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1. COURSE INTRODUCTION: Dreamed of making amazing, high quality videos
that go viral online. There's a free app
that you can use on your phone to create amazing
professional quality videos. Capcut is a game changer
that lets you edit videos like a professional
quickly and easily, and I can show you how to do it. In this CatcutF
smartphone master class, Bijan Machin, a
professional artist. I'm going to show you
how you can create high quality videos that
tell amazing stories in not. What will you learn
in this course? You learn how to
master the basics of video editing,
effortlessly cut, trim. Transitions. Everything that you need to make your video pop. You're going to learn
how to use music, sound effects and
audio you're going to level up your videos with
outstanding visuals, text on the screen, overlays, and graphics to make
your videos stand out. This course isn't just about
the features of Capcut. It's also about unlocking
your creativity. You're gonna learn to
craft engaging narratives, tell really unique stories, develop a signature style, and share your unique
voice with the world. Whether you're a
social media creator, bloggers, vloggers, podcasters, content creators, a
small business owner, a big business
owner, anybody with a smartphone, iPhone or Android. And somebody who just wants to jump in the content
creation game, this course is for you.
2. CapCut for Beginners + Getting Started: Greetings and
blessings abundantly. Be Jan Machin here,
your instructor. Let's get this tutorial started. First thing we're going to do is dive right into the Capcut app. Let's open it up and
load some footage in. So once you get the
Cap Cut app open, you'll see that there are
a number of features here. You can click this
button at the top right. It's a little carat symbol, and you can expand and
collapse this menu here, okay? Now, this menu shows all the
different things we have. So I'll just read through
each of these options. Feel free to try each of
these on your own time, play around with them,
experiment with them, get used to them. These
are all the features. I'm just going to
walk you through the layout and some
of what we have. We have a teleprompter, auto
captions, text to image. You can generate product photos, and you can use AutoCut you can make an ad
script with AI, so you can create a script
for advertising videos. You can do script to video, so you can upload a script, and it will produce a
video with AI for you. Transcript based editor. So editing your video based on a preset transcript, Smart ads, so this can use AI and
existing images to create advertising creative for. We got a video translator,
the photo editor. You can make AI posters. You can use a AI model here. So if you have a mockup
of some merchandise, for example, you can put a model in that
merchandise using AI. So if you don't have time to do a bunch of product photos, you can use AI here in Capcut to make your assets and your creative for your econ brands. They also have AI effects. You have the camera app,
which is really awesome. That's how we can
take pictures and videos inside of our Capcut app. It looks a lot like
the Tik Tok interface if you didn't want to
use your native camera. There's also a retouch feature, so you can retouch your images. You can remove background with this off of videos and photos. They have a smart vlog feature, which is new and seems
pretty exciting. You can create different vlogs and edit your vlogs with AI. They have AI image enhancement, so you can use this to
upscale your images. So these are all the
features in the main menu. When you open up Cap
Code on your phone, these are the first things
you're going to see. But what we're going to do is go ahead and create a
brand new project. So click on New Project. You can go ahead and select
whatever footage you want. If you want to select
multiple pieces of footage, you can just tap these
bubbles in the top right. Now, once you've
selected your footage, it'll pull it into
a project for you. I already have a project here, so I'm just going to open up the project that
I already had. And this is some footage of
me talking about my new book, What I M y, which is available
at jing.com slash SHOP. So once you get your footage into the project,
we can start editing. Now that we've uploaded our
footage into our project, we want to start
editing the footage, putting it together,
adding effects and transitions to make
our video more dynamic. So, as you can see here, I have a photograph. This is a picture of the
book to start it off. And then I also have a
video as the next image. Now, say I wanted to add another piece of footage to this after I've
already added some. All you're going to do is click the plus sign over
here to the right, and then you can add
your photos and videos. Another way to get footage into the CAPCUT app is by going
to your camera roll and actually selecting the
footage that you want and exporting it directly
into the Cop Cut app. So, for example, I can click
on something like this. If I wanted to put
this in the app, I would just press that picture me and Kenny Sharp
and my friends. And then I select
export to Cap Cut, and it'll go to Cap Cut. Import footage to Cap Cut. So once you get your footage
inside of your project, you want to go ahead, make sure you have everything
that you want to use. Something that I also do once I get in my project
is I just scroll through it like this and just look through and make
sure I'm getting everything that I
really want to include. And another thing
you can do is take this automatic ending
off this cap cut ending, which they do by default. And let me actually go back and show you how you
can remove that. So go up to the top
right to your settings, and you can click on the settings gear at
the top right corner. And where it says preferences, they have an option to
add default ending. I'm going to click that off. So that the default ending
is not on my videos. Then you can go back, go to Edit and jump right
back into your project. Okay? So I'm in my project. I have an image. I have
some video footage here. Life was much more than just finding a job that pays well and working until
the day you die. And as you can see,
I've already added some captions and some overlays, but I'm going to show
you how we did that here because this is a video that I already edited that
I pulled in here.
3. Aspect Ratio, Captions, Keyframe: So first things first,
I got this image up, and I want to show you how to
set the aspect ratio, okay? So the first thing I
want to do is make sure that my video is the right size. That's what the aspect ratio
means, the size, the frame. I want a vertical video, which is gonna be 169. So soon as you come
into the project here, they actually have an
option for aspect ratio. If you see, I'm just sliding
this over. Aspect ratio. I'm going to click
that, and then you can select which size you want
to make your project. So for this one, I have
916, but as you can see, there's square, there's 16, nine, all these
different sizes here. But we're going to
make sure I'm in 916. Now I've chosen my aspect
ratio for the project. And if you want to
change it at any time, you can hit that aspect
ratio button to do so. Okay? The next thing I want to show you all
how to do is trim clips. So I got my clips in here, and all I'm going to
do is pinch and zoom, just like this to expand
and contract my clips. Now, for this, I'm going to show you how to
make a cut or a trim. You just tap to select the clip. Once it's highlighted,
this little blue box will show up around
your project, and you'll see that the
clip is highlighted. From that point, I'm press
the split button right here, and then that will
allow me to go ahead and cut that in half. So now my clip is trimmed
that particular clip. And I can do this
with any of my clips, go to the point in my
timeline which I want to trim and click on that clip and press the split button.
