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1. Intro: Hello and welcome to this class. And in this class, I'll be
going through how to create these viral reels that I'm sure you've seen all
of your for U page. Right now, they're
training all over TikTok, YouTube shorts, and, of
course, Instagram reels. And in this tutora I'll be
going through step by step, everything that you need
to create these in Capcut. So all you need
to do is download Capcut before we get started, and then follow the step
by step instruction. I'll be going through
a full walk through of everything that you need
from importing clips, extracting audio,
adding effects, adding captions, adding
overlay effects, and everything that you need. So I will also be offering
two versions of the reels. The first is a full screen on screen version, and
then the second one is cinematic cutout version that
I'm sure you've also seen. I'll be showing the two
examples on screen, and you can see in the chapters
on the right that I'll be distinctly marking them so you can have version
one or version two. There is some overlap, so if
you go through version one, version two will be even easier. But other than that,
let's get started.
2. Version 1: Setting up our Reel: So let's get started.
First, you want to choose your main video that will
be the meat of the reel. In this case, we chose this famous Steve
Jobs interview where he talks about picking up the phone and calling
and asking for help. So we want to break it down and figure out the
meat of the video. In the real, you want to aim
for somewhere 10-30 seconds. Obviously, nowadays,
the shorter, the better, but
also not too short. So if you have a 42nd real unless it's really captivating, people will click off faster. I found the sweet spot is
somewhere 10-20 seconds. So let's figure out
the best parts here. Okay, so we cut it down to two pieces and also make
sure to cut out any pauses. You can go over
here and zoom in on the track to really see the audio to see where
it goes down and up. I've left in a couple of pauses because it does help with
the delivery of the video, you don't make it too choppy, but you want to think about
the viewers retention. If there's a three second break, they're either going
to keep scrolling or lose attention or
just lose interest. You want to keep it quick and easy as they are
short form content, but you don't want to overdo
it where it's unbearable and the video gets distorted and it doesn't
really make any sense. This is what we
came up with from a 1 minute interview down to 13 seconds, as
you can see here. This is a great base. We have 13 seconds. Now, of course, you
want to make sure that we are in the phone ratio, which would be the
nine to 16 down here, and then we can start
putting that in a cuts off these in video subtitles and also the video itself
is nice and clean. We can go one step
further and even delete this so we have this right from the start to really make it
nice and clean, C center Steve right here, and then we can copy and paste it and then go back
to the other piece. To make it easier, you can
actually just start off right. But just to make sure it's
the exact same angle, this is where we can cut
it and then we'll cut it to the exact spot that
we were in before. So there we are that's already a lot better, and like I said, I split it up after I resize it, so it's the exact same
angle. Either one works. Sometimes you'll notice halfway through that you'll
have to cut it. So that's why I
wanted to show both. So let's get on
to the next step. Next, you want to start
with the captions. You're just going to have to
come up here, in this case, we'll use English
and we can generate the captions and then it'll generate our captions
relatively quick, especially because it's a
short video, only a 15, 13 second video, this should take no more
than 20 seconds, 20, 30 seconds, and there we go. Then you can double check
that it's on the right spots. And then we can start
making some changes. When it comes to the captions, you make sure that
when you start off, you have the applied
to all button here, so you don't have to change
each individual text, so you can change
your favorite font. A good one for these reels is Europa grotesque as it's
pretty strong and bold. As you can see, here,
they have a lot of texts. You can make it fit
if you like it, but the best option to
make it cleaner and more attention grabbing
would be to go to the captions right here and
then you can split it up. You can literally just go either word by word or maybe
one to two words and you just press Enter and it'll split it up.
You can go in here. Don't get those experiences.
