Day 10: CapCut Mobile Editing Basics

Step 1: Prepare Your Clip

1. In CapCut, create new project
2. Select clip (Anthony uses quick talking head example already filmed)
3. Hit "Add"
4. Clip now on timeline
5. Trim the start to where actually start talking

Step 2: Access Auto Captions

1. Make sure you don't have your clip selected (just tap off that)
2. Hit "Text" button on menu
3. You will see "Auto captions" in bottom
4. Tap that

Step 3: Generate Captions

1. Find free style (one without pro banner)
2. Tap on that, select it
3. Hit "Generate"
4. Takes few seconds to come up with all captions
5. Now good to go!

Hit play and see how it looks: "For quick test to show just how quick and easy it is to add auto captions to your videos in CapCut."

Pretty cool, not hard at all. Like we're done in seconds, which is great.

Adjusting Size

If you wanted to, could grab actual screen and just pinch on edges of box to increase size.

If you scroll through, you'll see that actually edited all of them - pretty cool.

Anthony reduces size just little bit - thinks that looks better.

Changing Styles

If you wanted to, could tap on one of these captions:

1. In sub menu, view other styles
2. Click on little "Style" button right there
3. In here, have easier view of all different styles
4. Definitely lot of pro ones they're gonna try to sell you on
5. But easier to see free ones as well

Example: This one goes word for word. Not bad - could hit check and switch all your captions to that style if wanted.

Editing Text (Batch Edit)

If found that any of text was wrong:

1. Could click on "Batch edit"
2. In here, could tap on your lines
3. Change any of text to match actually what you're saying

Anthony's are all good, so just hits check icon.

Note: If wanted to, could split these caption files, but for most part don't really need to do that at all.

Adding Animations

Already got some animations built into text - can see they pop in and out of frame.

But if you had text that wasn't animated:

1. Could actually tap on "Animations" icon right here
2. Will see lot of text animations you could choose from
3. Again, there are pro and free options
4. Just pick ones that you like

Step-by-Step

1. With no clip selected (nothing selected at all): If had clip selected, just tap off screen → changes your menu
2. Down here on main menu, see button for "Add text"
3. Click on that and add basic title like "Oahu" (spell correctly!)
4. Now can grab edge of that frame on actual project monitor
5. Can see moving it around with finger, pinch to zoom in
6. Can move it down to bottom of frame

Choosing Font Styles

Now, got all these different font styles we can use down at bottom.

• Some marked "Pro" as always
• Anthony really likes "Rubik" - used that one lot in past, thinks it just looks clean
• Hit check and add it there

Now see it's added new layer on timeline:

• This layer on bottom, can grab and split just like would normal footage
• Can delete portion
• Can touch it, grab edges, bring up in size if wanted
• If play through, can see it plays in video

How to Animate

1. Tap on title
2. Scroll to right
3. Will see option for "Animations"

"I really like animating my text. I think it gives it another level of professionalism."

Now can see we have all these different selections:

• Lot reserved for Pro (which is fine, don't need them)
• Anthony likes "typewriter" effect - totally free, here on left
• Can see title kind of types in, gives little bit of animation
• Hit check there

Adjusting Animation Speed

If wanted to change speed of animation with title selected:

1. Go back to "Animations"
2. Select it
3. Now see at bottom, have this little slider
4. How long do you want animation to last?
5. If wanted to make much quicker, have it here on left
6. See it'll come in much faster

Pretty cool.

Using Text Templates

Rather than hitting "add text" button we had before, can actually come over and check out text templates.

These are little bit more (could say) complex and custom compared to basic titles we just made.

• Have lot of trending ones
• Again, some pros and whatnot
• Anthony slid all way to right - knows they have category for "Travel"
• Obviously vacation reel, so let's see if can find one that looks cool

Customizing Template

"This is kind of cool. Add this one. Hit check."

1. Bring it down so not right in middle of frame
2. Have all these different areas we can edit (that's what dotted lines representing)
3. Could tap on "Germany" and change to "Three Peaks" (capitalized P)
4. Hit check
5. Grab it on frame and lower size little bit
6. Tap on "Diaries" and change to "hike"

Not bad. Got custom animated title. Also has typing effect, ironically. Can play through that and see how things look.

1. Tap new project
2. Import clip
3. Hit Add → clip now on timeline
4. Tap on clip
5. Hit "Speed" button right here in sub menu

Can see we are at 1x speed right now (that's where little icon is).

