Hi guys and welcome back to an exciting new Canva tutorial. Did you know that Canva has only
just launched a brand new video editor which will allow you to create some truly professional videos
directly within Canva. So don't go buying any expensive video editing software until you've
watched this tutorial. The video editor comes with some really exciting new features. You can
now create a single video out of multiple video clips; you can trim and even split a video at
the video playhead. You can add text overlay; animate the text; upload your own audio music;
you can add transitions between each video clip. So today I'm going to show you exactly how to use
each of these features so you can start creating truly professional videos. There's a lot to cover
so let's hop over to Canva. As always start off at the Canva homepage. Go to the section underneath
where it says "What will you design" and underneath you'll see various options and I want
you to click on the 'Video' option. Underneath Canva has added some really handy video templates
which you can click on depending on what dimensions or formats you need. Use the side
arrows to scroll through the carousel of thumbnails. For now I'm going to select 'Video' which is 16x9
and the same dimensions as a presentation or a YouTube video. And don't worry by the way if you
later decide that the dimensions aren't right for you, you can always change the dimensions using the
resize button. This is a Canva Pro feature so if you're not already using Canva Pro you might want
to treat yourself to a FREE 45-day upgrade with my Canva Certified Creative affiliate
link. I will leave the link in the description underneath this video. So now you have a blank
template opened up on your Canva desktop and of course the first thing you'll want to do is load
up a video. There are two ways you can do this in Canva. You can choose from the Canva library, so
from the left hand side menu click on 'Elements' and go down until you find the Videos category.
And underneath you'll find all sorts of video subcategories depending on the subject. You can
use the search bar if you have something specific you want to look for. So let me search on "beach".
And Canva has now returned all the videos related to "beach". Let me also just point out this
really handy filter tool as well, so this will come in handy if you're a free Canva user.
All you need to do is put a little tick in this box here and that will filter out all the
pro videos. Click on "apply filters" and now you have all the free videos.
Also you might find this handy if you're creating a video for Instagram stories, you'll want to use
vertical videos so place a tick in this box here to filter out everything apart from vertical
videos. Let me just clear all these for now and go back to my template. If you see a video that
you like from the library all you need to do to bring it up onto your template of course is just
click on it. I'm just going to delete that for now because I want to show you the second way
to upload a video to Canva. Go back to the left hand side toolbar, click on 'Uploads'
and then click on the 'Upload media' button. This will allow you to upload your own videos,
and I highly recommend you do this if you're using Canva to market your brand online
because the videos that you upload yourself will be totally unique to you. The Upload media button
now defaults to uploading media from your own device so if you want to upload a video from
Facebook, Google Drive, Instagram or Dropbox just click on these three little dots. Once uploaded
your videos will appear underneath the videos tab. I have recently uploaded this lovely little video
clip from one of my holidays so I'm going to bring it up onto my template by clicking on it once
Let me just stop that. Now I want to make this video cover the entire background of my
page so I'm going to right click on my video clip and select "Set video as background".
And this kind of locks my video into place onto the background and stops it from moving around
if I'm going to be editing it. And speaking of editing let me just introduce you to all the
exciting new video editing features. Underneath your video template you'll notice a thumbnail
image and this is actually your video editing timeline. As I hover my mouse over the timeline
you'll notice that three little dots appear in the top right hand corner, and this is a shortcut to
access some pretty nifty video editing tools! So I'm going to click on the three little dots
and from here I have the option to 'add a page', and that adds a fresh new blank page
to my timeline. I can also add a fresh new page by simply clicking on 'Add page'. And
of course you'll now understand that you can add separate, multiple video clips to your project
which is absolutely fabulous! Going back to the three little dots, as well as adding a page
you can duplicate a page and that will create an exact copy of that page. You can add a transition
or you can add some presenter notes. Let's have a look at the transitions. On the left
hand side you'll see the transitions menu and currently there are four beautiful transitions.
I talked about them in detail in last week's tutorial so if you missed that I'll leave a link
for you in the end screen. I'm going to go ahead now and add one more video clip to my timeline.
And I think I'm going to add a transition.