That's how you trim it. One thing I do like to do before I get too down in the weeds of trimming all my clips is
I like to set the volume. So what I'm going to do
is go to this project here and I'm going to go scroll over to
where it says volume. And right now there's a loudness adjustment button that you can use to set the volume across
every clip in the project. I like to do that at
the beginning so that my volume is set at
a baseline because you may go through your project and turn certain
clips volume down, and you may speed certain
clips up or slow motion. And you want your volume in the dialogue pieces
to be loud and clear. And you want it to be easy for people to understand
your dialogue. And it's always better if the volume is too loud
rather than too low. People can always
turn the volume down, but if the volumes at
max and it's too low, it makes for a
difficult listening and enjoying experience. So we want to make sure
folks can enjoy the video. So make sure you set your
volume at the beginning. I like to crank it all the
way up. Depends on the video. If I have really good audio, I may not crank it to the max. To once I understood
that life would always turn down, but
you can't turn it up. So you want to make sure it's a little bit louder rather than a little bit quieter than what most people will listen to. Other good idea is to listen
to your audio in the phone, maybe even plug in
some headphones or use your Bluetooth headphones or
also listen to the audio on the computer if you have the ability and time
to do so just so you can see how your
volume sounds on different devices at max volume, medium volume, and low volume. Always make sure to
check your volume. And I like to do this
early in the project. Okay, so now we've learned how to trim our
clips, how to add volume. Another thing that's really
awesome and adds a lot of dynamic energy to your
videos is transitions. So in between each
separated clip, you'll see a little white
square with a black line in it. And that's a transition point. All you do is tap one
of those. And you'll see we have an abundance
of transitions. These are the things between our clips that make them go together from one
clip to another. So let's just take a look at what some of these look like. Another thing that is very
cool with Capcut is you can select the length
of your transitions. I'm gonna go ahead and cut that just because it wasn't
really allowing me to do a transition as
long as I wanted to between a photo and a video. So once I, if you
have two video clips, it'll allow you to do
the full transition. So I'm going to tap
that middle space, and I do have Cap Cut Pro. Some of these features are P
features, not all of them. You can use the free version of Capcut to make great videos. You do not need Cap Cut Pro. But if you want to
use Cap Cut Pro, you have access
to more features, and I actually have a link for a seven day free trial that I'll include for you. Go
ahead and get that. I love Cap Cut Pro. I
definitely think it's worth the monthly fee because
I make videos every day, so I use the features, and it has a lot of
really awesome features in every category from transitions to stickers and sound effects and
effects, animations. Everything is better
if you're using the P. So check out my link and get CapcutPro if you are a
serious video editor and you really want to take your content creation
to the next level. Alright, jumping
back in, we have our transitions here, and
they got some cool ones. As you can see, there's
Stood that. Flash is. There's Matrix,
which stood that. You use the Matrix
one a lot of times. They have some really
artistic things. They have Stood that.
Page turns. Stood that. Literally tons and tons of different types of
transitions that you can use to spice up your Stood. Now, I do not like to
use a transition on every single cut between every single clip.
Sometimes I'll mix it. Sometimes I'll do transition,
no transition, transition, no transition, but it really depends on what
I'm talking about. So one example of a point where
I didn't use transitions, but I use cuts to create a
transition is right here. I use what's called a Zoom cut. Let me show you. You die. That ain't
it. I understood that. I go from a wide
into a close Zoom. That ain't it. And
then back out again. This is something that
you'll see with a lot of social media and
content creators. It's called a Zoom cut, also a Zoom jump cut, you
may hear folks call it. But this just allows
the viewer to be entertained a little bit more to pay a little
bit more attention. Keeps the screen moving in
and out so that there's a little more dynamism and dynamic energy in the flow of what we're filming
and looking at. And it just keeps the viewer entertained and gives him
a new shot, a new scene. It can even feel like there's two cameras recording
at the same time, even if you're just using one, just with that simple jump
cut, little zoom cut there. So try incorporating that. Yeah, go through and use as many of these
transitions as you like, see what works, see what fits. But just know you don't
need a transition at every single intersection
of clips, but you can. It's 100% up to you. So, have fun with that. Awesome. So, now we're going to move on to
the next section. The next thing, after you
have done our aspect ratio, we've done trimming of clips. We know how to do transitions. The next thing we want to
look at is text overlays. How do we put text
on the screen? So in order to do that, you just need to go to wherever you want to have some text. And once your playhead, which is this big white
line here in the middle, once your playhead is
exactly where you want it, you scroll down to
your menu here and just click on the text button. And then you'll see an
option to add text. So when you click Add Text, you'll have a textbox pop up. You can change the
size of that textbox by zooming in and out and
pinching with your fingers. And then you'll see I
can enter the text here, and I'm just going to write my favorite word abundance
make it a good size there. Now, in order to
change the font, the color, the style, you
can tap these options. So when you're texting, when you're typing, cursor
will be in this box, but if you just
want to get out of typing mode and look at
the options you have, you can tap on the word fonts, styles, effects, animations. And that will allow
you to go ahead and add some cool animation,
some cool effects. Go ahead and change your font,
whatever you want to do. So with this, I just
put in animation stars. So as the graphic is coming into my frame,
the stars will light up. You can also click on Out, and that'll do an animation
as the video's going out. You got to and you can change the duration.
Shine your light. Blue and red lines
at the bottom. That'll How long is the
animation lasting know that. How long is the
animation line last? Going out. And then you click on your
checkmark to select that. Let's see how it looks.
