CapCut for Beginners: Edit Short-Form Videos for Reels, TikTok & YouTube

1. Welcome to the CapCut for Beginners Masterclass!: Short form content is one of the most powerful ways that you can communicate today. In this class, we're going to be learning CapCut from the ground up. We're going to start with some basic editing and then finish up with your own short form content that you made confidently. Hi, I'm Hosta kahui a freelance creative professional and an online instructor. I have taught over 200,000 students worldwide and have made more than 15 courses. I work regularly with short form content and design, and I love taking tools like CapCut and breaking it down into workflows that are beginner friendly and that anyone can follow. We're going to begin by first understanding what CapCut is best used for. Then we're going to explore the differences between the desktop version and the mobile version. Then you're going to be creating your first project life from importing to editing, fine tuning, and even exporting. Same time, you're going to be learning the essential foundations of video editing in general. That way, you're not just following the places that I click, but you know exactly why you're doing that. We're also going to look at the many tabs that CapCut offers from sticker tabs, effects, transitions, captions, text, and many more. CapCut is popular for their mobile version, and that's also something we're going to be looking at in this course. So you're going to see how you can quickly edit something that's trendy and really engaging with just a few tabs on your mobile device. So by the end of this class, you're going to have a fully edited video that you did from scratch. Do not need any prior experience for taking this class as I'll be going over video editing foundations and how CapCut functions in general. So without further ado, let's get started. 2. Welcome & What You’ll Create In This Course: Mm. Welcome to this CapCut course. By the end of this training, you're going to be able to confidently make videos for social media and be able to alter it in ways where you can catch up with trends and try to make something that's out of the box. With the first chapter, we're going to be building a video from scratch. So nothing fancy, but something that's going to capture all the essential tools and techniques that you're going to be continuing using in the rest of the course. So let's get started. O. 3. What CapCut Is Best For - Short Form Video Explained: Mmm. Mmm. Now, some of you may be wondering what is CapCut and why you should use it. CapCut is a platform that you could use to build short form videos, meaning that those are clips that are vertical, a few seconds long, trying to have a strong hook and are easy to redistribute. So if you're thinking long documentaries, YouTube videos, cinematic footage, CapCut is not the best option for you. But basically with CapCut, you get to make that short form clip and then distribute it across platforms like TikTok, Facebook Reels, Instagram Reels, and even YouTube Shorts. You're trying to build an audience on social media, whether it's on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, or even YouTube Shorts, CapCut is definitely something you want to have in your toolbox because it's really easy to use, and the amount of content you can make in a matter of minutes is just a lot. So let's go ahead and continue exploring and learning more about it in the first chapter of the course. 4. CapCut Desktop vs Mobile - When to Use Each: Mm hmm. So there is two versions to CapCut. We have the Dk Stop version and the mobile version. In this course, we're going to look at both of them. But first, I'm going to start with the Dektop and then I'll have a chapter separately for mobile only. So Deck Stop is what you can see on the screen right now. You can download it for free on the app store or from the official website if you want. You don't have to purchase anything or make an account. Of course, they do have pro versions and the option for you to sign into your account in case you want to work across different devices. Now, when it comes to choosing which version you want to use, think of the mobile version as the more convenient and fast version and the dek stop for something that you could have more control over. So let's start with the dektop. I just opened it up, and right away, we get this recommended box where it tells you of the new updates and all that stuff that you get to explore. I'm just going to click away from that and show you the home screen, which is what you see on the screen right now. As you can see, does have a pretty similar interface to other video editing platforms. Your projects are going to be down here. You get use some of their tools quickly, create a new project, get your sign up right here, and it's pretty standard stuff. In the next lesson, we're going to see how we can do the very first thing, which is to create a project and start importing. So let's go ahead and see how we can do that. 5. Create a Project & Import Footage: Just like any other platform, we first need to build a project and then import some clips inside. So I'm in the homepage right now, and there's a big blue Create Project button, and that's exactly what you press. So click on it, and it's going to bring you this interface. So before I actually import, which is, again, right over here, as I mentioned, this is a very user friendly program. I'm first going to tell you what these little panels are just for you to get a little familiar with the space before we actually build something. On the top left side, this is where you deal with your media. You can see it's labeled that. We have imports. You can sort with different medias, sub projects, go based on ownership, type of media, the space, and even some libraries, which is free footage that you get to use. If it's not free, it has a little diamond on the top left. So that's how you can know. You also go over here, check for commercial, search for something, and there's different categories for you. In terms of spaces, you would have to connect this to your account. Media. You can actually build something using artificial intelligence. This could be image, a video, or even a dialogue scene. So we'll get into those later. We also have things that you could, you know, categorized based on favored clips that you have, your own presets, and some branding presets as well. The next step is regarding audio CapCut has a lot of audios that you could use. Again, some of them are paid. They have the little diamond, some of them are free to use. When you want to use an audio, you can just either download it or drag it into your project. We once again have a category on the left side, and this makes it easy for you to just find that clip that audio that you're looking for based on what your clip is about. So if I have a marketing video, I would have to go into this category. So have a searchbar just like all the other panels. The next thing is text. So we have text over here. You can add your own text. There's also a AI caption generator that you get to use. It's currently free. We have your own text effects, things that you made and saved for later use. We have text effects in general. These are, again, from CapCut with the little diamond. Different categories you could look at. We have text templates, which are basically ready to use. You get to drag it in and just maybe change the text or not change the text. You can see there's a lot of fun ones. We have the little categories on the left side as well. Next up is auto caption. This is different from the AI one because it doesn't use AI. Really depends on which one you want. With the AI one, I would say it's less work for you. But if you want more control, you can come to captions right here. And then, of course, you can import a caption file in the following format, and it's going to, like, sync it to your clip. We have some stickers over here. You want to do something fun, lots of categories for you to try out, and you get to have your own stickers, as well. Next up is some effect. We have video effect and body effect. So this is if you have a human subject in your video or media, it's really simple to use. You just click on it and it gets applied, like the lightning eye effect. Then we have some transitions. These are the way your project goes from clip A to clip B. If you go over any of them, you can see how that transition is going to play out. Different categories again, your favorite box. Then we have a whole different section for captions. So again, we have auto captions, templates, and AI packaging from the previous text tab, but you can also do auto lyrics, if you have a song, and you can add your own manual captions. We also have some Mogis for you to use. Then there's some filters. This is regarding the color grading of your video. Tons of options out there, too. Want to manually colour grade your clip, you can come to adjustments and start using the LUT or maybe adding your own custom adjustment like that. We have some templates. I'm not going to go over each one because it plays the music, but when you drag these into your timeline, it's going to come with the material, and you would just basically put in clips. So in my case, that's 12 clips that I need to put in. You can see that I get to change the text, and it's pretty easy for me to maneuver from there. Once again, we have the different categories. Last is AI Avatar. So this is if you want to do, like, a little talking head or you just want to make something funny. There's tons of characters for you to use. You can go through the different categories and do something cool with that. Alright, so that's regarding media of any sort, any sort of element media. It's all on the top left box right over here. This in the middle is the playback preview. So whatever you're doing here, it's going to show up in this window. You can pause it, play it, skip it, do whatever you want. The panel on the right side is the details. So we got details here down here, this long thing, that's your timeline. So any sort of clipping, copying, pasting. Basically, the bulk of the work will be done down here. We're going to take a look at that later. Have some options on the top regarding how you deal with your clips, the volume, and so on forth. On the top, we have the big well, not big, but the very vibrant Export button. You get to share your project or share a link. This is a link to the Pro version. You can deal with your shortcuts right over here, and then change the workspace according to the layout according to what you need. Is the name of your project, and then it's all going to be auto saved. So it's telling me what time you did that last. And then up here, we have a few more options for a new project, new timeline, import export. Got a few editing options, a help button, and just stuff regarding updates and other layout stuff. That's just a quick overview of the whole program. As we go forward, you're going to get more comfortable with this, so don't worry if it's still a little bit unfamiliar. So we made our first project. Now we're going to import something. So go to Media, import. Then click on the Import button. I have two clips in the resource pack that you could just, you know, bring in. So these are both in the resource pack. You get to download them, and we're just going to drag them in. Okay. So just like that, click drag, put it in your timeline. That's all we're gonna do for this lesson. If you've made it this far, then good job. In the next lesson, we're going to see how we could do some basic operations on these clips. So how do we make it longer? How do we cut it? How do we remove something, add something, and just play around with it until we have our first project. So let's go ahead and see how we can do that. 6. Basic Timeline Editing (Trim, Cut, Arrange): Let's take a look at some basic timeline editing. So we have these two clips from the previous lesson. We have the first one and then the second one. I can select each clip by just clicking on it, and that's going to highlight that box, which means that whatever changes you do, it's only going to be done for that clip. The name of the clip is right on the top left, and this is deoration. So this thing right here is called your Playhead, and it basically shows where in your timeline you are. So you can see as I'm moving this, there's a little time difference here. And then on the other side is just the total time that these two clips amount to. So for my case, that's 27 seconds. So let's say you want to make your first cut. So the first thing you want to do is have your playhead at the place where you want to make that split. Then go right over here and click on this. You can see that when I hover over it, it says Command B. That must be Control B on Windows. Just click on at once, and now you can see I have two boxes. So that's going to be two clips from the original. And make as many as I want, make another one here, and these are going to be separated. So let's say I don't want the middle clip, I could just grab it, hit backspace, and now it jumps back, snaps back to just these two cuts. So the middle part is gone. If I want to bring it back, I could