Build Polished Reviews With Movavi 2027 Templates (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Every time I finish recording a video, I end up with the same pile of stuff on my hard drive. There's the main take where I'm talking to camera, a bunch of b-roll I shot of whatever I'm reviewing, and maybe a couple of takes where I flubbed a line. And of course, I have to edit it all into something that makes sense and that people actually want to watch to the end. At the end of September, Movavi released Movavi Video Editor 2027, and the big news in this update is customizable templates. So in this video, I'm going to put them to the test. I'll build a complete review video from start to finish with Movavi Video Editor 2027 using its templates, so you never have to sit down and stare at an empty timeline. Along the way, I'll show you why it's such a good video editor for beginners. This video is sponsored by Movavi. Now if you haven't come across it before, Movavi Video Editor is an intuitive video editor with customizable video templates, one-click AI tools, and hundreds of drag and drop effects. It's perfect for beginners and everyday creators who want awesome results on the very first try, and it's available for desktop for both Windows and macOS. And in practice, what that means is that most of the routine work, the cutting, the titles, the transitions, cleaning up your audio, either happens automatically or it happens in a couple of clicks. Now, when you hear the word template, you might think that everything you make ends up looking like everything else made with that template. But Movavi's templates come apart in a way you might not be familiar with if you've only worked with templates in other video editing applications. That's what makes it such a handy video editor for YouTubers, whether you're a tech blogger doing unboxings and gadget reviews, a gamer cutting highlights and game reviews, or a lifestyle creator making cooking videos and travel vlogs. For this example, I'm going to put together a review of a piece of gear that I use every day, the Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 audio interface. Now I've already recorded my script straight through to camera, and I shot some close-ups of the interface sitting on my desktop. So that's everything I have. One take and some b-roll. So let's open up Movavi Video Editor 2027 and see what we can do with it. Start by clicking the link in the description to go to Movavi and download the version of Movavi Video Editor 2027 for your computer. So here we are in Movavi on my Mac, but the interface is the same if you're using Windows. When you first open the app, the file import area will be open, and this is where you can browse for or drag in the videos, photos, and audio you want to use in your project. For this example, I have this folder on my desktop containing the files that I want to use. So I'll select them all and then drag them into this import area in Movavi. And in just a second, there are my clips. And you can add more clips at any point during the editing process. Now as with many video editors, you could drag your clips into the timeline down here to start manually editing them together. But what makes Movavi really stand out are its templates. Movavi Video Templates is a multi-style library of customizable, pro-looking modular templates for any kind of video. When we open the Templates tab, that reveals all of these different categories for a wide range of video types. For example, we have templates for beauty and fashion, food and cooking, storytelling, travel, and so on. Several templates are available in the full version of Movavi Video Editor at no extra cost, but access to the full collection requires a separate Movavi Video Template subscription. And you can tell which is which at a glance. Notice some of these have a crown icon, which means you'll need a subscription to fully use them. Now, you're free to use any template you want and edit your projects as usual, but you'll need that subscription to export videos longer than 60 seconds and without a watermark. Now, while we're on the subject, alongside templates, Movavi has a second add-on library called Movavi Effects. That's an extra collection of visual effects, transitions, filters, and other creative assets, and it has its own separate subscription. But that's more than 10,000 additional creative effects and over 1,500 music tracks, and you can try them on your own video before you subscribe. So Movavi Video Templates gives you the modular blocks we're about to build with, and Movavi Effects gives you more of the looks and assets that you'd lay on top. Everything else—the editor, the built-in transitions, effects, stickers, and music—comes with Movavi Video Editor itself. Now, once templates have been downloaded, you can scrub your mouse over its thumbnail to preview it, or press the spacebar to see it play. So the template includes placeholder video, images, text, and music, so you can get a full sense of how it looks and the mood and tone it evokes. And templates aren't just a good way to assemble your footage, either. If you're not sure what shots you need for a video, watching some templates can inspire you and help you put together a shot list before you go out and record your footage. And again, you can download and preview any template you like. I'll select the Vlog category, and you can see there's a whole collection here just for vlogs. Beyond that, you'll find options for all kinds of everyday projects like intros, YouTube outros, slideshows, birthday videos, and promos. Now for this example, I want to make a short piece about the audio interface I use for my YouTube channel, sort of a product review. So here we have one called Review, and I'll click to download it. And again, once it's downloaded, we can preview it, and I think this will work well for