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1. INTRODUCTION: Hi everyone. My name is Mia and I am a freelance
short video editor. And in this course I will be teaching you a step by step on how to edit short form videos
using Cap Cut Desktop. So as you can see, these are the outlines that you will
learn from this course. So now you know what to
expect in this course. So before we get started, I have added the assets
that we will be using in this class for you to be able to not only see what I show you, but you can also do it for
yourself to learn better, leave a comment as
well if you have any questions or concerns
about the course. And I will do my best
to reply to them. So without further ado,
let's get started. There's nothing more damaging to a young man than not realizing his fullest
potential in life. His fullest potential in
strength and courage, in honor and impact
in a relationship.
2. DOWNLOAD CAPCUT & CAPCUT BASICS: The first step that we should do is if you don't have cap cut, you can download cap cut. This is the website right here. Once you have cap cut,
you open cap cut. You can see here in
this upper left, there's media for where you
can import your videos, audios or photos that we are going to use for editing later. We have also audio
for the music, if you want to put
it in your videos, as well as sound effects. So we are also going to use
sound effects in a bit. You can also add text in
different styles to your videos. So there are also stickers where you can also
place in your edits, the effects,
transitions, filters. So don't worry, we are
going to incorporate all of this and I'm going to show you how you're
able to use it.
3. BONUS DOWNLOAD VIDEO CONTENT TO EDIT: All right, so the first and
foremost important thing is for us to get
content for us to edit. So the first thing that I did that helped me get started in video editing is use the content that I'm
already interested in. So one of which is a video podcast from
a Youtube channel. So this is just one
of the channels that I'm interested in
listening or watching. So what we do is copy the link. And then I go to this
website, save from Net. Again, the links are provided in the project and resources tab. Just paste it here, just
wait for it to load. The default here is you get the 720 resolution
for the video, but what we want to
do is we want to get the highest resolution
for the video in order for us to have a
high quality video. When editing or publishing
the content, you click more. Of course, if you want to
get the highest resolution, it doesn't provide audio, which we can fix in a bit. Just click MP 41080. It will redirect you
into a different link. What you do is right click save video S and just place it in the folder where
you want it to be. Once you're able
to download that, you go to Youtube
to MP three and just paste the same
link and convert it. This is where we're going to get the audio file. Just
click download. After you're able to download the video file
and the audio file, you just click the two files and just drag and
drop it in Cap Cut. And again, just drag and
drop it in the time line. Now your father who's
absent, who chose to, you have the video
file that is ten ADP and the audio file
for the video. And now we are going to
see this as one file. You just click on
this upper right to export and make sure that you
match the video resolution, which is ten P, for it to be the same quality
that you want. And just click and
you'll have one file.
4. SHORT FORM BASICS RATIO, SCALING, & KEYBOARD SHOR: There's nothing more damaging for the purpose of saving time. I've already cut the video
for us to use in this course. In terms of ratio, this is 16 by nine. What we want to do is, since we are editing
a short form video, we're going to use
the nine by 16. There are two options where you can adjust the
scale of the video. Either just click this and
hold and just drag it. All right, so that
is one option. The second option is you can adjust it here in this scale. Toggle again. Just
click and hold. Just slide it, but
I much prefer to do it this way so that there are two lines from the
top and the bottom, where you can see if the
video perfectly matches the size of the
nine by 16 ratio. You can also move
this, but again, just click and hold
and just move it. You can also see the lines, the guides where you can also whether or not the video is at the
center or not. All right. So you can see that now
that we have the file, you can also cut the
footage by using a shortcut which is C.
This is the razor tool. Just click it to wherever
you want to cut the video, just click that and
press the lets, the portion of that
video is gone. Then if you don't want
to cut that video, just click control
Z and that will undo the cut that you just did. If you press control Z again, it will remove the cuts in
the video from the timeline. You can also change the shortcuts when editing
for you to edit faster. So you can also make
different types of shortcuts based
on your preference.
