Edição de vídeo com CapCut: o curso completo para iniciantes no desktop e celular

1. Why you need this course!: Editing courses will overwhelm you with features that you'll never use. But what if you can master the key elements of video editing in just a short period of time and start creating YouTube worthy videos easily? Well, that's exactly what this cab cut video editing training is designed to do to get you up to speed editing fast. So in this training, I'm going to take you through the process on both desktop and mobile. You can choose your preferred device or you can master both. And in this training, I'm going to use the free version of Capcard so you can easily follow along. Now, this isn't for people who are aiming to go and work in Hollywood. This is for content creators, for entrepreneurs, for YouTubers who want to create great looking videos without throwing hundreds of hours into training. That, we haven't met before. My name is Justin Brown, and I run a YouTube channel with my brother Mike, which we've now grown to over 1.7 million subscribers. After years in professional video production as well, and training our own editing team, we've distilled all the important stuff that you need to know for effective and efficient editing into a simple proven process. So in this training, I'm going to take you through our streamlined video editing process that's going to save you hours and hours of wasted time. You got to get a clear step by step system that you can use to edit, complete YouTube videos easily. By the end of this training, you're going to have completed a YouTube ready video. You're going to have a repeatable process for all your future videos, and you're also going to have the confidence to edit videos that actually engage your audience. This is the same training that we use to train our editing team all strip down to just the essential stuff that you need to get results. So if you're ready to stop looking like a beginner and start creating professional looking videos, I'll see you in the next video. 2. Kicking Off: Massive welcome to this Cap Cut training. So my goal for this training is to help get you up to speed and using Capcut creating some amazing looking videos fast. Cap Cut is an absolute beast of a program, and there is a lot in there. So this course is definitely not going to cover off on every little detail that's in there. This is not an advanced course. This is, though, designed to get you up to speed fast, taking you through the fundamentals and all the key stuff that you need to know to have success with this as fast as possible. So in this training, we're going to get you up to speed editing a YouTube ready video, using Capcut the free version. We're going to be applying essential editing techniques to transform raw footage to a completed final YouTube video. So by the end of this, you will have edited and be ready to share a short video on a topic of your choice. Also, feel free to use the sample footage that we've provided to follow along with the class. Or if you prefer you can use your own video footage. But if you are new to video editing, then I'd suggest that you focus on something simple, such as a personal introduction or a brief tutorial first. So for extra Context, CapcAt is an amazing video editing tool. It's fast and it's easy to use, and allows you to create amazing looking videos, whether you're on your smartphone or your computer. Because it's one of the few apps out there that actually works across different devices, including Mac, Windows, IOS and Android. So I'm a big fan of Capcut for a few reasons, but the first one, probably the most important one, is that it is easy to use. It's got a really intuitive interface. So for someone who was never edited before, this is going to allow you to jump in to get up to speed, to start editing your videos down easily without the overwhelm that you would have in a lot more complex applications. It's also got a ton of extra more advanced stuff in there as well, making it great for someone who is at that intermediate to advanced level two. Some of those more advanced features include things like AI background removal, advanced key framing and animation, smooth slow motion, and green screen effects. I also love how easy it is in Cap cut to repurpose your content into different formats so that you can easily maximize the time that you're spending creating your content and essentially create multiple versions of your videos for different platforms or different formats. Example, if you're starting off with a 16 by nine or a widescreen video, it's really easy to repurpose or to recreate a portrait version for TikTok or shorts from that original inside of Capcut. And again, all of this is really straightforward, really intuitive, and really simple. Now while there is a free version of Capcut available, there are some limits now with how many videos you can export or save out without a watermark or without brand. Free. So if you do want to remove this limitation and also unlock all the features and all the functionality, all the effects, then that's where you will need to be on the paid version of Capcut. Regardless, though, the free version is a great place to start, and that's what I'm using in this training, too. But I also want to note that Capcut is constantly evolving and changing and updating. And I absolutely love this about them. There is no other app or tool that I've seen that rolls out updates and new features as frequently as Capcut. They've got a big focus on helping people make videos easier, so they're building out a ton of cool AI functionality that's all included in CAP help with that goal, too. But what I've noticed now from using Cap cart for years is that a lot of features tend to be released as free, first off, and then over time, they move a lot of that extra stuff, the more pro level stuff into the paid version. So even if you're seeing something that looks a little bit different to me, that you can still keep pressing forward and understanding how all of this stuff works and how it all fits together. Overall, I think CapcAT is the best all rounder video editing tool out there right now. It's great for absolute beginners, right through to people who are more advanced, but are looking for a fast, effective workflow. And finally, as we go through any related links or resources for the video that you're watching, they're all now under the projects and resources area. So if you hear me say things like links are in the description or there's more information linked below, that's where they now are. So let's get started. 3. The differences: CapCut Mobile Vs Desktop Vs Web: Okay, so for those of you who aren't aware, there's actually different versions of Capcut out there in the wild right now. There is a version which is very similar on desktop and on mobile devices. Those two are very, very similar. And then there is a web based version, and that is a totally different thing. Even though it's branded Capcut, even though it's called a Capcut video editor, the web based version, the one that you access through their website is actually a totally different thing to what we're covering off in the training here, which is the Capcut or the cap cut video editing software. The web version is heavily cut down. There is nowhere near as much control or features and tools and things in there. You can still do some very basic edits in there, but it is nothing in comparison compared to what you get access to in the mobile version or the desktop app. So I want to just stress this point home early on in this training to make sure that you are using the right version. Want to download and install the software on your computer, on your Mac or Windows computer, or you want to download install the app on your IOS or Android device. That is what this training is centered around, not the online web based version. Maybe one day, they'll be able to bring all the features and the functionality from the app and from the desktop version over to the web so that we don't even need to install anything. But for right now, you just need to know that they're totally different and that the web based version is really nothing in comparison to what you get access to on the desktop and the smartphone. 4. The Ultimate CapCut Video Editing Process: There's a lot of people out there that don't enjoy video editing. It's that necessary evil for you to create effective good looking videos is the whole editing thing. Don't worry. I'm here to make this process much, much easier for you. But the biggest place that I see a lot of people get stuck when they approach video editing is that they just jump straight in, they add on a few effects. Color grades to try and make their footage look good, make it look pretty straight up front. And by adding these effects and color grades and stuff upfront, you can also slow down your computer performance or your phone performance, making the whole thing even more painful to edit in, as well. So the answer to this is the fastest and easiest way to edit your footage down is by following an effective process, a step by step process what to do when in a structured order, for best efficiency, but also for best results and performance on the way through. So I'm going to quickly run through what the steps are in the order that you should ideally be performing these for optimum results. And then you'll also find that we've structured a lot of the content here in this training to help you edit and follow along in the same way. So instead of just starting your editing project, jumping in, adding in a bunch of effects and stuff, the first thing that you should do is to make sure that your project is set up correctly first, make sure that you've got the right framework, the right resolution. Make sure that you've got everything set up the way that you need before you even bring in your footage. From there is when we're going to import our footage. Now what I'd suggest that you're doing here is bringing in your primary footage first. What is the core footage, the core story that you want to edit down. Let's bring that in first, and then we're going to base edit that. So we're going to remove all the bad takes, all the mistakes. Anything that you don't want to have in the finished video, going to remove all of that stuff up front. Again, we're not focusing on making it look pretty. We want to make sure that we actually have everything to tell the story that we want to tell before we waste any more time in case we don't have something that we need or there's been an issue with the footage that we've shot. This allows us to check all of that as we go through. Now, editing this way is also an iterative process in that we're constantly refining and tweaking our edit every time we play through it, or work. Once we've gone through, we've done this base edit, our first pass, removing all the bad stuff, all the stuff that we're definitely not going to use. The next step then is to bring in any B roll or overlay footage onto our timeline. So this could be any other shots that you want to show, any other graphics or animations that you want to bring in, we're going to add that next layer there at that point. We're also, as we're doing that, doing another pass. So we're tweaking up some of our cuts, tweaking up some of our edits. Again, refining this as we go. Once we've got our primary footage in, we've got our B roll or our overlay footage in as well, this is where we can start to make some adjustments to the clips themselves. So we could zoom in, we could crop, we could scale, we could rotate our clips to start to get them closer to how we want in the finished product. Next, we're going to go through and add in any text and graphics into our video followed by adding any transitions or effects to make our story flow. Once we're happy with that is when we dive deeper into the effects, and we look at adjusting the speed of your clips. We look at stabilizing your clips, adding any animations, doing your background removal. All of that stuff then happens at this stage. From there, the next step is to add any music and sound effects. Once those are in and we've got them in place, we're then going to go through and adjust all of our volume levels across all of our clips so that everything is set how we'd like it. And then one of the last things that we do is we make it look good. This is where we can go through apply different color grades, different looks, different filters. This is where we make it look the way that we want it to look. Again, this is something where a lot of people dive into this stuff right up front. You want to do it right towards the end. And then the last step is export. This is where we're saving out our video masterpiece. We'll then preview it and play it back, make sure everything is all good. Obviously, if we need to make any changes at that point, we dive back in, make those changes and re export. But we want to preview our video and play it back before we post it and share it on the Internet. But we want to make sure that we are playing back or previewing our video, making sure that it looks exactly how we like it. Ideally, you're doing this on different devices as well. So if you can play it back on a phone, play it back on a TV, or on a computer screen, then you know that you're happy with how it looks on some different devices, and then at that point, when you're happy, then your video is ready to share. So that is the step by step video editing process. And again, what I'm going to take you through in the rest of this training. 5. Mobile - Downloading and installing CapCut: It's time to download and install Capcut on your device. I'm going to be showing you this on an iPhone, but the process is pretty much exactly the same on Android. You want to go to the app store, you want to go to the Playstore and open that up. Then you want to go ahead and search for Capcut. I've got to go down the bottom right hand corner here to search on here, and then we can type in Capcut, select on that. We got an ad that's shown to us at the top here, we want to scroll down until we see the cap cut app. This is the logo that you're looking for. You can also verify that this is the right app because it says it was created by ByteDance, which is the company that also makes TikTok, so that's the one that we're after here. We're going to press the little download button to download and install that. It'll then go ahead and do its thing, and then the app is then installed on your device. We can see that's done now. It just says open. We can either open it directly from here or we can come across to our app draw here. We can then go ahead and find Capcut. There it is up the top here. We can press on that to open the app. 6. Mobile - Getting to know the CapCut interface: Going to take a look at the cab cart interface. If you've never opened the app before, then this is what you will first see when you open it. You'll need to hit the agree and continue button down the bottom. It's likely they going to pop up like it is here and ask you for different permissions for notifications, access to camera and microphone, so you can go ahead and accept those. Once that's done, we're now inside the cab card app. You can see this is broken down into different tabs down the bottom here starting off with the edit tab. This is the main area that we're going to play in in terms of creating and managing our projects and all of that stuff. There are some templates and things that you can use in here as well. There's also a dedicated tutorial section in here now for extra support and tutorials that Capcut themselves have created for their user. Also an inbox area and also access to your account. For these, it's asking you here to log in. While you can create a free Capcut account, you don't need to. You can still access a lot of the functionality without even needing to create a free account. Let's jump back to the Edit page here and continue our tour of the interface. We do have a settings button up the top right hand corner. Here this is where we can customize up some of our app specific settings. We can go back out of this with the X in the corner. We've got now access to some cap cut tools. Now this is an area that is changing fast. Already, I swear the last few times that I've opened this new tools and things that are showing up in here. That's that menu bar across the top there. If we expand, we're able to see more of these new features and more of these tools being rolled out. It's likely while you're watching this, there's probably some other tools in here now as well. You've got things like the camera, they're built in teleprompter. There's a bunch of AI tools and photo retouching tools in here as well. Let's go ahead and dive into the editing interface so I can show you what that looks like. So we're going to hit New Project, and D will have a dedicated video on taking you through setting up your project. I'm just going to select a video file here just so that we can get to the editing interface. I'm going to choose Add, and this is our main video editing area here inside of Capcut. We can see we've got our big preview window here, so we can preview and play back our video editing masterpiece. There's a button over here on the left, and you see if a tap on that, it's going to make our video full screen. This is good if you want to preview what you're making a little bit bigger on your screen. We can hit that same button down the bottom right now to return that back to normal. We've got our playback controls in the middle, so we've got our play pause right in the center of the screen. Over on the side, we've got our undo and redo buttons. So if you're playing around and you're testing out different effects and things, you can easily remove them and go backwards if you need to. But this main area down the bottom here, this is your editing timeline. This is where the magic is going to happen. Where we can see we've got our video clip down here. We can just tap to swipe across. We can two finger pinch to zoom in and out on this area, and then down below that in the bottom menu bar here, we've got access to all of our effects and tools and titles and everything. This is where we access all of that stuff. Being that we're using this on a smaller device, we can actually tap and swipe across here as well so that we can access everything. If you're looking for something in particular and you can't find it, then just remember that you can tap and swipe along. This menu bar across the bottom here does change update as you're doing different tasks in the app here as well. For instance, if I tap on our video clip here in our timeline, then the tools and things that we've got access to down the bottom here, this is now changed to all the different effects and transitions and everything that we can apply to that specific clip. You can see we've got a lot more options in there. Up in the top right hand corner where it says ten ADP, up here, we can easily see and select and change our video export settings. I'm currently set to ten ADP, but we can easily up that to two K, four K, or even go lower to 720 P if we needed to. In here, we can control the resolution, the frame rate, your bit rate or code rate, as they call it here. That's the quality of the videos that you're saving out. We can also turn on or off Smart HDR as well. We also now have the ability in here as well to save out gifts or Jits as well. So if we go back now, the button next to that, the up arrow is our share or our export button. That's how we can save out our video. At any time if we want to go back to our main project area to switch between maybe different edits that we're working on, we can press the X in the top left hand corner, and that's going to take us back to that main screen. 7. Mobile - Project Setup: Configuring project settings: We're going to get our video editing projects set up inside of Cap Card and adjust all of our settings so they're good to go so then we can get to editing. I'm back here in Capcard, I am over on that edit page, and right now I'm not signed in to the Capcut account. Now, you don't need to be signed in, you don't need to create a free account. But when we're looking up setting up our projects and things here, there actually are some benefits to having a free Capcut account in terms of backups, so we can actually back our projects up to the Cloud. If something happened to your device, you haven't lost the projects you've been working on, but also you have the ability to now transfer them between devices or between your desktop and your phone as well. For that, you will need to have a free account created. I'm going to go ahead and sign in now. So we can either come across to the little M icon down the bottom and we can create an account or we can sign in that way. Or if we're back on the edit page, you can just press on the Cloud button there as if we're wanting to upload our project to the Cloud, and that's going to prompt us to sign in. So we can sign in with the TikTok account, Google, or any of the other options there. I'm going to go ahead and sign in now. That's done. We are signed in on a free account. This isn't a paid account. But now when we create our projects, we have the option to back them up to the Cloud as well, and I'll show you that a little later in this video. Create a project. We just want to hit the big button there that says new project is then going to prompt us to choose a video file so that we can get our project set up. Now what I recommend you do here is choose your primary camera footage. The thing that's going to make up the bulk of the video that you're creating. You want to select that clip first because Catcuts then going to analyze that clip and it's going to update your project settings to match that we do have the ability here to go through and select multiple clips, so we can just tap on the little circle here and pick all the clips that we want to use in our video editing project. But I suggest that you don't do that yet. Let's just pick the main camera footage here to make sure that our project is set up correctly. We can come back and import extra footage a little bit later. We've got our primary footage selected there. I'm going to choose Add down the bottom corner. We can see that that clip is now here in our timeline. We can then either make sure our project settings are correct or we can change them up if we need to. The first place you want to look for this is in that top corner there where it says ten ADP. We want to make sure that that matches the video that we are creating. The footage I just imported here is ten ADP, so that matches already. It's also 30 frames per second. That's all we need to validate at this point. But now if we come down the bottom here to where we've got all these options across the bottom, we can actually choose here the format of the video that we want to create. The default here is matched what it is that we shot. It's a wide screen video 16 by nine. But let's say the video we want to actually create in is something different. We can come down here to ratio down the bottom and we can choose the format of our videos. You can see we could choose nine by 16, so a TikTok style or Instagram reel or YouTube short. We've got a one by one, so a square style video. You can see that there's a bunch of different formats and sizes for videos that you can create in here. It's much easier to get this setup right at the start of your project, but this is something that you can come back and change later. In the case of this video here, it's a regular 16 by nine video that we would upload to YouTube. I'm going to make sure that that is specified maybe a little later, once we're finished this video, I want to come back and create a Tik Tok version or a YouTube short of this video, we can come back and we can resize everything afterwards as well. I'm going to leave this here at 16 by nine. We're going to hit the tick to apply that. Then there's one last thing that we want to do to make sure that our project is set up correctly. Let's hit the X in the top left hand corner to close out of this project and we can see now under projects, we have our video projects sitting it's been given the project name one, one, two, two. We can rename that so it's easier for us to find later, but also to manage if we're working on lots of different projects at the same time. We can press the three little dots over to the side of that and we can choose rename and let's give our video a name. So now video. That's the video we're going to be editing down in this training. Let's go o and that name has now been applied. The other thing we can do at any time here is that we can press again those three little dots and we have the option here to back to the Cloud as well. Now that you have a free account, there is some free included Cloud storage. If you want to back up your project to the Cloud as you go through and as you've done more work on the project, then you can definitely come in here and back that up at any time. From here, we can tap on that project there to open it back up, then we can start editing. 8. Mobile - Project Setup: Importing video assets: Now it's time to import your footage into your video editing project here. This is where we're going to bring in all the different video files, different video assets that we want to use in our video. Now, back when we created our video editing project, Capcut actually makes us select one clip at least to immediately import into our project as part of creating that project. We also have the ability to bring in extra files into our project at any time. I want to stress here that you don't need to have every single file that you're going to use here in your timeline immediately. What I prefer to do is to bring things in as you need them so that you're building this thing out over time. Instead of just having everything in your timeline and trying to juggle everything, it's much easier to bring stuff in as you. Right now we've got one clip added to our timeline here, which was the one that was added when we created our project. Because we only have one clip imported at this point, it's sitting on our primary video layer. This is really where you'll be building out your edit with this primary video layer, and then on top of that is where you can add any B roll, any graphics, any things that you want to show on top of your primary footage. I'm going to show you how you can import different clips onto either your primary timeline or also to bring them in on top of the primary timeline so they're added as B roll or overlay footage. But it is worth noting at this point that you need to have at least one clip always in your timeline. If we select our one clip here and then we go down to the delete button, it tells us we need to keep at least one clip in there, something to be aware of. We've got our first clip in the timeline here. Let's tap and swipe all the way across to the end of our video and let's bring in another clip. What we're seeing on the screen here at the end of our clip, I'll just pinch to zoom to Zoom in here. Our first clip finishes, which is this one here. But there's also this blank area here, which is a title here from Capcut. Now, this is on by default, that this card or this title is automatically added at the end of your video. But don't worry, you can delete it here right now so that it's gone for the rest of your editing. We've got that selected now and just tapped on it. You can see down the bottom, we've got the delete button. If we press on that, that clip is gone. A lot of people forget that. We want to do that here before we get too far into the edit so that it doesn't get forgotten, but know that you can definitely remove. Okay, so at the end of our video here now, let's bring in another clip. All we have to do is press the plus button here on the right hand side, and that's going to take us back to that import window where we can go and find the clips or graphics that we want to import. This page here is broken down into the categories videos. We've also got photos and we've got live photos if those are on your device. Let's go back to videos here at the top, you can actually change the categories or the sorting of these. Right now, this is showing recent files that have been used on my device. If I press on could change the category or the grouping to recently added. We could just show videos, live photos, ones from the Insta 360 app. A different camera that I have videos or photos that have been sent to me through WhatsApp, even. There's different ways that we can categorize or go through and find our content at this point too. I'm going to tap back on recent to go back. The next one across though, where it says in at the top, if we press on that, this is if we are using CapcATs Cloud, then we can import files from here. If there's files that you want to use on the desktop version and on your mobile version or on an iPad or something as well, we can synchronize them here using CAPCuTsCloud, and we can import them into our projects from here too. There's also an option at the top here for stock videos. Yes, Capcut does give you access to stock graphics and Broll and things that you can use. I'd be very mindful about using these in my videos in terms of potential copyright issues that you might have though they're in here, using these and using the stock music that's included as well, you could be opening yourself up to potential copyright claims or strikes from using these if you don't have the correct permission. For me, personally, I'd much rather use other services like story blocks or motion array to find these graphics and files because I know then that I'm totally compliant with the licensing. Let's come across to recent let's select another video file. Going to choose this clip up here in the top left hand corner. Now there's two ways that we can select this. I can tap on it in the little circle there and then we get the little number one up here. This is if we want to select multiple clips. I could then select another clip and another clip and you can see those line up down the bottom. These are going to import in that order into our timeline. I can deselect them by pressing the little minus on them down the bottom, or I can just tap on that little circle again and they're going to be deselected. If you want to import multiple clips, then that's how you do it. But let's deselect this first one here instead of tapping in the circle, let's tap on the actual video clip itself. That's going to open it up to preview it. If we want to check that this is actually the clip that we want to import, we can do that here. We also have the ability though, to trim this down so we can make some minor edits to this so that we're not importing the whole file. If there's only a small section of this clip that we want to use, then we can just bring in that small section. Down the bottom left hand corner, there's a button that says trim if we press on that, then we can adjust the start time and the end time of this video just by adjusting these yellow handles or start and finish T markers. Let's say that we only wanted this small section of the clip here, then we could just hit the tick down the bottom right and that small section is going to be imported into our project. Then we just hit Add and that file now that small section of that file has been added to the end of our project. You can see that this has added this clip right next to our primary video footage. This is on the main editing timeline, the main editing layer as well. It's not been added to show above that clip at this point. You want to go through and select all of your primary video footage. It could be that you've got multiple clips built out. It could be that you recorded your main video footage in smaller chunks or separate files. You want to import all of those now. Once they're in there, you can actually long press on the clips, and you can pick them up and move them around. Let's say that we wanted this other clip here at the start, we can just pick it up, we can adjust it. If we scroll back to the start now, we can see that that small clip is now at the start of our video. We want to move it back, we can long press on it, and let's move it to the end and it's back there at the end. So it's really easy to add and reposition your clips or essentially your chunks of footage here this way. Because we've already got our primary footage in here, this extra clip here, we wouldn't normally add to the end like this. If we wanted to show this while I'm talking, then we instead want to add it as overlay footage. We want to position it over the top of our primary footage. We can either convert or promote our clips here to become overlay footage or we can import our footage directly as overlay footage. Let's say this clip here, this second clip here in our timeline, we want to promote that so that it's not just sitting next to our clips and playing after it. It's actually playing at the same time or on top of it. We can select it. We can come down the bottom here and we want to go through and we want to find where it says overlay and you can see that it's moved our clip now onto a separate video layer. It's no longer on our primary track, it's now on its own layer. That clip we can tap and hold and we can reposition it wherever we want it in our timeline here. Then when we scrub through this now, you can see that I'm talking, but at that point, this other clip is going to play while the original is still playing underneath it. Even though it's layered that this overlay clip is actually underneath it, it's actually on top of it in a video editing sense. That's how we can promote our clips to become B roll and overlay footage. Or if I deselect this now, let's hit the back arrow down the bottom. Instead of hitting that plus button over to the side to import our footage, we could just hit the overlay button down the bottom. Then come down to Add overlay, we could then go through find the clips that we want to use as our overlay footage or the stuff that we want to show on top of our primary footage. Let's pick this clip here. Let's choose Add. You can now see we've got three clips there. We've got our primary footage here. We've got our first clip that we promoted to become Broll or as an overlay and we've got this third clip here, which we just imported as overlay footage as well. Now with each of these clips, we can tap on them, we can hold them, we can pick them up, we can move them around, and we can trim them down and edit regular footage too. One last thing to note here when you're working with overlay footage is that when we're in overlay mode like we are now where it says overlay down the bottom, then this is where we can see these clips lay it up like this. If we hit the back arrow, then you can see that the view changes and we're still always seeing our primary footage here, but the overlay clips are actually now compressed. We get instead these little indicators or icons here showing us that there is some B roll, there is some overlay clips added at that point, but we don't necessarily know at a quick glance like this, how complex or how many layers we've actually got stacked up at that we can easily jump back into overlay mode at any time by pressing overlay down the bottom, and that's going to bring us back to that view. It's all about saving this screen space, the screen real estate so that we can see at a quick glance, yes, there are some clips and things added there, but we don't need to see them all the time, because it can get pretty overwhelming the more complex your video edits become. That's how easy it is to add and to import your video assets here into your editing project. I'm going to go ahead now, I'm going to hit overlay. I'm going to select those two clips that we add. I'm going to remove them because the workflow that I suggest that you're working through first is let's get that primary footage cut down first to where we want it. Let's build out that story and then we can go ahead and add B roll and graphics and animations and things afterwards. 