CapCut Creative Challenge Class: 3 Editing Projects to Master Story, Horror & Music Videos

1. Welcome to the CapCut Creative Challenge Class!: You ever wanted to improve your video editing skills in a more fun and practical way, then this class is just for you. My name is Jose Kuchii and I'm a video editor with more than five years of experience. I have created content for creative projects, social media, campaigns, and many more. Instead of just learning the tools one by one, we're going to be learning through creative challenges. Each of these challenges focus on a completely different style. Way, you're not only learning technique, but you can also find new ways to express your creativity. We're going to start with the basics just so that we're all on the same page. We'll learn the workspace, the timeline, and some of the essential tools such as the AI tools, auto captions, and sound design. The first challenge is the children's story video, where we're going to focus on captions, storytelling and structure. The second one is a horror video edit, where we're going to learn how to build suspense through color grading, effects and sound design. And lastly, we have a music video edit, where we're going to learn about beat sinking, generating music, and creating some effects that can really pump up the audience when watching this video. By the end of the class, you will not only know how to use Capcut but how to adapt your style through these types of challenges. So let's go ahead and get started. 2. Create Your First Project & Workspace Overview: Before we get into the challenges, we need to be familiar with the workspace. Now, I'm not going to go into too many details about CapCuD in general. We do have a separate course for that, but I'm just going to go over the basics of the software and where you could get things. And that way, we're all on the same page before we jump into the challenges. So this is the first screen that you're going to see when you open the program. This is the homepage where you can create your project or access some of the AI tools directly. You are allowed to access these tools to their full potential if you have the pro version, which is what I have right now. But if you have the free version, they may be limited. We're not going to be using these tools a lot. It's only for one of the challenges. But just to give you an overview, this is where we make our project. If you have any templates, you can access them here. That's your account, and then your projects will show up here automatically. So let's go ahead and make our first project by clicking on this big button. So this is your project. As you can see, there isn't currently anything in there because we have no clips. But this is where you get all of your resources. Resources could include your videos, your audios, templates, stickers, anything that you can see up here. They're going to be listed as so. So if you go to media, you can import whatever you want from your computer, and they're going to line up right here. You can also do screen recording within CapCut, record your audio if you need to. We have AI Media. This is where you generate media. We have different models here, and this is all done within CapCut. Also a library. If you don't want to generate or download anything, there's tons of stuff that you can access. The one thing is that this is for pro features. So if you're using the free one, there isn't that many that you can access, but you can check whether or not you can use the clip via this diamond. So if it doesn't have a diamond, you can download this. You can search for things directly. So let's say I want to use a fire clip, I can access them like so. I could simply download it by clicking the button and just dragging it into my timeline. Speaking of the timeline, this is where you do all of the structure for your videos. So we have various layers. So if I grab this in again, we get two layers. We're going to talk more about the timeline in the next lesson, but this big rectangle down here, that's for all of your video structures. Once you have a clip in your timeline, you can make some edits to it directly. So anything regarding the clip itself would be in the video tab. Do things such as transform it, use different blending modes, stabilize it, enhance audio, and there's so many stuff that you can go over. Can also make key frames using this diamond shape. That means that you get to change these adjustments at different seconds in the video. Next, we have the speed. So anything regarding how fast or how slow your clip is would be done here. You can do speed mapping like this, and we also have some velocity effects. Animation is regarding the transitions into the clip out of the clip or a combination, both in and out. Is a ton of templates, as you can see. Once again, we have the diamond on some of them, and some of them are just free. You get to download them just like we did here, drag them into your timeline and put it at the start or at the end. Adjustments are regarding anything like visual for the video, that's mostly color grading. So we have some auto features right here, color match, color corrections. But if you want to manually adjust your video, you would come down here. There's all your classic sliders. We also have them separated in terms of basic color curves, the color wheel, and even some masking. Lastly is AI stylize. These are regarding a human subject, so you can see that we can go to the hair salon and switch out their hair color. You can also add video effects, but you would have to check this first. So that's all of your adjustments. This right here is your playback. So anything that you do, you get to preview it in that little window. If it's too small, you can grab the little black lines to expand the playback menu. And you can do that all. So make your timeline smaller, make this bigger. It's really up to you as you edit on. This is the play button. You get to see the duration, how much time has passed. Do it full screen, change the ratio, zoom in, if you need to, and change the playback quality. Now, this is important because when you do a lot of effects, you may have noticed that when you hit Play, it's very laggy and very slow. When that happens, you can easily come here to lower the playback quality. Now, this does not affect what you export, but rather what you see in this window. So if you want to get a quick review of all the stuff that you've done, you may want to lower the quality from full so that you don't run into any issues. Up here, we have basic settings about the program, about your user, your account. You can return back to the homepage, and you can close CapCut like that. If you go to File, New project, another timeline, import export. There's also the shortcuts on the right side. Edit has some basic tabs right here, such as undo cut copy. These are your universal shortcuts, and then you get to access your shortcuts here directly. All these keys tell you what you need to press on your keyboard to access this shortcut, and it's categorized based on timeline, the player basic stuff, and other things. So that's just a general overview of where everything is when we enter this page. In the next lesson, I'm going to talk more about the timeline because there's a lot of important stuff that we need to bear in mind as we move forward for our challenges. 3. Timeline, Layers & Basic Editing (Cut, Trim, Arrange): Welcome back. Now we're going to look more into the timeline. So this big box down here is called your timeline. And as we learned, you get to expand it by dragging that black bar. Currently, I only have one video, and there's only one horizontal line here. And that means that I currently have one layer. If I stack things on top of each other, I'm going to get another layer. You can see that we're getting the adjustments right here for two. If I keep on adding on, I'm going to get more. Now, what can you do with these layers? You get to change the track height, change the waveform size, if it comes with an audio. You get to mute that clip. Hide it, lock it in place. And this just tells you the type of media you have right now, which for me is a video. So if it was an audio, you're going to get a different symbol here. Now, in a timeline, all of your visual stuff are always above your audio stuff. So what that means is that if I just drag an audio, I cannot put it up here and it only goes down here. So now you can see the symbol changed. I can never bring this above my videos because that's the correct order. The audio, we don't really get the visual stuff, like hiding it. But we can still lock it in place, mute it, and this is track height that we get to change. Just like that. Now, if you want to go through your video, you get to grab the playhead right here, and this tells you what's happening at that exact second that you're on. You can see the seconds right here. I could use this to go through my clips really quick. See what else needs to be done. You can also right, click on any of the videos for more adjustments. We have our usual editing shortcuts. You can split the scenes, enhance some of the visual and audio stuff. If you use this, you're going to remove all of the adjustments that you made to the original clip, but you can always bring it back if you need to. You get to remove background and so much more down here. Same thing for audio. If you right click, you're going to get the settings related to audio. You can also do most of those adjustments up here. So right now, I've selected the video, and as you can see, I'm getting the enhanced visuals, auto adjust, remove background, all the stuff that we were able to see right here. Now, you can do multiple timelines. So I just clicked on the Plus button, and now I have timeline two. So I can work on two projects at a time. You can also rename these. So if I call that one timeline one, this could be Project two. I could delete this if I changed my mind, and we can always change the settings regarding the resolution aspect ratio, but this will not affect the first timeline. So I could just delete this and we're back to the original timeline. On the top right, we have some Zoom features. We also have some um, Zoom to fit timeline, so it's going to zoom out until all your layers are within the view. So if I'm really zoomed in, this will just bring me back to the right fit. Down here, we have some snapping adjustments. So what that means is that if I currently want to put this clip somewhere here, it's going to snap back to what's already there. If I want to disable that, I just turn these off, and now I get to put this wherever I want. We can also link two items. So if you go here, I could link these two together so that whatever I do so I could just turn these on. Usually, you would want them turned on. But if you ever wanted to do something like spacing manually, you can just turn those off. This