Greenhouse Video lesson: how to edit a video using a free video editor

We somehow did not notice how the video went off the screens of cinemas and migrated to home computers and mobile devices. Even television already seems to be the past century. Even in the early nineties, only the elect could afford to have their own video camera, and possession of it already put them on a par with Tarkovsky , Bergman and Leo Carax .

Today, any schoolboy has a video camera in his mobile phone, but YouTube is full of low -quality filming of one frame, and still will not be filled with new “stalkers” and “scenes of marital life”. It's time to correct this situation.

The home video differs from the Lord of the Rings, primarily the lack of drama, installation and directorial genius, and only then the budget. And if it is almost impossible to find the budget, then everyone, if any, can find a directorial genius and a dramatic talent. And we will talk about how to mount a video in our video tutorial.

Free ShotCut video editor, of course, is not a professional program, but it has a lot of opportunities and logically it is very close to professional video editors. Having studied Shotcut and finding that you do not have enough it, you can almost easily change it to a professional program.

The skills gained when working in Shotcut will be enough for you to work with professional programs of the Adobe line, and this is a serious step towards creating professional video content.

But even without this, working in Shotcut, you can make a video not much inferior in quality to modern television programs and films. After all, cinema and television are primarily installation, that is, the ability to correctly cut the frame and harmoniously join it with the following.

You can educate the feeling of a frame and mounting rhythm in yourself, and Shotcut will take the whole technical side.

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