Have you decided to use CapCut to edit your videos for TikTok or other social media channels? While it’s not difficult to use, CapCut has many features.

This might confuse you at first but don’t worry!

This guide will tell you everything you need to know about CapCut and how to edit videos. I’ll also explain every feature and option, how you can use them, and what they do.

Some of these features are:

• Split
• Trim
• Rotate
• Resize
• Add audio
• Crop
• Change volume
• Change speed

And many more. This will be a comprehensive guide, so buckle up. Keep reading to learn more about CapCut and how to use it professionally!

Summary: CapCut is a versatile and user-friendly video editing app, perfect for creating content for TikTok or other social media platforms. 

This comprehensive guide walks you through CapCut's features such as splitting, trimming, rotating, resizing, and adding audio, as well as more advanced options like green screen and slow-motion effects. 

By following these steps and learning about CapCut's hidden features, you'll be able to create professional-looking videos and share them easily on your preferred social media platform.

Start CapCut and Add a New Video

Follow the steps below to start CapCut and add a new video to edit:

1. Tap on “Accept“

The first step is opening CapCut from your app list. Once you do that, you’ll be welcomed by the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy notification.

Tap on “Accept” to accept the ToS and Privacy Policy. This will unlock the CapCut app for you!

2. Tap on “New Project“

Once you get rid of the ToS notification, you’ll end up on the main CapCut window. Tap on “New Project” to be uploading a new video to edit.

3. Select “Allow“

Once you select “New Project“, a notification window will appear, asking you to allow CapCut access to your photos and media.

Select “Allow” and move on.

4. Select a video

In this window, you’ll need to select a video you want to edit. All the videos you create with your phone camera will be in the “Albums” folder.

You can also use stock videos by going to the “Stock videos” menu in the top-right corner of the screen.

5. Select “Add“

Once you choose a video, you’ll be given the option to crop it if you want to. Tap on the button in the bottom-left corner to do that.

If you don’t want to crop the video, select “Add” in the bottom-right corner.

CapCut Main Features

Once you select a new video to edit, you’ll be taken to the editing screen. Follow the guide below to see what features you have at your disposal and what they do:

1. Effects

The first CapCut editing option you can use is the “Effects“, from right to left. Tap on it to open another window with two options – “Video effects” and “Body effects“

Tap on “Body effects” and you’ll see all types of body effects you can use for your video if there’s a person in the video.

You can scroll through various menus and find the right body effect. Select it, and CapCut will apply it.

Go back to the previous screen and select “Video effects“

In the “Video effects” screen, you’ll find effects that impact the video itself. Go through the options, select an effect you like, and tap on it. This will apply to your video.

2. Overlay

The Overlay allows you to add certain textures and colors or combine other images with your videos. Think of it as adding an image that wasn’t originally in the video.

This lets you achieve meme-related videos with images that pop up in the middle of a video, for instance.

3. Stickers

The next base feature you need to know about is “Stickers“. Tap on it to reveal other options hidden beneath.

In the “Stickers” menu, you’ll find the following options:

• “Add text” lets you add an overlay text anywhere in the video. The text will remain on screen during the entire duration of the video
• “Text template” – This lets you add a certain design to the text you add over the video
• “Auto captions” – This lets you add subtitles to your video
• “Auto lyrics” – This lets you create lyrics for your song videos
• “Stickers” – This lets you add stickers anywhere in the video
• “Draw” – This lets you draw anything, anywhere in the video

4. Text

The “Text” option will open up the same options as the “Stickers” option. Read above to see what those options do.

5. Audio

The next base feature on CapCut is “Audio“. Tap on it to switch the interface to reveal other audio-related options.

After you select “Audio“, you’ll see these options. Here’s what each of them does:

• “Sounds” – It lets you add sounds on top of the video, like music
• “Effects” – This lets you add sound effects like “Whistling” or “Laughter” or “Explos1on” over your video
• “Extracted” – This lets you extract a sound from an imported video so you can use it on your video
• “Record” – This lets you a voiceover or other sounds to add to your video

Advanced Features

To access the advanced features of CapCut, select any part of the video or the video itself, or tap “Edit” on the bar at the bottom of the screen.

The last basic feature on CapCut is the “Edit” feature, leading to other options I’ll need to detail. Have a look at the picture below.