is where you get to do a voiceover. If you have your mic ready or use your computer's mic, you can directly record your voice, and it's going to go down here as well as your project media tab. Whatever you select on the timeline has all the settings up here. This will always stay the same, whether it's video or audio. You will only get some stuff graded out if, for example, you had audio instead. So now we don't have video because we're not dealing with any video. We have voice changers for audio and speed. So less options compared to a visual media. That we know what the timeline looks like, let's learn a few of the basic operations. So when you have a clip, you can easily split it by hitting B on your keyboard, Command B or Control B on your Windows computer. And you can see I've enabled this eraser icon on my mouse, and I get to make a lot of splits. When I click away, I disable that. To go back to the selecting tool, I can hit A on my keyboard, and you can see that my mouse is back to normal. Now I get to move this around as I see fit. Let me turn these off because I've already made the cut. Want to expand the clip, you just grab the edge right here, and it's going to expand according to the original video. So if your video is only 5 seconds long, you can only expand it up to 5 seconds. We have some other tools down here. We have select left word. If I select this, it grabs everything on the left. Similarly, we have select right word. If I grab this, it only grabs that and what's on the right side. Hitting A again will bring you back to the select tool. You can also grab multiple things by clicking and dragging. Like so this also includes audio. You can make copy paste operations the way you would do on any other platform, Commander control C to copy, Commander Control V to paste, Commander Control Z to undo. And then you can do Command and Control X to cut and then paste it somewhere else. We can also duplicate our clips without having to copy paste just by holding down Alter, clicking and dragging. So click first Alteruption drag. Now, we have a duplicate of the exact same clip. To delete a clip, you just click on it once and hit backspace on your keyboard. Hit play, hit the spacebar and it's going to play, hit Spacebar again. It's going to pause. We can also go frame by frame by using the left and right arar keys. So this is the right arrow key. I'm going to the right. The left ararky goes to the left. If you want to skip more than just one frame, maybe ten frames at a time, you do the left or right ararky with the shift key. So all at the same time, and now I'm jumping more. Just like that. You can zoom in and out of your timeline using your computer's track pad. Just use two fingers, kind of like pinch in and pinch out to zoom in and zoom out. You can also do Command plus to zoom in, Command minus to Zoom out. That's Control plus on Windows Control minus to Zoom out. Now if you want to do something specific on the timeline at a certain second, you can make something called markers. So let's say I want to add a caption right here, I could hit M on my keyboard. And now we got this little blue shape that's indicating a need for change here. If I click on it once, you can see that it brings my playhead immediately to that second. But if I hover over it, we can see the exact second the marker is at and the name of the marker. If you right click, you can edit the marker, give it a name, for example, add text, and you can even change the color. You can delete the marker by selecting it and hitting the backspace or just right click on it and do delete marker. Do markers on the clip as well. So let's do it on this. Select it, hit M, and I'll do another one. The only issue is that this is on the clip, and you can see that I'm moving the video as well as the markers as I move it around. But if I do that on my timeline, so let's do one here. I'm going to click away. Hit M, that marker is going to stay the same because it's not attached to the video. You can do markers on audio files, as well in the exact same way. So those are the timeline and editing basics. Now let's move on to some of the tools that you should be familiar with for our challenges. 4. Essential Tools You’ll Use in This Course: Now, let's look at some of the tools that we're going to be using throughout the challenges. The first one is going to be our text tool. So it's right over here. You get to do different captions, you get to put titles and any other sort of text that you want. The way that works is that you're going to have a clip in your timeline. I'm just going to grab this from the library. It doesn't matter what you pull on here. Then in the text tab, you can make your own custom text or use some of the stuff from the library. So these are things that you make, but there's also text effects like these, different categories as you go on. Once again, pay attention to the diamond and then download them if you want. We also have text templates, which basically combines a header and like a subheader together to make something fun like this. And there's also an animation that makes it more engaging. When you pull in a text layer, it comes on top of your videos as a separate layer. So you can hide this locket, but you can't really, you know, mute it or do other you can see the difference between a video layer and a text layer. Let's delete that. We also have auto captions. So if you have a audio where someone is speaking in it, you can use this feature to automatically generate captions. So you're going to hit generate here, this will need the pro subscription. But once the cap code was able to determine what the subject is saying, you can then move on to stylizing those captions. So you can change the color, font size, and all of that stuff. You can also import caption files right over here if you already have one ready to go. So that's regarding text. I'm just going to make a new text right here and get a default text. I select this, you can see that on the right side panel, we're getting a bunch of options. The first thing is to figure out what you want the text to say, type that in. And then this is where you choose the font. You can also utilize the AI writer if you're not sure what to write. There's the font size and all the usual text settings. We have some presets down here. You want to do something fun like this. You can use the transform settings to basically transform the layer, not the text itself. So right now, if I scale up to this much, I have not changed the font size. That's the difference. You can blend it in, change the stroke color, give it a fill color, and just build upon your text effect with all of these different settings. You can also create a text bubble. So if I click on this, now we're getting a background, I'm just going to zoom out. It fitted my text into this bubble that I chose. That's a different bubbles, and then we have effects. These are from the same. I think it was here, it's the same thing from text effects. You just dab or click on it, and now we get flames. When I hit Play, it just shows up. If you want to do an animation for it to fade in or out, you would have to go to the animation tab just like the video next is tracking. So you can motion track something, a subject within your video and then attach this text to it. So that's tracking. If you want to attach the text to a moving subject, this is where you come. Next, we have text to speech. You can use the custom voices or some of the voices down here. You would select one of these. You can click on any of these. My text right now is hello, so Hello. It's just going to say that. If I change this, it's going to do something differently. Bye, have fun. So that's how you get to use the voices. There's different categories here, such as new, TikTok, male, female, cartoon character, and so on forth. We also have AI avatars where you get to have these avatars say your text. So you can also access these on this side. I'll show you that in a second. But this is a quick way Merry Christmas. So I just clicked on Sana, for example, and it just gave me a nice preview. I could just click on Next, and then you would generate it using your credits. So you have credits when it comes to any sort of AI feature tool. You kind of get credits depending on which package you paid for, but if you ever run out of credits, you can buy extra ones within the store. That's AI Avatar. Gonna click away, and that's just the text tool. The next thing is effects. These are things you add on top of a video to add certain effects to it. So you can do like this guy, drop it in, and now I have this. So this is a very nice and quick way to add some, you know, fun and suspense to your clips, and we may be using some of these for our challenges. There's different categories, as always, you know, go to body effects as well if you're dealing with a human subject. Transitions is sort of the same story where you just grab an effect that you like, position it between two videos, and then you get yourself a transition. So I'm just going to cut my clip right here with Commander Control B, and then I'll add one of these transitions in between. So I get this effect. Hit backspace to delete, and that's the transition tab. There's different categories as always. Next is the captions panel. This is like an elevated wave from what we saw here. So auto captions. It's the same thing here for auto captions, but we get different templates just for captions. So this is separate from text because with text, you decide what goes on screen, you stylize it. But anything for captions would be based off of an audio or a script that you provide. So again, we have the templates. We have an auto lyrics feature. If you want to do a music video, which is one of our challenges, you can easily grab one of these. You can import your captions and there's also AI MOGs. Filters are a quick way for you to color grade your videos. We're going to usually do our color grading ourself manually on the right side panel, but we may come here for something more for something more special effects related or maybe to save time. So there's a lot of categories. There's also adjustments if you want to save some of your color grading and not have to do it each time, you can create one here. Those are the main tools. I'm going to show you the AI tools now. So those are in media. If you go to AI Media, there's different things that you could do here. The first one is creating AI image and then videos. So for image is a static post, you get to describe what you want, and then you choose your model from here, the resolution you want for your image, as well as the aspect ratio. We also have the same thing for video. So I'm going to hit that one. You can do image to video, so going from the first option to the second option, or you could do multiple frames where you get to put more than one image and have it animate that image for