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1. Intro : In today's day and age, short-form content is
more important than ever. But knowing how to
effectively shoot and edit that content is even
more important. Hello and welcome. My name is fynn Badgley. I'm a content creator and photographer located
in Toronto, Canada, and welcome to this walkthrough
of how to shoot and edit your short-form
content using CapCut. Capcut has become my go-to
editing application. For my phone, I edit just
about all of my TikToks, all of my reals, all of my YouTube shorts
in this one app. And I'm going to show you how
to get the most out of it. If you're not experienced with this app at all, that is fine. If you're not even experienced creating
short-form content. That is great because you have come to the right place and not only going to walk you
through the CapCut app to get the most out
of your content. But I'm also going
to walk you through my content process and
some best practices to make your short-form
vertical video content as effective
as possible. Because short-form
content has been around long enough that
there are different ways to utilize this and social media to reach
a wider audience. Whether you're doing this
for Fun, for business, to build a personal brand, you've come to the right place. In this class, we're
going to walk through the three main and
most effective types of Short Form Content and
how to shoot and edit them. So that way you get the most
eyeballs on your content. And ideally have these convert if you're using this
for a business purpose. And by the end of this class, you will have the tools
and the confidence to make your own first Piece
of Short Form Content if you've never
created any before. So if that sounds fair enough, Let's jump right in.
2. Project Overview: Thanks for being here. Starting off
something you should know is there are going to be three types of Short Form
content that we're looking at. And the project element
of this class is going to have you take your own
spin on one of the three, whichever one you
feel most Called to create one of those, post it to your platform of choice YouTube shorts,
TikTok, instagram, Rios, and then add
a link to that in the projects down below. And I'll also chime in to
give you some feedback, as well as we're
getting settled here, I want to give you a quick
run-through of the CapCut app so you know what
we're looking at before we get into
the nitty-gritty, we have CapCut installed here. You can connect this
with your TikTok, but you don't have to. So you can hit New
Project and then you can import any videos that you have. I have this one here that I'm
just going to add quickly. You go through your
camera roll and you can edit this all on your phone. And it offers some
great functionality. You can choose a
cover for your video. And you can not only
edit vertical video, but you can also edit
horizontal video. You can even turn a
vertical Video horizontal by using some of these
templates that they have here, you can go through and
hit the different ones. So if I wanted this to be 16 by nine for YouTube,
I can do that. And then all I have
to do is tap on the video itself and then pinch
outward to scale that up. Now that's not going
to look good for this, so we'll just disregard that. But then you have
texts so you can add some texts in here. That looks weird. So I'm just going to undo that little undo button
at the top there. You can auto caption this. If you have words in your video and you have
a bunch of effects, I don't really use
too many of these, but they can be interesting, especially if you're
using a CapCut template, which is something that we
will get into later on. You also have different
filters that you can put on. These are your standard, almost like a preset with
a bunch of adjustments that you can throw
on Your video. I don't really like playing
around with them too much. So you just hit the no filter
icon there and you're fine. Then you can also adjust
the video itself. You go over here to adjust E101. You can adjust a whole bunch for the different settings
and essentially color grade your video right within CapCut you can see all the different
settings they have there. You can mask, you can retouch, you can replace things, you can add motion blur. You can take the audio out of a clip and just use
that audio track. You can noise reduce, you can add vocal effects. You could stabilize the video. You can do a whole
bunch of things, and you can also do just a quick regular edit by
hitting either the split. This is like the razor blade. If you're familiar with
Premier Pro Da Vinci, Resolve any of these programs. And you can also just drag the little play
head at the top here to shorten or lengthen
that particular clip. If it doesn't work for you to drag it one of the two ways, it's probably because that
is at its longest length. So if I undo that here and I come to the end and I
tried to drag that out. It's not going because that's the beginning of
the clip itself. So that's just a
quick little rundown of the CapCut interface itself. And with that Edited way, Let's talk about the type of content that you want to create.
