canva is not just great for design work
the canva video editor is also a solid
option when it comes to video editing
software so in this video we're going to
run through a complete canva video
editing tutorial for beginners step by
step including a ton of tips and tricks
along the way to help you boost your
results much faster now like the rest of
canvas design tools the canva video
editor is super simple to pick up and
use but there's also plenty more
advanced features and cool animations
and custom effects under the hood as
well so we're going to cover off some of
my favorites as we go through and even
better canvas video editing tools aren't
just limited to desktop pc or mac in
your web browser if you're an iphone or
an android user you can also use the
canva app to edit your videos mobile on
the go the process is pretty much
exactly the same so you can just follow
along using this tutorial no matter what
device you're using okay so here we are
at canva i've gone ahead and created a
free account and logged in and this is
what you'll see so start our video we
want to come over here make sure we are
on video and there's lots of different
templates and things that you can choose
from here in terms of the size and the
format of the video you're going to be
creating so we've got templates here for
a facebook video so a square video we've
also got here a portrait video and if we
scroll across there's some other ones in
here as well but the one we want the one
i'd suggest you start with is over on a
blank video so interface wise over on
the left here is where you've got all of
your templates all of your controls and
everything all over here this main area
here is your canvas area this is where
you'll be creating your video down the
bottom here is the equivalent of your
video timeline but we can see all the
different clips how long they play for
and this is where we'll be editing down
our video we've also got the menu bar
across the top here that changes
depending on where you're at in your
edit but this is where you'll access a
lot of the tools and functionality okay
so first up let's bring in our footage
so i want to come over here to uploads
and this is where we can upload our
videos from either our computer facebook
google drive instagram or dropbox so you
just want to hit upload select your
video files i've already got some
uploaded here that we're going to use
and they're going to go ahead and start
uploading to canva now a cool part about
this is that you don't need to wait for
that video to finish uploading before
you can start editing it down so even if
you're going to be editing a really high
quality large video file you can start
editing it right away so i'm going to go
ahead and select our primary footage
here and i'm going to click on it and
drag it down into our timeline here so
you see by default it stretched it out
to be full screen which is what we want
down the bottom here we've got our video
clip we can zoom in and out on the
timeline here just by using this slider
and if we click on this little button
here this will change between zooming
out thumbnails or zooming in and out on
the timeline and zooming in and out on
this canvas area so if we click it now
and we zoom in and out we can see that
we're able to really customize up our
playback area so i'm going to go ahead
and leave this pretty big so now that we
have our primary footage in let's go
ahead and remove any of the bad takes
the mistakes all the stuff that we don't
want to have in our video so we're going
to hit play and watch through and listen
to our footage and work out the bits we
want to remove we can grab this little
triangle here and we can click and drag
with this and we can scrub through our
footage fast to see the bits we might
want to edit out so at the start of the
video here i did a practice run of the
first sentence so i'm just reading this
through here now some final checks make
sure everything's all good and this is
where i start the video so i'm gonna go
back a little bit here great face there
justin but i'm gonna right click down
the bottom here and i'm gonna choose a
split so now we've got two clips in the
timeline here the left one is all the
stuff at the start that we don't want to
have on there so i can just select this
and press the delete key on the keyboard
or if i undo this now using ctrl z or
command z on the keyboard or coming up
the top to the undo button i can also
press the three little dots on the clip
here and i can choose delete so our
video now is going to start at that
point so if we hit play on this now
so it was a little bit of a pause at the
start so what we can also do to refine
this edit even further is we can move
our mouse over the start of the clip
here and we can click and hold and drag
to the right and this is again going to
give us more granular control let's
start it right here before i start
talking so we're just starting a little
bit quicker let's go ahead and tidy up
the end now for this one i'm going to
click on our timeline here i'm now going
to zoom in just so we can get a little
bit closer to it and i'm going to scroll
across to the end of our timeline and
again we want to either find the place
where i finish the video by scrubbing
across here and adding a split in our
timeline by right clicking and hitting
split or i can click off this and i can
grab the end of the video here and drag
it back to where i want the video to
finish now in terms of removing any bad
takes inside your footage we just follow
the same process we can either play
through our video and find these
sections we can grab this arrow we can
drag it backwards to where it looks like
i'm not talking another great face there
we can right click we can split this now
is our ending piece so we'll go across
to the next one to see where we want
this to come back to okay so we want to
remove from here all of this footage we
can just grab this handle here drag it
back to that point and move down remove
that section so you want to go through
now add any cuts and remove any bad
takes or mistakes so what you're left
with is just your primary content or the
story piece of your video so now that
you've gone through and you've edited
down your primary footage the next step
is to bring in any b-roll or overlay
footage now this is one thing with canva
that is a little bit more complicated
because they don't let you layer video
clips on top of each other i'm hoping
that's a feature that comes soon but
there is a workaround i can show you how
