In Depth Capcut Mobile Video Editing Masterclass

cap cut is the best editing app for beginners and even the pros are switching over to it because it's so great for quick and easy edits in this video you're going to get a step-by-step walkthrough of how I edit two different videos using the cap cut mobile app so let's dive [Music] in okay before we start editing I do want to point out that this is going to be a long video something that you might want to bookmark and come back to over time as you continue to grow as an editor the first video that we edit is going to be a basic Instagram real I'm calling it a level one edit if you're brand new to cap cut brand new to editing in general this is going to be great for you and then after that we're going to crank up the heat a little bit and do a more advanced talking head Instagram reel here you'll learn how to recreate a lot of the popular trends that you're seeing online the reason this video is a step-by-step tutorial is because unlike most editing videos on YouTube where they just show you the buttons and tell you what they do I think that in order to truly learn you need to watch someone do it and see the decision-making process as it plays out throughout the edit and throughout this video If you find the training style valuable you definitely want to check out our full online course 14-day filmmaker it has over 150 videos inside that teach you exactly how to master the process of shooting and editing on a smartphone over 120,000 people have gone through this course it only costs $48 in the link to enroll is in the description but without any further Ado let's dive into cap cut so I'm actually going to be editing on an iPad today and the only reason I'm doing that is to make make this easier on you it's a larger screen it's going to make following along with the tutorial much easier outside of one very small thing which I will touch on in the video when it occurs there are no differences between iPads iPhones and Androids when it comes to cap cut so we are in cap cut here and I'm just going to tap on new project the first thing it's going to ask you to do is select the footage that you actually want to edit so I will select our footage by just tapping the little Circle in the top right hand corner if you wanted to you could tap on the actual clip itself at which point it will let you preview that clip but I'm just going to continue tapping on them keep in mind that cap cut is going to import these in the order that you select them here so if you're doing an edit where you want to go chronologically select the clip that you want to be first in your video you can always change the sequence later on in the edit but again I try to get ahead of things here so I'll hit add now that we've got all of our Clips selected and it's going to open up our cap cut interface now really quick I'm just going to give you an overview of what everything you're seeing actually is in the top leftand corner you could exit out of your project moving to the top right this little drop down is our project setting so we could change our resolution our frame rate our code rate and we could switch in and out of HDR for the most part you can leave this exactly as it is cap cut will autod detect the best settings for your project so you can come out of this after that this little button right here is the export video which will do that at the end once we want to save it to our phone moving down here we have our player window this is what's going to play the actual video that you're looking at and if you wanted to because this is a touchscreen device if you select the clip on the timeline you're actually able to pinch zoom and move around the clip in the frame with your fingers now I don't want to do that right now so I'll come down here and hit the undo button just to go back to where we were before but moving on we have a button here to view in full screen if we wanted to see this take up the entire screen we have our play button we have a key frame icon which is a little bit of an advanced concept we'll talk about that later and then we have our undo and redo button moving on from there we have the primary element of your edit which is the video timeline these are all of the clips that we imported earlier and it just plays in a left to right fashion where whatever is underneath this line right here which is called the play head is going to show up on the player window you can see if I hit play it's just going to go through these clips one at a time left to right on the timeline also on the timeline we have a button here to mute all of the audio associated with these clips if you didn't want the audio to play through and you also have a button to create a cover frame this is basically the first frame of your video which you could use as the cover on Instagram Tik Tok anything like that I'm just going to leave this as is for now and hit X now we also have a little icon to add audio like music or sound effects something like that down here and then finally we get to the bottom of our screen here which is our main menu now this main menu has a lot of functionality and it would take forever to walk through each individual button it will become relevant as we go throughout this edit but I want you to know that this menu will change depending on what you have selected so if I select this clip right here notice that the menu changed and now it's gone into the submenu for when you have a clip selected what this means is any of these icons right here here when you click on them the change is going to be made to the clip that you have selected there are going to be other submenus that come up throughout this video for text overlays stickers all these things so keep in mind this menu will change and if you ever get lost you just hit this back icon to go to the main menu now one