Mobile Video Editing in CapCut App

1. Intro to CapCut Video Editing: Hey there Skillshare students. My name is Heather Hukari. I am a Video professional. I've been in Video for 20 plus years along with making professional video through my company called Video Service Hub in Denver, Colorado. I also teach people how to shoot and edit video using their phone in a program called social Video 101. The one-on-one means it's basic. I tried to explain things as easily as possible so that anyone, no matter your level of Video knowledge to start with, Ken, learn, implement right away. So in this particular course you're about to take, it's all about editing. Video editing is such an important useful skill, especially nowadays with the way social media is. If you have a small business and you want to market it. If you're not posting real TikToks, videos to YouTube or LinkedIn. You're missing out on possibly a lot of potential from clients, from customers leads that can come into you through seeing a video that you post. In this course we're all about CapCut. It's a free app you can download Apple or Android users just go to the App Store, the Google Play Store, download, CapCut, and we will jump right in. Its a great app, along with it being free. It has a lot of really amazing capabilities for an app on your phone. It's crazy what it can do. So follow along with these lessons. Hopefully you'll have some footage that you shot so that you have something to play with in the app so you can edit along with me. So enjoy this course. I hope you walk away feeling very capable to start doing your own edits 2. Organize in Photos App: So before we even get into our editing app, we can organize our footage in our native Photos app on our phone. So let me show you what I'm talking about. You're gonna go to your photos. You'll see here I have all of this footage that I shot. First thing you want to do is just get rid of clips that you know you're not going to use because why bring in extra stuff to your editor? Here. I was shooting horizontally for a second and thought, Oh yeah, I'm gonna shoot this vertically. My next clip is the same thing, but it's vertical. To delete this clip, I can just select it, hit that trash can, delete video, just get rid of it. And then you can kinda go through here and just preview your footage. I want that shot. I want that shot. Sometimes you can just tell by your thumbnail. Here. You see I have basically it looks like the same clip. One is 6 s, one is 4 s. Let's see what I did here. It was a snap zoom in and out, but it went out of focus. So maybe that's why I read it. Yeah, that's second shot is better. So I can go back to that first shot, hit the trash can, delete. So after you've gone through all of the footage, just quickly here, gotten rid of some stuff that you don't want. You can put everything into a folder so that when you get into your editor, you can just grab that folder and know that all the footage you want to use is already there. So I'm going to hit the Select button on top and simply select all my clips. I can drag my finger. They all have a blue check mark. I'm going to hit this bottom corner box with an arrow. And I'm going to add two album. And what that's gonna do is let me create a new album or add to an album I already have. In this case, I'm going to add a new album. I'm going to call it Wash Park. Save. Now all of those photos went into that album. So if I go to my albums down here in the bottom, you'll see that I've got that album right there. With all of my clips. I can continue in here. Let's say I didn't go through and delete all of them. I could do it in here, too. Beautiful winter day, I think here I short sleeves, decided to not wear my sunglasses to record this soundbite. So I could select these clips and delete them. Or I can either remove from album or delete. In this case, I'll just delete them and they're gone. Okay. So go ahead and organize your footage, get rid of anything you don't want. And then we will jump into the editing app. 3. CapCut Overview: Now we're ready to get into cap cut when you come in here, this is what the homepage looks like. You will see that I have projects here because I've used cap cut a lot if under the Edit tab, if you don't have projects yet, this will be blank, but as you make them, they will populate here. You've got some menu options here with those dots. You can name it, duplicate your project, delete it, back it up. I don't really ever backup. I obviously don't really name my projects very well. It's just the date is put the name will default to. But you can definitely come in here and name your projects if you would like to do that. So Doo, Doo, Doo, Doo. Okay, so let's go over the menus options down here. Right now on Edit, this is the default place it goes. There's a tab for templates, which we'll go over in another lesson near the end of this module. So hang tight for that. There's a tutorial tab. So if you need to learn something that you're not learning in this course, like advanced editing here, top questions answered, they've got a lot of really good support, so common here if you need to. They also have an inbox. I don't really use this at all. Sometimes cap cut will send messages and then this knee is your profile. Obviously, I don't really use that much either. But what I want to show you here is what the subscription model is like if you want to pay for cap cut. So if I hit Join cap Cut Pro, It's a free app, but you only get certain features for free. So as you start working in the app, you'll see some features will say Pro next to it. And you can only use that feature if you pay for the app. So here's the pricing structure, $80 per year, or you can do some monthly options. If you use cap cut a lot and you want to use some other pro features that are included. Definitely do that, but just start with the free app. But know that this is available if you want to upgrade. I'm gonna come back to the edit tab here. So this is the button we're going to push to start a new project, which we will do in the next lesson. So hang tight, they're here, up here is just some shortcuts they have. These are things that are popular that people use. We'll kind of go over most of these within the lessons, so we don't really need to go over them now. But if these are things you wind up using a lot, then you can just touch it and upload a video and go straight to retouching, straight to captions, et cetera. The last thing I wanna show you here is this cogwheel up here, the settings. There's not much you need to know here or look at or change. The only thing that is really important. Add default ending. I want you to come in here and turn that off. Discard. Because cap cut is a free app, it puts its logo at the end of your videos just for a second, it'll just flash up there. If this is on. So of course you can delete that. But if you just have it off all the time, they don't even have to worry about it. It's just never there. So turn that off. Here's your menu. Acquaint yourself with it a little bit. And in the next video we will start editing. 