3. Defining Content Pillars: If you're familiar with the
content creation space, you've probably heard the
term Content Pillars. This essentially means
the types of content that you make or your niche. You don't have to have
one specific niche. These are just common topics
that you've touched on. So for me I have a
note in my phone, but if I want to keep it simple, I can go here, create a new note, call
it Content Pillars. And then my overarching
theme is, what am I? Okay, So I'm a photographer, I'm a model, I'm a
content creator. And what can I bridge
off of this? I can. Okay, so photographer and model look better in photos
could be an option. A model we can do fashion
and style advice. Another type of content
I'll usually make is what I call taking
a static photos. And then I just show a
quick and easy way to take an aesthetic looking photo on your phone to then
post on Instagram. And I use a little
voice-over type thing so I can put aesthetic photos, I can do posing tips. I can do misconceptions
about Photography, about being a model, about being a content creator. I can do different
ways that I've built my content
creation strategy. As a part of this, I
can have a whole bunch of different branches that come off of these three main pillars or what I am, what I represent. Another piece is the
content creators kind of built into this because
I'm making content. So something else I can
do is confidence or mindset and then create
content around that, around my experience with that, because that's something
that I'm passionate about. So think of the things
that you're passionate about that you could talk
for hours on end about. And then look at
different trends. Look at types of content that are working
for other people. And think how we
can you adapt that to your own personal
experience and how you can take that to ultimately give you
more ideas for content. It's like a Venn
diagram that then leads into more little circles
that branch off with it. You have, it's like
your family tree. The main idea starts
here and then it branches down into
a whole bunch of other ideas that then you can create pieces
of content around something else that works
really well when you do this is it doesn't just have to
be one piece of content. What I found really does well is doing things in
multiple parts. As an example, I can do, if I want to go off of look, looking better in photos, I could do five days to look better in photos
and post one part of that each day so people
will keep coming back and then they'll
follow me to see that. Take a look at what
you're passionate about. Take a look at what you like and create your content pillars
around the that you can even start with one and
build on it from there as you think about what types of content you want to create. And sometimes it's easy as you just put on a camera
and start talking. And then the natural ideas that you'd like to talk
about will come out. And then naturally your
content pillars will form. Now it with your
content pillars sorted, we want to get your
audience's attention. So that's where we talk
about Video hooks.
4. Planning a Hook: Video hook is an opening in
the first three to 6 s that draw your viewers attention in basically you want to make
it so they stop scrolling. Some people don't
like using hooks. Some people do. Sometimes the hooks can
feel a little contrived. So that's not what we want
to do here, but basically, what you want to quickly do is tell what this video's about, why they should
watch it and then immediately deliver on that. So an idea for this, in my case, I had the content pillar of
how to look better in photos. So let's think of a couple of hooks to start a video off with. Here's a couple of examples. So starting off, we
can have do this to look better in photos. Great. That's a great positive hook, but we can also use negative
hooks that may actually pull people in more because often people are attracted
to the negative. So I can do something
like you're taking your photos wrong. Here's how to fix it. Another way is to actually
bring it onto myself and say, I was taking my
photos all wrong. And here's what I did to fix it. Simple. It's a quick
little hook that draws the viewer's attention in and stops them
from scrolling. Because they know
this contents for them and it's not for them, then they're not a
part of your audience. And that's fine. We want to identify our
target audience and why they should be actually
viewing this video. And ideally, you may want to even include a little
bit of FOMO in there as to what they're
going to be losing if they don't watch this video for this one and identifies
a feeling of like your photos aren't
good enough or you don't look as good in
photos as you could. So I have the knowledge
of how to fix that. So you watched the video and
then you get that out of it. The one thing you
want to be sure of two not clickbait people is to actually deliver on
that particular hook. You want to actually
give that information. So not only do people feel
like they're satisfied, but also that's how you build trust and community
within an audience. You can adapt these hooks
to any niche as well. So you can take them, spin them for your