main menu item that I'll point out right now is this aspect ratio button right here if you wanted to edit a horizontal video or a one by one video you could click on aspect ratio and check change from original which is our vertical format here you could change to 1x one 16 by9 you can just see it's making the frame wider at which point you would have to select your clips and zoom in to kind of fill that frame I obviously want to stay in the vertical format so I'll just hit undo and go back now with all that out of the way we've covered the interface we can talk about our very basic editing controls so on the timeline with our Clips we have them play one after after another now if you wanted to rearrange your sequence you could hold your finger on a clip that's going to give you a very easy way to drag it around and move it to wherever you want now let's say your clip is too long and you want to shorten it you want to cut it and delete a portion of it very simple with a clip selected let's choose this one you can grab the handles at the left and the right of the video at which point you can shorten it lengthen it and you can do the same exact thing from the front as well like for example say you wanted it to start right here as it's being stuck on the fridge you could do that now I'll hit undo to go back the other thing you can do rather than trim is cut a clip or in cap Cuts terms you can split a clip so with this clip selected we have our submenu down here and I can hit split which is going to just cut that clip in half and if I wanted to I could delete one2 only keeping the part that I want to keep in the edit couple different ways to basically do the same exact thing now we'll move back with our undo buttons here and for the most part that is basic editing you now know more than most people do when it comes to editing so celebrate a little bit so our intro stuff is kind of out of the way here and we can actually start editing our video now I know I haven't told it to you but we're going to be doing a motivational Instagram reel these pop up on my feed all the time where it's basically just some kind of cool cinematic footage with emotional music in the background and usually a motivational quote as well now I have both of those that we need to import the audio and the music to do that we're going to come down to our add audio button right here tap it and now we have a series of options to choose from I'm just going to click on sounds and now I've already downloaded the song that I want to use my favorite site on the internet for licensing songs is epidemicsound.com they don't sponsor us but if you do want a free 7-Day trial we've got a link in the description I downloaded that song on my computer I aird dropped it to the iPad and now with it on my iPad I can actually use it in the edit so rather than select the Tik Tok icon right here which has a bunch of free music already in the app right you can preview any of these and use them if you want I'm actually going to hit the folder icon right here and then I'm going to choose from my device now I've already imported these two songs so you see them in my library but if you hadn't imported them already you would just hit select from device it will open up your library of files and you can choose one now I've already done that so so we will first import the motivational music and now that just added the song right to where our playhead was I actually want it at the beginning of the clip so I'll select it and bring it forward and now we're going to add the next layer of audio which is our motivational quote now I'll go back to the main menu and you'll notice our add sound button that was down here before is now gone that's totally fine you can add a layer by hitting audio on the main menu then tapping on sounds again and following the same exact process of hitting the folder device and now we have our motivational audio that's our quote plus then again drag that up to the front now just to give you an idea of where we're at I can hit play and you can watch the video success requires sacrifice long hours late nights saying no to the things most people look forward to but here's the thing if you so not bad so far but our video clips are all too long I want to shorten these make sure that our video is straight to the point it follows the flow of the song giving us a much better edit now there are tons of different styles of video edits out there but for something like this where the music is kind of the core driver of the edit you're going to want to cut your videos on the Beats of the song all songs have these rhythmic patterns to them and when we cut on those beats our edit flows much better now if you're aware of music and how this works finding the beat and cutting your clip right there won't be hard but cap cut also does this automatically for us so with our music selected we come down down to the submenu here and click on Beats now we could add beats manually to the song by hitting this button but we want cap cut to do the heavy lifting so I'm going to hit autogenerate here and it's going to take a minute analyze the song and now it's added these little markers on our track for every single beat of the song which is super helpful when I click the check mark you'll now notice back on the timeline it's small but those dots are there and it marks all the Beats now I want each clip of this edit to last two beats and this is extremely simple to do now all I need to do is with a clip selected grab it and trim it down and you can see right there it kind of snapped right to that beat marker cap cut knows it's what I want to do so what you saw me do right there was trim but I could also hover over a beat right you can see it right there I could select my clip hit split and then delete whatever I don't want right I'll just delete the end here