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How to Edit a YouTube Video in 2026 (Start to Finish) — Transcript

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  1. 0:00If you've never edited a YouTube video
  2. 0:01before, it can feel pretty overwhelming
  3. 0:03at the beginning, but the good news is
  4. 0:05this, it's actually a lot easier than
  5. 0:07you think if you follow the right
  6. 0:09process. So, in this video, I'm going to
  7. 0:11teach you how to edit your first ever
  8. 0:13YouTube video so you can start making
  9. 0:15your own videos. So, step one is to
  10. 0:17choose which software you're going to
  11. 0:18use to do your video editing, and for
  12. 0:20beginners, we highly recommend starting
  13. 0:22with the software CapCut. It's really
  14. 0:25user-friendly, it's completely free to
  15. 0:26get started, and there's a lot of really
  16. 0:28great tools for beginners who are
  17. 0:30wanting to make videos faster. If you do
  18. 0:32want an editing program that's a little
  19. 0:33bit more professional, there is a
  20. 0:34software called DaVinci Resolve that
  21. 0:37pros use to edit all the time. Some of
  22. 0:39the editors on our team use DaVinci
  23. 0:41Resolve, and it's a world-class editing
  24. 0:43software, and they have a free version
  25. 0:44that is very capable. But, for today's
  26. 0:46video, you can go ahead and download
  27. 0:48CapCut, and make sure to grab the
  28. 0:49desktop version for whatever computer
  29. 0:51you have, either Mac or Windows. Now,
  30. 0:54the next step is to organize all of our
  31. 0:56content before we bring it into our
  32. 0:58editing software, so we just make sure
  33. 0:59we set up our project files correctly.
  34. 1:02So, whether you recorded your video on
  35. 1:03your computer or a smartphone or even a
  36. 1:06dedicated camera, you want to make sure
  37. 1:08that you pull those files onto your
  38. 1:09computer and organize them in distinct
  39. 1:12categories. So, I've made a folder for
  40. 1:13this video called how to edit a YouTube
  41. 1:15video as a beginner, and there's three
  42. 1:17main folders that you want to create.
  43. 1:18You want to create one folder called
  44. 1:20A-roll, and this is for your talking
  45. 1:22head video. So, if you're talking to the
  46. 1:24camera, this file would go into this
  47. 1:26folder called A-roll. If you have
  48. 1:28supplemental footage that you recorded
  49. 1:30to reinforce whatever you're talking
  50. 1:32about, we call this B-roll. And these
  51. 1:34are like shorter clips that we use to
  52. 1:36just reinforce if I'm talking about this
  53. 1:38microphone for today's tutorial, we shot
  54. 1:40a bunch of footage of the microphone
  55. 1:41that we can use as overlays to help
  56. 1:44better explain what we're talking about.
