CapCut, The ultimate 2024 guide: From beginner to pro

1. Introductory Video: We all know that content is revolutionizing the world, with videos being watched by more people than the world population. And allowing creators to monetize channels with insane amount of revenue. The issue I encountered once I started content creation was the insane prices of editing softwares that completely stopped me from editing. However, there is one software that stood out from the rest Pca, completely free with world class level features allowing everyone to create content for free. Mba, a content creator which has worked as a video editor for the past months and recently started to create videos for Youtube, getting over 20,000 views in less than seven days. And all of that by using Capcut. That's why I've created this course that will take a complete beginner which knows nothing about Pc through ten, easy to digest lessons into a master in all the cap cut features to improve as a content creator. This course starts with the basic features. After that, we're going to move onto everything that regards effects, transitions, music and sound effects. And no, this is not going to be just boring theory. We are then going to create three pieces of short form content to dive deep into practical workflow of content creation. We are then going to end this course with an amazing 30 minute dedicated master class on color grading by going from the absolute basics to the advanced features. And as a bonus, you will get access to make exclusive editing peg which contains the sound effects, trending glowing icons, the overlays used for the color grading in the course, and the most trending burn and a leap dial paper style transitions. So ladies and gentlemen, I can't wait to see you in the first lesson where you will learn everything regarding Pca from start to finish. 2. Class project: Welcome to this class project. For this project, I will ask you to create a short video of less than 60 seconds. Use a ratio of nine by 16 as I will explain later in the course, which can be of any topic of your choice. As long as it's a short video of around 60 seconds, You're then going to export it. And you're then going to import it on Google Drive by right clicking file upload. And as you can see it's right here. You double click on it and it's going to upload right here on the bottom right corner. Once you are done uploading, you will see right here on the bottom right corner, one upload complete, and then you will right click on your video. Click Share once again. And then you will click right here instead of restricted anyone with the link. And then you're going to copy Link and then paste this in the project's ambition part so that I can review it personally. Now I wish you good learning. 3. Installation and interface breakdown: Welcome to this incredible in depth course about Cap Cut PC. In this course, you will learn everything regarding Capcut. In the first two lessons, you will learn everything regarding the basic features such as the basic panels and stuff like that. In the next features, we will jump right away into practice, creating shorts and explaining everything while I'm creating stuff. Today you can see the creative process. And I'm not a big fan of theory, but for the first two lessons, I will have to explain the most basic tools, otherwise I can't really speak the cap cut language with you. Let's get straight into it. First, let's start on installing the software. If you already have it installed, you can skip to the number tech on screen. Otherwise you go on the search bar on Google and you either copy and paste this, or you check the Word document that is in the attached file in this course and in the Word Document, you will find the exact steps to install the video editing software and the links we enter. And we are now on the cap cut interface. Now we can either click download for Windows or if you have you go up here, download for Windows or mobile. If you're from mobile. If you're from mobile, you can also go in the Microsoft Store. Once you're on Microsoft Store, you search Pct and you're right here. You find it, click it, and it's free. Once you've completed the installation, you will be created with this interface. I highly suggest you to log in right here. You can login with Google, Facebook, whatever you want, E mail. I logged in with Google so that I now have some spaces that I can use to upload files. And this is a good feature that allows us to work directly on timelines without needing to, every time, you know, export the video and then upload it on Google Drive, download for Google Drive, and then edit it and re upload the Google Drive long process. Meanwhile, with this Space feature, it's really easy. You can invite wherever you want to just click here, copy and paste this link. And then you upload other projects that you have or medias, which means assets, images, videos, stuff like that. Now we go back to the home here and to start a new project, we're going to simply click on new projects. Once you start a new project, the first thing that you need to do is on top you see this number, which is the month of the creation of the project and the day. I highly suggest you to change this to whatever you prefer. Because once you will start to have 102030 projects, it's going to be hard to remember which one is which, if they're all named 2021, 2022, 2023, stuff like that. Once we have done that, let's look at the panels that we are presented with. So the first thing that we will do is analyze how the media panel work, which is the first one. So the first thing that we can do is click on Import. I've chosen the clip that I want to add. This is a 47 minute from Alex or Mozi, which is a guide that talks about business. And in this course, we're going to edit a part of that video in order to gain some practice before getting too specific. Let's talk about the timeline, which is this panel right here, the one below. To show you how to use this, I will first drag this clip right here, and this is how it works. So the first thing that we have is kind of tools which is select, split, select, left word and right word. Right now we are on select, which is the normal mouse icon. And what this basically allows to do is to drag the stuff around. As you can see right here, I just select the stuff and move it. The splitting tool allows you to split the clips in different parts, and then if you want, you can go back to the Select tool and move it around as you prefer. And then we have the select left word, which means that it selects all the clip on the left from where I clicked or the select right word which does the same thing but for the right. As you can see. Now out of these tools, the only tool that they personally use is select. And sometimes, but it's really rare because what you can do instead of having to switch and switch back to the tool every time, you can use a shortcut, which is control. And what control B does is splitting your clip. As you can see, I highly suggest you to learn control B. Then we have undo and redo, which I highly suggested to learn as well. Because the amount of time that you just click back space on accident is a lot. And since you don't want to ruin everything that you've done, you just click control Z or you can click the arrow. Same thing I highly suggest you to learn. Control Z and boom. Everything is better, normal. And the things that suggest to learn are control and control Z because they will help low. There is now another set of tools, so how do we use it? As you can see there is the split tool, but as I remember you, you can simply learn to click control B and you will never have to reach out for these tools. Every time you have to split a clip, then there is delete left, which let's say for example, I'm at this frame, okay, when norms is looking to the left. If I click delete left, it deletes the whole first part. And if I go at the start, as you can see, we can find the frame where Mozi was looking to the left. And then there is delete right, which does the same thing. But for the right then there is delete, which deletes the whole clip. And for that you can simply learn to use backspace, as it is really fast to delete clips with backspace. And then you have another five tools which allows you to create a steel frame of the image as you can see. Then there is reverse, which traverses the whole clip from the last second to the first second. Then there is mirror. Pay attention to the clip so you can see what happens. It's as simple as that. Then there is rotate, which allows you to rotate by 90 degrees and then crop. If you crop, you can choose how much of the image you want to show. For example, like this. Then there is a pro fissure which is removed, feeler words, but it doesn't really affect as much. And now let's finish talking about the time line. There are three useful tools right here on the left. The first one is log truck, which allows you to lock everything that happens on the truck. So you cannot delete it, you cannot move it, you cannot do anything to the truck. Then there is High truck which basically hides audio and video of the truck. And then there is mute clip audio which allows you to show the clip but multi audio and to finish of the timeline. There are another set of tools right here. The first one is a record. If you want, you can click Record, click the Thread button, and you will be able to record your voice over directly in the editing software, the whole video if you want. There is also an echo reduction box which you can turn on to avoid echo, basically. Then there are another four tubles. Let's start from the first one, track magnet on cap cut. There are two types of timelines. The first one is this one below. Let me put a video there. This is the main timeline. It's always the lowest timeline. Okay? There is no such a thing as a timeline lower than that one. As you can see, I'm trying to move it below, but it doesn't happen. Another characteristic of the main timeline is that it is always on the background. So if you put a video on top, you will not be able to see the thing below. Going back to the truck magnet, here is why this information is useful when the truck magnet is on. So it is blue. If I put a video on the main time line, doesn't matter where I put it, it is always going to be close to the first one. As you can see, I'm trying to put it here, but it just gets warm. Instead, if I remove this fissure, I can put my videos wherever I want. If I turn it on again, Boom, everything goes together. The second fissure here is auto snapping. Whenever autosnapping is not on, I am never sure if the clips are close to each other. So for example, let's move this clip close. As you can see, they look like they're together. But if I zoom in, there is a black hole here and we don't want it. That's why we turn on auto snapping, which allows you to snap. You see it creates that blue line that makes you understand that the clips are now aligned, then we have turned on or off Linkage. Linkage is the ability to link either clips or audio to a certain clip. And I usually suggest to this off, and here's why. If I remove this clip, I don't necessarily want this text to go out, because maybe I need it for something else. If the linkage is off and they remove the clip, the text remains instead. If I turn on linkage and remove the clip, the text is going to disappear as you can see. So I usually leave this off because I don't like the idea of text disappearing with my video. And then we move on to preview axis with previous axis on as a scrap through the timeline. As you can see, the video is moving on top of the player panel. Instead, if I turn this off, the yellow line disappears and no video is shown. And this is a really good feature, although if you have a really bad hardware, a really bad PC like me, once you start to add color correction, transitions, effects, text, audios, everything, and the project starts to become B. I suggest to turn this off as it makes you Laugh, but you will figure it out on your own, Don't worry about it. And then we move on to the player panel. In the player panel, click Play. You're going to see everything that is happening on the screen. You can also choose how much you want to zoom in or zoom out the ratio. This is for example, for a long form video, this is for a short video. You can even do customized if you want. You can click here and go full screen. And then you can also click on the broker bar, where you get three options. The first one is the color Ocilope, which I don't suggest if you use because it is really advanced and it doesn't give you that useful of any information. Anyway, then we have preview quality and you can choose between two, the first one being smoothness and the second one being screen resolution. I usually go for performance priority as a trier to clip, be smooth. And then we have export seal frame, which if I click, will allow me to like take a screenshot of this little screen here and save it in whatever folder I want. Then we have our inspector panel, which is extremely useful. But we're going to talk about it in the next lesson. 