You just keep going. If you think, for example, they never might be one word or one caption that might
look good, you can keep that. But I'm just going to do
every single word right here. You just keep going
until you're done. Okay. Now that we
separated all the words, I left a couple, one or
two ones right here. This is also a good chance to make sure that
the captions are correct as they're not
always 100% correct. They're pretty
accurate in Capcod but sometimes the video
of the person doesn't speak very clearly or
doesn't enunciate a word and it might be confused
one or two words here. Always a good opportunity to also double check that
everything is correct. Now we can go on
to putting it on the screen and more because
right now it looks like this. Which is already not bad, but of course, we want
to do it a lot better. We can still apply
to all right now, it's also a little small, so we can make it bigger. Right now, all words are
a little bit bigger. Actually that might be
a little bit too big. Let's go a little bit smaller. Then we can get a little
bit more granular, we'll go zoom in and then you can decide how many words
you want on the screen. I would say something
like two, three, four max words on the screen at one time,
especially if they're that big, you don't want to cover
up the whole screen and you want to keep your
viewers attention because it keeps cycling on to the new word and
change up the screen. Right now, we'll do most
people don't start with that. We'll go right here and then we can just drag
that up right here. And you can just drag
it over here and then therefore it will keep the
whole time that it said. Before it disappeared,
and right now it's here. Now, when you start
editing these, you want to uncheck applied all so the changes don't get
applied to all of these. Right now, we can go, most and then people and
then don't now, we'll start with most. We'll put that right
over here so we can drag it and you want to drag
it somewhere in the middle, not right on top of it, but
just get creative with it. With this, there's really
not that many instructions or kind, you know, lines. It's really just up to you
how you think it looks, especially when you
make reel after reel and you have
so many options, you just become
creative with it. You can just start
dragging these around. Let's make it just
like a staircase. Most people don't what you can also start doing is you can really highlight some words. For example, most
people don't then you can make this in italics
and underline it. You can even change to
color if you think it would make it a little
bit more expressive. As you can see, that's a lot
better than just most people don't now all of a sudden it
looks a lot more like that. You can just keep going for
that for all um captions. Just make sure
that when it ends, they all end at the same
time, I'll zoom in even more. The best way to do it is
to just get your line, your cursor right here, and then you can just drag
them all to that line. When you say get
those experiences, we'll do that as well. Let's go get those experiences, we'll pull that up and
we'll pull that up. Make sure when you
pull it up that it also doesn't change the
order where it starts. For example, if you
accidentally pull it up here, then it'll be out of order. Let's get back there. We'll go over here again and we'll make
sure it ends here, we'll drag over those,
we'll drag over get, and then you can go over here. Make sure you're in line of your editing software
because if you here, you're obviously not going
to see it even if you highlight it. You
want to be on top. If you go here and then you have it highlighted and you're
like, where is it? You need to be in line
of where it actually is. Again, we can do the
exact same thing. We can say get
those experiences, so we can make that smaller. We can make it like that.
And we can do that. You can even switch it
up and change the font, so you can do it
something like that. Obviously, you want to make sure it still looks smooth and cohesive because you don't want to confuse your viewers
with too many effects, too many colors, too
many different fonts, but it does stand out and keep
the attention a lot more. We can already start, look
at the beginning here. Most people don't get
those experiences. There you go. It looks a
lot better and a lot more fresh and a lot
more eye catching. We'll continue and finish the rest of these tags off here.
3. Caption Effects: I wanted to show some options that are available for effects. So for example, for the next captains are here,
because they never ask, instead of just adding another
color or another font, we'll do something like this. We'll make it a little smaller and to really announce
that kind put it along his cheek right
here to really grab the viewers attention and
really make it immersive. Instead of having ask and
just make it another color, we can do something like a curve and we can do curves
in either direction. For example, if you wanted
to put it on his head, you can do it like
that, but in this case, I think the other way works a little bit better and just
a little bit of a curve. It's almost like it's right in his face right
here, D never ask. Then after that, you can still
always do either a bold. You can even do tal because
italics doesn't really fit. You can add a color. You
can do something like this. Just play around
with it, but this is one of those effects
that definitely helps stand it out
because if you just do color different font, color, different font,
it might get boring, you want to keep the
viewer guessing. So you want to add this
because they never ask, as you can see, that's selected and it's a little bit and you can see it's a little bit out of tune, so we might even want to pull that back a little
bit like that. Yeah, you might want
to pull that back. But as you can see,
now it's in tune. You want to make sure the voice
matches up with the text. And so this is a lot more
fluid and it really grabs the viewers attention
as it's right on the screen and
keeps the guessing. This is one of those effects
that you can have fun with. Now, next is the animations
that we can also do. Let's look at these. Right now I have here,
most people never. I arrange it in a
way to get bigger. Most people never
from the right side now to offset that this is a cut and he makes a new
point so we can cut it here and then go in
the other direction. You can go off there.