each of those scenes. You could do text to video, just, you know, leave the images out of it and just describe, like, a man riding a bike next to the park. It's going to figure that out for you. Once again, we have the models, the duration, aspect ratio, and resolution. Next up is the AI dialogue scene. We will not be using this for the challenges just because it's pretty much you put in a script right here, and then you make a character either with AI or an image of yourself, and then you have that character say the words that you put in here. You can also add in your own audio if you want. There's also different characters here, so it could sound like Mickey Mouse and anything else that you want. Mostly we're going to rely on video and image as well as the audios. So that's the next thing. There's a lot of audios here to use. If you're using the free version, you would have to, you know, be mindful of those little diamonds. But there's also the option for you to make music with AI. So AI music, you describe the song. That's what we're going to do so we don't run into copyright issues. You describe what you want it to sound like. You can do a singing or just, you know, instrumental. It's up to you. And lastly, we have some sound effects. So these are very short sound bites that elicit something happening, such as a popping balloon or bird chirp. These are things you can find in this panel. So this is if you want to share it. And if you don't want to make the music with AI, you can just upload yours right over here. So, you know, you have your options. Now that you know where all of these panels and tools are, you're going to have a much easier time as we move along our challenges. 5. Exporting Your First Video: Now let's go over how you can export videos within CapCut. It's a very straightforward and easy process. This is where we left off in the previous lesson. We just have this one clip and we split it in half. All you have to do is go over to Export, and this window should pop up. First, you give it a name, then you choose the location, the resolution, the format that you want, and the frame rate. You don't really need to play around with the other stuff unless you want to, but for our purposes, we're just going to be exporting video and audio, not so much like the captions and the gifts. So resolution, you just click on it and choose what you need, goes up to eight K. But of course, you want to make sure that your source videos can match that. Bit rate, I would say go with recommended, so CapCut can determine that for you. The codec is going to be regarding compression. Usually, you would keep it on the first one, which is automatically selected. But if you're looking for something specific, you can just scroll down right here. Format, for video, we have two options, and then the frame rate. So choose the frame rate according to your source video. By default, it should match it for you. So the clip that I have in my timeline is at 30 FPS. I'm just going to leave it as that. Since this video has no audio, we're not seeing an audio tab, but if I just add that in real quick, let's go to music. Drop that down, export it again. We now have an audio section. So you just have the different format for this. We have four options, and the video options remain the same. Once you're done, you click on Export, it's going to give you a little d. And the cool thing about this is that, you know, it's going to create a Tik Tok version for you by default, so that if you want to upload something to a platform like YouTube, we can also have one ready for you for platforms where you want a vertical video. So you don't have to, you know, close the project, go over that again. So you can see it's making a TikTok video size. It's generating it right here. And you can also directly connect your accounts from here. There's my vertical video. I didn't have to do anything. I just made it for me, but I could share this right now if I click on it. I could share it directly to my TikTok or YouTube. You can see that the area for captions and visibility is already here. And this is really helpful if you don't have a lot of time and you want to do two types, two versions of the same video. CapCut does that for you. You just have to click on it. Click Share. As you can see exporting, it's very easy within CapCut. The last thing I do want to show you is how to save your project because as we go along the more advanced challenges, you may want to have AutoSave turned on so that you don't lose all your progress. The name of your project is right over here, and because CapCut is always autosave you're going to lose anything. So if I go to CapCut and go to the homepage, you can see that this is my project. By double click, I have the exact same thing that I had before. And that's how you can export your videos. Now that we know how CapCut works and we have a general idea about where all the panels are, where we can access some certain tools, we can start working on our first challenge. For the first challenge, we're going to be making a children's storybook video where there's going to be captions and narration. We're going to do some very basic sound design, and most importantly, use the AI tools to generate the content. So let's go ahead and get started with our first challenge. 6. Challenge 1: Create a Children’s Story Video: Brainstorming a Simple Story Idea: O For the first challenge, we're going to be building a children's story video where we're going to be using AI for most of the content. So this challenge is designed for you guys to get more familiar with the many AI tools that CapCut has, as well as some of the very basic editing tools. So the first thing we need to do is come up with an idea and then generate a script around it. So what we're going to do is actually go to the homepage of CapCut. You can do that by going up here in the menu and click on back to Homepage. So over here is where you get direct access to the CapCut webpage where all the AI tools are. What we're going to do is start here in AI video Maker. And the reason why we're going there is because this is where you get to brainstorm some ideas, maybe try different generations, see what you want your characters to look like, and so on forth. I'm going to try to see what sort of style I want my characters to have. Am I going for watercolor, crayons? Do we want three D, two D, you know, that sort of thing. So I'm just going to go over here. I'm going to start with image, and then once I'm happy with my character, we're going to save those and then use them as reference when we make the videos. So let's go ahead and describe children's storybook, aesthetic. Storybook. Let's say my characters, I want them to be little animals of a cute mice. Let's do coma, two D, and see what we can get. I'm just going to lower the quality for now at two K, and I'll go for, like, a landscape aspect ratio. You can go for anything else, and then we can click Send. As you can see here, human face is not supported. That's not really what we're going for. So this is going to be good for us. Once the image is generated, you can see that we get the option to do image to image. So another variation of this image or do image to video. So this is our cute mice. It looks pretty good. We can also have it generate different stuff. And there's also motion claymation. I'm going to click on that and see what that looks like. Let me just make a duplicate before it changes this. So I'm thinking we have little mice being the characters, and they're trying to get they lost their piece of cheese and they're trying to find it. A very short story line for this project. You can go ahead and change out the characters or do exactly what we're doing here. So, figure out what sort of story you want and then try different variations. So this is the clamation. It's not really I think it's too intense. I like the softness here. So let's go ahead and grab this image. I'll delete this. This image, and I think I'll make it duplicate it, actually. Let's switch image four into something more soft. So make this more pastel like and with a white background, just so that it's easier to replicate when we do other characters. There's Image five, and at the same time, I'm going to have this. It's actually yeah, there's no need for a duplicate. I'm going to do another mice character so we could do so this is the softer version. I think I like this more still. I'm gonna grab that as my reference, and then we'll do the different characters. So let's say turn this into a serious mice with a baseball cap and a red sweater. That could be our next character Emirate six. And I'll just use the text option here to do my story line just so that I have what I want. So text one is right here. You could use, you know, the refine tool or one of these to work around your script or just a story in general. There's our angry mice. It looks really good. But we're going to start with, let's give the first mice a name. We can call him Jack the Mice lost his cheese, and it's very sad. But he is determined to find it. And then this character, we can call him Billy. Billy thinks someone took Jack's cheese and wants to help out to find it. The two look for the cheese everywhere in the forest and are just about to give up. Then Jack feels a lump in his pocket and sees that it is his cheese. The two friends laugh it off, and Billy is no longer. So something very simple. I could just grab one of these. Let's try to make it longer and see what sort of additional detail we could add here. We can always not animate something that we don't want. But there's my Jack character. Alright, so we have this script, and I think this is better. So it's sort of like we could have a narrator say this, and then have the animations on the screen. So Poor Jack the Mouse was absolutely got it. His favorite super delicious cheese, J Spanish, determined to find it. His awesome buddy, Billy, thought someone swiped it. Okay, what a relief. So this is good. One thing I'm going to do now is have a scene where both of the characters are together, like they're talking. And I could grab this guy as well as this guy. So command, so you can grab both. You can see Image two Image six. Let's actually rename this. So Dableclif under name. I'll call this Jack the Mic and then awesome buddy, Billy. I'm gonna keep these for reference, but I don't think we're gonna need them. So command, first image, second image. Have the two mice have a chat where Image two looks sad, and Image six looks concerned, I guess. I will have this flip in within CapCut, so don't worry about that. We've got our script. And I could just go along adding new characters. As you can see, we have a big canvas here, and there's all sorts of tools that we could use. So there are the two characters. He's looking sad. He looks concerned. It's the exact same, although he doesn't have a tail for some reason. I