4. Inspector essentials: So here we are. I've chosen 5 minutes of the whole presentation from Alex. And we're going to edit this part. And in this lesson, we are going to learn how to use this player panel, which is the inspector. I'd like to clarify a couple of things that I didn't say in the last lesson because I simply forgot. Which are out to zoom in and out of the timeline. And the command to do it is you all control or command if you're from Mac and you use your scroll wheel, and that allows you to do it quicker. So I'll do that a bunch of times, and then if you ever forget about a shortcut, you can find it right here. There is an entire list and you can also change them if you want. I highly suggest you to leave everything on default because if you have the same shortcuts as default, doesn't matter what PC or editing on or Web version, you will not have to reset every time, all the shortcuts, et cetera, et cetera. Therefore, I highly suggest you to leave everything on default. And now let's get on this Spector panel on the first part, the video part, you can see four options right here. So let's start with the first one on Basic. You can see the scale, so how much the image is zoomed in the position, how far to the right, left, top or bottom the image is. And you can always change these numbers also by using the handles right here or by moving the image like this. For the rotate, you can either use this one or one, or type a number. You can also use keyframes. Keyframes are a way to save a certain statistic of the image at a certain second. For example, at second zero, the scale of the clip is 100% Then if I go forward, it can be 404. If I play this through, this is going to slowly increase over and over until it reaches the second key frame. Or it is 404. If you want a complete keyframe breakdown with how to use these kind of graphs and stuff like that, I hardly suggested to check my course on my profile page and you will find it is called key frame mastery. But back to the inspector. After the position and size, we have the blend mode. To show you the blend mode, I've bring in a couple of gradients and here's how they work. When you use the blend mode, you basically decide how you want your image or video, in this case image, to interact with the other videos of image. So if the blend mode is normal, this is going to show normally above it. Nothing changes, but you also have a lot of more options. For example, brighten, which basically allows the white light from the image to come, but the black light is ignored. You can do the opposite with darken. As you can see, the dark light comes and the white one is ignored. The best blending modes are overlay, which is really good for color grading and we'll get to that later. And then also screen the screen blend mode is useful if for example you have something like this, a black screen and in the center of the image there is an image or a video. You basically it screen and all the black stuff disappears. So you can put the art, for example, on the bottom. And this is what it looks like simply by blending it on screen mode. And then you can also find other ways of blending your image. But they are not really necessary for anything, so I'll just keep them. We have also opacity that we can use depending on how much we want to show our image. Zero being not showy. And you can play with this to create some fade ins, for example, with also key frames. Then we have to stabilize. What this does is removing the camera shakes that might be there because the cameramen was an amateur or the camera was unstable and it was moving. There are three different levels, from a medium to a minimum to the most stable you can decide, but in most cases you don't need this. Then we have some pro features which we're not going to go into. We have motion blur that allows you to blur to a moving image. This is a really good addition that just got added. You can see while it's moving that there is some blur. And if I toklet off, you can see clearly disappears. This is a really good addition by cap cut. And then we have canvas that is a really useful feature. If for example your clip is on a nine by 16, but your clip is 16 by nine, what you can do is you apply canvas. Let's choose this one. And as you can see, you have a playing clip in the background which is blurred out. You can decide how much you want it blur. And I want to make clear that this feature is only available for the clips in the main timeline. If I have this other clip, for example, and I go at the bottom, I will not see the Canvas option, but I will see layers. And let me explain what layers are real quick. To show how layers work, I got three different colored screen so that you can clearly see the difference. The third layer is the one that you see. If I want to move this layer backwards, I will click either two or one, and another one is going to be on layer three. Right now, the red screen is on layer three as you can see. If I put this in layer two, the white screen is going to go on layer three. That's as simple as that. If I put this in layer one, the red screen is going to appear, as you can see. Now, since the yellow is in layer two. If I go on the red screen and put layer two, it is going to switch with a yellow. That's as simple as that. You can use this feature If for example you want to put a smaller screen and a larger screen on the background. So if right here I wanted to put this kind of image as a face cam, for example, Like this, I simply could, and the rest of the video could be the image. Or if I'm making a gaming video, it could be the gaming gameplay. And on the top you can see the face cam. Now that we've moved into, now that we've covered every single feature of the basics, let's go on the cutout. In the cutout you can find some really good features. The first one is chromaky. Chromaky is really useful if, for example, you want to remove a green screen, which are clips that are specifically designed for this feature. And you can find them for free on Internet, on Youtube for example. I usually look them up there. You click on the green screen and then you choose your strength. And if you have some parts where as you can see, it's getting kind of ruined, You can apply a bit of shadow and play with the controls until we have what you want. And now as you can see, we have a complete image with the background removed, which is perfect. If we don't have a green screen, we can also use auto cut out, which only works for people. So if I click on it, it will process and as you can see, we have the same results. Although I usually prefer the green screen, because as you can see, there are some parts which aren't perfect. We can now move on to the masking. How does masking work? It's fairly simple. You click on the masking option that you prefer for logos. It is usually circle to give you an example. But just for the sake of doing this, I'll click on Horizontal. And this basically allows you to cancel a certain part of the clip. For example, if I want only to show the first part. And then you can use a bit of feather to smooth things out. As you can see, you can also create a really cool effect with this. If you put it all the way below and you apply feather, you're going to create this kind of effect where it is slightly black. And this is really used in content creation, especially short form content. And also when subtitles appear from the bottom, there is usually this kind of feather effect. You can also use this normally to, for example, split a clip perfectly in the middle and make, for example, a comparison. There are also other kind of masks, you can also use the circle. For example, four face comes if you want. As you can see, you can do whatever you want with this kind of masks. You also, if you want to cut out a specific part of the image, for example, I have this end, but I don't want it to show. I can click on a reverse mask and it is going to show everything but the end. I can move it and as you can see it as hit in the end. I could use it, for example, for something like this. As you can see there is a mask, is the character in the middle. And then we have enhance, which allows you to enhance the faces, your image. For example, this one was identified and you can choose smoothness. Brightness can also change the face, make it slimer, bigger. You can shorten the face. There are also a lot of controls for the body. For example, you see slimming the neck. I don't usually play with this as I like to keep the people that are talking real. I don't like to modify their physical appearance. I don't think it's right, but you can do whatever you want. Of course. Let's talk about the rest of the parts of the inspector tool. The second function here is the audio. Now, the audio is pretty self explanatory. You can raise it, you can lower it. You can use key frames to add custom volume. You can fade the audio in as you can see right here, or fade it out as you can see here. You can use noise reduction even though it doesn't work really well. I highly suggest to use Adobe podcast. It's a free software that allows you to announce every single audio. You can use vocal isolation even though it's a paid fissure. You can use this feature. For example, there is someone talking over some kind of music. You can use this feature to type Keep vocal. And it's basically going to remove the music and keep the voice, or vice versa. If you click Remove Vocal, you cannot export the video if you use this fissure. But you can re record your screen using a software like OBS and then re import what you recorded. And then we have channels which is a fissure that we want to use. Let me go on speed and this is a pretty important part. So when it comes to speed, there are three ways to control the speed of a clip. First, using this handle. So by making it faster or slower, as you can see, the clip gets bigger if it goes slower of course, and smaller if it goes faster. You can go up to 100 x. Usually the max you should go is ten x because otherwise you can't really see what's happening. And then there is another way to control the speed if you want it to fit an exact time frame. For example, if you want it exactly 5 seconds, you can use this arrow right here and it is going to tell you the exact speed that you need to have a clip that is long, 5 seconds, in this case it's 7.8 speed. You can also change the voice stone so that it doesn't sound weird, but that's up to you. And then the third way to control the speed, which is the best one, is by going on curve and choosing a speed ramp. Regarding speed ramping, there are these six pre made presets which are pretty good. I usually use this one and modify it if I need to. For example, I can go with something like this and they've created something like this, Ero time. As you can see, it's completely customizable. What this does is, as you can see, the speed goes up here and then it slows down. And it's currently slowed down. And then it slowly keeps going and keeps improving his speed until it gets to one speed again. And this is normal speed. This is really useful for transitions and stuff like that. Just make sure to use moth slow motion because as you can see here, it looks like it's frame lagging. You see instead, if you use a smooth slow motion, especially optical flow, it is going to be way smoother. Here's what it looks like with some optimal flow. As you can see, there is this kind of motion blower and it looks way smoother. And now let's move on to animation. Animation is one of the most useful parts of the inspector tool as it allows you to have in transitions, out transitions, and especially combo transitions. We will use them later to create some cool graphics, so don't worry about this. We'll come back to them. Regarding the in and out transitions, there are some like the fade in. You can decide its length, and once you put the fade in, this is what happens to the clip. It slowly fades in. And it's of course the same for the fade out combo transition. Basically happen for as much as you want. If I were, for example, to choose this flip forward transition from the combo ones. As you can see it is doing this kind of thing and it doesn't really work out for long videos like this. Now here, there is a part for motion tracking. I've tried to use this multiple times when you start to track an object, either with text or you try and make the position truck. But I've never had success with this as it doesn't really work great, it doesn't follow what you tell him. To my suggestion, if you don't know how to try quick keyframes, again, I made a course on keyframes. They're one of the most useful tools ever. And then we get to adjustment. And in the adjustment panel, there is all kind of color correction. At the end of this course, there is a specific section that is reserved to color correction. So I'll get on touch on that later. 5. Text, media importation, start of the first project: Without boring you with theory, let's now get into action. So I've chosen a clip here that is around 30 seconds long. And I'm going to edit in order to implement some of the media that I've chosen, some from Google, some from my asset pack, and some text that he'll explain while create. So let's get started and let's watch this video. We describe someone identity. We say hey, he's honest, he's hard working, he's a real estate agent. That's how we describe them. So let's translate those. He's honest, he states the facts, he's hardworking. You complete tasks as faster, faster than expectations you agree to the real estate agent, Someone who represents buyers and resellers in real estate transactions. All right, that's the identity, but everything that we used to describe the identity or things the person does, we will now use this clip. And to do that, I'll first import all the media that I've chosen. I have now gone ahead and sync all the media that I have to the clip. What I want to do now is extract the audio. To do that, you right click, and here you click extract Odio, and you will have the audio audio panel. For now, we will leave it like that. The only reason I'm doing that is because I want to cut some parts of the clip so that we can see the glowing icon. Look at this, he states the facts. I'll do it right here as well, and this is what it looks like. It's hard working. You complete tasks as fast or faster than the real estate agent, somebody who represents buyers and sellers in real estate transactions. What they will do now is caption this whole thing. To do this, I will highlight the rest of the timeline. Right click on one of the clips and then click Deactivate Clip. You can also use V, which will deactivate the clip. This function basically tells editing software that there's nothing here. So that now when we click on text and simply click on auto captions and it is going to capture the whole video. Not the part that is deactivated. Now let's customize the text. Whenever I'm creating a new video, I always make a different text. Right here, I will click upper case, so that old letters become upper case. Then I will add a bit of stroke. I will go with a black one and make it like that. I will also increase the size of the text. Then I don't really want a background because I don't think it fits really well. I'll just remove it. I could add a bit of glow white one go with low intensity and lower range, I don't want it to be too evident. Then I'll add a shadow because I really like shadows on text. As you can see, it's really smooth and almost unnoticeable. I will leave the opacity on 80. I will slightly improve the distance, and that's it. There's also another option which is curve. But I don't like it as it doesn't look pretty professional. Therefore, I won't use it if you want. There are plenty of effects which are primate text and you can use them. For example, if I choose this one, I can then go in the basic and then tweak them. So I can tweak the glow. I cannot add strokes or shadows because the preset doesn't allow me to. But I can