CapCut Desktop: Video Editing for Beginners

1. Introduction: Hi everyone and welcome to this class where you're going to learn how to edit videos from start to finish using Cap Cut Desktop. My name is Dan, I'm a photographer and the Youtuber And I've been creating content with different programs for many years, but I've switched to Cap Cut for two reasons. Number one, it's very easy to use. And number two, it's multiplatform. Meaning you can edit on your phone, on a web browser, or on a computer, both on Mac and PC. It doesn't matter if you've never used this software before or you're completely new to video editing because I'm going to show you everything step by step. Here are some of the topics that we're going to cover in this class. First, I'm going to show you how to download and install the program on your computer. Then we're going to take a look at the interface and how everything works. We're going to import our footage and then we're going to start the editing process. We're going to trim and cut unnecessary parts of our footage. And we're going to add things like images, text and captions, transitions, background music effects. We're also going to learn how to remove the background of your video, how to color grade your footage, how to add motion tracking and some keyboard chart cuts, and how to customize them to edit faster. Once we've edited our project, you're going to learn how to export with the best settings. And to finish it off, I'm going to be editing a piece of short form content from start to finish as a recap of the things seen during the class. So hopefully I'll see you on the other side, and thanks for joining. 2. Downloading CapCut: We're going to open our browser of choice and we simply need to type cap cut in the search bar. And we're going to scroll down to this result here, which is the official website, capcut.com and we're going to click there. Here we have the main window of the website. So we could either sign up for free or sign in if you already have an account. And as you can see here, it says Available on. And you could either choose Edit Video online, or download our Windows or Mac if you're using an Apple computer. For this example, I'm going to click here, Download for Windows. And as you can see here, you have the instructions and it's automatically being downloaded to my computer. So we're going to open the installer and the set up wizard is going to run by itself. Then it's going to show the language settings, then save. And it's going to launch put automatically. And now we can move on to the next lesson where I'm going to show you how the interface works. 3. Understanding the Interface: Now that we've downloaded the program to our computer, this is the main window that we're going to see. Every time we open Cap Cut Desktop in this face here, you're going to see all the projects that you've created using Cap Cut. And if you hover your mouse over one of them and you press on these three dots here, you can either rename duplicate, or delete. I'm going to click delete. Move to trash. Okay. And now, obviously nothing is showing up. I can come here to trash and double check if I want to restore some of the projects that I moved to the trash or simply empty the trash. And if you want to create a new project, you're going to click the big button here that says Create Project. And this is the main window of Cap Cut. Here on the left we have our import panel where you're going to drop your media like videos, audios, and images. And if you take a closer look here, we have different icons. So audio, text stickers, effects, and we're going to cover these in an upcoming lesson. Here in the middle, we have our media Player, or the player panel. So once we drag and drop or import our files in this panel here, you're going to be able to see a preview of that footage here in the middle of your screen. And as you can see, we have some icons here and here and here, but at the moment we can't use them because we haven't imported our footage yet. And we're going to do that in the next lesson. Here on the right we have the details panel, so we're going to see some information about the clips that we import. And I also like to call it the adjustment panel because once you import your footage, you're going to be able to adjust different settings and features. For example, the scale of your video or the color grading. And I'm also going to show you how that works in an upcoming lesson. One thing I am going to show you now is if you come down here to the button that says modify and click it, it's going to open this new window. And here you can rename your project. You can also select to copy media to project or to stay in original location. In my case, I prefer to leave it where it is, otherwise it's going to create more copies of your media, and that takes up more space in your computer. You can also change the aspect ratio here. In this case, mine is filmed in 16 by nine, but if you want to transform this to a vertical video, you would come down here and select nine by 16. You can also change the resolution of your project, either adapted or custom. If you click custom, you can see that you can change the resolution. Here. In my case, once again, I film in 1920 by 1080. But if you want a specific resolution, you would change the values here. So we're going to leave this in adapted. You can also change the frame rate. Again, I film in 24 frames per second, but if you film in 30 frames per second or 60 frames per second, if you want to do a bit of slow motion, you would select either 30 or 60. But I'd like to leave it in 24 and the color space, this is the standard profile, and I leave it like that. You can also come here to the Performance tab and select if you want to turn proxies on or off. And as you can see, it says, turn it on to edit smoothly and faster without losing video quality. If you're using a less powerful computer, you can turn proxies on. But if you have a modern computer or it's brand new, or it's powerful enough, you probably don't need to turn proxies on. So I'm going to click here, Save. And lastly, down here we have our timeline or our editing panel. So once we import our footage here, we're going to drag and drop onto our timeline. And down here in the timeline is where you're going to actually edit your whole project. Cutting, trimming, adding audio tracks, adding images, and so on and so forth. And as you can see, we also have some icons here on the left side and some more icons here on the right side. And I'm going to show you how these work in the next lesson. 4. How to Import, Cut, and Trim: Session. I'm going to show you how to import your media into the timeline. First, we're going to decide if we want a whole clip or just a section of it. And then we're going to take a look at some of the icons from the previous session and how they work while we edit our footage. So let's begin. First, we're going to come here to the left, to the media panel, and we're going to click on Import. And we're going to search for our media and our computer, in this case, this video here. And I'm going to double click or click open. And as you can see, our footage shows up here in the media panel and we have a preview of the video here. If we want to edit this whole clip, we can either click, drag and drop to the time line. Or we can also click the plus icon here to add to track. Let's click and drag. We're going to drop it here. And as you can see now, the footage shows up here and we're ready to edit. Now if we want to undo this and go back, we could either click here, which is the undo button, or if we want to remove the whole clip from the timeline. We can also press backspace on our keyboard, and this removes it from the timeline. But as you can see, it still shows up here in the media panel. At the beginning of this video, I told you you could select either the full clip or just the section or a part of it. So I'm going to show you how. But do keep in mind every time you click on some footage here, in this case this video, it's going to start playing automatically. So you want to press the Spacebar on your keyboard and that pauses the video. Now if we want to select a portion of this video, you simply need to move your mouse cursor to the edge, and as you can see, the icon turns into this line and arrows. And we're going to click and drag. Let's say you want the video to start here, and we're going to do the same with this edge here. We're going to click and drag. This line here would be the starting point, and this line here would be the ending point. Now we could click and drag, and we would be editing just that portion of the video instead of the whole video clip. If we want to remove this clip from the timeline, we're going to select it and press backspace on our keyboard. But now we can start editing. I'm going to select the whole clip. Going to click and drag. And if you take a look here at the right side, what I like to call the adjustment panel, Many icons have appeared and we have different menus. But I am going to show you how these work in an upcoming lesson. So let's get back down here to the timeline and let's begin our editing process. This vertical white line here is what's called the playhead. And we can move it around so we can scrub through the timeline or the clip in this case. It also moves when you click on an empty space. Every time you click, it's going to move. But if you want to be more precise, you can click and drag. Now this is very