think I'll do a version of this where he doesn't have a tail just so that they look a little different so remove tail. Make sure you're clicking on the correct image. So there's the talking scene. I and what we're generating here is not the final image. We're just using these to create reference images. So generating the content is going to be in the next lesson. Right now, we're just trying to figure out what we want the characters to look like, and then we can do the final videos. So now we have the same character, but without a tail. I'm just going to kick this out like that with this guy instead. And then I'm going to grab this, I guess, this guy, and then have him find the cheese in his pocket. Have my in basically hold out a piece of cheese and looking very happy. Oh there's also a feature to combine everything and do a storyboard as it is. So when I click on this, you can see that I'm getting this option. I'm purposefully not using that because it's kind of the shortcut to getting a video done. I want to show you guys how to do the manual version, but if you want to just skip to a full video, you can utilize this tool. So now he has his cheese, and then we're going to do one where Ms on the right has a piece of cheese and is laughing. Ms on the left is looking happy and believed. Let's see if it catches on to my misspelling, too. I think I do want to increase the length of this text just a little bit more. Going to click on Make it longer again and see. So this is better for the narration. Let's look at our last image. Okay, if we go from this to this, this should work. All right, so now I've brainstormed my idea. I have all the base references. I'm just going to download all of them so that we could use it in the next lesson to generate the content. So to download, you can just grab them all like this, basically everything you need and click on Export. So it's currently downloaded. You can click on Show and folder, and it's going to show you exactly where it is. And for the text, we could do the same thing. You can export it or just copy it. I'm going to try doing export, so it's going to be a doc. It's a dot TxD file. You can also copy it like that. Just grab the text, copy and paste. But that should be it regarding our story line. Now that we have this, we're going to go back to the CapCut video editing page, and then we're going to start a new project where we use the built in AI generators to make the base images and then animate those. So let's go ahead and get started with that. 7. Generating Footage (AI / Stock / Images): Welcome back. So this is where we left off. We made these images, and they look pretty good. Now I'm just going to go to the logo on the top left, and we're going to go back to home. And then if you hit the little X, you're going to go back to the CapCut program like this. Let's make our first project. First, let's make our project. There you go. And I'm just going to import all of those images that we made. So this is where all the downloads go. There's a CapCut folder. It has a download in it, but you can also change the location when you're downloading your clips. So this is my text file. You can see that I have it all in one place. We can get rid of the paragraph indicators and keep the rest as it is. I'm just going to minimize this for now and get started with the footage. Let's go to AI Media, and we're gonna have our first image over here. There's our first image. We're gonna just type in, type in mice enforced watercolor watercolor and soft Colors Children's book. Aesthetic. We can change the model, but I'm going to keep the latest one. Aspect ratio, landscape as I said, and resolution is only two k. So let's generate this, and it's gonna tell us the progression down here. So you can use the images as reference to make images, or you could have a combination of videos and images within your storybook. So for children's storybooks, I like some of them where, you know, some scenes are just a static picture, and then the others there's, like, slight movements, but feel free to do all images or all videos. The one that I want to turn into a video is or the one where he's upset, so he could maybe cry a little bit, and then his friend, Billy could help out. So let's grab our reference. This is the image where he looked sad and then do mice on the right, crying, mice on the left, worried. We can change the resolution, the duration. Let's do the longest just because we're going to do audio voiceover, a voiceover on top of the image, and then landscape shot generate. So here they could be, you know, he's telling him about the cheese. We're going to put some captions. It's going to take a while because this is a video, and we did ask for 720 P. While, that's happening. I'm going to go to import and grab the scenes that I want to be static. So you could also import this into AI image and change out a few things, but I'm pretty happy with what this turned out to be, so I'm just going to drag them in in order. So this guy is gonna be static. I'll animate this. This can be static. And, um, yeah, I think that's it. So these two are mostly for references. So I'm just gonna move this to the side. We're gonna start with this little guy just sitting here, and then this is the last scene. Then he's telling his friend about it makes the characters. I meant to do it the other way around. So let's modify this. So mice on the left is crying. Mic on the right is worried the other way around. Generate that again. I apply, and we're going to have the first version here as it was. So here he finds his cheese. I think we had another one. So here he finds the cheese. He shows it to his friend, and he's all happy. And there we go. So we have four scenes in general. I think I will do, like, a forest entrance scene. Let's go to AI Media and do AI image. We're going to describe the forest that we want. So watercolor forest with blue, fluffy clouds. I'm going to use our first image as reference just so we get the same colors and the same, outline, and we could generate. So we have two AI pieces doing their thing, and then the rest is going to be static. So here's our image. The bad thing about CapCut is that you can't really change the amount of impact the reference image has. So I think what I'll do is remove the reference and have this generate again. Okay? So there is these scenes, and this is looking pretty good. So I think I'll go with this one, and I'm just going to go over to the video and scale this in so that it's fitting the screen. I could also use the position tools to, you know, situate it down or up. Something like this should be fine. So that's our first scene. Our mouse, our mice is right here. This is the sat scene. It's interesting. He says, No, it's okay. Then he finds his cheese, and then they're happy. I think I will create an animation using the basic Keyframes. But I'm trying to see if there's any other scenes that I want to edit. So let's go over here. I think I will use this picture to show that he's upset. So let's actually make this switch these two, and I'm going to animate this, as well. So let's go to AI video, upload that same image. And this time, I'm not going to say what I want the mouse to do. We're going to see if CapCut can figure out from the expressions. So hey generate, and I could delete this. Well, that's happening. It's only 5 seconds, so it shouldn't take this long. And then the last scene is going to look like that. Maybe we could use one of the images that we made. So let's add another for scene at the end, just to close off the story. And I'm going to scale this in like that. I think we scaled this, as well by accident. Okay. Let's see what this turns out to be. And that's pretty much our generating footage lesson. You can add more scenes, add more characters, as you can see the tools are right within CAPGud so you could just do whatever you feel. I'm gonna let this generate and we're gonna continue this in the next lesson where we try to build the structure of the story. 8. Building the Story Timeline: Welcome back. Now we're going to work on the general structure of our footage and try to come up with how we want the story to proceed. So in the previous lesson, we made these clips using AI. Some of them are animated, while the others are just static. Now, to kind of change the dynamic cue where we have just a still shot and we have motion and a ka Zoom in right now, we're going to use keyframes in these static shots to kind of create some sort of movement. So starting with the first one where I just have my forest, I'm just going to do a very simple position animation. Let's click on that image. Go to video, and we're going to use the position to basically have the first frame like this. I think I'll actually go the other way. So from top to bottom, we're going to make a keyframe right here at the start of the clip. We're going to go to the end, maybe the last frame and then use the Y position to just drag this down. Being very careful to not use the position because it's going to, like, swerve around. But basically, we have a very simple, you know, scroll down animation. And depending on how long the audio is, we could just lengthen or shorten this. So that's the first scene. The second scene is the mouse. What I'm going to do is just maybe do a zoom out because this is zooming in. So we're going to make a keyframe at the end this time with the scale and then go to the beginning and kind of zoom in on the subject. So now we have this very slow panning animation. Here we're zooming back in. Now, for some reason, we're getting a lot of errors for the laughing video. So I think what I'll do is try this again, grab our base footage and try to add more to the prompt. So mice on the right is laughing, and the mice on the left is smiling. So generate video. Let's copy the prompt and generate. Maybe I'll add in a few more seconds. The playhead here, it generate. So it's just going to go on the other side. Hopefully, it could work this time. So this is our animation. Here, we have our Billy character. I think maybe I'll do a combination of scale and position for this one. Since we're zooming out here, I'm going to start with, like, a zoom in and then zoom out. So go to the end of the frame, and I'm going to do one for position. And actually, I think we could do something more interesting, which is a split screen because we have both of the characters. So let's just move the first guy like that, and then bring this guy above and have him go to that end. And I could go on the top image, go to mask, and then add a mask on top, just a square one so I could do a split screen. Like so, and then once I'm happy with the split screen, I think that's in the center. We're just going to go to the image itself and just we're going to go down here to the mask position. I want it to be here, and then we can click away, go to Basic and just move the entire image, just like that. So now we have a split screen, and that looks a bit better. So we have the things, and then we have the forest. Oops, this is supposed to be here. So we could have that be tears of joy. Or maybe we could just cut it before he starts crying. Something like that. Okay. So this clip is also a little too long. So what I'll do is that I'll have it start somewhere around here Command or Control B, delete the first part. So he's crying, and then like we could cut here. Okay, and then this guy just needs to go right above. So now I have my story line. We have the forest entrance or little mice. Now he's crying. They both do something, then they laugh and the scene ends. We could do a simple fade outut animation here. So let's go out and just click on Fade Out. So now near the end, we're going to get this animation. So go to I hit none, so we only get the animation at the end, just like that. So there's our four scene, the little mice. We're gonna add some audio and captions later. I just had to mute that. And we got the split screen. I do want to do a very simple animation here. So let's have our playhead over both of them. Go to video. And I think I do want, like, a shape in between, just so that it doesn't look this awkward. We could go to library and get, like, just a black screen. Then use the mask option to make it into, like, a thin line. There you go. So now it looks better. You could also change the color and look for something else, but black will do for me. Okay, so now that we have the general structure, it's now time to add in the voiceover so that we could further refine the duration for each of these clips. 