Watch two versions of the same clips, put in a different order. What does each version say happened?

Version 1

Version 2

Both use the same footage with nothing added, so only the order changed the story.

Today you put your own clips in order, and next lesson you finish your video and try a different order.

A video editor shows your footage on a timeline, a strip that runs left to right from the start of your video to the end.

Clips on the same row play one after another. A timeline can have more than one row, and the rows play at the same time. Music on its own row plays under the pictures, and a title on its own row shows over them.

Making a clip shorter is called trimming. So most editing is putting clips in order, trimming them or adding rows.

Snip Studio runs in your browser at snipsound.com/video-editor. There is no account to make and nothing to install, and your clips stay on your own computer.

Bring your clips in and put them on the timeline in the order you want them seen, following the steps below.

If you did not save any clips in the sourcing lesson, take three minutes to download two or three short ones from Pixabay. Check the licence first, and skip anything marked Sponsored or iStock, which are paid.

For the music, use the thirty-second clip you made in the AudioMass lessons. If you do not have it, download one short music track from Pixabay in the same way.

Trim each clip so it runs only as long as it needs to, and make the music end with your last picture.

Keep playing it back, because editing means changing something, watching it and changing it again. Then name your project so it is there to finish next lesson.

You now have a sequence, with your clips in order on one row, the music underneath and each clip cut to the length you chose.

What would change if your first clip ran twice as long?