According to data from the market research agency Apptopia, “CapCut” ranked fourth in the global app stores (including Android and iOS) in terms of downloads, with a cumulative download volume of 357 million, second only to TikTok, Instagram and WhatsApp , how to use this popular editing software all over the world, and what special attention should be paid to it? Next, this special project will be introduced one at a time.
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The fourth most downloaded mobile editing software in the world
CapCut is a video editing software developed by Beijing ByteDance Company. In addition to CapCut, ByteDance also has applications such as TikTok and SoundOn. In fact, CapCut can be said to be for Douyin. It is born to facilitate Douyin creators to quickly create short videos through editing and screening, and upload them to the Douyin platform for sharing.
grow very fast
Clipping can be said to be the fastest-growing editing software in recent years. The first version of Clipping was launched in May 2019, allowing users to quickly edit videos on mobile phones. In November 2020, the clipping professional version available for Mac systems will be launched , in February of the next year, we will release the professional version of Jianying available for Windows system. After the main operating systems are launched, Jianying also launched the continuous creation function. Editing can be continued on mobile phones, tablets, Windows or Mac computers.
Advantages of Clipping
Compared with other editing software, the biggest advantage of Clipping is that it is very simple to operate. It not only provides the function of automatically generating videos, but also has a built-in music library, material library, rich fonts, etc., so that users do not need to spend effort to collect materials You can edit works that look amazing, and also provide rich resolutions, frame rates, and video ratios to meet the needs of different social platforms, not to mention unlocking the no-watermark function for free, which is equivalent to paying for other editing software for free It is a function that can only be achieved. For users who want to cut more powerful works, Jianying has also launched teaching courses and payment tools to meet the needs of different user groups.
Download the mobile version of Capcut
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Determining Aspect Ratio and Size
When editing a video, the first thing to confirm is which platform the video will be uploaded on. Because each audio-visual platform requires different ratios and specifications for the video, if you want to get the best viewing or exposure effect on different audio-visual platforms, follow the platform Customized display specifications are the best way.
Different social platforms have different screen requirements
Let’s not discuss the audio format here, just take the video quality and picture as an example. For example, YouTube, the most commonly used audio-visual platform in Taiwan, prefers high-quality videos, and encourages creators to upload videos with a quality of 1080p or higher and a frame rate of 24fps. Or 25fps is better, and the video ratio is 16:9. Videos that meet or exceed the above standards will have a better viewing effect and may be easier to be recommended by YouTube.
However, if you want the video to appear in the Shorts column in YouTube, you need to change the video ratio to a vertical video with an aspect ratio of 9:16 or a square video with an aspect ratio of 1:1, and the video length must be shorter than 60 seconds. Displayed in the Shorts column.
Instagram, another video platform commonly used by Taiwanese, has additional video format requirements. If you want your video to appear in the Reels area, it is recommended to upload a 9:16 rectangular video, or an aspect ratio between 1.91:1 and 9:16. The video is easier to be favored by the platform, and the minimum resolution must be higher than 720p, and the minimum frame rate is 30fps.
Video Clip Specifications
In order to meet the requirements of different platforms for video specifications, Clipping provides 9 different common video ratios for users to apply in the editing screen. The resolution can be selected from 480P to 2K/4K, and the frame rate can also be set from 24fps to 60fps, remember to set the video specifications before starting to edit the video, so as not to find that it needs to be adjusted after editing to meet the needs of the audio-visual platform.
Make good use of the clipping material library to enrich the picture
If you want to cut a good-looking video, the material is very important. If the picture you take is not exciting enough, you can make good use of the free material library built into the clip to upgrade the quality of the film, or even combine multiple materials to create a picture like The animation-like effect can add a lot of color to the video. Here we teach readers to use the “overlapping” and “three-frame comics” functions of clipping to create the feeling of the movie in the movie. Clipping will update the content of the material library from time to time. Readers Simply update from the app store to apply new material to your videos.
STEP 1: Apply overlapping effects
Select the video clips that you want to add different frames, click “Overlay” on the toolbar below, and click “Add Overlay”.
STEP 2: Add stock footage
Then you can choose the clips you want to add from the stock video, that is, the material library, and the materials here are all free.
STEP 3: Apply three-frame comics
When the materials in the material library are just put into the screen, they may not look good at first glance, but it doesn’t matter. Click “Three-frame Comics” in the toolbar below.
STEP 4: Apply different special effects
Take the material with a black background just selected as an example. If you apply a “filter” or “brighten” special effect to the material, you can remove the black background and keep the white characters, making the material feel like an animation.
STEP 5: Use the filter transformation effect
You can apply different effects to materials with different background colors, and you can change different styles and enrich the video screen.
Finish the film in rough cut, fine cut order
There are many ways to edit a video, usually the most common way is to first rough cut the film and then fine cut, rough cut means to confirm the order of connection between different movie clips, fine cut means to adjust the content of each frame of the movie to ensure The details of the film are what the editor wants. As for why not adjust it in one step, but divide it into two steps? In fact, it is not impossible to cut in place at one time, but when there are many sections in the film, it is more efficient to proceed step by step, and it is less likely to happen that this section has already been cut, but suddenly wants to add it later.