and we'll be good to go you could obviously also trim from the front get a rough idea of where you want it to be and then really make sure you've snapped it and it's worth two beats the key here is to trim the front or the back to keep only the best segment of your video this is something that all top tier editors do now a little Pro tip if you noticed here we have these two clips and it's kind of a cool sequence where it goes from day to night now this is called a match cut and it's called that because we have two scenes and we're perfectly matching the first clip to the second clip it was filmed on a tripod I just let it record in the morning and I kept working then I recorded a clip at night too to kind of give the idea of time passing very simple thing I do match Cuts all the time you're seeing examples on screen right now but to keep this section from being Ultra repetitive I'm just going to go throughout the entire rest of the video and cut to the beat so we have our final sequence all all right so we've got our sequence aligned and just so you know capcut always adds its own little marketing plug at the end you can just select that and delete it and then also our song goes for a little longer than it needs to we can edit our music just like we would our Clips with it selected I can trim it all the way down to the end and while we're here with the music selected I do want you to know that there is an entire submenu for audio as well so if you wanted to adjust the volume you could tap on volume here increase it or decrease it you could also add a fade to the beginning and the end of the audio so it kind of Fades in slowly and then Fades out there's a lot of menu items that you can really only Master by exploring them yourself most of them I will say are pretty self-explanatory though now moving on with our edit we have our sequence all aligned up and I'm not really going to use transitions in this edit because I like a nice clean cut between my my Clips but if you wanted to add a transition you'll notice that there are these icons between every single clip if you tap on that it's going to bring up a submenu with all of these different transitions now yes cap cut has a pro membership that does cost money and you're going to notice that they have all these effects labeled as Pro I am only using the free options today and I really don't think anyone needs to get a pro cap cut subscription it's definitely worth $10 per month but you don't need it and very rarely do I actually use the pro effects but for example if you wanted to use a transition we could choose this free one right here for pull in and you'll notice right there it just gave us a preview on our clip if I scroll back and play through it sacrifice it did that little zoom in transition which I don't think looks bad at all but I'm going to remove it for this so I'll click it and then hit the circle with the cross in it and we're back to where we were transitions are cool you can overdo it so just you know be careful okay up next for this video I want to add Auto captions that align with the audio from the quote now adding text titles all that stuff in cap cut is super easy from the main menu you are going to come down here and select on text now we have a bunch of different ways that we could add text the simplest way is to just hit the add text icon that's going to add a little graphic where you could type out what was being said you could type out your title you could type out your name whatever you want uh from there you can change your style of the text you know you could choose one of the preset Styles you could change the color to whatever you want you could hit on background and add a background like this I'm sure you've seen this many times on the different social media platforms lots of very self-explanatory stuff in here when it comes to editing text I don't want to manually add the text though that would take me a while so I'm just going to delete that come back to our main menu here and I'm going to tap on auto captions from here it's going to ask us to select our caption Style again they've got some cool Pro ones but we really just need the free one so I'm going to tap this style right here and then hit generate and voila we have our Auto captions really cool they go throughout the entire video did all this work for us freaking love that and just like the text that we were editing before if I were to select this layer right here we have a submenu where we can change things right we already picked a style but if we wanted to change it we could tap on style and we could choose this one right here right and that's going to change all of our text layers it didn't just change the one that I selected here it's going to change the style of all of them so that they look uniform now I'm going to hit undo because I actually liked the style that we had before if you wanted to you could move your text and it will also move all the other ones pretty straightforward you could use your fingers pinch and resize do whatever you want with them again I'm going to go back though what's key for me here is I want to animate these a little bit more and for a slow emotional video like this there's already one I have in mind but to get here we are going to come to our text layer come down to animations in the submenu and now the one that I really like is this typing animation here before I select that though I do want you to know that there are in animations which animate how the text comes onto frame there are out animations which animate how the text leaves the frame and then you have a loop which just continues doing the same thing in a looping fashion to the text and then you have caption specific specific animations which really are you know just more animations I'm going to go back to our in animation here and one more thing I need