Boom, know that. You got to shine
your light London. You got to be inspired,
uplifted, organized. So that is how you add text. Now, that's if you want to add text for one word
or a couple words. But if you want to add
captions for the whole video, Let's do that. The way you
do that is you go back, tap on text and click
on auto captions. Then this menu comes up, and it allows you
to select what kind of font you want to
use for your captions. Do you want bilingual captions, auto highlights or
identify filler words? Those are P features,
and then just uses AI to clean up your
captions a little bit more. But I'm going to
go ahead and click Generate it's going to take a few minutes to
generate those captions. It's actually analyzing
the entire video. It's going to go ahead and
generate captions for us. Once those come up,
boom, here they go. And they show up in these
little brown boxes. If you tap one of the boxes, one of the text boxes, you can go ahead and edit your text. You want to always make sure you check your text because
this thing is not perfect. The AI text editor will
make some mistakes. It will misspell words and sometimes just
type the wrong word. So go through and make sure that you're happy
with all of your text. Other thing I like to do
is extend my text so that there's no big gaps between
each block of text. You just tap and then drag, tap, and then drag,
tap, and then drag. And another thing you can do
to edit your text even more. You just double tap it, and you can see all these fonts,
which are really cool. You can change the style, which changes the style of
the font, the color. I like to use this
green one a lot. I showed you the animations. They have the speech
bubble so you can put your text inside a speech
bubble, which is cool. And they have the AI writer, which is a very interesting
feature as well. So you can have AI. You can enter a topic and
have the AI elaborate on that topic for you and put
those text captions in. Very interesting. Yeah, and then you got your fonts that you can edit. So
that's pretty cool. Always want to show folks how
to add captions and texts. There's a difference between the captions and the
texts on screen. So you just want to
make sure you know how to do both of those. And then if you ever
want to delete anything, you just tap it
and go to Delete, tap it, and then go to the
bottom and click on Delete. To go back to check
out our whole project, you just tap back,
and that'll take you out of the individual menus. But if you feel like you get lost and you're trying to
find, Hey, where my text go? How do I get to it? All you got to do is tap on
the text button, and that'll bring up all
the different texts. If you have overlay, and you're trying to find the
overlay so you can edit it. You just tap overlay,
and that will allow you to see the overlay and
then go ahead and edit it. Speaking of overlays, let's
go ahead and add one. So I'm gonna just tap on
the Add overlay button, and I'll go ahead and pick what I want to add
as the overlay. It's cool photo of me and
some of our filmmakers. And, boom, there it is. So as you can see,
it'll add the overlay, and I can drag it and
put it wherever I want. And now I have an
image that I can change the size of
and have that plan. You can extend the length of it. Have that just
sitting on my video. More you can focus. The
more you can get what you want around more Boom. Now, another really cool feature that I'm
going to show you after you know how
to do overlays, overlays, this
could be a picture. This could be a
video. This could be music. This
could be anything. This could be a sticker. How do you make your overlay move? Well, that's called keyframing. So now I'm going to show you
how to do a simple keyframe. All you do is go to
the beginning of the section of your video that you want to have
something moving in. For this example, I'm going
to take this image here, this photo and make it
move around the picture. In order to do that,
we're going to go to this little diamond button with the plus sign here
over to the right. It's right next to
the backspace button. And all I'm going to do is select the image that
I want to keyframe, and then I'm going to tap
little diamond right there. And what keyframe
does is allows me to move my playhead and then move the image I'm
keyframing and press keyframe again so
that when my video plays, that image is going
to go from here up to here as the time passes
through my video. So as the video is playing
and hits each key, it's going to move my image in different frames. Keyframe. So let's do this again, Let's move it up a little
bit. Another key frame. And as you can see,
when I move the image, it adds a red diamond at
each key frame point, showing that at this point in the video, your
photo will be here. At this point in the video,
your photo will be here. At this point in the video,
your photo will be here. At this point in the video,
the photo will be here. And at this point in the
video, the photo will be here. And then at this
point in the video, the photo will be back up here. So, that is our keyframes.
Let's watch it. Oh why? The more you ask? Now, the picture is
floating around. Or you can focus. Ending up each place where
we had a keyframe. That is joy. Give
you fulfillment. Keyframe effect can be really
great if you want to make yourself or other images
move through your picture, if you want to make it look like something's floating
in your hand, or if you just want to
have images or text, graphics or stickers
in different places, dynamically moving
around your video while you're talking or
doing whatever you do. Have fun with the
keyframing feature. Experiment with it,
do something cool, and please share your videos. Can't wait to see what
you do with the keyframe.
4. Add Stickers: Next thing I want to show
you is how to add stickers. Okay? So just like I added my keyframe
here from an overlay, which could be a video that
you add in or an image, you can also add a sticker. So I'm just going to
scroll down on my menu, scroll all the way to the right to where
it says stickers, and they have a bunch
of really cool options here that we can choose from. Some of these are pro
Some of these are not only for P. Some of these
are available for anybody. But I just added
this sticker here. I can change how long I want
the sticker to show up, and I can even down here, if you click on animations, I can animate this sticker to move while it's in the frame. It knowing? It knowing? I can even change
how long I want it to move for by
moving this red bar. Knowing. This can make it a fast animation or
slow animation. Ning see how it looks. Sticker moving
around. What is my. The more you ask.
Let's add another one. The more you can do the thing. Animated. Bounce in. The more
The more you can Ooh, Look at the key frames. We got stickers.
We got animations. The more you can do the things that make you feel
like you're living and experiencing a life
having fun with this. Wow. We are moving along quickly. We are moving along quickly
here. Having fun, are we?