small. We're going to come all the way to the right here, to this slider here, which is the zoom slider. And if we click and drag, we can make this longer or shorter. For this example, I'm just going to click Fit to Time Line. Now if we come up here to this arrow, we're going to focus on these two modes. Either select or split. By default it's the select mode, so you simply move and you select. But now if we come back here and we choose the split mode, every time we move the cursor inside the clip on the time line, you can see there's a small yellow vertical line. Now if I click here, it's going to create a slice dividing these two clips. Again, I can move around as much as I want to. If I want to create a new split or slice here, I'm simply going to click and that's it. There's another slice there, and another one here, and another one here, and so on and so forth. If you want to split something, that's the way to do it. Now we could come back here, revert to the select mode. And now we can select each and every one of these clips. And if you wanted to cut this clip here, for example, you would simply press backspace on your keyboard. And again, you could select this one, press backspace on your keyboard and it cuts that clip. Now if you want to go back, simply press control Z on your keyboard or command Z if you're using a Mac. And if you want to undo another step, again, control Z or command Z, or you can also click this icon here. But as you can see, splitting this way takes a very long time. My recommendation and a tip that I'm going to give you, simply come here, make sure you're using the select mode and now we can move freely. And instead of having to change modes all the time, we're simply going to use this icon here, which is also the split icon. If I want to move my playhead here, for example, I can simply click the split. A slice has been created here. Again, let's move the playhead and simply click Split. And another slice has been created here, again, because we're still in the select mode. Every time we split, we simply select press backspace and we're cutting that part of the clip. Let's undo. And we could also click and drag and move this to another place. Or click and drag to the beginning of the time line. And speaking of moving things around, let's take a look at these three icons here that are highlighted in green. These three are on by default, and if you hover your mouse over them, you get a small piece of text that tells you what they do. In this case, turn off main track magnet. If we uncheck this one now, every time you move something and you drop it, it's going to stay in the place where you dropped it. But if you turn the magnet on, as you can see, it becomes magnetic. Now if I click and drag here, even if I drop it here, it's going to go back magnetically with the previous clip. We can also take a look at this icon here. Turn off auto snapping. If we turn it off and we move a clip to another track on top for example, we can drop it wherever we want to and it's going to stay in that place. But let's say I want this part to finish right here in line with this one on the bottom. But I can't see exactly if I'm doing it right. I'm going to activate this by clicking on it. So turning auto, snapping on. And now once I click and drag, as you can see this vertical green line shows up. And if I let go here, I'm making sure that these two clips or these two tracks are snapping together perfectly. Again. I can click and move and I can snap it here, or here, or anywhere else. And I'm making sure that they align perfectly. The last one is this one here. Turn off Linkage. If I bring this here, this is turned on by default. In Cap Cut, these two tracks or clips are now linked. Meaning if I click this one and drag it, you can see that both of them move together. But if I don't want that, I'm going to turn this off. Now if I click and drag this one, only the lower clip is moving. In my case, I prefer to leave this off because I prefer to do things as manually as possible. But if you want to turn it on, you just click there and that's it. The last icon is this one here. Turn on preview Axis. If you turn this on, when you move through the timeline, aside from the playhead, you're going to have a yellow vertical line and it's going to preview the video at the same time that you move this axis. And if we turn it off, even if you move the mouse, nothing is going to happen. So if you want to scrub through the timeline, you should leave this on. That way you can see what you're doing. But in my case, I don't use it, so I turn it off. And the last thing I want to show you in this lesson is how to actually trim instead of splitting and cutting. Now let's say you click here and you press backspace on your keyboard, and you made a mistake when you were cutting this clip here. You can come to the edge and simply click and drag and make this shorter or make it longer. And as you can see, cap cut still has the original clip here and that's how you trim your footage. Now that we've seen how to split, how to trim and how to cut, we can move on to the next lesson where I'm going to show you some keyboard shortcuts to make this even faster. 5. Custom Keyboard Shortcuts: Session, we're going to talk about keyboard shortcuts. We've already seen how a couple of these work, like pressing the Spacebar to pause and play, or the backspace key to delete something from the timeline. But there are many more shortcuts in the software. The good thing about Cap Cut is that you can also customize these shortcuts to better suit your needs. Remember, when you wanted to select just a section of your media, you would come up here, click on the media, and you would click here. And to select the starting point. And click here and drag to select the ending point. You can also do that with a keyboard shortcut, so you can move your mouse and scrub inside of the media if you want to start. At some point you're going to click where you want to start, then you're going to press on your keyboard to select the inner point, you're going to scrub with your mouse. Let's say you want to finish here, You're going to click there. And you're going to press on your keyboard to select the outer point. Now you could click and drag and drop it into the timeline. If we come down here to the timeline, when we hover our mouse over some of these icons, you can see that the keyboard shortcut is right next to it. If you want to enter the select mode, you would click A. Hover your mouse over this icon here, it says Control B is the shortcut. This one here would be letter Q on your keyboard. This one here would be letter, and so on and so forth. That applies to the majority of the icons inside the software. You can also customize them. You simply need to come up here where it says shortcuts and click there. This is the full list. As you can see, we have a lot of them. And if you scroll down, there are even more. And you can also check these tabs here. And now we want to change some of these shortcuts. In my case, I only use 31 for splitting, one for deleting, and the other one to play and pause. I want to change the split shortcut. So in this case the original is control B, but I'm going to click here. And as you can see, this window shows up telling me that I'm not signed in. So shortcuts cannot be synced to your account. After you sign in, the shortcuts, which are saved on your computer, will be overridden. So if you want, you can sign in or create an account. But if you don't want to do that, you simply click Continue Editing. And as you can see now it's being highlighted in green. I'm simply going to press the key that I want as the shortcut on my keyboard. In my case, I like to use letter B, so I'm going to press that on my keyboard and it's going to tell me there is a conflict. The B shortcut already belongs to timeline split mode. And it's asking me if I want to overwrite it, in my case, I'm going to click override, as you can see here. Now, the split mode doesn't have a key assigned because this was originally the function when I pressed letter B on my keyboard. But I don't use the split mode, I simply use the split action. Now I can come here and click Save. And when I move around the time line, I just have to press the B key on my keyboard. And as you can see, it has created a slice here. Again, I can move this around wherever I want to, and if I press B, it's going to create another slice for me. This is much quicker than moving and having to come and click this icon, move again, click this icon again, click this icon. Now let's change a different keyboard shortcut once again. We're going to come up here, shortcuts, We're going to select the Basic. And if you read here it says delete backspace. And I could leave it like that, but in my case, what I'd like to do is select letter on my keyboard. Again, this message is going to show up. Continue editing. I'm going to press G and I'm going to click Save. You may be asking, why am I doing this? Instead of keeping the back space as the regular delete key, you can do that, and that's fine. But if you take a look at your keyboard, you're able to press the G key, the B key, and the space bar with the left hand or with just one hand. And I can still move my mouse with the right hand, in my case, because I'm right handed. If I click here, I'm going to press the B key to create a slice. And then I'm going to select this. Now I can press the Gkey to delete it, and I can press the Spacebar to play, or the Spacebar to pause. I'm using my right hand to scrub along the timeline and move my playhead. And I'm using my left hand to create a slice and to delete something from the time line. In my opinion, this helps you edit faster. Of course, it doesn't have to be the key or the B key. Shortcuts can be customized to whatever you want. You should try to find your own keyboard combinations to speed up your process. If you make a mistake or you want to go back, you simply come down here where it says reset. And as you can see, the keyboard shortcuts go back to the original setting. And now we can move on to the next eston, where I'm going to show you how to add music and captions. 