9. Mobile - Editing: Cutting down your videos: Time for us to cut down our videos. Now there's a few different ways you can do this as with most video editing software and apps. So I'm going to take you through the different methods that are available to you so that then you know which you can use, in which circumstances for fastest editing all round. Because there are times where it will make more sense to use one of these methods over another. Now if I just pinch to zoom out down the bottom area here, we can zoom out on our clip so that we're able to scrub through it here really quickly. Again, at this point, we've just got our primary footage here in our timeline. First way that we can start to trim this down is we just want to tap on the clip itself, and that's going to bring up these white bars on the start and the finish of our clip. If we go across to the end, you can see there's this thicker white bar on there too. These are essentially handles that we can swipe across to adjust the start or the end time of an individual clip. Let's say that we wanted this clip to start a little bit later. We can drag it through here to where we want the clip to start, which is likely just before I start talking here about here. When I let go, I lift my finger up at that point, the clip is now going to start from then we hit play now? We have the world's best video, but if no one clicks on it. That's now the start of our video. Likewise, if we want to trim the end of our clip, so you can see if I just tap to swipe across here, that I stop talking about here, and then there's all these extra footage at the end that we can get rid of. I can press and hold on that white line there, the thick white line at the end, and we can drag back to the left to the point where we want the video to stop. So around here that now is the endpoint of that clip. Now to navigate through our footage, we could hit play and play through to find the areas that we want to remove or we can tap and swipe across and you can see that white line in the middle. That's our playback indicator that shows you exactly that frame that you're previewing there in the top. Let's come across to the piece here where I stopped talking about here, let's say that we want to add a cut in our timeline at that point. We're happy with everything from the start right through till then. We can tap on that. Then down the bottom, we've got split, and it's cut out clip in two so essentially now we've got a clip on the left and a clip on the right, and for each one of these, we've now got those handles. Let's say that there is a gap here, which there is before I start talking again somewhere around here, we can grab that left handle of the second clip and drag it up to that point there, and we've now removed that section where I wasn't talking. Now, for more granular control or for a higher level of accuracy, we can zoom in. Let's pinch to zoom on this. Now when we tap on a clip and we're making these minor adjustments, you can see that it is at a much finer level of detail. Idea here is that we're working through our video, whether start to finish or end back to the start and we're removing all of the bad takes, all of the mistakes, all of the things that we don't want to have in our finished video. We're doing a first pass to remove all of that stuff upfront. Here's another section here where I've just finished talking at this section. After this, there's a little bit of a pause because the way that I film videos, I'm doing it in chunks. We want to remove this gap here. Let's again, find the place where I just finished talking about here. Let's select on our let's add a split in it so that we're cutting it in half at that point and we could just grab that left handle and swipe across as we've done before. But we could also just come across to where I start talking again around here, and we could add another split at this point. That means that this clip here in the middle is something that we don't need, something that we don't want. We can just select it and we can come down the bottom to delete and that clip is now removed from our project. It really is about here using these tools that you've got access to swipe through or play through your footage, find the areas that you want to remove. Cut or split your clip, delete to remove that content, or you can use those handles to adjust the start and end times of those clips too. Let's just play this section here. You could have the world's best video, but if no one clicks on it, no one's going to see it. You need to get your content clicked on, and that's when your thumbnail strategy is so important. To help you with this, so even though I started talking then at that point, there's a double up or I'm starting again, we want to trim this down to about here so we can play through this next section now is so important. To help you with this, you need to make sure that your thumbnail images are attention grabbing that they stand out on YouTube. A, the pause, we want to finish this at that point. They stand out on YouTube. So we can cut this here, tap on it, press split, help you with this, you need to help you with this. Now if we keep coming across, it looks like I've started to say this again. So to help you with this, you help you with this. All right, so I started this actually two more times. We want to work out exactly where that is here around here. Let's split that. This clip on the left is no longer needed because it was all bad takes and mistakes. So we're going to press Delete and let's play this now. It. Help you with this. You need to Okay, so I've actually trimmed too much off this one. If we play this again now, it's a bit too quick. Help you with this. Let's select on that and we can actually bring back some of that footage, too. So if we drag to the left, that's going to bring it back in. So when we delete something, it's not totally gone. This is non destructive editing as they call it. So we can trim stuff down, but we can also bring it back if needed. Let's play this section now. Important. So to help you with this, you need to make sure that your thumbnail images Okay, so that's working. I want to go through now we want to cut down this clip to remove all the bad takes, all the double ups, all the mistakes so that we're just left with the core content. Once that's done and you can see we have a lot of little clips in the timeline here now, the clips themselves are actually movable. So if we need to pick something up and move it around, we can just tap and long press on it and we can adjust the positioning of these clips really, really easily. 10. Mobile - Editing: Adding B-Roll & overlay videos: This video, I'm going to show you how to add in B role or overlay footage, graphics, images into your videos. So really quickly, your A role in a video project like this is your primary footage. So in our case, that's the stuff that we've edited down first here with me on camera. Your B role, then, is any footage that will sit on top of that. So it's supplementary footage. So what we're doing here is we're going to be overlaying that on top of our Aroll footage so that we're still able to hear what's happening in that a role, but we're now showing B roll on top of it, which will be on screen instead of it. If I've lost you here already, it's going to make sense as we go through. So what we're going to do now is make sure we've got no clips selected here on the timeline, and we're going to come down the bottom to where it says overlay. We're going to then choose Add overlay, and that's going to bring up our import box, agamma. We can navigate through and find our media. So we're going to go ahead and select this clip here and I'm going to choose Add depending on the file that you select, sometimes it goes through and processes the clip, which is what it's doing right now for me. But once that's done, that clip is going to show up in your time. Can see we've got that clip imported now. So if we swipe across our footage here to scrub through it, you can see I'm talking, and at this point, the Broll the overlay clip is now shown on screen. But the original footage is still playing underneath it. So I've gone ahead and I've brought in one big clip that actually contains all the small snippets that we'll actually want to use for this video that we're editing, but you could definitely import multiple smaller clips into your project as well. The very first thing that you'll want to do here next, though, is you'll want to scale up that clip because if you notice at the top, this Broll clip isn't filling the frame completely. We can just make sure that that clip is selected by tapping on it down the bottom, and then we can just pinch to zoom on that clip up the top to scale that up, and it's going to snap into place once it fills that full screen. Now that it's the right size and it fills the full screen, this is when we can start to trim this down. So these overlay clips, they're treated exactly the same as a regular clip. We can pick it up, we can move it around. When we tap on it, we get those handles on either side so that we can adjust the start and end point. We can add splits in the clip to cut it up to make it shorter. And that same process that we've used for cutting down our clips is what we're going to follow here to find the sections of this B roll that we want to use. To position it where we want it. So I'm just going to hit play on the video here to work out what's been said so then we can go and find the appropriate shot as B roll to bring up over the top. You could have the world's best video, but if no one clicks on it, no one's going to see it. So you need to get your content clicked on, and that's when your thumbnail strategy is so important. All right, so we need a shot here from this B roll, maybe of one of our thumbnail images that we could then add some animation or something to it like someone's clicking. Let's just scrub through here. Let's see what's actually in this clip that we could use. Okay, so maybe this section here that's just static. So we can add a cut in the timeline here. Let's select that clip. Let's choose split. Let's come across to where we want this to end, maybe just before it zooms out. So probably about here. And let's add another split. Now, this smaller chunk here that we've just trimmed out, let's pick this up. So let's press and hold on it, and let's drag it across to the left, so it's at the start of our clip. Now, I'm just going to pick up our main Bro clip here. Press and hold on it. I'm just going to drag it over to the right, just so it's out of the way a little bit. Okay, so let's line this up now to where we want this clip to be shown. You could have the world's best video, but if no one clicks on it, no one's going to see it. So you need to get your content clicked on. Okay, so we probably don't want to bring it up until about here. So let's shorten that down. Let's tap on it. Let's drag that left edge across, and let's see what this looks like here. No one clicks on it, no one's going to see it. So you need to get your content clicked on, and that's when your thumbnail strategy is so important. Okay, let's zoom in on this, and let's trim the end of this off so that it finishes right when that clip finishes. I was going to grab that end handle and slide it back to the left. Alright, that's not bad so far. And again, we're going to add some sort of animation to this a little bit later so that it's more engaging for the viewers. But let's go ahead and find the next clip that we want to add. So let's play this next section here. Help you with this. You need to make sure that your thumbnail images are grabbing people's attention, that they stand out. Okay. So for grabbing people's attention and standing out, I kind of want to use a shot here for scrubbing through here looking for B roll. Where we're just scrolling down on YouTube. Maybe we could start it about here. Let's select our B roll. Let's add a split. Now, let's keep scrolling across here. Okay, that's probably enough. Let's add another split here, and we're again going to grab this chunk here. We've just cut out. Let's move it across down to this section around here. So let's play this little section now. You need to make sure that your thumbnail images are grabbing people's attention, that they stand out on whatever platform you're posting them on. Thumbnail image. Alright, so that's not looking too bad so far. Again, we want to be mindful of our B roll that we've bought in here just to get clips from. We want to make sure that we're moving it along or removing the bits of it that we don't actually want to use as we go. Now, this is the workflow that I usually use in this scenario, where I've got this temporary clip here that we're editing from. But if say, that's a really long clip, or you find that it's getting too clunky or too cumbersome to move around everything on the timeline with that temporary clip in there, you could just go ahead and delete. Like we have here so that it's removed. And then when you want to bring in more clips or find the next piece, we can then choose overlay down the bottom and import the clip again. So we choose Add overlay. We go and find the clip. We tap on it as if we're going to add it. But before we hit Add, we can actually hit trim. So if we know the type of thing we're looking for here in this piece of footage, we could actually go through and find it and essentially just mark out the piece that we want here using those handles. So we set the start time, we set the end time, then when we hit the tick to import it, we're only bringing in that piece of the footage. So either one of those workflows is going to work fine for you. So you want to go through now and add in any B roll or overlay footage into your project. And to round this section out, it's also worth noting that once you get out of this overlay mode, where you're adding in overlay clips, the view does change a little bit. So if we hit the little back arrow here now to go back to our main editing timeline, our main interface here with nothing selected. So out of overlay mode, then you'll notice here that we don't see our overlay clips here in the timeline anymore. But what we can see is this little bubble and red line indicating that there is actually overlay footage shown there at that point, and we can see it there on the timeline as we scrub through or play through. We can see that the clips are being shown in that preview window, but we're essentially seeing a compressed or a flattened version of that timeline so that it's not so overwhelming. If you've got layers upon layers of B roll and overlay footage and things, this is still giving you a clean view to see all of that and to navigate around while you're editing. So if at anytime you want to make changes to your B roll footage and move clips around, we can either just tap up on that little circle icon there. So we're tapping on the clip itself, and that brings us straight back to this overlay view. Or we can just go ahead down the bottom again to overlay as if we're going to add in some more overlay footage, and that's going to open up that overlay mode for us. And you can see we've got our clips here already. Okay, I just wanted to jump in here really quick to say, if you're finding this training valuable, can you please take a moment to leave us a review on here. It makes a world of difference to help people find this on Skill Share. So if you're liking this so far, I'd really appreciate it. Also, feel free to share any of your top takeaways along the way. 11. Mobile - Editing: Scaling zooming and rotating clips: We're going to take a look at some simple adjustments that you can make to your clips in your timeline in terms of scaling, zooming and rotating your clips. Now, these are things that you can easily apply to regular footage in your timeline and also B roll and overlay clips, as well. So I'm going to hit play on our video now so we can see where it's at, and then you can see how we can easily transform it by applying some of these simple things. You could have the world's best video, but if no one clicks on it, no one's going to see it. So you need to get your content clicked on, and that's when your thumbnail strategy is so important. Okay. So it's a pretty static shot here. We're also talking about a thumbnail image, but it's also pretty small on the screen there. So we can easily scale this up. I can zoom in on this clip, and it's going to make it more engaging. We can then go through later and add in extra stickers and graphics and animations and things on top of that to make it more engaging. But let's start out by helping the viewer focus on the thing that we're talking about here because there's a lot going on in that shot, but what we're talking about is the thumbnail image. So I'm going to tap on our overlay clip here so that we can bring that up. And then there's a couple of different ways that we can approach this in terms of zooming, scaling, and rotating. We can just pinch to zoom on the clip there in the preview window, and that will allow us to zoom that clip in. If we want to adjust the position of that clip, then we can tap on it with one finger and we can move that clip around to where we'd like. Let's put it more towards the center focus here. So again, it's clear to our viewers that that is the piece that we want them to look at or focus on. So generally, I find that that's the quickest way to do it, especially if you're working on your phone here. And in terms of rotation, we can just two finger tap and rotate up in that top area, and we're able to rotate our clip too. So we could position it in a way that it looks like this, so there on screen, and we've added something a little bit more dynamic, I guess, to this shot. I'm going to undo that last rotation. So we're going to press the Undo button here. Let's go undo again. To we get it back before that rotation happened? Because the other way that we can do this is with that clip selected down the bottom here, we can scroll across until we see Basic. So with Basic here, we can then have direct access to a slider here for things like your position, so we can adjust the X and Y position here. And this is in really fine detail. So if you're finding just tapping on the screens, not giving you enough control, then you'll get so much more control here with these sliders. Likewise, with the Y axis, we can move this up and down. If we jump across to scale, that's our zoom in and out. So we've got that control here, too. And the last one across the top here is rotation. That's where we can access that as well. When we're done, we just want to hit the tick down the bottom to apply that, and those settings have now been applied to that clip. Let's jump across to the next B roll or overlay clip here to make sure that your thumbnail images are grabbing people's attention, that they stand out on whatever platform you're posting them. So again, with this one, we could probably zoom in on it a little bit more to remove that static area down the left, the menu bar on YouTube. Let's try to make this more engaging. Let's add some more movement to this without the static area. So maybe we can zoom in on it to crop it out. So I'm going to select on that clip, and I'm just going to pinch to zoom in up the top area here, and let's move it across a bit. Maybe we'll zoom back out a little bit. It might have come in too far, maybe something like this, center it up. Maybe we'll even pull it down a little bit, see what that looks like maybe around here. So let's see what that looks like now. To make sure that your thumbnail images are grabbing people's attention, that they stand out on whatever platform you're posting them on. Your thumbnail image. Alright, so pretty simple. Now, depending on how you've captured your footage, depending on the quality that it was recorded at, there is the potential for you to be losing some quality if you zoom in too far. With the examples that I've shown you here, yes, we would be losing a little bit of quality with that screen recording, but it's not going to make much of a difference to the viewer watching. So the benefit of zooming in and having a much more focused, engaging piece of content shown is worth the trade off in a slight loss in quality in this case. That's how easy it is to scale to zoom and to rotate your clips. 12. Mobile - Effects: Adding text and stickers: This video, we are going to add text and stickers into our edit here. So we're going to hit play, and let's just see what's happening at the start of this video, and then we're going to add in some text or titles, first off, to match what's been said, and then we'll add in some stickers after that. So let's play this now. You could have the world's best video, but if no one clicks on it, no one's going to see it. So you need to get your content. Okay. So we could bring up some text here, World's Best video and bring up those three words as I say them. So we want to make sure we've got no clips selected here in the timeline. We want to come down the bottom here to where it says text and then in here, we've got a few different options and a few different ways that we can make text. We can create something totally custom, as in we've got full control over things like the font, the size, the color, the style of it. And that's the basic text here. But you can see over a little further, we've also got text templates in here as well, and I'll show you both of these so that you can work out which is the best one for you. So the first one here we choose Add Text. We can then type in what we would like. So let's go W and we can see that's updated there already. And if we scroll down, there's lots of different fonts and things that we can choose from. There are some free and some paid, you can see the pro ones there. You will need to have a pro or a paid account for Cap cut to use those specific ones. There's lots of free ones in here as well. Let's keep scrolling down. Let's take a look for something bold, maybe something like that one. And you can also see at the top here, we've got an era here for brand fonts. So these are things that if we want to save presets, so fonts that we use a lot, we can add a font as a brand font, but you also have the ability in here to add your own font as well. I'm just going to come back to English. We're going to leave it as this font here. And then we've got this other menu across here where we can customize this up further. If we press over on style, you can see that there are some preset styles in here or different looks that you can just tap on and select, and you can customize them up further, or we can use all of these different settings and things down the bottom here to dial something in from scratch. Let's just go something basic here. Maybe we'll make it a little bit bigger. So I'm just grabbing that size slider down the bottom. Now we can also make the text bigger or smaller up the top. We can pinch to Zoom on the text. So two fingers on screen. We can also one finger tap and press to move around. And there's also a rotate area here as well, if we want to rotate the text. So all the styling and everything's in there. If we come across to effects, then again, there are some presets here that we can use. And just by tapping on them, we can preview what they're going to look like. And if you scroll down, there is a lot in here to choose from. Some of them free, some of them paid. I'm going to come back up the top here and let's press none when it comes to effects. We're going to go something basic here. If we want to animate our text, we can come across here to animation. Tapping on these, you can see how these animations are going to look. And just the same for this one, I'm going to leave it basic. We're going to hit none. But once I'm done customizing this up, I just want to hit the little tick button up there, and you can see that we've now got that text that is added here to our video project, but it's added as its own video layout. And just the same as with other video layers here in Cap cart, we can press and hold on it to pick it up, to move it around. We've got those handles here on either side so we can adjust the start and the end time of how long we want the clip on screen. We can even split the clip in two if we need to. Let's put this where we want it. Let's try and put this close to where we want it. Let's play this section again. Best video. But if not. Okay, so we want it earlier. We want it to appear when I say worlds. So maybe we'll zoom in a bit on this as well. Let's play this again. World's Best. Okay, a little bit further forward. The World's Best video. Okay, so that's pretty close for the first one. Now, instead of creating the next one again from scratch, we can actually duplicate our layer here, our text. So if I press on it, then we come down the bottom here, let's swipe across, and let's go to copy, and you can see we've now got two versions of that on here. So I can just double tap on that new clip there, and that's going to open up the text editor here. We can write best. Let's hit the tick to apply that. We can then pick this up and maybe move it down a little bit. We've got World's Best. Let's pick this clip up and move it down a little bit and move it across a little bit, and try and get this timing right. Let's play this. World's Best video. Okay, so it's a little bit close. Trying to get the words to appear as I say them. World's Best video. Maybe so a little bit quick, move it down a little bit further. World's Best video. Okay, pretty good. So we're going to do the same thing again. We're going to tap on our bottom clip, we are going to come across two copies, so we've got a third version of it. Again, we're going to double tap down the bottom there on the clip. Let's change the text to video, and then we'll move it down, and let's move it across to try and line it up. Yes, around here, let's try this. World's best video, but if no one clicks on it, no one's going to see it. Okay, very simple. Looks pretty good. Now, these text layers actually behave very, very similar to an overlay clip. Whereas if we back out of our text edit mode here, so let's press the back arrow down the bottom left, so we're back in regular timeline mode. Now, we can see we've still got the text there on screen, but it's actually compressed. We just see an orange line across the top. That shows us that there is some text there. But if we want to get back in to manage the text or to modify it, we can just press the text button down the bottom, and all of our text layers are then visible. So that's how to add simple text. Side cap cut, you can also add more advanced animated text, as well. So again, you want to make sure that you are on that text mode. So press text down the bottom. Then we can come across to text template. And just scrolling through here, you can start to see the types of things that you get to use. And again, this is fully customizable in here. We can adjust the text. We can adjust the colors on some of these as well. And you can see that a lot of these are fully animated. There's also, again, a lot of free ones that you can use in here, but there are quite a few pro or paid ones, too. They're also broken down into those categories. You can see we're just on the trending ones here now. But you can scroll across for the different types of titles you could add. Let's just say that we wanted to add in this one press to see it. So you need to get your content. You can see that's now appeared up the top. We can resize the whole thing using those controls at the top. If we want to change the text, we can just double tap on it. No one's going to see it. So you need to get your content, and we can just type in our new text. So now we've still says 0.1, but we've got Justin Brown in there. Let's say we want to edit the 0.1, we can just double tap where it says 0.1, and we can change that as well. Now, in this case, with this title, there's also this little unlink button up there in the top preview as well. If we press on that, then we can actually move these different text elements around. Let's say that we want to move this text here Justin Brown over to the left. Let's pick that up. Let's move it over to around here. And now when we play through these, we've now got primal video, then Justin Brown showing up like that. And you can see it's actually split them off into two separate layers down the bottom here as well. So maybe we might not even want the top one. We can select it, press the delete button, and we're just left with the bottom piece here. So I love how customizable this is. So let's go ahead and add a sticker to help our viewer understand what we're talking about, but also to make the video more engaging. Again, we want to come down here to text and then we're going to choose stickers. Now, there's everything in here from emojis, different types of gifts and animations as well. And again, there's a good mix of free and paid. So just scrolling down here, I kind of like this arrow here, the finger touching piece. We're talking about tapping or clicking on a thumbnail image, so this can work well. So if we just tap on that, select on that, you'll see that it appears straight away at the top. We can resize it. We can pick it up, we can move it around. Let's make it obvious that we're talking about tapping on one of our thumbnail images here. So maybe something like this. Let's hit the tick to apply that. And again, we'll see this as its own video layer here in our timeline. We can see here that this only plays through once. So it moves and then it taps or clicks, and then that's it. So what we could do here is we could actually shorten this clip down. Let's grab the end of it. Let's make it much shorter here. So we just left with the animation piece, probably something like this. And then what we can do is let's have it repeat. Let's duplicate this. So we're going to press on that clip, so it's selected, down the bottom here, we'll go to copy, and we've now got a second version of it. So let's move this across so that when one of them finishes, the next one plays as well. We could do this a few times if we wanted this to repeat. So maybe in this case, we'll do it one more time. Let's press Copy. Pick it up and move it across. You can also see here that these are stacking. There's different layers here. The layering doesn't really matter. They don't need to be on top of each other here, but for all purposes here, let's put them all on the one layer just so it's neater. So now if we look at this, we've got that effect happening three times. 13. Mobile - Effects: Applying transitions between clips: Video transitions or transition effects can be a great way to take your viewer from one clip to another, to transition them from one clip to another. This is something that's built into most video editing software and apps. And while it is very easy to apply these things, I want to stress that you want to use these sparingly. You don't want to go overboard and add in a bunch of transitions and things because you can make your videos look very cheap. If we have a look on our video editing timeline here now and we've got these main clips here in our primary timeline. This is only going to apply to regular footage here in your timeline, you can see that we've got this little white icon between the two clips. All we need to do is to press on that, and then this is going to allow us to add a transition between those two. So this can happen at the join or the intersection of any main clips on your timeline. So if we scroll through these now, you can see, again, they're broken down into trending, overlay, movement, blur, basic. There's lots of different categories across the top here. And then inside of each category, we've got a lot of different options. Some of them free, some of them only available on the pro plan. But if we want to preview to see what this looks like, we just need to tap on one, and it's going to play a little preview for us. So you can see it plays a little bit of that overlap between the two clips with this effect now applied. Maybe we'll look at some of these pro ones as well to take a look. Scrolling back across. We've got some with a lot more movement. So hopefully, you can see you can easily go overboard with this stuff and just add too many of these things in there. But once you've picked the transition that you want to add, we can also adjust here the length of time that's going to play back over. So the short amount of time we can have this is 0.1 seconds, so very, very quick, right up to 1.2 seconds. So I'm just going to play that slower. Now, I'd say, most of the time when I am adding a transition like this into my project, I'm normally staying away from the ones that are overly animated or over the top. And generally, the ones I'm using are just found here under this overlay category, and that's things like maybe a black fade. Or a fade to black. Or if we keep coming over, we've got things like a white flash or even just a dissolve, a cross fade between the two clips. Those are the main ones I'm looking for. And I normally make the transition time fairly short. So probably around half a second to maybe just under a second, depending on the pacing of the video. So once you've got that peak, you have the choice here either to apply to all, which is every cut in your timeline to have that automatically applied for you or just hitting the tick down the bottom right hand corner, it's going to apply it just to that cut. So we can see now in our timeline, we actually have that effect here applied. Even though we can add a transition like we have here between these two clips, when the camera angle is the same, the shot is the same. It's not really something that I would do. So if I want to remove this, let's just press on that join there again. Let's come across here to none up the top left hand corner, and then hit the tick to apply that. So we've now removed that transition. What I would do instead, if it's footage like this where it's almost exactly the same between each cut to make the shots look a little bit different and to make it less jarring for your viewer, would simply just zoom in on one of the shots, either the before or the after. Someone's going to pick the second one here in this case, and then I'm going to come up the top here and I'm going to pinch to zoom in a little bit on this to make it a little bit bigger. Now, in order to really sell this effect and make it less jarring for your viewers and make it feel like almost like a zoomed in shot or a second camera angle want to try to make sure that the eye position is very similar or very close to matching between the two shots. So let's see what this looks like now. So we've got our wide shot here we get to this point, and it jumps in. Okay? So the eye position, it's close. It's not perfect. Let's move it across a little bit more now, maybe something like this. Let's see what this looks like. Okay, much closer. So before, after it's a lot less jarring, a lot more subtle for the viewers than having some of those transitions. So you can either go through now and add in a bunch of these transitions where you need them in your videos or you can even zoom in on some of your shots to essentially do the same thing. 