5. Add Music, VoiceOver, Sound FX, Animations: Alright. Next thing
we want to do is add music and sound effects. Let's go. So let me scroll this down a little bit so we can
see more of the image. I'm just gonna click
the back button here to take me to my main menu. I'm gonna go back
to the beginning because wherever
your playhead is, that's where the action
is taking place. So since I want to drop some
music in at the beginning, I'm gonna move the playhead back to the beginning
of the video. Simply click on the
audio button and sounds, and they have a bunch
of sounds here. So, Capcut is owned by the
same company as TikTok. So some of these sounds
are good to use for TikTok and are like TikTok approved
copyright free sounds. But that doesn't mean
you can use them on every other platform without
getting copyright strike. So you may want to check
about the music you're using, make sure it's copyright free, or you can just upload
your own music, but they have plenty of songs
that you can select from. I like to add my own songs. So you can go to this
little folder here. You can go to Device and you can select from Device and
add your own music. So that's something
that I like to do, or you can just pick one of these songs that
they have here. I'm going to add this
Lambo May song deep above. It's one of my favorites. So once I understood that
life was much more than just. Now my music is playing in
the background. May well. Something I like to do
whenever I have music is turn the volume down so that
it's not impeding nowadays. Music is too loud, people won't be able to hear what
I'm talking about. So you need to play
with the volume to see So I understood
the volume if more than What really works
until the day you die. But I can tell you that the music volume
definitely should be lower than the audio at least half so that
people can clearly hear what you're
talking about and that the music doesn't
compete with your voice. But that's how you
add sounds and songs. And another thing
you want to keep in mind is when
you do add music, the song will go and extend your video as long
as the song is. So if your video is not
as long as the song, you're going to want to
cut it right at the end of the video just by tapping your audio clip and click split, and then you can delete
the back half of that. Now, your project doesn't have an extra 5 minutes of audio
with no video playing. So keep that in mind when
you're adding audio. And also sound effects. These things can
come in handy during a transition during
a point of emphasis, if you're showing something
cool on the screen or just from switching
to a new image. Let's add some of that. So one of my favorite sound effects, I'm just move the playhead where I want to add
my sound effect. I'm going to tap audio
and then sound FX, and they have trending sounds. They have transition sounds. You can tap it to see
what it sounds like. I like that whoosh sound. So it better put a cool whoosh sound
right at the hood that. Life might turn the
volume of your sounds up. Sood that stood. Life Go ahead and
zoom this in because I see it's a little closer. So let me just move that over so that the noise happens
right at the transition. Still dx. Life was much more. So, that's a cool sound effect.
Let me add another one. Just tap sound effects. I love the ding. Makes me feel like
I won something. I'm gonna turn that
up just so that it is nice and loud and clear.
And have that going. Much more than just
finding a job to pay. So we got our background music. We got sound effects. This is looking good. Till the day you die. Is that? You can also animate our videos. So say you want to animate a
clip or a number of clips, all you do is select a
clip, tap on animations. And now we got all these
cool animations that we can choose from to make our clip, have some action
while we're talking. So I put these tools together.
So I put these tools? I like to do some Zoom Or maybe some slow wobbles just to make my
video more dynamic. Especially on clips around
talking for a longer. We're making videos
for social media. We want these to be quick, punchy grab folks attention and ask them the
right questions. One so the way to do that
is to use lots of cuts, cut out any dead
space in between your talking points,
have some cool music, cool text on screen, graphics, sound effects, and
some nice clean edits. You can focus more you can. And the next thing
we're going to do is learn how to
add a voiceover. So if you have music,
you can have your music, but maybe you want to add
some vocals on top of that. Maybe you don't
want to play any of your videos original audio, and you just want to add audio on top of what you recorded. I see a lot of people
on social media doing Day in the Life
or daily recaps, where they'll have
short form video that goes through an entire day
of activities maybe sped up, but the volume would be
down on the original audio, and the person would just
voice over talking about or explaining what they did that day in each
place they were. I see this trending a lot, and this may be something
you want to make too. So here's how you
can add a voiceover. Just go to wherever you want
to start your voiceover. And you click on
the audio button. And you can either
use text to audio, which is really cool,
where you can just type your text and have AI voice. You can make a custom voice. So here I click
on Custom Voices. I can actually create
my own custom voice. And we'll go ahead
and drop that down. And then you can also record. So we want to record a voice
over, just click on record. Once you tap the
button, it'll start recording. Go ahead and allow. Three, two, one countdown. And we are recording
our voiceover. Praise God, I love life, and I am grateful
for the ability to edit awesome
videos with CapcuT. Wonderful. We go
ahead and select that kick up that volume.
Let's give it a listen. And we are recording our
voiceover. Praise God. I love life. I am grateful for the ability to edit
awesome videos with cap cut. The more you can get what
you want. That sounds great. And that is how
we do a voiceover for our video.
Another cool thing. Say I want to
change the audio on my voiceover or on your
original audio on your video. You can just select the
audio clip you want to edit, tap on Audio Effects. And now I can make it
sound like I'm in a. And we are recording our voiceover. Praise
God. I love dice. And we are recording our
voiceover Praise God. I love dice. I am grateful
for the ability to edit. It's awesome videos cool. So, in a real video, I wouldn't play both of
these audios competing, but I just wanted to give
you an example of how all this stuff looks and sounds together so you can
see it all in action. But you've seen us
import footage, export footage, cut, transition, add overlays, add music,
add sound effects. Seems like the only
thing left to do is export the video and
make another one.
6. Color Grading, Filders, Overlay, Remove Background: One little advanced feature
that I want to talk about is color grading and
changing the color of your footage and adding filters. In order to do a little
bit of color grading, you just want to
tap on your clip. Let's tap on our clip. And there's a couple of different ways we
can adjust this here. They have an adjustment
tab where you can use your simple settings
to change your brightness, color correction,
contrast, shadows, highlights, all that stuff. That is there for
you. And then you can also tap on where
it says video quality, and they have a lot
of pro features to help update your videos. You can do image
quality, reduce noise, optical flow, super
resolution, remove flickers. Those are all pro features. Then they also have
some filters here, and a lot of these are available for the basic cap cut version, and some of them
are pro features. But these will add
different kinds of lighting and grain
effects on your videos. So you can see I'm
tapping the Moody fall, tapping the Maldives,
Sunset Paradise, Santa Monica, and it's just changing the color
grade on those videos. So when you do select
the color grade, you want to make sure
that if you select it on here that you carry it
over to your other videos. If you want that, you
don't have to do that, but if you do want to do that, that's something you can do. Well. You. That is another one
where you can filtration of your do the things that make you feel like you're living
and experiencing the life. Another cool trick
you can do on Capcut is remove the
background of a video. Let's check it out.