6. Adding Music, Text, and Captions: Sess, I'm going to show you how to add Music, text and automatic captions. So let's begin by adding a soundtrack to this project. We have a couple of different options. First, we could come here to the left panel, the media panel, and click on Import. And we're going to search for the audio file inside of our computer. In my case, I'm going to open this folder, and here is my audio file. I'm going to double click, and as you can see in the media panel, we have our previous footage and the audio track here. Once again, we could click and drag the whole audio file into our timeline. Or we could simply select a part of the song by adding a start point and our ending point. For this example, let's say I want the full song. I'm going to click and drag into the bottom of our time line and I'm going to lecho of the mouse. And as you can see now we have two different tracks. The first track, which is this one, video and audio. And we have a second track here, which is the song that we just dropped into the timeline. And if you take a close look here to the right of the screen, the adjustment panel is showing up some information that has to do with this song here or this track. So it's showing some sliders like the volume or the fade in and fade out. You can also normalize the loudness or reduce the noise. So if I click on this button here, and I move this to the left, it brings the volume down. And you can see it here in the audio track. And if I click and drag to the right, it's going to bring the volume up. And you can also see this. If I want to undo this, I can simply click this arrow here, which is the reset arrow, and it goes back to its original volume. Let's go back to the timeline. And I'm going to click and drag this to the beginning. Now if I press Spacebar, it's going to play both the track with my camera footage and the soundtrack. My recommendation is always to have this icon here enabled. So you want to click here, and this is going to show you the audio levels of your project. And as you can see, while the song is playing, the sound levels are showing up here. And we have a couple of numbers to the left. What you want to try is to keep the levels between -12 and minus six or minus three, which would be more or less if your audio levels reach zero or above. This means your audio is clipped and you can't recover it. It's probably a very loud sound and the audio is going to be distorted when you're playing your media. If you see that it's peaking around zero, you're going to want to come up here and bring this down a bit. And you can also see this here. When your audio is peaking, you're going to see that at the top of the audio wave, it's going to show in a reddish color, meaning this is peaking and it's distorting the audio. My recommendation once again is to click and drag this to the left and bring this down until you can't see almost any kind of red in the audio file. And you can also move your here to the middle of the audio track and drag to bring it up. Or click and drag to bring it down. It's the same thing. That's how you'll add a soundtrack. Now what you can also do is right click, delete and come up here to the media panel once again. And if you take a look up here, we have some icons that we saw previously. You simply want to click audio and cap cut is going to show you a full list of tracks or songs that you can add into your project. Again, if you want to add this one, for example, you would hover your mouse over it and click on the plus icon. Or simply click and drag and drop into your timeline. Just keep in mind that all of these songs that appear here can be used for things like Tiktok videos or Instagram reels. But don't forget that these songs might be copyrighted. So what I'd like to do and my recommendation is that you open a new window on your browser of choice. And that you type in the following, copyright free music. And you're going to see that there's a couple of sponsored results. But you can scroll down and take a look at some of these results here. In my opinion, this website here is pretty good and you can find royalty free music. So if you're going to be creating Youtube videos or client projects, just double check that you're using royalty free music and not the soundtracks that come included in Cap Cut. Let's close this window and we're back in Cap Cut. What you can also do is come here to the left, click on copyright, then click check. And it's going to check if the audio on your project has copyright or not. Here to the left on the media panel, it also tells you that this video can be posted on Tiktok. It has passed the sound copyright check. Now let's take a look at how to add some text to your video. Up here we have the text icon. We're going to click there. We have a default text here. We could simply click this icon. And the text is going to show up here in the preview panel. And here on the right in the adjustment panel is where you can change the look of your text. So you can double click here and change the text. This is a test. You can also change the font size, make it bigger or smaller. You can make this bold or underlined. You can also change the case, upper case, or lower case. You can change the color of your text and choose between any color that you like. Simply move this around and click or select it from one of these squares here. We could also come here where it says font. You can move your mouse up or down. And we have a ton of different fonts to choose from. If you want to see how a font looks like, you're going to click on the arrow here to download, and now you have a preview of this font here. The great thing is that once you click and drag, you're going to see these lines. You're making sure that your text is aligned in the center of the frame. If we go back to the adjustment panel and we scroll down, you can see that we also have different presets here. You can also change the style. Now we have a black background or a white background, and so on and so forth. Let's say you want to rotate it, you're going to click here and drag. And move it around. And that's not everything. You can still keep scrolling down. And as you can see, we have many different options. So feel free to play around with all of these and customize your text to your liking. And if you come down here to the timeline, you can see that the text is showing up here on top of the video track. And if I want to make this longer, I'm going to move my mouse to the edge as always, and I'm going to click and drag. Now you're going to decide how long this text is going to show up on your video. You can also make this shorter, or click and drag and move this around the timeline. Now let's right click and delete. Now let's take a look at one of the best features of a cap cut, which are automatic captions. We're going to come down here where it says auto captions and click there. As you can see, it tells you recognize speech in the video to generate captions automatically. And you can open this dropdown menu and you have a couple of different languages to choose from. You can also scroll down, There's many languages, but in my case, I'm going to select English, because I filmed this video in English. And I'm simply going to click on Generate. Cap Cut is going to take a bit of time to generate these auto captions. Obviously, this will depend on how long your video is, but it's very fast and as you can see, we have a message that shows up here. Let's click okay. In the upper track, you can see that all of these small boxes are showing up. And these are all of the captions from the video. If I press Spacebar to play the video, you can see that it shows the captions of what I was saying. And it's actually extremely accurate. But let's say there's a mistake in one of these captions, you're going to press Spacebar to pause. And what you want to do is come down here to the timeline and double click on the section or the captions that you want to edit or improve. I'm going to double click here, and automatically again in the adjustment panel, this window shows up. And now I can come here, select which word I want to remove or change. Let's just imagine that I didn't say this sentence. And instead of, you can hold your microphone in place. I said you can hold your tripod in place. So I'm going to click and drag to highlight this word. And I'm simply going to type it in with my keyboard. I'm going to type tripod, and automatically the captions have been changed. Again, you can double click on any of these to enable this adjustment panel here. Once again, like when we were editing the text, you can come here and change the font. If you don't like that one, you can choose any other. You can change the color. You can also make this bigger or smaller. You can click and drag. You can also add some background so it's easier to see. You can also change the size or the scale by clicking and dragging on one of these dots here, make it smaller or wider, or more narrow. Again, if you scroll down, you can change exactly the same things as previously when we were editing regular text. That's how you add music text and automatic captions. Now we can move on to the next lesson. 