Let's continue to carry on

with adding in the rest of our B roll.

And we're also gonna finally take a look at

that effects tab and some video

Transitions.

So let's go ahead and hit play when

We're talking about what really matters the most.

At the end of the day, it's the message being told in the

video, not what kind of effects you can,

Not what kind of effects you can do.

So I'd like to insert our snowboard scene right here,

right on the peak of my audio.

A to cut this B roll footage, backspace to delete.

I'm gonna go up top to our media pool here

'cause I know what footage I'm looking for.

There's no need for me to tab over the timeline.

I'm gonna drag and select and drop in that footage.

Perfect. Let's carry on

When we're talking about what really matters the most,

at the end of the day, it's the message being told in the

video, not what kind of effects you can include.

Something else a lot

of beginning editors do opt-in is the overuse

of prebuilt in transitions until you're more comfortable.

Okay, so something else Beginner editors do is

Use pre-built in transitions.

I think we're gonna need to introduce some more footage in

here, but where, where, where, where do we insert it?

Well what Feels right?

Where's there a natural lull to where we can

Insert a change in scenery Effects.

You can include something else.

A lot of beginning editors do. Opt-in is the over,

I think it's right in there. Something

a lot of beginner editors do

often. Something else a

Lot of beginning editors do often

Is right in there.

This is when I like to have audio scrubbing turned on.

Remember that's in the timeline. Settings.

Oh, audio, audio scrubbing.

'cause then I can kind of fine tune beginning

Editors do opt in

Right where I begin to start the next sentence.

So I'm gonna hit a to make a cut on our motion graphics

video here so that way I have a natural cut point

to insert new footage.

Or another option again is I could just click somewhere in

the timeline and hit M to add a marker.

So I think what I'd like to do here is use similar footage

to highlight the use of transitions.

So if I go back to my B-roll timeline here, I've got

two wide angle shots of mountains

and trees and mountains and trees.

I'm go back to my main timeline here.

I'm gonna go over and just find

one of these, one of these clips.

I don't think it really matters which one and begin to drag

and drop it in on that cut point.

Go ahead and hit play. Getting

Editors do opt-in is the overuse

of prebuilt in transitions until you're more comfortable

with how you should edit a video.

I avoid using some of those presets. And

One of the last things I want, I'd avoid using

some of those presets.

I'd avoid using some of those preset.

Now what do I mean by presets?

What are, what are preset transitions? Well let me show you.

Lemme go ahead and A to cut here

and let's drag in that second clip.

Depending on which one you use. Use the other version.

So I'm gonna go ahead and drag and drop this in.

And hmm, we got a little bit of a problem here.

It looks like this video file has video and audio.

So when I drag and insert it, the audio is kind

of cutting off and overriding the video.

Well I don't want that. So how do we address this?

Well, let me hit control Z to undo all that.

If I wanna bring in just the video for my media pool,

well I can double click here on the media

pool to preview it.

And then there's two icons.

There's a video and an audio icon.

Well, I can just grab the video

icon to bring in just the video.

Alternatively, and this is the method I prefer

to do, lemme hit control z.

I can just hold down the alt key

to bring in just the video portion

if you would like just the audio portion.

So lemme hit control Z.

You can hold down the shift key to bring in just the audio.

So alt is video, shift is audio.

So if I wanna bring in just the video,

I'm gonna hold down the alt key and drag

and insert our footage right there.

So now we go from here how you should edit a video.

I did avoid using some of those presets.

And one of the last things I want to there right on presets.

So what is a preset transition?

Well, you'll notice to this point

that we have not used any of them.

The only technique that we've been using

to cut up our video is that we've been cutting the video.

And that has been a very,

very intentional decision on my part.

You see, when a lot of people first begin to learn how

to edit, there's a reliance on extras

and that can be effects

and transitions that do flashy things.

And there is a time and a place to use some

of these effects and transitions.

'cause I mean they are in Da Vinci resolved for a reason.

But if you don't understand why to use them, some

of them then what ends up happening is your video tends

to look pretty cheesy or, or pretty amateur.

So let me show you what I mean.

