The Power of Luma Fusion: A Beginner's Guide to Exporting and Importing Media

When it comes to video editing, having the right tools at your disposal is crucial for creating high-quality content. One such tool is Luma Fusion, an innovative app that allows users to edit and export their videos with ease. In this article, we'll delve into the world of Luma Fusion and explore its features, especially when it comes to exporting and importing media.

**Exporting Media**

One of the key features of Luma Fusion is its ability to export media in various formats. When you select "Audio Only" as your destination, you're presented with several options for sharing your audio files. You can choose from popular services like Photo App, Dropbox, YouTube, Vimeo, and even AirDrop. By selecting Photo App, you can avoid logging into any of these services and simply share your audio files directly from the app.

As you navigate through the export settings, you'll notice a plethora of options to customize your audio quality. You can adjust the sample rate, file format, and more to ensure that your exported media meets your needs. In this example, we've chosen Audio Only as our destination and SL airdrop, with sample rate set to 44.1 kHz and file format selected as m4a.

**Project Archive**

For users who need to transport their projects to other devices or backup them for future use, Luma Fusion offers the "Project Archive" option. This feature allows you to export your entire project, including all media files, into a compressed archive that can be easily transferred. When you choose Project Archive as your destination, you'll be presented with three options: Full Media, Trimmmed Media, and No Media.

By selecting Trimmmed Media, you're able to save on storage space by only exporting the trimmed portion of your media files. This option is ideal for users who have already edited their footage and just want to share the final product. On the other hand, choosing Full Media will export all of your media files, including any unused footage. Finally, No Media allows you to export only the database file associated with your project, which can be used to import projects into Luma Fusion.

In this example, we've chosen Trimmmed Media as our destination and Exported all, saving the trimmed portion of our media files in the Luma Fusion folder.

**Snapshot**

For users who want to quickly capture a specific frame from their video, Luma Fusion offers the "Snapshot" feature. This tool allows you to take a screenshot of the current frame that the playhead is positioned on and save it directly to your Photo Library.

In this example, we've taken a snapshot of our current project using the Snapshot feature. The resulting image is saved directly to our Photos app, making it easy to share or use as needed.

**Importing Media**

One of the most exciting features of Luma Fusion is its ability to import projects from other sources. Users can tap the "Import" button in the bottom left-hand corner of the Project Viewer to begin importing their media files. For now, this feature is limited to just four sources: Files App, Browser, and two other unnamed sources.

By opening the Files App and copying our previously exported project into Luma Fusion, we're able to import it directly into the app. The resulting project is displayed in the Project Viewer, where we can begin editing and refining our content.

**Luma Fusion Layout**

One of the standout features of Luma Fusion is its customizable layout options. When you tap the "Layout" button in the upper right-hand corner of the Source Viewer, you're presented with six different layouts to choose from. These layouts allow users to arrange their media files in a way that suits their creative needs.

In this example, we've chosen one of the pre-configured layouts and are able to customize it further by adjusting the size and position of our media files. This level of flexibility is impressive, especially considering that this is an iOS app.

**Luma Fusion Browser**

The Luma Fusion browser is another feature that sets this app apart from its peers. When you tap the "Browser" button in the upper left-hand corner, you're presented with a window that allows you to view and manage your media files directly within the app.

In this example, we've accessed our Files App and are able to view our exported project directly within Luma Fusion's browser. This feature is ideal for users who need to preview their media before importing it into their projects.

