SC-S26W1/Video Editing, Getting Started

With CapCut, which is the easiest and a versatile tool with various features for video editing, I was able to add a touch of creativity to those beautiful clips, giving them more life, rhythm, and emotions to pass on. This isn’t just an edit, it’s a glimpse into my world, and the things that inspire me.

Every clip is more than just a video; it’s a memory I want to share, save, and explore even more, hoping it sparks a smile, a thought, or even a connection with you because they still speak a lot of things to me.

So here it is… not perfect, not too polished, but real, just like life itself." Just by following the teacher's instructions and steps, I made mine.

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Importing images and videos from my gallery

• Launching into the app, I clicked on "New Project" which automatically takes me to my gallery. I selected the videos and images I want to import for my work.

• I went ahead to select my images and clips needed for my work. Just from my images below, you can view the numbers as displayed which means they will just appear as numbered.

Cropping videos before importing them

• Since there is a part of my video that I wont be needing to appear in my clips after work, I clicked the middle of the video and as it opened, I clicked on the scissors icon, and using my fingers to move both ends to select only the part I want to be seen in clips.

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Timeline

• This is the interface for my work, where the seconds and minutes wil show.

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Major Buttons

• These play and stop are used in controlling the video to either run or stop.

Play button	Stop button

• To import more images to the working spot, I can click on the + button just as seen in the screenshot below. The clips will surface, indicating the imported ones so it won't be imported again. Once selected, I click on the Add button and then it appears on the timeline.

+ icon	Imported ones

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Menu

• Just as taught by the teacher, We have two menus in CapCut:

• Menu 1 is basically "Add", and when we have not selected any thing that we get to see buttons like: edits, audio, text, effects, overlay, caption, among others.

	Menu 1

• For Menu 2, I selected one of the clips for it to appear, which is the editing menu with buttons like: split, animation, effects, delete and more.

Menu 2

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Adding Ratio

• I went to menu 1 and scrolled to the bottom, where I found the "Aspect ratio" button. I clicked on it and I searched for the 16:9 option and selected it.

• Just trying out what the teacher explained. Clicking on the image and it highlighted, then using my two fingers on the larger image, I practised the zoom in and out.

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Delete Clip

Scrolling to the end part of my video, I clicked on the capcut mark and it got highlighted, then I located the delete button to let it go since I won't be needing it.

	Delete clip

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Overlay

• I located the overlay button and clicked on it from the menu 1 interface, then I clicked on + add overlay. When it opened, my video was showing, then I clicked on photos to select the steemit image which I needed.

• Using my two fingers, I adjusted it to right size and placed it at the top right corner of my work.

• I clicked on the overlay clip and dragged it till the end point for it to appear on all my work. You can see from my screenshot below

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Export

After working out everything and checking for errors, I clicked the "Export" button.

Export

Here, you can see the end product