7. Addings Stickers and Effects: Editing a video, you want to try and make sure that it looks as professional as possible or that it catches the viewer's attention. But when it comes to stickers and effects, some of these might make your video look unprofessional or distracting. For example, if you're editing a wedding video, you probably wouldn't want to use this sticker. Or if you're editing a real estate project for a client, once again, you probably wouldn't want to use an effect like this one. My recommendation is that you keep things as simple as possible and if you're adding something to the timeline, it's related to the video or it improves the viewer's experience. First, I'm going to come here to the upper track, where the captions are. And I'm going to delete all of them so we can see the screen better. I'm going to click and drag. So I select all of these captions first, and now I'm simply going to press backspace on my keyboard, and the captions are gone as usual. We're going to come up here to the left panel, the media panel, And here we have some icons. Once again, we're going to click here where it says stickers. And as you can see, these show up, and if you scroll down, you're going to see there are many different stickers, literally thousands of them. Let's scroll back up, and if you hover your mouse over some of these stickers, you're going to see a preview of the sticker. You can also click on the square to see a live preview of what the sticker is or does. And I'm going to keep scrolling down. And for this example, let's imagine I want to use this sticker here. I can click and drag into the timeline and drop it wherever I want to. Let's say here. And now, if I move my playhead here, I can see what the sticker does. So let's press Spacebar to play, this is what it will look like. And then press Space part to pause again as usual. If you take a closer look here to the upper right corner, we have the adjustment panel where we can change the scale or the position or the rotation of the sticker. Again, let's move the playhead on top of the sticker, and we can make this bigger or smaller. We can also move this around a line left or a line in the center, or to the right, and so on and so forth. But we can also come up here, we have three different tabs. So this is the sticker tab. We also have animation. And we can animate this sticker. Let's choose this one, bounce in, this would be the effect. Or we can also take a look at this one here. Slide up. If we click there, we can see that the sticker slides up as the name implies. If you come down here, you can see it says duration. And you can also change the duration. You can make it shorter or longer. Let's imagine we want this to be 2 seconds. Now, it takes the sticker 2 seconds to slide up, or you can make this shorter if you don't want it to be so long. Here we have three different tabs as well. If we click on the Loop tab, you can see we have some other effects. At the moment, none is selected. But you can choose one of these effects by simply clicking on top of them. Let's imagine I want to try the wiper animation. Let's click here. Of course, as always, we can come down here to the sticker itself. And by moving the mouse to the edge, we can click and drag and make this longer again, let's press the space right to play, and the sticker is going to stay there playing this animation on loop. If you want to remove the animation, you can always come here and click on None. This removes the animation completely. Let's say you want to delete this sticker again. We're going to come down here to the timeline and right click on the sticker and then click Delete. And now we're going to do the same with the Effects tab. We're going to come up here, click on Effects again. It's going to load many different effects that come installed by default on Cap Cut. And you can see a list of some of the effects that are trending right now. Let's move our playhead somewhere else. Here, for example. And once again, you can hover your cursor on top of some of these effects to see what they do. Let's try this one, The fairy wand. If I click, I'm going to see a live preview. This is what it will look like. I'm going to scroll down a bit more. And for this example, let's say I want to use this one here, which is called spectrum scanning. I'm going to click and drag onto the timeline. And I'm going to drop it here. I'm going to come here to the edge of the effect and make it longer. And now I'm going to move my playhead on top of the effect so I can see what it does. Let's press play here. This is what it will look like. Again, as always, if you come up here to the adjustment panel, you can adjust some settings of this effect. So make it weaker or stronger, increase the glow or decrease it, increase the range and also the speed. Now let's press the Space part again to play. And this is what it will look like. That's how you add stickers and effects to your timeline. 8. Adding Images and Transitions: Eston, I'm going to show you how to add images and transitions. In my case, I use both of these. And as long as you don't overdo it, I recommend that you do the same. Because they can really enhance the quality of your project and make the viewing experience much better. Let me click and drag here on the timeline so I can delete everything and start from scratch. I'm going to hit the backspace key on my keyboard. I'm also going to come up here to the media panel and right click delete. And right click here as well. Delete again, and now we have a completely blank canvas. I'm going to bring in this video here. I'm going to click on Import once again. I'm going to bring this video here once more. Import this image and this image, I'm going to click and drag this first clip and drop it into the time line here. I'm going to make this a bit bigger, so I'm going to zoom in and I'm going to move the playhead. And what I want to do is split this track into two different pieces. Remember from the keyboard shortcuts, lesson letter be on my keyboard is my shortcut to split, but this will depend on your own keyboard shortcuts. Remember, you can also come here and select Split from the drop down menu. So now that we've separated this into two different tracks, I'm going to select this one, press backspace on my keyboard to delete the first portion. Now I'm going to go back to the media panel and I'm going to click and drag the second clip onto the timeline. And as you can see, this is a video where I was at the beach talking to the camera. But if we go back to the beginning, it takes a couple of seconds for me to appear in the frame. So I want to remove those few seconds. I'm going to move my playhead here. I'm going to split once again. I'm going to click right click, delete. Now if I move my play here and I press the Space part to play, this is what it will look like from one scene to the other. And that's where transitions come in. As the name implies, we want to transition from one scene to the other. We're going to come up here to the media panel and click on transitions. And once again, we have a very big list. If we scroll down, we have literally hundreds of transitions. But in my case, I'm going to come here to the left column and click on Basic again. If you hover your mouse over each and every one of these transitions, you're going to see a live preview of what they do. So slide or wipe up or wipe left, and so on and so forth. Let's say for this example, I want to try this transition here, the wipe right, I'm going to click and drag into the time line right on top where I created the split between the two tracks. And I'm going to let off the mouse. And as you can see now in the timeline, the transition shows up between these two tracks. So let's click and drag the playhead and move it right before the transition. And now you want to press the Space part key on your keyboard to play. And once again we can come up here to the adjustment panel and increase the duration of the transition. And as you can see here on the timeline, this becomes bigger. And again, we can also come to the edges and make this shorter or longer. Let's bring the playhead back here. Again, press the space part to play and see how this looks like. As you can see, the transition is much slower. Let me come here and zoom out a bit so we can see this better. We're going to come back to the media panel and click on Import. If you click this plus icon here, Add to track, and you take a closer look on the timeline, you can see that the image has been at it, but all the way to the end of the timeline. If you don't want to do that, you can either click and drag to another place on the timeline. Let's say here and now. If I move my playhead, press the Space part to play, you can see that the image is going to show on top of the other track. Just keep this in mind, every time you put something on the upper track of the timeline, it's going to show up on top. If I clicked on the video and dragged it on top, you can only see the video because the image is on the lower track. Let's come here and click Undo again. If you click on the image and