4. Create Project + Rough Cut: It is time to make our project. First thing we're going to hit is the new project button at the top. And this will automatically take us to our photos and videos that are on our phone. So if you see here is just got all of my videos. It does separate videos and photos into different categories and live photos. Just know that. But what I want to do is find that album that I made so that I can just pull all of those clips in. So if you see that recent has a little arrow down. If you hit that, it'll create a menu here you can see all your albums. There's that, that album I want Wash Park. I'm gonna select that. And then it's just those clips. So you can go through here and select each of these. If you want to preview one of these, I could just do this and preview it and then select it. You can also, you can do this in the app which we'll go over trimming in our timeline. But if you want to trim a little bit in here to select this, now this clip, you can scrub down here with your finger on the bottom. This I set up the phone and then I walked by. So there's a lot that I'm not going to use here. I'm only going to use that one little part there. So I can go ahead and trim that by hitting this trim button in the bottom. And you'll see I've got some yellow handles here. I can pull this to the point I want it to start and stop. Let's preview that. Great. Pull that over there. Watch it again. Excellent. I'm going to hit that check mark at the bottom. And now that clip is only 3 s. I'm already starting the edit now before I'm even in my timeline. So you can go through here and do that to all of these if you want, if you prefer that method of trimming. But I'm gonna go ahead and keep selecting so that I can show you how to trim in the timeline. So after I have all of those, I'm going to hit Add down here. Then, boom, we are in our editor. So if this is your first time opening the app, I just read, downloaded it so I could you could see the same. So I can see the same thing that you're going to see. It's going to give you a bunch of tips right away. So you can go through here, it's like a tutorial, read these things. This can be very helpful. It's just telling you any clip on that timeline, you're going to tap the clip and it'll open up more functions that you can use, which I'm going to show you right now. So if you see this, you don't want to look at it. Just tap away in that little box will pop off. It's like little paper clip and Microsoft Office, if you will. So here is our interface for editing. This is your video window here. This is what you're gonna be watching as you're editing. Down here is the most important part is your timeline. You can scroll through here with your finger. You can use your fingers to pinch like this to make your timeline smaller. So you can see all of your clips a little bit more zoomed out. And then if you want to look really closely at a clip, you just pinch and you can get in a lot tighter. So this is helpful just to kind of scrub through to find a piece of footage. Down here is a lot of menu options that we have now this menu option area changes a lot depending on what is selected. Right now this is just kinda general, general stuff you can choose. But the way that this changes is if I select a clip, then I just have options to do things to that particular clip. So if I unselect it, the menu bar goes back to some different options here. This is all stuff you can add to your timeline. Now if I select that is stuff I can do to my footage. I hope that makes sense to you. So the first thing you're gonna do here again, this yellow box pops up, that is the thing, the paperclip. So let's go through what trimming is like in the timeline. This clip is pretty long because again, I set my phone up on a tree, hit record and then walked over. Here's where I would hit Play to actually watch that clip and walked over to this bench. So I want to cut out all of that obviously because I just want the clip to be me sitting there. So what I'm gonna do is select that clip. And then there's a few ways you can trim. Just like in what we saw earlier. You can grab the handle here and just pull to the point that you want the clip to start. So I'm going to do wait till I'm sitting. Watch that. Great. And I already trimmed the end of that clip in my photos app so you don't see me running back. So that's one way to trim. Another way is, let's look at this clip. It's kinda long. I just want a little bit of me walking and looking, not at the camera. Just yeah, I'm just looking around. So let's say I want to start it here. I can select the clip. And instead of like, oh, I gotta go find that handle to drag it. I can just hit Split. And that's going to split the clip. And then I can select the front of the clip that I don't want to use and hit Delete right here. Boom. And then that clip now starts where I want it to. Let's say I wanted to end right there. I'll select it. I can either hit Split and do the trash can or one can note here too is that you have an undo button, this little arrow back, and that will undo the moves that you just did up to. I don't know how many, several. It's pretty nice. The other thing I could do to trim is selected and pull the handle from this side. And now that clip is the right length. So I'm gonna go through here and trim all my clips. I don't do a lot of watching and real-time like this because it's just a slow process. So I find that just scrubbing with my finger. I can tell it where I want to start the clip. So I like starting on action and trying to end on action to you that just keeps the video moving. So I'm going to find where I start moving. Great about here, select it, and then I'll just trim there. And then I want the clip to end, maybe right where I hit that sun being revealed. So I'm going to select it split and select this part, hit the trash can. So I'm going to continue doing this. You don't need to watch the whole process of me trimming up all of my clips. The other thing you wanna do for your rough cut, which is the phase we're in right now, is arranged the eclipse the way that you want them to be. Now, I want my talking clip to be at the front because I'm setting up the scene for what the video is. I'm going to just grab it with my finger and drag it to the front of the timeline. And then there we go. Let's watch that beautiful sunny winter day in Denver. I'm going on a walk at Wash Park. It's lovely out. I'm wearing short sleeves. I loved this weather. So I'm also going to trim just I don't need that extra little bit of me smiling there. So I'm going to cancel. So I'm going to select my clip and roll that back. There we go. I love this weather. So go ahead and go through bringing your footage in to your timeline, trim everything up pretty tight, and then arrange everything that the way that you want it to be. I'm gonna do the same thing and then we'll meet back here and start enhancing our edit. 5. Enhancing Your Video: Next I'm going to show you some ways to enhance your video. There's a lot of options in here, so I'm just going to quickly go through some of the ones that you're mainly going to want to use. So if the clip is selected, like I mentioned, all of these options come up down here. You can see that there's a lot of stuff going on. I'm going to select this clip and I'm going to hit speed. So two options with speed, you can do normal and that either normal will speed up the clip or slow it down. So it'll tell you I went from 8 s to 1.6 s. And that made the clip go a lot faster. You can also slow it down. Okay? But this other option for speed curve, I really like this is just going to change the speed on sort of a different type of curve. If I hit montage, let's look at this. That looks super cool. I love it. The speed went root loop around the tree. It was fast and then it slowed back down. Animate and style are things that will change the look of your clip. I'll let you play with that. You can always delete a clip. If you didn't mean to do that, you can hit undo. We can also hit Redo, but I'll leave that clip there. So after that we have volume. This is where you can take down the volume of all of these clips, which I will not make. You watch me do that, but you can also do a half volume. You can make it louder, whatever you want. You can extract audio. This is helpful if you have a clip of you talking and you want to see the wave form, I'm going to hit extract audio and you can see peaks of my voice. So this is nice if you need to look for pauses to cut out. But I will tell you once you extract the audio, the video and audio are separate. So if I'm going to cut out this pause, I have to select one track hits Split. Then select the video hits Split, go to the other point, split, select the video split, and then Delete. And then you also have to delete this one. But if you'll notice the video moves on its own to snap to