How to Use the Best Free Video Editor to Make a Vlog?

Part 1: Vlog – New Form of Short Video

Short video is generally a visual content lasting about 5 minutes. Now, vlog, or video blog, is a kind of short videos. It is not a fresh name. Since 2012, some vloggers have made vlogs and mainly published their works on YouTube.

Vlog (video log) is a video that records your daily life. You can use vlogs to share your feelings and the specific scenes to the other people. Basically, vlog is themed on these three topics, journal, scenery and trip.

• Journal vlog: Record of daily life, interesting things about family members and friends.
• Scenery vlog: Introduction to scenery and humanity, with combination of background music.
• Trip vlog: Record to share your feelings on the trips.

Part 2: Tricks of Shooting a Vlog

To make an interesting and quality vlog, you should make well preparation! If you are a green hand, you should read the following tricks carefully.

1. Preparations

a. Theme and style

b. Shooting device

2. Tricks of Shooting

b. If you are not clear about the video screen proportion, you can toggle on the grid pattern. This pattern can facilitate you to keep a video straight.

c. You should use transitions to switch the video screens. There are three common types of transitions, spinning, covering and rotation. You can use them to join the video parts well.

After shooting a video, you can edit it. You can draw support from the professional video editing software to complete this process.

Part 3: Best Free Video Editor for Vlogs

Part 4: How to Make an Excellent Vlog

1. Follow Tempo of Background Music to Toggle Video Screens

a. How to find suitable background music

You can visit various music websites to listen to songs, and then select the suitable music in accordance with the video theme. In the followings, we will introduce some websites where you can download copyright-free and business-available songs.

Jamendo

Jamendo is a website offering lossless songs. Now, more than 3 million songs can be downloaded for free. You can find out different genres, such as popular, rock, jazz and pure melody.

SoundSnap

SoundSnap is a website providing us with high quality sound effects. If you want to enrich the video contents, you can download some sounds effects from this website and add to the video. Although these effects are copyright-free, you need to pay for them.

Freeplay  Music

Freeplay Music classifies songs and sounds by scene, genre and mood, so you can find out the target songs quickly. It only offers registered members to download lossless songs. Songs are free to download for personal use. Yet, if they are used for YouTube videos or the other business scenarios, you should pay for them.

After downloading the songs, you can further process it, such as cutting a part out of it, increasing/decreasing the volume in accordance with the contents.

How to use Renee Video Editor Pro to add background music:

② Click [Music] > [Add Audio File to Video].

③ Cut the wanted part of the audio file and click [OK].

④ Adjust the song in the video to decide the start and end points and then click [OK].

① After adding the background music, move the sliders to decide the start and points of the song. This step is the same as the above part.

② Move the sliders to adjust the audio and video volumes. You can use the functions to volume down some video parts.

2. Add Hot Filters

① Click [Effects] > [Add Filter].

② Then, adjust contrast, brightness and saturation to fix the color tone of the original video.

③ After that, add a filter to build a different style. The time range of the filters can also be set.

3. Add Transitions

① Click [Add Files] to select the target videos.

② Check [Merge all files into one]. Then, click [No transition] to select a transition. The motion effect can be previewed and the duration time can be set. We suggest you set it as “1”. If you want to use this transition to connect all videos, you can check [Apply this setting to all videos] and click [OK].

③ Finally, select the output format and output folder and click [Start] to save the video.

4. Make Smart Subtitles

a. Add stylish watermark as substitle

① Click [Watermark] and select one option from [Add Text Watermark], [Add Image Watermark], [Add Video Watermark] and [Add Shape Watermark].

② The number of available watermarks is not limited. Take the text watermark as an example. After adding the text watermark, you can set the font style, color, transparency, transition effect and the duration time.

③ After that, move the watermark to the target position.

It is hard to ensure that the place is silent when you shoot a vlog. Sometimes, the voices will be covered by noise. Therefore, many vloggers add subtitles for their vlogs.

① After adding the target video, click [Subtitles] > [+].

② In the subtitle file, edit the start and end time of each subtitle, and then modify the contents.

③ Select [Add subtitles] and type a new file name to create a new subtitle file. Then, click [Save].

④ Click [Font] to select the subtitle style.

⑤ Adjust the position of the subtitles. You can select [Top], [Medium] or [Bottom], or move the subtitle box to a specific position.

5. Make Split Video Screen

① Click [Watermark] and select [Add Video Watermark] to select the target video.

② Then, drag the video to the target position. You can also click the editing button to cut the video, adjust the transparency, motion effect and the duration time of the video watermark. The number of the available video watermarks is not limited.

6. Speed up/down

How to adjust the speed of the vlog:

① After adding the target video, click [Cut].

② Move the slider in [Adjust Speed]. “1” means the original playback speed. After that, click [OK] to go back the main interface.