hit Commander Control Z. There's also some undo buttons up here if you don't want to use shortcuts. So we have these three cuts. Let's say you want to duplicate a scene. So let's say this scene is really important. In order to duplicate it, you're just going to hit Commander Control C, then come to the end Commander Control V. So it's kind of copy pasted, and you could just move it down here. Now I have my last video playing, and it jumps to this new pasted clip. Now notice how when I first did that, the clip ended up up here. Now, these are called layers. You can see that currently we have two. Layers will allow you to do overlapping effects. So let's say I want this to be playing right above my bottom video, I could do it just like that. Reason why you would do this is because you want to add a transition here or effect, which we're going to take a look at later. But these are basically your layers. We have some options here, such as locking. So if I lock this track, I can't move this clip anymore. But the one below it is not blocked, so I could still make my changes. Click like that to unlock. You can hide that track or layer by using the eyeball. And if I say that, you know, I want to take a look at the video underneath real quick, I could just do that. Next one is regarding audio. You can mute the track. Currently, none of my videos have audio or else you would have seen some sound waves. We have some three little dots. You can deal with the height of the track. So let's say I want to make it taller, it's going to expand it just like that. This is just for display purposes. It doesn't really change how your editing is done. And then the audio wave form size, which is going to be those waves that you've probably seen in audios. This is just how tall they look. So default is 30%. You can make it really big by 100%. You would do that when you want to manipulate the audio, and those peaks and dips are going to be very important. But I'm just going to leave mine as it is. We also have something called cover that's going to be the cover of your video. So I'm just going to close this. Let's say that when I export this, I want the, you know, thumbnail to be of this guy. I could select it from video, but I could also maybe upload something that I made. So this way, when I upload it to YouTube, to some other platform, it's going to have this ready to go. Again, you can design something and upload the image here. Once you're done, you can create new cover or edit it. So if I hit Edit, it's going to give me some templates for thumbnails. So I could just maybe put this thing. My video is over here. I could double click to change the text and get a nice thumbnail. Over here, we also have a design with AI feature. This is something that is a little bit advanced, so I'm just going to close this. Hit Cancel at the bottom, right, exit, and then go back to where I was. Said cancel here. Apart from the things that we looked at, there's a bunch of other options up here and also some more when you right click on any clip. I'm just going to briefly go over the main ones and tell you what the other ones do. First step is this plus button. This will allow you to make a new timeline. So you can work on multiple projects at the same time. This is the timeline that we were in. This is a new one. I could hit the Hamburger menu to make another timeline, rename this to something else. Like CO video. I could pin it so that, you know, it's easy for accessing. I could delete it, and then go to timeline settings to change the way that it handles my eclips. So first up is name, which is what we had for our project, save it too, and then we have like the aspect ratios original means that it's just going to look at what your clip had initially. So if your clip is vertical, the timeline is going to be vertical, too. But you could convert your horizontal clips into vertical by just choosing 916. You can decide on the resolution. This is, again, going to adapt to the clips that you import, but you could customize it to four K or lower quality. Frames frame rate is regarding how many frames are within a second. The higher this number, the more high quality it is. But it does make your project heavier. So I would only recommend you doing this if you're doing a slow motion clip where you want everything to be smooth, or if you're trying to do some special effects that needs you to be able to access each of those frames, separately. You can go to performance. If you want to not lose video quality, you can create proxies on your local device. This one, you don't really need to use it as a beginner. When your projects get heavier and you notice that there's a lot of lagging, you may want to turn this on. But other than that, I'm just going to delete this new timeline and go back here. So we have some tools over here. I just clicked on this little arrow. We have the Select tool, which is what's letting us move our clips around and click things. The split tool we already looked at, it's just going to cut something. Select Left word is going to make you choose whatever's on the left side of the clip you choose. So if I click here, it's going to choose everything. We have select right word. So if I choose this guy, it's going to choose whatever's on the right. If I choose this, it's going to be whatever that's here, which is just itself. And so on forth. We have the undo buttons. This is, again, the split key, the delete left, whatever's on the left side. So if I click this, you can see that it removed whatever's on the left side of this clip, can do the same thing for the right side, the trash icon, or just hit backspace on your keyboard. Then we have some markers, which is going to let you mark parts on your timeline so that you remember where to add a text or a transition. Similarly, you can add some notes on these. So if you just right click can edit marker, let's say, add text. And then decide on the color. So now I have this red guy. If I go over it, it will tell me the name that I just chose for it. The last thing is transcript, so you can automatically build transcripts from the audio that your videos have. So currently, mine doesn't have any audio, but if you wanted to do something really quick, you can just utilize this tool. Now when we right click on re click on the clips, a bunch of other things show up. So we looked at markers. This is crop. So this is regarding what's in your video. You can crop it like that, zoom in and out, or go forward in time and decide how much you want to take off. We have rotation right here, and then crop, you can go for a certain aspect ratio or do a free range, which is what's letting me to these squishing effects. If you regret doing your adjustments, you can hit reset, and it's going to go back to normal. When you're done, confirm, and you've just cropped your image, your video or image. And the next thing is some things regarding speed. So you can freeze a video. So this is what I have right now. It's like a moving clip, but I could freeze it at this frame. So when I click on that, this new section popped up and it says freeze over here. So it's going to keep playing normally, but then freeze at that part where I selected and then continue moving as it was. We have some other stuff. We have reverse so you can reverse the speed, mirror the video or rotate it. On this side, we have the transcript that we looked at. We have some split scenes, allows you to have two videos playing at the same time. So half of the screen is one, the other half is the other. You can remove the background if there's a human subject involved, which is not the case for this video. You can auto adjust it in terms of lighting, color grading and all that. And then we have some additional stuff that are not exactly free. You can stabilize a shaky video or enhance the quality if it just needs some of that. Right click on a clip, we have pretty much the same tools. So we have cut, copy paste, and edit is the stuff that I just talked about, split screens. We have some removed backgrounds. This gives you some more options. So auto removal is going to let CAPCA decide what to remove. Chroma key is going to let you remove a certain color. Custom removal gives you more flexibility. Adjusting the visuals, that's regarding stabilization, the quality. You have some color grading stuff. These are some motion adjustments. So motion blur allows you to blur whatever's moving. That's in motion. You can track a camera and even have AI help you by tracking the movements. You can make a compound clip. This is like a pre comp from after effects. Basically, you get to create a mini project inside the timeline. We're going to take a look at this later. You can save a preset if you did a lot of adjustments to this one clip. Instead of redoing it for something else, you could just make a preset. You can export whatever you have selected. We'll look at that in the next lesson. Deactivate the clip, which means it's not going to be in the timeline anymore, it's going to be hidden. You can do some replacements, some trimmings, changing the file location, and that's about it. On the right side of your timeline, you have the voiceover option. We have the magnet, which is basically when you move something, it doesn't, snap back to what's on the left side. So when I turn this on, you can see it just goes back and I don't have that empty space. So auto snapping, that's also regarding that, or snap it back to the usual. These are just for preview purposes. So now we know how to split copy paste and just work around the different settings that our timeline has. In the next lesson, we're going to take a look at how to export a video in CapCut using the most basic adjustments. So let's go ahead and see how we can do that. 7. Exporting Your First Video: Now let's learn about exporting within CapCut. So we have this clip that we made in the last lesson. All you really got to do is hit the Export button on the top right. You can also access it from up here, file, export. Hitting E on your keyboard is also going to be the shortcut. But once you press it, you're going to get this window where you get to specify the destination, the name, bit rate, and all the other video specifics. The first thing you want to do is give it a name. You see that it's telling you which timeline it's currently exporting. We only had one, so that's why it's timeline 01. If you had multiple projects, make sure that it's the correct one. Let's give this a name. Then you can export it to whichever location you prefer. Now, down here, you can hide this, and it's just going to export the audio for you. But because the video that I have did not have audio to begin with, you can see now nothing is selected. But if I check this again, you can see that everything comes back. So for video, we first have resolution. This is the quality of your exported clip. We have the bit treat, which is again regarding quality. You can go for recommended or alter it by choosing one of these options. Codec is going to be the format in which it's exported. So h264 is just MP four, but there's a bunch of other things down here. Now, because I'm using an Apple device, these are going to be available to me. If you're using Windows, it may be a little bit different. But just go for the format that you want your video exported as. We also have format down here, so if I choose this codec, I could just pair it with P four, and it's already to go. Also do MOV if you want. Think of Codec as the way that it's exported and format as the way it's presented. Lastly, is frame rate. This is something we talked about, but you get to also alter things here. By default, it's just going to match to whatever you had set in your timeline. Optical flow is just going to match all of these settings to what you had in your timeline. So if you just click that, you can see that it's going to do a little bit of thing, a little bit of processing. Then I'll be ready to export. Just going to undo that for now and then go down to show you the other stuff. The audio tab is currently turned off. As I mentioned, my video did not have any audio, but if yours does, it's just going to be checked right here. You can export this as a gift. Choose the resolution. You can export the captions alone. So whatever you check is the thing that's going to be exported. So right now it's just video, but I could pair it with a gift and with the captions. Next is copyright, so I could check for copyright. Right now, it gave me an error because I don't have an audio, but you could do that to make sure that you don't run into any problems when you share it on TikTok or any other social media platform. The cover right here is where you get to change the timeline. You can also do that during your project. We already took a look at that. Down here, it tells you how large the file sizes and the current duration. When you're done, you can just click Export. It's going to do a little bit of processing. You can see all the information up here, and let's see what comes out. Can also hit Cancel to cancel the job. So once you're done, you can see that it's playing my original video on the top, but it also made me a TikTok version. And that's only because a lot of people use CapCut for TikTok to begin with. So you can see it just gave that to me, and I could, you know, share this on my social media platform. Going back to the original, I can now share it directly on TikTok or YouTube. You can even sign in your account here, and it was just one click. It's going to go public. Can give it a name, a little description, visibility. You can allow people to comment, duet, or stitch. That's going to be different for YouTube. It has its own options down here. You can also share on TikTok. You can do a little bit of ads, description, playlist, category visibility. These are all things from YouTube's direct platform. The last thing for TikTok is copyright. You can turn this on if you have any audio. To see where you exported your video, you can click on Open Folder. And you can see that I have the gift version and the MPF. It cancel when you're done, and that's how you can easily export videos within CapCut. So now you know all the foundations there is to CapCut Desktop. In the next chapter, we're going to dive a little bit deeper into how we can edit with the program. So let's go ahead and move on to the next chapter. 