Then what we can do is we can select all of these and we can go to animations up here. Then there's a lot of presets where it'll take your text and give it an actual animation. We can try in out
Loop, but right now, let's do in and then we can, for example, pick this one here, blur to the left because
it's pointing to the left, this one wouldn't look that
good because it's going to the right even though we're
pointing to the left. Let's take one that
goes towards left, so we can literally just click that right here and it's done. As you can see, most people
never, it flings in. Again, this really
keeps it going. Like I said, you don't
want to over engineer every single effect to
make it look messy, but you just again, have to find your own spot and
see how it works. If you keep using this and
this and this and this, it might get boring
for the viewer. So if you keep him guessing, it really pumps
up the engagement and the retention as viewers are less
likely to click off, as you can say, get those experiences
because they never ask. Most people never and he makes a new point and it
looks a lot different. You can also combine effects. Most people, let's say we
mark that one tal sized, big doesn't really make
that much of a difference, but let's say we go this and
we go red because never is a strong strong
negative word, never. Most people that might be even a bit too
much of a strong red. Let's make it a little bit
less aggressive as you can see right here,
there, there you go. Like I said, you have to find your footing and play around with it and really see
as you can see now, it's quite smooth as we go to the next cut because
you go so they never ask and he makes a point and it sets in
for about a split second. So let the brain register that he made a
point and now he's onto the next point and it
goes in the other direction. Really gives viewer
something to engage upon. So they never ask. Most people never and
they go so very smooth. So let's move on
to the next one.
4. Overlay (Transparent Text effect): Next, let's do the
famous overlay glass invisible see through effect, whatever you want
to call it that you see in a lot of
these viral reels. The next words that he says, most people never and
then pick up the phone. We go from right to left going
on the corner and then we go back up to have that
smooth flow up there. As you can see, the
phone takes up a lot of his face and you don't necessarily
always want to do that. Let's select phone right here. In order to get that see through effect, you want
to right click it, create compound clip, and then it'll create
the clip right here, and then you go to video,
then you go to Blend, and then you go to this one right here and then
you click Overlay. As you can see, it'll
blend into the screen. I'll still show the face, but you can clearly
still read the word, but it really puts it in
there and you can see it has this really smooth effect of people pick up the phone. That is also again, attention grabbing because it
makes it look very premium and very
retention worthy, as you can see, pick up
the phone. There you go. As you can see, most people most people never
pick up the phone. After that, you can
still work with it and it becomes this clip
that's overlaid. As you can see right here, I have this full
screen like that. It doesn't become a small
textbox like this anymore, almost becomes a full screen. The good thing is, you might think that you can't change
anything, for example, with the caption right here, you can just go in and change the words and this one doesn't
really show up like that. You can actually even if you want to keep it,
you can keep it like that, or you can just right
click on it and say undo compound clip, and then it'll just turn
back into a caption. Some people might think
that you have to delete it and then redo the caption
or add another caption, but you can actually just
do the undo compound clip and it'll turn back
into a regular caption. Not only does the overlay works, sometimes if it's too there's different colors
that sometimes don't really look well because
you can't read the word. Another one you can
also use a soft light. I also is see through, as you can see, but it's a
little bit more readable. Sometimes there's
colors on the back. Obviously, right now, Steve's face and these
bright colors make it very easy to read
with the overlay. But sometimes the colors
don't allow for it. If you still want that same
effect of this overlay, you can still use soft light. It's a little bit
grayer, as you can see, it just makes it
easier to read and the overlay is the
better effect, but sometimes overlay
doesn't work. You just have to see which works with the background
video that you have.
5. Adding Audio, End screen and final Polish: So now we want to polish it off to make it nice and clean. So we're going to do
a couple of things. So first, we're
going to ad audio. Cap Cut has this built
in library of audio, so you can cycle through it, add some kind of feeling
or emotion to it. For example, we could
use this one right here. It's a little bit of a upbeat, but I think it's a
little too fast and a little too loud ish for this. So I just looked on YouTube or anywhere else and got a
nice song, a Tik Tok sound. You can go to
YouTube, for example, and type in Happy
TikTok sound or motivational TikTok sound
and you'll see a bunch of videos or anywhere where you can find your copyright free music. All you want to do
is just import it, and then you can just drag
it onto the Canvas right here and then it'll start
right here as you can see, I have a very large screen. Let's very zoomed
in screen here. Let's cut the first part, so it goes right away. Let's see how loud it is. It's a little loud
compared to the audio. We can tune that down a bit. You can even drag it right
here to fade in and out. You can also change that
up here as you can see. Let's just fade it in a
little bit, go back here, drag it to the start and
then that's not bad. I feel like everything is a
little bit quiet, actually. Let's select both of these and go up to the
audio a little bit. Let's boost it. Let me
just drag it up here, see how much can make it even a little bit louder.
