- This is the complete
CapCut video editing tutorial for beginners. We're gonna step through
exactly how to edit videos using CapCut on both iPhone and Android from start to finish. Including how to make the
most of the cool features and the tools and effects to streamline your video editing process. Hi, it's Justin Brown
here from Primal Video, where we help you grow an
audience and scale your revenue with online video. If you're seeing value in this video, make sure you're giving it a thumbs up. It really makes a huge difference and all the links to everything
I mention in this video, you can find the linked in
the description box below. Let's jump into it. CapCut is one of the most
popular video editing apps for iPhone and Android right now. And while it is created by
the company behind TikTok, it's far more than just
a TikTok video editor. You can easily use it to create
videos on your smartphone for any platform or use case. So in this video, I will show you exactly how to use it, running through a complete
editing process step by step. So by the end you'll
have everything you need to create awesome videos
yourself in CapCut. And once we're done, I'll also share with
you my top three tools to easily level up your videos in CapCut or any video editor. And as we go through, let me
know down in the comments, what's your biggest tip
for new CapCut users. It could be from this video or something else that you've picked up from having a play around yourself. Now in this video, we're not gonna be covering
off on every feature, there's a lot of stuff in there, but I am gonna show you the key stuff that you need to know to
get the most out of the app and to start getting great
results as fast as possible. So the process I'm gonna
take you through here is using the primal video method, the most efficient way
to edit your videos down with minimal wasted time and rework. I'll share more about that a
little bit later in the video, but if you're impatient, there is a direct link in the description to download your free copy now. This is something that you can print out and follow along with on
all your future videos you're editing. Okay, so I'm here in CapCut,
now I'm just using an iPad 'cause it's got a bigger screen, but the process is going
to be exactly the same on iOS and Android. So you just gonna tap on a new project and then you wanna select
your primary video clip your main clip. So I'm gonna pick this one here
and I'm going to choose add. If you've got multiple primary clips and you can select
multiples there as well, but for all additional clips, B-roll overlaying stuff, we will be adding those
a little bit later. So you wanna pick your
primary footage first. So what CapCut's down now is it set up our overall video editing project to match that primary clip. So our primary clip in this
case was widescreen video, So it's created us here,
a widescreen timeline. If you wanna switch the type of video you're gonna make, you wanna come down to
format down the bottom and then you can choose the
different types of videos. So it could be a portrait
video for a Tiktok, could be a widescreen video for YouTube, square for Instagram, you've got lots of
different options in here. So for this video, I'm gonna leave it here at
16 by nine or widescreen, but what's cool is you
can come back here later and save out different
versions of your video as well in different formats. So we need to go back out of this one now. So really quickly for the
interface and the layout here of the top where it says 10 ADP. If we select on that, we can choose the resolution
or the quality of the video that we're making. So the default here right now is 10 ADP and it's suggesting 30 frames per second. The default are normally gonna
be what you wanna be using, but you do have the ability
to up it, to say here, 4k or to change the frame
rates and things here as well. I'm gonna go ahead and
leave them at default. The button next to that is
the save or export button. We've got our big playback
window here in the middle, which is where we can preview our edit, we've got our undo, redo
buttons over to the side, we've got our maximize
button which we can press, and that will maximize our video to play it back full screen. We've got our editing
timeline down the bottom here, which we can just tap to drag across. We can pinch to zoom in and out so that we can see all of our
clips in the timeline here, and we've got all of our
settings and adjustments in buttons along the bottom. So now that we have our
primary footage here in the timeline, I'm gonna zoom in, I'm gonna go across to the start. What we're gonna do now is go through and remove any of the
bad takes, the mistakes or anything that you
don't wanna have included in your finished video. And there's a few different
ways that we can do this. So just by scrubbing across here, we can see that at the start
of the clip, I'm getting ready, a little shoulder stretch,
and then I start talking here. So we wanna move everything
up until this point. So I'm gonna tap on our clip here now to bring up our editing tools. And then down in the bottom
left-hand corner here, we've got split. This is going to split
our clip at that point or add a cut in our footage. So we can see now we have two clips here, so we can select the first
clip and we can press delete down the bottom, and that has removed
that first clip for us. So our video now starts
just before I start talking. And if I undo that now
by pressing undo here, the other way that we can do this, let's zoom back in on our clip here, is that we can tap to select our clip and then on the left-hand side here we can see we've got this white handle, if we tap and hold on this, we can drag this in to where
we want our clip to start. So let's keep dragging it
across until about here. So now our clip is going
