VN VIDEO

EDITOR
 VN VIDEO EDITOR

• VN Video Editor is known for being an ideal

video editing program. It comes with a user-
friendly interface containing incredible
functionalities and features. Its performance
is also good compared to the programs in
the same category in several aspects.
• Moreover, this video editing solution helps
users to create unique and stunning videos; it
can provide good quality videos, whether the
output is a simple video or a pro-like video,
from your desktop.
VN VIDEO EDITOR
MAIN FEATURES:
• Video Editing Performance

• The program has nearly everything you need to create

pro-like videos using videos, music, and photos. It uses
video formats and supports multi-camera editing and
video effects to meet your editing needs. VN uses a
timeline from which multiple videos and photos can be
inserted. In addition, it comes with animation templates
to create videos and allows you to edit texts with various
effects and fonts.
• Filters and Effects

• The program can help you unleash the best of your

creativity in video editing. This program is ideal for
those looking to enhance the video and put some
effects. It provides various filters, effects, and features
that make editing videos easy. With it, you can add text
and choose from various filters, effects, and more.
• Keyframe Animation

• The keyframe feature enables you to make the editing

easier and provide impressive results. Keyframing might
be difficult for some traditional video editors. However,
you can use keyframe animation easily with this
program.
• Exporting

• After editing the videos with this program, it lets you

export the output easily into your desired format. It
supports various formats, which is very convenient for
users. On the other hand, you can share the video output
directly to various social media platforms or save and
export locally. It allows you to custom export settings,
which supports 4K and 60fps for the best export settings
for the VN editor.
How to Use VN
Video Editor
(cellphone)
1. Starting a
Project
• Start a new project by tapping that plus button.
• We’re taken to a new screen where we need to
choose 1 of the following 3 options: New
project, Story or Template.
• New project just launches the editor interface
directly. Story gives you prompts to follow and
then assembles the footage in the main editor for
you to work on. Template uses a specific format
so that you don’t have to do much editing work
yourself.
• If this is your first time with this software, just
go with the basic New Project.
2. Importing Video
• Once you choose New Project you are taken to a
new screen which is basically the photo and video
gallery on your device. At the top are 2 tabs, video
and photo, and you just tap the one you want to
select from.
• You can always add more videos later, so really
you can just choose 1 video here if you want. Then
add other clips later.
• The videos you select now appear at the bottom,
with the duration of each clip inside the thumbnail.
Click this big blue button with an arrow.
Sometimes it will say processing, this means the
video needs to be converted to be editable in VN.
3. Main Editing
Screen Overview
• Let’s quickly look at the layout of the editing
screen.
• At the top in the middle, we have a button
which allows you to set your frame ratio. The
default is original, which is square. So ok for
Instagram.
• But you can choose standard 16:9, for any
video you want in that regular ratio. Like for
YouTube, for example. If this is for TikTok or
for any vertical format, like Facebook or
Instagram stories, the button with the TikTok
logo, which is 9:16.
• If you want that cinematic widescreen ratio, choose 21:9.
You can even choose to export your video with a circular
crop.
• Well, I’m going to choose the cinematic 21:9. The ratio
will change in the preview window, which is this area
directly below the frame ratio button.
• At the bottom of the preview window, you can see this
thin grey line with breaks in it. This represents all the
clips on your timeline. The breaks represent edit points
between clips.
• Below this line on the left is a time counter. On the left is
the current playhead position. On the right is the total
duration of all your clips together.
• The 2 blunted arrows shuttle the playhead along to the
next edit point. So if you want to move quickly to the
start of a particular clip, it’s very easy to do so using these
buttons.
• Between those buttons is the play button. Tap to stop and
start your video to preview your edit.
• And on the right of this row of
controls are the undo and redo
buttons. If you went wrong and need
to recover, tap the left one. If you
decide after all you want to go ahead
with those changes, tap the redo
button.
 Next down is a row of tracks. At the top is the music
track, next is the text track, then there’s the sticker track
or PiP (which stands for Picture-in-Picture). Picture-in-
Picture refers to an image placed on top or within another
image.