9. Adding Voiceover or Sound: We're going to go to Capcut's very own text to speech feature, and to do that, you would have to go onto your browser. So head over to cbcu.com, make sure you're signed in, and we're just going to go over to voice Studio. Then let's do text to speech. And I'm just going to paste in that script that we made in the first lesson. So copy, paste. And we're going to look for an audio that's like that has a soft tone and can be used for, like, a children's storybook. So let's hear a few. I'm going to see if there's a category here. It's a narration. Let's see if there's something better. Okay, so the rest is just languages. Let's hear this. We do have more filters here, so I'm just going to go over to female. I want them to be each doesn't matter for me, actually. Emotion. We could do like plain English, gentle kind for accent. So that gave me another error. I think CapCut is having some issues, but Scarlett did preview, so I'm just going to do it with her. Some of the voices are just unavailable. Let's download this and bring it into CapCut. I'm going to download it with the captions just to make things easier. Okay, I just imported my audio, and we're just going to pull this underneath the footage. So as you can see, there's, like, a pause between each of these sentences so we could easily cut them and create more space between them. Seriously, picture this for a sec. So I could pause right here, Command and Control B. And we could actually have the split tool and just make little splits between the pauses. His awesome buddy, Billy, who's always got his back, instantly thought someone swiped it and jumped in to help. No questions asked. They literally searched every single corner of that huge sprawling forest, getting so tired, almost ready to give up, you know? Then totally out of the blue, let's split here. Back feels a little lump right in his own nest. Guess what? It was his beloved cheese all along. They both just burst out laughing. Okay. So we have all the different cuts. Now I'm gonna create those pauses that I mentioned. Seriously, picture this for a sec. Poor Jack the mouse was ap. So actually, let's do another pause here. To pull these a little bit to the side, I'm gonna turn off snapping, so it lets me create those paths. Seriously, picture this for a sec. Poor Jack the absolutely gutted, right? His most favorite, super delicious cheddar. So let's cut that and then expand this. His most favorite, super delicious cheddar cheese just vanished. He was so incredibly sad, but gosh, he was also super determined to find it. His awesome buddy. So now I'm going to move these here so that, you know, everything matches with what the voice is saying. It. His awesome buddy, Billy, who's always got Let me actually put this here. His most favorite, super delicious cheddar cheese just vanished. He was so incredibly determined to find it. His awesome buddy, Billy, who's always got his back, instantly thought someone swiped it and jumped in to help. Back instantly thought someone swiped it and thought someone swiped it and jumped in to help. No questions asked. They literally searched every single corner of that huge sprawling forest, getting so tired. Okay, so this is the part where we increase the length of the script. So I'm just gonna cut out a few of these lines just so that we have enough visuals to go with it. No questions asked. So right here, this part is extra. Then totally. I'll put this here. And I think what we could do to help, no questions asked. Then totally out of the blue, Jack feel. I think we could actually get rid of this split screen because he's the voice is describing the friend, and then it talks about finding the cheese. So I'll just do, you know, a regular cut. His back, instantly thought someone swiped it and jumped. So I'll put this to zero. Instantly thought some swiped it and jumped in to help. No questions asked. Then totally out. And the same thing for the other image. And you can disable a mask by just unchecking this. The blue, Jack feels a little lump right in his own nest. Guess what? It was his beloved cheese all along. They both just Billy's worry totally melted away, honestly, what a relief for everyone. And we could get rid of this last scene. And I'll just extend this. We could do a simple fade out animation. For everyone. For the last clip. So now we have all of our audio. Let's add a little fun music in the back just to compliment what we have right now. So I'll go to audio and we'll do cute cute background audio. So I'll use this audio. Let's just put it underneath, and we're gonna lower that so that we could hear the voiceover above it. Seriously, picture this for a sec. Poor Jack the mouse was absolutely gutted, right? His most favorite, super delicious cheddar cheese just vanished. He was so incredibly sad, but gosh, he was also super determined to find it for everyone. And then we'll cut the audio right here. So now we have our voiceover. We have the background music, and we have the structure of our video done. What I'm going to do now is zoom in and make sure that I don't have any sort of spaces like this one. So just extend them if you need to so that there's no, like, sudden black screens. So this is where we're gonna stop for this lesson. In the last part of this challenge, we're going to add in some captions just to complement the storyline and, you know, make it more accessible. 10. Creating Captions & Text Animation: Head over to the captions tab right here, and we're going to do auto captions. So spoken language is English. You could add bilingual captions if you want, and then it generate. So this way, it's going to listen to the voiceover and give us the captions that we need. As you can see, it's very fast. Another way to do this is to use the captions file that you downloaded from CapCut, but I also wanted to show you how you could do it within the program itself. Seriously, picture this for a sec. Now we have the captions, but it's a little bit hard to read and it's too big. So as you can see, all of them are selected. So we're just going to head over here to text and play around with the options. So I'm going to reduce the size to six, and I'll give it a preset style. Let's do something like something like this. And I think that's it. So let's see what that looks like. A background may be helpful in this case, so let's scroll up and get something like this. Next with everything still selected, I'm going to go over to the transform tab and just move it down slightly, but it's not on the characters' faces. Seriously, picture this for a seck. Poor Jack the mouse was abs. Let's put in the audio. And if you notice that the voiceover kind of cuts out, you can always fade out the edges. When you hover over that audio, there's gonna be a little circle. Just pull that towards the opposite side. Seriously, picture this for a seck. Poor Jack the mouse was absolutely gutted, right? His most favorite super delicious cheddar cheese just vanished. He was so he thought someone swiped it and out of the blue, Jack feels a little lump right in his own nest. The last thing I want to do is add an overall filter just to make this a little bit more soft. So I'm going to go over to effects and get green, a vintage green and track that right above. Scale it up all the way so we get this to the blade Genis L. Next, I'm going to do exposure. Drag that above. I feel like the images are a little bit too dark. Seriously, picture the. And you can always go on any of these and deal with the strength. And I'm going to pull all the text and put it above the filters and just double check that they start at the same time. Seriously, picture this for a sec. Poor Jack the mouse was app. Okay, and there we have it. Now we have all the scenes and everything looks pretty good. I'm just going to cut the end here so that it ends altogether. Once we have our video done, we're just going to export it using the option up here. So we could give it a name. Let's say, Jack and Billy. Choose your resolution and anything else that you want. And then when you're ready, you can hit Export. And just like that, this guy's gonna export, and you get to share it onto TikTok or YouTube. Now let's look at our final product. Seriously, picture this for a sec. Poor Jack the mouse was absolutely gutted, right? His most favorite, super delicious cheddar cheese just vanished. He was so incredibly sad, but gosh, he was also super determined to find it. His awesome buddy, Billy, who's always got his back, instantly thought someone swiped it and jumped in to help. No questions asked. Then totally out of the blue, Jack feels a little lump right in his own nest. Guess what? It was his beloved cheese all along. They both just burst out laughing. Billy's worry totally melted away. Honestly, what a relief for everyone. So that concludes our first challenge. We were able to create this tale using AI and some of the features inside CapCut. Our next challenge is going to be a little bit different. We're going to go for building suspense, different moods, and we're going to be using resources that I've provided for you guys in the resource pack. So we're going to steer away from AI for a bit and focus on other ways that you can express your creativity within CapCut. 