to start at that point. Likewise, with the end of our clip, we can do exactly the same, we can go across to the very
end with our clip selected, we can grab that end handle
and we can drag that in to when I finish speaking. Now, one thing to note with CapCut is that it does add this extra
little video here at the end, we can remove that just by tapping on it and pressing delete, and that's now gone. So it's a good idea to edit this way, so you're actually remembering
to remove that piece so that it's not saved out
in your finished video. Now I can actually use a combination of these things as well. So if we go back across here
to where I make a mistake, so when I start talking, again, is where we wanna
pick this clip up from so I can add a cut at this point here, selecting our clip, pressing split. Now all of this stuff
here in between a take, that I wanna remove, I can
again, select this clip, I can grab that handle and
we can shorten this back until the end of that last
sentence, somewhere around here. So that's the first
step here, to go through and to edit everything down,
remove all the bad takes, all the mistakes anything you don't wanna
have in your end video, you wanna go ahead and
remove all of those now. Now for me, when I'm filming my videos, I only move to the next
take, the next sentence, the next paragraph once I'm
happy with the last one, this means I can go back through and edit my footage down backwards, always hitting the best take or the one that I want to use last. So this is gonna make your
editing much faster as well. So once you've done that, the next step is to add in
any B-roll or overlay footage. So you can come down the bottom
here to the overlay button and press on that, and
then go add in overlay. And here we can choose any
graphics, videos, photos, or things that you've
got saved on your device. So I'm gonna go ahead
and add this one first and hit add down the bottom. Sometimes it will just go
through and process the video so that it plays back fine on your device. And you can see that we've
now got this additional clip on here. Now, because this clip is
sitting on a different layer, we can scale that down just by pinching to zoom on the screen, in case we wanted to have it
off to one side or something, but in most cases you'll probably want
to make it full screen. So we're just gonna scale this up and then just like any other
clip here we can tap and press and hold on it, we can move it around to where we want the clip to be, we can also trim it down
using the same tool. So at the start of the clip, we have those handles here on the left, so we can choose where
we want this to start, where we want it to finish. So let's just say that we
want it to start about here and play through into a zoomed in here on that switch pod logo there and we can add a cut in it at this point, and then we can just press
delete on that second clip there. Let's go ahead and add in
another piece of overlay or B-roll footage here,
this one, and choose add, again we're gonna scale
this up to full screen and let's trim it down. So I think from memory, we did two attempts on this,
that's Caleb Wojcik there with the switch pod tripod. So we're gonna take the second ones. We want this clip just about here, and if we play this through, so we'll probably add a cut about here. So with that clip selected, I wanna hit split down the bottom. Let me do a little pan around, we could probably remove that and let's just go to the piece where he's gonna pick it back up, so I add another split in our clip here. Let's select that clip in
the middle and press delete, so we're left with two clips. So we've got him putting it down and then there's another one here with him picking it back up, now with these as well you can actually layer them
on top of each other as well, so we can pick them up and add them on top of their own B-roll layers. So you can see that you've
got me here on screen now, We'll have one B-roll clip that shows up and we can even cut to another
one sitting on top of that if we wanted to as well,
so really powerful. So once you've gone through, you've added in all your
B-roll and overlay footage. Next up, we're gonna add
in any titles or texts into the video. So let's come back to the start here. Let's go back out of this menu down the bottom left-hand corner, and you can see what's happened
to our video layers here, it's actually compressed
them now that we're out. So if we look at our B-roll
footage, it is still there, we can see what that red
line how long it plays for, but it has given us a
compressed version of it or compressed view of it. Now if you wanna get back
into that B-roll at any point, we can just tap on it
and it's gonna give us our more detailed timeline view, but it's cool that when we
back out of this editing mode, that we're just seeing a
more compressed version of the timeline. So when we go back to the
start of our video here, somewhere around here. We're gonna go down to the
text button down the bottom, and in here we can just add in basic text, if we go add text and we can
create our title from here. So let's go Justin Brown. We can adjust the style here, there's some presets
again that we can use, we can apply some effects to this as well. Again, with some presets in here, some cooler looking titles,
we can go across to bubble to change how the titles actually look. And there's some animations
that we can add in here as well. But in terms of styling this
up, if we go back to style, then this is where we can
change up things in more detail, like the color of the text,
the stroke, the background, the shadow. We can also adjust the
different fonts and things across here as well, lots of different ones to choose from all to make it match your brand. So in terms of scaling or repositioning it we can just pick it up and