you come to the right to the adjustment panel, you can change the scale of the image, so make it bigger or smaller. You can change the alignment to the left, center to the right. We can also scroll down and decrease the opacity of the image, or increase it once again. If you take a closer look up here, we have different tabs. And if you click on the animation tab, we can do the same thing as we did before with the stickers. If you hover your mouse over each and every one of these, you're going to see a preview of the animation itself. Let's say for this example, you want to try the rotating animation, You can click on it and this is what it will look like if you don't like that animation. You can select any other of these animations here. Again, if you come down here, you can make the duration longer or shorter. Let's say 2 seconds. And it takes 2 seconds for the zoom out effect to take place. In my case, I'm not going to use any animation, so I'm just going to click here. None. Now what I want to do is come back here to the timeline where we created the transition before. I'm going to right click and delete. I want to add the image here in between these two tracks. I'm going to click and drag, and drop it in the middle here. I'm going to let off the mouse, and now as you can see, the image is showing up between this video and this video. Let's click and drag the playhead. Now I'm going to press the Space bar to play and this is what it will look like. Video, then the image. And once the image finishes, the other video going to show up. What I want to do now is come here to the edge. I'm going to click and drag to make the duration of the image shorter. I'm going to move the playhead back here once again. And what you can do is actually mix transitions and images together. We're going to come up here once again and click on transitions. Let's say for this example, I want to try this transition here. The left transition. I'm going to click and drag, and I'm going to drop it right between the first clip and the beginning of the image. I'm going to let go off the mouse. I'm going to come here to zoom in so you can see this better. And as you can see now we have the transition in the middle. Let's press the Space part to play and see how this would look. Let's make this a bit longer so you can see it better like so. Again, let's move the playhead here and press play one more time. The transition now is a bit longer, and that's how you add images and basic transitions into your project. Now we can move on to the next lesson. 9. How to Remove Background in Capcut: Previous session we saw how to add images into our projects. And now I'm going to show you how you can remove the background from some of these images. But not only that, because Capcut has a create feature that allows you to remove the background on your videos as well. Basically, you're going to be able to create a green screen effect without having a green screen at home. Let's take a look. First, I'm going to zoom in so we can see things a bit better by clicking here. Zoom in like this. We're going to click here to move our playhead. And what I want to do now is click on this clip. And I'm going to increase the scale, so we remove these black bars here, like so. And we're going to move the playhead on top of the image. And we're going to select the image by clicking on it. And we're going to come here to the right side, the adjustment panel. And if you take a closer look up here, we have different tabs. And we're going to click Remove BG, which stands for Remove Background. And we have two different options, chromakey or auto removal. And if you read carefully, it says only human figures can be cut out. You would select chromakey if you have a green screen at home. But if you're like me and you don't have one, you're going to select auto removal. So we're going to click there. And as you can see in a matter of second, the background from the image has been removed. Obviously, depending on the quality of your image, this is going to look better or worse if you take a closer look here. We can also add a stroke by clicking on top. We can also try this one, or this one, or this one. Let's say I want to choose this one here. I can change the color of the stroke. So instead of white, I can select any color from the color picker. I can also move this around, let's say this one. We can also change the size of the stroke, so make it smaller or bigger. And we can also change the opacity like this to decrease it, or to the right to increase the opacity. But of course if you don't want to apply any kind of stroke to your image, you would simply click here. None. This removes it completely. Again, you would also click here. This would bring the background back into the image. And as I said at the introduction of this Esson, the great thing about Cap Cut is that you can also apply this to your videos, not just your pictures. Let's move our playhead here. And this is my video. I'm going to click here on top of it. Again, we're still in Remove BG. In this case, I'm going to select auto removal. Depending on how powerful your computer is and how long the footage is, Pca is going to take more or less time to process. Once it's done processing, the subject is going to be cut out from the background. And again, you can add a stroke if you want to. You can change the color, you can change the size and the opacity. Let's say example. I want to add the subject from this clip into this clip here, in this case myself, to this background here. What I can do now is simply click on the second clip and drag it on top of the first clip. Meaning I'm going to place this clip on the upper layer. If you remember from previous lessons, the upper layer or the upper track is the one that is going to show up once you play the video. If I did the opposite and I brought this layer on top, you wouldn't be able to see me because this layer is now on the bottom. But as long as we have the cutout on the upper track or the upper layer, the subject that has been cut out is going to show up on top. And now I can zoom out and press Space part to play. And as you can see, we have my cutout on top of the other clip. But now you might be wondering what happens when you bring the playhead to the edge and you press the space part to play. Of course, there's nothing on the lower track, so now we're missing a background. So what you could do is simply bring the playhead to this edge here by pressing the up key on your keyboard. This moves the playhead to the last cut, which is this one here. I'm going to press on my keyboard to split. Once again, this will depend on your own keyboard shortcut. What I can do now is bring this track down here and simply deselect the auto removal feature. It's going to tell me stop removing the background. I'm going to click Confirm. Now if I move my playhead back here and I press the Space part to play, once again this is what it will look like. We have the cut out on the upper track and then it's going to transition to the original track we had before. And of course we can make this even smoother. In my case, I like to use the transitions that come built in in cap cut. So I'm going to click here and I'm going to look for a transition that I like for this example. I'm going to use this transition here. Pull out which I actually use quite often. And I'm going to click and drag right in the middle of these two clips. And now I'm going to move my play head here and I'm going to press Space part to play. And this is what it would look like. And that's how you remove the background from both images and videos. Now we can move on to the next lesson. 10. Color Grading Basics: Essen, we're going to take a look at color grading. This topic could be a class on its own, and it can seem a bit overwhelming at first or even too technical. But don't worry, because this is a beginner's class and I'm going to show you the fundamentals to get you started. The first thing I'm going to do is delete all of the footage that we have here. So I'm going to click and drag with my mouse, and then I'm going to hit backspace on my keyboard. And I'm also going to click and drag here on the media panel. Then right click and delete. So for this lesson, we're going to start from scratch. I'm going to click here, Import. And I'm going to look for the footage that I want to import. In this case, it's this clip here. I'm going to double click, and as you can see in the preview panel, this is what it looks like. So I'm going to click and drag into the timeline and let Goth the mouse. And when it comes to color grading in cap Cut, we have two different options. We could either come here to the adjustment panel and start the color grading process here. Or we could also come here to the media panel where it says filters. And click there, and it's going to load many different kinds of filters. We could also come here to the left column and click on filters and all of these items show up. So life scenery, movies, portrait, mono night scene and so on and so forth. And of course the featured filters are the ones that are trending right now in Cap Cut. So what we want to do now is come back here to the timeline and drag our playhead here, for example. And we're going to try out some of these filters. And as usual, if you want to preview what this filter would look like, you would simply click on top of the filter, and this is what it would look like. Or this one, or this one here. And if you take a closer