CapCut App Video Editing Tutorial - FOR BEGINNERS

Summary

This tutorial introduces CapCut, a free editing app praised as the best in the world, perfect for beginners. The speaker guides viewers through downloading the app, setting up a free account, and navigating the interface on various devices. Key features include importing videos, arranging clips, cutting and trimming footage, and adding transitions—all without spending a dime. The goal is to help users quickly master the basics of video editing and export high-quality content for platforms like YouTube.

Takeaways

• 😀 The video is a tutorial for beginners on using the free editing app 'CapCut'.
• 📱 CapCut is available for download on iOS, Android, and desktop platforms.
• 🆓 The app can be used for free, with an option to upgrade to a Pro account for additional features.
• 🎥 The tutorial covers how to import videos into the app and arrange them in the desired order.
• ✂️ It explains how to use the split tool to trim and cut video clips precisely.
• 🔍 The importance of starting the video right before speaking to avoid dead space is highlighted.
• 🔄 The script mentions that it's possible to reorder clips and make adjustments as needed.
• 🕊️ The app offers a 'Pro' feature set for paying users, but the tutorial focuses on free tools.
• 📊 The process of adding transitions between clips is demonstrated, including how to adjust their duration.
• 🔄 Undoing actions like transitions, color correction, and zooming is possible with a simple tap.
• 🎨 CapCut allows for detailed adjustments such as adding text, cutting out backgrounds, and color correction.
• 📹 The tutorial emphasizes the importance of exporting video at the correct resolution and frame rate to match the original footage.
• 🚀 The final step involves exporting the edited video to the device and then uploading it to platforms like YouTube.

Q & A

What is the name of the free editing app recommended in the video?

The app recommended in the video is called CapCut.

Is it necessary to pay for CapCut to use it for editing videos as described in the tutorial?

No, the tutorial emphasizes that CapCut can be used for free, and there's no need to pay for the basic editing features demonstrated.

How can one download CapCut according to the video?

CapCut can be downloaded from the iOS Store, Google Play Store, or by visiting capcut.com.

What should a beginner do if prompted to pay after downloading CapCut?

If prompted to pay, a beginner should look for an 'X' in one of the corners and tap on it to close the prompt, continuing to use the app for free.

What device is the tutorial conducted on?

The tutorial is conducted on an iPad.

How does the video editor know where to make the first cut in the video?

The editor suggests scrubbing to the very beginning of the video and making the cut right before they start speaking.

What is the importance of trimming the beginning of the video as described?

Trimming the beginning of the video is important to avoid dead space and to start the video quickly, engaging the viewer right away.

How can one adjust the order of video clips in the timeline in CapCut?

One can adjust the order by pressing and holding a clip and moving it to the desired position in the timeline.

What is the purpose of the 'split' tool in CapCut?

The 'split' tool is used to make a cut in the video clip, allowing the user to select and delete a specific part of the video.

What does the video tutorial cover in terms of basic video editing with CapCut?

The tutorial covers cutting, trimming at the playhead, adding transitions, and adjusting the volume, with mentions of other features like text, background cutout, stickers, and color adjustments.

How can users export their edited video from CapCut?

After editing, users can tap on the upload arrow, choose the desired resolution and settings, and then save the video to their device to upload elsewhere, like YouTube.

What is the default ending feature mentioned in the video, and how can it be removed?

The default ending feature adds a CapCut logo at the end of the video. It can be removed by tapping on the logo to delete it or by going to settings and turning off the 'add default ending' option.

Outlines

00:00

📚 CapCut Tutorial for Beginners

This paragraph introduces a beginner's tutorial for the free video editing app CapCut. The speaker emphasizes that they have tried numerous editing apps and finds CapCut to be the best, perfect for beginners. They guide viewers to download CapCut from various platforms, create a free account, and navigate through initial permissions and offers. The tutorial focuses on importing videos into the timeline, ordering them correctly, and using the split and delete functions to trim the video precisely at the start of speech. It also touches on the app's interface differences across devices and the importance of starting videos without any dead space.

05:01

✂️ Advanced Editing Techniques in CapCut

The second paragraph delves into more advanced editing techniques available in CapCut, such as adding transitions between clips. The speaker explains how to use the app's pro features, which are tagged for paying users, but clarifies that free tools are sufficient for basic editing. They demonstrate adding a fade transition, adjusting its duration, and removing it if not desired. The paragraph also covers trimming clips to remove unwanted parts and the process of saving and managing projects in the cloud. The speaker mentions the ability to adjust settings to prevent the CapCut logo from appearing at the end of videos.

