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Start Your Video Editing Journey With Kdenlive
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Start Your Video Editing Journey With Kdenlive

Beginner's Guide to Video Editing with Open Source Software
Last updated 10/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • Crop and Trim Video Clips To Remove Errors and Produce Quality Video
  • Combine Images and Multiple Video Clips to Create a Spectacular Video
  • Synchronize Audio and Add Voiceovers Within Kdenlive
  • Add Saturation, Contrast, and Sharpness to Your Video

Course content

3 sections24 lectures1h 28m total length
  • Welcome To The Course and What To Expect1:42

    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.

  • Installing and Customizing Kdenlive Workspace4:36

    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.

Requirements

  • There is no experience required for this course, but students should have a basic level of computer literacy including installing programs.
  • Students should also have access to a computer with the ability to download and install Kdenlive.

Description

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.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for people who are new to video editing and want to try out video editing while also using open source software. This course teaches the basics of Kdenlive and some intermediate features and is designed to be beginner friendly. More advanced video editing users may find the cours useful if they are transfering to Kdenlive from another video editor.