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How to make green screen videos in Microsoft Clipchamp
Create professional videos with a green screen effect in Clipchamp
Whether it's movies, advertising, fashion, sports, or news, green screens play a role in adding visuals and special effects during video editing. You don't need to be a skilled video editor or have access to professional apps to create mesmerizing videos. Windows 11's default video editor, Clipchamp, makes green screen videos in no time.
Microsoft acquired the popular web-based video editing software startup Clipchamp in September 2021. Microsoft then incorporated the Clipchamp app into Windows to make it accessible to desktop users. Whether you want to create your YouTube channel's introduction clip, a birthday celebration, Christmas memories, or a social media ad, use Microsoft Clipchamp to complete the project in style.
Beloved iOS video editor LumaFusion comes to Android and ChromeOS in early access
Beta testers get a discount
It's been nine full months since LumaTouch announced its well-regarded iOS video editor LumaFusion would be coming to Android via Samsung's Galaxy Store and more than a year since it first promised to bring it to ChromeOS — delivering an app worth using on the platform. While the company has blown past deadlines, it is now showing up, finally, by opening up early access to the app on both new platforms.
Chromebooks are getting a new video editor from Google Photos with some pro-level features
Meanwhile, LumaFusion is still on its way to ChromeOS
Ah, Google Photos. Even after dropping free photo and video backups last year, it's still a great place to archive them because features like face and pet detection and geographical sorting make it easy to dig them up whenever they're needed. It's also good for a quick filter or edit — the video editor that debuted last year on mobile was definitely a step up from its barebones predecessor, but it wasn't going to blow anyone's socks off. This fall, though, Google is telling us to get ready for a ChromeOS-native, non-linear video editing experience. If that wasn't enough, we've got another thing coming to us.
Fan-favorite video editor leaps from iPhone to Android
Videoleap is free to use, but you'll have to pay up quite a bit to get the full version
Do you take videos on your phone? Do you subsequently need to remove and/or rearrange portions of those videos, along with more subtle changes? Do you find the app that came with your phone to achieve this purpose underwhelming? Then You might want to check out Videoleap. Previously restricted to iOS, this video editor comes from the same people who developed the Motionleap photo animator.
Powerful new Google Photos video editor starts to roll out
A small video editing suite for your clips
Google is in the process of aggressively monetizing its Photos service, asking users to pay for storage starting in June and hiding a few editing tools behind a paywall right now already. But there are also some free perks everyone gets to enjoy, like a revamped video editor Google teased back in February that's now finally starting to roll out to everyone using a recent version of Photos.
If you can't find your GoPro app, that's because it's now called Quik
The app gets a complete rebrand, UI refresh, and some new features from the formerly separate video editor
If you're looking for the GoPro app on your phone and having trouble finding it, try peeking under Q. As of today, the official GoPro video management and editing app is renamed Quik, which was previously what the company called its new version of the Replay video editor. The old Quik app listing is gone, its functionality folded into the new omnibus app.
Pixel-exclusive photo editing features are coming to other phones as a Google One membership perk
Plus a new video editor for everyone
Google is rolling out some previously Pixel-exclusive photo perks to Google One subscribers. Folks that cough up the dough for that extra account storage will also enjoy the ability to add Portrait Blur and Color Pop to existing photos lacking depth data (like scans or photos from older devices) and even modify lighting courtesy of Portrait Light. On top of that, we can all look forward to a new video editor in Google Photos that offers more than 30 controls, including the ability to trim, stabilize, apply filters, brighten, rotate, crop, and straighten the frame.
Premiere Rush updated with new video effects, content browser, plus lots of graphics and audio clips
Recent changes to pricing make Rush a bit more accessible
If you're psyched for the Adobe MAX virtual conference, beginning today, you're probably looking forward to some of the new features and improvements coming to the likes of Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and others. While the big names are obviously leading the show, there are also some pretty notable updates rolling out to Adobe's mobile video editor, Premiere Rush. This update brings new motion effects, a bunch of free graphics and audio, and a new interface for browsing that content.
Telegram is still gunning to be the best messenger app around, and even though a major v6.0 update landed just two months ago, Telegram's development team apparently hasn't stopped to take a break. Today the app began rolling out new features on both Android and iOS, most notably an editor for videos.
It takes a lot of applications to build an ecosystem. Google has all the essentials down — email, calendar, contacts, productivity applications, and so on — but the company has always struggled with creative tools. Most notably, Google is still lacking a proper video editor for its own operating systems, which is becoming even more of an issue as high-end Chromebooks gain momentum.
Star in your own Super Hero adventure with the help of Magi+ Magic Video Editor [Sponsored]
Magi+: Magic Video Editor is here to help with your video editing needs
Video editing is often a very demanding task for mobile devices, which means it can be difficult to find a fully-featured editor that delivers an acceptable experience. Sure, there are many options to choose from on the Play Store, but it can be tough to dig through the cruff while looking for the perfect solution for your editing needs. Luckily Magi+: Magic Video Editor is here to help. Not only does it bring along a bunch of special effects, but you can easily use these effects to create amazing visuals that otherwise wouldn't be possible without a Hollywood budget.
Adobe Premiere Rush for Android was launched just two months ago, giving people an instantly popular option for editing video without lugging along a laptop. However, as you would expect from most apps when they first launch, Rush lacked some of the desirable features found in some mobile editors and most desktop editors. Today's update will fill in one of the most requested features: Speed adjustments.
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"Run and gun" has become a mantra for many YouTubers and filmmakers these days. It doesn't matter if you're a travel vlogger or directing a short film, you're probably eager to begin cutting together footage on the ride back from the field, not waiting until you're back in the office (or at home). There are plenty of good video editors available for Android, but none of them offer a seamless transition between working on a smartphone or tablet, then moving to a desktop to do finishing work. Today, Adobe is bridging that gap with the launch of Premiere Rush for Android.
Last year, Google Photos treated iPhone and iPad users to a new, vastly improved video editor. Heavily based on the Clips app originally developed by Fly Labs and acquired by Google in 2015, the basic controls for working with multiple source videos in a timeline were much easier to see and use than other editors of the time, including Apple's own iMovie app. It has been a little more than a year since it launched on iOS, and now the new movie editor is rolling out to Android users.
YouTube has been the biggest video-sharing site out there for many years, but that doesn't mean that everything about it is good. Two of those not-so-good things include the Video Editor and photo slideshows, which are both sparingly used. For that reason, YouTube is discontinuing the use of these two features after September 20th, 2017.
GoPro acquired iOS video editing apps Replay and Splice at the beginning of March and was quick to develop an Android version of Replay, which it renamed Quik and released as a beta a couple of months ago. Now the app is shedding the beta tag and getting its first official public release for everyone on the Play Store.
Adobe Premiere has been around for Macs for about as long as I've been alive, and countless video editors swear by it. A bite-sized version came to iPhones and iPads a year ago. Adobe aimed this product at your everyman, not just folks who know how to maneuver panels around a timeline. Now an Android version of Premiere Clip has made its way into the Play Store.
As an Android user, you are forgiven for not knowing who or what Fly Labs is. The company's video editing suite of applications is only available on iOS so your exposure to its products may have been non-existent. But you're about to hear more about Fly Labs or at least its products' features since it has just been acquired by Google.