to tell you before I choose this I want you to see this button right here apply to autoc captions what that's asking is do you want to apply this animation to every single caption in the entire video or do you uncheck this and only apply it to the one text file that you have selected I actually do want to apply this to everything so I'm going to leave it checked and finally we can select our animation I'll hit check and just give you an idea we'll play through it real quick success requires sacrifice long hours late nights saying no to the things most people look forward to but here's the thing if you live like no one is so that's super cool like really if I wasn't explaining how to do all this stuff we would have been done in like 3 minutes so you can definitely do edits like this very fast in cap cut and now we're officially ready to export there are a lot of advanced concepts that we're going to touch on in the next edit but for here we've got something that I'm super proud of you could double check and make sure you know all the spelling is correct and if something wasn't correct you could just double tap on the caption that's going to bring up the editor where you can actually change that text everything for me looks pretty good though so I'm going to come up here and hit the export button right here that is just going to take a second to process and then we'll have a screen where we can save this video to our phone post it to Instagram Tik Tok anything like that and there you have it I'll play this video so you can watch it from start to finish success requires sacrifice long hours late nights saying no to the things most people look forward to but here's the thing if you live like no one is willing to now eventually you'll be able to live a life beyond what you ever dreamed possible remind yourself of that every time it gets hard hard is good it's a side effect of growth so embrace it when it hits you and remind yourself of where you're going hey real quick do you ever suffer from eye strain computer headaches or maybe it takes you forever to fall asleep at night now I'm not a doctor but I am a human being with eyeballs that struggled with all of these things until I found the sponsor of today's video Felix gray and their incredible blue light blocking glasses I've worn these glasses from 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inspiration for this talking head edit so just like before we're going to start and hit new project and the clip that we're going to edit is this one right here I filmed it on my iPhone and it's just me talking to the camera in my office so we'll check the box right there and hit add so just like before we've got our timeline this time it's only One Clip though and it's a much longer clip and you can see there's a lot of me just sitting and thinking and then I talk and then I take a break and I think about what the next line is and then I deliver the next line if you're recording videos like this do not worry about trying to get it to be a perfect take all you need to do is pause restart your line you can always delete those gaps in the edit which is what we're going to do now before that though there are two steps that I do with all talking head videos the first one is any potential reframing that I might have to do if you look at this clip it's definitely not bad but I think we can zoom in slightly and also that artwork I have in the back is slightly tilted which I always try to avoid with this clip selected all we need to do is go down to the submenu and hit on basic right here this is just a easier option to reframe your clip compared to trying to pinch in with your fingers so first we have position scale and then rotation I'm going to start with scale just increase the scale a little little bit we'll go to like 107 from there we will go to position and move move over slightly just to get me more Center frame and then we will go to rotation and just increase the rotation to one Dee that flattens things out and it looks so much better so we reframe the second step is we color correct or color grade now color correction and color grading is a very advanced process and it would take hours to explain exactly how to do every single step in process that's something we teach in our full online course but if you want to get just a basic intro to color correction you would come down to the filters tab right here at which point you could select the pre-made filters that are included in the free option for example you could choose black and white you could choose humble which is a little bit more of like a moody look there's a lot in here that you can explore and you can adjust the strength of that filter right here I typically shy away from these and if anything I will turn it off and then go to the adjust tab here now if you've ever edited a photo or video before you'll likely recognize these we've got brightness contrast saturation Brilliance sharpen hsl for Hue saturation and luminance lots of stuff in here each one of these has a slider where you can increase or decrease the selected parameter if you're just getting started I'd recommend focusing on brightness contrast saturation and then your temperature very straightforward tool tools if you wanted to with a clip like this I think the brightness is fine I might go over to the highlights just decrease the highlights a little bit increase the contrast get it to pop a little bit more sometimes I'll play around with the Brilliance I think I'm going to leave it as is though I don't think we need much else but now we are good to go and you'll notice that on the submenu we originally selected filters but you can also hit adjust and it will bring you directly to that menu and if you had multiple clips you could apply the color grade that you've done to all of your Clips by hitting apply to all right