  57. 1:46So, content like this would go in your
  58. 1:48B-roll folder, and then project files
  59. 1:50would be any other things like graphics
  60. 1:52or logos, animations, stock footage, or
  61. 1:55music that we would want to bring into
  62. 1:57our project as well. So, be sure to
  63. 1:59organize your files before you bring
  64. 2:00them into your software. It's going to
  65. 2:02make things a whole lot easier once you
  66. 2:04get editing. Our next step is to get our
  67. 2:05project set up and import our footage
  68. 2:07into CapCut. So, once you open up
  69. 2:09CapCut, you can sign in if you would
  70. 2:11like, but I'll show you what this is
  71. 2:13like completely with the free version
  72. 2:14without even being signed in. So, the
  73. 2:16first thing we need to do is select this
  74. 2:18really big button up top called create a
  75. 2:20project, and immediately the CapCut
  76. 2:22interface will open up, and this is what
  77. 2:24you'll see. Now, the first thing we'll
  78. 2:26want to do right now is just import our
  79. 2:28media, so I'm going to go open my finder
  80. 2:29window and bring in the A-roll and the
  81. 2:32B-roll for this video. So, I'm going to
  82. 2:33click and drag, and drag those both of
  83. 2:36those folders actually directly into
  84. 2:38this import button, and they import as
  85. 2:40folders, which is really nice for
  86. 2:42organization. If I click and open this
  87. 2:44tutorial folder, we can see what's
  88. 2:46inside of there, which is these two
  89. 2:48clips. We have audio that I recorded as
  90. 2:50well as the talking head A-roll, and if
  91. 2:52I click this video, it'll automatically
  92. 2:55start playing this clip, so we can see
  93. 2:57how my A-roll's looking. So, these are
  94. 2:58the four main windows that you'll be
  95. 3:00using inside of CapCut. This top left
  96. 3:02one is how you ingest all of your media,
  97. 3:05you import footage, you also can add
  98. 3:07different audio and text effects with
  99. 3:09this left panel. The middle panel right
  100. 3:11here is for viewing your actual video,
  101. 3:14either previewing content that's not yet
  102. 3:16on your timeline or actually viewing
  103. 3:19your edit that you've already started
  104. 3:20editing. This top right panel is more
  105. 3:22details and information about the clips
  106. 3:24on your timeline, and you can do some
  107. 3:25editing to those clips with this right
  108. 3:27panel. And this very bottom window right
  109. 3:29here is your editing timeline. So, as
  110. 3:31you drag in media that you actually want
  111. 3:33to edit, we'll start building our
  112. 3:34timeline right here. So, now that our
  113. 3:36project is all set up, it's now time to
  114. 3:38start editing our A-roll or the main
  115. 3:40story and the talking head portion of
  116. 3:42our video. So, if I go up to this clip
  117. 3:44right here, this is the video that we're
  118. 3:46editing today, and I can actually just
  119. 3:47click and drag that directly onto this
  120. 3:49timeline, and I can start editing.
  121. 3:52Alternatively, if I delete this, I could
  122. 3:54go up to the clip, right-click, and then
  123. 3:56hit new timeline with selected item, and
  124. 3:59that's another really easy way to create
  125. 4:01a new timeline. If you want to zoom in
  126. 4:03on your clip, you can use this zoom
  127. 4:05slider right here or hit the command
  128. 4:07minus and plus buttons to see your clips
  129. 4:10just a little bit bigger if you'd like.
  130. 4:12You could also grab this video layer to
  131. 4:14expand it a little bit if you want to
  132. 4:15see the audio a little bit better. Now,
  133. 4:17if you recorded audio separately, you
  134. 4:19can drag your audio directly into the
  135. 4:21timeline, and then you can sync up those
  136. 4:23clips manually by just aligning the
  137. 4:26audio layers to make sure your audio is
  138. 4:28all in sync. Now, because I actually
  139. 4:30recorded audio separately, I'm going to
  140. 4:32mute this track by grabbing this audio
  141. 4:34little levels right here and drag it
  142. 4:36completely to the bottom. So, now I've
  143. 4:37just muted my A-roll clip because I want
  144. 4:39to use this high-quality podcast audio
  145. 4:42for this video. And because these are
  146. 4:44treated as separate clips right now, I'd
  147. 4:46like to actually merge them together.
  148. 4:48So, what I'm going to do is highlight
  149. 4:50both of them, right-click, and then
  150. 4:52create a compound clip. And all this
  151. 4:54does is treat these almost like one
  152. 4:56video file, and it just makes life a lot
  153. 4:58easier for me. So, it's something you
  154. 5:00could try out if you ever want to create
  155. 5:01compound clips. So, now I need to go in
  156. 5:03and start editing this introduction
  157. 5:05because I actually did the intro three
  158. 5:06different times, and the third take was
  159. 5:08actually the best one. Let's watch that.