5. TEXT ADDING CAPTIONS, TEMPLATES, ANIMATION, & FRE: The first thing that
we are going to do is to add captions
or to add subtitles. In order for you to do
that, you go here to Text. Just click Auto Captions
and make sure to make this into English and
just click Create. Once that's done,
you have captions. However, there are times
where Cap Cut is unable to create captions for the
words that are being said. So make sure you
have to check if the words match
what is being said. So let's see. There's
nothing more damaging to a young man than not realizing his fullest
potential in life. His fullest potential in
strength and courage, and honor and impact
in a relationship. So for me, I like my captions being timed on what
is being said. So let's do that now. So in order for you to
also cut in the captions, it's the same shortcut
which is the razor tool or just click E. So you will
cut into the captions. And then if you want
to edit the captions, you just click the
caption and just go here and type whichever words that are being said
for the captions. All right, so now that is fixed, the captions are in the right timing and
order and spelling. You can opt to use
this type of caption, which is the system
default font style. Or you can also change it
into a different font. One of which is, if you want
to get more free fonts, you can go to this site, the Font.com so you can choose a lot of
different types of fonts. In addition to this, you
have to also be aware if the tick box to apply to
all is ticked or not. Because if this is ticked, it will apply to all
of the captions. So just be wary of that. Or if you just want to
just change one thing in one of the captions
and you don't want the other captions
to be affected, you just have to untick this box and just make the
necessary changes. For example, you want
to change a color for this specific
caption that's red. Since to apply to all
box is not ticked, it will not apply
the other captions. As you can see,
the other captions are still white,
but this is red. When you tick the
box to apply to all, you have to be in a
specific caption for this. So you have to be in
the caption which is a different color
in order for it to be applied to the
different captions. That is how apply to all works. You can opt to choose the
design for your own captions, or you can also use templates. As you can see, this is some of the templates
which you can use. Some of the templates are free, some are in the pro version. You have to also be
wary of that as well. Because once you export, and you're not using
the pro version, it will not export. We can also do the word art, which it will change
the style of your text. Make sure that if you don't
want to use this template, you click this, it won't apply. However, if you click that, the settings that you placed in your captions will disappear. What you can do is you just control Z and it will
undo all of those things. The next one is animation. Animation is how you want
to animate your captions. For example, there's nothing. You can also adjust
the duration of the. There's imation
for your captions. You can either make it slower
or make it faster again. You should click
this so it would not apply to your captions. Scale this into a
different size. Again, if you don't
apply to all box, it will not apply to
the other captions. But if you want to apply the scale to all
of the captions, just make sure to tick the box and it will apply to
the other captions. In the captions, you can
either add a stroke to it. Let's put this red so
you can see it better. The stroke is the
outline for the text. You can adjust the thickness of the stroke in
the color as well. You can experiment on that. You can also add a
background for it. This is a background. You can also again, change a different color for the font. You can also choose
to either use upper lower case or title case. You can also make
it bold, underline. In italicize, you can also adjust the character
spacing for it. It will look like that.
Get back to zero. There is a line. If you want to change the
line, you can also do that. It would look like this.
Change back again to zero. There is also glow, there's a glow
effect for the text. You can also add
shadow to your text. The shadow is the
drop down shadow. I'm going to full size this, so you can see there is a
shadow underneath the text. You can also curve your font. What I want to do
is I want to add a background for my captions. You can also adjust the opacity
for it, just like this. Also adjust the
height and the width. You can also, you want to offset the caption in the
y axis or the x axis. You can also add rounded edges for the text,
it will look like this. It doesn't have the sharp
edges as compared to before. Yeah, you can adjust
based on your preference. For me, I like it this way. And make sure to
click Apply to all. It would apply to
all of the captions. I'll add shadow to it. You can also adjust
again the opacity, the blurriness, the
distance in the angle.
6. STEP BY STEP VIDEO EDITING: So the next thing is adding
assets to your edits. So what I mean by assets
is the icons, the music, the sound effects, the videos or gifts that you will
use for your edits. All of the assets are in the
Projects and Resources tab. All right, so let's start
adding assets to it. It's Dragon Drop.