to do it so let's say after this intro
piece here when we start getting into
the content i want to show some of these
clips that i have up here but i still
want to have me talking behind them i
can come over here and i can grab some
of our footage of the switch pod here
instead of dropping it down to the
timeline i'm going to drop it into our
actual project on screen here so with
this clip now we can pick it up we can
move it around we can scale it up scale
it down but right now as it is this is
the entire
41.7 second clip so let's say we only
want a small section of this clip and
then to cut back to me talking full
screen we want to make sure that we have
this video clip here selected i'm going
to come over here to the pair of
scissors and this is where we can trim
down or select the area that we want to
use so again we can grab this handle
here at the start we can choose where we
want this clip to start let's say about
here and we come across to the end and
let's drag this back here to where we
want the clip to finish
let's say around here so i've got a 6.5
second chunk out of our longer clip now
i want to hit done here now let's scale
this up so that it fits our entire video
here so now when we play this section
we've now got me talking underneath with
this footage being shown over the top
but the problem we have now is that
we've now got that shorter clip that is
just looping here on top of me talking
beneath it so the workaround and what
you need to do here is to play through
until you want this piece to stop so
let's say here and then we want to split
this clip at that point so let's right
click and choose split now with this
second clip we don't need that b roll or
overlay footage we wanted to go back to
me talking so i can select that press
delete on the keyboard and now we're
back to me talking so if we grab this
handle here and scrub through this again
we've got
me on camera we then cut to our b-roll
footage where i'm still talking
underneath and then back to me talking
here now you don't need to necessarily
make your footage full screen if you did
like that picture in picture effect
where you've got one big video and one
small video playing on screen as well
then by all means you can do that easily
here just like that but in order to keep
the audio from your background video
while you're showing footage then you
have to do it the way that i just showed
you and we're going to get to volume
adjustments really soon but one thing
you do want to be mindful of here let's
go back to this clip let's select our
top video layer here if your b-roll your
overlay clip does have audio on it that
you don't want and you want to mute it
then you want to make sure that you're
selecting that clip come up the top here
to the little speaker and you can hit
the mute button and that's going to
remove the sound from our b-roll clip
with still having our voiceover
happening underneath it so you want to
go through your video now add in any
b-roll or any overlay footage into your
project so what you've got your b-roll
in the next step is to add in any titles
or text into your videos now this is
something where canva is really powerful
there's a lot of presets and everything
built in here to help you create some
amazing looking titles so we're gonna
come over here to text and we can just
add in basic text here or the basic text
box or if we scroll down there's lots of
different preset templates and
animations and things that you can add
in here and it really is as simple as
just dragging and dropping them onto
your project double clicking on them and
you can customize them up but one other
thing to note with these templates while
we're here is that some of these have
this little pro symbol on them these
ones are only available on the pro plan
for canva they're not available on the
free one but there's lots of free
options in here as well so we're going
to go ahead and add in a basic heading
here and customize this up now one thing
you will need to note is if i just
create a heading now it's going to add
it across this entire first clip 18.3
seconds if you only want your title to
show up for a small amount of time we've
got to follow a pretty similar process
to what we did with the b-roll footage
and we need to mark out an area or cut a
clip where that title is going to be
shown so i'm going to press play on our
video here now
okay so i'll probably add a cut in our
timeline here because it's where i want
that title to start so we'll split our
timeline there keep playing
and let's say we want our title to
finish here let's add another cut here
so we'll go split and now any title that
we add in this clip here is only going
to be on screen for that 5.3 seconds so
now we're going to come up here with
that clip selected grab our heading drag
it onto our project here we can
customize it up we can change the fonts
let's go oswald to our primal video font
let's change it to bold maybe we'll make
the text color white and maybe we'll
make this a little bit smaller we can
just pick it up and we can move it
around let's move it down to the bottom
corner here now what we usually do for
our titles is we've normally got a
rectangle behind them so they stand out
so i can come over here to elements
let's choose rectangle again lots of
different presets and templates and
things that you can drag and drop and
use in your project i'm going to pick
just a simple shape here drag that on
we're now going to resize this down and
position it so that it fits behind our
text and we can come at the top here to
change the color let's go to this one
it's pretty close to our primal video
colors and we now have a basic title
here so when we play through our video
there's no text on screen then for this
section here text is on screen and it
disappears again now we can get fancier
than that we can animate our text as
well so if we select our text then we
come up the top here to animate and
again lots of presets that we can choose
from to have our text animate on screen
so i'll go something simple like this
one shift and we can also add an
animation to our background color there
behind it so if i select on the
background and again come up the top to
animate then we can pick how that comes
on screen too it might just go a simple
fade so now if we come back here and we
hit play we've got a simple little
transition there for when the name card
comes on screen once that's done we're
going to add in any effects or
transitions onto our clips now you can