Once you tap “Edit,” a suite of options will appear on the bottom menu. They are:

• “Split” – This lets you split the video into multiple segments so you can edit them individually
• “Speed” – This lets you adjust the speed of the video, including the speed of multiple split segments of the video
• “Animation” – You have three options here: “In“, “Out“, and “Combo”. Select them to find different types of animation you can apply to your video
• “Style” – A more advanced type of animation that effects special effects on particular parts of the video
• “Delete” – This lets you delete the video or a split segment of the video
• “Remove background” – You can remove the background of the video and only keep certain portions of the video
• “Volume” – It lets you adjust the volume of the sound in the video
• “Extract audio” – It lets you extract the audio from another video and place it in this one
• “Edit” – Here, you have three options: “Rotate”, which lets you rotate the video, “Mirror”, which lets you mirror the video; and “Crop”, which lets you crop the video
• “Filters” – You can add video filters to change the overall look of the video
• “Adjust” – Here, you can tweak the Brightness, Contrast, Exposure, Sharpness, Saturation, HSL, Graphs, Highlight, Shadow, Temp, Hue, Fade, Vignette, and Grain
• “Enhance” – You can enhance the Face, Body and Reshape the body of a person in the video
• “Mask” – You can mask certain parts of the videos and retain only what you want
• “Overlay” – This lets you add an overlay, another video layer on top of the existing video, and you can edit the overlay using the same settings
• “Replace” – You can replace the current video with another one from your album
• “Stabilize” – You can stabilize a shaky video by cropping some of the corners
• “Opacity” – It lets you control the opacity of the video
• “Voice effects” – It lets you add voice effects on the voice in the video, like Synth, Bass, Retro, Funny, etc
• “Copy” – Lets you copy a segment of the video
• “Reverse” – Let’s you play a video from the end to the beginning, reversing it.
• “Freeze” – Lets you freeze a video at a certain point in time
• “Graphs” – Graphs let you customize transitions between keyframes

These options will let you customize and personalize your video how you want to. While CapCut is not as advanced as other video editors, it’s more than enough for casual users.

How Can I Select Specific Parts of the Video?

In CapCut, if your video is split into multiple parts, you can select every individual part and edit it accordingly.

Follow the steps below to select multiple parts of a video:

1. Tap on a video segment to select it

Do you see that the video sequence is barred on both sides by two white markers? Everything between those white markers is a video segment.

If you can see those white markers, it means you’ve selected a video segment. Those white segments indicate how long the video segment is.

But you may have other segments in your video. For instance, in the picture above, there’s another video segment to the right.

2. Select another video segment

As you can see, this is the second video segment, the default CapCut ending screen after your video ends. You can choose to remove this or edit it.

Or you can add another video sequence after the first one. And you can select every video segment by tapping on it.

Special Hidden Features on CapCut

CapCut has a few hidden features that are achieved using certain normal features. Here are some of those features:

• Slow motion: With the “Speed” option, you can make your entire video run slow by decreasing the “Speed” meter.
• Fast motion: The same as above, only that you increase the “Speed” meter to create a fast-moving video
• Zoom-in and zoom-out effects: Using the “Keyframes” function, you can simulate zoom-in and zoom-out effects in your videos
• Green screen: For this, you’ll need to download a greenscreen video. Then, add it to your CapCut video as an “Overlay“, and start playing around with it

There are just some of the special hidden effects you can obtain by cleverly using CapCut. Others are out there, but you’ll need to discover them yourself!

How Can I Share a CapCut Video?

Are you done editing your CapCut video, and now you want to share it? Follow the steps below to share your CapCut video in two easy steps:

1. Tap on the “Download” icon

Once you finish editing your video and want to share it, tap on the “Download” icon in the top-right corner of the screen.

Make sure you select your preferred quality from the Quality button to the left of the “Download” icon first.

2. Share it on social media

Once the video finishes loading up, you can share it on social media like WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and others.

CapCut lets you share directly with TikTok since this app was initially designed to edit and share TikTok videos.

After selecting one option, continue with the outlined steps to finish sharing the video on a social platform.

Conclusion

To summarize, CapCut is a wonderful video editing app with plenty of features that let you customize your video for social media.

It’s one of the most popular video editing software for many socialites, especially TikTokers. This guide should help you understand how to use its features best to create a great video!

If you’re confused about CapCut’s features, don’t hesitate to comment below. I’ll reply as soon as possible.

Stay tuned for other informative articles on CapCut!