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  Tool: Master Color Wash VFX in Kdenlive Description: It's pretty awesome to animate your own Lightsabers, like we walked through previously in https://youtu.be/W9JP_5c5l24, but what about the effect the Lightsaber should have by emanating its own light? Take your visual effects game up to the next level in Kdenlive by learning how to create color wash! Learn how to create a color wash special effect to characters and environments in this exciting addition to the visual effects tutorials.  Review: https://youtu.be/X0CnXskcBpc Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3

Tool: Creating the Ultimate Portable Editing Studio with Kdenlive and SanshowSD Description: Build a fully portable editing studio using Kdenlive's standalone Windows version and Linux Appimage! See how to create a fully flexible installation to move back and forth between Windows and Linux, using the same project files and media resources. Special to this video, see the advantages of using a memory card and the game-changing improvements this can bring! Please show some love to SanShowSD by visiting the following link and considering their great products! Review: https://youtu.be/p9-FozAq1v0 Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 2

  Tool: Krita Tips - DIY Custom Brushes And Packaging Tricks Description: Walk through easy steps to create your own custom brush tips from scratch, then learn how to create packages or bundles to share them! Walk through using the pixel engine on a basic level to see the options and add a healthy degree of customization to your very own brushes!  Review: https://youtu.be/X7zU_ix9DnE Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3

Tool: Kdenlive - Learn How To Create Impressive Knife Throwing Visual Effects Description: Let's pull apart how to simulate knife throwing in Kdenlive, using out of the box effects in clever ways! See how using simple effects, such as Transform, Corners, and Box Blur can create power visual effects when used together.  Review: https://youtu.be/NuSguPEbcls Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3

Tool: Krita - How to Outline Anything Description: Learn the (nearly-hidden) secret to adding outline to anything in Krita! Follow simple steps to work with simple objects, complex objects, and finally text! Explore using the wand selector and converting layers to selection masks.  Review: https://youtu.be/KmoGlOXCnbw Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3

Tool: Kdenlive - Space Ship Visual Effect Description: Following in the footsteps of "traditional" visual effects, I'm working with a model and creating motion in space using camera motion and post compositing. Walk through using Kdenlive to mask out the space ship model and learn how to leverage the "Mask Apply" effect - See how to bind effects to a masked area and shortcut creating complex masks over many frames.  Review: https://youtu.be/P1gdb5ivHAg Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 4

Tool: Kdenlive - Floating Apple Special Effect With No Greenscreen Description: Learn how to use Kdenlive to create the realistic floating apple special effect, using a traditional approach to special effects and powerful masking and keyframe animation features! The technique is simple, but very effective with a little planning and patience. See every step needed, including how to compose the shot and what to watch out for when creating the effect.  Review: https://youtu.be/S1kTzl-WNa4 Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3

Tool: Create Your Own Color Grading with LutCreator Description: Learn how to use a FREE Look-Up Table (LUT) creator tool called LutCreator to tone and color grade your video projects! Achieve that cold, dry, or warm look! Follow me through editing a neutral LUT in Krita, then applying the grading in Kdenlive! Review: https://youtu.be/iLpTCvXcUQ8 Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 2

Tool: Kdenlive - New Ways to Use Dynamic Text Description: Did you know that video files have attributes (meta data) included within that describe the file? These can be used to include customized text information that can be read, stylized, even animated with Kdenlive! See how to get the most use out of the Dynamic Text effect and make it work to your advantage using other free tools to compliment the process, like VLC and Atomic Parsley! Review: https://youtu.be/Quz_exBYczk           Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3

Tool: Kdenlive - How to Make the Floating Text Visual Effect Description: See how to use motion tracking with AI algorithms to creation motion path keyframes in Kdenlive. It becomes very easy to reuse generated keyframes to create complex and realistic overlays, as in the example of floating text. Walk through also how to add perspective, shadow and surface blurring adaption!  Review: https://youtu.be/7PZHOnW9ONM Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3

Tool: Kdenlive - How to Make Smooth Rolling Credits Description: See a clever workaround to create smooth, rolling credits in Kdenlive! The built-in effect "Scroll" has some render issues (as of 23.04.03), but in using the animation properties of the Title designer, you can easily achieve a smooth roll with flexible control of speed.  Review: https://youtu.be/ESDGAWtDpc4 Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3

Tool: Kdenlive - Beginner's Guide to Setup and Editing Description: Walk through all the pieces of how to download Kdenlive and configure it with best practices to succeed in video editing! Learn about how optimize the timeline editor, organize a video project, import media, basic use of the editing tools, and how to export.  Review: https://youtu.be/Rgsweq1vrWY Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3

Tool: Kdenlive - Three Useful Effects Description: Three super-useful effects that are powerful, but easy to miss! Learn where they are and how to use them to create stunning visual elements and improve editing workflow! Review: https://youtu.be/E_dybJDNyIc Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3

  Tool: Krita - How to Edit RAW Photos Description: See how the free, open source tool Krita can be used to touch up RAW photos using the Clone brush to remove blemishes or unwanted elements Review: https://youtu.be/Gzos7_YHzA4 Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 4

Tool: Krita - How to Import New (and Free) Brushes Description: Learn how to import brush bundles to Krita! Review: https://youtu.be/QOmkd1lHIrY Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3

Tool: Kdenlive - How to Split Subtitles Description: Learn how to split subtitles in Kdenlive! Review: https://youtu.be/Z7Gf-u4spqA Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3

Tool: Kdenlive - How to Configure Whisper for Subtitles Description: Learn how to configure Whisper to accurately generate subtitles in Kdenlive! Review: https://youtu.be/hoc_cmwptl0 Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 4

Tool: Kdenlive - How to Use Sequences Description: Learn how to create scenes and manage them either as independent timelines or grouped objects in a master project! Review: https://youtu.be/fWaGG8xY51M Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3

Tool: Kdenlive - Complete Beginner's Guide Description: Learn where to begin in Krita, covering how to start a new project, how to work with dockers, where to find brush settings, and organizing with layers!! Review: https://youtu.be/LSzHQqzu7WM Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3

Tool: Kdenlive - Complete Beginner's Guide Description: Learn where to begin in using Kdenlive, including best practice configuration, basic editing controls, effects and composition usage, and how to export! Review: https://youtu.be/e9nuNi1iRNU Ease of Use: Scale of 1 to 5; 1 being easiest, 5 being hardest 3