.

And actually, because this is green, I'm going to bring in bring in a different video.

So I'll bring in this deer video here.

OK, it's red.

Cool.

So select this clip here by clicking on it, and I'll press enter.

And you can see a little bit of magic happened there.

And now we have this Green Line.

So the clip should run nice and smoothly.

Now typically, I don't render the clips unless I have a lot of clips in my timeline because my computer

is quite fast anyway.

But nonetheless, if it's quite slow, you could just select that clip or multiple clips if you wanted

like this and press enter on your keyboard.

Now, if enter doesn't work, what you can do is once again just select the clip or however many clips

you want to render, come to file and then come to render preview minus greatness at the moment, because

these two clips are already rendered.

But basically, this should be available for you to click.

So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to select this clip here, and I'll press delete on my keyboard.

Now, this red thing that I've referred to as the red thing earlier on.

This is actually called a time line indicator.

Now there's quite a few names out there for this tool, but I think the more common name is just the

time line indicator.

So what I can do with this is I can move this over my clip, and that's how I wanted to.

I don't know, separate this at around maybe the seven second mark, so what I'll have to do is I just

have to click, hold and drag and pull this to the far left so that the figures are more accurate.

I'll move the timeline indicator onto the clip, and I'm looking for around the seven second mark.

So that will do there.

And what I can do is I can just click on this scissor icon here to split the clip, and you can also

click on the icon here, which does the same thing and is also a keyboard shortcuts, which is controlled

plus b, which is the shortcut I usually use when I have a lot of cutting to do.

But in this case, I'll just click on the scissor icon here.

And as you can see, the clip has now been cut in that position.

And what I'm going to do is I'm going to select all of these clips by click holding and dragging over

them, and we'll bring them into the center just so you can get a clear view of them.

And what I can do now is I can click on this clip and I'll click and drag and pull it to the right.

And if I really want to, I can select it and press delete.

Now, let's say later on down the line, if I really wanted to have this full clip restored.

Well, there's actually a few ways of doing this.

I could if I want to just go get the original zebra video clip and click and drag and pull that back

into the timeline once again.

Or I could do this.

I could get the original clip and just hover over the right hand side edge of it and click hold and

drag to the right.

And as you can see, the clip has now been fully restored to its full duration.

So that's how that works.

Now what I'll do is I'll just go get another clip.

So let's go for the giraffe clip.

And as you can see, it needs to be rendered, so I'm going to select it and I'll press enter.

OK, so you'll notice when dealing with these clips, there seems to be this magnetic effect happening.

So I'm click holding it, dragging this clip along and all of a sudden.

It is attracted to the timeline indicator, and then I'll do it once again, I'll move it to the left.

And as you can see, it quickly snaps to this other clip here.

So this is a snapping feature and basically to turn this on or off, you can just right click and disable

it here.

So I'll do that.

But when it comes to doing this, it makes life a little bit more difficult because you kind of have

to be really accurate when it comes to placing the clips on the timeline.

So typically, I like to keep it enabled.

Now you notice that there's the space in between these two clips and instead of having to click, hold

and drag and pull my clip over to the left here, if I want to get rid of that space, all I'd have

to do is just select the space in between.

So click on the blank space.

I'll hold down shift and our press delete, and that will quickly get rid of that space there.

So now what are we going to do is I'm just going to select these clips now, pull them over to the left

like this and I'm going to go get a few more clips.

So get these three here.

And I'll go and get the sunrise as well.

And I think I've got two up here.

In fact, I've got a picture here as well, which is a bit of a local that I put together.

OK, so what quite a few more.

Quite a few clips in here.

What I'll do is I'll just click and drag on the spa here and move to the right and just to fill up the

timeline even more, I'm going to drag in the zebra clip again.

And also the giraffe clip.

Now, as you are working in Phil Morrow, you may find that it's quite hard to get the sort of bird's

eye view of everything that's going on in the timeline.

So basically, you have to zoom out now.

Believe it or not, there's actually about five or six different methods of doing this.

First and foremost, and I'd say, this is probably one of the easiest things you can do is just to

click on these Zoom to fit icon here, this icon here.

And as you can see, we've quickly squeezed all of the video clips into the timeline so that we can

see all of them in one go.

So that's pretty handy.

You also have the slider here.

They can move to the right and to the left.

And as you can see, I'm adjusting the zooming functionality of the timeline.

And of course, you can just click on these buttons here as well.

Another thing you can do.

You can hold down control and press plus or minus on your keyboard.

You can also hold down control and scroll forward and backwards on your mouse, on your mouse.

Like this, but one of the easier methods I find is just to hover over the top of the timeline here

until you get this double arrow icon and click hold and drag and pull to the right.

Or you can pull to the left.

I find this the easiest thing that I can do.

OK, so that's everything I wanted to show you in the timeline for now.

Now don't worry if you feel like actually, I'm not going to remember all of this as we go through the

course, I'm going to keep revisiting these areas and you should as well because you'll probably be

following along with the things I'm doing and you will become more and more familiar with, I would

say, almost all of the functionality that the timeline has to offer.

So so far, you've learned some very critical steps.

That is how to import your media into the mirror and also general functionality when it comes to the

timeline area.

So so far, you've made a lot of progress, and just after the next few tutorials, you should have

enough knowledge to create your own videos.

Anyway, we'll move on to the next tutorial.