  160. 5:10This is my favorite budget wireless
  161. 5:12microphone for beginners. It's the
  162. 5:14Hollyland Lark A1. So, at this point,
  163. 5:16everything to the left of that clip
  164. 5:18needs to be deleted, so I'll hit B on my
  165. 5:20keyboard to open up the blade tool, and
  166. 5:22this is how I make a bunch of edits. So,
  167. 5:24I can clip, clip, clip all in here, and
  168. 5:26then if I want to, I can click A to
  169. 5:28highlight and drag and delete all those
  170. 5:31clips. We don't need any of those
  171. 5:32things. And now there's this big gap
  172. 5:34right here, and what I can do is
  173. 5:36actually move this over if I would like,
  174. 5:38or I can turn on automatic snapping
  175. 5:41right here. So, if I click this button,
  176. 5:42everything's going to snap automatically
  177. 5:44anytime I make an edit. So, same thing
  178. 5:46over here, everything on the left side
  179. 5:48of this hook needs to be deleted, so
  180. 5:49I'll click, hit A on my keyboard to
  181. 5:51remove this video clip, and then hit
  182. 5:53delete, and everything snaps over to
  183. 5:55place. Let's watch the hook now. This is
  184. 5:57my favorite budget wireless microphone
  185. 5:59for beginners. It's the Hollyland Lark
  186. 6:02A1. So, at this point, I need to go
  187. 6:03through the entire timeline and just get
  188. 6:05my story solidified. So, I'm going to go
  189. 6:07through and cut out all of the different
  190. 6:09mistakes, and if I kind of rambled on, I
  191. 6:11want to delete that as well, and just
  192. 6:12get the story as tight as I can. So, I
  193. 6:14just went through and edited all of the
  194. 6:16A-roll for my video, and this is
  195. 6:18probably what your timeline would look
  196. 6:20like. You have a bunch of different
  197. 6:21clips and different lines and cuts in
  198. 6:23the video because you removed several
  199. 6:25mistakes. And what we need to do at this
  200. 6:27point is actually add what's called
  201. 6:29B-roll. So, this is supplemental footage
  202. 6:31that will help reinforce whatever we're
  203. 6:33talking about in our video, but it also
  204. 6:35helps cover cuts or mistakes that we
  205. 6:37made in our video to make the video feel
  206. 6:39more seamless. So, if I go back up to
  207. 6:41this media pool, I can click all to view
  208. 6:43all of my media sources, and I want to
  209. 6:45click in this folder and look at Lark A1
  210. 6:48B-roll. If I stretch this out, I can see
  211. 6:50more of the clips, or I'll make it maybe
  212. 6:52just like right here so I can view three
  213. 6:54rows, and I can scroll through and look
  214. 6:56at all of this high-quality B-roll that
  215. 6:58we shot for this video. So, let's listen
  216. 7:00to what I say right here in this portion
  217. 7:02of the video. All of it fits right
  218. 7:03inside this really tiny carrying case.
  219. 7:05So, as I talk about that tiny carrying
  220. 7:07case, it'd be great to visually show the
  221. 7:09case that I'm talking about, and I shot
  222. 7:11a bunch of B-roll that I can overlay
  223. 7:13over the top of that portion to even
  224. 7:15cover this cut that exists right here.