STEP 1: Rough Cut Tool: Linear
When rough cutting, you can use the “Linear” tool in the toolbar to split the clips. There is no limit to the number of splits, and you can split a video into multiple clips.
STEP 2: Press and hold the video and drag to adjust the order
After splitting all the video clips, you can zoom in with two fingers to minimize the clip bar, and then long press the video clip to drag and edit the video sequence.
STEP 3: Finely cut each frame
After confirming the order of the videos, you can maximize the clipping bar. When the word “f” appears on the timeline, it means that the clip is zoomed in to the maximum. You can use the linear tool to clip each frame.
STEP 4: Insert transition effects
If you want to add different special effects to video transitions, just click the white box at the video link to apply different special effects.
STEP 5: Set the transition seconds
Since different transition effects last for different durations, and some of them take up the number of seconds before and after the transition clip, you can fine-tune the transition time to make the video length meet your needs.
Change the rhythm of the picture through video speed change
The most important point of video clips is to allow the audience to continue watching the video, so that the audience will not be bored watching the movie. In addition to the interesting content of the movie itself, speeding up or slowing down the movie by changing the speed of the movie, changing the rhythm of the screen is also to attract the attention of the audience. It is a good way to change the speed of the movie. There are several built-in video speed change methods. In addition to the basic speed up or slow down of the entire movie, it also has a curve speed change function, providing montage, bullet time, jump, flash in, flash out, etc. A common speed change technique to make the video look more dramatic.
STEP 1: Select the speed tool
There is a “Speed” tool in the video tool bar. After selecting it, you can adjust the normal speed change or the curve speed change.
STEP 2: Normal speed change
Normal speed change means that the entire video is adjusted at the same speed. You can choose 0.1x, which is a slow motion of up to 10 times, or an acceleration of up to 100x.
STEP 3: Curve speed change
If you want the video to have different speed effects, you can use the curve speed change to adjust, and the preset multiple speed change methods can be directly applied.
STEP 4: Adjust the speed change mode
Since different movies have different highlights, when adjusting the speed of the movie, you can click on different speed changing curves to adjust the speed according to the rhythm of the movie.
STEP 5: Best picture quality
Video quality will be affected when the video is accelerated by software or slow motion. If you don’t want the quality to be affected too much, remember to select the “better quality” option.
Dubbing videos and generating subtitles through AI
After the content of the video is confirmed, you can add dubbing to the video. There is a built-in dubbing tool in the clip, and you can record the narration directly into the phone microphone. , The recorded audio can also be handed over to the automatic subtitle function of the video clip. The AI identifies the voice content, automatically generates subtitles and then adjusts the subtitle content. Currently, it supports Chinese, English, Japanese and other multi-language recognition, but it is a pity that Chinese is recognized. The content is in Simplified Chinese, which cannot be automatically converted to Traditional Chinese on the mobile version, and needs to be adjusted by the user.
STEP 1: Add music and text
If you want to add narration or background music, you can click the “Music” option in the toolbar, and if you want to add subtitles, click the “Text Options” in the toolbar.
STEP 2: Add dubbing
Click the voiceover in the music option, and press the microphone icon, and the recording will start after a three-second countdown.
STEP 3: Automatic subtitles
If you want to add subtitles, you can use automatic subtitles to recognize the dubbing in the movie or the original soundtrack of the movie. Remember to select the audio language to be recognized in order to recognize it correctly.
STEP 4: AI identification
The recognition speed of converting audio into text depends on the length of the audio, and the recognition can be completed in about 10 seconds for a video within one minute.
STEP 5: Batch editing
Since the Chinese speech recognition of the mobile version of Clipping is recognized as Simplified Chinese, you can re-enter Simplified Chinese characters into Traditional Chinese characters at the batch editing office.
Automatic editing, handed over to the editor to generate a movie with one click
The great thing about this software is that in addition to the above-mentioned rich functions are all free, there is also an “automatic editing” function, users only need to click on the clips to appear in the video, and then click the automatic editing, You can get a movie with special effects and soundtrack. If you are not satisfied with the effect of automatic editing, you can click the rearrangement symbol in the upper left corner of the screen, and the clipping will reapply different editing effects to regenerate a new version of the movie. If you want It’s no problem to fine-tune the content of the movie. Just click on the clip you want to edit, and you can apply the editing function mentioned above to manually adjust the details of the movie. The operation is very easy.
Copyright issues to be aware of when using clips
Although Jianying is convenient and easy to use, if you want to use it for commercial purposes, you must pay special attention to the copyright of the material. According to Jianying’s own statement, the copyright of the content in Jianying is owned by Jianying, which is limited to personal use and cannot be used commercially. Since Jianying and Douyin are the same company, it is no problem to upload the content in Jianying to Douyin for sharing. However, if the same video is uploaded to platforms such as YouTube or Instagram, copyright warnings may appear, so if you enable profit-making If you are qualified, it is best to use your own music (or copyright-free music, music materials purchased by yourself, etc.) when editing videos to avoid troubles caused by infringement.
This article was simultaneously published in PC home magazine
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