8. Essential Video Editing Concepts: Before we start cutting and adding effects to our videos, we first need to understand the four building blocks of video editing. The first thing is your timeline, which you can think of it as your workspace. We looked at this in the previous chapter briefly, but everything that you choose to do, whether it's a text and effet, a sticker, it's going to take place in this little long box. You can actually extend this. If you're doing a really large project where there's, like, tons of tracks, you can easily adjust the height of it so that you're able to see everything that you're doing. The first thing is your timeline, which is this big horizontal box right here. This is your entire workspace. So whatever you choose to do out of all these options, you're going to be arranging and adjusting them in the timeline. And the timeline is a horizontal space, meaning that the longer it is, the longer your video is. So if I have a clip that's really short, it's going to be squished out horizontally. If it's really long, it's going to be stretched out. Speaking of clips, that's your second element in editing. This right here is a clip. Now, when we say clip, it could be various formats. So it could be a video like this. It could be a gift file, it could be an animation. I could even be a music track, and all the other stuff. So any sort of media that you import in here, you could refer to it as a clip, and that's what I'm going to call it moving forward. To sum it up, you're basically trimming and arranging clips the entire time that you're on CapCut or any other platform. The third thing is transition. So how do you go from video A to video B? We have the most simple transition, which is just this. It just cuts to the second video. And when your clip ends, it cuts to nothing because it ended. Now, transitions are a category of things that we're going to look at. CapCut has its own section for transitions. We simply drag and drop it in between a clip it just how long it's going to be. So, for example, this is what we did. And now I'm going in a different way. I'm going from video A to video B via this pull down effect. I'm able to do some adjustments to my transitions, but just think of transitions for now as going from video A to video B. You can have thousands of transitions in videos. Well, it's going to be a really big file, but you can have multiple transitions for your clips. Anytime there is a cut, that is a space for a transition. You can also put one at the start of your video at the end, so it's not only limited to in between. Tip for you is that even though when you see the transition tap, there's, like, tons of things out there. Most professional editors stick to hard cut transitions. So instead of doing something like this, they would rather do, like, a cut like this or feed or dissolved transition, basically, the most basic stuff. But all of these options are things that a lot of people use on social media. So it's good to know the difference. You should know what you're making this video. The last thing is layers. So here, they're called tracks, but it's essentially layers. If you've worked with any sort of adobe programs, you should know what a layer is. But basically, they work vertically. So you get to stack them on top, and you're always looking at the project from top to bottom. So that's why we're seeing the animal here and not the city that's right below. You can build up vertically as you go. And when you have a lot of tracks, there's going to be an option for you to scroll up and down so that you can see fully what you're doing. Now, in terms of hierarchy, that's because we have a lot of stuff going on. Media is going to be right in the middle. Text is always going to be at the top and audio is always going to be at the bottom. Just to demonstrate, I'm going to grab a random text right now, put it above. You can see it goes up there. If I put it below, I'm able to, but as long as it's above a clip, that should be fine. You can see I'm not able to put it underneath my clip because there's nowhere for it to sit on. Now, for music, it's the exact opposite, so I can put music on top, it has to be on the bottom. Underneath whatever clip you have right now. The other types of media that's going to be, you know, in the middle. So let's get a sticker, for example. You can see that I'm able to go up bottom, even above my text, but I cannot go below the audio or below my first track. So there's just a little bit of hierarchy, but the most important thing is that anything audio is beneath the clips, anything visual is above the audio. So now we know the four basic components of any video editing project. We have our timeline, which is our workspace, our clips, or any sort of media, the transitions between them and the layers that we get to build up. Next lesson, we're going to take a look at some aspect ratio rules. So how do you determine the size of your project? Which size should you be choosing for which platform and all that other cool stuff? So let's go ahead and see how that works. 9. Understanding Aspect Ratios: Aspect ratio determines the shape of your video, and it's basically the relationship between the width and the height. And this is something you choose before you edit because it really affects everything. So there are three main types of aspect ratios. We first have vertical, which is nine to 16, and that's basically going to be good for mobile application. So right now, what I have is horizontal, as you can see, but I could just make a new timeline. Timeline settings. And right over here, you can see that we do have the option to easily switch. So you can see nine to 16 is a vertical video. I'm going to hit safe. When I drag the same video in my timeline, it's going to be like this. I'm just going to scale it up so it fills the screen. So this is a vertical video, as you can see. So this type of video is good for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts because it fills the entire mobile screen as you're holding it. The second type is going to be horizontal, which is what we had in the first place. So this guy is going to be filling in screens like tablets, computers, TVs. So think more of a big picture high production sort of work. So, for example, a YouTube blank form video. Those are usually horizontal. We have presentations, if you have something for your business and just for anything you want to see on your desktop. Even this course right now is horizontal because it's a lot more engaging and it's not really meant for fast paced content. You want to do anything professional, you can utilize the horizontal aspect ratio, and you can go over here and switch back like this. So 16 to nine is the ideal aspect ratio for horizontal clips, but we do have cinematic ones and the four by three. So just click Save and it's back to what it was. The last type of thing is a square. So this is one to one ratio. I'm just going to change this guy just like that. So now it's a square. Skill in. So square was popular for Instagram posts because when you go to someone's when you go to someone's profile, you can see that the grid is just squares. So that's where the first idea was introduced. Some people like to do this for gifts as well for, like, a little funny clip. So that's something you could do easily as you saw just by changing the timeline setting. It's a balanced option, but it's less immersive than a vertical video. Now, why do these matter? What do you have to take time to choose your aspect ratio when you can just go with whatever the default is. So if you edit horizontal footage for a vertical video, you're going to get something called black bars. So, for example, if I change this back to our vertical aspect ratio, and then re import my video, I'm going to get the black bars. The same thing applies for a vertical video inside a horizontal aspect ratios. You're just going to get the bars on the left and the right. So you want to avoid black bars unless they're intentional. Let's say you're going to put the video here, where you're going to put a lot of texts and stickers in the empty space around. If you end up choosing the wrong aspect ratio and continue editing, when it's time to export, you realize that you made a mistake. So you actually have to go back and readjust, and it's going to be pretty much really tedious. So the first question that you should be asking when you're about to edit a video is where is this clip going to be? Is it going to be on LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok? Wherever it is, you want to make sure that your project and your timeline is matching the required aspect ratio. Not sure what the ratio is for a platform, you're going to put this video on. You can also Google search it. For example, there's some platforms like LinkedIn. It's not exactly always 16 to nine on vertical videos. There's some other ratios in there. There's a ton of information on Google for you to find. So we went over aspect ratio. Now, let's talk about quality and resolution. 10. Resolution, Frame Rate & Quality: Now, we're talking about video quality, and there's three main things that you need to understand. The first thing is resolution. But let me just drag this in. Resolution is about how sharp your video is. So think of it as, you know, the options you get on streaming websites like 720 P, 424 ADP, ten ADP, four KHD. These are all words that are associated with the sharpness of your videos or your images. Social media, it's usually common to do 1080 pixels. But if you want to do something more high end like a cinematic clip, you can go for four K or above. Just bear in mind that if you do four k for social media, there's going to be a lot of compression, and that may result in your video being a little bit blurry. The second thing is frame rate. So frame rate is basically how many pictures are there in 1 second? So this guy right here, if I click away, my frame rate is 30 FPS. So per second of this clip, there's 30 pictures that basically capture the movement of this creature or any motion in a video, basically. So if you start with the lower numbers, so 30 is like the mid range, 24 frames per second, that's going to be a more natural look. 30 is pretty common. A lot of content creators on social media use 30. And then we have 60, which is something for a more high end project. Like I said, a cinematic video or like a super slow motion clip, you want to pump up the frames per second so that it's a lot more smooth. But don't increase or decrease your frame rate unless you really have to. So if I were to do this for Instagram, I'm just going to keep it 30 FPS because I'm just going to add some songs and keep it very simple. Last thing is quality and just compression in general. So when you're exporting any clip from CapCut or any other platform, it's going to be condensed into a file. So all this data is going to be put into one file that you get to upload and just share it in other places. The higher the quality of your video, which is a combination of the FPS and the resolution, the larger that file is going to be. And the lower the quality, the smaller the file is going to be. So that's just the relationship. And, you can kind of take a look at that when you right click on a video. So let me just bring my file explorer. So this is the information for our first City clip it like that. So we can take a look at the size. This is 49.3 megabytes. There's some information about the dimension. We have duration, but there's not much about resolution and frame. But you can basically take a look at your file size here. And then decide if you want to do a smaller one, maybe a larger one. Sometimes you do get errors when you put in a really large file. You try to upload it to a platform. You can just come in here and see how much you need to remove. If it's a few megabytes, you can basically change that in CapCut. But if it's a large amount, you may want to go into your project and change a few things. You ever uploaded a video and you see that it's really blurry, you probably exported a lower quality