That's pretty good. 9.6. We can just type in 9.6 right here to add
it to the same level. There you go, great
level and the music, I think is pretty
good. That's great. That's a really good audio
level that we have here. It's just a little subtle
in the background. That's all good. Then the
next thing you want to do is add in screen. So next, we want to end screen. As you can see, I imported this image that I just
let Chachi BT generate. So I just told it to
generate a minimalist logo that most motivational or any
kind of brands would have. So let me just
drag that in here. Let me make that a
little bit bigger, go towards and also you
just drag it right here and then you can adjust
it to the screen, and you want to make sure you cut the music off
at the right piece. This is a little bit long. I just want to have
it there for a second or so. 12, there you go. About here, something like that, something really quick, there
you go, and that's good. Then we'll open it. We'll go right here
and then you can click one of these
buttons right here. If you select the music, make sure we cut at the right piece. If you click this button, it'll cut it here and delete
everything to the right. If you click this button, it'll cut it here and delete
everything to the left, and if you cut it here,
it just cuts it in half. As you can see this
one right here or if you click this one to the
right, that's what we want. That is a quick tool right here, really easy for quick editing. As you can see, I finished
off the last captions here, so let's take a look at
our finished product. Most people don't get those
experiences they never ask. Most people never
pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask. And that's what
separates sometimes the people who do
things from the people that just dream about them. So there you go. Quick and easy, very simple for this style. So this will be complete of the sort of option one
part one of this l, and now I'm going to go into the second style that I
mentioned in the intro.
6. Version 2: Cinematic cut out: All right, and onto option or version two of
the viral reel. Instead of the full
screen option, we're going to be going for
the cinematic cutout option. I'll show you how to get that small little
cutout that I'm sure you've seen on your Free page or timeline or whatever you have. First, we're going to be very similar to the first version. A lot of steps are similar, but there are some
more extra steps and a little bit more
effort than this one, I would say, but
sometimes you do get better or different results. Again, it depends on your style. But first, you're going to
want to find a clip again. We'll take this Steve Jobs. I think it's from
the same interview, but it's a different
clip where he talks about something else. They go. We got this one off Tik Tok, and it already has music in it, but that's no big
deal because we can just use the same music, that's totally fine, or you
can just add music as well. The music is really not
that big of a deal. Again, you do want
to choose the w one, but sometimes you're
lucky and you find interviews or clips where
it already has music, so you don't have to add
it. Let's get into it. First, we want to just make this a little bit bigger
just a little bit like that so we have a little bit of a view and then now
the important part. First, you're going
to want to get a blank screen video of a black blank screen,
something like this. And if you can't find
any of these clips, you can check out my
digital storefront where I sell products of all these type of clips
of this or of these videos, basically presets for
everything that you need. Let's get back into it. But first, you're
going to want to take this black screen and rotate it over 90
degrees like that, then make it fit the screen. Let me zoom out a
little bit here. Then fit the screen and
just zoom out like that. That's totally fine. You can even make it a little bit
smaller. There you go. Now it fits the entire
screen and just to be sure, let's make it a little
bit bigger so it definitely Cover
everything right here. Then you want to go
to video right here, mask, and then add mask. Then you want to
choose this rectangle right here and then you'd want to start figuring out your
area that you want to show. Make it something like this. There's no 100% sizes. You definitely want to keep
some borders because even though it shows
like this when you upload it to
Instagram or TikTok, it does cut off a
little bit more. If you go right to the edge, it'll cut into the video and
it won't look as smooth. Make sure you have it right here and then
something like that, maybe a little bit
bigger like that, but not too long or it's off. Actually, maybe a
little bit smaller. That's good.