14. Mobile - Effects: Adding special effects & clip Animations: Now, there's a few different ways that we can add effects and animations inside of cap cut. So that's what we're looking at in this video. So making sure we got nothing selected on our timeline. Here, we want to come down the bottom to effects. And then in here we can open up video effects. Once again, we've got our categories across the top for the different types of effects and things in here. You can see we've got categories for Christmas, for TV, for glitch effects. And there's a mix of free and pro. To preview what these effects look like, we just want to tap on them and it's going to play back a little preview for us. So maybe we'll choose this one here chromo Zoom. Okay, so kind of a glitching effect at the start. Maybe we'll try this one here. Jump. Maybe we'll try this other distort one. Maybe we'll take a look at some of the others. Let's go. Nature. And let's take a look at fog. Okay, smog. Okay. Even rain. I mean, that looks pretty good. Okay, so let's say that we wanted to add this rain effect here into our video. Now that we've selected it, we can actually make further adjustments to it. You can see now that the icon for it has changed to adjust. So let's press on adjust. Now obviously, what you'd actually get to control is going to come down to each individual effect, but you can see we have some sort of atmosphere. But maybe let's lower this and see what happens. Okay, so maybe it's less rain it looks like. It's not the speed of the rain. We can adjust that, but also maybe the amount of rain. Now, to apply this, we just want to hit the tick up the top right hand corner there, and you can see that this effect is now on its own video layer. And as we play through this section here, and that rain is being applied to the clips that are underneath it, normally, or on top of, in this case. But the only clips that are affected are the ones that are on screen while that effect is visible. So we can adjust the time of that. We can grab the end here. We can drag it out if we want to extend how long that effect is playing for. Maybe we'll zoom out. We can also pick that effect and move it around if we want it somewhere else in our timeline. If we wanted to duplicate it, we could tap on it, we could press copy. We've now got two versions of it. So we could have one throughout that section. We could move one down later in our video as well. I absolutely love that you have this ability to add effects to their own layer. Essentially their own little clip here. This gives you so much creative control over what you can do with these clips. So that's the first way that you can add effects or movement into your clips. I'm going to go ahead and delete these. Now, select on it, press Delete, select on the next one, press Delete. If we go back to our main timeline here, so we've got no clips selected, let's zoom in on our time. Let's select this clip here. Let's say that we want to add an effect or some animation to this specific clip. With that clip selected, down the bottom here now, we've got the ability to press animation. And in here, we can have I guess, these are more simplified animations. These are more like transitions, but these we can apply to three different areas of the clip. You can see here we've got an option for in out and for combo. So I will apply some sort of animation, whichever animation we pick here to the first part of our video. Out is going to be the end of the video. And combo is something that can play throughout the middle part of the video. So a clip on your timeline can have an in and out and a combo effect applied. So scrolling across here, we can start to see the types of things that we can get access to. Lots of pro ones up here at the start, let's go across until we get some free ones here as well. So we'll go everything here from a basic fade in, which is that first one there. We can adjust the length of time. There's currently half a second. Maybe we'll make that a bit longer. So you can see how that works. Maybe we'll try another one here. That was very quick. Slow that down. So we can add a little bit of movement at the start of this clip. Let's see what else we got. Shake three. That goes very quick. Slow it down. See, I don't mind now. Does add a little bit more movement, a little bit of interest to the clip. Maybe we try this one. Here, swing bottom, slow it down. Yeah, probably not as good. Maybe we'll slow it right down. Not bad. There's some movement there. So that's the in animation. And you can actually see that blue area that is drawn out across our timeline. So we could again shorten that if we needed to, but I don't mind that one long. Now, we don't need to apply all three effects. If we just wanted it in animation, we can hit the tick, and that's now applied to the start of this clip. And you can see that motion here as we cut from this first clip here to this one, there's that movement there that's happening, and then the clip would play as it normally would after that. But let's just select this clip here. Let's go to animation. So again, all of these are the in animations and there's lots in here to choose from. But if we come over here to out animations, then we've got quite a few in here as well. That doesn't seem anywhere near as many, but a lot of the similar style things like a slide up, a flip. And if we come over here to combo, then we've got these other effects here just to add some movement to your shots that's separate from the in and the out animation. So maybe we press this one here, Zoom. So it added that slow Zoom out, that pull out there for that clip. And we're going to adjust the length of the animation down here as well? Sure So I don't mind that. It actually added a slow zoom out or movement to that clip just to make it a little bit more engaging. So once we're happy that we hit the tick to apply that, and that's now applied to our clip. 15. Mobile - Effects: Speed adjustments (speed up slow down): There's likely going to be times when you're video editing that you'd like to speed up or slow down your video files. That's what we're going to show you how to do in this video. So I've just added this extra snowboarding clip here to the end of our video just so I can show you how this speed control works. Now, this is just a stock footage clip from within the Capcut app. So let's just play through this clip so you can see what happens and at what speed we press Play, it looks like it's real time speed. And the person who comes past the camera does a couple of turns. Okay, so in order to adjust the speed for this, we want to select the clip, and then down the bottom here, we've got a speed adjustment here. So we press speed. Then we've got two options. We've got normal speed adjustments, or we can have the more advanced speed adjustments, which is the curve adjustment. So I'm going to press on normal, and then we've just got this slider here. And this will let us adjust our speed, everything from 0.1 times speed right through to 100 times speed. With real time speed or normal speed being one time or one X. So if we want to speed up the clip, we want to increase it anything above one. If we want to slow it down, we want to go below one. So let's say that we want to speed up the clip. Maybe we will make it five times. We'll drag this up to five times. And you can see that adjustment has already made in our timeline. The clip is now much shorter because it's going to play for less time. Now, we can actually tap and swipe back through here to be able to play this as well. So we can preview it to dial this in before we actually apply it. So let's hit Play now. Okay, so much quicker. Maybe we'll slow it down to two times. Hit play. Okay, you get the idea. Now, when it comes to slowing it down, though, as I said, you got to go below one, then we do get some extra adjustments in here as well. So let's slow this right down as far as we can, 0.1. Now, you normally wouldn't go this far unless your footage was already recorded in slow motion. But let's scrub through this, and let's see what this looks like. Maybe around here where the person comes past camera. Hit play, you can see it's very stilted. All right? So it's barely usable. There is an option now in Cap cut where it says here, make it smoother. So if we press on this, we've got two options. There's faster processing and there's better quality. I'm going to choose here faster process, and we'll see if we play through this now. It shouldn't be perfect because it hasn't really gone through it and rendered it out yet, but it should have improved. So let's hit play. Okay, so it's kind of added in these extra frames, so it's not so stilted and jumpy, it's a little bit smoother. And now if we remove this and try the other option, better quality, I think we're still going to get a preview here if I hit Play, it's a little bit better again. And this is worst case scenario. I would recommend that you don't slow down your clips this far. But you can already see just with this preview here without even doing that full render or processing that effect to the best of its ability, it's actually improved it quite a lot. But let's say that we speed this up a little bit. So it's not putting too much pressure on this. 0.4 speed. Still at better quality. Let's see what this looks like now. So so much smoother, and it's still slow motion. Let's turn off that make it smoother option. Yeah, it's still very stilted, still very jittery. So it's awesome that they've got that make hit smoother option in there. So when we're happy with the speed and the adjustments in here, we want to hit the tick to apply that, and that has now been applied to our clip. Now, the other way to do this with more advanced controls, let's select on our clip. Let's choose speed. But this time, we're going to go with curve. Then in here, we've got some presets that we can use for different speed controls. So we've got things like montage, hero, bullet. And you can see those graphs or those lines. That's an indication of what the speed is doing at those times. So this one need, for example, jump. Starting out at a lower speed, it's then ramping up to a peak, really fast speed, and then it's coming back down to its slow motion phase. And if we just press on these, then that's going to apply. So we're starting slow speeding up. Hit that top little whip bit, and then it's slowing back down. So we can either use these presets that are here, we can edit them up to customize them up further, or we can come across here to custom and we can create something totally custom ourselves. So we press custom. Let's press Edit again, and we're given this little graph here that we can manipulate to speed up and slow down our clip as we need to. So that yellow line where it is right now across the middle, that is one time, so regular playback speed. If we want to increase some of the clips maybe have it play faster at the start, we can increase this one here for the start. And you can see as it plays through, this little timeline indicator here is showing you what piece of the clip you're affecting. So this first bit here is fast. Maybe this next bit here, we will speed up as well. And then about here, we could slow this down. So we're going to slow down for this section here. Then, yeah, maybe we'll slowly bring it back up to full speed. Let's hit play on this and see what this looks like. And again, we've got that option down the bottom here to make it smoother. Once we're done, we want to hit the tick to apply that tick again, and our speed adjustment has been made. Now, if you do want to reverse a clip or play a clip backwards, that's actually in a separate area. So you still need to have the clip selected there. You then want to come across here until you see reverse, which is down here, we press on that. It's then going to go through and analyze your clip, reverse it all for you. And this clip now is now the opposite. So it's now playing backwards. 16. Mobile - Effects: Background removal: Say that you want to remove the background from your video. You don't need to use a green screen or a blue screen these days. Capcut has an amazing built in effect, which will help you do it really, really easily. Obviously, you can use a green screen and a blue screen, as well. I'm going to show you both methods in this video. So to start off, I'm just going to duplicate our last clip here where I'm talking. So I'm going to select the clip I'm going to come across to copy. So you can see we've got a new version of that clip here in our timeline at the end. These last two clips are exactly the same. To remove the background from it, we just need to select on it. We come across here to where it says cut out. Then we just choose remove background. It's gone through, and it's really, really quickly analyzed our clip, and the background has been removed. So you can see already that it's just a plain black background now. And it's actually transparent, so we could put whatever we want as the background behind that. Or it also means that we could move this layer up and put it on top of some of our other footage. So I'm going to press back here now. I'm just going to select on the clip again, and I'm just going to press overlay. And this is going to transition this clip from our main primary timeline up to be an overlay clip. So if we press on this, you can see it now shows up as a regular overlay clip. And if we pick this clip up and put it on top of our other video layer there, you can see that that background has been removed. Now, if we look at this, you can see that I am cut out from the background, and I'm now on top of the computer screen that I'm showing. So with this clip, though, if we select it, we can tap and pick it up. We can reposition it. We can scale it up and down if we needed to. All of this super, super fast and easy. And one thing to note with the way that I just did this then by duplicating the clip, we actually duplicated the audio as well. So I want to make sure that on this bottom clip, this new one, the overlay one, I want to hear volume, and I just want to drop this down to zero so that we're only hearing this audio play once. Too much text or too much happening. Your viewers are going to click on something else. Pretty easy to do, right? Now, just as easily, we could have gone and imported a totally new background. So just going to press the plus button here. We're going to come over to stock videos at the top, so we're going to access CapcuTs stock footage Library. And I'm going to search here for background, see what comes up. Okay, this one here looks pretty good. Let's import that. Tit ad. So we've now got this background clip here. We could then pick up our overlay clip and let's drag it over the top of this clip. And you can see what it looks like here with this different background. Again, we could scale it up a bit more, maybe move me across, something like this. Lots of different options. Now I'm going to go ahead and just remove these now select on that clip, press Delete. Let's delete the background well, let's say that you've got some footage that was filmed on a green or a blue screen. How would you remove the background then? I'm going to come across here to import, so we're going to hit that plus button. Again, let's go to stock videos, and let's just search for green screen, we've got some examples here that we could use, maybe this person here on their phone. Let's press on this. Let's add this to our timeline. So if we want to remove the green from this, we can select on the clip. We can come across here to cut out again. Now, you could just use the AI tool that we just used, the background removal. Or there is a dedicated Chroma key function here, which will remove a specific color, green, in this case. So we can press here Chroma key. It then says, drag to start picking a color. So we want this green here. We then come down the bottom here to where it says intensity, and we increase this slider until the green is gone. So somewhere around here till most of that border is gone. Likewise, we do want to increase the shadow a little bit in most cases, just for a better, sharper result. Probably around here, let's hit the ticket to apply that background now has been removed for that clip. So again, if we want to then put this on top of some of our other footage, we do need to promote this clip or transition it into an overlay clip. So with it selected, we want to press on overlay, and then we can pick it up and move it where we would like it. So here, in this case. 17. Mobile - Effects: Stabilizing shaky video: You've got handheld or shaky video footage that you want to stabilize, Capcut has an amazing built in stabilization effect that you can easily apply to your clips. So I've got this extra clip here in the timeline now, and if I just play this, you'll see that it's not too stable. It's a little bit shaky, it's a little bit jittery. We're going to fix that. Let's play it first. There's a little bit shake there. The overall panning around or looking around, it's not that fluid. It's not bad. It's definitely a little bit shaky there, as well, right through to the end. So, I mean, it's usable. It's not terrible, but it's not fantastic either. So we can make this look so much better by stabilizing it. So we want to press on the clip to select it. We can then come across to where it says stabilize down the bottom here. Now, here we've got this slider from no stabilization, which is the default setting here, we've then got one here for minimal cropping, recommended and most stable. So let's just put it here on recommended. Let's see what that looks like. The way that this works, it's analyzing your shot and it's picking up all the shake in it, and it's then got to zoom in on the shot so that the new stabilized shot isn't bouncing around out of the frame. It's actually reframing the shot, zooming in on it so that it all fits and so that it looks good. So our three options here, minimal recommended and most stable, these are really different degrees of how much we're going to be cropping in or zooming in on those shots as well. Okay, so let's play through this now. Yeah, already, that little jitter at the start is pretty much gone. Even the panning around, it just looks so much more fluid. There's still a little bit of movement, but nothing like how it was. That last bit there. There was a bit of shake there before, which is gone now. So it looks so much better. And just to show you, let's move this here to most stable. And you can see that it zoomed in just a little bit more. It's not too drastic here. Obviously, if you've got footage that's really, really shaky, it might want to zoom in quite a lot for you to be able to stabilize that and do a good job. Let's play through this now. Yeah, there's really no movement at all now. But it is a little bit tighter. It's a little bit zoomed in. Much smoother. Yeah, even that section there, there was really no movement at all. So to apply this, I'm happy with that. We want to hit the tick down the bottom, and that clip has now been stabilized. 18. Mobile - Effects: Adding music and sound effects: We're going to take a look at adding music and sound effects to your videos. Now, while CAPCA does include a music and sound effects and stock footage, for that matter, library of stuff that you can use in your projects, you want to be mindful of the copyright issues that could arise if you're posting videos made using those things outside of Tik Tok. A lot of the licensing and everything is okay if you're posting to TikTok. Outside of that is where you could have copyright issues, copyright claims. And at that point, it's really not worth messing that's where for stock footage, we use places like story blocks for stock music, we use art list and epidemic sound so that we know that the licensing piece is all taken care of. For the purposes of this video, though, I'm just going to import some footage from the Cap cut music library because we're not going to be exporting this and saving it out with this included. But I will also show you how you can bring in your own music files or ones that you source from other places like the ones that I suggested. I'll show you how you can add those in and use them too. To add music from Capcut itself, we want to come down the bottom to where it says audio. And then in here, we've got sounds. This is where if we tap on this that we get access to Capcuts music library. And you can see right at the top, we've got the options to pick sounds, which is pretty much everything. And then if we select commercial, this is where it's only going to filter the sounds there that are licensed for commercial use on Capcut and on TikTok. Again, there's no mention of use anywhere else outside of that, but from here, we can either start to search with the search box at the top. We could also swipe through and see what it's suggesting or what's trending here right now. And if we scroll down, then it's going to start recommending some individual tracks for us. So coming back up here, let's have a look at maybe hopeful or something uplifting. And let's say that we want this first track here that summer feeling. We're going to hit that little download button there over to the right. And then if we find that that's the track that we're going to use, then we just hit the Plus button. That's going to add it then into our editing project, and it shows up along the bottom there as its own clip. We can tap on it. We can adjust the start and the end times. We can add cuts and splits and everything in it. We can edit it as if it was a video file. Now, let's just go back for a second, and let's come back down to audio. So we added sounds then. That was the music. We want to add in sound effects, and then we can come over here to effects and very much the same. We can then search for what we're looking for in the search box. We can go through preview the sound effects, and we can hit the download button to add them to our timeline. I'm just going to hit the tick to go back out of here. Now, we also have the option in here to record our own voiceover. So if you're creating a video where you want to add some narration, then in here, we've also got Voiceover down the bottom. If you've got music files or sound effects that you've already got saved on your device, so you want to navigate through and find the track that you want to import. I'm on an iPhone, so I've got the track here. I just want to tap on it to open it up. I can then press Share, and then I can come down here and press Capcut. So we want to share this track or open with on Android, open with Capcut. We then get prompted with this box. Import audio to Capcut. And we can see now right down the bottom, we've got our other music track added here as well. So that's how easy it is to add music tracks from Capcut itself, but also if you've got other music tracks from other places that you want to add into. I'm just going to go ahead and delete our Epidemic Sound one once all of those are in and you've done that extra pass on your editing and tweaked and adjusted, everything, got everything the way that you want it, only then is it time to start adjusting your volume levels to get everything the way that you want it. Now, I strongly recommend that when you are adjusting your volume levels that you're doing it with a set of headphones on, if possible, so that you're getting a good representation of what this is actually sounding like for people listening with headphones, as well as with their computer speakers or TV speakers, too. But the first area that we want to get set correctly, first, is any spoken piece, any voiceover, any narration. Like, in this case, it's a video of me speaking. We want to make sure that that volume level is set right first as the priority because that's the important piece. After that, we'll then adjust the volume levels of the music and sound effects and things to our liking. Again, I want you to remember that this is a creative thing. There is no right or wrong. We want to make sure that our sounds and music aren't too loud so that they're overpowering and sounding really, really bad. Also want to make sure that they're not too quiet and people aren't needing to turn their volume levels up. But beyond that, it really is personal preference, and it really is a creative thing. So when you're adjusting your volume levels, now that you've got everything in, and now that you've got everything placed where you want it, it's a good idea to go through and just to mute your music and your sound effects so that we're only going to hear, in this case, the spoken piece so we can get that dialed in first. And then we'll do the music and the sound effects afterwards. So I'm just going to select the music track here and I'm going to go to volume I'm just going to drop that right down to zero so that we don't hear it. Likewise, we'll be doing that with any other audio clips in our timeline, too. Then I'm just going to select our first clip in our timeline here, and we're going to get this one set right correctly first, and then we can apply those settings to the rest of our clips. So I'm going to scroll across here until we get to volume. And then in here, we've got our volume slider adjustments. If we move it to the left, that's going to lower the volume. If we move it to the right, it's going to increase the volume. Now, generally, what I find with Capcut is that it actually does a pretty good job of adjusting the volume levels for you by itself. So unless your clip was way too loud or way too quiet, app normally does a pretty good job of adjusting that and making it to where it needs to be. Again, for most clips, it's going to be okay where it is. But let's say that we needed to make a volume level adjustment to 95. When we select that, it's going to preview. It's going to start playing your clip so you can hear it. But just below that volume slider there's a little button here said Loudness adjustment. If we then want to apply that volume level to the remaining clips in our timeline, we can just press that button and it's going to adjust the other clips to match that volume level. So if you're using video clips recorded on different cameras or different microphones, this does an amazing job of setting all of those clips the same level with this loudness adjustment setting. Once you're done, you just want to hit the tick to apply that. And now all of our primary clips have been set correctly. Now, a little pro tip, you're always better off going a little bit under than a little bit over when it comes to volume levels. So once we've got our volume level sorted on our primary footage, then we can look at music and sound effects and also our B roll and overlay footage if some of those clips have sound included with them, too. I'm going to do music next. I'm going to select our music track. I'm going to come across here to volume. So we had this turned right down to zero. This is where we're going to bring this back up to get it to where we want. Again, ideally, with headphones on, so we're getting a real representation of this. But what we normally find is anywhere around 30 to 35 is around the volume levels. That's a good starting point to adjust from there. So I'm just going to set this here to 30. It's going to start to play you could have the world. And for copyright reasons and stuff, I'm not going to continue playing that, but we want to then make adjustments from that point. So if that sounded like it was a little loud for what you're after, then we could drop that a little bit lower. So maybe we'll go 25. You could have the. When you're happy with that, you want to hit the tick to apply that, and that's going to apply to that entire clip. Now, likewise, as I said, with your be roll or your overlay footage, if we come back, let's hit back arrow down the bottom left hand corner. Let's go to overlay. Let's scroll across here till we can see our clips. If we press on the clips, then we do have a volume adjustment for these two. Now, these clips, if they did have sound included with them, and I think some of them had some background noise. So we could grab that slide, take it all the way to zero, hit the tick, and that clip has no sound associated if you're looking for more advanced control over your volume levels and you want some sections quiet, and then maybe a little bit into your track, you want it a bit louder and then back down again. If you want to do something like that, that's where you can do it with keyframes, but we cover that in a separate, more advanced video showing you how keyframes work. But the last thing I want to mention here in regards to music, sound, and volume levels is that you can actually apply some different filters and effects in here as well if you're needing to try and improve the quality of your sound. So, let's come back over here to the very first clip in our timeline. Let's select that these options down the bottom here. You can see that we've got an option down here for noise reduction to reduce noise. So if we did have say, an air conditioner on or a fan or there was some background noise, we can press on this, and then we can toggle this on. If no one clicks on it, going to go through. It's going to process our audio, and it's going to do its best to remove some of that background noise for us. And in my experience, this actually does a really good job. So I'm going to turn that back off now, but that's how easy it is to add music, add sound effects, adjust all of your volume levels to get everything the way that you'd like it. Okay, I just wanted to jump in here really quick to say, if you're finding this training valuable, can you please take a moment to leave us a review on here. It makes a world of difference to help people find this on Skill Share. So if you're liking this so far, I'd really appreciate it. Also, feel free to share any of your top takeaways along the way. 19. Mobile - Effects: Fixing colors (color correction & filters): Take a look at fixing the colors in your videos or color grading or color correcting your clips. Now, there's two main ways that we can do this here in Cap cut. I'm going to take you through both methods. The first method is using filters, so built in presets. The second one is using manual adjustments. But it's good to get an understanding of both of these, because sometimes it might make sense to use one or the other. Other times, you could use a combination. So I want to come back to the first clip in our timeline here, our primary video footage. We want to make sure that that's looking good first, and then we can apply these same looks and effects and things to other clips in our timeline. So with that clip selected, we can come across here and we can choose filters. So I guess you could think of filters almost like an Instagram filter, a preset look or a set of adjustments that you could just tap on and apply it to your videos. So if we go through here, you can see that there's lot in here to choose from all different styles, all different looks. And if we just tap on them, is going to apply a preview of that for us. So obviously, at this point, if you're going through and you find something that you like the look of, you could run with that with no further adjustments. You can see you also have a strength slider down the bottom here. So if you like it, but maybe it's too intense, you could dial back the intensity or the strength of it there. So, I mean, even that doesn't look too bad. So look at some of these other ones. One doesn't look good. Not really my thing. Okay, that's not too bad. It might be a little bit intense. We could dial it back a little bit. That's not bad. So if we wanted to apply that, we could just hit the tick down the bottom right, or if we wanted to apply this to all of the clips in our timeline, if that was the look that we liked, then we could hit Apply to all down the bottom left. So if we go back, then this was the filters area that we tapped on. For more advanced features and controls, and really if you want to color grade or make adjustments yourself from scratch, that's where instead of filters, you want to open up the adjust area. And if we have a look now that we're in the adjust area, there's really three little video tabs here. We've got filters, which is back where we were filters. There's also adjust, and then the last one here is video quality. So going back to the adjust panel here, we can start from scratch from here and just apply the settings that we want, make the changes that we want. Or we could even go through. We could find the look that we like to look of. So this one here, this filter, we could then with this selected, come across to adjust and make further adjustments to it. So the two don't have to work separately. To go back to filters. I'm going to hit the little cross on this to remove the filter so that we're starting from scratch here. And we're going to come back to the adjust tab here and I'm going to take you through the key settings in here and kind of the process that you would follow if you want to make adjustments to your clips and make sure that they are correct. So the first thing you want to make sure is correct or looking the way that you want is the overall shot brightness and exposure. Now, again, I want you to remember that this is a creative thing. There is no right or wrong here. This is an art form. You get to choose what you want your video to look. So I'm going to lower the brightness a little bit on this one. I think that looks pretty good. And then from there, I'm going to swipe across until I find the one here temperature. This is where we can correct the white balance if it was wrong in our camera. Sometimes you might have a shot that might look a little bit too blue or a little bit too yellow or orange, a bit too warm. We can adjust here to compensate for that. So if I swipe to the left, we're removing the yellow or the orange, and we're making our shot cooler. We're adding more blue. Go the other way, we're going to have the opposite. We're adding more warmth to our shot. So I might