clip. So that's just some basic understanding regarding quality. Those terms I'm going to be using a lot throughout the course, so it's good to know what means what. And if you ever come across them on any other platform, you now know what they mean. Now, let's go ahead and combine all the information that we talked about and see what the real process is for video editing. I'm not going to be showing a project on screen. That's for the next chapter, but just for you to know what the structure is and what the general overview should be like. 11. Editing Workflow Explained : So this is where a lot of beginners struggle. They open up the program. They just start cutting things, and then hopefully they hope that it goes well. But if you plan to be a professional video editor, you need to follow a routine workflow, which is to start with the concept. What is this video for? What are you going to be doing? Where is it going to end up? The next thing is to import the proper material, so that could be videos, pictures, logos, clips, music, text even and basically have everything organized in your media tab. Then is the editing part, which is going to be using a bunch of the tools here, some of the resources up here, trimming, slowing things down, speeding things up, and anything else that's necessary. And then finally is exporting. So that's going to be choosing the correct format for that platform you initially had in mind and choosing the right options. Step one is to organize. Don't just drag clips into your media tab and then go about editing because when your projects get larger, you're going to have 50 clips in here. It's going to be really hard for you to find the one that you actually need. So right after exporting or before exporting, make sure to rename your videos. You can see the names are showing here. And then if you're doing this from your own camera, let's say you shot the clips, remove anything that's not necessary. You don't want to overcrowd your media tab because when you're editing, it's going to get a little bit tedus. So when you rename your tab, let's say I call this city, you can easily look for it here and not have to scroll up and down to find it. And regarding what sort of clip you want to bring in, that's going to be for your brainstorming session. So what is the purpose of this video? What are you trying to achieve? Where do you want this to? Second step is the editing. So we're not just going to be immediately adding in transitions, stickers, captions and all of that. The first thing you want to do is do a rough cut. So what parts need to be trimmed out? What parts need to be shorter, longer? Do you have all the clips that you need in your timeline? And once you have that rough draft, you can start putting in the transitions, the effects, the music, and the other stuff. So the order is really important here. So after you have that rough cut, you can add the effects next, the transitions, and finally, the music. Once you have everything, you can go ahead and do some adjustments, like playing around with the music volume at certain times, the length of each text, if the text needs styling, and so on forth. So once you have the general overview and the general draft of your project, you can go ahead and make some finishing touches, such as color grading. You can go into your clips and adjust the colors. Maybe you want to do some overlay effects. You want to add some logos to the maybe preview a bunch of the exports or just preview it over here, make sure it flows well. The volume is good enough, and that the texts and elements are on the screen for the appropriate amount of time. The last thing is exporting. So make sure you're aware of the things that we talked about in the previous lesson, the aspect ratio, the resolution. It's really important to know which platform you want to export this to because you will know exactly what to do when you're dealing with that panel. So export it once, watch the full video in your computer's preview, make some notes in your notebook, maybe the audio is too low or something didn't make it through. Then you're going to have those notes with you, go back to your project, implement the notes, export again until you have the version that you're happy with. So editing is not just about the fancy effects, but a lot of the planning that goes into. This chapter was just for the foundations of video editing. In the next chapter, we're going to have more of a hands on experience. We're going to be putting things on screen, and you guys can follow along with your own clips and CapCut, and then we're going to be able to understand things better through actual experience. So let's go ahead and move on to our next chapter. 12. CapCut Desktop: Home Screen & Project Setup: This chapter is going to be all about the core tools inside CapCut desktop. We're going to focus on tools that you're going to be using as a beginner, and then in the next chapter, we're going to do a little project together so that you can apply what you learn in this very chapter. So first, let's take another look at the homepage, and we're going to see how we could set up our project. So we've been here before. These are the projects from the first two chapters. You can see they're displayed nicely. I could just upload another one, rename this, duplicate it, delete. And organize it as I go on. If you want to connect this to your CapCut account, you can do so by first signing in and then syncing your projects like this. So what I'm going to do is just click on Create Project, just like that, and we're back to where we started. So when you want to make a project, you just click a button, and like I said, if you want it to be synced, you can sign into your account in the beginning. Simply upload your videos. I have three clips listed in the resource pack for this chapter, so just upload them right here. So here are my clips. You can see that they're all here. I could again right click to rename, if I wanted to be very specific ballerina. And then I could easily search for it when your timeline is going to be adjusted to what you upload in in the first place. So if I just drag this onto my timeline, I'm going to have a 16 to nine ratio, as you can see. But if you wanted to work on multiple projects, you just click on This plus and then maybe you can work on a separate video that's vertical. So just using this button that we already know about. Click Save, and now you can work on two projects at the same time. We're going to focus on the horizontal one just because there's a lot more to it. So let's delete that. Inside the import panel with media, we could make new folders. So right click on this empty space, and I'm just going to call my first folder. So we're just going to delete this for now, and I'm going to drag these two clips into my folder. Just like that. Now it's more organized. Let's say this folder is just for the flowers, and I could just make another one inside of this and so on and so forth. Organize it the way you want. You can rename it. You can also rename the folder like that, add more to this, or add the entire folder to the track. So if I click on this, you can see both the videos show up right after each other. If you have separate clips, you can just right click on them and do a new timeline only with these two clips selected. But I'm not going to do that. Instead, I'm going to go back to my main media tab. So now that we have our project set up, we're going to move on to editing the clips. 13. Timeline Tools Explained : So we're back here. I'm just going to click and drag my files right here. Click on this too, and that's going to be very easy to drag all three clips in. So we have this ballerina, and then we have this flower, and then we have another flower. So first thing I want to do is rearrange these guys so that it's a little bit more diverse, so we can maybe have the ballerina between the two clips. And perhaps I could start with the shorter flower video in the beginning. When I play this back, you can see that the clips are very long. This guy is a good couple of seconds, and then we have this flower one, which is the longest. So that's the thing that I was referring to in the second chapter that the longer the video is, the more it stretches out horizontally. So I'm just going to simply trim the clips and maybe, like, mix a bunch of them together. So the ballerina one, let's place the marker on the areas where we want to make those splits. Use the spacebar to hit pause and play, and then I'm going to make a cut right over here. So hit M on your keyboard, and you should see a little marker right above. Play that again. Let's do another cut when she stops spinning. Maybe here. And then let's see what happens in the end. Maybe right over here when she opens her arms. And then right before the light peaks from behind, we're going to make another cut. So now that I have my markers, I just simply click on each one, and my playhead goes directly to that second. Over here, I could hit Command or Control B or just use the button right here to make your splits. So, click on the markers, use a shortcut to make your cuts. Alright, so we have this situation. I'm going to get rid of the stuff that I don't need. And to see the space in between, I'm just going to disable the magnet so that when I remove this middle part, it stays empty. When that's turned on, it's gonna, like, snap back. So this is not what we're looking for. Alright, so we're just gonna remove this. So now we're gonna repeat the same process with the longer clip and just put it in the empty space here. And I'm not sure how long exactly this empty area is, but what I can do is grab a little bit from this clip, drag it in between. And since there was already some of the clip left, so I split it a little short. I could click on the side and drag it just like that. You can do another one. You can make markers again if you want. Get rid of this part, maybe put this guy in the middle. Okay, so now we have a good balance, and I'm just gonna cut this middle the beginning part short, as well. Maybe this as well. Turn on the magnet and it just collapses everything into one place. So now I was able to use the trimming, the splitting, and the stretching to make a very simple sequence of just flowers in our ballerina. To make sure that I'm making my cuts exactly on those areas that I want, I could use the plus here to zoom into my timeline and work with, like, smaller increments. You can also use your left and right arrow keys to move in frame by frame, and if necessary, cut out, like, some parts that you don't need. So, for example, I have my magnet turned on. I could just click this to shorten the start of my flower video. Just like that. So those are the main timeline tools. We're now going to look at in the next lesson, how we could add elements on top. So we're going to look at some caption, some text, and then some effects, color grading, and all the other cool stuff. So let's go ahead and continue building upon this very simple sequence. 14. Text & Captions: Let's explore the text and captions panel. This is where we left off. We trimmed our clips. We organized them. And we have this very simple sequence. I also imported the audio that I forgot to do earlier, so this should be available to you guys. Just import it like usual. You can rename it or just leave it as the way it is. So right over here, we're going to go into this tab, and we're going to add a default text. So add text, default text, and immediately, it shows us a preview. I'm just going to drag it on top. Let's put a text here. You can move it around so that it starts at the point that you wanted to. And then once we have it selected, there's a bunch of options on the right side. So I'm just going to collapse this a little bit. Double click the text and write something in. Like my first video. You can also change it over here. Now you get to decide the font. So there's commercial fonts, regular fonts. The ones that have the diamond, you would have to pay for them, but there's a ton of free ones to use. So I'm just going to have to downloaded first. So this is what I have. It's like a dotted script. Then we can deal with the font size, make it a bit larger, the pattern, so folded, underline, italicized, your regular text options. You can work with the case. So all caps, all lower case, and the first letters being capitalized. We also have the text color, so I'm just going to choose something similar to gold just because it looks like little crystals. Click away when you're done. And then you get to create some space between the characters. So you can see they're spacing out and the line. So line, we only have one of them. So when I do this, not much is going to happen. But if you have two lines above each other, that's going to create a space between the two. We also have alignment, pretty straightforward. And then we have some presets that you can click to quickly get a style. So this right here is very basic, but I could make it glow. By clicking on this, and now I have a very nice effect. You can also transform the text, such as scaling. Now, this is not the same thing as font size. Scaling is going to scale the box, whereas the font size is going to scale up