Screencasting Tutorial #7 - Putting it All Together

Key Takeaways

welcome back to the series on screencasting in the last video we looked at the basics of editing and what footage looks like and what it does when we import it into our timeline in this video we're gonna be doing more editing and pulling different footages together right now what we have is a screencast of me showing you some things so let's say we want more than that we want footage of our face or maybe some slides let's first start by importing those things into the project window and like I mentioned before we can do that by dragging or just double-clicking the window once they're imported we're just gonna drag them into the timeline you look at our timeline now we have a video of our screencast a video of us talking and a couple pictures of slides I want to show perfect let's say at this point of the screencast I'd like to show my face and talk about something to do that will scroll to the point we want to cut splice it with the razor tool and splice a section of our footage from our talking head and just drag them apart like this then we can recombine them here kind of like puzzle pieces let's say you want to tell the audience about something more in detail and you'd like to show it's light well you can drag it to the new track on top of your current footage like we talked about before the things on top will show first so if we play our footage now you can see that all we see is the slide we can change the size of the slide by selecting it's video track and going to the left hand side box and adjusting the scale and you can of course adjust the position as well at this point you might have noticed that although you're moving your video tracks your audio tracks are moving along as well and they might be overlapping in creating a bit of chaos so to separate these two tracks all we do is press command L or unlink unlinking these will allow us to move the audio and videos around separately if there's a part of a video we don't want we can just trim it by dragging it or slicing it with a razor tool and then selecting it and deleting it with the Delete key on our keyboard feel free to move these things around to your liking once you've put together your footages move the marker to the beginning and press play to preview your creation you can also do this while you're editing just to make sure you have everything you might want in your edit in the next video I'm going to talk about some effects that you can add to your video to spice it up a bit we will also talk about animations and zooming and panning so I hope to see you the next video