particular niche or your content pillars, and then build your
content off of that. Now that we've covered
hooks, next up, we're going to get into actually shooting and editing
your content
5. Filming and Editing: Talking Head: The first type of content
we're talking about, and one of my most
favorite to create. And I've actually
had a couple of viral videos go off that are in this format are longer form
Talking Head Style videos. This is where you're talking
directly to the camera. They can be anywhere from
30 s to 3 min to longer, as TikTok has now actually implemented a ten-minute
long feature, you can upload videos
up to 10 min long now. And as I've been experimenting
with types of content, I've noticed that videos over a minute long tend to do well. On TikTok, they get
pushed out a little more because the platform
is focusing on that. Now, if you want
to repurpose these for Instagram Reels
for YouTube shorts, what I tried to do
is film them in a particular way that I can cut out certain pieces to shorten it to under
a minute as well. Or I might break it up
into multiple parts and post them over
multiple shorts or reals. I'm using a trendy spin on
it because a lot of people these days are using a spin on this where they'll
open their notes, take a screenshot of that, and then use a green-screen
filter to talk over it, Talking about the different ins and outs of their
particular niche. So for me, I've come up
with a couple of ones in photography that I can discuss, and then I'll just film it using a green-screen filter to
point out the different ones. And you can actually do this
all within CapCut itself. So I've taken a
screenshot of this, and now I can open
the CapCut app. And this gives a nice
play on it because it allows the viewer to
be engaged for longer. And then if you want to take that same content and put
it on shorts or reals, you can cut it down, you can re-edit it. Or something I've even done
is cut it into two parts. For Instagram, for YouTube, you have to one-minute parts
from a two-minute video, giving you actually more
content in the long run. To start filming this, I'll open up CapCut and then I'm not going
to hit New Project. I'm actually going to hit
the camera on CapCut. They don't quite have the
ten minute version yet. Although CapCut and TikTok
are tied in together, it should be getting that
features soon. I would imagine. I can go over here to 3 min
since I will probably talk longer than a minute just to
get that added, watch time. And because TikTok is prioritizing these
particular videos, so I will affects. And then I'll go over
here to green screen. There's green-screen photo
and green-screen video. This one here with the little arrow
pointing down is photo. The arrow pointing up is videos. So I have to first
download that effect. It might take a minute
and then I can change the background from what
I have on my phone. And now we can see that I have my notes
screenshot pulled up. And then I will flip the camera
around to have me in it. Now I can drag myself bigger. And that way I can start
by having my head over each point and then bring it
down as the video goes on. The way I like to work is I will usually run off the cuff. I won't use a script
for my videos. Sometimes I'll make
a couple of notes. But if you like
to have a script, that is totally fine, the benefit of a video
like this is you have the points on
screen that you can reference with the note. But if you like having
a script to talk off of or look over and then hit
Record and talk to the camera. You can always have
another screen off to the side right here. And then just filming
your video and cut back and forth
as you need to reference your notes
or your script for the optimal
learning experience. I'm not going to edit this at
all because sometimes I'll fumble over my words and need to take the video a couple times. So I'm not going
to edit that out. So you can see me
fumble over my words. So that way if you do the same, you know that this is super common and it happens
to the best of us. So there's no worries there. You just edit that out after
the fact I have this set to multi clips because I'm going
to film more than one time. I'll stop it, catch my breath. And then say another point. In 2023. This is what is N and what we're
leaving in the dust. The first thing is
candid film photos, taking a film camera
around with you, capturing your life, capturing these great moments of the people that are
closest to you. This is something
that I've started doing and I suggest to everyone, because the photos give
this timeless classic feel. Next is capturing genuine
emotion and expression. This goes for any type of shoot, really trying to
create a feeling with your photos versus things being super contrived or emotionless, trying to create a
vibe as it were. Now what we're leaving behind, shooting wide-open
everything F1 point to the background
is super blurry. You can't see any
detail, any context. It doesn't add
anything to the story. It's just focused on the person. That's great, but I think it's
become a little overdone, So we're leaving that behind. And lastly, holding the
camera at eye level, get down, get High, shoot at different