see between all our clips down here
there is a little plus between them if
we select on that and then choose add
transitions this is how we can add an
effect between these different clips so
we can choose a dissolve which is like a
fade we can slide from one clip to the
other there's a circle wipe or a linear
wipe now this is something for the most
part we either wouldn't use a transition
or if it did need one it was going to
add to the overall polish of the video
then i'd normally stick to something
simple like a dissolve but in terms of a
video like this where it is just a
talking head me presenting to camera
instead of a transition between the
clips what i would normally do is zoom
in on one of the clips so that when
you're playing through it looks like
it's almost a different camera angle it
just breaks it up a little bit for the
viewers so to do that here i'm going to
pick this second clip i'm going to come
up the top make sure our clip here is
selected and then if we come up to crop
then we can zoom in on this make it a
little bigger scale it up in order to
really sell this effect we want to try
and make sure that the eyes are in a
very similar position so it's not so
jarring for our viewers so let's try
about here come back and play this okay
so it just breaks it up a little bit for
the viewers where it's the same shot
same camera but it just looks a little
bit different so you want to go through
in this step add in any transitions or
any zooms or any effects onto your clips
at this point from there we're going to
add in any music you want to have so if
you come over here under audio there's
lots of different music that is inside
of canva some of it's free some of it's
only available on their pro plan but for
me personally where i go for my music so
that i have no licensing issues is to
art list and to epidemic sound so i'm
going to go ahead and use one of the
audio tracks that i've already uploaded
so if you want to use your own music
track again come over to uploads choose
audio you can upload your files here you
can see i've got two in here i'm just
going to click and drag this one onto
our project here now you can see this
has dropped in where we had our playback
head which was towards the end of the
video we can pick up this music file and
move it around so let's say we wanted to
start at the start of our video which
i'd imagine most people would we can
just pick it up and drag it all the way
back so now that you've got your music
in there it's a good idea to play
through your video and you might find
that you're adjusting any of the cuts to
line it up to the beat or if you need to
move any chunks or sections of your
videos around you can just click on them
pick them up and reposition them this
whole thing is kind of an iterative
process where as we're moving through
these steps you're just constantly
refining and tweaking this and moving
towards your end goal of a completed
video the next step then is to adjust
your volume levels now this is something
that canva does do a pretty good job of
getting your primary footage to the
right volume level but if you do find it
needs adjusting you can click on the
individual clip come up to the top here
and make sure that it is actually
selected here too and then up the top
here you're going to have your little
volume slider where you can mute or
adjust the volume here and it's exactly
the same for the music so once you're
happy with the volume levels on your
primary footage which as i said in most
cases it's going to be fine you can then
select your music track which here is
showing for me now as a skinny little
purple line we can click on that select
our music track come up the top here to
volume and we can lower this down now
for us with our videos when we do have
music playing behind them we're normally
starting at around between 20 and 30
percent that's kind of a starting point
playing it back and seeing what it
sounds like now this is something you
might want to do with headphones on so
you're really hearing what this video is
going to sound like when you're finished
but there really is no right or wrong
here this is personal preference you
just want to make sure that it's not too
overpowering or that is loud enough that
you can hear the music too so that's the
core editing functionality here in canva
but one of the other power areas of
canva is some of the templates and
graphics and things that it lets you
create that you can use in your videos
as well so let's say we want to add in a
video intro between where i start the
video talking and between where i
actually get into the content of the
video so we can hit the little plus here
to add in a page or blank footage
between the two clips then if we come at
the top two templates and let's search
for intro we got here youtube intros and
we have a full dedicated video on how to
create an intro animation here in canva
and another tool that we recommend place
it i'll link that one up in the cards
i'm not going to run through all of that
here but you can literally grab one of
these templates drag it on to your
timeline here and again all of this
fully customizable now i'm not going to
build out a full intro here for this
video go and check out our full tutorial
on how to make an animated video intro
using canva so for this video i'm going
to take that back out but know that it's
not just video infos if we come up here
and just type in youtube then in here
we've also got end screens as well
something like this one here which we
could drag down to the end of our video
and again it's animated pointing to the
next best videos that we want our
viewers to watch and we can customize it
up now for this tutorial i'm just going
to remove that click on it press the
trash can at the top here but now our
video is done let's go ahead and save it
out we want to come up here to download
you want to have mp4 video selected and
then just hit the download button and
your video is going to save out and let
you download it to your computer so now
you know how to edit your videos down
using canva now if you're looking to
speed up your video editing in any
software any app then don't forget to
grab your free copy of the primal video
method there is a link to download your
copy on screen and below in the
description this is the most efficient
process to follow along step by step to
help you edit your videos faster with
minimal wasted time and rework so grab
your copy and i will see you in the next
video