Once your video is added to the project, you can trim, transform, rotate, and adjust its color settings, volume, and speed.
To edit video settings, click the correspondent element in the timeline or the canvas to select it. The selected element is outlined in yellow.
Move video
To move the video, on the canvas, click and drag it to place it anywhere on the canvas.
Trim video
To trim the video, do one of the following:
- In the timeline, drag the yellow handles of the video element to specify the required duration.
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In the video settings section, click the Timing tab and set the start and end timestamps manually.
Transform video
To transform the video, in the video settings section, click the Transform tab and then do one of the following:
- To fill the entire canvas with the video, scale, and crop it if required, click Fill.
- To fit the entire video without cropping within the canvas and add black bars if required, click Fit.
- To make the video proportionally smaller or larger, on the canvas, click and drag the corner handles in or out.
- To flip the video, in the Flip & Rotate section, click the Vertical or Horizontal flip icons.
- To rotate the video, in the Flip & Rotate section, click the Rotate icon or use the plus and minus buttons to specify the rotation angle. Alternatively, on the canvas, click the Rotation handle at the bottom of the yellow rectangle and rotate the video manually.
Adjust color settings
To adjust color settings, click the Adjust tab and drag the sliders to change your video opacity, brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, and add a blur effect. Click Reset at the bottom to reset the settings to default.
Adjust audio volume
To adjust the audio, click the Volume tab and then do one of the following:
- To change the audio volume, drag the Volume slider.
- To make the speech in the video clearer and reduce background noises (e.g.: wind, fan, etc.), toggle the Noise reduction switch.
Extract audio
To extract audio from video, in the Volume tab, click the Extract audio button.
The audio will be detached from your video and placed on a separate track in the timeline. The video volume will be set to zero.
Change video speed
To slow down or speed up the video, click the Speed tab and drag the slider to set a custom speed or select one of the speed presets: 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.25, 1.5, or 2.
Freeze frame
To freeze a specific frame of a video element and reuse it as an image in your project, do the following:
- To specify the frame you want to freeze, in the timeline, drag the playhead until you see the frame you need in the preview screen.
- Select the video element to see the Freeze frame icon at the top left of the timeline.
- To freeze the selected frame, click the Freeze frame icon. The video will split, if applicable, and an image with the frame will be added at the point where the placeholder is located. The image will also be added to Media.
Remove video
To remove the video from the project timeline, select its thumbnail, and then do one of the following:
- At the top-left of the timeline, click the Delete icon.
- Press Delete or Backspace on your keyboard.
The file will be removed from your project but stay in the Media section.