have this around here. Looks pretty good. And then I'm going to come back towards the start here, and then I'm going to play with the contrast slider. So I'm going to press on contrast. And you see if we increase this, the black areas are getting darker. We're adding more contrast to our shot. If we go the other way, then we can take some of that out, as well. But I kind of like this a little bit more contrasting, maybe something like this. From there, I go to the saturation. So this is the amount of color or the strength of the colors that are in our shot. So if we amplify this, you can see that we are really making the colors intense. That's probably way too much. But, likewise, if we go the other way, we're able to take the colors out. So if you're after a gray scale, black and white video, then you can do that here with saturation. But maybe I will increase the colors here a little bit without going too overboard, maybe something like this. And those are the main settings that I'm playing. See, there's lots of other ones in here, so you really can dial things in to a much greater degree if you'd like. But there's really no need to for most videos. If you're just wanting to tweak and adjust and maybe fix some issues with your coloring, then those tools I've just shown you is really all you'll need. And then at this point here, we can hit the tick to apply it to just this shot or we can hit Applied to A, to apply it to all of our shots. You want to quickly preview your before and after, if you just tap and hold on your screen in that playback area, we can see that this was the original, and then if I lift my finger up now, this is what it looks like with those adjustments made. I'm just going to scrub across here to find another clip here. So this one's ungraded. I haven't applied our settings to this clip yet. But there is something else that I want to call out here, which I do think is pretty powerful. It's an effect that's only on the pro plan here of Capcut. But you can see here we've got auto adjust. Normally, in video editing tools and apps, the auto adjustments aren't that good. But the cap cut one is actually surprisingly good. So if you are on the pro plan or you're looking to upgrade the auto adjustment here. Let me just press it. Let's see what it does here with this shot. I mean, it does a pretty good job without us needing to dive into the settings and things. And obviously, here we can adjust this. We could then tweak things further if we needed to, but I'm pretty impressed that the auto adjustment is actually something that's quite helpful and quite usable and pretty good compared to most other tools and apps that are out there. Now I'm going to hit Undo to remove that effect, so it's not going to ask us to pay for that at the end of this. I will do is go back to our adjusted clip here, and I will hit Apply to all, so that all of our clips here have those same settings applied. Gonna hit the tick. So that's applying filters or adjustments to an individual clip. But we can also add them to our timeline, so we can apply them to multiple clips as well. So let's go back out of this. So we have no clips selected here in our timeline, and then down the bottom, we've got the ability to press on filters and adjust straight from the main timeline. So let's just press adjust. Let's just for the sake of me showing you this, I'm going to just grab exposure and I'm going to turn it right up. We would never normally do this, but I want to show you how this works. Let's hit the tick to apply that. You can then see in our timeline we have this adjustment layer, and that has that exposure, that brightness setting applied to it. So then just like any of our other effects that we're applying to the timeline level, it's only going to apply where this clip is highlighted. So you can see that now that we've dragged this out, it's also applying to the next clip as well. If we shorten this down, then it's no longer applied to that next clip. So depending on your workflow, you might find it easier in some cases to apply things to a clip level other times to a timeline level, where you can just drag it out maybe across the entire timeline and have those effects or those filters applied to every clip underneath it. 20. Mobile - Effects: Using Keyframes for greater control: Inside a cap cart, there is a more advanced way that we can control and adjust and manipulate things like the effects, different controls that we have on our clips and things like volume levels on our music. We can control these at a greater level of detail using keyframes. So that's what this video is all about. I'm going to show you what keyframes are, how they work, and how you can find them so that you know which things you can adjust and control. In more detail. So I'm back over in our editing project now. For this example, I'm going to show you how keyframes will work using volume level adjustment. But again, these keyframes are going to behave exactly the same for other things as well. So I'm going to select our music track in the timeline here. I'm going to come down the bottom to where it says volume. And we've got our standard volume slider here. So if we move this to the left, it's going to lower the volume. If we move it to the right, it's going to increase the volume. But what we can do here for more control is we can add some keyframes in. That's where this little icon is up near the play button. Now, let's just say, for instance, that at the start of our video, we want the music playing back louder and then it's going to reach a certain point. It's going to then slowly turn down or fade down to a lower volume level. We're then going to keep that volume level for most of our video, but then towards the end of the video, we're going to start to bring that volume level back up. That's something we can do really, really easily with key frames. So let's come across to the start of our video here, and we can see the current volume level. We're currently set at around 28, 25 to 28. Let's increase this. Let's make this around 50 now for the start. So right now we've just adjusted the entire clip to be around 50 volume level. So let's say that we wanted it at 50 volume level until around here, and then we want that volume level to start to drop off. I'm going to add a keyframe at this point. I'm then going to come across a little further to where we want the volume at its lowest point. So maybe we'll make it about here. Let's add another keyframe. But at this keyframe, I want to lower the volume down. So let's take it back to maybe 25. So two keyframes, we've set two volume levels at this point. Let's have a look at what this looks like. So if we just swipe back across here, we can see our volume level here is at that higher point. So around 50, we hit this keyframe here and we can see that slides start to move. It's lowering our volume between those two markers, between those two keyframes so much so that when we hit this next one, it's now set the volume level at that point, and it'll stay at that point until we add another keyframe. So let's say that we want about here towards the end of our video, that the volume starts to come back up a bit, maybe about here. Let's add a keyframe here. So we're going to keep our volume level at that point until it hits that keyframe. Now, let's say that we want it to increase its volume level until about here. Let's add a new keyframe. Let's increase the volume of it at this point. So at this keyframe, the volume level is now 50, and it's going to stay 50 for the rest of our video. We can see what that looks like here. We're still at the lower volume, the 25 and then it's going to slowly increase between these two keyframes here until it hits this point and then it's going to stay at the new volume level. So you can think of a keyframe as saving information related to a clip and effect, and its properties at that point in time. So at this point in time, the volume level is 50, at this point in time, the volume level is 25, but it transitions or fades between the two. So we're going to hit the tick to apply that, and that is now done. Now, I'll give you another example with keyframes. Let's come across to this overlay shot here where we are typing something into the YouTube search bar there. And maybe we'll add a slow zoom in on this. So I'm going to tap overlay here to open up our overlay effects. This is our clip here that we want to add this effect to. And I'm going to come back over here to the start of this clip, and we're going to add in a keyframe. So I'm going to press the keyframe button at the top there, and I'm not going to make any changes to this clip at that point. But let's scroll across towards the end of this clip, probably about here. Let's add in another keyframe. But at this keyframe, we're going to change some properties. We're going to zoom in a little bit on it, so let's pinch to zoom at this point. And maybe we'll adjust the clip downwards as well, something like this. And now when we play through this, we can see that it is zooming in throughout that period. So keyframes, as I said, super powerful way to help you animate, to help you get more advanced controls and functionality out of the things that you've got access to in Cabcut. 21. Mobile - Repurposing: Reformatting videos for different platforms: The reasons I absolutely love Capcut is how easy they make it to switch between different video formats. So let's say that you started out with a widescreen 16 by nine video that you were making to post on YouTube. But then you wanted to reformat it or repurpose it as a TikTok or as an Instagram reel or maybe a YouTube short. Cabcut makes that process so easy. So that's what I'm going to show you in this video, how you can easily switch between the different formats. So we've got our 16 by nine widescreen video here that we've been editing down throughout this training, and we're going to convert this to a portrait video. So the first thing I want to do, though, is let's make a backup of this, so we're not going to override and make changes to this. So we're going to hit the X to go back to our main project window here. And then we've got our video here, thumbnail video. I want to hit the three little dots on and I want to choose duplicate so that we've then got a backup of it. Now, our backup is now the one at the top. Let's rename this and let's call it thumbnail video portrait. Let's go Okay. Let's open up our new one here, thumbnail video portrait. So with no clip selected. We want to come down the bottom here in our menu bar to where it says ratio. Now in here, this is where we can change our clip format. So you can see already we've got nine by 16 selected here. If we wanted to make a one by one for, say, Instagram, we can do that a nine by 16, so portrait. We've got that in here as well. There's lots of different formats that you can choose from here. So we're going to go to Portrait nine by 16, and we're going to hit the tick to apply that. And already, if we just scrub through this, we can see that we've still got all our text, we've still got B roll and animations and stickers and things. Everything's still there, but nothing really fits anymore. This is also where we've got some creative options here on how we can make this still look good and still fit and still work for this different format. Now, from here, though, we can come down the bottom to where it says Canvas and we can maybe add in a background color if we'd like to. So we can choose color. Let's pick a color like this. Very similar to the primal video blue. So we could run with this. Let's hit the tick, so we can see then that we've now got some color in the background before we scale things up and resize everything. So if you've seen those videos before where they've got the video and they've got the text on screen down the bottom, then you could definitely create that look here. We've also got the ability to choose a background blur. So this will use your primary footage, but it'll be blurred out at different levels. So let's hit play on this so you can see's best video, but if no one clicks on it, no one. Okay, this was really easy to create that look in here as well. But we can also obviously scale up our clips and reformat everything as well. So if we select on our clip, then we can just pinch to Zoom on it and we can scale it up. Now, you might want to still see some of the blur behind. That's totally up to you, or you could keep scaling this up until it was scaled up to fit perfectly in that size. We can also then move across to the left or to the right to center things up the way that we want them. So let's just hit play on this and see how this looks. You could have the world's best video, but if no one clicks on Okay, not bad. You can see already how fast this can be just to pick things up, to scale them up, to change the look, add a background color or a blur if you need to. And it's just about going through and making adjustments to these things to look how you want them to look in this new format. So let's come across to this next clip here. This is where we've got some B roll on screen. But obviously, I'm also talking in the background there. We might choose to show both. So I could select the clip here of me, move it to the top, and maybe we scale it up a little bit, something like this. And then if we tap on our overlay footage, just come down here to overlay. There's our overlay clip there. We could scale that up down the bottom to where we want it, maybe something like this so that we're actually seeing both on screen. Or we might just want to do what we had done before and just scale this up. Fly, something like this. So you need to help you with this, you need to make sure that your thumbnail images are grabbing people's attention. So it's just a matter of going through and selecting your clips, scaling them up, repositioning them to where you want them so that it looks the way that you want. Now, if you do have a lot of different clips here in your timeline, if you are on the pro version of Capcut, there is a new auto reframe feature. So let's just select a clip here and let's just come across to where it says, auto reframe so we can see that it's a pro feature here. If we press on this, we can then choose out nine by 16. And let's hit the tick to apply this. It's then gone through this clip, and it's going to move it round to adjust this for us based on what it thinks is happening in the scene. So you can see it's added some extra movement in there following the movement of my hands. So it's pretty cool they've got this feature built in, but right now, I think it's almost just as quick to quickly tap on each clip pinch to Zoom, position it where you want it, move on to the next one. Let's come back to the start here. Now, another thing you can easily add in here at this point is adding captions on screen or your subtitles. So let's come down the bottom here to text, and let's choose auto captions. And this is going to automatically generate here for us from video. So it's going to listen to what's been said in the video. It's going to transcribe it, type it all out, and turn them into titles for us. We can also choose some templates and things in here as well. I'm just going to leave this as none for now so we get basic titles because you can add your templates and things afterwards. I'm going to choose start. It's going through. It's creating our captions for us. And then gives us a preview here where we can go through and we can make adjustments to this. We can correct any typos or any mistakes. I'm just going to hit the tech to apply this right now. And then if we scroll through here, we can see that we now have that text on screen. So I'm not actually seeing them down the bottom yet, but if I swipe up on this bottom area, then we can see that we actually have a title card here for each one of these titles. Let's just say that I don't need this first one because we've already got World's Best video on screen, so I could press Delete on that one. Likewise, for this one, we probably don't need that one, but maybe we'll have the text start around this point. No one's going to see it. So let's press on one of these, and we can see what level of customization we get. We can adjust the style. Again, there's some free and paid templates and presets and things in here we can use. Maybe this one here looks pretty good. Let's hit this one. Okay, not bad. Maybe we'll add a background on these so that we can see them on any screen. Let's choose style. I'm going to come across here to style, and let's go to background down the bottom here, and let's add in a background. Maybe we'll make it a blue and maybe we'll move these up just a little bit. Now, we can also add more animation to these, as well. If we keep coming across here, we've got animation, and maybe we want these words to feather in or come in line by line. Or just fade in, or just rapid fire in. So you can see lots of different options to customize this up. I'm just going to remove the animation there, so we go back to how it was. And back to the start here, we can also adjust our text here so that it's big and bold and stands out. So let's choose here worlds. We can hit Edit. Let's scale this up to a specific size. Okay, so maybe 34, likewise, with the last one, 34, and maybe we will just move these up a little bit, as well. Maybe something like this. So once you're done going through and reformatting all of your clips, then you can save that out as its own new video. But still knowing that you've got your original there fully intact, as well. 22. Mobile - Saving: Exporting videos: You've done editing down your video masterpiece as time to export or to save out your video. And in Cap cut on the mobile app, they make this very, very simple. You want to do a last quick sanity check of your settings here to make sure that everything is how you want it. So at the top here, we've got ten ADP, we want to press on that. So in here, again, we can make adjustments to our video resolution. So even though we've been editing in a ten ADP timeline here, if we needed to export a lower quality version, so maybe a 720 P version, we could make that adjustment. Leave that at 1080. The frame rate, I would suggest that you're leaving this one alone unless you specifically need to convert your frame rate to a different one. But the setting here that you might want to make adjustments to is the code rate, they call it, or the bit rate, the quality of the video that you're saving out. So the lower the quality, the smaller the file size, the higher the quality, the higher the file size. You can see this recommended setting there most people, especially for web based videos, you might find that the recommended setting there is all you'll need. But if you do want to export the highest quality video, then that's where you want to bump this one here up to high. But it will mean that you got a larger file that you're saving out. Personally, I turn off this last setting, Smart HDR. I don't want to convert my videos to a high dynamic range video. Just a regular video is what most people should be leaving this on. But I love it. They've included this text down the bottom estimated file size, 95.1 megabytes. If you are needing to get a smaller file size, you're not just really guessing here, low recommended or high is giving you a ballpark number, ballpark reading there. So if we move this from high to recommended, it's saying that our estimated file size is now about 76 megabytes. So I'm going to leave this here back on high, and then all we need to do is press the share button up in the top right hand corner. Instantly, it's going to start saving out our video for us. That was crazy quick. Once that's complete, it's then got this share window that pops up. If you want to directly share from here to Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, other places, as well, we can do that. But that file is actually now saved on our device. So it'll be saved in your photos instead of directly sharing from here, I normally just hit Done, so that we are closing that out. I then go and open the file, which we can see in my photo gallery here, and we could tap on it and play it from here. And then if everything's all good, then we can share it out where it needs to go from this point. But it is a good idea to play it back, to check ideally you're listening to it with headphones on, so you're getting a good representation of what it sounds like. If you can play it back on some different devices before you post it, as well. And then when everything is the way that you want it, then you can share that out with the world. Okay, I just want to jump in here really quick to say, if you're finding this training valuable, can you please take a moment to leave us a review on here. It makes a world of difference to help people find this on skill share. So if you're liking this so far, I'd really appreciate it. Also, feel free to share any of your top takeaways along the way. 23. Desktop - Downloading and installing CapCut: Now we're going to download and install CAPCut on our computer. I'm going to take you through the process first on Mac and then on Windows. But once it's installed, the process of using it is pretty much exactly the same, whether you're on Mac or Windows. On Mac, you want to head over to capcut.com. It's going to be a button here straightaway that says download for MAC. You want to make sure here that we're definitely downloading this software onto our computer and not using the web based version of Capcut, the two are very different. We're going to choose download for Mac. It's going to ask us where we want to save this. I'm just going to save it under downloads. Hit Save. If we then go ahead and open up our download folder. Come down the bottom here to this menu bar. We're going to right click on Downloads and we're going to choose open downloads. We can see we've got our file. I'm just going to double click on it to run and install that. We'll have the app then pop up like this. We can double click to run this file. We want to choose open and that's going to go ahead and install it for us on our Mac. Once it reaches 100% here, it's going to ask us to choose our language, so we're going to choose English, we'll hit Save. Then in most cases, it's actually going to open up the app for you once that's done. We can see it's opened it up for us here. But we can also now find it down here under our applications, and then we've got access in here too. That's the process for installing on a Mac over on Windows, the process is pretty much exactly the same. We want to open up our web browser going ahead to the website, capcut.com. Again, you'll have a button here to download for Windows. We're going to press on that. That's going to start the download for us. We can see at the top here. When that's done, we can open that up. We'll have to select yes to start the Install and it's going to go ahead and download and install CapcuTF us. It's going to then ask us what our preferred language is. I'm going to select English. I'm going to hit Save. In this case, it's going to run a quick check to gauge the performance of your computer to see what features and things you can have access to and how well CAPCuts actually going to perform on your system. It says here, your computer can run cap cut smoothly. We want to confirm that and then it's automatically opened up Capcut for us. Now at any time, if we want to find cap cut to open it manually, we can just hit Start and we can start to type in Capcut in the search box at the top here, and here is our Cap cut app that we can launch from there as well. 24. Desktop - Getting to know the CapCut interface: Going to take a look at the cap cut interface to help you navigate your way around and find everything. Now, while I'm showing you this on a MAC, everything is laid out exactly the same on a PC on Windows as well. This is what you'll see when you first open up CapcuT. If you're not signed in, you'll have the option up here to do that. Now, you don't actually need to have a Capcut account. You can create a free account and that can help you with backups, backing up your files to the Cloud and those sorts of things, but it's not required. You'll see I'm not currently signed. Below that, we've got two buttons. One is the home button. That's going to take us back to this main home screen here. The second one will open up some templates and things that we can use and customize up to make videos based on those templates. Now, this really isn't something that I tend to use, but it could be a way that you are able to replicate some of the videos from these templates, really quickly for yourself. Let's go back to the home area here. The top right hand corner, there is a little settings button in here where we can access a lot of the app specific settings. And we'll dive into this in another video, but this is how we can access it from here. You can also access a lot of these things from the app menu across the top here as well. Now, one area that Capcut is actively building out and it's changing all the time is this tools area across the top here. You'll see that we're now seeing an option here, script to video. This on the mobile version, they are building out and adding so many apps, and we're starting to see those come across to the desktop apps too. So it's likely that when you've opened the app here that you are seeing some more tools and apps in here as personally think that's awesome with how fast these guys are rolling out new features, new tools or to help us make better videos faster. Right now, in my current version, we've got script to video, which is an AI tool to help you script and write your videos. Let's go ahead and check out the rest of the cap cut interface. To do this. We're going to create a new project up here, and this is then going to launch the main Capcut editing interface. You can see straightaway it's broken down into these separate areas and we have the ability to change the sizing of these to best maximize your workflow, your screen size for what it is you're actually doing at that time. Maybe if you're adding in a bunch of effects and things, you might want to make this effect area larger so that you can see all the different options. If you're working heavily on the timeline area down the bottom here, then you might want to stretch this up so that it's bigger and easier for you to work in. Now, one other thing I do want to note before we dive into each one of these areas in a bit more detail is that if you are using a computer with multiple monitors, then you can actually enable multiple monitor mode with this little button up the top here. If we press on this, we can choose the default layout, which is single screen. That's what you're seeing here right now. But we can also enable a media first player first adjustment first or timeline first mode. First is really meaning the priority. If we're going to do a lot of work with our timeline, then maybe we will enable timeline first, again, if we're using multiple screens and in this case has moved the timeline over to our second display so that that is maximized and we're left here on our main screen with all the options and menu bars and tools and things. I love that you can customize this. Go ahead and turn that back here to single screen mode or default layout. But up here in the top left hand corner, this is where we can access things like our media. All of our video assets that we're using in our editing project, we can import them here, we can manage them, see them all, access them all from here. We've got access to cap cuts, built in, music and sound effects here, text, stickers, effects, transitions, filters, adjustments, and templates, all of that stuff we can quickly access up the top here. The player, this next area here, this is where we'll be previewing back and playing back the video masterpiece that we are creating. This is your video player. This next one across here, this is currently showing us details related to our editing project. It's showing us things like where the project is saved, the frame rate, the aspect ratio, we've got some settings and things in there too. There's a modify button here for us to modify our project settings. Again, I'll cover this in a dedicated video around setting up your project. While this is showing details right now, as you go through the editing workflow, you're going to see different things appear in here. If you've got a specific video file selected, then you're going to find settings and details around that video file up in this area too. Down the bottom here, this is the main editing tool in here. This is your video editing timeline. This is where we're actually going to be editing, trimming, adding effects, all of that fun stuff, the magic happens in this bottom area down here. There's different tools and things that we can access here too. We can zoom in and out with this slide we can change the way that our clips and the timeline behave together with some of the tools and features across here. We have the ability to record audio, record voiceovers directly into our project, into our timeline here with this next button, and then over on the left side here, this is where we can access a lot of our editing tools. So for instance, if we hit this little drop down arrow here, you can see that we can change between a selection tool, the regular mouse cursor and a split tool. We've got different ways that we can select and modify and edit and trim down our clips. That's this area of the interface. Also got your undo and redo buttons here as well. Then going back to the top right hand corner here, we've got direct access to open up our keyboard shortcuts. This is one way that we can speed up our editing workflow, instead of diving into menus and finding different buttons and clicking on those buttons constantly, we can actually create a more streamlined workflow by just pressing a keyboard shortcut, a button on the keyboard that's going to perform a specific task. This isn't something that you need to learn or master right away, but there are some really powerful keyboard shortcuts that will speed up your workflow and you can even customize these up for your liking as well. Next to that, we've got our share button. This will allow us to directly upload and share our video files to places like YouTube, Tik Tok, and others, our Export button here will let us save out our video and save it to our computer. That's a run through of the Capcut interface. 