each individual letter. So that's the difference. You can scale it uniformly or just do width and height if you want to do it separately, and turn this back on. We also have keyframes for this. We're going to get into animation later on. For a beginner project, you don't really need to worry about that right now. Also have position, so you can move it the position and the Y position or just simply click away and drag this wherever you wanted to go. And then we got some rotation and some alignment features. So if this was here by accident, I could quickly bring it to the center by clicking that button. Next is the opacity. So how visible is that layer? We also have some blending options. We also have some stroke options. If you want to do that, the thickness can be adjusted here. You can turn off an effect by just clicking the checkmark. We can put in a background such as a solid color, which you can adjust the color here or just have it go around the text itself. So the entire box or just the letters, then this is regarding the background color. So opacity, rounded rectangle, if you want to do that, the height, the width and then some offsets. This is the Y offsets for the vertical one and horizontal. And just to quickly show you what animations are meant for, let me just hit this button to reset everything, turn off background. So let's say I go back to opacity and I want the beginning to be faded effect, I could click on this button to make a keyframe. You can see it made a little diamond on my text layer, go to the beginning and just lower the opacity all the way down to zero. Because I do have the glow effect on, there's going to be an extra section over here. I could simply turn off that glow effect or make some adjustments, such as the intensity of the glow, the range, the offset for Y direction, and then X direction. You can change the color as well, and add some shadows if you want. This is going to help it stand out from the background video. Again, we have opacity, the blurriness of the shadow, distance, and the angle from which the light is hitting that text. We also have some curving options, so that's pretty standard and simple to do. There's only one slider for this. But, again, if you don't want to do this, just turn off that check mark, and you're good to go. I couldn't even turn off the globe effect. So that's the basic features. You could do some text bubbles as well. So let me just download this. And now you can see my first video went in this text bubble. There's a lot of stylish options out there, and you can even filter through them for commercial use or just all of them. There's some additional effects on the last part. These are mostly paid, but there are some free ones like this. So if I dabble click it, you can see I get the text bubble and this globe three D effect. Tons more to check out. If you don't want to do any of them, just hit the X button. You want to go back to the beginning of what you had, just click on Reset down here. This is going to reset everything regarding the effects that you made here. So when you reset the bubble, you can see the text bubble disappeared. All right. So back to the basic tab, I'm just using my computer's track pad to zoom in and Zoom out. You can also do it over here if you want to do it manually. So that's regarding text. You can make multiple text effects at the same time. So two texts, three texts, and just keep on going. Similar to layers, you're able to trim or expand this. But because this is not an original clip, you can extend this for as long as you want. Just go to delete all these stuff, and then we can move on to some captions. There's a bunch of stuff down here for, like, AI packaging, more text effects. These are where the effects are categorized based on the style. So we have, like, Valentine's Day, food stuff, and just a lot more options for you to explore compared to the tab here. Now, the captions are going to be pretty similar. This is usually used for when you have, like, a one speaking in a video, and you want to have that caption. So you can see it's asking for the spoken language. Our clip doesn't have anyone speaking in it, but you choose a language, and then you can even make a bilingual caption, which is, like, in a different language. And there's, like, a few options available. So you can see this one is a pretty popular one right now on TikTok. If you drag it on here, you can just quickly change the text. So this is what the thing says, but let's do, like, so the best dancer in the world. Let's say, that's what we want to do. Click away. And now we have a caption. Alright, so captions are going to be something we can explore further when we do have audio. But for now, you know how to deal with text in general, how to add the effects, how to choose a template quickly, and how you can deal with the different layers. Next up, we're going to look at some transitions. So these are going to be pretty much the same flow. We have a separate tab for it, and you just simply click and drag something in between your clips. So let's go ahead and see how we can do that. O. 15. Basic Transitions & Speed Controls: So transitions are going to be focused on going from point A to point B. So this could be a first clip like this and the second clip like this. How do you want to go from here to here? We have a separate tab for that, and all you really got to do is click and drag it and put it right in between the two clips. So now you can see I get this faded effect just by dragging it from the panel. Now, for transitions, when you click on them, there's not that much you can do. So this is just a fade, so you can decide on how fast you want the fade to be. The shorter it is, the faster it's going to be. The longer it is, the slower. So you can apply it like that and hit reset if you want to go back to the original. Now, of course, there's a bunch of transitions that are a little bit different, not as basic as the one we looked at. But let's say we want to do that one, it's going to be a little bit different. Once again, we have a duration slide. That's it. So you can explore the many transitions that you have. You can also make some transitions with animating things yourself, but that's something you would do when you're a little bit more advanced. Now, the last thing regarding clips and not audio is the speed. So for speed, you have a few options. When you click on a video like this. So when you clicked on your video like this, on the top right, you'll see speed. All you really got to do is let's do it on the last clip so there's some space on the side. Scrap this guy. You can see that when I click it, when I'm on the speed tab, it tells me one times. So one times is the normal speed of the original clip. But if I speed it up, try to make it faster, you can see that my clip starts to shrink. That's because it's going to go through the clip a lot faster. On the other end, I could slow it down by 0.10, and that's going to be really slow. So you can see that it's kind of moving in pixelated ways, and I could even just click on this little arrow and do a quick adjustment like that. So this is 0.5 speed. It's a little slow. I could do 1.5 and just alternate between the different options. The video that you were dealing with had audio, that's going to alter the pitch. So when you speed up someone talking, you've noticed that the pitch goes up. This is going to auto adjust it for you, but we don't really have an audio to begin with. Now, when you're more advanced, you can explore the curve tap, which allows you to do something called speed ramping. So this is going to give you more control over how the speed of your video plays out. So you could follow a map like this. Whenever there's a peak, your video is going to get faster. Whenever there's a drop, it's going to slow down. So you can see how we're kind of playing with these different maps. And you can even make your own. Now, velocity effect is going to match your audio with the speed ramping. So for example, if you go on Flash, you'll see a little preview. If I dabble click it on my clip right now, you can see that I don't have any music, and it's not going to let me. So that's something you can explore later on, but you have that option for you. It's pretty easy to play around with. You just select one of the options. And the animation tab I was telling you about is right over here. Got a few little things. Again, a lot of the stuff on CapCut is ready to use. You just got to scroll around and find the one that you need. That was transition and speed. In the next lesson, we're going to look at the last main component of video editing, which is audio. So we're going to use the music that we imported here and see what we can do with it in this very basic sequence. 16. Audio Basics: Now, finally, we can talk about some audios. We have our sequence here pretty simple. Let's just drag in our music and put it right underneath the sequence. So as you can see, we're seeing a lot of waves, and that's going to tell you when there's a peak and when there's a dip in the audio. So notice the parts that are a little bit red. Those are basically the parts where the volume goes beyond the standard limit, and it may suggest that you have to lower the volume. So if I play this right now. You can see how the last note was, like, a little bit too high, so that's why it's red. Now, you can do some adjustments simply by lowering this horizontal line, and you can see that it fades out of that red area. So this way, when you keep it all in the blue range, it's going to be easier and softer on the ears. But in some cases, you may want to, like, really increase the volume for some special effects. When you click on an audio, you also get the panel on the right side. We have volume, which is the same thing as that horizontal line. And we have something called fade in and fade out. So when you start playing the music, it immediately starts from a note. So it goes from nothing, and then it jumps up to that note. In order to make this a little smoother, you can use the fade in in because we're at the start of the audio. When you click and drag, you can see this curve starting to appear, and that's basically how silence is being transitioned into that song. So now with 4.9 seconds of fade in, I have this. So it's a lot more smooth. And if I go further, the music will start later. You can see that it slowly went up in volume and not like the first original song, which is just going straight into the music. The same thing applies to fade out, which is at the end. So let's, like, do it over here. I'm going to cut out this extra bit and increase this all the way. First, let me play it as it is. Now I'm going to increase this all the way and we have this black curve. Oh You can see how it fades out even before the song ends. And zero second is just your regular audio. Now, if you don't want to do the loudness adjustment yourself, there is an option to do it automatically. This is a paid feature. You can see that it tells you that it lowered it to negative 23. And that's what CapCut deemed proper for this scenario. We have enhanced voice. That's if there's someone speaking in that audio, let's say they're in a crowded room or if there's not a mic nearby, you can use this feature. Auto translator is going to again need someone speaking in the audio. Reduced noise is background noise. Isolate voice is you separating someone's voice from, like, any sort of background noise or music. And then we have something called fill channel. So you can basically move the audio to one side of the channel. So we have left and right channels. Think of headphones. There's the left side and the right side. You can kind of switch out the volumes using the field channels. I'm just going to turn that off. We have voice changer that's going to need someone speaking in the audio, but um you can try some of these things. Like, low is going to lower the pitch, and you do get the handles to further adjust this. So you can see I'm able to play around with the music, and each of these effects will have different sliders for you. With frequency, tremble. You can do, like, a live stage. So it's gonna have a little bit of an echo. Those are the voice filters. We have voice characters. We don't really have a voice in our thing, but you can still play around with these. So it looks like this trickster is attempting to sing the piano song, which is not working out so well, but you get the idea. With just one click, you can make your audio into something a little funny. So speech this song is going to need a shorter audio. These are just for fun. I wouldn't really work around with it unless you have a purpose for it. It's similar to the voice characters. The last thing is the speed. So the speed is going to change the pitch of your audio, hence this tab right here. So one times is just a regular speed. But you can speed it up. So right now, it's really slow. And then when you do speed it up, you could try turning this on. You can see how that makes a huge difference. Now, if you want, you can also add your own voice into the track. I'm first going to show you how to do multiple tracks. It's really easy. You just drag it right underneath and move this around like you would with the layers. If you want, you can also do your own voiceovers straight in CapCut. I'm not going to press it right now because it's going to disturb with the recording, but you simply click on this. There's a box that shows up. There's an option for you to choose your input device so you can choose a mic or your computer. There's a big red button, you press it and it records. And whatever you record is going to be in your media tab. So like I said, I recorded this earlier, and it's just like a separate audio file. If I delete it from my timeline, it's still going to be there in my media tab. So this guy, I could just drag it in. And just like any other audio, I get to work around with these settings. So if it's too low, I can increase the volume. I could do the fade in, fade out, and it's all pretty easy to maneuver. And if you don't want to bring in your own audio from the outside from like a website or something, CapCut does have its own audio tab. So just click on this and there's tons of options for you to choose from. They're based. They can be for one particular category, and you simply click and drag it into your timeline. So that's another way that you can deal with audio. The same settings apply. So you just have a lot more options. Now, that's the end of our more in depth CapCut chapter. I didn't go over some of these panels just because it's repetitive. They're all basically templates in different formats that you get to click and drag into your timeline. In the next chapter, we're going to be doing a more hands on lesson. Basically, we're going to be building a project from start to finish, and we're going to be using all the stuff that we have learned so far. Hopefully by now, you are a little bit more confident with the workspace and the tools that CapCut provides. Over time, you're going to be using some of these features just so we have a video at the end that we are really happy with. So let's go ahead and move on to our next chapter. 