10:02

🎥 Exporting and Quality Settings in CapCut

The final paragraph discusses the process of exporting a finished video in CapCut. It highlights the importance of matching the export settings to the original footage's quality, such as resolution and frame rate. The speaker advises on choosing the appropriate resolution and bit rate for the best video quality and rendering speed. They also mention the option to save the video directly to the device and the subsequent steps of locating the exported video in the gallery and uploading it to YouTube.

Keywords

💡Editing App

An editing app is a software tool designed for modifying and enhancing video content. In the context of the video, 'editing app' refers to 'CapCut,' which is praised as the best free option available. The script emphasizes that it is perfect for beginners and is used by the speaker to edit the video being discussed.

💡CapCut

CapCut is the specific editing app recommended in the video. It is highlighted for its user-friendly interface and free availability, making it accessible for beginners. The script provides a tutorial on how to download, install, and use CapCut for basic video editing.

💡Tutorial

A tutorial is an instructional guide or lesson that teaches a specific skill or process. In the video, the term is used to describe the content of the video itself, which is a step-by-step guide on how to use CapCut for video editing, targeting beginners.

💡Timeline

In video editing, a timeline is a sequence that displays the order and length of clips in a video project. The script mentions the timeline as the area where imported clips are arranged and where users can adjust the order and length of video segments.

💡Split Tool

The split tool is a feature in video editing apps that allows users to cut a video clip at a specific point. In the script, the speaker uses the split tool in CapCut to trim the beginning and end of video clips to remove unwanted sections and to start the video at the desired moment.

💡Transition

A transition in video editing is a visual or audio effect that connects one clip to another. The script discusses adding transitions between clips in CapCut to create a smooth flow between video segments, with the option to adjust the duration of the transition.

💡Pro Features

Pro features refer to advanced or premium functionalities within an app that may require payment or a subscription. The script mentions that CapCut has pro features marked with a 'pro' tag, which are available to users who have paid for the app, but also emphasizes that beginners can perform basic editing without these features.

💡Resolution

Resolution in video editing refers to the number of pixels used to form the image and determines the clarity of the video. The script discusses selecting the appropriate resolution for video export in CapCut, with the speaker choosing 4K to match the quality of the original footage.

💡Bit Rate

Bit rate is the amount of data processed in a given time, which affects the quality of the video. In the script, the speaker mentions leaving the bit rate at the recommended setting when exporting the video from CapCut, which ensures a balance between quality and file size.

💡Export

Exporting in video editing is the process of rendering the final video and saving it as a file. The script describes the export process in CapCut, where the user sets the desired resolution, frame rate, and bit rate before saving the video to their device.

💡YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing platform where users upload and share videos. The script implies that the purpose of editing the video in CapCut is to prepare it for uploading to YouTube, emphasizing the importance of starting the video with engaging content to attract viewers.

Highlights

CapCut is the best free editing app, perfect for beginners.

Download CapCut from capcut.com, iOS App Store, or Google Play Store.

Create a free account without paying for anything.

Grant permissions to access photos and videos for the timeline.

Select videos in the desired order for the timeline.

Reorder clips if needed by dragging them left or right.

Resize the timeline with two fingers for better navigation.

Focus on the beginning of the video to remove any dead space.

Use the split tool to cut and delete unwanted parts of the video.

Trim clips precisely at the playhead for a tight edit.

Add transitions between clips if desired.

Pro features are available for those who pay for the app.

Undo any action by tapping the back arrow.

Adjust the video resolution and frame rate before exporting.

Export the final video to your device's gallery.

CapCut is available on phones, tablets, and desktop computers.

Learn more advanced editing features in future tutorials.