look, some of these filters have these small arrows in the lower right corner. This simply means that you have to download the filter first. So I can click here and Cap Coot downloads the filter and then applies it to the preview. This is exactly the same as applying any kind of filter to an image on your social media app of choice. So of course, you could scroll down and choose between all of these filters, and again, we have hundreds of them. And this would be applying basic color grading to your image. But this would be automatic. You wouldn't be changing any kind of setting. So if you want to do this manually or learn how to improve this color grading, what you can do is scroll back up. And let's say for this example, we're going to use this one here, Cyberpunk. And we're going to click and drag on top of our clip and co the mouse. Now what we can do is come up here to the adjustment panel. And if you take a closer look here on the upper menu, we have a tab that's called adjustment. So we're going to click there. And this opens the color grading options in Cap Cut. And as you can see, we also have a sub menu here with the basic HSL and Curves tab. We're going to start with the basic tab, and what you want to do is scroll down here. You can start playing around with the sliders to see what they do. We could come to the temperature slider and bring this to the right to make this warmer or cooler. We could also come to the saturation tab and make this less saturated. So black and white or more saturated. And we can keep scrolling down. And once again, you can change the brightness or the contrast. You can bring down the high lights. You can increase the shadows or decrease the shadows, and so on and so forth. And of course, you can keep scrolling down and also add a bit of sharpness or clarity. Or you can add fade or a vignette. For this example, we're going to scroll back up and we're going to click on this icon here to undo all of the changes. This brings every slider back to its original position. But now let's imagine you simply don't want the filter applied because you don't like it. You're going to come up here where it says video, and as you can see, we have a filter applied. You simply turn this off. This brings the image back to normal again. We can activate the filter by turning it on, or deactivate it by turning it off. Now let's go back to the adjustment panel, and let's adjust the color grading without applying a filter. We could do exactly the same. We could scroll down and simply start moving the sliders to change the color temperature, the saturation, the brightness contrast, and so on and so forth. What we can also do is undo everything and come here to the HSL panel and click there. What this allows you to do is to change the hue, the saturation, and the luminance of individual colors. So for example, if I want to change the saturation of the sky and I want to make this pop out even more, I would select the blue color and increase the saturation. And as you can see here in the preview panel, the sky is becoming more saturated. Of course, in this video, there's a lot of blue. So it looks like it's changing all of the colors. But if you take a closer look here in this area here, even if we take out all of the saturation of the blues, this still has color. And again, we can also revert this back to normal by clicking here. Now we could take a look at the curves. Click there, and if you keep scrolling down, we also have the red channel, the green channel, and the blue channel. Once again, we could click and drag, and this would start affecting the blue channel. We could also come up here to the red channel and click and drag. And you can play around and see what it does to the image. Again, you can always click here to undo. Let's go back up, and this is the master curve. So we could click and drag down to make it darker. Or click and drag up to make it brighter. If you click and drag and go overboard and you make a mistake, you simply need to right click on top of the dot, and this reverts everything back to normal. What I'd like to do for some of my images is try to create an S curve. So I'm going to bring this down like this, and I'm going to create another point here and bring this up like this. I'm adding a bit more contrast. In my case, I think this looks much better. But keep in mind, I like contrast the images. If you're looking for a toned down video, you would go for a more desaturated look with less contrast. And of course, you can also come back here to the basic tab and keep tweaking this color grading to your liking. Now we can move on to the next lesson. 11. Adding Motion Tracking: We're going to take a look at object tracking, or what's also known as motion tracking. Once again we're going to start a brand new project. I'm going to open cap Cut by double clicking on the program, and I'm going to click New Project. We're going to come here where it says import. Click there and we're going to look for the file that we want to edit. In this case, I'm going to choose this video here and double click. And I'm going to trim the video. I'm going to click and drag here to search for the inner point which is here. And I'm going to click and drag here from the edge. And then I'm going to click and drag onto my time line. And I'm going to press Space part to play. My hand is going to start moving from one point to the other, like so. And I want to add something on top of it to track my finger, in this case an Emoge. I'm going to come up here to the media panel and click on the stickers tab here to the left. We're going to drop down the stickers menu and click on Mog. But you can also apply motion tracking to text as well. For this example, I'm going to be using Anmog. Let's say I like this mog here. I'm going to click and drag into the timeline right on top of the other track. We're going to come here to the edge. Click and drag. It matches the duration of the lower clip. And what we want to do now is resize this Emoji like this, and we're going to click and drag, and place it on top of my finger. Now what you need to do is come here to the adjustment panel. And if you look up here, we have three different tabs. We're going to click on Tracking, and at the moment, none is selected. So there's no motion tracking, but we're going to click here to enable motion tracking. So let's click there. As you can see here in the player, this yellow box shows up. So what you need to do is click and drag, and place it on top of the object that you want to track. In this case, I'm going to be tracking my finger, so I'm placing the box on top of my hand. I'm also going to click and drag here to make this a bit bigger. And here in my case, I always try to leave the plus icon in the middle of the object that I want to track. And I'm going to move the emoji a bit further up. And now let's go back to the adjustment panel and click on Start. And Cap Cut is going to analyze the footage and begin the tracking process. In this case, because it's a very short clip, Cap cut only takes a couple of seconds. And now we're going to check the result if we like it or not. So we're going to click on this icon here to play or the space part on your keyboard. And this is what it looks like. As you can see, the Emoji is tracking my finger. Let's click on top of this track here so we can see it better without the boxes. Let's move the playhead back to the beginning and press the space part to play again. We have the Emoji on top of my finger. It bounces around a bit and then it follows my hand. In my case, I think this looks pretty good. But obviously if you're not convinced 100% you can always double click, come back here to the adjustment panel and click none, so there's no motion tracking going on. Or simply click on this icon here to turn it off. Now let's move on to the next lesson. 12. Best Export Settings: Now that we've seen how to edit all of our footage, let's take a look at how to export our project in cap cut. First we're going to come here to the adjustment panel. And if you take a close look at this button here, it says export. We're going to click there, and this window shows up. So we can change the title for a video. In this case, I'm going to call it Export Test here, where it says export. You're simply going to select where you want to export your video. So you can click on this folder icon here, in my case. I'm going to click Desktop, Select Folder. And where it says Video Exporting. These are the settings that matter. In this case, for resolution, we have ten ADP. And in my case, this is because I film everything in ten ADP. If you're recording in two K or four K, you would select either two K or four K. If you're recording in ten ADP and you select four K to export, this is not going to increase the quality of your project, but it is going to increase the size. So always make sure that you select the resolution that you filmed your project in. Down here, you can see the duration of the project and an estimated size of the export. In this case, it's only 7 megabytes. But because it's only a nine second clip, obviously, the longer your footage, the bigger the size of the export. Let's come back up here where it says bit rate and click there. And as you can see, we have different options. Lower recommended, higher, or customized. By default, the recommended option is checked. But if you're aiming for the best quality possible, I do recommend that you select the higher option instead. Of course, you can