Bring dot to right: Going to speed up clip

If play through, this is super fast and just hard to watch. But in some instances makes sense:

• Speeding up footage of clouds going over sky
• Some other time-lapse example

Setting Up

1. Select clip again, hit Speed
2. Basically revert everything just did (hit normal editor, bring back to 1x, hit check)
3. Now can select "Curve editor"

How Curve Editor Works

Curve editor also pretty straightforward once you've done it few times - will make lot of sense.

What it's doing: Increasing or decreasing speed according to curve.

Anthony hits "Custom", then tap pause (automatically plays):

Once hit "Edit" on that, going to bring up curve - this will very clearly show what happens.

Example: Creating Speed Ramp

If bring beginning section of curve down: This is slowing clip down.

Can literally watch as video goes down that curve - it's slowed down. We're in slow motion.

Now as it comes back up: Going to increase speed. Now back to normal motion - at normal speed.

To really drive that home: Could bring this up, can see now at 6.5x speed, 6.6x.

Go slow at bottom of curve, then increase really fast (crazy!), then comes back down to normal speed.

If wanted to keep this: Just hit check, and now good. That's actually going to be baked into video on timeline. Could add other clips, do other edits if wanted.

Clip 1: If play through, can see kind of hiking, filming handheld, camera's just shaking little too much.

Clip 2: Same thing, another hiking shot - just way too shaky. "This is like almost unsavable."

Clip 3: Kind of different format - just handheld vlog style, holding camera while filming ourselves.

All three of these can be saved to certain degree.

All you need to do:

1. Select your clip
2. Scroll down on submenu (so much we can do in here, lots of functionality)
3. Looking for "Stabilize"
4. There it is - that option right there
5. Tap it

Minimal Cropping

1. Just go to "Minimal cropping" to start
2. Letting us know going to take little extra second to stabilize
3. Hit okay, then hit check mark

Result: Now already playing through this, looks so much better.

There is little movement up and down of camera (just handheld motion), but compared to how was before, so much better.

Testing "Most Stable"

Click on clip, go back to right, select Stabilize, increase to "Most stable" - just to give idea of how much going to crop.

Can see that now. Go back to beginning, hit play - this is definitely very, very stable.

The problem: If look in corners of frame here and there, can start to see little bit of "jelliness" (literally the term people in industry use).

It's just warping that frame little too much. Looks like walls of canyon were in here just shifting little too much.

Anthony would come back and probably sit at minimum cropping: "I think that's going to look much better. Little movement is not bad. It looks natural."

1. Tap on it
2. Scroll to right (almost all way)
3. Stabilize
4. Go to "Recommended" to start
5. Hit check, then play through

Result: So it stabilized it. Got some jello going on, but play before and after.

It's not bad. Definitely better, little more stabilization, but might be too jello-y.

1. Hit tap
2. Find Stabilize
3. Switch to "Recommended"
4. Going to take second
5. Good to go, play through

Result: Looks good in some areas like this, but when camera starts to move:

"Sometimes this is limitation of video editing software. It can't always save shaky footage, which is why we tried to get it stable right out of gate."

Anthony tries minimal cropping instead:

Hit clip, come to Stabilize, bring down to "Minimal", let's see what that one does.

Not bad. That one looks lot better. Still little hair of jello glitchiness here and there, but for most part looks lot better.

1. Open CapCut, tap New project
2. Have folder already organized of all clips wanted
3. Tap Recents, scroll down to find "Hawaii edit"
4. Tap on that
5. Select clips in order wanted in timeline (chronological edit from beginning → middle → end of trip)
6. Anthony knows added in reverse order, so selects from bottom up, tap one at a time
7. With everything selected, hit Add button in bottom right

Adding Music

1. Look underneath footage → see plus "Add audio"
2. Tap on that → opens new sub menu (sounds, brand music, check copyright, sound effects, extract audio from clips)
3. Tap on "Sounds" → library of music already in CapCut (super helpful)
4. Also folder if wanted to select music already transferred to device or iTunes connected
5. Stick to songs already in CapCut → select Trending audio
6. Anthony knows wants "Early Summer Resort" song up here → tap to preview
7. This is one wanted → could bookmark (icon for future use)
8. Hit that plus

Now have song on bottom of timeline: Little peaks represent visual waveform giving visual idea of what will sound like based on highs and lows.

Position the Song

Noticed little gap before song starts in timeline. Hold finger on song, can drag wherever want. Drag all way to left so aligns with beginning.

Don't actually want video to start from beginning of song: Kind of takes minute for song to really get going where energy is bit higher. Listen for point in song that want video to start from.

Exciting part coming up right here: See how song kind of dropped and got higher pace? That's where want to cut song and start video from.