here needless to say we've completed the first two steps the next step is cutting up our clip removing all of the mistakes removing all of the Dead Space the pauses all that stuff now interestingly enough I always use cap cut on my phone and they have a feature called transcript based editing which for some reason it is the only thing that I don't see on my iPad and doing some research online it sounds like this feature is I don't know new to the cap cut platform and it's just it's glitching out and it's not showing up on everyone's devices it's not unique to phones or unique to iPads just check your cap cut and see if you have this feature and don't worry if you don't have it because I'll show you a workaround in just a moment but here we've switched to my phone and I'm just going to import this clip very quickly and show you exactly how you would do it with your clip selected all you need to do is come down to transcript based editing now this is super cool it's going to transcript describe your entire sequence it allows you to select different portions of your text and just delete them so here you can see I say testest test test I'm checking the mic and then I sit down for 25.7 seconds I can just select all of this like a text document and then hit delete and it's literally deleted that portion from my timeline so then I can keep going through did you start posting on Tik Tok Instagram Facebook or YouTube I get asked this question all the the time and then here I pause and I actually think about what the next line I'm going to say is again I can tap on that delete it and it's just deleted that pause from the script Al my favorite platform is long form content on YouTube this actually isn't where I think most beginners should start and you would basically just continue the process of finding areas of pause deleting them by just tapping making sure you got the right section selected you might have to modify it hit delete and if you have any lines like I do all the time where I repeat a line because I you know originally said it wrong all you'd need to do is basically highlight the text that you'd want to remove delete it and it's going to delete it from your script now what's really cool about that is once you're done you can zoom out and you'll see that it's literally cut up your timeline for you which is super helpful it does save you a little bit of time now if you're experiencing the glitch that my iPad is and you don't see this setting there is a workaround just come down to text we're going to create our autoc captions I'll just use this style right now and now with our Auto captions generated it gives us a very easy view of what's actually the video and what's not in the video so all I would really need to do here is zoom in on the timeline go to the end of my text select the clip create a split Point go to where the text starts again because we know that's where the actual Talking starts create a split point and then you could delete what is not usable anymore you would repeat that process over and over over and over again throughout the entire script and you will likely have to come back and do just a little bit of fine-tuning like this clip or that clip you could just trim the back half a little bit more and just really tighten up those cuts removing the breath marks overall it's probably going to take you 10 to 20% longer hopefully you don't even have to deal with this you can just use that transcript based editor that I have on my phone all right so we've got our timeline cut up here we've removed all of the mistakes in the Dead Space up next something I always do and most people on the internet do with talking head videos is every other clip they actually increase the scale on to have this punch in and punch out effect it just kind of makes it look like you're filming on multiple different cameras it helps with the pacing and the flow of the video so in cap cut super easy to do you can actually just come in and pinch with your fingers on every other clip that way you're going in and out the other option is obviously you could go to that basic tab that we used earlier and increase the scale but this should do the trick just fine you can see scrolling through the timeline we've got our punch in and punch out nicely done okay now up next what I like to do is add any b roll that I know I'm going to want in my edit now we didn't talk about this in the last edit because we had all the clips we needed we didn't add anything else but if you ever want to add Clips there's a couple different ways to do it if you want to add it to the main timeline here you'll notice at the far right we have this plus icon over here you could tap on that it will load up the you know selector and you can choose anything you want but I don't want to add it to the main timeline here I want to add it on top of the timeline or at least in the cap cut interface they show it to you beneath it this way the video clips will play as Boll to give more emphasis to whatever I'm talking about in the main a rooll here so for example if we play through this part of the video art Instagram make videos that are like 10 to 30 seconds long build up the skill sets have a ton of fun doing it and then eventually graduate to YouTube so we say you know you can make videos that are 10 to 20 seconds build up the skill set have a ton of fun I want to use Clips as b-roll showing you know me actually making those videos so here is the spot that I've paused it I know this is where I want to add our overlay so we'll go out of this text menu here which will hide our captions and if you ever want to bring those back you just hit the text layer and they'll come back but instead here we want to add an overlay which is Cap Cuts button for adding b-roll so we will select that and then click add overlay and now I can actually use some