Join clips into one video
Join clips into one video: put them in order on the Video row, trim each one there, pick a transition between them, and export it as one file.
01Put the clips on the Video row
Go to Studio and click Choose files, then select several videos at once, or drop them onto the empty Studio. Clips in a row under START FROM does the same and opens the first clip's page. Or start with Empty project, choose the shape on Shape and size, and add the clips with Media. The videos go onto the Video row one after another; pictures can go between them, and sound files dropped with them get tracks of their own. The Studio opens at once, and the preview says Putting the clips together until the joined video is ready, while you can already work. Up to 1.7.7 joining had a window of its own, Join clips; the clips now sit on the timeline instead.
02Add more clips to a video that is open
With a video open, Add › Media at the top of the rail on the left (called Clips before the final 1.9.0) opens a file picker for more videos and pictures, and files dropped onto the Studio go the same way. They go in after the clip that is selected, else at the end. A video you had open alone becomes the first clip, with everything you already set on it kept.
03Change the order and trim each clip
Each clip is a block on the Video row with its name and length, under a numbered tab in a colour of its own, such as 2 · Clip. Drag a clip by its tab or its middle to put it elsewhere: the other clips make way before you let go. Drag a clip's left or right edge to take more or less of the video, as far as its file goes; the new length shows beside the edge. To cut a clip in two, put the play position there and press S or click Split. Cmd or Ctrl and a click picks several clips, which then move together, and Delete takes them all away.
04Open a clip's card
Click a clip and its page opens in the inspector on the right, named after its kind (Clip or Picture), with its number and, for example, Part 2 of 5. A trimmed clip's card says how much of its file it uses, such as Uses 12.0 s of 40.0 s, and Whole clip takes the whole video again. FILL decides what fills the frame where a clip has another shape: Blurred background, Crop to fill, or Black bars. Replace… puts another video or picture in its place with the same change into the next, and Remove clip takes it off the Video row with what lies on it. Delete does the same, and the row always keeps one part.
05Give a clip its own look and colours
LOOK has None, Black and white, Sepia, Warm, Cool, Vivid, Faded, Vignette, and Cinematic. Under it, COLOUR has Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and Warmth sliders for this clip alone, applied after its look; Warmth goes cooler and bluer to the left, warmer and redder to the right, and Reset brings the clip back as it is. Use on all clips beside either one gives every clip the same, which helps clips from different cameras sit together. For the whole video at once, use the Picture page instead.
06Choose how each clip turns into the next
INTO THE NEXT shows on every clip that has another after it, and a click on the small badge where two clips meet on the Video row opens it too. It offers Straight cut, Crossfade, Through black, Through white, Blur, Dissolve, Slide, Push, Uncover, Wipe, Circle open, Circle close, Clock, Blinds, Zoom, Grow, Shrink, Spin in, Spin out, and Flip. Slide, Push, Uncover, and Wipe go four ways, picked with DIRECTION (← → ↑ ↓), so besides a straight cut there are 31 changes. LENGTH is 0.5 s, 1.0 s, or 2.0 s, and Use between all clips puts the same change, as long, between every two clips.
07Length and shape of the result
Two videos meet with a straight cut until you choose otherwise, and a picture meets its neighbours with a 0.5 s crossfade. A crossfade, a slide, and every other change that lays the next clip over the end of the one before make the video that much shorter at each meeting; Through black and Through white fade out and in again and keep the length. FRAME at the foot of the card sets the shape of the whole video: As the first clip, 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, or 4:5. Every clip is fitted into it with its own FILL, and the video runs at the frame rate of the first video clip.
08Sound: the clips' own, and music over them
Each video keeps its own sound. Untick Keep the clip's own sound and that clip plays silently, while music and voice on other tracks stay. A clip without sound, and every picture, get silence for as long as they show, so the other clips keep theirs. For music under the whole video, put the play position where it should start and use Add › Music: the file gets a track of its own, starts at 35 % volume, and steps back while a clip's own sound is heard. Add the music once the clips are in order, because it lies on the clip where it starts and moves with it.
09Everything else moves with its clip
Text, marks, zooms, chapters, parts cut out, and the pieces of music and voice lie on the clip under them and move with it when you drag it; what lay on a clip you remove goes with it. Captions and Edit by text work from the speech, so add them once the clips are in order: a change of the clips starts the words over. After a change the Studio puts the video together again, and when that takes more than a moment, a small window says Updating the video · 40 %. Cancel takes the change back.
10Export it as one video
Export… in the header opens the Export window with FORMAT, QUALITY, and WHAT THE EXPORT WILL DO. Fast trim without re-encoding is not offered for clips on the Video row, because they are always put together anew. Export to Queue sends the joined video to the Queue, and it lands in your output folder and in Completed. The clips themselves are never changed.
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