use some curve if I want or do something along the headline. I usually make my own text. And if it comes out great. I can also save it as a preset so that I can use it later. Another thing that I forgot to do is change the font. I think I will go with this, Monsra. Because I really like this. I don't need to highlight all the text. Because since I've used auto captions, all the text is linked together. And I just need to tick this box, apply to all. As you can see, the font changed for every single subtitle. Before doing anything, I will save this as a preset. I will click the right space and click Okay. And now every time I want to use this kind of phone, I will find it just by going on a text presets. And it's right here. There are some captions that are not ideal. As you can see, this one goes out of the screen and there are multiple ways to avoid this issue. One of them being remaking all the captions manually, which is the longest. And I don't suggest one of the fastest one that allows you more control is going on captions. And then you simply left click and then Enter. And you do it until you have either made one word subtitles or you may want to do three word subtitles, whatever you want. This allows you more control. As you can see, a faster way to do this is either going on templates and choosing one template that has this kind of text showing word by word or whatever you prefer. Or you can go on animation. You go on captions and click on Bands Out. And the Fsino can put this in the middle. It's a real estate agent. That's how we describe them. And as you can see, just by putting that kind of animation, we have one word subtitles. So let's translate. This only applies to the subtitle that we apply the animation to. If I want the effect to be applied to the whole captions, I can highlight all of them. Animation punts out and this is what it looks like. He states the facts. I am not going to use the bands out though, because I don't want one word subtitles. I want combinations that are more engaging. So I'll go ahead and click on None, go back on. Captions make around two words subtitle. Now that we have the subtitles made of two words, Max, what I'm going to do is go ahead and cut all the role. I forgot to explain what the Errol is. The role is the main footage, in this case, Alex talking with his presentation where there is the presentation and there isn't Alex. I'm using the left and right keys to move frame by frame. I'll just cut, go forward and there we go. We now have only these three parts of role. Therefore, we will have to fill this space and this space. Meanwhile, for this space is a bit easier because we have this kind of media for this one, we don't. Let's start from the first seconds here. We have to say he's honest, he's hard working, he is a real estate agent. The way we're going to fill this black space is going to be by adding a background. And then I will slightly modify this text. So the first thing to do is uncheck, Apply to all so that we don't throw in the whole captions. And now we click one point so that it looks like it's the first thing on the list. We put it here. And then I think a good color for honest is green, since it is a good quality. So we put honest. We can also change the color of the one if we want to. Let's see if we managed to find something good. I think I changed my mind and I'm going to keep the one colored yellow and the quality is colored white. So let's stick with that for now. Then we move this upwards and we make it long until the end of the clip. Then we have hard working. We do this, we go right here in the captions. And they go together by eating back space. We put it in the center, we make it bigger, the two. And then to copy the same yellow that we used before, we go right here, we highlight the one. We copy this number right here. Then we go back. We go on two and we have the same yellow. Then I also want to make them aligned. So I'll do something like this, make this a bit bigger. I will also move the upwards and make it, as long as the clip, I will also remove E's because it's a verb and it doesn't really fit well. We also is a real estate agent. Let's go with this. Let's remove this part right here. We have only real estate agent. We make it bigger. This text three fine and put it right here. We highlight the three. We don't color, copy, and paste, and we have the same three. So this is what we had. He's artist, he's hard working. He's a real estate agent. That's how we describe them, which is perfect. The only thing that I'd add is an animation when the text enters and now we need to add an animation. Let's try with slide up. I think it might work. Well, let's see how it turned out. Artist. He's hard working. He's a real estate agent. I'd say it's honestly perfect. I am now questioning the yellow dough. Let's see if a green could work well here. I actually think that green works better here. So I will copy this number and then go on the other numbers. Let's look at the final result. Hey, he's artist, he's hardworking, he's a real estate agent that's, we'd describe them, which is perfect. And now we have to add the Translate here. I will remove these and add the Google Translate when he says translate. And the way I'll do it is by putting scale to the minimum at the start so it's invisible. We put a key frame, then we go forward, put another key frame, we put the scale to around 35. Then we go a bit forward and we reduce the scale once again. And let's see these looks, so let's translate those. He's artist perfect. It has created this cool pop effect. Let's watch it once again. So let's translate those. Okay, now we have put the Google Translate here. He is, honest. And now we have to create this bureau in a better way. Let's copy and paste this background because I love it honestly. So that we give a background to this stuff, let's put honesty in the middle. Let's make sure that it's completely at the bottom. At the start, we put a keyframe. And then we go forward and we move it upwards more than where it should be. It will create a keyframe automatically. Then we move a bit forward once again, and we go slightly below. Let's see how this looks like. He states the facts decent, but we can make this better. So let's open these graphs by using alt K. Again, if you didn't watch my course on key frames, I highly suggest this because it allows you to make radical intros. I will move this slightly afterwards and then click Auto curve on every single one of them. And let's see how this looks like now he states the facts, it's good. The only issue is that I've changed the x and not the y. Let's change this right away. And what I mean by this is that the x should always be zero. I only want it to move vertically, not horizontally. And the X is deter means the horizontal movement. The Y is deter means the vertical movement. Now let's go on the y and click auto curve on every single key frame. Let's this looks like he states the facts. Perfect. Now a really good intro. Now once is done here, saying that he states the facts, I want him to start moving to the left. Let's hit a keyframe on everything. Then we go forward and we make him slightly smaller. Right here. Let's this looks like. States the facts, it's hard work perfect. And now we want this to pop up from the bottom. Since I don't want to recreate the animation, since I really like this one, there is no need to recreate another one that is the exact same. What I will do is click on the animation here on the graph, then I will cook you on the first keyframe. Then by holding control, or if you're a Mac command, you click on every single keyframe so that all of them are highlighted. Then you eat control plus C so that you copy them. Then you go at the start of the clip and you paste, and you have the exact same animation. Now the only thing that I want is to go to this side, and to do that I just remove this minus and it ends on the right side of the screen. I don't want this to disappear. Let's see how this looks like now he states the facts. It's hard working. You complete tasks, that's perfect. I just want this to happen a bit sooner. Let's look at it. He states the facts. It's hard working you complete tasks. This is absolutely perfect. Now we want this to be interaged until the end of the clip We are going to eat Ok, so that the keyframe animation disappears. And now we have to do the same thing for the real estate agent, which is a bit harder because the image is lower quality and it's not as good as the ones in my assets bag. So to do that, I will make this smaller, I will go forward and make it pop right here. Keyframe is created. I go a bit further and I put it down. Let's see what this looks like and you agree to the real estate. Let's go on the keyframe animation. Let's go on the Y, which is the one that we use the most, because Y again, represents vertical movement. The click on auto curve on every key frame and this shouldn't be a waste moder. Let's see patents. You agree to the real estate agent, someone who represents buyers and resellers in real estate transactions. This is all perfect, but the image is looking a bit static towards the end. So what they will do is alight every clip and click Alt G. This will create a compound clip. And for this clip I will be able to add later some effects that will add movement. But since effects are for the next lesson, let's stick to text and graphics. Okay, okay, let's look at this once more. Updates the facts. It's hard working. You complete tasks as fast or faster than expectations. You agree to the real estate agent, someone who represents buyers and sellers in real estate transactions. All right, that's the identity, but everything that we used to describe the identity or things the person does. For the lesson, you have learned how to create text animations, how to create your own text, how to create your own text presets, how to create compound clips animations with key frames. The basics. And how to caption videos in a matter of seconds. You have also learned how to use templates and effects. 6. Effects and masks in detail: In this lesson, we'll talk about stickers. Stickers are either PNGs or gifts, so little animations I can add them like this. It is going to quickly download it, and as you can see, there is, for example, this one, there are a lot of stickers, but they aren't usually too good. They're subdivided into sections, and I've never found anything that is good or that can be used on a video, except sometimes some arrows, but it's really rare. Usually finding assets online is better. Even these emogies are in the best. I don't see myself using an emogule like this in a serious video. Not at all. Of course, you're free to check out all the stickers. And if you find something that you like, you can add it to your favorites if you're signed in. But I didn't find anything good. So let's move on to effects. Effects are a really good section. It is subdivided into sections. Again, I believe that the best section is the lens one. As you can find, a lot of blur motion, blur that is often used in content creation. There is also this really cool effect which is edge glow and we will use it right now. What edge clothes as you can see it is going to affect mainly our real estate here. As you can see, there isn't a glow around the PNG because we imported it from the Internet. But if I go on the edge glow as you can see, this is now glowing as well. Therefore, I will go here at the start of the compound clip, I will zoom in to make sure that I am at the start. There we go. And then I will try it all the way. And this is what it looks like. As you can see, it is adding glow to every single sticker or PNG or whatever you want to call it. And also to the real estate one, so they're all the same. You can also modify how much you want the glow to be. You can make it lower, you can make it higher, usually leave it around. Default, you could also, if you want, add key frames, make a glow of 25 here and a glow of 100 here. As you can see, it is slowly improving and becomes bigger and bigger and bigger until it's x. I will not do that though, because I just like it to keep it on default. Then I will also show you how to blur stuff from your image. Let's say for example, I wanted to blur his face. All right, this is not what we want to do in this video. I'm just showing you a practical example to use Blur. So the first thing that I will first thing that I will do is control C and control clip so that they've copied it. Next thing that I'll do is use the knowledge that we used before for the mask and go in circle because that's the shape that most resonates with a face. Then I will disable the one below so that I can see the face here. I will shape it correctly. I think this is good enough. Then before adding the blower, what I will do is make sure to track the mask. What I can do is going at the first frame, it's a keyframe on position, then move forward and move this, and it's going to create another key frame. Then I do the same thing again until I have tracked the whole image Perfect. Now that we track the whole image, let's see if it's good and it should be. As you can see, the face is always strike. Now what do we do? Well, we simply add the blur effect to this image. We can choose how much intensity do we want to think with something like this. Then we enable this one. As you can see, the final result in this 11 of the ways to use it is not with faces of course, but one of the best ways is, for example, you're opening a folder and you want to blur it out. Or if you want to blur out your personal information, once you're signing in a website, you can use this kind of stuff. Usually, if you want to do this for a website or personal information, rectangle is the option that works the best because you can easily select a rectangle of personal information. For example, if there is your E mail here on a website. What I could do to smooth out this blower is apply some feather, for example, two. As you can see, without a feather, you can clearly see the edges. Instead, with a feather of even two, you can already see that it's more smooth and better. You can also adjust the feather with this handle, but I suggest using this number right here because it's easier. I just highlighted all the text. I will now move it lower. To move it lower, you move it wherever you want. For example, here. Then it doesn't apply to every text. Of course, because it didn't click Apply to All. But I don't want to apply to all because these are also captions. And all of these texts would go on the same position as