the video that I want to make, so all we have to do is drag it into the timeline. So when you drag a template into the timeline, you can see it consists of individual blocks. The blocks form the entire sequence, but it's essentially a suggestion because you are in no way locked into this order or even this specific number of blocks. You can move them around, delete ones you don't need, or even add blocks from other templates. Unlike some template workflows and editors like Adobe Premiere Pro, where templates can come from different sources and may need to be imported or installed, Movavi keeps its template library right inside the editor. Just browse the templates, choose one, and drag it into the timeline to start customizing it like we did here. Now notice the block icon that appears on most of these sections of the template. That means that these are editable blocks which contain placeholders so you can swap in your own clips, images, and text. Now we have one here that doesn't have a block icon, which indicates that it's just a regular video clip, and you can easily remove or replace it in its entirety with your own clip. So let's start by taking a look at how to customize some of the existing blocks. Let's look at this first one. So you can see this features a full screen video clip of a phone along with some text. To customize this block, I'll double click it, and that opens the clip settings above the timeline. And here we can see that it contains a 5 second video clip and 3 text blocks. So again, all of this is customizable. I'll click this double arrow icon on the clip, which opens the replace clip window, and here I can browse through the clips that I previously imported, or I can click add to bring in other clips as well. For this shot, I'll replace the placeholder video of the phone with footage that I shot of the product that I'm reviewing. Selecting that opens the clip in this window, and here we can select which portion of the clip we want to use. You can see here at the bottom that the default selection is the first 5 seconds. But we can move this highlighted area over the clip's timeline to select a different 5 second portion. And I can preview my selection by moving the playhead to the start and clicking the play button. You can also adjust the cropping of the clip by clicking the preview area and dragging the selection corners in or out. Notice the ratio stays locked into the default ratio of the clip. So maybe I want to zoom in just slightly here. And if that looks good to me, I'll click apply. And there it is. I'll click play and we can see that our clip has now been added to the block. So next, I'm going to replace the placeholder text. With the block selected, all I have to do is come up to the clip settings and find the block with the text that I want to replace and type my own. I'll call this Garrix Tech Reviews. Notice in the preview area that it keeps the same style and formatting, but you do also have access to the options to change the font, size, and other properties. So maybe I want that text to be just a little bit smaller. And if you don't need one or more of the text blocks, just select the text in that block and delete it. Okay, so now we've customized this first block. Let's take a look at another example. Now this block has 3 video placeholders and 7 text blocks. So this works exactly the same way. For example, I'll select this image here that shows the phone's camera, click the replace clip button, and I'll choose one of my own clips. In this case, it's a vertical clip. But this works exactly the same way. I'll select the portion of the clip that I want to use, something like that, and I can scrub through to check it, and I'll click apply. And there's my clip. Super easy. Now you can drop still images as well as videos into these placeholders. For example, I'll select this one to replace its clip. I can select the photo category here, and I'll select this photo. Again, I can adjust the framing here. And notice we still have a timeline here, even though this is a still image. But the selection area is still the default length of the clip. That looks good to me, so I'll click apply. And you can see that we've now replaced two of the placeholder images. And of course, we can replace the text too. For example, I'll change camera to inputs, and there it is. So let's jump ahead to what this looks like when I've customized all of the placeholders on this block, which I've now done. And here's what the completed block looks like. Now the videos I imported have their own audio tracks, which is why we see the audio waveforms below the blocks that I've customized. But that's just a result of the mic picking up audio when I shot the footage. Now I don't need that audio, so I can just drag its volume all the way down to mute it. That way I'm making sure there isn't any unnecessary noise. If you want to keep audio from your clips, you can adjust the volume to a level that suits your project. So that's how easy it is to customize the blocks in a template. Bear in mind that you don't have to use all the blocks, or you can even use blocks that aren't part of the template if they suit your needs. Just go to the templates tab, and select blocks here at the top. So these are individual blocks sorted by what they do. We have collages for splitting the screen into sections. We have countdowns, logo animations, outros for your end cards, picture-in-picture. And this one down here, quick cuts, is the one I want in this case. A quick cut block is a pre-built montage. It's a handful of clips already cut together with transitions. And you can see a small number on each one that tells you how many clips it holds and whether it's a slow or a fast transition between images. For example, Flickr Fast 2 has a number 4 on it, so it uses 4 clips and lasts 4 seconds. And I can roll my mouse over to preview