move it around on the screen, we can also adjust the size up and down. And once you happy with how it looks, you can come over to the animation area and we can add an in-animation. So how it's going to come onto the screen, so we could just have a blur
for it to appear or a wavein, or there's lots of different
animations and things in here we can use. And you can also then pick an animation for it to animate out or to disappear from your screen as well. So I'm gonna go back to bubble here, I'm going to remove that background. I'm gonna go back to style and pick something a bit
more primal video style, so a text with a box behind it. I'm gonna then come down
to the background color, let's choose a blue, that's similar to Primal Video blue, and we might just adjust the size and bring it down a little bit. So you can see how much
you can customize in here. So we're gonna hit that
little tick to apply that. And we now have a title
layer here with an effect, bringing it onscreen and
disappearing afterwards, and just like any other clip
we can press and hold on it, we can move it around, we can tap on it, we can extend it out or shorten how long it's
going to be on screen for, all of this is really, really easy. And now if we go back
out of this menu here, the other option you have is that there is full on templates
in here for texts, so if we press here and the
next one across text template, there's a lot of other
fancier titles and animations and things in here that
you can use as well. And you can save them as favorites so that you don't need to go and find them every time you wanna use them. You've also got templates in
here for timers and clocks, as well as subtitles that
you can add to your videos as well. So if we hit the little
arrow down the bottom left to get back out of this now, now we can see on that timeline here, that we have that orange line. Now that is just showing us
that we do have a title added at that point. And if at any time we want
to edit where that is, we can come back to the text area by pressing T down the bottom, and we have access to edit down our titles and move them around. So you wanna go through and
add in any text or titles into your videos at this point. Once that's done, it's now time to add in
any transitions or effects onto your footage. Now there's a couple of
different ways to do this, whether you're gonna be applying it to your main primary footage or to your B-roll overlay footage. So we'll start off with the B-roll first. So let's say that I am
talking to a camera here and we wanna bring up this
shot that we've got there, but we don't just want it to hard cut on, we want it to animate in. So we're gonna press on that clip there to open up our B-roll footage, and then we're gonna make sure
that that clip is selected by tapping on it and down the bottom we can see the animation button. So if you press on that, again we can choose an
in-animation and an out-animation. So let's say that we want it
to animate in onto a screen, we're gonna press in. And then we've got, again, a lot of presets and templates in here of transitions and
effects that we can use. So there's simple ones like a fade, or if we play that through again, it's going to fade that clip on screen and we can adjust how long
that fade is gonna go over, you can see that blue
line there filling out that's the length of the
transition, so at 1.3 seconds it's a slow fade in, or we could use fancier
titles like a spinning or a mini zoom. There's lots in here to choose from, one that doesn't look too bad
is this zoom too at the end, it's kinda like a zoom in, maybe if we make it a little bit quicker, let's just see what that looks like. So we've got that subtle
zoom and just a bit of polish instead of it just being a hard cut on. So we hit the little tick to apply that, and that's now applied to our clip. So that's how we can add
an in and out transition, there's also a different
type of transition. If we come across this next clip here and I scrubbed through it, we can see that we've got Caleb that's opening the switch pod, putting it down, moving his hand away. There's not a lot of
movement in that shot, but if we select it and
come down to animation, we can choose a combo effect. There's a lots of different
ones in here, again, to choose from different types
of movements we can add in. Okay, that's a bit crazy,
let's not go with that one, but something like these bounce ones here. So you can see we've now got
extra camera movement in there where it's kind of rotated on the way in. So if you play through this a bit slower, so you can see it, it's rotated as it transition into this clip and it's added some
extra movement onto it. So it's pretty cool. Again, these things you just
tap to apply them to your clip, to add a next level of polish
or movement to your videos. Just gonna hit the tick to apply that one, now to add transitions and effects to our primary video layer here, you can see we've got two clips here. So we wanna add an effect between them, we can just hit the little
white marker between them, and that's going to let us
apply a transition in there. And again, there's lots of different
ones that you can choose from. A lot of these could potentially cheapen the quality of the video
that you're producing. So don't go overboard with
these, things like a white flash or a dip to black, a black fade, are normally ones that
I would be looking for, just something subtle enough
to break up your shots. But I would only be using these where the shots are different, in our case here where
it's a shot of me talking followed by another shot of me talking, I wouldn't apply a
transition between the two. Instead, what I would do is
zoom in on one of the shots so that they looked a