1. Hit pause
2. Tap on song → brings up sub menu
3. Hit Split button → cut song into two pieces
4. Select first piece, hit Delete
5. Drag part actually want in video up to beginning

Example: First Clip

Find section of clip know want to start from - right before friend jumps off tree:

1. Select this clip, hit Split button
2. Delete first half
3. Know want this clip to last for four beats (what orange dot marks)
4. Actually, want to trim beginning just little earlier to get right at jump
5. That's where clip will start
6. Now can hit play
7. See that orange dot? Drag right-hand portion of clip over → automatically zaps right to that beat
8. See how magnetically snaps to it!
9. Play through → cuts to next video right on that beat. Boom!

Two Methods for Trimming

Method 1 - Drag edge: Last time grabbed edge of clip and trimmed forward

Method 2 - Split: Can also move playbar to beat marker. With clip selected, hit Split, then delete part don't want.

Now assembling video clips according to beats, going with music - going to look lot better.

Keep going: Have orange mark, scroll over it, create split point, delete latter section don't need, keep going.

Example clip: Courtney at waterfall. Kept recording whole time because knew could edit later. Got better second take.

Really like this clip but little fast now. Going to use as example to show how to do slow motion.

1. This clip filmed at 60fps (remember back to beginning of course - higher frame rates allow to slow down)
2. Video editing in is 30fps
3. Have ability to slow down by factor of 2
4. With clip selected, hit second icon "Speed"
5. Hit normal speed editor for now
6. Bring down to 0.5x speed (filmed 60fps, editing 30fps → bringing 60fps down to 30fps)
7. Hit checkbox
8. Have some smooth slow motion - pretty cool! Nice and smooth

Method 1: Using Fingers

Tap on clip → now can use fingers to pinch, reframe, try to rotate things.

Anthony loses it - kind of hard. There we go, that looks good.

Method 2: Basic Button (Anthony's Preference)

If couldn't reposition way you like with fingers: With clip selected, come down to bottom menu → "Basic" button → hit that.

Now have option to change:

• Scale: Already at 110, could zoom in more (that looks good)
• Position: Move Y or X axis (like focus sign right at top, move right/left to center)
• Rotation: Adjust to get thing looking even in back (1% gonna do it)

Hit check.

1. With clip selected, come down in bottom menu
2. Find "Filters"
3. Click on that
4. Could select different filters if wanted
5. Could come in and adjust manually (contrast, brightness, saturation)

Anthony leaves all that, goes back to beginning - pretty happy with how shot. Hits circle with cross, good to go.

Example of mistake: "Whereas on the flip side, whereas on the flip side..."

See there how messed up line and restarted? All need to do: Tap on that → CapCut literally selected that all → hit Delete.

Going to ask every time (frustrating), but do it anyways. Continue on with edit.

Another example: "My recommendation... my recommendation..." - mouth talking faster than brain works.

Select that and space after it, hit Delete, good to go.

Adding Question Screenshot

This is FAQ style video. Want to show screenshot at beginning of question person asked.

1. Go onto Facebook, take screenshot of comment (already done)
2. Hit Overlay on CapCut
3. Asks to add overlay → tap on
4. Want to go to Photos, select this one took from Facebook
5. Hit Add
6. Use fingers to reposition it - looks pretty good

Tightening Breath Marks

Hate breath marks, hate pauses. Pinching on timeline, zooming - kind of pause before start talking. "Should you start?"

Don't actually start talking till right here. Tap, create split point, delete beginning portion.

Auto transcription editing really nice, but sometimes leaves little too long with breath marks. Still tighten those up after fact.

Extend graphic so lasts entire first clip - looks pretty good.

Example: YouTube Sticker

Talking about YouTube being favorite platform:

1. Come back to main menu → Stickers
2. Type "YouTube"
3. Find one that looks cool (Anthony tries one, doesn't like it, deletes)
4. Searches again, picks cleaner one
5. Hit check, gets in there
6. Can still animate: With it tapped → animations on sub menu → use "Slide up"
7. For outro, select "Out" → have it slide down
8. Little sliders to increase/decrease length of animation (leaves at 0.5)

Example: Social Media Icons

Talking about Facebook, TikTok, Instagram: Search for each, add stickers, position them.

On timeline: Now have all these other layers (Facebook layer, TikTok layer, Instagram layer).

If ever want to do edits to whichever layer, just make sure tap on that first.

Timing them: Have these come in as say them. Watch closely, drag to proper position.

Animate them: Tap Animation → Bounce in → Out → Bounce out. Do for all three.