it. Let's say I like that, so I'm going to drag that down into my timeline between these two clips. Notice the highlight between the two clips as I drag down and release. And there it is. And while I'm at it, I don't think I actually need this block in my timeline, so I'm going to right-click on it and choose Ripple Delete to remove it and simultaneously bring the block to its right in to close that gap. All right, so now let's customize this block we just dragged in. I have a bunch of close-ups of the focus right in my media, and I can fill this block in exactly the same way as I filled everything else. We'll double-click it and replace each one of these four placeholders with one of my shots. So again, we just select the Replace Clip button, we'll go to Photo, and I'll just select each of these photos. So now I've replaced all four of those placeholders, and the cuts, the transitions, and the timing are already done by the block. And now the block looks like this. And this works in the other direction, too. You don't have to start from a template at all. You could open an empty timeline and build a whole video out of nothing but blocks, drop in an intro, add a couple of quick cuts, a collage, an outro. So a template is really just a set of blocks that somebody has already arranged for you. Now let's go back to that one clip that doesn't have a block icon. That's the regular video that came with the template, and I don't really need it here, so with it selected, I'll just press Delete on my keyboard. But I'm not going to drop a replacement clip into the gap, because here's what I actually have to work with. I'll come up to my Import tab, and this is the clip that I want to use. So when I recorded this, I didn't shoot it in pieces. I sat down and spoke straight through to the camera in one take, taking about 39 seconds of me talking. And what I want is for that take to run underneath the entire video, with the template's blocks cutting in over the top of it, whenever I'm talking about something that I have footage for. So first I'm going to select all the blocks in the timeline, and I'm going to drag them to the track above. So Movavi stacks tracks the same way any other editor does, and whatever's on the upper track is what you see. I'll then take my talking head clip, and drag it onto the lower track. And I'll just drag that to the very beginning, and watch what happens when I play this from the beginning. Every video I record for YouTube goes through this one box. This is the Focusrite Scarlett A6, and it's been the audio interface behind all of my YouTube work for... So the project starts with the opening close-up of the Focusrite product shot, then it cuts to my talking head footage, because there's no content on the top track, and then it cuts back to the template blocks, while you can still hear me talking because those blocks are sitting above my footage. So now I just need to make some simple edits to my talking head footage, and arrange the blocks above it so we cut to them at the right time. Now first I'm going to mute the music track, so it's not distracting me as I do the other edits. Next I'm going to hide the template track, so I can see my talking head track as I'm working on it. Now at the beginning of my clip, you can see me staring at the camera, getting ready to talk. So we need to edit that part out. Now Movavi does have a tool that lets me do this all in one click. I just need to select that track, right-click on it, go to Audio Tools, and choose Silence Removal. Here I have it set to Auto, I'll click Remove Silence, and now look at my talking head track. It automatically cuts out the long pauses and quiet gaps between my sentences. And that can be a quick way to save a lot of time editing. But you do have the full ability to fine-tune a cut yourself. So here's how to do it manually. First I'm going to undo that with Ctrl or Cmd Z, and up here in the toolbar, we have this Blade tool right next to the Selection tool we've been using this whole time. With the Blade selected, I'm going to skim along the beginning of my clip, and find the point where I want the cut to occur. Probably right about there. And I'll click to make the cut. Now I'll click the Selection tool again, click this clip that I've trimmed off, and press Delete to remove it. So now this is the new starting point of this clip. Note that this is non-destructive editing. If I use the Selection tool to drag the left side of the clip over, notice I can see the footage that I trimmed off is still there. In fact, another way to trim the beginning is to simply drag its edge to the point where I want the clip to start. Next I want to trim off the end of the clip. Now another way to do this is to skim along the end with the Selection tool to find out where I want the clip to end, and then click to place the playhead there. Now I'll come up to the Tools, and select the Split tool. That immediately splits the clip at that location. You can also press Command or Control-B on your keyboard to make the split. The clip that I trimmed off is already selected, so I just need to press the Delete key to get rid of it. So now with my clip trimmed on both ends, I'm going to move it to the left a little bit, and have it start about halfway through the opening clip, so you'll start hearing my voice a little before I appear on screen. Let's turn the Template Track's visibility back on, and see how that looks. Every video I record for YouTube goes through this one box. This is the Focusrite Scarlett 8i6, and it's been the audio interface behind all of my YouTube work for years now. Two mic preamps with 48V phantom. So it's really starting to come together. Now of course I still have to replace the text and clips on these other two template blocks in the middle here, and I am going to delete this last clip at the end, so it cuts back to me on camera a little