Create a new folder on your desktop called “assets”
Place all your clips and music inside the asset folder
Open OpenShot and your asset folder
Drag and drop your asset collection (excluding the script) into OpenShot in the Project Files window
Save the project inside the asset folder, by going to top menu, under file, and selecting “Save Project As”, a window will appear, find the asset folder and select it, name the project file, then click save NOTE: OpenShot will create its own “assets” folder inside the one you’ve saved to, simply just ignore that one
Editing Individual Clips
Not all of your clips are going to be perfect. If you want to remove a portion of the clip, drag it onto your top track (default is Track 5)
Right click on the clip and copy it
By dragging the back of the original clip remove the unwanted portion
By dragging the front of the copied clip have it start at the part you want to keep
Overlap the two clips slightly to create a crossfade
When you have the clip how you want it, use the red record button in the top menu to save the clip
Make sure to save it in your asset folder
Drag it back into the Project Files window
Delete the unwanted original clip from your Project Files
Creating Titles
The top menu contains a tab called Titles
Select it and then select Title underneath it
A Title window will pop up
Use the window to select what kind of title you want, what text you want it to display, background colour, font, etc.
When you’re happy with it, save it
It will appear in your Project Files as an Image
Creating Subtitles
Create a new text file inside your asset folder
In this text file write all of the text for the subtitles you want in the video
Select the title tab in the top menu, and select title, a window will appear
Scroll down on the left and use one of the footer templates
Name the file on the right
In the text section, enter part of the text from the file you created before, ideally you will want to create the subtitles one sentence at a time
Change the font and text colour to whatever you like, but try to keep the font size reasonable, and do not change the background colour once you’re happy with it, hit save
Repeat the last two steps for all of the remaining subtitles
Smashing it all Together
Highlight all your assets under Project Files (outside of your Music and Subtitles)
Right click and select Add to Timeline
An Add to Timeline window will pop up
Make sure “Start Time” is set to 0:00
Beside “Image Length”, enter 7 seconds
Change Transition from “None” to “Fade”
Reposition your assets (on the left hand side) chronologically (top being the first, bottom the last) by highlighting a single asset and moving it up and down using the arrows at the bottom
Press OK when you’re happy and the assets will be added to Track 5
Drag the subtitle files one at a time from the assets window on the left onto the main timeline (track 5)
Move the subtitles around to the correct position within the video by dragging them on the timeline
Remove the fade transition that was added by right-clicking it, and selecting “remove transition”
Adjust the length by dragging the end of the tile to the left or right
Repeat the last two steps for the rest of the subtitles, make sure there is a slight gap between the subtitles on the timeline, to do this, disable the snapping tool (magnet icon under the word “timeline”)
Drag and drop your music asset to track 4
Adjust the volume by right clicking on the track and resetting the level
Give it a listen by pressing play and tweak things as needed
Exporting the Video
When you have the Tracks set up how you like them use the red record button in the top menu to export the movie
In the pop up window choose a File Name
Leave the folder path as is
Under Profile select Web
Under Target select YouTube HD
Use the default video profile, then click export video