well. What I will do is just move one of the text wherever I want, then I'll go low to position. And then I want to put the Y of the text at the same amount of this one. So I will cook here, it's this number. I will copy it. I will highlight everything once again. And then I will copy it right here. As you can see now the scale is applied to all the texts. I will also add the feather I was talking about. We go on the media panel and there is this little thing called library. On library, there are a lot of assets that you can use for free. What I'm using right now is a blood screen. This thing only lasts 5 seconds. So what you can do is go with the player head wherever you want. Click Edit, Freeze, And now you have a frozen screen. You remove the text. You can expand this as much as you like. Once you have your frozen screen, you go wherever you have your background with the paper and you make the length like that. We also copy it right here. We will use this by creating a mask which is horizontal, flipping it and then going around right here and applying a lot of feather. I'd say like this is enough where there is this background. As you can see there is a little black here that helps the text to stick out from the macron. I will also copy this and past state right here so I don't have to recreate the effect actually. There we go. As you can see, it is what it looks like. I could also apply this to the whole video, but since Altro Moos has this kind of black thing already, you cannot really see, therefore I'm not going to do it. I will also show you some other really good effects, first one being neon outline. Basically, it creates a neon outline like this. I will show you the right way to use this because if you use it like this, only it doesn't look too great. The best way they found to use this is to go on a clip. For example, this one you apply the effect that you disable all the rest. You export the clip as an MP four. Once we've exported the project, what we're going to do is bring the exported version right here. Then we're going to cut it once it ends, which should be here, we remove the effect since we don't need it anymore. Now we go on adjustment. We will get on color grading later. But just as a quick tap, saturation, all the way to the bottom -50 is black and white images. That's all we need to know for now. And with this knowledge, we can make this effect black and white. Then we go on video, we leave the blend mode to normal. We reduce the opacity to's 40. And then since we don't want the background highlighted, we only want the character. We're going to go on cut out, auto cut out. And as you can see now, the only one that is highlighted is the character I don't really like his face because as you can see, it looks like his eyes are never open. So what I will go ahead and do is go on video mask horizontal. Turn the undred 80 degrees and remove its face. So this is what it should look like. Perfect. I will also fade it a bit because if you pay attention, you can see that the bird has two different colors. Let's see. Now, now it's way better. This shirt is all shiny. I like that. That is a way to use the neon outline effect. Another function that I want to mention is this section here, body effect. All the body effect can be found in the video effects, but if you're looking for effects, especially for bodies, this is the right section to search in as they're all here. There is one that I really like, you can sort them again by these sections right here. One of my favorite ones is this one. It basically does an outline around the character. I really like it when I'm creating edits and there are a lot of ways to customize it. How much you want the environment to be black. I usually turn this all the way down to zero or a little bit. Then if you want the stroke to be a certain color, you can decide the strength. You can decide how long is the line, as you can see right here, is really long. You can choose the size. I usually leave it around here at 30, lower the range, the strength around 80 because the strength is just how bright it is. So as you can see at 100, it's really right. At zero, it's not right, so I usually leave it at around 80, 90 depends. And then you can choose how fast it moves. I usually make it pretty quick. Also, ideally you want it to only, you know, stop once it's done a circle or maybe full circle, you don't want it to continue. So you could do something like this. There we go. That's perfect. That's a really cool effect. I Aly suggested to use it. The last effect that I want to talk about is rebounds wing. And that's because, as you can see, if we play this clip, it's pretty static. You know, everyone is standing still and there is this effect which is really good, which is called rebounds wing. That if you apply to the compound clip is going to animate the iphones. So as you can see here in the player panel, they're moving now. We don't want them to be synchronized as they are right now because it doesn't look really good as you can see. In order to make the movement not synchronized, what we're going to do is undo compound clip and as you can see, all the clips are alone. Now we're now going to cut at around here at their key frame where they go in their last position. Right here we go a couple of frames forward and we cut the clip. And we do the same for all of them. There we go. And then we're going to apply the rebound swing effect to each one. Singularly, they're not synchronized, but they still go at the same speed. What they will do is put the playerhead where there are all of the clips. Click on the special effect, click on the clip. Go right here where there is written, effects modify. And I'll reduce the size and speed of every single one, but I will make sure that numbers are slightly different. Something is a bit quicker, is a bit slower. Stuff like that. They're all moving a bit too slow. I'll put the size and speed up of all the effects. There we go. Let's say this look Sound. As you can see there is a bit of movement now and the background is changing as well. It's pretty good. In this lesson, you have learned some of the main effects that you will use, such as edge glow, rebounds wing, and also this really cool finger stroke. And also the neon outline to create this effect on the shirt. And in the next lesson, we're going to talk about audio. 7. Audio, music and sound effects explained: In this lesson, we will talk about audio and everything that has to do with it. So music, sound effects, and all that kind of stuff. But before starting, let's look at what we have created until now. Say hey, he's artist, he's hard working, he's a real estate agent. That's how we describe them, so let's translate those. He's artist, he states the facts. He's hard working. You complete tasks as faster or faster than expectations you agree to the real estate agent, someone who represents buyers and resellers in real estate transactions. All right, that's the identity, but everything that we used to describe the identity or things the person does perfect. I'd say we've done a really good job until now. So before really getting into this part of the audio, let's highlight one of the audios that we have. Let's go here in this section. As you can see, there are a lot of options that I've already explained here. Then there is the voice. Now here's what the voice changer does. It's pretty simple. It basically changes the voice. I don't usually use it, but for example here how it sounds with a deep voice. It sounds like one of those kidnappers in the Netflix movies West say, hey, you can change the timber. Honest. He's hard working, he's a real estate agent or the pitch, and that's the way I've described them. There are also other ways of changing the voice. I don't usually use them, but if you're creating some kind of documentary and you want this kind of voice, you can create it. So these are the voice changers. There is also an AI application that has this feature, which is really good, and it is called 11 Labs. I highly suggest you to try it. If you're interested in voice changers, it is currently the best one in the market. And then there is pitch two song, which basically transforms whatever he's saying into a song. But it's not really good and most of the options are a pro feature, so we're not going to use them. And then we have speed. There is a pretty good option when it comes to speed. So for example, if I speed up the audio at 1.5 as you can. Hearts, hardworking, it's real estated, that's what I've described it. The audio is kind of messed up. So what you can do is click on voice, tone change, and voice is going to be kind of like a young kid. I'm going to let you hear it. He's honest, he's hardworking, he's real estated enough. I usually don't suggest to change the voice of audio if you have a problem because an audio is too fast or too short, just re record it. There is nothing else to do. You cannot really modify the length of an audio because it is going to affect negatively the voice tone. Now let's get into music, sound effects and all this kind of stuff. So first thing first here, you can check for songs. There is a really cool song that they like, so I can look it up. I just type it in the search bar. It enter and I'll find it right here. And you probably know it if I'll play it. The check check if I like this, I'll add it to the timeline and it is going to be added as an MP three. In this case, the volume is too high. As you can see there are the orange bars, so you would like to take it down like this. Or if you want, you can go in Basic and modify it as much as you want with these arrows or with this handle. Since it is a song, you usually want to fade it in and fade it out, as you can see right here. Although most songs are already faded in and out by default, it's personal preference. The music section is also divided in subsections. As you can see, you can find Christmas songs, you can find travel songs, pop songs, beats, whatever you want. And then we move on to sound effects, which is again subdivided into sections. If you need some transition sound effects, for example, you can find them here, or you can always search them up here. If, for example I'm looking for a riser, I can, for example, take this one, put it right here. I will reduce the volume a bit, as I don't want any orange because it means it's too high. And I'll play it. As you've heard, we have our sun effect. I can of course, look for every sound effect that I want. Then we have the copyright subsection where you can check your whole video to check if you have copyrighted music for Tiktok and Youtube. Of course. Then there is extracted audios, which basically allows you to click Import, and then you choose File, and it is going to extract the audio and add it to the timeline. Then there is Tiktok, which is a section where you can link your Tiktok account and post directly on Tiktok. And then there is brand music. When it comes to brand music, there's also a section of brand assets at the start. And in this section, you can Either audios or in this case, videos in the space which only works, of course, if you're signed in and you can always access your assets from every PC anywhere in the world, from the web app, mobile, wherever you want. You will not find every single song of the world in this library. That's why I suggest to go on media local and import some music. If you want, you can download them from Google because that is going to help you out. I've gone ahead and taken a music and sound effect from my assets pack that you can find in this course. I'm now going to add the song first. Then I'll reduce the volume because as you can see, there is orange, which means the volume is too high. I'll go even lower because I want, or Mozi to speak louder than the song. I will cut the song here, remove the rest, and I will put the fade out until here, where the new part of the song starts. So this is what we had. We describe someone, a Denny, we say, hey, he's honest, he's hard working, he's a real estate agent. That's how we describe them, so let's translate those. He's honest, he states the facts. He's hard working. You complete tasks as faster, faster than expectations. You agree to the real estate agent. Someone who represents buyers and, or sellers in real estate transactions. All right, that's the identity. But everything that we used to describe the identity or things the person does, perfect. Let's now add some sound effects. I've got in some paper effects for the paper that we have here and here. And then we also have a wooh, a couple of bulbs and a riser. So let's add those in and let's place them correctly. I've gone ahead and put all the sound effects here. Since this is the same sound effect repeated over and over. I will go ahead and create a compound clip so that they can reduce the volume of every sound effect just by reducing it of the compound clip. I will add a fade out because I think it fits pretty well. I will reduce this pop sound a bit and then I will let you here, keep in mind that here we have a riser at the start. Risers are usually used in the hook. You will recognize this sound effect as soon as it plays. Then we have some paper crumble effect. Every time a subtitle comes in, we have a woh for this light effect. We have a pop for the will translate. And then we have this crumbling paper for the paper in the background right here. Let's play these. We describe someone's identity. We say, hey, he's honest, he's hard working, he's a real estate agent. That's how we describe them. So let's translate those. He's honest, He states the facts. He's hard working. You complete tasks as faster, faster than expectations you agree to the real estate agent. Someone who represents buyers and, or sellers in real estate transactions. All right, that's the identity. But everything that we used to describe the identity or things the person does, perfect. We now have our audio set up, our song, and our sound defects. Therefore, we can move onto transitions. 