**Conclusion**

Luma Fusion is an innovative video editing app that offers a range of features and tools for creating high-quality content. From exporting and importing media, to customizing the layout and working with the browser, this app has something for everyone. Whether you're a seasoned video editor or just starting out, Luma Fusion is definitely worth checking out.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enin part one of our Luma Fusion tutorial series we discuss projects which is the basic building block for editing videos in Luma Fusion for iOS now before we get started a lot of people ask me why use Luma Fusion which CA 20 bucks when I could just use iMovie which is free great question truth is not everyone's going to need Luma Fusion but if you want to know why this app is so powerful and why video editors may choose to use this over something like iMovie watch our initial walkthrough which explains if you're a first time Luma Fusion User it's important to know how to find help and support and you can do so by tapping the little help button in the upper right hand corner of the interface and the help button is the question mark inside of the little gear icon you just tap that which opens up help in settings tap help and then you'll see various help options like support forms tutorial video send email to Luma touch so if I tap support form that will open up the Luma touch form where you can converse with other Luma Fusion users and get help you need and of course there are tutorial videos so not only do you have this video that you're watching right now but Luma touch has created a whole lot of different videos to help you get started in Luma fusion and lastly you can correspond with the developers via email by tapping the send email to Luma touch option you can also toggle touch indicators on the screen so if you like to see exactly where you're touching you can do do so by going back into the help section and selecting show touches to toggle that feature own so now whenever you touch the screen you can see where you're touching it even responds to multi-touch gestures like that and if you later decide that you want to toggle this feature off just go back to settings and then select High touches now let's get into the fun stuff creating a new project now if you haven't yet created a project you will see an interface that looks like this to create a new project just tap the new project button in the bottom left hand corner like this and now you'll be prompted to submit several pieces of information starting with the project name so we can go in here and rename this project and we'll just call it Luma Fusion guide the next thing we need to customize is the frame rate so I shot this video at 24 frames per second of course I can choose all sorts of different frame rates in here but my camera uses 24 frames per second most of the time and then you can also choose your aspect ratio in this case 16x 9 okay so all of our settings are set now we can just tap the little plus button next to create project to create the project now once you're in a project how do you get back to the project viewer well simply tap the project viewer button at the top of the interface and there you go so you can use the project viewer interface to create a new project or enter an already existing project now assuming you have media in a project you can actually use the project viewer to preview that project simply by scrubbing on the project preview right inside the project viewer you can see the little play head there as I scrub now of course you can also use the transport controls right there at the bottom of the source viewer to play back and pause your project preview Luma Fusion allows you to easily rename projects there actually two quick and easy ways to do so you can tap right above the source viewer right on the name of the project and rename it that way or you can tap on the name of the project in the project viewer like this to rename it as well now what if you want to change the settings of a current project well to do so select the project of course then tap the help and settings button and then tap project settings and from here you can easily adjust the frame rate so I'm going to change it to 30 instead of 24 you can also adjust the frame aspect ratio now global settings are useful because this influences every new project you create so to adjust the glob settings go back to help in settings and then tap the global settings button again this allows you to influence all the new projects that you create in other words you set default settings for each new project so if I want to set the default frame rate to 24 frames per second because I usually shoot in 24 frames per second I can do that I can also set the default aspect ratio and other settings we'll get into those other settings in future videos but for now we'll just focus on frame rate and aspect ratio so now when I go in and create a new project you're going to see the frame rate defaults to 24 frames per second just like we had it set but what if I go back in to global settings and change that frame rate to 30 guess what happens when we create a new project it's going to default to 30 frames per second just like that Luma Fusion lets you easily duplicate a project right from the project viewer so select the project that you wish to duplicate the selection is defined by that blue outline and then just tap the duplicate button like that and now I have a duplicate project you can see that it appends a number after the project name so in this case Luma Fusion guide one now you can also easily delete a project of course so to do so you want to select the project you wish to delete again the selection is defined by that blue outline around the project also you can see right above the source viewer the name of the project you have selected so if I choose this one you can see how the source viewer name changes and the blue outline is there so tap the delete button and then then tap yes to confirm the deletion from time to time you may want to add notes to a project and thankfully that's easy to do right in Luma Fusion you can just tap the little notes button