Make sure that it is in place and it's
in the right timing. You can also adjust
the scale for this, or you can just type it here on how big you want
the icon to be. You can also adjust the
placement here as you wish in order for you
to adjust faster. Instead of you just
clicking one by one, you just hold the left button of your mouse and just use the scroll up and down in
the middle of your mouse. It would adjust up and down. The Y is up and down, the X is left and right. I want this icon to move. How we're going to do that is we're going to use key frames. The purpose of the key frames is when you click the position, currently the X, it's in this position which is
on the leftmost part. And what I want to do is click the key frame so that it would know that it
would start from here. And then just move the toggle on the end or where you want
the icon to stop moving, which I want it to end here. Just move the icon to where
you want it to end and make sure that the y
axis is the same. Just adjust that. It would
just move in a straight line so it won't go up or
down. Just a tip. If you are going
to add key frames, make sure that
when you're making changes you are in
the right key frame. Or else it will add
another key frame. For example, this one. If I make a change
here, there's nothing. So it disrupts the
flow of the icon. So make sure that when
you're adding key frames, you are adding it to
the right keyframe. In order for you to know if
you are in that keyframe, is the color blue
will be seen here. So what happened is the icon
moved from left to right. There's nothing more. All right, so now we are able
to apply the icon. Now we're going
to apply a video. You have a video right here. Make sure that you
place it on top. So this is a type of layering when you are
editing in your timeline. So whichever is at the top will cover everything
else at the bottom. What we want to do here
is we want to enlarge the video to emphasize what it is that he
is talking about. And since the video
is at the top most from all of these
assets that you've placed, I want the caption to be seen. So I have to make sure that
the captions are seen. So I'll adjust this video to the middle here so that
the caption is at the top. You can see the captions, the video is at
the middle and it covers the main video
that we are editing. So that is how layering
works in editing. We can also choose to
zoom into the video. So how we're going
to do that is again, we're going to use keyframes. Add a keyframe on where you
want the video to start. Move the toggle on where
you want the zoom to end. We're going to adjust
this from the toggle. Just zoom here or you
can also zoom out, depends on your preference. And it will automatically add another key frame.
It would look like this. More damaging. We saw the zoom there. In order for you to
see the difference, I'll delete the added
key frames without the zoom more damaging
to a young man. Nothing happens because
you remove the key frames. All right, so let us
add more of what is going to happen in the edit
as what I mentioned earlier. I'm going to show you how
these effects are going to be used for the icons.
For example, this one. I want to animate
this icon right here so you can just
go to animation and choose how you would want the icon to move or
be animated in honor. You can use different
animations for it. You can animate both in and out. It would look like
this in honor, you can either make
it slower or faster. In honor, I want to add
a filter for this then, then not realizing his
fullest potential in life, a different filter for that. Or you can use an effect for it. For example, this
one you can drag and drop. It will
look like this. You can adjust the color, the filter, the size,
and the texture. You can choose that
to a young man. Stickers, we can opt to choose sticks to a young man,
it will look like this. Again, just scale and
adjust based on the timing. Then not realizing his
fullest potential in life. His fullest potential then not realizing his fullest
potential in life. We can also use transitions. Transitions can also be
applied to the icons and in the video just Jon
drop in Honor. It would look like
some transitions apply to just the
icons and it will not move the video such as
this one in there it is. That's a transition. All right, now we are going to
add the sound effects. The sound effects
is also added in the assets just Jon drop. If you want to just listen
to the sound effects, just click this meet clip audio and it will meet this audio. It will only play this one. That is a lot of sounds in which you can use
in your editing. Let us add the sounds that matches the effects
that we've added. If you don't have the
exact sound effects that you want provided
in the assets, you can also go to cut audio and you can search for the
sound effects that you prefer. Just drag and drop. This is the sample edit
that I did quickly. As you can see, I've
added icons, the sticker, the transition animation,
and sound effects, so it would look like this. There's nothing more damaging to a young man than not realizing his fullest
potential in life. His fullest potential in
strength and courage, and honor and impact
in a relationship. So if you are happy
with your edit, you can opt to export and just choose the folder and where you want it to be saved. And you can also change the
title and just click Export. There's nothing more damaging.
