SC-S26W1/Video Editing, Getting Started

Hello Dear Steemians,

I am here to participate in season 26 steemit challenge

I won't say I am new to video editing but I am always willing to learn new technologies coming from all sources so when my friend @anailuj1992 taught us making videos through Cap Cut App, I grabbed the opportunity as I am using it for the first time.

Here is how and what I learned in this class:

First of all I used online video editing App Cap Cut and signed up using my email. That's right, I will not download the App but use online to save space on my hard drive. Let me confess at this point that I am no good with phone so I will use my laptop, gallery and "Download" folder.

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I then completed all their formalities and created a profile for further use of this beautiful application. I allowed the necessary permissions so they allow me to make videos in turn.

I selected these images

Rest was easy as I imported the images and video clips that I wanted to use for this contest. I love nature so my video's theme is going to be based on Nature.

I must mention here that I often visit my nearby parks, and places where I could mingle with nature, kids and strangers and I keep capturing them.

 
I have a large number of clips of videos in my gallery of laptop so I downloaded them to make it easy to bring them to Cut Cap.

I selected these clips for my intended video and took their screenshot to be posted here

Once I had enough material to make a video for this contest as taught by @anailuj1992. I brought them to App by importing the video clip #1. I could see the duration I had selected in seconds and minutes of the video length in the timeline.

Here is how it looked.

As I said, I keep clicking on various targets for my random use, so here are a few of them that I am going to use in this video.

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I went to my download folder and gallery and brought video clips and images.

As much as I understand the CapCut app, we can bring any number of images or video clips by clicking at the plus sign, so I imported another video clip by clicking at the + sign from my download folder on the laptop.

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Meanwhile, I could have removed from my video what was unwanted, but I did not do that with my video clips unless I thought it was a must; however, I removed a few images that I thought were not relevant.

As we all know, while recording a video, it's best to use your phone horizontally, but I mostly use my cameras for the purpose, so I get appropriate clips and images, but in the case of vertical images and clips, we can always change the ratio and make them look better.

As the lesson teaches us, the first frame of the video clip or the first picture used automatically changes the ratio. I tried it, and it worked in this case.

As taught in the lesson, I opted for a 16.9 ratio. I use my cursor to click at the required size and adjust even if my clips are in proper sizes, but just in case.

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I had a couple of extra images or a few of the duplicates, which I deleted by using the menu bar. Since I am using this app for the first time, finding a couple of functions took time, but I managed.

I kept coming back to the app's menu bar and kept clicking on different buttons to see that everything goes right. I am familiar with video editing on other tools, so I was tempted to do more, but since this is the first lesson in this contest, I wanted to do everything according to the lesson.

To add the overlay, I will be needing the Steemit logo, which I have already downloaded from the class as instructed. The steps are as follows. I had already used Steemit logo, it appears on my video.

At the menu, I search for the overlay button and I added Steemit logo as seen in the screenshot and you will find it in my video. Actually while making videos at YouTube I use "Timeline" but it was different here

At the timeline, I clicked select so that the Steemit logo can be extended to every part of the video or project till the end but it it was not proper so I used it a little differently this time around.

Exporting Video

After I completed the the video, I saw no export button in the beginning. I tried my best but could not find the download button, but when I closed the media compiler, I could see it, and that made me take a sigh of relief. After that, everything was easy.

I must say, I am grateful to my teacher for adding another video editing tool in my kitty. I finally exported and downloaded and posted it to YouTube.