  225. 7:17So, as I scroll through my media pool, I
  226. 7:19can see this clip right here where I'm
  227. 7:20highlighting the case. And actually,
  228. 7:23instead of dragging the entire clip onto
  229. 7:25the timeline, I don't need the whole
  230. 7:26clip. And instead of having to like drag
  231. 7:28out these handles here, I can actually
  232. 7:30go up to this window, and then as the
  233. 7:32video plays, I can hit I on my keyboard
  234. 7:34to set an in-point, and then hit O to
  235. 7:37set an out-point. So, now I'm just
  236. 7:39dragging this tiny little portion of
  237. 7:41this video by selecting I and O to tell
  238. 7:45the software don't drag the entire clip,
  239. 7:47just drag this little portion that I
  240. 7:48actually want to use. So, I'll pull that
  241. 7:50down into the video right here, and we
  242. 7:52can see that it's actually a little bit
  243. 7:54shorter than we need it to be, and I
  244. 7:56need the clip to actually be extended
  245. 7:58all the way to the end of this frame to
  246. 7:59cover this cut right here. Now, what I
  247. 8:01could do is just drag out the handle a
  248. 8:04little bit more, but maybe the footage
  249. 8:05gets a little shaky at the end, and
  250. 8:07that's not preferable. Now, I actually
  251. 8:09recorded this B-roll in a higher frame
  252. 8:11rate so I could slow that footage down
  253. 8:13later, and I'll show you how to do this
  254. 8:14here inside of CapCut. So, if I click on
  255. 8:16this clip, we can just go up to this top
  256. 8:18right corner and click on speed, and I'm
  257. 8:20able to adjust the speed all the way
  258. 8:22down to 40% because I shot this clip in
  259. 8:2560 frames per second. And because of the
  260. 8:27timeline setting that I'm working on
  261. 8:29with my A-roll being 24 frames per
  262. 8:31second, this clip can be slowed down all
  263. 8:33the way to 40% and still play back
  264. 8:35buttery smooth. Now, all I need to do is
  265. 8:38adjust my handles to the proper
  266. 8:40position. So, maybe I want the clip to
  267. 8:41start right here. I'll drag this over,
  268. 8:45and then re-align the clip to make sure
  269. 8:47it actually is over the cut point right
  270. 8:50here, and then I'll drag this handle so
  271. 8:52that it covers that clip so that as I'm
  272. 8:54talking about the charging case, this
  273. 8:56B-roll plays in slow motion. Let's watch
  274. 8:58that clip. and computers. All of it fits
  275. 9:00right inside this really tiny carrying
  276. 9:02case. Perfect, it's looking really good.
  277. 9:04So, I just added a little bit more
  278. 9:05B-roll to the timeline. Let's check out
  279. 9:07how this is looking. The kit comes with
  280. 9:09two kinds of receivers. You can use the
  281. 9:11lightning receiver for older iPhones,
  282. 9:13and then the USB-C receiver for newer
  283. 9:15iPhones, Android devices, or even
  284. 9:17tablets and computers. All of it fits
  285. 9:20right inside this really tiny carrying
  286. 9:22case. So, that additional B-roll footage
  287. 9:24really helps cover some of those cuts
  288. 9:26and mistakes that I made in the video,
  289. 9:27but also just reinforces exactly what
  290. 9:29I'm talking about in the video. That
  291. 9:31viewer is now able to see visually
  292. 9:33everything I'm speaking about. Now,
  293. 9:35maybe you don't have time to go out and
  294. 9:36film all of your own B-roll, or it's
  295. 9:38just sort of impractical for the kind of
  296. 9:40content that you create. Well, that's
  297. 9:42okay because there's services out there
  298. 9:44like Storyblocks, which is the sponsor
  299. 9:46of today's video. Storyblocks gives you
  300. 9:48unlimited access to a massive library of
  301. 9:51high-quality stock assets all for one
  302. 9:53predictable subscription cost. They have
  303. 9:56amazing 4K and 1080p footage and also
  304. 9:59have motion graphics and music, sound
  305. 10:02effects, and more. I've personally been
  306. 10:04using Storyblocks for about 8 years to
  307. 10:06fill in all of those missing pieces of
  308. 10:08my video projects here at Think Media or
  309. 10:10even in my professional freelancing
  310. 10:12business that I just don't have time to
  311. 10:13go out and shoot myself. It's honestly
  312. 10:15such a game-changer and has saved me
  313. 10:17hours on different projects. Storyblocks
  314. 10:19is also making a point to highlight real
  315. 10:21creators' work and creators are adding
  316. 10:24new content to the platform all the time
  317. 10:26that's high quality and looks fantastic.