8. CapCut and viral transitions: We have now almost completed this creation. We now just need to add the transitions in this lesson. In fact, you're going to learn all the ways to add transitions to your videos and some of the best ones. Let's get straight into it. There are three ways to add transitions. First one is going into the transition panel. Here you can choose between hundreds of animations. Some of the best ones are in the clitch section, for example, if you add something like color glitch, this is what happens, please. We say hey, he's honest, he's, and I think I'll actually keep it. I'll maybe turn duration to 0.3 Let's se how this looks. We say, hey, he's honest, I really like this. There are also a lot of other bleach transitions which I really like for now. Let's stick to the other way of adding transitions is by clicking on the clip, going on animation, then adding animations in or out. So for example, if I want to add a faith animation here, I have two ways to do it. One is going on the black faith animation right here in the transition panel. So this is what it looks like, that's how we describe that, just so. Or the other way is to go on the clip. Animation out, fade out. And there you go on the next clip, a Ada fade in. And this is what it looks like. A stadent, that's how we described that. As you can see, the text doesn't fade out. If I wanted to fade out, I would have to go on animation out. Remove the animation as I have click on this background, go on the text by holding control. I'll highlight all of the text. Then highlight this thing as well, always by holding control. Then click G, so I create a compound clip. Now if I go on animation and click Fade out, this is what it looks like. It's hard working. He's a real estate agent. That's how we act. As you can see, everything is fading out. And the third way to add animations is by doing it manually. By manually, I mean you go right here in the clip and you play with opacity keyframe so that it slowly disappears. You can, again, recreate the compound clip. And this doesn't only apply to opacity, but also to these other kind of transitions that I will actually use. Now these transitions are going crazy on Tiktok and Instagram. Everyone is using them. They're called burn transitions. I have I think around 40 in my editing pack and 40 paper style transitions like Alia Dal. I highly suggest to check them out and download everything that you can, and basically you add these in between the clips. There is already the sound and this is what it looks like, estate agent, That's how we describe them. So let's try. Perfect. I will make a compound clip. I will make a compound clip of this thing as well, so that the burn transition goes on top. He's a real estate agent. That's how we describe them. So let's translate. That's perfect. We have the burn transition plus the wooh effect. Now we move onto the paper. I will add another burn transition. So I'll go again and create a compound clip right here. I like everything that we have, especially at the start, I'll create a compound clip. And let's see how this looks like. Honest, he states the facts, he's hard working. You complete tasks as fast or faster. Actually, I'll change the burn transition to another one. I actually realized I have to lower this a bit. Let's see how this looks like. Now he's honest, He states the facts. He's hard working you complete, perfect. And at the end, I don't think I will let the transition, I'll let you see sellers in real estate transactions. All right, that's the identity. But everything that we used to describe the identity or things the person does, you don't need any transition here. You can simply live and hard cut and it's completely fine. Therefore, we have now analyzed to create a video from scratch. Use text effects, sound effects, audio out to monify audio, fade in, fade outs, transitions. All that kind of good stuff. And I would get into color grading right away. But I don't want to overwhelm you with information. And that's why I believe it's better if we now create another short from scratch. And I'll create a short that will directly upload on my Instagram for everyone to see. And I'll go a little bit more in depth. And at the end of that, I will color grade everything and explain to you how everything works. It is not too hard, you will get it right away. I believe color grading is one of the most fun things that there is in video editing. Honestly, I actually love doing color grading and I think you will too. So, without further ado, let's get into the second short creation. 9. Another video, media, audio , text and creative thought explained: In this lesson, we will start creating another short. In this lesson, I will only present the shorts and the footage that we have as of right now. And that will leave the rest to the other lessons. The first thing that we will do to create a short is click on the nine by 16 aspect ratio so that we have the vertical format for this subject. I've chosen Luke Belmar that created this interview slash podcast on a boat. The issue in this boat was the sound, because as you can hear, there is noise in the background, it's pretty bad. What is biohacking? Bio means life packing. Your ability to find your way around something, your way to find. And we do not like that. What I've done is exported the audio. Put it in Adobe podcast, which is an AI tool that is completely free. You just look it up. Adobe podcast, and it will announce your audio lites. And now I have this audio which is completely announced without any background noise. What is biohacking? Bio means life packing. Your ability to find your way around something. Your way to find glitches. So as you can hear, the audio is now clean. Removed the silences and stuff like that. And we now have a 42 minute video. First thing that we will do is resize the clip. So I'll go ahead and scale the clip and put Belmar in the center. And I'll do this for all the clips. This process would have been way easier if you did it before cutting the clip. However, it's not that long anyway. You cannot create a compound clip to reduce the length of the process because you will lose some quality of the clip. I've just tried, I don't know why Pka does that. But regardless, we are now here with the completed zoom in so that now we have always look Belmar in the center. And now let's restart the editing process. The first thing that we're going to do is go on text auto captions create. I'm now going to go on text presets. And that we'll use the texts that I use, as you can see, text for IG reels. That's what I use. I'll add it and then I'll manually change the phones and all the statistics of the subtitles. Just make sure that you're apply to all so you don't have to do it again that we uppercase, make it a bit bigger. We add a stroke which is not going to be really important in this specific short as look belmar as a black shirt so you won't be able to see it really well. And then we add a low. And as you can see now if I put them side to side, they're basically the same. I'll go on captions and I'll make sure that there's only two words per subtitles. Just by clicking and pressing Enter. I have now divided the text into three words, Max. And I'll quickly show you what we have right now and what I want to do. What is biohacking? Bio means life packing. Your ability to find your way around something. Your way to climb glitches in the system of bla. What do you do with these 30 minutes that you stop interacting with your father? Walk into a 711, go see the type of individuals that walk in there, what they buy and what they do, and you're going to realize that their habits dictate their appearance, because those are not the habits of winning successful people. Now do the opposite. Go the next day and spend those 30 minutes observing people that you want to resemble. People have winning qualities. Always have that golden touch and dissect them. Observe them. What is it that they do that causes this? So here's what I see. When he says bio means life, I will probably create a little plant that grows in an animation style. When it gets to acking, I will show either one of those screens from like enter tap when he says about the main tricks that kind of stuff or something relating to clitch, maybe with clitch effects or transitions here when he says, what do you do with the 30 minutes that they stop interacting with your phone? I will show a clock spinning that resembles 30 minutes. And probably a phone getting away or something similar. When he says walk into a 711, I'll probably show some irreal and maybe an animated person entering here. When he talks about the type of individuals that look into a 711, I will show probably a barrel of a fat guy generated with AI because that's what Balmer means. He's saying that people don't have good Ebits while walking into a 711. And when he says what they buy and what they do, I will make sure that the fat guy generated by the AI, either as popcorn or Coca Cola, or foods that are usually linked with bad Ebits, Netflix, stuff like that. Then he says, now do the opposite. So I'll probably flick an image of maybe a 711. When he says about that golden touch, I am thinking about doing something really cool with color grading, which is getting a finger or a hand basically with the finger tip that is golden. And then it touches look Belmar and it becomes completely yellow gold. That color, I think that would be really great. Dissect them, observe them. What is it that they do that causes this? You know that we have our ideas. Let's get straight to work. What I usually do with shorts, I first fix the video, so I get all the clips and then I put music and sound effects only afterwards. 10. B-roll and pacing of the short: I've gotten the clip set I will use before starting to add everything, I want to give you a quick tip If you want to do something like me where you take a clip from a podcast. I highly suggest you, once you have cut the clip and announced the audio to export whatever you have like I did and then re import it so it's a 43 second video instead of an hour podcast. Because otherwise your PC is going to lag unless you have a really good hardware and this is going to smooth in and make your work flow faster. We said that here we're going to add a plant clip. This plant clip was created using an AI image generator. If you're interested in learning more about this, I've created a course about a free AI image generator called Leonard. I, it's on my profile. And then I've taken this image and put it into Kyber AI, which is another software that creates videos out of images. This is what it created. I do not want to use this whole video. I want to use it until around here. So I will cut it and remove the rest. And then I will check when I need to make it start. And then right here, look Belmar says hacking. And that's where this Ic screen enters in place. I will check for a moment where there is a lot of stuff written on screen because I don't really like this part where it's still right. I'll go around here. Control control. I'll take a big chunk. 12 seconds, remove everything else, make this bigger centered. Then I will click on the blend mode screen. The black part of the screen isn't shown. I will add a fade in animation of about 1 second. Bio means life packing, your ability to find your way around something. This is good. I want the text to go faster though, so I'll put the speed at around three X. Then I want it to end when the plant scene ends right here. Bio means life packing. Your ability to find your way around something here where it says glitches, I will create a really cool effect, which you will see in a second. So first we import this amazing green screen of the matrix. Then I will put screen once again. Then I will copy this clip and paste it right above. I will go on cut out and click auto cut out. The cup cut automatically cuts out the person in the screen, for example, Balmer in this case. And then I will put this above the matrix clip. And let's see how this looks like on wait to find glitches in the system of bla. Do you, do I want this to fade in as well? I think 1 second is think you wait to find glitches in the system Ab. I think this is perfect. I've also gone ahead and added a bit of fade out so that it's more smooth. The ending and the key frame at the start on the scale at 03:17 and at the end at five under. So this is the final effect way to find glitches in the system of Blake, as you can see. Constantly zooms in, Fades in and fades out perfect. And now Luke says, what do you do with this 30 minutes? So we will add the clock here. I will make it really big and I will read the same thing when a copy paste the clip cut out, auto cut out so that the clock is behind him. And I will also add a screen so that the clock doesn't cover the couch. So this is what it looks like with these 30 minutes that you stop interacting with your phone, which is decent, but I don't like how it appears from nowhere. What we will do is make the clips slightly longer and start a bit earlier. We add a key frame at the start. We put it down here. We also put a key frame monopasity at 50. And then we go right here. I want a key frame monopasity at 100. A bit further. I want the clock to be right here. Then I will click out K to open the graphs. Again, if you want a detailed course on key frames, I made one specifically, we go on position and size. We go on the Y, which is the main thing that we changed. We click on Potter Curve, here and here, and this is what it looks like, too bad, as you can see, comes from the bottom. But I also wanted to get out like that. I will copy this key frame and go at the end and add it here. Then I will also copy this keyframe, and I will add it around here when I wanted to disappear. Let's see how this looks. Interrupt, I'd say it's perfect. In fact, I'll also move this interrupt. This is good. I just wanted to start a bit earlier and this is the final result. A bla. What do you do with these 30 minutes that you stop interacting with your phone, which is pretty good? I will now close again with Alt K. You can also, if you want, click right here with the right click and click, click this, whatever you prefer. And now he says walking to a 711, I got a 711 right here. Then here at the 711, I will zoom completely at the left here, all the key frames again and go at the end and another frame, but this time it's going to be on the right. So this is what it looks like. Walk it to a 711, it goes two fast. I'll go right here again in the graphs. And smoothing it out so that it's more smooth at the, at the end. At the start, it should be faster in the middle. Let's see, dear father, walk it to a 711. Go see that looks way better. I'll close this key firm animation once again. And now when he says the type of individuals that walk in there, what they buy. And here I have prepared this image again, thanks to AI. I will zoom in like this so that you can't really see this remote which was generated on accident. I will put a keyframe right here on the position scale. And I will move it like this around here. I've created this