Something like this, and then you want to go down
and go to round corner. Again, this is a feeling, something like 20
is totally fine. You can do more or
less if you want. Now you have the smooth rounded
area that your videos in. We can make it a little
bit bigger just like that, and you can put it
right in the center. Then you're going to want to go right here and
click on reverse. And so as you can
see, instead of showing cutting out
the small corner right here and showing
everything else, it only shows this area and
blocks everything else. Then I can click away and as
you can see, there you go. That's how easy it is
already shows the screen, and then you can make sure
this covers it by the way. As you saw, if I go right here, this is normal screen and into the timeline, this is go over. This always has
to be at the very top and overlaying
everything else. Every other clip, every
text, everything. So let's go right here and
then we can to this one and you can go out and if you see there
still the Steve Jobs. We don't really want
that. We just want the face and maybe
even the TikTok logo. You can just go in a little bit like that,
and there you have it. There you go. We have this
face, perfect talking. Then in a very similar way, you can add the captions. I'll go through everything
like that right now as well. But one thing I did want
to show, obviously, a black screen is just pretty
neutral and very regular. If you want, you can
experiment with other colors. As you can see, I added some
other screens right here. So instead of having this, we can do the exact same
thing for this one. Mask, add mask, make it
something like this. I'll do it a little quicker. Oh, sorry, my apologies. Let me do this first. Don't forget that
step. It's quite important. You can do this. Let's just delete
that for a second, and mask, add mask a little
bit smaller like that, like that around the corners, something like twenty's totally fine and then right
here off of reverse. So this is preference. In this case, I don't
think it looks very clean. I just chose this background because I wanted to show
you different colors. Again, you can do
this with everything. You can also do with orange, you can just play around with
it a little bit and really find the one that works
for us and go from there. You can also do this a couple of times just to get used to it, but it's a lot easier
than people might think. Let's do a little bit of rounded corners and then reverse. As you can see, you can also switch it
up with the colors. One thing that I
can recommend is also maybe going along
with your brand. If this was our brand as in
the last video right here, you can maybe use something
like this color as well. You can use this color, maybe get a video on this color and then have this as a backdrop and then it'll go
seamlessly into this logo. Play around with it, have
some fun with it and really see how you can make that yours. I'm going to go undo, undo, undo on everything and just go back to the black
screen that we had. We have that and
there you go perfect. We're ready to start
and let's continue.
7. Adding Captions: So now comes the hard part or more of the it's
not necessarily hard. It's rather just tedious. But again, this becomes a very smooth
process when you do it over and over,
like many things. Right now, we just
have this video. We obviously want to do
the captions as well, so I'm just going to start
generating those and get those out of the way and
make sure they are all good. Then after that,
we're going to start implementing the clips as well. As you can see, we
want to go to media. Right now, we have the captions, just like before
with the last video, you want to go to the captions right here and then click on captions and then
really go through all the words and just
make it a single word, it becomes a little bit
smoother and it doesn't necessarily take up the
whole screen because if this pops up in one way, then this is not very
engaging and people can't keep up with the speed
and it's just very chaotic. I'm going to go
through these captions and then get them in order. All right, I finished up the captains here,
as you can see, you want to separate each word or maybe
sometimes and that, you can do that
together, but this is just the order of how they
appear on the screen. I can get a little bit to
especially for a long video. This video is around 30
seconds long right here, just as a minute because
this thing is a minute long, we can actually already
cut that as well. Let's get that out of the way. Then you want to just
go on your text right here and we'll get some
things out of the way. Let's make that a little bigger. We got applied all right
here so we can do that. And just put it right there
and then change the font. Again, I like this
Europa grotesque. That's a very viral real solid font that
you can always use. If you don't have it installed, you can actually find it online. Then I still have the
applied to all right now because I want to each of the text items to
just pop in the screen. For this reel, you don't want
to sit here as it was in the last one because it's off center and it just seems
like lame subtitles. It's not very immersive
into the video. You want to grab
one of these and just always leave
it on the screen. I just put it here, so now everything is on the screen and then I can change it later on. After that's done, you change the phone, you change the size. Because if you see it changes
size, this one changes too. Then you can just have
your base level ticks. Let's unclick that.
Any changes I make now aren't applied to each one. Because right now if you
change this right here, then all the other
ones stay the same. Let's keep that. Now we
want to start adding clips.
8. Extracting and Editing Audio: So now we want to
start adding clips. And for that, we need to
make sure the audio is good. So right now, obviously, the audio is in the
video right here, so we're just going to
want to right click and extract audio right here, and then it separates
from the video. So now if we make any
changes, obviously, the audio doesn't play, and we want to make
sure that lines up. So this is where you
decide where you want to put clips and where you want
to keep the original video. So a good hook would
be to start it off. So you can decide
where you want to do. When he says he looks at you, so you have a little
bit of a good hook. Let's say we cut it right
here, cut it right there. Then you want to
make sure this is all solid and this
stays where it is. Otherwise, if you start
adding clips, clips, clips clips, and all
these audio pieces, you get messed up and
then you have to really make sure that it lines up
with the face right here. Now we can say,
okay, this is good. We're not really going
to bring him back. We don't really need that
video actually, right here. So I should end right here. Maybe at the end, we want
to bring Steve back. Let's see. Maybe you want
to end it like that. Okay. No. Smarter than you.