little bit different. So if I just select the second shot here, and then up in the top, I can pinch to zoom to make it bigger. So I zoomed in on it a little bit, I'll then wanna move it down a little bit, so that the framing is still similar. Now if we scrubbed between them, we've got the first shot here
then where there is a cut it's now zoomed in a little bit. So it's just changed it up
a little bit for the viewers is a subtle effect, subtle
transition between the two, instead of having a
full-on fade or a flash or anything like that. So this is what we do
in our YouTube videos. So that's how you can easily add and create different
transitions between your clips. But you can also add in
effects in CapCut well. So if we come down the
bottom here to effects and then video effects. This is another area where
there's just tons of effects and things that you can add
to your videos in here too. So let's try collision
sparks or metamorphosis. Again, not something I'd
normally use for our videos, but there's a lot of options in here. And even having things in
here like glowing lines, to be able to really add
some quite unique effects and things that would
take typically a long time to create these effects in
software like after effects, you just tap a button in here, you can even make adjustments to them and apply them really, really simply. But one thing that really stood out for me was the background removal effect. So if I just select a clip to show you, come down to remove background, it's gonna go and analyze the clip and take out the entire background, and it does a really good job. Again, we can then scale this up, pick it up and move it around. But this is the background
that we're removing. There's a lot going on, a lot of different lights
and colors and things, and it's done a really good
job at cutting this out. So again, it's pretty awesome having
these tools and effects and things in here to allow
you to get super creative with your videos. I'll go ahead and undo that one now. Now in terms of speeding up
or slowing down your clips, if you select the clip
that you wanna adjust, you can then come down
the bottom here to speed. And then if you select normal, you can just increase the speed
or slow it down from there. Or if you select a curve, you can have more control
over the speed adjustments as you go. And the other standout feature for me is if you've got a clip selected
and you wanna stabilize it, you can come across here to stabilize and it's gonna do a
great job of stabilizing and taking out any camera
shake in your videos. Okay, so rounding out this step, you just wanna go through
and in any transitions or any effects, any speed adjustments to your videos at this point. Once that's done next stop, we're gonna add in any
audio or sound effects into our video. So we can go back to the
start and it says here, add audio. So we can just tap on
the screen at that point, and then we can pick sounds or effects that are on our device, or able to record a
voiceover in here as well. So I'm gonna go ahead and press sounds. So in here there's lots
of different music tracks that CapCut gives you access to, personally I like to use music that I've purchased through
Artlist or Epidemic Sound so that I know that I'm
covered with licensing wherever I'm gonna use the videos. So if you've already got
music saved on your device, then you can find it under your sounds and then hit from device. But for the purposes of this video, I'm just gonna grab an audio
track here from the app. This one here, Autumn Breeze,
that sounds delightful. Let's press download on that one, it's gonna play the audio track. I'm gonna hit the plus to
add it into our timeline, and we can see now we've got
our music track in there. Just like any other clip we can tap on it, we can adjust the start if we want it to start a little bit later, likewise with the end, we wanna make sure that our
audio track is finishing when our video finishes. So we can add a cut in our timeline and we can delete the rest of that clip. So once you've gone through
and added in your music or add your sound effects, the next step is to set
all of your volume levels. Now CapCut does do a really good job of setting your primary footage, setting the volume levels correct on that. But you can come in on
a clip by clip basis and make adjustments
to that if you need to, so if you select your clip you can come down here to volume
and you can make it louder or quieter from here. But again, I personally haven't found that I need to make any adjustments to the primary footage in here, but if you want more
control over your audio, then with your clips selected, you can also extract your audio. So you can see now we have
extracted audio down the bottom, and this is the audio
piece from our video clip. So if I wanted to make
edits to the audio separate from the video, then you
have that ability here in CapCut too. So once you've gone through it and you've set the volume levels on your primary audio track, next you're going to adjust
the music track as well. So you wanna select your music
track, come down to volume. Now for us, we find that down
around the 30, 27 to 30 mark is the sweet spot for volume, again depending on the audio track. So that it is not too loud that you can still hear what
I'm saying in our videos, but that you can still hear that there's music playing as well. So when you're setting these
volume levels adjustments, I would suggest that you're
doing it with headphones on or headphones connected so
that you can really hear what this is going to sound like. So once you're happy with
that, just hit the tick and that is going to apply
to your audio track too. Now while you've got your
audio tracks selected, you can also add in a fade as well. So you can specify the fade duration here, let's go two seconds on the start and let's not have one on the end. And we can see there now
that our audio fades in, we've got that little diagram
of that on the screen. Once you've got your music