like that and then type in your note so testing out my Panasonic gh5 and then you can see the notes contents and you can see the little blue icon indicating that there is a note similarly you can also add project color tag so just tap the little circle button next to the project name and then select from one of the six available colors so I'll choose purple here and that applies the color tag so let's do it again let's add purple to the Luma Fusion guide and we'll add a red tag to the keyboard project sorting projects is extremely powerful in Luma Fusion let me show you how it works so all you do is tap the sort button in the bottom right hand corner to invoke the sort panel so all these different items you can sort on including color title notes creation date and you can see the ascending and descending button that you can tap to change the direction that your results are displayed so I can sort on creation date and various other things very handy if you have a lot of projects going on at the same time thankfully you can also search your project Library by tapping the search button the cool thing about this is that you can search on a variety of different metadata so I can search by project name in this case iPad Pro I can also search on notes so Panasonic was within my note I can also search own color tags so red pulls up the red color tag and if I search for purple that will pull up the purple color tag and all the projects associated with that tag but it doesn't stop there you can also sort on your filtered results for even more Precision now we'll get more in depth with exporting projects in the future but for now I just wanted to give you a very high level over overview if you tap the export button you see movie Audio Only project archive and snapshot so let's select movie here so you can see there's various destinations you can choose from photo app Dropbox YouTube Vimeo other app or airdrop the list goes on and own I going to choose in this instance photo app because I don't have to worry about logging in or anything like that to any sharing services but as you can see there are tons of different settings that you can establish and we'll talk about all this later on for now I just wanted to give you a glimpse as to what it looks like when you export a movie Let's cancel this all right let's talk about one of the other options here Audio Only and obviously the destination settings will change we're going to choose other app SL airdrop you can see audio quality so you can change the sample rate you can also change the file format so we can choose m4a or wave let's go back and let's choose project archive this time now this is what you want to use if you want to transport a project and work on it on another device so if I wanted to move this to my iPhone I could do so you could see the destination options in this case I'm going to choose other app and you can see the share settings now it gives you three options you can include full media which gives you the entirety of the media files included in your project if you want to save on Space you can choose trimmed media which will only include the trimmed portion of the media that's included in your project or you can choose no media if you just want to send over the database file and provide the files yourself on the destination device in this case I'm going to choose trimmed and Export all right so it's writing the movie files uploading now I can choose my destination I'm going to choose the files app saved it to the Luma Fusion folder all right so upload is complete simple now the last option is Snapshot and this basically will just take a screenshot of the current frame that the playhead is positioned on and that will save it to your photo library so here's the photos app here's that saved frame so that's a quick and easy way to export a frame from your video I use this all the time now you can also import a project of course by tapping the import button in the bottom leftand corner on the project viewer it's limited right now at least to just these four sources so what I'm going to do is open up the files app tap on the uh export that I did earlier and then copy to Luma fusion and you can see it copies it right in B one now here's another project that I did a while back copy it to Luma Fusion you can see I'm missing some media I'm actually missing a music file there but all the rest of the media is there and ready to go so this is a great way to quickly transport projects to different devices or backup projects whatever the case may be if you're a new Luma Fusion user you want to definitely get familiar with the layout of the app so in the upper left hand corner you have your browser and you can can select all your different sources this is where you get your media in the upper right hand corner lies your Source viewer now this can be used to preview media in your browser it could also be used to playback media in a project via the project timeline which is right here now the timeline is where you go in and arrange all the different media that you take from your browser into a cohesive final project one of the powerful things about Luma Fusion is that you can adjust the layout to your liking if you tap the layout button in the upper right hand Corner you'll see six different layouts to choose from this is something that full-fledged video editing apps are known for on the desktop now it's pretty impressive that this is in an iOS app but you can see there you can swap the browser and the source viewer if you want to do that and of course you can swap them back but it doesn't stop there you can also fully extend the browser like this and that of course comes at the expense of your horizontal real estate for your timeline you can also swap that but this is great if you want to view more media in your browser now you can also hide the browser if you just want to view the source viewer in the timeline which is great for when you've got all the media that you need and you just want to focus on editing and then lastly you can hide the timeline which is great for just previewing Source media that you're thinking about using ladies and gentlemen if you enjoyed this