Let's do it right here that we can want
to do right here. Let's go here, zoom in, we get the right one,
clip it and they go. Now we can actually delete
that sorry not delete it. We can actually cut
it right there. Right now, this is cut
right here and then we want to make sure that
audio is cut there as well, and then we want
to go back and cut it exactly where we cut
the other part as well. Now we have the two audio pieces that I want to make
sure you selected. There you go. Now we have this middle piece that we're
going to replace with clips. We basically need 25
second worth of clips. This is where we can
start editing everything. So let's make some space
right here. There you go. Obviously, this is
going to jump back, you want to make sure that it lines up with
everything at the end. Once we start adding
clips in here, it'll line it up and
because you cut it, you know exactly where
to put this piece.
9. Adding Clips: All right. Now that we split it apart and we have
the extracted audio, we know which pieces of
the video we want to keep, we can start adding our clips. Again, keep in mind this
is going to get pushed towards the end and we can
match it up with that. First, you want to add the
clips you want to go out and scour the Internet
for clips that you can use, clips
that are relevant. Of course, as we know, this is a little bit of a life
is beautiful type of vibe, happy music and and this is being told that you can do what you want and life is beautiful and
everything's good. So try to look for
hopeful clips. Make sure the vibe matches. You don't want to add
random background clips. You want to make
sure that, if you have a life is
beautiful type clip, then you want to make sure that this clip
actually fits as well. Make sure that is added. When you do add
clips, make sure that the audio is obviously gone
because you don't want to have music from whatever this is to
overtake any of that. All clips should be muted. If you don't want to
scour the Internet for endless clips, I have a clip pack in my
digital storefront here in Skillshare that you can check out, so make sure
I look at that. Also in the vi
real starter pack, there should be clips there.
Check out those products. If you don't want to look for clips every single
time you make a real or anything else in
regards to mobile videos. But anyway, so let's keep going. We want to push that back. I guess we could delete
that actually right there. We don't really
need that anymore, and you want to
make sure the clips are fitting and
not for too long, you want to add enough clips
that you have, I'm guessing, but you also don't
want to do too quick unless it's of course, within the atom this is
obviously to quick, for example. I think something like 1 second. Maybe even a little bit shorter. I don't think I want to start
off with that clip though because right now he's saying, we tend to get told you grow up, so maybe something with the go. This would fit right
here, not replace clip. Let me just drag it in right
here. Let's make it mute. Let's put it right here,
put that clip over here. This is a little long. Let's put some like
this. That's perfect. It's about a second,
it's pretty active. People are moving.
This is a little bit of a still shot so you can
still use it later on. But I wouldn't use it in
the first few seconds because if there's no movement, you know, you see
the water moving, so it's nice and
peaceful and beautiful. But you want to add that
for a line down the road where you live your life. Something like live
your life, for example, that would
fit great with that. But in the beginning, you
want to make sure that things stay active and you
keep your viewers attention. So Right now, that's great. Let's do maybe
something like this. The person thinking,
keep replacing the club. You want to put it right
here and similar to that, you want to add
something like that. Right now we have
something like this. The world is the way that
it is, that's what he says. So right now he has
a good clip pack. I think that doesn't really
fit actually that well. Let me remove that again. The world is the way that it is, we have something like that. This guy looks like
he's thinking. Let's see what this clip
is here. That's beautiful. The world is the way
that it is. That's good. We can use that shrink that down and maybe
put that right here, place it right there and
then put that there. Then we have
something like this. Perfect. Now we go from a
little bit of action to him thinking because Steve says the world is
the way that it is. This is the world, and so it's very
related to what's happening in the video or in
this case, just the audio. Then we go from this
beautiful mountain to this mountain to also nature, and now we can add something
like People again. Then you just want to keep
doing this over and over. As you can see, the clip
already got pushed back here, and you want to
keep adding clips until basically this lines up with this audio piece right here and then you're
back to where it was. Now that we addit the clips, we also want to make sure
that the text is good. Let's move on to editing
some of these captions into.
