VN Video Editing Full Course: Beginner to Advanced Mobile Editing by Earners

Many beginners think they need a laptop and expensive software to create professional videos. In reality, the free VN Video Editor lets you edit YouTube videos, Shorts, Reels, and more directly from your smartphone.

This free 3-hour tutorial by Earners teaches video editing from basic to advanced level. It covers everything from setting up your first project and making clean cuts to using keyframes, effects, masking, background removal, and color grading in simple, easy-to-follow steps.

Why Learn Video Editing with VN? 

The phone in your pocket is powerful enough to edit professional-looking videos. The gap isn't your device. It's knowledge.

Most beginners download an editing app, get confused by the timeline, and give up in 10 minutes. This tutorial is built to prevent exactly that.  Think of it like learning to drive. You don't start on a highway. You start in an empty parking lot, get a feel for the controls, make mistakes where it's safe, and slowly build confidence. That's what this course does with video editing.

What is the VN Video Editor? 

VN is a free mobile video editing app that works on both Android and iOS. It has no watermark, no subscription, and no hidden charges.

You can use VN to edit:

• YouTube Shorts

• Instagram Reels

• Full-length YouTube videos

• Vlogs

• Cinematic videos

• Documentaries

One of VN's biggest strengths is its layer-based timeline, which works similarly to professional desktop editing software. Once you understand layers, editing becomes much easier.

How to Create Your First Video Project in VN

Creating your first video project in VN Video Editor is simple, even if you have no prior editing experience. VN offers an intuitive interface with powerful editing tools that help beginners create professional-quality videos directly from their smartphones. Here are the key steps:

Setting Up the App

The first thing you do is grant permissions and understand the interface. The home screen shows your folders, recent projects, and imported media. One important thing to know: the Play Store version limits you to 100 projects. If you need unlimited projects, the Telegram version removes that cap for free.

Creating Your First Project

Tap the blue plus icon - choose Video-based project - import clips from your gallery. You can filter by folders, select multiple videos at once, and arrange them before you even start editing. Simple, but getting this right saves time later.

Export Settings (Get These Right From Day One)

Choosing the correct export settings helps maintain video quality without making the file too large. 

Higher bitrate means bigger file size with diminishing returns. 10 Mbps hits the sweet spot for quality and storage.

Basic Video Editing Tools in VN

The most important editing skill is learning how to make clean cuts. The tutorial focuses on three basic tools:

• Split — cuts a clip into two parts at the exact frame you choose

• Trim — drag the edges of a clip to shorten it from either end

• Delete — removes the unwanted portion after splitting

These three tools together form 80% of your editing workflow. Master them first. Everything else builds on top.

The tutorial also explains different cut styles — jump cuts (most common), L cuts, J cuts, smash cuts — and how each one creates a different feeling in the viewer.

Advanced Editing Features in VN

After learning the basics, the course introduces advanced editing features:

• Layers: Once you understand the basic timeline, you move into layers. In VN, you can stack photos, text, shapes, sound effects, voiceovers, and more, all on separate layers above your main video.

• Keyframes are where things get genuinely exciting. Say you want text to slide in from the left, pause, then fade out. Keyframes let you define exactly how that happens — position, scale, rotation, opacity — all animatable over time.

• Animation curves (ease-in, ease-out, cubic) control whether the movement feels mechanical or smooth. This one feature alone separates a basic edit from something that looks professionally made.

• Text, Speed Ramping, and Effects: VN lets you customize text with different fonts, colors, borders, shadows, and animations. You can also create smooth slow-motion effects using speed ramping and add transitions like Fade, Glitch, Matte, and RGB Split to make your videos look more engaging and professional.

Background Removal and Color Grading

VN has two background removal tools:

• AI Cutout — removes backgrounds automatically with feather and expand controls to clean up edges

• Green Screen (Chroma Key) — works on overlay layers, letting you replace a green background with any footage or image

For color grading, the adjust panel gives you exposure, contrast, brightness, saturation, vibrance, temperature, vignette, HSL, sharpen, highlights, and shadows. A cinematic look typically involves warming the temperature slightly, adding a subtle vignette, and pulling shadows down. Nothing drastic — the goal is mood, not noise.

Learn Advanced Masking Techniques 

Masks let you reveal or hide specific parts of a layer using shapes — linear, radial, rectangular, or mirrored. The edges can be feathered for smooth blending.

One of the most impressive uses shown in the tutorial: the clone effect. Film two takes of yourself in the same location with a fixed camera. Stack both clips as layers. Use a mask to show one version of you on the left and another on the right. The result looks like two of you in the same frame.

It sounds complex. The tutorial makes it achievable.

Want to Learn Professional Mobile Video Editing?

If you want to build a career in video editing after completing the free course, Earners also offers a 50–60 hour professional mobile video editing course through the Physics App.

The course includes:

• Advanced editing techniques

• Client projects

• Portfolio building

• Freelancing guidance

• Monetization methods

• Editing assets like sound effects, overlays, and backgrounds

The Honest Takeaway

Three hours of focused learning can genuinely change how you look at video content. Not because VN is magic software, but because understanding how editing works changes how you see every video you watch.

Start with the split tool. Get comfortable with the timeline. Then slowly layer in keyframes, speed ramps, and color grading. Don't try to learn everything in one sitting.

The tutorial will still be there when you come back. Your phone is already in your hand. Open VN and make your first cut today.