angles because it will actually create a
different perspective. You're used to seeing
everything at your eye level. So to have a better, more unique looking photo, take it from a perspective. You're not used to seeing
all the time and you will have a better look. Now the last thing I'm going
to do is create a call to action to tell the
audience to do something. What are you, what, what Photography trend
are you leaving behind? Let me know your
thoughts down below. And simply that's a quick
call to action to let the audience know to comment
something down below. This gives more interaction. This gives more engagement which will ultimately
boost your content. Then we can just hit
the checkmark icon. And we can hit Edit, and then we can tighten
this up if we need to. So that first clip, we got a good take out of that. But maybe when these
two clips hit, there might be a little bit of space all tightened
that up a bit. This is something
that'll do with all my talking head videos. Usually there'll be small pauses between each clip and I'll just go through and cut those down so it just
feels more seamless. So where do I stop talking here? You can see we got half a second of a pause there and I
will just cut that out. Because when you're working
with short-form content, you want it to be
a little quicker, something that's longer form, you can allow it to
breathe a little bit. But short-form content,
it's a little faster paced. You, so you want to cut out a little bit more
of those pauses. And you can see I
take a breath and I go and then start talking
here. So I'll cut that out. And that's about
half a second again. Then I'll just watch
it again to make sure it's good to drag
back-and-forth. You just slide your thumb
across the screen here and that will help you
scrub through footage. Scrubbing is just when you
go through it a quick pace, you're not watching
the video, you're just getting to a
different point. Sometimes CapCut will
have the ad ending portion or sometimes this will just be added to the video. It's the CapCut logo. I don't like having this
in there because for one, it increases the
length of your video and that part people
probably won't watch or they'll just swipe away
at that point where previously they may watch
your content. Again. They may re-watch that video
which significantly up your watch time and makes it so the platform will push
it out to more people. So we just click on that, hit delete, that gets rid
of that and we're good. There is something
I want to do here, which usually helps
increase your watch time because it helps
people get engaged. And we can go over here to text. And then I'm just going
to hit auto captions and you see the captions
people have on their videos. All these platforms now usually have auto captioning
software where they can just automatically
take the words you've said and create
captions for them. So I'm just going to hit Start. And it will generate
the captions. So you can then click
on them and go style. You can change what you
want the font to be. Can go over here to font. Now, you can go through and
pick any font here you want. I'm going to keep it class. They can go with
some Helvetica here, and then you can change
the different type here. I'm gonna go with this
simple black text on a white background. You can create different
effects, animations, bubbles, but I'm going to keep it pretty
simple here and hit Okay. And then you can see that it
creates a captions and they auto refresh as you talk
to whatever you're saying. Sometimes I'll go
through and make sure they are saying
the words that I'm saying because sometimes
it will miss here what you say so you can go through and actually edit that. And then all I do is go over. You can hit Edit and then
you can actually type here. But that's good.
And then it's timed with how you're saying things. You can also cut it
to make it shorter, but I'm fine with the length
of the words per line here, so that's fine with me. Then I just come up here, hit the Share icon that will export the video directly
to my camera roll. And I can either share
it directly to TikTok, to Instagram, to
YouTube from here, or I can just hit Done and then post it whenever
I feel like it. As this finishes, I'm probably
just going to hit Done and then I will
post it later on. That's the Talking Head portion. It was a little
fancier because we implemented the green-screen
technique there. But that is also a way to up your watch time because you have something that the audience can look at as you're talking. It's not just you
talking directly. They can read what you're talking about as you're
talking about it. So it helps add another level there that will keep people
watching for longer. Now you don't have to do this. A lot of my content is just me talking directly to the
camera for a minute or so. And that works very well. So this is actually two of my most viral
videos that I've made. We're done just directly talking to the camera
for a minute or so. So it does definitely
work and I can attest to that now
with that said, let's go on to our
next piece of content, which is when you have
your clips are film. And then you do a
voiceover on top of them.
