Hey everyone, this is Grace from Kapwing and in this video
I'm going to show you around the Kapwing editor and tell you
everything you need to know to create your first project in
Kapwing. So first, a little bit about Kapwing
Kapwing is a content editing and creation platform where you can get
started for free. It works in your internet browser and doesn't
require you to download any apps. Kapwing was developed with the aim
of making content creation accessible to anyone of any background.
So you don't need any editing experience to get started. Almost any
type of video image or multimedia digital content can be created in
Kapwing. the most popular types are videos, memes, GIFs, slideshows,
collages, stop motions and you can also trim, reverse, resize, subtitle,
convert, and loop videos and more features are constantly in the works
since Kapwing and our platform is completely online
This makes collaborating with others really easy.
You can share workspaces and projects with other people and even edit
simultaneously on one video project. almost every tool and feature in
Kapwing is free.
We offer paid subscriptions for people who do want a few extra features
for their work flow. In this tutorial,
I'll walk you through the main tools of the Kapwing editor.
We're going to be making a sample social media posts that includes a
video, text, subtitles, a progress bar, images all around it.
So to start just click the first link in the description below to get
to Kapwing and I'll meet you there.
Let's get started. To get started with Kapwing Studio, which is our
main editor we go straight to kapwing.com
This is the landing page of our main site and without doing anything
else.
You can just click start editing.
When you get to this part, you can either start with a blank canvas or
you can immediately start uploading your content.
I'm going to start with a blank canvas so I can orient you to the
studio.
So there are a bunch of different areas of the studio this main canvas
this white square you see here is where you can make all your edits.
So if you wanted to add text, add videos, they will all show up in here
on this
top toolbar here you have a bunch of different options and I'm going to
refer to it as a toolbar. On this left side here
you'll have your different scenes and I'll go over scenes in a little
bit and on the right side, you have a bunch of different options
depending on what you're you're editing.
So right now nothing is on this canvas and nothing is
selected.
So this right side just shows different options for altering the size
of the canvas and things like background color, but for example, if
you added a text box by clicking text here, you can see that this
layer is selected because there are these purple dots on it and when
it's selected you can see that now on the right side all these
different options come up for text layers specifically, but if I click
back on the main canvas, so I unselect the text layer, it goes
back to these other options for adjusting the actual
canvas itself.
Get more familiar with that as you use the product. To upload any
content
You can just go to this upload button in top left corner and you have
some options here.
So you can either click to upload your files.
And if you do that, it'll open your computer or your phone
Whatever you're working on, your files and you can select something to
upload to the studio. Alternatively, you can drag and drop a
file.
So for example, if I had a video on my desktop and I dragged and
dropped it here it would open that video.
And then the last option is to paste a link. We support a bunch of
different links.
So for example, YouTube links, Twitter, and TikTok links all work.
We also support a bunch of other ones and we're constantly adding to
this list.
So make sure to check out our help center article on
which types of links are supported.
If you're not sure if the link is supported just try it.
So the first thing I need to do is upload our video.
I'm going to paste a link to grab this content.
I'm just going to copy the link using command C and then in Kapwing
I'm just gonna click upload and paste that link by doing command V and
it should just grab me that video. Because Instagram posts have
different dimensions than YouTube.
The first thing you might want to do is resize this.
by clicking on the canvas and unselecting any layers I'm going to choose
1:1 which is the format for Instagram.
So you can see it cuts off some of the video, if you don't want
the video to be cut off at all.
If you want to retain its original dimensions, just click the video
and then click "lock ratio" on the side here and now it's the original
size.
So I'm going to move this to the center of my canvas.
And one thing you might want to do is trim your videos.
So to trim videos you can just click the video and then on the right
side click trim.
And this is a preview of what your video will look like after you trim
it. You can use these dots at the end of this purple bar to drag them
and adjust when you want the video to start so I'm just going to cut
this down to where I'm talking about how to make jump cuts in the
intro.
So I think this should be the end of it.