  318. 10:28And there's also a ton of overlays and
  319. 10:30texture packs and transition animations,
  320. 10:33all of these different things that as
  321. 10:35you grow as an editor, you will love
  322. 10:36leveraging. So, I use Storyblocks all of
  323. 10:39the time. If you want to give it a try,
  324. 10:40you can click the link down in the
  325. 10:42description below or head to
  326. 10:43storyblocks.com/thinkmedia
  327. 10:46to sign up today. Now, after our B-roll
  328. 10:48is complete, it's time to add some music
  329. 10:50and sound effects to just make the sound
  330. 10:52experience of our video a little bit
  331. 10:54better. What's great about CapCut is
  332. 10:55they have a bunch of built-in audio and
  333. 10:58different music and sound effects that
  334. 10:59you can leverage right away or you can
  335. 11:00drag in your own content that you have
  336. 11:02to work with. Like right here, I have an
  337. 11:04entire folder of music from Storyblocks
  338. 11:06that I downloaded. If we click into this
  339. 11:08folder, we can see all of these
  340. 11:09different audio tracks that I could drag
  341. 11:11right into my timeline. Let's listen to
  342. 11:13one of these.
  343. 11:16Hey, I think this one fits the vibe of
  344. 11:18this video. So, I'll drag this audio
  345. 11:19right onto the timeline and place it
  346. 11:21below my A-roll's audio and it can just
  347. 11:24live right there on audio layer two. I
  348. 11:27will click the blade tool and clip off
  349. 11:28the end so we're not getting any of this
  350. 11:30additional audio in our export. If we
  351. 11:33listen to the audio right now and just
  352. 11:34leave it as is, it's going to be way too
  353. 11:36loud and overpower our mix. Let's listen
  354. 11:38to it right now. This is my favorite
  355. 11:39[music] budget Like you can't actually
  356. 11:41even hear my voice. So, we need to lower
  357. 11:43the audio volume of the music to let my
  358. 11:46voice come through a little bit more. If
  359. 11:48I expand this audio layer, it'll be
  360. 11:50easier to see this little lever right
  361. 11:52here that I can pull up or down to
  362. 11:54increase or decrease my audio volume.
  363. 11:56And typically a great place for your
  364. 11:58audio to live is right around like -32
  365. 12:02dB to 36 dB
  366. 12:04is where we typically keep it. So, let's
  367. 12:06listen to what it sounds like right
  368. 12:07around -33. This is my favorite budget
  369. 12:10wireless microphone for Now, that adds a
  370. 12:12really subtle ambiance. It's not too
  371. 12:14loud where it's overpowering the mix,
  372. 12:16but just enough to add a nice little
  373. 12:17vibe for the video. The next step would
  374. 12:19be to add any titles or graphics that
  375. 12:21you might want to have in your scene and
  376. 12:23I'll show you just how to do a really
  377. 12:24simple one inside of CapCut. So, if we
  378. 12:26go up here to this top left window, we
  379. 12:28can click the text button right here and
  380. 12:30you can add a default text or look at
  381. 12:32some of these presets. Now, some of
  382. 12:34these are actually for the premium plan,
  383. 12:36so you got to make sure you're not
  384. 12:37grabbing like the purple diamond unless
  385. 12:39you pay for CapCut. Instead, you can
  386. 12:42actually just start with a default text
  387. 12:44and drag that right onto the timeline.
  388. 12:46And now it's visible on our timeline and
  389. 12:48I'm going to change this to the title or
  390. 12:50the name of the microphone. So, this is
  391. 12:52the Hollyland Lark A1. I'm going to
  392. 12:55highlight it all by hitting command A
  393. 12:57and I do want to change the font here.
  394. 12:58So, let's cycle through some of these
  395. 13:00different options, ones that are not a
  396. 13:01part of the paid plan to find one that
  397. 13:04we're liking. I like this Arial here and
  398. 13:06we need to make sure we scale it up or
  399. 13:07down to be the right size. There's
  400. 13:09different preset styles you can select
  401. 13:11if you would like and just make this
  402. 13:13based on your preferences. So, I'm just
  403. 13:15messing with this title screen a little
  404. 13:16bit to get it just right and that's part
  405. 13:18of this process of editing is just
  406. 13:19messing with things for a while until
  407. 13:21you get the style you like. But what I
  408. 13:22want to do is add an animation to the in
  409. 13:25point of this text so that as the text
  410. 13:27comes on screen, it adds a little
  411. 13:29animation and movement to the text.