basic introductory tutorial to Luma fusion and you want to see more videos like this then please leave me a thumbs up and let me know what you think Down Below in the comment section this is Jeff with 9 to5 five Macin part one of our Luma Fusion tutorial series we discuss projects which is the basic building block for editing videos in Luma Fusion for iOS now before we get started a lot of people ask me why use Luma Fusion which CA 20 bucks when I could just use iMovie which is free great question truth is not everyone's going to need Luma Fusion but if you want to know why this app is so powerful and why video editors may choose to use this over something like iMovie watch our initial walkthrough which explains if you're a first time Luma Fusion User it's important to know how to find help and support and you can do so by tapping the little help button in the upper right hand corner of the interface and the help button is the question mark inside of the little gear icon you just tap that which opens up help in settings tap help and then you'll see various help options like support forms tutorial video send email to Luma touch so if I tap support form that will open up the Luma touch form where you can converse with other Luma Fusion users and get help you need and of course there are tutorial videos so not only do you have this video that you're watching right now but Luma touch has created a whole lot of different videos to help you get started in Luma fusion and lastly you can correspond with the developers via email by tapping the send email to Luma touch option you can also toggle touch indicators on the screen so if you like to see exactly where you're touching you can do do so by going back into the help section and selecting show touches to toggle that feature own so now whenever you touch the screen you can see where you're touching it even responds to multi-touch gestures like that and if you later decide that you want to toggle this feature off just go back to settings and then select High touches now let's get into the fun stuff creating a new project now if you haven't yet created a project you will see an interface that looks like this to create a new project just tap the new project button in the bottom left hand corner like this and now you'll be prompted to submit several pieces of information starting with the project name so we can go in here and rename this project and we'll just call it Luma Fusion guide the next thing we need to customize is the frame rate so I shot this video at 24 frames per second of course I can choose all sorts of different frame rates in here but my camera uses 24 frames per second most of the time and then you can also choose your aspect ratio in this case 16x 9 okay so all of our settings are set now we can just tap the little plus button next to create project to create the project now once you're in a project how do you get back to the project viewer well simply tap the project viewer button at the top of the interface and there you go so you can use the project viewer interface to create a new project or enter an already existing project now assuming you have media in a project you can actually use the project viewer to preview that project simply by scrubbing on the project preview right inside the project viewer you can see the little play head there as I scrub now of course you can also use the transport controls right there at the bottom of the source viewer to play back and pause your project preview Luma Fusion allows you to easily rename projects there actually two quick and easy ways to do so you can tap right above the source viewer right on the name of the project and rename it that way or you can tap on the name of the project in the project viewer like this to rename it as well now what if you want to change the settings of a current project well to do so select the project of course then tap the help and settings button and then tap project settings and from here you can easily adjust the frame rate so I'm going to change it to 30 instead of 24 you can also adjust the frame aspect ratio now global settings are useful because this influences every new project you create so to adjust the glob settings go back to help in settings and then tap the global settings button again this allows you to influence all the new projects that you create in other words you set default settings for each new project so if I want to set the default frame rate to 24 frames per second because I usually shoot in 24 frames per second I can do that I can also set the default aspect ratio and other settings we'll get into those other settings in future videos but for now we'll just focus on frame rate and aspect ratio so now when I go in and create a new project you're going to see the frame rate defaults to 24 frames per second just like we had it set but what if I go back in to global settings and change that frame rate to 30 guess what happens when we create a new project it's going to default to 30 frames per second just like that Luma Fusion lets you easily duplicate a project right from the project viewer so select the project that you wish to duplicate the selection is defined by that blue outline and then just tap the duplicate button like that and now I have a duplicate project you can see that it appends a number after the project name so in this case Luma Fusion guide one now you can also easily delete a project of course so to do so you want to select the project you wish to delete again the selection is defined by that blue outline around the project also you can see right above the source viewer the name of the project you have selected so if I choose this one you can see how the source viewer name changes and the blue outline is there so tap the delete button and then then tap yes to confirm the deletion from time to time you may want to add notes to a project and thankfully that's easy to do right in Luma Fusion you can just tap the little notes button like that and then type in your note so testing out my Panasonic gh5 and then you can see the notes contents and you can see the little blue icon indicating that there is a note similarly you can also add project color