And you can scrub along this bar to see what it will look
like.
Cool so I'm happy with that. It will only take this section
where there's purple.
That's the only section that will be saved.
And once you're done you click done. So now my video should be trimmed it
you can see at the bottom here.
It's less than 30 seconds now.
So the next thing I want to add is text. To add text you go to the
toolbar and click Text. To edit it you can just go in click and edit
whatever and add what text you want. To adjust how this text looks you
can just go to the right side and you have a ton of options for colors,
font size, alignment.
So for example we have a bunch of fonts here and you can also
click more fonts and there's more. Uploading your own fonts
For example to maintain brand consistency is a Kapwing Pro
feature.
So it's included if you have the subscription. But I'm going to just
use Montserrat and make that bold.
I also want to change.
the background color to something that's not white. To do that you
can just click the canvas and you have a few options here.
You can choose one of these colors or if you have a hex code that you
use for example for your brand you can just paste that in. I'm going to make the
outline none and then make the text white. You might want to add images
or shapes to your video and you can do that in the toolbar as well.
So there's images here and then shapes here.
So one shape I want to add that we have is a progress bar.
And if you don't know what this is, it's literally just a bar at the
bottom of the screen and as you play the video it moves
across the screen. This is kind of a psychological trick
You can play on your viewers where if they know how much of the video
is left playing then they're more likely to watch the video.
So once you click the progress bar, there's a couple options on the
side here for how it looks.
I'm going to make it yellow just so
it stands out a little bit more and then in terms of adding images, you can
click this images layer and search for any images here and they will
Source from Google Images.
So for example if I wanted to search for camera png.
All these different options come up and even if you find an image that
has that white background.
So for example, this is actually a PNG because there's no background
to it.
And it even if it has a white border or background we can still erase that
in Kapwing.
So for example, I'm going to choose this one and again click lock
ratio.
If you want it to retain its dimensions. It might take a
few seconds for the image to load.
But eventually this erase button will be clickable.
So select the image and click erase and this is where you can erase
backgrounds.
So we have a video going into this in more depth.
So check that out if you are interested in this but basically to erase
more efficiently you can just click and drag and anything that's
highlighted will be deleted.
Also once I click delete that whole background just is deleted.
We also have this freehand erase tool where it will delete pixels that
you move
Over and this is great for getting rid of any extra lines or spots
that you don't want.
You can zoom in and out to do this.
Once you're happy with how it looks just click done.
And now our image doesn't have a background to it. More things in the
images tab:
We have emojis so you can add any emojis you want and then
you can add GIFs by searching in the image search just saying
like film GIF. Just add GIF to the end of your query and anything that's
moving in the results should pop up.
So the next thing you might want to add to a video is audio.
So there two types of audio in Kapwing that you can add so the
most basic type which I'm going over now is the global audio.
So this audio tab in the toolbar if you click that it'll take you to
the screen where you have a couple options you can upload an audio
file so examples like MP3's which are very typical audio file types.
You can also record your own audio.
So if this is like a voice over you
Just click record and it'll save whatever you're saying.
And then the last option is again pasting the link to an audio or
video clip.
So even if this is a video and you just want the audio from it, this
feature is able to do that.
So, for example, I found this no copyright music on YouTube that is
free and safe to use that
I want to use in my project.
So I'm just going to copy the link to the video and then go back to
Kapwing and paste that video link and it will just get me the audio.
So you can see that already loaded it.
You can trim this audio and adjust the volume of the original video
track and the audio track.
So, let's see.
You can hear the audio in the background.
And it's a little bit loud.
You can't really hear what I'm saying.
So I'm going to lower that audio tracks volume down.
So I'm happy with that.
I'm going to click done.
So this audio will play throughout the whole project.
So sometimes people want to add audio to specific parts of the video.
And if you do are interested in that we have another tutorial video
that we made that you can go and watch for more help with that.
So now I'm going to go over how to add subtitles to this video for a
quick intro.
Basically.
