Getting Your Footage In Before you can edit, you need your clips, photos, and music inside CapCut. This is called importing. Importing media Click Create project. Click Import (or drag files straight onto the Media panel). Choose your video clips, photos, or audio from your computer. The files appear as thumbnails in the Media panel. […]

Making It Look and Sound Right Two things separate a rough cut from a finished video: color (does it look good?) and sound (can you hear it clearly?). Adjusting color Select a clip, then open the Adjust controls (right panel). Drag the sliders: Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and Temperature (warm/cool). Start small — a little saturation […]

Putting Words on Screen Text does two jobs: titles (a name, a heading, a lower-third) and captions (the words people are saying, shown as subtitles). Adding a title Click Text in the toolbar, then Add text. A text box appears on the timeline and in the preview. Double-click the text in the preview and type […]

Making Cuts Flow A transition is the visual effect between two clips. A filter changes the overall look (color/style) of a clip. An effect is a visual trick applied to a clip. Adding a transition Click the small box that appears between two clips on the timeline. Choose a transition from the list — Fade […]

Cutting Out the Parts You Don’t Want Editing is mostly removing. You film a lot, then keep only the good parts. The core tool for this is split (cutting one clip into two) and trim (shortening the ends). Splitting a clip (the Split tool) Click a clip on the timeline to select it. Move the […]

Welcome to CapCut CapCut is a free video editor that runs on your computer (Windows or Mac), in your web browser, and on your phone. You’ll use it to cut clips, add transitions, put text on screen, fix color, and export a finished video. This course uses the free version. Everything we do here works […]