7. BONUS FREE ASSETS, REMINDERS & FEEDBACK: Just a couple of things for you to also get images
or videos for free. You can also go to this website, Pixabay or even pexels. These provide free
videos, photos, and at the same time, if you want more emojis, you can also go to this website. You can also, for example, you want the icons for
the Apple version. You can also do that here. So you can just click
and just write, Click it and just save
Image as it would. Save it automatically
without any background. There are different
icons here as well with different designs and more
options to choose from. Well, I didn't use
any gifts earlier, but you can also use
gifts such as these ones. So you can use shifts. You can also add music
either from the cap cut itself or you can use the
Youtube studio audio library. This is free. You can also get sound effects from here,
which is also free. So make sure that
it's royalty free. You don't get copyrighted from using a specific
music for your edits. Just a couple of important
reminders in terms of editing. So make sure that you
have all your assets in designated folders so that
you can get them easily. Next is transferring assets
in different folders. So make sure that you again have a designated folder
for your assets, because if you start
moving your assets, it would remove that
asset or it would have an error in cap cut and it would say that
the file is lost. But you can locate that, you can link that media again to cap Cut and it would
retrieve that file. Next is the caption. So be wary of that,
apply to all. If you need to change
something in one of the captions and
not affect the others, make sure to untek that feature as what I've mentioned earlier. And the lock feature, So the lock feature is this one, so if you don't want anything
to move in this line, make sure to lock it so it
would not get affected. Or if you want to hide
everything in this line, you can just opt to hide track
this one, the icon here. So it would hide the assets which are in this line if you
don't want it to be seen. So exporting file. So make sure again
as what I've also shown you earlier is to check
the quality of the file. So if you want to
save it at ten TP, make sure that the
setting is at ten P. Same with four K resolutions. Make sure to save it at
four K, the file name. Make sure that you have a different file name if
you want to save files, because most of the time, if you have the same file name, it would overwrite or
replace your old file. And another thing is backups. So make sure that you
duplicate your projects, especially if you start
as a freelance editor. So it would happen that clients
will ask for revisions, so make sure that if you are
going to apply a revision, make sure to duplicate the file. So we have the original
copy and the revised copy, you can also link
captions and footage. So currently the captions
are linked to the main file. So you can see the lines here. When you cut the footage, the captions will automatically move through the timeline. But if you are not
careful in cutting, it would delete not
only the main video, but also the caption as well. It would look like
this. For example, I deleted this, delete, it would automatically
move, but unfortunately, it deleted the caption that is linked to that
part of the video. So make sure that if you
don't want that to happen, just turn off this
one so that when you delete a part
of the main video, it would not affect
the captions. So those are just the
pros and cons for linking captions
to the main video. Yeah, that is it
for this course. I hope that this course has
brought you so much value. Once again, please do submit your projects after you're done, so I can see how you're able to apply what you've
learned in this course. I look forward to
seeing your work and please do leave a review
on the course to help you know what to do in terms of improvement in making
courses like these. To help people like
you to develop useful skills in
terms of editing, leave a comment as well if
you have any questions, concerns about the course. And I will do my best
to reply to them.
8. How to Upload Your Project: Just like to congratulate you
for finishing this course. So in this last part,
I would like to show you how you're
able to upload your projects in
skill share so that I would be able to watch what
you've done in the project. So now that we are in the
last part of the course, you just scroll down. So you can see here in the right part or in the
right side of your screen, there is my project and
you click Submit project. So in order for you to
submit your project edits. So I highly suggest that
you go to your G drive, and then that is where you
can upload your project. For example, this video
right here is your project, so you just click
and drag and drop it and you just wait for
the video to upload. And once the video is
already in your G drive, you go to this three
buttons right here, which says more actions, so just click that. And you go to
Share, click Share. And as you can see, the
general access is restricted, so you just click that and change it to anyone
with the link. So once that's done, you copy the link, copy, and then you go back
to Skill Share, and you go to
project description. So that is where
you're going to paste the link so that I
can see your project, and you can title your project
name, whichever you like. And then once that's
done, you click Publish. And now that I'm able
to see your edit here. I hope that was useful, and I look forward to seeing
your edits. Thank you.
Miya Tan