25. Desktop - Important CapCut settings: You dive into Cap cart, start editing. It's a really good idea to run through some of the cap cart settings to make sure that everything is set up on your computer for the best performance, but also for peace of mind with things like automatic backups. You want to dive in to the settings area first. And you can access that by coming up the top here to cap cut down to settings. There's also a button over here on the right that says settings. We can open it that way. Or if you're on Windows, there is a menu button at the you can select on that and then choose settings. We're going to go ahead and open that up now and you can see that the settings area is broken down into different categories or different tabs. We've got project, edit, performance, and language. We'll start off first with the project one. In here, we can choose where our video projects are actually going to be saved on our computer. A lot of cases, you might find that just leaving this as default is okay, but this can take up some storage space over time. You might need to move this to an external drive if you're running out of hard drive space. We can actually specify the folder here if we press on a little folder icon. We can then go through and pick a folder or an area on our computer where we want all of our projects to be saved. I'm just going to leave that here as default. We can also specify our media download folder as well. Catcad has a bunch of media effects and things in there that you can download and use from your computer, but they need to save them somewhere. That's where we can specify this as well. Again, we can press the folder, we can choose where we want to keep the ached files, these temporary files. Usually, again, I just leave these as default unless I really have to move them. I'm going to hear cancel. Then we've got some settings in here around our ached files. Downloaded files that are related to a project and need to be there when you're working on a project, but they really are just temporary files that afterwards can be removed. So you actually have options in here to automatically delete and to clear out your cached files every 30 days is the default. Now we can actually change this if we'd like to. Or we can again, leave it as default, which would be my suggestion here. Don't delete the cached files because you have the ability to come in here at any time and clear out that cache, delete those files just by pressing the little trash can icon here. This way, you're in control and things aren't being removed without you knowing about it. I'd much rather leave these as default here and you come in and clear it out when you need. I think it's really important you know how that works where these files are saved and where you can clear them out because over time, if you're not clearing this out, it could actually take up a big chunk of your hard drive space on your computer. That's the project tab. If we move over to edit. This is where we can customize up the editing interface and how editing actually happens in Capcut. Again, for a lot of people, these specific settings here are good to know about so that you can come in and customize things up as you get more advanced, but you're likely going to want to leave these as default unless you specifically need to change them right now. We've got the ability in here to customize up how many frames we're able to step forward or jump forward or jump back as a default amount of frames if we're moving around our timeline. The default here is set to ten. Likewise, the default is set to ten for our settings adjustments as well, but we can get more granular with this. If you'd like that chunk to be bigger, we can make it larger or smaller, we can make it smaller in here. That I really think people should be aware of is this image duration. If you're creating videos that do have a bunch of photos and graphics and images in there, like maybe an image slideshow, you can actually set the default duration of how long that image is going to be played for, how long it's going to be on screen upfront. So you can make that adjustment here in your settings, and that's then going to be applied to every image you bring in. That can save you a huge amount of time. The default here for that is 5 seconds. But if we wanted to drop that to 3 seconds, we can just make that adjustment here. 1 second you should really make sure is correct here is your frame rate. If you're creating videos where your camera is recording at 30 frames per second, then we want the default here to match that for the primary footage or for the bulk of the footage, we're going to be editing. We want the two to match. Likewise, if you're creating videos and your camera is recording in another frame rate, 25 frames per second or 60 frames per second. We want to specify that here, so again, that it all matches. For the best quality videos, our camera settings need to match our editing settings, need to match our export settings so that we're not losing quality or changing stuff on the way through. If we jump over here to performance, these are some settings you want to make sure are enabled if they are supported on your specific computer. Having these settings here for using hardware encoding and hardware decoding mean that you're going to have the next level of performance using your computer hardware to speed things up. It's also worth noting if you aren't using a really powerful computer, so it's an older computer, then you might need to turn these off for better performance. You can see I've got my mouse over this area here now and it says, unselect this or turn it off to avoid exporting issues caused by incompatible drivers. Best case scenario, you're leaving this on for extra performance, but if you are having issues, especially around exporting, then you want to uncheck this to fix those problems. Will mean that you'll likely lose some performance at that point too. Now we can also specify here if we are going to be using proxy files, lower quality versions of our regular footage to take the load off our computer to make everything run a bit faster. We can actually specify where those temporary proxy files are actually being saved. Again, just like the caching, we can clear that out here too. Now this is another one where for most people, you can just leave this as default unless you're specifically wanting to use a proxy based workflow to again speed up your performance on an older computer. Last one here is language very self explanatory. You can change up the language of the interface, the menus, and everything if you need to. But you also selected this at the time of install, this one should be already correct. Once you're done making your changes, you definitely want to hit Save to make sure that everything is applied, and then you're good to. 26. Desktop - Project Setup: Configuring project settings: It's time to create a new project and to get everything set up ready for editing. Now while I've said in an earlier video that you don't need to create a cap cut account and sign in, there are some benefits if you do. There's some good cloud backup options. There's the ability to transfer your projects between devices. I personally think it is a good idea to sign in and to create a free account. Even if that means that you're not going to upgrade to the paid account, that's not a problem. We're still getting access to more features and more controls just from signing in with a free account too. I'm going to do that first. To come up here to sign in. Then we've got some options to either sign in with a TikTok account if you've got one or there's some other ways on screen here too. I'm going to sign in with my Google account and that is done now. We can see that we're logged in here up the top. Then we'll go ahead and create a new project. We want to make sure that we're on this home screen here and then we're going to hit this big button on the top here, new project. But we want to make sure that it's set up correctly. We want to do things like give it a name and specify the video format so it'll be good to go in every step we take from. Or over on the site here we can see our project details. We want to come down here to modify so that we can make changes to these. If we've got name here, we're going to give this project a name. We're going to create a video around thumbnail images. We then get to choose here. Do we want to keep our media, the video files and music and stuff that we're going to use. Do we want to keep them in their original place wherever they were originally saved on our computer? Or do we want to copy all of our files that we're using over into the project itself? For me, personally, I like to leave them in place because I've likely got them filed away somewhere, which is a logical place for me to come back and find them later. I'm going to keep them in the original place. We then get to choose the aspect ratio or the type of video that we're going to make. In this drop down here, you can see, is it a 16 by nine to regular widescreen video? Is it a nine by 16 so a portrait video is it a one by one square video for something like Instagram? We can select all of this upfront, but know that you can come back and change it later as well. If you do want to start out with a wide screen version of a video for YouTube and then you want to repurpose it as a short or as a TikTok video, you can change this later as well. The other option you've got here is to leave this set as original and that's going to analyze the first video file that you import, and it's going to adjust your settings accordingly to match that video. So if your first video that you import is a wide screen video, 16 by nine, then Capcard is going to set our project up to match that for us. But in this case, I'm going to select 16 by nine because that is what we actually want here. We can then specify our video resolution. Again, the default setting here adapted is going to be taken from or adapted from our first video file that we import into our project. So in a lot of cases, as long as that first video file that you're importing into your project is what you actually want to use when you're saving out your video, then you can leave these first two here as default. But we can also go ahead and choose customized in here and we can specify the size of the video that we're creating. So is it ten ADP? Is it four K? We can adjust all of that here. So we can leave this here as 1920 by 1080 because that's the wide screen aspect ratio for ten ADP. From here, we can make changes to our frame rate if we need to. If you've gone through a previous video, went through the app settings, then this should already be set to be correct for. Know that on a project by project basis, you can actually customize these up as well. Again options everything from 24 frames per second, right up to 60 frames per second. Ideally here, this is matching what your primary footage was. What settings did you have in your camera, what frame rate were you recording at? We want to match that in our editing as well for best results. We're going to leave this at 30 frames per second. For most videos, this color space setting is going to be correct unless specifically you've recorded HDR content, high dynamic range content. An option on more professional cameras and even some of the latest iPhones and things, you can record HDR footage. If you have shot HDR footage and you're going to be editing HDR footage, then you can specify here the type of HDR footage you've got. Again, your project files are matching your camera settings. With that all set up, we can hit Save and our project then is setup ready for us to import footage and to start editing. 27. Desktop - Project Setup: Importing video assets: At your video editing, you'll want to import your video assets. So for this, you want to make sure that you are over here on this media tab, and then you can see, because we have no media already imported, there is a button here for us to import videos, audios, and photos. So we can just press on this and then we can navigate through and find our files that we want to add. So I've got a folder here on my desktop, and I've got two video files in here which you guys can download to follow along with this video I'm going to be making so I can select those. I can choose Import and those two files are now added into our project. Now, if I just undo this by hitting Undo, or if I select them and choose delete, we also have the ability to drag and drop our files in as well. This will again work on both Mac and Windows. You want to open up a finder window or an explorer window with the clips that you want to import, we can then just select them and drag them here into our project and we can import that way too. What we're seeing here right now is our local files that we've imported here. There's a little drop down here, local, that's currently what we're seeing, things that are actually stored on our computer. There's other categories or groups here as well. We've got here spaces. Spaces are where we are signed in with a cap cut account paid or free. We can actually have access to our cloud based files as well. If we're working on a project and we back it up to the Cloud, we've got some video assets that we want to use in a lot of different projects. We can save them into our Cap cut cloud space and we can access those files from here too. Next one down here, library in here, there are some video assets that CAPCut gives you access to use in your projects. If you scroll down here now, you can see the types of things that are in here, different graphics, some green screen effects and things. While it's nice that they include these in here for you to use, I would be very mindful or very careful using these because you are opening yourself up to some potential copyright issues if you don't have the correct licensing on some of the different platforms you might be posting this wherever possible. I want to know that I'm compliant and that I own the license instead of relying on things that might have come through a video editing tool or application. In terms of other video assets like this, that's where story blocks is a great option. Motion array is another good option. Video Hive, place it. A lot of those will have a lot of different video assets that you can download and use in your projects, knowing that you own the license, you're going to be compliant. But the next one below here, brand asset where we can add images and videos that are going to be used in multiple videos. So if we've got files or media that we use in lots of different projects, then we can have them all saved here so that we can easily access them between the different projects as well. Let's come back up here to local. We've got our two files here that we have imported already. We can actually change the view on this too. So we're just on the grid view here at the moment, we could change this to a list. Can also adjust the sorting here as well if you need to. Obviously, this applies more when you've got a bunch of footage in there, and we can also adjust the filtering here. Right now we're showing everything, but if we only wanted to show the video files, we could select that from the drop down here too. We also have the ability to search for a specific file. Again, when you've got a lot of stuff in here, it's going to be easier to navigate through and find stuff with these options. I'm going to switch this one back here to Grid view. That is my preference. These two clips that we have imported. Now we can also click in the video here in different areas to again bring up our preview of that point so we can play through, we can scrub through, and work out if this is the clip that we actually want to use. But in order to start working with these files and to start building out our video, we won't just want our files imported into our project, we actually need them imported into our timeline down the bottom here and it even says here, drag material here and start to create. Let's grab this first clip here. Let's click and drag this down here into our timeline area. Can then see that we have a preview of our timeline up here. We can also see that with this clip selected, we're now getting other controls and things that have shown up so we can make adjustments to that clip and we can add as many of these clips to the timeline as we'd like. Let's say we want this one here down here as well, playing after our main clip, then we can just drag that down afterwards. With these clips, we can pick them up, we can move them around, so we can change the order on them. Maybe we'll change that. We can also layer them up on top of each other as well. Let's say that this extra shot here, this clip of scrolling through YouTube, let's say that we wanted to have that playing on top of our main footage here. We can just click and drag that up and position it above that clip. Now if we were playing through this clip here, we're now going to still hear what's happening underneath it, but we're now seeing this clip over the top. It's almost like these little lego blocks or tetras blocks that we can pick up, move around, and manipulate to get the look or create the video, create the story that we're after. If I go ahead and remove this clip now, I want to select on it, I can press Delete on the keyboard and it's gone. There's also a little trash can icon here we can press to remove it. But let's say that instead of bringing down this entire clip, let's say that I only wanted to bring down a small piece of it. Let's just select on this clip. Again, it's going to start playing so we can pause that here. But what we have up the top here is these little handles that appear on either side of this clip. So we have the option to bring down the entire thing as we did, or we can actually draw out or map out a section of that video by using these handles. We can grab the one on the left side here and we can choose a new start time. Let's say we want to start around here and we can also adjust the end time or trim off the end here. We can do that up here, we can drag this back, let's say to about here now when we click and drag this down to our timeline or we press the little plus button here, it's going to add this to our project, but it's just that section that we mapped out, not the entire clip. Now, my suggestion here is to focus on adding in your primary video footage first, get all of that into the main timeline area. Once we've then gone through the process of removing all the bad takes, the mistakes, and building out the story of the edit, that's when we want to go through and add in your B roll, your overlay and graphics. 28. Desktop - Editing: Cutting down your videos: Okay, now it's time for us to start editing, to start cutting down our videos. The goal here is to go through, remove all the bad takes, all the mistakes, anything that you don't want to have in the finished video. This is the core of video editing. What you'll find with Capcut and most other video editing tools is that there's actually a few different ways for you to do things. I'm going to take you through the different methods that you've got to cut down or to trim down your videos so that you understand the tools that you've got access to in here because sometimes it's going to make sense to do things one way and other times it's going to be much faster to do things another. At this point, we've got our main video footage here on the timeline. Again, you can download these resources to follow along if you'd like. But you can see with the preview that we're given here with our video clip, you can see the video piece at the top and then underneath that, we've actually got our audio wave forms. That little graph thing across the bottom here, this is the visual representation of what's been said or the audio in our video. We can actually use this to our advantage if you're cutting down a video like this because it's easy to see then where I'm speaking or where there's content. We can easily see the areas where nothing is happening, that we can quickly remove those. I also want to quickly draw your attention to some of the settings up here because these will be critical for this section as well. By default, with most of the editing that I do in Capcut, I leave my settings enabled like this. I have on here this first one the track magnet that is enabled. The next one here, auto snapping is also enabled, and we can tell that they're enabled because they are a blue color here. I also have linkage enabled as well. Now we'll explain what these do, but for right now, you want to make sure that those are all enabled exactly the same, or you might start to see things that are a little bit different happening in your timeline versus what I'm doing here. It's also worth pointing out while we're over here that this slider bar here we can use to zoom in and out on our timeline. And the closer we are zoomed in, the more detail, the more granular we can get when it comes to us positioning our cuts, but also to see what's going on with the audio as well. We get a lot more level of detail the more we're zoomed in. Lastly, before we get to these editing tools, I want to stress here that again, Capcut is ever evolving, more so than any other tool that I have used before. That's a really good thing. But it does mean that sometimes things move from where they were previously. Right now, the location of some of these buttons and things that I'm going to show this is where they currently are right now. But you might find over time that cap cutters move these around a little bit, I'd say they're likely going to be in a similar area. They're very unlikely to remove features. You know that this stuff I'm showing you, you'll still be able to find in there. But already for me, some of these icons and some of these features here have changed as recently as in the last week. The functionality is all still there, but some of these options here that I'm going to run through, to be hidden here under this little drop down arrow, whereas now they're out here, so much easier to access. The last thing to note is this white line here, this is known as our playback bar or playback indicator. If we just hit play on our clip now Wilds best video, but you can see that that moves along as we play the video. That shows us at any point where we're currently at, what we're previewing from our video. Or we can actually click and drag across this bar area here to skim through or scrub through our footage, jumping to different areas faster. I'm just going to scroll back across now to the start of our video. Here, let's hit play, and let's see what we're working with so we can start to trim it down. All right, we are recording. Let's check the microphone. One, two, one, two, test. Let's pause it there already this stuff at the start, we're likely not going to want to use this in the end of our project. We can start to see I'm running some checks and things here. I'm running some more checks here and it looks like the content doesn't start until over here where I'm talking consistently. This is what we're talking about using these audio waveforms. We can either just play through this until we get to that point or we can speed things up a little bit by grabbing this playback head and let's put it just before there now let's hit play. Let's confirm that that's actually where we want the video to start. Can have the world's best video, but if no one clicks on it, no one's going to see it. That sounds like that's the start of our video. We can remove everything that happens before that piece here on this video. There's a few different ways for us to do this. If we click on our clip here, then over on the side here, we now have handles, which we can grab and we can adjust our start and end time of each of these clips. With this clip selected, let's come across to the left side of it. You'll see our cursor changes from an arrow to this other icon here. If we click and drag back to the right here, then we're adjusting where we want this clip to start. So let's put it to around here before I start talking. Let's release the mouse button. We've now trimmed that section off. Now if we come back and play the very start of our video, you can have the world's best video. Right, we're starting at the start of the video. I'm going to undo that. Now, there's undo buttons up here or you can use Control Z or Command Z on the keyboard to undo that. We're back with our original footage here now. Let's say that we want to again start our video clip at this point. Another way that we can do this is we move this playback head or this playback indicator to where we want our clip to start. We want to make sure that we have our clip selected here, so we need to click on then we can come up here to this little icon here. This is our split clip button. If I press on this and you can see the keyboard shortcut for it is Command B or Control B if you're on Windows. If we press on this, it's going to split our clip in two. You can see now we've got two separate clips here on the timeline. We can just select that first clip. We can then press Delete or backspace on the keyboard or there's also a delete icon here as well. If we press one of those, it's going to remove that clip for us and delete it. If we come across now and play our video, you can have the world's best video, but if no one clicks, it's now starting from exactly that point too. That's the second way that we can start to trim down our footage. Let me go ahead and undo this again and again, we have no cuts in our clip. We can actually speed up that cutting or slicing of clips two. There is functionality in here where we can switch between the select mode, which is the arrow mode that we're on here now to select different clips. We can come up here and we can switch to the split tool. This is also known as the blade tool. You can see the keyboard shortcut here for it is B to switch between the blade and A for the regular arrow. If we click on this and we enable this split mode, you can see how cursor has changed and all we need to do here is go through and every time that we click now on this clip, we're adding cuts to our timeline. This is another fast way that we can go through and add cuts around our timeline, around the areas that we want to remove. And then when we switch back to the arrow Select tool by pressing A on the keyboard or selecting here, we can then go select the clips that we want to delete. Delete, maybe this one here as well, and we're able to remove those quickly too. I'm going to go back here and undo this again because there's still a few more methods that I want to show you. Let's go undo, undo, undo, undo, undo, undo, lots of undos. We're back just our original clip here now. Again, we want our video clip to start around this point here. We could do any of the methods that I've just shown you here already. We could trim, we could click and drag. We could use the split tool or press Command B on the keyboard to add a cut and delete. Or there's actually a really powerful tool here, which is next to split that does all of those things with one mouse button press or with one keyboard shortcut press. The options we have here are delete left and delete right. If we're looking at our timeline here, we've got this playback marker here where we want the clip to start and we want to remove everything to the left of that. With one button press, we can click Delete left and it's going to remove everything back to the previous clip from wherever that white playback marker was. Now, cool thing about this is it actually works back the other way as well. Let's just say that we had a cut in our timeline here. So we can press Command B or Control B to split our clip at that point. Let's say that we're back here trimming down this section of it. But we've realized that we actually don't want anything in here and we want to jump straight from the end of this clip here to this next clip. Again, we could add a split, we could select the clip, we could delete it, or we can press this other button here, delete right, and it's going to do all of that for us instantly super fast. You can most certainly use these all in combination as well. There'll be some times where it's just easier to click and drag to shorten a clip, there'll be other times where you'll need to add a cut and maybe trim to the right or delete to the right or delete to the left. The idea here is again, knowing what tools you got access to so that you know then which is the best one for you to edit this down quickly. But I want to quickly mention these other tools up the top here so that you can see how they can impact these tools that I've just shown you. Snapping is the first one I'm going to show you. That's the icon here in the middle. We can turn auto snapping on or off. By default, I leave it on most of the time. But we can see what happens with this playback indicator here. As we move it close to the cut or the join between these two, it's going to snap into place. We got close and it just jumps across for us. That's what snapping is. Let's move this playback head over to here and let's try to trim down this clip a little bit and let's move it across and we're snapping a nab it's going to snap to that point for us. If we turn off snapping, so it's not on at all now as we do the same thing, say we're trimming back to get close to that, it's not snapping at all. It's not jumping across there for us. If you need more control without it automatically jumping to wherever that playback head is or snapping to the next clip, the next cut, then you can turn that on or off there. Now I'm going to undo these changes that we've made and I'm going to turn snapping back on now. The next one that you really need to understand is this magnet here. So right now we have the magnet enabled, which means that it's automatically going to close up gaps in our timeline for us. For example, if I grab this clip here and I try to move it over to the right and just to have it sitting there so it was a bit of a gap. Maybe we need to move some clips down, we're not quite working on them yet. But if I do this with the magnet enabled and I let go now, it's going to suck it back to our previous clip. So there is no way that we can add gaps in our timeline with this magnet enabled. So if we disable that now, so we turn off the magnet. Now if I pick up a clip, I can actually put it wherever I like. So we've got some clips on here that we may, may not need, but we just want them out of the way for right now, then we can pick them up and we can move them further back or out of the way. But this magnet also comes into play when we're actually editing down our footage, too. Let's just come over here and let's add a split in our timeline at this point. We can cut it here and let's come across and add another cut about here. We've now got three clips here. Let's delete the middle one with the magnet not enabled to magnets not on. I'm going to press delete here to delete that. You can see that the magnet hasn't sucked all the clips back together. It hasn't removed the gaps for us. There are definitely times where you will want the magnet on and there are times when you want the magnet off. Likewise, with snapping. What you'll likely find is for this trimming down of your footage, you'll usually want to have those on because it's going to make the process faster for you because it's going to close up all of those gaps. Go ahead and turn this on now magnet and you can see, it's now sucked all of our clips back so there's no more gaps. At this point, you now understand the different ways you can trim down your footage, then we can start editing. I want to go through now we want to cut down this clip to remove all the bad takes, all the double ups, all the mistakes so that we're just left with the core content. 29. Desktop - Editing: Adding B-Roll & overlay videos: Time for us to add in any B role or overlay footage onto our video project. At this point, we've already gone through. We've got our primary footage down here. This is known as your A role. Now we're going to add in B role, which is the overlay footage, the stuff that sits on top of this. It's not that we're going to replace our clips here in our timeline, we're going to overlay some clips on top of it so that we're still able to hear the clips underneath and easily switch between them essentially as we build this. The first thing you want to do here is come up to this media area here, make sure that is selected. You want to go ahead and either import the clips into your project that you want to use. We can again hit this inport button here, navigate through find out clips. I'm going to be using the screen recording file here, which I have already imported into our project. Now, there's a couple of different ways that we can approach this. I could literally bring this whole clip down into our project here just by clicking and dragging this down. We can see it's much longer than our project and I can drop it here on top. Of our video. It's on its own separate layer. Right now, it hasn't replaced this footage underneath it, it's sitting on top of it, meaning that this is now B roll or overlay footage. Even if we scrub through or played through this now, you would still hear what's happening down here, but what we're seeing on screen is this other clip on top. This B roll clip that's been imported, it's treated the same as any other clip so you can see that we can still easily trim it down with it selected, we can add cuts or splits into it. We can pick up the chunks of footage and we can move them around as if there was regular footage. We also don't need to import the whole video like I have here. If I select on this and delete it and I'll delete this clip Instead of just clicking and dragging this entire clip down, we do have the ability here just to use the handles here on the sides of the clip to draw out or to select out an area that we do want to use. Let's say we only wanted a small section of the clip here in the middle, we can then click and drag that section down and we're only going to import that piece. Again, there's lots of different ways that you can essentially do the same thing with video editing. Another way that we can map out a section here. Let's just stretch this back out, it's in the entire full clip here. We can also play through our footage here. Because this is selected, this is now previewing this clip instead of our timeline. We can switch between it if we click down the bottom. That's now our edited video here. Let's come back up here. Let's select our Broll clip and we can play through or click through here to find the area that we actually want. Let's say that we wanted our clip to start about here. Let's pause this here at that point. We could then try to grab this handle and drag it across to that point so that it matches perfectly or we can actually press I on the keyboard and that's going to mark an point for us, where we want this clip to start. You can see then it's automatically started playing this clip here as well. Let's just say we're going to jump forward a little bit here. Let's long a bit further. Let's play it from here to work out where we want it to stop. Let's just say that we wanted it to stop about here. Let's hit pause. We can then press O on the keyboard. I for in O for out, we've marked out in and out points, we've selected our section here. We can then click and drag that down to the timeline from there. I'm going to go ahead and delete this here. So what we're going to do now is start to bring in some of this B roll footage so that it lines up with what we're talking about in the video. I'm going to build this out in real time so you can see how I would approach it. I'm going to leave this first clip here for now. In that first clip, I likely want to bring up some titles and things to create some engagement. Maybe we will want some B roll there too, but I'm going to leave that first little chunk here, the first 10 seconds here for now. Let's jump to this second clip. Let's play through this and let's hear what's been said. To help you with this, you need to make sure that your thumbnail images are grabbing people's attention, that they stand out on whatever platform you're posting them on. Your thumbnail. Okay. So we need some footage here that indicates that there's maybe a lot of options on the platform. We need to make our thumbnail image stand out. So let's come up here to this clip and let's stretch out our selection here. We could just click through to find the area that we want. We could again hit play and play through the entire clip. But what I like to do with this to be able to scrub through it quicker is to click and drag this and let's just put it down a little bit further in our project. Let's just drop it down here. Now, if we go across here, then if we click and drag across the top, you can see that we have so much more control over previewing the clips. There's not much happening at the start of this here. We're now scrolling YouTube. Again, this clip could fit. We probably don't want to show the shorts here as much. Maybe we could start this clip after we've shown the shorts maybe around here. Let's start it here. Let's scrub through here and see what happens. I actually stops at that point. That's probably not a good piece for us to use. We want some movement. We start scrolling again here now, maybe just before that happens, let's see what happens here. Let's play through. We're scrolling down. We're seeing all the thumbnail options. I think we will show something like this. Again, maybe not the start of it because it scrolls down a little bit and stops. Maybe when it starts again. Let's start it here before it starts to scroll. So we'll do all of this. We're showing a lot of different thumbnail images, maybe about here. Let's cut that. We can press Command B or Control B or we can come up here to the slice or split button here. We've now got this little chunk of footage. Let's come across here to where we want to put that now. Maybe we could have it so that it snaps directly on that clip like it is now, or if we actually have it show just before it, in some cases, that can actually feel better. I can flow better for the viewer. Let's just sample this now. This is all about trial and error here to work out what's going to fit the best to create a good experience for your viewers. It is so important. To help you with this, you need to make sure that your thumbnail images are grabbing people's attention, that they stand out on whatever platform you're posting them on. Maybe we'll actually drag this down a little bit towards the end of this. So to help you with this, you need to make sure that your thumbnail images are grabbing people's attention, that they stand out on whatever platform you're posting them on. Okay, so that's not bad. So we're going to do a first pass in filling in some of these gaps and making this video more engaging, and then we can do another pass where we're refining it. So it's going to be a little bit of back and forth, a little bit of tweaking and adjusting. What's the next piece here? The thumbnail image also needs to be related to your video content. So best case scenario, if someone sees your thumbnail image, they can work out exactly what your video is about and if it's for the just from looking at that thumbnail image. This is where you could add some big A, we still got the remainder here that we haven't used. So let's come back over to here. Let's scrub through here. Let's see if we've got anything that's really going to fit. That stuff there could work. Let's come across a bit more, see what else we've got to work with here. I guess that's for the look good small. We've made the thumbnail images