So, what I want to do here is duplicate this clip
and add it as an overlay. And then I'm going to remove the background just to show
you how we can do this. So I've selected the clip. I'm going to tap
the overlay button. And then, while the
clip is still selected, we want to scroll over. We're gonna go to AI Remove. Now, I can do this manually with my brush if I want to remove the
background here. And there's also an
automatic version, but let's just see
what this looks like. So now it's using AI to
remove those areas of my image. So that's one way. So in order to remove
the background, you just tap on your clip, and we want to scroll over
to where it says, remove BG. And then you can click
on auto removal. They also have custom
removal and Chroma key. So Chromak allows you to say you have a green screen
or one color behind you, you can select that color and remove everything in that
color in your frame. So chromak is how you would
do a green screen effect. Let's see what this looks like with the
background removed. So it's applying the auto
removal, and there it is. As you can see, that is me with no background.
Let's watch it. Things that bring joy. Feel like you
dementing truly grit. That is how we remove
the background.
7. How To Export Videos: Now we're going to learn
how to export your footage. So you want to go to the top and tap where it says ten ADP. That's the resolution setting. You can adjust that to whatever
you shot the footage in. You want your export to match what you recorded
your footage in. Then the frame rate is how
fast the video is recording. I like to keep it at
30 frames per second. You've code recommended,
and they got Smart HDR. I usually leave this off. You can test to see if
you like that or not, but it tends to be a bit
more bulkier and slower. Also have more export
settings in the desktop. So if you click that
down at the bottom, you can get there you can make a gift if you want
to export a gift. And once you have
your resolution set, your frame rate, just press the Export button,
and there you go. It will export to
your camera roll, and then you are ready to create post this to any of your
favorite social media platforms. If you are uploading a TikTok, you can add the music
directly in Capcut. If it's another platform, I would export without music and then upload the music
on those platforms. And that is how you export footage in Capcut.
You're good to go. It's time to create.
8. Full Desktop Edit Part 1: Greetings and
blessings abundantly. Welcome to the Cap Cut
Editing Master Class. I'm Bijan Machin, and
I will be instructor. For this video, we're
going to get started in the Capcut desktop app. So I'm gonna want you to go
ahead and download that. Once Capcut's downloaded, you're going to open up the app, and this is what you'll see. These are all the
projects that I have completed or am working on. This is where I'll go to
create a new project. Here's my account information
here at the top left. And on the left side, we have a menu home templates, share history, as well as your spaces, and
down at the bottom. We have some little
options from Capcut here with advertisements
and things. So as we navigate our
Capcut interface, what we're going to be using initially is this creative project button here at the top. This is where we're going to go to jump in and start
working on a project. So once you open up a brand new project and
Capcut on your desktop, this is what it will look like. We have our top menu here. These are all the
controls of our film, of our editing bay,
of our timeline. This is going to
allow us to make adjustments to each of
the elements of our film. Okay? And this down
here is our timeline. The timeline is where we will
drag all of our material, our footage, our sounds, images, anything that you want
to include in your video, it's all going to
be placed along the timeline, and
that's what's here. And on our timeline, at the very beginning
on the far left, you'll see what's
called a playhead. Is a white line that
goes straight down with this little carat symbol
at the top, like an arrow. That lets us know where
our video is playing, at what point in the
video we are watching. That playhead will be at the exact point that we
will see on the screen. If we want at the
beginning of the video, playhead will be at the
very front like it is now. And if we wanted to view
the end of the video, we'd move the
playhead to the end. Wherever you want to
see in the video, that's where you'll move the
playhead along the timeline. So that's the basic
kind of layout. Our footage will be here
in this import section, this middle section, the player. This is where our
footage will play. This is where we'll show
whatever we're looking at. And we can adjust the sizes of these areas as well
just by hovering over the black area in between the divider and just scrolling it to the side,
just like most apps. And then you have
all the details. So this is the side
on this right side, this is the section where
we'll see our options to modify whatever the selected video clip
is that we're working on. So you'll see options
here to modify the sound. You'll see options
to do animations. And for how long we want
to do those animations, adjusting text, font size. All that will be
in this section on the far right in
the detail section. So we have our media section, our media player,
and the details. And at the bottom, we
have our timeline. So those are just
kind of the basics, but once we get some
footage in here, I can show you how everything
works. Let's get started. Alright. So now that we have our desktop Capcut app
open and ready to go, we're going to
import our footage. Uh, may have footage
on your phone. You may have footage on another
device, on a memory card. I'm going to show you
how you can inport that into your project
on the desktop. Now, if you already have your footage on the computer,
you're one step ahead. But if not, what you
can do is go ahead and either send it via AirDrop
or email to your computer. You can also plug
your phone directly into your computer and
transfer files that way. What you want to do
is get the files from your phone that you want to
edit onto your computer, in this case, if you're going to be editing
on the computer. Maybe you have SD card
that goes in your camera, you want to put that card
into your computer and transfer those files to a
space on your computer. So I usually will put a
folder together where all of my project files are located so they
can be in one place. Whenever you have all
those files together, that's the folder
you want to locate. So I'm going to iport
some footage here. Select that footage
and import it. So, this is the footage
that I want to work with. Now, as you can see, it has been imported in
the 916 Aspec ratio. Alright, so I got
my footage here, and I'm gonna show
you guys how to update the aspec ratio. All I did was drag this
clip down into my timeline. Boom. So let's say
this isn't here. Let's say it's completely empty. Once you get your footage
imported into your project, you can do a couple things
to get it into the timeline. If you want to get
that full clip, this is a 1 minute clip. If I want that full
clip in my timeline, you can just drag it and
drop it right there. That's one way to get the
clip into your timeline. And then from there, you can
move these little bumpers to select how much of the clip you actually want to use, okay? So I can trim it down
just by clicking and dragging on the end when
this little bumper shows up. Now, say, I want to just extract a piece of this
footage into my timeline. How do we do that?