bit earlier. And actually I think this will work better if I move the montage of still images so they appear before the list of pros and cons. And you can see that pushes those other blocks to the right. And now I'll just finish customizing these last two blocks. Okay, so I've swapped my footage and text into the remaining blocks, so now the section looks like this. The preamps are clean and quiet, there's plenty of gain for a shotgun mic, and there's even MIDI in and out on the back for music work. Now it's not the cheapest way in, there's no onboard processing, and if you only ever record one microphone, this is probably more interface than you need. So we're pretty close to being done here, but let's add a few more things to polish this up. Now you may have already noticed that while we were playing things back, the template came with a couple of transitions built in. If I zoom in on the timeline, you can see these little icons sitting between some of the blocks. So in this template, these are push transitions, where one shot slides in and shoves the other one out of frame. So there's one here, and one here, and you can see those in action if I just roll back a little bit here. Here's a push, and here's the other one. But like everything else in a template, those are just a suggestion. I could just select one of them that I might not want, and press delete to get rid of it. Or I could swap in something different. Let's see what else is available. I'll click over to the transitions tab, and these are also sorted into categories, same as with templates. I can roll my mouse over any one of them to get a preview of what it looks like. Or I can click through the categories to browse more. Maybe I like this one called offset. You can see it's offset to the left. And I'll place that in my timeline over these two clips to replace that one that I just deleted. And now it looks like this. And one USB cable to the computer. The preamps are... Now a lot of these transitions come with sound effects, like you just heard. If I double-click it, I can go into its settings and adjust the volume to bring it up or down. I don't think I need it at all in this case. I'm just going to drag that all the way to the left. You can also adjust how long any transition runs just by grabbing it and adjusting either edge. So I can make it a longer or a shorter transition. Let's add one more. Right now the video just stops, and I'd prefer it ended on a fade to black. So let's go back to transitions, and I'll just use the search bar here and search for fade. And here's fade to black. And I'll just scroll over to the end of my clip. And I'll grab the fade to black transition and tag that to the end. And we can see what that looks like. The way I work, I'd buy it again tomorrow. I'll make that a little bit longer. I also heard a bit of a sound effect with that one as well, so I'll double-click it and turn its volume down. And now we have this. But it's never let me down, and for the way I work, I'd buy it again tomorrow. Now I'm thinking it actually fades out a little too soon, so what I can do is just drag the right end of this a little bit further, and notice the transition moves with it. And keeping an eye there on my waveform, I'm going to have this start fading right as I speak my last word there. The way I work, I'd buy it again tomorrow. And that's much better to me. All right, one last thing. At the end of my video, I want to remind viewers to subscribe to my channel. Now there are multiple ways you can do this. If I go to templates and have blocks selected, I can select the social media category, and you can see there are several blocks with subscription buttons over black or white or a moving background. And I could just drag that here to the top level of my timeline, like so. So this is what it looks like, but this doesn't really work in my case because I have this regular video that runs across the whole timeline and not just a clip that I could place into this block. So I'm going to delete that, and let's go to the elements tab. Here I'll make sure stickers is selected, and in the search field, I'm going to search for subscribe. And that gives us several options from the selected category as well as other categories and packs. For example, let's try this one here, and we'll drag that in. Since stickers will appear over the other content, its track is the very top one. So this is what it looks like when I play it back. But it's never let me down, and for the way I work, I'd buy it again tomorrow. But I can also adjust its size and positioning. So I probably want it to start a little bit before the fade comes in. And with it selected, I can come up here and maybe put it up here and make that maybe a little bit bigger. And now it looks like this, more interface than you need. But it's never let me down, and for the way I work, I'd buy it again tomorrow. So at this point, we're almost done. I'm going to unmute the audio track so we can hear the playback with the background music, and let's play a few seconds. So we can tell that the music is too loud. I'm going to double-click the audio clip to open its settings, and here we can lower the volume slider. Maybe all the way down to, say, around 11%. In the back for music work. Now it's not the cheapest way in, there's no onboard processing, and that mix sounds a lot better to me. Now, of course, this audio was part of the template, but we know that we can remove or replace any part of the template, so if this music isn't working for me, I can just select it and delete it. Then I can come up to the audio tab, and here you'll find tons of music categories and styles you can sample to find something that fits your project. So we can browse through Featured, Abstract, Chill Out, Cinematic, and so on. And if I find something I think will work, I can drag that into the audio track. Now I