the other position, this one you have to hold down and move over so it's kind of a pain, but just it works. If you need to cut those pauses out, it's a good way to see them. But just know that if you do that, you've really got to make sure you're cutting audio and video and making sure they match up. Because if they're not, your audio sink is gonna be out and it's going to look really bad. It's not going to win. The video and the audio don't match, it does not look professional. So the next option is cut out. So this is great because you can remove your background. This is great for person talking on camera. I wouldn't use it in this video because I'm at the park and I want to see the background of the park. But let's say I just wanted a graphic behind me or a screenshot or something. This is a great way to do that. It's pretty accurate. It's not perfect around the hair, but it's pretty good. After cutout we have edit. So you're like But I am editing. Yes. So this has a few different options. Mirror will flip the clip, so it could be on the other side. That's actually very useful if you need it. You can rotate and be upside down. You could crop. So this would just say I want my face to be in the shot. I could crop in really tight. That will make black on the bottom and top there. But then I can take my fingers and pinch to fill the screen and then move it around. If I wanted just a real close-up of my face. There we go. I'm going to undo that. So that's the crop option. You can also, even if you're not in this editing tool down here, you can always just use your fingers and zoom in on a clip. So anytime you want, you can utilize that function. If you go too far in, it's going to degrade the quality a little bit. So do watch out for that. If you shot in for K, then it's probably going to hold up quality pretty well. Then we have filters and adjust. I will let you mess with those. That's just going to change the look of the footage. You can also adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, all those kinds of things. The one thing I will show you about it if you hit Filters, let's say I find a filter I like very white, wintery look, I can hit apply to all down here and that's going to apply that filter to all of my footage. So that is a nice feature to have. The next one is enhance. This is actually something you might use on a clip of you talking. Hit enhance. You can enhance your face or body. We'll just do face because that's all that is showing in this clip. The only thing I really use if you hit retouch is smooth. If you go all the way up, I look like a fake person, like airbrushed. But if you just do a little bit, it just smooths out a little bit of the wrinkles. You can do a little brightness too. I'm stalling. Smooth. Brightness will just brighten up your skin. So let's say you didn't have a light with you. That's a nice option. You can whiten your teeth. Don't go too far or they look really fake. You could change your smile lines a little bit. They also have very specific parts of the face. You can make your chin look different, bigger or Smaller, I can hit Reset. Make your eyes bigger, make your eyebrows look different, change your smile, all kinds of stuff with your eyes, nose, mouth. But don't go too far with these. You don't want to change the way you look because part of the point of these videos is that you want to look authentic, you want to look real and like yourself. So I would say just a little smoother, a little brightness is all you really need here, but it's kinda fun to play with. You can also do makeup. These are pretty funny. You think that's a good look for me? Mask, we're not going to mess with. It's not really all that useful. Overlay is really a useful one. If I select this clip and I hit Overlay, That's going to put the clip on another layer that I can then put wherever I want on my timeline. So let's say I want to put this clip over me talking because maybe it's too much of me talking. A beautiful sunny winter day in Denver. I'm going on a walk at Wash Park. Lovely out. I'm wearing short sleeve. Great. So you can layer as much footage as you want on top of other footage. That is super handy. I use that a lot. While we're here. If you see down here, it just says add overlay. So I don't have to pick a clip from somewhere on my timeline. I can also bring an overlay in from the photos. So I can be like, Oh, you know what, I want this to be an overlay too. It'll add that to my timeline as an overlay. So when it adds it like that, see how it's kinda small. You can make it small and put it somewhere on the screen like this, like picture-in-picture. But most of the time you're going to pinch up and make it bigger to fill the screen, because likely you want it to cover the whole thing there. So now I'm wearing short sleeves. So there you go. That's an overlay there. I am going to delete it. I don't want it there. If I select, go back here. See how that clip is no longer on the timeline. It has put it on as a little bubble at the top. I think just to save space on the timeline really. But if I want to go back to it to edit that clip again, I can select it and then there it is, like a trim or do an adjustment of some sort. We have replaced if you want to replace a clip, let's say I don't like those ducts there. I can just hit Replace. That'll take me back to my photos and I can just select a clip to replace and it'll keep it the same length. So this clip is 2.2 s. So whatever I replace, it'll keep it that length because that can be a handy handy tool. Stabilize if you've really shaky footage, if you were not being stable, you didn't have a gimbal or something. You could use stabilize. You can just drag this to get as much stabilization as you need. I don't really need to use it on this. You can change the opacity of the clip. If you have a clip with audio, you can do voice effects which are like chipmunk robot. Things are probably not going to use unless you just need something random and funny. Reduce noise is actually a really good one though, because that will take down any background sound and really enhance the voice. So that's really good for voice clips, especially if you forgot to use a mic. You can copy a clip. It'll just put it next to the clip on the timeline. I'm going to delete that. You can reverse a clip. I actually want to do this with this piece of footage. I dolly in. But I actually want a dolly out, so I'm gonna select that. Scroll down here, hit Reverse very quickly. It reverses the clip for me. Great. And last few here, you can freeze it. Let's say I want to freeze this clip partway through. I'm going to put my playhead wherever I want it to freeze. And then I'm going to select Freeze and it just simply drops a three-second freeze-frame of that frame that your playhead was on. So it's just going to stay there and then go back to the rest of the footage. So that can be fun. I could do that. That freeze-frame. Maybe. I want to stylize the color and make it black and white for some reason and maybe put a graphic there, like trees are my favorite. And then it goes back to the footage. So that's an option. I'm going to delete it though for now. And then we also have motion blur. This is just going to blur your footage, could be useful for something. And lastly, we have graphs. This is actually pretty useful. Before we use a graph though we have to set some keyframes. Let me show you what that means. So this clip here, I'm just sitting on the bench, is still shocks. I set my phone up on a tree. But if I go to the beginning of the clip and add a keyframe, That's what this diamond is here. And then I add a keyframe at the end. Now I can move my footage with my fingers, two fingers pinching. I'm going to zoom in, move it over a little bit so I'm centered. And now if we watch this, I've created an effect there. A zoom in, even though I didn't zoom in with the actual camera. So then if I go to my graphs, that's just going to smooth out those keyframes. So it's not just