This document outlines essential steps and tools for video editing, including importing and organizing video clips, as well as utilizing free video editors like Movie Maker and iMovie. Key elements of video editing such as timelines, transitions, and text overlays are discussed, along with recommendations for mobile editing apps. Additionally, resources for legal music and audio editing software, including Creative Commons licenses and Audacity, are provided.

1. Video editing
Leena & Min Fei Kultanen

2. What to do before you start
editing?
 Import video clips from you smart phone
or video camera.
 Sort through them and organize in
folder(s)
 Make backup copies of the clips to DVD
or external hard drive.
 Use free video editors: Movie Maker for
Windows, iMovie for Mac, VideoSpin etc.

3. Elements of video editors
 Bin - where you keep all your files (video
clips, audio, images)
 Timeline - where all the clips are cut and
blended
 Preview - this is the small screen where
you can watch what you have selected
in the timeline
 Techradar: Test on 12 video editors

4. Start editing
1. Give your project a name and save it.
2. Import your material to the editor.
3. Drag video clips to the timeline.
4. Start slicing and trimming.
5. Once your clips have been split, you can click
and drag them around and place them in any
order you choose.
6. Get familiar with the editor and play around.
 WikiHow: How to edit videos

5. Drag and drop
video clips
Razorblade for
trimming
Timeline: titles
Timeline: sounds
Timeline: background music

6. Add transitions and text
 Transitions blend clips together.
 Select the one you want use and drag it
in-between the two clips where you want
it occur.
 Text: titles, captions, or credits
To add text just select the text tool in your
editor and drag it over the clip where you
would like for it to appear.

7. Video editors for smart phones
 AndroMedia for Android
 HighlightCam Social for Android and
iPhone
 10 video editing apps for Android, iPhone
and iPad

8. VideoSpin
 Supported video formats: AVI (DV AVI),
MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX
and WMV
 Sound: Dolby 2CH, MPEG-1 Layer 2 and
MP3 Audio
 The program is free, but the codecs to
create or edit MPEG-2, MPEG-4/DivX or
Dolby Digital 2 Channel files have a 15-
day trial period

9. Video converters
 Techradar: 12 video converters on test
http://www.techradar.com/news/softwar
e/applications/best-free-video-converter-
12-on-test-1059245

10. Legal music and sounds
for videos
Creative Commons license is a standardized way to
give the public permission to share and use your
creative work. “Some rights reserved”
 https://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos
 https://soundcloud.com/
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
 More information on Creative Commons license
http://creativecommons.org/

11. Audio editors
 Audacity
 free software, developed by a group of
volunteers and distributed under the GNU
General Public License (GPL).
 can record live audio through a
microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings
from cassette tapes, records, or minidiscs.