You just click subtitles in the top bar and you can either add the
subtitles manually one by one for you can Auto generate them. Auto
generating makes the process a lot quicker.
It's not 100% accurate, but you can go in easily and just edit them
after. If your video is in another language besides English we support
that as well.
We can Auto generate subtitles for that language.
I'm just going to clicks auto-generate here.
So our auto-generated subtitles have loaded in this preview.
You can see what they will look like and then each line is one line of
subtitles that you can click and change around the text.
For example, I know in this first line I say hi everybody.
This is Grace.
from Kapwing
so you can edit that.
You can also change when the subtitles show up on the screen
the timing of the music dragging dropping these purple bars and
you can see the whole video is loaded for those subtitles.
So if you do auto generate your subtitles, I would recommend playing
the video through and just making sure that each subtitle is correct
and going in and editing anything that's incorrect.
Another thing you can do is change the appearance of the subtitles.
So for example, you can see that these subtitles are a little bit
large for the video
I'm trying to make. So you can change the size down and then I don't
really like the way that the background looks with the black.
So I'm going to change the background style. You can do full, outline or
none and I kind of like the way none looks. To make it more consistent
with my other font
I'm going to change the font to Montserrat.
And I think they're positioned well, but you can also move up and down
to place them.
And change colors as well.
My subtitles look great to me.
So I'm going to click done. Our video is looking pretty good.
Let's play it for a few seconds.
So we have the progress bar, we have subtitles and everything looks
very consistent and well formatted and designed. One thing you might
want to add is other sections of the video.
So this is the first scene as you can see on this bar.
There's only one scene in this project.
But if I wanted to add another scene to add other types of videos or
elements, you can do that here.
So add a scene, I'm going to add some text that says try this out in
Kapwing now and this is just a quick call to action to end my video
now we can see that there's two scenes.
So if we go to the very end of this video
The second scene will come up.
Great.
So those are my two different scenes and you can add as many scenes
as you want for the different sections of the video.
You can also reorder them by dragging and dropping.
So I'm just dragging the second scene, putting it before the first and
that reorders the whole video. The last feature I'm going to show in
this tutorial is how to use the timeline.
The timeline is used to adjust the timing of each of these layers.
So for example, if I wanted this camera to pop into the video, I can
do that in the timeline.
So we have another tutorial going just diving into the timeline and
how it works.
So if you want a more in-depth tutorial just on the timeline
I would suggest to go check that out.
But so each of these layers is represented on the canvas here.
So this camera layer this image is this one and then the progress bar
has its own layer and "jump cuts 101"
the text has its own layer. This timeline basically moves from left
to right.
So as you play the video you can see this marker moves across the
screen.
For example, if I only want this camera image to show up after a few
seconds and then disappear towards the end of the video.
I can use the ends of the lair and drag and move them to where I want
them to start and end.
So if I wanted it to appear at 3 seconds, and then leave the screen at
24 seconds.
I just moved the layer so it can do that and if we play it from the
start of the video.
You can see that the camera popped in so this is just a nice way to
adjust when different features are on the screen at different times.
You can also upload files directly to the timeline to the scene.
So if I pasted a link or uploaded a video it would just remain in this
one scene. To finish up and be able to download your video.
You can click "export video" this red button here and we will start
processing the video in the cloud.
So our video is done loading and you can see this is the preview of the
final product.
You might see a small watermark in the corner that says Kapwing and
you can remove that for free by just clicking a button that says sign
in to remove Watermark, that should be at the top here. To actually
download and save your video that you just made.
You can just click this download button here, and it will save the
file to your local device.
You can always go back in to edit it by clicking this or make a copy of
it or just share it straight to social media with these buttons.
Another cool sharing feature is you copy the link and send it around
people will be taken directly to this page and they can see your
content and also add to it themselves.
So everything we just did in this video was completely free as I
mentioned before we do have a pro subscription.
So if you're interested in having a few more features, you could check
out our pricing page to consider upgrading to Kapwing Pro. Thanks for watching this video!
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