How to edit in filmora pro from start to finish hi everyone my name is Johnny and in this tutorial we'll be learning about filmora pros project settings will get familiar with templates timecode resolution frame rate and audio these are some technical settings that we need to be aware of when we work with media files and in this video.


we will discuss what they are and how they affect your video projects there are three ways to create a new project in filmora pro we can click on the create new project option on the home screen we can go to the toolbar and click on file new or we can just press the shortcut control of ctrl n on Windows or command n on Mac if we create a new project.

while already working on a project we'll be asked if we want to save the current project before filmora Pro creates a new one when we create a new project will be directed to the Edit screen one of the first things we should do is to go to our project settings by clicking on the toolbar on file project settings here we can choose the settings for our edit depending on what kind of project you're working on you may want to choose different settings for your edits for example a video meant for Instagram would likely have a different resolution setting than a video meant for 4k TV.

we have two tabs to choose from at the top of this window editor and rendering let's start with the first tab here we can choose between templates these are pre-made combinations of settings for different uses in most cases all you'll need for a project is to choose from one of these presets but today we'll go into all the settings - we can choose the duration of our project which is set to 5 minutes by default as you can.
see the timecode format for most video editing software is set in for groups of 2 digit numbers each from left to right the first number is ours then we have minutes followed by seconds and finally our last value on the right is frames.

So as an example of we want to make a project zero hours 15 minutes and 30 seconds long this is the time code we would want to use the resolution of our project is measured in how many pixels wide and how many pixels tall that it is by default filmora Pro projects will start with a resolution of 1920 pixels wide by 1080 pixels high since this is the scale of a standard Full HD video.

we can freely change the resolution by modifying the number on each box if we want to change the width scale the height scale will automatically change to preserve the aspect ratio if we want to freely modify the proportions of our video we can turn off preserve aspect ratio by clicking this chain icon here now that we're free to choose whichever resolution we want we can create a vertical video from a smart phone or a square video for Instagram.

when watching video were not looking at moving objects but rather a sequence of images or frames being shown in sequence at a certain rate which our brains then interpret into a motion the frame rate is a number of frames a video will show within a second many digital video cameras shoot at 23.976 and 29.97 frames per second which are the standards in countries that use the NTSC system 25 and 50 frames per second are used by cameras in countries that use the PAL system most movies work in 24 frames per second some TV shows and home cameras work in 30 frames per second.

Which reflects a realistic motion similar to what we are used to seeing in real life anything higher than 30 frames per second is mainly used to create slow motion though some people primarily gamers tend to work with higher frame rates like 60 frames per second if you are making videos to post on social media or YouTube most frame rates should work just fine but it's ideal to match the settings of whatever footage your camera took by default film or pro will ask you if you want to match the settings of your footage.

When you drag your first clip into the editor from the media panel we can also change the pixel aspect ratio but in most cases we'll just want to use the default square pixels option the sample rate is the number of samples of audio carried per second measured in Hertz the higher the sample rate the better the audio quality 48,000 Hertz is the standard rate commonly used for video but if you're set on changing it you could change it here if we have a specific arrangement of settings that are not already available in the templates.

We can create and save our own template for example let's say we want to make several vertical full HD videos at 24 frames per second for social media to create this template we will deactivate the preserve aspect ratio option by clicking this chain icon here change the resolution to 1080p wide and 1920 P high change the frame rate to 24 frames per second click on the Save Settings as a template option and write the name of our new template in this example we'll choose vertical full HD format hit the enter key and now every time we want to use this format

We can just choose it from our templates the rendering tab will let us change some advanced settings for color and anti-aliasing but we will get deeper into this in future tutorials after choosing our settings we can hit the ok button and then we are ready to go so that's a look at starting your project in filmora pro to learn more about editing in film or pro make sure to check out our other tutorials in this series there's no limit to what you can make you.