Make a video clip

Let's say you want to edit a video from your holidays. You want to cut some bits, add others, add/remove audio for dramatic effects... Let's see how to do it, shall we?

First of all, you need a few things. Just check that you...

Have a video editor
Do you have a video editor, right? If not, download one. If you're new and don't know how to do it, check our guide.

Have a video
Get any video you've recorded and keep it in a folder you'll remember. If you don't have one, you can download one from Youtube. Just copy the link, go to Clip Converter and download it.

Have FX
You need cool special effects to add more "bang" to your videos. If you don't, just google "Special Effects", "download FX", etc and download them. You can also download special effects videos as audio files with Clip Converter.

Ok, now let's proceed.

Video edition
You have the video, FX files and program. Now... how we do it?
 * 1) Open the program. On the left we have the "clip" library, here we will load the audio/video files. At the right there's the Clip Monitor, you'll see the video here. At the bottom you'll find the video/audio tracks. Here we will drop the clip so we can mess with them.VirtualBox Manjaro 25 01 2016 20 47 48.png
 * 2) Right click on the clip library and click on "Add Clip".  Here you'll load the audio/video you need. The best option is to load first our video. Do it.VirtualBox Manjaro 25 01 2016 20 48 09.pngVirtualBox Manjaro 25 01 2016 20 49 42.png
 * 3) Drag-n-drop the video on the video track. This will let us edit the video. Let's right click it, select S plit Audio. Now we have 2 tracks. Right click on them again to select " U ngroup Clips". Now we really have 2 tracks with no connection between them so we can fully edit them without affecting the other.VirtualBox Manjaro 25 01 2016 20 51 16.pngVirtualBox Manjaro 25 01 2016 20 51 35.pngVirtualBox Manjaro 25 01 2016 20 51 51.png
 * 4) If you want, you can keep the sound track. Otherwise, delete it (Click on the track and press Del). As we don't need 2 video tracks but we will need more audio tracks, let's delete the second video track and create more audio tracks with the right click menu.VirtualBox Manjaro 25 01 2016 20 53 39.pngVirtualBox Manjaro 25 01 2016 20 53 51.pngVirtualBox Manjaro 25 01 2016 20 54 07.png
 * 5) Load audio files and drop the clip wherever you want until you feel it's done.VirtualBox Manjaro 25 01 2016 21 37 48.png
 * 6) You can also edit the audio clips. Just right click on the tracks, go to "add ef f ects", then select the option you want to add an effect to the audio. As the options are huge, I will not cover all of them on this guide. Just give it a tryVirtualBox Manjaro 25 01 2016 20 55 31.png
 * 7) Once you are done, we need to render the video. This option will put together all the video and audio files into a single video. To do that, click on P roject, go to Re n der. Select the option the format you want it (MP4, HDV, Raw DV...) and the type (H.264, 1080p..), then click on Render t o File. Now, wait until it's done.VirtualBox Manjaro 25 01 2016 21 38 46.pngVirtualBox Manjaro 25 01 2016 21 39 20.png
 * 8) Reap the benefits.