smaller. This static section here we could use for when we're showing the text or talking about the text. Maybe we'll have this search piece here before I start typing, about here. Video editing, Mac, we run the search that comes up. We're in the top spots here. We scroll down a little bit. Let's add a cut here and let's bring this piece back. Let's just see how this goes here. They stand out on whatever platform you're posting them on. Your thumbnail image also needs to be related to your video content. Best case scenario, if someone sees your thumbnail image, they can work out exactly what your video is about and if it's for them, just from looking at that thumbnail image. I like the start of it here where we're showing these examples, but I don't know that it needs to start scrolling. So maybe we'll stop it just before it starts scrolling. Then we could potentially slow down this clip so that it's on screen for longer. Maybe we could even zoom in on the different thumbnails here on screen, make them bigger. But I'm not going to do that in this first pass here. I just want to drop some clips in, see where the gaps are, find out if we need to go and record more B roll or overlay footage or use stock footage sites to find other clips that are going to fit here. We're doing our first pass. Okay, I just wanted to jump in here really quick to say, If you're finding this training valuable, can you please take a moment to leave us a review on here? It makes a world of difference to help people find this on Skill Share. So if you're liking this so far, I'd really appreciate it. Also, feel free to share any of your top takeaways along the way. 30. Desktop - Editing: Scaling/zooming and rotating clips: Take a look at how we can adjust the clips that are in the timeline. We're going to pick one of our clips here. Let's pick our B roll clip here at the start and this could be clip. What happens is on the right hand side here, we get a bunch of other options that show up. You can see here that these options are broken down into video, audio, speed, animation, tracking, and adjustment. What we're going to look at in this video is the video ones here, specifically the ones that are related to scaling, the position, zooming, rotating, making some basic adjustments to our clips. Now these are more advanced features and controls that are in this section as well. We will be covering off in later videos. But you've got things in here like cutout mask and enhance here as well. Now that you know where to find then we're going to come back here to basic what we're going to do is let's make sure that our playback head, this playback indicator is above the clip that we have selected. Otherwise, we're back here, we're making adjustments. We're actually not going to see a preview of what it is that we're adjusting. You want to make sure that playback head is somewhere on the clip that you have selected. Let's say that for this clip here, we want to zoom in on it to make it a bit bigger. We've got it selected. We can come over here to scale and let's just drag this across to increase it maybe about here. With scaling, the default setting here is to do it in proportion. We're scaling it up and it's still going to look right, it's still going to look normal. We're not stretching it at this point, but there might be times where you do want to stretch something up. We can unselect this uniform scale here and then we can scale the height and the width separately. I'm going to undo that last change here by pressing undo and let's turn back on uniform scale. At anytime with the adjustments you've made, if you want to reset them, you can just press this little circle here, redo and that will redo or reset any of the adjustments you've made in that section. You can see here we've got position and size. That's the area that we made changes in. If we scroll down, we've got blend, we've got to stabilize motion blur. If we just want to reset the position and size area, we can press this little button here and all of those settings are going to go back to default. But let's scale this up again. Maybe somewhere around here. We can then use the X and Y settings here to adjust the X and Y position of this. You can see as we hold this down, we're moving it over in very small increments to the right. Likewise, if we press the down arrow or we lower this number, we're going to move to the left in small increments. The Y works exactly the same. We can adjust the Y position on the Y axis with these values here as well. But what you can also do is you can click and drag on this preview window when you're in this mode and you can just click and drag to adjust the position. Maybe we'll position it so that it's more centered here, maybe something like this. Let's play through this now. To see it. You need to get your content clicked on and that's when your thumbnail strategy is so important. Maybe we'll even make this one a little bit bigger because again, we're going to add some click animation on there a little bit later. Let's zoom in on this one a bit more. It is important to note that we are digitally zooming in on this, depending on your project settings, depending on how high quality you actually recorded your clips, you do have the potential to lose quality at this point if you're zooming in too far. But for right now, this is still looking okay. Let's zoom in a little bit more and let's position this around here. Let's come across this next clip here. Maybe we don't need this static section here, this menu bar on the left. We can zoom in on this one as well. Again, we want to click on it, so it's selected. We want to make sure that our playback indicator here, playback head is over the top of this clip somewhere, and maybe we can zoom this in a bit. Let's move it across. Et's go up a little bit more so we can actually center it there. We've got that snapping on, so it's snapping to the side there. We can either turn that off so that we're able to get more granular adjustment or we can use these X and Y coordinates. Let's just use these to get it pretty close. I've centered this up now and let's preview this clip. I grabbing people's attention, but they stand out on whatever platform you're posting them on. Let's play this next clip here. Email image also needs to be related to your video content. Best case scenario. Maybe what we could do with this one is we can zoom in a little bit, so we're seeing this text or this typing happening bigger and then we can have a cut where it zooms back out. Let's work out where we want to have that cut. Maybe about here. Let's split our clip at this point. Let's click that first one again and let's zoom in and let's bring it down and across a little bit. Maybe something like this. Let's preview this now. Image also needs to be related to your video content. Best case scenario, if someone sees your thumbnail image, they work out exactly. That's pretty good. Now you also have the ability in here to rotate your footage as well. Let's just say that we wanted to rotate this clip. It's not something I would normally do in this case. But with that clip selected, again, we also have the option here to rotate. Again, you can either manually do this here using the up and down arrows. You could also type in a number if you wanted to, or you do have this little circle graphic here. If we click and hold with this, then as we move the mouse around, I clip here is rotate. Let's say that we did want to include some rotation here. You can see that we can actually see the background, the layer below this is appearing on this area now because it no longer fits the size of our video here. What we could do to hide that is we could zoom this in to make it bigger or scale it up. We could grab scale here. Let's zoom this up here. To make sure that we're covering off on all the corners here, so we've now got this clip on an angle, but we're not seeing the video clip underneath it or behind it. Now for this clip again, that was just demonstration purposes. I am going to reset that here, so we'll hit with this clip selected up here, position and size. Let's reset that to go back to the original to undo that setting change. 31. Desktop - Effects: Adding text and stickers: Take a look at adding text and stickers into our video. So we've got video here that we've been editing down here, and I want to add some text at the very start of it to help hook our viewers in. So let's just play this again. You could have the world's best video, but if no one clicks on it, no one's going to see it. Okay, so what I'm thinking is we add World's Best video as three big bold pieces of text to help grab the viewers attention at the start of this video. I want to come up here to text, and there's lots of different ways that we can actually create text in here. The standard way. The default way is with one of these default text boxes here. We can click and drag this down to our timeline, and we can see that we have text show up here as if it was a piece of footage. With this text, obviously, we can customize it all up. But with the little icon here on our timeline, we can pick this up. We can move it around. We could add cuts in it, we can make it longer or shorter, depending on what we want to do. It's treated the same as a regular piece of video footage here. But with one main distinction is that it is classed as text, so we can't actually integrate it with the rest of our timeline here. You can see that it's on its own text based layer and that just helps separate it from your regular footage. With our basic default text here, if we want to edit the text, we can make sure that it's selected, we can come up the top here and we can type in something else. Let's just choose Justin Brown. So I've got my name in here. We can then run through all the different settings and things in here like font. We can change the fonts. We've got all your regular adjustments here for bold underline capitalization. We can adjust the color here. If we scroll down a bit, there are different presets as well that we can use. You can see by clicking on these, it's changing up that style, and there's quite a few different options in here. You can hit this down arrow to expand out and see some more. But this is still very basic compared to where we can take. Going down further, we've got your position and size so we can scale this up. We can control the position here using these sliders or these values here to have a lot of precision with how we're moving things around. Or we can just click over here and drag, move this to where we want it. We can rotate, we can resize and everything from here. We scroll down, we've got things like the stroke. If you want to have a border or not, we can enable that here. We can also change the color of that stroke and even the thickness. Let's go ahead and turn this one off. You've also got settings in here for adding a background. If you'd like to have a background very similar to our regular YouTube video text that we use, then we could customize that up and there's also settings for adding a glow, adding a shadow and a curve here as well. That's a very basic default style title that you can create here in Cab cut. I'm going to select on this and I'm going to press Delete. We're going to remove it. Let's come down here because down here under effects, there are some pre built looks or effects presets, really, of different types of texts that you can easily add to your timeline that you can then customize up further. If you scroll down here, you can see just how many different looks and styles and things there are. Again, these aren't even the animated text. These are still pretty simple. The idea is that you can scroll through find something that you like the look of maybe something like this, we can click and drag that down into our timeline, and then we can customize it up again. We've still got the same abilities here in terms of scaling, positioning, rotating, all of that stuff. Now, there's also some different styles of texts that we can create here as well. With our text selected and this will work for the default text as well, we can also come over here to bubble. If we start to click through some of these, you can see the different styles and things that you can create. So different types of text boxes. But there's also the more professional text that you can add in here as well. I'm going to select on this. We're going to press Delete, so it's gone. Let's scroll down further, past effects here, let's go to text templates. So we can already see here that these titles look next level. If we just hover over them, we can see that they have some basic animation, that this one here is just wiggling a little bit, appearing. Lots of different options here. If we want to see what it looks like as a preview, then we can actually click on one of them. No one's going to see it. So you and it's going to play back a small portion of your video so that you can see that animation or that text playing back on your timeline. Click on it, no one's going to see it. You need to on it, no one's going to see it. You need to on it, no one's going to see it. Again, if we scroll down here, you'll see that there's a lot of options in here. Now, there is some filtering that you can go through to help you narrow down this list. You'll see that as you scroll down, there are different categories that you hit from time to time like this one here, vlog. We can actually access those quicker if we select over here on text template, you've got direct access to these categories here as the text that I want to use in this video, I'm just going to come back up here to Effects. Let's find something that stands out. I'm just going to grab this one here. Let's drag this down into our timeline and let's customize this up. First word that we wanted was worlds. Well, depostrophe S. Let's change the font here. Let's use Oswald, which is our primal video font. Let's maybe make this a bit bigger. Maybe something like this for now. Maybe we'll make this bold as. Got our first word done. Now we're going to select this clip. Let's right click on it and we can copy it. We can then paste it so we can right click and choose paste. We've got a second one now and let's paste it again. We've got three of them. We got worlds, let's move this across a little bit. Let's customize this one here, best, and let's double click on this one here to edit this one, video. Now we want to position these so that we can see them all on screen at once. Maybe we'll move this down world's best and let's adjust video. I'm clicking and dragging. We need to lengthen this out too. So that we can see all three of them on screen at once. We'll adjust this timing now, shorten this one up. Let's just play this and maybe we'll zoom in a bit first to work on this timing. We want them to appear as I say the words. We have the world's best video, but if no. So it's much too short. That one's pretty good. Best starts here, let's extend this back. World's best video. I'm starting to save video, what're doing about there? The world's best video. This is a very simple effect, having these three appear at this time. There's no transitions, there's no effects or anything at this point. Let's just play this now. You could have the world's best video, but if no one clicks on it, maybe we'll have them disappear at this point. Let's shorten these back. The world's best video, but if no one clicks on it, no one's going to see it. I think what we add here for this next piece is a sticker. Let's come over here to sticker. These are little graphics that you can use. Think of Instagram, Snapchat, little gifts, little graphics that you can add on. Again, if we hit the little drop down here, there's lots of different ones. Maybe we'll go Emoji and let's go a thumb down or a sad face or something like that. The piece where we say, no one's going to see it. What about this one here? We can click and drag this down onto our timeline. We can see now that this has created, again, its own style of layer. We've got our text layers here with the T, and we now have our stickers layer here as well. We could move this up just to keep it neat so that we're grouping or keeping all the different types of footage stickers, titles, and things together. But in terms of where it actually is, it doesn't make any difference to the actual video itself. I'm going to move it back up to the top. Let's work out where we want it to appear timing wise. Let's play this. No one's going to see it. Okay, that's not too bad. I didn't want it on straightaway, but there is a quick little gap there. Now let's resize this. With it selected up in this transform area here, you can see we've got scale. We can scale this down a bit. Maybe we'll cover my face with it at this point, actually. We want to adjust this end time here so there's not going over our next clip so that it finishes about the same time. We're going to drag that back until it snaps into place. Let's just play this now. But if no one clicks on it, no one's going to see it. You need to get your content, bit of fun, bit of engage. For this next piece here where it says you need to focus on getting your thumbnail image clicked. You need to get your content clicked on and that's when your thumbnail strategy is so important. For here, there's probably some sticker that we could use in regards to clicking or tapping. I'm thinking maybe icons. Actually, it's probably going to be emphasis where we're going to be pointing to something here we go. It's a tap and it looks like a click or a mouse click few different options we've got here. I think I like the ones back towards the start here, maybe this one. Let's drag this down here again onto our sticker layer. Let's get the timing right, then we'll resize it. See it. You need to get your content clicked on, and that's when your thumbnail strategy is so it actually only plays that animation there once and then it just stays like that. You need to get your content clicked on. Let's get it right, and then we will repeat that animation. Let's select this clip here, scale it down. I think it's a bit big, but we still want it pretty big and maybe we will move it off to the side here, so it's tapping on my face. That's not too bad. So after that animation is finished there, then let's cut this clip. Et's shorten it back to that point and then let's copy and paste it a few times. It's going to play through that animation a little bit. We're going to copy it, can right click and choose Copy. We can then paste it. We can just right click and choose paste. We can come across to the end of that clip and we can paste it again, right click paste, and we keep going for as long as we want that animation to be happening. So let's just see what this looks like. So you need to get your content clicked on, and that's when your thumb. Okay, so maybe we'll do a couple more. See it. You need to get your content clicked on, and that's when your thumbnail strategy. Then that's probably enough of this shot on screen. It's dragging out a little bit now. Maybe we'll trim this clip back so that it just pops back to me on screen. Let's play this. You could have the world's best video, but if no one clicks on it, no one's going to see it. You need to get your content clicked on, and that's when your thumbnail strategy is so important. I'm going to go through now and add text and graphics into the remainder of this video, but that's how easy it is. 32. Desktop - Effects: Applying transitions between clips: Look at adding transitions into your videos. A transition is essentially an effect that sits between two video files on your timeline that effect that you apply will transition or segue between those two clips. You don't just have to have a hard cut. In some cases, it might make sense to get a little bit more fancy and apply some of these transition effects. Fair warning with these, this is one way that if you overdo this and add too many effects, too many transitions, you can make your videos look very cheap and very unprofessional. Use them sparingly, use them if they're going to add to the video, but definitely don't go overboard. We want to come up the top here where it says transitions, and let's hit this little drop down arrow here because there's so many in here. Once again, they've actually broken them down into different categories for us. We've got our trending category here. This one's obviously going to change over time as different effects and transitions and things change. But you can see we've got all these other categories here as well, overlay movement, blurb, basic to preview what these actually look like, we just put our mouse cursor over them and it's going to play a little animation or a little version of what this is going to look like. Scroll down, maybe look at some of these light effects, bubble blur, so many in here to choose from. Let's say that we find the one that we want to use spin clockwise here in this example, to add it, we just need to click and drag this down onto our timeline. And we can add it at the joining marker between any two clips. We can't add it at the start of a clip, we can't add it at the end. We can only add it at the transition point. Now, this will work for overlay footage. This will also work for footage in your primary timeline as well anywhere where there is a join between two clips. I'm just going to add it up here between these two clips and I will let the mouse button go and that has applied there now. Now if we just play this little section here, you'll see this transition in full effect. This If there's too much going on. Let's play it again. Mobile devices. If there's too much going on, so it added that spin effect in this case, between those two. Now, just to show you what it was like before with that selected here press delete and just play devices, if there's too much going on in your nothing really happened. It was just a hard cut between the two clips. Let's add an effect back on here because I want to show you that you can actually customize these up. This time, I've grabbed another one here, we're going to drop it again on the transition point or the split between those two clips, then you'll see at the top here, we can actually choose how long this transition or this effect will actually play for the duration of it. If we want that effect to happen slower, we can increase the amount of time that that's going to we also have the ability to make adjustments to this down the bottom here as well. You can see if we put our mouse cursor over either end here, then we can drag this out or shorten it down to speed it up or slow it down too. With this now set to the maximum amount of time, let's just play this section here. All screens, mobile devices. If there's too much going on in your thumbnail, just break up your shots a little bit. Now, for most professional videos that I've ever made, we've never really added too many of these transitions and effects on because as I said earlier, it can make your videos look unprofessional. But if I am adding them, then this is where I'm going to stick to the basic ones which are up here actually under overlay. I would be either a fade to black, a fade to white, like a white flash, a dissolve or just a simple cross fade to blend the two clips. That's generally all I would use. Now let's come back over here in our timeline where we've got a cut here between two of our clips and these clips here are pretty much identical, same camera, same angle. If we play this is so important. So to help you you'll see it was just a hard cut. So we've got no transition on there. We could go ahead and add in an effect here, a transition and drag it down between our two clips and play this. So to help you with this. But no matter which transition we're actually going to pick here, it never really looks that good because we're transitioning between two shots that are essentially the same. We just cut a little bit of the audio. They're essentially the same. Instead, what I would do here instead of adding a transition effect is that I would just zoom in on one of the clips to make it look like it was a different shot. Let's make sure that our second clip here is selected. We could scale this up, maybe about 12%. Again, depending on how you've shot this, whether you shot in four K, 1080, and the quality of your project, it is possible that you might be losing a little bit of quality here so you don't want to zoom in too much, but generally up to around 15% or 115 here on this scale should be okay for what we're talking about. With no further adjustments, let's just play this clip here now. Important. So to help you with this, you can see, it's now looking a little bit different. It's punched in zoomed in a little bit at that cut. But in order to really sell this effect, if you've got a person in the shot like we do here, if you're able to line up their eyes, then it's going to be far less jarring for the viewer. So maybe we'll bring this shot down a little bit here. So let's come to the wide position and we can lower this to bring it down. We could also just click and drag down as well, and let's go back and see what the eye position was like before. Okay, so it's not perfect, but it's much better. So if we were to play this now, so important. So to help you with this, you need to make sure it's such a simple little transition or effect that you can add here that's going to keep your viewers more engaged with your viewers because things are changing up, but it's without going over the top and adding all these fancy transitions and effects. 33. Desktop - Effects: Adding special effects & clip animations: Video, I'm going to show you how easy it is to add different effects and animations to your videos. Now this is one of the big advantages of using Capcut in that there is so many different effects and things built in here that you can easily add to your videos. Now here in Capcut effects and animations are actually two different things. I'm going to show you effects first, and then I will show you animations. There's a lot of overlap, but the two are different. To access the effects, we want to come up the top here, click on effects, and as with anything else in cap card, there's a lot of different options in here. Again, they're broken down into these different categories here on the left, starting off with trending. You can see if we scroll down here further, we've got things like glitch effects as well and we can preview what these look like just by putting our cursor over them. You can see that's adding that little glitch effect there or maybe something more subtle here with color glitch. Maybe we got cut here. Chromatic. Then when we find the effects that we want to use, we can literally just drag and drop them down onto our timeline onto one of our clips. It can either be one of our B roll or overlay clips, or it could be your primary footage here too. I'm going to drop it here just on the primary footage so we can see what this looks like. We can see that it's now overlaid this blue area here onto our clip for us. We've also got some controls up the top here to further dial this in. But let's just hit play on this at the start so that we can see that this effect has been applied. Could have the world's best video, but if no one clicks on. You can see that we've now got this glitch effect that's happening. As for how much control you'll have over the effect, we'll come down to the individual effect itself. But you can see up here we can adjust the strength, we can adjust the speed, and also we've got lateral chromatic aberration here as well. We can increase this and you can see it just changes the effect here. Maybe we'll even increase the speed and now let's play this. Could have the world's best. I totally changed that effect. Down the bottom here, in the timeline, we also get to choose how long that effect is actually on our clip for. The default here because we dragged it onto an entire clip is to fill the entire clip. But you can see if we put our mouse over these little handles here on the edge of that effect, we can shorten that section too. If we only want it happening for the first little piece, then we can just shorten it down to that part. If we play this now, you could have the world's best video. You can see we have that glitch effect happening at the start of the clip. Now you notice that when we click off the clip that effect actually disappears from our timeline here. We're not actually going to see it, it's actually now included inside of that clip. If we want to find it again to make adjustments to it or to remove it, we just need to click on the actual clip itself, and then over here under video, you can see we now have a category here for effects, and we can see under effects, we have one effect here applied, which is that chromatic effect. We can hit Edit here to make changes to that and you can see at that point, we can see it down here in the timeline again. Or if I go back and select the clip here again, we also have the ability to delete the clip from here as well by pressing the little trash. One clip here in your timeline can also have multiple effects applied to it. Et's just show you what that looks like. We'll grab a cut effect here. Maybe we'll pick a Christmas one in this case, sparkle, let's drag that down as well. Then if we deselect the clip, just click on something else. Let's click on our clip again. Then up here under effects, then we can see that we've now got two effects that are applied to. Go ahead and remove both of these. That's how you can apply effects directly to a clip here in your timeline. But you can also apply them to the timeline itself. This is a really powerful feature. Let's just grab this one here snowing. We could just drag it onto a clip. But instead, you see if we put our cursor here over the timeline, we can actually have it be inserted as its own clip in the timeline. Let's just drop this here somewhere. You can see as we have our own layers here for titles and for stickers, we actually have our own layers for effects here as well. We can pick this up, so it's up the top to make it easier for grouping these things as well. But then just like any other clip, we can stretch it out. We can make it longer, we can make it shorter. We could split it in half by hitting the split button here and maybe we adjust it. We're going to have this effect happening here at the start. You could have the world's best video. We've got snow happening here, and then for this next piece here, we don't have any snow, but then back up here, the snow starts again. Are grabbing people's attention that they stand out. If you do have an effect that you want to apply across your entire video, this is how you do it instead of adding it on a clip by clip basis. So I'm going to go ahead and delete these from our project here. I'm just going to select on the clip, press Delete on the keyboard, select the next one, press delete. So that's effects here in Capcut. But animations is something similar but a little bit different. In effect, we can apply to the clip itself or have it treated as its own clip in the timeline to affect everything underneath that. But an animation can only be applied to an individual clip itself. So let's take one of our clips here on the timeline, let's pick this first one here. Let's move this playback indicator, so it's on our clip so that we know that we're looking at the right thing here. Then this time, instead of accessing our effects and things from up the top, what we want to do is come over to the other side here and come over to animation. Again, these settings and everything here are all related to the clip that we have selected in the timeline. Let's come over here to animation straightaway you can see at the top here we have an in animation we have out animation and we have combo. These work in very much the same way as a transition on your clips. A transition in Capcut was an effect that could only be applied between two clips, whereas an animation here can be applied to either the start of a clip, the end of the clip, in or out, or combo, which means the entire clip itself. Let's take a look at some of these examples. We've got it selected here for in, let's just put our mouse over these and we can start to see what they look like. We've got a fade in. We've got rock, we've got shake here. Swing. If you want to apply one of these to our video, then we just need to select it. Let's pick this one here, Zoom one. You could have. I actually plays back the start of our clip there with this effect applied. Let's pick another one. You could have Shape too, maybe swing right. You could have them. You can also see that this is happening pretty quick. We could also adjust the duration of that here. The default right now is half a second, 0.5. We can either type in the length of time we want this to go for. We could use the up and down arrows here to adjust that as well, or we can actually grab this little slider bar here to extend this out or to shorten it up. Let's go 2.5 seconds in this case. Have the world's best video, but if not. We can see that that effect now is happening over a longer period of time. Now, this hasn't made any other adjustments to the rest of our clip. You can see we've actually got this little white line across the bottom here now that shows us that we do have some animation applied to that start of that clip. The rest of the clip right now is untouched. It's going to playback as it normally would. But let's say we wanted to add an out animation on the end of our video here. We want to finish the video with some animation. We can select the clip come up here and let's choose out, and then we've got some different animations we can add on here. There's a Zoom out, I can zoom in. Maybe we'll just do a fade out. Let's press on that one. Can see the preview there, the end of the video, it's going to fade to black. Again, we could adjust the time on that if we want to go a little longer, let's make it 1 second, nothing else. Then that can fade out from there. Now when you're going through and you're playing with these and you're picking the different effects, if there's something that you don't want to have on there or you want to turn this off, you just need to come up here and select none, and that's going to remove that animation from that clip. That's adding an in and adding an out animation. What about a combo animation? Let's pick this clip here because it's a short clip. Let's put our playback head here over that clip so that we're actually again looking at the same clip. Then let's come over here to combo. Let's click on one of these and see what it looks. Or even some related images or graphics. Okay. Do you see that movement there? That wasn't there before. Let's hit none, so we're able to preview it with nothing. Let's hit play on this one. Or even some related images or graphics. Let's try another one here, maybe pendulum two or even some related images or graphics. You just add some movement there for us. This is awesome having this built in to keyframe this or to animate this yourself manually, normally would be a lot of work. If we scroll down, you see we got lots of different options in here, or even some related images or graphics, or even some related images or graphics. Or even some related images or graphics. It's just a matter of going through, finding the animation or the movement that you like to look of, then again, you can adjust the length of time here for that animation to happen. Then again, to remove this animation, you just want to make sure you've got none selected. It's going to mean that there's no animation happening at that time. 34. Desktop - Effects: Speed adjustments (speed up slow down): To make speed adjustments to your video clips. You want to speed them up, you want to slow them down. It's really easy to do here in Cap cat. I'm going to go ahead and import a clip here that would make more sense to speed up or to slow down because in a video like the one that we've been editing down here, it's not normally an effect or something that I would usually do. Let's come over here to media. Let's go down here to library. I'm just going to search here for ski. We can get shot with some movement, maybe something like this one here. I'm just going to click and drag this down onto our timeline here, but let's just put it towards the end. It's going to be a temporary clip. Again, I just want to mention that even though Cap card does give you access to some stock footage like this, personally, it's not something that I would be using or comfortable using without knowing that I own the full correct copyright and license agreements for that footage. Where we go for stock footage is places like story blocks, places like Artlist. But depending on where you're going to be releasing your videos, this stock footage could be okay. We've got a clip down here in the timeline. Let's hit Play to see what happens. Snowboarder comes past the camera here, a couple little turns. Let's say that we want to make some speed adjustments to this clip. We want to make sure that that clip is selected, so we want to click on can then come up here to speed. Now, there's two ways you can do this. There is a simple way, and then there is a more advanced way. The simple ways that we can literally just come up here, grab this slider here where it says times, we can drag it to the left to slow it down. You can see that our speed instead of being one time speed or real time, that we're actually lowering that 0.9 0.8. 