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Edit Video...in Lightroom!

The standout photo-editing app now handles video too.

Working with media captured on your iPhone or camera used to mean editing photos in one app and video in another. The latest version of Lightroom can handle it all—and keep all your media in one place. And because Lightroom uses the same controls and features for video as it does for editing photos, you don’t have to worry about learning new tools.

Here are four tips to get the most out of your videos in Lightroom.

Use presets for quick edits

Select a video clip and open the Edit panel to bring up Lightroom’s familiar suite of adjustment tools—including presets that apply your favorite look with a single click! Can’t get exactly what you want using the built-in presets? Create and save your own, or browse those submitted to the community by other Lightroom users.

Tweak the details

Enhance your video with some familiar photo tools. For example, use the Exposure slider (under Light tools) to brighten the overall illumination, then decrease the Highlights value to make sure the bright areas of the clip aren’t blown out. Unhappy with a video shot on a cloudy day? Increase the Temp slider (under Color tools) to warm the scene.

For more precise adjustments, the Color Mixer lets you target specific hues to, say, emphasize green trees or boost the saturation of a clear blue sky. Or use the Color Grading tool to perfect the colors of midtones, shadows, and highlights.

Best of all, you don’t need to wait for your video clip to re-render to see your tweaks: You can make changes while the video is playing and see the results in real time. (Your edits are also nondestructive, so it’s easy to adjust or revert them later.)

Trim and rotate clips

Want to use just a section of a clip? Lightroom’s Trim & Rotate tool (the video version of Crop & Rotate) brackets your clip in the timeline with a pair of orange handles. Simply drag the handles to set the desired start and end points, then click the Trim & Rotate button.

You can also use this tool to rotate clips in 90-degree increments—useful for fixing video captured in the wrong orientation—or to flip video on its horizontal or vertical axis.

Share it

After you’ve got the video look you want, click the Share button to save the clip as a new MP4 file for sharing or using in apps such as iMovie, Final Cut Pro, and Adobe’s Premiere Rush and Premiere Pro. You can also choose Get a Link to share the clip to an online Lightroom gallery, or Invite People to provide access to specific individuals.