so direct, it'll be like a smooth, smooth or move. Let's select ease in or ease out. So you can tell it's, it's nice and smooth. And it's not just so kinda boring. That one's a little much, I wouldn't recommend a flow, but something like an easing is nice if you have set keyframes to any of your footage. Okay, so that is all of the stuff you can do with your footage. I know that's a lot, but go ahead and enhance your edit and play with some of these things. Refine it more. You might find some trimming and rearranging going on too as you're going through your timeline. But then when you come back, we're going to talk about adding transitions and text. 6. Transitions, Text and Captions: Transitions. One morning about transitions. You don't want to overdo them. You don't want a transition between every single little clip of video. It is distracting, it looks amateur, it's not necessary. The only time you want to use transitions is if you're changing the scene or just making a complete change in the subject or something like that. For this type of video like this vlog style, I'm at the park. There's no need to put a transition anywhere. But I'm going to show you how to do it anyway. Between two clips, you've got these little markers here. So I'm going to select one. And then you see all the options you have for transitions, there is a absolute crap ton. So you can just go through here and play with them. It will give you a preview. That's, that's kinda fun. It's like a nice blur. A swirly camera, one, white flash, that can be a nice one. So once you've chosen a transition, you can select the length. You can make it up to 1 s, down to like one frame, which would be really fast. But let's say you found your transition you like and you want to put it between every picture you can hit apply, apply to all and that will do it for you. So you don't have to go through and do each one individually. Once you've put one on there, you see that the little image changes between the clips there. So text, this is something you're going to use a bit more. So down here, if nothing is selected, so right here, if I select the clip, you know, we get all these options for that clip. If nothing is selected, you have options of stuff to add over your video that's already there. So down here we can add text if I hit the T. And then there's some options here for text, I'm going to hit Add Text right here. I'm going to type in what I need. Let's just say I want my name. And here we can check out our styles, fonts. They've got some good font options. I'll just go with this. I like a big bold font. You can move it around on the screen. Style. This is going to change the color. You can come in here and manually change the color. So you see this little line of stuff right now I'm on texts. If I go to stroke, that will change. It will add an outline to the texts that's called the stroke. And you can change the color of that. Still. You can just go straight up with some styles they recommend, so you don't have to customize all of your texts. You can just pick something and that's a nice feature to have effects. This is just some more stylized looks that you can go through. They have a lot of options. Of course, this app is just all about options for you, which is really nice. A cool thing too, is that you can animate your text in. So if I hit animation, I've got a lot of options to animate it in, out or loop, loop it. So I could just do something simple like faded in. It could go in like this. You can scroll up here and just try a bunch of different stuff. I'm just gonna go with that and then I can go to out. If I want the text to animate out to, let's say I just want it to do that. Then if I'm happy with that, I'll hit the check mark and then we're back on our timeline here. So again, once we're nothing is selected here, the texts like disappears because it won't show you the layers because they wanted to keep the timeline nice and organized. So if I want to go back in there and edit that text, I have to hit the text arrow again and then I will see it there. So I can come in here and change the length k. A couple of other things here when we're on this menu bar here and stuff you could add. You can add stickers. So let's say I want a Smiley face day in Denver. Same thing when it's selected. You could animate you can animate it in and out. In, out. You can also trim it so it's up for the same length as your other graphic if you want. Then this is also where you would add closed captions, captions, which can be really helpful. I'm going to delete the Smiley face. It's going to drive me crazy there. I'm also going to take my name and move it up. Because if I add captions, they're gonna be close to the bottom. That's where you want to put captions. I'm going to hit auto captions down here and just hit Start. This takes just a few seconds and it captioned, it transcribes your video anything that any audio that it has with people talking. And it makes captions there they are right there. Sunny winter day in Denver. Boom. And then you can customize them. There's a lot of options here, style. It's the same stuff we saw, but you can go through here and select a nice whatever style you like really. You can also, if you want to make it like two lions, it's kind of a pain, but you have to come in here and do it like this, like change your text here and then stuck it. You can also move it up. And if I move one closed caption up, it's going to apply to all. So they'll all be in the same spot, which is nice. And it's going to change the style for all of them too. So there we go. That is your captions. Again. This this one's cutoff so because it's kinda long. So I'm gonna go in here, make it two lines. Hit that check mark, and there you go. My name. Of course. Maybe I'll move it down. Maybe I move it up. Maybe I would just move my caption down a little bit because it's a little bit high, cutting into my chin there. But captions are really important because a lot of people watch their videos and social media with their sound very low or all the way off. So it's really nice to have captions so that everyone can know what you're saying there. That is transitions, texts, and captions. Play around with it and make sure that you add captions if you're speaking on camera. And when you come back here, we will get into something else. 7. Music and Audio: Now we're going to add music to this lovely video. So here we are. Nothing is selected. So I've got these options down here. So I'm going to select audio and sounds. This takes me to the cap cut music and sound library. They have trending songs that you can go through. They have kinda just some stock music, exciting music. If you want to preview these, just select it. I think the songs are a little subpar. So in the next video, I'll show you a resource I use a lot called audio with two eyes. It's a stock music site that I think is much better. So be sure to watch that if you are interested in finding better music. But you can find stuff in here to use. Once you find something that you want to use, you just hit the plus sign. And that just puts it right on your timeline here. So it comes in really loud. Let's listen to this. You can't hear me. I'm drowned out because the music is too loud. So I'm going to select the music here and turn that volume down. Let's see how that sounds. I'm also going to enhance my audio. Let's select my extracted audio clip there and reduce noise. Oh, it's already reduced. I did that already. Good. I can also I can also my my volume by going here and I'm hoping this winter day in Denver, That's better. I can also utilize keyframes for the audio. So I'm going to come right about here near the end of where I'm talking, but I'm, I'm on the music track though, is what's selected. I'm going to put a keyframe there. And I'm going to roll back a little bit and put a keyframe there. And then if I go to volume, I'm going to turn the volume down more on that keyframe. And then this keyframe, the