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- Have you been super frustrated
with editing GoPro videos in GoPro Quik,
and you just can't seem
to fine tune the edit the way you like it,
or you can't seem to stack the clips and arrange the clips
the way that you like?
Well, in today's video,
I wanted to share with you an awesome video editing app,
and what I think is the best video editing app
for editing your GoPro videos on your smartphone.
Let's get stuck into it.
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Now, I don't want to create the illusion
that the videos that you see on social media
or on this YouTube channel
are entirely created on smartphones,
they're not.
But, there are some incredibly powerful things
that can be created on your smartphone,
especially for beginners
who are looking to upload content
to Instagram Reels or to TikTok.
In today's tutorial,
I'm gonna run you through
how you can use sound effects and music in your edits,
how you can speed ramp,
how you can color grade,
and even how you can go about creating some fun animation,
all in the palm of your hand,
using the CapCut app.
Now, these are things, as a video editor,
that I like to do
pretty much every time I'm making video edits.
And yes,
today's video is sponsored by the amazing team at CapCut.
So, thank you to them for sponsoring today's video.
But, I will mention
that I was using CapCut months before they reached out.
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All right,
so once you've downloaded CapCut,
did I also mention that it's completely free?
No subscription model here.
Start to select the video clips you'd like to edit.
Now, obviously,
if you're using your GoPro clips,
you'll first have to save these highlights
or whole clips onto your phone
from the GoPro Quik app.
The CapCut makes critical editing selections super simple
by allowing you to fine tune your selects
before importing them into your project.
So, simply tap on the selected clip
during the imported process
and trim the clip to only select the golden moments.
Chew the fat here,
and only select the highlights,
as this will make your action camera edits super engaging.
Once you've imported all of your selected clips,
you can simply adjust and rearrange them
to suit your desired flow.
Using two fingers on your screen,
you can pinch and pull to zoom in or zoom out,
allowing you to make more accurate and precision tweaks
to your clips.
Tap and hold on the clip
to bring up the rearrange window,
and then slide the clip along the timeline
to create the perfect stack.
Rearranging your clips and creating flow in your edits
is best done with music,
and CapCut has an amazing library
of royalty free stock music,
which you can drop straight into your timeline.
Or, if you're like me,
and you're already subscribed to a stock music library,
like Epidemic Sound,
you can simply import any track
and use that in your edit.
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One of the reasons I love reversing video clips
is to create endless loops for Instagram Reels.
Now, once you've imported your GoPro clip,
if you've captured it in 16x9,
you may want to resize it to a 9x16 aspect ratio.
Now, this is super simple to do in CapCut.
You just scroll along the bottom icon tab
and click on "Format."
This will bring up a range of aspect ratios.
Select 9x16,
and then proceed to stretch your clip
to accurately fit the selected aspect ratio.
Now, once you're happy with the aspect ratio
and your clip is highlighted,
you can make a copy of the clip
by scrolling along the icon tab until you reach "Copy."
Lastly,
simply tap on the clip you wish to reverse,
scroll along the icon tab until you reach "Reverse."
And voila,
you've now reversed a clip
and created an endless loop,
all set for Instagram Reels.
If you guys are enjoying today's video,
feel free to punch that thumbs up button
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And like I said before,
if you wanna check out any more video edits
or how to use the CapCut 3D zoom effect,
you can click up here on the cards
to check out some more videos.
Back to the phone.
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There are two ways
that you can go about speed ramping in the CapCut app.
The first of which
is to simply tap on the clip and split it
at the exact moment you'd like to slow down or speed up.
Now, on the highlighted clip,
tap on the "speed" icon in the icon tab,
and then tap on "normal"
to bring up the adjustment window.
I'm obviously choosing to slow it down,
so I'm gonna take it to 0.5 times, or 50%.
Now, playing back the clip,
it will now jump down from 100% to 50%.
The alternative, and in my opinion,
the better option for speed ramping in CapCut
is to use the custom speed ramping curve.
You can access this
by simply clicking on the "Speed" icon again,
but this time choosing "Curve."
I prefer to customize this
by clicking to "Edit" the custom curve,
rather than using the preset ones
that you can see on the right.
So, in the custom curve editor,
you can create a ramp
that slows down your clip from 100 to 50,
and then back up.
So, this is a great way to create smooth, flowing clips.
But, keep in mind,
the clips must be shot at at least 50 frames a second
to create smooth, slow motion.
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Color grading has been made super simple
with preset filters in CapCut.
Now, to access these,
tap on your clip and scroll along the bottom icon tab
until you reach the "Filters" icon.
Now, tapping on the "Filters" icon
will bring up a range of different color tones
to apply to your clip.
You can preview each of these
by tapping on them,
and also adjust the amount of color applied
by sliding the top "Apply to all" slider,
found above the preset.
Once you're happy with the color tone,
you can also make further adjustments to your clips
by tapping on the "Adjustment" tab.
Now, this will bring up pretty much all
of the most commonly seen adjustment features
found in most editing apps.
And for this particular clip,
I'm going to adjust the contrast and saturation
to just crush the dynamic range a little bit more
and give the clip a little bit more pop.
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Creating video effects in CapCut
is one of the app's biggest strengths.
To add effects to your videos,
if the clip is highlighted,
click the back arrow in the icon tab
and navigate your way to effects.
This will provide you with two options:
video and body effects.
Feel free to explore
all of these template effects CapCut has to offer.
But, today,
I wanted to show you an effect called background streaks.
So, click on the body effects
and scroll up
to find the template title "Background Streaks,"
which creates awesome motion blur to your videos.
You can adjust the effect
to only be applied to a certain part of the clip,
or if you're like me,
you can apply it to the entire clip.
Now, lastly,
using sound effects to transition your clips
can be super effective.
To do so,
click on the "Audio" tab,
and rather than clicking "Sounds,"
this time, click "Effects."
This will bring up an incredible library of sound effects
to allow your inner sound designer to go wild.
Now, I'm going to head to the "Transitions" tab at the top
and choose the swoosh with echo sound effect
to add to my project.
So, tap and hold on the sound effect
to position it where you want.
I'm gonna sit it perfectly between these two clips
to smoothen the transition between them.
Now, if the sound effect is too loud,
you can also adjust the volume of it
by clicking on the "Volume" icon in the icon tab
and lowering it to your desired volume.
Lastly,
if you're not a fan of the fall of your natural audio
that was recorded in the clip,
simply tap on the clip,
navigate to the "Extract Audio" tab,
and separate it.
From here,
you are now able to either delete the sound altogether
or just lower the volume to your desired amount.
All of the tips and technique
that we covered in today's video
have been chaptered in the bottom.
So, if you wanna come back to this video at any time
and rewatch it,
save it for later,
I encourage you to do so.
Guys, thank you so much for checking out today's video.
And if you have enjoyed it, or learned something,
punch the thumbs up button,
share it with someone else who's just got their GoPro
and interested in creating some more GoPro edits.
And if you do want to share some of your edits with me,
I'd love to see them on social media.
Tag me in them
and I'll drop you a comment.
See you guys in the next video.
JR.
Peace!
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