of the footage that I used in our previous edit so I'm going to select this clip right here it's actually me getting ready to shoot a video I'll hit add and now we've added this to the timeline and you can see it doesn't fully take up the correct amount of space so I'll Zoom that in slightly and now I'll play through this just so you can get an idea of how as soon as this clip comes up because it is underneath our main timeline whatever is on the lowest level in cap cut mobile is what's going to show through on the top figuratively of our edit that's why this clip is showing so we can play through it here form like Facebook Tik Tok or Instagram make videos that are like 10 to 30 seconds long build up the skill set have a ton of fun pretty cool so we've got our b-roll clip right there now we can add another one I will just come back to overlay on the main menu select that and now we can add this one right here that looks good we can hold our finger on this drag it over and then we can add one more overlay just to round out these section select this one of me getting the light ready scale that guy up a little bit and then I actually want this one to play first so we'll just rearrange this whole section just holding our finger on these and resequencing and then edit should be last so there we go just trying to get these in a way that makes sense to the viewer watching our Instagram make videos that are like 10 to 30 seconds long we're going to trim this right here move this guy forward zoom in a little bit for you 30 seconds long build up the skill sets have a ton of fun doing it and eventually graduate this guy needs to get Scaled up a little bit there you go tube over time now which of the three short cool and then as this clip ends right here I'm just going to trim this one back so it caps off the section now we could add more and more b-roll it would just kind of get repetitive for you to watch that I think covers you know how to add Boll and align it in your sequence now the next thing I want to do is add photos in stickers to give a little bit more visual presence to the edit so we'll go all the way back to the beginning here and like I said earlier I actually took a picture of the question that a person asked me and I want to add it to the edit you probably see people on social media doing this all the time all we need to do from our main menu is tap on overlay again we can hit add overlay instead of video I'm going to go to photo and then select this photo right here check it and add it in now pretty cool we'll bring this down just to get it in good Framing and I believe that is already right up at the front which is good we'll extend it so it goes the entire first clip and what we will also do is animate the way that it comes into frame rather than just have it you know exist at the beginning we want to attract the viewer's eye to it and animate it so with it selected on the submenu we will tap on animations and now we have a bunch of different options some are you know restricted to Pro as always but uh a lot of of them are free and we will you know you could do a basic fade like that one but we've got some more you that one's kind of cool should you not bad I'm going to go with this one swing right and just so you're aware anytime you add a transition and animation you have this slider where you can change the duration you can make it super fast or super longting T to I'm goingon to go right in the middle around 1.5 pretty cool okay so I like that and just so you're aware this is an in animation just like before I could do an out animation or a combo animation I just want the in for now though so we'll click check and we're good to go should you start posting on Tik Tok Instagram Facebook or YouTube I get asked this question all the time although my favorite platform is pretty cool now the next thing that we'll do is add a key frame scale now this is again a slightly more complex thing but so many editors do this in cap cut makes it really easy so this involves key frames key frames are a fundamental aspect of editing videoos so I would get comfortable with them now because you're definitely going to learn more about them over time think of a key frame like anchoring a setting at a specific point in time this allows you to change it by anchoring it at a new point in time with this clip selected play heads right here at the beginning I can come up right here to our add key frame button I'm going to hit that and it added a key frame that little diamond is on our clip right now if I scroll forward add another key frame and then I increase the scale Okay now what's happening is when we scroll between those you can see the scale changing see how it's zooming in and out right there that is simply because I added those two key frames now there's actually a little space here at the end so I'm actually just going to delete this key frame by hitting minus we're going to scroll to the very end of this clip and just do that process Over Again by adding a new key frame and then zooming in on our clip and now if we play through this you will see the effect in action should you start posting on Tik Tok Instagram Facebook or YouTube I get asked this question all the time pretty cool so you can see it just Zooms in there it's kind of like pulling the viewer into the shot so key frames you now know pretty Advanced topic so that's great moving on we've got our next section here which is going to be probably the most ad Advanced edit of the entire tutorial and that is a rotoscope where we remove the background now there are a couple steps involved in the process and it will all make sense at the end it will come full circle so bear with me here you can just copy the steps exactly and you'll be good to go so this is the clip that we want to remove the background on I'm just going to zoom it out a