volume should be little higher. Let's see how that sounds. That gives it a nice fade. So it's lower under me and then it gradually increases right at the end of my sentence and then it's up a little bit higher. I could even come at another keyframe near those two, let's say about right here. And go back in here and turn it up even more because I don't need volume the rest of the time. Awesome. So then also, I had mentioned that I wanted the audio on my last frame, on my last clip. So I'm gonna come in here and my music track is still selected. I'm going to trim it and just delete this because I don't, I don't need it past the ending. But then here I'm gonna do a fade out on the music, so key-frame and keyframe. And then I'm going to turn the volume all the way out on that keyframe. So it's a nice slow, gradual fade out. And then here we'll be able to hear that natural audio. It's pretty quiet, so I'm going to select here, go to volume, turn it up. Let's listen to that. So that's kind of a fun, a fun thing. We have this weird Hip Hop and then it fades to a peaceful sound with birds and the wind. So that's music and audio. You can also add voiceover right into your timeline, which is really helpful. Let's say I wanted this piece to just, I wanted to talk over it. I wanted to just describe what's going on. So I am just going to put my play head where I would like the music, the voice-over to start and hit the voice-over key right here. I'm going to hold to record. I would normally have a micron if I was doing it. So it's nice, clean audio, but this is just to show you. So I'm going to hold this. At first I saw ducts and I walked around and then I walked through some trees. And then I looked at a tree that was big, and so on and so forth. The audio that you have is recorded right here didn't pick me up very well because I'm not using a mic, but you can see there's some waveform I can go in here and up the volume. That is really useful if, let's say you're doing your product video and you need to describe what people are seeing or give them more context or information. You can do it right there, edit your video together, and then do the voice-over afterwards. A lot of people do that with TikTok videos, with drills, and it's a really nice options. So there you go. Music, audio, voice-over. Go ahead and add what you need to your project, and then we'll move on. 8. A Better Music Option: That last video was all about audio and music. And I showed you how to find music and add it to your video. You may have noticed if you've searched through the music library that it is not the best, a lot of it is really to corporate E sounding are just really cheesy or just not modern or cool. So if you're looking for a music that is better, I want to show you a really cool resource to find the best music for your video, audio.com, audio with two eyes. So this is what the homepage looks like for audio. Once you have an account, once you've created an account and bought a subscription, which we will talk about spoiler alert, it's really low-priced and totally worth it. So once you're here, you can browse or go to playlist. Let's go to Browse first here. So let's see, I'm looking for something really specific, like a happy song. I want something upbeat and happy. I'll see stuff by mood or buy songs with the title happy in them. Let's go to the mood one. And you'll see here there are tons of options. It just keeps going and going because audio has over 6,000 songs and its library, It's consistently adding more all the time, so you will never run out of good songs with audio.com. You won't, if you want to listen to one here, just push it. Okay, and let me show you something else here on the filters. If I go back to this little filter button. So this gives you a lot of options to keep getting more granular with what you want. So I could go buy a video theme. At this point, you could go by instrument, you can search by genre, mood, etc. There's a lot, a lot of options. You can even go by beat. So I could, but I don't want slow songs. You can also select instrumental only, which helps if that's what you're looking for. Okay, so let's say that's the one I want. So a couple of things you could do, just hit favorite, a little heart, and that puts it in your library for you. So let's say you're bored one day on the bus and you're looking for something to do. Rule through audio for awhile. Select a bunch of songs that you like, so you have them ready when you're ready to make videos. But if I want to use this song right now, I mean hit the Download button, hit Create license. And just while we're talking about licenses here, if you're worried about copyright infringement or anything like that, you don't have to worry about it because everything here is, has commercial rights. So you are good to go if you have a subscription and even if you have a subscription for a year and then you don't have a subscription the next year or two, it's fine. You have the license for that song forever. Once you have that done, you're going to hit download now. And you'll see, you're going to hit download again. And you'll see down here a little arrow, it's downloading. Once it's blue, I'm going to hit that. And then we go to my downloads right here. And then there you go, you see the song. I'm going to select that. You can preview it again here. You got to have some whistles and a happy song, right? So let's move this to one of our editing apps so we can actually use it. We're going to hit the little square with an arrow. And then there's some options right up here on the top. I can move it straight into cap cut. If I hit more, I'll see if I have other apps that it will go in. Here. I have kinda master iMovie, DJI, MIMO. But let's go straight into cap cut. Since I know a lot of people use that. I'm going to hit import audio into cap cut. There you go. There it is. So it went right to the project I already had open. So if you are searching for music for a specific project, you want to go ahead and have kept cut open and your project open, and it'll go right to your timeline. So here it is. That's awesome. Then of course, once you're there, you can select changing your volume and all of that kind of stuff. So let's head back over to Audio and go back to the homepage. Another good way to search is by playlist. So maybe you don't know, can't think of a keyword for a mood that you're looking for Exactly. So head to play list, it's just a really nice way to browse. They have curated playlist by moods, genres. So you can search in here, Let's say Savage is what I need. So I can just scroll through here, preview some stuff. And of course, you can always be thinking about what you want to add to your favorites. Get some favorites. I would just hit the Download button and then create the license and go through that whole process we just went through. And then I'm able to use it. Just so you know, audio of course works well on your phone as you can see, you can also use it on your computer if you're editing over here, or let's say you want to browse for music on your computer. That's great. Just download it and then AirDrop it to your phone and you can use it there as well. One other thing that I want to tell you about audio is that they have sound effects too. They have over 30,000 sound effects in their library. So if you're looking for whoosh, that kind of stuff, they've got all that, but also Foley sound effects like footsteps on leaves and autumn. Things like that. You can search for really granular specific things and they probably habits. So let me tell you how this subscription works. It is normally they have a yearly plan that is normally 199 and that is unlimited downloads and access to songs, sound effects. Download you have it forever again, your license is good to go for eternity, normally 199 year great price. That's what I've been paying. But they are doing a deal right now where it's only $59 for your first year, that is lesson, $5 a month. What you're looking