also select customized if you want to come here and dial in the variable bit rate. But in my opinion, just selecting higher gives the best results for codec. We're also going to leave it by default, which is 264. When it comes to format, we can either choose MOV or MP four, but we're going to stick with MP four Frame rate. In this case it's 24 frames per second. But once again, this is because I film in 24 frames per second. If you film in 25, 30 or 60 FPS, you would choose the same frame rate for the export as well. So I leave it like that. And then we would simply come down here and click on Export. And in a couple of seconds, Put is going to export the footage. And as you can see here, it tells you that the video is safe to your desktop or laptop, and that now you can share it. So if you have an account on either of these two platforms, you could come down here and share it from this window. In my case, I never do that, but that's how you would do it. And you can either click cancel or open folder. So let's click cancel here, and let's minimize this window here. And as you can see, the project that we just exported is showing here on my desktop because that's the folder that I selected. And let's go back to Cap Cut. Now let's come back up here to the adjustment panel. And on top, let's click on Export one more time. And what we didn't see from the previous export is this box here which says Export Audio. If for some reason you just want to export your audio, you could click here to uncheck Video Exporting, and click here to enable the audio export. And you can select the format MP three wave, which is an uncompressed format AAC or flak. In my case, I generally use MP three and then click on Export. And the audio has been exported already because it's very small. Let's click okay. Minimize this one more time. And again, as you can see now on my desktop, we have the audio file which corresponds to the video project that we were editing right now, I want to show you just one more thing for this Esson. Let's come back to put. Click here, if you remember from a previous Esson. If we came up here to the text tab, down here to auto captions, we could click on Create. Cap Cut would start analyzing and detecting the captions for the video. And if we press the Space part to play, the captions show up automatically. What we can do now is come back here to the export button one more time, and click there. And we're going to click Video Exporting, But we're going to de select Export Audio. We're going to change the title here and type video with captions And click on Export, or hit the Enter key on your keyboard. And once again, we're going to click cancel here, Minimize cap cut. And as you can see now on the desktop we have a folder. So if we double click, you'll be able to find two different files. One is the video with the captions, and the other file are the captions themselves that have been exported in SRT format. Now we can double click here to make sure. And as you can see, we have the video with the captions on the bottom. Let's pause this close, close this window as well. Go back to Cap Cut. And of course you can click and drag the captions right click, Delete. And again, now you would be exporting just the video with the audio, without the captions. And now we can move on to the next lesson. 13. Full Edit From Start to Finish: Essen. I'm going to be editing a piece of show phone content from start to finish. We're basically doing a recap of the things we've seen so far. Let's begin First we're going to open cap Cut and start a brand new project. So we're going to click here, Create Project. We're going to come here to the left, to the media panel. And we're going to click on Import. And I'm going to search for the media that I want to edit in my computer. In this case, all of the footage is in this folder, so I'm going to click and drag, and then click on Open. And all of the footage shows up here in the import window. This is a sequence that I filmed and in this case, this is a piece of short term content. So I want to try and keep it under 1 minute. And what I'm going to do is start importing one by one onto the time line. In this case, what I want to do is try and trim the bits that I don't need from each and every one of these clips. And my goal is that the duration of each clip, once it's edited, is less than 10 seconds. So what I'm going to do now is come down here to the timeline. And I'm going to click and drag the playhead to scrub through the clip. So as you can see, nothing happens up until here. And I plug in the device and then I move my hand out of the frame. In this case I'm going to move the playhead. And let's say I want to start the clip here. I'm going to press on my keyboard to split. And remember, this will depend on your own keyboard shortcuts. I changed mine to split with the B key, but this can be different if you use another shortcut. Now I'm going to click on this part of the clip and right click and then let. I'm also going to do the same from this edge here. I'm going to move the playhead. I want to stop right here, so I'm going to press the B key. Once again, select this part and simply press backspace on my keyboard, and that's it. So now we can bring the playhead to the beginning and press the Space part to play. And see how this would look like. As we can see here, this is 3 seconds long, which is good enough. Now we're going to do the same with each and every one of these clips, dropping it because this clip is quite long. I'm going to come here, zoom out a bit, and I'm going to do exactly the same. We're going to click and drag our playhead and take a look at what I filmed. This was me pouring water into the kettle and just prepping up the things on the counter. I this here right before I bring the kettle into the frame, I'm going to split once again, backspace to remove it and now I'm going to move the playhead to see where I would stop this slip. Maybe here to split once more, click this bit and backspace to delete. This is 9 seconds, we can see it here. This is maybe a bit too long. Let's come back here to the beginning. Press the Space part to play and see how this would look like. I'm plugging in the device and then pouring water in the kettle. Yeah, this takes a bit too long, so we're going to make it shorter. I'm going to move the playhead so we can see better. Click on this clip, come here to the edge, and move it to make it shorter. Let's press Spacebar one more time to see how this would look like from the beginning. I think this sucks much better. Now, once again, we're going to do the same. We're bringing in clip number three, dropping it to the timeline, and again clicking on the playhead and dragging it around to see what I filmed here. I was placing the kettle on top of the device a couple of times until it looked good for me. I'm going to start right here. Before my hand shows up in the frame, I'm going to press on my keyboard to split. Select this part of the clip. Hit Backspace to delete, and again, bring this to the beginning, press the Space bar, This is me placing it on top and turning it on. And I want to stop right there to split, I select this part that I want to remove. Press backspace to delete again, We're going to take a look at this from the beginning. Spacebar to play, I feel that the first clip is a bit too long. What I'm going to do is click on the first clip, and again come to the edge. Click and drag to the left to make it a bit shorter. Once again, from the beginning spacebar to play pouring the water in, placing the kettle on top. Turning it on, I think this looks good. Let's do the same with the rest of the clips. Clip number four. Again, we're going to click on the playhead to scrub. And this is the water starting to boil. The kettle turning off. I like the blue color when it's warming, the water up. I want to keep a bit of that in the clip, but I also want to keep the kettle turning off. Let's start here. Press to split, right the let. We're also going to remove a bit from the end. Let's say here, split, select the ending backspace to delete. And again, we're going to come, let's say here, press space part to play and this is what it would look like. I think this looks good. And let's do the same for the last two clips, clip number five. Again, we're scrubbing here. I was pouring the herbs inside of the mate and I did it a couple of times and at the end, I did it successfully. As you can see, we have the herbs and also a bit of smoke coming out. I do want to keep that in the clip. Let's start here to split and delete. And we're also going to trim a bit from the end, pouring the herbs, smoke comes out. And we're going to end it here. Split, select this clip backspace to delete. Let's move the playhead here. Press the space part to play to see how this would look like. The kettle turns off. We pour the herbs in smoke, comes out, and the clip stops. And now let's add the last clip, which is this one. And let's see what I filmed, pouring the boiling water into the cup and placing the straw. I'm going to end the clip here, splitting here and the deleting. We're going to start the clip. Let's say here, split. This obviously is too long because it's 13 seconds. We're pouring the water in here. I'm going to split, press Spacebar again. I'm going to split right before placing the straw. I'm pausing here by pressing the Space part on my keyboard. And I'm going to bring this back a bit, right where my hand is out of the frame right before