
Learn video editing basics and advanced techniques using the free and open source Kdenlive, designed for beginners, from beginner edits to audio, greenscreen, and transitions.
Install Kdenlive on your operating system, then customize the workspace by arranging windows, enabling the video editing timeline, project bin, project monitor, effects compositions, and default keyboard shortcuts.
Advance your editing skills by elevating from basic cropping and editing to professional production, with green screen effects, voiceovers, and following objects on the screen in Kdenlive.
Explore two animation methods in Kdenlive: a simple transform with keyframes to scale and move a clip, and a more advanced method for dynamic motion like following a ball.
Learn audio edits in Kdenlive by adjusting gain to fix low volume, applying fade in and fade out, and muting selected portions with the X tool from the effects panel.
Front-light your footage with a lamp or window, and improvise a green screen with green fabric or a blue sheet. Minimize external noise to make editing easier.
Welcome to the course on video editing with Kdenlive. If you have always wanted to learn video editing but didn't know where to start or didn't want to invest in expensive video editing software, this is the course for you! This course is designed for beginners and will help you start your video editing journey. I teach this course in a slow but steady approach where I give multiple examples to help you understand the concepts. Some of the things you will learn in this course include:
What Will I Learn?
How to crop, trim, and rearrange video clips
Enhancing your videos with special effects
Correcting audio and video quality issues with Kdenlive's powerful effects features
Adding voice-overs and narrations to your video projects
Tracking objects on screen and animating your clips
Adding transitions, blurring portions of the screen, and extracting audio from clips
What Video Editor Will I Use?
This course is different than many other video editing courses because you will learn to edit videos with Kdenlive. Kdenlive is a full-featured video editor that is free and open source. Unlike other video editing software, Kdenlive does not have an upfront cost or monthly subscription of any kind. This makes it perfect for people who are trying out video editing and aren't yet ready to make a large investment in software. Kdenlive is also not a trial version which means that there are no length limitations on the video clips you can export, and there are no watermarks.
Who Is This Course For?
This course is primarily designed for beginners who want to start editing video with free and open source software. It is also designed for more experienced video editors who are transitioning from other video editors and want to learn the basics of Kdenlive.
Who Should NOT Take This Course?
This course is designed for people who are relatively new to video editing, and more advanced users will be better served by other courses.