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In this video, we're going to look at some more basics to do with light works, but this time we're

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going to take a few more advanced features so that we're not just putting clips into a timeline and

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adding audio.

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We want to do some extra stuff.

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So we're going to cover a few things that we didn't cover and basics.

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One that you can see.

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I've got a movie already made here, and all my clips, as always, are from videos, ENCOM, and I've

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got a music track from the Free Music Archive website, which is absolutely brilliant for music.

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Now, if you don't know how to get your clips into the timeline, how to get audio into the timeline,

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how to do these fades into the audio and anything that you see on the screen, if you're thinking,

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I don't know how to do this, go back right now and watch BASIX one, because that will teach you how

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to get started, how to get your movies into light works and how to edit all those things with your

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clips and put them into the timeline.

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So you really want to be watching that video if you don't know how I got any of this on the screen.

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Now, if you have a look at this movie, it's just a bunch of random clips with some music in there.

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Now, a question I get asked really quite often is how do you move your lips so that there's a space

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in between two clips now light Works doesn't really have an easy way to do this, so I wish there was

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an easy way.

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So what I normally do is a very quick and easy makerspace kind of thing.

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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to disable the audio because I don't want to mess around with the

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audio track.

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I'm going to go in between these two clips.

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Now, this might be a nice time to learn a new keyboard shortcut.

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So a An s on your keyboard are a rewind and forwards.

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If I press a you'll see that the play had moves to the end and if I press s, it will just jump to the

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in betweens of every one of my clips.

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It's a really nice shortcut.

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Saves you having to move your mouse over there all the time and click away.

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So what I want to do is just add a space over here in the middle here.

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So what I'm going to do is just randomly click on a clip.

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Doesn't matter if you've used it before or not.

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And I'm going to go over here to the insert button.

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So what I'm going to do is put this clip in between those two clips there, which I'm going to press

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now.

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And you can see it's in there.

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And immediately all I'm going to do is pick it up and throw it away.

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Now, what you can see is I now have a blank space in between the two clips that I wanted a blank space

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in.

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Now, what you have to remember, in some ways, light works treats a space as if it's a clip.

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So this blank space here is actually a clip so I can click on it just like I do any other clip.

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And make it longer so I can make the space longer or shorter, but I can do other things as well, but

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you have to be careful here because what I'm about to do can really cause you to make a huge mess in

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your movie.

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So what you can now do is just pick up clips and move them around.

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Now you can see what's happening here are moving clips around.

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But what I'm doing is leaving these huge black spaces in between my clips.

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So, yes, you can make a black space or an empty space in your clips, but be very careful of how you

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now move things around, because if you've got a movie that's 10, 20, 30, 40 minutes long and you

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start to do this stuff, you're going to end up actually creating more problems.

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So let's get rid of this black space.

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And that's a really simple method.

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You right.

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Click inside it and you say close the gap and you notice that all my movie clips jump back and I'm going

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to do the same here.

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I'm going to close that gap.

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And I've just got this small space here now so I can kind of move that around.

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Now, why would you want an empty space?

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Well, let's say you wanted a title.

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You could put it on top of that black space and then you'd end up with your clip again, so that's a

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really fast way and really useful way of getting empty gaps or black spaces into your movie.

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I'm going to close this one down.

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Now, another question asked really quite often is how would I move one, two, three, four clips away?

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Now, it could be, for whatever reason, that you have to move your video and its audio away in the

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timeline so that you had to fit something in there.

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So let's figure out how to move for movie clips at the same time.

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Let me just close down this preview.

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And so we've got our main window up here.

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So, again, you can't just pick up a clip and move it because what you're going to end up doing is

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creating problems.

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And I've seen my students actually just pick up clips and move them.

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And yes, it's really doable with four clips.

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There's no real problem there.

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But sometimes you make a movie and you could well end up with 100 clips.

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So you're not going to go and do that to 75 clips.

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You're just wasting your time there.

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So what we're going to do, noticing that I still have my audio disabled because and I'll show you actually

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the mistake I can make with that.

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So what I'm going to do is, again, using my AI and Espeland, I'm going to now go into the main movie

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window.

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This is the main window where I'm editing and I'm going to press on in and then I'm going to press on

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my keyboard.

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Move it to the end and mark that as an out.

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Now, what will happen is if I pick it up, all four movies will go.

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Now you can see that again, if you've got a longer movie and you've got 20 clips, just mark and in

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and an hour and they will all move in one go, it's really useful.

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And I'm going to undo that all the way back now.

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Let's do it in a while.

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This might be useful, but for me, this would be a mistake because I've got this backing track, which

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sounds really nice.