Transcripts

this is the best free editing app in the

entire world and yes I've tried them all

and yes that's what I'm using to edit

this video it's called cap cut and it is

perfect for beginners so today's video

is going to be a tutorial for beginners

so go to cap cut.com or go to the iOS

store or go to the Google Play Store

download cap cut install it create your

free account and if they pop up anything

asking you to pay look for an X in one

of the corners tap on the X close that

down you're not going to pay for it

today because you are editing for free

when you first open up cap cut it is

going to ask you for permissions to get

into your photos or your videos you're

going to have to give them permission if

you want to be able to import that into

the timeline so go ahead and do that it

also might try to get you to upgrade or

create an account that's entirely up to

you if you want to do that but for the

purpose of today's tutorial we're doing

everything for free and one more thing

before we get started I'm using my iPad

for the tutorial today so it can fill up

the screen it looks similar on a phone

but the ratio is a little bit different

however on a desktop it does look

different once you have cap cut open you

might have to tap on the edit button if

you don't see this by default but if you

do tap on new project when you tap on

new project you want to go in and select

the videos that you want to put into the

timeline now it's important to

understand that it's going to import the

videos in the order that you select them

so the very first video that you shoot

your hook you want that to come first so

that's going to be the first one that

you select I'm going to add these three

videos and I'm going to tap on add three

down at the bottom now if you look down

at the bottom at the Timeline this is

where it imported your clips and again

it put them in the order of how you

selected them now if you put them out of

order if you made a mistake that's not a

problem all you have to do is press and

hold and move it to the left or to the

right of where you want it to go so it's

not a problem if you bring them in in

the wrong order I do that all the time

you also want to note that it's going to

expand that timeline at the bottom this

is also not a problem you can take two

fingers press and hold and you can

expand or contract and in order to get

the timeline to the size that you want

it to be and I'm changing this all

through the edit so all you have to do

is press and hold and expand and

contract so you can go exactly where you

want to go and just use the one finger

to go back and forth and it's going to

move it right along the timeline it's

also important to note that you don't

have to put all of the Clips in the

exact order at this particular time you

just want to put them in a general order

and it's okay to reorder them later so

what you want to do though is focus on

the very beginning of the video that's

what we're going to do right now so

we're going to go to the very very

beginning of the video by scrubbing to

the left of the timeline and I'm going

to inch along frame by frame or bit by

bit until I get the part right before I

start speaking and in order to do that I

want to expand the timeline because as I

expand the timeline it allows me to move

through more frames easier when it's

smaller when the timeline is contracted

you Skip Along quicker but when it's

expanded you can scroll through really

slowly so I'm going to scroll along

until I start to move my mouth right

when I start to open my

mouth right about there I'm going to tap

on the clip I'm going to look down at

the bottom here in the tools and I'm

going to tap on split now what just

happened is the split tool cut the video

I can select the video that I want to

delete I can highlight that then I can

go back down to the tools and I can tap

on delete now that clip is gone it has

moved my video to the very beginning so

if I were to hit play it would start

playing the video exactly where I want

it to go this is the best free editing

app in the entire world that's exactly

how I want it to play you don't want any

dead space at the beginning of your

YouTube videos you want things to start

quickly you want to get the message

directly to the viewer to let them know

that they clicked on the Right video and

you don't want to waste their time and

if this feels awkward to you at first

because you're not used to editing keep

going keep practicing this does get

easier and if you're on a phone you're

going to be doing a lot of pinching and

zooming with your thumbs that's okay too

do this however you want practice as

much as you need to practice you will

get the hang of it and it gets a lot

easier so now that I have the very

beginning worked out I'm going to scrub

along and I'm going to play and I'm

going to listen to see where I stopped

speaking I might want to put another cut

there so I'm going to play along and see

what I do here cuz I actually don't

remember this is the best free editing

app in the entire world and yes I've

tried them all and yes that's what I'm

using to edit this video okay so I made

an obvious pause there and I looked away

now I don't know if this is going to be

the final edit that it's going to make

this video but for the purpose of this

tutorial I'm leaving this in so what I'm

going to do is I'm going to go along

until I stop

speaking okay right there I know that I

finished I'm going to tap on the clip

and I'm going to tap on

split then I'm going to hit play again

and I'm going to wait until I start

speaking

again it's available on your phone your

tablets and your okay I messed

up

it's available on your phone your

tablets and your desktop computers okay

I think I got that one so I'm going to

go back to where I started speaking here

after I messed up it's already selected

so I'm going to tap on split again then

I'm going to delete the clip that I

don't want and it's automatically going

to close those two

clips so now we have this I'm using to

edit this video it's available on your

phone your now that's not as tight as I

like and I'll show you how to trim that

but I want you to notice the little

white square in between them that's