17. Project Planning (What Makes a Good Short Video): We touch the timeline, we need a plan. So most beginners fail because they just open the software first and then try to plan it throughout editing. But with short form content, clarity is everything. So think of your videos as like a marketing pitch. You basically have 3 seconds to capture that audience. And in order to get closer to that perfect hook, you have to ask yourself a few questions. The first one is, what would stop someone from scrolling to come see your video? So is that like a question, a movement in the clip or like a bold statement? Whatever it is, you have to think about that because that's going to really contribute to the number of views you the second step, once you have that hook, is to have one clear idea. What is that whole video for? Are you trying to promote a product? Are you trying to show people your experience traveling? Are you showing a recipe? What is it that you want to communicate? And it should be one idea if it's gonna be a 32nd clip. The last thing is to keep it very polished. So if there's any sort of awkward pauses, any sort of like breaks, take those out, trim, split, and refine them so that everything is straight to the point, and it flows well with whatever audio you have in the background. With that in mind, I'm going to be doing, like, a peaceful video where I'll have, like, a bunch of clips of nature. We're going to put a nice music in the back, and I'm just trying to show people my traveling experience. So we made our project. In the next lesson, we're going to import and start kind of rough chopping our video. So let's go ahead and do that. 18. Editing Start to Finish: So let's go ahead and import the videos that are in the resource pack. I'm just going to click on this guy. So here are the footage. There's five of them. And as you can see, they all have the similar theme of people and nature. So if I put a random animation in between, that's gonna kind of disturb the flow. So we have our first clip, which is just trees. This is trees in winter. This is people on horseback.This like a distant nature shot. And then this is someone about to go for a swim. These are all downloaded from pixels. You can download more if you want. But for this chapter, we're going to be dealing with these guys only. If you're doing this with your own footage and you're importing directly from your camera, this is the time where you get to take things you don't need if you accidentally imported them. Maybe make a folder if you took different takes. But for me, I'm just going to deal with these guys, and I've kind of named them for the resource pack, but you can just right click on each one and give them something more specific. So maybe like green trees. And you can see where renaming it just like that snowy trees. I just name these so that you know which clip you're dealing with. It doesn't have to be that descriptive. The drone, and then we can call this one surf. Okay, so now I have the names and everything is pretty organized. So let's go ahead and drag these guys in. I'm going to decide on the order as I'm dragging them in. So because this is meant to be, like, a peaceful video and I'm trying to maybe spread some positive messages, I wanted to start on, like, a really peaceful scene. So as you can see, the sun slowly comes in. We're slowly zooming towards the tree. That's a perfect opening for my case, because I have set the plan to be that way. So right after that, I do want a little bit of diversity, so I'm going to cut to something that's a little bit different from this camera angle. So something that's not zooming in. So that could be the horses. Just drag those in. And I'm not going to worry too much about trimming right now. I'm just dragging them in and thinking about the order. Let's do our drone shot, the snowy trees. And then finally, maybe we could do the surf first, kind of sandwiching things together. So the end of my video is also peaceful. It's like a very slow upward motion. Again trees. It's very, like, peaceful over here, and we could maybe put a text on the top. Okay, so I have my clip. And this would be the time where you would trim it according to where you want to publish this. So if this is supposed to be like an Instagram reel and you want it to be 30 seconds, you would have to think how many seconds you want to allocate to each of these clips. But I'm going to do a horizontal 1 minute clip. So you can see it's already close to 1 minute. I only need to take out a few seconds at the end. You can make your trimmings here if you plan on not putting any audio, but since I do want audio, I'm going to basically align my trimmings to the sound waves. So let's go ahead and get something from the audio tab. I'm going to search for Peaceful. Let's see what comes up. Okay, so I like this one better. I'm just going to drag it in my timeline just like that. So notice that there are some peaks in these sound waves. That's what I'm going to use to make my cuts. So when I hit Play. So right here where it goes down and there's a peak right here, I'm going to make a cut. So I'm going to select my video and then hit Commander Control B and delete the excess. And then you can see the horse's video just cuts right, basically snaps to where we are. So another peak, I'm going to just zoom in. You can use the slider here as well, and position your playhead right at that peak. Grab the video Commander Control B, delete the part. That's extra, and then it should snap back. If your clips are not snapping, it may be because you don't have these turned on, so just click on them until they're blue. All right, so there's our next clip. So here on purpose, I'm not gonna match this with the peak just so that it's not predictable, but you can do that if you want. So here at the end of the video, there's, like, a little bit of camera shaking. I'm gonna cut that out. So just grab the end here so that we have a stable shot. And then I'm gonna end my video before it goes to this peak just so that it ends on, like, a lower tone. So let's trim our video like that and cut the rest of the audio. So Command and Control B again, delete. And now we have a very rough chop. One thing that I do want to do is looking at the speed difference between all of these clips. I'm just going to mute the audio for a second, click on the speaker icon. So this video is very slow and then the horses are a little fast. So what I'm going to do is drag this guy up. Let's turn this off for a second, drag it up like that. And using the speed property for the video, I'm just going to lower so that it's not as fast. So this would match better with what we had initially. Then we could cut the excess and put it back into our sequence. I think this guy is fine, but if you want, you could do the same thing. Okay, so that was a speed adjustment. Now, for transitions and, like, texts and stuff, we're going to do that in the next lesson. But for now, just make sure you have a good basework for your project. If you want, you could add in more clips, maybe change the audio. You could even add in some sound effects if you want. As for the audio, I'm going to bring it back, and this right here is good enough for me as my basework. In the next lesson, we're going to add in some text to the top. We're going to add some transitions and try to smooth things out before we export. 19. Adding Text, Music & Transitions: So this is where we left off. We made a rough draft of our clip. We split it, and we also slowed one of our videos down so that it's flowing smoothly from the start to finish. We also added this audio track. And in this lesson, we're going to add in some text, some color grading, and some final touches for this very simple clip. So what we're going to first do is put in the all here portion, which is the text, and then we'll do some overall color grading near the end of the lesson. So in the text tab, I'm just going to put a default text for now. Rag it like that. And in the animation tab, I'm just going to look for a very simple animation, such as fade in so that my text can fade in and out. And then the same thing for out, so fade out. So if we zoom in here, you can see there's, like, a line at the start and one at the end. So now we have this effect. Let's give this a different text, type something in, such as I know, nature is the remedy for the cure. Command of Control A to select everything, go back to text and just style it the way that you want to. So we have some fonts. I'm going to do, like, a typewriter effect. Just grab it like that. Work with the font size. It's a little too big. And then I'm just going to give it a shadow so that it's easier to read. For the shadow, we're going to blur it out and then reduce the opacity. So now we have the side. I think the shadow is still a little too harsh. Alright. And I'm gonna sink the fade out with the sun coming in. So let's pull it back like that. So it fades out with the sunlight. Okay. So that's our first text, and then we could add in some more. So let's go to Template and see what we have. So on this side, I'm gonna look for maybe retro stuff, vi vlog. Let's take a look. So let's put this here. This is one of the templates. I could dap a click and change the wording. Let's see. Actually, I think I'll stick with what I made in the beginning, something very simple. Just hold down, alter our option, and then click and drag it to duplicate. So I'll have it start over here, and then we could do like weather on horses. Another duplicate. And I'll do, like, or in the sky. It's actually to all lowercase, so I'm just gonna click on this button to make it easy for me. Same thing like that. So whether on horses or in the sky, then we have two more. So just duplicate it two more times. The sky's a little too long. Okay, so around here, I'm going to make another duplicate and then trim it like that. And I'm just gonna put it in the corner, maybe like a things for watching message. They get lower case just so that everything's and this is gonna fade out. At the end anyway. Alright, so we have some basic text effects. Now I'm going to work on transitions. Now, personally, because I do want this to be a very slow moving and mellow video, I'm not going to be adding any sort of transition in between the two clips. That's what a lot of the professional editors will do because if you put something very distracting, it's going to take away the attention from all the storytelling and all the mood that you were trying to convey. So I'll just do one in the beginning. So go to Animation. First clip selected, Animation. And I'm gonna try to find fade in. Let's go transitions, actually. Look for fade. Okay, I think we have fade is sometimes hard to find, so So the only transition I want to use is for the end of my video. So I'm going to select snowy trees, go out and choose fade outs. So that's gonna fade it out like that. Alright. And we have our music playing in the back as well. The last thing I want to do is sort of blend the text into the video because it's really, like, harsh right now. You can do that by grabbing the text and then going down to blend. So if you want to, you can lower the opacity or change the color. So I'll choose a different color, something a little bit