0.5 is half speed. If we just hit play on this now, it's now going half the speed, we could go even slower. Go 0.2. Now, depending on how this footage was shot and the frame rates and things, the slower you go, you might start to bring in some weird motion or jittery playback. But let's see how we go here with this clip. You can see it's definitely slowed it down and it is a little bit jittery, but it's not too bad. Likewise, if we wanted to speed the clip up, we could go above one times or above real time speed, and it's going to speed that up for us. Let's go maybe three speed here. Let's hit play. Pretty straightforward. Another way that we can control this isn't based off this times indicator. It's actually based off the duration of the clips. You can see here that as we make this faster, the clip actually gets shorter here in the timeline or the duration is less. We could also make adjustments here if there is a set time that we want to make this, we can actually adjust that here. Let's say that we wanted this clip to go for 3.5 seconds, it's going to then essentially calculate for us the percentage number here or the ratio. Before we move to the more advanced curve setting here, which will give you much further granular control over this, there is another setting here which is relatively new to Capcut which will help you smooth out slow motion footage. If we're slowing our clip down again, let's go to 0.2. This is where we had a little bit of jitter there in the motion. This new feature is down the bottom here, smooth slow mow. If we select this, you can see that's processing our footage here now, what it's essentially doing is going to create extra frames or extra information to fill in those gaps to make the motion fluid. Let's hit play on this now. You can see it is already a lot smoother. It's not perfect, but it is a lot smoother. Now, this is just with the first setting here, the default setting, frame blending. But what I found will get you much better results if you do want to use this is switching it to optical flow. It does say that this will have a longer processing time, but it is better quality. You can see switching to that, the processing time is going to be much longer. But just so I can show you what this looks like, let's turn off that effect. I'm going to trim down our clip here to add a split in our timeline. And let's apply it to a much shorter clip, because if it's a shorter clip, there's less processing that needs to happen. Let's choose smooth slow mo here for this small section, and we're going to choose that optical flow. We can see that processing is happening much faster. That's done. Let's take a look at how that looks now to play. Even the motion in the trees looks a lot better. Not as good as having recorded this in slow motion, but that does look so much better. That's the basic or the quick way to adjust the speed. Now if we look at the more professional way, that's using the curves setting here. I'm just going to set our clips here back to one time speed, and let's reset our clip here so it is back with no speed adjustments made. Let's again come up here to speed. But this time we're going to pick on curve. Then in here, there's some presets that we can use or we can create our own customization in here too. We have to look at the little images here that are showing us where the line is in the middle, that's normal speed where it goes above the middle then that's speeding it up where it goes below the middle, that's slowing it down. We can gauge already just looking at these presets, what's going to happen if we apply these presets. This one here, for instance, hero time. It's going to start out at normal speed. It's going to speed up to a point. It's then going to drop to full slow motion, and then it's going to come back up to faster than normal speed and then slow back down. Let's click on this and that's going to apply it to our clip and let's see what that looks like. We can see here what's happening with this as well throughout our video. Let's play that again. It's the fast bit, slowing down. This is the slowest point and then it speeds back. All of these little points here, these are adjustable, so we can make adjustments to this preset right here on here. Let's just say that we actually wanted it faster at the beginning. Then we can grab this start marker here. Let's drag it up. We're going at a much faster speed at the start and then it slows down before coming back up. We can customize things up from here. Or for full customization, we can come over here to customized. Now I'm going to go none first so we don't have any speed controls applied to this. We're going to pick customized and you can see here we've got a blank canvas. It's all set to 100% or one speed, so normal speed, and then we can make adjustments in here by dragging these little markers around. You see as you click and drag through this area here, we're able to scrub through our clip here to get more precise to where we want to start this speeding up or slowing down. But then it's just a matter of adjusting these points here, or these keyframes here to get the look that we're after to speed things down or slow them up. Let's say that we want to slow it down at this point. We can drag down both of these little markers here to where we want them. Right now, we've got it starting full speed, but it's starting to slow down at that point, but then it's going straight back also grab this next one here. Let's pull this one down as well. Then let's make an adjustment here so that it's playing at full speed until it gets to around this point. We can come over here because there isn't a marker for us to move, we can hit the little plus button here. That's going to add one for us. Let's now speed this one back up. We're now playing back at real time, full speed until this point, then it slows down. We're now playing in slow motion for this flat period here. And then maybe at this point here, we'll want to bring it back up. We can move this one here over as well, let's go ahead and play this now so you can see what we've done. Full speed to here, we slow down a bit. We're now playing at a slower speed for all of this. Then we ramp back up to our full speed for the remainder of the clip. In here as well, if you are using slow motion, then you do have the option here to enable that smooth slow mo mode as well. 35. Desktop - Effects: Background removal: That makes it really easy to help you remove the background from your videos. You don't even need to be using a green screen or a blue screen, but I'm going to show you how you do it in this video. Let's just say that we want to remove me from the background here. We can come down here, select the clip. We can then come over here to cut out. We've then got two options here. The first one, Chroma key is if we are using a green screen or a blue screen or we want to remove a specific color. I'll show you that next. But the other option here, autocuto is where we're using Capcuts AI functionality to automatically remove. It says here a human figure from the background. Et's tick that box here now for this specific clip. It's going through, it's processing that for us, and when it's done, the background has been removed, and it's done a pretty damn good job and really quickly. You can see now that there is no background on here. So what we can do then is we could add in a background. For this, I'm just going to come over here to media. I'm going to come down here to library. We're going to use some stock footage that Capcut gives us access to. Let's come down here to backgrounds. Let's scroll down and see what we've got. There's some backgrounds here. Let's grab this one and let's drag this down into our timeline. We'll just use this as our background clip for now. Now because we've removed the background from this clip here, so it's currently transparent, normally what we would need to do is to put this clip down underneath it so that we're seeing through this clip onto our background. Let's select these two clips here. We can just draw a box around them or we can select on one. We can hold down Command or Control and click on the other, they're both selected. Let's just move them one layer. We can then bring our background in down underneath it. We can then stretch our background out so that it covers our entire clip here. Then what we can do here is because our background doesn't quite fit here, we can scale this up or stretch it up so that our background now fits. We've used a still image here, but this same process will work if you've got a video clip or a moving background that you want to put in here too. That's usually how you would do it, but there is another feature here inside of Capcut which does actually make this a little bit easier as well and save you moving your layers around. We can see now if we scrub through this, we're seeing our B roll here at this point we're then seeing me on camera, but I'm cut out and I've got this other background behind it. Now with this clip here now, we could scale this clip up to make me bigger or smaller. Again we could come over here to position and size or we can grab these handles so we can stretch this up, maybe move it down a bit, maybe off to the side. This is where you could bring up some text or something like this, too. But you can see how easy the background removal process is for this. Now, because we've moved our clip here off the primary footage layer and up onto a new layer on top of that, there's one other setting we now have access to as well to help with this effect. So if we scrub back across here, you'll see that this footage here is behaving how you would expect. It's totally covering up what's happening underneath it. But if we click on this and we come over here to video and we scroll down, you can see that we now have this layer option. So if we switch this from layer two to layer one, then you can see it's actually allowing us to bring that effect through over the top of this clip as well. This is something that might be handy, it's not as intuitive or straightforward as stacking your layers up how you normally would or how you would think that they would be. But in this case, it's a great easy way for us to bring this shot of me on top of our B roll footage here. Also have it with a separate background when that B roll is not on screen as well. That's how easy it is to quickly remove the background from your videos using CapcuT AI features without needing to use a green screen or a blue screen. But what if you are using a green screen or a blue screen? I'm going to show you how to do that now. For green screen, we're going to need to bring in a clip has something green or blue on it so we can make that green or blue transparent. Let's come back up here to our media areas come down to library. We're again looking at Cap cuts stock footage. Let's choose green screen, and there are a bunch of clips in here we can use to show you how this effect works. Essentially, what we're doing here is we're going to remove the green element to make it transparent. Maybe we'll start with this one here first. You can see that it's a video file that is peeling open this paper, ripping hole on this paper. Let's drag this down onto our timeline here on the layer above our primary footage. If we just play this through now, it's going to look exactly the same. We're not seeing the video file underneath it. Let's select this clip. Let's come up here to cut out instead of using AutoCut this time we're going to use Chroma key. We then need to pick the color that we want to remove. That's why this will work for both green and blue or really any other color. Going to use this color picker. We want to click on this. We then want to select the color that we want to remove. We see we've got the green here now selected, then we just need to make adjustments to these two slides, strength and shadow. As we increase this, you can see that it removes the green. We want to increase this to the point where the green is gone. Somewhere around here, and we can also increase the shadow here to get a little bit better result. But if we click through this now in place your viewers are going to click on something else. Then it's actually remove that green for us and created a transparent video. I'll give you one more example. Let's scroll down here and find another clip. Maybe this one here with Santa on it. Let's click and drag that down onto our timeline. Let's put it to the end. Let's get rid of this other clip here. We'll press Delete and let's move this one in place of that one. At this point, we've got Santa here on screen, but we're still seeing all of the green. We're going to follow the same process. We're going to select that clip, come up here to cut out. Let's select Chroma key. Let's use our color picker to pick the green. Let's pick around here. We're going to increase the strength until the green is gone. Now, you can see here we've still got a bit of a green outline. You really want to adjust both of these sliders until that is gone, probably around here and you can see that we're now seeing through to the background. From here, we can then come back to basic because we've still got this clip selected, and we could maybe scale this down. We could pick it up and move it off to the side here. We've now used that green screen effect here to remove the background on this clip too. Pretty simple. 36. Desktop - Effects: Stabilizing shaky video: Find when you're editing your videos that you've got some shaky footage that really doesn't look that good that you need to stabilize. Then Cap card has a built in stabilization feature that actually works really, really well. I've got this extra clip on the end of our timeline here and I'm just going to play through it to show you the shake that's in there, and then I'll show you how to take it out. You can apply this effect to any shot that does have some shake in it. But if it's something crazy where there's so much motion, then you're probably not going to get great results. You are always better off trying to fix it at the time of filming and try to shoot stabilize footage then. But this effect could help save some footage if it wasn't too bad to begin. Let's check this out a bit of shake there at the start. It's just not a smooth video. It's jumping or jittering. That's the clip. All we need to do is select on the clip. We then come up here to our video tools. Just on this basic tab. If we scroll down, then we've got the option here to stabilize. The first step is we need to check this box. It's going to go through and analyze our clip, which it does really, really quickly, and it's going to apply its recommended level of adjustment here to stabilize this clip. Let's go ahead and give this a play. Already, it's taken that initial shake out and even the motion here, it's much smoother. It's less jarring. So already at that level using its recommended setting here, the default setting, it's actually done such a good job. But if you needed to, if you wanted to take things one step further and maybe it removes some shake, but not all of it, then you could try out here most stable from the drop down. But you'll see what happens straightaway. When we switch between the recommended, it's a wider shot and we go to most stable, it's actually zooming in on your shot more because it's going to use that extra information to help stabilize it. It does mean that the more you process this, the more it is going to zoom in or crop in on your shot. But let's go ahead and give this a play now. It is a much tighter shot. It is probably a little bit smoother. I'm not sure if that's coming through for the screen recording for you guys. It is smoother, but personally, I thought that the recommended setting was better. Let's go back here to recommended and let's just play that one more time to show you. Yeah, I definitely prefer this one. Then just for contrast, again, let's turn this off back to the original, you can see this is wider again, this is the original footage. We've got that shake and that jitter here that happens at the start. Then the overall panning motion, it's really not that good. By selecting this box here and using this stabilized feature, that's how you can easily stabilize your footage. 38. Desktop - Effects: Using Keyframes for greater control: Those of you that want to really dial stuff in and have more control over things like your effects over your transitions and over your volume levels, that's when you can use keyframes here inside of Capcut to help you do that. I'm going to show you how keyframes work. I'm going to be showing you by manually adjusting volume levels throughout different sections of an audio clip. But the principles behind keyframing and what I'm going to show you here, you can apply to other areas like your effects and transitions and other areas too here inside of Cap. Come down the bottom here, select on our music clip, and then up the top corner here, we can see all the things we can control in relation to that clip. Obviously, that changes with the different clips and types of clips that you click on. But coming back to our music, you can see that we can adjust our volume levels up here across the entire clip. This slider adjustment, it's applying to the entire clip down here. But if we wanted more granular control over this and we wanted to increase the volume in some parts, lower it in others, that becomes very clunky to do if we're not using keyframes. Let's say, for instance, that throughout this section of the video here, we wanted our volume level for the music even lower than it was before. Let's move our playback head here to where we want the volume to start dropping. We're going to come up here and we're going to add in a keyframe at that point. A keyframe is essentially a marker saving the settings that you've made at that point. We're going to hit on this button here and then down in our timeline here, you can see that we've got a keyframe added at that point. But you'll see how this works as we go through. Now, let's come across a little bit further here in our project and let's come up here and add in another keyframe. And no other adjustments have been made yet. Right now, if we played this through, it would be the consistent volume level across that section. But because we've added a keyframe here at this point, we can now make adjustments to the volume in this case, at that point. If I lower the volume here now, you can see what's happening in the timeline. Our volume level is consistent from the start of the video right through until we've hit the first keyframe. Then we've said at the next keyframe, the volume level should be at this level, and that volume level then has adjusted between those two keyframes. Let me zoom in on this and make it a bit easier to. Our volume level at this point is at -5.3 until we hit that keyframe and then between this keyframe and this keyframe, the volume is lowering until it hits the point that we set. As we scrub through this now, you can see it's dropping until we hit that keyframe where it's negative 22.9 in this case. If we keep scrubbing through here now, it stays at that. That's now the new normal at that point from that keyframe onwards. Now, let's say that we wanted the volume level at that point until we get to about here and then we want it to start coming back up to where it was before. We go ahead and add a keyframe here in this case, it's almost like the end point of where we want the volume to be at this lower level. Let's come across a little bit further and say, at this point, we want it to be back where it was before or back at a higher volume level. We'll add in another keyframe here and we will increase the volume. Now, we could do it again with this slider. We could also come down here and we can adjust it from here too. Let's say that we wanted this at minus six at this point. Then you can see from this point on that's now the new volume level. If we were to play through this now, the music level would be louder at this point, I would then turn down for all of this section and then be turning back up until it hits this keyframe and then it's at that new volume level for the remainder of the video. We can go ahead and add in as many keyframes as we want. We could be moving the volume up in different sections, down in other sections. That's the level of control that keyframes will. As I said earlier, this doesn't just apply to music and to volume levels. This applies to most effects and controls that you have here in Capcut. For instance, let's pick this title here where it says related. If we just start looking at the options up here they have the keyframe next to them, these are things that we can animate or change over time. We can change the color of our text. We can change the size and scale, we can change the position, the rotation. Maybe we'll change the position here. Let's come back to the start of our clip here, this text layer, and let's move our text here. Position, let's move it across to the left a little bit. Maybe you could start about here. Now, let's add a keyframe for position at that point because that's what we're going to animate. We've got a keyframe here that's saying, at that point, make the settings for position exactly as we've set them here. Now let's come across a little later on this same clip, maybe towards the end of and let's make an adjustment and let's make another keyframe. Let's adjust the position of this so that the clip moves from one side of that box to the other. We've set a position for this keyframe, we've set a position for this keyframe. Now if we play related to your video content, we've now got that text animating or transitioning between those two values, between those two keyframes that we've set. A setting that has a keyframe option here on the side, this is something that we can add some manual control or adjustment over. 39. Desktop - Effects: Fixing colors (color correction & filters): Comes to color correcting, color grading or applying different looks to our video footage here in Capcard as with everything else, there's a few different ways that we can do this. I want to run through those options now whether you're looking for a simple fix or whether you're someone that wants to dive into some more advanced features and controls in here. We want to select the first clip here in our timeline and move our playback indicator head here to a place where we can preview that and it's much easier to apply everything to the first clip and then we can add it to the other clips after that. With that first clip selected, there is a couple of different ways that we can approach this. The first way is by adding filters to your video. Think of these like Instagram filters or preset looks that we can add to change the look and feel of our videos. With that clip selected, if we come up the top here to filters, then you can see that we have a lot in here to choose from just by clicking on no one's going to see it. You need to get your content, it's going to preview your clip and show you what it looks like with this filter applied. No one's going to see it. You need to get your content no one's going to maybe we'll move the playback head here back to the start of the clip. And let's try this. We could have the world's best video, but if no one clicks, you could have the world's best. You could have the world's, that's not very good. You could have the world's Okay, that's not bad. If we look at this as this is with this effect applied, candy cane in this case, if we look at what it looked like before, this is the original footage. Let's apply that again. I could have the world. It's a big difference already. The idea here is that you want to go through and maybe check out some of these filters and see if there is something that fits close to what it is you're looking for. By all means, if there's something that you find that you like to look of, then your color grading here is as simple as hitting the plus or dragging this down onto your clip, and that effect is now applied. With this clip selected here, we can come over here to video and under basics, we're now seeing that filter that has been applied. We've got here candy cane. If we want to remove it, we can press the trash can there and that will take it off. But we can also adjust the strength of this filter. If we want to dial it back a little bit, then we can just click and drag and lower the strength of the intensity of it. That to me is actually looking pretty good. We want to quickly preview before and after, then we can enable that filter on or off here. That's the original and that's where the filter applied. Now, if we want to dial this in even further or we wanted to color grade or color correct without applying a filter, then that's where we want to jump over to this adjustment area here. Agama got a clip selected. We come over here to adjustments and there's a bunch of color tools in here. Some of these tools are actually really professional and stuff that you would find on pro grade video editing software. I'm going to do first is come back over here to video. I'm going to delete this candy cane effect here. We're starting from scratch. This is our raw footage. I'm going to show you the tools to look at first off for adjusting the colors and making sure that everything is how you want it to look. Again on our first clip. We'll come up here to adjustments, and then this is broken down into three areas, basic HSL and curves. HSL and curves, we are not going to be covering off in this training. Those are more advanced tools. But by all means, if that's something that you're into, then feel free to jump in and have a play around. You can see the level of control and adjustments you can make in here at a really granular level. Let's go ahead and undo that. If we come back over here to basic and then we start to scroll down, these are your primary color grading adjustments that I'll be looking at. You can see as we scroll down, you've got things like your color temperature, the saturation, so the amount of color in your shot, brightness, contrast, shadow control. We can adjust the sharpness in here as well. Where I'd recommend that you start with this is, first off, we want to make sure that our exposure is set correctly so that our shot is as bright as it needs to be. The first adjustment I'll be making here is with this brightness slider. I'd be grabbing this adjustment and I'd be increasing it if I needed to make the shot brighter, I'd be decreasing it if the shot was already too. If we want some more granular adjustments here, then we can just use the up and down arrows here. Maybe I'll take this down a little bit. After I've got the brightness set right, I want to make sure that I have the white balance or the color temperature set the way that I'd like it. Again, this is a creative thing. There is no right or wrong. Making adjustments here can change the vibe or the feel of your videos too. Color temperature here is the next one. If we drag this slide to left is going to make our shot cooler or add more blue. If we go the other way, it's going to add more yellow, orange, make our shot feel warmer. Maybe we'll add just a little bit more warmth here in this case. Now, if your shots looking a little green or a little pink, maybe because of the lights that you've used in your scene or maybe because if your camera settings, we can adjust that here. You can see if we want to add more green, we can move this to the left. Likewise, with the pink, we can add it by dragging to the right. In a lot of cases, you might find that this setting is fine without adjusting that. Now, from there, the setting I adjust next is the contrast. So you can see if we want to make our shot more contrasty, so darken the dark areas of the shot and bring out some more color, then we want to increase the contrast. But you see you don't want to go too overboard with this. It's all about making these minor adjustments here, maybe somewhere around here. After I've done the contrast, this is where I would look at the saturation here, the amount of color that's in our shot. If we want to amplify or boost the colors, then we will increase this here if we want to remove some colors and even go in black and white. We could go the other extreme here as well. Maybe I'll increase these a little bit, maybe seven or eight and those are the main settings that I'm going to be playing. Obviously there's some others in here as well if you'd like to tweak things further, but normally, those are the critical ones. For a quick preview before and after, we can turn off this adjustment here. That's going to unapply those settings or changes we've made. That's currently disabled to this is as it was in its original form, and this is with the adjustments that we've made. Now, what I like here is that there's two extra buttons. One of them here is applied to all and that will go through and apply this look or these changes to the other clips in our timeline here. That's this button here. The other one will add it to our brand kit and essentially save this as a preset us to use later or for us to manually apply on a clip by clip basis. If I go here, add to brand kit, we can give this a name. Someone's going to call it JB test adjustment, and you can see it's going to add it into our cap cut space. To use this feature, you will need to be signed in even with a free account, which is what I have here. But this will save this preset and these settings to your account for you to use later. I'm going to choose. Now that's now saved to our brand kit now, we'll show you how you can find and apply those very, very soon. But generally, what I would do here is just hit Apply to all so that these adjustments applied to the remaining clips here in the time you have the ability to jump in on a clip by clip basis and make further adjustments. If you've got some B roll here that you want to make an adjustment to, click on that clip, come over here to adjustments and you can dial in settings for that specific clip too. Now there's one other way that we can actually apply these color adjustments to our projects too. This is using adjustment layers. If we come up here to adjustment and we select here on custom adjustment and we drag this down into our timeline, this shows up exactly the same as we could for an effect, for a title, for essentially a video clip as well and we can make adjustments to this clip area. But any adjustments or changes that we apply to this adjustment area, this clip here will actually apply to any of the clips that are underneath this. With this adjustment layer here selected, just to show you how this works, let's make it blue. So we click through our video, now everything under this now has that same look applied to it. But if we go beyond that, then we're back to normal. This is a clip as well that we could copy and paste. We could duplicate. So maybe we will copy this. Let's click, let's choose copy. Let's come down the end of our project here and let's right click and choose paste and let's just have it cover the end of our project here. So that look or these effects are applied just to this last section of that it's about knowing the tools that you have access to in here because sometimes it's going to make sense to apply things to a clip by clip basis. Other times, it might be much quicker for you to add these adjustments to an adjustment layer and drag it out across the length of the clip that you want that effect associated with. Now, in terms of applying those presets that we saved those brand kits that we saved, this is how we do that too. We can come up here to adjustments and then we've got presets in here and we've got our saved presets in this area. Let's go ahead and remove these adjustment layers that we added in this video. Let's say that this is the adjustment that we want to apply, we can just drag that down. And it's already got our settings from earlier when we created this preset bought in onto this clip. 40. Desktop - Saving: Exporting videos: We've finished editing down our video, it's time to save it out. It's a good idea to play through your video first and make sure that everything is how you want it. Then you want to come up the top right hand corner here to where it says Export. We want to click on that. In here, we can give our video a name. Thumbnail images was the content that we've got here in this video. Maybe we'll put V one. This is version one of get to choose where we're going to save our file out to. In this case, just the desktop is going to be fine. Then from here, if we'd set up our project correctly, then all of these settings here should be good to go in that we shouldn't need to make any further adjustments to them. Our project here was set to ten ADP and that's the file that we're