already know that I need to drag its volume level down, so I'll just drag that down to about 11% again, and see how that sounds. This is the Focusrite Scarlett 8i6, and it's been the audio interface behind all of my YouTube work for years now. Two mic preamps with 48 volt phantom power, which both of my mics need, plus four line level inputs around the back. So that's sounding much better to me. Let's zoom out from the timeline here. Now you can see the audio track is a lot longer than my actual video, but all I have to do here is drag its endpoint so that it snaps right to the end of my video track. And to make sure that it doesn't just cut out abruptly, I'll come back up to its settings, and let's add a two second fade out. Now let's see how that sounds. Processing, and if you only ever record one microphone, this is probably more interface than you need. But it's never let me down, and for the way I work, I'd buy it again tomorrow. And there we have it. All right, now let's wrap things up by taking a look at some of Movavi Video Editor's built-in AI tools to help enhance and clean up our footage. Let's start by right-clicking our long video clip, and from here I'm going to choose Auto Subtitles, which allows us to use AI to automatically add subtitles to our video. It can auto-detect the language, or you can choose the language being spoken from this menu. There's also an option here to translate the text into another language, but I'll leave that unchecked and click Generate. And in just a few seconds, we now have this new subtitle track, and it's perfectly in sync with my audio. Every video I record for YouTube goes through this one box. This is the Focusrite Scarlett 8i6, and it's been the audio interface behind all of my YouTube work for years now. And once the subtitles are in, I can pick from New Subtitle Styles to match my channel, or I can come over here to Design and turn on Highlight Active Word, which adds word-by-word highlighting, which is an effect you often see in a lot of popular creator videos. Two mic preamps with 48-volt phantom power, which both of my mics need. Next I have a couple of additional clips that have some problems. Let's see how Movavi Video Editor can help improve them. First, here's a clip in which there was a fan blowing and causing a lot of loud background noise in this clip. I'm just going to drag that to the end of my timeline so we can play around with it a bit. And here's what it currently sounds like. All right, so this is me talking directly to the phone's built-in camera, and I have a fan blowing on the other side of the room. You can probably hear a lot of the noise that it's causing. So we can hear that loud fan noise in the background. Let's right-click on this clip, go to Audio Tools, and here I'm going to choose Noise Removal. I'll make sure the AI Noise Removal option is selected, and I'll click Apply. And in just a few seconds, the clip now sounds like this. Phone's built-in camera, and I have a fan blowing on the other side of the room. You can probably hear a lot of the noise that it's causing. So this is a great tool for fan noise, background hum, and even keyboard clicks for when you're recording yourself typing on your computer keyboard. Now another useful AI tool is the Auto Crop feature, which comes in handy when you have a horizontal video like this and want to convert it into a vertical video for social media. We just right-click the clip, go to Video Tools, and choose Crop and Rotate. Over here I'm going to select the AI Auto Tool, then choose the Aspect Ratio. In this case, I do want to make this a 9 by 16 vertical video. But I am going to uncheck Change Project Aspect Ratio because I don't want to affect my entire project, just this clip. Then I'll click Apply. And just like that, the AI tool has cropped the video and made sure the subject on screen stays visible and isn't cropped out. I'm just going to click Revert Changes to take that off. Now lastly, one of the brand new tools in Movavi Video Editor 2027 is AI Video Denoise. Now this clip was lit kind of poorly, and I can see some video noise and grain in the footage. With the clip selected, I'll right-click and go back to Video Tools and choose Color Adjustments. And one of the presets here is AI Video Denoise, and I can preview what this does by scrubbing the mouse over the effect. I'll take that off so you can see it without, and then put it back on. So it's basically clearing up the grain while keeping my face and fine details sharp, which is perfect for footage shot in a dim home studio or on a webcam. And if that looks good to me and I want to apply it to the clip, all I have to do is drag it right onto the clip. And it's instantly applied. So that's the whole thing start to finish. That was one take to camera, a handful of close-ups I shot on my desk, and a template. And I never had to build a single transition, title, or montage from scratch. And the result looks like it was cut by a pro editor. So that's Movavi Video Editor and Movavi Video Templates. Keep in mind that this is just scratching the surface of what you can do with Movavi. If you want to try it for yourself, Movavi Video Editor is free to download, and there's a link in the description below. The free version gives you essential editing features like cutting and joining, plus automated tools such as auto-subtitles, auto-crop, and one-click silence removal. And all of the one-click AI tools we just looked at come at a fixed price with no credits to buy. And if you decide you want the full version, use the promo code KEVIN to get 25% off a one-year subscription, and make sure you check the boxes at checkout to unlock a free seven days of templates and effects. The full version has no watermark and none of the other limitations. And if you found this video useful, please hit like and subscribe, and we'll see you in the next one.