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So what's going to happen is let me just clear my markers.

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I'm going to again Mark and in and out do it in a different place now there.

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And I'm going to just skip forward to and mark my out there.

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Now, again, note that my audio is selected, so I've switched it on.

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Now look what happens when I move it and I've actually cut the audio out.

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Of the timeline now this might be useful for you, but in most cases, if you've got a backing track,

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you want to disable it so that you're not cutting it apart when you're moving the actual movie clips

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around.

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So that's a really useful way of moving whole movie clips around without having to mess around and move

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them one by one.

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Another question that I'm asked more often than not is how do you cut a movie clip?

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Now, I've mentioned this before in other videos, but I thought it'd be nice to actually single this

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one out because it's a really useful thing to do because we're going to then do a freeze frame using

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the same technique.

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Again, I'm going to disable the audio and you should know by now when I disable the audio, what that

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means is whatever action I'm doing on the film, I don't want to do that same action on the audio.

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So let's just go forward.

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I'm going to extend this horse maybe because I know it's a little bit longer term out there.

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And let's say I want to go up to my horse movie and just cut it there again.

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It's really easy because on my keyboard I'm just going to press see, and that's CIFOR cut.

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And you can see I just cut my clip into two and then whatever I want to do here, I can move this around

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or I can delete it or whatever I need to do.

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So C is a really quick way of cutting a clip that you've got that you didn't do in and out properly.

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Now we can use the see the cut shortcut to do some really cool thing.

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Siletz, for example.

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Go over here to.

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The river, so if I play that.

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You can see that the boats moving now, let's if I wanted to do a freeze frame now, what's a freeze

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frame?

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That means the video's playing, it pauses, the music will carry on playing, but the video will pause

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as if somebody is pressed, pause and then after a time, it will unpause itself.

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Now, this is really useful.

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You see in some classic films where they'll pause the film and some voiceover will come and tell you

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about the character or some situation.

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So we're going to do a freeze frame.

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That's really quite easy to do.

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So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to play up to about here.

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I'm going to see on my keyboard to create that cut.

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Now, you can see I've created a cut here.

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And what I'm going to do, you have to zoom in a little bit for for this to work is I'm going to on

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my keyboard, just press with the left and right arrow keys.

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You can see that the play had the red line moves.

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Now, this is moving one frame and one frame is a very short amount of time.

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So what we're going to do is just move it forward one frame and I'm going to press see again.

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So I've done a one frame cut over here.

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I'm going to right click inside.

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I'm going to go to the speed and I'm going to set that to zero.

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What that means is.

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When it plays, it's absolutely still.

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Now, what I can do is just move that a little bit forward till it's a few frames big, then I'm going

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to zoom out so you can see what I've done.

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I'll make that a little bit bigger so you can actually see it.

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And there you go, so.

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What's going to happen here is the boat's going to go.

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It's going to freeze frame over here.

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And then carry on going and of course, depending on what you're using the freeze frame for, you can

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have it quite exaggerated where the boat will go and then at a certain moment, it will just freeze.

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The voiceover will come talking about the boat, talking about the river, whatever the voice is going

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to say, and by the end of the voiceover, the boat will continue to go.

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This is a really useful thing to do, especially if you're doing presentations or things like that and

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you really need the film to pause.

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Let's just listen to that with the music on because it sound quite cool.

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And you can see the music continues, but the picture doesn't, so it's a really useful technique for

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you to make your films a little bit more special.

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So that's using the sea and the speed of the clip to create these freeze frames.

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No one really good use of the FREEZE-FRAME would be to put a title on top of it so that you get this

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very stylish movie playing, posing with a title on top of it, and then imposing as if I were to show

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you that really quickly.

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If you don't know how to do titles or if what I'm doing is confusing, go and watch my titles video

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Lefteris.

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But a very simple title.

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If I check my movie, it's of course that portion there, which is still.

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So I'm going to take my.

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Title and just throw it on top of their.

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Put in some cool text like so, and as you know from my last video, you can really do anything you

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want to do that takes there.

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Now, if we go back to our edit, you'll see.

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It's actually a really cool effect, so what we're going to do is we're going to have the boat coming

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in.

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And it's going to have the title as long as that steel frame is there.

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So, of course, if I was to shorten it like so the title will only last as long as that steel frame.

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And it's a really, really cool thing to do in your videos makes you kind of look more professional,

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really sets your movie apart.

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So there we have the basics to video.

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We talked about the sea to cut, talked about an S on your keyboard to move backward and forward, talked

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about black space, putting in and moving things around and getting rid of the black space and finally

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freeze frames with turtles, a lot of them, just to make sure your videos look a lot more professional.