![]() ![]() Next up, I needed to remove the background audio that came with the videos. So I selected that clip in the timeline, selected the Fade button at the top of the app, and then chose a half-second fade for both Fade in and Fade out. Next up, I added some fade effects as I like the transparent video title to fade in and out. The thumbnail of the video in the timeline doesn’t change-it still looks green-but when you preview that part of the video, you’ll see that it’s transparent now as desired. Then, select the Filters button at the top of the app, scroll down until you find Green screen, and then select that. You drag the video clip above the video you want it to appear over in the timeline and position it. Here, again, I was happily surprised as Clipchamp works the same way. Next, I wanted to see how the YouTube pop-up worked: this little video uses a green screen effect, and you need to access the Green Screen Key effect in Premiere Elements to make it transparent. A handy green “Add transition” button appears as you drag it over. So I found the Cross fade transition and dragged it between each clip. Clipchamp offers a similar Transitions pane, and a little help pop-up indicates that adding transitions with this app works the same way. To create a wipe transition between two clips in Adobe Premiere Elements, I open the Transitions pane, choose the Cross Dissolve transition, and drag it between two clips in the timeline (and repeat as necessary). By default, the timeline doesn’t indicate that you can have multiple video tracks, but dragging the title above the existing video timeline actually worked. ![]() ![]() But I was curious how Clipchamp would handle the transparent video title, since I wanted that to appear over the beginning of the video. Then, imported my two title cards, the YouTube pop-up, and the background music.Īdding the opaque title card to the beginning of the timeline was a basic drag-and-drop operation. That was easy enough, and Clipchamp was smart enough to place each clip next to the one before it with no gaps as expected. ![]() So I dragged them from there to the timeline in the order I wanted. Curiously, they did not go onto the timeline but instead were imported into the Your media pane. But Windows Movie Maker-remember that?-provided both views back in the day.)Īs prompted, I then dragged some media-in this case, four video files, onto the timeline. (The reason for this, I believe, is that the video editor built into the Windows Photos app only provides a storyboard view. To get started, I ignored the templates and other quick-start guides and chose “Create a video,” which brings up Clipchamp’s timeline view, a feature Microsoft promotes pretty heavily despite it being a standard feature of all decent video editors. I don’t see that as a huge limitation, since that’s how most people work anyway, regardless of which video editing product they use. Pretty basic, in other words.īecause I’m using the free version of Clipchamp, all of those assets will need to be stored on my PC. The transitions are all straight-up wipes. The video consists of several core assets: the raw video that my wife and/or I shot with a smartphone while in Mexico City, an opaque title card for a now-imaginary YouTube channel called “Eternal Spring,” a transparent title card for this particular video, a YouTube subscribe/notification pop-up (that I got free from Pixabay), and some background music (which I got free from YouTube it’s licensed for this usage). And to do so, I will try to emulate a video I created previously using Adobe Premiere Elements 2022, which is paid, and some free online tools like Shocut and Davinci Resolve. And for $39 per month (woof!), you get all of the above plus unlimited image and video stock access. For $19 per month, you get everything from the $9 tier plus a branding kit. Those who pay $9 now get unlimited cloud storage and unlimited stock audio access. But the bad news is that those pricing tiers still exist. This change alone makes Clipchamp minimally viable. After the obvious outcry from its customers, Microsoft removed the output caps and now allows free users-and customers of all its pricing tiers-to output in 1080p. Key among those limitations being that you could only output video in 480p (Standard Definition) for free you could pay $9 per month for 720p exporting and an incredible $19 per month for 1080p exporting. When Microsoft first added Clipchamp to Windows, it was still subject to some limitations that made it untenable for most. ![]()
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