11. Challenge 2: Create a Horror Edit: Finding Horror Footage & Assets: Mm hmm. For our next challenge, we're going to be building a horror video using the footage that I have available to you guys in the Resource Back. So I have these downloaded from pexels.com, but I do want to remind you that you also have the option to go to the library within CapCut. So right over here, if you search for certain things such as, for example, Scary, you can find tons of videos that are available for free, as you can see, there's no diamond on them, download them and drag them into your timeline. So you can go either way. You can also use all of these and add a few from there. It's completely up to you. I have all of these guys, and for now, I'm just going to put them within my timeline and try to build a very basic sequence. Have a few scenes. I think the first one I want to do is this video of the subject closing the window a bunch of times. And let's do like a zombie shot and say I want to keep this much of the video, but I want to get rid of the rest. Hit DU on your keyboard, and you're going to do that with one click. So I'm going to do another DU and then just cut this like that. I have snapping turned on. We have this person opening the door. This could be the last scene. So let me just delete that. This guy got a clock. Get rid of the extra bits. We have this guy, and I'm just building on as I go. Actually, this could be the opening scene. Let's drag that in here. Okay. Let's see what else. It tells you if you've added this to the timeline via this tag. So I know that I haven't used this yet. Get rid of the extra. We have another, you know, kids in the forest. We have a screaming man, and then we have, I believe, that's the dorm. Alright, so now all of them and this one. So we have a lot of footage right now, and it may seem like this is going to take forever, but the edits that we're going to do here are very basic. The key part about building suspense is mostly through sound design and very quick transitions. So the only transition we're going to use here is just a simple cut like that. So going from video A to video B. But when you want to make that more intense, you make them a little bit shorter and faster, and that's what's going to make people anxious and, you know, a little scared if you have something scary on screen. Now, in terms of assets, the only thing we need is a black screen and a white screen. So I'll just grab the black screen from here, put it above, and then I'll get a white solid color. I'm trying to find one. So I could just sort of grab something from the library. Now, the names of this is in Chinese. So if you just go to library trending, you should find it when you scroll down. So these are the only two assets we need, but you could get some, like, overlays, if you want. If you search for overlay, there's tons of stuff. You could do, like, you know, film effect. There's rain. Let's see if you could add the rain somewhere. I'll add the rain here, so just drag that in. Rain overlay. This seems fine. Maybe I could add the VHS thing here. This one, I'll leave it beep. We got some zombies, so I'll just scroll down, look for something. Mm. Maybe we could look for blood. Maybe we could not do the blood for now and do something a little different. Actually, let's do fire. So I'll use the fire for the skeleton video, and I think that's about it. Maybe actually one for the watch the clock. So something with glitches. Okay. So those are the assets that I will be using. You can go ahead and add more. But now I'm ready to make my very basic cuts and build the structure of our video. 12. Structuring the Edit for Suspense: Mm. Let's continue with our horror film. This is where we left off. We have some overlays, some assets, some videos, and I've just put them all in my timeline. So let's start with the first footage. I'm just going to zoom right in and drag the overlay right above. Then I'm going to cut this so that it matches with my first clip. Then have this blend into the base footage with the blend option. So simply go to overlay, and now I have this eerie effect. If you want, you could also try something a little bit lighter, such as soft light so that it doesn't darken the clip. Only adds the little grain situation. Okay. Next thing I want to do is, you know, add that suspense. So I'm going to speed up my clip by going over to speed. Let's try two times. A little bit more. Okay, so that's good. Next, we have a very rough cut to the next clip, and I want this to start from where she's banging the window, so Command or Control B. And then when she does it really fast here, I'm going to do a cut. So right where it hits and there's impact, we're going to hit B. Hit W actually. And Oops, right here. So it's going to kind of transition into our next zombie clip. Dress like that. So here we have some zombies, not much going on. And I did want to do some sort of overlays with some of the clips. So we have the zombies, and then we have this underwater screen. I'm going to drag the underwater scream right above the zombie clip, and we're going to do, like, a very fast flashing effect. So it's as though he's remembering the zombies. So let's put the screaming in the, you know, first layer and I'm going to hide this layer. When he starts to scream, we're going to make that fast cut. So Commander Control B right here, use command at the right arrow key, shift and right arraky to move in 10 seconds, Commander Control B and do this a few times. And then I'll leave the end to be normal. Bring this video back, and we're going to position it right above and make the exact same cuts onto the top video instead. So use your left or right arrow key to move in frame by frame, have the top layer selected, Command or Control B. So just make sure that they're exactly aligned. Once we're done, we're going to turn off snapping completely, delete the first half, and then the last half of the first video. Then put this instead. And there's a little space here. I'll deal with that later, but let's put this here. But now we're going to remove alternating between the two clips. So just like that and like that. Then put this in the empty space. So it's going to look like that. It's like he's remembering the zombies, and then there's, like, fire. Let's add in our overlay, blending it in choosing the screen blend mode and just position this so that it's, like, under the skeleton. Then I could make a cut with W. I could turn on snapping, actually, now that we're done. Then we have this character just dancing over there. I'm just going to cut it before it changes to the other scene. W, and then we have this clock. I'm going to have a zoom in faster. So go to the end or somewhere in between. Let's do this much. We're going to scale this in this clip, scale it up. And I'm going to put it like that. Make a keyframe, and then we're going to, like, zoom out, but at the same time, ensure that we're not having this black screen. So it should look something like this. Well, actually, we didn't make any position key frames. So let's go to the first keyframe and then do one for position as it is. Then we're going to go to the next scale keyframe and just move this down. So it's going to go up towards the top of the clock. Then we have this character just kind of peering through. I'll put the glitch over this one, turn the blend mode to screen, and then make this shorter. Lower the opacity. We could try something a little bit less intense, maybe soft light. Okay, that's better on the eye. Now we have this subject all lost. Then the monster comes in. We could actually switch these guys, so the kid is lost. Let's scale in the clip. I'm going to do black bars universally once I'm done. So that's why I'm scaling in. So right where the door opens, we're going to hit DU, and then it turns out it's this guy. And I'll keep the glitch for later. Make a cut here. Then we have the door. Maybe we don't need the door. And then we have the subject screaming underwater. So right until here. Now we're going to do the same cut thing that we did earlier but with one of the colors. So I will do the color white. Let's hide it for a second, see where she starts to screen. Shift, right rake to move in ten frames at a time, have the frame selected, Commander Control B, and just make cuts as you go. Same thing with the white background. Use your arrakis without shift first and then hold down shift to move in the exact same way. Okay, we can get rid of the white at the front and alternate. Oops. Let's turn off snapping first. Alternate as we go. Actually, I think we should do a little bit faster, so I'll go in 5 seconds instead of 10 seconds. So Commander Control Z, let's do half of that. So this is still our first cut, but we're going to do with the right arrow key only, no shift. One, two, three, four, five, cut, and just go on. Then I'll leave the recipe. Now moving backwards, we're going to do the same thing. Actually, moving forward is easier. So just go on like you just did. And I'll do the cuts like we did before. I'll make one more here. There we go. And I'll just drag these inside. You could leave them on the second layer, but once we turn snapping back on, it may look weird. So now we get that flash effect, and then the subject continues screening. We have the black screen that I'm trying to figure out what to do with I think I'll just leave out the black screen. So for this guy, we're getting a little ishu I think I'll do I just drag this in front. I saw a cut that I didn't add. Okay. Now we have all of our cuts. In the next lesson, we're going to add in all the effects before we move into sound design. So let's go ahead and add those. 