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AVS Video Editor offers you a number of opportunities for movie editing.







Install AVS Video Editor.

Movie editing involves the following steps:

  • working with Media Library and clips

    At this step you can organize the source material you record into Media Library and clips for use in future projects. Media Library serves as a container for clips, which you can organize in many ways.

  • improving video with applying different effects

    You can improve the quality of your video by using a number of effects.

  • adding various transitions

    With photo clips or previously trimmed video, you can create transitions between clips.

  • adding text overlay effects

    You can add text overlay effects to your video.

  • adding video overlay effects

    You can change your video by adding overlay effects to it.

  • creating and improving audio

    You can insert audio clips in your project so that different effects can be achieved. For example, at the beginning of your movie, you may have a video playing with the included audio track while having a separate audio clip playing.


 

To access the announced capabilities please use Create Movie menu pane.



After clicking the Make Video icon in the Create Movie menu pane you will find your Media Library items and clips it the highlighted Media Library item and the Workspace displayed in Storyboard mode. Working in this mode you can add or remove video or image clips to your project, change the sequence of clips at storyboard, trim video clips or set the duration of image clips added to your project.






Transitions control how your movie sequences between clips. To start adding transitions please click the Add Transitions button in Create Movie menu pane. AVS Video Editor will offer you a number of various transitions to help you achieve your creative best. For the usage convenience all of the transitions are divided into groups: Enhanced, Transform, Rotate, Swing, Shatter, Diffuse, Page, Fade, Mosaic, Clock, Wipe, Slide, Push, Stretch,  and Graduate.



To add any transition select the desired transition icon reflected in the Media Library and drag it to the workspace, which is represented in Storyboard View. Please note that you can select the transitions view type between Thumbnails or List.

To add the transition:

  1. Select the Transitions button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among transitions reflected in the Media Library select the desired transition icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click the Add Transition button.
  4. Preview the result using Main Preview window

You can also set the transition duration. The transition length is determined by the amount of overlap between two clips. Note that maximum transition length is limited to 5 seconds.

To change the transition length:

  1. Right-click at the transition displayed at the Workspace in storyboard view and select the Properties item.
  2. At the Transition Properties window you can see the start position of the selected transition, in the right window - the end one.


  3. Drag the slider to the necessary position and click the Apply button. The Apply All button will set the same duration to all of the transitions in your project.
  4. Clicking the Randomize All button will add random transitions to all the empty transition windows between clips in your project with the duration set for current transition.
  5. Preview the result using Main Preview window.


To start editing video please click the Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane. AVS Video Editor has the advantage of various effects to help you achieve your creative best. You can experiment with transformation and painting effects and patterns to turn your ideas into images that stand out.



To add any effect select the desired effect reflected in Media Library and drag it to the workspace which is represented in Timeline view. Please note that you can select the effects view type between Thumbnails or List.

Follow the steps below:

  1. Select the Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in the Media Library select the desired effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click the Add Effect button.
  4. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline.
  5. Choose the effect parameters.
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Note: You can apply not one but several effects. If you want to disable any effect, check the respective window off clicking the icon.



Adjust

  • Brightness
  • BrightnessEx
  • Contrast
  • Gamma
  • Equalize
  • Grayscale
  • Invert
  • AutoContrast
  • AutoLevels
  • Hue
  • Saturation
  • Posterize
  • Temperature
  • Colorize
  • Threshold

Brightness

The Brightness effect lets you make simple adjustments to the tonal range of a file. Brightness is the relative lightness or darkness of the color, usually measured in levels.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Adjust Brightness effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Set the level of brightness.
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

BrightnessEx

A large percentage of the visible spectrum can be represented by mixing red, green, and blue (RGB) colored light in various proportions and intensities. The BrightnessEx effect lets you make simple adjustments to the tonal range of a color you choose.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Adjust BrightnessEx effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Set the parameters of the color
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Contrast

The Contrast effect adjusts the contrast of an image. Values can range from -100 to +100.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Adjust Contrast effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Set the level of contrast (in percentage)
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Gamma

The Gamma effect measures the brightness of midtone values and modifies the pixel values in an image. A higher gamma value yields an overall lighter image.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Adjust Gamma effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Set the level of adjustment (in percentage)
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Equalize

The Equalize effect normalizes the histogram of a file. It is the automatically adjustment tool and you cannot change settings manually.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Adjust Equalize effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  5. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Grayscale

The Grayscale effect converts color images to gray scale palette: black (0) and white (255). The effect has two variations: desaturate and intensity.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Adjust Grayscale effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Set the type of grayscale
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Invert

The Invert effect inverts the colors in an image. When you invert an image, the brightness value of each pixel in the channels is converted to the inverse value on the 256-step color-values scale. For example, a pixel in a positive image with a value of 255 is changed to 0, and a pixel with a value of 5 to 250.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Adjust Invert effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  5. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

AutoContrast

The Adjust Autocontrast command adjusts the overall contrast and mixture of colors in an RGB image automatically. When identifying the lightest and darkest pixels in an image, Auto Contrast clips the white and black pixels by 0.5%-that is, it ignores the first 0.5% of either extreme. This ensures that white and black values are based on representative rather than extreme pixel values.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Adjust Autocontrast effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  5. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

AutoLevels

The AutoLevels effect defines the lightest and darkest pixels in each color channel as white and black and then redistributes intermediate pixel values proportionately. Because AutoLevels adjusts each color channel individually, it may remove or introduce colors.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Adjust AutoLevels effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  5. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Hue

The Hue effect lets you adjust the hue of the entire image. Adjusting the hue, or color, represents a move around the color wheel. Hue is the color reflected from or transmitted through an object. It is measured as a location on the standard color wheel, expressed as a degree between 0° and 360°. In common use, hue is identified by the name of the color such as red, orange, or green.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Adjust Hue effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Select the angle (in degrees)
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Saturation

