Filmora pro importing media

filmora pro video editor advanced editing effects and motion graphics made easy this series of tutorials are going to show you the basics of editing and filmora pro from start to finish.


Hi everyone my name is Johnny and in this tutorial we will learn how to import media into our project we'll also learn how to use the media panel the trimmer and the viewer monitor so to start let's import our media this means choosing the files we want to use in our edit and bringing them into the project

We can import video files audio files and static images let's take a closer look at the media panel there's a few ways we can import our media we can simply drag our media from elsewhere on our PC to the media panel or we can also double click on the empty space in the media panel click the import button in the corner here or press ctrl or command I on our keyboard to bring up the file browser where we can choose which media we'd like to import in the media panel we see a list of imported footage with their thumbnail previews on the left.

Which makes files easier to identify over on the right we have the name of the file and its settings we can also view our media in list mode this will show only the name of the file and the icon to identify the type of file this way we'll be able to see more files without the need to scroll if we click on the gears on the right we can open the media properties window this will let us check and modify some settings for the file to rename the file we can use the media properties window or we can just select the file hit enter and write the new name naming files correctly is crucial to avoiding losing time.

When you edit especially when you're working with lots of files that being said changing the file names in filmora Pro will not change their names on your computer to keep files even more organized we can create folders by clicking on the new folder icon writing down the name and hitting Enter now we can click and drag files into that folder we can choose to arrange our media alphabetically or by type of file in descending or ascending order we can choose to group files by folders

We've created or we can group by media which will automatically separate the files in audio and video images planes and titles if we can't find a file we've imported we can search for its name in this box we can import sequences of images so that they play as if they were frames of a video for this we need all of the image files to be inside a folder and named an order with the numbers on the end we'll click on the arrow next to the import icon and then on image sequence and then we'll select the folder with the images in this case I'll select these pictures for a time lapse and filmora Pro will import it as a video clip if .

We click on a piece of media it will open the trimmer panel here we can preview our media by clicking on the play icon or hitting the spacebar we can click on the previous and next frame icon to move frame by frame or use the left and right arrow keys which you will find handy when doing precise cuts we can also use the L key to play forward and hit it again to play faster the K key will pause the video and the J key will play it backwards the next thing we can do is select the part of media we want to use by setting the in and out points to do this 

We're going to find the exact time we want this clip to start and then we'll click set in point or hit I on the keyboard next we'll find where we want this clip to end and we'll click set out point or hit o when we do this we'll see a blue section in the small timeline on the trimmer' window which represents the media we have selected we can loop our playback by clicking on this icon or pressing ctrl or command L when we do this the trimmer will play back the selected part of media as a loop on the bottom right.

We can select how sumed in or out we want our trimmer by a certain percentage or scaled to fit the size of the panel we can also change it by scrolling while our cursor is hovering over the monitor this will not affect the scale of our actual clip but will only change the way we see it in this panel further down in this drop down menu we have the playback resolution where we can choose the quality of the preview of the trimmer higher quality.

Will give us a better preview but lower quality may be more responsive on some computers so if you run into leg it's a good idea to lower your preview quality this won't affect your end product of course we can click and drag our footage straight from the trimmer to the editor panel to bring our clip into the timeline if the project settings are different from the videos a window will pop up and ask us if we want to automatically change our project settings to fit the media once we have some clips in our timeline we can see them in the viewer panel this panel is a monitor like the trimmer but it will show us the entire edit instead of only one file.

We can play move frame by frame select the in and out points of our edit which is more important when we're ready to export and also change the zoom in playback resolution just like in the trimmer panel so that's how to import media in filmora Pro to learn more about editing in filmora Pro make sure to check out our next tutorials there's no limit to what you can make you.