placing the straw in. If you want to be more precise, you can use the arrow keys on your keyboard left and right. Then you're going to move frame by frame. Now I'm pressing the left arrow on my keyboard, and as you can see, I'm moving frame by frame now to the right. Let's move this back again. Right here. I'm going to split here, and now I'm going to remove this bit. Let, now let's move the playhead here and see what this would look like. Space part to play. Then we're pouring the water and then we're putting the straw. I'm double checking each and every clip, and I think this one, the transition isn't very good between this clip and the next one. Let's take a look again, Obviously it was my fault because I moved the cup so it doesn't look as good. But still, we can make this look a bit better by trimming a bit here from the end right here, splitting again the deleting. Let's press the space to play. We're also going to make this clip a bit shorter. Let's zoom in so we can see this better. Back to the time line. Let's move to the beginning. And I'm going to use the right arrow key to move one more frame like this, split zoom in here and delete it. Let's zoom out, and now again, move the playhead. Press the space part to play. Now I think this looks much better. Now, we've trimmed everything to our liking, and now we can apply some of the other things that we've seen during this class. The first thing I want to add are a couple of transitions. We're going to come up here to the media panel and click Transitions. And I'm going to come here to the left column and click on Basic. And remember over your mouse over each and every one of these, you're going to see a live preview of what the transition does. Now this is what it looks like without any kind of transition space part to play and it moves from one scene to another. And once more we could add a transition here. Let's say the wipe right is okay between the first and second clip, so we're going to drop it right in the middle. And now let's bring the playhead back here and press Space part to see what this would look like. I think this looks much better. Let's add this transition one more time between this clip and the other clip. We're changing from one scene to the other. Again, we're moving our playhead here and pressing the Space part to play. And this is what it looks like. Again, remember one of the tips that I gave you. Transitions can improve the quality of your video, but simply don't overdo them. In this case, we have a video that's under 30 seconds long. In my opinion, two transitions is good enough. Now, what else could I add to this video? I could change a bit of the color of this footage. So what I want to do now is click and drag and select every clip. And I'm going to right click. And as you can see here, it says Create compound clip. And what this does is merge everything together. What we have now is a single track with all of the other clips stitched together. Now if I change the color. The look, it's going to change the look of every single clip instead of having to go one by one. Let's come up here where it says filters. And I'm going to open this menu here by clicking filters. And either selecting one of these or simply scrolling down through these filters here. Remember if you click on the filters, you're going to see a live preview of what this would look like. This one. Of course, you can play around with these filters and try for yourself. In this case, I want a warm filter. I'm going to simply click here on the left column on warm, and it's going to load different warm filters. I'm going to try this one here, Amber. This gives it a cinematic vibe or cinematic look. Let's move the playhead here to see what this would look like. Again, let's click here. I think this looks good. So I'm going to click and drag it on top of the clip. Now the filter has been added, so we can click and drag on the playhead. And as you can see, the grading is applied to everything. What else can we do? We could right click here and click on Extract Audio. As you can see, this splits into two tracks. On the top we have the video track, and on the bottom we have the audio track. In this case, I don't want to use the audio from my camera, so I'm going to click on this track, and I'm going to press backspace to delete. What I want to do is add a soundtrack. And we're going to come up here what says import And click here, Import. And I'm going to search in my computer for the soundtrack that I want to use for this clip. In this case it's this one here. So I'm going to click and then click on Open. And now the audio file has been imported into cap cut. And again, I'm going to click and drag down here. And I'm going to click and drag and make sure it's properly aligned at the beginning. And what I could do now is come here to the adjustment panel and bring the volume down like so, because we want a bit of sound in the background but not too loud. And what I can also do is select to fade in, bring the playhead to the end and split the audio track here. Delete. And now I'm going to click on the audio track again and make sure I'm fading out here. You can double check and make sure that you're actually applying the fade in. And the fade out, if you take a closer look here at the edges, this black bar is showing up. And we can make this shorter or longer. This is the fade in on this edge here, we can make it shorter or longer. And this is the fade out. Of course, you can also click on the audio track and make it start right here where the beat starts to drop. How do I know this? Because I can see the audio wave here. This is the introduction, and this is where the song actually starts to have a more constant pattern. I could split here, right here. Delete. Now bring this to the beginning again. Either fade in from here or from the adjustment panel. Let's move this here. When you press the space part to play, you would start listening to the song while you're watching the video. Of course, in this case, you would come here to the edge, click and drag, double check, And make sure that the song and the video finish at the same time. Now the last thing that I want to add is a bit of text, and I know I want to add this at the end. So I'm going to click and drag the playhead to the end. And I want to add this right here when I place the straw inside of the cup. We're going to come up here as always, and click on Text. And we could either choose a default text, but what I like to do is come down here and click on Text Templates. And use one of these because I think they look better. We're going to scroll down. Let's say I want to try this one here. I'm going to click on it to have a preview, and this is what it will look like. So I'm going to mute the audio track just for a second so I can concentrate on the text and the video. Now I'm going to click and drag onto the timeline. Right on top of the video. I'm going to come to the edge and make sure this finishes at the same time as the video and the audio. And of course I'm not going to use these words. We're going to come here to the adjustment panel, click on the bar, and I'm going to delete these two words. And I'm going to say relax. Move the playhead here and click outside of the text so we don't see the boxes again. Move the playhead here and press the space part to play and see how this would look like. I think this looks pretty good in my case. These are the things that I would add to this video. But of course, you can always come up here to the media panel and click on stickers. And choose from one of the stickers, or click on Effects, and also add some effects to your video and so on and so forth. And now the only thing that's left is exporting the video, but you want to make sure to double check that everything in the timeline looks good. So in this case, I remembered that I muted the audio track so I could concentrate on the video editing part. But if I leave this muted, when I export the video, there won't be any sound. You just double check. Come here and click on Mute Clip Audio. Now the track has been unmuted. Now we can export the video. So we're going to come up here, click on Export. And again, as we saw from the previous session, we're going to change the name sample. You would select which folder you want to export the video to. Resolution ten, DP is okay, ituate higher. To ensure we're getting the best quality codec, we're using H 264 format B four frameate 24. Because I film in 24 frames per second and audio will leave it like that. And as you can see here, it says it's 24 seconds long and about 23 megabytes in size. We click on Export. And because the video is so small, Capco just takes 1 second to export. And now I can click on Open Folder. And in my case, I've exported to my desktop. So the video shows up here. And now we're going to double click to take a look at the end result. That's the end result, and that's how it would look like. Now we can close this. Click here, cancel. And of course, the project is sad to cut. So if you need to make any changes, you would simply come back here to the timeline and start editing. And now we can move on to the last lesson. 14. Class Recommendations: Finishing this class. Just a quick reminder, if you check out my profile on Skillshare, you'll be able to find different classes on other topics such as photo editing, thumbnail design, and other content creation tools. Once again, thank you very much for joining, and hopefully I'll see in the next one.