for when you go to the website is the audio Pro plan. That's the yearly subscription with the music and sound effects. They also have a lifetime access to music option, which is amazing. And I have a discount code for that too. Normally it's for 99, but if you message me, I'll send you a code for $200 off. That is a lifetime access only to music, not the sound effects that sound effects you'd have to do on a yearly subscription basis. But if that's something that you want, definitely let me know. So that's audio. Again, if you want cool music selection, definitely go for it. 9. Over the Shoulder: The Final Edit: This video is almost done. I'm just gonna do some polishing and make sure it's just exactly what I want. So watch over my shoulder as I do that. I'm going to pause it right there. I don't want this graphic. I just put that up there to show you guys how to do graphics. So if I want to get rid of that, you might think you have to push on the bubble up here on the timeline. But if I do that, it's going to show me the layer I have in there, the overlay. So that's not what I want to push. I'm gonna go just click away from that. Go back. I have to hit the Text button to get to my text layers there. So now we see I've got the captions, I want to leave those. Here's the Heather texts. I'm going to select that and come over here to delete. Right now. That's gone. Now. We'll watch it. Beautiful sunny winter day in Denver. I'm going in and out. I like when this is not necessary, but I do like when my captions change with the cut. If you see here, the same caption is still up when it goes to that cut. So I'm going to go in to that layer. I'm going to get off of my texts layer by hitting this arrow back. Then I'm gonna go to my little bubble up there so that I can see that layer. Now I'm just going to zoom in with my fingers and watch where the caption changes. I'm going to put my play head right there, select that layer and I'm going to trim it to that point. So now so now the caption changes at the same time as the video and I just think it's a cleaner look that way. Sunny winter day in Denver. I'm wearing shorts. Same thing there. It's lovely out, stayed up longer than I wanted to. So what I'm gonna do here, I'm going to hit this arrow to go back and get off of the overlay that it's showing. Now I'm gonna go back to the text. I see these layers. I'm actually going to trim my caption. Go on a walk, It's lovely out. I want that to be gone. When we get back to me. I'm going to trim that just like I would a piece of footage. Alright, then I think this caption comes in a little early. I'm going to adjust that to come in slightly later. Alright. And then just right there you see the caption is lingering past that cut. So I'm gonna come in here, trim that guy up, and let's watch that. Okay, so I'm gonna come here to get out of my texts layer because I'm good on texts. All I want is those captions at the beginning. I don't really want anything else. But what I do want is these cuts to be on the beat of the music, because that's just looks nice. It makes it look more professional. So the way we do that, if you zoom out here on your, on your timeline, you can see the waveform of the music. We're just going to cut right where we see the waveform peak up. This one is fine. As soon as I'm done talking, it kinda hits on a beat. So that worked out well. Also, I didn't really want that transition again, I was just showing you guys in this type of video. I don't think it needs transitions because it's just a vlog is just showing a day. I will make these ducts, this cut of the ducts shorter by selecting that and then pulling the end of it right to that beat. So now there's no transition. The duck cut is cut right on the beat. Let's keep watching. This clip is a little long, so I'm gonna just so I can either pull this, but the other way you can trim just so you remember is you can hit the Split button if your clip is selected, and then that'll split it and then you can hit Delete over here. There you go. Okay, So this clip is a little long to it looks like it's two separate clips. I don't remember what I did there. They're just going to delete one of those. Delete. Now let's see how that feels. Okay. I'm going to just change that cut just a little bit right to that beat, line those up, and then get out of that quickly after that snap Zoom. Course, I love a good snap Zoom. Let's see how that looks. So this is pretty close here. Just a couple more little things before when I added the music. If I come back here to look at that, you'll see I have those keyframes because I wanted to bring the music level down. Now though, that I've shortened the video because I made some cuts. The the keyframe, the graph, the level, the music level going down is not exactly the way I want it. Because again, in this last clip, I want to hear the natural sound of the water. So unfortunately, you can't come in here and move the keyframes with your finger. You just have to put your play head on it and hit Delete right here. This means the little minus keyframe will make the keyframe go away. So I can now reset those. I'm going to zoom out a little bit here. So right now, like that actually is probably about where I want the song to end. So I'm going to leave that keyframe there, but back up to this clip, add a keyframe, go over to this key-frame. And that's where I'll hit my volume and bring it down. So now let's see how that sounds. Alright, so it's a little bit too quick of a fade. Also. I'm going to want this clip to end on a beat to go right there. And then I'm going to come back into my music here and put my play head on that keyframe, deleted again. Come more to this point, add a keyframe, go to volume lower that. Let's see how that sounds. That's what I want. So I'm going to just pull this over and then I'm going to fade out at the end, since it's kinda like the end of the video. So I'm going to select that clip, come to animation. And I'm going to go see how you have IN OUT combo here. I'm gonna go out and just fade out. Nice and simple there. Okay, let's watch this in its entirety from the beginning, I'm going to hit this little thing over here so we can make it fullscreen. Beautiful, sunny winter day in Denver. I'm going on a walk out. I'm wearing short sleeves. If you noticed throughout that video, the variety of B-roll. I mean, there was different B-roll but the movement so sometimes it was a pan and then it would go to a tilt. Sometimes there's just a still shot like the ducts at the beginning here are still shot. And then the next shot is still shot. But there's motion of me walking through here. We have a dolly, then we have a tilt up, then we have a snap Zoom, then we have a Zoom In, which was sort of like a dolly. And then we're back to a pan. You see the variety of movement. It's not all just pan, pan, pan, pan or dolly, dolly, dolly, dolly. And adding those different elements, doing quick cuts on the music. Just make the video interesting and make people want to watch it till the end. There you go, That's the final edit. Go ahead and do your edit. Spend some time play around with all the features. I know there's a lot in here and there's stuff I didn't even cover. So just take some time, mess around with stuff. Practice really is gonna be your best friend when you're learning to edit. 10. Export: Okay, so let's export this. Let's say I'm done and I'm like, yeah, I want to post it. Before we do that though, one thing I have not told you that I probably should have earlier, this plus sign over here. You might already have noticed this if you hit it, it takes you back to your footage so you can add more videos or photos if you need to. So that is what that plus sign is. Just a note there. Also this button up here will make your project full screen. If you want to watch it, like as a big video, then just hit it again to make it go away. I'm ready to export. I'm going to hit this little arrow up here. And that's it. It just exports to my photos app. And from my photos app, I can then upload it to Instagram, TikTok, wherever I want it to go. And that's that you're all done at that point. So easy as can be to export the video. If you watch it on your phone, you're like, oh, I'm actually not that happy with it. That's fine. Just go back and cat cut, edit what you need to and then you can re-export it. Will always saved to your photos album on your phone. 