6. Filming and Editing: Voiceovers: Another very popular type of short-form content that people will create myself included, is where they filmed
a bunch of clips and do a voiceover
on top of them. A style that uses a lot is a get ready with me
a day in my life, a Come with me too. Different types of
experience-based videos. Now, earlier on, I
mentioned a type of content that I will
make is taking a static photos and I use the voice-over format for
these particular videos. How I will film them is I will take a screen recording
on my iPhone. I swipe down from the top, hit the screen
recording button and then I'll open my phone, have the grid on, and I'll show the process
of me taking a photo. And then I will put a
voiceover on top of that to then talk about what's happening
in the particular video. So I already have
my clips filmed, but how do I edit this? We open up cap cut and
I'll hit New Project. Then I usually like to already
know where my files are. Sometimes they're the most
recent ones for this. I have them favorited already, so I'll go through here. I'm actually going to use three different times to do this because sometimes
I'll do it for one photo, sometimes I'll do it for three. This particular one,
I'm doing it for three. So you can see I have the screen recording here and what
I'm going to do is first cut through all of this so you can see the
process of how that goes. So first thing, open that up, split that click on the
other one, delete that. Maybe I want this a
little bit longer because I will be
talking over it. So both three-point 9 s
should do the photos. I'll leave till the very end. So I'm going to drag this
off to the side there. I'll take the other photo here and drag that off
to the side as well. So now I have my second
screen recording. Cut it there where it begins. And I'll slide down
to where I take the photo and cut that. They're delete the
last half of it. I have my third screen
recording which I'll open, split that, delete that but and
go to where I take the photo and take
off the tail of that. And then these, I'm just going
to shorten a little bit, zoom in to bring them up to
the full size of the screen. Just pinch and zoom there. And opening that closer. And the same here, I'll bring that closer as well. And you notice the
little cap cut there, so I'll take that off
to then within cap cut You will get audio voice-over and this you press
and hold or you tap it and it will just recording
the tap it to stop. I like pressing and holding it. That's just a
personal preference. And usually there
will be a couple of pauses between the beginning and ends of your voice-over because I like to
record them in chunks. So I'm not just talking on one endless stream because you might fall over your words, you might fumble a little bit. And it's better to know
what you're going to say for smaller pieces. I also recommend getting a little closer to your
phone's microphone. It is on the bottom here. So I'm going to point
that towards my mouth. If you have wired
headphones with a mic, this is a good time
to use those as well. I'm going to introduce the
beginning of the video, so I'm going to make
this a little longer. Here's how to take a static
photos on a night out. Because static foot,
you can notice sometimes there's a delay
when you first hit record. So you've got to make
sure to watch for that. Taking aesthetic
photos on a night out. I can do better. Taking a static photos
on a night out in 20 s. You can see referencing
our earlier lesson. That first little bit that
I recorded is my hook. Taking a static photos on a night out in under
20 s. I had to refine it a little bit because I kind of came up with
this on the fly. But that's what's going to
draw people's attention. Taking a static photos
on a night out in 20 s. So that first bit of
the video here isn't actually what I'm
using for the photo, but I left it in
there so I can have the voice-over piece zoom into 1.5 and wait till that hand comes right
over those oysters. Put it in the upper. Talk too long. I need
to cut it down more. Zoom into 1.5 and
fill the frame, put the hand that comes
over in the top third Then 20 s zoom into 1.5 and you can see there's a bit too long of a pause there, so I'll bring that closer. Taking a static photos
on a night out in 20 s, zoom into 1.5 and in 20 s zoom into 1.5
and fill the frame, put the hand that comes
over in the top third. For dessert, come over
top of the plate, zoom into one point to top-down. Going to elongate
that a little bit, so I have more time to talk. And on the front
end here as well, for dessert, come over top, zoom into 1.2 and focus in the fur desert, come over top and zoom into 1.2 with a little
bit off center. Then I'll slide this over here. Let's see how this sounds. Taking a static photos
on a night out in 20 s, zoom into 1.5 and
fill the frame, put the hand that comes over in the top third for dessert, come over top and zoom into 1.2 with a little
bit off center. It's cocktail time. Come at a look. I always recommend
knowing what you want to say before you
actually hit record. So for here, I have
the drink there, so I'm going to say something
like for cocktail hour. Come with a look down slightly put the glass in the
upper third of the frame. And we'll do
something like that. Now for the cocktails,
tilt down slightly, have that drink in
your hand and put it in the top third of the frame. And these are your
night at photos? I don't like that
ending as much, so I'm going to refine
that a bit off-center. Now for the cocktails tilt, I'm just going to bring