10. Editing Captions (Effects, Animations, Colour): So now that we
edit the clips in, we can go back to the captions. So we just had them sitting
there as a reference point and just so we already have them getting it out of the way. As you remember we separated
each word and maybe there's a couple two words if they're shorter or they fit together. You could probably even
add the H A together. But let's just go
with this right now. Now we have all the text that's right there
in the corner. We want to make that a little bit more exciting, of course. If you remember from
the first chapter or the option of the original
real, the first reel. This is basically the
exact same thing. You want to start playing around with these captions right here. One thing you do want to
look out for is you want to keep them on the
screen within here. If you put them here or here, it takes you out of the
immersion as if viewer. Right now, if you think about this coming up in your reel, if it's here, it just
looks like captions. Even if you add some colors
or something like that, it just looks like
boring subtitles. If you put it here and
then start editing them, it looks a lot more immersive. First, let's see if
it even lines up with the audio. That's good. There's a tiny pause, and then he starts talking. We want to decide which ones we want to
have on the screen. When you grow up, that seems
like a good thing to have. So that lines up right here. That means all the
text we want on the screen should line
up with this right here, we can just drag it, put
it over, drag it up, pull it over, drag this
one up and pull it over. Right now, they're
going to should be all on top of each other
as you can see right here, then we can start
moving them around. And really start, I don't
want to turn it just t and really start fitting
them when you grow up, so we want to make
sure this looks good and not maybe on his
face, but still attention. No, we don't want to select that and not attention overbearing. So maybe we can make these
words a little bit bigger. When you grow up, this
is enunciated here. So now we can play and it
looks a lot different. As you can see, this is how
the screen looks and they stay on the screen and
appear after each other, and then you have
this full screen of all of it being there, So Perfect. That's
what we want to have. Now if we get granular
here and zoom in, we can start seeing that the U is already there
when he's on screen, you tend to, so we
want to do that. Let's go here. Perfect. That is basically the principle
for the entire captions. We can do this over and over until it basically fits, but
that's what you want to do. You want to have
some fun with it, you want to play around with it, make sure it's
engaging and retention optimized to make sure
that the viewer stays. We can do you tend, so we can fill that up here. Get told ten to
102, let's do that. It flows over into
the clip right here, which is good because then it keeps the
viewers attention. Maybe in this case, we want
to put it a little bit over here and maybe make it smaller
to really show the people. As you can see, it goes
in right on the screen. Now it's very immersive. We go and he's still
there on the screen. I think I don't
like that actually, let me do this right here. I want to cut it to where
he says when you grow up. See? Now it's a lot better
actually because we want to flip it over as soon as
the captions change. I think that's a lot
better. See, this is the kind of thing you
discover as you work on it. As you edit, you're
like, actually, it's a lot better if
we cut it, no problem. We just extended the
clip by a millisecond, but it's a lot smoother
transition because we had that first sentence when
you grow up with him, and then you tend to
it goes right into his into his next sentence
and into the clip. You tend to. Right
here, we good. Then we can even, if you
want to do it like that, switch it over to the next
clip with the next sentence. You want to do that and
just find some good pacing. Let's look at the whole product in the first few seconds here. See, that's pretty good. When you grow up, it
has a first sentence, it's the hook of the
real and then it goes into the retention and
attention keeping clips. Because sometimes
nowadays, if you just have a video of Steve Jobs,
people might get bored. It's just a reality
of the world and that's how you optimize
it for retention. You just keep going.
When you grow up, you tend to, and then you can just keep going with the clips.
11. Adding Premium Immersive Caption Effects: Now it's similar to version one. I'll show this effect as well. This would be the
overlay effect. Right now, obviously, we
just have the basic text and with the initial clip, we can do something like
you tend to get told. Let's go back here and
maybe put that here. This is we can start playing around with
the text as well. You can change the fonts
and accentuate one word. I don't think you want
to do comic sense, but we can get told
because he accentuates get told and then you can do something even cursive
and then do that. Get told that the
world is the way that it is and you can start playing
around with colors as well. You get to get told that
it snaps back to that. You can even add a tear and then maybe make
that smaller even. Let's say you want to do
this in the same row, you get told that and then you can play around with that,
something like that. Get told that. Then now there's still a little bit of
accentuation you're being told, you don't want to
be told something. This is what grabs the
viewers attention right here, and then you can add or that right here
and then the world. Add it right here, and then
you can do different effects. Let's go for the overlay effect. You want to add the world because you don't want
to add this right here. See, right now here
overlays nicely into this. You can do is a filler word. Let's make it smaller
and the world is the main objective. This is a beautiful
opportunity to do an effect. Let's go into the effect. What you want to do
is go right click, then you want to do
create compound clip and then go video and then
you can start editing. Right? So instead of a mask, you want to go to a basic and then you can add a blend
effect right here. So just click on blend and
then instead of default, we can do something
like overlay. Then as you can see, it really blends into the world
right here, and the world. I just read it into
the video right here. So here, obviously, if you
do it in a white background, it's not as apparent, but if you pull it down a little bit, you can do something like that, that looks really cool it makes a great effect and it's
very, very immersive. So now you can say get
told that the world, as you can see, look at that. That's beautiful. It looks
very premium, very high. Quality and let's look
at what it looks like. See, look at the world, very smooth and very
attention grabbing. You want to start switching
up these effects, these animations
and like I said, you can also add colors and because this is still white
and then the world is the bigger main word
of his sentence here, you can really grab
the attention. You can even do
something like this, maybe put it against
her back right here in the clip and look at
that integra the world. I keep saying world
because I keep reading very integrated
into the video, you can do that with
certain effects that you find along the way
depending on the video.