tag so just tap the little circle button next to the project name and then select from one of the six available colors so I'll choose purple here and that applies the color tag so let's do it again let's add purple to the Luma Fusion guide and we'll add a red tag to the keyboard project sorting projects is extremely powerful in Luma Fusion let me show you how it works so all you do is tap the sort button in the bottom right hand corner to invoke the sort panel so all these different items you can sort on including color title notes creation date and you can see the ascending and descending button that you can tap to change the direction that your results are displayed so I can sort on creation date and various other things very handy if you have a lot of projects going on at the same time thankfully you can also search your project Library by tapping the search button the cool thing about this is that you can search on a variety of different metadata so I can search by project name in this case iPad Pro I can also search on notes so Panasonic was within my note I can also search own color tags so red pulls up the red color tag and if I search for purple that will pull up the purple color tag and all the projects associated with that tag but it doesn't stop there you can also sort on your filtered results for even more Precision now we'll get more in depth with exporting projects in the future but for now I just wanted to give you a very high level over overview if you tap the export button you see movie Audio Only project archive and snapshot so let's select movie here so you can see there's various destinations you can choose from photo app Dropbox YouTube Vimeo other app or airdrop the list goes on and own I going to choose in this instance photo app because I don't have to worry about logging in or anything like that to any sharing services but as you can see there are tons of different settings that you can establish and we'll talk about all this later on for now I just wanted to give you a glimpse as to what it looks like when you export a movie Let's cancel this all right let's talk about one of the other options here Audio Only and obviously the destination settings will change we're going to choose other app SL airdrop you can see audio quality so you can change the sample rate you can also change the file format so we can choose m4a or wave let's go back and let's choose project archive this time now this is what you want to use if you want to transport a project and work on it on another device so if I wanted to move this to my iPhone I could do so you could see the destination options in this case I'm going to choose other app and you can see the share settings now it gives you three options you can include full media which gives you the entirety of the media files included in your project if you want to save on Space you can choose trimmed media which will only include the trimmed portion of the media that's included in your project or you can choose no media if you just want to send over the database file and provide the files yourself on the destination device in this case I'm going to choose trimmed and Export all right so it's writing the movie files uploading now I can choose my destination I'm going to choose the files app saved it to the Luma Fusion folder all right so upload is complete simple now the last option is Snapshot and this basically will just take a screenshot of the current frame that the playhead is positioned on and that will save it to your photo library so here's the photos app here's that saved frame so that's a quick and easy way to export a frame from your video I use this all the time now you can also import a project of course by tapping the import button in the bottom leftand corner on the project viewer it's limited right now at least to just these four sources so what I'm going to do is open up the files app tap on the uh export that I did earlier and then copy to Luma fusion and you can see it copies it right in B one now here's another project that I did a while back copy it to Luma Fusion you can see I'm missing some media I'm actually missing a music file there but all the rest of the media is there and ready to go so this is a great way to quickly transport projects to different devices or backup projects whatever the case may be if you're a new Luma Fusion user you want to definitely get familiar with the layout of the app so in the upper left hand corner you have your browser and you can can select all your different sources this is where you get your media in the upper right hand corner lies your Source viewer now this can be used to preview media in your browser it could also be used to playback media in a project via the project timeline which is right here now the timeline is where you go in and arrange all the different media that you take from your browser into a cohesive final project one of the powerful things about Luma Fusion is that you can adjust the layout to your liking if you tap the layout button in the upper right hand Corner you'll see six different layouts to choose from this is something that full-fledged video editing apps are known for on the desktop now it's pretty impressive that this is in an iOS app but you can see there you can swap the browser and the source viewer if you want to do that and of course you can swap them back but it doesn't stop there you can also fully extend the browser like this and that of course comes at the expense of your horizontal real estate for your timeline you can also swap that but this is great if you want to view more media in your browser now you can also hide the browser if you just want to view the source viewer in the timeline which is great for when you've got all the media that you need and you just want to focus on editing and then lastly you can hide the timeline which is great for just previewing Source media that you're thinking about using ladies and gentlemen if you enjoyed this basic introductory tutorial to Luma fusion and you want to see more videos like this then please leave me a thumbs up and let me know what you think Down Below in the comment section this is Jeff with 9 to5 five Mac\n"