that closer a little bit up and zoom into 1.2 with a
little bit off-center. Now for the cocktails,
tilt down slightly, have that drink in
your hand and put it in the top third of the frame. And the frame and these. So here's what I say. And I'm looking at
the audio waveform to see where I'm saying What
I'm going to click on that, hit Split, get rid of
that last little bit. Frame. Then I'll say, and that's
how you capture a night out. Perfect. Now, I'll just
bring that a little closer and then these
are just tighten up a little bit because we have a little too much space where
there's no talking here. Then I can go in as well and add a background song just to add a little bit more
ambiance to this, as well as helping
the TikTok algorithm, taking a static photos
on a night out in 20 s, zoom into 1.5 and
fill the frame, put the hand that comes over in the top third for dessert, come over top and zoom into 1.2 with a little
bit off-center. Now for the cocktails,
tilt down slightly, have that drink in
your hand and put it in the top third of the frame. And that's how you
capture a night out. Great, so that's a quick, easy Video made now
I can hit sounds. If you have your TikTok linked, your saved sounds
will show up already. So I can find one
that's a little longer. I want to look at the duration
here and made sure it will last the full length of
the video that I'm doing. So I can also hit the
little fire icon and that's going to be recommended
or trending sounds. I like this particular one. I predict quite a bit on TikTok, so I will use that. What I'm going do,
I'm going to drag it below all the voice-over. You just click hold and drag on that and that's how you
get that working there. Make sure it's spans
the entire video. Then I'll come here
and cut it off. And then I'll also hit
this hit volume and bring the volume
down to about five. Barely hear on a night out in
20 s, zoom into one point. It's just faintly in the background and
that's what we want. Now, naturally, I'm going to
come here and add captions. So I'll hit text again,
hit auto captions. You can also do this in TikTok. Sometimes I like to
do it in cap cut because they have more
functionality for it ended two built-in
with TikTok and you're still going to allow for SEO functionality out of
the captions from Kafka. So I can hit VoiceOver here or I can hit
all are from video. I did a voice-over,
so that's what I'm going to work with
in case there's any audio that's in my actual video that it
tries to pick up on. We don't want to confuse the
captioning software there. So it will create the captions. And the captions
itself actually will work as a hook written on the video that helps people not only hear
what I'm talking about, but see it to help
drive them in style. I want a nice font for this. Maybe I'll go with
Vogue just because it is at night out vibe. But I want it to pop
out a little more. Something not too crazy.
I don't really like. Maybe I'll just go with
the white on black here, taking a static photos
on a night out in 20 s, zoom into 1.5 and
fill the frame, put the hand that comes over in the top third for dessert, come over top and zoom into 1.2 with a little
bit off-center. Now for the cocktails,
tilt down slightly, have that drink in
your hand and put it in the top third of the frame. And that's how you
capture a night out. So you can see here, I'll cut that off just so it
ends at the right moment. You can see based on where
I put the captions to, I don't want them anywhere that's going to be distracting. If I were talking right now, I wouldn't want
words going across my face because that would distract you from
what's happening. I'm not covering over the information here
at the bottom where you can see what I'm
zooming into nor photo app, but I'm not covering
over the subject itself. I'm not up here,
I'm not down here. I'm right here
where it's nice and it's not going to be too distracting, but
it's also readable. Now we're getting this
little tail coming off here. I just want to cut that so everything ends nicely
right at the same point. And you can feel that things will magnetically
connect to each other. And based on that, You'll know when
clubs magnetically locked to each other
because you'll feel a little vibration
and that's your cue that they're right
at the same line. So when you're trying
to line everything up specifically for the end like
this, it comes in handy. So now I'm just
going to export that and that is our
second video done. That is how you do a voice-over. Now, voiceovers are
especially easy to do. If you like working
off a script, you can put all your
clips together. Then you can write a script
of what you want to say. You can hold the phone up as
you're reading your script. And then you can have
a cohesive voiceover while working on a script. Now you can see based
on how I did it, sometimes it takes a little longer because I don't do that. That's not how I like
to create my content. So I'm just talking directly
based on the video itself. And sometimes I'm
coming up with what I'm saying as I'm saying it it's
not a foolproof method. That's just how I like to do my content and
what works for me. But you can do things
how you want to, this is just how you
would edit them, how you put it together. Now, that said, we're
going to jump to a third and final type of
video and that is trends
7. Filming and Editing: Trends: Our third and final
type of content is super Short Form
trend based content. This is a quick little