11. A Better Captions Option: Like you saw, you can make Captions in CapCut. You can also do Captions in Instagram and your stories. There's that Captions sticker. There's also the Captions sticker in reals, which you'll get to in the reals section. So you can definitely caption in app, you can caption in app and TikTok to. But Here's the thing. There's this other program called Captions. And I like it a lot. I think it has cooler looking Captions that are really eye-catching. So I wanted to show you how to use it. This isn't app that you pay for. I don't remember how much it is. Maybe like $70 for the year. Maybe it's $10 a month, something like that. Just look it up. Captions App is what it's called. I'm going to show you how I caption in it so that you can do the same if you would like to. So I'm gonna go to my Captions app right here. It's what it looks like. And I'm gonna hit Create. You'll see I have some projects here already. Hit Create to make a new project once you've signed up for the app and you're in it, create. You've got some options here. You can record right into the app. It can be a camera. You can also do a teleprompter. This app can be your Teleprompter as well. If you don't want to get a separate teleprompter app, I haven't used it in that way, but I might, I should probably try it out. You can also just import, which is what I'm gonna do. I shot a video, a talking head video of me. I'm gonna import that in. If you'd hit Import, you get to this screen with all of your camera roll videos on it. I currently don't have Alex, I just cleaned up my camera roll. So you select the clip you want to use. Here. You can trim. So I already have my clip trimmed. I already did that in CapCut. But if you don't have it trimmed to cut off the beginning and end, you could do that in here, just like you would in CapCut are in your Photos app. Once it's at the link that you want, you hit done and hit Continue with item. It's showing you it selected down here. Then here's where you have a couple of options for the captioning. This is going to auto caption what you're saying it just like it does in CapCut, you can automatically catch blank spots and that'll cut the video. This is great because if you did do a talking head video, maybe you didn't use a teleprompter and you're talking off the cuff. But you took some pauses to think. And then you started your next sentence. Captions will go in there and find those pauses and Cut them for you and just make jump cuts in your footage. That's super easy way to edit. So I definitely would recommend doing that if you don't want to go through in CapCut or another program and do all of the manual cutting. The other option you have is to auto sensor your curse words. If you have curse words, it'll do a beep and exclamation points or whatever. I'm gonna leave both of these off because they don't have pauses in this video and I didn't use any curse words. So I'm gonna hit proceed with English and it's going to do that auto transcription. So I'm just going to speed this part up so you don't have to sit here and watch it. When it's done. This is where it will take you see it's added. I'm going to turn the volume done. It's added the Captions right there. So I can use my finger, drag them around the screen here. And it's set on some default settings that I have as far as the color and look of the Captions. But you can customize a lot in here. If you go to style, it gives you some options for the way you want your texts to look. So there's a lot. I like the variety quite a bit. The, my favorite look is either one of these focus or bold. I go back and forth. I also do like this one is just kind of a lot going on. But let's say I want to use bold. So select that hit Edit. Here you have even more options that you can customize. You can make it single word. Yeah, just play with some of these options. I like punctuation or pause. That's kind of tells the caption when to change. You can do you can customize how many lines you want if you want to cover three or four lines. Generally for social media videos, you're gonna do one or two lines because you want it to change a lot. There's some font options. Whatever font you choose, you just want us to be really bold because you want these Captions to really stand out. You can do different alignments, different attributes, spacing. You can come in here, just play with all of all of this stuff, lots to play with. So I'm going to select that and hit Done. If that's the caption style I want to use. And then I can use my finger to drag it around the screen, make it bigger, smaller. I always just kinda go by the guides. See the yellow box that if I'm pinching it, it'll show me. I don't want the yellow box to go very far out of those red lines because I want the whole thing to be readable and not be covered by the edge or by other graphics in reals or on TikTok. So there you go. You can also change the color by hitting color, text, color, emphasis, color. If you have a word That's being emphasized. I have that on. If I turn it off, there's no color change, right? So I do like that. To have the active word color be different. You could also do an emphasis color, background color. If you had Captions that had a background, that background color would change. You can also, if you need to edit the captions, let's say they got a word wrong, hit edit up here in the top. And then it brings you to this screen where there's some options here. You can scroll, scrub with your finger to get two different points. So let's say this is video, but I want it to be videos. I would just select the word and hit a little S there. You can also add images from your photo roll. You can add gifts as well. It gives you a bunch. Let's say I wanted a microphone. Megaphone will just hit close once you've selected that, and it'll be up there, you can move it around and it's going to come up when that word comes up. So I come back here and hit this check mark will see it. Alright, so that's pretty FUN, right? I'm gonna come back to Edit. If I decide I don't want that, I can just find that word again and remove it. See it has a little icon next to it. I'm just going to select, I'm just going to turn it off basically. So you can go through here and add gifts for every word or just a few words, all kinds of stuff here. So if you want to turn a part of it off, like for instance, on these video is a series I'm making. So the beginning, I say direct to camera videos must Part One stability. But in Instagram, I'm going to add a graphic in Instagram in the reals app that says direct to camera Video most part one, stability. So we don't really need that caption there too, because I'm going to put a graphic there so I can come in here and select that word and just turn off the visibility. So now you do have to do every word at a time, but now that won't be there ball at the beginning of the video. Then the Captions will start where I want them to and not be in the part where I don't want them by just changing the visibility. So there's just all kinds of Fun stuff in here. You can add emojis as well as you can icons. Those will pop up with the word, really a lot of great features. Once you're happy with the way it looks, you're going to hit the plus sign, hit Save. And you can either save it and then work on it later, or you can export it to your camera roll. And from there, you can upload it to Instagram as a real or tiktok or wherever you're putting it. So definitely check out the Captions app. It is not free, like I said, but I think it's worth the money if you want. Just a more eye-catching look for some of your videos, especially talking head videos where it's just mostly you talking, adding cooler looking Captions is just going to grab people's attention that much more. Director camera Video must Part three, add some white to your face. If I turn off my ring light here, you'll see that I don't look great. But if I turn it back on, I'm gonna be in a much more flattering light. Not to mention, it just looks more professional because pro video shoots. There's a lot of light there. If you don't have a ring light, that's okay. You could just use a window or some sort of external lights, just direct it right on your face. Try to avoid overhead lights because that is definitely not the life, the best light for anybody's face. And of course, you want to look your best in your videos. Alright, stick with me because I've more Tips for you about directed camera videos. 