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CapCut for Beginners: Short Form Vertical Video Editing for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok

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About CapCut for Beginners: Short Form Vertical Video Editing for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok

Introduction

UPDATE: Sharing Your Class Project

Tools You Will Need

Capturing Footage

Understanding Aspect Ratios

Knowing Your Way Around

Importing Footage

Resizing and Rotating Footage

Editing the Image

Muting Audio

Adding Music and Using Extracted Audio

Adding a Voice Over

Adding Text and Subtitles

Editing Demonstration: Compilation Video

Editing Demonstration: Process Video

Exporting your video

Final Thoughts

What You Will Learn?

  • TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, - oh my! Short form vertical videos are everywhere and if you have tried to create this type of content using the tools included on the social media platforms, you already know it can be a struggle. .
  • This class is here to help you with that! Knowing how to edit this type of content in a video editor, instead of using the limited tools provided on social media platforms, is going to free you up to be more creative and much much less frustrated. .
  • In this class, you will learn the basics of video editing using CapCut - an app available on both iOS and Android (for FREE as of the time of creating this class). .
  • You will learn video editing concepts including how to:.
  • Once you complete the class project, you will have a short form vertical video to upload to the platform(s) of your choice and the skills to make multiple styles of vertical video content! .
  • Don’t worry if you are not a pro content creator - if you have video clips on your phone that you would like to edit, then this class is for you!.