All you got to do is go to where you
want to begin. Your portion of the footage
that you're including? So once the clip that you
want to add is done playing, you can press the Oh
button on your keyboard. That stands for out, and
that would be an outpoint. You can also edit the end point. So say I wanted my video
to start right here, move my cursor here
as the endpoint, and that's where the
video will start. I can also move the
playhead to that point and press the I key
on my keyboard. I. That turns that into a new
endpoint, just like that. You got to make sure
that your mouse is actually hovered over the clip
that you're working with. If not, that won't
work, the shortcut. But if you want to
use a shortcut, make sure your mouse is hovered over here and wherever you press in and then
wherever you press. Out, the Ike and
the Oki in and out. That's where your clip
will begin and end. And then you can
simply hover over and drag that selection
into your project. And now charge. I just have a portion of that clip instead of
the whole 1 minute clip, the 26 second portion. Okay? Now, once that
clip is in my timeline, I can go ahead and
extend it all the way out if I want or bring
it back to what I had. Same with this. I can
extend it this way, all the way to the beginning. Or I can press Command Z or the back
button just to go back. The back button is going
to be here on the left. This is back. This is forward. This is your split button. So wherever your playhead is, if you want to split that clip, you move the playhead
to that point. Press that. Boom, we're split. Another way to split
a clip is to move your playhead to where you
want to make the split, press Command B, B for Bijan. Press Command B
at the same time, and that will activate
your blade to do a cut. So you can also delete the
left clip after a cut, or you can delete the
right clip after a cut. And here's how that works. Move my playhead
to where I want to cut and just know if I
hit the delete left, whatever's before that will be deleted, if I hit
the delete, right? Whatever's after that
will be deleted. And if you just split
it, it'll just be split. So let's try the delete left. Boom. I just took out
the previous clip. Let's go back, and
then delete right. Boom, it took off whatever was on the end to the
right of that cut. And again, we can just press
our backbton and go back. Okay. And these are some
selections that we have. Usually, I like to have the
mouse selected because that will allow me to click and
drag and move things around. But if you want to
really get into the weeds in your project
and do some real, real I would say, detailed trimming or using some specific selection tools, this is where you
can find those. There's a split tool here, or if you want to go through
and just make a bunch of cuts in your project without having that arrow pop up
or without having to hit the shortcut or go back and
forth to the split button, just chop it up with this
little razor blade here. That's your beat. And this
will allow you to make as many cuts as you
want simply and easily. And in between each
of those cuts, we can also add transitions, which we'll talk about later. But that is how you make cuts and splits of the footage
in your timeline, okay? The next thing I
want to teach you now that you have all your
footage in the timeline, you know how to split clips. Let's add some more
media and look at how we can put those pieces
of media together. So, I'm in my project here. This is a video that
I've already worked on, but let's just say I
wanted to bring in some new media and add
it to this project. All I'm going to do is go to the Import button right here. Click on that, select My
media and Import, okay? Wherever it is on your computer, you just need to find that. I like to know where the media is before I start my project. But you can bring in whatever the media is
that you want to use. Another way you can import footage into your
project is simply by dragging and dropping it from a file or folder
on your computer. I can simply select
it from my finder on my Mac and drag it into the
media area and drop it. Now I have this
music track here. And if I want to add this
music track to my project, simply drag it to the timeline. Boom. Now, one thing
to keep in mind, when you add music
to your projects, you will get the full length
of whatever you selected. If you selected the whole track, they'll get the whole track. And it will make the duration of your project as long
as that music track. So if you are exporting a video and you're recognizing that the music goes on
longer than the video, you want to make sure you cut
that music down so that it ends where the video ends because if the audio is in
your track and your timeline, your video is not gonna
end until that audio ends. This thing is gonna think that that audio is part of your film, but there's no imagery here
for this whole 2.5 minutes. So what we want to do is come to the very end where our
video actually ends, where our footage
is going to stop, and we can make a cut there. So what I'm gonna do
since I know that I want the rest of this
song to be deleted, I'm going to select
this and first, I'm gonna go ahead and get my select tool so I can
show you guys this. I'm going to select the
project and do this delete we split. There we go. And now I'll just select that extra piece
and delete that. So now my project is going
to end where the video ends, and the music will
stop right there. One other cool thing to
keep in mind when you are adjusting your
volume since I'm here, I like to add a fade in and a fade out
to my sound pieces. And I just like that
because it gives a very smooth transition
when the sound is coming in or out instead of
a very abrupt stop, which can sometimes create a little popping
noise when the sound just cuts off abruptly
and can be kind of unpleasant for the
listener and the viewer. So you can also
adjust the fade here. I like to do a little
fade either by selecting these little circles
that come up at the end and dragging
them inwards, or you can just go
up to the right, to your control panel, and
you can select the fade out. And as you can see, the
longer I drag my fade out, it's moving down
here at the bottom, and it will begin to fade sooner or take the
fade in longer. Just depending on
what I want to do so. Play around with that,
see how it sounds. See how that works for
you, see how you like it. So that is how I add music to my project and
other media, right? Let's add an image. Say I want to put a sticker in my video or some kind
of on screen graphic. You can either download
them from a place like Canva or Google. But you also have some stickers built into Cap cut
that you can use. So I'm gonna click on
the stickers tab here. And let's scroll through
and see what they have. This is actually a sticker
that I already made of a cool purple lamborghini. And I'm going to add that here
right on the second scene. So once you have it hovered, you can do two things. You can drag it and place it in your timeline by dropping it in, or you can move your
playhead to the point you want to insert the sticker
and then press the plus sign. And the sticker will be inserted in your timeline at that point, wherever your playhead is. So, let's see how it looks. Now, I don't like this
car on top of his face, so I'm gonna go over
to the video and just click on the sticker and drag
it to wherever I want it. Let's put it right
there. And I'm going to do the same for
the other Lamborghini. Move the playhead so that I can edit that
section of the video. And also by clicking
and grabbing this little infinity rotator reverse spinny symbol,
whatever it's called. It's called the rotate button. This will allow me to
rotate my sticker, okay? I can move this around,
add some motion, some movement, some
dynamics to it. And now let's see
what it looks like. I've added music and
stickers to this video. There it is. So we've
added stickers. Now, let's look at
doing some transitions. Wherever you have two
clips next to each other, you can add what's called
a transition between them. When there's no
transition between two clips and one clip goes directly into the next one as a film's playing, it's
called a jump cut. You literally jumped
from one scene to the next in a smooth cut. Boom, clean cut. Now, if we want to do
something different between those two clips and create some kind of movement,
some kind of visual, some kind of effect to
add to the mood or maybe to enhance the emotional effect of what we're
conveying on screen, we're gonna add a transition. So to do that, you simply move your playhead between
the two clips that you want to do a
transition in between. So let's choose these two clips. Clip one and Clip two. I want to move my playhead right here between
the two clips. And then you can go up to
transitions here at the top. And again, you find what you want and
you can either drag it on in and drop it or you can just press the plus sign and
wherever your playhead is, media will be added to that
spot on your timeline. So I do have CapcutPro. If you want to use CapcutPro, there is a link that I
will include for you. But if you don't want
to get CapcutPro they have a completely free virgin
with tons of features. So I'm going to use some of the free features for this just to show you guys, for example. I really like this
pull in transition. So I'm going to go ahead and
just press the plus sign. And as you can see, it creates that transition between
clip one and Clip two. Something that's
really interesting, as well as the
ability to shrink or extend the length of your transition by tapping
on this great box. This will determine how
long the transition lasts. Do we want it to be a
very quick transition? Almost I didn't even
see that happen. Or do we want the transition
to be a little longer? Something we can see play out? I. And that was only 0.7 seconds, but that's the idea
is that you can extend or shrink the
length of your transition. And if you want to switch
to a different transition, you can just drag it right
on top of the previous one, and it'll automatically
replace it. I need. I'm going to move our music off the track for now just so we
can hear a little better. So to do that, I'm just select the music track and
press the lead. That was a cool transition.