and your volume level sorted, next up, we're going to color
grade or adjust the colors in our video too. Now in here we can do it
on an individual video clip by video clip basis, or we can actually
apply a filter or a look across our entire edit. So with nothing selected you can come down the bottom to filters, and there are filters in
here that you can apply think of these like Instagram filters, where if there is something
that matches the look and feel that you're after, then you can definitely
just run with that. So let's say for instance, that were gonna run with autumn, we can hit the tick down the bottom. And we have another clip
here, which is our filter clip or our fixed clip, which we can say which piece of the video
is gonna be covered or affected by this filter. So if we stretch this out
across the entire video, then that effect is going to be applied across our entire video. This is the filter side of things let me go ahead and delete that, and if we go back out of this, instead of adding a filter this
time with no clips selected, we can come down the bottom here to adjust and we can go in and
we can manually adjust and create our own filter or own look. So where I'd start with this is I'd be starting with exposure to make sure that our
shot is bright enough. So you might wanna brighten
this up or darken it down depending on your shot. From there I'd jump across to the shadows, so we're able to make adjustments to the dark area of the shot, you see I can brighten those
up or I can darken them down. Then if I wanna tweak that further, I'd come over to contrast, I would adjust that slightly, I'd then be looking at
the color temperature, can make the shot cooler, or we can make it warmer
with this slider here. So this will correct the
white balance in your camera if it wasn't set correctly
when you recorded your video and depending on the shot from there, I'd probably also then
look at the saturation and maybe boost that up a little bit. You don't wanna to go too far, you'll look sunburned. (chuckles) Just up a little bit to
boost some of the colors. Once you're done, you can hit the tick down the bottom. And again, this was the
before this is the after, and we can then stretch this clip out across the entire timeline, so that is applied to all of our video. Now, the other option instead was to do it on a clip by clip basis where we're selecting a video clip coming down the bottom here
to filters or adjustments. We've got the same control
and the same settings in here as well. So once you finish that, the next step is to save out your video. So you want to hit up in
the top right-hand corner, the little up arrow that's gonna go ahead and it's gonna save your video for you using the optimal settings
based on that primary footage that you imported first up when you were editing your video. From there you can save your video out with the links there on screen, or you can hit on other and choose to save your video to files or to save your video into the photos area of your device as well. When you're done, just hit done up the top and you're taken back to the home screen. Now once this is finished, I'd strongly recommended that you are playing back your video, just checking that it looks good, sounds the way that you want. Again, ideally with headphones on so you're getting a true
experience of what you've created and then coming back in
and fixing up anything you wanna change. So that's how easy it
is to edit in CapCut. Now earlier in the video, I said I'd share with you three tools to help you level up your video creation in any video editing software. Tool number one is to use
stock footage in your videos. There's amazing services out there like Storyblocks and Artgrid that make it really easy for
you to find additional footage, additional B-roll that
you can use in your videos to help keep your viewers engaged, to help them understand what
it is that you're talking about and to help you make your
videos more interesting without the need for you to go out and to shoot everything yourself. Tool number two is to
use animated graphics, animated video intros
and titles in your videos to again, help you create more engaging, more professional looking videos. Our number one service right
now to help you do this is Placeit, it's amazing,
it's incredibly cheap, and it will allow you to create some really awesome looking
graphics and animations and titles and things
to use in your videos really, really quickly and easily. Now we've got a dedicated video showing you just how powerful
and easy Placeit is to use, I will link that in the description below. And number three is to use Stock music or copyright free music in your videos. Music is a super powerful
storytelling tool that will help you tell your viewers how they should be feeling while they're consuming your content. And this is where it's really
to use the right music tracks that will match the feeling that you want your viewers to have while they're watching your video. This is gonna help them
stick around longer and actually consume what
it is you're telling them. Now in terms of recommended
places to grab music right now, we get hours from Artlist
and Epidemic Sound. And again, we've got a full
breakdown on both of those in a video which I will link
in the description below. So now that you know
how to edit in CapCut, you've got your stock
footage, your animated intros, and your stock music sorted don't forget to grab your copy
of the Primal Video method, the process that we talked you through to edit faster in this video. You can download your free
copy using the link on screen, you can print it out and you can use it with any video editing app or program knowing then that you're using
the most optimized process. So don't forget to grab your
copy with the link on screen, and I will see you in the next video.
