How to edit video

Three steps to edit video

Step 1. Add video files

To begin with, start Aura Video Editor to do the video editing work. Click on Import button to add videos to the main panel. If you'd like to add images and audio files along with the video, so then you can edit video with those, click Import to add, too. Or you can directly drag&drop them to the main panel.

Then you can drag and drop the videos, images and audio files to the editing panel. Before you drop the first video file to the video editing area, the video editor will prompt a box and give you the chance to add the chapter name to your video editing file and choose the aspect ratio between 4:3 and 16:9.

You can choose from two editing modes: Storybox- and Timeline-mode.

Step 2. Apply transitions and effects to edit video

Now we go to the step of applying transitions and effects. Click seperately on the Transition and Video Effects buttons to choose from numbers of amazing effects to apply to video. To apply them you just need to drag the transition or effect you need and drop it on video or image in the editing panel.

You can also overlay videos to video file if you want. Just choose one video and drop to the Video overlay editing panel, adjust the timeline.

If you want to add watermark, click on the video first, then click through Edit > Add watermarks.

To add a subtitle for the video editing, simply double click the Subtitle editing area to add.

Step 3. Convert edited video or DVD

After editing video with all factors, we go to the final step - publish video. Aura Video Editor provides two output ways: convert video to video or burn to DVD disc.

If you want to watch the edited video on your portable media device like iPod, iPhone, etc., choose Video File output way. There will be dozens of preset output profiles for converting video to almost every kind of media devices like iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, iPad, Zune, Xbox 360, mobile phones and more.

If you need to burn the edited video to standard DVD or Blu-ray disc, choose DVD Disc as the output way. Aura Video Editor even provides you with some wonderful DVD menu templates so you can display your video DVD file more beautifully. You can also select one image of your own from the computer as the DVD background menu. Of course you can disable the menu function if you don't want any.