Next track down is your main video track, where all the
4. Main Editing clips you imported at the start are now laid out. And
finally, the bottom track is the audio track. This contains

Window: Tracks the audio connected to the video clips you imported.

So, if you don’t really want the sound from your videos,
for example, if you are just going to be editing a montage,
then you can simply mute the entire audio track there.
Then the only audio you will hear will be whatever you
add in that top track.
• You can shrink and expand the
whole timeline by pinching
with 2 fingers. This is useful if
you want to zoom out to get a
wider view or zoom in to see a
section in more detail.
 5. Splitting & Trimming
• The first and most important thing to know is how to trim a clip.
There’s 2 ways.
• The first way is to tap to select a clip which then opens up a
bunch of options. If you drag the end of the clip, you change the
length of the clip. Drag from the front to cut off the beginning,
drag from the back to cut off the end.
• The second way to trim a clip is by using the scissor tool. Place
the playhead line where you want to cut and tap the scissors
button. Now your clip will be split at that point and one clip is
now 2 clips.
• Maybe you just want to keep one of those clips. So tap in the clip
you want to get rid of and tap delete. In these kinds of apps, they
don’t allow gaps in the edit with no clips. The clips automatically
shuffle along to fill the gap you created by deleting a clip.
6. Trim Window
• There’s actually another option for
trimming clips. You can see next to the split
button is a trim button. If you tap this it
opens up a new trim window.
• The trim window is less cluttered so it’s
easier to see what you are doing. Again you
can use these blunted arrows to skip
between clips. Below the clip is a series of
time duration choices.
• This allows you to quickly select a duration.
Original simply selects the entire clip.
• Just like in the main editing window, you
can drag the ends of the clip to resize it. The
duration of the clip indicated in the centre
of the clip will change accordingly.
• You will see that as long as you have the
window on play, VN will keep cycling
around the selected clip. So once you have
the length you want, you can now tap and
slide the clip backwards and forward.
• As you slide your finger, the clip slides
position below the yellow box. So this is a
great way to get the exact position in the
video and get more accuracy in your edit.
• When you are done, tap the done tick.
7. Reordering clips

• If you want to change the order of your clips, it’s

very easy. Just select and hold on a clip, all the
clips now resize into square thumbnails. Then drag
and drop the clip into a new position.
 8. Add Transitions
• It’s very easy to add transitions between clips in VN
editor. Just tap the box between the clips where you
want to add a transition. It’s a white box with a plus
sign in the middle.
• Now you will be taken to the transition window.
Below the preview window there are 2 options for
different types of transitions: Normal and Matte.
• You can swipe along to check out all the available
transitions under each tab. Matte transitions involve
painting one clip over another using a preset mask
animation.
• You can select a transition and then adjust the length
for the transition. If you want to create a very slow
crossfade from one shot to the next choose Dissolve
and then use the slider to make it really slow.
• Some transitions allow you to apply to all. This is if
you just want to quickly edit a bunch of clips and use
the same transition each time.
9. Clip Controls

• So when you tap on a clip, this yellow box

opens up. You can delete a clip from here.
• Duplicate adds another copy of the clip
selected next to it.
 10. Keyframes
• Keyframes allow you to animate aspects of the clip. For
example, you can create a zoom.
• Drop a keyframe where you want the zoom to start. Move to
the where you want the zoom to end and use 2 fingers on the
preview window to expand the video. A new keyframe is
created.
• Once you have 2 keyframes you can add a curve. This makes
the animation change speed during the action, depending on
the curve you choose.
• For example, if you want the zoom to start slow, speed up
and then slow down as it comes to the end. Curves make
your animation look much less robotic and more
professional.
• Replace allows you to switch the selected clip with another
clip. Use this if you are happy with the length of the clip, but
you just want a different clip. This means if you are happy
with the pace of your edit, you don’t need to redo the edit
just because you want a different clip.
11. Adjust Colour
with VN Editor