key frame. I will go around here and create another key frame which these times is completely on the right. So this is what it looks like. Go see the type of individuals that walk in there. What they buy a smooth the animation with this auto core feature 11, Go see the type of individuals that walk in there. Perfect, I will close it. And then from right here it says what they buy and what they do. I have two other images that are created. One which is a burger which will replace pasta here like this, and another one which is a cook. Regarding the first image, it was created on Leonardo where you can remove backgrounds freely. That's why it doesn't have background. This one, unfortunately, it was created on Dali, which cannot remove backgrounds. However, I asked for a green screen so that we can use the chroma key feature and remove this green right here, which can give us a decent result. I will put it right here. I will go right here where Luke says by right here will add a keyframe on everything. And then I'll go backwards and add a keyframe on everything but make the burger small. And here what it will look like this as you, so it gets big. I also want to add a key frame a bit later and then make this one with a bit of a bigger scale so that it has a pulp. That doesn't mean looks better. We are going to have to once again open the keyframe animation. As you can see here we are on the scale function. I will click auto curve on everything. But this time I think I will need to modify it by end. Let's see, I walk in there, what they buy and what I mean, it's decent, but it's not the best. So first thing that I will do is remove every key frame regarding position. And let's see how this look down walk in there, what they buy. Okay, it's not too bad, but I want to change it. So I will modify this endle, I will move this key frame a bit closer. Okay, I will go right here where there is key frame actually I'll move it a bit and then I will add opacity to zero keyframe and the plasty to 100. And this should look better now that walk in there, what they buy and what, It's a bit fast right here, he says by, whenever he says by the burger appears individuals that walk in there, what they buy and what they do and now I just need to sink to do do that. It's pretty simple. I will go right here. Copy all of the key frames so that I don't have to do the animation by holding control and then eating C and then going at the first frame of the ring paste and then adding it. Whenever he says two, which is here, I will sink it. Then I will simply change the position so it's there. Also I need to change the scale. Will raise this and raise this. And raise the position around here. Raise the scale a bit more. They do a bit of certs, check it out what they do. Okay, this shouldn't be good. So I will close the keyframe animation. Let's take a look. You will that walk in there. What they buy and what they do. Okay, I think it's pretty good. I'll reduce the duration of the clips so. They don't go and look Val Mar's face here where he says their habits dictate their behavior. I will add the Netflix hand here and then I will do the same trick again with the auto cut out. I will lower the volume of the Netflix here, add the screen overlay so that the black disappears. And then I'm also going to make this longer, is that their habits dictate their appearance. Because those are not the habits of. I don't want the Netflix logo to be this long, actually, so I'll cut it. Their habits dictate their appearance around here. And then I will add a fade out as well. Appearance, their appearance, which is perfect on 0.5 I will cut these instead of needed here where it says winning, I will add this glowing icon which I have in my editing pack. I will remove something, title of winning successful people. As soon as you sing opposite, I will cut the clip and right where he finishes I will mirror the clip. So this is what happens now. Do the opposite as clip mirrored. And actually I want this to be a bit longer. So I will remove this and increase it for the next effect. I've downloaded this video from Youtube of a hand topping a fake screen, and you can use that to touch look in this case. And once he gets touched by this end, which I will make sure that appears from nowhere here, I will make sure that it becomes gold. Once a touch happens, which is right here, which is right here, this is the frame. I will cut the clip. Cut the clip right here as well. And then I will put this above. I will put a copy of this clip here as well. And then I will freeze the clip in this exact spot. There we go, just like this. And then I will get to color grading and making this yellow to make look of a gold color. The first thing that I'll do since I've frozen the clip is the activate the one that is below. Otherwise, as you can see right here there is a double look that is slightly moving in the backgroum and we don't want that, I'll disable this. How do I change this color to gold? Well, it is not too hard. The first thing that I'll do is go Cut Out and click on Auto Cut Out so that the color only applies to him. Then I will copy the clip and paste it and remove the auto cut out from this one. And keep the auto cut out here. Then the activate this one since it is not needed. What happens is here I have the full clip here. I only have Luke as you can see, full clip on Luke right here here is full clip. I put this finger on the top layer so that it can be seen. Then I need to change the color of look to yellow because it's gold. I want to export the clip and analyze it in a different project. But in order to do that, I will need to remove this hand, which is the end of the other guy that is Ming, a podcast. To do that, I will highlight everything here and zoom in Look, and do the same right here. I will zoom in at 01:40 as I did with the other clips. So this is what happens. As you can see the end appears. He clicks and he stops. I will remove the subtitle as it is interfering. Now I will remove the background by removing these two clips so that there is sport steel frame because it's only an image. And export then I only want to export to Lou as a black and white image. To do that, I will disable the rest of the images and videos. I will go on adjustment and remove all the colors again. I will go in the details of color grading later. As of right now, you just need to know this. And then I will export steel frame as a black and white image export. I will now re import, Make sure that it is below the hand video and the layer this one, okay? And then I will add this gradient, reduces length, scale it up and click on Overlay. This basically makes him yellow. Although I want to improve this by improving the yellow here and here. I have gone ahead and reactivated the backgrounds. And now we'll go ahead and create a compound clip with the overlay and look so that the end remains of pink color. I will click it once again, the layer two, and as you can see now, the end is of a normal color and look becomes yellow perfect. I can also add a background here. I will auto cut out once again. I will now add this gold background. I will make it slightly smaller like this. I will put it in the last layer, actually in the middle, and this is what it looks like. Always have that golden touch and dissect them, have that golden touch. I will also add this great background. I will click on screen so that the black disappears, reduce its opacity, and put it between Luke and the gold right here. So we now have Luke the grade and gold. I will also add an effect to the goal. I think normal blur will be good enough. Reduce it a bit and let's see how this looks like. Always have that golden touch grid is moving, and I don't think I really like that. So I will click Freeze. Remove the rest I need to layer correctly. Once again, this hand, so this is what it looks like. In the end, you want to resemble. Always have that golden touch and dissect them. Observe them. What is? I think it's pretty good. Now, last thing that I want to add is something here, as there are almost 10 seconds without anything for this part, I've gone ahead and taken an icon from icons eight.com which is one of the best sites for free icons. I'll put it above the subtitle Observing people that you want to resemble. In this lesson, we added all the media that we needed. In the next one, we're going to add music, sound effects, transitions, effects. Afterwards, there will be the color grading masterclass. 11. Music, sound effect, transitions and effects : In this lesson, we will fix the text, add music, sound effects, transitions, and overall do everything except color grading. Let's get into it. Let's now fix the text. By fixing the text, I mean changing most of the colors of the text because white text is boring. But before doing that, we will check that every single text is synced correctly. How do we do that? It's pretty simple. We go at the start of the text and we check if you look is saying bio, for example, in this case right away. And it doesn't wait. Boman perfect. And now we check for Life. Life perfect. Again, hacking packing. I'll do this for every single text and then we'll start changing colors. I've gone ahead and sync every text, and now let's look at what we have until now. What is biohacking? Bio means life packing. Your ability to find your way around something, your way to climb, glitches in the system of life. What do you do with these 30 minutes that you stop interacting with your phone? Walk into a 711, go see the type of individuals that walk in there, what they buy and what they do. And you're going to realize that their habits dictate their appearance, because those are not the habits of winning successful people. Now do the opposite. Go the next day and spend those 30 minutes observing people that you want to resemble. Always have that golden touch and dissect them. Observe them. What is it that they do that causes this? Okay, this is what we have. Now let's get to working on the text. We'll work on the transitions later. So first we go on text. And to change the colors of simple words, you simply light them, go on color, and change it to whatever you want. I will change Bayaking to aqua color because I think it fits pretty well. And I will change Bayo to the same color of the aqua. I will go here, copy the X of the color with control C. Then go right here, Highlight this going color and copy the X. We have the same bo here, and here. I've done that. I will now remove the Apply to All. Because if I were to click Apply to All and change the color of this text to whatever color, it would affect all the colors of the video. And I don't want that happening. So click control Z, which is undo, Remove applies to all and go on the green color because life has that green color. Then King I will use a red color for acking, as I think that could work well in order to create contrast with the green. When I say glitches in, I will not change any color. But I will add an animation on the text loop. Means that happens the whole time that the text is on screen. What better animation than the color glitch? Let's, looks like you climb glitches in the system of black. What do you That's really good. Then once it says the system, I will change the system color to orange. I will change once again, life to green. I will use the same green that I used before. I will copy this and then go right here and copy it. I'll change phone to Cy black. I think I'll go with this color. Yep, I will change individuals to pink because I think it can fit well. I will remove this text and this one as a stuff is appearing on screen. And also this one, I will change Ab red because the abbits are negative, and red is usually red colored. There's also the Netflix. Then I will change habits to Aqua. It doesn't need to be the exact same that I've used before. Then I will change dissect. I'm thinking of something like below which we didn't use. Let's see how this look. Slow, it's not too bad. I'll stick with it. Now let's change this kind of icons that we have used. Let's improve them. I now want to add the angel effect to this icon. But if I do it like this, it is going to apply also to look, and if I merge them together as a compound clip, it is not going to apply. What I will do is it control Z. Then I will copy them and paste them right here. I'll reduce the strength of the angel effect that around here. And then I will export seal frame. And then I will reimport it exactly here, The screen blend mode, so that all the black thing disappears. And remove this one. And now we have this cool light effect perfect. Now let's add a bit of edge glue to this icon with the edge glow effect strength of the max. And we are good. So this is what we have now with the colored subtitles. What is biohacking? Bio means life packing. Your ability to find your way around something way to find glitches in the system of bla. What do you do with these 30 minutes that you stop interacting with your phone? Walk into a 711. Go see the type of individuals that walk in there, what they buy and what they do. And you're going to realize that their habits dictate their appearance, because those are not the habits of winning successful people. Now do the opposite. Go the next day and spend those 30 minutes observing people that you want to resemble. Always have that golden touch and dissect them. Observe them. What is it that they do that causes this? I believe that this is perfect. And now we'll move all the captions below Luke's chain because I think it's the best spot to take them and copy the position for all of them. Now that you have set up the subtitles, let's move onto the transitions and then we'll move onto the audio here. I will add a burn transition, find your way around here. I will go into transition panel, go in glitch, and add a color transition. To do that though, I will have to remove the truck of magnet, reduce the length of this clip, put it right here, and add the color glitch like this means life. As you can see, this happens. I will also add a glitch effect right here with the king and this stuff. And the effect is called fuzzy. Like this packing. Your ability to is too strong, though I will reduce the strength a bit and the speed. I will leave colors, which is called chromatic aberration. The same packing, your ability to find your way around something way to find glitches. I will also add a bit of color glitch here. Packbility, I will add the fuzzy effect right here when he says glitches. And also add the color glitch effect to find glitches. To create that glitch effect, I will