  412. 13:30Here's a simple effect called fade
  413. 13:32reveal. So, let's add this to the clip.
  414. 13:34It's the Hollyland So, as the Hollyland
  415. 13:37Lark A1 is announced, it actually slowly
  416. 13:39fades in and reveals the text and let's
  417. 13:41watch that back together. beginners,
  418. 13:43it's the Hollyland Lark A1. So, as we
  419. 13:45look at our timeline right now, what
  420. 13:47you'll notice is we're almost building
  421. 13:48distinct layers for every step of our
  422. 13:51editing process. So, our first video
  423. 13:53layer is all of my talking head footage.
  424. 13:55So, it's me looking at the camera
  425. 13:56speaking. Our second video layer is all
  426. 13:59of our B-roll. So, that's supplemental
  427. 14:01footage we can add to layer on top of
  428. 14:03our B-roll. And then our third video
  429. 14:04layer are all of our text animations
  430. 14:06that we can add and you could add
  431. 14:08subsequent video layers as your edits
  432. 14:10get more complex. But a helpful tip is
  433. 14:12try to keep all of the same type of
  434. 14:14content on its own video layer. So, all
  435. 14:16of my A-roll is always going to go on
  436. 14:18layer one. Layer two might be all of my
  437. 14:20B-roll and layer three could be all of
  438. 14:22your graphics as to not make your
  439. 14:23timeline too confusing. Now, one of the
  440. 14:26last things you could do before you
  441. 14:27export your video is make sure you color
  442. 14:29correct any clips that maybe just don't
  443. 14:31look the best. And so, all you have to
  444. 14:33do is click on a clip and then go to
  445. 14:34your very top right window up here and
  446. 14:37then there's all these different ones,
  447. 14:38speed, animation, but you want to go to
  448. 14:40adjust. And this is where you can adjust
  449. 14:43some of the colors of your clip. You
  450. 14:45could add a LUT, which stands for lookup
  451. 14:47table and that's kind of a color
  452. 14:49overlay, like a color preset you could
  453. 14:51add to your footage if you've ever
  454. 14:52downloaded those. That's where you would
  455. 14:54add your LUTs. But you can also just
  456. 14:55manually do this. If I wanted my footage
  457. 14:57to be a little bit warmer, I could do
  458. 14:59that, add some more contrast
  459. 15:01potentially, bring down my highlights if
  460. 15:03it was like a little bit too bright. All
  461. 15:04of these different things you can do. I
  462. 15:06could sharpen it up if it was too soft.