little bit just because we can use that little extra space now step number one is to duplicate this clip we're going to need multiple layers of it so we're going to need to duplicate it first with it selected we are going to come down to the sub men and hit duplicate so now if we zoom out on the timeline just so you're aware of how all this is working this clip and this clip are the same exact clip right they are one and the same I just duplicated them now what we need to do is add an overlay here for our background so we're removing the background of a clip we need to add a new background in all we need to do as always is come back to our main menu hit overlay add overlay and now in videos I have this background right here I downloaded it from contentcreator templates.com which is my favorite place to download pretty much all video editing templates but of course if you you know if you dig around you can find stuff like this for free on the internet but this is the one I'm going to use I'll hit add and there we go it is now on our timeline I'm going to just use my fingers crop it up get it to full frame status and we'll make sure that it is just trimmed right to the beginning of that clip yeah there we go that looks good all right so here we are our background is just covering our clip it probably doesn't make sense but it will in just a moment now just to make things simple here I want to make sure that this kinetic dots background is on the immediate Next Level because we have all this B- roll here it is just trapped on the third level so we're going to trim this guy down get it to the point where we can basically bring it back up level see what I did there I just trimmed it so we have enough space to fit with these guys and you know what we'll just trim it all the way down to the same length as this clip right now that way it lasts for exactly the right amount of length for this section of the video now we've got the kinetic dots where we need it to be now we need to take this clip which again we made a duplicate of and we need to graduate it to be above the kinetic dots background so I will come with that clip selected down here to the submenu and hit overlay what that did is just pumped it up and now we have this clip which we're seeing the kinetic dots is behind it and then we have another duplicate behind it that's kind of keeping our placeholder on the main timeline here if we didn't have that duplicate the next clip in the video would have smooshed over to the left and just kind of combobulated up the entire timeline which is not what we want now with this clip selected all we need to do is come down to the submenu and hit remove background we'll Select Auto removal and boom this should all be coming full circle now we'll hit check and hopefully these layers are making crystal clear sense right now we have our top clip showing through we have our kinetic dots which is now behind that and then finally we have our third level which is just keeping the spacing of our main timeline proper everything looks super cool I can take this guy right here pinch him down with my fingers and put him in the corner and now we have all this space up top where we can add graphics and other stuff to keep the viewer engaged and add more detail the only issue the last step here is we technically have two of the same layers with two of the same audio layers as well both of these clips have audio so it will be twice as loud super easy we'll just select our little overlay here come to volume and bring the volume all the way down now if we play through this you'll see it's starting to look pretty cool I get asked this question all the time although my favorite platform is long form content on YouTube okay so rotoscope we can check that is a super cool and Powerful tool to use up next we're going to start adding stickers and animating them this is going to add more context to our video and by the way I just went back to the main menu and you'll notice that our timeline has gotten compressed like crazy that's just cap cut trying to save space if you ever want to get back to the text layers you will tap on text and you'll notice the captions are back we can go back to the main menu and now they're gone if you want to get back to the overlay layer you will click on overlay and you will see all of those so it's easy sometimes to get lost all you need to do is remember what am I trying to edit tap on that on the main menu and it will bring up the relevant timeline now at this point in the video I'm talking about how my favorite platform to create content on is YouTube but it's not what I recommend most people to start with so we want a sticker that represents YouTube so I'm going to come down to our main menu hit on stickers and I'm just going to save myself the time and type YouTube cap cut usually has a decent selection this one is pretty cool we'll add that to our video and I'll just resize it up here at the top with my fingers okay cool now the next one we want to add is an X because I'm saying this isn't where I think people should start so we'll hit cross up on the search and grab this nice little animated one right here kind of reframe that there hit cancel check and now you can see we have two layers on the timeline for our Graphics we have our YouTube graphic right here up top and then we have our X graphic right there and if we play through it up next we need to make sure that these are timed up as they should be although my favorite platform is long form content on YouTube this so YouTube came in at the right time but I need to move the X back cuz it really shouldn't be coming in yet actually isn't where I think most beginners should start cool so that looks good we'll just extend these so they last for the whole clip and we're good to go although my favorite platform is long form content on YouTube