where the transition goes so if you

didn't want a hard cut there you can tap

on that and it will load up transitions

down at the bottom this is a good time

to talk about their Pro features not

trying to sell you on it I'm just

letting you know what they are all the

tools you see inside of cap cut that

have a pro tag those are for users who

have paid for the app that have the pro

account you don't need those all you

have to do is look for tools that do not

have the tag and you can use those and

you might have to scroll along scroll to

the left scroll to the right they've got

all sorts of different tools here but if

I wanted to add a transition this is how

I would do it let me pick black fade as

soon as I tap that it's going to give me

the length of the transition here so if

I want it to fade out slower I move it

to the right if I want it to move

quicker I'm going to fade it to the

left and I'm going to hit the check mark

down at the bottom and this is what that

would look like

this video it's available a little black

flash and you can tell that there's a

transition there because it has a cap

cut logo on the transition box where

this one has no

transition now I don't want the

transition there I just wanted to show

you how to put one in so if I want to

get rid of that I can undo any move that

I just made color correction transition

zooming anything by simply going to the

back arrow tapping on that and it

removed the transition

now let's tighten up the back of that

first clip so I'm going to zoom it in

even

more them all and yes that's what I'm

using to edit this video okay so that

took just a little bit longer than I

wanted so I can tap on the clip and I

can choose to cut the clip there or I

can grab the end of the

clip and I can drag it

back push it hold it and drag it now

let's see what

happens that's what I'm using that's

what I'm using to edit this video it's

available on your phone your tablets and

your desktop computers you can use it

for free and I'm going to show you how

to use it right now okay I just paused

there again so I'm going to go back to

where my mouth stops

moving I'm going to highlight it I'm

going to hit

split what's left is the clip I want to

delete I'm going to show you how to use

it right now go to cut go to caput up

there so let's see I'm going to go to

where I start speaking again highlight

it split it remove the beginning of this

clip that I didn't

want show you how to use it right now go

to cap cut.com or go download the app at

the Google Play store or the Apple Play

Store install the app create a free

account and if they pop up anything

asking you to pay look for an X in one

of the corners tap on the X close that

down you're not going to pay for it

today because you are editing for free

okay so I'm going to go to where I stop

speaking there highlight it split it now

for the purpose of this tutorial I'm

going to end my video here and I'm going

to show you some other things that you

can do so I'm just going to come in and

I'm going to delete these clips because

I don't need them for the purpose of

this

tutorial and by the way right here if

you see the cap cut logo at the very end

you see how that happens right there you

can click on that or tap on that and you

can delete it and then it's gone there's

also a setting in here where where you

can turn that off so if you click out

and you go to your settings up in the

top right hand corner you're going to

see an option for add default Ending by

default I think this is turned on for

most people you can select that hit

discard and it should be gone so that

should eliminate the cap cut logo

popping up at the end sometimes but if

it does show up tap on it and delete it

now it saved what we were working on

here as a project this is saved up in

the cloud it doesn't put your videos up

into the cloud but it saves the project

so all the projects that you create it's

going to save those individual projects

right here and you can tap on the three

little dots or the ellipses I believe

it's called you can rename it you can

duplicate it you can back it up you can

upload it to Google Drive or something

Etc or go back in by simply tapping on

it now this is the very basic of video

editing you've learned how to cut you've

learned how to trim at the play heads

you've learned how to add a transition

you've learned how to adjust the volume

there's all kinds of other things that

you can do such as adding text cut out

the background you can add stickers go

into detailed adjustments of colors Etc

and we can do all of that in future

videos I just want you to get up and

running with the very basics of video

editing and that's what we're doing

today so once you have your basic video

edited and put together I want you to

look up in the top right hand corner on

my app it says 1080p tap on that and

this is where it's important to

understand the quality of the footage

that you recorded my footage was

recorded at 4K and I want to export at

4K so I'm going to increase the resol

resolution to 4K my frame rate was

recorded at 30 frames per second you'll

have to look at your camera or your

phone to see what you've recorded if

you've recorded at 24 frames per second

move it there if it's 25 if it's 30 if

it's 60 Etc so I'm at 4K 30 frames per

second and the code rate the bit rate

for rendering it out you can leave it at

recommended or you can test it out on

high to see which one works the best I

usually leave mine for recommended I

don't mess with HDR you can experiment

to see how that works for you you I

don't use it now once you have all of

this set and your videos completely

edited to exactly how you want it to be

all you have to do is tap on the upload

arrow and it's going to give you the

option to save the video to the device

now it's going to export the footage and

render out the video and obviously the

more powerful your device is and the

shorter your clip is the faster this is

going to happen once it's finished it's

going to dump you back into the project

page and you need to go locate that

video by going into your video gallery

that's where it's going to export your

video to then upload that video to

YouTube