12. Using Photos: Of course, you can use photos to make video. You could do a video with all photos which I'm about to do. You can also just use photos within your video clips to you. Just import it like you would any video clip. So let's get our new project right now. And I have a album in here called bike. If I see it's on video right now and there's nothing in it. That's because they're all photos. So once I'm in here, I can go through and select these. I might not use all of them. Just select a few of my little biking Baba, hit Add. And then there we go. We have all of these photos on the timeline. Now, if some of them are shot horizontally, you've gotta go in here and pinch it up so that it's filling the screen. It looks like it defaulted to a five by four size and that's not what I want. If I look down here, there's a lot of options I can go to Format and make this whatever size I want to use. And then it has all of the pictures like kind of in the middle. But I can go in here and make them bigger with my finger. So cool thing about a photos project is that's when you can use a lot of effects and styles and all kinds of stuff like that. Let's select this first photo. I'll do animation. So I can animate in, just try some of these, see how they look. I can change the length. If I wanted to do a weird thing a little bit longer, I can animate out woo, woo. I can do a combo. So this just does an in and an out and they kinda match. You can really have fun here with animating your pictures. You can also use transitions more liberally as well then in your video. So you do your white flash. I love that you can preview all of these and then of course you can change your length. You can apply to all if you want. Let's just do that. Now I've got my transition between each clip. I could also do a keyframe here. So if I want this clip to kinda get bigger, I'm going to select it, hit a keyframe. I'm going to select my clip. I've got that. Hit a keyframe. I'm going to hit a key-frame near the end and then make that bigger. So now he's scales in. Before it goes to the next picture. I guess one more quick thing I want to show you is if you, if you want to edit on the beat with your photos, let me go ahead and add a song real quick here. Okay, So here we've got, let me drag this via. Song will come in wherever your play head is. So if your play heads and not at the beginning the song, we'll just drop in wherever it is. So as you can see the waveform here. First of all, hold on. I'm gonna delete the transition because it's just bothering me. Okay, so you see that beat right there. Let's say I want the picture to animate there. I can just select it and trim where I see the beats. So I could get rid of that. Select that, move it right to the beat. Next clip. That's already on a beat. So that's nice. Maybe I want that to be right after the beat. That needs to be further this way. So by looking at the waveform of the song, you can see where those beats hit and just line your clips up right there. And that's going to look really cool. 13. Using Templates and AutoCut: I'm going to talk about templates and auto cut. These are really powerful features. Let's look at templates first. This has a bunch of templates of things that are trending right now. So it's kinda nice to go in here and see, Let's look at this one. If I wondered to use that template, I would just hit Use template and upload my photos and it's completely done. It's really great. They have categories like reals, what's trending with reveals, what's trending with TikTok. So these are really, really useful, like let's say this one, this is kind of a big one right now. I'm just going to hit Use Template. And it says, Hey, you need to pick a clip to put in this template. That's what it does first, so we can do that for you. So this particular template, once a photo or video of a person. Since I have that here, let me do, let me just do this one. Preview. And it's creating the video right now. Okay, so there it is. It's a little bit weird. It's not like exactly the right video for this, but then if I wanted to change the text, see down here it says video and text. I would just hit that and edit. And then I would put my own my own texts right in there. So whatever whatever I want to say, it doesn't really matter. Then there you go, That video is done and I can export it. There you go. That is templates. Then if I go back to my menu here and under Edit, Auto Cut, this is really cool. You can take, let's just use photos. Let's say I want to make a video with photos of trees that are yellow. I would simply select some of these that keeps happening. Let's say I want to put a couple of my son in there. Okay. So I have some photos selected. I'm just going to hit Next. It's analyzing it is creating the video right now. And it has simply selected a song. It's selected effects. And there you go, I could change it. Let's see, I don't really like that. I could say, Hey, you know what, making it a popular style. I can make it in a pop style. I can make it in a popular style, and a bunch more so lots to do here. You can also replace the sound in the library. You can go in here and pick a sound that you like better if you like it and you're just going to export it. So one thing about these though, the template and the auto cut, if you've saved to your device, it will have a cap cut watermark on it because cap cut like made that video for you. But if you save it directly to TikTok, it'll, it'll save without, it'll share without the watermark. You can connect your TikTok account and then share that way without that watermark. Once, once you export it, you're going to open TikTok and then it's going to prompt you to share it there. But if you do an auto cut or template and you want to share it as a real, then you're going to have to export it to your phone first and then just upload it with the cap cut logo. It's not the worst thing ever, honestly, if people know you, you use cap cut. Good for cap cut, I guess. So that's templates and auto cut. Of course you don't have to use it. You can always custom edit your stuff, but sometimes, sometimes you don't want to and they're able to make really cool stuff for you. 14. Congrats and Next Steps!: Hey, you made it through the course. Congratulations, How do you feel? Did you edit a project? If you did, please post it so that I can give you feedback if you want that, or I can just give you kudos because it's not a small feat to learn how to edit a video. So good job. Hope you learned a lot. Please feel free to go back and watch anything again, I know some of the videos are pretty dense, have a lot of information in there. So go back as much as you need practice is your friend with editing. The more you do it, the more you just kinda try things out in CapCut. So like, oh, what does this button do? Just do a lot of that. And you will definitely feel more and more capable the more you do it. If you want to continue learning for me, I've got other courses here on Skillshare. Thanks so much for taking the course and let me know if you have any feedback.