this actually isn't where I think most beginners should start awesome that looks good I'll move this up just to hair and the next thing that I want to do is animate these so rather than have the YouTube just pop in and not look professional at all we will select it hit animations and I'm going to choose slide down it's giving you a little idea of what it will look like and as always we can do the in animation the out animation or do a loop I'm just going to do a slide right here increase the length of it a little bit and hit check not bad now the X already has a pre-built in animation so we'll just leave that as is takes a long time and now the script says creating long form video takes a long time so I'm going to do a cool little animation where I replace the X with a clock so we'll shorten this guy down to right here we will go back to our main menu and add a new sticker right here for a clock I like this one right here so we'll add that get it right where the X was as well and we will just cancel out of the search hit check and now rather than just have it cut from X to clock I want an animation that makes this entire process look seamless so we're going to tap on our X layer right here animate and now we actually aren't animating the in we're animating the out right because this is the end of the X so we'll hit slide right and it slides right off the screen which is perfect we'll hit check and now we will come to our clock animate we want to animate the in which is what we're already on and again want to slide right so now if we look at this they kind of push one another off screen which is cool long form video takes a long a lot not bad if I wanted to I could also upgrade this to a new layer by just clicking and dragging it down and then I can hold it bring it back just a little bit so they overlap extend this guy right here and now they will have more of a tighter transition start creating a long form video takes a long time and there's a lot of skill associated with doing that so cool not bad at all you're definitely becoming an expert one little tip at a time here but we're going to keep on moving we're almost done but I want to add some more stickers here I'm like Facebook Tik Tok or Instagram so we say Facebook Tik Tok or Instagram and again I want to add some stickers here so we're going to go back to sticker we're going to search because we said Facebook so we'll add that guy then we just keep searching here while we've got it up to tick tock add the Tik Tok logo and then we will add Instagram as well that one looks good so now we'll cancel out of this right here just so we can get the screen back and Facebook comes first so we'll get this guy over here then Tik Tok was second so we'll get this guy right here and then Instagram was third and I'm going to use my finger and just change the orientation and size of these a little bit not bad pretty cool and when it actually plays through the the auto caption will be up top the last steps here will just be to time up these Graphics to make sure they pop in when I say them in the script and then we'll animate them as well so Facebook starts right here Tik Tok starts right here and Instagram starts right here like Facebook Tik Tok or Instagram make videos not bad and then we're just going to do an animation for each of them so we'll tap on each layer animate I'm going to do in bounce and then I'm going to do out bounce that way it bounces in and then bounces out at the same time we'll do the repeat of that for Tik Tok so bounce in out and then bounce out as well same thing we're going to add our in and out for Instagram so bounce in out bounce out and we'll hit check so we'll play through that now you can see how all the animations kind of impacted that form platform like Facebook Tik Tok art Instagram make videos that are like 10 to 30 pretty cool but we've got our b-roll showing up in just a second so I'm going to scroll to where the b-roll starts and make sure all the graphics are trimmed just so they are off screen before the b-roll looks pretty good although it's a little busy around the text so I'm just going to spread these guys out a little bit that looks better Facebook Tik Tok or Instagram make videos that are like 10 to 30 seconds long build up the skill sets have a ton of fun doing it and then eventually graduate to YouTube over time and realistically I would just continue that process over and over and over again I would add stickers animate them I would rotoscope some more backgrounds I would add some more key frame zooms maybe add some text and titles here and there but the process gets repetitive so rather than just you know extending this video and making it longer you can rewind pause and get a refresher on any of the sections that we taught here I know this was a longer video but I truly hope you found it valuable I personally remember when I was learning this stuff I felt I could only learn by watching over the shoulder somebody doing it step by step and explaining every step of that process so that's what I tried to give you today if you liked this like I said earlier it is a small taste of what we teach inside our full course 14-day filmmaker which is only $48 and 120,000 people have gone through it and loved it so if you want to enroll click the link in the description of this video other than that thanks so much for watching and I'll see you in the next [Music] one quick Public Service Announcement just in case you didn't know cap cut is also an incredible desktop editing program that works on Mac PCS laptops desktops all computers and we have a super in-depth tutorial covering the entire editing process on a desktop as well on the YouTube channel I'll link it in the 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Length: 45min 56sec (2756 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 05 2024