1. Go back to main menu
2. Scroll to "Text"
3. Tap Text → see option for Auto captions
4. Asks to choose style (can change after)
5. Choose one, hit Generate
6. Takes second, figures out words, generates cool captions
7. Play through to see how looks
8. Can zoom in and increase size if wanted

Anthony has footage on phone already (YouTube editing module - vlog shot on recent trip down in North Carolina). Will use that as part of walkthrough.

Click on LumaFusion → first open up, see screen like this:

• Top: Program monitor (fancy term for where video actually going to play back, what able to see)
• Middle section: Project panel (contains all different projects working on - have none right now, says "press plus")
• Very bottom: Source tab (where can choose different files, videos, whatnot to pull into editing program)

1. Click plus button
2. Name this "Airbnb vlog" (buying Airbnbs for real estate business)
3. For frame rate, aspect ratio, color space: Leave at "based on first video clip added"
   • If shot as talked about in training (1080p 24fps, 4K 24fps), just going to match those settings and choose all for project
4. Hit plus icon in top right corner → officially created project

All that does: Changes look of app

• Converted project panel now to timeline
• Up here (highlighted by finger): Video track - one of six video tracks can access
• Down here (green): Audio track - again one of six total

1. Click button in top left of bottom segment → brings up all different sources can pull from
2. Can add/edit sources by clicking down at bottom
3. For time being, use "Photos" source (what iPhone calls camera roll)
4. Shot while ago, so scroll down and choose Albums
5. As data management training suggests, organized all into album "Memory Mountain Vlog"
6. Click on that → now have just footage pertains to this shoot (really helpful)
7. Grab clip, drag by holding finger onto main timeline

This vlog has bunch of different broken pieces talking to camera, B-roll doing this/that, footage from flight, etc.

First Button (Bottom Left)

Brings us back to project panel. All projects we have (only have one). Can drag finger, scroll through project.

Right now only one clip, so dragging through that. If single tap on it, brings back in.

Next Button: Timeline Controls for Each Track

See here: Chain, lock, eyeball, volume icon. On center track, also arrow (can redirect - talk in second).

Going through individually:

Chain button: Links all clips in timeline together

• Bring another clip (playing with Paul's dog), drag on second layer → creates entire second track (B roll on top of A roll)
• See little tie between front of clip and bottom clip? They're linked
• If click second clip then hit chain → unlinked → can move bottom wherever, won't impact second
• Hit link button again → move one clip, they follow together because linked
• Want to play depending on editing - always can change back/forth

Lock button: Locks track so can't make changes

• Grayed out track - even if click, no trimming
• Protects to make sure don't accidentally do anything

Eyeball: Straightforward - turns footage/track on or off

Volume indicator: Mutes layer if click (see line through it). Click back on → audio enabled

Volume Control Button

Reveals volume control for each track. Click volume icon → mutes track. Otherwise, drag icon left/right → increase/decrease volume of that track.

Dragged too low, want to go back? Hit undo button up here.

Multi-Select Tool (Box with Check)

Can select more clips at once when enabled. If disabled, only click one clip at time.

Example: Want to delete both clips → multi-select them → hit delete → both gone (undo to bring back).

Cut/Split Button (Scissors)

Makes cut in track. If don't select which track want to cut, cuts through everything.

If select just one clip then hit scissors → cuts just that individual one.

If wanted to add voiceover: Click, go through steps recording voiceover

If have nothing selected (not on clip):

• Can add transition
• Can add blank clip (placeholder - nothing there, holding spot, can replace with footage down road - not feature use too much)
• Can add title - double tap → edit by clicking text → can say "Anthony Gallo" (could be entry at beginning)

Working with title: Hit all good, go back. Title all set. Click, hold, drag anywhere → title in there. Can add transition (hit plus → transition → throws fade). Same at end (fade out).

Clipboard (Grayed Out Unless Clip Selected)

Select clip → becomes enabled. Click → can copy any effects/things done to clip → paste to another clip down road.

Example: Added color grade, specific effect to one clip, want to add to bunch others → use clipboard to copy/paste.

Layout Button

Already gone over this.

Export Button

Will go over at end when want to finish movie.

Settings Icon - Really Helpful!

In app like LumaFusion with tons of buttons, very helpful.

Click on that → bunch of settings:

• Click main settings → change project settings (frame rate, aspect ratio)
• Can change to 9x16 (tall like TikTok/Instagram reel)
• Can change to 3x4 (Instagram sequence)
• Tons of things can do

At bottom: Can change default length of any photos/titles/transitions add in (drag right → almost 6 seconds).