To change the duration of a transition hold your cursor on this little button here and slide it
along the slider bar. And I can see I've added a new transition because I have a little icon here
between this video clip and this video clip. This icon is clickable and serves as a really handy
editing tool just in case you want to go ahead and change the transition for another one or change
the duration. But I'm going to leave mine as it is. Let's see what that transition looks like now
That's perfect, that's so smooth and streamlined. Using Canva's new video editing tool you can now
go ahead and crop as well as split a video. To crop a video go down to your video timeline
grab a hold of one of the end bars with your cursor and drag it along the timeline
If you prefer the old way of cropping videos select your video with your cursor, go up to
the top left hand corner of your Canva toolbar and you'll see the pair of scissors icon. Click on it
grab a hold of one of the end bars with your cursor and drag the end bar along the timeline.
You'll see the duration of your video clip in this little box here so you can be very precise with
your editing. Once you've made your changes don't forget to click on 'Done' to save them. If you
look at your video timeline you'll see a little inverted black triangle and a line underneath and
that's your video playhead. To split a clip drag the playhead to your desired position.
And for some reason I videoed my knee in this video clip which I don't want to share online.
So I'm just going to drag the playhead in front of that particular portion of my video, go to the
right hand corner of my video clip, click on the three little dots and select 'Split'. And that has
split my video at that precise point. I can now go ahead and crop that portion of my video out.
Fantastic! In fact you know what I'm going to delete that little section
by clicking on delete. Now let's knit these two video clips together by adding a transition...
Let's have a look and see what that looks like...
Wonderful. Now these video clips were taken on a holiday there's a lot of background
noise and chatter going on which I don't want to share online so I can adjust the volume.
I'm going to select the video with my cursor and then go back up to my Canva toolbar in the right
hand corner and click on the volume button. I can now either reduce the volume of my video clip by
holding my cursor on this little button here and dragging it along the slider bar. Or if I don't
want any audio at all I can just mute it. And I'm going to do the same for the second video clip.
Perfect! And now what I'm going to do is add some music to my video, and there are
two ways you can add audio to Canva. Just like you did in video go to left hand side toolbar,
select Elements (let's get rid of those) and go down to the Audio tab. And audio just the same as
video is organised into categories so click on a category to explore some of the audio.
I 'm afraid audio is a Canva Pro feature so again treat yourself to a 45-day upgrade by
clicking the link in the description box. Don't forget you can search for something specific by
placing your cursor in the search bar and typing a keyword such as, let's have a look at "waves"...
I like that very much and I'm going to add it to my video by selecting the track with my cursor and
dragging it down into my video. And bingo! What you'll notice is now I have an audio timeline
underneath the video. If you don't want to use one of Canva's own audio tracks you can upload your
own by clicking on the Upload tab and uploading your own audio using this button here. Once
uploaded your audio will appear under the audio tab. Let me just draw your attention to some audio
editing tools. So go back to your audio timeline, on the far right hand side of your audio clip
you'll find three little dots. Just click on the dots to access some quick editing tools. Use the
Adjust tool to select whichever portion of your audio track you want to include in your video.
Place your cursor over the audio track, hold your cursor down and drag the audio along the timeline
Don't forget to click on 'Done' in the top left hand corner of your desktop
to confirm your changes. Of course click on the volume button to adjust the volume
of your audio. To duplicate the audio click on 'Duplicate'
or just delete it. Now let's talk about adding text to your video. There's nothing complicated
at all about it because you would do it in exactly the same way as you would do a static image.
You've already learned that you could add multiple video clips to your video timeline
and now with the video editing tool you can add separate text for each separate video clip.
So I can add text to this video clip, but I can also add different text to this video clip.
You also still have access to all the exciting text animation tools and effects.
And I spoke in some detail about adding animation to text and pages in one of my previous
videos so I will leave a link for you in the end screen so you can check it out later.
In the meantime I'll leave you with one of my own completed video projects...
That is it, that's all there is to creating really professional videos in Canva's new video editor.
If you're excited about checking out these new features give me a thumbs up
so I can give Canva some useful feedback. Please do make sure that you check out those videos I
mentioned during this tutorial so that you know exactly how to add animations to Canva pages,
to text and other Canva features. This will help you create some really eye-catching video effects.
And be sure to check out those Canva transitions so that your video snippets
are seamlessly knitted together on your video timeline. That's all for this week,
thank you so much for watching as always and I will see you next time