So there you can see, I got this transition
extended to the Mx, which is 0.7 seconds. I want to take it
down to 0.3 seconds. I can do that either by moving the control
panel down like that or I can move my cursor here and shrink it
down or extend it. Yeah, that looks
good. I really like this sliding transition because it shows that there's
progress being made. It shows that we're moving
forward in the story, and it really matches the energy of what Gideon is saying here. Make sure you guys subscribe to the Abundance Universe
podcast, by the way. This is actually a clip from my podcast, Abundance Universe. I'm interviewing my good
friend Gideon Vase here. I was an entrepreneur leader and founder of the purpose room. It's really cool,
really cool guy. But a sticker.
9. Full Desktop Edit + Part 2: Some of you probably
wondering how I got that text on the screen. I'll show you how to
do that real quick. Whenever you have a clip and
it has some audio to it, you can add auto captions. Now, if I were going to auto caption this whole
video, I already did it, but just to show
you how it works, instead of just
selecting one clip, I'm going to select
all my footage. And you can do that
by clicking and dragging across the
entire timeline. You can also just click on your timeline area and press Command and A
at the same time, and that will select
all of your footage. And then there's a couple of different things
we can do here. Once we have all of
our footage selected, we can make edits to the
entire project all at once. For example, say we want to transform the
size of the project. I can move this scale button, and now it's not just
scaling this clip, it's scaling the entire project
to fit this aspect ratio. Now, if I just wanted to
edit the scale of one clip, say I want to do a Zoom effect. It's playing and then it comes
in here and it zooms more. I'm going to select the
clip I want to zoom. Just upscale it a little bit. Boom, boom. And then you'll see when it goes
back to my other clip, it'll go to the regular ratio, regular Zoom, but
it'll show a little. In and out. So you see it just as a
little bit more focus. Little more focus is
added on the subject when we do that quick zoom
in and zoom back out. Adds a little more
dynamism to your videos. It helps with the
storytelling and keeps your viewers engaged. People have short attention
spans these days. So that's a cool little
effect you can do a way to add Clips between clips. Okay? So now we know how to
add footage to our project. We know how to add media to
that particular footage, and we know how to trim
and add transitions. Let's look at some effects. So as I was showing you before, if you want to select all
these and add captions, basically just select
the clips that you want to add
auto captions to, and you go to the text
section up here on the edit menu right here, text. And then they have
a category here that says AI generated, as well as auto captions. So if you tap AI generated, that will create AI
generated text effects, and it can even add AI generated images on
the screen with us. What we want to do
with this right now for these purposes, we just want to show you
guys how to do the caption so you can include
bilingual captions. You can include
English captions. You just go and select the
language that you want to use. But CAPCID is really dynamic
in terms of how much they have to offer on the caption side and
the accessibility side. So this auto highlight feature will actually highlight
certain pieces of text, and also we can click identify filler words to automatically remove ums and things like that. So I'm going to go ahead and generate these and
just see what happens, even though I've already
got some captions here. This is already edited video. I just want to show
you guys how this works real quick, so
let's see what happens. So after that finishes, our
captions will show up in these boxes above the
video on our timeline. And when you select one, we can actually
move this around. Select our text. Was
that text up here. So, the cool thing
about the text is it's highly customizable
once you get it. And you'll notice that when
you do the auto caption, sometimes they will be correct and accurate,
sometimes they will not. So you may have
to go in and just make a edit to
what's being said. In order to do that,
you just click on each one and over here to the right and you can
click on the text part. Click on captions here, and then whatever you want to add something, you
just click on that. And you can also add another line of text by
clicking this plus sign. Boom, now I can add more text
there or delete the text. But this allows me to
control my captions and make any spelling changes or edits that need to be done. And something I like to
do is when I'm in here, I like to extend the
length of all these so that there's no gaps between when the captions
are showing up. And then just make sure that you triple
check the spelling. I've had a lot of videos where the captions did not generate correctly
and had misspellings. So always go through,
watch your video. Hey, this guy said
course, not cross. So we just want to update that. Boom. And maybe take that out. Boom, press Enter,
we're good to go. Now, say I want to update the style of text because
this is kind of plain. You just select the text, go to where it says text, and there's different edits
here that you can choose. They have basic edits. They have different
templates that you can use, and even beach bubbles,
which is really cool. You can add in a speech bubble, and now everything he
says is showing up in a speech bubble.