more mellow like this. And I'll just copy this code so I could use it for other spaces if needed. So here is fine. And, yeah, I think only this one looked a little weird. Alright. Now the last thing is to add in some overall color grading or effects. So you can do this yourself manually by grabbing the clip and then going to adjust where you get to play around with the different settings. So basic is going to let you deal with, like, the lighting, the colors. So this is the let me choose a better frame. This is, like, the warmness or the coldness of the clip. The tints, how saturated it is. And you can explore all of these. I'm just going to lower my contrast. And then let's see what else we have. We have single color adjustments so I could maybe turn this green and change the hue. So I'll bring it more towards the yellow side, maybe lower the saturation. Then we have the horse video. For this one, I think it's a little too dark. So let's increase the exposure. This one looks pretty good, but I do want the colors to stand out a little bit more. Let's increase the saturation. And these two are fine. I'm not gonna do anything here. Alright, so we have the effects inside the clips. These are, like for color grading. But again, if you don't want to do this manually, you can just go to filters and drag one of these on your clip. So that's gonna add the filter. Going to undo that. There's tons of options you can choose from. So just explore and see what you prefer. You could add some effects. So there's some, like, raindrops, snow. These are not that realistic, in my opinion. But if you wanted to just drag it on top, now you can see I'm getting these sparkle effects around. So that's not really my taste, but feel free to explore and just drag them on top. Okay, so now we have our video. The audio is there, as well. And maybe I'll just increase this. So that's the end of my editing phase. I'm going to export it in the next lesson, and we're going to take a look at some of the options and what I should be doing for a horizontal cinematic clip like this one. 20. Exporting for Social Media: Let's see how we can export our video. This is where we left off in the previous lesson. All you really got to do now is just press the Export and then choose how you want it to be format. So when you hit Export This Window Pops up, we already looked at this briefly, but just to refresher, you will give your video a name. Let's call it my video. Choose a location, choose a resolution. Because I want to go for something cinematic, I'm going to leave it at ten ADP. But if you want it to be very compressed, you can go for 480 or go really high if you have the foundations for it. Then I'll leave the bit rate as recommended. Codec, I wanted MP four. Frame rate, I'll leave it 30 because I think all the clips that I imported was 30 to begin with. And yeah, so I'm just going to uncheck IF and make sure everything else is fine. So once you're done, you hit Export and it should the location that you chose. So here's our finished product. So that's how you can format your videos from start to finish. We took a bunch of footage from the resource pack, combined them in the order that we wanted to be. And the overall theme that we planned for this lesson for this video was, like, a peaceful, inspirational nature compilation. And I chose to do it horizontally because I plan to put this on YouTube. But if you guys want, you can go back and change it to a vertical video or maybe add some more effects. So hopefully you guys were able to get a similar result and you're happy with what you have. 21. CapCut Mobile: Interface Overview: Mm hmm Now we're going to be looking at CapCut mobile. So I have it in my phone right now, and the interface is pretty much the same. There are just some things that are collapsed and maybe in different places. So this is what happens when you first sign in. You don't have to sign in, but there's some, like, things that will pop up and preferences. When you set all of that up, you should land in the same page. So the first place it took us to is templates because that's the fastest way you're going to be able to edit things. So over here, we can see tons of templates. There's also a search boar right we already saw templates in the desktop version, so it's pretty much the same idea. So you can search for something that you want to edit the video for. So, let's say, food. And I'm going to get some pretty cool templates. Now, in order to use a template, all you really got to do is click on the one that you like and click again. And basically, all you're going to do is replace these clips with your own videos, but the texts, the transitions, they're all going to be the same. So when you click on use Template, you're going to be able to use it. I'm going to show you guys that in a further lesson, but for now, I just want to show you the general differences. So that's a template tab. You can now move on to the next thing. The next thing is the AI lab. That's everything regarding artificial intelligence. You don't have to use this because there's a lot of templates already. Just to, you can make templates with artificial intelligence, such as these things that you see right above. You can make fictional stories if you want to do something for your social media, some viral stuff, religious videos, and there's so many other categories. So over here is where you get to create a new project. We can see the big button over there. You can jump into something that's quick and easy, such as AutoCut where you give it a video, and then CapCut is going to automatically take out the pauses, any sort of, like, disturbance that may have came and give you the edited clip in the end. We also have retouch. This is regarding a human subject in your videos. You have auto captions, AI generator, if you want to make an image or a video, removing the backgrounds. And if you click on All tools, you're going to see a bunch of other things. So not all of these are free. You can see that some of them have the diamonds, some of them have the red thing, which is just an indication that this uses artificial intelligence. I'm going to choose a video from my library. This is the video that I chose. You can trim it or add it the way it is. Just click on the top right. There's a little circle. Now I have that selected. And then at the bottom, it says add one. So just click on that, and that's how you're going to build your very first project. So starting from the top, we have the Export button, same as the desktop one. Everything regarding quality is going to be on the left panel. So on the left side of Export, right now, it says AilraHD. That's what we have right now, but you can change the resolution of your clip, the frame rate, the bit rate. You can turn into an HDR video, and there is going to be a watermark. You can just remove that if you want or position it somewhere that you would like. So there's, like, the upper left, upper right. You know, if you want to keep the watermark, it is free to remove it completely. Alright, so that is the resolution. There's a search bar where you can search for a certain music, in effect, something from your own clips. But you can see some of the sounds. Got some stickers down there. And yeah, anything for quick access, you can look it up. Now, down here is where the bulk of the mobile version is going to be. So on the desktop, we will see the different tabs on the top left. Now they're all lined up at the bottom. So edit is where you are in your timeline. So all the timeline tools are inside the Edit tab. We have split volume animations, effects, and all the other things that are pretty much identical to the desktop version. So you can see there's so many if you just keep scrolling to the right. So they basically took the animation speed effects color grading and just put it into one line down here inside the edit tab. The next tab is the audio. So this is where all your music are. The voiceover is also in here. You can see it says record, text to audio, brand music, custom voices, and a copyright checker. Then we have the text tab. You can add regular text captions, stickers, draw something, have templates. And even do something with auto lyrics. We have the effects overlays, captions, filters, and yeah, pretty much the same things you've seen on Desktop. They're now at the bottom. Now, the timeline is this portion in the middle. You can see that right now, I only have one track. If I click on it, it's going to get highlighted. I could see that it's 5.7 seconds. Grabbing the left and right, I get to, you know, trim my clip. If I click on my video or tap on it, I still have the options down here. So I can crop it, add an effect to it, maybe slow it down, remove the audio and all the other stuff that I get to do. Below my video, you can see that there's an add audio option and an add text. So you can click on either one to add something. So if I do audio, it's going to bring me to the audio tab. I can maybe look for a sound, and I'll just grab the first one here. So now I have an audio underneath my video. If I click away again, I have the option for text. So if you click on that, it's going to get you to the text tap. You just add a text. D will tap the middle and just type something in. Once you're done, hit the checkmark. You can also add in, like, effect. Like this and just have it be on your timeline. You can also press and hold to move these around, expand their duration by grabbing the left and right, and just build up your layers like we would do in the desktop version. If you want to add more footage, there's the plus on the right side, the white plus. When you click on that, it's going to take you to your library, so you just grab as many videos that you need, and it's going to come up right here in the timeline. You can also delete something you don't need such as this CapCut animation. I can click on it and hit Delete. And there we go. If you want to preview your work, you can hit the Play button, and it's going to start playing. So that's the quick overview of the mobile version. You can see that it's not that different from what we have on Dektop. It's just that it's a lot more cramped and a lot more accessible. So if you want to quickly edit something, the CapCut mobile version is pretty handy to have. Now, regarding templates, because that's usually what people come to for this version, I'm just going to go on the next step. I closed my previous project, and you can see that it's listed right here as 0224. You can rename it, duplicate it, delete it, favored it, whatever you choose to do. But now I want to move on to templates. So that's on the right side. We already looked at this, but I want to show you how you could alter a template and use it for yourself. So, let's say we want to do a sky. I can see a preview. If I like it, I could hit use template. I could like it, comment, and even save it to my favorite on the bottom left. So let's click on use template. So immediately it brings up my video library, and I get to choose what I want to go into this template. Now notice on the bottom, there's like seconds. So the first one is 5.6 seconds. Number two is 3.7 seconds. Those are basically the time slots that you get to put your clips in. So for example, I will put my dog here. It moves on to the next one. I get to put like this food. The third one, I'll put this street, these flags, and then maybe another dog. So once I filled up all of those spaces, I could click on the pencil to edit it or hit the little minus to remove it. But let's say I'm happy with my template, I'm going to click on next. And it's going to load the effect and basically take your videos and turn it into that template. I could export it on the top right. And if I changed my mind, I could just hit Backspace, save the project for later, or just delete it entirely. On the top, there is categories for you to look at. So you can look at business videos only. You can look for holiday season stuff. So that pretty much sums up the overview, now that we know the templates as well. In the next lesson, we're going to be looking at how we could edit a video using CapCut mobile. I won't go over every detail because it's the same tools as the dek stop version. They're just placed in different places, and they may have fewer settings to work with. So let's go ahead and start doing that. 22. Quick Mobile Edit Demo: Let's work on a quick demo on how you could edit videos. So the first thing I'm going to do is just click on the Plus button for new video and then choose something for my library. So I'm going to hit Add on my video, and it's back in my timeline. So the clip has some audio. Let me just increase the volume. So the first thing I want to do is get rid of that audio. I'm just going to click on the video itself and then go to volume on the bottom and reduce it all the way to zero. So now when I play it back, it has no audio, and that's perfect because I want to put a song instead. So clicking on the add audio underneath, I'm going to go to sounds and just choose something that I'm going to like. Let's look at the categories and maybe choose, like, a dreamy one and just listen to the options. So that's something that I want to use. I'll just hit