Saturation, sometimes called chroma, is the strength or purity of the color. Saturation represents the amount of gray in proportion to the hue, measured as a percentage from 0% (gray) to 100% (fully saturated). On the standard color wheel, saturation increases from the center to the edge. The Saturation effect lets you adjust the saturation of the entire image.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Adjust Saturation effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Select the angle (in degrees)
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Posterize

The Posterize effect lets you specify the  tonal level (or brightness values) and then maps pixels to the closest matching level.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Adjust Posterize effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Set the tonal level
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Temperature

The Temperature effect lets you adjust your video image to warm or cold colors. Negative values represent cold colors and positive values transform to warm colors correspondingly.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Adjust Temperature effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Select the level (in percentage)
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Colorize

The Colorize effect lets you to colorize the entire file in a RGB-specified file. The video is colorized in the tones of the selected color while the overall balance of the file is maintained.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Adjust Colorize effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Set the dominant color
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Threshold

The Threshold effect determines how much contrast there is between neighboring pixels for the sharpening to affect them. The higher setting exclude more and more pixels.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Adjust Threshold effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Select the level and the threshold option
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.


Transform

  • Flip
  • Perspective
  • Skew
  • Shift
  • Rotate
  • Resample
  • Zoom
  • Mirror

Flip

The Flip transformation lets you flip an entire image horizontally or vertically.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Transform Flip effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Select the direction of flip
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Perspective

The Perspective effect allows you to transform the perspective in an image. It has two variations: horizontal and vertical transformations.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Transform Perspective effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Select the angle and type of perspective transformations
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Skew

The Skew transformation lets you skew an entire image horizontally or vertically.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Transform Skew effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Select the direction of skewing
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Shift

The Shift transformation allows you to move you image along X and Y axes.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Transform Shift effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Select the axial coordinates
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Rotate

The Rotate transformation allows you to rotate the entire image.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Transform Rotate effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Select the angle of rotation
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Resample

The Resample transformation allows you to reproduce the entire image.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Transform Resample effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Select the number of reproductions
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Zoom

The Zoom feature lets you magnify or reduce your view of the image. The window's title bar displays the zoom percentage.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Transform Skew effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Select magnitude of zoom
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Mirror

The Mirror effect lets you duplicate a part of the image.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Transform Mirror effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Select the level and type of mirror effect
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.


Draw

  • Line
  • Rectangle
  • Ellipse
  • InvRectangle
  • InvEllipse
  • Image
  • Border

Line

The Line effect lets you include various lines to your video file. You can draw various lines by dragging the mouse as you would do in any graphic editor. You can also locate the line image by setting the numerical values.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Draw Line effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Select the location, color, thickness (size) and alpha value (transparency)
  5. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Rectangle

The Rectangle effect allows you to highlight an object in the video by setting out an rectangular-shaped object which is covered with specified color while the rest of the picture remains untouched.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Draw Rectangle effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Set the location of rectangle
  5. Select the color and alpha value (transparency)
  6. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  7. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Ellipse

The Ellipse effect allows you to highlight an object in the video by setting out an ellipse-shaped object which is covered with specified color while the rest of the picture remains untouched.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Draw Ellipse effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Set the location of ellipse
  5. Select the color and alpha value (transparency)
  6. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  7. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

InvRectangle

The Inv Rectangle effect allows you to highlight an object in the video by setting out an rectangular-shaped "window" which remains free of color coverage.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Draw InvRectangle effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Set the location of rectangle
  5. Select the color and alpha value (transparency)
  6. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  7. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

InvEllipse

The InvEllipse effect allows you to highlight an object in the video by setting out an ellipse-shaped "window" which remains free of color coverage.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Draw InvEllipse effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Set the location of ellipse
  5. Select the color and alpha value (transparency)
  6. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  7. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Image

The Image effect lets you include any image to your video.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Draw Image effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Click on Image button to load the image location

  5. Click the Load button to open the standard windows explorer menu and select the image location. After you select the location, click OK.


  6. Set the location of image on the video picture
  7. Select the alpha value (transparency)
  8. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  9. Preview the result using Main Preview window.

Border

The Border effect let you put a border around your image. You can specify type, width and color of the border.

How to apply:

  1. Select Video Effects button in Create Movie menu pane.
  2. Navigating among effects reflected in Collections Area select the Draw Border effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click on Add Effect button.
  4. Select the type of the border
  5. Select the color and size of the border
  6. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline
  7. Preview the result using Main Preview window.


Using Timeline in Video Editing

The Timeline tool allows you to achieve accuracy and precision in applying effects and editing your movies. You can use this tool to navigate through your video file (frame navigation).



You can add a number of different effects to improve your video. Adding effects involves several steps:

  1. Setting effect boundaries
  2. Selection of the effect
  3. Setting fade-in and fade-out areas

AVS Video Editor allows you to apply one or several effects to your media file. For details on specific effect, please refer to respective chapters. For convenience of use you can change the sequence of effects reflection or resize them at the Timeline. It's nice idea to use markers in file editing.





Selection

AVS Video Editor allows you to apply one or several effects to parts of your media file.

To apply effect to a part of input file:

  1. Choose the area where you want to apply the desired effect, click the left mouse button and drag the slider along the navigation line. The selected area will become highlighted.


  2. Navigating among effects reflected in the Media Library select the desired effect icon.
  3. Drag and drop it to the workspace or click the Add Effect button.
  4. Set fade-in and fade-out limits on the Timeline.
  5. Choose the effect parameters.
  6. Preview the result using Main Preview window.





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