video with some text over top of it that you can use for a bunch of
different things. Usually I like to have
the audio in mind first and then match
a clip up with it. Sometimes I will film based
on that particular audio, or sometimes I'll just match up to that seem to
fit well together. And today That's exactly
what we're gonna do. So I already have my clip
film, my audio found. What I do for this is all just
go through the TikTok app until I find a sound that I like on a video that's
trending are doing well, or I think I could
recreate Well, I'll hit Save on that and then we'll come back to it later. And then I'll create my own version of that
particular video. Are that trend? There are
different ways you can do this. You can also record
directly on an audio, but this, we're going to
do it so you can edit it within CapCut specifically. So we open up CapCut. Then we can go here. I have my favorites
that I'm going to go through because I have my particular clips favorited. So I'm going to click that one. And maybe I want to add
in a couple more here. So I'm going to go of recent
and I'm going to go until I find the ones that
I'm looking for. Okay, I think
that's pretty good. We can add all nine
of these clips. Now this is going
to be way longer than the audio itself,
but that's fine. Now the first one I imported you can see is a
horizontal clip here, but I want to change this. So I'm going to go to
ratio and hit nine by 16. And then this particular clip, I'm just going to drag
up to be the right size. So now I'll go to
audio sounds and I'm going to go through the ones
that I have saved because I did save this
particular audio. I believe it is this one here, 20 years from now, you'd give anything to be this exact age,
exactly this healthy. And back in this exact moment. Take a second to enjoy it now. So I'm going to use that audio. It's a nice nostalgic
feel and I'm going to put a bunch of clips from my daily life in there to
help work with that message. So I'll hit Plus bring that
right to the beginning. And then I'm going just to
cut everything to match that. So this first clip
is super long, but I just want this
a little bit here. And that, so that's gone. That again, this one
I'll have to zoom in on. I'm going to try to capture them point of most motion here. So you can see,
look up and across, edit once that actions done
or on the action even better. I don't think I need this clip. That one, I'll take
a couple of seconds of some fireworks going off and she's turning
around there. So I won't cut that. And cute little moment here. So I'll leave that in there. And you can see based
on the videos of me photographing and
doing that kind of stuff, It's still keeps it relevant
to my niche as well. We'll cut this to be a little shorter so that we get that in there to there we go. Now let's try this
2020 years from now. You'd give anything to be
this exact at this one, I want to shift over a little
bit so it's more central. Exactly this healthy, back
in this exact moment. Take a second to enjoy it now. And I just want to mute
the tracks under that. And I haven't played
around with this yet, so I want to see if the auto
captions will work for this. So let's try this here. Now because the captions
won't work for this, I have to enter all the text
manually, which is fine. I'll just listen to what the
particular audio saying. And then I'll add the
captions as we go 2020 years from now,
you'd give anything. So I'm going to keep
this in small pieces. So I'll go add text 20 years from now. I kinda like this one. Yeah. None. This particular font Anton is one of the ones that
TikTok natively uses. So that also helps people be familiar with that font and feel like it's native to
TikTok. So that's fine. This one, I may
even leave right in the middle just because of
what the audio is saying, 2020 years from now. Then I can copy this. Bring it over here. So all the same
settings are the same, but I'll just change the text. Now the next piece is, you'd give anything and I'm
going to just go across the audio and take each point
of this and write it out. And if you tax ever goes away and you want
to get it back, you just hit the Text button
in there. You go there. Again, I just tap on it. Come over here, hit Copy, click and drag that over. And then I double-click
on it to change the text. I will just listen to
what the next piece says. This healthy and back
in this exact moment. Now there's a bit of a pause
between this exact moment. So I think I almost want
to split those up back in this exact okay. So there we go. I
have all my texts Done and let's see,
there's video. 20 years from now. You'd give anything to be this exact age,
exactly this healthy. And back in this exact moment. Take a second to enjoy it
now. I think that's great. It's a very nice short
quick little video that it's a trend. It's like this kinda
quote style video and you can reuse this multiple times. You can even keep
all the same videos. Or you could do one longer
video like I could take this one clip here
and make it the entire video if I wanted to. And it would work
almost just as well. And then I can just change the text and the audio
that goes with it. And it would be fine. Then I just export that hit Done and that's my third
piece of content, my trend taken care of. You can do this with a whole
bunch of other things. You don't even have to go with an audio that
has words in it. You can even have an audio
where it's just a song, a trending song, ideally, and you would just put text on screen and change