on the Plus button on the right side. And now I have it playing with my video. Next, we're going to add in some text. So there's a lot of templates that you could use. So just click on text at the bottom, and we can add a text template. It's right next to draw. Then we're going to look at some of these. Let's try something classic. I guess I'll do this guy. And then in the box here, I get to change the text. So let's call this my fun Travel travels. And then when we're done, we could click on the bottom, the thing on the left side of the box, and that's going to collapse the keyboard and then hit the checkmark. I can now position this text somewhere in the middle by clicking, holding, and dragging it, and now it's going to pop up after a few seconds. There we go. Let's say I want to add in some more elements. I could go over to some stickers, perhaps, and choose, like, a fun one like this heart. I'll just mute this. Put the heart wherever I want it to be. So let's do it right at the bottom, hit the checkmark. And now I have two elements for my video. If this is too long, I could click, hold it and try to match it with the text. So I want to make sure that it does not linger longer than my text. And we can do something like this. Now, the stickers shows up out of nowhere. There's no animation at the start. So with the sticker selected, I'm going to go down to animations and then do, like, for the one. We'll do something that's a little subtle, like, dissolve. You can increase the duration and then hit the checkmark. So you can see the heart now dissolves into our video. Alright, so we have that. I'm going to remove the CapCut animation at the end, and let's give our video a fun little animation for the start and the finish. So again, with the video selected, I'm going to go to Animations. Go to combo because I wanted to have a start animation and an end one. And once again, we have tons of options. I'm just going to search for fade, because that's, like, the most simple one. Let's do screen fade. Maybe give it an ounce Animation, hit Cancel. Let's try something else. Fade out. And then we can maybe do something different for the in animation. We can do let's see like a turbulence one just to play around with it. And at the bottom, you can see that we have the red one on the left side and the right one on the right side. Those are just the duration for your in and out animations. So you can see in is 8 seconds. You can make it five, just to match it with the out one. Press the check mark when you're done, and when you hit Play, you now have animations for the start and N finish. I'm just gonna cut this around here, and that's gonna give me a little bit more of an organized look. I'm going to add another animation for the out just because we sort of cut it out with the video. Okay. The last thing is some effects for my videos. So just click on the clip itself, then go to effects on the bottom, video effects, and we can do something like blrifocus. And now there's, there's an added effect in addition to the transitions. Just like that. You can see the music is really long once I clicked away. So I'm just going to click on it around here with my timeline right at the end of my clip, and we're going to hit split while having the audio selected. Now it's going to select the other half that we don't need. So just hit Delete and then grab the first half of the audio, click on fade and we can do a little fade out so that it's, you know, smoother. Once I click away, I should be seeing my audio, my text, my sticker, and my video. So let's hear what that sounds like. You can see that is the fade out. And if you want, you could add some filters to the video itself. So with that selected, I'm going to scroll all the way to the right for filters, and we could do, like, a fun coloring. The intensity slider is at the bottom, so just work around with that. I'll do City because it is snowing in the video as well. And now I have a nice little filter. Alright, so there is my very simple video. If you want to do a full preview on the left side of the screen, there is a expand button, so you can just look at it on your full screen and see if you missed anything. On the bottom right, you can zoom out, and we could now export the video. So when you click on Export, the only thing that you end up choosing is the location and the stuff that we looked at on the desktop version. So it's not that different. Right now I'm using the standard features, so you can see that I need to pay for this, but you can easily switch them out for some free versions. So the Export tab is very straightforward. You just click on it, choose where you want to export it on. And if you want, maybe change your resolution and the quality, and that's about it. So there's more options for exporting when you're on the Dektop version. The mobile gives you something that's pretty flexible and pretty easy to work with. So as you saw, the mobile version is a lot more condensed, but it's really good for some quick results. So you have the template tab, which is the first thing CAPCA takes you to. You just put in your videos instead, maybe change a few things, and then you're good to go. Now that you know how to work with the desktop and the mobile version, you can now decide which one you want to use depending on the project you're dealing with. 23. How to Practice & Improve Faster: Mmm. Now that you know all the basics, the best way to improve isn't just endless editing. It's actually smart ways to practice. So here are three tips on how you can improve after this course using all the stuff that we have learned. The first tip is to always have mini projects for yourself. This could be taking videos for different creating videos for different industries, and then you can try different styles. For example, one day you make a short 32nd marketing clip. The next day you make like a travel log. This could be done with your own footage or with footage online. It depends on. These mini projects are going to be more goal oriented, and you get to try different variations at the same time. The second tip is to go from online downloaded footage to your own footage. You can use your phone, a camera, if you have it and just try to record your own clips and then edit them into something final. Reason why this helps is because as you're recording, you can kind of imagine how you're going to edit it, and that's going to give you more of a flexible way to combine your creativity, your own work into that final product. So you're not just taking downloading other people's videos that you purchased and trying to make it like a nice video, you're going to be planning everything from scratch. And that's going to be a whole different experience. The last tip is to repeat and refine. So if you finished a video editing project that you're really happy with, try to alter it in smaller ways and create different versions from. Way you're able to catch onto the shortcuts faster, learn how to combine effects. Maybe you'll end up with many presets that you made for yourself. And that way, you're just not stuck with one concept, but different variations from it. And just to close off the lesson, remember that skill comes from focused repetition and not just endless clicking. 24. Common Beginner Mistakes: Most beginners make the same mistakes. Knowing them now will save you a lot of time and effort in the future. So the first mistake is putting on too many effects. You may find it tempting to grab on a bunch of filters, a bunch of transitions, but you're going to be moving away from the composition of your video and more towards the aesthetic part. Now, that part is really important, but you want to mainly focus on how you edited the clip and leave those final adjustments to simply elevate and not replace your entire work. So let's say you worked on a log, you're going to need to focus more on how you edited that vlog instead of trying to put in five color grading filters to make it stand out. So make your video stand out by proper editing, transition, maybe some text, the music choice, and so on forth and not just by putting whatever templates available, piling them on top, hoping that it's going to make a really good clip. So Less is more focused more on storytelling. Second mistake is ignoring audio. Sometimes you just have this perfect clip and you just drag a random audio. You don't really check to see if it matches the mood of your video, if you have the copyright access to that, or maybe you just don't put audio at all. Now, you don't have to put music for everything. And when I say audio, I'm talking about sound effects, music, and maybe voiceover in some cases. But basically, if your goal is to tell a story with that clip for whatever purpose it is for, you have to kind of use audio to balance it out and elevate it, as we mentioned. Not only should you be using audio as much as you can, but make sure you're adjusting the volume. If there's background noise, remove those and maybe add some sound effects to complement it. So let's say you have a video of a forest, instead of just putting a pop song behind it, maybe you can put in some birds chirping, some wind rustling sounds just to create that atmosphere that your viewers can basically immerse themselves in. The last mistake is skipping organization completely. You have a lot of videos and audios to edit, dumping them into your media tab is going to be a bad practice. Make sure you're organizing everything in folders, renaming them. And that way, you can always go back and find something you need instead of just scrolling through, clicking on each one, checking the previews to see which video was the one that you actually needed. Having an organized space is also going to be really helpful with bigger projects. Your timeline is going to be color coded. It's going to have names, and you're just going to have an easier time. So once you avoid these three big mistakes, your workflow is going to become smoother over time. 25. What Comes in the Intermediate and Advanced CapCut Courses: Once you're comfortable with the basics from this course, we do have two more courses that you guys can look at if you want to continue your CAPCA journey and become a professional. The first one is an intermediate level one. Over there, we're going to be looking at more applications, and I'll be going over all the AI features and some of the hidden tools that you may have missed or that we didn't go through them in this course. There is the advanced course, which is going to be solely for professional editors. We're going to be looking at more structured projects, how you can deal with some of the bigger errors, how you can organize your work, and how you can get close to a very cinematic output. We're also going to be looking at animations, creating your own presets and transitions, and maybe your own audios. So think of this whole journey as a flight of stairs. You have to start with the foundation first and then move up to the next whenever you're ready. Kind of build upon each other to make sure that you're fully confident using CapCut for basic use before moving on to our next courses. You can also go back to the courses whenever you needed to, but it's good to have a strong foundation before moving on to the next. 26. Class Project: Create Your Own Short-Form Video: Now it's your turn. For the class project, you're going to be building your own short form video using everything that you have learned so far. Your video could be any of the following. It could be a mini blog, a tutorial, a promotional clip, or anything else that's creative. Once you have the idea, you should then move on to planning the video, knowing exactly where you want to publish it and what the purpose of that video is. Then you're going to be gathering the clips that you need, edit them inside CapCut, polish them with some texts, some caption, some stickers, if you want. And then finally export it to the place that you want to publish it. You're done, you can upload the finished video to the class project gallery. If you don't want to export anything, you can also send in some screenshots of the first frame and the final frame. Alongside your final results, you can also give us a description as to what made you want to make this video, what you found challenging, and what else you are curious about. You can also tell us if you made this video for a specific platform like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, or anywhere else. I will be going over all of your submissions and we'll provide you with some feedback. So good luck on your project. 27. Congratulations! What’s Next?: Now learned how to edit your first video using CapCut. You also know the difference between the desktop and the mobile version, what transitions are, how you can use your timeline, how you can add text, and how you can export your content properly. The best way to improve is just practice. So try different formats, resolutions, try different effects, explore the new templates that are coming out, and see what else you can create using this program. And if you have not uploaded your class project yet, go ahead and do that. Thank you for taking this class, and I hope to see you guys in our future class.