now add another effect which is called rebounds wing to this glowing icon. So as you can see, it moves of winning successful people. I now want to create a compound clip with everything, but I cannot because there is already a compound clip. What I will do is copy this compound clip, paste it at the end. Then go right here. Click Export steel frame. And then I will re import it. Remove the other one, the auto cut outs. And then I will delete this one. Now as you can see, the auto cut didn't do a good job as it deleted this part, but it's no problem. Since we're going to add another clip without even removing the background, we're simply going on mask horizontal and flipping this like this. Now I still need to put this on the fifth layer. Now everything should look good. Always have that golden touch. I can now finally create a compound clip with everything. I will also create a compound clip before remove this part, move this upwards, and then at the transition straight with the color glitch. And this is what it looks like. Always have that golden touch and perfect. We can now move onto the audio part. I've gone ahead and chosen the music. This is a song that you hear pretty often, these kind videos. What is biohacking? Bio means life. You probably know it. I will go with a volume around 19.5 after listening to it all. There is only a slight issue right here where the Netflix logo sings with a beat drop. That's a problem. I'll let you hear it. You're going to realize that their habits, she starts singing, it's not the best. Therefore, what I'll do is go around here. Place a key frame at the drop. Place another key frame when the Netflix sound effect ends, and a another key frame. Then make this a bit quieter so that the volume here is at a certain value. It goes a bit down and then it goes up again and it's pretty smoth as you can hear walk in there, what they buy and what they do. And you're going to realize that their habits dictate their appearance because those are not the habits which is perfect. And now we just have to insert sound effects. I've gone ahead and imported sound effects, now you can find them all in my assets pack. I will start by adding a glitch right here where there is the glitch transitions. O means life packing, your ability to find your work. I've also gotten this sound effect from Youtube. I have downloaded a video that add the sound effect for free. There's plenty of these sounds on Youtube. I will lower the volume a lot. Here is some what it sounds like to find glitches in the system of life. What do you do with which is perfect, since there are all these green letters? I will now add a fast Woohre, which fits with the going up with these 30 minutes A. And then I'll copy and paste it here. Once it goes down stop, I will add a normal wooh here for the 72711. Go see the T. I will then add two pop sound effects for the burger and soda appearing, what they buy and what they do for this gleache. Once again, I will copy the sound effect that I had at the start right here. Just have that golden touch and dissect them, observe them. What is it that they do that causes this? Then as a final touch, I will add this gear sound effect, which is one of the greatest sound effects ever. I will add it at the start. What is biohacking? It always fits well here. I'll add another transition because I believe it fits well, even though I didn't had it before when I was doing transitions. I'll add a camera shutter here, which is the noise of camera once it takes a photo. Then I'll add a white screen right here, a fade out animation. I'll scale it up. I will put it above everything here, and this is how it looks like they do and you're going to realize that their habits. Then I will add a bone crux sound effect right here when it says resemble. And even though this sound effect doesn't fit with the narrative, he says that it should impersonate someone and you're using a bone crack sound effect. This is one of those sound effects that doesn't really matter where you put it and it is going to be a good addition. You want to resemble, always have that golden touch. As you heard, it fits well because it's a bone cracking sound. And bo crack is such a general sound effect when it comes to video editing that fits well in every scenario. It may also be because we got used to it because of the usage on Tiktok and Instagram and stuff like that. But the fact remains it works. In the next lesson, we are going to get into color grading. It is going to be really in depth lesson on color grading. We will not only do color grading for this video, but we will also do color grading for other images and videos. Because the color grading Pca features are amazing, both filters and manual adjustments. I'll see you there. 12. Color grading Masterclass 1: The basics of adjustment layers and filters: Let's now talk about color grading. In cap Cut, you achieve color grading with two tools which are adjustment and filters. Let's focus on adjustment first. Let's go over, for example, the first clip. You can add an adjustment and change the colors of this clip in two ways. One, by creating an adjustment like this, an adjustment layer which is yellow, or by clicking on the clip and going on adjustment. Let's start by creating an adjustment layer. What's the difference? Well, the difference is that if you adjust right here, the only thing that is going to get affected is this exact video. Instead, the adjustment layer, every clip below the adjustment layer will be affected. Let me give you a quick example. If I reduce the saturation of this picture down to -50 the image becomes black and white. This image right here, the plant is still colorful. Instead, if I put the saturation back up, and instead I put down the saturation of the adjustment layer. As you can see, the clip once again becomes black and white and the plant also becomes black and white as it is below the adjustment layer. It. Let me disable this quick. It is the same for the things that are written here. Although they were green, they are below the adjustment layers. They will have this black and white effect instead. If I go right here, the image becomes colorful again and the written things become colorful again. And now we get onto the second part. Why is color grading important? Well, color grading is especially important for barrels like this one. In this case, Luke Balmer was on a boat with not a good of a lighting. And probably if you're recording some footage as well in your house, you do not have a professional light set up if you do props to you, but most people don't, and there is no need for expensive cameras and light when you have color grading. So here's how I would modify this image. First, I would not modify this image only as I have to add the same amount of color correction to this image and to all these other images as they are the same footage from the same boat, that they require the same corrections. So to do that, I will create an adjustment layer. Let's start from the basic panel of the adjustment layer and let me explain to you how this works. I will make the player panel bigger so that you can see better the corrections that I'm going to do. Let's start with the temperature. The temperature defines if you want the colors in your image warmer, so you pull it to the yellow or colder, the hue simply gives more purple or green to the image. This is not a feature that is commonly used. Then there is saturation, which is a really useful feature. First, if you want to make your images black and white, of course, But also to add color as you can see right here. I don't want to exaggerate too much. I think something like this works for his image. The way I suggest you to learn color grading, apart from a lot of practice, I sometimes don't remember what a precise feature does because I confuse them. Sometimes what I do is I simply put it to the max and they remember what it does. For example, the brightness is pretty easy. It increases the brightness of your image As you can see. In this case, there is no really need. Maybe a slight bit. Then there is contrast which improves the contrast on your image. But in this case, I will not use it because this is a dark environment. And in dark environment, this is what happens where you use contrast is pretty bad. Even using a bit, it doesn't really work out. Then there is highlight which doesn't change much the picture or the video, it just changes a bit. The lightning. As you can see, I usually link this default. Then there is shadow, which allows you to remove shadows and make the image brighter, or improve shadows and make the image darker. Then there is illumination, which is slightly different than brightness. Because as you can see, brightness works on subjects. Meanwhile, illumination works on the whole picture. As you can see, there are effects. Sharpening is one of the best effects of the whole color correction panel. It sharpens the corners and the lines As you can see, if you remove it, all of a sudden it looks like the image is blurred out. Usually I put this even up to 35, 50, something like that. Then there are particles, which, as you can see, add this kind of noise to the image, which I'd already want. Then there is fade, which basically adds this layer as you can see the image. Then the vignette, as you can see, vignette around, If you pull it to the right, it's a black vignette. If you pull it to the left, it's a white vignette. And this is the basics of this adjustment panel. For now, I will regulate that once you're done with your color corrections. If you want, you can save it as a preset. Therefore, if you're creating videos for your Youtube channel and you always record with the same lightning set up, the preset is going to save you a bunch of time, and then we move on to HSL. Hsl allows you to modify every single color individually. For example, if it is short, I don't want the red color. I can turn it down, and as you can see, everything that has a shade of red is disappeared. If I do the same with orange, the image is going to become black and white. Because the main colors, as you can see here, the main colors are Orange in the face, Red on the lips here is a bit of red here as well. Instead, if I remove the blue, the only thing that is going to get affected is the shirt that was blue. Meanwhile, if I remove the green, nothing really changes. You can also modify the other values for each color, but they're not really that useful. Then we have curves, which looks really scary. I know I will get more into detail in curves later as we don't need them right now. Then there are color wheels which are a pro feature, so I will not explain them, although they are really complicated and even though they give more freedom than the basic and core spanel, you can do basically everything with curves and basics. I'll also spend a second talking about LUTs. Luts are pre made adjustment layers basically that you can import from Google or wherever you want to download them. I don't personally have any. I usually make all the color corrections myself for two reasons. First, most of the LUTs aren't free. Second, I genuinely like to color or correct videos, therefore I just do it myself. Now let's reduce this once again to the normal height. What I will do here is create a big compound clip for the audio so that it doesn't take too much space in my timeline and we can work on the video. Now, let's modify this a bit further. Usually the best way to color correct is to try and see if it works. For example, if I improve the temperature. Do I like how it looks? I'm not sure about it. Therefore, I'll go back to the original. But I don't like this either. I think this is now too cold. What I will do is I will find a way in the middle around here, and in fact is a really good color. I will also add a little bit of vignette, as I really like this effect here, just like this, you cannot see it on the top, of course, and that's because there is already the black sky. Now I think I'm satisfied with this. I cannot really do much more because contrast ruins everything. I will improve the highlighting a bit so that his arm is more clear. And then I think I'm done with this. Therefore, I will make it the length of the whole video. There we go. Now that I have my adjustment layer, I will go ahead and cut it right here. And then he remove this part because there is no look here. Then here where there are two looks, I will copy and paste. Because I will need to. Then I will also need two right here. I will also copy. Then I will cut it here and here. One more cut here and then remove this part. Will now highlight this and all the adjustments which have the Luke Belmar on the main timeline. There we go. And then highlight all of these always by holding control. And then click I have my compound. I will do the same right here. Hold control Al, here, here. I will lose my transition. I will add it once again. And then here we have already a compound clip. I will uncompound clip this and then I will compound everything together. Now it's perfect. Every look Belmar has the color correction as you can see. Now to finish this lesson on the basics, I will talk to you about filters. Filters are basically pre made adjustment layers from cap cut. These ones are really good. I will give you a couple that are the best ones. Clear two is my favorite one when it comes to making stuff warm. As you can see there is more saturation and stuff like that. You can use this and adjust the strength as you like even with key frame. Then there is a black and white which is in my opinion, better than saturation. I will use the black and white on the fat guy because on Luke Belmar you can't really see the black and white as most of the images already black. But here as you can see there is the black. But there's also these kind of shadows which are different from a normal black and white filter like black and white tree. As you can see, this is normal black and white. Instead with black and white one, you can see that the stuff is more highlighted, the black is more enhanced. I really like this black and white, and I highly suggest you to use this instead of a normal saturation to zero like this. This doesn't look the best. I will also give you an amazing filter for cold colors, which is conifer. Con, conifer cone is absolutely amazing. I will use this filter on the fat guy and look at this. This is without the filter. This is with the filter. As you can see, the blue and cold colors are really, really enhanced. Meanwhile, the other colors aren't really that good. But if you have a picture or a video where you have a lot of blue, green, especially purple, these kind of colors, it is going to be an amazing filter for that. If you have a majority of word colors, I suggest you to use clear tube, the one I showed earlier. If you want to make something black and white, black and white one works amazing. These are my top three filters they use for everything. I will wait for you with the gradient and overlay color grading, which is a bit more advanced. But I will guide you, don't worry. 