12. Finalizing Reel - Outro: All right, so now
I've finished off the rest of the clubs
here as you can see, I basically just did
the same thing as here, switched it up a little bit
so I could get some variety, added some color as well. So just to remind you
if you want color, you literally just have to
choose your color right here and you can add
some different colors. Obviously, make it fit. I added this effect a little
bit over and over again. The compound right here, for example, is
just to live life, just to live right here, this looks very smooth, and then you can do
something like this as well. Here he says, inside the world. Inside, I added some
square brackets. You can just get
created with it and see how you can
present some things. But other than that, I
basically did the same process over and over and you're
just going to want to try to find some cool, maybe different fonts or
some color effect to really show off those effects and then just keep
things entertaining, keep things going to
keep people interested. One thing I did want to mention, as you can see, at the end here, I want to make sure
that this lines up with the last text
so that when I play it, as you can see, we cut
it at the beginning, now that we added
all these clips, it just really lined
up again with this. That's why we made this cut so we know exactly
where to put it. Then, you don't really
need to make the cut. You can always finick around
with the audio, but for me, it's just a nice
bookmark way to do that. Do that. Then at the end, again, I added my logo for this
hypothetical Instagram page or Tik Tok page or brand
in general and just drag in the image and you
can have a end screen. This is the last scene here. And then it just has that
music and ends on my logo, and I'm going to put
this on every reel. I just reinforces
the brand value and shows off your logo over and over and then you know that when you come across it for
your page or whatever, that that real is from that brand and that's how
you build brand recognition. One thing I did want
to point out as well. One important thing is when
you do add your clips, make sure that they are within
the boundary of the video. Sometimes these clips are smaller and they do
something like this. Then when you play the video,
you may have the boundary, but it's not being enforced
because it's not wide enough. You want to make sure that it's wide enough to really show the roundness of this
border right here. You can also play around
with a little bit. Maybe you want to have
a different focus. If it's bigger
videos, you can say, okay, I want this watch, but I'm going to make it even
a little bit bigger. I really want to zoom in on Justice watch and then
you can add that. Again, just really make sure. Same thing with the end screen
as well here, right here. Usually it's this big,
which also works, but usually it's came in like this and then it
might be very subtle. You might not even notice it because if you do right here, it's cut off a little
bit, but if you really don't look, you
might not catch it. Really just make sure that
this is outside here. Right now, it's a lot
smoother because before, as you can see, it cut
off the edges right here. Now you want to do that and then it's all nice and smooth. One little trick that I can actually suggest as you go here, you command all and
then every video gets selected and you can
quick scroll through it. As you can see those
yellow lines right there, they show where the video is. That's a compound clip
so that doesn't count. But otherwise, you can see that staggered, dashed yellow line. That's where the video overlays. You can just scroll
through it and be like, Okay, it all looks
great, all looks good. It's always bigger.
Then the mask overlay, same here, same here, all good there, text is
there, as you can see there, that's the picture right here, and it's outside of the border. So that's all good. So this is a really quick and easy way to make sure that it's
all inside the border. So other than that,
we're pretty much set. So once you're satisfied
with your video, you just go to File Export, and then you export your
video, and you're good to go. I'll show you the
final product here. I'll put it on screen. When you grow up, you tend to get told that the
world is the way it is and you're your life is just to live your
life inside the world, try not to bash into
the walls too much, try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. It's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover
one simple fact. And that is everything
around you that you call life was made up by people
that were no smarter than you. But other than that, this is the version two or
option two of this real. As I said before, if you want
some help with these clips, I have a clip package in
my digital storefront, so make sure check
that out as well as a viral real Look at that. It gives you some tips
as well as a viral, real Start a pack or clip Pack, not just Clip Pack,
but also Start a Pack. Well, I'll include some of
these background gradients, include some clips and some logos as well
that you can use. So I'm just a overall package
that you can really use to get going and
start your journey of your own viral real account, whether it is you want
to build your own brand or a motivational
brand with Tik Tok, Instagram, YouTube, shorts, wherever you can
publish these videos. So make sure to check out that storefront and check
out my videos. Other than that, thank
you for watching. My name has been John Manton and I'll
catch you next time.
John Valentine, Digital Marketing, Social Media Expert