13. Applying Effects & Transitions: Now, let's move on to effects and some additional transitions that we could do to build the suspense. So the first scene, we have this carnival. We have, like, a drone shot, I think. So for the first video, I want to add a slight grain effect, just to show that this is in the past. There's a bunch of options that we could look at. Let's try this one. I think that's good. And this is just to complement the overlay that we had already. That's my first effect. I will add an exposure effect, as well, just to make it a little brighter, drag that on top, or actually below would be better. So we're going to do exposure and the two overlays. So we have this cool effect. There's a slight chromatic aberration to the purple lines, so that's pretty cool. I'm just going to go over here and make sure everything starts at the same time and that they end at the same time, as well. So these guys are a little too long. Just drag them in. And then we're getting the subject who's like, smacking the window a bunch of times. But this is way too bright for me. So I'm just going to make me look for, like, a horror effect, see if they have, like, a color grading. Let's put that on top. Let's see what comes out of it. This is pretty cool, actually. I'm going to keep this. And then right when she closes the door, we jump into this scene. I think there's a slight black screen at the start of this video, so I'm just going to cut that. And then we're getting the flashes with the zombies. I'm just gonna add a flash effect over that whole transitions. So let's do inverted flash right in this period. So the one thing I don't like is the um, like, there's a fade in effect at the beginning. Let me see if we could fix that. Okay, maybe we can try something else that's more sudden and there's no buildup to it. We have this guy. Let's try this one. Okay, this is not that bad. I'm just going to have it start right at the beginning of this cut, have it play, and then stop at the end. Next, we have the fire. This one is it was moved by a little bit. For this, we could try. Let's try this guy. And actually, this does not blend in. So for this, we could look at, like, a fire effect. Let's see this guy. That's better. Drag that right above. Make sure they start at the same time. And I'm just going to cut this short because it's very long right now. So grab all three Commander control beam, hit backspace. And then we have this situation. I'll grab one of those horror effects. Let's see which one looks the best. Let's see what this looks like. Alright, that looks pretty good. Once again, make sure that they match up like this. I'm actually going to extend this to the clock one. Now, we have a human subject here. I'm wondering if we could use the mask effect. Like, can it detect the pace at different angles? Okay, it's having a hard time. Let's remove that. Instead, we could do something a little bit. Like nostalgic, such as this one, haunted device for both for all of them, actually. Alright, and then finally, we have our human subject underneath the water. So this footage right now is a little too bright, so I'll look for something with the color blue, and I could add that on top. Let's see. Let me try this. Retro blue. Okay, this is pretty good. Extended all the way. And it's not that intense in this section, so I will add another horror effect. Let's try this one. And then in the last video, I'm going to zoom into her mouth. So it looks like, you know, she's stuck underwater and the monsters are there. So let's make a scale keyframe, then move forward and, like, zoom in towards the mouth. Same thing with the position, so make another position keyframe, go to the beginning and put it back where it was. And then between this keyframe, I'm going to do another animation. Another effect. So let's have it, and there we go. Alright, so we have all of the effects. CapCut has a lot. The only part that I don't have something for is this footage, but I think I will make this also blue just to make it a little eerie. Let's try retro blue. Okay, that's not that bad. And the rest looks fine. Okay, so we have all of these, and we actually forgot the rain overlay. I think we wanted that for this clip. So let's drack it underneath the effect and change the blend mode to screen. And I'm just going to lower the opacity. Cut the extra with W on your keyboard, and now we have this rain effect. Okay. So we have all the effects in place. I'm just going to do a universal cinematic bar at the top and at the bottom so that they all look similar. To do that, you can grab one of the black screens from the media tab, go to library, and it should be in the first page, the first page for trending. So just drag that above everything. And just to make it longer, I'm going to lower the speed by a ton. It's only a black screen, so it doesn't really matter. While I have this selected, I'm going to go to video, then go to mask. We're going to add a rectangular mask and just extend it towards the center. Like so, and then the edges. Then we're going to scroll down and click on this button because that's going to reverse it, and now we have that cinematic bar throughout the entire clip. So now that we have all of our effects, we're going to work on the sound. And that's a huge part for these sort of horror films because you get to include sound effects, as well as some music, build suspense, and even maybe scare the audience. So let's go ahead and do that in our next lesson. 14. Sound Design & Syncing: To start, I'm going to go to the Audio tab, and we're going to look for horror. Just in the music one, search for horror, and we're going to give a few of these a listen. So I'm going to use the horror search music. You can also search it up here if you want to use the exact same audio. Just drag that underneath. And because we have a buildup at the start, I'm going to do something at the beginning, but we're going to get to that later. So I have audio. Now I'm going to look for some sound effects that are going to complement what we're seeing on screen. So let's go ahead and do that in the sound effects panel. So this right here is a carnival, so we're going to need some laughter, some screams, maybe. So let's do carnival. Let's see if there's anything like that. Let's look for carnival crowd, maybe. Mmm. Let's do amusements Park screen. Okay, so I think I'll use the Ghost scream and put that underneath. I'm gonna need that for some of them, some of the clips. I'll get back to that. Let's look for Amusement Park, see what comes up. Okay, so this is not that bad. Let's put it in between, and I'm just gonna have it play for the first couple of clips. Just lower that audio. And then right at this boom, we're going to cut the amusement park music with W. And right where there's a boom, you can see the sound wave where you're going to do a W shortcut to get rid of the excess. So it's going to sound like this. So just, like, fun, and then it's, like, serious. And I think I'll have that boom start where he starts to scream. So let's hit M on the video itself. And I'm gonna cut this until we can match the marker and the playhead. I have snapping turned on. So we have this scream. It just plays out of nowhere. So let's see where we could put that scream. I think the last scene right before our flashing effect, even though she's underwater, Okay. So that's not that bad. And then there's the slow ending of the music. So hit DU again. And that's the bass music. Now we're going to add in more sound effects to complement the stuff on the screen. So maybe, like, door hinge sounds here or maybe a closing door. Let's see. I'm gonna try this, see if it matches what we see on the screen. So the door closes here. I'm going to match that like this. Okay, so I will use this audio. I just have to match it with what I see on the screen. So the door closes right here. I'm going to do alter ruption on this audio. Click drag to make a duplicate. Let's see where the door starts to open. Here, hit on the video, and now we have to pull this back. Maybe a little bit after. And for the second half, she's just closing it. So I'm gonna match that this. And then there's one more right around here. So Alter ruption, click and drag. Okay. And to make this, booming sound more intense, I'm going to do another effect. Maybe we could have this retro blue start on this marker. Okay, that's a little better. I'm just going to make sure it starts right on that second. Alright. Now that we have this, we can go past the first scenes. I'm going to see if they have zombie noises. I'm not too sure. Well, let's see what they have. Yeah. Okay, this one's pretty good. I'm just going to put it right here. You have to lower the audio just a tiny bit. Then cut that. Actually, leave it as it is. We're gonna fade this out into our next audio, which is crackling fire. This one's louder. I'll put it underneath and then fate that in. Oh, We're getting the effect onto the fire clip as well. We're going to cut the rest command and control beam, delete the rest. And since we're back to a carnival, I'm just going to copy the first audio alter option and drag it here. And I could maybe do it from, like, a new section of the song, so it doesn't sound the same. Trying to extend it. There we go. So just put that underneath and extend it. And I'll put it over the clock sound as well. Oh Let's fade out the fire and then start the organ music before the circus on the screen, and we're going to just close the gaps here, seeing a few. Then I'm going to look for some clock ticking. This is good. Let's put it underneath, and I'm just building this as I go. So let's cut this, maybe have it go over this video, and then stop here. Dabble you on your keyboard, and I'm going to move the effects because when we first shortened the male screen, it didn't really extend to the effects. So that's why I'm going back and putting them pulling them towards the left side. Okay. Same thing for this, extend it, then fade it out. I'm gonna need another audio here to complement the base. So let's look for horror and see what we could grab. Maybe the music box could work. I'm going to have that start around the clock video and then have it go on till the end. Maybe a little longer than the bass music W. Then lower that. Fit that in. And let's figure out the base clip. Okay. These guys are a little bit longer than they need to be, so I'm just gonna zoom in until the end of my last video and just match the effects with it. So now we have the audio part done. In the next lesson, we're just going to do some overall color grading. It shouldn't take that long, and then we can look at the final product. 15. Color Grading for Horror Look: Mm. So let's finish up our horror video. We stopped here. We did a lot of things, many layers. Now we're going to do some overall color grading. The first thing you need to do is move these cinematic bars, one layer above. So I'm just going to go over to effects, and I could look for something dark, just so I don't have to go over each of the clips and change the adjustments. So, let's see. I'm going to put this black noise and bring these cinematic bars above everything. So we're getting these little black dots all over the screen. In terms of color grading, I'm going to go over to one of these. Let's try something retro. Maybe like a green color overlay. Let's try green fission. I'm gonna put it right here, extend it. And it's a little bit too intense. So let's let me go to haunted device, actually, and increase the blur and lower the sharpen. And for the creepy music box, I think I'll have it start before the sky pops up. The green is a little bit too much for me. Let me see if I could replace it with something else. Let's go to filters for this, and maybe something in the retro could help us out. Tropical velvet. Let's see what that's about. Okay, that's not that bad. It has this yellow effect on it, and it looks pretty good. So this is what it looks like. It's a little bit brown, and it gives it the retro look. Alright, so this is our final product. We have a lot going on. The one thing I do want to do is kind of shift everything towards the right so that the video starts at this beat. So let's bring our playhead and then hit on our keyboard without selecting anything, so it makes a marker on the timeline. Zoom out and just grab everything. Like that, and just uncheck the first song. Okay, let's see what that looks like. I'm just gonna shift the main song, as well. And the cinematic bars. So, it starts right on that note. So let's see what the final product looks like. I do want to warn some of you guys that there is a lot of flashing on the screen. So if that's sensitive for you, can skip forward or just pause it if you want. But let's see what we've built so far. And there we have it. We built this horror video from scratch using some original clips that we didn't make with AI. You can extend this with more effects, more characters, more sounds, and build upon it as you go on. This was the second challenge for this course. Let's move on to the third and final one, which is where we get to build with music. So we're going to replicate a music video in terms of, like, beat syncing and matching what we see on the screen with some additional sound effects. 