13. Color grading Masterclass 2: Curves and gradients: Let's get to color correction. This is an old edit that I had created for one of my old channels. Basically, I had to color correct some clips from to this for example, which as you can see, looks way cleaner. There is the black fade here, the shirt is way better. In the second picture, overall, the brightness and the contrast is way better. You can see how the characteristics from the background that is blurred out. And then also going to this, where as you can see, the colors are insane compared to this one. And I'll show you live how to do this. And to do this we will use gradient overlays. You can find this in my pack. I have around 18. I'm pretty sure I found them on canvas and I just use them all. How do these overlays work? The overlay is nothing but this kind of shape where on one side it's darker and on one side is brighter. You can scale it up to your preference. If you scale it up like this, for example, you will have a very dark section here and a very bright section here. If you scale it up more, it's going to be more balanced. If you move this down, it's going to be darker. That's the basic concept behind gradients, but we do them for color correction. Well, it's fairly simple. You click here and you use overlay. That's why they're called overlays. And as you can see, it goes from something like this to something like this with darker contrast on the bottom and brighter light on the top. Which is really good compared to something like this. You see the difference which is getting already closer to what we had already here. To improve this, we will not only use the overlay, that's just going to help, we also need to change in the adjustment section settings. For example, in this case I will raise the contrast a bit and the brightness. And as you can see, we're already getting closer to what we have here. But the face, as you can see here, is colder than here. Here, it looks brighter, more saturated. And in fact, we have to reduce the saturation by around ten. And as you can see, it looks way better. But we will also reduce the temperature, which really helps when you have the cold colors. As you can see, it's already looking almost the same. I also like to add sharpness as it sharpens edges, as you can see the end and all the lines in the shirt look defined now. And then to add the final touch to make the colors darker, For example, the hair that here is darker and all the colors in general, we will use a filter that I've talked to you about. Conifer con. I usually put the strength around alpha because if you exaggerate, as you can see, the atmosphere becomes really dark. Instead, like this, the atmosphere is brighter. And to finally adjust the brightness, we will play with the curves. To understand and explain stuff like this, which are curves. I usually explain it with extremes so that it's easy to understand. If you put this curve to the top, it becomes really bright. If you put it to the bottom, it becomes really dark. Therefore, if you tweak it a bit like this, you're going to get brighter points, darker points, and brighter points. However, for our color correction, we don't want something bright, but we want something dark. What we will do is go dark, bright, dark. I will reduce the brightness here. Announce the dark. As you can see, we have basically the same image. This is slightly darker because we went a bit farther with the lines. There we go. Now it looks better. Now let's move on to the other color correction. This one transformed this image into this one. For this one, I've gone ahead and taken the exact same frame so that we can recreate the exact same color grade and liquid it with this one. Because these two instances were taken from the same video, but in different moments, the light was slightly different. Instead here it's completely the same. So we'll recreate it step by step. We will restart with the overlay just like this, and then I will simply add the Conifer con. As you can see, I would have gone ahead and changed temperature and such like this, maybe like we did on the other image, but there isn't really a reason because I think this one looks better with the face more red. I'll go ahead and click undo on both the changes. And as you can see, the image is exactly the same here. We don't even need to go into the adjustment panel to do anything. We could add some sharpened edges like this, which would make it look a bit better. But as you can see, the hair, I don't really like it. I think it's too bright. Sharpen the edges, therefore I prefer something like this. Here I have taken some of the backgrounds that I have in my editing pack because we will edit them right now, as I want to show you how to change color of any background to anything. To do this, we will use gradients once again. Again, everything that I'm using can be found in my editing pack, so don't worry about it. So how do we do this? We have, for example, this black and white background, okay? And we want to add our red pink slash orange overly. How do we blend it correctly? Well, it depends on what we want. For example, if we want simply the lines of the background to be orange, we can click this overlay. Although the better way to do this is clicking on screen, which will create orange and here red lines. Meanwhile, if we want to give also color to the white, we can use the darken feature. A darken feature takes every color that is darker in this image and puts it on this one. In fact, as you can see, all the black lines are still here because they are darker than the red orange background. Meanwhile, since the white is lighter than those colors, it is going to disappear. Once we have done that, we maybe don't like how it looks. We can zoom in so that there is more orange or we could reduce the opacity so, so that you can notice it less, for example, something like this. Or you could also use a steel color, like an image of pink. In this case, for example, we can use a blue gradient for this other one. Again, you could use the dark end feature to do something like this. Although you can always play with all the features and find out which one works best. And you can reduce the opacity if you want, or you can zoom in because maybe you want in more blue like this or more black, you can decide. And then we move on to the kind of backgrounds and we'll also add a grid for this kind of backgrounds we can use, for example, overlay. And as you can see, we will have our gold background like this. I suggest to zoom in and make it more yellow. I believe that these yellow backgrounds are absolutely beautiful. And then we move on to the grid, which I've used also in one of my introductory videos, where basically you can add the overlay, and as you can see it becomes golden, dark. You can zoom in, zoom out, make it yellow, make it darker, whatever you want. And that's how you use overlay ingredients to color grade if you want. You could also export the video, and in this case the only exported a frame, but it's the same with the video, and basically you go on adjustment. Once the clip is exported, you can play with the color grading and add saturation. Remove it some pink. Maybe since the background is pink, you can maybe add some temperature, make it brighter, make it dark, curved, whatever you like. With this kind of knowledge, you can create infinite backgrounds which are completely custom and unique. Because you can change all the colors with every gradient, everything. And then the next lesson, we will also explore the black and white features and overall just give a revise of the whole color grading. 14. Color grading Masterclass 3: Black and White color grading, 3rd short creation: Now create together a type of short form content which has been extremely viral in the last months, especially on Instagram reels. This video is from Wvosen. He currently has 1 million followers and his reels are motivational. How does he do them? Well, it's extremely simple. It's an AI. Voice recorded some music in the background, auto captions and stock footage color corrected. Only thing that you need to learn for these videos are color correction in black and white basically. And I will explain to you right now. But first I want you to watch the video so you know what we are talking about. This is a motivational reel. If you start today in two weeks, you'll feel stronger in one month. You'll notice changes in two months. Your family and friends will notice in three to four months. Everyone will notice in five to six months. Everyone will ask how. Let's start with the captions. Let's go with some auto captions Create. I will now go ahead and choose Single, which is the font that is used by this guy. I will put subtitles in the middle, reduce the font size a bit, and then disable the real quick to see if everything works. This is perfect. Now I'll extract the audio so that we have to audio remove the clips and I will import some clips. I've now gone ahead and added some clips which are free stop footage found online mostly on Pexels.com but also on Youtube and other platforms. Therefore, we currently have a video which is this one with the auto captions. The footage we just need to color, create everything to do that. I'll start by going on filters and getting the filter I talked about earlier which is black and white one. I will adjust the strength before setting any clip, I will create an adjustment layer which will remove all the saturation of the whole video. Why? Because we do not want any color. Because if I start to reduce the black and white intensity of the filter, there is going to be some color. However, I don't want any. Regardless of how much the filter adds contrast and stuff like that, I do not want any color. Therefore, I will create this adjustment layer that goes throughout the whole video and I'll start editing from there. Now this black and white looks good. However, I want to reduce the intensity. I think around here. Let's see if we can also do something in the adjustment to optimize this even further. Of course, any of the U, temperature or saturation will not work because we have created this adjustment layer. Therefore, we can focus on the brightness. I'll add a bit and a bit of illumination. I'll also add some shadows, and not much contrast in the image as the filter is already giving it. I will sharpen around 25 I think, which looks perfect, and move on to the next image. Let's try and add this filter and see how it looks. It is probably going to look good, in fact it does. Now let's add a bit of brightness and illumination as we did earlier and make a bit more shadows and sharpen everything. I'd say still around 25. Then we go on to the next clip and create this black and white again. I will again at some brightness and some illumination. And then turn the shadow down. I will keep the sharpness a bit lower this time because I think it's too much. If I is it I'll keep it to around 15. Then I'll move on to the next one, black and white. It's better with the filter. And then I'll go right here at the bit of brightness. Bit of illumination and the shadow, and a slight bit of contrast. Now we'll move on to the sharp En not much. I just want to see a bit of highlight here on the edge. Then let's move on to the next clip. Filter looks good again. I will add a bit of brightness again and illumination. And then reduce the shadows. Too much illumination. Okay, then I'll add a bit of sharpness. I think I can add more on this. Yeah, I really like how it looks on the street compared to this. I think all the lights look better. Then I'll go here, a filter once again, which looks good. Just brightness, illumination and the shadow, then just a bit of sharpness to see a bit of white on the edges. I think here you can notice it slightly, but I don't want to exaggerate. Then, there is the last one. Let's try and make this, well, let's play this one, because there are lightnings. I'd like to improve the brightness so that we can see the lightnings, not the illumination, the only brightness. Let's see how this looks. How this looks, absolutely beautiful. Then I will create another adjustment layer which uses the vignette effect. I will see on which clips it looks good. Usually looks good on almost every clip, but I'll keep it at 25 here. I don't really like it. I'll move to the next one here. I do actually like it, therefore I'll keep it here. I don't like it because otherwise the lights don't have that much brightness as you can see. Therefore, I will cut it here and remove it. Let's check here. I really like it here. Otherwise the image will be too bright. I'll keep it here. Let's go on the next one here. It is not too bad, but at the same time I like some light. What I will do is reduce it to around ten so that you can slightly see it, but it's not too much. Now, move onto this one where I don't actually like it. I'd rather not having it because I like the bright sky here as we are going towards the end and there are about to be lightnings. And then at the end, we will leave it without, of course, because there are the lightnings exploding in brightness. And I want the image to be divided between the bright side and the dark side, which I believe creates a really cool effect. And that's how you create a posing edit. 15. Congratulations for completing the course, here's more!: Congratulations on finishing this course. I just want you to know that now you are really good at cap Cut. If you've watched the whole course, this means that you've enjoyed this course. That's why I want to let you know that I have also another two courses that you can see on screen which are on cap cut. One is a short masterclass on key frames, and I also have an amazing, extremely advanced masterclass. We will talk about trade and all of that cool stuff. Now, before you move on on one of those amazing courses as well, it would be in the world if I could leave a review to let me know what was good about this course and if there is something that could have improved. So feel free to do that, and I wish you an amazing learning.