• Let’s go through each of these hue and luma

settings. Just swipe through and then use the
slider control below to adjust the amount.
Basically, within the range of plus or minus
100.
• Exposure allows you to brighten or darken the
image.
• Contrast allows you to add or remove contrast.
Now, as smartphone footage often has high
contrast, it’s quite useful to be able to rescue it.
You can actually bring back details from the
shadows this way.
• Brightness allows you to brighten or darken the
image, like exposure. So what’s the difference
between these 2 settings? Why do we need both if
they do the same thing?
• The difference is, exposure mainly works on the
highlights. Whereas brightness works on the whole
image. When I adjust Exposure, the dark area
remains the same while the light areas change.
• The next 2 settings are saturation and
vibrance. Both these settings enhance the colour
of the image and make red redder, blue bluer and
so on. Again, these settings are similar so it
might be confusing as to why we need both.
• Well, there is a difference. Saturation boosts (or
reduces) colour saturation in
general. Vibrance on the other hand boosts (or
reduces) only the colours which are
underrepresented in the image. So the Vibrance
setting is a bit more subtle.
• Reducing Saturation to -100 gives you no
colours (otherwise known as black and white).
But reducing Vibrance to -100 only makes a
subtle change.
Temperature is essentially blue at the bottom and red at the top
and a mixture in between. If you want to cool off the image, move
the slider to the negative. If you want to warm it, move to the
positive.

Vignette adds a light or dark vignette around the edge. It’s not too
subtle in this app, so not sure if I’d use that.

Sharpness allows you to sharpen the image. This means it will

look harsher. In previous versions, they allowed you to reduce
sharpness which is far more useful. Because a softer image is
more filmic.

Hue is like temperature, except rather than going from cold to hot,
it runs through a rainbow of hues and adds them to the image.
Highlight and shadow allow you to boost the highlights or
shadows. In other words, you can brighten both. Again, the wise
VN developers have decided not to allow us to darken the
shadows or highlights. Which is pretty weird to be honest.
 To access VN’s slow motion or speed ramping features, tap
the speed button. This takes you into a new window.

12. Slow In the speed window, immediately it starts looping through the
clip. There’s 2 options here: curve and regular.
Motion &
Speed Regular is when you want to speed up or slow down the entire
clip. When you select the regular tab, you simply get a slider to

Ramping adjust speed. 1x is normal. Move it left to slow down the clip or
right to speed up the clip.

Speed ramping is when the speed of the clip changes during the
clip.
13. Music
• Tap music to open the music
window. Now you can choose
between using your own music, or
music VN provides under 3
categories: Vlog, Pop & Dynamic.
• This white box here represents the
duration of your edit.
 14. Effect
• If you choose Effect, you get a
series of sound effects to add. The
first one says cartoon, but honestly,
they mostly all sound like cartoon
effects. You can also add your own
from folders on your device.
15. Record
• If you choose Record, you
get the voice over record
window. Just hit record,
wait for the countdown and
start talking.
 16. Adding Text
with VN Editor
• Tap the Text track or the T button by the track to
open the text window. Choose standard or one of
the preset animated text templates.
• Now input your text. Change the font, change the
size, change the colour, change the position.
There’s really quite a lot of options here to play
around with.
• When you’re done, click the done tick.
• Now you can add keyframes to your text. Just
select, add the first keyframe, move the text which
automatically creates the 2nd keyframe. Now add
one of those curves to make it more pro.
 There are a few other controls such as FX, Crop, Mirror, Flip. Use
Freeze to add a freeze frame into a clip. You can reverse a clip, so it
plays backwards. Zoom allows you to add various movement effects
to a clip, like zoom in, zoom out and so on.

Last few The Forward button here is useful, as it allows you to move a clip
from the main timeline up onto a timeline above.
features…

And that’s pretty much it.

•THANK
YOU