VIDEO EDITING
What is
Video Editing?
• The process of manipulating and rearranging video
shots to create a new work.
• Rearranging, adding and/or removing sections of
video clips and/or audio clips.
• Applying color correction, filters and other
enhancements.
• Creating transitions between clips.
GOALS OF EDITING
• Remove unwanted footage
• Choose the best footage
• Create a flow
• Add effects, graphics, music, etc
• Alter the style, pace or mood of the video
ADOBE PREMIERE PRO
• A video editing software developed by Adobe
for the professional consumer market.
• It is designed for a video editor's post-
production workflow.
• It's equipped with a suite of powerful editing
tools for content creators and filmmakers to
organize and edit video files as well as to
enhance and fine-tune audio and image quality.
CAPCUT
• CapCut is a mobile app for iOS and Android devices,
specifically developed to complement the basic video
editing features of the famous social platform, TikTok.
The app is free to use and promoted as a free TikTok
editing app. CapCut Android and CapCut iOS both have
similar features that allow you to modify your TikTok
videos with filters, stickers, speed changes, background
music, effects, and more. In addition, it comes with
split, reverse, and other editing tools to make your
TikTok videos look more polished and professional.
Key Features
of CapCut
Common Video Editing
– As an easy-to-use App, Capcut offers almost all
video editing tools in a clean user interface. From
splitting to combining many clips, from changing
video format to adding canvas, from speeding to
reversing the clip, you can finish all the above
within a few taps on its magnetic timeline.
Key Features
of CapCut
Overlay
– It allows you to put additional clips over the
main primary footage.
– Other common practices of CapCut overlay
include: CapCut green screen and adding
background in CapCut.
Key Features
of CapCut
Split Function
– The best way to use the split function is to have a clear
idea of which sections of the video clips you want to use.
After that, import them into the app by tapping + and
adding videos from your Gallery or Camera Roll. Once
they're inside, select each one to edit it and split it at the
points that you've already decided. Having a plan before
you do it is often the best way, or else it can take up a lot
of your time.
Key Features
of CapCut
Speed Control
– One thing to keep in mind about speed control is the
resolution of the original video. If you plan to use slow
motion, make sure the original is in high resolution or
shot at a high frame rate. For example, 30fps might be
good for normal-playing videos but if you're slowing it
down to 0.1x, it might look grainy and amateurish. Try
getting the shot at 60fps or higher so you can avoid such
issues.
Key Features
of CapCut
Reverse Video
– This one's a little more tricky, not because the feature is
hard to find or use but because you can only work with
very short videos. The reason is that the processing at the
back end is quite complex and resource-intensive, so
larger videos could cause the app to freeze or your phone
to crash. If you're reversing a video, make sure it's a short
clip, or at least make sure your phone has adequate
resources (8GB RAM or higher) to process large files.
Key Features
of CapCut
Music Library
– CapCut includes a rich music library with
exclusive copyrighted songs. If you are not
satisfied with the music it offers, you can import
songs from your device and extract audio from
existing videos.
Key Features
of CapCut
It's often hard to find the right music, so here are
some tips:
1. Try to find something with a beat that matches the
movements in the video
2. Match the mood of the video with the appropriate
genre of music
3. Use audio effects at strategic points in the video for
maximum effect
Key Features
of CapCut
FILTERS
– How you color grade dramatically affects how people
feel about what they’re watching.
– CapCut has various predefined filters, which you can
adjust according to your preferences. Compared to
making a new one by yourself, using filters requires
less time and thus accelerates your workflow. Both
primary clips and overlays can be added filters.
Key Features
of CapCut
TRANSITION
– A transition, a split-second clip smoothly
connecting one shot to another, is another feature
that CapCut offers. It has a variety of transition
options from basic, camera, MG to effect and
mask, which helps you seamlessly hide your cut
to another clip.
Key Features
of CapCut
TEXT
– Text can be informative; video with text can be captivating.
That’s the reason why many video editing Apps try to offer
copious text editing tools to make sure that creating stunning
captions is possible.
– CapCut creatively presets templates for text editing to prevent
you from getting lost in a series of elaborate and necessary tabs,
such as adjusting font sizes, changing different styles, and trying
multiple bubbles, and thus the process will become more
efficient.
Key Features
of CapCut
STICKERS
– CapCut has an advantage in allowing us to edit our
videos just like we do to our photos, and the same
goes with stickers. It categorizes stickers according
to their themes. Besides the most used emoji, we
have stickers including snowflakes, stars, arrows,
and some time-featured or themed ones, such as
vlog, Christmas, and New Year’s Day.
Key Features
of CapCut
SPECIAL EFFECTS
– There are two kinds of special effects—video effects and
body effects.
• Video effects are added to the whole video. That is, you can
choose to apply a video effect to the main video or the overlay, or
both.
• While body effects, as the name suggests, will be applied to the
human body or certain parts of the human body in the video.
CapCut will first detect and identify and then add the effects
around.
Key Features
of CapCut
ACTUAL EDITING EXPERIENCE
– Firstly, try as many tools as possible. This leads you to some
efficient methods to make editing faster and easier on one side,
for instance, the speech-to-text function. On the other side, you
will be receiving some unexpected discoveries through repeated
practices of multiple effects.
– Secondly, keep checking every a few edits to see how the video
presents. Many awesome video editing effects can be easily
achieved in CapCut, even for beginners, such as the smooth
slow-motion effect implemented with CapCut velocity edit.
CapCut - The Pluses
and Minuses
Pros:
• Straightforward interface, working with panels
• Rich copyrighted songs
• A bundle of templates to use
• Trending effects, filters, and transitions
• Availability in more than 20 languages
• Easy to export
Cons:
• Added track amount is limited relatively
• Lack of advanced color grading tools that keep the consistency of all clips at a more flexible level
• Accuracy glitches of some features, such as removing background and body effects
• Do not support landscape mode on smartphones and pads
• Cannot set frame rate higher than 60 FPS