the text on-screen, change the audio to consistently update the video
because sometimes you'll post a video that
has one audio to it and you'll repost the same video with
a different audio, it will do significantly better. This has been seen
time and time again. So play around with these
things, change the audio, change the video, change
the text on the video, you're able to
reuse these things. So it's not super
intimidating to enable you to consistently
create content. With all that said,
we've gone through the different types of content. And now all that's
left for you to do is go out and share
it with the world
8. Final thoughts: The time has come.
We've gone through the three most effective
types of content on TikTok, on shorts, on Rios. And this is how you can use them to up your content strategy. Use talking head
videos, use voiceovers, use short trends, adapt them
all to your niche or niches. And that is how you can really
grow on these platforms with consistency wall creating
high-quality content. This is how I've
managed to do it. This is how I've gone
viral multiple times. And this is how I
continued to do it. I use each style of
content regularly. So that way it
keeps things fresh, it keeps things new, will still relating it to my
niche and me as a creator, I hope you got a ton
of value out of this. Remember to take
your favorite style of short-form content
you saw today, edit it and kept cut, post it and share a link in
the projects down below. If you have any questions, jumping to the discussions
as I will be there chiming in with you if you
like, learning from me. If you want to
learn more from me, I have a bunch of classes
talking about photography, film-making, et
cetera, on Skillshare. So I'd love it if you
follow along there. Additionally, check
out my YouTube and my TikTok where I'm sharing regularly new content
all the time. If like me, you're
a photographer, if you like photos, go check out my
Lightroom presets linked in my Skillshare bio. And with all that said, I want to thank you once again for spending your time with me, for being here and
being invested in upping your content creation. With all that said, it's
time for me to go and start brainstorming some
new content ideas. Remember, is always to
work hard, rest often, and I hope you have a
super creative day.
9. Bonus Lesson Capcut Templates: Welcome to the bonus Lesson. This one is talking about
Capcut Templates because they're a great
little trending thing that you can do to
adapt to your niche. To create a quick, low effort video that can
get you a lot of reach. So CapCut has these
Templates built-in. You can see the Templates here. And all you have to do
is post a photo and put some text with it to
adjust it to your own niche. So I found this one template and when you find
them on TikTok, you just hit try this Templates. So if I find this one, I can just go CapCut, try this template, will
show up on CapCut. I just change the
different things in it and then we're good to go. Now, you can also go through and pick your different
templates for me. I have this one. The main portion of this is him coming in saying
no, there's no way. And I'm like, What can
I do to relate that to either a niche or something that would get a
lot of popularity. So I talk about confidence, I talk about
self-esteem and like wanting to feel and
look your best. So for example, I did a POV, your friends says something
negative about yourself. And then I just found a
photo of some friends hanging out on a beach
and I put that behind it. So you do is hit Replace, and you can choose whichever
video you want there. And then you hit text and you edit the One Piece of texts. You edit the other piece
of text if there's more. And sometimes you can also find a template which
has more photos. Or you can have this one
here which has a bunch of photos and you just
replace each one. And you just replace
the text every time you go wherever the
text is going to show up. And that's how you use
Capcut Templates and then you just will hit Export. And then you can either save
to device and that will have a CapCut
watermark on there. Or you can hit save
and share to TikTok, which will do so without
a CapCut watermark. If you want to also save
it without any watermark, you can hit save and share
to TikTok and we'll export. Then it will open in TikTok and then you can just hit the Download
button at the top. And then when you
go to your photos, you will see that's there and there's no
watermark on there. So that's how you
use Capcut Templates and also export them
without a watermark. Thank you for enjoying
this bonus lesson. I hope it helps you
up your content gain
Fynn Badgley, Fashion & Portrait Photographer