16. Challenge 3: Create a Music Video Edit: Choosing or Creating a Track: For the last challenge, we're going to focus more on the music rather than the visuals or the sound design. So I have this collection of videos. It's available to you guys in the resource pack, and we're going to just drag them in into the timeline. So just drag them all and put them in like this. So they look random at first, but what we're going to do is build music with AI and then match the visuals to the beat. So that's the one feature we didn't use so far, and you can access that in the audio tab, go to AI music, and you can just describe what you want to hear, and Capcot will make it for you. You don't want your music to be made with AI, you can access a lot of different types of music within the audio tab right over here. So you have both options. I'm just going to make it with AI just so that you guys know how it works, but you can ultimately make the decision. So I will do I'll do inspirational music with beats, maybe orchestra music. And we're going to hit Generate. Okay? Here's the list of music that Capcot made for us. Let's give all of them a listen. Alright, so I'm going to go with this one, but you can go back to generate, alter your prompt and get something else instead. So just drag this underneath. And the only issue with this is that you can only create music up to 1 minute. So if that's an issue for you, you may want to choose some of the music that already exist. But 1 minute should be fine for me, and it's dragged into my timeline. So as you can see in the sound waves, we do have a bunch of beats that I could connect and attach my visuals to and make this like a fun little video. That we have this, I'm going to right click or just click on the audio itself and click on this Auto Mark beat. So it's identifying two types of beats in my audio. I'm going to run the first one, see what that looks like, and then switch to two if I need to. So that's number one. I'm going to zoom in. So this is not the beat that I want, so I'm just going to go to beat two. So it's counting everything as a beat. That's okay. I think I will go ahead and use a few of them and out every single marker. So let's put this on the other side and start basically trimming the clips to match some of the markers. Let's try something else. I'll remove orchestra and just do music. Like acoustic, ambient music. Let's generate something else. In the three dots, you're able to modify that audio. I want this to be a little bit slower. So let's do slow coma everything else. Generate that one more time. Just gonna keep this in case this doesn't work out because it's a little bit more chill and I could basically separate the beats a lot faster. Okay, so as you can see, it's a lot slower. But I think I still prefer the old one. So let's just drag that underneath, and the beats are highlighted in the sound waves. Let me just do this with the auto beat detector. Alright, so the markers are not exactly that. I'm going to try that again with beats number two. Try Beats number number two. So I'm just going to use the ones at the peak of the audio and not so much the ones in between. That's how easily you can make music within Capcot. There is the restriction of it only being able to be a minute long, and you can only do instrumental, as it says right here. But we're going to continue this in the next lesson where we match all of these clips to some of the beats within the audio. So, let's go ahead and do that. 17. Finding & Organizing Footage: So I have all my clips. I have my marker, and I have my music. I'm just gonna go ahead and start choosing where I want my cuts. Let's mute this and solely rely on the beats. Gonna mute my computer instead. So right here, I'm going to make it cut Commander Control B, and I'll push this above so that I could come back to it if I need it. If I needed that video. We have this guy. Let's have it on screen for two markers. Make a cut. You can use your left and right rakeys to make this easier. Cut that out. Let's switch some of these. Just gonna close her eye here. Let's do it where she opens her eye. Okay. And I'm going to bring back that first clip and maybe do it somewhere here where she's already, you know, visible in the video. She leaves. Let's do it here. And there we go. We can cut the rest of the audio with on your keyboard, and now everything looks better. So let's see the rough cut of our video. I just faded out the end, but as you can see, everything is matched to the beat of the music. This video had audio. I'm just going to mute that. Like so. So you can beat sync like that automatically, or you could create markers yourself based on what you see in the sound waves. So now let's add on some effects and some universal look. 18. Final Polish & Export: Alright, the first thing I want to do is add a cinematic bar. So let's go to media library and grab this black color. Then go to speed and lower that until it fills the entire canvas. Hit W to get rid of the s, and once again, we're going to mask the rest out. So add a mask, rectangular, stretch the top and bottom, then the sides. Then we're going to invert the mask, and we have these cinematic bars. So now we're going to add in some filters just to make this look nice, go to filters and choose something according to your vision. We have this guy, let me see what that looks like. I'm going to put it in between. It's a slight flash. I'm going to keep that, and we're just going to build upon our base clips. So I do want a little bit of glow. Let's try radiance. Just put everything underneath these cinematic bars. And then, of course, work with the intensity. Next, I want to add more color to this. So look for color, and let's do rich color. So now the colors are more vibrant and they're standing out more. When she's walking away, I do want to add a text. So let's see where she leaves us a little room about here. Then go to Titles and I'll look for something. I'm just going to add a text, default text right where my playhead is. Let's position it here in the center and maybe name it after the company. So production company then do Commander Control A, and I'm going to look for a typewriter. Let's say this is my logo, reduce the font size and choose a nice color. Let's do one of these styles to help make the text stand out. So there's my text. I could put it to the side or keep it in the middle. It's up to me. Think I will I liked how it looked in the beginning. Okay, so a very simple text effect, and I'm just gonna cut it with W. Then we can go over to animations and do a very simple fade in, fade out or typewriter, whichever I do. So I'll do the typing cursor for in. And then for out, we could do a fade out. Like so. Just zoom in and match this to the end of the video. Lastly, you could decorate your video with some transitions. There's a lot of options out there, so you could just go over them, see what it does, and position it between two clips. So, for example, if I put this here, it's gonna look like this. So sometimes it helps to have a very simple cut, but other times you could do, like, a festive transition like this one. There we go. Now let's take a look at our final product. So that concludes our last challenge. This was relatively short, but by now, you should feel very confident using CAPGuD. We went over different aspects, the AI tools, the native tools, and I hope that by now you can come up with your own style and start another challenge for yourself. 19. Class Project: Edit Your Own Creative Style Video: For your class project, you're going to be creating your own style of video using everything that we have done so far. You can choose any of the styles that we went over, such as a storytelling video, a music video or a horror one, or you could just combine a few things and see what you want to create. Always start by planning the concepts and then move on to gathering your footage. This could be footage that you downloaded off of the Internet, you filmed yourself or something you generated with AI. You're going to build the structure of your video within the timeline, get that base cut out of the way and start adding on some effects and sounds. At the same time, you want to think about the mood that you're trying to create here. Is it suspense, a different type of emotion or just rhythm? Think about that while you're doing your sound design, as well as all of your trimming. Once your video is ready, export it and upload it to the class Project Gallery. You can also include a short description regarding the techniques you use, what you found interesting, and what you want to try next. This is your chance to be creative, experiment with different styles, and see what you get out of this. Good luck with the project. 20. Congratulations! What’s Next?: Congratulations on completing the Capcut Creative challenge class. You have now explored various different styles, ranging from storytelling to beat sinking and even some suspense. We went over some transitions, how you can build your own manually, how to add effects and how to combine different videos into a nice visual composition. The most important thing now is to continue practicing. You can go over the previous projects, maybe try something new, or maybe do something completely different. The point here is to refine your workflow and find that style that resonates with you. If you haven't already, be sure to upload your class project to the Class Project Gallery. I would love to see what you guys have created and provide you some feedback. And if you enjoy the class, feel free to drop us a review as it helps us create better classes for you guys and see what you would want to see next. Thank you so much for joining me, and I hope to see you guys in our next classes.