going to save out. Our footage was 30 frames per second and that's what we're saving out here too. But we can customize this stuff up here if we need to so if you wanted to change the resolution, you can hit this drop down and you can pick a different size here. For best results, ideally you're matching whatever footage you shot in your camera, whatever your camera settings were, should have matched your editing project, your editing timeline, should match what you're going to be exporting. That's a general rule. But obviously, if you need something specific, a lower quality version, then you can pick that in here. Leave this as ten ADP. The bit rate though, this is the quality of the video that you're going to be saving. We've got options in here for lower, recommended, higher and customized. Now, usually recommended or higher is where I would recommend that you leave this on. But obviously, if you do need something that is a specific file size, and you can customize this up if we hit here customized, we can adjust the quality here. A lower number is a smaller file size, but it's also a smaller file. I'm going to switch this back here to high we can see down the bottom here, it's giving us an estimated file size for this as well. It's estimating that our video here is going to be 176 megabytes at this setting. If we did switch this to recommended, you can see it's dropped a little bit. If we set it to lower, then it's much lower, but obviously it's lower quality at that point. But this could be useful if you are using a customized bit rate or quality setting and you'd like to estimate how big that file is let's leave this here at higher. We also have the ability here to change up the video codec. H264, again, is the default. That's where I'd imagine most people are going to want to leave this. But if for whatever reason, you want to switch over to an HEVC codec, a high efficiency video codec, you can do that here, or if you want to export at the highest quality possible here out of Capcut, then that's where you're likely going to be using one of these PRs files if it's supported on your device or computer. But generally, with these, the file sizes will be much bigger. For me, I usually leave this on h264. I leave the format at P four. Your frame rate should already be set, but obviously if we need to change that, we can change it at this point too. But we also have the ability here to not just export the video, if we wanted to save out an MP three as well or an audio file, then we can check this box here to export audio and we can choose the type of audio file we want. Now, this is in addition to, this isn't in place you're still going to get the video file if you've got this selected. But likewise, if you only want to export an audio file, you could uncheck video here, check export audio and you would only get an audio file. Case, we just want the video, I'm going to uncheck this. There is also an option here to run a copyright check if you are using some of Capcuts stock footage or stock music or sound effects in your edit, then it's probably a good idea to run this copyright check. But it does say here, it's only going to flag potential issues if you're going to be posting on Capcut. From there, though, we just need to hit Export down the bottom and that's going to export here. That's going to save out a video. I was instant. It is super quick for exporting videos. But it will then prompt you, do you want to share this video directly from Cap card here to places like TikTok or to YouTube? Now, while you can do that from the app here, what I'd recommend that you're doing instead is just going and finding that video that you just saved out, playing it back, making sure that it is how you want it first before you go ahead and upload it to those platforms. What I would recommend in this place is that we're just hitting cancel out of this last step of sharing once we've verified that it's how we want it and that we're happy I just wanted to jump in here really quick to say, if you're finding this training valuable, can you please take a moment to leave us a review on here. It makes a world of difference to help people find this on Skill Share. So if you're liking this so far, I'd really appreciate it. Also, feel free to share any of your top takeaways along the way. 41. Desktop - Repurposing: Reformatting videos for different platforms: This video, I'm going to show you how easy it is here inside of Capcut to reformat or repurpose your content for other platforms. We've got our 16 by nine or wide screen video here that we've created for YouTube. I'm going to show you how we can repurpose this video for something like TikTok for Instagram reels or for YouTube shorts. The first thing I'd say that you want to make sure you've got is a backup of your original project here so that any changes we make, we could come back to this one if we needed to. Let's come up to the top here to where it says Capcut and we want to choose back to homepage. So we want to go back to that initial screen opens up when you open up. What we want to do is duplicate that project so that we have a backup of it. This is our project here. I'm going to hit the three little dots and I'm going to choose duplicate. This is it here now, we can see that it's got the word copy at the end of it. Now we can rename this. We can hit the three little dots again. Let's choose rename and let's just call this portrait. We'll end up with a widescreen version of it, which was the original, and we'll create a portrait version of this. Now let's go ahead and open up the new version and let's quickly verify that it does say the right project name at the top here. But then in terms of actually changing the format of this, we want to come down here where it says here, for me, cast now for you, it could say original, it could say 16 by nine. It could say any of these formats here. But you want to click here in this area because this is where we can change up our format. I'm going to switch it here from customized, which was 16 by nine, and I'm going to now choose a portrait resolution here, nine by 16. We can see that that's changed our project here for us and it's automatically scaled our footage here so that it fits within that frame. That's the easiest way to do it. You can also come over here to modify and you can change the aspect ratio here, again, 169-916. It's essentially the exact same setting there. But what you'll have more control over in here is the resolution, so the quality of that. The default here is adapted and that's where I'd recommend that you leave it. But if you did need to dial up the quality or change to a specific resolution, then that's where you can hit customized and you can type in the resolution that you need. I'm going to leave this back here as adapted and I'm going to close out of this. Once that's done, essentially what we're going to do next is go through and resize or reframe everything so that it looks good on this new format. Mobile version of Capcut, there is an auto reframe feature now, so we'll automatically adjust this for you and scale every clip up and make it look good automatically. At the time of filming this, that feature is not available on desktop yet, but hopefully it will be out soon. From here, we're now going to go through and scale everything up and position our clips so that it looks good in this new format. Because if we click through a few of them here, you'll see that our formatting and everything is now not where we want. I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to select all of our primary footage here, and then we can come up here to scale and we can scale this up. We want to make sure that it fits the entire frame. We don't want any black bars on the top or the bottom, just around there, and then we can adjust the X and Y position here if we need to or we can click and drag to reposition the clips. This is now applied that to all of our clips here that we selected. But then it's a good idea to go through each clip here quickly and just see if you need to make any minor adjustments. This first clip here, I'm a little bit off center. I'm going to select on this clip and I'm just going to click and drag across a little bit so it's how I want it. Let's take a look at the next clip. This one's actually lower. Maybe we zoomed in even further on this one. Let's position this up here and let's zoom in further on this one so that it breaks up our shot from the previous clip. Help you with this if you need to make it go through, make adjustments to your primary footage here. Maybe this one here will move across a little bit as well, and this last one is good. Next, we're going to do the B roll or overlay footage, exactly the same. Let's select all of that. Let's move this playback head to where we can see it and let's scale this up as well. Then I'll go through on a clip by clip basis and move stuff around. This one here for some reason, is much lower. Let's pick this up here and let's play that clip. You need to get your content clicked on, and that's when your thumbnail strategy is so important. This one here, we want to show an actual thumbnail image. Let's make this a bit bigger then, maybe something like that. Let's take a look at our next clip here, it's scrolling down, but it's chopped off at the top. Let's select this. Let's make the adjustment to that. Maybe we'll show the first line of thumbnails here. I are grabbing people's attention. These same for the next one. Let's click on this and let's move it to what we want to show here on screen. Image also needs to be related to your video content. Best this one here we're going to move across. Once your B roll is done, then we'll move through and adjust the text and the stickers after that. With all of our text here, maybe we want to make all of it bigger. Again, we could select all of our text here and let's scale it all up in one go. Something like this looks okay for that one. Let's check how it looks for the next one. This one's probably too big. Let's make thumbnail strategy a little bit smaller. Let's take a look at the next one, grabbing people's attention and look good small. Let's select all three of these and let's move them all over a little bit and maybe make these ones a little bit smaller as well, maybe something like this. Then obviously, we adjust our stickers as well. Let's scale this one up. No one's going to see it. You need to get your. Let's select all of these to do it all in one go. Let's point to this thumbnail image and maybe we'll make the finger pointing even bigger. Let's play this now. You need to get your content clicked on, and that's when your so obviously we go through and we make the rest of those adjustments. Now, if you want to add captions to your videos as well, Cap cut makes that super easy because for this type of content, you'd normally have captions or text on screen. Let's come up here to text and then down here, we've got here auto captions. Let's click on that. We're going to select our language here. Let's choose Create. It's going to go through analyze what's been said in the video, and it's going to automatically create captions for us. If we scroll through this now, you can see that we have those captions on screen. Obviously they're going to need some customization here so that we can see them. Maybe they need to be a lot bigger. There'll be some areas of our video like this one here where we don't need to have the captions on screen because we've added our own titles at this point. Let's just pick an area here in the middle where we can see some of our titles and let's select one of them, and then we can start to customize this up because whatever changes we make here to one of these titles or captions, it's going to apply to all of so let's make the font bigger, maybe something like this. Maybe we will adjust the position a little higher. We've got our color here that we can adjust our font. We can change the styles of them here as well. Maybe we'll add in a background. Let's just take a quick look at this now. We've now got text that's easy to read across the entire video and we might need to reposition some things that are going to be covered up by that text. But the idea here is that we've got the bulk of this text here looking good. To small, definitely needs to be up higher now. So we'll select those and let's just move it up higher so that it's shown on screen. Without our captions covering it up. At the start here, where we've already got our own text, maybe we will select this first one, press delete to remove the first one, potentially a second one here as well. Let's remove that one. Our video is now going to start like this. I have the world's best video, but if no one clicks on it, no one's going to see it. You need to get your content clicked on. All right, so this is looking pretty good. Now, you can also add animations to the text here as well. Let's just pick again, one of our titles here. We can come up here to our settings and controls, and in here, we've got some templates that you can use. Let's click on this one here. Now you'll see that it's actually highlighting green or animating the text so that your viewers can follow along with what's actually been said at that time. There's some other looks and effects up here as well. These are some bubble effects if we actually come over here to effects themselves. Again, we're able to customize this up in a great level of detail. To undo these last few changes that we made here. If we come up here to animation, then this is how we can choose how this text is animated onto the screen. Instead of just appearing, we could say have it fly on screen like this one. I want to make children. Or slide up. I want to make children. Or pop up. I want to make children make sure that's how easy it is to quickly reformat and repurpose your content for different platforms and for different formats. 42. CapCut App: Mobile tools (and how to use this section!): The area that I've seen changed the most over time with Capcart is the main tools area on the homepage when you first open up the app. At the top of that screen, they're progressively rolling out new tools, new features, new AI functionality to help you take your video creation to the next level. And yes, this is something that is changing fast. So at the time of shooting this video, here's what we currently have access to. And yes, you'll likely see this change over time. The first one is script to video. Meaning that we can either type in our own script here or we can use their AI writer, as they call it to write a script for us. Now, when we've got a script in there, whether it's one that we've written or whether it's one that AI has generated for us, we can then use that to help us create our video. We can either use it with Capcuts built in teleprompter, so it's going to help us shoot our videos because we're going to have our text or our script written there on our screen or we can actually process that script in Cabcut and it'll go ahead and it will create a video for us. So let's just say, for instance, we choose here tech info, and the example I've got here is top reasons to use Capcut. Create a video that is around 1 minute. Let's hit Generate script down the bottom here, it's going to go ahead and create us a video script. Here we go. That's done, really, really quickly. And there's three versions of this script that we could choose from. We can obviously modify it, make changes and things too. Let's hit Generate video. And then we'll go the choice of Smart Generation, which is where it's going to use Capcuts Media Library to add stock photos and videos and things into an edit for us. Or we can actually go through and we can locate files on our device. I'm going to choose Smart generation here says, This may take some time. In my experience, this has been crazy fast. So that's done. Let's just hit Play and see what it's made. Welcome to our Cap Cut discussion. Capcut is a powerful and user friendly video editing app that lets you create stunning videos with Ease. Today, we're going to highlight the top. So it's written the script. It's created a voiceover for us from that script. It's put the text on screen. It's gone through and found some stock photos from Cap Card's library. I mean, hey, it's created a faceless video for us here. So we can make basic changes to it here on this screen or we can come up the top to edit more, and that's going to transfer this project here over to the main Capcut interface where we can edit it further. I'm going to hit the cross at the top left to get back out of this. So that's script to video. That one's pretty is also now a built in photo editor. There's also an AI image generator, this text to image in here. Let's just tap on this one. And the example here is a pink car poster in the style of minimalism, side view of the car, filmic texture, low contrast film INS style. And you can see the images here that is generated. Got another example here down the bottom macro photography, photo realistic no People. Let's just hit Generate on this and see what comes up from this prompt. And obviously, we can type in our own prompt here to generate images that we're looking for. And this is what's come back, and you saw that in real time. Like, this is pretty quick. It's back out of this now, so there's an image generator in here as well. There's also AutoCut. So think of this template based video editing if we press on AutoCut now, is going to prompt us to select a few clips and things from our device, and then it's going to automatically edit those for us. Now, personally, I stay away from these templates and things, and the fact that you're here on this training means that you're at a more advanced level than most of the people that are probably using these templates. But going back here, the last one here I am a big fan of the camera app here, built in to Capcut in a lot of cases, it's going to give you more controls, more features and things than the built in camera app on your device. But it can also help you streamline your video creation process because it's got things like a built in teleprompter. But also because it's directly the same app that you're going to be editing your videos in as well. So you can shoot and edit really, really fast here without needing to go through multiple apps. So straightaway down the bottom, you can see that we get the choice of multiple clips or one shot. So one shot would be more like a traditional camera where we can just hit record, and it's going to record for as long as we'd like. Multiple clips is more like you would have on Instagram or on TikTok, where you can create your videos in chunks. Up the top right, though, this is where we can access your Teleprompter. You can see we've got the text here on screen that we could read out when we're recording so we can see what our notes are to help us record our videos quicker. We can pick this up. We can move it around. We can adjust font size, all of that stuff in here as well. And obviously, there's direct access here, too to that AI script generator. So if you need help writing your script, then all of this here ties together. We can press the X to close out of that because speed control there is filters and looks and things that we can apply on here, too. I'd recommend that you adding those afterwards in your editing, but you've got the ability to add them on here, too. And we've also got some control over the quality here. So you can see that we can go down to 576p. Now we've got 1080 P and we've got 720 P in here as well. So I do think that's a cool addition, especially if you just need a couple of quick pickup shots. You're actually editing down your videos, if you forgot to say something or you need a quick grab of something, then having that as a built in function is pretty cool, especially with that teleprompter built in. So again, these apps and tools and things will be changing constantly. And I think Capcut uses this as almost like a testing ground for new features and things before they bring them into the app, into the actual editing place. So I think it's cool that we can jump in, we can test these things out. And so far, there's quite a few things that have made it from here and are now core functionality built into CapcuD itself. 43. CapCut Cloud: Working with teams and sharing projects: Whether you're looking to work with remote video editors, remote teams to help you make videos or maybe you're looking to transfer your projects between different devices, this is where CAPCATs cloud based workflow can really help out. Now, this is something that they are actively building and is still relatively new right now. But even in its current state, it works really well. So let's take a look. This will work on both mobile and desktop, and you will need to go ahead and create a free cap cut account so that you've got access to this functionality. So we can see straight away that I'm signed in. If you're not seeing this, then there'll be a sign in button up here where you can go ahead and create a free account. But then what we're seeing here now is not just our projects area, we're also seeing this spaces area. Space is really where we can access this cloud based workflow, this cloud storage. So we can go ahead and create one here by pressing create or join. So we can create a space. We can give it a name. So Temp space. In this case, let's choose Create and invite members. We're then given a unique link here that we can send out to team if we want them to come and join this space and be able to access our files and presets and everything that we put in this space. And then we can see that space here over on the left. This then gives us the ability here where we can upload media, so any of our files or assets or anything that we want to use in videos, but also we can upload our projects as well. And we also have the ability here to turn on automatically upload our projects here as a backup even. So even if you're not looking for a collaborative workflow, you can have your projects automatically back up here, meaning that you can access them on different devices as well. So you can start and edit on your phone, finish it on your desktop, and vice versa. Now, this free account that we've got access to here, it does give you 1 gigabyte of storage right now. So to increase that amount of storage, that's where you need to upgrade or jump on the pro plan t. But I've got another folder here that's already set up and working. And in here, I've had a few different test projects that I've transferred between different devices. I've transferred between Mac and PC. I've transferred between iPhone and Android and also from phone to desktop two. And we can quickly see here that this project here is already on this computer. These other three here aren't on this computer. They're up in the Cloud. They're in this space here, and we can just hit the download button here for them to download to the computer so that we can open them up, make changes, and then send projects back to the Cloud when we're done. The other thing that's worth noting, if we come back to our home area here, we can transfer our existing projects up to the Cloud as well, to our space for collaboration, for backup for transferring to different devices. All we need to do is press the three little dots here, and we choose upload, and that's going to go ahead and upload that project for us to CAPCATsClo. Then on any of our devices where we're logged in to this account or we're on a different account that has access to a shared space here, then we can see, we can view, we can download, we can open, we can edit those projects from there. The last point that I think is worth noting, especially if you are going to have a collaborative workflow is that when you open up a project from the Cloud, it's actually downloading a temporary version of that, or a unique version of whatever changes you make, you can choose whether you want to push those back to the cloud and overwrite the original. You could push your project back with your changes as a separate project, so not to overwrite the original as well. But it's not true collaboration in the sense of multiple people working on the same project at the same time. It's collaborative in a sense that it's easy to transfer these projects between different systems, but it's still limited to one person using a project at a time. 44. Mobile App & Desktop: Using AI avatars & voices: Looking to add in AI voiceovers into your projects or even an AI avatar, an AI character to read out your scripts, Capcut makes that so easy, that's what we're looking at in this video. Now, this process will work on both mobile and desktop. I'm showing you on desktop. So we've got a new project here that's been created. We just want to come up the top here to text, and then we're going to grab one of these default text boxes here and just drag it down into our timeline. Whatever we type into this box here is what the AI is going to use to generate a voiceover or a character. I'm going to go ahead and just paste in some text. It's a small piece of a much longer video script. And we can see that with that in here, we don't need to worry about formatting or how this text looked. We can actually hide the text here if we'd like to. We don't need to see it, but I'm going to leave it here for now. We then want to come over here to text to speech. And in here, there are so many different voices that we can use, and when we click on them, it's going to give us a preview of that voice. When we were first creating primal Video accelerator, Mike and IrifTs kind of sounds like the TikTok voice. Let's keep going Good guy. When we were first creating primal Video accelerator? Let's keep going down. Maybe we would choose confident male. When we were first creating primal Video Accelerator, Mike and I reflected on the most valuable courses and programs that we've been involved. Sounds like an Australian accent. Energetic male. When we were first creating primal video accelerator, Mike and I reflected on the most valuable courses and programs. Energetic female. When we were first creating primal video accelerator, Mike and I reflect. How about narrative female? When we were first creating Primal Video accelerator, Mike and I reflected on the most valuable courses and programs. So you get the idea. There's some amazing voices in here. Now, there are some that are, I guess, a bit more quirky. This one here is actually called quirky. There's also some that are singing, as well. So we got, like, a kid vocalist. When we were fortreting Prime movie. Okay. Uh I don't need to say any more on that one. Did you get the idea? Now, when we want to apply this, let's go back to confident mail. We then just want to hit this start button down here and that's going to go ahead and that's going to process our script here, and it's going to generate that into an audio file for us. So we can now delete this if we needed to hide it because it's no longer needed. We've then got this audio file here that we can then edit and add extra footage and B roll and everything, too. So I'll just play this quickly. We were first creating primal video accelerator. Mike and I reflected on the most valuable course. So pretty powerful. Now we can take this one step further. This is generating audio, so just the voice. But they now have included in cap cut AI avatar or character as well. So let's go ahead and delete this. Let's come back up here to our text. Let's select on that. Again, we can type in whatever text we want here. But instead of coming to text or speech, let's go to AI characters. And then if we scroll through here, there's so many different AI avatars or characters that we can pick here to read out our script and be the host of our video. I'm going to pick a couple of random ones here. Hey, good to see you. Hey. Good to see you. Even with say, this character here, there's a few different looks or outfits or poses from this person. Hey, good to see you. Hey. Good to see you. So this way, I guess, if you're creating multiple videos with one of these characters, they don't all need to look exactly the same. We've got a younger guy up here as well, hey, good to see you. Click this one. Hey, good to see you. Okay. Walking alone. Hey, good to see you. I like that the hands and everything are moving as well. Okay, maybe we'll go with this guy. Yeah. Good to see you. So once we've picked out our person here, we just hit Ad. That's going to go ahead. It's going to generate the speech first off for us in that voice. And then it's going to go through, and it's applying or animating that character for us. So we can see that's the second level here that's happening. Okay, that's done. I'm going to go ahead and just hide this top layer. Just pressed a little eyeball here to hide that track so we're not seeing the text. And we've got here our video, our character. Let's give this quick play. When we were first creating primal Video Accelerator, Mike and I reflected on the most valuable courses and program. Pretty damn amazing. Okay, now, this is as well, this is transparent video, so we can scale this up. We could move it around if we needed to. We could even go ahead and add in a background for this, as well. So we can add this on top of our existing video or we can add in a background below it. I'm just going to come up here to media down to library. Let's just grab a clip from Capcuts Media Library here, scroll down. Maybe we will search for a city. And let's see what this one looks like. Okay, this could work. So we'll drag this one here down into our timeline. We're going to drag it down below our primary layer. And we can now see that we've got our character here on top of our background. We were first creating primal video accelerator, Mike and I reflected on maybe the walking doesn't work for this one, so we could go back and we could generate a character without the walking, but you get the idea that we now have this character that's presenting our content for us and we have a lot of creative control over what we can do with this. We could scale it down. I could be a much smaller version down here. There is so much we can do with this. Now, this is something that is evolving fast and it's already changed so much in the few weeks leading up to me shooting this training. So yeah, I'm pumped to see where they take it. 45. AI Transcription Based Editing: So it's a cool new feature in Cap cart, which is AI based text editing. So we've got a clip in the timeline here now. And what we're going to do is run through, and we're going to transcribe it. So we're going to get the AI to listen to what's being said to write it all out, and then we can edit from text. Now, this is something that they originally rolled out as free, but it's now just moved as a pro feature, but I'm going to show you how it works. So we want to select here with our clip selected this little button here, remove filler words. Get this window here pop up. So it's already gone through. It's transcribed, is that quick. And it's suggesting some edits or some cuts here for us. So you can see these areas here if you're just looking at the audio waveform. So the times that I'm speaking, it's got these empty spaces here that it's pulled out that we can remove. So we can see here that there's a pause for 2.6 seconds. There's another pause here, another pause here. And if we select on these, we can see where they actually are. Over on the side here, we can also see everything that has been said. So we can see at the start, I said, Alright, we are recording. We can get rid of this. Let's just check that box here to remove it. Let's check the microphone, one, two, one, two. Let's get rid of all of this. Even the testing one, too, all of this sort of filler stuff at the start, we can just select this here to remove. Obviously, we can edit the normal way as well. But this process here can remove pauses. Anything that's been repeated. So if I'm changing what I've said or I'm doing another take or another attempt, it's going to do a good job of detecting those here. Also any filler words like Um, so it can detect and remove those as well. So if you come over here to repeats, these are all the areas here it thinks that I have repeated, and you can see that it's already suggesting that we remove those. Now, the beauty of this is we could just use it to remove the pauses. So if we just wanted the pauses here, so any of the dead space here, then we could just select all of the and go ahead and delete, and it's going to do that for us. So we don't have to use all of these three things. But what I do think is really powerful is the way that I shoot my videos. I try to make the last take, the last attempt when I'm saying something the best one, the one that I want to use. So this repeats will detect that in a lot of cases and remove the first few attempts and leave the last one. And likewise, with filler words, things like Um so I can remove those here, too. So it's a matter of selecting here what you would like, pressing delete. And we can see it's gone through and remove all of those sections here and cut our primary video footage down here automatically for us. This can save you a ton of time. On mobile, you can do this as well, you just want to select your clip, and then come down the bottom here to where it says transcript based editing. If we press on that, is going to go through and transcribe our text for us? And we have a very similar interface once that's done. So we can see here that there was a 1.1 second pause here at the start. We can just tap on it. We can press Delete. And that piece has already been edited out for us. So we can actually do more in the mobile app right now without needing the Pro account. And we literally just go through our transcript here, select the text that we don't want, which is obviously corresponding to what's happening in the video. But when we delete the text here, it's actually deleting that section of the video as well. Now, if you want to access the automatic removal, you can see we've got here remove filler words Pro. If we press on that, that's going to go through. It's going to analyze our clip to the sections that it thinks we should remove, and then we have the option to delete that down the bottom. If we back out of this now by hitting that tick, you can see that we have a cut in our timeline here where we remove that section. 46. Wrapping Up: Wrapping up this cap cut training, a couple of quick things. If you found this training valuable, we would really appreciate you taking the 30 seconds to leave us a quick review. It can make a huge difference on helping others find this training, too. You can also share any of your top takeaways and things that you've learned to help others going through this training as well. There's also an area, if you would like to, where you can share any projects that you've made off the back of the training for others to see, as well, totally your call. And if you want to see other master classes and courses that we have here on Skillshare, you can find them all listed under our profile. Thank you very much, and I'll see you in the next one.