Means if drag photo (has no time associated), going to take up default of 6 seconds. Can always edit once in there. Anthony sets around 2 seconds - thinks makes sense.

Audio Tab (Bottom)

Edit audio if any - bring up gain or decrease gain. Looking at audio tab of edit panel.

Graphic equalizer - really helpful tool:

• All sound built up of different frequencies
• Low frequencies on left, high frequencies far right
• Want to decrease frequency/tone? Do here
• Drag 20 hertz down → cuts bass tones at far left
• Can drag bars OR click icons, increase/decrease tones
• Pretty advanced audio effects - Anthony does lot on computer, usually doesn't mess with on smartphone (adds work, not much real estate)
• Cool to see in smartphone editing app!

Pan: Audio all way left (left ear), same with right

Frame and Fit Tab (Far Left)

Do you want to crop clip? Zoom in? Move position right/left? Do anything physically to position of clip itself.

• Cropping: Really easy - drag from left → crops clip. Use fingers to zoom in/out in crop
• Size and position: Reposition by dragging finger. Zoom in using two fingers. Rotate clips by dragging little dial
• Lots of different ways to do same thing, all here

Blending

Essentially: Want to mess with opacity and make clip somewhat see-through.

Speed Control

If filmed at 60fps, wanted to slow down and unlock slow motion: Bring to whatever percentage knew should be.

60fps clip want to slow as much as can (talked in frame rate training) → able to bring all way to 40%.

This filmed at 24fps, so leave at 1x so don't change speed.

Other features:

• Can reverse clip entirely (takes second to rewrite clip backwards - Anthony hits cancel)
• Can flip maintain audio pitch tab (if slowing clip, also slows audio/pitch changes - turn ON → LumaFusion maintains pitch so doesn't sound super slow/low pitch or really fast/high pitch)

Stabilize Tab - Really Useful!

If ever used Premiere Pro: Very popular effect called warp stabilization - helps smooth clips that might have little shake naturally.

Turn "lock and load stabilization by Coremelt" ON: Quick analysis of dominant motion, tries to stabilize clip.

More advanced controls: Bring strength down, increase, even more advanced controls. Can get lost in sauce - would take hours to go through every finite detail.

For most part, all Anthony usually does: Turn stabilization on/off, then mess with overall strength. Right now turns OFF - clip already stable.

Color and Effects Tab - Really Helpful

Lot of things can do here:

Built-in presets: Can apply certain LUTs to footage (changes way looks lot). Anthony very rarely finds using built-in presets - just doesn't make footage look that good.

What recommends instead: Hit "Original", go through manual color correction tools:

• Increase contrast little bit (that's too much)
• Bring down/increase brightness
• Vibrancy - really push colors or make almost grayscale (Anthony leaves right around where is)
• Decrease/increase highlights
• Do same with shadows (bring up shadows makes brighter)

Lots of stuff can do. How going to add manual color correction to clips if find can make pop little more. Will have specific modules focused on color correction, but want you know where everything is.

Select clip → notice some buttons at very bottom change:

• Far left - Duplicate button: Quickly duplicate clip (Anthony hits delete, doesn't want now)
• Extract audio button: Clip has audio cooked in (talking, see waveform overlaid on video). Select, hit this → extracts audio, brings to own level. Want audio but don't need video? Delete video, have audio hung out. Use wherever want
• Link/unlink: Already talked about
• Pencil: Brings up edit panel - talked about
• Delete button: Comes up when select clip (nothing selected = nothing to delete)

Audio Monitor (Left Bar)

Can drag little icon to increase/decrease overall project volume.

Hit play → starts playing audio: Can see where audio is on left. Don't want creeping into red where is right now - too loud, starts clipping (doesn't sound good).

Want to bring down to point where very peaks of audio just going in yellow (good). Don't want anything in red.

Info Button (Top)

Gives basic info about project shooting, settings of clip looking at on project monitor. How many video/audio effects associated.

Add Marker Tool

Working on really long project, have to make note to come back to?

Click, tell yourself "marker one" (can give better name). Hit done. Now there. See in collapse timeline up top where marker is. Click on it → reminds you ("add sound effect here" or "add extra B-roll").

Additional level of editing to keep on track.

Back/Forward Button

Click → brings to previous thing in video (marker, another clip, cut point, audio effect).

Click again → back of title dropped. Again → back of transition. Again → beginning of clip, beginning of transition, beginning of video.

Back icon on other side of play button: Same thing but opposite direction.

Play Button (Between Them)

Obviously starts and stops video playback.

Undo/Redo (Top Right)

Helpful if ever made mistake, want to go back, fix whatever did. Redo reverses undo.