How cool is that? Now, if I wanted to apply
this effect to everything, I can click Apply to A. If I just want to edit this one selection, you
can just select that. And you can check apply
to all and turn that off. This is another way you
can edit the text caption, so you can edit through here. If you need to make an
edit to the actual text, you can also go to the text
section and make edits here. And you can change the font. This allows you to change the font and try out
different things. You can also increase
the font size. And we can change the bold, the case, the color,
which is really cool. A lot of custom
customization options here. And then there are styles
that we can use, as well. So these give us many options. I have a background for the
text there, which is cool. You can change the size of it just by grabbing the
corner and moving it, just like so.
Really cool styles. You can also save a preset if you want to save this style and the text size and the font as a preset so you can
use it in the future. You would click that
button to do so. Once you have everything
set up the way you like it, save it as a preset, name
it, and there you go. And then you can
update the scale here. You can do that by dragging
this on your video or you can just go to the Edit bay here and
scale it up and down. You can change the
alignment of your text. Where is it align in
relationship to the video? And then you can also
just move it around. If you get it here.
Hey, I don't like that. Just click it, track it,
and you can move it. And then they got the
blend mode, the stroke. I don't necessarily
always add a stroke, but you can do that if you want. And you can add a background
to the text, as well. If you want background
on your text and change your color one. Perfect. So that is how we make edits to
text on the screen. We got auto captions generated. We added some custom text, edited the style of it. That's another thing
I like here, too, is just selecting
something like that. And then this now will update
all of the captions to this style and do the automatic color
highlighting the Mogi This is. Good stuff. Yes, so we got
those captions edited. We have our smooth transition. Is a low transition in here just because I'm gonna just grab one that looks
cool and just drop it. Boom, drop it in
between those clips. You can also move
your playhead and do the plus sign to
add a transition, but I like just
dragging and dropping. And then when I want to say
I want to in this clip, let's do animation on
this clip just so that when this is coming
towards the end, I'll see what happens to it. So whenever you want
to add animation, you just click on the clip. Go up here to the right side
where it says animation. You can also adjust
to speed, your audio. A kind of adjustments here. AI stylize your photo, but we're just gonna
go to animation. And they have in animations, out animations and
combo animations. The animation is
going to do something to the beginning of
the video like that. So you saw a little quick circle thing pop up at the beginning. This makes your ideas a little more dynamic
on the inside. And then an out animation. So select a clip,
call the Animation. Click Out. And this
gives us some options for the animation when our
clip is ending on the outport. Let's see how that looks
transitioning into the next click.
Nice. I like that. And then if you want to do
a loop or combo transition, it'll be called Loop on
your phone or combo here. You can select these options. And this will do a transition while the whole clip is playing. That gives me a Zoom
bounce transition throughout the whole
duration of the clip. So that's how you use combo
out and in animations. Yep. Crispy. So if you do
select more than one clip, the animation option
will not be available. Let's adjust the
speed of this clip. Something I like
doing is creating what's called speed ramps. So if you go to speed, you
can adjust the speed by increasing or slowing down your clip just normally
with this bar. And another thing I like to do is go to where
it says curve here. So this is a standard speed,
and this is the curve. You can create a speed
curve where it'll speed up and slow down at these
intervals that you can select. You can also make a custom one. Let's go ahead and
try something like a montage. See how that looks. As you can see it creates
these little moments of speed ramp throughout
your video. Let's watch it. If time. So it speeds up and slows
down the audio as well. And as you can see, that
applied to our whole club? Yeah, he's giving some game. It's funny how the voice slow down and sped
up real quick. That's funny. So that's how
you can do that effect. And if you want to turn
any of these effects off, just go to none. I had a hard time sometimes when I first got
started figuring out, how do I get these
animations off? Like, I got this animation. All you got to do is go back
to the animation section and make sure that you select
none for that clip. If you want to turn
the animations off, I'll just go to in, none, O. Go back to none. Combo. Go back to none. Now, there's no animation
on that clip. Perfect. Oh, shoot. So that is the basic just I'm going to show you some more advanced things we can do to spice the video up, but you know how
to add captions. You know how to cut, trim,
add transitions and effects. Those are the basics,
but it gets deeper. There's so much
more to being able to tell an effective story, being able to capture
viewers attention, and create videos
that create results. So let's continue.
10. Brand Story Video: I use the AI Avatar
feature in Capcot for this introduction to
make your brand story video. Answer three simple
questions on camera. Who am I? What do I do? What is my why?
Here's an example of a brand story video that I created to share my
personal story Ann, introduce my company.
We uplift the world. My name is Bijan Machin. I'm a creative entrepreneur. I'm a musician, a
painter, a sculptor, photographer, videographer,
and community builder. I graduated from the Georgia
Institute of Technology with a degree in
science, technology, and culture, and I earned my master's degree in fine art from Art Center
College of Design. I am an artist. I love
creating objects, but I also love
creating change in other people through inspiration,
motivation, education. I believe we all have a personal legend, a
personal mission. And if I can create something
that can help people feel better or get to their
purpose a little bit faster, I believe that that's what
I'm here on this earth to do. I do what I do because I love people. I care
about giving back. I'm only able to do what I have done in my life because
people invested in me. I had mentors that showed me the way and people
that believed in me. So it's only my responsibility to be that for somebody else, and that's why I created
We uplift the world. We uplift the world as an art and technology
education company. We're focused on giving artists and creative
entrepreneurs the tools they need to create sustainable,
successful careers. We provide training,
mentorship from industry professionals who
are the best at what they do. And we also connect
students with paid work opportunities,
internships, and anything we can
to help move them forward and help make
their dreams a reality. With your support, we'll be able to more sustainably
uplift communities, artists and entrepreneurs. Donations help us provide jobs, allowing us to hire
local teachers. It's also going to allow
us to teach hundreds of more students how
to create sustainable, successful careers with
their god given talents. No more starving artists. This is the season of
the abundant artist. Thank you for your support. Thank you for believing in us.
Bijan Machen, Artist + Educator
