KINEMASTER EDITING

FOR ANDROID PHONES

 THE BASICS OF EDITING – IMPORTING AND CREATING A TIME LINE

Kinemaster is an app you can download from Google play store – it is possible to edit on both iphones and
android phones using kinemaster and the basic app is free – although you will get a watermark on your fin-
ished film with the free version. The paid for version is paid for monthly so it can work out quite expensive
over time -more than 50US$ a year

Open the app Then you will see the editing screen. Note that it con-
sists of several elements

Down the Left hand side from the top the buttons are:

• Top is an undo button

• Next a redo button
• A share button
• The bin
Press button to start editing a new film • Settings button
• Enlarge time line (very useful)
• And the bottom icon is your
playback (what is on your time
line will play from the playhead
onwards)
Choose the aspect ratio – the shape of the film you are
making . For TV and viewing on computer screens
this will be 16 by 9. You would use the portrait mode
for mobile films and maybe the square mode for some Below is the playhead on the timeline ….these are
social media content. your new editing friends!

The most important thing to realise is that once

you have chosen your aspect ratio for this film
you will not be able to change it.
And this is the area of the screen where the playback of
your film will appear

When you have found the first clip you want to import
click on it …something like this may appear in which
case just agree!

What will appear in this screen is the part of your film

at the playhead. In this screen shot there is nothing on
the timeline so the playback screen is blank. So let’s get
some film in there so you can start editing!

IMPORTING MEDIA
Now you have your first clip on your timeline press the
The first thing you need to do is import your media – tick in top left corner to confirm this.
film clips, photos and later music etc.
There is a big round control panel at the top right of
the screen and at the top of this round panel is a media
button.

Let’s place the second one

When you press this you will see all the media files on
your phone

It will show up after the first clip on the timeline.

So now we have some media you are ready to start ed-

iting - basically put your key shots on the time line, in
the correct order and edit down to length cutting out
any unwanted bits. This is basic editing.

First let’s look at how you adjust the length of shots:

When you click on a shot on your timeline yellow han-
This is why it’s a good idea to put all your selected clips dles will appear at the beginning and end of the shot –
in an album so you just have to open that album. In and the whole shot is ringed in yellow highlighter.
this case it is labelled film clips.

And a whole new menu appears top right which, we’ll
later see, can be used to edit the highlighted shot in
lots of different ways.
Editing out rubbish in the middle of a clip – how to do
it
Sadly we will usually have bits of unwanted material
within the body of the clip that we want to cut out and
this is easily removed.
First put the playhead at the start or finish of the bit
you want to cut out

You can now play the clip and decide exactly where
you want it to start and finish. Then by moving the You will see a new menu and you need to tap on the
handles at the beginning and end of the clip you can scissors
precisely adjust the start and end of the clip (some-
times called the in and out).
A tip – you can be more precise in editing the exact
start or end point of the clip if you make it appear lon-
ger on your time line – you use your thumb and finger
to spread it longer or pinch it in to make it appear
shorter . This move will not change the length of the
actual clip in any way – you will have to use the yellow
handles to do that.

Another new menu and you can choose to make the

edit in several ways – I’m going for the split at play-
head option

When you have used the yellow handles to shorten

each clip confirm by tapping the big tick (top left)
This happens And the rubbish has gone…

Moving clips around the timeline – you might for

example you might want to move the clip of man two
Then find the other end of the rubbish and position the into the middle of the 2 clips of man one .
playhead again

Cut again .. First you tap and hold onto the clip you want to move

One clip has now become 3 – the unwanted clip is now

in the middle.
Tap on it Then tap on the bin icon
Then using your finger you lift the clip above the time-
line and move it to where you want it to be

And there you go you have now changed the order of

the clips
Using these steps you can build up your basic rough edit and start to get your film to the right duration
with elements in the right order.