How to Edit Videos (COMPLETE Beginner's Guide to Video Editing!)

Learn how to edit videos with this complete beginner’s guide to video editing for YouTube and other projects. Plus we’ll share some awesome video editing tips along the way!

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Timestamps:
00:00 How to Edit Videos (COMPLETE Beginner's Guide to Video Editing!)
01:24 How to create a project
03:20 How to edit footage
06:50 How to add b-roll
09:28 How to add titles
11:36 How to add effects & transitions
14:07 How to add music
15:43 How to adjust audio levels
18:56 How to color grade
21:22 How to export
23:52 How to edit faster!

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-- Total Beginner's Guide to Video Editing! --

If you’re new to video editing, you might be wondering exactly how to edit videos for YouTube or other projects. Once you’ve finished filming your footage, it can feel a bit overwhelming to open your video editing software & begin editing…

With this guide to video editing for beginners, you’ll learn the exact editing steps that will help you edit faster and more efficiently. You can use this process no matter what video editor software you’re using on Mac or Windows PC!

In this video editing tutorial, I’ll share our step-by-step video editing method. This is exactly how I edit my YouTube videos! Even if you’re a seasoned video editor, you’ll pick up some handy video editing tips to help you make better videos faster.

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[stephenmangar]

Brother, I cannot thank you enough. I am brand new to video editing, and I must say this video is an answer to prayer. This will help our Church and ministry in Kingston, Jamaica, tremendously. I am simply mind-blown. Thank you, Justin (one of my favorite youtubers).

[larrybrown]

Thanks Justin, I have never edited any video and needed a baseline training to point me in the right direction. You answered many of my questions so that I know where to start and the basic format. Look forward to more of your videos.

[ifell]

Starting from end to finish, that's such an awesome idea that's straight forward but I've never thought about doing that. The amount of times I've edited 3 takes to make one, then realised a bit later I had already done it perfectly 😅

[sherules]

It was thorough 😅 I don't have any questions and a perfect guide to video editing. Thanks for sharing your knowledge 😊

[YepImKhoz]

Thanks, I have never edited any video and needed a baseline training to point me in the right direction. You answered many of my questions so that I know where to start and the basic format.

[WilliamX]

Thanks for having made this video last year, PV. It's nice to get help for editing my own videos by learning how to edit my own videos and be more technologically skilled.

[vwscully]

Thank you! I have Asperger's and never understood what a B-roll meant until you showed it! Nobody else actually showed what it did when you played the finished video! Cheers!

[DoeRaeMe]

Well I’m not a beginner anymore but I think there’s still a lot I could learn
from Justin’s video! He’s my go to guy when I have a YouTube how to question!

[douxie]

A content creator just put out an application for editors, this was needed so much thank you!!!

[ellenmalunga]

Thank you very much Justin ive been searching for this, never have i ever seen such a clearly well explained tutorial.thank you

[ghrcjzo]

Much appreciated Justin! Keep it up brother, will definitely keep watching your videos and hopefully gain a lot experience as a guy who’s interested in this career. - Your new subscriber 😄♥️

[pebayou.]

Hi, thanks for nice videos, i use Lumafusion now, but in the past iv used imovies..is there a way to rearange your video clips in your time line diferentthe this?… one thing that mad me crazy was: Imagini you have a clip and the end of the timeline..and you want to move it at the start. there is NO way to move it fast there i had to hold my finger on the ipad screen til i was blue in my face and wait for that line to move slowly??

[putteringaroundtheworld]

Thank you Justin, and thank you Mike- good on ya guys, absolutely fantastic! We have been thinking to move into video storytelling on YouTube for the past year or more. After finding your channel and watching in detail, we wanted to let you know we just completed and uploaded our very first video!!!!
Your videos have been an AMAZING resource to us, and you made an extremely intimidating task much less terrifying! Keep up the excellent work, and we'll do our very best to continue to share our story!
All our best, and Happy New Year!
Menekse and James

[johnravi]

Hi Justin,

It was a great share! My niece is a YouTuber, and she is a beginner too. She is creating videos and editing it herself. We have recently helped her create a dedicated setup to record videos, and she is doing great. I am sure this video will be a great help to her. It takes really long to edit videos, and with your help she will be able to adopt a better and more streamlined process. Thanks a lot for sharing this amazing video, I will definitely pass it along in my network.

[peterschmidt]

This is such a wealth of info on how to edit, regardless of what software you're using to do it. Cheers

[dolldiscovery]

Great video this really helped me out alot I only done simple editing for my videos and will be doing a full edit on my next one, with music and b rolls.

[swaha]

Justin, I really like your videos and their content.

How would you compare the camera in the iPad mini 6 to the camera in the iPhone 8 or iPhone X? Do they both have similar quality?

[shaneqmoultrie]

This was sooo helpful. Thank you for sharing!

[bistecky]

Thanks Justin. Precisely the content I was looking for.

[IgnHKyt]

Can't wait to start making videos