Editing your first simple video on Kdenlive - KdenLive Tutorial part 4
335In this video, we'll create a basic video to see how Kdenlive works from beginning to end. Now we're familiar with the interface, we should be able to understand exactly how it works and how to export our first video.
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Prepare the project
First, we'll create a folder structure. This is the one I use, but you can adapt it to whatever you want it to be. I'll create a main project folder, called "Tutorial Project". Inside this one, I'll create a "sources" folder. Now, I'll just take all my audio, video, and image files, and move them in this "sources" folder.
Then, we'll open Kdenlive, and create a new project. I'll select 1080p60 as a preset, and tell it to save everything in my "Tutorial Project" folder.
We'll take ou first clip here , and drag it to a video track.
This clip is a bit too long, and there is a part at the end that I don't want to use, so I'll remove it just by grabbing the handle at the end of the clip, and dragging its length to where I want it to stop.
We're going to add the second clip, and add a transition between them. Just drag the second clip to another video track.
To add a transition, we need an overlap: a space where my second clip and my first are played at the same time. I'll just drag the second clip a little bit over the first one. Either click on the lower left corner of the second clip, or right click and select "add transition". By default, you'll get a dissolve transition, which means that the first clip will fade out as the second fades in.
The length of the transition is simply the length of the overlap area, by default, but you can resize the transition to use more or less time.
We want to add something with a bit more bling. To do that, we'll click on the "dissolve" transition in the timeline. In the properties panel, we'll see a dropdown menu. Click on it, and select "wipe".
Add a logo throughout the whole video
We'll now add a logo in the upper left corner. Since we want that logo to appear for the whole video, we'll grab its right end and drag it to the end of the second clip.
Now, in the project monitor, we can see that our logo is on top of everything, but it's too big and hides our content. We'll need to make it smaller.
To do this, we'll apply the "position and zoom" effect. Click on the "effects" panel, and search for "position". We'll now drag that effect to our image clip in the timeline. Notice that, in the properties pane, we now have the position and zoom effect.
We'll set the zoom level to 25%.
Animate the appearance of the logo
I'd like to make it look like it's zooming in and out.
Let's click on our image clip, and play with the position and zoom effect. You'll notice that this effect has its own small timeline, on which we can add keyframes, which are time markers that can have different zoom and position values.
We'll move our existing keyframe a little down the line, and add another one right at the start of the clip. This keyframe will take a zoom value of 200%, and we'll position the image in the middle by using the position buttons in the position and zoom effect panel.
Adding the audio and mastering the volume
Now, we'll add some music. Just drag the audio clip to an audio track on the timeline. Our audio track is a bit too long, so we'll cut it at the end and adjust it to be as long as our video.
Let's preview it.
You'll notice the sound is too high, we want this music to be a background track, so we don't want it to be as loud. To correct this, we'll just add a "gain" effect to the clip. Let's go to our "effects" panel, and search for "gain". We'll just drag this effect to our audio file. Note that we could also add that effect to the whole audio track, so that every other audio clip we add has the same properties.
By default, the gain will be at 100%. We want the sound to be lower, so we'll put it at 20%.
Rendering video
Now, we need to render this video to have it in a watchable file. Let's click on "render". I'll select MP4, and boost the quality to the maximum. I'll also click "more options". We can see that there are a number of threads indicated here. This can be tweaked to use more cores of your CPU. I have a 6 core CPU, so that amounts to 12 threads, so I'll set 12 here.
Let's click "Render", and wait for it to finish.
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