If I were to go and bring my mouse all the way

to the upper left here, for the most part we've been

sticking right with the media pool,

but there is a nice little tab to the right

of it called effects.

If I were to click on the effects tab, voila,

we have our effects now we will cover more

of these effects as we go on.

But you can see that we have video transitions,

we've got titles for texts that we can add in.

We've got generators for different kinds of colors

that we can add in along with some

of resolves built-in effects like uh, some blurs.

Well, there's a tab all the way at the top here called

video transitions.

And the video transitions tab is a very,

very dangerous place to go when you're first learning out.

And it's for the reasons previously stated.

If I were to scroll down here, we've got a bunch,

we've got some dissolves, we've got some shape transitions,

and if I hover my mouse over it, we can begin

to preview what they do.

Splits, slides, boxes.

You can kind of go ahead and experiment with all of them.

If I wanted to add one into our video, well what I would do

is I would go to that transition.

So I'll just do the arrow iris,

transition drag and select it.

And what you're gonna look to do is apply it

to the cut point of the video.

So right here

and now when I hit play, it will apply that transition.

I did avoid using some of those presets.

And one of the last things, there you go.

Now like I said, does having a random arrow mask,

dissolved transition presets

and one of the last, does that make sense?

It's the point I'm emphasizing in the

actual talking head here.

And what I'd like you guys to remember is that

I would only use this kind

of transition when there's some motivation behind it.

And if you cannot answer what is motivating the use of it,

then don't use it again.

I tend to find that it hurts the

video more than it helps it.

Now, something that you might've noticed is that, uh,

I can't adjust the transition

to be on the left side of the video.

Well that is because

whenever we add transitions into videos, it has

to use frames from the previous clip.

Oh, let me go ahead and turn off my audio scrubbing.

It has to use frames from the previous

video and the next video.

So if it's only on the right, that means

that it has frames from this video to transition from.

But because I inserted the video at the

very beginning, right?

So this is the very beginning of this video file,

but what frames should it use to transition over here?

It can't, we don't have negative frames.

This is the beginning. So if we would like

to transition in the middle

or even have this on the left, well we need

to give it some frames to use.

And what I mean by that is this.

I'm gonna click on the transition itself

and hit the backspace key to get rid of it.

And what I'm gonna do is I'm going to cut ahead

and pull it over so

that way it's not starting on the first frame.

So watch this. If I cut here

and drag it over to the left, if you look at

where my mouse is at, I have cut off a second

and 20 frames go ahead and release.

So now if I were to go

and add in another one of these transitions,

so let's use something a little bit more abstract's,

use the block glitch.

Now I can insert it on the middle.

And in fact if I grab this handle,

I can pull it out exactly one second and 20 frames.

But just know that in order to use one

of these prebuilt in transitions need to have frames before

and after the previous and following clip.

'cause otherwise it's got nothing to pull from

to use the transition.

All right, so let's go ahead

and continue to play with how you should edit a video.

I did avoid using some of those presets

and one of the last, again, doesn't that I just,

ah, I can't say it enough.

Whenever I see something like this, like a random glitch

transition, it just, it doesn't make sense to me

how you should edit a video.

I avoid using some of those presets.

And one of the last things I wanna talk about is focusing on

the audio of the video, the audio.

Perfect. So now we are about

to begin talking about a different subject matter.

So I don't think it makes sense to continue on

with the lessons that we were showing before with the snow.

So actually lemme first get rid of this, uh,

extra B roll over here.

Hit backspace to get rid of it.

And so I'm gonna bring in the edge of our B roll so

that it ends right when this new section begins.

So now we go like this

and avoid using some of those presets.

And one of the last things I wanna talk about is focusing on

the audio of the video.

The audio of the video accounts for 50% perfect.

And now we have successfully introduced

B-roll into our video.

Is this the best use of B-roll? I don't know.

Maybe there's a section here where we begin

to talk about using audio more, right?

So is there some form of B-roll that we could use here?

Maybe. Maybe there's something online

or maybe you can make something that fits here.

Again, these are decisions as editors we need

to start thinking about as we're forming our videos.