  463. 15:08I can add some clarity as well. If your
  464. 15:11camera lens had some vignetting, you can
  465. 15:12correct for that by adding white to the
  466. 15:14edges of the frame or you could increase
  467. 15:16your vignetting if you want to kind of
  468. 15:18hone in on the center of the frame, you
  469. 15:19could do that as well. And if you want
  470. 15:21to see what those color adjustments look
  471. 15:23like, you can turn on and off your
  472. 15:24adjustment layer really quickly to see
  473. 15:26that color correction. At this point, if
  474. 15:28you're feeling good about your edit, the
  475. 15:29next step is to actually review the
  476. 15:31entire edit to make sure everything is
  477. 15:33looking proper and this is where you
  478. 15:35honestly can catch a lot of mistakes and
  479. 15:36save you time and headache before you
  480. 15:38export your video and have a mistake in
  481. 15:41the video. You want to spend time
  482. 15:42watching your video. But a little hack
  483. 15:44for this is if you want to save yourself
  484. 15:45time, you can watch the video in two
  485. 15:47times speed. All you have to do is hit
  486. 15:49your space bar to hit play and then hit
  487. 15:51L to fast forward. And now this video is
  488. 15:53playing in two times speed and I do this
  489. 15:55all of the time. You can even edit in
  490. 15:57two times speed if you really want to
  491. 15:58save time editing. But reviewing your
  492. 16:00video in two times speed is a little
  493. 16:01hack that us editors use. Once you
  494. 16:03finalize and reviewed your video, it's
  495. 16:05time to export your video, which is our
  496. 16:07final step. So, all you have to do is go
  497. 16:08up to the very top right corner and you
  498. 16:10do want to adjust some specific export
  499. 16:12settings here. The first thing is you
  500. 16:14want to change the name of your export
  501. 16:15setting if you didn't change the name of
  502. 16:17your project to begin with. We can just
  503. 16:19call this like Lark A1 mini review. You
  504. 16:22also want to export this to a specific
  505. 16:24destination. Maybe your downloads or
  506. 16:26into your documents, wherever you would
  507. 16:27prefer this to live, you can select a
  508. 16:29manual destination for it. Now, when it
  509. 16:31comes to resolution, you do want to
  510. 16:32export in a minimum of 1080p quality or
  511. 16:35if you shot your video in 4K, you can
  512. 16:37export in 4K quality. Just know that
  513. 16:40CapCut's free version does have
  514. 16:41different limits based on the credits
  515. 16:43that you've used for your different
  516. 16:45export settings. For bitrate, you do
  517. 16:47always want to select higher if
  518. 16:49possible. Don't choose recommended or
  519. 16:50lower, you want the highest bitrate
  520. 16:52possible because this will just give
  521. 16:53your video the most amount of
  522. 16:54information and quality once you've
  523. 16:56exported. For codec, we like the H.264
  524. 16:59codec or ProRes 422. H.264 is usually
  525. 17:03fine for most people, so go ahead and
  526. 17:05select that. For format, go ahead and
  527. 17:07select MP4 instead of MOV. It's just
  528. 17:09more universally compatible. For frame
  529. 17:11rate, just export in whatever frame rate
  530. 17:13you shot your A-roll in. So, if you shot
  531. 17:15in 30 frames per second for your A-roll,
  532. 17:17export in 30 frames. If you shot in 24,
  533. 17:20you'll want to export in 24 frames per
  534. 17:21second. If you also wanted to export the
  535. 17:23audio, you could do that right here as
  536. 17:25an MP3 or wave file. I would actually
  537. 17:27choose wave if I was just exporting the
  538. 17:29audio. Once you're finished with all
  539. 17:30this, you can go ahead and hit export
  540. 17:32and your video will export in honestly
  541. 17:34just a few minutes. CapCut is honestly
  542. 17:36pretty fast with their export times. And
  543. 17:38once your export finishes, you can open
  544. 17:39it up on your computer and just make
  545. 17:41sure that everything exported properly
  546. 17:43and you're good to go. And what's great
  547. 17:44about these 10 easy steps is that all of
  548. 17:46these steps are repeatable for literally
  549. 17:48every single video. Every video I make
  550. 17:50at Think Media, I've made like over 120
  551. 17:52videos for Think Media. I follow all of
  552. 17:54these 10 steps for every single piece of
  553. 17:56content. If you want to try out CapCut,
  554. 17:58we'll link it down in the description
  555. 17:59below as well as Storyblocks if you want
  556. 18:01to enhance your videos with high-quality
  557. 18:03stock media assets. So, I'll link that
  558. 18:05in the description below as well. Now,
  559. 18:06if you're struggling at all with the
  560. 18:08recording phase of your videos, you can
  561. 18:10click or tap the screen right here to
  562. 18:11watch this video where I walk you
  563. 18:13through some of the easiest ways to
  564. 18:15start making better videos faster. So,
  565. 18:17go ahead and click the screen right
  566. 18:18there and I'll see you in the next one.

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